Like him or not, Cleese has new show going after the communist cancel culture. They will need to be very very careful. Cleese is a brilliant guy who can gut you while smiling politely and then you thank him for the evisceration.
Last year, the comedian slammed cancel culture, saying that it puts “emotionally unstable and fragile” people in positions of power. “Everything humorous is critical,” the Monty Python star said at the time. “If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately, they’re not funny.”
This cracked me up some months ago
Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people
We're sorry for any distress we may have caused
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) April 13, 2021
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Just passed another Captcha test. I am feeling pretty smart today.
From downstairs.
eaglesoars wrote:
Samsung already rolled theirs out as part of Samsung Pay. It connects to a medical records app that wants an incredible amount of protected info. The reviews are scathing even amongs supporters, no one wants to give up their entire medical history just for proof of their covid vaccination.
I just got into a Twitter furball due to the fact James Woods posted a tweet using a picture of dead Americans from 2008 and insinuating it was from the Kabul airport bomb.
I fact check shit. Right and left just see what they want to see.
darkwords wrote:
I wish they’d make it more fun: “Click all images with shitheads.”
Talking of tests I have NEVER had a female doctor do a prostate exam.
@ Possum:
I get included in chain email from a lady in her 80s. They get outraged at stories from 2003.
@ Possum:
I was in the hospital for some minor surgery and they sent in a gynecologist.
@ Bunk X:
I ‘d do better on captcha if the test was famous centerfolds from the 80’s
@ Possum:
Did he instablock you?
Possum wrote:
Just looked. 😀
Bunk X wrote:
Many years ago I hired someone to wallpaper my hallway and paint some doors.
I asked him if he needed a key to get into the house and he said no.
Came home, wallpaper was perfect, doors looked great!
Paid him and asked him how he did it without a key.
He said, I did it through the letterbox. My day job is a gynecologist.
OK not funny to Americans because you don’t have letter boxes.
@ Possum:
Saw a security cam vid, outside and inside images, of a burglar reaching throught the mail slot to unlock the door while his buddy was on lookout. Homeowner heard him, saw the arm reaching through his door and whacked it with a baseball bat.
The US Coast Guard is not under command of DoD, has no representation on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the number of members in that branch is approximately equal to that of the NYPD. They’re part of the DHS and are controlled by congress. I didn’t know this until yesterday.
One of the best article about B*den I’ve read
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9934253/Americas-prayer-Not-three-years-Sleepy-Joe-Biden-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html
Btw.: where are all the celebreties who voted for B*den?
@ Guggi:
morning, I answered you downstairs.
As for all those celebrities, they seem to be in some kind of self-imposed lockdown
Personally, I am of the opinion that fuck ups of this magnitude are not accidents.
@ eaglesoars:
morning {{{eagle}}} thxs for your answer I’ve seen 🙂
I was listening to General Michael Flynn on Warroom yesterday. He pulled no punches. I don’t bother listening to or watching any of Biden’s appearances, that’s a waste of my time here on earth. But according to Flynn, at one point, Biden mentioned that we perhaps could start trading with the Taliban.
Nobody believes that, Biden doesn’t believe that, that was dross thrown down by some hack political operative who thinks the American people are rubes that can be suckered with the right media message. They forgot the part of the media message that shows flag draped coffins being offloaded in Delaware.
And talk about hostages – if there are American women in that group, my advice would be to find the nearest weapon and put a bullet in your own head before the Taliban get hold of you. Flynn was very clear in his warnings about that scenario.
@ eaglesoars:
eagle, I’ve lost controll about all the things he f*cked up: Afghanistan is an international disaster of epic dimension and will hurt the credibility of the US badly and has also damaged the Nato, but he also lost the economy, controll about the Southern border, inflation is sky rocking. To call him an “imbecile” doesn’t even marginally describe his political failures.
Guggi wrote:
Guggi, these aren’t failures. They are acts of deliberate sabotage.
You do realize that all the invaders crossing our southern borders and all of the ‘refugees’ from Afghanistan are not being required to vaccinated, right?
Nobody is that stupid. This is intentional.
eaglesoars wrote:
Same in Austria, but without being vaccinated they can’t go nowhere.
@ Guggi:
…and they have, if not vaccinated, to pay for the PCR-tests now for themselves AND PCR-tests are becoming more expensive. I doubt they want to pay Euro 30 to 40/three times a week.
I have to run. This area of Tennessee is experiencing an infestation of a yard pest called army worms. They destroy everything. There are pesticides but I need to know what’s safe for the heathen beagles. Their vet has a list of pet safe stuff I need to pick up before they close for the day, then I have to hit the freezer section at the grocery store.
Guggi wrote:
here, they’re trying to get us to go along with ‘passports’ but you and I both know none of the illegals will have to have them and if they do they’re counterfeit.
ok, talk later
@ eaglesoars:
beagle 🙂 in corona times
https://de.freepik.com/fotos-premium/beagle-hunde-die-chirurgische-schutzmasken-tragen-konzept-zur-vorbeugung-von-coronavirus-infektionen-hinweise-fuer-hundewanderer-waehrend-des-covid-19-ausbruchs-und-der-quarantaene_12354186.htm
Brand new Samantha Fish:
@ Guggi:
That is animal cruelty and is an automatic death sentence
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, dear, take it easy 🙂 that is not serious.
@ Guggi:
yeah, I know.
So, while I was running my errands, I was listening to warroom and somebody named Jay Kansera (Hindu activist) was on. He laid it out. Taiwan is not going to be the only front. China will move in on Afghanistan, which we all knew, but they will also move in on India w/the help of Pakistan. Remember a few months ago China said they would withdraw from those little border skirmishes w/India. They didn’t. They just regrouped. They’re going back in.
