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This is another of the W.O.O.D. series of semi-regular Weekly Occasional Open Discussions. (i.e. if I forget and skip one, no big)
Immediate prior one here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/w-o-o-d-3-july-2021/ and remains open for threads running there (at least until the ‘several month’ auto-close of comments on stale threads).
“Stuff” Happens.
I really like these guy’s “top 10 memes”. They watch what is going on on Gab and Patriot.win and select the ones that they like best. A nice filtering service if nothing else; but the way they match music to the theme is also good. Unfortunately, can’t do an embed that works with my free WordPress plan (it does do free EwTube embeds… but only them) so you get to “hit the link”. This week the theme is “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (as they present televised video memes of folks revolting against The Overlords…) It is 19 minutes of fun (if the music isn’t to your taste, you can mute it. Over 95% of the content is visual):
Do be prepared to hit pause to pick up the details. Like the lightning in #9 that is “racist” symbol, or text that looks like “ignore me login text” but isn’t ;-) Some of it is subtle and goes by fast…
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Why include that long list of links and Promotional Text? To illustrate something. Look at it. What do you NOT see? That’s right. Twitter. Facebook. YouTube. All “the usual” Censorship & Oppression sites.
What do you see? Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble, Gab.
What we have here is a clear example of the Big Tech Companies being replaced, for about 1/2 the country at least, with “Alternatives”. I’m now spending about 3/4 or more of my “Video Time” NOT on EwTube (and growing). That’s ad revenue they no longer get. There’s a few things I still watch there, but shrinking daily. Even then, those guys often say something like “For the parts we left out on EwTube, see our Odysee channel”…
I have no idea if the censorship assault has actually reduced total viewing for channels. I do know that for me, I how watch Infowars MORE than before. I’d basically shunned it as I didn’t like the “shouting” aspect of Alex Jones. Then they banned it (even drove it off of the Roku where some Idaho public channel carried it). Now it’s returned at banned.video. I have a link to it on both tablet and desktop. I now check it out about once a week to see what he’s banging on about. They did succeed in making it harder for a couple of months, but created a ‘regular viewer’ (if a lite one) in the process.
In essence, the “ban” was at most a bump in the road and has sorted the Censoring Sites into a smaller market. Will it matter? Only time will tell.
Starting with 10 through 8: They poke fun at the “Daily Briefings” at the White House, assert that the Vexxine Door Knockers are in fact just a way to ship funding to the election fraud organizations, point out the George Floyd Mural was destroyed by God (snicker ;-), via RayCist Lightning…, Fauci has a list of 12 and is checking it twice, and the doublespeak from the WH is exposed. Then, there’s a Big One: The White House says it is directing and coordinating the censorship. Direct violation of the 1st Amendment (and more).
At number 7 they show the Paris Protests as a sea of The French say “NON!” to Macron. Unless France uses Dominion voting systems too, I think Marine Le Pen has high odds of being elected next. Look closely at that video segment. FAR more folks maskless than wearing a mask. The French are “Done with this shit” too. I especially like the “My Body My Choice” poster ;-) Note that, while not in the video, the Police later joined the protesters… Just sayin’… Macron might want to review the history of “The French Haircut”…
At #6 they move to South Africa and how it is being destroyed as it embraced Critical Race Theory. As of now, many non-Black neighborhoods have gone to “self policing” to prevent being murdered. One Black government leader states the Blacks were to go into Indian and White neighborhoods and kill people, burn their houses down. So “Note to self: Have enough guns and ammo to stop that.” Note in particular the “Brown on Black” Indians defending their homes against a Black Mob that’s been told to go kill them. Rather like “Rooftop Koreans” being painted as “white racists”…
South Africa is an exemplar of the goal state. Hopefully there’s more folks here seeing through this crap, and early enough to stop it. Note that the major “push” organization for this mess is the ANC, a Marxist organization. Do not ever forget that Marxist Doctrine states they must destroy what is, to bring about the Marxist Communist Socialist Utopia. That there MUST be a destructive “revolution” first. That is the goal state. Does not matter if they are ANC, BLM, DNC or whatever. Method and means are already defined and agreed, globally.
By #5, we’ve moved to Cuba. I had no idea just how huge the protests there were. I also have no idea what has sparked them now . Has Cuba become even more of a hell hole than it was? A minor Dig Here! for later…
Number 4 pokes fun at the Texas Dims who got on a plane without masks (Gee, why was I harassed for 9 hours, in the airport and plane, via automated threats of NEVER being allowed to fly again if I ever was caught maskless?…) and ended up sharing Chinese Wuhan Covid around amongst themselves and the government in D.C. (District Of Criminals).
They then move on to the Election Audits for #2 & #3. Starting to look like a pretty good “roundup of the news” isn’t it? ;-)
Then, at #1, it moves on to the Peaceful Protest at the capitol 1/6. (The “insurrection” has not yet begun…) I especially like the Granny all out of yarn ;-) Biden seems “unclear on the concept” that 620,000 dead in a war lasting years is not the same as one woman murdered by a Government Employee… nor does he ‘get it’ that the Confederates “trying to reach the Capitol” in the Civil War were Democrats…
Normally at this point, I’d do a ‘review of the news’, but frankly, I think that list already pretty much covers it. Bongino report adds some bits, like the DOJ not bothering with Dim Governors nursing home murder by proxy. I probably ought to mention the Defense funding bill that just, incidentally, subjects women to the Draft:
Senate defense budget bill would require women to register for draft By Emily JacobsJuly 23, 2021 | 10:45am | Updated Changes to the draft, officially known as the Selective Service System, were made official in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual military budget bill, which the Senate Armed Services Committee announced it had approved Thursday. The NDAA "amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service," a summary of the bill reads.
