Climate Troika

Timothy Birdnow

Good morning! I have a few climate articles you may want to see:

First, here is one on fires around the globe.

Second, we have one showing how planetary warming has slowed dramatically over the last 20 years.

And lastly we have this little gem explaining how Arctic ice is at a record 30 year high.

Considering how desperately our political class is trying to "transition" to a poorer, more miserable world and driving up the price of fuel and energy, one must wonder at this. WE are the ones following the Science. What are THEY following?

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An Impressive Show of Democracy in Action

Selwyn Duke

The longest occupation of a government building in US history was the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin Capitol building by leftists. Nancy Pelosi, who, as you know, is aghast at such attacks on our republic, had something to say about it, too.

She called it "an impressive show of democracy in action."

Then there was CHAZ (the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) takeover of a Seattle neighborhood in 2020. By definition, it was an insurrection. And the "warlord" leader, rapper Raz Simone, was seen on video giving a firearm to a follower. What was he charged with?

Nothing — as far as I can tell.

The January 6 trial is a complete con, the Democrats' Reichstag fire moment. Despicable demagogues.

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The Cooling Earth

Timothy Birdnow

South America's Sea levels Were Multiple Meters Higher and SST's 2.5 degrees C Warmer Until Recent Centuries

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The Root of the Matter

Tim adds:

It's even worse in America now; we have not only forgotten God but are now actively hostile to Him.

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Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

Eric Chapman

How Many Mental Illnesses Go Undiagnosed

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Inflation

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Meteor Strike!

Roy W. Spencer

They didn't see THAT coming...

Micrometeoroid Knocks Gold Plated Mirror Out of Alignment on Multi-Billion-Dollar Space Telescope

Tim adds:

This shows it's not a matter if IF Earth will get hit but when.

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Woman Gets Judgment for STD from Car Insurer

Timothy Birdnow

Oh good grief!

A woman may be in for a $5.2m (£4.2m) payout after she allegedly contracted a sexually transmitted infection while having sex in a car.

What if she had been burned with a cigarette? Would that be Geiko who had to pay or the tobacco companies?

This arbitrator should be drummed out of the business.

Insurance covers injuries caused by driving or accident, not the actions of the owner of the vehicle that are incidental to driving.

And certainly not for risky sex. The woman should have refused to indulge her lusts since obviously the guy didn't wear a condom.

He might be liable if he knew he was infected and went ahead anyway, but it is hardly the car insurer who is responsible. May as well blame the manufacturer for not installing a condom dispenser in the vehicle. Or blame Big Oil for allowing cars that are big enough to shag inside.

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Tidal Climate Forcings

Richard Cronin

Another unappreciated energy input into the Earth. Tidal pumping by the Sun on the Earth moves our tectonic plates. Evidence includes the slowing of the Earth’s rotation plus the lines and orientations of the tectonic plates.

Mantle convection does not move tectonic plates, the Sun’s tidal pumping does. Mantle convection does not exist at all. There are many aspects of subduction and "supercontinent cycles” which are highly questionable. By some counts the Earth has had ten (10) separate supercontinent cycles. Does it make sense that the tectonics plates spin around and join up then break apart again, like so many Carnival bumper cars ?

Similarities in geologic strata shared between continents is due to the upwelling of basaltic rock.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Varga-17/publication/222421507_Can_Earth%27s_rotation_and_tidal_despinning_drive_plate_tectonics/links/60bfa37b92851cecf1657966/Can-Earths-rotation-and-tidal-despinning-drive-plate-tectonics.pdf?origin=publication_detail

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laszlo-Horvath-9/publication/334131717_The_phenomenon_of_subduction_is_incompatible_with_Earth%27s_surface_geometry_and_geomorphology/links/5d19d122a6fdcc2462b4a996/The-phenomenon-of-subduction-is-incompatible-with-Earths-surface-geometry-and-geomorphology.pdf?origin=publication_detail

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8% My Posterior!

Steven Schueler

Tim adds:

But, but, but...if you subtract the high inflation on food, on energy, on manufactured goods, on fuel, on clothing, you wind up with 8% inflation, just like they say!

