Tuesday, 19 May 2020

No Wonder the Nova Scotia Police Were Hiding Shooter Documents

The police knew for twelve hours that the gunman was driving a fake police car and didn't tell the public.
I couldn't understand why documents were being withheld.  Now I do.  The RCMP didn't know how to deal with this, telling the public not to trust the RCMP.
Recently unsealed warrant.
Story and link extracted from theguardian.com  h/t  blazingcatfur.

"Susan Rice wanted it on record that President Obama had authorized her to lie, on advice from James Comey"

Writing this memo was the last thing Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice did, minutes before leaving office. You know it has to be important.    Succinctly summarized by John Hinderaker at Powerlineblog:     UPDATE below.

"She wanted it on record that President Obama had authorized her to lie, on advice from James Comey"

She lied to General Flynn who was coming in to occupy her position and the "Information ... as it relates to Russia" refers to information about their own improper Russia investigation into Trump people, not to giving secret information to Russians.

As usual, the best deep background and consistent source of original documents is from Sundance at TheConservativeTreeHouse.  The Hinderaker one-liner simplifies the takeaway.

UPDATE May 20:  White House counsel advised Susan Rice to write the CYA memo.

Wind Animation of Cyclone Amphan Landing in India and Bangladesh


Cyclone Amphan Making Landfall 6pm May 19 PDT.  India and Bangladesh threatened.  Sourced at Ventusky.com   Link to live tracker at Times of India.



"Downgraded to Category 3 from its previous Category 5 strength, Tropical Cyclone Amphan is expected to make landfall near India and Bangladesh border on Wednesday as a major storm, with catastrophic storm surge, high winds, and torrential rains."

Obama's Portrait in the White House: One version is Enemy Propaganda, one version is News.

The official President Obama portrait is ready to unveil in the white house.
Enemy propaganda reports that Trump Won't Unveil Obama's Official White House Portrait Any Time Soon, despite this being an amicable tradition in the past.
The news reports Obama's quote that Obama "has no interest in participating in the post-presidency rite of passage", despite this being an amicable tradition in the past.

Ugh.


Mouse Brain Has An Off Switch For Pain. Please Be True For People Too.

There is new hope for fixing chronic pain.  The mouse brain amygdala has a region that can profoundly damp the sensation of pain.  The amygdala harbors protocols for fight-or-flight and general anxiety.

Sufferers of chronic pain don't need to be reminded every minute of every day that something is wrong.  They got the message.  They deserve a break.

Previous searches were for brain locations that turn ON pain, hoping to disable the ON switch. This report describes a region that actively turns OFF pain.  A stimulus instead of an antagonist may do the trick.

The source paper in Nature is linked here.  The research was into why general anesthesia works.  They found a population of cells in the amygdala that were stimulated by it.


Six Foot Distancing Rule Is A Made Up Number

Social Distancing at 6 feet is the new gospel in Canada and the United States.  The number is a by-guess-and-by-gosh contraption and not the result of research.
Have a look at this chart for other countries with the 2 metre rule,the 1.5 metre rule and the 1 metre rule.  Different strokes for different folks but the same virus.

Just to be picky, the six foot rule is a 1.82 metre rule.

UPDATE: The Daily Mail weighs in May 20th.  The science for 2 metres is missing and  Australia has the 1 metre rule which makes it much easier for restaurants to open.

Requires all the on-air talent at CNN...

Seen at Instapundit.

If Shoe Stores Sold Only Size Six ... Bosses Mandate One Lockdown For The City Crowd And The Same For Country Counties.

People die in crowded urban areas.  Covid-19 is more like a ripple out in the country.  Fine tune that for the 5% in nursing homes and serious pre-existing conditions.

In Missouri, death rates are
436/million in St Louis city and county,
129/million in nearby St. Charles County and 28/million in all the rest of the state.   And four more examples posted at Gateway Pundit:







– Wisconsin (Milwaukee Co., 271/million; rest of state, 42 per million).
– Minnesota (Hennepin Co., 365 per million; rest of state, 61 per million).
– Florida (Mami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach – 182 per million; rest of state – 56 per million).
– Michigan (Metro Detroit’s 3 counties, – 999 per million; rest of state, 168 per million).


What if Governors and Provinces advised the subregions to decide how to apply recommendations.  If the county doesn't want to handle it then the senior government will act for them.

UPDATE:  CDC stats for United States.  86,000 people die per million per year. 

Infectious Isn't Bad

An infectious bug is one that travels fast through its environment, host to host, and has nothing to do with whether it kills you, gives the sniffles, or even passes unnoticed to the next host.  The "R nought" number is about infectiousness, not about danger.   A viral bloom will generally spread through the world in four or five weeks before being overcome by an army of antibodies.  Less infectious ones take a little longer.   (Idea expanded from Dr Suzanne Cahill interview here.)

UPDATE:  The video was censored by YouTube and Facebook.
Available now here: (At Bitchute).

What kills people? Surprises in chart.

The Infographic covering deaths worldwide is easy to follow in three colors:  When we get TV and newspaper stories they cover the small (gray) fraction of deaths that are accidental.   That's human nature.


Covid-19 shows up in the red communicable disease section, temporarily of note but not overwhelming.

The biggest section is the blue one we consider so normal it isn't newsworthy: deaths that are not from accidents and not from communicable disease.

Monday, 18 May 2020

Lockdowns have bonus points for Blue States: No Trump Rallies Until November 3rd.

The saving lives narrative works but so does keeping Donald J Trump out of your state's stadiums until after the election.  How cynical is that?

China CCP Hides Coronavirus Facts. 100,000,000 on new lock down for a half dozen cases?

Coronavirus lies from China, as usual.  A couple days ago there were 1 case in Wuhan and five cases in Heilongjiang.  Today 108 million people were put into lockdown  in the north-east.   Baghdad Bob would have got pointers from this.  The scale of action reveals the falseness of the reported data.

From Mike Doran's twitter feed and from Balding's World twitter feed:

Daily Evidence That What's Good For The Communist Party And Truth are Strangers.

640,000 cases of COVID-19 show up in a leaked internal database from China, about eight times more than admitted to the world.   Chinese officialdom doesn't lie.  It simply presents the CCP in the best possible light, truth not relevant.   The best write up seems to be at Foreign Policy
The natives are restless.  Today in New Jersey.

  "People keep telling me that the long night of fascism is descending on America, but what I’m seeing is the biggest popular revolt against authority in my lifetime."

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. (judgeπŸ€”) 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. πŸ™ 
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 πŸ˜‰) 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.πŸ‘ 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.