Little Lost Nuclear Material

Timothy Birdnow

Recently I mentioned a theory I had heard about the drones in New Jersey looking for nuclear material. Well, guess what?

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey

FTA:

That would explain a lot.

Ge-68 pin source is a radioactive material used in medical scaning equipment. It could be used for a radiological bomb, methinks. OR the whole thing could be a red herring to hide a far more dangerous thing being actively covered up by our government.

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Israel Pulls Embassy from Ireland

Timothy Birdnow

Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in displeasure at the Emerald Isle's enthusiastic support for Palestinian terrorists.

FTA:

The Irish Republic seems to see Israel as the equivalent of England - oppressors. But in reality they are more like the Irish than the Irish seem to grasp; both victims of an oppressive neighbor. Ireland was subjugated by England/Great Britain and Israel is subjugated by the Arab nations who tried to "drive Israel into the sea".

Oh, and the two had their own diaspora - the Jews were scattered all over the world after the Romans took them as slaves, the Irish after the potato famine. And both groups were disliked by locals where they settled at first.

Irish deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin said:

"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."

And yet Ireland fought a most nasty war of independence against Britain when the British occupied the country. Now that they are secure they want to deny that right to Israel to fight for it's own independence. What do the Irish think "from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free" means? It means "death to Israel". This war is qualitatively no different than the war waged by Ireland to attain independence.

He continues:


How many innocent lives were lost during Irelands rebellion against Britain? Quite a few even if not as many as in Palestine during this war (and we know the numbers of Palestinian dead are provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health are unquestionably grossly inflated). And if you include military deaths that number grows quite a bit.

This doesn't include the death toll in the north during the "time of troubles".

It seems the Irish and Palestinians share one key thing in common; both are and did support terrorism.

So Ireland now hates Israel as a "colonial power". They need to take a closer look.

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Newsom Hires Harris Staffer

Timothy Birdnow

Smooth move Ex-lax!

Newsom lost a top aide. Former Harris adviser will take her place

That's the way to do it! Hire the person who presided over the huge campaign failure this year!

Rush Limbaugh alays said failure was a resume' enhancement for Democrats and he was right.

It's well known Newsom hopes to upsize his office to one closer to the Atlantic, and this is not the way you do it. If he needs people he should find winners, not the recycled losers coming from the failure that was Kamala Harris.

I don't think any Democrats learned a thing from the last election.

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Turkey Moving into Syria

Timothy Birdnow

Just as I predicted.

Turkey Prepared to Provide Military Training to Syria

There is a power vacuum and it gets filled by either the Turks or the Iranians. Since it is primarily Islamists who aren't going to ally with the likes of us.

Before this is over we may wish Assad was still in power.

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More Droning

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an interesting analysis of the drone situation:

(Alt-Market)—The term "False Flag” gets thrown around rather haphazardly these days and it’s important to recognize that a real false flag requires a particular end result – The public blaming the wrong culprit for an event that someone else (usually our own government) perpetrated. When it comes to the increasing fervor over major drone activity across the US, I have very little doubt that what we are witnessing is a false flag scenario.

First, let’s outline what has happened so far: Drone sightings have exploded across the country involving a wide variety of devices – but the incidents that concern me the most are those involving the SUV-sized UAVs in places like New Jersey. The sightings have been happening for months. US government agenciesincluding the FBI, DHS and national security officials claim they have no idea who is behind this activity, even though drones have been seen operating over highly protected areas like US military bases.

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The Drones of Hell

Timothy Birdnow

I recently suggested the drones flying America's skies might be biological weapons delivery systems sowing the next pandemic to allow the Globalist Left to seize more power. Well....

Mike Adams argues that there is another pandemic coming and it will be entirely a hoax, caused by chemicals.

If so, then they will need a way to distribute it over a wide area. A drone would do that nicely.

The WHO, whose failures metastasized the Covid outbreak, is promoting a pandemic accord which is a sneaky way to backdoor world government.

And Bill Gates warns of another pandemic as well. We know Gates predicted Covid the very year it happened by some "strange" coincidence.

Then there is Peter Hotez who said multiple viruses will emerge during Trump's Presidency. What makes him think that? Well, they've been creating them after all in a lab.

