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But it's our government so I guess that makes it o.k.

Homeland Security Agents Charged With Selling Illegal Drugs Seized As Evidence

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So the great state of Michigan is going to destroy 400 acres of pristine forest land to insall unsightly solar panels.

Kind of like "we have to suspend capitalism to save it" as Bush said.

How much carbon dioxide do these trees remove from the air? Plenty. The average deciduous forest captures 1,406 pounds of carbon dioxide capture per year. So Michigan is making 56,402 of carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere to generate a smattering of electricity.

This might be a good deal if the solar plant was going to eliminate all emissions from one gas-fired power plant, but it won't come close.

It takes ten acres of solar panels to produce just one megawatt of electricity, and that only when the sun is shining. So this solar far will give Michigan only 40 megawatts of power - 32,000 households.

The average gas-fueled power station puts out around 700 megawatts per hour. You do the math.

"Renewables" are a sacrament in the Holy Green Church and nothing more.

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Humanity is in the Way of the Climate Change Agenda 2030

Just a few tidbits:
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Alan Dershowitz, speaking on Fox News, argues that Judge Juan Merchan is now sentencing Trump with the possibility of New York governor Hochum, er, Hochul issuing a pardon for the former and future President to stop Trump from appealing the decision and thus leaving his legacy tarnishes by saying he's a convicted felon (and hurting his business prospects too.)

Dershowitz, after calling it the worst sort of thing since Joe Stalin, explains:

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A quarter of a MILLION young white girls have been raped in the United Kingdom by Muslim men and the British government sticks it's head in the desert sands to avoid "Islamophobia".

From American Military News:

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A recovering FBI agent dishes on how to reform the that corrupted institution in an essay at The Daily Caller.

Sadly his prescription is short (very short) on practical workable solutions; author Richard Stout calls for depoliticizing and actually asks for MORE investiagory power. I think he misses the point; the FBI was in fact a corrupt agaency and has always been to a large degree. Why does he think J. Edgar Hoover was in power so long? He was BLACKMAILING Presidents and Senators for years (while not wearing women's clothes that is).And he bent or broke the rules as he saw fit; when John Dillinger embarassed the FBI the order went out to not arrest him but assassinate him, simply be judge and jury to Dillinger because otherwise he'd make a fool of them again.

But the average field office worked to maintain a degree of integrity. And in fact they had a strict honor code in place.

I would add that there is no Constitutional provision for a national police force and when it was created there was a big fight about this very thing; policing was and should be a state matter alone.

At any rate you can't reform something once it becomes too corrupted; you have to simply disband it and start anew. Otherwise the same rats who ran things will remain in place. (It's why Trump's hopes to "drain the swamp" will likely fail as he is working with the same gators and water snakes to try to fix something that nobody wants fixed, nobody who has the power to fix it anyway.)

We do not have to actually dissolve the FBI, but we should limit it's mission and downsize it considerably. Maybe make it an organization that can only deal with, say, international drug cartels and perhaps FOREIGN terrorism only. Take away it's power to indict Americans on RICO charges. Do not let it be able to access FISA courts to spy on Americans. Make it like the U.S. Cavalry - once an important branch of the military deployed within the U.S. and now mainly helicopter soldiers overseas. Any way you slice it we have to redefine it's mission at this point.

Until we do that the FBI will continue to act as Praetorian Guard for the Ruling Class at the expense of Middle America.

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Our thoughts themselves are becoming matters of public record as new technology makes it increasingly difficult to hide within one's own mind.

The Erosion of Privacy; Are Our Thoughts Safe from Manipulation?

I wrote about this a number of years ago; we are clearly reaching the point where we can read people's thoughts, and also control them. See here.

Things like deep brain stimulation and increasing control over the growth of neural connections (neuroplasticity) coupled with direct neural links and whatnot make it possible to do what guys like Stalin could only dream about doing; controlling nnot just people's behavior and outward appearance but their very minds themselves.

Musk is creating the Mark of the Beast with his neuralink technology, whether he realizes it or not.

While there are great things that can possibly be accomplished with this technology (like paralyzed people walking) the dangers of this should give us pause. If such technology can be misused it will be. Tyrants always abuse technology for their own benefit.

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Things that make you go Hmmm...