But hey, if anyone with a “full set” can still just decide to “identify as a woman” I guess you need that to be able to assure you don’t end up with a population 80% “identifying as a woman” during an unpopular war… so there’s that…
Breightbart does a decent job covering the South Africa Marxist civil war:
Africa Pictures: Vigilantism Grows in South Africa as Citizens Tackle Unrest Themselves Biden Administration Conducts Its First Airstrike in Somalia Report: Biden Administration Conducts Its First Airstrike in Somalia The Pentagon on Tuesday announced the first airstrike in Somalia during the Biden administration. JOHN HAYWARD21 Jul 2021, 8:43 AM PDT9 Report: Fulani Muslim Militants Kill Ten in Attacks on Nigerian Villages Fulani Muslim raiders killed ten people last week, including an infant, in the Christian-majority southern Kaduna State in Nigeria, the Barnabas Fund reported Monday. THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.20 Jul 2021, 10:01 AM PDT10 Delingpole: Boris Plays Climate Fiddle While South Africa Burns Rioting, looting and violence have swept two South African provinces, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Dozens of people have been killed, vital infrastructure has been destroyed and the damage runs into the billions. But it’s OK: the Imperial mother country has got South Africa’s back. Behold the latest initiative from the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office! JAMES DELINGPOLE18 Jul 2021, 9:40 AM PDT145 South Africa: Mother Throws Baby to Safety from Burning High-Rise A mother in Durban, South Africa, threw her two-year-old daughter off of a high-rise tower Tuesday in an effort to save the toddler’s life after a fire broke out in the building, Reuters reported. GABRIELLE REYES17 Jul 2021, 10:19 AM PDT355 Financier CEO Suspended for Looting Booze and Home Appliances During South Africa Riots The founder and chief executive officer of a wealth management fund has been suspended for allegedly taking advantage of the unrest in South Africa to loot alcoholic beverages and a washing machine, among other items. JACK MONTGOMERY16 Jul 2021, 5:09 AM PDT58 Pictures: Vigilantism Grows in South Africa as Citizens Tackle Unrest Themselves Armed community members and vigilante groups have stepped in to tackle unrest in South Africa, taking matters into their own hands. BREITBART LONDON16 Jul 2021, 4:56 AM PDT607 South Africa Calling Up Reserves and Deploying 25,000 Troops as Riots and Looting Continue he South African government is deploying some 25,000 troops and calling up reserves as riots and looting continue to rock the country, primarily in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. JACK MONTGOMERY16 Jul 2021, 4:25 AM PDT658 Blue State Blues: Burning Books in America, Burning Cities in South Africa The effort to ban Abigail Shrier’s book is a shocking attack on freedom in America — and the chaos of South Africa is where it leads. JOEL B. POLLAK16 Jul 2021, 12:00 AM PDT246 South Africa: Warehouse Ransack Decimates Food Supply for 675,000 FoodForward SA (FFSA), a food supply organization that works to end hunger in South Africa, announced on Thursday it would shut down its operations in five major cities after looters cleaned out their warehouse in Durban. BEN WHEDON15 Jul 2021, 9:32 AM PDT.
My take on this is two things:
1) Africa is fully “in play”.
2) Watch South Africa for how the play book is run.
Oh, and just in case you were thinking that Big Tech was interested in STOPPING this kind of violence via censoring “hate speech”, note that they are letting that run. It’s the goal, after all… IMHO of course:
Indians Fear Attack in South Africa as Big Tech Fails to Stop Incitement South Africans of Indian descent fear mob violence as threats escalate on social media during the ongoing violence and looting, especially in KwaZulu-Natal province, which has a large proportion of residents with roots on the Subcontinent. JOEL B. POLLAK15 Jul 2021, 5:39 AM PDT.
Then, just to round things out: The plague plagued Olympics is started in Tokyo (just in time for a Typhoon to be headed straight at it). If anyone cares anymore:
Published July 22, 2021 Last Update 12 min(s) ago LIVE UPDATES: Tokyo 2021 Olympics’ opening ceremonies kick off the Games Athletes from all over the world will compete in the summer Olympic games, with many COVID-19 rules in place.
I’ve got zero interest in watching a bunch of Political Performative Art by folks smothered in masks without an audience. What’s the point?
If anything interesting happens AS SPORTS, I’ll catch the highlight on something where I can fast forward over the crap.
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I’ve also gotten addicted to the Top Ten Memes of the week from WatchMAGA here:
They have interesting “bite” to them, along with a tendency to highlight the news of the week in memes, so good as a social attitude pointer too. Plus they are “way fun” ;-)
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This one from May 24th is also seriously good. I especially like the little girl, maybe 6?, telling off what I surmise is the School Board ;-O.
And yes, I’ve started working back through the older ones, and loving it ;-)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-cubas-covid-uprising-11626042703 Mary Anastasia O’Grady Behind Cuba’s Covid Uprising Most poor countries put all hands on deck in this crisis. Havana exports its doctors. A snippet: . . . the U.S. "routinely authorizes the export of humanitarian goods, agricultural products, medicine, and medical equipment to support the Cuban people." Ms. Chung further noted that in 2019 the U.S. exported millions of dollars of medical goods to Cuba.
Cuba’s real problem is that it’s broke.
Somewhat O/T – An economic view.
The word play is on Mark Carney of Canadian, British and other banking.
An electric bus manufactured by Proterra caught fire while charging in a southern California city that is now considering taking the electric buses off the road, according to government records.
The Foothill Transit agency, which serves the valleys surrounding Los Angeles, will decide on Friday whether costly Proterra buses purchased in the last decade are still operable. Problems cited by the agency include not only the bus that caught fire in what’s described as a "thermal event," but also buses that melt in the California heat and have transmission failures. Roland Cordero, the agency’s director of maintenance and vehicle technology, says the problems with the buses are exacerbated by Proterra’s inability to help with repairs.
On an “open discussion” page, there can be no “off topic” ;-)
I guess we are reaching that point where EVs are “of a certain age” and will start having dendrite growth Flaming Expiration issues ;-)
Yes, I’m catching up on Redpower Memes and jokes….
Recent Greek Fresco found:
“Israel data: Vaccines only 16% effective after 6 months but still prevent 86% hospitalization”
Brave seems to have got very picky lately about the cursor being exactly on the LHS character of a “do anything” and “sometimes” at that.
I was pursuing a movie for the last night of Bach’in it here, so thought to share :-)
I get random landscapes as screen savers. Today, it was an image of Phuket Province, Thailand.
It sounds like a pretty laid back place to me. _
“The Democrats’ ultimate end game – making our vote meaningless”
Now that was sneaky, and a low blow too… But it was Beeching for a while…
Ever thought of moving to Mai Wai?
You mean it wasn’t already last election?… Just sayin’… Usurper Biden at the Big Boys Desk (even if he needs a guide to get him to it and fetch his nap-rug…)
Convenient. I’m quasi caught up, tired of looking at news, not enough wine in me to want music videos… But an hour+ of a movie and a few more glasses might just do it ;-)
@EM, I have been watching a series lately too. “Designated Survivor” has proven quite entertaining through season 1. Same lead as 24, if that matters for some.
