Lew Ricker

The height of Banana Republic.

Judge Bans Fmr FEC Chairman From Sharing Facts In Trump Trial
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Peter Conlon

*****Less than an Hour ago on Salem Radio - Political Forecaster Hugh Hewitt did lay out the Best probable outcome of the Ongoing Manhattan Trial of Donald Trump.

******** He Laid into alvin Bragg and the Judge here in Question and also added that the Chance of any Full acquittal was Slim to None based on the Jury Pool and the Reality that they as Individuals will have to Go Home at the End and Face Hostile Neighbors etc.

********There will be a Conviction on at least something and after that Trump in any ongoing Appeals process will be under further Restriction, possibly only in NYC (??) How will that affect Any Campaign after that (??)

******* This Soros Inspired and Financed attempt to derail Trump has Always had bigger things in mind than simply him. They want to End the overall Electoral process as We know it. That has been the Big Game Plan All along. To show that there is No Going back.

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Andrew Gray

Checking my newsfeed and I cannot find any stories from mainstream media about:
- Russia calls in French, UK and US Ambassadors to explain statements by their leaders, stating that they will send troops to Ukraine and giving permission to use their weapons on Russian territory, specifically targetting the civilian Kerch Bridge and civilian populations in Belgorod and Moscow. Add Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania to that list of countries issuing provocative threats.
- Rapidly issued statements from these countries that they really didn't mean it and they will behave themselves and will not send ground troops.
- Russia announce they are commencing military exercises using tactical nuclear weapons in response to NATO sending nuclear capable F16's to Ukraine. Further announce they will retaliate against any such use ( Romania, Poland and Moldova take note !)
- US Senators issue letter of demand to the International Criminal Courts that they will take retaliatory action against Judges and their families if the ICC proceeds to issue judgements harmful to Israel.
- EU provokes Xi Jinping during visit to France calling him a genocidal dictator, US threatens China with huge economic sanctions for trading with Russia.
- US Democrats lawfare against the Republican Presidential candidate escalate further, echoes of 3rd world countries where the US have intervened militarily in these circumstances "to protect freedom and democracy". Evidently the US Constitution and Bill of Rights can be ignored...
- US Congress passes Bills funding both Israel and Hamas.

So, with all these stumbling, bumbling, fumbling fools leading our nations into WW3, it must be no big deal.......

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Greg Malakoff

Wound up watching some you tube videos by young white women that used the phrase white privilege a few hundred times in a few minutes on a subject that had nothing to do with it.

It was at that moment the thought occurred to me that our education system has taught generations of young Americans to become insufferable joyless snot. It's as if they truly believe that if they don't mindlessly repeat phrases that mean nothing that their teachers made them believe, that the climate would change inside their bodies and they would instantly explode if not constantly saying stupid shit.

When Robert Plant asked the audience does anybody remember laughter he saw into the future. For the young kids that I'm making fun of, google it and he is not to be mistaken for Robert Planet. If there was a Robert Planet he'd more likely than not agree, you young kids are just a complete shit stain. At least make yourself useful and finish destroying the place where your teachers live.

Tim adds:

These are INCANTATIONS and what we are witnessing is a modern version of witchcraft. They believe if they endlessly repeat this crap reality will be remolded. These white women are "doing their part" to "make a better world" in their silly little minds. in days of yore they would have gathered around a boiling kettle and tossed in strange things like green stumpwater or eye of newt or whatnot. Now they march and protest and speak of white privilege and the Patriarchy. But it's the exact same impulse. And the same anger and hatred that motivated witches in the old fables motivate the modern witches today.

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Diane M. Kimura

BOMBSHELL REPORT:

The Jack Smith case has been blown wide open and newly released documents show that Biden’s White House staff was coordinating with Archive officials to construct a case against Trump before he was even being investigated!

David Ferriero, the national archivist appointed by Obama, was sending threatening emails to the Trump team after he left office and was also coordinating with the DOJ officials and a White House attorney on constructing a case against Trump.

In August of 2021 Gary Stern, the general counsel for the archives, was meeting at the White House with Biden officials. The case wasn’t sent to the DOJ until February of 2022. Why would he be meeting with them before even referring it as a criminal matter?

