December 02, 2024
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."
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"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."
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"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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Biden Pardons Hunter
Timothy Birdnow
Not like we didn't know this was coming.
Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden Ahead of Exit FromOval Office
Trump had suggested he might pardon Hunter himself as a show of good will, but Biden preferred doing it himself so as to deny Trump even that act of magnanimity.
Acttually Biden pardoned Hunter from any and all future prosecutions for anything related to this crime - something that Trump wouldn't have done, no doubt.
There could and should still be state charges brought against Hunter. And no doubt there are other skeletal remains lurking about in his wardrobe.
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Of course this is to stop his mouth; much would come out during the prosecution and Hunter just might spill on some other matters.
We need a thorough investigation of all of the Biden family.
As usual the media was clueless, with most saying it would never happen.
]See here.
And watch Jean Pierre twist into a Haitian pretzel in her claims that Biden would NOT pardon his son.
Not like we didn't know this was coming.
Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden Ahead of Exit FromOval Office
Trump had suggested he might pardon Hunter himself as a show of good will, but Biden preferred doing it himself so as to deny Trump even that act of magnanimity.
Acttually Biden pardoned Hunter from any and all future prosecutions for anything related to this crime - something that Trump wouldn't have done, no doubt.
There could and should still be state charges brought against Hunter. And no doubt there are other skeletal remains lurking about in his wardrobe.
c
Of course this is to stop his mouth; much would come out during the prosecution and Hunter just might spill on some other matters.
We need a thorough investigation of all of the Biden family.
As usual the media was clueless, with most saying it would never happen.
]See here.
And watch Jean Pierre twist into a Haitian pretzel in her claims that Biden would NOT pardon his son.
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December 01, 2024
Chinese Plan a Moon Colony
Timothy Birdnow
Chinese Igloos on the Moon?
Most articles on this are calling them igloos, but they really are just domes made from lunar soil (dust and rock). The articles all speak of this:
I've seen it described in other articles as "dystopian" or even just ugly because the authors do not understand the realities of life outside of Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. The Moon is bombarded by radiation, radiation blocked here on Earth by the aforementioned attributes. Cosmic rays pass through astronauts; in fact, the Apollo astronauts all spoke of seeing them as flashes of light. They are relatively harmless over short periods of exposure, but their effects are uncertain over a longer period. Suffice it to say they can't be good. But there is more to worry about; solar flares shoot dangerously radioactive particles at the Moon during flares. The solar wind alone is composed of electrons and protons and eight percent of alpha paticles (two protons coupled with two neutrons) and it is ionizing. But the flares themselves are lethal, spewing high energy particles out towards the source of magnetism anywhere in the system. Most strike Jupiter, which is why the great gas giant has a radiation belt that is lethal within seconds. Europa sits at the center of Jupiter's radiation belt. Earth's magnetic field attracts flare energy but less so, hence we have a weak radiation belt (the Van Allan belt). But if a flare strikes the Moon, which it frequently does, anybody on the surface will die a horrible death from radiation sickness.
The only way to avoid that is by putting a lot of mass between yourself and the flare.
The chinese proposal makes perfect sense; they plan to use lunar soil to build domes (the best, easiest way to build when holding pressure in or out) thick enough to make colonists safe during solar storms.
Any settlement on the Moon will have to either be built this way or built in an underground bunker of some sorts, either in a Lava Flow Tube or in a lunar rille and covered with dirty (and rilles are just lava flow tubes that have collapsed.)
The article also mentions temperature swings:
250 degree days and minus 200 at night! You need very good insulation to protect against such temperature swings.
I have always advocated using "Earth Bags" to do the job. On Earth, people build dome-like structures and other structures using what are essentially sandbags filled with dirt or sand. You pile them up just as if you were trying to protect a place from rising floodwater. In the case of a lunar settlement you could just make really long bags and scoop up dirt with a radio-controlled tractor then fill the bags up and stack them. These would be wider than flood water sand bags, of course, and be connected together with a kind of barbed wire layed between courses. The domes can be done as pure domes or corbelled (which would be easier - think nuclear reactor domes).
In fact, you could put such domes over smaller craters and colonize the interior. Turn lunar rock and dust into soil (it's been done experimentally on Earth using Earth rock of similar composition and sterilized.) Water and air fills out the habitat, and you then bring in people.
I hope they do it. I want to see Americans do it, but if we won't then I'll be happy to see China or any other nation do it. plenty of room for everyone in space! The Moon is about the size of Africa, so a Chinese section can exist and an American section as well.
I want to see large structures on the Moon, habitats that feel much like being outside on Earth. It can be done. Lava flow tubes are quite large, some of them - as big as tem miles wide and as long as six hundred miles. They generally are at minus 50 F. all the time - much better than the see-sawing temperatures on the surface. Minus fifty is cold on Earth but with no air it wouldn't be a problem; apply some heat and you can warm those caverns up to a comfortable temperature. You could use light tubes to bring sunlight in during the day, and stored energy or beamed from solar orbit to provide light at night (the nights are two weeks long). You can avoid all of that by settling at the South Pole, and get water to boot, as water is available at that pole, frozen in permanent shadow.
Earthlike conditions can be recreated quite closely. The only thing we cannot recreate is gravity; you will always be in 1/6 Earth-normal G. It may not be possible to live under such low gravity for long periods of time. It is also possible children cannot be conceived under such low gravity, or they may not develop properly in the womb. A moon colony could be a dead end.
But it wouldn't be the end of space colonization; we can build colonies in space itself that rotate for gravity, giving us as much as we need. Either hollowed out asteroids or specially constructed structures (much like building a suspension bridge without any endpoints) you can build such a colony and live there provided you have adequate mass to shield you from flares and cosmic rays. Oh, and from meteor impacts; mustn't forget those. But you have to fear meteor impacts on the Moon too.
Any way you look at it, Humanity needs to take this next step into the universe. We cannot continue to exist trapped on this one ball of rock and water. It's getting a bit uncomfortably full and we need new horizons. People need a frontier, need a place to go to test themselves and to expand and to feel free. Continued life on Earth is a zero-sum game and it will become increasingly oppressive as it becomes more developed, more crowded, more regulated and controlled. We need to move into space. Our ancient ancestors moved out of the oceans onto land. Our later ancestors came out of the trees and invented fire and spread across the globe. Now it's time to take the next step.
Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clark famously stated "The Earth is our cradle, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever". Right he was.
Time to move on.
Chinese Igloos on the Moon?
Most articles on this are calling them igloos, but they really are just domes made from lunar soil (dust and rock). The articles all speak of this:
"Recent designs released by Chinese researchers reveal egg-shaped igloos intended for accommodating human life on the Moon. These concepts illuminate the nation’s relentless pursuit of extraterrestrial real estate, emphasizing their commitment to establish footholds beyond Earth.
