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  • #179332
    D Benton Smith
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    I wonder if the butt ugly Cybertruck will woo the affection of the masses and get it stuck with the name ‘Ugly Truck’. That would not necessarily be a bad thing. It sure didn’t hurt dales of VW Beatles and Ford’s Tin Lizzie.

    If it does work out that way (and it might) then Elon’s high risk genius will pay off again. He saved a BUNDLE (I bet it was 30%) in manufacturing cost by going with the flat panels instead of curved shapes. No lead time wasted building giant body-panel forming machines and endless hours of tricky piece-fitting and difficulties with weirdly inaccessible fasteners in the assembly line. Genius, and the only down side was that the result looks like the automobile version of a Pokeymon.

    #179333
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Indians openly infiltrate and control big Biz and US.Gov….good.
    China covertly infiltrates .Gov according to the ever-execrable Christoph Wray…..bad

    Got it.

    serial child-exploiter Ritter concludes SecOState Antony Blinken exploited an old guy, Prez Biden.

    Henny penny chicken little pot n kettle.

    “Mrs. Gabbard”…….oh christ

    …and so it continues. Can’t be calling a DNI, tulsi.

    Is it transformation, transition or transmogrification?

    #179334
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Here’s a way to rebuild homes in LA – just one example

    Order a steel barn kit. They’re awesome. I saw a guy on Youtube make a nice house out of one for around $60-80k. They’re rated for like 600mph winds and are therefore probably fairly earthquake resistant. I bet if you welded on a few diagonal cross-struts, they’d be even stronger.

    Aircrete is fantastically fire resistant and is a great insulator. Stupidly simple and cheap to make. You coat the inside and outside with 3in thick aircrete panels. If you think it looks unsightly, stucco it. Stucco is concrete and also fireproof.

    If you want to get fancier and have an even stronger structure, set up some rebar on the inside and shotcrete it. Use basalt rebar instead of steel because basalt expands/contracts from temperature at about the same rate as the concrete and does not rust – iron rebar gradually tears a structure apart.

    Congratulations on your totally non-toxic 500-year house you built for what, even with the shot-crete, for 80k? 100k? Building steel barn kits is quick. Shotcrete is quick. Having a super insulated home is way more environmentally friendly than a stupid inefficient one with horribly toxic solar panels and other materials. Building a structure to last is way more environmentally friendly than hauling away massive amounts of landfill every 5-20 years.

    There’s a dozen different ways to make PASSIVELY energy efficient non-toxic homes that DO NOT punish the humans living in them for being sinful wasteful deplorables who should have not been born and should just try to not exist as much as possible.

    I saw an ICF system the other day that instead of using toxic styrofoam, uses aircrete for the inner and outer layers. Bugs eat through styrofoam even though it does them no good. Styrofoam melts under heat. Build ICF aircrete homes and be fireproof AND safe money on energy inputs and home maintenance.

    I grew up in the Chicago area and back when I was a kid, the Chicago Fire was taught in multiple grades. Chicago has (or at least had, idunno) a pretty militant fire code and it propogated through the entire Chicagoland area as it grew.

    You could be driving along 290 through Itasca, 25mi from the Loop, look at the crappy town homes bordering the highway and non-natives would say – “why do those town homes look so weird?” There’s weird 3-foot walls poking up regularly from the tops of the townhomes. What gives? Yeah, that’s the fucking concrete firewall between each unit.

    I moved to Colorado and was baffled looking at the structures around me – where’s the firewalls? Coloradan *(well, actually, Californian) – the what?

    The Denver building boom let me see a lot of apartment construction. When I was a kid, I prided myself on being able to set up a campfire so that a single match, with no paper or other accelerant, would cause the fire to fully light almost instantly. The apartment buildings here are built like THAT. Not to mention they’re quite obviously near-future landfill material.