In a more shocking development, Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain, was meeting with the archives and constructing a case. Why would Biden’s White House be working on a case against his opponent before anything has even been sent to the DOJ?

This is the biggest story of corruption in our lifetime! Democrats used their position and weaponized the DOJ against an opponent. Will the media report this?

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Carlos F Velázquez

LOL. Click bait caption.

Teleporting 1 qubit, if it actually did happen, is a very far cry from teleporting any living organism (it's called an organism because ALL the atoms composing the trillions of cells and biological components are ORGANIZED very precisely in a living body), with the almost infinite amount of total information that all the atoms that compose an organism carries. The bigger the body of a living thing is, the more information needs to be teleported to rearrange the atoms at the destination correctly.

Michael Crichton's novel made into a movie, TIMELINE (link in comments), covers this serious problem with teleportation.

Near-flawless quantum teleportation demonstrated in groundbreaking experiment
studyfinds.org

Tim adds:

We've long known that teleportation at the quantum level was possible. As you say, it's a very, very far cry from teleporting people. We're not going to have a Star Trek-style transporter anytime soon, if ever (my money is on never).

BTW Science Fiction legend Larry Niven wrote a number of teleportation stories that dealt with the issue.He theorized that differences in velocity (like teleporting to a different latitude) would randomize as heat and there would have to be a mechanism to drain excess heat when going faster to slower and pumping heat into the system when going slower to faster. Dito when changing elevations. It often played a crucial role in many of his stories.

But the social impact of such easy travel was the real heart of those stories; people couldn't get away from each-other. Exes all lived next door because of the teleporters. New kinds of crimes happened; floating riots, for instance. There could be no alibi for murders. etc.

Every vagrant moved to Tahiti or some other nice place. Why not when all you had to do was go in a phone booth and dial a number?

Also you could use such a system for interstellar space travel. Send an unmanned starship then teleport through at it's destination. You could pump fuel into the ship via teleporter too.

But it's not going to happen, at least not for a long, long time.

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Timothy Birdnow

Just one little problem with solar energy...

German solar industry collapsing: unable to make solar panels from solar power « JoNova
joannenova.com.au

FTA:

About 90% of solar panels installed in Germany come from China, and earlier this year one of the last solar panel manufacturers closed in Germany. Last week, what was left of the industry begged for mercy (and subsidies) which they didn’t get. Now another German solar panel manufacturer has closed down.

For some cruel reason German factories which are close to their customers, can’t compete with distant foreign factories which have access to slave labor, fossil fueled shipping and cheap coal fired electricity?

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Diane Kimura

It was a set-up by traitorous acts.

From the Daily Mail:

Trump’s authority was "curtailed” by military leaders as it relates to events on Jan. 6 according to Colonel Earl Matthews who spoke to The Daily Mail.

"I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of his own, President Trump’s command authority over both the D.C. National Guard and the U.S. Army itself had been surreptitiously curtailed by the senior leadership of the Army on January 6, 2021,” Col. Matthews, told the publication in an exclusive May 3 interview.

"Army leadership had unreasonably anticipated an ‘unlawful order’ from the President, an order that the President had no plans to issue, and were preemptively seeking to curtail his discretion to issue such an order,” he alleged.

The remarks by Col. Matthews dovetail with the contents of a book written in mid-2021 titled "I Alone Can Fix It” that claims then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and other military leaders informally planned for different ways to disobey potential orders issued by President Trump that they disagreed with.
The DOD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Col. Matthews’s claims.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Col. Matthews was serving as the top attorney to Maj. Gen. William Walker, who at the time was the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard.

Maj. Gen. Walker conveyed a request for assistance at around 1:50 p.m. on Jan. 6 but the Guard was not deployed to the Capitol until about 5:10 p.m., according to a timeline from the D.C. National Guard.

Questions remain on why it took around three hours to deploy D.C. National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in response to unrest as Congress convened to certify the 2020 presidential election.
‘Stunned Watching in the Armory’

While it remains unclear exactly why there was such a long delay to mobilize and deploy the Guard troops from an armory just two miles away from the Capitol, a breakdown in communications and concern about the optics of using armed soldiers in response to the unrest have been posited as key factors.

