Now We Know Why …
2023 February 5
… The Balloon Was Not Shot Down Till Later.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
–Omar N. Bradley
Well we have the ethical infants down pat with our current administration.
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Trial run…and a VERY successful one at that
Exposed the impotence and incompetence of every level of our current “leaders”, and (further) humiliated us.
Easy score for the Reds.
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Question posed and answered, ChatGPT —
What is the lowest level, PPM, of CO2 before plants start to die?
The lowest level of CO2 that plants can survive at is around 150-200 parts per million (ppm). However, plants will begin to suffer from stress and show stunted growth at levels below 400 ppm.
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2, from Climate.Nasa.Gov
“Note how the map changes colors as the amount of CO2 rises from 365 parts per million (ppm) in 2002 to over 400 ppm currently”
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A good summary of “Excess Deaths” data so far.
https://simplescience.substack.com/p/fact-or-myth-record-number-of-humans
The Spike in Excess Death Across the World is Real
This is no longer a conspiracy theory by anti-vaccine activists. Mainstream publications and news outlets such as BBC, MSN, CNN, Telegraph and The Guardian, which promoted vaccines (and benefited from large advertising budgets of vaccine manufacturers) are all sounding alarms about unprecedented and surprising spikes in excess death. CNN admits life expectancy has been cut by nearly 2.5 years since 2020 and most of it has happened in 2021 and 2022 (in the post-vaccine period, although CNN blamed COVID-19 for the excess death, even in the post-vaccine era).
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Defending our own shores — https://vs-training.com/2023/01/26/on-our-own-shores/
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Bar graph of political donations by crypto fraud FTX.
https://mobile.twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1622339655013392384
Overall orgs like DNC and RNC come first but check out the individual donations on the Repub side: Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski lead the pack.
And way more to Dems than GOP.
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When the Dims have lost Hispanics…. — https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/hispanic-families-in-california-who-value-their-children-are-making-sacrifices-to-homeschool-them/ — A tad hard to connect as it is in the first person, but it if this is a trend it is a problem for Dims. Our K-12 system is a pump primer for the leftist agenda. Opt out of the system and there is a good chance of avoiding the blue pill hell of life.
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Interesting factoids.
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The best visual I have seen in quite a while to what the Fed/Treasury/Congress is doing to the economy —
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No big deal right? Well envison some blue haired 400# transgender slob competing on a surf board
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They’ve got budget for that? When we’re at the debt limit?
The Washington Times
@WashTimes
The National Security Agency is courting laid-off Big Tech workers as the spy agency undertakes one of its largest hiring surges in the past 30 years.
Commenter:
How many are foreign nationals?
Me: well, US citizens might have conflicted loyalties…
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Gee Biden Sir, would it not have been easier to do this ON LAND? — https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/naval-recovery-mission-underway-find-chinese-spy-balloon-debris
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I have found my home defense solution — https://youtu.be/s9A3h9HkW_Q — take off the crank and put a 1/4hp washing machine motor on it.
Observation: If that is legal, well not much difference between that and the GAU-8 on an A-10.
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They deserve what they get … in the end.
Dutch kids encouraged to eat bugs. About 90 secs
https://rumble.com/v28l6hx-green-diet-in-the-netherlands.html
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Do they grow Klingon foreheads afterwards? — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpPJm6fouE
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* Biden admin in trouble over Balloon. Makes claim Balloon also happened during Trump.
* About a dozen Trump staff and Trump deny it happened.
* Biden admin sticks to the narrative.
* MTG calls their bluff and calls for hearings if DoD failed to report this to Trump — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/norad-pleads-incompetence-over-failure-spot-trump-era-chinese-spy-balloons
All in all well played by MTG.
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I’m seeing references to nuclear war popping up in various random places on the Internet. For instance, the Doomsday clock has now been moved to the closest its ever been to midnight. Zelenskyy has been advocating for a pre-emptive strike on Moscow. Are the geniuses that run the clown show actually starting to think a nuclear war with Russia or China is a winnable proposition?
