Some US troops are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Good for them:
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-troops-refuse-covid-vaccine/
The government will now have a relatively large cohort of both vaxxed and non-vaxxed men and women to monitor. Hopefully they will use this opportunity to determine whether or not the jabs really work.
But will they tell the rest of us how it all turns out?
Here is a video promoting GE's latest nuclear reactor concept:
I doubt we'll see very many of these built in the US.
To put things in perspective, in a former life I worked for GE Nuclear, was a qualified participant in GE's Senior Reactor Operator program, and wrote documents for the certification of an earlier SBWR design. I know a bit about their program.
While it's true the BWRX-300 might not need external cooling for a week (or so) following an accident, it still has the basic flaw possessed by all such reactors. Sooner or later, any accident-damaged core in a breached containment will require additional water to be pumped in to cool the core, and that water will become HIGHLY radioactive. And there will be no place to put it, except in temporary storage tanks of the type which now clutter the Fukushima site in Japan.
The US really has little capability to cope with the spent fuel and high level waste produced by its nuclear reactors, and we're totally unprepared to deal with the horrendous mess which a major accident would cause. Unless we establish such capability, building more nukes of any kind would be a foolish idea.
And by the way, there is no way to make these things idiot proof. I have seen highly trained and experienced operators knowingly violate safety limits, unthinkingly conceal failing test results for critical plant systems, falsify operator logs, sleep while on watch, and fail to recognize critical plant design errors even when presented with as-built schematic diagrams which clearly show such errors. Bottom line - humans cannot be trusted to safely operate nuclear reactors. And I doubt anyone can program computers / AI to safely operate them, either.
We don't need the energy that badly. It's not worth the risk.
Here is a video from Mike Yeadon, former CSO at Pfizer:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9YMDz0CvfsHT/
That's right ... he was CSO at Pfizer, not CEO.
The "fact checkers" already have decided that what he says is "false". I suggest that you watch the whole thing and make up your own mind.
He does make claims which may not be true, but he says lots of things which make perfect sense.
And I doubt whether the average "fact checker" possesses his level of scientific competency.
Here is an excellent description of fascism, written 10 years ago but updated for 2021:
In my view, we are being grievously misled by TPTB on this and other issues. You really cannot believe much of what Uncle Joe and Aunt Nancy are telling you.
By the way, I'm impressed by how rapidly Hollywood has jumped onto the "domestic extremist" bandwagon. They're sure making it seem like there's a boogeyman under every rock, aren't they?
According to this report, millions of us will be moving to the asteroid belt within the next 15 years:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/13796860/humans-asteroid-belt-colony-megasatellites/
These guys must have been binging on The Expanse tv series, which by the way is my favorite program these days.
One thing never fully discussed is how millions of people living in the equivalent of a tin can will be able to produce breathable air; obtain enough food and water to survive; and/or have the means to travel between the belt, Earth, and Mars. Yeah, we're progressing by leaps and bounds, but in 15 years? I don't see it, especially not with the crap Biden and Co. plan to do down here on Earth.
What we're more likely to see is a few rich guys taking vacations on the ISS, mostly at the expense of us poor slobs trapped down here in the mud. Here's the latest batch of lucky bastards who soon will be blasting off:
The real missions to the belt will conduct asteroid mining, mostly by remote robotic means. And the goal will NOT be to ferry millions of us to belter nirvana but to make a handful of people EXTREMELY rich.
Just what we need, right?
But hey, a recent study has shown that elites are in a class of their own. Apparently they're better than us and presumably deserving of the wealth they've been squeezing out of us for decades:
I guess we should thank them for shitting on us.
According to reports like this one, former President Trump was a Russian asset cultivated by the Kremlin for 40 years:
https://news.yahoo.com/perfect-target-russia-cultivated-trump-080040388.html
Assuming for a moment such gibberish contains even a speck of truth, ask yourself this:
1. What was the harm if Russia actually did put Trump in the White House instead of Hillary? Does any rational person think a Hillary presidency would have been better for our country?
2. Did the Trump presidency cause us to lose our freedom of speech, press, or association? Nope - TPTB did that all by themselves ... with the help of Big Tech and the US "intelligence" community, of course (none of whom seem to work for the Kremlin).
3. Did the Trump presidency materially benefit Russia in any meaningful way? Nope once again, unless you consider his peace overtures ... which any responsible president would have at least attempted.
So tell me, what was the harm?
In fact, this alleged association between Trump and Russia chiefly benefits only one group - the Democrats and their coterie of morons who seemingly are willing to do anything to destroy the US so they can remake it in their own twisted image.
And should you still believe any of this will benefit any of us, you need to read this description of what life will be like once the Biden-Harris-Pelosi-BigTech agenda is fully implemented:
Yes, it's right out of Orwell. It has nothing to do with Russia. It never did.
Compare this graph of new COVID-19 cases in India ...
