Monday, 18 May 2020

CCP Tore Up Its Promises to Hong Kong. Muscle men in the council chambers.

The two systems - one country promise is deliberately breached in Hong Kong by the CCP.  The latest is this phalanx of guards at the front of the chamber.  Some pro-democracy members were forcibly evicted.  I think the CCP calculus is that international wealth and standing that Hong Kong loses is offset by the face saved and by having created similar types of business within Mainland China.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly: GOOD ADVICE and the OODA loop.

This contrarian advice is sound.  If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
Doing something well is commendable but doing nothing at all in the face of opportunity or danger is failure.   The opportunities we neglect outnumber the ones we act on so there are more times to apply the "Worth Doing Badly" advice than "Do It Well Or Don't Do It At All" advice.

Why is this good advice, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly"?
Because the perfect is the enemy of the good and because when we recognize a problem or opportunity it's because it hasn't been acted on and hasn't been figured out.   Because we start in ignorance of how to get the outcome, we will make second best choices and mistakes.

The few creative artists I have known seem to share a common principle.  When something gets into their head, they go and do it or make it while most of us just chuckle to ourselves or mention the idea over a glass of beer.

That is what the OODA principle is for.
Observe-Orient-Decide-Act
Repeat.
Jump in, get your feet wet, sort out what you learned to improve and jump in again.
The first time it may be done badly.  Get over it!
If you are doing this briskly and have competition, the competition is always playing catch-up. 
"Forty second" John Boyd developed the OODA concept.
Video clip, in his own words.



Controlled demolition fail

From Turkey comes this demolition fail.   There were experts on hand to make this happen. 
The building flips right over.



Sunday, 17 May 2020

Judge Sullivan Is Toast If The Insider Claims In This Twitter Feed Prove True.

The shocking claims are tweeted but here display as a united text document.
@Johnheretohelp appears to know Judge Sullivan and his late friend, Elijah Cummings.
One less scandalous claim is that the Judge knew all along of the secret deal threatening General Flynn's son. Personal corruption for both Sullivan and Cummings is alleged with alarming detail.
It gets pretty ugly and the author has personally suffered at Sullivan's court.   It also sound believable.  hat tip to SmallDeadAnimals

There is some information on government insider Johnheretohelp at this location.
Source for the united text is here.      Sorry about the overwidth display.  The html code calls for it in dozens of places.