The Pentagon Inspector General’s report and a report from the Jan. 6 committee that investigated the events of that day concluded that no Pentagon officials deliberately delayed the deployment.

However, Col. Matthews has challenged the Pentagon’s narrative about the events of Jan. 6. He was also among four whistleblowers who testified before Congress on April 17 about the delay in the deployment of the Guard on that day. Lawmakers were convening on Capitol Hill to certify the electoral votes and make the results of the 2020 election official.

In his 36-page memo, Col. Matthews makes two major accusations. The first is that two Army generals—Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, 2021, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff—lied to Congress about their response to calls for quick deployment of the D.C. Guard that day as the unrest was unfolding.

The second key allegation is that the Pentagon’s narrative of the events of Jan. 6, as outlined in the Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General’s report, was full of factual inaccuracies.

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Carlos Velazquez

In the latest Rasmussen polling report, they mention that based on their interviews they do not trust the government's employment statistics so they decided to keep track of them directly from talking to people beginning some time ago. In this cumulative report from talking to over 9000 people, they show what they consider a more accurate stat of 8.3% unemployment rate among all adults and 15% in the critical 18-39 voting age group. Link to the video report in the comments.

Tim adds:

They base it entirely on the industry surveys and ignore the household surveys. The industry surveys say there are X amount of jobs and Y of them are filled, showing good employment numbers. What that survey fails to take into account is that many if not most of these jobs are part time and are taken by the same people, who have to work three jobs to make a living. Many more are taken by illegal aliens.

The household jobs paints a very different picture. Many folks aren't working, or are underemployed. So the Administration simply pretends it's not happening.

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Diane Kimura

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Population decline is good for the introduction of humanoid robots & artificial intelligence.

He further explains how the real goal of depopulation (Covid19, Midazolam, Remdesivir, "vaccines", euthanasia, abortion, Ukraine war, Gaza genocide) is to make it easier to substitute humans with machines.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink explains the benefits of "shrinking" population for developed countries.
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E. Calvin Beisner

A truly wonderful article by a truly converted woman, I hope many will read and share this.

How America said "I do” to same-sex marriage 20 years ago
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Greg Malakoff

The Arabs have started wars against Israel the since 1920's. On Oct. 7, 2023 the Arabs now called Hamas committed war crimes beyond anything anyone has seen since the Holocaust. In America, college professors and their indoctrinated students rioted in favor of burning Jewish babies in ovens in front of their parents.

What do the leftist democrats and their media say, the problem is not just antisemitism, it is equally important to stop the Islamophobia. What fucking Islamophobia has anyone seen? I've seen the Biden Installation go after Catholics in Church on Sundays claiming the only terrorist problem in America was White People.

After taking a few weeks to figure out if he was alive, Biden said we must be vigilant against Islamophobia as well as that little skirmish against Jews. Following his lead, this is what the president of Columbia came up with. Shafik said "antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias have existed for "a long time." She urged students to show "empathy" and "compassion" for one another.

The left are more deceitful and dangerous than the Islamic terrorists.

Tim adds:

What is Islamophobia? It's rather like being concerned over fear of the Mafia after they have broken your leg for not paying them protection money.

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Timothy Birdnow

French President Macron wants to send troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians.

Crazy SOB thinks he's Napoleon. And like Napoleon he'll be bringing his troops home in body bags and on carts.

WWIII anyone?

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Roy Spencer

Victoria Taft's podcast interview with me (1st comment). In addition to the usual climate stuff, we got into my relationship with Rush Limbaugh in this one.

The Postmodern Prophets: Questioning the Cult of Climate Change with Dr. Roy Spencer - Victoria Taft
victoriataft.com

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Greg Malakoff

I've been around a lot of cats my whole life so I wouldn't trust my opinion on this, but this kind of news seems to be total bullshit. I don't trust any of these types of science studies anymore. I think the real purpose of this is to get people to comply with the New World Order and they want everyone on earth to be miserable.

Cat owners could be at higher risk of schizophrenia, study suggests, but more research needed
foxnews.com

Tim adds:

The Left, especially the World Economic Forum, has begun a jihad against pet ownership. They want us to give up our pets to "save the planet" from the dangers of something they made up in the first place.

They want us to "reduce our carbon footprint" and that means ending our millenia-long association with our furry best friends. No room in the New World Order for Fido.

