December 04, 2024
S. Korea Drops Martial Law
Timothy Birdnow
Update on a former story:
South Korea president ends martial law after parliament meets.
I'm sure Joe Biden is sad to hear that; if it wouldn't work in Korea it won't work here.
Update on a former story:
South Korea president ends martial law after parliament meets.
I'm sure Joe Biden is sad to hear that; if it wouldn't work in Korea it won't work here.
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The Price of Coffee in Brazil
Timothy Birdnow
Here is exactly what is wrong with globalism; a few key international pieces in the massive Rube Goldberg machine can wreck the whole market.
There have been droughts in Brazil, where most of teh world's coffee comes from at present,so prices have skyrocketed to record highs. But also "supply chain problems" and farmers sitting on their crop to drive up prices have hurt everyone worldwide.
The point is, we have overspecialized the economy. The globalization/"free trade" crowd determined long ago certain places would provide certain things and nobody else - and so when the designated producer has problems you wind up with inflationary pressure or shortages.
Coffee can be grown in many places (and is) and there is no reason why it should come mostly from Brazil. Shoot; it can be grown in Florida. Florida coffee may not be that good relative to stuff out of the Carribean (I favor Jamaican Blue Mountain myself,but it's very pricey) but it certainly would be o.k. for growing robusto - the cheap stuff. Robusto mainly comes from Vietnam.
I would think coffee could be grown in Texas, too, although it may require more water than is available in the Lone Star state.
Up until now nobody bothered with it becausethere were many reliable providers from overseas. But now we seem to be having a problem.
I've long said that the globalists want to specialize nations. Anyone who has ever seen the '70's movie Rollerball may remember then having this - corporations ruled certain cities across the globe. Houston, for instance, was an energy city, while Indianapolis was a food production city. Everything specialized, compartmentalized. I do believe that movie captured a fundamental goal of the modern internationalists.
But overspecialization is what ended the Bronze Age. Nations all had their one or two particular trading skills,and trade was easy and enriching. But then some new folks showed up - the Sea People, for example - and the supply chains broke down. The end result was a huge civilizational cololapse that took centuries to dig out from under. The overspecialization meant nobody could produce what they needed to maintain their civilzation on their own; when the trade stopped so too did the civilzations. Many completely disappeared from history. Others survived but in a different form. But everyone lost the culture, the prosperity, that they had enjoyed. All because everyone quit doing for themselves and simply bought the stuff from someone else.
That's what we've taken to doing in our modern rush towards globalism. And we have seen how badly that turned out during the pandemic.
Today it's high coffee prices, tomorrow what will it be? The engine of the world's economy can easily grind to a halt if something very bad ever happens. These supply chains are gossamer, and can quite easily be broken at any time. One big war, or a worldwide natural disaster (like an asteroid strike) could throw us back into savagery. This wasn't a problem when we made stuff for ourselves.
Part of adulthood is learning to rely on yourself. The modern man has gone full in reverse, seeking to reassert dependency. The result will be chaos and suffering - or at least coffee that is too expensive to buy.
What will all those hippie liberal coffee shop dwellers say then? They will no doubt blame Donald Trump and the free market.
Oh, one final thought; European nations believed that a country could not be strong if it did not produce everything it needed. This was the concept of Mercantilism, a much-despised idea now. It largely failed the European nations because it was far too strict. Governments used heavy regulations and taxation to force consumers to buy from within their empires. And they needed huge colonial empires to produce everything they needed, and those empires were very expensive to holed and maintain. I am not advocating that; we should allow foreign trade, no question. But there is nothing wrong with encouraging American commerce, American manufacturing. We need to make what we need in addition to buying it from elsewhere. What we have now is NOT free trade,but rather we simply closed up shop and buy from foreign entities that employ slave labor or otherwise circumvent the regulations we imposed that made our industries uncompetitive in the first place. While I think buying steel from Japan is o.k. I think selling U.S. Steel to Japan is an abomination. See the difference? You can't just sell your country and chalk it up to free trade.
Here is exactly what is wrong with globalism; a few key international pieces in the massive Rube Goldberg machine can wreck the whole market.
There have been droughts in Brazil, where most of teh world's coffee comes from at present,so prices have skyrocketed to record highs. But also "supply chain problems" and farmers sitting on their crop to drive up prices have hurt everyone worldwide.
The point is, we have overspecialized the economy. The globalization/"free trade" crowd determined long ago certain places would provide certain things and nobody else - and so when the designated producer has problems you wind up with inflationary pressure or shortages.
Coffee can be grown in many places (and is) and there is no reason why it should come mostly from Brazil. Shoot; it can be grown in Florida. Florida coffee may not be that good relative to stuff out of the Carribean (I favor Jamaican Blue Mountain myself,but it's very pricey) but it certainly would be o.k. for growing robusto - the cheap stuff. Robusto mainly comes from Vietnam.
I would think coffee could be grown in Texas, too, although it may require more water than is available in the Lone Star state.
Up until now nobody bothered with it becausethere were many reliable providers from overseas. But now we seem to be having a problem.
I've long said that the globalists want to specialize nations. Anyone who has ever seen the '70's movie Rollerball may remember then having this - corporations ruled certain cities across the globe. Houston, for instance, was an energy city, while Indianapolis was a food production city. Everything specialized, compartmentalized. I do believe that movie captured a fundamental goal of the modern internationalists.
But overspecialization is what ended the Bronze Age. Nations all had their one or two particular trading skills,and trade was easy and enriching. But then some new folks showed up - the Sea People, for example - and the supply chains broke down. The end result was a huge civilizational cololapse that took centuries to dig out from under. The overspecialization meant nobody could produce what they needed to maintain their civilzation on their own; when the trade stopped so too did the civilzations. Many completely disappeared from history. Others survived but in a different form. But everyone lost the culture, the prosperity, that they had enjoyed. All because everyone quit doing for themselves and simply bought the stuff from someone else.
That's what we've taken to doing in our modern rush towards globalism. And we have seen how badly that turned out during the pandemic.
Today it's high coffee prices, tomorrow what will it be? The engine of the world's economy can easily grind to a halt if something very bad ever happens. These supply chains are gossamer, and can quite easily be broken at any time. One big war, or a worldwide natural disaster (like an asteroid strike) could throw us back into savagery. This wasn't a problem when we made stuff for ourselves.
Part of adulthood is learning to rely on yourself. The modern man has gone full in reverse, seeking to reassert dependency. The result will be chaos and suffering - or at least coffee that is too expensive to buy.
What will all those hippie liberal coffee shop dwellers say then? They will no doubt blame Donald Trump and the free market.
Oh, one final thought; European nations believed that a country could not be strong if it did not produce everything it needed. This was the concept of Mercantilism, a much-despised idea now. It largely failed the European nations because it was far too strict. Governments used heavy regulations and taxation to force consumers to buy from within their empires. And they needed huge colonial empires to produce everything they needed, and those empires were very expensive to holed and maintain. I am not advocating that; we should allow foreign trade, no question. But there is nothing wrong with encouraging American commerce, American manufacturing. We need to make what we need in addition to buying it from elsewhere. What we have now is NOT free trade,but rather we simply closed up shop and buy from foreign entities that employ slave labor or otherwise circumvent the regulations we imposed that made our industries uncompetitive in the first place. While I think buying steel from Japan is o.k. I think selling U.S. Steel to Japan is an abomination. See the difference? You can't just sell your country and chalk it up to free trade.
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Dems "Find" Their Moral Compass Suddenly
Timothy Birdnow
Was this always the goal?