The sketches of these lunar homes are intriguing, pulling away from the typical visions of futuristic cities. Instead, they present clusters of grey igloos, resembling eggs, scattered with tiny astronaut figures. These visuals stir the imagination and invite questions about the reality of living on another celestial body."
The sketches of these lunar homes are intriguing, pulling away from the typical visions of futuristic cities. Instead, they present clusters of grey igloos, resembling eggs, scattered with tiny astronaut figures. These visuals stir the imagination and invite questions about the reality of living on another celestial body."
I've seen it described in other articles as "dystopian" or even just ugly because the authors do not understand the realities of life outside of Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. The Moon is bombarded by radiation, radiation blocked here on Earth by the aforementioned attributes. Cosmic rays pass through astronauts; in fact, the Apollo astronauts all spoke of seeing them as flashes of light. They are relatively harmless over short periods of exposure, but their effects are uncertain over a longer period. Suffice it to say they can't be good. But there is more to worry about; solar flares shoot dangerously radioactive particles at the Moon during flares. The solar wind alone is composed of electrons and protons and eight percent of alpha paticles (two protons coupled with two neutrons) and it is ionizing. But the flares themselves are lethal, spewing high energy particles out towards the source of magnetism anywhere in the system. Most strike Jupiter, which is why the great gas giant has a radiation belt that is lethal within seconds. Europa sits at the center of Jupiter's radiation belt. Earth's magnetic field attracts flare energy but less so, hence we have a weak radiation belt (the Van Allan belt). But if a flare strikes the Moon, which it frequently does, anybody on the surface will die a horrible death from radiation sickness.
The only way to avoid that is by putting a lot of mass between yourself and the flare.
The chinese proposal makes perfect sense; they plan to use lunar soil to build domes (the best, easiest way to build when holding pressure in or out) thick enough to make colonists safe during solar storms.
Any settlement on the Moon will have to either be built this way or built in an underground bunker of some sorts, either in a Lava Flow Tube or in a lunar rille and covered with dirty (and rilles are just lava flow tubes that have collapsed.)
The article also mentions temperature swings:
Ding Lieyun, the head of the design team, elaborated on the challenges posed by the Moon’s harsh environment. The temperature swings can reach variations of 300 degrees Celsius—extremely hostile to human life. Ding mentioned during discussions on Chinese state television, "These factors make lunar construction an exceptionally challenging, super-engineering endeavor.”
250 degree days and minus 200 at night! You need very good insulation to protect against such temperature swings.
I have always advocated using "Earth Bags" to do the job. On Earth, people build dome-like structures and other structures using what are essentially sandbags filled with dirt or sand. You pile them up just as if you were trying to protect a place from rising floodwater. In the case of a lunar settlement you could just make really long bags and scoop up dirt with a radio-controlled tractor then fill the bags up and stack them. These would be wider than flood water sand bags, of course, and be connected together with a kind of barbed wire layed between courses. The domes can be done as pure domes or corbelled (which would be easier - think nuclear reactor domes).
In fact, you could put such domes over smaller craters and colonize the interior. Turn lunar rock and dust into soil (it's been done experimentally on Earth using Earth rock of similar composition and sterilized.) Water and air fills out the habitat, and you then bring in people.
I hope they do it. I want to see Americans do it, but if we won't then I'll be happy to see China or any other nation do it. plenty of room for everyone in space! The Moon is about the size of Africa, so a Chinese section can exist and an American section as well.
I want to see large structures on the Moon, habitats that feel much like being outside on Earth. It can be done. Lava flow tubes are quite large, some of them - as big as tem miles wide and as long as six hundred miles. They generally are at minus 50 F. all the time - much better than the see-sawing temperatures on the surface. Minus fifty is cold on Earth but with no air it wouldn't be a problem; apply some heat and you can warm those caverns up to a comfortable temperature. You could use light tubes to bring sunlight in during the day, and stored energy or beamed from solar orbit to provide light at night (the nights are two weeks long). You can avoid all of that by settling at the South Pole, and get water to boot, as water is available at that pole, frozen in permanent shadow.
Earthlike conditions can be recreated quite closely. The only thing we cannot recreate is gravity; you will always be in 1/6 Earth-normal G. It may not be possible to live under such low gravity for long periods of time. It is also possible children cannot be conceived under such low gravity, or they may not develop properly in the womb. A moon colony could be a dead end.
But it wouldn't be the end of space colonization; we can build colonies in space itself that rotate for gravity, giving us as much as we need. Either hollowed out asteroids or specially constructed structures (much like building a suspension bridge without any endpoints) you can build such a colony and live there provided you have adequate mass to shield you from flares and cosmic rays. Oh, and from meteor impacts; mustn't forget those. But you have to fear meteor impacts on the Moon too.
Any way you look at it, Humanity needs to take this next step into the universe. We cannot continue to exist trapped on this one ball of rock and water. It's getting a bit uncomfortably full and we need new horizons. People need a frontier, need a place to go to test themselves and to expand and to feel free. Continued life on Earth is a zero-sum game and it will become increasingly oppressive as it becomes more developed, more crowded, more regulated and controlled. We need to move into space. Our ancient ancestors moved out of the oceans onto land. Our later ancestors came out of the trees and invented fire and spread across the globe. Now it's time to take the next step.
Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clark famously stated "The Earth is our cradle, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever". Right he was.
Time to move on.
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Smith and Wesson Kicked Off Facebook
Timothy Birdnow
Meta/Facebook has been under scrutiny for censorship since the election of 2020, at least, and actually before. Mark Zuckerberg claims that is not so, and many, even good conservatives, try to defend the Zuck by claiming it is his underlings and not he himself who promotes censorship.
Well, if that is so why is it STILL happening? Facebook just kicked gunmaker Smith and Wesson off indefinitely with nary an explanation of WHY the company was kicked off fifteen years after it started a Facebook page.
Elon Musk and X have welcomed them with open arms.
The company had this to say:
I would add a personal note here; Facebook kicked ME off just before the election. No warning but I tried to log on and received a notice saying my account was no longer in service! I've been locked out since. The timing is quite telling, as it was just a week or so before the election.
Time to break up Meta/Facebook.
Meta/Facebook has been under scrutiny for censorship since the election of 2020, at least, and actually before. Mark Zuckerberg claims that is not so, and many, even good conservatives, try to defend the Zuck by claiming it is his underlings and not he himself who promotes censorship.
Well, if that is so why is it STILL happening? Facebook just kicked gunmaker Smith and Wesson off indefinitely with nary an explanation of WHY the company was kicked off fifteen years after it started a Facebook page.
Elon Musk and X have welcomed them with open arms.