“Modern economics provides no sound advice on how to manage an economy”
Nice reminder of when I saw it some 50 or so years ago… Curiously Appropriate as the Vaxxed Mob comes for the heads of those Unvaxxed but also not sick…
I was surprised at how slowly it seemed to move. Clearly movies have gone from hour long psycho-drama that oh so slowly builds for suspense right into 3000 rounds / per scene and at least a body a minute hacked into parts… I remember it as far more gory that it is now ;-)
Per Designated Survivor : Yeah, I watched a bunch of the episodes. Then “something came up” and I didn’t get back to it. I liked it. Again “Curiously Appropriate” for our times….
The way to “manage an economy” is really rather simple. Don’t.
It is a complex beast full of many feedback loops. There is No Way you can “manage it”. Just keep the money sound (which, BTW, is what our Constitution says to do: Gold & Silver only, no paper shit and no creating “currency” out of thin air) and leave folks alone to create businesses that thrive of fail as their lot leads them. That’s ALL.
Pretty simple, really. What we in the USA had up until about 1972 or so (though the regulatory burden was already large by then).
Oh Well. They didn’t ask me. Nobody ever asks me. ;-)
“What climate disaster? The Great Barrier Reef has more coral growing on it than ever recorded.
Years ago I read an item on how Switzerland kept a balance between “capitalism” and “socialism”.
It was basically a free hand until one threatened to get ahead, when there was a tilt (or a threat of one) towards the other.
“Dangerous New Freedom Variant Causing People To Ignore Government And Live Their Lives”
“Czech Senate Approves Amendment Granting Right to Bear Arms in Constitution”
Thanks for the A-10 meme. I love it!
@E.M.S. ‘Love the ‘Recent Greek Fresco’!
Heard on Gutfeld from Tyrus: “Woke Supremacy”
Someone ran a script on the Election Management Server (which I believe it the one with a SQL Server database) such that the Windows event log entries dated around the 2020 election would roll off.
Maricopa County still has not provided answers or complied with the Arizona Senate subpoenas after the earth-shattering hearing last Wednesday.
One of the major concerns presented by audit officials surrounded the administrative account passwords and the missing event logs that were deleted by 37,646 consecutive login queries in one day.
Every election Administrator account, no matter the user, all have the same password.
The system only has 8 users which shows that somebody ran a script with over 37,000 queries and deleted the election security logs prior to February 5th.
The Gateway Pundit reported on these ‘worst in class’ IT actions and deliberate subterfuge of an election system.
We don’t know where the script came from because Maricopa County refuses to comply with Arizona Senate subpoenas.
@Annie & Corsair Red:
Glad to share and nice to know it was to good effect ;-)
What puzzles me is why the Audit side is not anticipating that such crap will be done and outmaneuvering them with force. I.E. why didn’t the Senate just appoint the State Police to go collect the gear “by surprise” as soon as they new they wanted it? Cut the subpoena, hand it to the State Police leader, and say “Bring it back today.”
One side playing to every possible hobbling rule, the other side lawless. And they are surprised at how it turns out?
Well, at least we know that the entire DNC and on down to the county level are all criminals and liars. The Rot is strong in them… Unfortunately, it is continuing to grow and spread.
I’ve wondered about that also, EMS. The Senate has subpoena power, but no policing arm. The policing part may lie in the hands of the RINO administration. Not good for us.
Thanks, Ossqss. PCR tests, by their nature, cannot do what these people want them to do. That’s why the inventor said that they were not to be used for diagnosis.
@Steve C, Well, it is possible; but we’d need to know the minimum infectious dose before we could begin to work this out. No one, it seems, has ever published that *important* bit of information.
@ Steve C says: 24 July 2021 at 8:50 pm.
Uh oh. Get ready for … wait for it … BUTT MASKS.
I do the Top 10 Memes (from Whatfinger) on Bitchute. Whenever someone sends me a link to ewe toob, I DDG it and see if it is on other medium first. Then watch it there. If it is not, I will watch the Ewe Toob about half the time or less. Just not interested enough to enhance their revenue.
Well, looks like the AZ Senate does have one guy with a gun, the Sergeant at Arms. I wonder if he can deputize people if he needs to round up a herd?
"The annual "last chance" announcement."
On a less scatological note, I was heartened to come across this today. 1,500-odd Christian clergy in the UK have written an open letter to Boris Johnson expressing opposition to his proposed introduction of so-called “vaccine passports” here. I shall try to visit the (three) churches in Nottingham with a signatory over the next few days, to congratulate the individuals concerned. Whether it actually does anything to slow the juggernaut rolling over us remains to be seen, of course, particularly given that Christianity itself is one of the globalists’ targets. https://vaccinepassportletter.wordpress.com/
This is the real and most dangerous downside of government supplied medical care – or government supplied anything else, for that matter.
The need for action is laid out in stark terms. Poor diets contribute to around 64,000 deaths every year in England, and the government spends _18 billion a year treating obesity-related conditions. How we grow food accounts for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and is the leading cause of biodiversity destruction.
To meet these challenges, the report calls for "escaping the junk food cycle" to improve general health and reduce the strain on the NHS, reducing the gap in good diets between high- and low-income areas, using space more efficiently to grow food so that more land can return to nature, and creating a long-term shift in food culture.
“With Narrative Established, CDC Announces Withdrawal of Rapid Response COVID Test to Belatedly Stop Diagnosing Influenza as SARS-COV-2?”
“Saturday Snippet: China, the USA and the “Long Game” ”
So “It is worse than we thought” because it wasn’t worse than we thought…
This whole thing is so sketchy and manipulated to some ulterior motive that it makes me mad to think about it.
What I’ve not been able to fully ken is just why . What is the hidden agenda. Just sales of the not-a-vax vexxine? Sterilization of a generation? Killing off 7.5 Billion but gradually via accelerating illnesses? All have been suggested. So far, only increased sales is proven. (Miscarriages after the shot are known in number, but so have been births among the vaccinated I think … Then we’re entering the window where Antibody Dependent Enhancement ought to start showing up, and it has not been, mostly… some indication that vaccinated get “variants” to greater degree, but with lesser damage – so far…)
It quite clearly is a managed “Show”, but just why? To what end? We KNOW it isn’t to improve our health, as they would have just flooded the world with Ivermectin in the first few months when it was shown to work Very Well. (I’ve been using it for over a year now, pushing 1.5 years I think… so it was known way back then ’cause I didn’t think it up…)
I take solace in knowing that, to the extent the RNA Frankenshot does damage to folks, it will be doing it mostly to those who followed the rules and / or were staunch Dimocrats; enriching the world in Surly Curmudgeons and Republicans who refuse it.