24 tweets, 5 min read

  My Authors
Mr. (judge🤔) Sullivan,
I had hoped all along that you would do the right thing, that you would realize that what you're trying to hide is known by people on both sides. I had hoped in knowing that you would consider the situation moot and do the right thing. 
You did not. Instead you turned to your friends for more political favors and cover. So maybe exposing some of those crimes will prompt you to recuse yourself. It's obvious you can't be relied upon to do your job impartially and dismiss all charges, exonerating General Flynn. 
We have met. I have unfortunately worked with Elijah Cummings on more than one occasion. The latest was when he asked me to "assess"
the viability of his wife's political campaign. The access granted for that proved very very interesting. 
Quick question "your honor", over the years how many millions of dollars in government funds did yourself and your buddy Elijah Cummings siphon off of Howard University? I guess you were right when you said " they don't need it they never amount to anything". 
On a side note, I think it's very kind of you to help your a good friend Cummings in his little multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme.
Like he said no one's ever going to get a police search warrant for federal judges house. 
What better place to hide a bunch of "stolen" art work. I especially like the two of you have in your private office at home.
You don't have any intention of giving those back do you?
But I digress. 
Besides the money laundering and the insurance fraud for yourself and your friends. Should we talk about the cases that you have corrupted for money or favors?
I've compiled quite a list.
Perhaps I should point out the non politically advantageous cases 
where you just stuck it to the defendant because you could, or because you didn't like them or their race, or because you had "fixed" so many other cases you had to make some of them look "normal". Any comment judge?
Because it's about to get worse. 
There was a "secret" deal in your courtroom, a deal threatening General Flynn's son. You can pretend it was a secret but you knew about it the entire time. You colluded with the prosecutor continuously. But all that's very obvious now.
An innocent man faced with evil, 
evil against himself and his son. An honorable man, an intelligent man with integrity, a warrior, will stand in front of his son against any evil.
An evil plan thought you knew of an allowed to happen. Then you pretended not to know anything about it. 
And when it did finally come out you did not rebuke the prosecution for it.
General Flynn fell on a sword for his son, you cannot ask for a greater love or respect. I know it well, I had to do it for my wife and my family. 🙏 
We just discussed a relationship between a father and his son. One of the strongest bonds in this world and beyond.
I understand your a father as well.
Normally I would not discuss children but since your children figure so prominently in shaping your decisions on the bench 
I will go ahead and include them here.
You have two sons, both of them violent no good pieces of crap that Daddy has had to cover for their whole life.
One in particular, your namesake. That must be a particular thorn in your side. 
In 2012 he was arrested for the violent assault and rape of an underage girl. He beat and raped her for several hours at his home, and when he was "finished" with her, he left her laying on the floor while he went and watched television. 
He didn't give her another thought until approximately an hour later when he went to use the bathroom and she was still laying in the same spot, unresponsive.
Did he call an ambulance out of concern? No.He left the house and called you from his car.
You wanted to know who it was, 
Obviously this has happened before and you wanted to know how bad clean up was going to be this time. This time it was the daughter of a "family friend", someone who owed you a lot someone you had enriched, and abusing your authority as usual you knew you could cover it up. 
Instead of calling 911 because of"recordings", you instructed your son to call the local fire department directly. (Real shame they keep a recorded line as well 😉) and once was dispatched to your sons address found the girl lying against the wall in the bedroom, 
still unresponsive. They got her to the hospital, saved her life, she was bleeding externally and internally, another hour and she would not have made it, saving daddy's little namesake a murder charge. 
But the ambulance company call the police reported it oh, your son was arrested. There was no way out the evidence was overwhelming so you and Cummings, and Rod took care of it.
Lost in the system, no disposition.
Still on the books but never made it to court. 
Your son must be very lucky have you as a father. The girl was not as lucky. That was in 2012, this is 2020, this summer she'll be old enough to take her first legal drink.
I don't know what she'll celebrate if she does, her life has been very difficult. Everything she's had to 
go through, including her own family, her father that you control, telling her to "get over it".
She has a lot to get over, at least she will never be burdened with a child like your buddy Obama says, no concessions for her, too much damage for that. 
But you managed to bury it. Fast forward a few more years and the same son is picked up in a multi-state sting of online pedophiles. I'm sure all those pictures and videos he was trading, all those children oh, I'm sure they were asking for it too😭 
Back to your friends, Cummings, Catherine Pugh, rod. Funny how are your friends are corrupt or convicted. With that previous charge still on the books you really had to call in some favors to make this go away. Close to 900 people picked up, you managed to make that case 
disappear somewhere in between the state and federal level, with some RR help there.👍 Wouldn't want him to pay for the crimes he committed would we?
You owe so much to so many people and they are really pulling your strings now aren't they?
You are unfit for the bench 

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States Scored Own Goal With Virus Mandates. Without Enough Money For The Current Year, They Will Be Forced To Change.


The Virus mandates have been an own goal for state governments.These governments devastated the lives of so many citizens that not enough money is coming to sustain their own fatness. States are getting hit in the pocket book because the citizens have less money to send  and the states at the same time were borrowing money to palliate the victims they created.  It’s the only form of accountability the governors and health advisers will ever face, but it’s enough. 
If magic bail outs don’t happen, those states will be cutting services, closing programs and losing votes.  There isn’t a way to weasel out of it.  The blue states like borrowed money and lots of programs more than red states.  Their customers a.k.a. voters are going to have the biggest shocks.


Bailouts wont be from something
set aside for a rainy day.
(Is that a roll of toilet paper?)
If a magic bail out from Washington is tried, it won’t be from a Scrooge McDuck pile of good money.  It will be “printing press” money and money borrowed from the future with promises to pay.  This pile of promises has gotten too big to pay back while still living live as high on the hog as we are wont to do.  This means a default sometime after the current batch of politicians have left office.  Or it means debt for our children and grandchildren, poorer hospitals, rusty bridges, and pensions at fifty cents on the dollar.

If the line holds so individual states generally must accept responsibility for their own affairs, fifty experiments should follow.  Wealth and workers will go to the winners.  This time, necessity may be the mother of invention.  Make believe money won't let the states avoid the crunch.