Yes, I know; Biden pardoned Hunter to protect not just his son but himself. However, he's not getting support from Democrats, who now want to limit the power of the President to pardon. Now why do you suppose that is? When has the Democratic party cared about anything but power?
We know why; Trump may have to use it liberally during the next four years, most especially on himself and his people. The Democrats know this, and so hope to take that tool from him.
Lawfare doesn't work unless you can make the fake charges stick. People no longer trust anyone in government, not the legislators, the bureaucrats, and not the law enforcement nor the judges. In times past just charging someone would be enough; not now. They made it so obvious that the public actually increased their support for Trump with every new charge against him. And so they cannot use public perception - they need to actually be able to convict and incarcerate. They still dream of watching Trump have the jail door slammed in his face while they jeer at him.
This stand against Biden for the pardon is but fained outrage. Biden has outlived his usefulness so they don't mind taking pot shots at him "for the greter good". They need to change the law so they can keep the lawfare dream alive.
So why did the Founding Fathers put that power into the Constitution in the first place? Simple; to act as a check on the power of the judiciary. They were putting a judiciary in place that had lifetime appointments and they feared it could use their power as jurists to do exactly what the Democrats have done to Trump - use it to manipulate the political landscape so as to empower themselves. They didn't have to run for office,but they still could want to steer the nation in a direction that the general public did not want. For that matter the judges are appointed and a string of bad Presidents could subvert the judiciary so much that we find ourselves in just the situation we are in now, with pet judges issuing rulings that are entirely political in nature.
So the Presidential pardon was put in place to overturn misrule by judges and the courts.
But we've nigh unto deified the judiciary, giving them the final say on just about everything. Congress no longer has to take controversial action - they just hand it off to the courts and get what they want that way. The courts have power far beyond anything even Alexander Hamilton wanted. (Hamilton argues in the Federalist Papers that the judiciary was far and away the weakest branch of govnerment, having neither money nor enforcement power, and that their sole power was psychological in their judgements. He clearly didn't understand how partisan they would become, and how much power they would grab for themselves. For instance,the idea of judicial review of the constituionality of laws was not part of the original constitution at all but was asserted by the Chief Justice,John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison. In other words, he just granted himself the power to do that. Congress didn't act to stop him either. Congress is much like Adam in the Genesis story; they, like Adam, are weak and willing to let others tell them to do bad things. As steeped in the Bible as the Founders were I would think they would have realized this was going to happen, but they didn't.
At any rate now the Democrats are finding their moral outrage when they think it will benefit their august selves.
Was this always the goal?
Yes, I know; Biden pardoned Hunter to protect not just his son but himself. However, he's not getting support from Democrats, who now want to limit the power of the President to pardon. Now why do you suppose that is? When has the Democratic party cared about anything but power?
We know why; Trump may have to use it liberally during the next four years, most especially on himself and his people. The Democrats know this, and so hope to take that tool from him.
Lawfare doesn't work unless you can make the fake charges stick. People no longer trust anyone in government, not the legislators, the bureaucrats, and not the law enforcement nor the judges. In times past just charging someone would be enough; not now. They made it so obvious that the public actually increased their support for Trump with every new charge against him. And so they cannot use public perception - they need to actually be able to convict and incarcerate. They still dream of watching Trump have the jail door slammed in his face while they jeer at him.
This stand against Biden for the pardon is but fained outrage. Biden has outlived his usefulness so they don't mind taking pot shots at him "for the greter good". They need to change the law so they can keep the lawfare dream alive.
So why did the Founding Fathers put that power into the Constitution in the first place? Simple; to act as a check on the power of the judiciary. They were putting a judiciary in place that had lifetime appointments and they feared it could use their power as jurists to do exactly what the Democrats have done to Trump - use it to manipulate the political landscape so as to empower themselves. They didn't have to run for office,but they still could want to steer the nation in a direction that the general public did not want. For that matter the judges are appointed and a string of bad Presidents could subvert the judiciary so much that we find ourselves in just the situation we are in now, with pet judges issuing rulings that are entirely political in nature.
So the Presidential pardon was put in place to overturn misrule by judges and the courts.
But we've nigh unto deified the judiciary, giving them the final say on just about everything. Congress no longer has to take controversial action - they just hand it off to the courts and get what they want that way. The courts have power far beyond anything even Alexander Hamilton wanted. (Hamilton argues in the Federalist Papers that the judiciary was far and away the weakest branch of govnerment, having neither money nor enforcement power, and that their sole power was psychological in their judgements. He clearly didn't understand how partisan they would become, and how much power they would grab for themselves. For instance,the idea of judicial review of the constituionality of laws was not part of the original constitution at all but was asserted by the Chief Justice,John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison. In other words, he just granted himself the power to do that. Congress didn't act to stop him either. Congress is much like Adam in the Genesis story; they, like Adam, are weak and willing to let others tell them to do bad things. As steeped in the Bible as the Founders were I would think they would have realized this was going to happen, but they didn't.
At any rate now the Democrats are finding their moral outrage when they think it will benefit their august selves.
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Hanging Chad Withdraws
Timothy Birdnow
We won a victory of sorts.
Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister, Widely Criticized for Actions During COVID, Withdraws as Trump's Nominee to Lead DEA
This is the jackass who arrested a minister and hauled him off the pulpit during church services because the minister was violating the Covid church closure orders. Those orders were blatantly unconstitutional (try reading the First Amendment cchief!) and furthermore pot shops and liquor stores and even bars were allowed to remain open but churches were ordered closed. Last time I checked there was no mention of the right of drug pushers to be exempt from "public health" edicts, but there most assuredly is for churches.
Not sure what Trump was thinking with this appointment, but the issue is now moot.We won't be stuck with Hanging Chad.
We won a victory of sorts.
Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister, Widely Criticized for Actions During COVID, Withdraws as Trump's Nominee to Lead DEA
This is the jackass who arrested a minister and hauled him off the pulpit during church services because the minister was violating the Covid church closure orders. Those orders were blatantly unconstitutional (try reading the First Amendment cchief!) and furthermore pot shops and liquor stores and even bars were allowed to remain open but churches were ordered closed. Last time I checked there was no mention of the right of drug pushers to be exempt from "public health" edicts, but there most assuredly is for churches.
Not sure what Trump was thinking with this appointment, but the issue is now moot.We won't be stuck with Hanging Chad.
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Willis Given Ultimatum
Timothy Birdnow
This could end the Trump persecution once and for all in Georgia.
Fani Willis Given 5 Days to Hand Over All Communications She Had With Jack Smith, House Jan 6 Committee
This could end the Trump persecution once and for all in Georgia.
Fani Willis Given 5 Days to Hand Over All Communications She Had With Jack Smith, House Jan 6 Committee
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Dems Steal Another House Seat
Timothy Birdnow
After the better part of a month of "counting" the Democrats managed to wrest away a final House of Representatives seat in the corrupt banana republic of California. ?
Two questions; how did they win a seat in the red part of California (the central valley is Republican country) and why, pray tell, does it take almost a month to count the votes in ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT?
Incumbent Republican John Duarte was ahead slightly throughout the count, then suddenly new votes were found for the Democrat Adan Gray, who suddenly surged to victory.Duarte conceded last night with a scant 187 vote margin.
How many times have we seen this scenario; a close race and the Democrats ALWAYS seem to win them in the end? Probability dictates these should end both ways under fair conditions.
In other words the Democrats stole this seat right out from under the GOP noses as we were all celebrating the Trump win.