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“Are the geniuses that run the clown show actually starting to think …”
If they stole the election from Trump, if they purposely used Covid to implement a dictatorship, if the economy is in such poor shape they won’t be able to kick the can any further down the road … and if they are approaching a point where they can’t hide the truth anymore … then maybe.
And, for example, if they think RU has a weak spot they might think they can take out RU. With perfect timing, China might not respond so there we would be– one enemy down and the other in frozen shock at what could happen to them at any moment.
I still have to think nuclear war is a minority likelihood only.
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OK I tried to watch the STOU speech I have to bail after 2 minutes. We are F’ed
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My kid is watching it for extra credit for a class in school.
Oi oi oi!
I can’t escape. 🤨🤨🤨🤨
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70% of our CPI is now deflating when rent\housing is excluded.
and in the case of rents itself that has been falling in real time for 4 months in a row
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1:
Much ado about nothing used for politics and priming by USGov.
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Good advice.
https://tomluongo.me/2023/02/06/powell-careful-goals-seek-bad-data/
Be Careful of the Goals You Seek with Bad Data
“… we are living in a world so awash in narratives supported by ‘data’ that it is a Herculean task to make any sense of what’s really going on.”
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So Jim, riddle me this….. did Biden make it thru the whole speech without turning into a word salad and a pile of sh## in his diapers?
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24, Mostly got by
I inserted ear buds and listened to a YouTube about Ukraine. I could sorta still hear Biden, seemed to me he
1) talked fast
2) slurred some words
3) lots of stats so probably lots of lies
4) mean spirited
5) shouted
Thats my impression. He didn’t obviously poop his pants. Biden didn’t obviously descend into word salad even with some words slurred.
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Sounds like they gave him a 2 scoop cone to get him thru it then. 🙂
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Today’s America
About 20 sec
I saw another, nearly identical, exchange from a Chicago elementary school classroom “grad” ceremony.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1622637426207256576
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Who else remembers when Seymour Herschel was a tin foil conspiracy theorist?
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
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Jesse Kelly@JesseKellyDC ·
Between the China spy balloon and the Nord Stream news, I woke up in a cold sweat this morning asking myself, “Is our military gay enough to win WWIII?”
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Kari Lake confirms she will throw the senate seat in 2024 to the Democrats.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-wont-go-away-kari-lake-confirms-shes-entertaining-major-run-if-she-loses-election-lawsuit
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More of what we already knew — https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/new-whistleblower-says-fbi-tried-open-criminal-cases-140-people-just — FBI weaponization.
Sure there is a narrative push. But I also suspect there is a move to grow case load for bureaucratic purposes to justify various entities getting promotions and more budget.
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My 20yo V8 Dodge Ram might be greener than a Tesla Y — https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/visualizing-ev-mineral-shortage — Amazing how unGreen the Green Revolution is. From forcing 6yo to dig cobalt in Congo to windmills burning up, Enviros are hypocritical chumps.
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The best thing about traveling with almost no internet is I miss things like PRP’s inane comment #30.
Kato Kake won in 2022…and given an even somewhat level playing field will win in 2024.
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Seen on the internet.
ESG in action.
The Rabbit Hole
@TheRabbitHole84
Privatized social credit in action. Corporations can not only punish you for your views but also your loved ones. Guilt by association is enough for sentencing.
@Airbnb you owe this family, and the public, an explanation.
Lauren Southern @Lauren_Southern
My parents just got banned from AirBnB for being related to me.
They have never booked anything for me. They do not represent me in any way. They aren’t publicly political in any way.
How is this sane in any way @Airbnb
https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1623107936041209857
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JR, agree.
I mean, if only Kari stood aside AZ could elect a Repub Senator like Jeff Flake or John McCain.
See what we’re missing out on?