The company had this to say:
"Despite our extensive efforts and resources spent on trying to adhere to Facebook’s ever-changing community guidelines on firearms, our account was suspended indefinitely on Friday, November 22nd, 15 years after its original creation,"
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"In an era where free speech and the right to bear arms are under constant attack, we want to thank @elonmusk and @X for supporting free speech and our constitutional rights guaranteed by the 1st and 2nd Amendments,"
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"In an era where free speech and the right to bear arms are under constant attack, we want to thank @elonmusk and @X for supporting free speech and our constitutional rights guaranteed by the 1st and 2nd Amendments,"
I would add a personal note here; Facebook kicked ME off just before the election. No warning but I tried to log on and received a notice saying my account was no longer in service! I've been locked out since. The timing is quite telling, as it was just a week or so before the election.
Time to break up Meta/Facebook.
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Denver Mayor Chickens Out
Timothy Birdnow
The Mayor of Denver, after promising to use force against the American military and ICE if they come for illegal aliens, has now folded like an accordian as he realizes Tom Homan isn't kidding.
A new Sheriff is in town.
Mayor Mike Johnston was full of big talk, saying there would be a "Tianneman Square" moment if America tried to remove the invaders and promising to use the state police to stop them. Then Homan assured him he would put the crazed politician in prison for violating the law if he tries this. Now Johston is backpeddling faster than a French tank facing Panzers.
The amazing thing is this man doesn't realize that America is not on his side, nor even many of the aliens legally in the U.S.
And as these are illegal aliens they supposedly cannot vote, so what does Johnston have to gain by standing with illegals? They are lawbreakers who are currently stealing wealth and social services from the American People.
The Mayor of Denver, after promising to use force against the American military and ICE if they come for illegal aliens, has now folded like an accordian as he realizes Tom Homan isn't kidding.
A new Sheriff is in town.
Mayor Mike Johnston was full of big talk, saying there would be a "Tianneman Square" moment if America tried to remove the invaders and promising to use the state police to stop them. Then Homan assured him he would put the crazed politician in prison for violating the law if he tries this. Now Johston is backpeddling faster than a French tank facing Panzers.
The amazing thing is this man doesn't realize that America is not on his side, nor even many of the aliens legally in the U.S.
And as these are illegal aliens they supposedly cannot vote, so what does Johnston have to gain by standing with illegals? They are lawbreakers who are currently stealing wealth and social services from the American People.
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Democrats Revolting
Timothy Birdnow
I'll say; they stink on ice!
The House Democrats are Revolting
Apparently they have had enough of their leadership, which continues to fail them. But I suspect they will take a turn for the worse as there are no longer moderate Democrats anywhere and they are apt to double down on the Bolshevism, not go the other direction.
Oh, the article points out that Nancy Pelosi is behind much of this, I might add. She has always believed in radicalizing the party, not moderating it.
Some revolt.
Personally I like it; the more dissent in the Democrat ranks the less mischief they will make. And the more they double down on what drove the public awaythe worse they will do in '26 and '28.
They are indeed revolting - in more ways than one.
I'll say; they stink on ice!
The House Democrats are Revolting
Apparently they have had enough of their leadership, which continues to fail them. But I suspect they will take a turn for the worse as there are no longer moderate Democrats anywhere and they are apt to double down on the Bolshevism, not go the other direction.
Oh, the article points out that Nancy Pelosi is behind much of this, I might add. She has always believed in radicalizing the party, not moderating it.
Some revolt.
Personally I like it; the more dissent in the Democrat ranks the less mischief they will make. And the more they double down on what drove the public awaythe worse they will do in '26 and '28.
They are indeed revolting - in more ways than one.
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November 30, 2024
Signs and Wonders
Timothy Birdnow
Russian stealth drones probably.
Lights over Capitol Hill spark UFO fears as viewers ‘convinced something is happening’ weeks after landmark hearing
That people would immediately think of "UFO Aliens" rather than the Russians or Chinese shows how woefully maleducated the public has become.
Hey...maybe the aliens are giving Donald Trump a kind of parade! Notice the one object was red, like America.
Or there is this:
Acts2:19
" I will show wonders in the heavens above"
This is before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.
Are these lights in the sky not alien spacecraft but signs from God? A warning, perhaps, for us to repent while there is still time?
Or perhaps it is more like 2Thessalonians:
"The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder."
If Satan's greatest trick was making people not believe in him, wouldn't his next trick be to make false signs and wonders to fool the public? These things make me think of the Miracle of the Sun from multiple apparitions of Mary around the globe. While this spectacular event was seen primarily at Fatima in Portugal, it also happened at Medjugore. I have known several people, including one lawyer and a very credible witness, who have seen it in person.
During the twentieth century, there have been 386 cases of Marian apparitions. Of the 386 reported events 299 have had no determination by the Church (one such is one that touched me directly - the apparition of Mary to Ray Doiron in Illinois. I was present at one of the apparitions and wound up on television for it.) One of the biggest - Medjugorje - is still unapproved, although it seems likely that evenetually the Church will have to approve it. I have been touched directly by Medjugorje too in many ways. At one very low point in my life the last seer to receive visions showed up in St. Louis and went to my local church - one block away. This and one other parish were the ONLY places he visited in town! I had to go home and the sky was spectacular; I've never seen anything like it in the city! I got home with the sense that I was going to go through illness (the seer mentioned that to the general public that some present would) and I became sick as a dog for a week straigh. Since then I've suffered from a number of serious medical conditions.
The point is there are signs and wonders in the Heavens now, but the media ignores them by and large, or reports on them in a way designed to poke fun at them. (That was NOT the case at Our Lady of the Snows when I was interviewed; they gave it a very fair hearing. I didn't want to be interviewed but they made rush to get to me as soon as they spotted me! BTW there was an enormous white dove who appeared and landed on the ceiling of the grotto when Mary was appearing to Mr. Doiron. Also, my car simply vanished - poof! I thought it was stolen because I knew exactly where I had left it and it was gone. I said a prayer where I promised to believe in the apparition if I could find my car and guess what? It was right behind me where I said the prayer (and that was not where it was when I left it.) So certainly something was happening there.
So what is happening now? Is Satan creating counterfeit miracles in the sky to reinforce atheism and lead us astray to believe not in God or in angelic beings but in aliens and other creatures that grub on dirty little balls of rock and gas? I don't know but it certainly is a possibility. Given the utter moral corruption we see in the world now I suspect it may well be. Something IS about to happen, no quesiton. But I seriously doubt it's a visit by little green men.
Anyway I have other amazing stories tied to Marian apparitions and my own journey touched by them. I once ordered a storm to cease like Jesus did on the Sea of Galilee, and I know what happened; it was an amazing coincidence that the eye of the storm passed over me right as I spoke the words (prompted by an overwhelming memory of Jesus doing just that). It was at a time when I was horribly low, and it was at the Ozark Hilton. I call the OH Hallowed Ground for that very reason.
At any rate miracles do happen and I suspect we are witnessing a spiritual explosion of them now as we approach the Parousia (second coming) through our own evil ways.