The GOP just doesn't know how to do this. They are like a second rate college football team playing against the Kansas City Chiefs. Rank amateurs. And they don't seem to want to do any better, making the same mistakes over and over. Why, it's like they are the Washington Generals, there solely to lose to the Haarlem Globetrotters (to mix my sports metaphors).
I have no doubt this election was stolen. The problem is, once done, it is almost impossible to prove.
This also shows the folly of allowing mail-in voting. Without that the Democrats would have lost this seat and probably at least six others, maybe more.
The balance in the House is no 220 to 215, but that assumes the GOP wins the special elections to fill the seats vacated by people tapped by Trump. Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, and Michael Waltz are all leaving Congress and so their seats will be vacant until filled by a special election. That makes it 217 to 215, the slimmest margin imaginable just about. And if somehow the Democrats flip or steal all three of these seats it becomes a Democrat Congress and everything comes back; the endless investigations of Trump, the obstructionism, the whole nine yards.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; I believe the GOP does not want to actually win soundly but prefers the Congress to be nip-and-tuck. That empowers incumbents and RINO's, who we dare not primary lest we lose the seat. It also offers a ready-made excuse to the Republicans for failing to enact the agenda for which they were elected. They can campaign on MAGA causes but then not deliver so their monied sponsors remain happy. It's always "we don't have the numbers" but then they don't try to get the numbers, or do what it takes to show they are honest and serious, something that will draw the votes.
So now we are still vulnerable in the House, and if nothing else will probably lose it in two years anyway. And we aren't in a whole lot better shape in the Senate; we could have won big had we had someone other than Chinless Mitch tampering with things.
One thing is clear; the GOP has to learn how to stop Democrat cheating. We made a good start, catching them at all sorts of dirty tricks in this last election and preventing the same Big Steal they pulled in 2020, but they are still doing it. We must be ever vigilant, and ever willing to fight. They are. Donald Trump is. Why isn't the Republican Party?
BTW did you notice in this article how the Republican quit with such good grace? A Democrat would have fought to the end on this. Yes, it makes our side look noble and reasonable, but so what? In the end they win, we lose. Nobody remembers the loser, no matter how well he took it. And this isn't just about who wins or loses, but about the fate of the whole country. We need more Trumps and fewer Duarte's.
After the better part of a month of "counting" the Democrats managed to wrest away a final House of Representatives seat in the corrupt banana republic of California. ?
Two questions; how did they win a seat in the red part of California (the central valley is Republican country) and why, pray tell, does it take almost a month to count the votes in ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT?
Incumbent Republican John Duarte was ahead slightly throughout the count, then suddenly new votes were found for the Democrat Adan Gray, who suddenly surged to victory.Duarte conceded last night with a scant 187 vote margin.
How many times have we seen this scenario; a close race and the Democrats ALWAYS seem to win them in the end? Probability dictates these should end both ways under fair conditions.
In other words the Democrats stole this seat right out from under the GOP noses as we were all celebrating the Trump win.
The GOP just doesn't know how to do this. They are like a second rate college football team playing against the Kansas City Chiefs. Rank amateurs. And they don't seem to want to do any better, making the same mistakes over and over. Why, it's like they are the Washington Generals, there solely to lose to the Haarlem Globetrotters (to mix my sports metaphors).
I have no doubt this election was stolen. The problem is, once done, it is almost impossible to prove.
This also shows the folly of allowing mail-in voting. Without that the Democrats would have lost this seat and probably at least six others, maybe more.
The balance in the House is no 220 to 215, but that assumes the GOP wins the special elections to fill the seats vacated by people tapped by Trump. Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, and Michael Waltz are all leaving Congress and so their seats will be vacant until filled by a special election. That makes it 217 to 215, the slimmest margin imaginable just about. And if somehow the Democrats flip or steal all three of these seats it becomes a Democrat Congress and everything comes back; the endless investigations of Trump, the obstructionism, the whole nine yards.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; I believe the GOP does not want to actually win soundly but prefers the Congress to be nip-and-tuck. That empowers incumbents and RINO's, who we dare not primary lest we lose the seat. It also offers a ready-made excuse to the Republicans for failing to enact the agenda for which they were elected. They can campaign on MAGA causes but then not deliver so their monied sponsors remain happy. It's always "we don't have the numbers" but then they don't try to get the numbers, or do what it takes to show they are honest and serious, something that will draw the votes.
So now we are still vulnerable in the House, and if nothing else will probably lose it in two years anyway. And we aren't in a whole lot better shape in the Senate; we could have won big had we had someone other than Chinless Mitch tampering with things.
One thing is clear; the GOP has to learn how to stop Democrat cheating. We made a good start, catching them at all sorts of dirty tricks in this last election and preventing the same Big Steal they pulled in 2020, but they are still doing it. We must be ever vigilant, and ever willing to fight. They are. Donald Trump is. Why isn't the Republican Party?
BTW did you notice in this article how the Republican quit with such good grace? A Democrat would have fought to the end on this. Yes, it makes our side look noble and reasonable, but so what? In the end they win, we lose. Nobody remembers the loser, no matter how well he took it. And this isn't just about who wins or loses, but about the fate of the whole country. We need more Trumps and fewer Duarte's.
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December 03, 2024
Mediterranean Evaporated During the Miocene
Timothy Birdnow
70% of the Mediterranean sea evaporated into thin air 5.5 million years ago in a disappearing act not seen since Al Gore lost the 2000 election.
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The Miocene Climate Optimum was warmer than now - significantly. Depending on where you look it was between 4 and 8 degrees warmer Centigrade. That comes as no surprise; with all that water in the atmosphere from the Mediterranean, coupled with increased plate tectonics pouring heat out through volcanic action, one would expect a warmer world.
The Gang Green likes to blame it on atmospheric carbon dioxide which stood at 500 ppm,but that was, in my view, a result of the warming, not the cause. These high levels of carbon dioxide only rose to that level at the very middle of the Miocene, not the beginning. (Yes, the earlier Oligocene was even higher peaking midway throough at 680 ppm,but it had dropped well below that by the beginning of the Miocene. By the beginning of the Miocene it was down to 420, just barely higher than today.
The Oligocene was relatively cool until the latter days I might add.
The fact is there is much that does not work out in the geological record for the Global Warming crowd.
70% of the Mediterranean sea evaporated into thin air 5.5 million years ago in a disappearing act not seen since Al Gore lost the 2000 election.
FTA:
The extreme evaporation event actually happened in two phases, according to the international team behind the new study.
By analyzing chlorine isotopes in the salt deposited on the seabed, and building numerical models and simulations, the researchers were able to chart when, where, and how 70 percent of the Mediterranean's water was lost.
The first phase covered 35,000 years of restricted water flow between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, via what is now the Strait of Gibraltar.
As the seawater wasn't getting refreshed with freshwater, that restriction sped up the deposit of salts and water evaporation in the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean chart
The evaporation event affected the two sides of the Med differently. (Aloisi et al., Nature Communications, 2024)
In the second phase, across the next 10,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea was completely isolated, and the whole process accelerated.
The researchers, led by Earth system scientist Giovanni Aloisi from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), found that in some areas, water levels would have dropped by as much as 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles).
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As the water receded in phase 2, the underwater ridge across the Strait of Sicily would've become exposed, the team suggests – effectively splitting the Mediterranean Sea in two and forming a land bridge between Africa and Europe.
That in turn led to faster rates of evaporation in the eastern Mediterranean, where the biggest drops in sea level would have been – and most salt deposits were found across both of these phases.