From Green Baret Nap Time:

"The first and most obvious reason is because the police have reported that he died from a GSW to his head 'prior' to the explosion, yet there were no reported gunshots in the 15-20 seconds before the Cybertruck exploded.

Needless to say, it is odd that one would shoot themselves in the head with a 50-caliber Desert Eagle right before blowing themselves up. It simply makes no sense.

I've seen some people saying, "maybe he did not want to burn to death so he shot himself first," but I believe that is silly. Any professional trying to carry out an actual attack would want to ensure their explosion went off without issue. They would not kill themselves before hand and take the chance of wasting the opportunity.

Also, the rifle he supposedly had in the vehicle had no iron sights nor any other optics, which basically makes it worthless for any type of engagement. Another red flag.Image
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The second reason is because he was a highly experienced Special Forces soldier that would not have created such an abomination of an explosive device that was both silly and ineffective.

He was SF for long enough to have used a CARVER matrix and to understand basic explosives. If the intent was political, the intent was missed due to the second-rate explosive he supposedly used.

We are trained in Home Made Explosives (HMEs). He could have gotten everything he needed from a local hardware store to level the entire bottom floor of the Trump hotel. There is simply no way he thought the combustibles he had in the back of that bulletproof truck would have been enough to do any damage to anything.Image
The third reason is that his Signal safety number changed just before the explosion, and then somehow his photo and safety number changed AFTER the explosion."

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The fifth reason is that he was still Active Duty, had just had a 6 month old baby with his new wife, and had a literal multitude of jobs ahead of him when he retired.

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"Also, on a side note, the 50 cal shot to his head ensured that his entire head was little more than splatter, destroying any hope of obtaining and matching dental records in the process."

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An Inspector Geneeral report says the DOJ illegally leaked information to hurt Trump ahead of the election and it was promoted by at least three senior officials.

DOJ Employees Leaked Confidential Information to Hurt Trump Ahead of Election - IG Report

This shouldn't surprise anyone; the Democrats and the Deep State have used everything at their disposal, fair or foul, true or false, legal or illegal, to take Trump out and protect their power.

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You have GOT to be kidding me!

Brazil eliminated daylight saving time. It’s having second thoughts.

The Washington Post is actually claiming CLIMATE CHANGE is causing power outages in Brazil and this is aggravated by global warming!

It can't be, just maybe, the current socialist government is killing power generation?

From the drooling dimwits at WaPo:

"Following several energy emergencies, and with the prospect of more to come as the effects of climate change intensify, the vanquished daylight saving time is suddenly looking a whole lot better than it once did to some in the Brazilian government.
Authorities nearly mandated the return of daylight saving — a portion of the calendar when clocks are turned forward to maximize seasonal daylight — late last year to conserve energy amid a historic drought that had threatened hydroelectric power generation and drove up light bills. The government is already laying the political groundwork to restore it as soon as this year.
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"I want to highlight my defense of daylight saving time as policy for the country,” Alexandre Silveira, Brazil’s mining and energy minister, said in October."

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First, they made a mistake; it's not daylight savings people hate but so-called regular time; most people in America want the clocks moved forward permanently. Nobody wants it light at four a.m. in summer, nor dark at 3 in winter (except liberals of course).

Second, even the article itself admits the power problem stems from Green Energy and not the time:

"Latin America’s largest country is a global leader in green energy. An astounding 93 percent of its electricity comes from renewable sources, according to Brazil’s Electric Energy Commercialization Chamber, the majority of which is hydropower. This strength, however, has also left it vulnerable to global warming. As temperatures have warmed and punishing droughts have grown more frequent, the country’s water reserves have dropped precariously low at times, jeopardizing its primary source of energy.

In 2021, an extended drought depleted the country’s water stores, driving up light bills by an estimated 20 percent, according to the National Chamber of Electric Energy. Then came last year’s drought, the worst in 70 years, and government officials started to look more seriously at daylight saving. The National Operator of the Electric System released a report in September recommending a return to the practice, saying that it would reduce energy consumption by a critical 3 percent and save tens of millions of dollars."