But in this instance I strongly suspect these lights are drones, either our own or the Russians or Chinese. But who knows? One thing I am certain of, it's not little green men from space. Space is far too huge and such wouldn't even be aware of our existence, much less care about our rise from savagery to even greater savagery with some technology. Interstelar travel isn't done lightly. And the only way they would know of our existence is to pick up radio transmissions and we only he a little over a century of those, so they have only gone out a hundred or so light years. As we pick up nothing in the immeiate vicinity oursleves these aliens must come from farther away. So they uldn't know and wouldn't care anyway.
No, I suspect something else is at work. Either military or supernatural. But any way you slice it I think we are witnessing something important. Let's hope this isn't a prelude to a Russian attack...
Russian stealth drones probably.
Lights over Capitol Hill spark UFO fears as viewers ‘convinced something is happening’ weeks after landmark hearing
That people would immediately think of "UFO Aliens" rather than the Russians or Chinese shows how woefully maleducated the public has become.
Hey...maybe the aliens are giving Donald Trump a kind of parade! Notice the one object was red, like America.
Or there is this:
Acts2:19
" I will show wonders in the heavens above"
This is before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.
Are these lights in the sky not alien spacecraft but signs from God? A warning, perhaps, for us to repent while there is still time?
Or perhaps it is more like 2Thessalonians:
"The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder."
If Satan's greatest trick was making people not believe in him, wouldn't his next trick be to make false signs and wonders to fool the public? These things make me think of the Miracle of the Sun from multiple apparitions of Mary around the globe. While this spectacular event was seen primarily at Fatima in Portugal, it also happened at Medjugore. I have known several people, including one lawyer and a very credible witness, who have seen it in person.
During the twentieth century, there have been 386 cases of Marian apparitions. Of the 386 reported events 299 have had no determination by the Church (one such is one that touched me directly - the apparition of Mary to Ray Doiron in Illinois. I was present at one of the apparitions and wound up on television for it.) One of the biggest - Medjugorje - is still unapproved, although it seems likely that evenetually the Church will have to approve it. I have been touched directly by Medjugorje too in many ways. At one very low point in my life the last seer to receive visions showed up in St. Louis and went to my local church - one block away. This and one other parish were the ONLY places he visited in town! I had to go home and the sky was spectacular; I've never seen anything like it in the city! I got home with the sense that I was going to go through illness (the seer mentioned that to the general public that some present would) and I became sick as a dog for a week straigh. Since then I've suffered from a number of serious medical conditions.
The point is there are signs and wonders in the Heavens now, but the media ignores them by and large, or reports on them in a way designed to poke fun at them. (That was NOT the case at Our Lady of the Snows when I was interviewed; they gave it a very fair hearing. I didn't want to be interviewed but they made rush to get to me as soon as they spotted me! BTW there was an enormous white dove who appeared and landed on the ceiling of the grotto when Mary was appearing to Mr. Doiron. Also, my car simply vanished - poof! I thought it was stolen because I knew exactly where I had left it and it was gone. I said a prayer where I promised to believe in the apparition if I could find my car and guess what? It was right behind me where I said the prayer (and that was not where it was when I left it.) So certainly something was happening there.
So what is happening now? Is Satan creating counterfeit miracles in the sky to reinforce atheism and lead us astray to believe not in God or in angelic beings but in aliens and other creatures that grub on dirty little balls of rock and gas? I don't know but it certainly is a possibility. Given the utter moral corruption we see in the world now I suspect it may well be. Something IS about to happen, no quesiton. But I seriously doubt it's a visit by little green men.
Anyway I have other amazing stories tied to Marian apparitions and my own journey touched by them. I once ordered a storm to cease like Jesus did on the Sea of Galilee, and I know what happened; it was an amazing coincidence that the eye of the storm passed over me right as I spoke the words (prompted by an overwhelming memory of Jesus doing just that). It was at a time when I was horribly low, and it was at the Ozark Hilton. I call the OH Hallowed Ground for that very reason.
At any rate miracles do happen and I suspect we are witnessing a spiritual explosion of them now as we approach the Parousia (second coming) through our own evil ways.
But in this instance I strongly suspect these lights are drones, either our own or the Russians or Chinese. But who knows? One thing I am certain of, it's not little green men from space. Space is far too huge and such wouldn't even be aware of our existence, much less care about our rise from savagery to even greater savagery with some technology. Interstelar travel isn't done lightly. And the only way they would know of our existence is to pick up radio transmissions and we only he a little over a century of those, so they have only gone out a hundred or so light years. As we pick up nothing in the immeiate vicinity oursleves these aliens must come from farther away. So they uldn't know and wouldn't care anyway.
No, I suspect something else is at work. Either military or supernatural. But any way you slice it I think we are witnessing something important. Let's hope this isn't a prelude to a Russian attack...
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Strange Death of a Rothschild
Timothy Birdnow
I was Facebook friends with this guy. He was a nice man even if we were political enemies. We had a few private conversations over the years. He sent me a friend request and was always courteous and polite and respected my opinions.
He actually was fairly a-political, being very concerned with helping the poor and charity work and toning down the bitterness of the world. If someone was to die I can think of people who needed to go before him.
Family Tragedy
What we know about the heir to Rothschild banking dynasty Will Rothschild
I was Facebook friends with this guy. He was a nice man even if we were political enemies. We had a few private conversations over the years. He sent me a friend request and was always courteous and polite and respected my opinions.
He actually was fairly a-political, being very concerned with helping the poor and charity work and toning down the bitterness of the world. If someone was to die I can think of people who needed to go before him.
Family Tragedy
What we know about the heir to Rothschild banking dynasty Will Rothschild
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Syrian Civil War Erupts
Timothy Birdnow
Syrian rebels have taken Aleppo as the Syrian army fled from the besieged city.
According to Al Jazeera:
This presents a major escalation and could lead to further destabilization of the region.
Why now? Probably because the Israelis have beaten Hezbollah into submission in Lebanon and continue to pound the Iran-backed terror network. Hezbollah has been a long-time ally of the Baathists of Syria and the Al-Assad family. So Israel has knocked out the southern threat to the rebels. Also, with the Russians having nothing to spare the Assad government is in a weakened position. And then there is the looming spectre of Donald Trump, who is a staunch supporter of Israel but who withdrew aid to Syrian rebels and if they wnt to continue the fight they will have to win it soon, probably. Who knows though; Trump may decide it is better to take out Assad and throw his support behind the rebels.
At any rate this could lead to more problems. The Turks may intervene in this war, for instance. (I suspect that is the hope of the rebels, that Turkey intervene in their favor.) And as the U.S. supports Kurdish separatists, the Turks may decide the time is ripe to clean up the mess that threatens to spill over to their own Kurds.
Iran can ill-afford to let this thing go against their geopolitical ambitions too,and who knows what they will do? The new Ayatollah, Khameni's son, is known to be weak and thus the Revolutionary Council is in charge. These are the guys who want Armageddon so that 12th Imam can finally climb out of the well he fell down and restore the glory of Islam. This is balanced on a knife's edge.