Scientists have long debated how the MSC came about, and whether or not it happened when the Mediterranean was fully cut off from the Atlantic. This new study suggests both schools of thought are right – that it was a two-phase process.
The researchers don't dive deeply into why the Mediterranean became isolated, but the late Miocene was a time of extensive, dramatic tectonic activity. The MSC itself would've caused even more tumult, as pressure lifted on the surface crust, and surrounding areas dried out.
"The huge size of the Mediterranean depression created by MSC water level drawdown – corresponding to a volume loss of 69 percent of the Mediterranean water body – would have generated planetary-scale climate effects, inducing changes in precipitation patterns, a scenario suggested by rainfall proxy data," write the authors in their published paper.
Today, the Strait of Gibraltar is much wider and deeper than it was during phase 1 of the MSC. If it wasn't for this connection to the Atlantic Ocean, it's estimated that today the sea level of the Mediterranean would be dropping by about half a meter (nearly 20 inches) every year.
By analyzing chlorine isotopes in the salt deposited on the seabed, and building numerical models and simulations, the researchers were able to chart when, where, and how 70 percent of the Mediterranean's water was lost.
The first phase covered 35,000 years of restricted water flow between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, via what is now the Strait of Gibraltar.
As the seawater wasn't getting refreshed with freshwater, that restriction sped up the deposit of salts and water evaporation in the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean chart
The evaporation event affected the two sides of the Med differently. (Aloisi et al., Nature Communications, 2024)
In the second phase, across the next 10,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea was completely isolated, and the whole process accelerated.
The researchers, led by Earth system scientist Giovanni Aloisi from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), found that in some areas, water levels would have dropped by as much as 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles).
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As the water receded in phase 2, the underwater ridge across the Strait of Sicily would've become exposed, the team suggests – effectively splitting the Mediterranean Sea in two and forming a land bridge between Africa and Europe.
That in turn led to faster rates of evaporation in the eastern Mediterranean, where the biggest drops in sea level would have been – and most salt deposits were found across both of these phases.
Scientists have long debated how the MSC came about, and whether or not it happened when the Mediterranean was fully cut off from the Atlantic. This new study suggests both schools of thought are right – that it was a two-phase process.
The researchers don't dive deeply into why the Mediterranean became isolated, but the late Miocene was a time of extensive, dramatic tectonic activity. The MSC itself would've caused even more tumult, as pressure lifted on the surface crust, and surrounding areas dried out.
"The huge size of the Mediterranean depression created by MSC water level drawdown – corresponding to a volume loss of 69 percent of the Mediterranean water body – would have generated planetary-scale climate effects, inducing changes in precipitation patterns, a scenario suggested by rainfall proxy data," write the authors in their published paper.
Today, the Strait of Gibraltar is much wider and deeper than it was during phase 1 of the MSC. If it wasn't for this connection to the Atlantic Ocean, it's estimated that today the sea level of the Mediterranean would be dropping by about half a meter (nearly 20 inches) every year.
The Miocene Climate Optimum was warmer than now - significantly. Depending on where you look it was between 4 and 8 degrees warmer Centigrade. That comes as no surprise; with all that water in the atmosphere from the Mediterranean, coupled with increased plate tectonics pouring heat out through volcanic action, one would expect a warmer world.
The Gang Green likes to blame it on atmospheric carbon dioxide which stood at 500 ppm,but that was, in my view, a result of the warming, not the cause. These high levels of carbon dioxide only rose to that level at the very middle of the Miocene, not the beginning. (Yes, the earlier Oligocene was even higher peaking midway throough at 680 ppm,but it had dropped well below that by the beginning of the Miocene. By the beginning of the Miocene it was down to 420, just barely higher than today.
The Oligocene was relatively cool until the latter days I might add.
The fact is there is much that does not work out in the geological record for the Global Warming crowd.
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Getting the Big Head
Timothy Birdnow
A new species of Man has been found in China.
Named the Juluren (meaning "large headed people") this new species of hominid had brains larger than any other at the time - even larger than our own. But of course size doesn't always indicate smarts; they went extinct, after all.
But of course our brains don't necessarily indicate smarts either; I suspect the Juluren could tell the difference between a man and a woman.
It's known that both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is part of the modern human genome; these extinct species interbred with Cro-magnons and are part of modern humanity. In fact it's known that Scots have a healthy dose of Neanderthal in them. The purest Cro-magnon are probably in eastern Africa, in the rift valleys.
At any rate the more we learn the less we know about such things. The evolution of Man was far more complicated than was believed by guys like Darwin.
I would never marry a Juluren girl; the price of her hair stylists would break me, what with those giant heads and all. Hey, maybe the Easter Island folks were originally Juluren? I mean those are BIG heads!
A new species of Man has been found in China.
Named the Juluren (meaning "large headed people") this new species of hominid had brains larger than any other at the time - even larger than our own. But of course size doesn't always indicate smarts; they went extinct, after all.
But of course our brains don't necessarily indicate smarts either; I suspect the Juluren could tell the difference between a man and a woman.
It's known that both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is part of the modern human genome; these extinct species interbred with Cro-magnons and are part of modern humanity. In fact it's known that Scots have a healthy dose of Neanderthal in them. The purest Cro-magnon are probably in eastern Africa, in the rift valleys.
At any rate the more we learn the less we know about such things. The evolution of Man was far more complicated than was believed by guys like Darwin.
I would never marry a Juluren girl; the price of her hair stylists would break me, what with those giant heads and all. Hey, maybe the Easter Island folks were originally Juluren? I mean those are BIG heads!
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Martial Law in S. Korea
Timothy Birdnow
This is a story to watch. I assure you Joe Biden is watching with great interest and taking notes.
South Korean President Declares Martial Law
President Yoon Suk-yeol is a lame duck president, having lost the last election, and it appears he may be trying to refuse to leave office.
South Korea's parliament rejected Yoon's order and there is the threat of the military coming in to take power.
(Personally I think the man is just sour given his name...)
Suk-yeol has accused the opposition of "antistate activities" and barred the door to the National Assembly.
According to Al Jazeera:
"General Park An-soo, the martial law commander, announced a number of measures under the declaration, including prohibitions on all political activities, "including those of the National Assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies [and] demonstrations”.'
The order prohibited labour strikes and slowdowns, as well as "gatherings that incite social disorder”. It further stated that all media will be placed under the control of the Martial Law Command.
"Any acts that deny or attempt to overthrow the liberal democratic system, as well as the dissemination of fake news, manipulation of public opinion, or false propaganda,” the order said.
Healthcare workers, including doctors who are currently on strike, must return to work within 48 hours or risk punishment.
"Violators of this proclamation will be subject to arrest, detention, and search and seizure without a warrant,” the commander noted.
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Suck-yuan has been mired in scandals, many involving his wife.
If he pulls this off one wonders if Joe Biden won't try to follow suit. Watch for a false flag event sometime in the next thirty days.
This is a story to watch. I assure you Joe Biden is watching with great interest and taking notes.
South Korean President Declares Martial Law
President Yoon Suk-yeol is a lame duck president, having lost the last election, and it appears he may be trying to refuse to leave office.
South Korea's parliament rejected Yoon's order and there is the threat of the military coming in to take power.
(Personally I think the man is just sour given his name...)
Suk-yeol has accused the opposition of "antistate activities" and barred the door to the National Assembly.
According to Al Jazeera:
"General Park An-soo, the martial law commander, announced a number of measures under the declaration, including prohibitions on all political activities, "including those of the National Assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies [and] demonstrations”.'