    People are sinful by their very existence and should try to exist less or better yet go die somewhere. So the leftists, the wokeists, the Democrats, never think in terms of making things better. Everything is apparently a covert attempt to punish. They are INCAPABLE, mentally, of rebuilding properly. They are incapable of fixing their forestry management or fire prevention. These would benefit people, and that would be wrong, sir. WRONG.

    I think on some deep fundamental level this is what is happening. I don’t think I’ve invented some super duper scalable solution to all the problems. It’s just that I’m only a dumb call center worker and I was able to think of this over the weekend between bits of housework. This is our problem – not resources or climate or any of that. It’s that we are not free to solve problems anymore – maybe due to regulations, maybe due to a parasitic memeplex in our heads, whatever. I try to build that fireproof barndominium and everyone from the HOA to the Feds will make my life a living hell, surely. Nothing pisses off status-conscious middle managers with luxury beliefs more than seeing someone just think of doing something, doing it, and being happy about it while not giving a thought to the manager or status in general.

    #179335
    tboc
    Participant

    Dr John would you consider free will being analagous to
    1. observing, receiving information without intent or focus. Non-doing-reaction
    2. measuring, focusing consciousness, putting order to information with intent. Doing – no doing

    Evil – the reaction to incoherant observation, disordered information
    Good – not evil, perception of ordered information

    “Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only becasue there is ugliness.
    All can know good as good only because there is evil.” Laozi

    #179336
    jb-hb
    Participant

    If we care about The Planet™, then all homes should have utility cores and utility hallways.

    All the pipes and conduits and things should be instantly, completely accessible by being inside of a hallway with a door, rather than behind the wall and intertwined with the wooden structure. This allows you to visually inspect your entire home infrastructure. It allows you to directly access ANY part of it no matter how big or small.

    Detroit had corrosive water. This ruined the pipes in all the homes. There’s no fixing it. The homes will have to be knocked down and hauled off to the landfill. Why can’t homes be user-serviceable and why do they have to turn into massive piles of garbage?

    Why did we give up on 9-10ft tall ceilings with tall sash windows and transoms over the doors? You open the lower half towards the wind, the upper half on the other side, and the warm air at the top of the room gets pushed out. What do you need HVAC conduits for, then? Eliminate $10,000’s from your home build and an entire system that requires active energy inputs, maintenance. Let your rooms and hallways be the HVAC system.

    We are chopping down trees and killing birds for windmills and solar panels. wtf. If everyone planted trees and bushes on the east and west sides of their houses, the sun would be blocked in the summer, but in the winter, the leaves would fall and the sun would warm your house. Millions of homes. Would it be the equivalent of finding a whole new 70’s Saudi Arabia? Dunno. But you plant the plants and then it is FREE. No energy inputs or toxic garbage. Also it is nature, if anyone cares about that.

    Couldn’t you replace the siding on ANY home with panels of aircrete covered with stucco and make them fireproof and super insulated? No?

    Because we – well, “we” – are concerned about doing particular sanctified holy things, not fixing problems or making improvements.

    #179337
    zerosum
    Participant

    Confirmation hearing for defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, are starting.
    The USA has a killing machine, DoD, and Pete Hegseth is being questioned if he is capable of running the killing machine for the politicians.

    #179338
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I’ve been thinking about home-building practices in hot places. Seems like the massy adobe-concrete-stucco type houses are what gets used in the Middle East and the US Southwest. Surely this method is fireproof and energy efficient. Why don’t we see this as the primary building method in LA?

    What about this though. Imagine living in your flat-roofed adobe home. You’ve got steps on the exterior that let you access the flat roof. So you can hang out up there, have cookouts or do whatever you want, rooftop garden maybe. You can also maintain your own roof without teetering on the brink of a life-threatening fall.

    But what about this – imagine pillars about 5-10 feet away from the walls of this house. They support a slanted flat roof above your house made of thick-gauge, galvanized, powder-coated corrugated steel panels.