... to the number of new cases in the US over the same period:
Source - https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/01/criminal-covid-negligence/
Note well - India's population is 3X ours, but our new case rate is MUCH higher than theirs, in spite of the claim the US has the best health care system in the world.
According to the author, the main difference between the two countries is that while we were given remdesivir, ventilators, and a promise of vaccines, the people of India were given the treatments withheld from us because they were "dangerous", ineffective, and Trump-approved.
I agree with the author that if effective treatment was withheld from us for political reasons (e.g., helping defeat Trump and promote The Great Reset), then those responsible should be held accountable. However, I don't see that ever happening, since the scientists are now our demigods. They must be believed no matter what the cost, and The Great Reset must be implemented even if it kills us.
Here is an essay by Professor Jonathan Turley about how the Democrats seem more interested in consolidating their power than in unifying our nation:
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/01/25/do-the-democrats-really-want-unity/
REAL constitutional scholars (e.g., NOT Obama ad-Dajjal) know the "domestic terrorism" bill is an extremely bad idea:
And even Vladimir Putin now realizes the danger big tech poses to the world:
https://www.rt.com/russia/513768-putin-slams-big-tech-in-davos/
But TPTB don't seem to care about any of that. They're focused on The Great Reset, and it's now becoming clear that "the new normal" is going to be enforced by severely coercive measures.
That, apparently, is why they're keeping troops in DC. When the deplorables discover what's in store for them, they're likely to be VERY upset.
Here is a pie in the sky report about the future of nuclear fusion:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-backing-ancient-kind-202600988.html
News flash - Just because Jeff Bezos may be behind something doesn't always mean it will work. I am personally acquainted with the person who ran the US fusion program for years. He is a VERY intelligent, capable physicist. He couldn't make fusion work, and frankly I don't see how Bezos can either.
By the way, you may have noticed that people are getting upset with the NRC for proposing to license nuclear reactors for 100 years. At issue is the fact that neutrons, which are essential for the operation of fission reactors, embrittle (weaken) key components such as reactor vessels and associated piping.
Well, guess what? Fusion reactors will have a similar problem, since they will produce prodigious amounts of neutrons, protons, and other energetic heavy particles. So far no one is talking about how long components of fusion facilities will last in such a harsh environment, but I'm guessing it won't be as long as you might think.
There is no free lunch. If "climate change" is the basic problem, the only solution is reduced energy use, and the only means to achieve that may be a strictly rationed, greatly reduced human population.
And if you think about it, you'll have to admit TPTB always have been much more successful at finding ways to kill us than at finding ways to make our lives better.
Please watch this speech by Senator Rand Paul:
I like Senator Paul. He, his father, and Dennis Kucinich are a few of the only decent people to have served in Congress in the recent past. They are concerned about what's good for our nation, not just things which bring power to themselves or their party.
By the way, here are two additional discussions of the farce now being sold to the public by the Democrats:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/milking-capitol-melee-all-its-worth
This whole exercise, going all the way back to the 2016 election, has been about two things:
Nothing good can come of this, unless destruction of the USA is something you consider to be "good".
The final battle of Civil War 2.0 is over, and it was relatively bloodless. Only five people died.
Contrast that with the number of casualties from some battles of our first Civil War:
Source - https://www.nps.gov/anti/learn/historyculture/casualties.htm
Putting this in a larger context, here are the number of people who died in the major wars related to the creation and preservation of the US republic:
Considering all the blood and treasure we have squandered in the last 246 years, don't you find it odd that "our" cowardly Congress just flushed all that sacrifice down the toilet because of one of the most pitiful "insurrections" in world history ... one which wouldn't even qualify as a "mostly peaceful protest" in Portland, Oregon?
Seems very strange to me.
What do YOU think?
President Richard Nixon was responsible for over 500,000 deaths in Cambodia, but he was never impeached for that ... AND he was pardoned for ALL his crimes when he left office:
President Trump, on the other hand, is being impeached a second time ... for allegedly inciting an insurrection which caused FIVE deaths. And he no doubt will be hounded for other crimes he may have committed. Does that make any sense?
Here is what I believe is the REAL reason Trump is being impeached again:
President Joe B may not even be in office a month from now. Justice Amy Coney Barrett will rule shortly on the lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin for ignoring constitutional requirements in changing their voting rules. Unlike so many other cases tossed out on procedural grounds, there’s a pretty good chance this case will stand, and the outcome could end up nullifying last November’s national election, cancelling Joe Biden. That will birth a whole new political crisis on top of the cratering economic picture. There are no road maps for any of that.
Source - https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/flying-blind/
That's right. In spite of all the whining to the contrary, an impartial assessment of the 2020 election may very well invalidate Biden's "victory". And the Democrats know that.
The outcome could put Trump back in the White House. Unless he's no longer eligible.
And not only did TPTB appear to have stolen the 2020 election, they're now moving to steal all FUTURE elections. You can read about it here:
I don't think Trump should be allowed to have a second term. His first was a disaster, and a second might be even worse. However, I also don't think we should allow this sort of electoral fraud and coercion to continue.