China's position will be anyone's guess. They have stayed out of it by and large, promoting a diplomatic solution (to be brokered by themselves, of course). But they are close allies of Russia and Iran. Their policy could change if the balance of power is seen as shifting in favor of the West.
So we are sitting on a powder-keg.
Syrian rebels have taken Aleppo as the Syrian army fled from the besieged city.
According to Al Jazeera:
The military said on Saturday that dozens of its soldiers had been killed or wounded in fierce battles with "armed terrorist organisations” in the governorates of Aleppo and Idlib over the previous few days and that it was now regrouping, redeploying troops to strengthen its defence lines as it prepared a "counterattack”.
It said that rebel groups had launched "a broad attack from multiple axes on the Aleppo and Idlib fronts”, reporting clashes "over a strip exceeding 100km [60 miles]”.
The army said the rebels had entered large parts of Aleppo but army bombardment had stopped them from establishing fixed positions. It promised to "expel them and restore the control of the state … over the entire city and its countryside”.
It said that rebel groups had launched "a broad attack from multiple axes on the Aleppo and Idlib fronts”, reporting clashes "over a strip exceeding 100km [60 miles]”.
The army said the rebels had entered large parts of Aleppo but army bombardment had stopped them from establishing fixed positions. It promised to "expel them and restore the control of the state … over the entire city and its countryside”.
This presents a major escalation and could lead to further destabilization of the region.
Why now? Probably because the Israelis have beaten Hezbollah into submission in Lebanon and continue to pound the Iran-backed terror network. Hezbollah has been a long-time ally of the Baathists of Syria and the Al-Assad family. So Israel has knocked out the southern threat to the rebels. Also, with the Russians having nothing to spare the Assad government is in a weakened position. And then there is the looming spectre of Donald Trump, who is a staunch supporter of Israel but who withdrew aid to Syrian rebels and if they wnt to continue the fight they will have to win it soon, probably. Who knows though; Trump may decide it is better to take out Assad and throw his support behind the rebels.
At any rate this could lead to more problems. The Turks may intervene in this war, for instance. (I suspect that is the hope of the rebels, that Turkey intervene in their favor.) And as the U.S. supports Kurdish separatists, the Turks may decide the time is ripe to clean up the mess that threatens to spill over to their own Kurds.
Iran can ill-afford to let this thing go against their geopolitical ambitions too,and who knows what they will do? The new Ayatollah, Khameni's son, is known to be weak and thus the Revolutionary Council is in charge. These are the guys who want Armageddon so that 12th Imam can finally climb out of the well he fell down and restore the glory of Islam. This is balanced on a knife's edge.
China's position will be anyone's guess. They have stayed out of it by and large, promoting a diplomatic solution (to be brokered by themselves, of course). But they are close allies of Russia and Iran. Their policy could change if the balance of power is seen as shifting in favor of the West.
So we are sitting on a powder-keg.
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Zelensky Offers Peace for NATO Membership
Timothy Birdnow
I guess Zelensky thinks the West is full of suckers.
Zelensky told Sky News he would accept peace for Nato membership
Here's what he is proposing; immediate peace (since he's losing the war) but only for IMMEDIATE Nato membership. Oh, and Nato must "recognise Ukraine's internationally recognised borders" even if Russia won't immediately have to hand over the occupied territory.
In other words he's trying to drag NATO into the fight. If NATO recognizes the Ukraine's borders prior to the invasion it means Russia is an invading army and NATO will be obligated to go to war on her behalf.
That guy is one piece of work.
It was threats of Ukraine joining NATO that led to the invasion in the first place and Putin has stateed repeatedly he will withdraw from Ukrainian territory if he gets a guarantee the former Soviet Republic does not join the anti-Russian coalition (which is what NATO is and always was.) Granted, Mr. Putin is not scrupulous with his word, and he would find a loophole if it suits him.
I said it before and I'll say it again; Putin cannot be perceived to lose this war. If he loses he will be deposed - and killed. He will do anything in his power to win, or at least save face. Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to "leave a golden bridge of retreat" for an enemy les they fight to the death. Biden and his friends refused to offer such a bridge to Putin, and thus old Put has dug in his heels. Trump has read his Tzu and knows he needs to give Putin a way out. If he gets sucked into the "our way or the highway" mentality Putin will escalate. He could well use tactical nukes and dare America to respond in kind. A game of nuclear chicken is one we almost certainly will lose. How do you launch the Big One for a tactical strike on battlefield troops? It seems unlikely to happen.
This is, of course, the last thing Putin wants to do. But he will do it if his own survival is at stake. And the Russian People don't see things the way we do; they see a coalition of hated foreign powers allied against them, and backing up the upstart Ukraine, which they still view as a Russian province. They fear a Ukrainian victory in a way we cannot fully understand. It's more akin to fearing Soviet troops invading California back during the Cold War. We don't think that way towards Russia, which we now view as a rude kid on the playground, but to them we are still the great enemy, largely because we have aCTED like their great enemy, and also because they rightly understand we are trying to suck their country dry and bring it into the amorphous mass of Europe as a colonized region. The Russians are paranoid,but they aren't entirely wrong.
so this proposal by Zelensky is nothing but another effort to bring the U.S. into the war. Trump is going to have to impose peace on these two dimwitted autocrats through financial pressures and make it stick. It will not be an easy task.
But it won't be that hard either; all we need to do to get Zelensky on board is to threaten to cut off the money and arms. He'll fall in line if we do. Putin will fold when the price of oil and gas go down; he'll run out of money. We can help that along with an oil and gas embargo, one we make stick.
This situation was avoidable and has been solvable all along. Mr. Biden and the War Hawks just never wanted a peaceful solution.
I guess Zelensky thinks the West is full of suckers.
Zelensky told Sky News he would accept peace for Nato membership
Here's what he is proposing; immediate peace (since he's losing the war) but only for IMMEDIATE Nato membership. Oh, and Nato must "recognise Ukraine's internationally recognised borders" even if Russia won't immediately have to hand over the occupied territory.
In other words he's trying to drag NATO into the fight. If NATO recognizes the Ukraine's borders prior to the invasion it means Russia is an invading army and NATO will be obligated to go to war on her behalf.
That guy is one piece of work.
It was threats of Ukraine joining NATO that led to the invasion in the first place and Putin has stateed repeatedly he will withdraw from Ukrainian territory if he gets a guarantee the former Soviet Republic does not join the anti-Russian coalition (which is what NATO is and always was.) Granted, Mr. Putin is not scrupulous with his word, and he would find a loophole if it suits him.
I said it before and I'll say it again; Putin cannot be perceived to lose this war. If he loses he will be deposed - and killed. He will do anything in his power to win, or at least save face. Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to "leave a golden bridge of retreat" for an enemy les they fight to the death. Biden and his friends refused to offer such a bridge to Putin, and thus old Put has dug in his heels. Trump has read his Tzu and knows he needs to give Putin a way out. If he gets sucked into the "our way or the highway" mentality Putin will escalate. He could well use tactical nukes and dare America to respond in kind. A game of nuclear chicken is one we almost certainly will lose. How do you launch the Big One for a tactical strike on battlefield troops? It seems unlikely to happen.