“Who Watches The Watchmen? – Fauci’s “Noble Lie” Exposed”
EMS – O’Charleys caramel pie. I’ve had a slice and based on my expert (/sarc) taste test, this recipe comports with what I had. I have a caramel pie recipe that is vastly different from this, it being a true custard.
O’Charley’s caramel pie – the actual link:
“Why Is The CDC Quietly Abandoning The PCR Test For COVID?”
“So, in summary, with regard to our current “casedemic”, positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a "case" of anything. They indicate that viral RNA was found in a nasal swab. It may be enough to make you sick, but according to the New York Times and their experts, probably won’t. And certainly not sufficient replication of the virus to make anyone else sick. But you will be sent home for ten days anyway, even if you never have a sniffle. And this is the number the media breathlessly reports… and is used to fearmonger mask mandates and lockdowns nationwide…”
Now that is a simple recipe! I”m going to give it a try!
I’m really annoyed at how fraudulent this whole thing has been. Whereas I started off trusting that the CDC, FDA, etc. were trustworthy and relatively moral; I’m now of the opinion they are completely bought off by someone. Don’t know if it is China, The Drug Majors, The Deep State, or what. Don’t really care too much either. They are just useless to me know. Another garbage bureaucracy doing nothing useful or good and wasting money. Untrustworthy.
The way perfectly reasonable therapeutics were absolutely vilified and caused death by their denial is unforgivable.
“The Other Side of the COVID Vaccination Argument, Video July 25, 2021 | Sundance | 197 Comments.
There is a lot of incoming information from government and the private sector promoting the vaccine. Recently, there has been a significant uptick in compulsory demands for taking the COVID vaccine. This forced vaccination approach has made many people start to question why this coordinated pressure campaign has increased with such ferocity.
As a result of such one-side information, people are increasingly skeptical. In this video below you can review the counter-position for why people do not want to take the vaccination shot. [Direct Link] I am not sure who produced it, but CTH is sharing it in an effort to provide balance. The claims are well cited.”
E.M.Smith says: 25 July 2021 at 10:57 pm “Just sales of the not-a-vax vexxine?” E.M. it is not just sales of the Vax, it is also the the test kits, the masks etc.
“Then we’re entering the window where Antibody Dependent Enhancement ought to start showing up, and it has not been,”
Watch this video, does the guy at the end let slip the truth?
Does he say Vaccinated, or was it a mistake and he meant to say Unvaccinated?
There is a three part series on the Spitfire on this site. This is Part 3, with links to the first two:-
Including this bit on a couple of unusual records.
“It should also be noted that the Spitfire achieved the highest speed ever attained by a propeller-driven aircraft. In high-speed diving trials conducted at Farnborough in England during late 1943 and 1944 a Spitfire Mark XI achieved a true air speed of 606 mph. Another Spitfire, a Mark XIX, reached an altitude of 51,550 feet in 1951, which is reportedly the highest altitude ever attained by a single-engined propeller-driven aircraft. In descending, this aircraft entered an uncontrollable dive during which it is calculated that a true air speed of no less than 690 mph was achieved. The aircraft landed safely. The Spitfire’s ability to achieve such speeds in a dive was due to its wing, which had a Mach limiting number of 0.9 – the highest of any Allied aircraft in World War II.”
From the FWIW Department …
Coronavirus vaccines lessen the chance of you getting COVID-19 and massively reduce the risk of developing serious illness and being hospitalised. Yet at the same time, most COVID-19 deaths in England are now currently among the vaccinated. Is this a cause for alarm?
Put simply, no, says Kit Yates, senior lecturer in mathematical biology at the University of Bath. No vaccines are 100% protective, so cases, hospitalisations and deaths are still to be somewhat expected among those who’ve been jabbed – and especially in those who are older.
This is because the risk of dying from COVID-19 increases so steeply with age that even being vaccinated doesn’t lower the risk for older people down to levels that some younger people experience. Due to their age, a vaccinated 70-year-old is still at greater risk from COVID-19 than an unvaccinated 35-year-old. Given this, it isn’t surprising that more vaccinated people are dying of COVID-19 than unvaccinated people.
@jim2 – And where did the queue start for vaccinations? Yep. Oldest first.
The push to vaccinate those under age 18 seems just plain (evil) agenda driven. Totally unnecessary. The masks for kids bugs the snot out of me, too. Masks don’t work and it’s even worse with fidgety, grimy kids. I am of the decently informed opinion that masks on kids is a harmful practice.
Oh, for years it’s always been a pretty routine policy that no visitors under 12 would be allowed in nursing homes and certain hospital wards during flu season. Common sense, since rug rats are pretty much diseased infested vermin (God love ’em!). Parents get exposed to every bug going around when they have kids in school.
No masks on kids until now. Everyone just washed their hands after handling one of the little darlings.
@another ian: The Spitfire! One of my favorite planes. I have a print of a Barry Clark painting of a Spitfire on my office wall.
It’s a tossup for me between the Lockheed Lightning and the Spitfire for absolute favorite. I go back and forth on that.
(Don’t forget that (quite?) a few of the Spitfire pilots were only 18 or 19 years old. Many of those were shot down. Today, our kids have their noses stuck in cell phones.)
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., announced Sunday night that he and his wife had contracted COVID-19 for the second time, and added it was “far more challenging.”
“I have COVID, Becca has COVID, my son has COVID,” Higgins said in a Facebook post. “Becca and I had COVID before, early on, in January 2020, before the world really knew what it was. So, this is our second experience with the CCP biological attack weaponized virus … and this episode is far more challenging. It has required all of my devoted energy.”
That’s Barrie A.F. Clark. My bad.
This is something I think we should keep in mind when intaking any information – it may be a plant intended solely to manipulate us. The info could come from a nominally conservative, lefty, or other source. Buyer beware …
Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once conducted principally by intelligence agencies. They sow discord, meddle in elections, seed false narratives and push viral conspiracies, mostly on social media. And they offer clients something precious: deniability. “Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, calling it “a boom industry.”