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Junikyard Dogma

Timothy Birdnow

Does this make anyone else think of the Democrats, particularly those at this circle jerk hearing?

"Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favour of systematic hatred. Since argument is not recognized as a means of arriving at truth, adherents of rival dogmas have no method except war by means of which to reach a decision. And war, in our atomic scientific age, means, sooner or later, universal death." -Bertrand Russell, 1944

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What Kind of Insurrection was THAT!

Bob Clasen

Apparently if you disagree with the Democrats, that makes you an Insurrectionist who belongs in jail.

Trump asked multiple times for Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Bowser to provide their required approval for 20,000 National Guardsmen. If Trump was was planning an Insurrection, why would he do that? If Pelosi and Bowser wanted to prevent violence, why did they not approve Trump’s request for the National Guard? Democrats wanted violence so they could use it for political purposes.

How can you have an insurrection without guns?

Tim adds:

Lamest insurrection ever. No guns. No bombs went off. No fires. No attempts to seize the police stations, or radio or television stations. No coordinated effort to grab any political leaders.

Donald Trump ran a world-girdling business empire; you mean to tell me that was the best he could mount?

I would add that at Trump's inaugural there was violence all over D.C. WITH guns and fires set, looting, and general mayhem. Over three hundred people were arrested. But that was "righgeous indignation" and not an insurrection. And just a few months prior BLM "protesters" tried to storm the White House. But THAT

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The Untruths of Gun Control

Timothy Birdnow

On Facebook an argument erupted over gun control and mass shootings.

Steven Chase observes:

In what could be THE grand prize, the Palme D'or for Hypocrisy, Hollywood goes anti-gun once again, as it cranks out more violence, deaths, and explosions per minute than ever seen in Human History. Specifically targeted to our youth.

Liberal Paul Easton says:

These films are seen globally, and yet America is the only country with this problem. Any excuse, any at all, to not deal with the problem at hand and work to find a reasonable compromise. It's the unlocked door, it's the video game, it's a thousand other things but let's not compromise. When they try and identify your grandkid whose head has been blown apart by a random bullet from an AR15 will you want to call out "hypocrisy" then? The majority of Americans, including responsible gun owners, agree on stricter gun laws yet one group of people is failing the voter becauase they are scared of the gun lobby and the extreme views of their base. And you try and point the finger elsewhere, ignoring the facts? Let's keep burying kids, right? Anything but our AR15s. It is somebody else's kid, somebody else's problem, until it's yours. Then what?

Ian Beveridge replies:

The following is a study published in 2003

"The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)"

http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf

In contrast:
According to the FBI’s crime statistics for 2018, there were 14,123 murders committed with a weapon of some kind. Of the total, rifles claimed 297 victims, compared to 1,515 for knives and other cutting instruments, and 672 for "personal weapons” defined as hands, fists, feet and even pushing. Even blunt objects such as hammers and clubs caused more deaths than rifles.
(235 of the 297 rifle deaths were with shotguns)

Work it out!

Tim adds:

Sorry Paul but you are incorrect; the U.S. ranks a tepid 64th in terms of mass shootings, well behind such liberal utopia as Sweden and Switzerland.

https://crimeresearch.org/2018/11/new-cprc-research-mass-public-shootings-are-much-higher-in-the-rest-of-the-world-and-increasing-much-more-quickly/

This study shows the U.S. is solidly in the middle of the pack, not leading it. Yes, it IS a worldwide problem and not just an American one.

I would further add if you add in criminal gun violence you still wind up with the U.S. not in the lead - the leading country is Brazil, which has almost complete gun control.

Gun violence is ubiquitous and it is a symptom of the violence created by our secularist, radicalized left-wing culture. So many children are suffering in no small part because of policies and ideas stemming from such wonderful concepts as the sexual revolution, the welfare state, etc.

Let us look at the stats. https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-countries-with-the-most-mass-shootings-in-the-world-666161/ The U.S. has a 1.15% mass shooting rate based on it's population relative to the crime. Switzerland comes in at 1.68%, for instance.