    WHY do we have attics in these climates? YES they are supposed to pull air in at the soffits and eject hot air at the top or sides. Part of the climate system of your house. But they turn into furnaces. All summer long. They’re an absolute pain in the ass to go inside of to get any work done. There’s a host of problems to do with moisture and thermal conduction & convection, etc surrounding attics being attics. Wouldn’t they do their job even better if not enclosed and not full of fiberglass and mouse droppings?

    Well, couldn’t you have an adobe square house AND all the benefits of a roof (shade, shelter from weather, etc) by having the roof system completely separate from the house? You could have a few spare panels on standby. You could make it so the homeowner has easy access to the flat metal roof from his flat adobe roof. Maybe you could make the panels removable from below.

    He can put on a joe rogan podcast, grab a beer, and refurb a few panels on his pleasant shaded roof as a house chore on summer sunday afternoons instead of worrying about a gagilion-dollar roof replacement job or being refused insurance due to roof age. Maybe the steel roof gets pummeled by hail or something? Who cares, the actual envelope of his house, his actual roof, is beneath that, never getting hailed on, never having the sun beat on it continually degrading it, shielded from the greatest temperature extremes by the heat-reflecting steel roof. His panels will get de-rusted and repainted on their normal user-serviceable schedule anyway, no problems. He can maintain it himself or pay the neighbor teenager to do it for $20. Building in adobe and corrugated steel is relatively cheap and non toxic, I think?

    #179339
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    I am wondering if the Russians are being so circumspect about confronting the Empire of Lies/Chaos because they know about the Directed Energy Weapons that someone has available.

    After Lahaina, several other places, and now Los Angeles, more and more of us out here in the real world are figuring out something about them, too. Exactly what we are figuring out is unclear, since there is no “official” acknowledgement of them, no-one admitting to their use, and no public science to explain them (or to explain the anomalies)

    There are too many of those anomalies, like trees unburnt and blue cars undamaged in otherwise devastated square miles of a wasteland with melted steel and aluminum. Like strange secrecies about the hidden terrains. Like devious ownership maneuvers.

    And yes, we don’t necessarily have to believe in Space Aliens (and technologies “borrowed” from them) to address this, even though that might be one possible explanation. Or maybe seemingly “lost” Nicolai Tesla inventions (sequestered by one of Trump’s grandfathers). Or whatever…

    Does our commentariat have any sense of this, however preposterous?

    #179340
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Considering you could pay a homeless guy 5 bucks and a teenth of meth to go out with 2 milk gallons of gasoline and a matchbook to achieve the same effect on upper class and upper middle class suburbs as a multi-trillion dollar black budget energy weapons program…

    ...yes, I suspect the government the most. Who else has access to that kind and quantity of god-tier level stupidity?

    #179341
    John Day
    Participant

    @tboc: I would not consider “free will” to be analogous to what you present. Those look like philosophical approaches that one might choose to pursue, but not the freedom to willfully-choose, itself.

    To my current understanding the biggest willful choice is based on accepting or rejecting karma, which goes with comprehending oneself as part of a connected whole (karma exists) or a separate entity in a mechanical world (no karma).
    If one believes that all sentient beings are connected through sentient mind, then what goes around comes around. If one believes that all sentient beings are separate and discrete units then “selfish” actions, like theft are rational.

    “would you consider free will being analagous to
    1. observing, receiving information without intent or focus. Non-doing-reaction
    2. measuring, focusing consciousness, putting order to information with intent. Doing – no doing”

    #179342
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Who sez the Dems are incompetent? Just look at how perfectly organized and orchestrated the demolition of Los Angeles., That took genius level coordination and timing, bro! Genius

    #179343
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Pete Hegseth is being questioned if he is capable of running the killing machine for the politicians.”

    #179345
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Alexander, they all have them, but only use them on their own populations, as per prior agreement. Same goes for whether modification, hollow points, chemtrails, HARP, 5G, etc. One club.

    #179344
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Alexander, they all have them, but only use them on their own populations, as per prior agreement. Same goes for whether modification, hollow points, chemtrails, HARP, 5G, etc. One club.