The big cities are like states:
New York City needs to slash its spending — or face receivership

Why Americans Will Vote Trump

"Let’s face it. Donald Trump is a rough individual. He is vain, insensitive and raw. But he loves America more than any President in my lifetime. He is the last firewall between us and this cesspool called Washington. I’ll take him any day over any of these bums."

Tweeted by James Woods
and re-tweeted by Donald Trump!    I like his sense of humor.

Billions of Viruses Fall From The Sky Every Day Right Around You.. Social Distancing Kabuki Wont Help.

A 2018 study by at observatory in Spain found millions of bacteria and billions of viruses falling daily out of the sky onto a single square metre.  You read that correctly.  They fell out of the sky, mostly linked to specks of dirt and organics carried on low pressure Atlantic systems and dust storms out of the Sahara.    Saharan dust also lands in the Americas.  Some would not have been viable.  Out of three billion viruses per day per square metre, I expect a few were good to go.

Social distancing kabuki won't help you here.
This is just life.  Viruses are everywhere, even in our genome.

The paper cited at WUWT:
Reche, I., D’Orta, G., Mladenov, N. et al. Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layerISME J 12, 1154–1162 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-017-0042-4    (If you click through to read the abstract, there are details of the range of deposition.  For viruses they had results varying between a low of 260 million and a high of 7 billion in one day on one square metre.)
"You can see a massive plume of Sarahan dust acdross the
tropical North Atlantic Ocean.  June 27 2018 NOAA"

Politicians must run to get back in front of the parade. The parade veered towards freedom.

Politicians like to be at the front of the parade.   "People obeying governors to save the nation" has been the parade for two months.  The incredible quarantine of healthy people that is destroying the economy and making people dependent on government say-so  holds some charms for a politician.  In that scenario, they are VIP's. 

The consensus is breaking down and the parade has moved towards freedom, freedom of association and freedom of movement.   Somehow the people who took the "red pill" seem to be the first to wake up and emerge from their hidey-holes.  Most "blue pill" citizens will be along shortly.    People are out at the beach, getting haircuts, and other recently subversive things.

This means politicians have to re-position, to show
The "Je Suis Charlie" parade with
world leaders out front.
it's still their parade and they are still leading from the front of it.  An embarrassing flood of double think is on the way: "I misspoke",  "I was always for it before I was against it"  "I just did what the experts told me to do but I never really believed it".  "Thank God I held the line long enough to save you from the virus".

And the ratchet principle: Any resources added to a bureaucracy stay after the need passes.
What the "Je Suis Charlie" photo was really about.
Looking like they are in front of the parade
while being somewhere safer.

On Line Sales Are Way Up. Expect Them To Stay Up.

Covid-19 has more people trying out on-line buying.  See how much has happened in the last eight weeks compared to the last ten years.  On-line is so convenient, most will continue to channel dollars into the ether.  (Twitter link found here.)

Saturday, 16 May 2020

A Lot of Money Is Being Thrown at a Corvid19 Vaccine, Mostly Wasted.

Hmm. Seems legit.
Canada budgeted.
If you read the news, every politician and their dog is putting money into Corvid19 vaccine.  Here in Canada the leader has decided to spend $192 million for one.  Money to buy a forever vaccine for Wuhan Flu is wasted, and for the same reasons that we don't have a one-stop vaccination for the common cold.  The viruses are moving targets.  One generation is just a few hours.  They change their character in just a few weeks becoming a different sub-species in that time. A vaccine developed for today's Influenza probably won't work on next years Influenza.  It will be a new beastie and your old antibodies won't be much help. You need to get infected by the new version, to learn how to stay safe around the new version next year.  The coronavirus will be no different.

We have flu vaccines but they add a benefit only at the margin.  Healthy immune systems generating targeted antibodies are the front line. Why would Corvid-19 be any different?
The reason we can track the spread of the coronavirus
is that it has changed its own recipe in ways big and small since November.

The Tell-You-What-You're-Going-To-Do People Seem The Most Immune To Any Consequence Of Shutdown.

Why is it that the pillars of society always seem to be sitting on top of the heap, instead of down below giving support?   As far as I can tell, the most secure and status rich position I can occupy in Coronavirus Land is to be a politician, an expert and a government employee.