So if another pandemic should emerge one is sorely tempted to beleive it is intended to wreck the Trump Presidency as was the last.

Anyway, Adams doesn't believe they will even bother with a virus but rather just use chemicals and claim it is a virus - a full blownn lie. A psy-op. Contact poisons which they will claim is a virus and shut the whole world down again.

Perhaps. But I do wonder at these drones and suspect they are a delivery system for - something. What remains to be seen.

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Are Drones Looking for Nukes?

Timothy Birdnow

I just came across a rather disturbing theory about the drones; they may be looking for nuclear material.

High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors can spot nuclear material much better than the older types of nuclear detectors. They can be mounted on drones too.

That would explain why the government is so closed-lipped about this, and why they prefer frightened speculation to leveling with the American People.

Do we have a nuclear device in New Jersey? Or does someone have a radiological bomb?

For the record a radiological bomb is no real threat; the radiation is dispersed quickly and only contaminates a small area if it all. The threat is more psychological than anything else; getb people to panic.

The Iranians have an atomic bomb, of that I am sure. We keep saying "they almost have it" but they have enriched up to 20% which is most of the way there for making nukes. The first 3-5% is the hardest part.

According to Arms Control Center:

" The simple answer is that enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material."

And that is correct. Once there it's a matter of days to enrich over 95%, which is the threshold for weapons grade uranium. They can have enough fissile material for a bomb in under one week.

Did the Iranians finish running their centrifuges?

While they've been working on implosion devices (much harder to build than gun-style triggers) so they can mount them on ICBM's they could ship a device by stealth and once they are in position Kaboom!

It's just a theory but something sinister is going on with those drones, no question.

And if it'snot the U.S. government looking for fissile material, is it perhaps Iran scouting the area for the best way to smuggle in a weapon?

BTW In nature drones are sexless; maybe it's a way to draw attention to the LGBTQ movement? Nonconforming gender rolls for aircraft!

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The OIly Bird Catches the Worm

Timothy Birdnow

How can they tell? The thing is it's the BLACK sea!

Major oil spill in Black Sea.

Was this a spill or did it get a little help?

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The Eye of Sauron

Timothy Birdnow

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Jersey...

Feds to Deploy New Drone Surveillance System

Mighty speedy work there. So we just happened to have this high-tech system waiting to be deployed?

Why is it that I can't help but think this may have been the point all along?

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Kennedy Coming for Your Food

Timothy Birdnow

Here is whatI don't like about Robert Kennedy Jr.; he thinks it's his business what Americans eat and wants to reform our diets.

Last I checked dietary regulations were not an enumerated power of the United States.

It's the tampering with our diet that has led to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. in the first place. They want to war on meat and pushed grain and thus everybody grew enormously fat. People weren't fat when they were eating meat. I would add that Man evolved eating meat and that was the paleo-diet; primitive men ate some nuts and berries but mostly meat. Now we are told meat is terrible and must go, yet our bodies are evolved to sustain on it. Something that has always been with us is not a bad thing.

But grain, especially processed grain, is much newer in our diets. And the production of processed grains i a relatively new thing. Ditto sugar, which wasn't farmed on any scale commercially until 1455 on Madeira. Before sugar cane the only sugars anyone ever enjoyed were sweet wines and honey.

At any rate it's just not government's business how we eat, but sadly Kennedy is going to make it his business. It's why we should never put a Democrat in a position of authority, no matter how reasonable they appear.

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The Weapon of Oil

Timothy Birdnow

Proof that I missed my calling.

This article from the eggheads at the National Interest argues for more engagement by the U.S. in central Asia and makes the following point:

Who says? The fact is oil is bought and sold on futures and just setting the wheels in motion leads to an immediate drop in prices. We've seen this repeatedly over the years; whenever a person friendly to drilling is elected almost immediately prices drop. That is because investers are now confident in a return and will buy oil futures, thus funding the oil companies. We saw this scenario play out both times with Trump, and also when Geoerge W. Bush was elected. You don't have to wait until you actually draw the oil from the ground and refine it; the prices begin dropping almost immediately in anticipation.

I've been arguing all along that getting oil and gas prices down would end the Ukraine war as surely as it ended the Russian invasion of Georgia.