And so are we. Whether we like it or not
Images from NOLA evacuation
https://twitter.com/RyanHokeWAVE3/status/1431651157429075974
The Federal Reserve Is the Monetary Equivalent of the Kabul Airport
The Fed is the monetary equivalent of the Kabul airport. After dumping $5 trillion of helicopter money into the U.S. economy and overstretching supply chains in almost every industry, the Fed is faced with the worst inflation since the Carter era. And the worst is yet to come, as I wrote in Asia Times today (extract below). The rent on a new lease has jumped 10% year-on-year according to the search site Zillow, but rent inflation according to the government is just 2%. That’s because it takes a year or two for leases to expire and the new, higher rents to kick in. A huge jump in inflation driven by higher rents is baked into the cake for 2022. That’s the elephant in the parlor, and Powell didn’t mention it.
The Fed can’t control inflation except by reducing demand, and that means slowing the economy
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2021/08/27/kabul-airport-and-jackson-hole-n1473355
eaglesoars wrote:
Daughter had no traffic last night. She’s squared away in a hotel with her doggles… and cat.
Fact checking the DoD twitterfeed.
https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1429977923549679617
@ Bunk X:
Excellent!
@ Bunk X:
Reminds me of the time the DNC convention played a “tribute to the military” video where the first image was of a Russian navy ship
lol
https://twitter.com/Brick_Suit/status/1430213821344350208
@ lobo91:
That guy is great, what is his name?
Bunk X wrote:
Hello, 911? I’d like to report a murder………..
Anyone got viewer stats for the Little League games vs. MLB?
@ eaglesoars:
JP Sears
The Brits play American roots rock better than most US bands. Maybe Mr. Possum can asplain.
lobo91 wrote:
Missed that! Need to find a link for reposting.
Bunk X wrote:
Hamiltucky OH just beat Sioux City SD, going for the championship tomorrow.
@ Bunk X:
I want to say it was the 2004 convention, but I could be wrong.
Taliban Badri fighters, a ‘special forces’ unit equipped with US gear, stand guard as Afghan wait at the main entrance gate of Kabul airport on Friday
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9935345/Last-UK-flights-leave-Kabul-TODAY.html
scroll down a bit
@ Bunk X:
Looks like it was 2012:
Guggi wrote:
Around 150 Britons and 1,000 Afghans eligible to come to the UK are going to be left behind
gah
I made Kent Rollins’ Green Chile Chicken Chimichangas tonight. Came out pretty good:
@ lobo91:
I made gazpacho and strata
@ lobo91:
lol. Thanx.
Guggi wrote:
Boy nothing unbiased about that relative to Trump. “Trump was a laughing stock to the world”? Sure didn’t look like it from here
@ lobo91:
That would have been funny if it weren’t so true
lobo91 wrote:
2012. I was going to post the link, but my search was to a Snopes article and I don’t post Snopes links
New version of the very first video I ever saw of Samantha Fish, with the new band:
Road deaths graphic: UK vs. US, 2018-2019
https://64.media.tumblr.com/d96300b76aa757c2782c22ac06188988/0fecab52d6c83493-12/s1280x1920/1aaa33ff6082f0c70536f6e6b9f455445465b9da.png
@ lobo91:
Ditto, and it’s the nastiest.
[edit: oop, I meant this version]
https://youtu.be/Bc7wPH-sbGg
Orange Man Bad. 😀
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qy9vw16r7u1vij12m.mp4
Quite a drop.
https://notthebee.com/article/a-major-newspaper-implied-that-900-florida-residents-died-of-covid-in-a-single-day-it-was-actually-as-low-as-eight-this-is-why-people-hate-the-media
morning y’all
Add Blinken to the guillotine list
9 am this morning
Now being told that State Dept. is telling nations surrounding Afghanistan not to allow private jets handling the private extractions to land and/or refuel.
This is inexplicable and evil.
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1431786154047770624
Lara Logan and Dan Crenshaw, both on the ground, reporting State Dept blocking evac attempts
Ronnie Jackson reporting same from D.C.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/08/29/dan-crenshaw-lara-logan-bring-the-most-disturbing-reports-out-of-the-kabul-airport-yet-n1473930
My brother in law lives in upstate NY. He told us the state grabbed 3000 acres of land in a town called Conquest, bulldozed all the trees and are getting reading to install – wait for it – solar panels.
from China
Rather quiet here and at DoD.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is absolutely horrific!!
rightymouse wrote:
Octopus ain’t drunk yet and Bunk is having his afternoon nap.
Good Sunday Afternoon. Working on getting drunk and cursing the hot humid weather here. Not to mention scattered thunderstorms.
Election season is in full swing up here in Canuckistan and it’s getting ugly. Little Potato is getting screamed at almost everywhere he shows up in public. Conservative and NDP leaders are calling out the protests as “not proper”. Lot of rightwing sites are calling for voting for O’Toole (conservative) and I keep getting a refrain going through my head, “Choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil”.
O’Toole is just leftist light and hopes it’s enough to become prime minister. Everything he’s done since getting the leadership makes me want to vomit. Nothing he’s done is conservative or meeting the lines of freedom for the individual.
Sick of everything. So bad even my left leaning younger brother might go other then liberal.
PaladinPhil wrote:
hiya!
That’s a good thing
@ eaglesoars:
Probably won’t vote conservative though. He has mom and dad issues about that.
