January 24, 2022

More Data Tampering

Frank Lasee

NOAA has done this as well. The other thing NOAA has done is keep city measurements and stations and closed ones that were in the country. The other problem with NOAAs data is that some of the temperature stations used to be in fields and now are in parking lots. Or they used to be in a rural area that is now developed around them. It is well documented that there is a her urban heat index. Which just means I get to a degree or two or even more hotter with urbanization.

Anthony Broekx > ‎Climate Crisis? There is NO Climate Crisis!

Unbelievable the BOM is at it again, third time in 9 years they have made the past cooler by changing historical records.

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The Coming Fiscal Crash

Steven Chase

Here is a reasonable diagnosis of the current FINANCIAL condition:

Inflation will outstrip any wage raises by a ratio of 2 to 1.
The Fed has no choice but to tighten - raising interest rates and inflicting more pain on the debtor society America has become.
The many business models that depended on never-ending 'free' money (zero rates) will fold taking untold Wall Street investors and banking houses with them.
And once again, we slowly dive into 'Stagflation" - a phenomenon we haven't seen since Jimmy Carter's disastrously bad economic policies, in 1977. OR... maybe nothing happens, (just keep printing money) and everyone agrees the Emperor's New Clothes look great!

NOW... go back to the '08 financial crisis, which was simply Wall Street making bad bets. Notice which parties supported the 'bailout'; also, Bush's (GOP) reluctance, the Media's scare tactics of a new 'depression' if we didn't bail them out. Says it all.

Tim adds:

I agree Steven. We get either runaway inflation and stagnant growth or we begin deafaulting. This is going to be bad whatever way you slice it. The primary cause of the Great Depression was fianancial manipulation by the Federal Reserve. Throughout the '20's the Fed expanded the money supply, causing inflation but also bolstering the economic boom. But they reduced the supply in '29 to counteract the effects of the stock market crash (which would have been a simple correction) and Congress (then controlled by the GOP) raised taxes to "pay for" the lost revenue. It was the perfect storm. I have no doubt the Fed will make the same mistake again - or make a new one by keeping interest rates low and costing the U.S. it's credit worthiness. Either way will be catastrophic.

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The Moral Rot of Europe

Kim Rogalin

"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.”—Jean-Francois Revel

"Materialism and self-gratification are why Europeans gave up on the future in the first place.”—Mark Steyn

Prof. Francis Fukuyama spoke of an ennui environment that would result at the end of the Cold War. It underscores Europe’s increasingly hedonistic life-style, one that puts personal pleasure and wistful fantasy ahead of principle and conviction. As European Jews suffer the wrath of Muslim mobs in French cities EU apparatchiks demonize Israel as fascists and kowtow to the mullahs in Iran. As they host, fund and honor Arafat their anti-Semitism goes unaddressed in their self-proclaimed capitals of culture. As the Balkans destructed they diddled. Europe believes that their self-proclaimed sophistication and the world’s modern technology will mystically transform autocratic run nation-states into benign members of a modern world-community that eagerly embraces pacifism and promises affluence and prosperity in equal measures for all based on verbal negotiation and consensus. On the surface Europe claims to be moving away from conflict and deterrence and towards mediation and stability. To that end the US alone, as a major member of NATO, has closed 32 military bases there and reduced troop strength by 66% since the height of the Cold war.

more...

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"Green Deal" not a Good Deal

Frank Lasee

"Energy is pooled in the grid, and when demand outstrips the availability of renewables, the grid tops up the supply with gas.

On average only about a third of the electricity from the grid is from renewable sources, while more than a third is powered by natural gas. The rest comes from other sources, such as nuclear.”

Wind and solar produce little or no power 70% of the time.

Energy Bills: I got a Green Deal so why am I Paying Eye-Watering Sums?

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Sage Advice

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If you see a protester calling for violence at the marches in DC this weekend remember to get their badge number!

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January 23, 2022

Murderer Gets Minimum Sentence

Steven Schueler

Every day I despise the Democrap party more for what they've done to destroy the criminal justice system in the USA.