Russia's oil and gas industry accounts for roughtly 18% of her entire GDP per quarter (it was down to 16.7% last April to June, down a bit, no doubt because of the war). That's nearly a fifth of their total GDP. Since oil is a commodity it has fluctuations, and Russia is subject to the same kinds of boom-and-bust cycles we've seen in many commodity-based economies. Texas used to suffer from that cycle of boom-and-bust as oil prices fluctuated too. But with Russia it's the main backbone of their economy.

According to Oilprice.com Russia lost 21% of her revenue when prices dropped this year. And that was just a fairly minor price drop compared to what the Trump folks are pushing to achieve.

From the article by Charles Kennedy:


Imagine how Russia will fare if we really squeeze them!

Now Russia is able to sell it's oil and gas despite the embargo by simply selling to other countries who then sell to everyone following the boycott. Easy peasy.

Russia is a third world country with first world military hardware. It was that alone that strangled the old Soviet Union; they couldn't provide for the needs of the people, and Reagan understood that and squeezed them out of existence using economic warfare (and our military spending was the tool he used to force them into bankruptcy). Oil saved Russia. But oil, like God, giveth and oil taketh away. A commodities-based economy is a developing nation economy and is subject to the vagaries of market forces beyond that nation's control.

Putin was flush with cash thanks to Biden's war on energy, and he had the security of knowing Joe Biden would not take any sort of decisive action (he'd seen that with the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan). Now a new sheriff is in town, and Putin either settles this thing or winds up losing as he runs out of money.

BTW it was the American efforts to build pipelines from central Asia to the West that bypassed Russian/Iranian territory that precipitated both of these invasions. The first thing Russia did in the Georgian war was attack the BKC pipeline. Georgia was going to be the prime corridor for oil and gas outside of Russian control. The same largely held true of Ukraine which controlled Russian access to the rest of Europe. In both cases American economic pressures forced Putin's hand. Oh, he didn't require much pressure; he wants to rebuild the old Tsarist impirium, but he had a ready-made excuse both times, fighting "American imperialism". All you have to do to win over the average Russian is play to their rather justifiable paranoia. The U.S. has been systematically encircling Russia for two decades now and deploying ABM systems in an iron ring around them. It was very easy to convince any Russia of the foul intentions of the United States, and of our proxies in Ukraine and Georgia.

Anyway, the author of this piece argues for greater investment and involvement in these corrupt central Asian countries, a dubious idea. Russia and China are much closer and dominate this region economically and one wonders about U.S. investment in the area. How much will be money down a rathole? In the end these countries saw what happened to Georgia and Ukraine and have no reason to move towards America, which is at best a fair-weather friend.

Anyway, I say I missed my calling because the author of this piece, while obviously knowledgeable about the region, seems to miss the point on occasion here. I still wonder how it is I wound up working in low-level jobs like bread truck driver or real estate property manager. Success is, to me, a huge mystery.

That's why I bloviate here at The Aviary I guess.

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Post Pardum Depression at USPS

Timothy Birdnow

Trump and the DOGE are looking into kicking the U.S. Postal Service to the curb, fully privatizing it and letting the notoriously incompetent organization sink or swim.

The USPS is a "quasi private" organization. Originally a cabinet-level government post, the Postmaster General was actually in line to become President (down the list at #8,behind the Attorney General) and it was run like an actual government agency. In 1971 it was "privatized" mainly because it made enough money on it's own to fund itself (although it can still draw from general revenue in the event of a shortfall) and to take the PM out of the chain of succession. But it wasn't a privatization at all; you still have to pass a civil service exam to get a job there, and employees enjoy the much better government pension over social security, and their own healthcare system, etc. Also, mail trucks remain one of the vehicles that can cut a funeral procession legally, and they can have you arrested if you use their mailboxes for personal correspondence without a stamp. It's run by a a board of directors who appoint the Postmaster General but the board is appointed by the President of the United States, not by any shareholders as only the U.S. government owns any shares. It is wholly owned by the Feds.

True privatization would mean a complete severing of the organization from government, and would require the sale of shares to investors and that means offering a return. It would be for profit.

It's a move that long ago should have happened. We now have multiple delivery organizations like Fedex or UPS that could do the job more cheaply and more efficiently.

Of course postal workers have long been a solid Democratic block because their jobs depend on government. That will change if the massive, unwieldy organization is privatized. And incompetent or crooked employees will not be protected by government rules any longer.