Good point
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Glenn Beck is flying private planes to Afghanistan for rescue missions.
Not Mark Zuckerberg.
Not Jeff Bezos.
Not Jack Dorsey.
Glenn Beck.
https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1432082147557400586
@washingtonpost
reports that Taliban offered to stay out of Kabul and let US forces secure the city. We told them we only needed the airport. We could have controlled the airport and Kabul and evacuated everyone but chose not to. The incompetence is stunning.
not if it’s deliberate it isn’t
https://twitter.com/marcthiessen/status/1432042278558834688
@ PaladinPhil:
https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BEETLEJUICE-MEME-1297×1536.jpg
@ eaglesoars:
We would have had to bring thousands of additional troops back in order to secure Kabul. No way it could have been done with the forces on the ground.
lobo91 wrote:
A couple things I noticed about that ‘report’. It doesn’t say WHEN this happened so I can’t know what troop level/unit level was at the time. It’s very clear it could have been an offer of “hey, wanna be ‘bait’ ?”
The incompetence issue comes in when you ask yourself “why the fuck are we talking to the Taliban?”
Jonathan Turley: Statements By Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt ‘Demolish the Two Official Reviews That Cleared Him’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/jonathan-turley-statements-by-capitol-police-officer-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-demolish-the-two-official-reviews-that-cleared-him/
yeah, maybe. If this is intended for the U.S. domestic audience, I’m pretty sure we don’t give a monkey’s butt
Nine members of one family, including six children, were killed in the drone strike, a brother of one of those killed told a local journalist working with
@CNN
. US Central Command said earlier they were assessing the possibility of civilian casualties.
eaglesoars wrote:
Where did the Pentagon source the intel for this drone strike?
If the answer is the Taliban there better be hell to pay.
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432122008544980999
The Pentagon is complicit in sacrificing Americans to the Taliban. Excuse me if I don’t give a shit
nite
London: Police dogs are being used against mandate protesters.
https://twitter.com/RastaRedpill/status/1432077923960463362
Bunk X wrote:
First time I watched that I thought ” WTF? looks like a random dog joined in ”
Watching it again and again the dog is on a leash which is held by a police officer and a couple of them are trying to fend it off with shields.
So, it was a police dog, but it is rather small to be an ” Attack Dog ”
That type of dog is not what the British police use as crowd control dogs. They use predominantly German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois and some Dobermans.
That dog could have been a drug or explosive detecting dog that decided it wanted some action.
https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/learning/educational-programmes-and-tours/police-dogs/preferred-breeds-used-by-police-forces-in-england-and-wales
Also, it was not in London but in Newcastle which is 300 miles from London. 300 miles may not seem like much distance in the USA however in England it is the equivalent, scaled, as a journey from Houston to New York.
Well, maybe it was an enthusiastic police crowd control dog. A longer video ( yes the 23 second sensational clips do not tell the whole story ) shows the police were actively chasing the individual for reasons unknown.
Dog handler went to assist, but of course dog followed and did what he was trained to do. That is to help.
At the 37 second mark the handler got the dog off the apprehended criminal and obediently spit out the criminal’s chewed off body parts. Eggroll?
Then the British police deployed horses to trample any bystanders and witnesses to death.
Longer video.
https://twitter.com/benzobmw/status/1432088812352688131
eaglesoars wrote:
I do. I wanted to see those camps leveled as a message
@ Possum:
Yeah, my misinterpretation. Sometimes it takes a while to recover from naps.
“This drug will not bring any big economic profits,” and so Big Pharma doesn’t want to deal with it.”
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-covid-19-could-be-treated-for-under-1day-675612
Emily Miller is a respected reporter. But note that this tweet is in quotes, so someone told her this. I can’t find her source in the thread so I don’t know what to think. FWIW
“We’re dealing with Kabul. There’s 7 buses of female American citizens. The CG refused to open the gate. We have a congressman with us and he had the state department reach out. MG Donahue refused. 10 minutes ago the females were taken by the Taliban. They are likely dead now.”
https://twitter.com/emilymiller/status/1432179085942345730
Micheal Yon is also a respected journalist. One hour after the Emily Miller tweet, he sends this:
KABUL DANGER FLASH URGENT! READ!
I need the DIRECT CONTACT with combatant commander or HQ on the Ground in Kabul RIGHT NOW. Major General Chris Donahue.
LIVES ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER!
Email NOW to MichaelYonTeam@protonmail.com.
SPREAD THIS.
https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon/status/1432177761645252625
I don’t know where he is/was, if he’s in Afghanistan or elsewhere
Ah, here is Emily’s source
Yes source is the retired special ops on the ground in Afghanistan trying to rescue Americans & Afghans but the USG stopped cooperating and on Sunday started actively blocking their efforts on Sunday – cited Biden
@whitehosue
@StateDept
and
@DeptofDefense
https://twitter.com/emilymiller/status/1432186110424272897
More and Miller and Yon
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/7-buses-of-american-women-likely-dead-now/
@ lobo91:
I want Tony Blinken hung by his balls from the Washington monument and set on fire
Chris Plante reported that the families of the soldiers returned to Dover wanted to get away from Biden ASAP because all he wanted to talk about was his son Beau.
Joe’s been looking at his watch a lot lately.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/afghanistan/kabul
Taliban are finding creative uses for our helicoptors.