What do YOU think?
If you watch only one video today, please make it this one with Lee Merrit, MD:
You also can find it here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mvI-_jXck7Y/
Most of what she says is controversial, but I believe all of it is important.
And once again, this is not to be construed as medical advice. Consult your primary care physician before determining what is best for you and yours.
Update - 1/26/2021
Here is something else to consider before we allow Dr. Fauci to continue in his role as chief advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic - research he funded may have caused the pandemic in the first place:
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fauci-funding-covid-research/
Saw this today:
A study published in November in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B provided the first evidence that when the two species overlap, wolves have a greater effect on mountain lion populations than hunting by humans and the availability of prey. And the ways scientists say that wolves impact populations? By starving out adults and killing kittens.
Note well - This is how the US eliminates competing populations, by starving adults and killing kittens. The earliest example is what we did to Native Americans, and a more recent one is what we did to Iraq.
Wolves in sheep's clothing. That's what we are.
Did you know the word "faithfully" appears twice in the US Constitution? In both instances, it applies to the President:
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: - "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
and
... he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed ...
I interpret this to mean that federal laws should be executed as they were written.
However, President Biden seems to think his own interpretation of the laws is what should be enforced. You can find evidence of my claim in the Executive Orders he has just signed:
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/bidens-most-ever-first-day-executive-actions
Does this mean he is violating his oath of office?
Maybe we should forgive him, since by his own admission he doesn't always know what he's signing:
If that's the case, then just whose interpretation of the laws is now being enforced?
One thing is certain, this President either is someone's puppet or he soon will be.
Update - 1/30/2021
The States are finally starting to complain about Biden's "rule by executive order" regime:
I'm not necessarily happy about this, since the AGs seem to be saying that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer really control the government. That's a situation which should scare everyone.
Here is a graphic which compares the cost of the "new Pearl Harbor" (9/11) to that of the COVID-19 crisis:
Source - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/putting-the-cost-of-covid-19-in-perspective/
Yesterday I watched the documentary A Good American about the NSA whistleblowers who revealed that the ThinThread system, if it had been deployed on schedule, should have prevented the 9/11 attacks. When you combine their revelations with those in the book Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen, it's difficult to believe the US "intelligence" community was NOT somehow involved in facilitating the 9/11 attacks, at the very least by preventing our remaining honest analysts from discovering what was happening in the months leading up to the attacks.
And just this morning I read two reports stating that previously "ineffective/dangerous/forbidden" drugs might now be used to treat patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus:
Isn't it possible the COVID-19 pandemic might have taken a completely different course if doctors had not been prevented from using these potentially lifesaving drugs?
The point I would like to make is that TPTB seem to have made it possible for both crises to happen. This suggests they have absolutely no qualms about letting thousands (even millions) of us die as long as it allows them to achieve their goals.
Are these the kind of people who should be running our government and telling us how to live our lives?
What do YOU think?
Here is how the Jacobin is portraying the members of The Biden Cult:
Biden’s larger-than-life, bare-chested figure is shown surrounded by ‘holy spirits’ of Twitter and ‘saints’. The latter include kneeling Democrat leaders in the US Congress, Dr. Anthony Fauci, fawning journalists, and manager-class devotees eagerly consuming the ‘holy scripture’ from what is probably the latest Barack Obama memoir. The former president himself is shown as a six-winged seraphim bracketed by the likewise angelic Hillary and Bill Clinton, with the trio gazing benignly from the heavens. A crowd of mask-wearing suburban laymen on Earth celebrates Biden’s ascension. A pair of Reaper drones complete the picture, providing a clear hint for the doubtful that the image should be taken with a grain of salt.
As I have written many times before, politicians use religious imagery to sell themselves and their policies. I agree with the Jacobin that Biden's handlers are doing exactly that.
Here are some comparisons I quoted in the past:
When we enter the End Times, a charlatan whom we call the Antichrist will tell the inhabitants of the earth that they do not deserve the punishments which G-d is inflicting on them and will tell them he will save those who worship him:
Yet, the Antichrist will not be able to deliver on those promises. He has no such powers. G-d will punish those whom He decides are deserving of His punishments, including the Antichrist.
Source - https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2020/04/jesus-doctor.html
How does newly elected President Biden stack up?
But will he really do such things? Can he?
I guess time will tell, but there are other Biblical passages we also should consider. Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation (KJV) says this about the Antichrist (the beast who rises up out of the sea):
2 ... and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
4 And they (all the world) worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
In our world, China is the dragon. And China appears to be at least partly responsible for President Biden's newfound power:
Whatever the case, we have entered China's decade (and perhaps her century), so willingly or not Biden will rise or fall in relation to China's power. Will he, like Trump, seek to thwart the dragon, or will he ride its tail to achieve power of his own?
By the way, if the above analogy is correct then Trump may NOT have been playing the role of Antichrist. Perhaps that's why our satanic overlords have been so viciously attacking him for the past four years.
What do YOU think?