    #179346
    Noirette
    Participant

    From link at top post, so, heh, Trumpy is now against Mask + Vaxx mandates.

    After boasting previously he was the Grand Promoter of Warp-Speed Vaccines, super-effective, which would counter, squash the WUFLU, some kind of bio-war fare junk from China, or new bug, I forget now, some horrid threat that would impact innocent and lovely Americans.

    Always good to see the follow-up. 🙁

    From the US Gvmt. offical enquiry. Takes time…

    FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward.

    https://tinyurl.com/yhy6438w

    excerpts from the summary:

    –The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.

    –Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.

    –Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.

    — EcoHealth — under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak — used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.

    > more at link.

    #179351
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “How one calls STEM graduate who has garage full of tools and knows how to use it?”

    Tony Stark?
    Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers?

    #179352
    zerosum
    Participant
    #179353
    John Day
    Participant

    Adjusting To Less https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/adjusting-to-less

    The Honest Sorcerer, The Human Souffle​, Main ingredients: petroleum, minerals and cereals
    ​ As the human system fails to increase its energy uptake, it will no longer have the power to replace lost farmland with more mechanization, nor to compensate the loss of easy-to-mine mineral resources with ever poorer ores requiring ever more shoveling and hauling to get. Something will got to give. Food prices already began to increase rapidly to reflect this new reality, leaving less and less money for consumer goods, cars and houses, and resulting in a ‘cost of living crisis’ unwilling to recede. A collapse in spending, on the other hand, has already begin to turn into a collapse in production — a trend, which might leave us with a glut of oil and resources as manufacturing plants close and as demand evaporates faster than oil extraction declines. Oh, the beauty of self-adaptive systems!
    ​ It follows from all of the above that the consumption crisis will continue to accelerate worldwide as the median age of the population keeps rising, fewer and fewer children are born, and food inflation eats more and more into the average wage earner’s budget. Supply and demand for both food and consumer goods will thus begin to recede as we pass the all time high of world population, together with a peak in petroleum and mineral extraction. In fact we can already observe the first signs of this trend with some pretty serious economic trouble brewing in China — the world’s biggest manufacturer of goods — and stagflation in the West, the largest consumer on the globe. A financial system predicated on growth, on the other hand, will not react so subtly to such developments, threatening to pull the entire economy. How our delusional, misguided, panicky political-economic elites will react to that, however, is an entirely different matter.​ https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-human-souffle