This is, of course, the last thing Putin wants to do. But he will do it if his own survival is at stake. And the Russian People don't see things the way we do; they see a coalition of hated foreign powers allied against them, and backing up the upstart Ukraine, which they still view as a Russian province. They fear a Ukrainian victory in a way we cannot fully understand. It's more akin to fearing Soviet troops invading California back during the Cold War. We don't think that way towards Russia, which we now view as a rude kid on the playground, but to them we are still the great enemy, largely because we have aCTED like their great enemy, and also because they rightly understand we are trying to suck their country dry and bring it into the amorphous mass of Europe as a colonized region. The Russians are paranoid,but they aren't entirely wrong.
so this proposal by Zelensky is nothing but another effort to bring the U.S. into the war. Trump is going to have to impose peace on these two dimwitted autocrats through financial pressures and make it stick. It will not be an easy task.
But it won't be that hard either; all we need to do to get Zelensky on board is to threaten to cut off the money and arms. He'll fall in line if we do. Putin will fold when the price of oil and gas go down; he'll run out of money. We can help that along with an oil and gas embargo, one we make stick.
This situation was avoidable and has been solvable all along. Mr. Biden and the War Hawks just never wanted a peaceful solution.
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The End of the Willis Witch Hunt
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an AOL article that says Fani Willis' prosecution of Trump is about finished and perhaps the prosecutor herself.
What I find fascinating is that this is not a conservative outlet and the article is amazingly balanced. It mentions how arrogant Willis is, and how she promised to "get Trump" and her many transgressions.
I recomment you read it; good for the digestion!
Here is an AOL article that says Fani Willis' prosecution of Trump is about finished and perhaps the prosecutor herself.
What I find fascinating is that this is not a conservative outlet and the article is amazingly balanced. It mentions how arrogant Willis is, and how she promised to "get Trump" and her many transgressions.
I recomment you read it; good for the digestion!
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Pot Attacks Kettle - Film at 11
Timothy Birdnow
If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black!
Defeated Dem Senator Claims GOP ‘Rigged The System’ To Win Election
Yes, Sharrod Brown actually accused Republicans of STEALING the election from him! The elephant testes on that guy! Well, he didn't say steal so much as "rigged" but it amounts to the same thing.
Uh, Mr. Brown, perhaps you have forgotten that your own party stole the last general election and did it's level best to steal this one, with irregularites all over the country, particularly in Pennsylvania. But we mustn't remember that, mustn't we!
How many 3 a.m. vote dumps happened in the last two general elections? Many, and all in Democrat areas. Shoot; California was STILL counting votes as late as the end of last week, in the vain attempt to erase Trump's popular vote victory. You guys are the thieves.
BTW The Donkeys are crowing about how they won four senate seats in states Trump won. It is a valid point, but it is in no way a statement about Trump or MAGA but rather about the failure of the GOP RINO wing. The House and Senate both were disappointments, and that was not for the reasons often cited as conventional wisdom (which is that the public wants divided government) but rather because the House and Senate are run by RiNO Republicans who don't want to win because a balance of power gives them more power in the party. Nobody will vote out an incumbent when the margin is so tight and they also can prevent conservatives from making any headway by blocking our initiatives. Mitch McConnell has been the king of this tactic, but the House has had a series of Speakers who followed suit. The public has seen the Congressional GOP as feckless and self-serving and couple that with the fact that at least McConnell did not fund any conservatives who ran the public wound up letting these seats go. You cannot expect people to vote for a fairweather friend. So the GOP failed to win the Senate by a big margine precisely because the GOP did not try to win the Senate by a big margin. It was more a referendum on Mitch McConnell and his band of merry milksops than anything.
If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black!
Defeated Dem Senator Claims GOP ‘Rigged The System’ To Win Election
Yes, Sharrod Brown actually accused Republicans of STEALING the election from him! The elephant testes on that guy! Well, he didn't say steal so much as "rigged" but it amounts to the same thing.
Uh, Mr. Brown, perhaps you have forgotten that your own party stole the last general election and did it's level best to steal this one, with irregularites all over the country, particularly in Pennsylvania. But we mustn't remember that, mustn't we!
How many 3 a.m. vote dumps happened in the last two general elections? Many, and all in Democrat areas. Shoot; California was STILL counting votes as late as the end of last week, in the vain attempt to erase Trump's popular vote victory. You guys are the thieves.
BTW The Donkeys are crowing about how they won four senate seats in states Trump won. It is a valid point, but it is in no way a statement about Trump or MAGA but rather about the failure of the GOP RINO wing. The House and Senate both were disappointments, and that was not for the reasons often cited as conventional wisdom (which is that the public wants divided government) but rather because the House and Senate are run by RiNO Republicans who don't want to win because a balance of power gives them more power in the party. Nobody will vote out an incumbent when the margin is so tight and they also can prevent conservatives from making any headway by blocking our initiatives. Mitch McConnell has been the king of this tactic, but the House has had a series of Speakers who followed suit. The public has seen the Congressional GOP as feckless and self-serving and couple that with the fact that at least McConnell did not fund any conservatives who ran the public wound up letting these seats go. You cannot expect people to vote for a fairweather friend. So the GOP failed to win the Senate by a big margine precisely because the GOP did not try to win the Senate by a big margin. It was more a referendum on Mitch McConnell and his band of merry milksops than anything.
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Biden Blocks Coal Mining in Wyoming
Timothy Birdnow
Biden has cracked down on coal mining, banning coal mining and methane harvesting in the Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
According to the Daily Caller:
"The Biden administration moved on Thanksgiving eve to bar future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, one of America’s most coal-rich regions, according to multiple reports.
The Powder River Basin, a region that spans parts of Montana and Wyoming, accounted for about 43% of U.S. coal in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The administration made its move to formally end coal leasing in the area and roll back previous approvals for development plans on Wednesday as Americans prepared to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, according to E&E News.
"The decision is to make no federal coal available for future leasing,” Todd Yeager, the field manager for the Buffalo office of the Bureau of Land Management, wrote in a filing announcing the move, according to E&E News. Yeager added that the decision will take about 48 billion short tons of coal off the table for mining and development. "
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America has the largest coal reserves in the world and we would still be swimming in energy if we had no oil or natural gas at all thanks to the compacted dinosaurs and Jurassic plants buried below ground.
Coal was and is still used for generating electricity and it comes in a handy-dandy lump that can be shipped by rail or truck. Also, it was used in steel and other metal manufacturing as a way to smelt the ore (he who smelt it melt it, methinks). Time was people had coal furnaces in their homes. My father speaks of his; he had to go down in the basement every few hours and restoke it. A pain surely but I suspect with modern technology we could devise a fully automated form of coal furnace, perhaps grinding the coal up into small particles and having them in a chute with a thermostat that opened the door for a given amount of time to let the coal flow into the fire box. I don't know but we could warn our homes with coal if need be.