The hypocrisy of the Biden-Pelosi gang is breathtaking.
Although Geriatric Joe has promised to unify and heal the nation, he appears to be focusing on dividing us further and punishing his political enemies:
https://www.city-journal.org/bidens-inaugural-speech-words-of-division
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/build-back-bitter
After four years of tolerating threats of violence against President Trump (which by the way are continuing), they now plan to crack down with an iron fist against all perceived threats against them:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-fear-inauguration-violence-certainly-are-experts
And once again, our military forces are threatening the sovereign state of Syria, which to my knowledge has NEVER attacked the US:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-military-convoy-spotted-in-northern-syria-reports
The irony of the situation in Syria is that US troops and surrogates are trying to oust a legitimately elected president (Bashar al-Assad) at the same time other US troops are protecting a president who according to a significant number of US citizens was NOT legitimately elected:
https://unherd.com/2021/01/the-capturing-of-the-capitol/
In my view, there is no such thing as "good" violence or threats of violence. ALL threats and violent acts are to be condemned. But violence and threats are all the Biden-Pelosi gang seems to understand.
What do YOU think?
This report deals with one of the "green" technologies - CO2 capture and sequestration:
https://news.yahoo.com/us-government-approves-routes-wyoming-194049946.html
Note well - such pipelines are being approved at the same time the Keystone XL Pipeline is being un-approved:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/climate/biden-paris-climate-agreement.html
In a former life I worked for the environmental agency of Texas. As part of my job I attended planning meetings and training presentations for various CO2 capture and sequestration projects. Along the way I noticed a few things:
1. The amount of CO2 being generated in the US is MASSIVELY HUGE. Scaling up from pilot projects to industrial size facilities will be a daunting task.
2. Up to now, even with DOE support few projects have ever gotten very far. And to my knowledge even fewer have been profitable.
3. ANY storage facility, whether above or below ground, eventually will leak. What goes in WILL come out.
I believe the only WORKABLE strategy to meet climate change goals will be to use less energy. And that will require either a reduction in the human population or a painful squeeze in the energy allowance the government will grant to each of us. Yes, energy rationing is coming, and it will be enforced via the Internet of Things.
Considering the fact that our so-called enemy China still burns as much coal as they please as we start to shut down our energy-based economy to meet the goals of the climate change crazies, maybe now you can understand why China appears to have facilitated the "election" of Geriatric Joe Biden.
Update - 1/30/2021
Here is an update on the latest CO2 capture project to go bust, and yep ... it's in Texas:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/power-plant-linked-idled-u-204526410.html
Considering the history of such projects, it would be wise to be skeptical of any claims the Biden gang makes about them. But be careful - any such skepticism could be construed as "domestic extremism".
Wasn't that a wonderful inauguration yesterday? Congrats, President Joe.
I don't think I've seen that many flags in one place since the Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s in Nazi Germany:
Source - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/luongo-epitaph-post-trump-america
And those pillars of light! Straight out of the Albert Speer playbook. Magnificent!
All that was missing were the blackshirts and brownshirts, some of whom yesterday were busy "peacefully" rioting in our urban centers. Oh, and Leni Riefenstahl, who no doubt would have been honored to film the 2021 version of Triumph des Willens (a.k.a. Triumph of the Virus).
Emboldened by today's versions of the Reichstag fire and Enabling Act (i.e., the January 6 "insurrection" and subsequent vote of the Electoral College), our Dear Leader was busy the next day signing the first of dozens of decrees. It didn't appear that he was reading anything he signed, but he did write most of them, right? On second thought, since he was wearing a mask I couldn't really tell who was wielding that pen. It could have been any addle-brained old man.
And while our Dear Leader (or his stunt double) was signing away our lives, his coterie of deranged ideologues was busy drawing up lists of people who are to be disappeared and sent to the camps for daring to disagree with the new regime's diktats or for refusing to accept its legitimacy. You can read about it here:
Some of Biden's supporters even suggest forming a new "secret police" organization to go after domestic terrorists. This definitely would have made Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler proud:
https://summit.news/2021/01/20/leftists-call-for-new-secret-police-force-to-spy-on-trump-supporters/
How many more policing and "intelligence" organizations do we need, for crying out loud?
Fascism has many faces, and it definitely is revealing one of its more ugly ones in the wake of Biden's victory. The worst part is that no one of consequence seems to have the balls to stand up and loudly shout that what we are witnessing is NOT the "triumph of democracy", but is instead the exact opposite.
Democracy, freedom, and liberty die when dissent is forbidden and dissenters are punished, when all newspapers publish only the party line, when political opponents are publicly pilloried (or worse), and when vast swaths of the public cheer on the spectacle.
Many of you probably think alles ist gemütlich and going according to plan, and you're definitely right about that. What we don't know is exactly what that plan is, but I'm certain we'll soon find out. A myriad of thousand+ page bills are about to be rubber stamped by "our" Congress, and when they're eventually read and put in force we'll find out what some of us "voted" for.