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I am not a math wiz so perhaps someone could explain it to me; how does a nation that derives 93% of it's power from "renewables" get a 20% increase in electricity costs because of a drought that decreases the hydroelectric power? If you eliminated ALL of the hydroelectric power you would get at most 7%, assuming this 7% was ALL hydroelectric and there is no coal or gas or alcohol (the Brazilians use alcohol in place of petroleum in many cases). I can't seem to make the sum turn out right with this.

Brazil has had grid issues which have been damaging to their ability to provide service, but also the main electric company stopped taking energy from renewables precisely because they were being overloaded during non-peak times and had shortages during peak hours.

Oh, and the Brazilian drought is clearly caused by El Nino, not "climate change". Oh, by the way, Brazil had a worse drought in 1877-79 well before carbon dioxide levels rose in the atmosphere. Also, as droughts go this is an odd one as dams are bursting and towns are being flooded. Go figure.

But it's global warming coupled with permanent time that is the culprit, yessireee!

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Greenlands prime minister wants to make his island indpendent so Trump can't buy it from Denmark.

Good luck with that; how do you have an independent country with a GDP of $3.2 billion and a population just under 57,000?

Greenlanders would be fools NOT to accept an invitation from America to join us.

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We know who was running the show by this little act by Mr. Biden.

Biden to Award George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom

The chaos and disruption of all things good and decent by the Biden Administration has always had George Soros' fingerprints all over it.

Soros is of course a leftist, but he's a quasi-anarchist style leftist, believing that society is better served with constant upheaval and chaos, that institutions become too entrenched and sclerotic and need to be shaken up. So Soros funds any leftist group that challenges any sort of normalcy and order. He is the true disupter, not Donald Trump.

Soros had been a student of Krl Popper and applies Popper's philosophical ideas to his leftist political agenda. Popper was a socialist for most of his life, although he abandoned pure socialism in later life as unworkable. But that didn't make him any less of a leftist, just not a materialistic socialist. I suppose you could class him with the Fascists in the end even though he wrote bitter diatribes against fascism and marxism. Soros was a Nazi; a judas goat to lead Jews out of hiding so the Gestapo could seize themm and send them to concentration camps. The worst sort of evil man. And Biden is giving this guy a medal for it!

And Joe Biden's policies all dovetil with the Soros-backed groups in America. Soros is most definitely an antichrist.

These are the people Biden is honoring. He just so honored Liz cheney for her attempts to destroy Donald Trump and her promoting perjory.

Evil times see the rise of evil men. We are awash in evil men these days.

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Judge Roy Bean Juan Merchan plans to sentence Trump on January 10, just about a week before the inaugural. No doubt he wants to spoil the whole thing for Trump. And it is just days after the certification of the election by Congress. (I wonder; is this designed to give Congressional Democrats grounds to challenge certification?)

Merchan hinted he may not give any jail time; well what a wonderful fellow he is! The article suggests Trump may get an "unconditional discharge" but I wonder about that. Seems to me he wants Trump on probabtion so he can rattle his cage whenever he likes. Oh, and he wants Trump to be in a position where his probation can be revoked.

I wonder if Trump will have to show up at his probation officer's with paycheck stubs?

If he gives Trump an "unconditional discharge" does he think that will buy Trump off? That we will let this guy just get away with railroading Trump?

I want Merchan investigated. I have little doubt there was collusion between him and the Democrats and I want him to face the music.

The only way lawfare will end is if we wield it against the users in equal measure. Or, I should say, that we follow the rules of justice. It is akin to blackmail, or extortion and needs to be so treated. There must be punishment for such crimes and those punishments must be severe.

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Livelsberger's tirade.

He claims among other things that he helped cover up war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and that the drones are a serious danger from China (powered by "gravitics" whatever that means - we have no science capable of using gravity to make anything fly, just power water systems and grandfather clocks.)

I don't know what was going on with this guy but it sure looks suspicious to me. He says the government was spying on him and I believe that. But I wonder about this whole thing; seems a bit too pat for my tastes. I smell some sort of rat here.

While  I frequently think Alex Jones gets carried away, he argues that Matthew Livelsberger was set up. I wonder if he's right.

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Mike Johnson wins the Speakership.

This man has betrayed the MAGA movement four times since his ascension to the Speaker's chair (this article was written before the last betrayal over spending by Johnson.)

