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California is now a third world country.
"There is no better sign you live in a third world country than rationed electricity. Honestly, if your government is too inept to deliver the basics, and other than water — something else California can’t deliver — there is nothing more basic than electricity, you live in a third world country.
Sorry, you just do."
What the Mayor of Los Angeles said:
As a warm up, try a few paragraphs from "Yellowstone: How Not To Manage A National Park". Lying eco-elites in the Park Service were killing predators and favouring others, making a wasteland of the park. Reminds me of today's Covid-elites casting their policy curses on the people while believing in their own purity of heart.
Overgrazing changed the flora. Aspen and willows were being eaten (by elk) at a furious rate and did not regenerate. Large animals and small began to disappear from the park.
In an effort to stem the loss, the park rangers began to kill predators, which they did without public knowledge. They eliminated the wolf and the cougar, and they were well on their way to getting rid of the coyote. Then a national scandal broke out. New studies showed that it wasn’t predators that were killing the other animals. It was overgrazing from too many elk. The management policy of killing predators therefore had only made things worse.
Actually, the elk had so decimated the aspen that now, where formerly they were plentiful, now they’re quite rare. Without the aspen, the beaver, which use these trees to make dams, began to disappear from the park. Beaver were essential to the water management of Yellowstone, and without dams, the meadows dried hard in summer and still more animals vanished.
And now the video: The "Trophic Cascade" from a small population of wolves is a real thing and so is the change in how the rivers flow and how the banks flourish.
From PJmedia.com, a summary by David Solway of the assault on the Republic to come:
There is only one way that Donald Trump can lose the forthcoming election, and that is if it is stolen from him outright. A fair election would likely lead to a landslide triumph for the incumbent president, but a fair election is precisely what the hard-left Democrats appear to have no intention of permitting. The methods they will deploy to ensure a Biden victory are pretty well known to anyone who has been paying attention: vote harvesting, counting mail-in ballots (“at least once,” as Rick Moran writes), the dead vote, the multiple vote, the illegal immigrant vote, polling booth intimidation, a media blitzkrieg, Big Tech platform censorship, state pressure on the Electoral College, and anything else a felonious party can come up with.
The Democrats are no fools. They know that, in the event of a tainted Democrat victory, Trump would be in his rights to refuse to acknowledge a corrupt and misbegotten result and would have every incentive to initiate a legal battle protesting an electoral travesty. Consequently, the Democrats have developed the strategy of accusing Trump of intended malfeasance before the election has even been held.
Robson's article in the National Post is a must read.
"So I would abolish all business subsidies in Alberta, not despite or because of bad policy coming from on high, but regardless of it. Every one of them substitutes the judgment of an observer or theorist for that of consumers and entrepreneurs who personally benefit from, or pay the price of, a decision.
Here I do not indulge in mockery of politicians or bureaucrats as dumb or lazy, no matter how hard some of them strive to bring that cliché to life. But I do mock the folly of attempting to improve our prosperity by placing crucial decisions about huge sums of money in the hands of those who will reap no reward for being right and pay no penalty for being wrong."
And more in this vein:
"If you want a list of things the Alberta government should just stop doing, I might need more space. The provincial government’s website lets me “Find the Alberta government services and information you need” under 15 headings from “Arts and culture” to “Parks and recreation” and I would abolish at least five entirely (including “Life events”
Link to John Robson's site.
Because those forest giants feed on air. The wood you fell for furniture and fire was created out of the air blowing through the leaves and needles. C02 was harvested for its carbon.
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Water and trace elements generally come from the dirt but the thousands of pounds of fir and teak and spruce were formed from air.
So, that's why CO2 is called plant food. It's not a vitamin, it's the number one body builder.
If you like this thought, what about how heavy is a cloud? A cubic foot of water weighs just over 62 lbs. So, 1 inch of rain on a square foot of pasture weighs about 6.2 lbs. 1 inch of rain on an acre is over a quarter million pounds. Those clouds usually dump on hundred or thousands of acres and don't immediately disappear either.
Quite a few hundred fat older German men participated in the study over a dozen years and all the testosterone injections were done by the doctors. No one dropped out of the study by Dr. Saad's team. The control group gained an average of ten pounds and about a third died of all causes with any major cardiovascular events. The injected group lost an average of over fifty pounds and less than a tenth died, mostly accientally.
After 11 years of data collection in the registry (covering the period 2004-19 with all patients having at least 11 years of data) weight (kg) decreased by a mean of 23kg in the T group (from 114kg to 89kg before adjustment, and to 87 kg after adjustment for baseline age, waist circumference, weight, fasting glucose, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides and the quality of life scale AMS). Conversely, mean weight increased by 6kg in the control group. In percentage terms, the results were similar – with the T-group losing an average of 20% bodyweight, whereas controls increased by 6%.
There was also a significant mortality difference between groups: 21 patients (7.6%) died in the T-group and 63 (32.3%) in the control group. More than a quarter of men (28%) in the control group had a heart attack, and 53 (27.2%) a stroke. There were no major cardiovascular events in the T-group. All the deaths in the T-group were related to traffic and sport accidents and post-surgical infections.
This is a truly original life concept:
It all depends on how you define life. If the key criteria are the ability to encode information, and the ability for those information carriers to self-replicate faster than they disintegrate, then hypothetical monopole particles threaded on cosmic strings - cosmic necklaces - could form the basis of life inside stars, much like DNA and RNA form the basis of life on Earth.According to the new study, cosmic necklaces could form in a sequence of symmetry-breaking phase transitions. In the first stage, monopoles emerge. In the second, strings. This can produce a stable configuration of one monopole bead and two strings, which in turn could connect to form one-, two-, and even three-dimensional structures - much like atoms joined by chemical bonds, the researchers say. A one-dimensional necklace would be unlikely to carry information. But more complex structures potentially could - and they could survive long enough to replicate, feeding off the fusion energy generated by the star.
Here's an article on artist/engineer Theo Jansen who creates these animated creatures from PVC.
The estimates, made by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and analysts from several government departments, suggest there were 38,500 excess deaths in England connected to Covid-19 between March and 1 May. However, the report concludes 41% of those deaths were the result of missed medical care rather than the virus itself. Of the 16,000 deaths, the paper estimates 6,000 were as a result of a "significant reduction in A&E attendances and emergency admissions". .. Although the calculations found that 2,500 lives may have been saved by people adopting healthier lifestyles during lockdown, the modelling suggests there could be a further 26,000 excess deaths by March 2021 as a result of ongoing restrictions to medical care.
Posted by VICE, this declassified and polished footage shows the context in 1961 for the 50 megaton explosion of Tsar Bomba. The chairs and analog control panels are wondrous things.
.Highlights from the Red State article: The Durham team's 8 hour interview by design was at CIA offices and that means in Virginia not Washington DC. Any false statements under oath can be addressed by Virginia courts. As to Brennan being "not a target", this is not something that investigators volunteer.
That brings you to the next point that the promoted statement from Brennan isn't a statement, it's all second hand. Brennan hasn't been shy in the past to tweet what he thinks but here he shelters behind indirection and a planted story that never quotes his actual words. Eight hours is a long time for an interview. As Brennan wasn't going to be a forthright source of new information, the conclusion is that facts had been verified beforehand through others and are being played back to Brennan to hear him speak the truth or to speak an actionable lie. There's quite a bit more at the link.