And many of us are not going to like it.
Today President Biden celebrated the "triumph" of democracy in his inaugural address. You can read about it here:
He's kidding, right?
Take a look at this definition (or go find one of your own):
A republic (Latin: res publica, meaning "public affair") is a form of government in which "power is held by the people and their elected representatives". In republics, the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are attained through democracy or a mix of democracy with oligarchy or autocracy rather than being unalterably occupied by any given family lineage or group. With modern republicanism, it has become the opposing form of government to a monarchy and therefore a modern republic has no monarch as head of state.
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
True, we don't have a "monarch", but to say the positions of power in the US are not unalterably occupied by any given family or group is completely out of touch with reality. Banks, billionaires, CEOs, and old money control just about every important decision made in this country. Congress merely rubber stamps bills written by others, which they don't even read (let alone understand), without debate or revision. And the people surrounding the president all come from the same narrow segment of society - the rich and powerful - or at the very least are vetted by them prior to taking office or entering the inner sanctum.
So believe what you want, but if the US ever was a republic or democracy, it long ago lost the right to call itself either one. The United States is an oligarchy, pure and simple, masquerading behind the trappings of "democracy".
Update - 1/26/2021
By the way, here is what the US thinks about democracy in other countries:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/supporting-democracy-abroad-gives-right-results/5735293
Nearly 250 years ago, a treasonous cabal of insurrectionists and coup plotters published these words which had been written by a slave-owning, racist pederast:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Such "unalienable Rights" now belong only to the rich and powerful. We the People are no longer worthy of them.
The rich and powerful are in the process of instituting new Government, deriving its powers from the consent of scientists and technocrats and from their own vast riches. Its foundation and powers will indeed effect their Safety and Happiness, but what about the rest of us? We'll have to live outside the walls which will protect our new ruthless overlords.
Although it was their banks, corporations, plantations, and values which destroyed this planet, somehow We the People must now accept the burden for what they did. We must endure austerity while they live live in spendor. We must eat bugs and worms while they dine sumptuously. We must be kept indoors while they fly to and fro as they please.
This is where The Great Reset and Biden's "building back better" are taking us. This is where we're headed. And those of us who don't approve can expect to be silenced, deplatformed, fired from our jobs, disappeared, or worse.
Is THAT what you voted for, or is that just the way the "voting" machines were programmed? Does it even matter any more?
The following patterns are slowly emerging from the 2020 electoral fog:
And I have some nagging questions:
Oh well, back to the man cave to catch a few more z's.
Update - 1/18/2021
Here is a good explanation why the rush to impeach Trump and to vilify his "coup plotters" is as bad or worse than what we did following the 9/11 attacks:
https://unherd.com/2021/01/impeachment-is-more-dangerous-than-donald-trump/
Here is a great explanation why the "stimulus" spending makes little fiscal sense:
https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2021/01/why-does-sleepy-joe-think-we-need.html
And here is a development which reveals where this all is headed - the nation's capital is occupied by armed troops with orders to shoot to kill:
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/534534-thousands-of-troops-dig-in-for-inauguration
Note well - President Trump did not bring armed troops into DC; the Biden-Pelosi crowd did.
The US government now believes that a substantial portion of its own citizens are "the enemy". I wonder what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would say about that?
I've decided to hibernate until Biden's first 100 days are over. The landscape is changing so fast it's difficult to make any useful observations or predictions.
Some previous 100-day efforts include those of FDR, JFK, and Adolf Hitler. It remains to be seen which of those men Biden will most closely emulate. With Pelosi and Schumer calling the shots in Congress and with Big Tech censoring the freedoms of speech and press, something tells me we're headed in the Hitlerish direction.
Here's some theme music to start things rolling:
Here is some data which suggests China's navy is rapidly surpassing that of the US:
https://blog.usni.org/posts/2021/01/13/a-jacking-wave-in-westpac
You also may be aware that US naval shipyards are overwhelmed, behind schedule, and often produce defective ships. Couple those problems with the above data, and you'll get a feeling for the mess we're in.
Our aircraft carrier force probably still gives us an advantage, but how long will US carriers last in a shooting war? We haven't gone up against a truly capable foe since WWII.
What interests me the most is that Congress and the powers that be resisted almost every measure Trump attempted to employ against the Chinese. If they truly believe China is our enemy, why would they do that?
Do they believe they can saber-rattle China into submission? If they do, they're even dumber than I thought.
Here is a persuasive argument that the mRNA products are NOT actually vaccines:
Unfortunately, the speakers do not provide any compelling rationale for why US regulators wouldn't have approved them anyway if they HAD been categorized as medical devices in the first place.
The text of Joe Biden's inaugural address has yet to be released, but I believe it could be summarized thusly:
The time has come for the patriotic and religious extremism of the American cargo cult to be swept into the dustbin of history and forgotten. Its continued existence serves no useful purpose, and it poses too great a threat to homeland security and to world order. New icons and beliefs must take its place, and Americans must no longer look upon themselves as exceptional or their nation as indispensable. Like the rest of humanity, they shall take their place among the nations and be ruled with a rod of iron.