The Crime Prevention Research Center stated:

"Over the 18 years from 1998 to 2015, our list contains 2,354 attacks and at least 4,880 shooters outside the United States and 53 attacks and 57 shooters within our country. … Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average.”

So your basic premise is wrong.

"Out of the 97 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 64th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 65th in the murder rate.”

Again Brazil, with almost complete gun control, ranks far higher than the U.S. for gun violence.

And it is quite doubtful the Middle East collects proper data on such shootings, or that, say, China reports on it. The U.S. keeps careful track via the FBI.

Remember, the U.S. is the third most populace country on Earth, and it is extraordinarily diverse and is an open society. It's bound to have higher rates than a country like Japan.

See also https://nypost.com/2018/08/30/america-doesnt-actually-lead-the-world-in-mass-shootings/ and https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-us-leads-the-world-in-mass-shootings/



I would add that most of these mass shootings would not have been impacted much with the "common sense" gun control your side advocates. The Uvaldi shooter, for instance, had no criminal record https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/texas-school-shooter-had-no-criminal-record-classmate-calls-him-loner/ar-AAXM4HZor even any warning signs - because school officials feared tainting him and so did not report the disturbing things they were encountering. In fact he HAD been arrested but it was kept off his permanent record because he was a juvenile. https://www.newsweek.com/salvador-ramos-arrested-4-years-ago-planning-attack-when-he-turned-18-1710867

And what of the guns themselves? You do realize he was already in violation of gun laws; as he brought the gun into a gun free zone illegally, for example. Do you really think restrictions on the purchase of AR15 firearms would make any difference to someone hell-bent on mass murder? You do realize it's easy to make thermite or some other incendiary which would work wonderfully in killing people. And you do realize there is a black market for weapons?

He also undoubtedly bought it with his grandmothers stolen credit card.

The fact is an armed teacher or security guard could probably have ended this quickly. So too could the police, who lollygagged for 75 minutes, probably because they wanted the Feds to handle it lest they shoot a kid by accident and get the full wrath of the Defund the Police types.

What happened at Uvaldi and elsewhere is a failure of liberal social and criminal policy, not a gun problem. You seek to fix a neck wound with a tourniquette.

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Power Line's Lexicon of Leftist Locutions

Dana Mathewson

Populism: When the wrong person or cause wins a free election, like Brexit, Trump, or a Soros DA recall.

Racism: Any opposition to the agenda of the left.

Democracy: Any institutional design or voting system that enables the left to get what it wants.

Threat to democracy: When Republicans win an election.

Equality: Outmoded idea from the Declaration of Independence.

Diversity: Where everyone looks different, but thinks the same thing, and speaks in identical cliches.

Equity: The phrase leftists use when they reach for your wallet.

Inclusion: The deliberate exclusion of white males.

Disinformation: Anything a conservative says.

Holistic: Leftist adjective for "we have no idea what to do about a problem.”

Root causes: Method of deflecting attention from solutions that can relieve a problem immediately. (Often used in conjunction with "holistic.”)

Property: Theft. (See Marx, Karl.)

Social justice: Alternative phrase leftists use when reaching for your wallet. (See "Equity,” above.)

Neoliberalism: Anything the left doesn’t like. (Often used as a synonym for "racism.”)

Structural oppression: Synonym for "we hate capitalism.”

Hate speech: Any statement that challenges the dogmas of the left. Usually deployed whenever a conservative is about to win an argument. (See also, "Racism,” above.)

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Why Go to the CIA?

From Cindy Schumacher

So we learned in the Sussman trial that not only did he lie to the FBI but after Trump was elected he met with the CIA. Why did an attorney being paid by the Hillary campaign go to the CIA after she lost? Just an hour after the trial the jury foreman that aquitted Sussman said that the trial should have never been brought. The judge allowed many on the jury that had conflicts of interest and apparently didn’t instruct them that they would be required to put political affiliations aside. ..

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The Black Horse

Timothy Birdnow

Is the coming food shortage a deliberate crisis? Deplorable Bloggers Alliance (formerly Infidel BA) thinks so. I concur.