Similar campaigns have been recently found promoting India’s ruling party, Egyptian foreign policy aims and political figures in Bolivia and Venezuela. Mr. Brookie’s organization tracked one operating amid a mayoral race in Serra, a small city in Brazil. An ideologically promiscuous Ukrainian firm boosted several competing political parties. In the Central African Republic, two separate operations flooded social media with dueling pro-French and pro-Russian disinformation. Both powers are vying for influence in the country. A wave of anti-American posts in Iraq, seemingly organic, were tracked to a public relations company that was separately accused of faking anti-government sentiment in Israel.
Combating and preventing today’s threats to enterprises require comprehensive protection focused on addressing the full scope and impact of attacks. Anything that can gain access to machines—even so-called commodity malware—can bring in more dangerous threats. We’ve seen this in banking Trojans serving as entry point for ransomware and hands-on-keyboard attacks. LemonDuck, an actively updated and robust malware that’s primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives, followed the same trajectory when it adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.
LemonDuck’s threat to enterprises is also in the fact that it’s a cross-platform threat. It’s one of a few documented bot malware families that targets Linux systems as well as Windows devices. It uses a wide range of spreading mechanisms—phishing emails, exploits, USB devices, brute force, among others—and it has shown that it can quickly take advantage of news, events, or the release of new exploits to run effective campaigns. For example, in 2020, it was observed using COVID-19-themed lures in email attacks. In 2021, it exploited newly patched Exchange Server vulnerabilities to gain access to outdated systems.
H.R. says: 26 July 2021 at 12:24 pm.
My favourite is the De Havilland Mosquito, it literally did just about every aircraft role in the war.
AC Osborn says: 26 July 2021 at 9:14 am Apparently the Health official made a correction later and reversed the numbers. I haven’t acually seen it yet.
Another Ian, the height record before WW2 was held by an Italian open-cockpit biplane, the Caproni 161, at 56,047 ft. That record still stands, for a single-engined piston aircraft. Weirdly the record with no engine is 76,000 ft.
If I had to chose between the Supermarine Spitfire, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the De Havilland Mosquito… I don’t think I could!
The P-38 did things with range in the Pacific that just were impossible with other aircraft. But it had early teething problems and is was Lindbergh who figure out how to increase the range dramatically by particular flying behaviours. The Germans called it the twin tailed Devil IIRC, as it a dog fight it also did exotic things ;-) Designed by one of my favorite designers: Kelly Johnson. Designer of several other of my favorites including in much later years the SR-71 Blackbird…
The Spitfire was just amazing in all the jobs it did and how well it did them. A superb wing design and a well balance aircraft that just worked. It was everywhere as the iconic fighter that save Britain.
Then there’s the Mosquito. The first “Stealth” aircraft. The radar of the day was primitive and expected to work on giant metal blobs with corner reflectors build into the surfaces. Being wood, the Mosquito often surprised the heck out of folks. Pilots learned to fly in fast and low, pounce, and be gone before the sirens could wake anyone. Designed to be easily built and not put increased demand on scarce aviation metals, it was essentially a “Composite” aircraft before we had the name.
FWIW, I’d also toss in the P51 Mustang. Started out doggy due to an under-powered engine, but once the Rolls Royce Merlin engine was installed, it became a stellar fighter. Stayed in service (Dominican Airforce) until 1984. Think about that a moment… It changed the balance of power in the Air War in Europe via long range bomber escorts.
I still wonder why nobody makes a civilian version of one of these today. The design has already passed FAA qualifications ( I think ) for a type certificate. They are built with 1930s and early 1940s technology, so no hurdle there. Folks pay up big money to buy one in flyable condition. Just seems ripe for a Replica Manufacturer… Then again, the Merlin Engine is also a bit unique UPDATE: (rotary sleeve valves are tricky…) so maybe just getting an engine is problematic. Yet folks swapped in a Turboprop on what is basically a P-51: Update: The Merlin was sodium cooled poppet valves. It was the developed but not produced Crecy that had sleeve valves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Crecy.
The Piper PA-48 Enforcer is an American turboprop-powered light close air support aircraft built by Piper in the 1970s. It is a development of the World War II-era North American P-51 Mustang fighter. The Enforcer concept was originally created and flown as the Cavalier Mustang by David Lindsay, owner of Cavalier Aircraft, in response to the United States Air Force PAVE COIN program, but Cavalier did not have the manufacturing abilities to mass-produce the Enforcer, so the program was sold to Piper by Lindsay in 1970.
IIRC, the Mosquito especially was suited to small shop parts production.
Oh Well, just another one of those things I wonder about… Like why it costs $100,000 for what is basically a new 1950’s airplane with about $10,000 of parts and materials in it… Sometimes I think the FAA deliberately killed the Civil Aviation movement of the 1960s…
jim2 quotes: No vaccines are 100% protective, so cases, hospitalisations and deaths are still to be somewhat expected among those who’ve been jabbed – and especially in those who are older.
Even at best, the covid vaccines are roughly 90% effective, which is pretty good for a vaccine. But if we take this statement at face value, we blame the vaccine for not working for 10%. My take on this is that the vaccine itself provides ZERO protection. It is not supposed to. What it is supposed to do is make your own immune system better equipped to fight that virus. If you happen to have a weakened immune system, for example by being old, the vaccine boosted immune system is still not good enough.
Which is another reason why the deemphasis of IVM, Vit D, etc etc is criminal.
Because gliders are built with extraordinary high lift wings and absolute minimal weight, then hang out in thunderheads and thermals that rise way high way fast that would tend to break other aircraft, or their speed would not let them circle in it…
My Dream Personal Aircraft would be a glider with a small engine in it. Just enough to hold it in the air if you ran out of lift and get you to the next one. Done right, you ought to be able to travel hundreds of miles on a gallon of fuel… perhaps a thousand if you are good and the weather is right.
FWIW, I took some glider lessons at one time. Would have gotten my licence too but they closed the glider port and moves far away… It is a far more pure and pleasant piloting experience than a powered aircraft. It demands more from you, but the plane just does not want to go down… We had spoilers to deploy on landing or you would just float over the runway ;-)
EMS – Dream come true? There are quite a few gliders with engines – electric and otherwise. But the idea was to allow the glider to take off without a tow. I’m guessing it would work for your use case also.
Single overhead cam, four valves per cylinder. Being dutch I would have to put in the Fokker G1 Antony Fokker wanted Merlins for it but was denied.
I had a mistake in my comment above about the Merlin. It was a sodium filled stellite poppet valve engine.