    ​ Financial symbiosis, not parasitosis: Ellen Brown: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
    ​ The Bank of North Dakota (BND) operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. The BND provides a unique, innovative model, in which public ownership is leveraged to enhance the workings of the private sector. It invests in and supports private enterprise — local businesses, agriculture, and economic development – the core activities of a capitalist system where private property and enterprise are central. Across the country, small businesses are now failing at increasingly high rates, but that’s not true in North Dakota, which was rated by Forbes Magazine the best state in which to start a business in 2024.
    ​ The BND was founded in 1919, when North Dakota farmers rose up against the powerful out-of-state banking-railroad-granary cartel that was unfairly foreclosing on their farms. They formed the Non-Partisan League, won an election, and founded the state’s own bank and granary, both of which are still active today.​..
    ..Like private banks, a publicly-owned bank has the ability to create money in the form of bank credit on its books, and it has access to very low interest rates. But the business model of private banks requires them to take advantage of these low rates to extract as much debt service as the market will bear for the benefit of the bank’s private investors. A public bank can pass low rates on to local residents and businesses. It can also recapture the interest on local government projects, making them substantially cheaper than when funded through the bond market.
    ​ The BND’s profits belong to the citizens and are generated without taxation, lowering tax rates…
    ..The BND also serves North Dakota’s local banks. It acts as a mini-Fed for the state, providing correspondent banking services to virtually every financial institution in North Dakota… The North Dakota Bankers’ Association endorses the BND as a partner rather than a competitor of the state’s private banks.​..
    ..Although more than 50 public bank bills and resolutions have been filed since 2010, the only new bank to emerge is the Territorial Bank of American Samoa, founded in 2016. Lobbying in opposition by big private banks has deterred politicians, who are reluctant to rock the boat when times are good and no immediate need is perceived. However, times are not so good today for the majority of the population, and they could soon get worse even for the wealthy.
    ​ To muster the political will to take action, politicians need a business plan in which the benefits of establishing their own banks clearly outweigh the costs; and public bank advocates today face hurdles that the BND avoided by being grandfathered in before the relevant agency rules were instigated…
    ..The deposits of the BND, which was chartered as “the State of North Dakota doing business as the Bank of North Dakota,” are backed by the state itself.
    ​ Another hurdle is that most state constitutions prohibit the state from “lending its credit” to private parties. This has been construed as prohibiting the state from owning a bank, but legal memoranda have refuted that interpretation…
    ..Even many politicians are unaware of how banking actually works. Chartered depository banks have the power to create money as deposits when they make loans, expanding the local money supply and increasing the capacity for local productivity. Over 95% of our money supply today is created by banks in this way. This vast power to create money as credit is one that properly belongs in the public domain… By making banking a public utility, with expandable credit issued by banks that are owned by the people, the financial system can be made to serve the people and local enterprise without draining their resources away.​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/13/ellen-brown-beating-wall-street-at-its-own-game-the-bank-of-north-dakota-model/

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow on US sanctions against Russian shadow-fleet oil sales. Transcript of Firstpost interview: sanctions’ impact on Indian oil procurement from Russia I appreciate the need to investigate alternative supplies. That is prudent and it may prove to be essential. However, there’s another side to the story. The sanctions that Mr. Biden has just imposed are difficult to remove. They are embedded in American legislation, and it would require an act of Congress for Mr. Trump to overturn these sanctions. However, it is also possible, and I’d say likely, that Mr. Trump will simply not enforce these sanctions. There is no ability of Congress or of any American entity to compel him to enforce these… If he simply doesn’t enforce them, then he has no problems, and he keeps on moving with the rest of his political agenda. The actions taken by Biden in the closing days of his administration are vicious, but they also are founded on very poor intelligence.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/14/transcript-of-firstpost-interview-sanctions-impact-on-indian-oil-procurement-from-russia/

    ​ India Expects No Disruption to Russian Oil Supply Until March
    India will allow Russian oil cargoes booked before US sanctions to be discharged until March.
    This move aims to mitigate the immediate impact of sanctions on India, the world’s third-largest oil importer.​ https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/India-Expects-No-Disruption-to-Russian-Oil-Supply-Until-March.html

    #179354
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Slovaks are freezing in the dark. Zelensky ‘Blackmailing’ Europe For Aid, Says Slovak PM Fico In Latest Spat Over Russian Gas https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-blackmailing-europe-aid-says-slovak-pm-fico-latest-spat-over-russian-gas

    ​ Russia, Iran To Sign ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ Treaty This Week
    ​ “On January 17, Vladimir Putin will hold talks with the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian, who will come to Russia on an official visit,” the Kremlin announced Monday.
    ​ The much anticipated treaty has long been in the works, since at least last summer, news of which caused President Zelensky to say there’s an axis of rogue states conspiring to defeat Ukraine. This has included North Korea as well, which has lost troops helping Moscow defend Kursk region.
    ​ As for the treaty to be signed by the week’s close, it was previewed as heavily focused on defense and security cooperation.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-iran-sign-comprehensive-strategic-partnership-treaty-week

    ​ “Up to Putin”? What’s he mean? Trump Affirms He’ll Meet Putin ‘Very Quickly’ After Inauguration
    He was interviewed by conservative news outlet Newsmax and was asked about specifics on his strategy to end the Ukraine war, to which Trump replied “there is only one strategy, and it’s up to Putin.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-affirms-hell-meet-putin-very-quickly-after-inauguration

