January 14, 2023
He has taken care of business.
Having just lost guitarist Jeff Beck, now the world loses Robbie Bachman https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/bachman-turner-overdrives-robbie-bachman-dead-at-69/, one of the founders of Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Bachman was 69 years old.
No cause of death has been released for the Canadian drummer.
Let it roll Robbie!
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Looks like the CDC is finally admitting there is a problem:
New CDC Report: The new Pfizer bivalent vaccine "met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65"
CDC should make public the raw dataset.https://t.co/G347r2grXe
— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) January 13, 2023
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The answer is "Randy Weaver, Cliven Bundy, and Aunt Jemima"
Bzzz "Who did government jackbooted thugs raid for no good reason."
Will they be hauling off Aunt Jemima or Mrs. Butterworth when they refuse to surrender their gas stoves?
I hear it now "We go live to the standoff at the Jemima compound where the right wing terrorist is holed up in her home after authorities came to remove her gas stove..."
Eat dirt, dirtbag! No more pancakes for you!
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Interesting.
Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan
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Color me skeptical.
Now, if they can drastically increase the lifespan of mice it would probably be possible to do so to human beings as well. But while mice only live between 2 and 7 years, depending on the species. Doubling that isn't exactly a problem. But what of doubling human life-spans?
Cancer, I suspect. We all get cancer if we live long enough. And a drug that increases our lifespan may well increase our tendency to cancer.
Now, different species live different life spans. The Bowhead whale, for example, can live up to 200 years. But it lives in water where gravity doesn't tug at it so much, and it has a stable vegetarian diet, and no hands. There are tortoises that live 150 years, too.
Most of the species that live longer than Man are ocean bound, at least some of the time.
As for land mammals, Asian elephants live up to 86 years, putting them about where we are in terms of lifespan.
The human lifespan is, of course, greatly extended by good nutrition, medical care, and the other blessings of civilization.
My point? We live about as long as any creature that is comparable to us. It may well be that extending that life any more is not feasible, or if it is not exactly optimal; we may live longer but at what cost? Is life in a care facility worth the extra years? Is chronic pain worth prolonged life?
Perhaps to some.
It becomes a balance between quality and quantity. After a certain point extra life becomes a curse.
And there is another point to ponder here; what of diseases?
As we age our immune systems weaken. Viruses and bacteria mutate and attack those with weakened immune systems. With large swaths of the populace aging beyond their years how many more opportunities will this present to diseases to establish themselves in the human population?
The genetic manipulation may well trigger new diseases. Just look at what is happening with the Covid vaccine now.
The more we tinker with genetics and our core "programming" the more risk we entail. It's not wise to pick apart the basic blueprints.
Of course this is a long way from an actual life-extending medicine, what S-F writer Larry Niven called Boosterspice. I suspect such a drug is a long way off. And if it isn't there will still be social issues involved, ones that would wreck the whole economic world order and upset many of the plans of the Malthusian elites. Oh, they'll want it for themselves, but not for the hoi polloi. And they won't be able to keep it from the hoi polloi easily; it would result in revolution and chaos. A life-extending drug could not be allowed to see the light of day. It would mean more people, and more retirees on pensions. It would mean ever increasing strain on the medical system. It would mean more mouths to feed. And it would mean many more dissatisfied people. Almost all medical science would become geriatric science.
The Ruling Class would not be able to allow that. But they would want it for themselves. It would present a metaphysical crisis.
On the other hand, if they could control it and who gets it they would have a powerful tool to dominate society.
Imagine if they could dangle that carrot in front of those who could not afford to buy it. And threaten those same people with it's denial if they didn't toe the line.
Science Fiction writer Isaac Asimov postulated such a condition. Due to the high population on Earth life extending techniques were banned, and those who wanted to increase their life-spans settled worlds around nearby stars. The result was a split in humanity between the Spacers and the Earth. The Spacers also had robots, something banned on Earth (at least in cities) because they took jobs. The Spacers dominated the Earth for a long time, until Earth sent out their own colonies and settled. As they bred faster than the spoiled Spacers they quickly came to dominate and the Spacer culture faded away. Longevity had a lot to do with it; the Spacers wouldn't dare risk so long a life on risky ventures. And robots made them too comfortable.
At any rate, this is a fascinating topic to delve into.
In the end I suspect no amount of life will ever be enough for us. I suspect a three, four hundred year life will still seem to have passed like a dream in the end. And we'll put off doing things we should have done because "there's plenty of time".
It's not about quantity, but about quality.
And the world will probably stagnate as a result of ossification of all the sciences and other such institutions as the old codgers will refuse to leave their posts. It will take forever to move up. And old ideas will remain in place whether they serve any useful purpose or not.