The order prohibited labour strikes and slowdowns, as well as "gatherings that incite social disorder”. It further stated that all media will be placed under the control of the Martial Law Command.
"Any acts that deny or attempt to overthrow the liberal democratic system, as well as the dissemination of fake news, manipulation of public opinion, or false propaganda,” the order said.
Healthcare workers, including doctors who are currently on strike, must return to work within 48 hours or risk punishment.
"Violators of this proclamation will be subject to arrest, detention, and search and seizure without a warrant,” the commander noted.
End
Suck-yuan has been mired in scandals, many involving his wife.
If he pulls this off one wonders if Joe Biden won't try to follow suit. Watch for a false flag event sometime in the next thirty days.
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Covid Contrarians Correct
Timothy Birdnow
Everything we "Covid Deniers" have been saying has now been proven true. The long-awaited report on the Covid pandemic from the House Select Subcommittee on the Covid Pandemic is now out and it vidicates the lab leak theory as well as everything else we have said.
The report concludes the virus likely escaped from a lab in China and was created by American research on "gain of function" at said lab in Wuhan. It also concludes that the way the pandemic was handled was horribly destructive.
Do read it all.
Everything we "Covid Deniers" have been saying has now been proven true. The long-awaited report on the Covid pandemic from the House Select Subcommittee on the Covid Pandemic is now out and it vidicates the lab leak theory as well as everything else we have said.
The report concludes the virus likely escaped from a lab in China and was created by American research on "gain of function" at said lab in Wuhan. It also concludes that the way the pandemic was handled was horribly destructive.
Do read it all.
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December 02, 2024
House Gives Capitol Police Deadline for Byrd Correspondence
Timothy Birdnow
The House Oversight Committee gave the Capitol police until Dec. 12 to hand over all communications on Michael Byrd, the lawless CP officer who murdered Ashlii Babbitt in the Capitol on J6.
Justice may be served yet.
NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt's killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 25, 2024
Byrd has a history of failures and reprimands. He failed his FBI background check. He once left his gun in a public restroom. He's had altercations with many people. But they promoted him to Captain for shooting an unarmed woman in a vulnerable position (climbing in a window) and he's profited handsomely by it, I might add.
Byrd was an affirmative action hire and the force has been protecting him all along.
So maybe now the GOP will bring the hammer down, and justice will be served. It's disgraceful this creep is walking around loose while his victim rots in a grave and her compatriots rot in jail cells. Justice is supposed to be blind.
The House Oversight Committee gave the Capitol police until Dec. 12 to hand over all communications on Michael Byrd, the lawless CP officer who murdered Ashlii Babbitt in the Capitol on J6.
Justice may be served yet.
NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt's killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 25, 2024
Byrd has a history of failures and reprimands. He failed his FBI background check. He once left his gun in a public restroom. He's had altercations with many people. But they promoted him to Captain for shooting an unarmed woman in a vulnerable position (climbing in a window) and he's profited handsomely by it, I might add.
Byrd was an affirmative action hire and the force has been protecting him all along.
So maybe now the GOP will bring the hammer down, and justice will be served. It's disgraceful this creep is walking around loose while his victim rots in a grave and her compatriots rot in jail cells. Justice is supposed to be blind.
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The Opportunity of the Biden Pardon
Timothy Birdnow
The silver lining in the Hunter Biden pardon.
Here is a snippet from the official pardon:
I think this may well be open for a legal challenge; I don't think Mr. Biden can issue a pre-emptive pardon for his son for any and all misdeeds which have not come to light. He doesn't have the power of a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card, or at least I do not see it in the Constitution. He could pardon pre-emptively but only for a specific crime. He can pardon Hunter for crimes for which he's been convicted or which are known to be outstanding , but I do not believe he has the authority to pardon him for any crimes he may yet be charged with. That is far, far more power than the Founders ever would have dreamed of giving any President.
Granted, I am not a legal scholar, nor do I play one on t.v.
I would argue that it is time to impeach Joe Biden for this very act and make it stick; that would open him to legal jeopardy. Right now he'll be protected by the recent SCOTUS ruling that makes it impossible to prosecute a President for official acts. If Congress impeaches him it will be much tougher to hide behind that. Of course it would be better if he were convicted, but that won't happen. Still, it puts the Democrats in a particularly bad position of defending Biden's actions or just letting him get away with it.
Impeaching Biden retroactively needs to be a top priority of the GOP. Of course, cowards that they are, they will fear doing it and follow Karl Rove's approach of just moving on.
The Revolver article argues this embarrasses the news media and it does for now, but that won't last as the media will memory hole it (and so will Google; best do screen shots now.)
This can be a huge campaign issue in two years if the GOP plays it's cards right. Sadly with Mike "Tiny" Johnson and the Buffoon John Thune in charge it will be a squandered opportunity.
The silver lining in the Hunter Biden pardon.
Here is a snippet from the official pardon:
A Full and Unconditional Pardon
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the United States DistrictCourt for the District of Delaware and Docket No. 2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the United States DistrictCourt for the District of Delaware and Docket No. 2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
I think this may well be open for a legal challenge; I don't think Mr. Biden can issue a pre-emptive pardon for his son for any and all misdeeds which have not come to light. He doesn't have the power of a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card, or at least I do not see it in the Constitution. He could pardon pre-emptively but only for a specific crime. He can pardon Hunter for crimes for which he's been convicted or which are known to be outstanding , but I do not believe he has the authority to pardon him for any crimes he may yet be charged with. That is far, far more power than the Founders ever would have dreamed of giving any President.
Granted, I am not a legal scholar, nor do I play one on t.v.
I would argue that it is time to impeach Joe Biden for this very act and make it stick; that would open him to legal jeopardy. Right now he'll be protected by the recent SCOTUS ruling that makes it impossible to prosecute a President for official acts. If Congress impeaches him it will be much tougher to hide behind that. Of course it would be better if he were convicted, but that won't happen. Still, it puts the Democrats in a particularly bad position of defending Biden's actions or just letting him get away with it.
Impeaching Biden retroactively needs to be a top priority of the GOP. Of course, cowards that they are, they will fear doing it and follow Karl Rove's approach of just moving on.
The Revolver article argues this embarrasses the news media and it does for now, but that won't last as the media will memory hole it (and so will Google; best do screen shots now.)
This can be a huge campaign issue in two years if the GOP plays it's cards right. Sadly with Mike "Tiny" Johnson and the Buffoon John Thune in charge it will be a squandered opportunity.
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Clooney Furious for being Duped
Timothy Birdnow
What did the dope think would happen?
George Clooney "Furious With Obama” for Using Him as a "Patsy” for Kamala’s Defeat Then "Disappearing After the Election Disaster”
What did the dope think would happen?
George Clooney "Furious With Obama” for Using Him as a "Patsy” for Kamala’s Defeat Then "Disappearing After the Election Disaster”
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Swallowed by the Great Replacement
Timothy Birdnow
The white British will be a minority by mid-century, and the current P.M. has declared the Great Replacement theory validated and a failure.
From Breitbart:
In an apparent confirmation of what many derided as a "conspiracy theory”, the notion of a "Great Replacement” agenda, Prime Minister Starmer said that previous Tory governments "deliberately” decided to liberalise immigration following Brexit to "turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.”
"This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed… Global Britain – remember that slogan… That is what they meant. A policy with no support… Well that’s unforgivable,” he said.
While the prime minister was correct in noting that the so-called Conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak allowed in unprecedented levels of immigration following Brexit — by refusing to put an annual cap on immigration resulting in nearly one million migrants arriving last year, alone — the open borders agenda imposed on the country pre-dates Tory rule.