And that will have a profound impact on America's electoral prospects. In 2023 there were 525,469 career employees and another 115,000 in seasonal workers. If just a quarter of them stop voting Democrat that's a sizable pickup for the GOOP.

But that's not the primary reason to do it; the main reason is because it is an antiquated institution that no longer serves the public interest and can be cut lose. In 2023 the USPS had a net loss of $6.5 billion dollars. That was trumped this year with a loss of $9.5 billion. Guess where the money to cover that deficit came from? It wasn't from budget cuts.

The times have passed the Post Office by, and it's time to acknowledge this change.

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ABC Admits Libel, Pays Trump

Timothy Birdnow

Suck on this ABC!

abc news settles defamation lawsuit by Trump for $15 million

Maybe now they will rethink letting Bill Clinton's hatchet man run their news division? George Stephanopoulis has turned ABC News into nothing more than a Democrat propaganda arm.

While the money is inadequate (Trump should have held out for way more) at least Trump can now prove he was slandered by them and other media outlets.

The shareholders at ABC need to demand a change in network leadership as a result of this.

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The Mystery of J6 Deepens

Timothy Birdnow

Revolver has been at the forefront on all things J6 related, and they ask many disturbing questions about the Horowitz report and why all of the 26 agent provocateurs informants escaped prosecution even though three are known for a fact to have entered the Capitol building in violation of the law (and as informants they are as bound by that law as any civilian).

Read the whole article.

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Moans and Drones

Timothy Birdnow

I caught Fox News Sunday this morning and they interviewed Democratic Rep. Jim Hines about the drone situation. His rather pathetic effort to dismiss the whole matter made it clear to me something rotten is putrifying in the state of Demmark. (Yes, I meant to spell it that way.)

I swear; if that guy had been Pinnocchio his nose would have poked through the Fox cameras.

Over and over he kept comparing the drones people have been seeing with "Walmart drones flown by kids" which is total B.S.; eyewitnesses say these drones are big, sometimes as large as a school bus. Granted, it's hard to tell size without something to judge it against - and in the sky that is a real problem - but most of the eyewitnesses insist they could judge the size and say they were large.

Which means they are not hobby drones but military - ours or someone else's.

He also said there was no reason to fly these drones over secure areas because they could do the same thing with satellites. Hogwash! The chinese sent those spy balloons over the U.S. and they had plenty of satellites to use too.

The presupposition of that argument is that they are solely there for photography, something not at all certain. Big drones can carry missiles, or worse bioweapons. It may be they are seeding biological weapons over the regions visited by these things.

He kept asserting there was no danger from them. How does he know? He claims all is quiet in Iran and China and Russia. Ri-ight! These morons were caught by surprise when Russia invaded Ukraine too. They were shocked when the Chinese sent those balloons over the U.S. (and took no action until they were about to leave U.S. airspace and then only because there was so much public outcry.) Frankly I think a Democratic Congresscritter would be the last to know.

He and the Fox host (not sure who it was; didn;'t look that much like Shannon Bream but the Fox chicks are all stepford wives and pretty much look alike to me) showed a photo of one of them and said "see - this is clearly an airplane" because it had wings rather than copter gyros. Here is a whole page of airplane-style drones. Many of them, especially long-range military drones, have aircraft wings rather than gyros. Granted, Occham's Razor would suggest these are actually airplanes, but as we know they are blowing smoke up our collective posteiors (and have a history of so doing) I am loathe to apply said principle here, especially since so many are seeing these things as drones with their own lying eyes. Yes, some may be airplanes coming in to land, but many of those sightings are by people who live in the area and see airplanes landing all the time.

If our government doesn't know what they are and they are entering secure airspace why not shoot one down and find out what it is? A stinger missile would take it out easily. Or scramble a fighter jet.

It's rather like Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare "you have to shoot it down to know what's in it".

And the Biden FAA claims to not know what they are, yet says they pose no threat. How do they know that? That iceberg posed no threat too until it sunk the Titanic. Like anything posing a threat it's not always immediately evident. We didn't know the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor either until they did.

If nothing else these things may just be a test run to see if a foreign power can get these over targets and if we'll respond. Thus far we have not.