Just as the original Founders of the United States provided legends (or “delusions”) to justify their values and actions to the common people, we as the New Founders will provide new delusions to justify our desired values and our impending actions. Few Americans critically examined the validity of the original Founders’ legends, and it is expected that few if any will examine the new ones we will provide. Together we shall reweave the fabric of the national consciousness, and by so doing provide a more compliant population willing to be led into the New World Order.
Source - https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Patriots-Howard-Uhal-ebook/dp/B00X2SU5Q6/
My advice? Stay home on January 20 and watch it on the tube. It's the COVID-19 thing to do.
Here are three questions I think we should be asking:
1. What does it tell you when Congress and SCOTUS can easily dig up this particular clause of the 14th Amendment, but apparently believe Amendments 1 through 10 can be altered or ignored at their pleasure?
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
2. After spending much of the past four years whining that the Electoral College should be abolished, why are the Trump accusers now so vociferous in their support of it? Is it because the "wrong" person won in 2016, but the "right" person won in 2020?
3. Why use impeachment to remove Trump when para. 3 of the 14th Amendment might accomplish the same thing? Is it because there is no remedy for an impeached president, while the disability of the 14th Amendment could be removed by a future Congress?
Just asking ...
Here is an op-ed which laments falling birth rates the author attributes to the COVID-19 pandemic:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512182-covid-sex-falling-birth-rate/
Hey, dude - That's the whole point of the exercise. There are too many humans, and COVID-19 is the perfect cover story for a coerced reduction in our numbers.
The best part is this plan eventually cuts down on the cost of "safety nets" for the poor, while vastly increasing the wealth of the rich.
Don't you see? The elites ARE looking out for us; just not in the way you thought.
Here are some thoughts from Donald Jeffries:
The two party system was very, very bad. But we are now living under imminent One Party rule. And it’s a party that is far too similar to Big Brother’s in Orwell’s 1984. Frightening prospects exist for the common American under “Woke” party leadership. Reparations? Perhaps a ban or at least an abridgment of the First Amendment? South African-style Truth and Reconciliation committees? Open and strictly enforced quotas in all walks of life? Banning of the words “man” and “woman?” A constitutional amendment to enshrine all 57 genders as ironclad law?
One thing you won’t see under “Woke” rule is an audit of the Federal Reserve and reform of our counterfeit fractional banking system. Or a new JFK assassination or 9/11 investigation. Or a decades overdue upgrade of our Third World infrastructure. Or an abolition of private prisons. Or a change in our misguided, Israeli-driven foreign policy. Or a demand that the intelligence agencies make their budgets public. Or spending cuts for the military industrial complex. Or demands to bring any of the troops home. And most obviously, not even a tepid debt jubilee for all those devastated by the senseless economic lockdown.
Source - https://donaldjeffries.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/storming-into-america-3-0/
Do you see any of YOUR priorities on his list? I do, but they're not necessarily in the paragraph where I would place them.
Here is a report about a "clean energy" project in Canada:
And of course we all remember Solyndra:
https://www.cato.org/blog/solyndra-case-study-green-energy-cronyism-failure-central-planning
In a former life I reviewed air pollution permits for the Texas environmental agency. At one point I conducted an informal survey of "green/clean/renewable energy" projects which had applied for such permits. Most of them never got built, and I don't think ANY of them ever were profitable.
My advice? Make sure any future "green" projects are actually going to work BEFORE tearing down the existing facilities they are intended to replace. Otherwise we may wind up with power shortages on a scale we've never seen before.
Remember this 1971 Pogo cartoon?
A recent statement by historian Andrew J. Bacevich summarizes why it's more important than ever:
For Americans, the defining problem of our time is not China. It’s us.
And here is the essay Bacevich quotes in the above review. Like him, I urge you to read it in full:
https://palladiummag.com/2020/12/14/chinas-real-threat-is-to-americas-ruling-ideology/
Although I agree with most of what Bacevich and Hanania have to say, there is a potential outcome to the US-China competition which they don't seem to recognize. What if the US adopts the China model instead of rejecting it? In many ways we're already there:
1. The US economy is controlled by a cabal of corporate CEOs and bankers whose power is comparable to that of the Chinese Communist Party.
2. The US population is subject to intense corporate and government surveillance which is at least as thorough and onerous as that conducted by China.
3. The US currently is undergoing its version of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, carried out with ruthless determination and likely to have similar results.
4. Public debate is now forbidden in the US. Dissenters are besieged and disappeared by woke mobs.
5. The US lockdowns and other extreme measures, allegedly imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic, look eerily like what China does to its population.
6. Straying far from its democratic roots, the US has turned to rule by decree (e.g., the president rules by executive order, while Congress rubber stamps laws written in secret, not open to debate or revision, and voted on before anyone can read them).