Devastated parents of murdered Barnard College student Tessa Majors watch her killer get MINIMUM 14-year sentence for knifing her to death in as he tried to steal her iPhone in NYC park

Tim adds:

We are going to see a return to Star Chamber justice and viggilantism. The Mafia was born in Sicily as a way to get justice when the civil authorities refused to enforce laws, and we will no doubt see a return to that in America if this doesn't end.

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The Covid Abuse of Children

John Conlin

The sickest and most corrupt and evil people in the world used Covid for political gain. What they did to the youngest, the oldest and the poorest people of the world is way beyond any other evil in history. Read about what they did to kids in this article

.And if you are not filled with anger and rage and disgust, then you have no soul...

Oh, and the kids aren't alright.

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Is Biden Mentally Fit?

Timothy Birdnow

Biden spent a generation as a U.S. Senator, meaning he never actually did anything or ran anything. He had staff to write speeches and tell him his policy positions, and he took all the credit. Now he's in the driver's seat and never learned to drive. Worse, he's too old to drive and shouldn't have a license.


It was back in the 19th century that Oscar Wilde scandalized much of Britain by deeming homosexuality "the love that dares not speaks its name.” These days, that might be said of heterosexuality.

But kidding (or not kidding) aside, over generations some things become spoken that were never discussed before. This is largely, although not always, a good thing.

One subject that was for the most part off limits until recently was the mental fitness of a president, especially in the seriously clinical/psychological sense. People have been calling their political opponents "idiots,” "morons,” and such from time immemorial, but it took the arrival of Donald Trump for his opponents to demand "scientific proof” of a president’s competence.

Read the whole article.

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Milloy Talks Build Back Better

Steven Milloy

I talked "Build Back Blunders: Joe Biden’s Disastrous First Year — Climate & Energy Edition" with Bianca de la Garza on Newsmax today.

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The Broad and Easy Path

Gerry McGuire

Sound familiar?
"She analyzed the rise of Nazism in the democratic Germany of the 1930s and discovered that the people who carried out bestial actions, were not per se extremely evil. In fact, most actions of this nature were performed by common men and women who simply followed state orders"

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WMO's Flawed Disaster Report

This from Gregory Wrightstone:

Just published today is an exposé that I co-authored with member Kip Hansen concerning the recent World Meteorological Organization disaster report. We caught them red-handed, and we have an email in which they admit it. Michael Shellenberger published a commentary on Friday concerning this and ended it by asking why the disasters increased up until 2000 and then declined. We answer that here.

The WMO should immediately retract this flawed study and issue a formal statement publicly correcting the record 20

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Cold Fusion?

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an interesting thread about cold fusion on Facebook. I thought everyone might enjoy it.

Richard Cronin says:

Many may recall "Cold Fusion” and "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)” proposed by Fleischman and Pons. Their claims were dismissed when their work could not be replicated.

Now Alberto Carpinteri has proposed a path to LENR via Piezonuclear Fission. That is, the great pressures experienced in rock fracturing during major seismic events can induce such nuclear fission events with elements as light as Iron. This phenomenon is an outgrowth of the high pressure "Bridgeman Effect” observed in minerals as well as the existence of Bridgemanite, a hydrous mineral which decomposes just above the Transition region between the Upper Mantle and Lower Mantle to liberate water. Obviously, such high pressure conditions are present deeper inside the planet.

Admittedly, Carpinteri’s work is very controversial but he had received support for several years from the Italian government. Just recently, the Italian government research agencies have abruptly withdrawn funding.

Perhaps the most damning aspect of Carpinteri’s work is that it provides another, previously unaccounted path to produce CO2 from non-anthropogen ic sources. The Italian government can’t have any of that.

Quoting from page 7 of 11: "Because these periodicities were almost absent in the anthropogenic time series, it could be deduced that the fluctuations in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate were driven by the seismic activity rather than by anthropogenic emissions.”

https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/sci/sci-01-00002/article_deploy/sci-01-00002.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1dYD5udD5fnM00Gl76Qi58ojGGfMVOORWhL4ygISXmcgzWO3VxiYAlI88 more...

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January 22, 2022

Justice is the End

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.--Madison, Federalist 51

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Liberal Academia? You Betcha!