Hanging people from them
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1432371405727977472
Almost 90 Retired Flag Officers Demand Mark Milley, Lloyd Austin Resign After Afghanistan Debacle
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/30/almost-90-retired-flag-officers-demand-mark-milley-lloyd-austin-resign-after-afghanistan-debacle/
will someone explain to me what a ‘flag officer’ is please?
covid stats
https://twitter.com/bryanvilleneuve/status/1432401892693454850
@ eaglesoars:
Officer O-4 or above…maybe O5…but I think it starts with O4 Major
@ eaglesoars:
Holding off on seeds until the next round of tomatoes. I dont want to send a bunch of early bloomers dna
the rain from da hurricane has arrived
@ rain of lead:
COVIDGLOBALWARMING!!!!!
RUNNNNN!!!!!
lol
I got the pizza oven fired up ,yinz want any?
coldwarrior wrote:
understood, thx
coldwarrior wrote:
anchovies and black olives?
coldwarrior wrote:
HA! I don’t even know what THAT is!
Emerald Robinson does a brutal – and hilarious – takedown of Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes and National Review.
Whatever happens, don’t ever let them give you to the women……
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-national-review-sold-its
How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google
And Why Jonah Goldberg and David French Got Thrown Out
So I had basically caught the editors of the National Review in bald-faced lies about taking money from Big Tech companies like Google to remain silent while those same Big Tech companies censored and de-platformed other conservatives. This was, of course, an unconscionable betrayal for The Flagship Conservative Magazine to commit against its own readers — but they did it anyway. Meanwhile, I was hearing from sources close to the National Review Board that the loss of donors and subscribers was so serious that drastic action would need to be taken. (The magazine had lost about half of its subscriber base in less than two years.) The board was also adamant that Jonah Goldberg and David French were the main culprits behind the astonishing collapse of the magazine’s influence, and that they needed to go. Everybody wanted them off the masthead in order to survive.
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Goldberg was very touchy about the idea that he had been removed from the magazine. He wanted people to know that it was his idea to leave the National Review to fax out a newsletter from his basement (with no name and no money) along with Stephen Hayes. The Drag Queen Story Hour enthusiast David French even tweeted: “There’s news. There’s fake news. Then there’s the absolute premium-grade BS I’m reading on MAGA Twitter and elsewhere claiming that Jonah Goldberg was pushed out of National Review. Completely, totally false.”
What made this so funny was that David French was himself removed from the magazine a few months later! Where did he go? Well, he went to work for Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes and their little newsletter of course. The three of them were now free to plummet into new depths of unpopularity together. The most intellectually bankrupt and vitriolic of the Never Trumpers had finally been thrown into the dustbin of history.
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Did the editors of the National Review learn anything from this debacle? Of course not. The feckless Rich Lowry recently handed the magazine over to the world’s only living Evan McMullin voter Ramesh Ponnuru — who was absolutely nobody’s choice to steer the magazine back to popularity. (If anything, Ramesh Ponnuru represents an even greater slide into snide effeminacy than Lowry, and few thought that was possible.)
oh, god, they left the dogs behind
American Humane Condemns Death Sentence Delivered to Contract Working Dogs Left Behind in Kabul, Afghanistan
https://www.americanhumane.org/press-release/american-humane-condemns-death-sentence-delivered-to-contract-working-dogs-left-behind-in-kabul-afghanistan/
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Flag officers are O-7 and above.
Bordm wrote:
That was my understanding as well. Merriam Webster calls it anyone above Captain, but I’ve always been under the impression that it is Admirals and Generals who are Flag Officers. Making Flag Rank is a big deal that is often more political (as we are seeing these days) than capability driven.
/Oh, that Merriam Webster use it in a sentence thing is infuriating: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flag%20officer
@ AZfederalist:
… and to assert some context: I’ve spent the last 39 years working in the defense industry, a great deal of it with military personnel. They always referred to those above O6 as “Flag Officers”, I never heard anyone refer to those O6 and below as flag officers.
@ AZfederalist:
… and to keep talking to myself; I just got it. Above Captain means above Navy Captain, not rest of military Captain. That would be Admiral level.
eaglesoars wrote:
Home made mozzarella too! Yinz want basil on it?
@ AZfederalist:
I grew up on Air Force bases, dad was a lifer, he retired as a SMsgt. I put in 5, made E-5 in 3.5 years and chose not to re-up because my swamp rat body can’t take sub zero temps for extended periods of time.
@ coldwarrior:
yup, x2 please
coldwarrior wrote:
A given……
more info on the small animal rescue still ongoing in Afghanistan. It’s an object, so I can’t cut-paste. People have stayed behind to take care of them.
https://twitter.com/Liberty5_3000_/status/1432479406761594885
eaglesoars wrote:
They are Kabul Small Animal Rescue, it’s called #OperationHercules and this is their twitter feed
https://twitter.com/hashtag/OperationHercules?src=hashtag_click
Australian Truckers aren’t giving up
https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1432408640342876165
The World Health Organization has just released a guiding document for a digital vaccine certificate that will be blockchain based. This will be used to implement a vaccine passport in every country. It’s funded by the Bill & Melinda Gate’s Foundation & Rockefeller Foundation.
https://twitter.com/Henrik_Palmgren/status/1432049463170715648
Jennifer Griffen on the Blinken presser: It looked like a hostage video
They are working with Kabul Small Animal Rescue
UPDATE!!!! Our efforts of rescuing has expanded to 46 military working & now we are coordinating with our contacts & flights to get the dogs and rescue people out of Kabul on same plane.
Thank you for all your help! This is a mess!
https://twitter.com/VetSheepdogsUS/status/1432046927370022916
@ AZfederalist:
That would be Navy Captain (O-6). Technically, Flag Officer is the Navy’s term for what the other services call General Officers, but it tends to be used interchangeably. O-7 and above.