7. Outgoing US government officials no longer can retire or fade into obscurity. They will be hounded, prosecuted, and imprisoned as a warning to their supporters, some of whom will suffer the same fate.
Doesn't this all remind you of the closing scene in George Orwell's Animal Farm?
There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.
But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
You better think long and hard about the people you just "elected". Do you really believe their agenda (if you even know what it really is) will make your lives any better? I don't.
More astute observations from Nebojsa Malic:
Wanting to turn back the clock and restore the American Empire to what it was before Donald Trump’s presidency is a fool’s errand. It’s already a thing of the past – and the storming of the US Capitol was just the last straw.
Don’t take my word for it, though. "If the post-American era has a start date, it is almost certainly today," argued none other than the head of the Council on Foreign Relations – the foremost think tank advocating for the Empire in Washington – after Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol by several hundred Trump supporters protesting the certification of the election for Biden.
"No one in the world is likely to see, respect, fear, or depend on us in the same way again," lamented CFR president Richard Haas.
Source - https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511963-american-empire-capitol-resistance/
While I agree this may be "the end", there are two important things Malic leaves out:
1. While the CFR may or may not be an advocate for empire, they have been toiling endlessly to bring about the destruction of the US republic. Should you doubt my assertion, you should go back and read this essay:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1974-04-01/hard-road-world-order
2. The alleged "storming of the Capitol" seems to have been a staged event which was quickly blown out of proportion by the MSM with the apparent encouragement of the very sort of people who belong to the CFR. It clearly was within their power to portray this event as a "mostly peaceful protest" like they did for all the urban riots of 2020, but they didn't. They CHOSE to make it an "empire ending event". Why?
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. G-d only knows what these deranged people intend to do to our nation, but I'm fairly certain most of us won't like the outcome.
According to this report, India is making great progress in defeating COVID-19:
https://trialsitenews.com/an-unlikely-nation-is-kicking-this-pandemic-guess-which-then-why/
Note well their progress is due to early treatment using hydroxychloroquine and/or ivermectin and has nothing to do with vaccines.
If I recall, President Trump wanted us to have access to these drugs, but TPTB fought tooth and nail to keep them from us. Instead they gave us apparently ineffective vaccines and a one-way ticket to the ICU when we get sick.
Considering this, just who do YOU think is "unhinged" or "deranged"?
Don't believe anyone who claims "the science is settled". If you know history, you'll recall that the scientists of the day helped the Nazis with their bizarre schemes, too.
Here it comes, from Geriatric Joe himself:
In the wake of pro-Trump demonstrators entering the US Capitol Building, Joe Biden made it clear that he views the incident as "terrorism" in comments on Thursday.
"Don’t dare call them protesters," he said from Wilmington, Deleware. "They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple."
Source - https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/08/biden-calls-pro-trump-capitol-protesters-domestic-terrorists/
Is it really that simple?
Why were the rioters/insurrectionists in Seattle, Portland, and other urban centers heralded as "mostly peaceful protestors" and never called "terrorists"? How were their actions different from what just happened in Washington, DC?
Mark my words - a great political purge has begun. The actions of a few people, many of whom may have been paid provocateurs, will now be used as a hammer to crush what is left of the Trump movement.
This will cause many Americans to rejoice. But sooner or later, we'll all regret our version of the Enabling Act of 1933.
Update - 01/09/2021
Here is additional discussion:
You may not realize the potential impacts of this, but it always was inevitable the chickens would come home to roost. This time WE are the target.
Here are some observations from Matt Taibbi:
We sell politics in American media as a soap opera, and the personalities make for lively copy, but properly following the bouncing ball means watching institutions, not characters. Where are armies, banks, central banks, intelligence services, the press? Whose money is talking on the floor of the House and the Senate? How concentrated is financial and political power? How do public and private institutions coordinate? When they coordinate, what are their collective aims? How transparent are they or aren’t they? How accountable?
Source - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/wednesdays-other-story
Considering that Big Tech and the MSM have absolutely destroyed our ability to publicize any narratives except those of TPTB, it's damn near impossible for We the People to know what is going on and who is in charge. All we can be certain of is that it's not us:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511958-social-media-politicians-censorship-riots/
In my view, this is a development which poses a FAR GREATER DANGER to democracy than anything President Trump and his so-called supporters are alleged to have done.
What do YOU think?
Speaker Pelosi wants to deprive President Trump of the ability to launch nuclear weapons:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/pelosi-calls-gen-milley-to-block-trump-from-using-nuclear-codes/
The correct way to do this would be to invoke the 25th Amendment. If Trump's cabinet doesn't agree, then her actions are WAY over the top.
What's really going on here?
US Constitution Article 3, Section 3
1. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Interfering with the president's powers at this time of chaos and perceived national weakness may leave the US open to attack. Doesn't that constitute giving aid and comfort to our enemies?
I submit there is little actual evidence that Trump is "unhinged", but plenty that Pelosi is.