Nobody knows how bad it could get, except the people who are creating it. Because the evidence is pretty clear, it is being deliberately & cold-bloodedly created. We’ve been documenting it for months.

We have Russia’s "special operation” in Ukraine driving up the price of staple foods, wheat and sunflower oil, as well as fertiliser. We have the sudden "bird flu outbreak” driving up the price of poultry and eggs.

The soaring price of oil is driving up the cost of food distribution. The soaring price of oil is driving up the cost of food distribution. The inflation caused by huge influxes of fiat currency means families are spending more money on less food.

And as all this is happening, the US and UK (and maybe others, we don’t know) are literally paying farmers not to farm.

It’s pretty clear this is The Great Reset: Food Edition. The lockdown melody with slightly different lyrics. A process of breaking down the structures already in place so we can "build back better” with a more controlled and more corporatised food system

Every action taken by the Biden Junta and indeed the international order seems aimed at causing a worldwide famine. Why?

We know why. It is to impose a new world order, a socialist economic system.

Food is the cornerstone of all economic success. Countries that are poor are poor because they do not produce enough food to feed their populations. It is the first and foremost purpose of any economic system.

That is facilitated by oil and gas to a great extent. But it is the food that matters.

When Japan industrialized in the 19th century they didn't start by building factories, or even mines. They started by modernizing their agricultural system. Nobody else did that and no other country had the success in pulling themselves up by their bootstraps as did Japan. The Japanese understood they had to have surplus food to allow all other economic activity.

So now the Internationalist Left want to break the food chains to de-industrialize the West and allow the Third World to catch up - and at at the same time to force us all into a scheme whereby we must unite as one nation.

Famine was one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It appears the Black Horse is preparing for its ride.

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The Strange Case of the Kavanaugh Plot

Timothy Birdnow

Maybe I'm getting paranoid in my old age. I never take anything from the media at face value anymore. And I never, ever take any national incident as a lone, isolated thing.

Which brings us to the matter of the assassination plot against Brett Kavanaugh.

Does anybody else find this thing a bit suspicious?

Look, this guy was supposedly angry about the upcoming Roe v. Wade decision and about the school shooting. (Who addresses their anger at a shooting by attempting to shoot a judge?) But his motives don't matter so much as his actions. And his actions were just - weird. He took a CAB to Kavanaughs house, for example. Who does that? Here he was planning to kidnap and murder a sitting Supreme Court Justice and he takes a taxi! Granted, he may not be smart, but come on!

And as I say he wasn't just planning on murdering Kavanaugh; he had zip ties and other things suggesting he was going to kidnap him first. How did he plan to explain a tied and gagged Justice being forced into a cab to the driver? Was he prepared to be extra for the extra person?

This guy also called and turned himself in. Who would do that when as of that moment nothing had happened? He could have easily walked away. If he was afraid of his own impulses he could have checked himself into a mental ward. But who calls the cops and says he's outside of the door of a Justice of the Supreme Court with a gun? Remember, he crossed a continent to get there and did not shrink from his plan until actually at kavanaugh's doorstep.

It rings hollow to me.

The young man - a Californian named Nicholas John Roske - doesn't seem to have a lot of information available.

I would add that I can think of a lot of good uses such an incident could be put towards for the Democrats. They are making a big push for gun control now, and this could well swing a few fence sitting Republicans. We do not know if this punk legally purchased the Glock he brought with him or not. But it will be argued he was mentally ill and there should have been a background check, yada, yada, yada.

Mitch McConnell is calling for new legislation to protect Supreme Court Justices (something wholly unnecessary; there is already a law on the books - but it wasn't enforced by the Biden Junta who actually invited people to go to the Justices homes and raise hell.) How much will such a law be used in future to shut down the protests of conservative groups? You know the Democrats will hijack any proposed bill in this direction. It will be a handy tool in their arsenal against "domestic terrorism" aka opposition to the bolshevik revolution.

I did some online searching for information on Roske and found very little, despite a full day for media and even conservative media to hunt things down. That makes me suspicious. National Security agents are often like that. They don't call 'em spooks for nothing.