The reason for it is that those officers get flags with their rank on them. When a general (or admiral) goes someplace, the flag goes with him, and is placed outside the entrance. That lets people know he’s there.
coldwarrior wrote:
You’re thinking of Field Grade officers (O-4 to O-6).
O-1 to O-3 are Company Grade.
lobo91 wrote:
The enlisted men place the flag.
That is so the enemy knows where to bomb.
lobo91 wrote:
See my 110. Yeah, I finally got it
Possum wrote:
I wondered about that.
@ eaglesoars:
Not something you’d typically do in a war zone. You don’t salute, either
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: “What we learned from this COVID crisis, we will be applying to the climate crisis, to the housing crisis, to reconciliation, to making sure everyone has good jobs… ”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1432471333712105480
I’m not sure what ‘reconciliation’ refers to, but he’s a little totalitarian, effeminate bully who could use a quick castration in all senses of the word.
I take that back.
Make that castration slow
4 hrs ago
UPDATE: The 51 working dogs are being watered and fed by a contractor and an Afghan refugee family we are rescuing. They are safe. Working on last minute details in complete chaos of Kabul.
https://twitter.com/VetSheepdogsUS/status/1432427097750794240
@ Bordm:
@ AZfederalist:
Probably why some ex mil are suggesting the joint chief should be an O-6 with combat experience.
@ eaglesoars:
This guy observes the woke.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4W840pUKQArISoyphXxb6V?si=f8b56332dfe24cd0
Wesley Yang. Not my cup of tea but he had some interesting concepts. Says we are undergoing a planned sovietation of society. And there is no return from it unless we start cutting the heads off the hydras.
The left is attacking chokepoints through Soros prosecutors, school boards, and higher ed. If you disagree they will gang tackle you until you can’t debate anymore.
darkwords wrote:
Thanks, I’ll watch it later. But why have I been quoting/paraphrasing Ayn Rand? Fuck ups of this magnitude are not an accident
5 mins ago
I’m still stranded in Afghanistan.
Like myself, hundreds of Americans and interpreters are stuck here.
We were advised not to travel to the airport after my family got separated.
Please pray they make it home safely
Thanks for the follows and Retweets
https://twitter.com/AliSH2637/status/1432505863688781824
wow. I just realized. I have absolutely nothing on my schedule for tomorrow. I don’t remember the last time that happened. Maybe 6 mos. ago.
wiki
Captain was the highest rank in the United States Navy from its beginning in 1775 until 1857, when Congress created the temporary rank of Flag Officer, which gave way to Commodore and Rear Admiral in 1862. The rank of “flag officer” was bestowed on senior Navy captains who were assigned to lead a squadron of vessels in addition to command of their own ship.[6] The 19th-century rank of “flag officer” was considered strictly temporary and became obsolete upon the creation and widespread usage of the equivalent naval rank of commodore; however, the term is still in use today, explicitly defined as an officer of the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard serving in or having the grade of admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral, or rear admiral (lower half), [7] equivalent to general officers of an army. In 1862 Congress authorized the use of the title “admiral”.
Flag of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army
In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the term “flag officer” generally is applied to all general officers authorized to fly their own command flags—i.e., brigadier general, or pay grade O-7, and above.
@ eaglesoars:
Have to be careful of military control. Outlaw Platoon had dogs and when some karen complained about them some base cmdr threw down a technical rule about no dogs on base. Had them shot and burned. Parnell said it left him bitter about the FOB’s
@ AZfederalist:
@ lobo91:
Hard to find a good number but a decade ago there were about 4,000 retired flag officers.
I would think the canine support would bark for Trump. There is a reason Joe’s dogs would bite everyone in the whitehouse.
How much to you want to bet that Fauci is steering vaccine technology to where every human has to be vaccinated twice a year to keep their gene pool profitable for Pharma R&D?
darkwords wrote:
Ah. Thanks
darkwords wrote:
Oh, let’s start naming these people
Chinese elementary school at mortar practice.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1432488665779826688
@ eaglesoars:
Parnell was saying that just about every combat unit ends up adopting a local dog. And then they bend the rules to get them back to the usa.
Inside the Underground Railroad Out of Afghanistan
A list of 500 Afghans was shared with me. Then I was asked to choose five.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/inside-the-underground-railroad-out
darkwords wrote:
Yep. I remember that from the early days of Iraq. The SPCA was involved in that and I got involved for one dog, all I could afford
the State Dept actually tweeted this
(about an hour ago)
The Taliban needs to meet its commitments and obligations in Afghanistan on freedom of travel, respecting basic rights of the people, upholding its commitments on counterterrorism, not carrying out reprisal violence against those who stayed, and forming an inclusive government.
https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1432509849141657601
One big problem for the Taliban now if that they are going to start getting warranty extension calls on their new Humvees.
@ eaglesoars:
Every political expert is calling this view of the Taliban as naïve. Joe Biden playing the Wizard of Oz role.
darkwords wrote:
Walmart greeters are calling this view of the Taliban naive
@ eaglesoars:
A good article. I might subscribe to her substack. There is a lot of tragedy going on.
@ eaglesoars:
lol. yes that is right.
I am out. nite. be well
@ eaglesoars:
I always question where to put what little money I have as a donation. I seem to think substack is a good place. Greenwald and Weiss. Both opposite my politics but clear thinkers. I think.
@ darkwords:
Or to Tim Pool and then reference substacks.
Short baby/dog vid.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1431859363472367617
https://twitter.com/i/status/1432418637873233921
Storm vid with some music.