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Correct. This predated Tory rule, and it was for more sinister reasons, and it isn't just happening in Britain but throughout Europe and in America and Canada sand I presume Austtalia and New Zealand too. It's an attempt to rid the world of those evil white devils, to breed us all out of the gene pool by overrunning our countries with immigrants.
There are multiple reasons; a sense of guilt over colonialims (something the rest of the world would have done too had they the power), a desire to create a "new man" without the old racial and ethnic allegiances, a desire to import a permanent working class willing to "do the jobs Brits just won't do", and to import people without the "prejudices" toward individual liberty and autonomy that characterized Western civilization. They want to build world government, international socialism, and need a compliant electorate to make that happen. So they are bringing in people who are not western and do not really want anything but our standard of living. For politicians it's about political power, of course, but that is just one element of it. The wealthy ruling class all believe in the same program - to fundamentally change our civilization and erase the old "bigotry" and "superstition" of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
it is the spirit of antichrist.
The article continues:
In 2009, former Blair advisor Andrew Neather claimed that this was a deliberate policy to transform Britain into a multicultural society and to "rub the right’s nose in diversity.”
The mass migration policies of both Labour and Conservative governments have had a radical impact on the demographic make up of the UK, with the 2021 census finding that less than three quarters (74.4 per cent) of the population identify as a member of indigenous ethnic groups of the British Isles (English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British). This is compared to 80 per cent in 2011 and 87.5 per cent in 2001.
Associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and a senior member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, Dr Paul Morland warned this week that if the political class fails to reverse course, the native white British population could become a minority in their own country by 2050.
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That will no doubt suit the internationalists just fine. No more England. No more Scotland, No more Wales. Now these will be but provincial names, places full of Muslims and Sikhs and Indians and subsaharan Africans all jumbled together in a foggy, rainy version of the Balkans.
Multicultural societies rarely are peaceful. Most are in eternal states of civil war. Look at the Balkans; they've been killing each-other for a thousand years now. Look at Israel today. Look at India. People forget there was massive bloodshed when the British finally left India as Muslim and Hindu fought to the death for their patches of ground. Look at AlL of subsaharan Africa; each tribe has it's hand against all the other tribes, and the countries there are always politically unstable.
Multicultural societies can only function when they are "separate but equal" as in Canada (and they've had problems there) or if one group is so dominant that no others dare challenge them. The U.S. is often thought of as multicultural, but in fact it never was; it was a melting pot where people left their ethnic identities at home. Yes, the Irish celebrated St. Pats day, and the Italians Columbus day, but beyond that they
l tried to become just Americans, adopt our ways, our culture, and our traditions.
Multiculturalism is different; it advances the notion of competing cultures coexisting in the same space. That has NEVER worked out.
So the British have committed ethnic and cultural suicide and the rest of Europe has done likewise. It is probably too late to save many nations in Europe. I think this is especially true of Britain. And it may be true of the U.S. as well if Mr. Trump fails.
I am mindful of the legendary rock and roll band The Kinks and their song "Living on a Thin Line":
"All the stories have been told / Of kings and days of old / But there's no England now"
It's been swallowed by the Great Replacement.
The white British will be a minority by mid-century, and the current P.M. has declared the Great Replacement theory validated and a failure.
From Breitbart:
In an apparent confirmation of what many derided as a "conspiracy theory”, the notion of a "Great Replacement” agenda, Prime Minister Starmer said that previous Tory governments "deliberately” decided to liberalise immigration following Brexit to "turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.”
"This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed… Global Britain – remember that slogan… That is what they meant. A policy with no support… Well that’s unforgivable,” he said.
While the prime minister was correct in noting that the so-called Conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak allowed in unprecedented levels of immigration following Brexit — by refusing to put an annual cap on immigration resulting in nearly one million migrants arriving last year, alone — the open borders agenda imposed on the country pre-dates Tory rule.
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Correct. This predated Tory rule, and it was for more sinister reasons, and it isn't just happening in Britain but throughout Europe and in America and Canada sand I presume Austtalia and New Zealand too. It's an attempt to rid the world of those evil white devils, to breed us all out of the gene pool by overrunning our countries with immigrants.
There are multiple reasons; a sense of guilt over colonialims (something the rest of the world would have done too had they the power), a desire to create a "new man" without the old racial and ethnic allegiances, a desire to import a permanent working class willing to "do the jobs Brits just won't do", and to import people without the "prejudices" toward individual liberty and autonomy that characterized Western civilization. They want to build world government, international socialism, and need a compliant electorate to make that happen. So they are bringing in people who are not western and do not really want anything but our standard of living. For politicians it's about political power, of course, but that is just one element of it. The wealthy ruling class all believe in the same program - to fundamentally change our civilization and erase the old "bigotry" and "superstition" of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
it is the spirit of antichrist.
The article continues:
In 2009, former Blair advisor Andrew Neather claimed that this was a deliberate policy to transform Britain into a multicultural society and to "rub the right’s nose in diversity.”
The mass migration policies of both Labour and Conservative governments have had a radical impact on the demographic make up of the UK, with the 2021 census finding that less than three quarters (74.4 per cent) of the population identify as a member of indigenous ethnic groups of the British Isles (English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British). This is compared to 80 per cent in 2011 and 87.5 per cent in 2001.
Associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and a senior member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, Dr Paul Morland warned this week that if the political class fails to reverse course, the native white British population could become a minority in their own country by 2050.
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That will no doubt suit the internationalists just fine. No more England. No more Scotland, No more Wales. Now these will be but provincial names, places full of Muslims and Sikhs and Indians and subsaharan Africans all jumbled together in a foggy, rainy version of the Balkans.
Multicultural societies rarely are peaceful. Most are in eternal states of civil war. Look at the Balkans; they've been killing each-other for a thousand years now. Look at Israel today. Look at India. People forget there was massive bloodshed when the British finally left India as Muslim and Hindu fought to the death for their patches of ground. Look at AlL of subsaharan Africa; each tribe has it's hand against all the other tribes, and the countries there are always politically unstable.
Multicultural societies can only function when they are "separate but equal" as in Canada (and they've had problems there) or if one group is so dominant that no others dare challenge them. The U.S. is often thought of as multicultural, but in fact it never was; it was a melting pot where people left their ethnic identities at home. Yes, the Irish celebrated St. Pats day, and the Italians Columbus day, but beyond that they
l tried to become just Americans, adopt our ways, our culture, and our traditions.
Multiculturalism is different; it advances the notion of competing cultures coexisting in the same space. That has NEVER worked out.
So the British have committed ethnic and cultural suicide and the rest of Europe has done likewise. It is probably too late to save many nations in Europe. I think this is especially true of Britain. And it may be true of the U.S. as well if Mr. Trump fails.
I am mindful of the legendary rock and roll band The Kinks and their song "Living on a Thin Line":
"All the stories have been told / Of kings and days of old / But there's no England now"
It's been swallowed by the Great Replacement.
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Homan Going After U.N.
Timothy Birdnow
Tom Homan plans on going after the U.N. and NGO's for fomenting and supporting the invasion of the U.S. by millions of illegals.
Tear 'em a new one Tom!
Tom Homan plans on going after the U.N. and NGO's for fomenting and supporting the invasion of the U.S. by millions of illegals.
Tear 'em a new one Tom!
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Court Rules Washington County Must Allow Airport Use to Deport Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Washington county cannot overrule the Federal government and ban deportation flights.
From the Epoch Times:
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Washington county cannot overrule the Federal government and ban deportation flights.