And if it is NOT a foreign power? This many and with the size of these things that would mean the U.S. government is flying them. Why? Is it to test out a way to spy on every American? Or worse? Maybe Joe's parting gift to us will be some new pandemic created in Wuhan with funding from Dr. Fauci...

I don't think we'll like any of the answers.

Oh, by the by, this is leading to calls for the FAA to increase regulation and control of drones across America, as if private dronership is somehow the problem and not the failure of the Administration to deal with this decisively.

At any rate this Congressman insulted our collective intelligence, and the host did little to hold his feet to the fire. It seemed like a setup. If they are going to calm our fears they first have to give us some actual facts. Assurances from the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (or at all) is cold comfort.

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Mangione Not United Customer

Timothy Birdnow

Looks like Luigi Mangione wasn't even a United Healthcare client.

So he either just wanted to murder any healthcare executive or his real motivation is yet to reveal itself.

I continue to believe there is more to this than meets the eye.

Mangione said:

America has such a low life expectancy because of the massive number of third world immigrants here (60 million, or if one includes children of foreign born 87.7 million., as well as the serious problems of drug abuse and obesity and violence in black and Hispanic communities. How is that any fault of insurance?

He also fails to understand that we have the BEST healthcare system in the world and that people come as tourists solely to take advantage of care that is superior to any they can get in their more "affordable" countries. Canada or Britain is fine for simple things like an infected toenail, but if you come down with a rare and life-threatening illness you will either go to the U.S. or die.

The U.S. medical tourism market size was worth $4.58 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow at a  rate of 21.0%.

Yes, we also send Americans out to get treatment in other countries, but that is mostly to get treatments not yet approved by the FDA.

And like a good Democrat he lays the blame for every problem at the feet of capitalism and "greed" when in fact much of our problem is the inverse; not enough capitalism or greed. Greed would actually make these companies more responsive to attract more members. Now there are just a handful of health insurance companies thanks to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and decades of government regulations.

Shooting a health insurance executive is like shooting the shift manager at McDonald's because the price of a filet-o-fish went up.

At any rate I still suspect he was a fall guy. Yes, he did it, but I wonder if he wasn't set up to do it. He was claiming this was a travesty of justice, yet we haven't heard any statements from him (or at least I haven't) but rather are just reading online stuff from before. Is it even his writing? Is the manifesto his? Who knows; all I know is we live in an era of massive gaslighting and lies and I see no reason to believe very much of what the authorities tell me anymore.

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Why Keynesianism Won't Go Away

From Patrick Barron at the Von Misses Institute:

Most economic analysts predict that the US is about to enter into a cyclical recession. Even Austrian School economists (like me) agree. The big question is, "What will government do?” Will it finally stop its fruitless interventions, such as trying to drive down the interest rate via inflation in the face of unprecedented budget deficits?

Look to Past Actions

Tom Fitton, CEO of Judicial Watch, answered this question (regarding another matter) during a Q&A session at the annual banquet of the Conservative Caucus of Delaware. His answer was simplicity itself and should have been obvious to us all. He said that if we want to predict what a person will do, just look at what he did previously under similar circumstances. People really don’t change much. In fact, regarding economic philosophy, my experience has been that it is very, very difficult to entice someone even to consider an alternative.

That is why the Fed has been itching to find any reason whatsoever to lower interest rates. A few weeks ago, the Fed convinced itself and its Keynesian admirers that price inflation had moderated to below its arbitrary target of two percent, which it felt justified lowering the Fed Funds rate by a half a percentage point. Of course, attempting to goose the economy before an election had nothing to do with it. Oh, no. And if you believe this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell you…cheap!

Why Don’t People Change?

A bigger question arises: why continue to do the same thing that caused all the trouble in the first place? Don’t people learn? Don’t they take a good hard look at the never-ending booms and busts and ask themselves why this keeps happening? That answer is more difficult, but I believe it has to do with human nature. No one ever wants to admit that he might be wrong.