Valve gear Two inlet and two exhaust poppet valves of “K.E.965” steel per cylinder. Both the inlet and exhaust valves have hardened “stellited” ends; while the exhaust valves also have sodium-cooled stems, and heads protected with a “Brightray” (nickel-chromium) coating. Each valve is kept closed by a pair of concentric coil-springs. A single, seven-bearing camshaft, located on the top of each cylinder head operates 24 individual steel rockers; 12 pivoting from a rocker shaft on the inner, intake side of the head to actuate the exhaust valves, the others pivoting from a shaft on the exhaust side of the head to actuate the inlet valves.
It was the Crecy engine that had the sleeve valves:
Performance Power output: 2,729 hp (2,035 kW)
Never put into production as it was overtaken by jet engines…
The Rolls-Royce Crecy was a British experimental two-stroke, 90-degree, V12, liquid-cooled aero-engine of 1,536 cu.in (26 L) capacity, featuring sleeve valves and direct petrol injection. Initially intended for a high-speed “sprint” interceptor fighter, the Crecy was later seen as an economical high-altitude long-range powerplant. Developed between 1941 and 1946, it was among the most advanced two-stroke aero-engines ever built. The engine never reached flight trials and the project was cancelled in December 1945, overtaken by the progress of jet engine development. The engine was named after the Battle of Cr_cy, after Rolls-Royce chose battles as the theme for naming their two-stroke aero engines. Rolls-Royce did not develop any other engines of this type.
Rolls-Royce has made some of the most interesting engines around, and it seems I can’t keep them all straight anymore ;-)
FWIW, there were sleeve valve engines in use in W.W.II aircraft. This one is a favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre.
The Napier Sabre is a British H-24-cylinder, liquid-cooled, sleeve valve, piston aero engine, designed by Major Frank Halford and built by D. Napier & Son during World War II. The engine evolved to become one of the most powerful inline piston aircraft engines in the world, developing from 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) in its earlier versions to 3,500 hp (2,600 kW) in late-model prototypes. The first operational aircraft to be powered by the Sabre were the Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest; the first aircraft powered by the Sabre was the Napier-Heston Racer, which was designed to capture the world speed record. Other aircraft using the Sabre were early prototype and production variants of the Blackburn Firebrand, the Martin-Baker MB 3 prototype and a Hawker Fury prototype. The rapid introduction of jet engines after the war led to the quick demise of the Sabre, as there was less need for high power military piston aero engines and because Napier turned its attention to developing turboprop engines such as the Naiad and Eland.
These are the same folks that made one of my other favorite engines of all time. Used in fast boats and in British Rail Engines. The Deltic. 6 opposed pistons in 3 cylinders per row with 6 rows for 18 total cylinders and 36 pistons.
The Napier Deltic engine is a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke diesel engine used in marine and locomotive applications, designed and produced by D. Napier & Son. Unusually, the cylinders were disposed in a three-bank triangle, with a crankshaft at each corner of the triangle. The term Deltic (meaning “in the form of the Greek letter (capital) delta”) is used to refer to both the Deltic E.130 opposed-piston, high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as (TOPS) Class 55. A single, half-sized, turbocharged Deltic power unit also featured in the English Electric-built Type 2 locomotive, designated as the Class 23. Both locomotive and engine became better known as the “Baby Deltic”.
One of these was hauled out of the museum and pressed into service when snow caused the electric feed to fail…
Six out of the original 22 “Deltic” locomotives survive, four of which have, at various times since 1996, returned to work on the main line, operating both service trains and charter trains. D9000 “Royal Scots Grey”, the doyen of the class, was returned to main line serviceable status in 1996 and continued to work throughout the UK for nearly twenty years. Following a power unit failure this locomotive was fitted, for a time, with an ex-Norwegian Navy T18-37K type, after various modifications were cleverly designed to make the new unit compatible.
An absolutely wonderful engine, that’s just a bit fussy about being properly cared for ;-)
Re A new Mosquito.
There is a crew at Ardmour in New Zealand that has built a set of moulds for making new fuselages. The rest is pretty well straight wooden aircraft technology. They did about the last one to become airworthy.
There is a weight and balance problem with using turbines rather than piston engines, as the turbines are a lot lighter. Might be less of a problem with a twin.
Incidently I put that item up at Jo Nova and, in this covid era, the first comment says.
“Finally something that was properly tested”
Most of the height records are on mountain standing waves – used to be the Sierra Nevada one, now the Andes. The wooden gliders I was around were a fair bit stronger in +/- G’s than your average Cessna.
Read and beware.
Memes that made me laugh 68.
AI – the affair with China is sad, but just about all of us are to blame. We like low prices just like we like to burn hydrocarbons. Part of the blame lies with us as well as profit hungry companies. Now that that’s sorted, the question is how do we fix it. The fix might be painful, but much less painful than a strong China.
You could always put lead cowlings around your too light turbine ;-)
China is indulging in predatory Mercantilist Practices. They cut their currency exchange rate to always remain the low cost producer, put up barriers to selling into their country, and a whole lot more (not to mention the Must Share all IP and Must Sell 51% of any operation in China to China).
The way you fix it is “countervailing pressures”. Trump had a good start with the tariffs. Then you explain that any devaluation of the currency will be offset with a matching tariff increase. You forbid the entry of any product made with stolen IP and forbid the export of IP to China. Require than any Chinese company doing business in the USA sells 51% to the USA (and explain if they will stop,l you will stop). Etc. Essentially “Be The Mirror” with some teeth added.
We didn’t lose the”Trade War”, we never bothered to fight it… Our Dear Leaders put the USA up for sale and just asked what their Vig would be… (Vigorish, or “cut of the action”).
That’s a good set of memes ;-)
BTW, I think I know this person:
This would be a great fiction book, but it isn’t. Doh!
All I can say is, I am not surprised. Put down that processor or we will take you into custody. Bitcoin miners beware!
That California Law is a hoot. Guess who won’t be leading the world in computing anymore… Can’t let our Engineers, Software Designers and Programmers have the fastest machines after all…
So now we get to have a Black Market internally in high end computers…
Also: That Cascade Of Consequences link it great.
I’d been pondering a “What do we know” posting about just that. Ticking off the facts in evidence and how deep the lies are. Normally I’m a bit “sprinkle grains of salt in it” about Zerohedge, but that one’s a keeper. (I’ve only read about 1/2 of it so far, but it’s spot on.)
@EM, it was reproduced on ZH, not originated.