Update - 01/09/2021
By the way, the Germans have noticed China may be taking advantage of the chaos caused NOT by Trump but by how Congress reacted to the MSM-televised phony "coup":
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/508747/DWN-AKTUELL-Guenstige-Gelegenheit-fuer-Invasion-China-haelt-merkwuerdige-Manoever-ab-Taiwan-verlegt-Truppen-und-die-USA-kuemmern-sich-nur-um-sich-selbst [translation required]
Just a coincidence, or is this part of Biden's payoff to China for helping him win the "election"?
Update - 01/10/2021
Here is a discussion concerning why Speaker Pelosi may be guilty of sedition:
I believe she is. Why isn't she being impeached and indicted?
El-On Musk allegedly is now the world's richest person. What does he intend to do with all that money?
Over the past year, Elon Musk's net worth soared by more than $150 billion in possibly the fastest bout of wealth creation in history, according to a Bloomberg report. A pinned tweet on his Twitter profile explains what he wants to do with the money.
"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves," Elon Musk explains in a tweet from 2018.
Source - https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/elon-musks-strange-reaction-to-becoming-worlds-richest-person-2349388
So he's going to build an ark?
How many of us will this modern-day Noah be taking with him when he moves to Mars? I suspect it will be far less than 8 billion (probably less than 8 thousand).
According to this report, Geriatric Joe plans a vaccine blitz:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/biden-coronavirus-vaccinations.html
But a similar effort in Israel apparently has NOT stopped the virus from spreading:
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-forced-tighten-lockdown-measures-132205628.html
So, once again, we must ask, "what's the point?" Is Biden's blitz just a PR stunt?
Update - 1/20/2021
Apparently LOTS of vaccinated Israelis are testing positive:
https://greatgameindia.com/12400-israelis-positive-coronavirus/
Does this vaccine really work? Who knows?
According to cooler (and more objective?) heads, there was no "insurrection" in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. Here are some of the reasons why:
Source - https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/07/the-storming-of-the-capitol-americas-reichstag-fire/
And here's a discussion why it wasn't a "coup" either:
https://mtracey.medium.com/only-in-your-imagination-was-that-an-attempted-coup-8bb8cc9fb39b
In the wake of what happened, Professor Jonathan Turley suggests we need a federal commission to look into the 2020 election:
I agree with him, but how often do such commissions or blue-ribbon panels do anything other than muddy the waters?
We're much more likely to get investigations leading to the indictment of Donald Trump and his so-called supporters. Is that what the country really needs at this point in time? I guess it is if you're one of those who wants to crush his populist movement, but realistically the Trump era is over. Putting him in jail would make him a martyr, and wouldn't that just prolong the turmoil?
If Biden really wants to heal the nation, he should just let Trump fade into obscurity. Isn't that what Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln would have done?
Here is what Jefferson said about an actual rebellion:
"God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independant 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?" [from TJ's Tree of Liberty letter]
And here are Lincoln's intentions following our bloody Civil War:
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." [from AL's second inaugural address]
Or should we use the pretext that both these former presidents were on the wrong side of the slavery issue and therefore should be cancelled along with all of Trump's supporters?
Update - 01/09/2021
Here is Stephen Lendman's analysis of what really happened in DC:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/evidence-mounts-capitol-hill-false-flag/5733918
Looks credible to me. What do YOU think?
Yesterday afternoon I turned off the "news" channels which were fixating on the spectacle in DC, and quite by accident watched the movie The Mandela Effect. I soon realized the movie accurately reflected what was going on in both the Capitol and our national capital.
When our nation's prevailing narrative/paradigm/simulacrum/simulation started to fray and crack (OMG, they noticed the electoral FRAUD !!!), it was time to do what TPTB always do - bring the two opposing sides together and inject violence into the mix. Once the battle erupts (it matters not who fires the first shot), the MSM and social media can easily steer the narrative to the desired outcome - see, we told you, Orange Man Evil. All his followers are evil, too.
And voila, the desired narrative/paradigm/simulacrum/simulation emerges repaired and stronger than before, all cracks sealed and the fraying rendered invisible.
Before you go away thinking that yesterday's spectacle "restored democracy" in the USA, you ought to read these observations by a Serbian-American journalist and blogger:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511740-us-democracy-congress-stormed/
Had yesterday's rioting occurred in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, or any of America's other "enemies", the pro-Trump mob would have been hailed as patriots, heroes, liberators, etc. But instead they're wicked insurrectionists because, as we all know deep down inside, America is wonderful, G-d loves us (and only us), and we would NEVER rig an election.
NEVER !!! (At least not here.)
The best we can hope for from yesterday's clusterfuck is that stability has been restored. We also can hope that those who now control our government will do things which benefit We the People, but from where I sit such a hope would more accurately be called a delusion.
Those who will do anything to seize power usually are doing so purely for the sake of power.
Update - 01/07/2021
By the way, what proof do we have that those who stormed the Capitol actually were Trump supporters?
Once again, the "approved" narrative/paradigm/simulacrum/simulation is being accepted without evidence, investigation, or debate.
