February 15, 2022

Superbowl Crack House Party

Bill H.

Patronize the sponsors? I’m with you, but who are the sponsors?

Jim Kunstler summed it up pretty well with his description of the Super Bowl ads as a "psychotic dazzle of half-second jump-cuts” which constituted "a cavalcade of frantic hallucinations suggesting a near-complete detachment from reality for an audience of ADD-disabled cell phone slaves locked into a Big Tech induced consensus trance.” Half the time I had no idea what the advertisement was advertising.

He referred to the halftime show as "Snoop Dog’s half-time house party” and as "Hollywood’s G-rated version of a BLM riot,”which I thought was fairly apt except the G-rated part. I thought much of it bordered on pornographic, but I’m a little old fashioned.

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Drowning in Debt

On the subject of the national debt, Bill H. observes:

In addition to $30 trillion government debt, the US has $15 trillion in private debt and $11 trillion in corporate debt. Total comes to $56 trillion, 2.4 times US GDP.

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February 14, 2022

Yes, Global Cooling was a Consensus in the '70's

Timothy Birdnow

Glenn Swart posted this on a Facebook group I'm in. Proves Global Cooling was in fact the "science" of the day:

I had to put this post together purely to put an end to all the annoying insistance there was never a consensus on cooling, or that only SEVEN PAPERS Existed to evidence such a consensus (Jeesch!). So here are the 285 papers the NTZ article by Kenneth Richardson referred to, much easier to find.

Robust Consensus for Global Cooling Existed in the Sixties and Seventies. Here is the Evidence

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Musk Warns on Debt

Timothy Birdnow

Yep.

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Evidence of Data Tampering

Frank Lasee

Look at the graph. There was a cooling trend and NOAA now has a warming trend. Why did NOAA cook the temp books? Do they get more money if the do/did?

From Lance Pidgeon:

A while ago I compared the maximum temperature record from the Bourke post office thermometer to the daily sunspot value from "WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels"
I compared the daily sunspot number to maximum temperature from both the Australian BoM readings without infill and the Queensland government gridded SILO record with derived infill for missing days etc. The best correlation I could find was with the sunspot number averaged for 3857 days and the maximum temperatures averaged by 4018 days. That is a running daily average of 10.55 years worth of sunspots and eleven years of maximum temperatures. I also found it was best to delay the daily sunspot average by 1483 days. A little over 4 years. This produced an anti-correlatio n that was strong at -0.806 back to 1871 with the unfilled BoM record from 1996. -0.778 from 1889 to 1996 and -0.717 from 1909 to 1996. It is known that a Stevenson screen was there from some time before 1909. The infilled record SILO record had a slightly higher -0.724 anti-correlatio n from 1909.
I have now compared the SILO minimums from 1909, then used the daily max-min to get a daily diurnal range value. The BoM minimums were missing too many values.

Here is where it gets interesting. The minimums don’t anti-correlate or need a 1483 day sunspot average delay. The 11 year minimum temperature running average positively correlates with the same 3857 day sunspot average but without needing a delay.

This time the correlation was much stronger for the 1889 to 1996 at period at +0.669, than the 1909 to 1996 period at +0.297. Perhaps an indication the sun had a greater effect on min than max in the older screen type or at the older location.

For the correlation between diurnal range and sunspots I was faced with two different sunspot averaging periods to chose from. Do I use a 1483 day delay or not? Do I use a shorter delay or a ratio of the two different daily averages? I chose the ratio method because the different sun effect on minimums may require a two dimensional approach. After tinkering with ratios for both chart display and correlation I ended up dividing the delayed running sunspot average by 66.69 and the not delayed running sunspot average by 77 then subtracting the sum from 17 to invert the scaled sunspot average ratio sum. The anti-correlatio n came out as -0.738.

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Stupor Bowling for Dollars

Timothy Birdnow

Did anyone watch the Stupor Bowl?

I intended not to but wound up watching anyway. I haven't watched football since it became so woke. And the NFL has become so crooked.

I don't know who remembers but there were many years when the Superbowl was a blowout. That stopped when the officials started influencing the ends of games with calls. The NFL clearly wanted nail-biters and now almost every game is such.

I soured on the NFL when they stole the championship from the Rams and gave Brady and Bellicheat and the Boston franchise an empire. You may remember that; the Patriots had stolen the Rams playbook. They also tackled Marshall Falk on every play, whether he had the ball or not. And they held every single receiver. The NFL let them get away with all this.

Why? Paul McCartney said it"wouldn't it be wonderful if a team called the Patriots won the Superbowl" on the year America was attacked.

I really believe football - at least the Superbowl - is largely fixed and has been ever since.

And the league allowed the Rams to be bought out then move back to L.A. That was inexcusable, but money talks and L.A. is a big television market. And Kronke has deep pockets.

But enough of the past. This current Stupor Bowl featured the traitorous Scrams, er, Rams versus the Cincinatti Bengays.

Now, much of the ancillary activity disgusted me to the core, be it Billy Jean King's coin toss (what does she have to do with anything?) to the freak show at intermission (when did rap become "America's music"? And who is Snoop Dog other than a bad poet who couldn't get a lounge act?) But the game itself?