As Richard Fernandez, a.k.a. Wretchard The Cat, observed a few minutes ago (See tweet).

The top dogs secured their position with "Trust The Science" cant.  We want to believe it but know it's not trustworthy.   As Richard Feynman, the physicist, said:  "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts".  Any talk of "received wisdom" is misdirection, the argument from authority but not from verifiability.

You don't quarantine the healthy. This has never been done before.

Dr. Dolores Cahill:  "We have never in hundreds of years quarantined healthy people".  You know it's true.  Instead we isolate the sick and protect the weak.  What happened to common sense?

UPDATE:  Youtube censored this.  Go to Bitchute to view.

If the sick wear a mask, it's to protect you from them for the ten days or so they are infectious, even though the mask reduces their own oxygen supply a bit. The oxygen stress can weaken them and may let viruses already present in their system overwhelm the native defense.    As she points out, there are hundreds of thousands of viruses in our bodies and it's important for our microbiome that we actually come in contact with bacteria and viruses.   (Near the 18:00 mark in the video.)
(Again: Go to the bitchute link to see.)

Good explanation for the Tunguska event. Glancing blow from an iron meteorite

The 1908 kaboom over Siberia that laid flat 80 million trees may have been a 150 meter iron meterorite that bounced off our atmosphere.  That explains why there's no impact crater and there don't seem to be scraps lying around on the surface.    An ricochet ice meteor would have melted before wrecking the landscape,  a rocky one would have disintegrated and a mostly pure iron one would have vaporized a bit but otherwise held together.
Reported at sciencealert.com

Soaring Corvid Case Numbers Are Good News.

Media report case numbers as cumulative bad news.    Dr. Dolores Cahill points out this is completely wrong. We recover almost universally, flushing the virus in about ten days.  The recovered are not cases, they are healthy and immune. The more there are, the better protected the elderly ill are.
Source:  Video near the ten minute mark.   UPDATE:  YouTube censored the video. Go to BitChute link instead.

Remember, "infectious" doesn't mean it's bad.  It means the virus propagates quickly.   In three or four weeks a virus bloom can generally cover the world and be put down again.

Cows Dance To See Grass For The Very First Time

I'm cheering these Holsteins hopping for joy, seeing real grass for the first time.   We've been fed curated news by superior people who know what's best for us.  The chance to find things out for ourselves is better.

One Atom Transistor

Quantum tunneling at a single atom has been harnessed for an entangled logic device.
This is the twenty first century I've longed for.
The research is reported here from the US.

This is almost the same story as the New South Wales research.  The image attached is from that.

NSW image, taken I believe with a quantum
tunneling miscroscope.
How was it set up?  A silicon chip received a one atom layer of hydrogen.  An individual H atom was zapped and replaced by a Phosphorous atom.  Heating the chip disposed of the H atoms.  I don't have to understand the detail to know this is significant, to operate finely at a new order of magnitude.

An Unusual Tribute To A.Y. Jackson

This hooked rug is a work of art, a tribute to A.Y. Jackson.  Seventy years ago, my mother transcribed the colours from a print of Autumn Mist.  Though yarn has faded, the rug in its gilded frame looks good to this day.

Post-Coronavirus Re-Opening Plan Suits Bureaucrats.

If it captures budget increases, adds staff and influence, it's a success.  Found at Powerlineblog.

It's okay to be all three

Pictured in Powerline humor.

Trump To Restore WHO Funding To Same Levels as China. LOL

WHO's own data for 2019 show the US has been  the#1 (14.67%)  and Communist China has been the #49 (0,21%) donor.  You read that right!
'The Trump administration will shortly resume funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), but it will be at the same level as China, according to a Fox News report released Friday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” '
This is the best laugh of 2020.

Assessments and donations to WHO
It's a little more complicated.  There are member assessments and a much larger sum of specified donations above that amount.  "Restore" then has two different meanings.  The second biggest player is the Gates Foundation and the third biggest is a vaccine NGO you never heard of, the GAVI Alliance.  Those two combined donate more than the US.  The UK and Germany show up next. 






The top donors
The bottom donors


It appears that China has been getting a special discount for being poor and downtrodden while coming close to being the largest economy in the world.  They get an excellent  bang for their buck by going after individuals.  The individuals control all the donated funds and set policy too.