From the Epoch Times:
Judge Daniel A. Bress of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in the Nov. 29 opinion that a 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine that prohibited the ICE deportation flights was unlawful. The ruling identified two primary legal violations: discrimination against federal operations under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution and breach of a World War II-era instrument of transfer agreement governing the airport’s use.
Bress wrote that the executive order’s flight ban "discriminatorily burdens the United States” in the enforcement of federal immigration law and that this "discrimination, plain on the face of the Order, contravenes the intergovernmental immunity doctrine.” Rooted in the supremacy clause, the intergovernmental immunity doctrine protects federal government operations from discriminatory or obstructive actions by state and local governments.
The court also found that through Constantine’s directive, King County violated its contractual obligations under the instrument of transfer agreement, which granted the federal government the right to use the King County International Airport, commonly known as Boeing Field.
The dispute dates back to April 2019, when Constantine issued an executive order that explicitly opposed ICE’s deportation operations. The directive instructed airport officials to ensure that future leases and operating agreements with fixed-base operators—the companies that provide essential services such as fueling and aircraft maintenance—contained provisions prohibiting them from servicing ICE flights.
Bress wrote that the executive order’s flight ban "discriminatorily burdens the United States” in the enforcement of federal immigration law and that this "discrimination, plain on the face of the Order, contravenes the intergovernmental immunity doctrine.” Rooted in the supremacy clause, the intergovernmental immunity doctrine protects federal government operations from discriminatory or obstructive actions by state and local governments.
The court also found that through Constantine’s directive, King County violated its contractual obligations under the instrument of transfer agreement, which granted the federal government the right to use the King County International Airport, commonly known as Boeing Field.
The dispute dates back to April 2019, when Constantine issued an executive order that explicitly opposed ICE’s deportation operations. The directive instructed airport officials to ensure that future leases and operating agreements with fixed-base operators—the companies that provide essential services such as fueling and aircraft maintenance—contained provisions prohibiting them from servicing ICE flights.
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Clinton Denies Epstein Island Visits
Timothy Birdnow
Yeah - ri-ight!
Bill Clinton Denies Visiting Epstein Island in New Memoir
"I want you to listen to me....I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky."
I guess Epstein just wanted some famous names for the flight log then, eh? He just penciled Clinton's name on the log twenty six times.
While a majority of those flights were to respectable destinations, a number of them were unsupervised by the Secret Service. Given Clinton's penchant for young ladies it seems highly unlikely he didn't go on a nice Caribbean getaway.
Yeah - ri-ight!
Bill Clinton Denies Visiting Epstein Island in New Memoir
"I want you to listen to me....I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky."
I guess Epstein just wanted some famous names for the flight log then, eh? He just penciled Clinton's name on the log twenty six times.
While a majority of those flights were to respectable destinations, a number of them were unsupervised by the Secret Service. Given Clinton's penchant for young ladies it seems highly unlikely he didn't go on a nice Caribbean getaway.
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Me Too Democrats
Timothy Birdnow
Haakim Jeffries is claiming Democrats were targeted with bomb threats just days after it was announced that was happening to Republicans. I smell a rat.
Why would the victorious MAGA folks call bomb threats to the Democrats? They are the wlking dead.
No, this is just a way for the donkeys to create parity and continue the claim Trump sows violence and hatred, nothing more. It's a way to try to regroup the troops around the "threat".
IF it did happen (and I doubt it did) then it was probably the far left that did it, angry at the Democrats for the way they handled the election.
I would add our side doesn't do bomb threats or other such acts of violence. It's not the way we roll (and that is why they had to do the frame-up of Jan. 6, to make MAGA look like "insurrectionists" and terrorists, but there was minimal violence and most of it caused by the authorities themselves who were gasing people for no reason and doing other things to incite violence. It's been documented by folks on the scene. Look it up.
Communists always did this sort of thing, framing their political enemies for their own actions. The Democrats learned well from them.
Haakim Jeffries is claiming Democrats were targeted with bomb threats just days after it was announced that was happening to Republicans. I smell a rat.
Why would the victorious MAGA folks call bomb threats to the Democrats? They are the wlking dead.
No, this is just a way for the donkeys to create parity and continue the claim Trump sows violence and hatred, nothing more. It's a way to try to regroup the troops around the "threat".
IF it did happen (and I doubt it did) then it was probably the far left that did it, angry at the Democrats for the way they handled the election.
I would add our side doesn't do bomb threats or other such acts of violence. It's not the way we roll (and that is why they had to do the frame-up of Jan. 6, to make MAGA look like "insurrectionists" and terrorists, but there was minimal violence and most of it caused by the authorities themselves who were gasing people for no reason and doing other things to incite violence. It's been documented by folks on the scene. Look it up.
Communists always did this sort of thing, framing their political enemies for their own actions. The Democrats learned well from them.
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Trump's Bad DEA Pick
Timothy Birdnow
Trump's pick for DEA Chief is under fire for his actions during the Covid 19 lockdowns.
Trump recently announced he was choosing a Florida sheriff - Buford T. Justce Chad Chronister to head up the DEA. DEA has become a very critical post as we are being flooded with serious drugs through our non-existent southern border.
Frankly, I never trust a guy named Chad but that's just me.
Hanging Chad arrested a Christian pastor for the sinister crime of holding religioius services in violation of the lockdown orders during the massive overreaction to the Covid cold and flu season. (Yes, Covid was worse than those and people did die and I know many will be angry at me for being flippant but the fact remains Covid 19 was indeed a cold, albeith a sometimes lethal one, and there was NO flu season, meaning many flu deaths were being listed as Covid.) At any rate the sheriff was doing his job, although if he were the man we needed he would have used his discretion to spend resources on more pressing crimes like failure to wear seat belts or talking and driving or perhaps even jay walking.
At any rate Hanging Chad may wind up hanging in Committee when he faces a Senate confirmation hearing. A lot of Conservatives are not happy.
Thomas Massie, normally a staunch Trump ally, had this to say:
And Mike Cernovich complained:
And this lament from John Cordillo:
During the service itself? Yikes! That bespeaks a bit of a character flaw if you ask me.
Tim Pool, who I have corresponded with in years gone by, had this to say:
The fact is the supreme law of the land is the Constitution and it explicitly states:
There is nothing about abrogation during pandemics. What Hanging Chad did was abrogate the free exercise thereof, as well as abridging the freedom of speech, and the right to peaceably assemble. When there is conflict between the Constitution and other rules put in place - especially by local authorities - the Constitution is supposed to prevail. The behavior of Hanging Chad suggests a woeful lack of discernment on his part.
The whole point of the MAGA revolution is to end business as usual. This sheriff seems to be a business-as-usual type of guy and to get back to a more Constitution-based order. Do we really need this guy? Can't we do better?
Why doesn't Trump go for someone like Joe Arpaio?
Trump's pick for DEA Chief is under fire for his actions during the Covid 19 lockdowns.
Trump recently announced he was choosing a Florida sheriff - Buford T. Justce Chad Chronister to head up the DEA. DEA has become a very critical post as we are being flooded with serious drugs through our non-existent southern border.
Frankly, I never trust a guy named Chad but that's just me.
Hanging Chad arrested a Christian pastor for the sinister crime of holding religioius services in violation of the lockdown orders during the massive overreaction to the Covid cold and flu season. (Yes, Covid was worse than those and people did die and I know many will be angry at me for being flippant but the fact remains Covid 19 was indeed a cold, albeith a sometimes lethal one, and there was NO flu season, meaning many flu deaths were being listed as Covid.) At any rate the sheriff was doing his job, although if he were the man we needed he would have used his discretion to spend resources on more pressing crimes like failure to wear seat belts or talking and driving or perhaps even jay walking.