Timothy Birdnow

Hat tip: Dean Mellor

"Sociologists were most likely to identify as left-wing, followed by Psychologists, Political Scientists, Law scholars and, lastly, Economists. In no discipline did right-wing academics outnumber or come close to balancing their left-wing counterparts. Far-leftists were most visibly represented in Sociology and in Australia while conservative academics were most strongly represented in Economics and in the United Kingdom, although they remained in a clear minority...

65% of academics who lean left feel [diversity] statements are a justifiable requirement for a job at a university that serves a diverse community of students, whereas 65% of academics who lean right see them as an ideological litmus tests that violates their academic freedom...

Whereas 82% of academics in the United States think ‘systemic racism is a problem in my country’, only 57% of the American public feel the same way. Academics are also far more likely to strongly agree, with 44% doing so versus only 27% of the public...

Right-leaning academics are far more likely than their leftwing counterparts to self-censor their political beliefs
on campus..."

https://li.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Legatum-Institute-Is-Academic-Freedom-Under-Threat.pdf

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Exchanging the Truth for a Lie

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an essay arguing Fake News had it's genesis in a man named Marshall McLuhan. and his late sixties book The Gutenberg Galaxy.

I disagree; while he may have been influential in promoting changes in journalistic standards, those standards had been bad for decades.

For example, how many Americans knew Frankly Roosevelt was in a wheel chair? Few. The media simply didn't report it, because they were in the tank for Mr. Roosevelt.

And during the war the media lied to the Americana People repeatedly.

Who doubts that the media was out to get Nixon, even when he ran against Kennedy? Or that the media failed to report many of Kennedy's health issues? Or his womanizing?

No, it did not start with McLuhan.

McLuhan appears to be a flatterer (telling the young hippie movement how important they were) and an utopoian type radical who thought he could change the world. But we've seen plenty of these over the years.

I don't doubt he had a major impact, but I do not agree he was the genesis of all of what we are seeing.

Which the author of this piece should see also; he discusses Citizen Kane and points out Kane was a rip-off of William Randolf Hearst, who himself was at the genesis of fake news (along with Joseph Pulizer and the Sulzburger family).

But he makes an interesting case. It's definitely worth reading.

For instance:

McLuhan argued that the Boomers were the first generation since the 16th century whose worldview and way of knowing were shaped by a cool medium. This explained why they rejected the worldview of their parents. Suckled on cool media, they were innately hostile to reason, logic, and fact, and predisposed to medieval, religious ways of knowing based on emotion and shared tribal intuition. From this, McLuhan concludes that the informational content of a message should be disregarded because it was an illusion. Like the indistinct chant of a Latin Mass in a 14th century cathedral, it was not the individual words that had meaning, but the totality of the experience that mattered—the noise, the smell of incense, the desire to believe. What presented itself as factual content was merely a theatrical flourish, a dramatic sound effect or a puff of smoke in a magician's performance.

BTW McLuhan was a fascist.

No doubt he had a powerful influence on the hippie generation.

McLuhan told the Boomers that they might appear irrational to their parents, but this was simply because the old generation was raised on obsolete "hot” media. As a result, he said, they had lost touch with their emotional side and become unnaturally rational and impartial: "Phonetic culture endows men with the means of repressing their feelings and emotions when engaged in action. To act without reacting, without involvement, is the peculiar advantage of Western literate man.”

This does sound very much like our modern liberal culture.

Fortunately, McLuhan says, we have now returned to a "cool” age with a superior way of knowing; "the state of tribal man,” for whom magic rituals are his means of "applied knowledge.” Those who disagree with this thesis are attacked as idiots "no longer relevant to our electric world.” Try as he might, however, McLuhan could not avoid theology. The best he could do was disguise religion by introducing "electric light” as a synonym for God. "The electric light,” he wrote, "is pure information. It is a medium without a message...”:
It is pure information without any content to restrict its transforming and informing power. If the student of media will but meditate on the power of this medium of electric light to transform every structure of time and space and work and society that it penetrates or contacts, he will have the key to the form of the power that is in all media to reshape any lives that they touch.