Maybe I'm just missing the information.

This also diverts attention away from Biden's other failures, and from the Sussman verdict, and from the upcoming Jan. 6 self-guided capitol tour hearings, which the Democrats hope to make a big splash with but which may well embarass them. It could be the FBI/CIA axis is trying to protect them with a few distractions.

I don't know. But this thing has a bad smell to me.

Conservative talk hosts were understandably jacked up about this and point out how the Democrats stoked this with their rhetoric (which is the exact same argument the Dems are going to employ in the Jan. 6 hearings about Trump) and that may be so, but the Democrats will be able to point out this guy "cooled off" and didn't do it - while the supposed Republicans did in fact invade the Capitol (after being invited in by the cops there, but that's not going to be mentioned.)

Again, by this time there are usually a host of websites with intimate information on the perp. I could find little on this guy other than he was young and from Simi California and was mad about guns and abortion.

Something doesn't smell right about any of this.

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Depop?

David Murphy

Well, here is the lay out of what is happening right now.. They say the Dems always tell you what they are going to do................th­ey are using the vaccines to kill people.

Dan Andrews Lunacy - Victorian Politics

VIDEO: When Chris Carter created the X-Files he might have been privy to eyes-only information. 'They Knew Before 2022' is a short dramatisation using footage where by coincidence or fact, begs the question to what is really going on in 2022.

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It would be great if this initiative actually bore fruit

Dana Mathewson

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, introduced a measure that would withdraw the United States from the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), claiming the bodies have been soft on China.

Rogers, R-Ala., told Fox News that the U.N. has "repeatedly proven itself to be an utterly useless organization."

The introduction of the bill comes after the U.N.'s human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, landed in China to begin an inquiry into abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang last month, but Chinese authorities severely limited the trip with COVID-19 measures.

Prior to her arrival, Bachelet said the trip was not an "investigation," and agreed to visit just two locations within the Xinjiang region where China's human rights abuses against Uyghurs have been widely documented.

"The Charter of the United Nations states the U.N.’s mission to ‘reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,’" Rogers said. "However, Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has proven herself to be nothing more than a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party – aiding the CCP in playing down the very real and horrifying genocide being carried out against Uyghurs."

Rogers added that it is "unconscionable that China continues to sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council even as it carries out this disturbing genocide on top of its numerous and daily violations of basic human rights."

"It’s clear the U.N. has abandoned the ideals set in its founding charter and that’s why, among many other reasons, I’ve reintroduced legislation to withdraw the United States from the U.N.," Rogers said.

Rogers re-introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2022, which would withdraw the U.S. from the U.N., and "the corrupt World Health Organization."

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One Man's Trash...

Timothy Birdnow

It's a Hydraulic Empire.

There is a theory that says this: many ancient empires gained totalitarian control by controlling water. This was true in Egypt and China and other places. The Pharoah or Emperor could simply shut off the tap and a rebellious area would wsither and die from famine and thirst. You didn't oppose the Pharoah because he controlled the water.

What we are seeing in modern times is an attempt to reimpose this same sort of system, only using energy. The Left wants energy to be restricted and regulated so they can shut the flow off if you don't obey them. They can't do that in an energy-rich society. There MUST be scarcity to justify control and regulation of power.

Energy is the determinant of wealth in the modern world. So they have to get us hooked on "renewables" which they know are inadequate and then they can regulate who gets energy and how much. Then they own you. So we are going to bottle up good sources of energy, refuse to use them, and instead employ scarce, intermittent forms which they can then throttle back. That is the game here.

Nuclear is a bad thing for them because it gives exactly what they claim to want - a carbon-dioxide free energy source. They either ignore it or complain about nuclear waste, which is only dangerous because it is doing exactly what we want it to d - putting out power. It could easily be harnessed. But it's not acceptable because it is reliable,w hich makes it harder to throttle back. Then with expensive, scarce energy people will have to move back into the cities and ride public transit and live in crackerboxes. That is the future our liberal masters have in mind for us.

The Energy in Nuclear Waste could Power the U.S. for 100 Years, but the Technology was Never Commercialized

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