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Yup
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/02/09/the-morning-briefing-forget-decorum-republicans-need-to-be-in-street-fight-mode-n1669220
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BC,
Dude you are a member of an extremist group — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-retract-catholic-white-supremacist-memo-launch-internal-investigation — FBI internal memo directed that the Catholic Church as ‘at risk of committing acts of extremist violence,’
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Stand strong, bc.
Even though you belong to the “trad cath’ ethnic group I won’t be afraid to be seen with you in public!
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VA this is for you…
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Convention of States….
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2014 material but worth a review as this is the lever being used to lay the ground work for the CBDC — https://www.cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Iain-Murray-Operation-Choke-Point.pdf
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Joggers will jog.
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Snopes says the doll was patented before the daughter died but it is a poignant story.
wordsworthclassics.com/author/gruelle-johnny
Gruelle came up with the idea for Raggedy Ann when his daughter Marcella found an old faceless doll in the attic which had belonged to her Aunt. Gruelle painted a face on the doll and named her Raggedy Ann. In 1917, aged only 14, Marcella died from diphtheria following exposure to a contaminated vaccination needle. After his daughter’s death, friends described Gruelle as “possessed, with a heavy countenance, and … with the only thing he would bear to have near him as a reminder of Marcella a rag doll.” In his daughter’s memory, Gruelle created a series of Raggedy Ann adventures which he set in Marcella’s nursery and published in 1918 under the title Raggedy Ann Stories. The stories received a positive reception which led Gruelle to continue writing adventures for the doll, adding a brother Raggedy Andy in 1920.
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Chik Fil A reportedly testing cauliflower sandwiches in 3 markets.
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Didn’t like the last meme…. How about….
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Here is a minor example of what SHTF will look like when the EBT cards are shut off — https://www.newstarget.com/2023-02-09-austin-residents-fight-dumpster-food-heb-austin.html
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Below is a picture of China’s latest secret weapon.
They may not look like much, but with an air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder costing $472,000 a pop and the idiots we have running the show in D.C., they are very cost-effective.
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The object shot down over Canada today appeared to be a “small metallic balloon with a tethered payload”, according to U.S. officials familiar with the situation – WSJ
In other news…
University of Alaska meteorology students are heartbroken for a third time as a weather balloon fails shortly after launch for an unknown reason. Undeterred, they promise to try again this coming week.
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48,49,
Ha! With the crew we have in the WH anything is possible.
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This is probably how the education system gets ‘fixed’ — https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-school-district-considers-closures-student-enrollment-plummets — Parents go home school or private school.
But I have a question and a possible answer. Most school systems are funded by long term bonds. So if a school system drops to 50% or less of student attendance what happens with the debt? At some point the taxpayers are going to say ‘what the hell?’. I would offer that at that point many may in fact move to avoid the insane taxation.
The solution me thinks? Both the buildings and the associated bonds need to be assumable so that a private party may take over the facilities. As the take over occurs the tax burden must be reduced in kind.
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With so many choosing not to marry, not to have kids I wonder if “providing public schools” will fall off the list.
Perhaps it’s no longer a shared community value?
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The Left have lost it — https://www.zerohedge.com/political/systemic-racism-makes-animals-abandon-black-neighborhoods-researchers-say — Bus wildlife to urban cores. For diversity.
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Jeez, drdog.
White neighborhoods: raccoons, squirrels, coyotes.
BIPOC ‘hoods: rats, pigeons
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I’m sure KH will let us know if something important starts …
J.E. Dyer
@OptimisticCon
This is one for which Russia would be at the top of my list.
IntelWalrus @IntelWalrus
Interesting ACARS message sent to this NATO-associated SAC (Strategic Airlift Capability) C-17.
“NR NETWORK OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO DDOS ATTACK”
Assuming this refers to NATO’s ‘NATO Restricted Network’ which is a highly secure network used for exchanging internal classified data.
https://twitter.com/OptimisticCon/status/1624875413523820544