The game was pretty clean as far as I could see. I couldn't complain there; had New England been there we would have been treated to endless chippy plays and dirty dealings.

I was thrilled when the Bengays stopped the Scrams. Unfortunately it was an eggregious facemasking that the officials simply ignored.

I knew that would cost Cincinnati And it did, at the very end where the officials called what felt like 25 penalties at the very end of the game with the Crams in the red zone. It was as if they were under orders to see to it L.A. got the winning touchdown there. You can't possible have eight downs in a row and not score.

To me the fix was in on this game. Too much money is involved in the L.A. area, and the Progressives poops who run the NFL (I'm pointing at YOU Roger Goodell) think of Ohio as flyover country, a place for cattle and bib-overall-wearing hicks. I find it insulting.

And I find the wokeness of the NFL, which has bettrayed it's fan base in search of a new one, absolutely revolting.

I don't see any reason to support an institution that holds me and America in contempt.

And I don't like the way they manipulate the game itself. They've already changed the rules to make it less about strength and more about speed and agility. They seem to believe football should be a ballet and not a grinding sport. I like my football in the old fashioned style.

So, I won't patronize any of the sponsors, and I won't go to any games, or in any way enrich the fat cat Progressives there. I shouldn't have watched the game, frankly, but at least it was broadcast television.

Next time I'll watch reruns of F Troop or some other politically incorrect blast from America's past. I like the America where we were proud of ourselves and not flogging our own backs like these creepy overfed spoiled rich jerks.

And what with all the commercialism they should call it Superbowling for Dollars.

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Words May Be Molded

Chester McAteer

This tactic has been used on the American people for decades, actually well over a century. Be it history or science or politics.

"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”

• Josef Göbbels

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Sad State of Affairs

Selwyn Duke

Here's a simple way to put in perspective the situation concerning Eileen Gu, the American-born-and-raised skier who decided to represent the Chinese Olympic team:

If an American-born-and-bred athlete with one parent who'd hailed from the USSR had decided to compete for the Soviets in the Olympics in the '50s or '60s, what would the reaction have been? The individual would've become a pariah, scorned and ostracized from coast to coast.

That Gu has the support she does speaks volumes about the sad reality in our (Dis)United States.

Tim adds:

This defeats the whole notion of national competition. Everyone ultimately has family from somewhere else, except maybe the Aborigines of Australia.

That's the whole point of this; make it like college football, which is not amateur at all but rather semi-pro, featuring recruits from all over the country.

In this case it's all over the world and that is so we forget we ARE different countries. It's pure internationalism.

I say, if she wants to be Chinese so be it! She can stay there and lose her U.S. citizenship.

It's past time we stop playing these games.

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February 13, 2022

China in Decline

Lance Sjogren

What's happening with the Chinese economy reminds me of what happened to Bernie Madoff's empire once it got exposed. Except in slow motion.

In my opinion, westerners are insane to own Chinese stocks or bonds. If I owned any I'd dump them immediately even if they only fetch 5-10 cents on the dollar.

135,000 Investors Lose Money in China as China's Largest Battery Company Suffers Heavy Loses

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Biden About to Get Iran Nuke Deal Restored

Timothy Birdnow

Biden's junta is at the final stages of restoring the Iran nuclear deal.

From Oilprice dot com:

In a potentially positive sign of progress, the U.S. Administration restored sanction waiverson Friday, allowing Iran international cooperation for civil nuclear purposes. This was interpreted as a positive signal from the so-far difficult talks, which, if successful, would lead to the U.S. removing sanctions on Iranian oil exports.

If a deal is reached in the talks, it could reverse the oil price rallyof the past few weeks. Expectations are that this would be the final round of talks for trying to revive the deal, and it would end with either a deal or a "nuclear crisis.” The U.S. has signaled that there isn’t much time left for an agreement before Iran advances in its nuclear weapon efforts.

A return of Iran’s legitimate oil exports would bring relief to the tight oil market and to rallying oil prices. Most analysts do not expect Iranian barrels back to the market in the second quarter, but later this year, we could see a ramp-up in Iranian oil exports, provided—of course—that the ongoing talks are successful.

None of this price rallying would be necessary were it not for the American buffoon taking every step to crush American oil and to put us back into dependency on places like Iran.

And, once flush with cash, the terrorism and warfare in the Middle East will resume as the Mullahs once again have the money to fund ISIS and Hizbollah and the rest.

Meanwhile they will continue on towards nuclear weapons. These "peaceful" nuclear efforts have no purpose in a place so energy rich.

But a deal could temporarily drop oil prices, in time for the midterm elections. That's all Biden cares about at this point.


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America's Third Largest Retirement Fund to Dump Oil

Timothy Birdnow

Here we go again!

America's third largest pension fund - the New York State Common Retirement Fund - is going to dump all oil stocks from its portfolio in a craven submission to political correctness.

The fund, whose estimated value was $258.1 billionas of fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, will be selling stock and bonds in 21 U.S. shale firms, while it will keep its investment in another 21 companies in the sector. The divestment, valued at a total of $238 million worth of stock and debt, will include companies such as Pioneer Natural Resources, Hess Corp, and Chesapeake Energy, according to the material Reuters has reviewed.