There was work done to try to convert coal into a kind of artificial gasoline. It stopped because more promising avenues were available, and petroleum products were cheap, but it could still be done. And of course we could always go back to steam engine cars!
Any way you slice it coal has a lot of value and should not be neglected by the U.S. There are ways to make it less environmentally polluting.
I may be biased; my great grandfather (one of them) was a coal miner in southern Illinois. (My other great grandfather was a railroad man and may have used coal from grandpa Alblinger to run his engine.) And my home town of St. Louis is home to the two largest coal companies in the world - Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.
At any rate, I'm always a sucker for older tech that worked. I pine for the days of airships and telegraphs and Aladdin kerosene lamps and Stanley Steamers. I like to imagine how things would have gone had this old technology won out rather than this new-fangled stuff. (I'm always looking for ways to adapt the old tech to use in my luxurious resort in the deep ozarks, the fabled Ozark Hilton.)
But Biden shows he didn't learn a thing from both his and Harris' defeat. The Democrats never will; they are too beholden to the Gang Green.
Ah well; Wyoming is the state that gave us the Cheney family, so they can lump it!
Biden has cracked down on coal mining, banning coal mining and methane harvesting in the Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
According to the Daily Caller:
"The Biden administration moved on Thanksgiving eve to bar future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, one of America’s most coal-rich regions, according to multiple reports.
The Powder River Basin, a region that spans parts of Montana and Wyoming, accounted for about 43% of U.S. coal in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The administration made its move to formally end coal leasing in the area and roll back previous approvals for development plans on Wednesday as Americans prepared to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, according to E&E News.
"The decision is to make no federal coal available for future leasing,” Todd Yeager, the field manager for the Buffalo office of the Bureau of Land Management, wrote in a filing announcing the move, according to E&E News. Yeager added that the decision will take about 48 billion short tons of coal off the table for mining and development. "
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America has the largest coal reserves in the world and we would still be swimming in energy if we had no oil or natural gas at all thanks to the compacted dinosaurs and Jurassic plants buried below ground.
Coal was and is still used for generating electricity and it comes in a handy-dandy lump that can be shipped by rail or truck. Also, it was used in steel and other metal manufacturing as a way to smelt the ore (he who smelt it melt it, methinks). Time was people had coal furnaces in their homes. My father speaks of his; he had to go down in the basement every few hours and restoke it. A pain surely but I suspect with modern technology we could devise a fully automated form of coal furnace, perhaps grinding the coal up into small particles and having them in a chute with a thermostat that opened the door for a given amount of time to let the coal flow into the fire box. I don't know but we could warn our homes with coal if need be.
There was work done to try to convert coal into a kind of artificial gasoline. It stopped because more promising avenues were available, and petroleum products were cheap, but it could still be done. And of course we could always go back to steam engine cars!
Any way you slice it coal has a lot of value and should not be neglected by the U.S. There are ways to make it less environmentally polluting.
I may be biased; my great grandfather (one of them) was a coal miner in southern Illinois. (My other great grandfather was a railroad man and may have used coal from grandpa Alblinger to run his engine.) And my home town of St. Louis is home to the two largest coal companies in the world - Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.
At any rate, I'm always a sucker for older tech that worked. I pine for the days of airships and telegraphs and Aladdin kerosene lamps and Stanley Steamers. I like to imagine how things would have gone had this old technology won out rather than this new-fangled stuff. (I'm always looking for ways to adapt the old tech to use in my luxurious resort in the deep ozarks, the fabled Ozark Hilton.)
But Biden shows he didn't learn a thing from both his and Harris' defeat. The Democrats never will; they are too beholden to the Gang Green.
Ah well; Wyoming is the state that gave us the Cheney family, so they can lump it!
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AOC May Run!
Timothy Birdnow
How much more embarrassment do the Democrats want?
Bring it on baby!
Democrats Apparently Now See AOC as Potential 2028 Contender in Bid to Lose by Larger Margin Than Last Time
How much more embarrassment do the Democrats want?
Bring it on baby!
Democrats Apparently Now See AOC as Potential 2028 Contender in Bid to Lose by Larger Margin Than Last Time
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Trump Exhausts Media
Timothy Birdnow
The White House Press Corps is bitterly complaining about how exhausting it is to cover Trump and how they are already worn out.
Here is what caught my eye on this:
Uh, that's the whole point Julia.
Trump practices the principles advocated by Sun Tzu, the ancient chinese military philosopher. One of Sun Tzu's admonishions was to be unpredictable, to confuse an enemy commander by not doing what seems the logical course of action.
It works and Trump had to view the media as an enemy as that is how they behaved. So he is far away when they think he's near, active when they think he's passive, organized when they think he's confused. This made it difficult for the media to launch a coordinated attack on Trump over any issue; they didn't know where to fire their guns.
The "chaos" and "confusion" of Trump's administration is a feature, not a bug. And a very clever strategy. Anybody else would have been taken down by the media had they played the game as it has always been played.
Trump also believes in a Hegelian dialectic and uses competition between different staff members as a tool to drive productivity and creativity. He sets people against each-other and then skims off the cream that rises to the top. It's an effective strategy if a bit ruthless. Trump doesn't operate on the theory that you baby your underlings; he is there to do a job and he demands excellence from those under him. It's not MY management style, but then Trump made a billion dollars and I made peanuts so I can't argue with success.
But the media is used to politics as usual and cannot stand the fact Trump runs things quite differently.
Julie Manchester continues:
Why so exhausted? Could it be because the press corpse, er, corp was desperately trying to undermine Mr. Trump all along and now is exhausted from the failed effort?
More from the article:
Trump used Twitter like a virtuoso, sending the media into a conniption with just a few carefully chosen "careless" words. So now they are vowing to not fall for it (I doubt they can stop themselves) and plan "big picture" stories meaning lies spun into whole narratives, like a kind of evil Hallmark Christmas tale for Trump haters. But she doesn't understand that they already did that and they cannot keep doing 'big picture" stories about Trump indefinitely. The need to destroy MAGA looms over everything they do and that can only happen if the head of the serpent is cut from the body, they believe. And Trump's program will work, and they will be in a position where they have to try to gaslight America with claims that it is a failure. They need the distraction, much like a magician needs his "magic wand" to distract the audience from what his other hand is doing. "Big picture" stories are destined to fail.
So they are going to have to go after every little utterance of Trump it's all they have. And that will utterly exhaust them.
Good.
The White House Press Corps is bitterly complaining about how exhausting it is to cover Trump and how they are already worn out.
Here is what caught my eye on this:
"Julia Manchester, a national political reporter for the Hill, referred to the incoming president as "someone who thrives on unpredictability.”'