So don't be surprised to see many more articles like this inthe next few years.

BTW you notice it was Fox writing this too. Fox is a part of the Empire of Sin as surely as is NBC or ABC orPBS. It's purpose is to give Middle America the illusion of opposition so we don't take matters into our own hands.

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Carlos F.Velazquez

DMS, dimethyl sulfide, a substance that on Earth is only seen in the oceans and is produced by algae. However, that is a far cry from asserting that DMS is ONLY produced by living algae. But of course, extra terrestrial life enthusiasts become jubilant over such minute "evidence" as signs of DMS found on distant planets. However, the astrophysicist who made the discovery, Nikku Madhusudhan, says that basically it's too early to jump to conclusions.

Quote: "While the researchers could say with over 50 per cent confidence that DMS was present based on the data sent by the James Webb Telescope last year, Madhusudhan said it was far from "conclusive evidence." "

50% has a Sigma value of 0σ. Whereas a Sigma of 3σ, for example, means a confidence level of approximately 99.7%. See ChatGPT calculation in the comments.

An Earth-like planet? Tantalising proof of life on THIS exoplanet has scientists in 'shock'
wionews.com

Lyle Hancock Sr. adds:

I have difficulty reasoning a 50% confidence in a scientific inquiry. It seems a subjective term that has little meaning. In statistics, 0σ (50% confidence) is pretty much the same as a random guess. In practical terms, they may or may not have found DMS. The sensitivity and specificity of whatever instrument made the measurement must be quite low.

But it does make for a sensational article.

Tim adds:

While I know little about DMS and thus cannot speak on the subject this does remind me of the discovery of methane on Mars, and the big rush to say it was proof of Martian life. I pointed out to all the enthusiasts back then that methane is common in the solar system and exists on Titan and many other outer planets.

I also pointed out that methane on Mars suggested the planet was warming - thus confirming a solar cause for "climate change" much to the rage of the Gang Green.
Now I don't know the process of making this DMS stuff but I suspect thereare abiotic processes that can make it too and the principle of Occam's Razor says we should assume the simplest answer, which is not life. We've never found alien life, not in anything we've ever encounterred - meteors or on the Moon or on Mars. So we should assume this is abiotic until we prove otherwise. That's how science is SUPPOED to work.

Richard Cronin adds:

It’s a b.s.

The lowest Sigma value is 1. It assumes a normal bell curve data distribution with 68% of your data points fit beneath the bell curve. You can get 1 Sigma by averaging a scatter plot. It’s meaningless.

The very, very minimum to be considered significant is 2 Sigma, where 95% of your data lies beneath the bell curve.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule

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Steven Chase

Let's see... in today's news...
1. Zuckerberg sent an email to his top underlings confirming the White House's order to censor the lab-leak.
2. A top CIA official, admits (on secret video recording) that the Deep State deliberately withheld intel from Donald Trump.
3. Biden defies the Supreme Court - giving BILLIONS to forgive student debt, and a Billion to Milwaukee, buying votes.
4. Biden Administration admits to considering resettling Palestinians in America. Neither Egypt nor Jordan will take any Palestinian refugees.
5. More evidence (and testimony under oath) is piling up that the Russia Hoax was a CIA project to discredit Trump with Brennan as the mastermind.
6. And our congress furthers Orwellian thought-control

with the "Antisemitism Awareness Act.” Free speech is becoming extinct.
Oh, and District of Columbia passed a law ALLOWING illegal aliens the right to vote. What a world....

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Bill Weisberg

If these were white nationalist calling for the death of black people, Senile Biden would not hesitate for minute to call in the National Guard to protect them. But not Jews. Once again, the Democratic party makes it abundantly clear that Jewish Lives Do Not Matter and that appeasing Hamas loving Democrats is more important.

Joe Biden Issues Decision on Sending National Guard to Campus Protests
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Timothy Birdnow

Many people are very upset with Kristi Noem over her killing her dog. I get that. But I have to ask, is this not EXACTLY what the media and the Demo-Left want? By getting US to do their dirty work and hosting a circular firing squad we are taking out one of the brighter lights in the GOP and someone who could have gone on to become President.