    ​ GOP Paves Path to Purchasing Greenland with New Bill
    Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles unveiled legislation allowing President-elect Donald Trump to move toward purchasing Greenland once he returns to office.
    After weeks of the incoming commander-in-chief making gestures toward annexing the island territory, the “Make Greenland Great Again Act” will authorize Trump to “seek to enter into negotiations with the Kingdom of Denmark to secure the acquisition of Greenland by the United States.”​ https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-paves-path-purchasing-greenland-new-bill/

    ​Questions arise. Is this “war by fire”? Mega Arson in LA? with the aim to create the First Smart City in a very iconic location https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/01/mega-arson-in-la/

    #179355
    John Day
    Participant

    More from Kyle Young: A Compendium of Sources of Information about DEW’s, HAARP, ICD and Fire Geoengneeing https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/a-compendium-of-sources-of-information

    ​ Newsom’s wildfire response focuses on online “misinformation” while Californians suffer
    ​ California Governor Gavin Newsom has shifted his focus to an unexpected target: online “misinformation.” During a high-profile briefing with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Newsom lamented the spread of what he called “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation,” claiming it is dividing the nation and hindering disaster response efforts.​ Newsom’s rhetoric about combating misinformation raises serious questions about his priorities.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-01-13-newsoms-wildfire-response-focuses-on-online-misinformation.html

    ​ A Message To All Americans From Storm-Ravaged Western North Carolina
    “The federal government will cover 100% of the cost of measures to protect lives and property in Southern California for six months.” Referring to the X post, Ward said, “I hope that happens.”
    ​ Ward then segues to the topic of forgotten and devastated Western North Carolina, asking, “What about Appalachia?”
    ​ “We are 105 days in since one of the most devastating storms known to mankind. We are still supplying our own campers, shelters, while paying mortgages on piles of rubble. We are still running our own supply hubs for many people that lost everything, including homes and jobs. We still have bridges out – only four percent of the debris has been picked up. Many businesses are bankrupt, with insurance denying their claim,” he explained.​..
    ​..”Biden and Mayorkas bankrupted FEMA to pay for illegal immigrant housing, and now American citizens who lost their homes in Hurricane Helene are essentially being told to screw,” Trump spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/message-all-americans-storm-ravaged-western-north-carolina

    ​ When legacy media airs a story it may be taken as a political signal. Juan Cole: CBS’ 60 Minutes Exposes the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide, Interviews the Whistleblowers https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/13/juan-cole-cbs-60-minutes-exposes-the-biden-administrations-complicity-in-gaza-genocide-interviews-the-whistleblowers/

    Glenn Greenwald: Insane New York Speech Crackdown Shields Israel Only​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/13/glenn-greenwald-insane-new-york-speech-crackdown-shields-israel-only/

    #179356
    John Day
    Participant

    Israeli Strike on School in Northern Gaza Kills 8 Displaced Palestinians​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250111-israeli-strike-on-school-in-northern-gaza-kills-8-displaced-palestinians/

    ​ 70 children killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in last 5 days, civil defense says
    Around 70 children were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip in the last five days, the civil defense service said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports.
    The agency did not provide details on the age of the victims, only saying that they lost their lives in attacks targeting several areas across the Palestinian enclave.
    Palestinian children in Gaza continue to bear a heavy toll from Israel’s genocidal war, now in its 16th month, on the territory.
    “The new year has brought more death and suffering from attacks, deprivation, and increasing exposure to the cold,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Jan. 8. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250112-70-children-killed-in-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-in-last-5-days-civil-defense-says/

    ​ ‘​I participated in war crimes’: Israeli troops open up about Gaza genocide
    Israeli soldiers, who participated in genocide of besieged Palestinians, talk about feeling conflicted and regretful, adding they’re talking to friends and relatives about what they saw to process it.​ https://www.trtworld.com/discrimination/i-participated-in-war-crimes-israeli-troops-open-up-about-gaza-genocide-18253408