Final thought; is long life on this Earth even a blessing? If you believe in God and a Heaven it's a form of Purgatory instead of a blessing. There comes a time to move on. Living beyond that time is a miserable thing.
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Illinois has been desperately trying to get people to put in solar panels, but they really aren't worth the effort for the average home. There are also some catches people my not quite understand.
Firstly, and most importantly, the panels the state is giving tax credits for DO NOT benefit the home owner. The energy made by them is fed directly to ComEd. So, that means if the power goes out, you are STILL without power because the panels are not feeding energy to you, it is going to the power company.
Now, you can put in a 3 or 4 battery system, but no tax credits for that. And that costs about $15,000. The panels also cost about that much depending on how many you need.
In other words, you could be spending as much as $20,000 to $30,000 on a complete solar system.
Also, the tax credits they are giving you are limited. If you make more power than the tax credit each year, then you stop getting the credit until next year. That means if you put in too many panels, you are potentially erasing your tax credit.
Finally, with power
bills only being between $150 and $250 a month for most homes, it'll
take you 15 to 20 years to pay back the cost of the solar systems you
put in with the savings you'd get from your power bill. So, if you
don't intend on being in the home for 20 years or more, you will never
break even on the system-to-power
In other words, the whole thing is a scam to give free power to the electric company with little benefit directly to the homeowner.
Then there is the roofing issue. It is best to put a brand new roof on BEFORE installing solar panels. This is because you should upgrade to better roofing material that can withstand the weight of the panels you are going to install. Also, the roof you have may not even be able to handle the panels!
So, that is another $5000 and up cost.
If you replace the roof at the same time you put in the panels, you will be able to put off the new roof issue for years down the line.
Let's say you don't replace the roof first. Well, you WILL have to sooner rather than later. And when you finally do replace your roof, you have to hire a solar panel installer to remove your panels before your roofers come. Roofing companies don't handle solar panels. This, of course, will add a few thousand bucks to your roof replacement.
Lastly, solar panels go bad after about 25 years, so just as you are paying off your system, you'll have to replace it!
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EV Owner Needs Replacement Battery, Told She'll Have to Wait Four Years to Get It
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January 13, 2023
Here’s the story on CO2.
3. Geochemical Reactions
3.1 The geochemical reactions throughout the Upper and Lower Mantle are almost entirely exothermic (give off heat). Several mineral transformations
3.2 Significant amount of sulfur resides at the Core-Mantle Boundary, in the form of metal sulfides (i.e. Iron Sulfide, pyrites). (L. Deng. et al). Sulfur accreted to the interior of the planet by enstatite chrondites, the meteoric building blocks of all major celestial bodies (Boyet, Herndon, et al)
3.3 With heat coming from deeper inside the planet, the Iron Pyrites undergo a melt separation (Ref). The molten Iron joins with the Outer Core and molten sulfur percolates upward. As further evidence of this melt separation , it has been observed that the rotation of the planet has sped up starting from the earliest use of atomic clocks in the 1960s. A new record was set on July 27, 2022. (Ref) Rotation speeds up as more Iron consolidates to the Core.
3.4 Water is also released at the Core Mantle boundary initiating the formation of diamonds. (Ref) Hydrous minerals like Ringwoodite reside in the Transition Zone (410 to 660 km down) and have been found in diamond inclusions. At the conditions at the boundary between the Lower Mantle and the Transition Zone, hydrous minerals undergo melt dehydration releasing more water and producing magma. (Ref) ( W. Panero)
3.5 At a depth of approx. 1500 km, Oxygen is liberated from the transformation of Fe2O4 to Fe2O3. In interview, Univ. of Bayreuth researcher, Dr. Elena Bykova describes "Rivers of liquid Oxygen” percolating up from these regions (Ref). Molten sulfur reacts with liquid Oxygen to produce SO2 and other sulfur-bearing acids.
3.6 Oxygen also reacts with many metals in the Lower Mantle. (Ref. Karato) Several catalysts are metal oxides. Metal fires are extremely exothermic. Lithium is a metal which can spontaneously combust. Lithium battery fires in electric buses are an increasingly frequent occurrence.
3.7 Upon planetary formation heavier metals descended into the Lower Mantle (Kamis). Osmiums-Iridium
extensive volcanism as the cause of the Great Extinctions (Keller) them is certainly Vanadium. See section 5.
3.8 With an excess of Oxygen, Vanadium Pentoxide (Va2O5) can form, which is a catalyst in the Contact Process to produce SO3. SO3 then reacts with water to produce sulfuric acid.