Another bunk fragment.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2021/08/30/statues/
I always like the creativity of some regular people.
I made my ex go stare at Lenin’s hand in his tomb so hard that the guards had to move her along. I told her I saw a band aid on Lenin’s forefinger.
Well for a couple of weeks I have been ” casually discussing ” ( a.k.a getting into some serious furball fights ) the fact that getting the animals out of Afghanistan was not just getting the animals out but getting the Veterinarians ( some of whom were women ) and support staff and their families out.
The British shelter got their animals out but not the 68 humans. The USA blocked their British issued visas.
Most of the online fights were with right wingnuts who were yelling ” People first! ” Fact was, and I believe this, in the UK’s case the privately funded Operation Ark was not just the animals but the staff also. It was not to be.
Sitting back and watching social media the right is now going nuts about the fact that Biden did not try to save the poor stranded doggies!
darkwords wrote:
I like the idea too. Unfortunately the top bureaucrats only allow people they can control to join the bureaucracy.
Now, to get all this in context I believe Nowzad the UK shelter had 100 – 200 cats and dogs. Only 200.
Kabul is a city of 4.5 million people.
You would think that in that size of population they could find a couple of hundred homes for abandoned animals.
As to the cats. Kabul looks like a fucking shithole with so much garbage on the streets that, to be honest, I would have no problem releasing the cats back to the wild.
Fresh mouse and rat buffet served every day and night. All you can eat!
@ Possum:
In the Islamic countries I have traveled to animals are treated poorly. Only been to a few. And they are probably flabbergasted that the west wants to save cats and dogs.
the handicapped and orphans were not treated much better.
eaglesoars wrote:
😀
Possum wrote:
You have no idea how much the Islamonuts hate dogs and cats. I was there, it is sick. They have a fanatical hatred of them, most would prefer the rats overrun their homes than see a cat. Dogs are just barely tolerated since they are also “unclean”. They are messed up in the head culturally.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is what you get when you let ivory tower eggheads run things
eaglesoars wrote:
I need to stop reading twitter response threads.
eaglesoars wrote:
So you’re gonna need a new post up here by noon?
darkwords wrote:
1967 High School girls
https://twitter.com/BunkStrutts/status/1432594772519096321
darkwords wrote:
POTatUS is playing the part of the curtain. The Wizard is all the little hitlers.
darkwords wrote:
Well frag me. You actually read that crap? 😀
Hit piece on Sidney Powell. It’s taken from Fox and the Big Lie, a two-part propaganda floater by the Australian Broadcast Company.
Wit is not dead.
morning y’all.
update on the 7 busloads of women
safe now?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/seven-buses-kabul-afghanistan-full-american-women-way-airport-taken-taliban-likely-dead-now/
Good morning. Have you people been up all night?
General Donahoe accused me of engaging in “false equivalency” and of downplaying the vaccine, arguing that it was the path to “normalcy.” As the return of mask mandates for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated in cities like Los Angeles attest, this is clearly not true. The real path to normalcy is for military leadership to adjust their risk tolerance. Treating healthy people like biohazards over an illness that has killed two dozen personnel in a force of millions is insane. Those preventative policies have consequences, too; the surge in depression and suicide among the young is real.
Preventative measures make matters worse. One need only look at the case of Michigan and Sweden. Both territories have an equal population. Yet, Michigan suffered 50 percent more deaths from Covid despite implementing lockdowns, school closures, and mask mandates while Sweden did not. General Donahoe simply brushed these facts aside, deciding instead to call me a member of the “disinformation tinfoil hat team” for pointing them out.
He also tweeted at the university where I am a student, Hillsdale College, and told them to “come get your boy” for questioning the military’s quarantine and lockdown policies. General Donahoe, apparently, thinks the private sector is just like the military, where criticism can be stopped, and careers ended, with a mere snap of the fingers. As the thread attracted more attention, one commenter asked the General “how many wars he’d won.” The General responded by accusing the questioner of “shilling for Putin.” When I asked if Putin was the reason America had lost in Afghanistan, the General blocked me.
My interaction with the General serves as a microcosm of the American military’s cultural rot. Here we have a two-star General who spends his days on social media hyping a vaccine for an illness that poses minimal risk to his troops. When pressed on why America can’t win wars and why he embraces policies that treat healthy people like biohazards, his first response is to accuse his critics of treachery and then block them from view.
This is what $693 billion a year buys you: unbridled arrogance from the leaders of a military that can’t win against third world tribesmen armed with small arms and homemade explosives.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-conservative-case-for-cyberbullying-americas-generals/
Bunk X wrote:
1 pm is fine. I have a lot of housework to do, could use the break
Bunk X wrote:
That is SO Northern Virginia.
Oh, remember yesterday we were told Biden would address the nation about Afghanistan today? Yeah, scratch that
Biden will wait until TOMORROW to address the nation on Afghanistan
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1432685888656625671
Bunk X wrote:
Bingo!
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe they couldn’t get any coherent response from him today? The meds won’t kick in until tomorrow.
eaglesoars wrote:
I was up for 1/4 of the morning before I had to take a nap.
eaglesoars wrote:
We’ll let this one ride.
I need to figure out where to get a marriage license.
Bunk X wrote:
If you mean how to get a copy of your own – cuz I just had to – the county clerk’s office where you were married. At the very least, they’ll tell you what gov’t agency has it.
eaglesoars wrote:
No. It cost us about $75 for an expedited search. Apparently it was never recorded, so we need to file a “Declaration of Marriage.” We can do it locally, don’t have to deal with L.A. County.
wow
=========
How badly do Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats want to cover up this Afghanistan debacle?