    Report: Israel Refusing To Commit to a Permanent Gaza Ceasefire as Part of Hostage Deal​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/13/report-israel-refusing-to-commit-to-a-permanent-gaza-ceasefire-as-part-of-hostage-deal/

    Hamas Accepts US-Mediated Ceasefire, Netanyahu Convenes Urgent Security Cabinet Meeting​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-accepts-us-mediated-ceasefire-netanyahu-convenes-urgent-security-cabinet-meeting

    #179357
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A lot of doctors did “drink the Kool​ Aid”​, too. EXPOSED: Soros-funded PAC’s misleading campaign and unverified 17k ‘doctors’ against RFK Jr.’s nomination
    ​ The Committee to Protect Health Care prominently claims the backing of thousands but has shown questionable, if not non-existent verification standards. A further example of this lax process was highlighted when an email was sent, immediately following the test of their online petition, to a fictitiously signed-up supporter, “Dr. Fake,” without any background checks​. https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-01-13-exposed-soros-funded-pacs-misleading-campaign.html

    ​ Meryl Nass MD has the engineering details, many reported by March 2020. The SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein was Deliberately Engineered to Cause Clotting and more
    As I have said for years, this had to have been designed as a bioweapon​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-was

    “Philanthrocapitalism” Bill Gates’ Foundation Tax-Exempt Status Faces Court Showdown Amid Vaccine Profit Allegations​ https://www.brokentruth.tv/p/bill-gates-foundation-faces-court

    ​ Space Weather News points out that the threshold solar-storm severity for a grid-destroying “Carrington Event” drops lower and lower as earth’s magnetic fields weaken, which is now progressing rapidly. the actual figures have been made secret since 2010, but are likely down over 30% since 1900, and 15% since 2010.
    Solar Super-Flare Killshot: What Are The Chances?​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL64EcVMHMs

    #179358
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Excellent interview with Mike Yeadon:

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/licence-to-kill-drugs-with-consequences-with-dr-mike-yeadon

    In December 2020, Drs Mike Yeadon and Wolfgang Wodarg wrote to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to petition for a stay of action, concerning the clinical trials for the drugs which were referred to as ‘Covid vaccines’. The EMA disregarded it, and Mike Yeadon believes that the subsequent rollout of these injections is directly related to widespread illness, death, and infertility.

    Mike goes on to explain why the design and sales of such drugs is entirely reliant upon the premise of contagious illness. His examination of the subject has led him to refute, entirely, the hypothesis offered by germ theory. Since speaking out in 2020, he has been censored and besmirched by the Establishment and mainstream media alike. His many interviews with alternative and independent media channels are best summarised in his Silver Bullet video.

    #179359
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Accent and flair of talking reminds me on Maryanov’s but, of course, with Hispanic twist:

    #179360
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Long and obfuscatory story made short and devastating is that plants absorbing 31% more CO2 than previously scientifically estimated blows giant gaping holes in all of the terrifying CO2 “Climate Change” models, and consequently all of the hair-on-fire demands that humans stop using carbon.

    “Plants Absorb More CO2
    Recent studies indicate that vegetation absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO2) than previously estimated. A study published in the journal Nature in October 2024 found that plants worldwide are absorbing about 31% more CO2 than previously thought, raising the global Terrestrial Gross Primary Production (GPP) to 157 petagrams per year from the previous estimate of 120 petagrams per year. This new estimate was developed by researchers at Cornell University, with support from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, using carbonyl sulfide (OCS) as a proxy for photosynthesis.

    Pan-tropical rainforests played a significant role in this updated estimate, showing that these forests absorb far more carbon than previous estimates had indicated. This finding was corroborated by ground-based measurements, suggesting that rainforests serve as a more crucial natural carbon sink than previously thought when relying on satellite data alone.