From the interview with Daniel Horowitz:

"Thomas Massie: Let’s talk about the three big betrayals that we’ve seen in the last few weeks. The first was the omnibus. It was bigger than any omnibus that Nancy Pelosi passed. It got a majority of Democrats and got only a minority of Republicans on the roll call. It didn't fund the border. It was atrocious. Yet, it sailed through, and Mike Johnson pushed it through. That's the first betrayal.

You cannot let a man like Mike Johnson, who has betrayed us three times in a row in just a few weeks, stay in power.

Let’s go to the second betrayal, where, again, people say, "Mike's got such a slim majority. It’s too hard to get anything. We just had to take what we could get." That story doesn't work on FISA because FISA was going to get reauthorized. … We had reformed it. We had a warrant provision. If you want to put Americans' names into the database and search through their private records that you've collected, you should have to get a warrant. The stars were lined up, and Mike Johnson supported the warrant provision until he became speaker.

People will argue that Johnson wasn't the tiebreaker and the deciding vote, but I will argue that he was, and I'll tell you why: The speaker doesn't often vote on bills or amendments. In fact, he didn't vote on the other amendments that were on the floor for FISA that day. He went out of his way to do something that he doesn’t frequently do. He voted on an amendment, and he voted against a Republican amendment. The vote ended up being 212-212.

I took a picture of the tie vote and noted that he’s the one who broke the tie.

A majority of Republicans voted for the warrant requirement, and a majority of Democrats voted with Mike Johnson against the warrant requirement. That’s how we ended up with a tie vote, and it failed. Don’t tell me, "Oh, poor Mike Johnson. He's such a religious conservative man, and he’s got such a slim majority. It's hard to get anything done.” That’s his excuse, because ideologically, he was for the warrant requirement before he became speaker. It wasn’t some slim majority that kept us from getting the FISA warrant requirement. It was Mike Johnson himself."

Johnson became Speaker October 25, 2023, so that is quick work; most political hacks take at least two years to screw us over that many times. He's truly an amazing talent.

The argument for Johnson was we didn't need a long fight right at the beginning, and Johnson was counting on that view prevailing. I've heard almost every conservative talk show host parrot that line. But why do we think we'll get anything done with a Speaker who clearly isn't interested in moving our agenda? What exactly HAS Mike Johnson done that credibly advances our cause?

since the Democrats were certain the GOP didn't have the stomach for this fight they all voted for Hakeem Jeffries. Last time they were calling him the "Democratic Speaker" since they helped get him elected.

What our side has never understood is that control of the party is of paramount importance; we are always willing to accept "half a loaf" from people unwilling to give us half. Our greatest enemies are the RINo Republicans. And they work hard to avoid a landslide victory in either chamber of Congress so as to make themselves indispensable and thus we won't challenge them. Then they can block us and we won't do anything about it.

I fear that's what we'll see with Johnson.

I might add Johnson has become BFF's with none other than former House speaker John Boehner, who has been advising Johnson on how do run things. Boehner, you may remember, was a horrible negotiator, starting with the floor of what we would accept then negotiating that away. Johnson followed suit with this last budget deal, and the GOP rebellion is the only thing that stopped us from getting a sweetheart deal for the Donkeys. Johnson's argument was that we needed this off our plate - at a time when we actually could win this and thus set the tone for the next Congress. You MIGHT win by losing sometimes, but the GOP thinks retreat is the sole path to victory, and Johnson is one of the leading cavalrymen charging in reverse.

Winning is a good habit one must get into; you have to believe you can win, and fight to win. Fighting for a draw is what those who are outnumbered and weak are forced to do. The GOP used to be outnumbered and weak, but even when they are in the majority they aCT like they are not in power and let the Democrats run things. Some may call that being reserved,but I would call it cowardice.

Johnson is at best a political leader for a different time; he is not the man to lead the GOP into an era of victory. He thinks like the old guard, always in defensive posture. He doesn't think to attack. He lacks vision. He lacks elon. He lacks daring.

He is much like George McCLellan during the Civil War; all show and no fight. Lincoln grew frustrated to the point where he fired McClellan because the man wouldn't move. Or he's like Horatio Gates during teh Revolution, the man they called "Granny Gates" because he wouldn't go into battle and who almost lost Saratoga (until Benedict Arnold disobeyed his order to stay out of the fight and rallied the men to victory) or like William Hull who was tasked to take Canada during the War of 1812 and ended up surrendering his whole force to a much smaller British army out of the absject fear of an old man.