They just blocked Members of Congress from reading the names of the service members who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan last week.
https://twitter.com/RepCarlos/status/1432751530516652033
(R-FL)
Don’t you think our military deserves better?
Salt works great for mild gum infections. Just rub it on the infected area before you go to sleep and don’t swallow until you wake up.
@ Bunk X:
HAR!!
Hubby’s divorce lawyers forgot to record his divorce. Legally he was still married for YEARS. He found out when he looked for it to get a marriage license for us. He had to get a quickie divorce. Never told me until we applied for a mortgage – which would have shown he was divorced in 1992, not 1985.
eaglesoars wrote:
From what I read online, that happens occasionally, and it’s illegal for the “agent” NOT to record marriage & divorce papers. One jerk failed to record 100s of marriages.
@ Bunk X:
He went looking for his divorce lawyers – they had disappeared. Shysters.
ouch
https://thelibertyloft.com/2021/08/31/anyone-miss-trump-yet/
Jesus on a crutch – he’s asking for help?
@ eaglesoars:
who?
President Puddin head?
One reason to have dogs is that sometimes they climb on the sofa with you, snuffle their head under your arm, put their head on your shoulder, their paw on your tummy and just close their eyes and sigh. Content.
Then you realize they just peed on the floor. Content my ass.
rain of lead wrote:
yep. From the likes of Pineapple Express, etc.
oh, before I forget. I get a lot of recipe stuff and I think this one may have been from thekitchn.com
If you like scrambled eggs – add one tablespoon of mayo (REAL mayo like Hellman’s or Duke, not that other crap) for every 2 eggs, whisk well and cook as usual.
The difference in mouth feel is noticeable – very silky. It makes sense, as mayo is basically eggs and oil. You will need to whisk more than usual before cooking because the mayo will still leave little granule-like pods – but they melt into the egg mixture when cooked. Easy and worth it.
@ eaglesoars:
that… sounds really good, gonna give it a try
@ rain of lead:
It is. There’s not much difference in flavor (unless you use Duke’s, which has a little more vinegar, but I use Hellman’s) but it is total silk. The only other thing I noticed is that the eggs may look a little ‘wetter’ than usual when they’re actually done – that’s the oil. If you like your eggs dry, you will overcook this recipe if you’re not careful
It has been raining here for 24 hrs straight and I have to say my heathen beagles have been enormously patient about the whole thing. Besides peeing on the floor EVEN THO MOM KNOWS TO PUT PUPPY PADS DOWN WHEN OUTSIDE IS BAD.
@ eaglesoars:
I use a splash of coconut oil.
huh,
https://www.dailynews.com/2021/08/31/la-county-to-pay-400000-to-settle-with-san-fernando-valley-church-that-defied-coronavirus-orders/
, which also includes another $400,000 from the state —
so, 800,000 all told
rain of lead wrote:
EGGSELENT!
Why Don’t We Tell Women What’s Making Them Miserable?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/why-dont-we-tell-women-whats-making-them-miserable/
Over the last five decades, feminism has made a long march through American culture, culminating in the first female vice president of the United States. But it isn’t clear that feminism’s fruits are helping everyone. Happiness metrics confirm that women are struggling: Suicides, depression, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted infections have all increased dramatically over the last five decades. Women aren’t becoming happier, just more medicated. A 2020 Pew Report showed that over 50 percent of liberal white women under 30 have some sort of mental-health issue. That statistic alone is stunning enough to indicate that something is going very wrong for the modern woman, despite the steady uptick of feminist advances.
Talk about missing the point. Being miserable is the entire POINT with these losers.
Oh, just fuck right off, Meghan
This is extremely difficult for me to say:
I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful.
This man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man. God help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned.
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1432817975669796865
yeah, try the opium market, sweetcakes. Check w/China and the Mexican cartels. These people have global markets figured out far beyond anything you have delved into. And they’re using crypto, which you assholes can’t even spell
@PressSec Jen Psaki: “We have enormous leverage over the Taliban including access to the global marketplace. That’s not a small piece of leverage.”
Full video here: https://c-span.org/video/?514379-1/white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-briefs-reporters
Your only leverage over the Taliban was in the $84 billion in military equipment you SURRENDERED.
@ eaglesoars:
Joe’s Corsage
https://youtu.be/6n6ED6WpiDM
Daughter returned to NOLA, has her generator for electric & a/c. I hear there are gators in the streets.
Bunk X wrote:
that is very odd……
I’ve been getting invoices from the medical center via email, on their website and USPS. Each one has a different amount, and a few days ago they sent me a refund check despite informing me that I owe something.
Fortunately I have an ally within their system, so I emailed her, asked if I should pay the latest amount ($971.88). This morning she emailed back, said she “took care of it” and that my balance is now ZERO. Amazing.
eaglesoars wrote:
It fits for Megan McC. Any way the wind blows.
Bunk X wrote:
\
We call them politicians. Glad your girl is ok
Bunk X wrote:
When Hubby was diagnosed w/melanoma back in 2000 we had nurse/advocates (Washington Hospital Center) who ran interference for us on all this.
The one nightmare was when his lymph node stuff was mis-delivered by Fed Ex (delivered to the wrong hospital, Children’s, right next door). Talk about bringing out the big guns. Fed Ex was about to launch helicopters. HA!
@ eaglesoars:
Other daughter is taking graduate classes at Tulane – remotely. They’ve cancelled classes for the week, and the facility she works at is closing for Rosh Hashana.