3.9 In the western U.S., centered on Yellowstone, one such carbonate reservoir covers an area larger than, Mexico. Researchers from the University of London describe that just this carbonate layer ALONE has an area measuring approx. 1.8 million sq. km with a thickness ranging from 25 to 70 km. In interview, the researchers from Univ. of London estimate that if just 1 % of this Yellowstone carbonate layer decomposed it would be equivalent to burning 2.3 trillion barrels of oil. The researchers from University of London downplayed any likelihood of carbonate decomposition but decomposition is assured by SO2 and related sulfur-bearing acids ascending from the Lower Mantle. (Ref.)
Reference, Forbes magazine, 30-April-2017. Fig. 3.a
Changes in solar and planetary tidal stresses can change that process, accelerating it.
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https://www.selwynduke.com/2023/01/strength-via-diversity-islam-continues-influencing-the-west.html
"Allahu akbar!” — an often misinterpreted exclamation meaning "Allah is the Greatest!” — has been heard quite a bit recently. It was shouted by an American teen convert to Islam who rang in the New Year by stabbing three police officers near Times Square. It was screamed by a Tunisian man in France when he threatened cops with a gun during a Saturday arrest for allegedly having killed his wife. It was also exclaimed Saturday by a Muslim man who fired a pellet gun into the air in a Jewish NYC neighborhood, by a Libyan national who stabbed five people in Paris Wednesday, and during New Year’s Eve violence in Vienna, Austria.
Whether it was uttered when an American locality’s Muslim city council recently voted to legalize animal sacrifice was not reported.
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When I was in college they began pushing this "diversity" nonsense. I pointed out then that diversity served no useful purpose, being the problem in the Balkans, in India, in Central Asia and subsaharan Africa. But they pushed on with that. Now it is destroying us. I think this was intentional; I think the leftist professors knew it would which is why they pushed it; they hated Western Civilization and wanted to punish the stupid white anglo christians for being successful in the past.
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Very astute essay. I do disagree about people waking up though; I think they no longer care if the public knows because they see the apathy and believe they have already won. If the public wouldn't rebel against this by now they never will. Also, this predated the information revolution. The older version of the WEF, groups like the Council on Foreign Reolations or the Trilateralists - have been working to this end for a long time. But by and large he's spot on here.
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The Digitization Of Humanity Shows Why The Globalist Agenda Is Evil - Alt-Market.us
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/millennials-are-slamming-1994-movie-ace-ventura-pet-detective/ar-AA167gg0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=dd4301fa32cd44e0bf751f8f6a83e31e
Excerpt: "Joe Rogan was shocked by the transphobia when he rewatched it with his daughters. 'I didn't realize how transphobic that f*[****]g movie is,' he said."
Value-signaling for his daughters? Big tough Joe Rogan really is such a snowflake.
And what's "transphobia"? Having a normal reaction to others' bizarre manifestations of severe mental problems?
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The linked video gives you an idea of the stresses exerted across our solar system as the planets chase around in the wake of the Sun. The helical strands take the same form as your DNA.
The center of mass of our solar system (the barycenter) is determined by the Sun and Jupiter. The Earth lies between these two giants and is flung about by their gigantic gravity fields. Earth’s flimsy rigid crustal plates are fractured and shoved about. Ocean trenches form and mountains thrust upward.
Now do you feel like you are a threat to the planet this week ?
The helical model - our solar system is a vortex
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NBC Furious Over Ratings Loser Jimmy Fallon's $80M Contract as Fox’s Greg Gutfeld Wins King of Late-Night
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When asked if mistakes were made during the pandemic, Australian politicians commonly respond, "In hindsight, some things might have been handled differently, but we saved lives and protected our economy and now Australia is the envy of the world."
I suppose they think if this claim is repeated often enough, and not challenged by the compliant media, the people will believe it. And that's true! I've heard people parrot the same response. The problem is, we aren't the envy of the rest of the world.
The response to Covid-19 saw our freedoms stripped without barely a whimper. Australians endured authoritarian rule only rivalled by China and a handful of other countries.
We had extended lockdowns and business closures. Not only were our international borders closed, but our state borders were closed to all but 'essential' traffic.
Most of the population were compelled to get vaccinated and boosted, or be excluded from employment and attendance at public events and food and entertainment venues.
Police used special powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations and to put down any protests or dissent. For the first time ever, Australians lived under curfews. Rubber bullets, tear gas, brutal force, arrests and massive on-the-spot fines were used to put down peaceful protests. Some people who posted anti-lockdown material on social media had their homes raided, electronic devices confiscated and were arrested in front of their children. Often these people were detained in jail if they didn't agree to bail conditions requiring them to stay off social media.
The claim that we are now the envy of the world is demonstrably false.