Electric light, he concludes, has the power to lead us to a "moment of truth and revelation from which new form is born.” According to McLuhan, the truths of journalism are a poor substitute for cosmic Truth. The uncertainties of the material world described by journalists in their impartial reports were feeble, transitory things. Hence, McLuhan’s contempt for Victorian liberal journalism was also an expression of the superiority of God’s way of knowing. As he put it in one of his posthumous works, The Book of Probes, in the merely secular world, "all media exist to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values.”

Sound familiar?

This is paganism, plain and simple. And his thesis of knowledge is much like Plato's idea that all knowledge is memory. That idea was largely discarded as worthless and unprovable.
 
McLuhan was supposedly a devout Catholic. I guess he never read his Bible

"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen."

Romans 1:25

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No Criticism of China Allowed at Olympics

Warner Todd Huston

Beijing Genocide Games Official Says Athletes Will Be Punished for Criticizing China

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January 21, 2022

Is this country going nuts, or what?

Dana Mathewson

The Transportation Security Administration confirmed to Fox News on Friday that it allows illegal immigrants to use arrest warrants as an alternative form of ID to board airplanes.

"For non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals who do not otherwise have acceptable forms of ID for presentation at security checkpoints, TSA may also accept certain DHS-issued forms, including ICE Form I-200 (Warrant for Arrest of an Alien)," a TSA spokesperson told Fox News. That refers to an immigration arrest warrant.

The agency added that the document will then be validated via an "alien identification number" being checked against a number of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) databases.

"All passengers whose identity is verified through alternate procedures receive additional screening before being allowed into the secure area of the airport," the statement said.

Go here https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tsa-confirms-allows-illegal-immigrants-arrest-warrants-id-airports for the rest of the article. Yes, this policy was in place before the Slow-Joe Administration, which just makes it crazier. The idea that an "alien identification number" will be checked is laughable, since we have no idea how many illegals are in the country, and who and where they are.

Give. Me. A. Break!

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A Constitutional Amendment for the Filibuster?

Lance Sjogren

When Republicans take back the House and Senate, hopefully in 2022, and the White House, hopefully in 2024, I believe one thing they should consider:

Propose a constitutional amendment to make the Senate supermajority for passing bills part of the constitution.

But a constitutional amendment requires a supermajority in Congress and the states to pass, you might point out. It would need a lot of support from Democrats as well as Republicans.

It might be able to get that support, though. Currently the supermajority requirement is in the odd situation that it could actually be rescinded by a simple majority in the Senate. It hasn't been so far simply because there is a certain degree of sentiment that it is a longstanding tradition that should not be tampered with. That is why Manchin and Sinema have refused to agree to it. The rationale for the supermajority is that it puts the brakes on the rash passage of legislation. It makes the Senate the less impulsive organ of the legislative branch that is harder to get legislation passed in.

Why might Democrats support the amendment? Because when Republicans are in power they would be in a position to abolish the supermajority requirement. They might do so and pass something the Democrats hated, like for example a national ban on abortion.

So the constitutional amendment would be a way for the Republicans, when they have full control in Washington, to say: Democrats, we're willing to tie our own hands by a constitutional amendment, and what we get in return is that your hands will likewise be tied when you're in power.

It would be a fair deal, and it might win enough of a national consensus to pass the tough obstacles involved in amending the constitution. Polls show the public strongly supports the current policy, so it stands to reason that they would support making it more-or-less permanent by putting it into the constitution. (nothing is completely permanent in the constitution, at least in principle, since an amendment could be rescinded by a future amendment, but it would have the same tough hurdles for that to happen)

Thinking outside the box. Opinions?

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China and the Green Fears

E. Calvin Beisner

Do you have any idea how huge a threat to national security and the very survival of democratic, republican, consent-of-the-governed civilization is posed by the climate-alarm movement, particularly as China is manipulating it? Americans and people all over the free world need to understand this. Here's a good introduction.
From the Stacks: China uses Climate Fears to Weaken the West While Strengthening Itself

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Nearly All Americans Already Infected

Willis Eschenbach

As is his habit, Matt Briggs, Statistician To The Stars, gets the numbers right ... almost all Americans have gotten covid, mostly without symptoms.

CDC Data: Up to 90% or More Americans Already Infected

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