    Additionally, a study published in Science Advances in December 2024 suggested that more realistic ecological modelling indicates the world’s plants may be able to take up more atmospheric CO2 from human activities than previously predicted. However, the researchers emphasized that this finding should not be taken to mean that the world’s governments can reduce their efforts to cut carbon emissions. [ Oh really? Why not?]

    #179362
    zerosum
    Participant

    Cooperation From Biden
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/biden-administration-expected-to-lift-terror-designation-for-cuba-report
    Biden administration expected to lift ‘terror’ designation for Cuba: Report
    The decision would reverse a move during Donald Trump’s first term to re-name Cuba a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’.

    This is not the first time the designation against Cuba has been rescinded and reimposed, though.
    And Republicans quickly announced their intention to fight the change.

    “Today’s decision is unacceptable on its merits,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Cuban American lawmaker, said in a statement to the media.

    “The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased.
    I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision.”

    #179363
    zerosum
    Participant

    Why?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17e0k92g41o
    US to remove Cuba from state sponsors of terror list

    President Joe Biden is to remove the US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as part of a prisoner release deal, the White House said on Tuesday.

    Shortly afterwards, Cuba announced it would release 553 prisoners detained for “diverse crimes”. It is hoped these will include participants in anti-government protests four years ago.

    President-elect Donald Trump reinstated the country’s terror designation in the final days of his first presidency in 2021, banning US economic aid and arms exports to the country.

    Adding Cuba back to the list after its removal in 2015 by President Barack Obama, Trump citied the communist country’s backing of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

    At the time Cuba called the move “cynical,” “hypocritical” and an act of “political opportunism”.

    Alongside prompting the prisoner release, this decision is also significant because it can be seen as a step towards normalising relations between Cuba and the US.

    This could pave the way for dialogue on other contentious issues.

    It could also help Cuba’s dire economic situation, as some major banks and foreign investors have struggled to operate there legally.

    Biden is to notify Congress of his plans, which also include reversing Trump-era financial restrictions on some Cubans, a White House statement said.

    He will also suspend the ability of individuals to make claims to confiscated property in Cuba, the statement read.

    It is unclear whether Trump will reverse this latest decision when he returns to office on 20 January.

    The president-elect’s nominee as the next US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has long advocated for sanctions on Cuba.

    His family left the country in the 1950s before the communist revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.

    #179368
    zerosum
    Participant

    Problem #1 is the debt.
    US debt is over $36Trillion.
    Lenders want their loans paid back.
    Tariffs on imports is Trumps solution.

    Oooppps

    Trump indicated he would create the new agency on his first day as president.
    The EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources,’ Trump wrote on social media.

    “The president-elect appears ignorant of the fact that there’s been an ‘external revenue service’ since July 31, 1789,” posted Andrew Feinberg, White House correspondent for The Independent. “That’s when George Washington signed legislation creating the US Customs Service, the forerunner of what is now [the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency].”

    #179369

    He’s privy to the knowingest
    Of people in the know.
    With twenty million viewers- he is trusted.
    So when they feed him info, you can bet that it is so!
    So does he spread their views? Are yours adjusted?

    #179370
    zerosum
    Participant

    I’ll believe it when I see it
    https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-deal
    The Trump Factor: Gaza Ceasefire Deal Appears Close
    Donald Trump’s decisive role in pushing forward the potential ceasefire is evidence that Joe Biden refused to use his full powers as president.
    Jeremy Scahill
    Jan 14, 2025
    ————–
    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202501/15/WS67870f30a310f1265a1dae5e.html
    Gaza cease-fire deal at ‘closest point’, mediator says
    Updated: 2025-01-15 09:28

    #179378
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Gaza cease-fire deal at ‘closest point’, mediator says”

    Based on past episodes, it seems that the probability of a Gaza ceasefire actually being agreed, as opposed to simply discussed, is an asymptotic function, one that can be plotted on a graph getting infinitely close to realisation without actually ever getting there.

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