Johnson is cut from the same cloth as are a majority of elected Republicans; we won't make any headway until we remove these scared bunny rabbits and replace them with some actual men, dudes with some testosterone and hair on their chests - oh, and chests too (I suspect Johnson has just a kind of sunken pit there.)

We cannot win if we don't play. The GOP just doesn't come suited up. They just want to show up and sit on the sidelines.

Trump offers an historic opportunity to affect real change in America but Trump has already made a huge tactical error supporting John Thune and Mike Johnson. You cannot drain the swamp if you leave the same creatures that dwell there in power. The Democrats are crocodiles but the Republicans are water moccasins, snakes that bite you when you don't see them. If you want to drain a swamp you must get rid of both.

We just failed to do that and will be surprised by the failure of the GOP to advance Trump's agenda. I hope all the good Conservative talk show hosts read this and understand it. We were one card away from a flush and traded for what we hoped would give us a pair of fours.

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This from Tony Heller at Real Climate:

Less than three months ago, NOAA published this :

"NSIDC reported that the 2024 Antarctic maximum was 77,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometers) above the 2023 record-low extent, but it was 598,000 square miles (1.55 million square kilometers) below the average maximum extent from 1981-2010. In that sense, it’s continuing a pattern that began around 2016, with most winters from 2016-2022 having below-average ice extents. In another sense, however, it’s nothing like those years; like 2023, the 2024 winter maximum was so far outside the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate that the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state.”

2024 Antarctic sea ice winter maximum second lowest on record | NOAA Climate.gov

December 30 Antarctic sea ice extent has increased 36% over the past two years, and is higher than 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, and all of the past eight years.

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US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels https://t.co/vhdVSbOAnR pic.twitter.com/oFijBDeF5k

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So Joe Biden is planning to use an executive order to PERMANENTLY ban offshore oil drilling.

From the Daily Fetched article:

Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order that could block offshore oil and gas drilling in key U.S. coastal waters, a major obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump‘s energy agenda.

The decree draws its authority from the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which grants broad powers to protect marine areas from oil and gas leasing.

The 72-year-old law does not explicitly allow future presidents to reverse such protections, which could create legal complications for the incoming Trump administration.

"18 days before it’s obviously repealed?” one X user quipped following the news.

"What a small and petty man.”

To last … 18 days before it’s obviously repealed?

What a small and petty man. https://t.co/yGN3XeFpgl
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) January 2, 2025

White House sources familiar with the decision suggested that the protected areas will target regions crucial for coastal resilience.

Discussions for the ban have centred on Pacific waters near California and eastern Gulf of Mexico waters adjacent to Florida.

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Not sure how a President can impose an eternal exectuvie order (they aare not laws; only Congress can make laws)but no doubt they will go to court if Trump tries to reverse this.

I concur with Hammer; Biden is just a petty, vidictive slittle man.

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Matthew Livelsberger, a bronze star Green Beret vet, appears to have been recruiting fighters for Ukraine. He definitely was pro-ukraine.

Who else recruited people to fight for Ukraine? Oh, I remember; it was Ryan Routh, the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course.

Oh, and they are now trying to claim he loved Trump. So why attack Trump's hotel? And what possible value could either he or Trump gain from it? Attacking, say, NBC would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it?

In fact Livelsberger's ex-wife was a flaming leftist who hated Trump according to a number of reports.

His Linkedin profile was scrubbed as is becoming common with these sorts of things when the FBI stories do not add up.

This is starting to look like the country music festival shooting in Las Vegas a number of years back; after much innuendo we wound up hearing nothing more. I suspect that's where this is going.

Notice too how this has taken some of the interest out of the New Orleans terror attack. Oh, and everybody is forgetting the drone story too.

Something smells in Denmark...

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Vaccines for BEEs?!

You must use teeny, tiny little needles for that! Oh, and the bees are just as likely to vaccinate you for your troubles.

I see no mention of the type of vaccine being givern; is it an mRNA style gene modification type? If so we are playing with fire.

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