We iive in challenging times, for all the wrong reasons.
Re the praise for the Spitfire you should realise that it wasn’t what the Air Ministry wanted. It was originally set in process by Air Marshall Dowding, who wasn’t the favourite in the hierarchy as he was in favour of fighters. The rest believed that “the bomber would always get through” and winning was only a matter of the most bombers, which they ordered with little forethought. See the Handley Page Heyford for their idea of a heavy bombers. The infatuation grew so bad that the Treasury demanded 25% of funding be spent on fighters. Even then the figures were “fudged” and only half that was spent. They were convinced that their theory (without any proof) was right. Parallels today? The production of the Spitfire Mk1 was slow and the Air Ministry tried twice to cancel the contract but were over-ruled. The other fighter was the Hawker Hurricane, which was originally built for export. It was (originally) as fast as the Spitfire Mk.1 but “modifications” soon fixed that (much as they did with the Brewster Buffalo which was rended inadequate for use although the Finns thought highly of it; as they did of the Hawker Henley which was also rejected by the British Air Staff. Indeed more Hurricanes were used in the Battle of Britain and downed more German planes.
Also, there were 3 Spitfires, Mark6 would have been the second design and (I think) Mark14 the third. They retained that wing shape but it was expensive to manufacture (a Spitfire Mk1 cost about 4.5 times that of a Messershmidt 109E). They were impressed by the Mustang and tried to marry its wing type with a Spitfire body but bungled see the Spiteful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spiteful.
The bungles by the Air Ministry bureaucrats up to and in WW2 were numerous but they were ‘rescued’ because the German Air Ministry were even worse at getting superior planes into service.
While it’s true that the UK Air Ministry didn’t expect the Spitfire to go beyond the initial peacetime order, and did not have anything to do with the other two war-winners, the Lancaster and the Mosquito, the system did work to the extent that it was flexible enough to see sense. The US Air procurement system was as bad. P-38 was the only one originated by a US specification, the P-47 was private venture and the P-51 was strongly resisted until 1943. In the US too bombers were the main effort, fighters were orphans. And despite the money spent on bombers in both countries neither could field an effective bomber force at the beginning of their respective wars. For example the RAF did not have proper navigator training, they couldn’t find their target even in daytime unless they were on the coast.
You could always put lead cowlings around your too light turbine ;-)”
Have you been reading too many “EV’s?”
A couple more incident like this and we’ll see a refund the police movement among the Dimowits.
Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) was assaulted and robbed in Oakland, California, on Monday afternoon, according to a statement posted by her Twitter account and confirmed by local police. No gun was involved in the daylight robbery.
If you fancy having a covid chill run down your spine, take a look at what the first commenter here has to say about the ongoing plans of “The Mother Of Parliaments” for the citizens of this once free country: https://independencedaily.co.uk/your-daily-betrayal-tuesday-27th-july-2021-the-covid-emperors-are-nekkid/ As the second commenter says, “No wonder the citizens of the US won’t give up their Second Amendment. If only… “
Re the above, I now notice that it was (at the time) the latest comment. I mean, ‘flyer at July 27, 2021 at 12:19 pm’ – the ‘second comment’ is the first reply to that.
Yup. THE big question is just how much of the US Population has been so dumbed down and conditioned to accept any kind of crap such that we actually do nothing. Is it still possible for a “Popular Resistance” to stop the fraud and coup?
What bothers me most? This is clearly being done “to plan” at a global level and across all nations (with special emphasis on the destruction of National Democracies). We are in a Third World War, and losing, and folks don’t even realize it.
We’ve had a few times now that a “simulation” of one thing or another was done, and then, by golly, just a couple of years later it happens… as those Oh So Prescient modelers clearly saw the future… that just maybe they created. Gates & Co. modeling a Corona Virus Pandemic just in time? Really?
FWIW, I find the quote near the end of this (at 6:15) , from Kissinger chilling:
Basically saying forced vaccination is the gateway to forced organ donation and eventual “culling of the herd”…
Naw, they will just hire more private security for the rich and powerful.
What might force a ‘refund the police’ policy change? Mobs cleaning out the high end retail stores on a regular basis with zero risk / punishment. When Babs Boxer can’t just go by a replacement Gucci Bag due to empty shelves and every bum on the street has one, that will be unacceptable… /snark;
We’ve already got the likes of Target and Walgreens abandoning San Francisco. The Theft Rings and Mobs have not abandoned their lucrative racket. That means a new target is on offer. Neiman Marcus was just hit per one video showing a mob cleaning them out. When there is no “shopping” left that’s safe from the theft, those companies will lean on the Dims and maybe something will improve. But, you see, the Dims can not see the consequences of their policies and actions. Even after the fact in many cases. It takes prolonged pain (and cash flows) for them to do anything.
Since Soros is funding this crap, it will take a large counter cash flow to stop it.
OTOH, it can be fun to watch the Progressive Socialists suffer distress at the end point of their own policies…
I really think they’re just f-ing with us now.
EMS – maybe a mob will raid Peloser’s ice cream collection. ;)
I’m sure that would get police funding restored pronto!
Yup. As though English is the only one with aspirated consonants… How about those guttural through clearings of German and Dutch and the CH of Scottish, eh? Or the plosive P in some African languages? IMHO, either the author doesn’t know much about other languages, or they are just making up crap for a paychek. I suspect the latter and they spent so much print lamenting professor spit in college when I don’t remember even noticing it at all and had zero “empty front rows” after the first week. So it fails a reality test right there.
Oh, and then there’s Arabic… glottals and fricatives galore often delivered with rapidity and force…
If you really want to get into aspirated fricatives, it looks like Asia is your place:
Aspirated fricatives Fricatives are very commonly voiced, though cross-linguistically voiced fricatives are not nearly as common as tenuis (“plain”) fricatives. Other phonations are common in languages that have those phonations in their stop consonants. However, phonemically aspirated fricatives are rare. [s_] contrasts with in Korean; aspirated fricatives are also found in a few Sino-Tibetan languages, in some Oto-Manguean languages, in the Siouan language Ofo (/s_/ and /f_/), and in the (central?) Chumash languages (/s_/ and /__/). The record may be Cone Tibetan, which has four contrastive aspirated fricatives: /s_/ /__/, /__/, and /x_/.
Then there’s the Plosives…. don’t even get me started on Plosives in various languages…
@E.M. – Re “The Plan”- your own FDR once said that “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”. Let’s face it, he was in a position to know.