Many country folk put down their own animals. They figure it's their duty. Remember Old Yelller? His family loved him but had to put him down in the end. They didn't take him to the Humane Society for a cold, clinical death but did it themselves.

Now, I don't know the details of Noem's dog and what led up to her seemingly heartless killing of the poor beast. It attacked and killed some chickens, a neighbor's chickens. I have heard conflicting reports that it bit some people. If the latter the dog needed to be put down. Many states have the three bite rule which requires a dogs euthanization. And of course Noem would be legally liable for damages for the chickens as well as medical bills for the bitten.

So I just don't know. I do know the Left has tried to use cruelty to animals against Republicans in the past. Remember the dog controversy with Mitt Romney?

I detest people who are cruel to animals. Utterly detest them. When I worked for a property management company I was always finding abandoned cats, left by their evicted owners. Often these cats were abused - like the tiny kitten I found in a trash can outside of an apartment. The kitten was blind; it's eyes pussed shut. The vet said someone had kicked it before tossing it into the trash. I would have gleefully taken a bullwhip to these evil people. I gave that kitten to my mother and she was the best cat ever. Sadly she died young from feline Leukemia.

My own cat Blackberry was also a rescue. He was trapped outdoors when his drug-dealing owners were arrested - trapped in winter. He was living in an abandoned house with a bunch of feral cats, and was starving. A dog got a hold of him and tore up his tail. I never saw a sadder creature when he approached me that cold November day. He was meowing pathetically to me. I put him in the car and took him home. I had nothing for him to eat so I gave him some leftover seafood pasta (which gave him bad diarrhea but he gobbled it up - he probably hadn't eaten in over a week. He wound up being the best pet a man could have and utterly loyal to me. When I was sick he'd stay by my side - for days on end. He would only leave to use the bathroom or get a drink. When there was an earthquake he came up and woke me to get me to safety. He was truly my best friend.

I had to have him put to sleep when his heart failed. Oddly enough just a couple of months before my own failed in the exact same way!

So I really do care about our furry friends. And I think Noem's apparent pride in killing her dog is a bit...disturbing.

But I also don't like the way people on our side are so quick to condemn her without all the facts. The MSM is having a field day with this - and we are reacting exactly as they wanted us to react.

I'm all for removing people for bad policy or betrayal (like Mike Johnson) but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt in matters like this; we often don't get the whole story.

But I sure wouldn't trust Noem to babysit my dog.

I just think there are more important issues to grow indignant over right now. The Biden people are treating human beings worse than Noem treated her dog. How many infant lives has Mr. Biden helped take over the years? How many good people are now rotting in prison cells so Biden could protect his power?

Yet more people are probably upset by Noem than by some of the most aggregious acts by our wonderful rulers. And we are happy to let the media choose our leadership for us by promoting scandals such as this.

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Carlos Velazquez

It was bound to happen. And, as always, it can be used for good or evil.

It was bound to happen because we now know that DNA is basically a language that contains the information on how biological systems develop and function. Francis Collins, PhD, the head of the human genome project, despite his errors and sins during covid, became a Christian when he realized DNA is a language that carries information. As a result, he wrote a book "DNA: The Language of God".

Sooner or later someone would use AI, which is very good at analyzing languages, to analyze all the combinations and permutations of different DNA from different species.

New Harvard-Developed AI System Unlocks Biology’s Source Code
scitechdaily.com

Tim adds:

Isaac Asimov once wrote a story that comes to mind with this. A famous scientist committs suicide after analyzing the human genome. The reason? He had found  alien splices in the human DNA and when he analyzed it it said something, something like "don't forget to pick up milk and bread on the way home". He couldn't live with the knowledge of how trivial humanity was.

This comes to mind not because we are trivial so much as that Francis Collins clearly realized we are trivial and unimportant compared to the Creator. And of course Collins realized that this sort of code couldn't spontaneously come into existence.

As you say it was inevitable that someone would use AI for this. Sadly, knowing human hurbis, it will soon follow that they will seek to alter that language. At first it will be for beneficial purposes; to prevent hereditary diseases like Huntingtons. But soon it will be for matters of vanity. And somehow it will wind up going bad.

I often think about the plagues of Revelations and wonder if this isn't caused by genetic damage done by tampering with the human genome.

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