At any rate Hanging Chad may wind up hanging in Committee when he faces a Senate confirmation hearing. A lot of Conservatives are not happy.
Thomas Massie, normally a staunch Trump ally, had this to say:
I’m going to call ‘em like I see ‘em. Trump’s nominee for head of DEA should be disqualified for ordering the arrest a pastor who defied COVID lockdowns. https://t.co/pHSmGr81Tz
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 1, 2024
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 1, 2024
And Mike Cernovich complained:
Trump’s choice for DEA discriminated against unvaccinated law enforcement officers under his command. pic.twitter.com/xCEiZWYQyX
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 1, 2024
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 1, 2024
And this lament from John Cordillo:
Deleted my post supporting Chronister as Trump’s DEA Adminitrator pick.
I completely forgot that Chronister is COVIDian Sheriff who arrested a pastor during services because "COVID” to be prosecuted by Andrew Warren, the Soros funded prosecutor DeSantis removed from Office.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) December 1, 2024
I completely forgot that Chronister is COVIDian Sheriff who arrested a pastor during services because "COVID” to be prosecuted by Andrew Warren, the Soros funded prosecutor DeSantis removed from Office.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) December 1, 2024
During the service itself? Yikes! That bespeaks a bit of a character flaw if you ask me.
Tim Pool, who I have corresponded with in years gone by, had this to say:
Let’s revisit this after he serves prison time for conspiracy against rights for arresting a pastor during covid lockdowns https://t.co/Fl4JLCBIzO
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) December 1, 2024
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) December 1, 2024
The fact is the supreme law of the land is the Constitution and it explicitly states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
There is nothing about abrogation during pandemics. What Hanging Chad did was abrogate the free exercise thereof, as well as abridging the freedom of speech, and the right to peaceably assemble. When there is conflict between the Constitution and other rules put in place - especially by local authorities - the Constitution is supposed to prevail. The behavior of Hanging Chad suggests a woeful lack of discernment on his part.
The whole point of the MAGA revolution is to end business as usual. This sheriff seems to be a business-as-usual type of guy and to get back to a more Constitution-based order. Do we really need this guy? Can't we do better?
Why doesn't Trump go for someone like Joe Arpaio?
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The Road to Angola
Timothy Birdnow
So what is Biden's Angola?
Biden Visits Africa to Higlight hisSignature Investment Project
The lamest of lame ducks wants to do a Chinese-style Road and Beltway project in somevery unstable countries in imitation of the Chinese, who have been doing such things for years now. But the Chinese have huge advantages; they are in far less debt and can afford to spend such money. They are ruthless too, and are happy to pull bait-and-switch on these countries, and take their property when the nattions cannot pay them back, and finally they just see this as purely geopolitical and are practical about it; Biden no doubt will impose American labor standards on the workers, and push DEI on these countries. The Chicoms are just looking for results.
Biden has bats in his beltway if you ask me.
Competing with the Chinese is a good idea - Biden competing with them is a dreadful one.
This is just another mess Trump will have to clean up when he's in office, methinks.
Here is the money quote:
"Biden is expected to deliver a speech in Luanda highlighting his efforts to close Africa’s infrastructure gap, expand economic opportunities, and promote technological and scientific cooperation with the continent."
end
"Close the infrastructure gap"? That was and remains one of the goals of the Global Warming movement. "Climate Change" has always been in part about tying the hands of the developed world so places like Africa can catch up.
But there is a reason why this gap exists and it is political instablility. Africa does not have nations ut groups of tribes under one arbitrarily drawn boundary. They are always at each-other's throats and this will only continue. Building infrastructure does little good as it ends up merely a tool for some potentate who kills all his enemies then nationalizes this infrastructure, squeezing it dry. Here in the U.S. we have ghetto areas that suffer similar problems; you can't build anything new because it will be torn up and torn down. It is far, far worse in parts of Africa; imagine a whole country that is essentially Watts, East St. Louis, or Haarlem. Money and "infrastructure" never solves the problems because the problems transcend the material. There are ancient beliefs, ancient hatreds, ancient thinking at work.
The best way to fix Africa is to Christianize it, and we in what had once been called Christendom have little interest in doing that anymore. We have come to believe that problems are all material in nature, economic forces alone. And we still believe the lie Man is inherently good and all that need happen is the proper alignment put in place, a "just economic order" and everything will fall in line. It doesn't and it never has. Africa needs change - one of heart,not the kind you put in your pocket. Sadly we are no longer ministers of that kind of change. We need change here too, alas.
The Chinese can do this because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get paid back. They are like Mafia shylocks, lending at usurious rates and breaking legs if they aren't paid back in a timely fashion. We, on the other hand, are born suckers and the American taxpayer will wind up underwriting this.
Anyway Biden is trying to set this all in motion so Trump has yet another mess to clean up.
So what is Biden's Angola?
Biden Visits Africa to Higlight hisSignature Investment Project
The lamest of lame ducks wants to do a Chinese-style Road and Beltway project in somevery unstable countries in imitation of the Chinese, who have been doing such things for years now. But the Chinese have huge advantages; they are in far less debt and can afford to spend such money. They are ruthless too, and are happy to pull bait-and-switch on these countries, and take their property when the nattions cannot pay them back, and finally they just see this as purely geopolitical and are practical about it; Biden no doubt will impose American labor standards on the workers, and push DEI on these countries. The Chicoms are just looking for results.
Biden has bats in his beltway if you ask me.
Competing with the Chinese is a good idea - Biden competing with them is a dreadful one.
This is just another mess Trump will have to clean up when he's in office, methinks.
Here is the money quote:
"Biden is expected to deliver a speech in Luanda highlighting his efforts to close Africa’s infrastructure gap, expand economic opportunities, and promote technological and scientific cooperation with the continent."
end
"Close the infrastructure gap"? That was and remains one of the goals of the Global Warming movement. "Climate Change" has always been in part about tying the hands of the developed world so places like Africa can catch up.
But there is a reason why this gap exists and it is political instablility. Africa does not have nations ut groups of tribes under one arbitrarily drawn boundary. They are always at each-other's throats and this will only continue. Building infrastructure does little good as it ends up merely a tool for some potentate who kills all his enemies then nationalizes this infrastructure, squeezing it dry. Here in the U.S. we have ghetto areas that suffer similar problems; you can't build anything new because it will be torn up and torn down. It is far, far worse in parts of Africa; imagine a whole country that is essentially Watts, East St. Louis, or Haarlem. Money and "infrastructure" never solves the problems because the problems transcend the material. There are ancient beliefs, ancient hatreds, ancient thinking at work.
The best way to fix Africa is to Christianize it, and we in what had once been called Christendom have little interest in doing that anymore. We have come to believe that problems are all material in nature, economic forces alone. And we still believe the lie Man is inherently good and all that need happen is the proper alignment put in place, a "just economic order" and everything will fall in line. It doesn't and it never has. Africa needs change - one of heart,not the kind you put in your pocket. Sadly we are no longer ministers of that kind of change. We need change here too, alas.
The Chinese can do this because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get paid back. They are like Mafia shylocks, lending at usurious rates and breaking legs if they aren't paid back in a timely fashion. We, on the other hand, are born suckers and the American taxpayer will wind up underwriting this.
Anyway Biden is trying to set this all in motion so Trump has yet another mess to clean up.
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