All the governments of the Western bloc are wedded to Keynesian economics that itself is rooted in the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Against all evidence and completely ignoring Say’s Law of Markets, in his magnum opus The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes posited that overproduction had caused an unstoppable deflationary price spiral and that the solution was to increase aggregate demand through government spending. This was a godsend to free-spending politicians, who previously had been encouraged—correctly, by the way—to cut government spending in the face of a recession in order to free capital to revive the wealth-generating private sector. The evidence of the rightness of this policy, in addition to its logical correctness, was the post-World War I Wilson-Harding depression that was over in about a year and a half. The government actually cut spending in order to wash out capital-consuming parasites that always emerge during war economies. Mark Thornton has this statement in his 2018 book The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crises of the Last Century:

The alternative approach to business cycle contractions is espoused by the classical economists, the Austrian-school economists, and the real business cycle theorists. This "do nothing” approach involves shrinking government and balancing the budget, expanding resources in the private sector, and a non-expansionary monetary policy. This was employed by Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding during the fifteen-month-long depression of 1920–21. This period was one of the most severely deflationary in US history, and yet it is hardly mentioned in history textbooks.

But no one, especially those in government and their politically-connected cronies, will entertain the idea of sound money and reduced government spending today. Oh, no! We are living in the age of "countercyclical spending” in which the cart goes before the horse. In fact, our economic system is full of mandatory spending in the face of recession. All manner of welfare programs have been passed to protect workers and businesses from being forced to adjust to the realities of the market. For example, politicians are lauded for extending unemployment benefits beyond previously-established maximums. But here’s the rub—the economy cannot recover unless people and businesses are willing to change. Working in industries that the market desires at a price the market is willing to pay is the only path to economic recovery. Not working at all and refusing to change business models perpetuates and deepens the recession.

Conclusion

So, what is the answer? It is obvious. The people who have been given the power to enact Keynesian policy must be removed from positions of power. They are not going to change. They and their Keynesian policies must be sent to the dustbin of history. It will not be easy. But it’s either adapt to new market realities or suffer an economic collapse unprecedented in US history.

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Defund Israel

Timothy Birdnow

Remember this Jewish voters!

Democrats call for the destruction of Israel!
40% of House Democrats Call For Arms Embargo to Israel

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Syrian Druze Seek Annexation by Israel

Timothy Birdnow

Druze in southern Syria want to be annexed by Israel to avoid being oppressed by Islamists who are taking over the country.

Druze are a minority religious sect in southern Syria and northern Israel that is something of a hodge-podge of religious beliefs, including the "oneness" of God, reincarnation, etc. Also known as the "Muwahideen” or "declarers of oneness,” the Druze largely identify as Arab and the religion is an offshoot of Shia Islam. They have adopted many oriental religious beliefs from Hindus and Buddhists in addition to their Islamic faith. They live in Syria, Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and in Jordan and even in Gaza.

If they secede from Syria and join Israel this could cause a lot of trouble in the region, but what else is new?

It makes me wonder; the Bible predicts future Israel will extend all the way between the Euphrates and the sea. If Israel annexes Druzylvania (to coin a term) will it have access to the Euphrates?

We live in interesting times.

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Ontario Head Calls for Energy Embargo on U.S.

Timothy Birdnow

The mouse that roared!

Ontario premier says US energy exports will be cut off if Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada

Well, actually it just squeeked a bit.

I hate to tell this jerky boss hog of Ontario but we have plenty of energy in the u.S. itself. And his province, and indeed all of Canada, needs to sell us their oil and gas more than we need to buy it.

And we can cut off a whole lot of things to Canada if they want to get into that. Like refined petroleum which they import to the tune of $1.43 billion Canadian bucks. They also import $1.15 billion in crude from us. Cars and auto parts at $1.41 billion. In fact Canada's imports from the U.S. In fact we exported $427.7 billion to them last year.

So what about electricity? The U.S. imported 33.2 million megawatt hours of electricity from Canada last year - $3.2 billion dollars worth in 2023, nearly 30% less than in 2022.. Yes, that is a lot. But in 2023, the United States exported 18.09 terawatt-hours of electricity to Canada. (1 terawatts = 1000000 megawatts so we are talking about 1,809,000 megawatts. Yes, far less than we get from Canada, but it still will hurt them if we keep it when they need it. We have other sources to draw from and then largely do not.

Canada has a GDP of a GDP of $2.14 trillion in USD in 2023. The U.S. enjoys a staggering 27.36 trillion USD. Who wins in a pissing contest?

So put that in your bong and smoke it hippie backbacon eating maplehead!

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