Example: I’d decided well before last century was out that “multikulti” was clearly doing Britain far more harm than good and needed to be undone. I was, therefore, especially interested to come across the following little detail.
When the SS Empire Windrush docked, uninvited and unexpected, in Britain (June 1948) and disgorged the first bunch of Jamaicans into what had until then been a very racially pure white country, the Home Secretary of the day- understandably – wanted to ask a question in the House asking what the hell was going on. His legal advisor told him that he couldn’t ask the question because it would be racist . That poison dart had already been blown into British law even then, and baby, won’t you look at us now.
@ EM re: ‘Basically saying forced vaccination is the gateway to forced organ donation and eventual "culling of the herd"…’ I thought I could smell that coming…the forced organ donation, I mean. It reminds me of this little ditty (sung to the tune of East Side West Side):
East Coast, West Coast and Chicagoland What’s that? You’re shopping for kidneys? Oh hey! I know a man… He can start a street fight Guys’ll get conked on the head And we can harvest their organs While they’re in hospital beds.
It’s interesting to see a case study on how “we” think and communicate.
From the paper “anti-maskers value unmediated access to information and privilege personal research and direct reading over "expert" interpretations”
E.M. the Mosquito was not just a small radar signature it was the first WW2, possibly in the world full multi-role aircraft. During it’s developement from 1941 on it was used for Light Bomber able to outrun most German fighters with enough range to reach Germany. A Fighter Bomber which could hold it’s own agaisnt Fighters, so needed no escort. A Fighter, with 4 Cannons and 4 machine guns it packed a real punch. A Night Fighter. A Precision low level Bomber, Operation Jericho as an example. A Ground attack aircraft, Tank & Locomotive buster. Medium Bombing 4000lb bomb (same load as a B17 Flying Fortress). Pathfinder for the big guys. Photo-reconnaissance. Antiship and Submarine, fitted with Rockets, Bombs and a Molins “6-pounder Class M” cannon. Aircraft Carrier based Torpedo Bomber. Trainer. Target Tug. Tester for the Bouncing Bomb of Dambusters fame. Fast Transport for war time high value cargo. With extra fuel tanks a range of 5,419 mi les was possible for the PR version.
It had one major weakness, in the tropics the moisture and Mould got to the glue in the laminations and caused structural problems.
Quite some outcome for a private venture wooden aircraft that the War Ministry weren’t really interested in, which is why they called it the wooden wonder.
Had to read the CDC link again after I read this one. Now we know where the flu went, eh?
Your blood on vax.
Ossqss – corona viruses don’t cause flu, influenza viruses do that. Not seeing how the PCR test could confuse the two.
Jim2, not only is the PCR test inaccurate and not made for this purpose, evidently it cannot discriminate between the 2, per my CDC link from a few days back above in this thread. I did not recognize the admission when I first read it as I was thinking the same thing you were.
Ossqss – the point of the bulletin is to have labs to switch to a test that detects BOTH flu and covid. This, as it says, will save time running tests. I don’t interpret it to mean the covid pcr test tested positive for flu. Nowhere does it say the covid test went positive for flu.
CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.
The test that detects both flu and covid makes sense because doctors will be going on symptoms when they order tests. Both flu and covid present respiratory symptoms, so it makes sense to have a test that will work for both.
I found what is an attempt at an explanation, but not a very good one IMHO. It does however expose how poorly the communication is on things across the board with the medical community.
This was a great comparison of positions.
Re another Mosquito.
A bloke in NZ bought a low hours one as war surplus. It has surfaced out of his estate non-flyable but all the bits there and IIRC gone to that business at Ardmour. There is a video of the first engine now running.
If you haven’t been following this, the Cali election Stasi tried to keep Elder out of the race entirely, but the courts threw them a curve, so he is in.
And a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times survey released on Tuesday indicates that conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who won a court battle last week to appear on the ballot, is the current front-runner among the nearly four dozen candidates running to replace Newsom, should he be recalled.
It’s a small victory he’s in the race, it would be a huge victory if he won. But then, there would be the legislature to deal with.
You might say “hosed” (2014 though)
“Only the French know how to protest”
An interesting development in the Mann defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn has dropped, without, so far, the most critical analysis.
The judge ruled on the admissibility of various “experts’ testimony”. All of Mann’s proposed experts were considered to be unrelated to the question of defamation. Steyn, however, had asked for a statistician named Abraham Wyner to present testimony. The judge allowed this expert to partake in the case to be presented to the jury.
The statements Mann complains about relate to him “torturing data” to produce the “fraudulent” Hockey Stick. (That he was indirectly compared to a child molester / sexual predator was not a matter that has survived the court system.) In roughly 2009 Wyner and a partner statistician published a peer reviewed article in a respected statistical journal arguing that the statistical methods — data selection and analysis both — used in Mann’s work were … not capable of bearing the weight of the importance placed upon the results. This was roughly contemporary with the Climategate email scandal. And the whole thing was widely discussed on Steve McIntyre’s ClimateAudit blog — which Steyn has admitted (“bragged about”, might be more accurate) following in the three years prior to the publications at issue.
Steyn doesn’t need to be a climate expert or an expert statistician to show he relied upon secondary media (the blog) in forming the opinions he expressed. So the question becomes whether (a) the reports in the media accurately conveyed the gist of Wyner’s findings and (b) Steyn’s opinions can be reasonably interpreted as derivative of Wyner’s. Wyner is the expert most capable of assessing both. He will be allowed to present for the defense. Mann has no such experts in his corner, as of today’s ruling.
The Greeks are getting better at it…
There are more corona diseases than the Peking Pox.
” the group of viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. ”
jim2 says: 27 July 2021 at 8:03 pm Ossqss – corona viruses don’t cause flu, influenza viruses do that. Not seeing how the PCR test could confuse the two.
Not according to these people. Quote “What we found was that all of the 1500 samples were mostly Influenza A and some were influenza B, but not a single case of Covid, and we did not use the B.S. PCR test. We then sent the remainder of the samples to Stanford, Cornell, and a few of the University of California labs and they found the same results as we did, NO COVID. They found influenza A and B.”
Some more aircraft.
Links to Parts 2 and 3.
The Drudge Report, that longtime haven for conservative news and wacky headlines on the internet, has gone lamestream, and many conservatives have launched new platforms to replace the gaping hole it has left behind.
Even a former editor of the Drudge Report, Joseph Curl, has stepped up to