Among the firms which the New York fund will keep are CNX Resources Corp and EQT Corp.

"To protect the state pension fund, we are restricting investments in companies that we believe are unprepared to adapt to a low-carbon future,” DiNapoli said in a statement sent to Reuters.

How is this good business? It's not. But it's good protection from the coming disaster that the Biden Administration is manufacturing.

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Soprano Media

Lance Sjogren

Great quote by Joe Concha:

"An anchor at CNN saying she's out of ideas on what to do about Joe Rogan. Is that an anchor's job, to do something about somebody? Is this the Sopranos?"

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How Biden is Causing the Ukraine Crisis

Steven Chase

An egghead, thinktank magazine called "Capital Economics" says Biden's pipeline shutdown is costing Canadian Oil/Energy sector big time. "The producers are not rushing to raise supply because of the country’s perennial problem with limits to the pipeline takeaway capacity, thus not reaping the benefits of $90 oil prices."

Again, unintended consequences of noble actions. The cost/benefit analysis is a lost art.


Tim adds:

AND Vladimir Putin has the money now to invade the Ukraine thanks to high oil and gas prices. Without Biden's driving up prices of these commodities Putin wouldn't be able to afford to threaten his neighbors. I would add that much of the current unpleasantness stems from the Ukrainians refusing to pay usurious prices to Gazprom and threatening to cut off the flow of gas to Europe as a result. We could wind up going to war, and perhaps having a nuclear exchange, because of Captain Peachfuzz Biden's idiodic policies. BTW the Russians ended the Georgian War in '08 when they ran out of money, as I wrote at the time.

If Biden had a clue he would have seen this coming and headed it off. Sadly the man is clueless.

I would add the rising prices of fuel is probably a big part of why the truck drivers are blockading Ottawa, even though the stated reason is government Covid policy. Still, there is a no doubt a lot of anger at high fuel prices.

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School Daze

Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2022/02/killing-civilization-theyre-teaching-schoolkids-the-narrative.html

"Any teacher who’d subordinate facts to narratives should immediately be ousted from education, no further questions asked. For the person is at best fatally corrupted, at worst a conscious corruptor and, either way, will be a child abuser in the classroom."

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Super Energy Pill!

Timothy Birdnow

It's odd; the same people who sneer at the idea that the sun is driving global warming then mock us for saying we can't run our civilization on it. It's a weak force in their minds when it involves climate but a powerful one when it involves technology. Sheesh!

New Solar Power Car can Drive for Months without Charging

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Global Warming a Function of the Urban Heat Island Effect

Willis Eschenbach

For my mate Roy W. Spencer ... a stunning example of the "Urban Heat Islands" in cities. If you wonder whether "global warming" is as large as reported ... it's not. Many temperature records are from airports ... you can see how hot they are below.

NASA Ecostress Maps European Heat Wave from Space

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Canadian Freedom Fighters

Judi McLeod

Is it possible tat the struggle for freedom has begun in earnest and in of all places…Canada? Where is the Cradle of Liberty, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave in this battle? Yes, Americans are waking up, but they had better finish their coffee. Our country is in peril.

The Left did an admirable job, aided by Hollywood and the media, in calling anti-communists , like Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan, nut jobs, conspiracy theorists. All while, in the 50s, well known celebrities who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, acted indignant at even the question of whether they were communists. And now decades later any talk of a communist infiltration in our schools, government, media, and the arts is still met with an incensed reaction as if…How could that be?

Let's Roll Canada Leads the Way

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If this is Unprecedented, How did this Stuff Get Under the Ice

Frank Lasee

How did these things get under the melting glacier?

"Broken sleds, tools, and other traces of daily life going back nearly 2,000 years lay strewn across the surface of the Lendbreen ice patch, which was melting.”

Lost Viking 'Highway' Revealed by Melting Ice

Chester McAteer adds:

During the Holocene Optimal most of the Glaciers had retreated in Europe into the advance of the Little Ice Age. People were able to walk from Sweden to Poland across the frozen Baltic Sea
and the English Channel froze around the ports of the South Coast. During the winter of 1683-84 daytime temperatures in parts of Britain dropped below -10C or -50F for days on end.

Even in the high Alps. That’s how Hannibal was able to traverse the Alps with Elephants.

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Not so Unprecedented after All

Timothy Birdnow

Everything old is new again!

Greenland's Shrunken Ice Sheet; We've Been Here Before

Puts the lie to the claim of "unprecedented" Greenlandic melt.

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Australia Pulls Back its Embassy

This from Dennis O'Brien:

Well this is BIG news! Marise Payne has announced that the Australian embassy in Kiev (I'm pretty sure they share a shed with Canada) is pulling out and moving into the Ukrainian sticks far away from all the inaction.

They have packed the cat and the dog, a desk and a couple of chairs, and a framed picture of Marise (it's very broad) and are high-tailing it to a "safer" location.

This is a critical development as it could be the straw that breaks the back of the demon Putin and sets Russia onto its noble, but poor and vulnerable neighbour.

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