Uh, that's the whole point Julia.
Trump practices the principles advocated by Sun Tzu, the ancient chinese military philosopher. One of Sun Tzu's admonishions was to be unpredictable, to confuse an enemy commander by not doing what seems the logical course of action.
It works and Trump had to view the media as an enemy as that is how they behaved. So he is far away when they think he's near, active when they think he's passive, organized when they think he's confused. This made it difficult for the media to launch a coordinated attack on Trump over any issue; they didn't know where to fire their guns.
The "chaos" and "confusion" of Trump's administration is a feature, not a bug. And a very clever strategy. Anybody else would have been taken down by the media had they played the game as it has always been played.
Trump also believes in a Hegelian dialectic and uses competition between different staff members as a tool to drive productivity and creativity. He sets people against each-other and then skims off the cream that rises to the top. It's an effective strategy if a bit ruthless. Trump doesn't operate on the theory that you baby your underlings; he is there to do a job and he demands excellence from those under him. It's not MY management style, but then Trump made a billion dollars and I made peanuts so I can't argue with success.
But the media is used to politics as usual and cannot stand the fact Trump runs things quite differently.
Julie Manchester continues:
"Describing the aftermath of the November 5 election as something like "déjà vu” for the press corps, she said it was "right into the fire with this transition, with the Cabinet picks.”
"And I think overall, just outside of the press corps, the country itself was feeling burnt out,” Manchester added."
"And I think overall, just outside of the press corps, the country itself was feeling burnt out,” Manchester added."
Why so exhausted? Could it be because the press corpse, er, corp was desperately trying to undermine Mr. Trump all along and now is exhausted from the failed effort?
More from the article:
"While Meredith McGraw of Politico said that "no matter where Trump goes, what he does, there’s behind-the-scenes drama and intrigue,” she predicted that news publications are not going to jump on every single social media post from Trump like the last time around.
Instead, she said outlets will be focusing on being "bigger-picture about stories.”
Instead, she said outlets will be focusing on being "bigger-picture about stories.”
Trump used Twitter like a virtuoso, sending the media into a conniption with just a few carefully chosen "careless" words. So now they are vowing to not fall for it (I doubt they can stop themselves) and plan "big picture" stories meaning lies spun into whole narratives, like a kind of evil Hallmark Christmas tale for Trump haters. But she doesn't understand that they already did that and they cannot keep doing 'big picture" stories about Trump indefinitely. The need to destroy MAGA looms over everything they do and that can only happen if the head of the serpent is cut from the body, they believe. And Trump's program will work, and they will be in a position where they have to try to gaslight America with claims that it is a failure. They need the distraction, much like a magician needs his "magic wand" to distract the audience from what his other hand is doing. "Big picture" stories are destined to fail.
So they are going to have to go after every little utterance of Trump it's all they have. And that will utterly exhaust them.
Good.
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Florida Bans Geoengineering
Timothy Birdnow
Florida has introduced a bill banning geoengineering in the state.
From the article:
While it may not be an immediate pressing problem it most certainly could become one in short order. Of course state law won't matter if the feds are the ones doing it.
Florida has introduced a bill banning geoengineering in the state.
From the article:
- "A Florida Republican Senator has introduced a new bill that will prohibit weather modification and geo-engineering within the state.
- The SB 56 bill, introduced by Senator Ileana Garcia, aims to target technological weather manipulation, such as methods used to alter weather patterns, temperature, or sunlight intensity.
- The bill also repeals existing provisions in Florida statutes related to weather modification.
- The bill specifically prohibits:
- "injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of 36 a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus 37 into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the 38 express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or 39 the intensity of sunlight.”'
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While it may not be an immediate pressing problem it most certainly could become one in short order. Of course state law won't matter if the feds are the ones doing it.
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Man About to be Cremated Awakens
Timothy Birdnow
Everyone's worst nightmare! This is the stuff of horror movies.
Man Regains Consciousness Moments Before Cremation; Three Government Hospital Doctors Suspended
Everyone's worst nightmare! This is the stuff of horror movies.
Man Regains Consciousness Moments Before Cremation; Three Government Hospital Doctors Suspended
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November 29, 2024
The Blessings of Global Warming
Timothy Birdnow
So THISis is what everybody is so afraid of?
So THISis is what everybody is so afraid of?
"One of the greatest scientists in the world is Arrhenius of Sweden. He is a chemist and physicist, and has studied this matter. He shows that this proportion of carbon dioxide in the air will make the climate warmer, by acting like the glass roof of a green house. With the carbon dioxide increased from two and one-half to three times, the temperature of the whole world will be raised 8 to 9 degrees centigrade—and Greenland will have a good climate for farming. All the good soil of Canada will be in as temperate a climate as that now enjoyed by Missouri.
Corn will be grown in the Peace River Valley. Oranges will be an orchard fruit in Arkansas and Virginia. The suburban residents of Chicago may literally sit under their own fig trees and scuppernong grape arbors. Cotton will be a stable crop in Iowa. Bananas will fringe the shores of the Gulf. Siberia will become the greatest farming country in the world. The great Antarctic continent—one of the greatest on earth in extent—will be the Western Canada, the Scandinavia, the Siberia of that day, and will have millions of people. Alaska will be as warm as Maine now is. And the heat of all the tropics will be made hotter for thousands of years.”
January 28, 1913
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Daze of Wine and Roses
Timothy Birdnow
Don't know about the roses but she certainly has been tippling the wine.
EXCLUSIVEDoctors question if Kamala Harris was tipsy in bizarre new video message
Hillary Clintton hit the sauce pretty hard too, most especially after she lost to Mr. Trump. The two should get together for a vino-klatch some day! I sure hope they have a waitress and not a waiter though...
Don't know about the roses but she certainly has been tippling the wine.
EXCLUSIVEDoctors question if Kamala Harris was tipsy in bizarre new video message
Hillary Clintton hit the sauce pretty hard too, most especially after she lost to Mr. Trump. The two should get together for a vino-klatch some day! I sure hope they have a waitress and not a waiter though...
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Sending Illegals to ICE
Timothy Birdnow
But it was more fun sending them to sanctuary cities.
Texas plans to bus Illegals directly to ICE deportation centers — Instead of nyc and chicago.
ICE is just following orders so it doesn't make the political statement. I prefer to keep them flowing to "woke" places. How about Kathy Hochel's residence? How about to tthe Governor's mansion in Springfield, Illinois? Sending them to ICE is like sending criminals to the police headquarters; the real culprits aren't effected.
But it was more fun sending them to sanctuary cities.
Texas plans to bus Illegals directly to ICE deportation centers — Instead of nyc and chicago.
ICE is just following orders so it doesn't make the political statement. I prefer to keep them flowing to "woke" places. How about Kathy Hochel's residence? How about to tthe Governor's mansion in Springfield, Illinois? Sending them to ICE is like sending criminals to the police headquarters; the real culprits aren't effected.
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