Economically the forecast GDP growth for 2023/24 of just 1.2% places us 168th in the world. Hardly an envious position. https://tradingeconomics.com/forecast/gdp-annual-growth-rate
Of course the population will be hard hit by the resulting decline of the $A because we manufacture very little in Australia. So imported goods including processed foods will be more expensive adding to the increased cost of living for individuals and inflation problems for businesses.
Given our very high forced vaccination rate, you might expect that being the envy of the world would place us at the bottom of the list in terms of Covid-19 infections per 100,000 population. In fact with more than 44,000 cases per 100,000 population, Australia ranks 30 out of 227 reporting countries and territories. That's well within the top 15% of the most infected countries in the world. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/
It's probably only our excellent hybrid public/private health system which kept the number of Covid-19 deaths to 70 per 100,000, keeping us only just outside the top half of the world. That death rate certainly doesn't place us in an envious position compared to most of Central and Southeast Asia and Pacific nations with which we share a similar climate. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/
If you needed more evidence that Australia is hardly the envy of the world post Covid-19, you need only look at the precipitous decline of our cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and 2022’s Global Liveability Index. https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/australian-cities-fall-significantly-in-list-of-the-worlds-most-liveable-cities-for-2022-c-7280395.amp
'Despite having topped the list in the past, Melbourne fell to 10th place in 2022.
In 2021, Australia dominated the EIU index, with Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth all joining Melbourne in the top 10.
This year, they rank 27th, 30th and 32nd respectively.
The index cited a slow lifting of COVID-19 restrictions as the reason for those state capitals losing ground.
The top 10 cities were among those with few COVID-19 restrictions, the report noted, with shops, schools and restaurants reopening, and pandemic-led hospitalisation declining.'
We need to hold our politicians to account for the unjustified measures and outrageous spending which they undertook without proper cost benefit analysis. They claimed they were acting in the best health advice but shut down any advice which disagreed with them. We shouldn't now let politicians get away with the false claim we are the envy of the world.
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January 12, 2023
Most of the Presidents of the United States in my life-time were corrupt and beholden to the globalist elites if not actually blackmailed and controlled by them. Obama who spent his childhood in Indonesia was recruited into intelligence by Jimmy Carter's NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski at Columbia. The Bush family were CIA stooges. Clinton had CIA and organized crime ties since his gubernatorial days in Arkansas when drugs were being run out of Mena, Arkansas and his State Troopers looked the other way while the Arkansas Redevelopment Finance Authority financed the Mena (drug-smuggling) company with "loans" (that were gifted outright.)
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Interesting.
Their study, published today in Science Advances, shows that the inner core changed direction in the six-year period from 1969-74, according to the analysis of seismic data. The scientists say their model of inner core movement also explains the variation in the length of day, which has been shown to oscillate persistently for the past several decades.
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The Earth moves far under our feet: A new study shows the inner core oscillates | Geology Page
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Antarctica pulses up and down, pushing "rivers of ice” through the mountain passes of the Transantarctic Mountain range from East Antarctica to West Antarctica and out onto the Ross Ice Shelf.
Pulsations passing through the Earth induce compressive heating on the underside of the Lithosphere. Another unappreciated internal heating mechanism which warms the oceans and drives weather & climate.
The cause of these pulsations is the GeoReactor.
https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602085
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Maurizio Morabito
Crime Family head Joe the Biden literally posted a video in August 2020 showing stacks of classified documents in his garage. I wonder if the camera crew was helpfully provided by the Chinese government?
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1291111736167211008
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Clearly there is Indian supremacism or Fillipino Supremacism that is worse than white supremacism. Oh, and I see Jewish Americans are not even represented in their own category. If we split them off we would have Jewish supremcism outweighing WASP supremacism by a large margin.
Clearly you can't tell the supremacists apart without a scorecard!
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This confirms what many have know from the beginning, the vaccine turns your body into a toxic pump.
The peer-reviewed study in Circulation reviewed 16 adolescents and young adults hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children's with post-vaccination myocarditis from January 2021-February 2022. All had "markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein" in their blood, "unbounded by antibodies."
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To their eternal shame, the brain-dead prejudiced censors at YouTube pulled realist climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry's live interview a few minutes before it was slated to go on air.
Complete details below, plus a link to where it was finally aired.
Seriously, this censorship of all ideas that are disapproved of by the wokeoisie has gotta stop. It's killing the free discussion of ideas, the intellectual give-and-take that has been the hallmark of American life since the Constitution was signed.
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Oil consumption in the US to reach new record high despite all the bloviating about the evils of fossil fuels and the billions being spent on ineffective alternatives.
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