What a pleasure to see a real President talk honestly and be straightforward with US. So happy to know our country is in the hands of an adult.
https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1432822119260311553
I guess Rob is unaware of the 3 year old boy from California who is on the run somewhere in Afghanistan. Maybe he can make a movie about it.
Or not.
Bunk X wrote:
Ah.
I need food. Later.
Bart Simpson lives!
https://twitter.com/NicoleArbour/status/1432539854479503361
@ Bunk X:
Colloidal Silver works well for mouth infections. Uncleharrys.com Chronic issues still need a dentist. You want the 10-30 PPM so your skin doesn’t turn blue from the fake versions.
@ Bunk X:
Doh!
@ Bunk X:
Seems like it has a theme of hurricanes. Wuhan lab theory, covid lockdowns, and Joe Biden xrays. Maybe I am reading too much into it.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m waiting for her lies to twist her mouth. The only leverage she has is the same leverage Obama used on Iran. Give the Taliban pallets of taxpayer dollars to buy their way out of their mistakes. Crooks that think they are getting away with a crime.
@ eaglesoars:
Not something to tell the wife.
“You were still thinking about her weren’t you?” “What about that Christmas sweater you bought me? Where is the receipt? I want to to see if you bought two!!!”
No mention of Mike Lindell on the Bannon election recap today? And Trump won’t be reinstalled as POTUS in August like Lindell suggested.
Bannon is smart to ask for receipts. He didn’t get them from Lindell
I am not a conspiracy theorist but I have way too much time on my hands.
The majority of viruses are stable. They have been around a very long time and so any mistakes, malfunctions or errors in their replication happened long ago so what is left is a very stable virus.
Maybe we are getting so many COVID deviations because it is still an unstable virus. A fresh and young virus.
The way some people talk about this virus makes it sound like an intelligent life form that is adapting. A virus is not. It is just a self replicating “machine”
At the moment there are parts of the virus that are not 100% replicated exactly over time.
That will happen when the virus eventually reaches its stable and final form.
So yes, I do believe COVID19 was a manufactured virus that escaped.
@ Possum:
Don’t ask me for links or supporting data.
I just make this shit up.
And, now time for a beer.
Got a heads up from Rightymouse on Mandy Nagy’s (@LibertyChick) progress.
I was following posts at Legal Insurrection for a while, but then they stopped. I didn’t know Jacobson was posting updates yearly, so there should be a new one in a few days.
Mandy was the one who told fuckface to stop bra-snapping her. She also phoned into one of the Blogmocracy Radio shows.
Scroll down – most recent update is 9 September 2020.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/09/update-mandy-nagy-6-years-later/
@lizthedeveloper
· Aug 26
My mom, telling you that you can learn to read a hex dump, if you just put some effort in (she’s a COBOL coder)
@ Possum:
That might suggest that it is not nice to fool with mother nature.
darkwords wrote:
Mine are infrequent, just annoying. I’m on Avastin so healing takes longer. Here’s a song about a girl who took colloidal silver.
https://youtu.be/OjZvIWV5TW4
@ darkwords:
It’s an all purpose Mother’s song.
I was being fancy and micro controlling my browser security. Was puzzled as to why all of a sudden I was having to relogin to every website.
Had to re enable all third party cookies. Worked like a charm.
eaglesoars wrote:
Approach for our Pastor’s sermon a few weeks ago was, “Some people ain’t happy unless they ain’t happy”. Describes that bunch to a “T”
Possum wrote:
I like true shit, and I’ve employed The Possum School of Debate method occasionally. Someone I don’t know put up a cute graphic on FB that claimed hospitals are filled to capacity with covid patients. I started with the PSD method: “No they’re not.” Things went downhill quickly, veered off topic and crashed so I brought up manhole cover songs.
eaglesoars wrote:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over.
What is wrong with people!? … and not just Meathead, we know he’s a moron. the people responding in that tweet as if this was great leadership and a great victory for our country. If the rest of us weren’t going to be adversely impacted, I’d say they have what the future is bringing coming to them. But we are, so they aren’t just useful idiots, they are the enemy.
@ Bunk X:
Good song. I’ve never seen Kill Bill.
@ AZfederalist:
Conservatives don’t want to start a war that would cleanse all this BS out of the country. The libs have no such problem however.
Conservatives would have to wear an antifa disguise and focus on the never trumpers. Wearing an IVY bowtie would be a target. Agitating to close down Harvard as a den of white supremacy adjacency.
darkwords wrote:
I learned that lesson also. And if you cut and paste a URL without cropping, everything from the ? on is chum for the cookie track back bots.
@ Bunk X:
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/blogmocracy/2012/05/14/blogmocracy-live-special-guest-liberty-chick
darkwords wrote:
what the hell are you talking about?
AZfederalist wrote:
The overriding metric I noticed was their posture of adoration/subjection. For Biden or Reiner or whatever….they all are willingly subjecting themselves on their knees for SOMETHING.
I couldn’t put my finger on it for a while – this isn’t the first thread on my spindle – but they ALL just melt over something or other saving them or validating them.
The rest of us just buy ammo first chance we get.
darkwords wrote:
I think you’re missing a dynamic.. The libs would LOVE a war. The conservatives don’t want to fight one.
bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
@ AZfederalist:
Hmm, try again
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Largely because a lot of us have fought in one and we don’t want to bring it to our shores. They have never fought in one and think it’s like a picnic. They also believe everything they are told by their glorious leaders and think it’s just going to be a quick and easy cakewalk because almost everyone is on the side of the left.
Biden’s oil and gas policy makes about as much sense as his Afghan policy
Biden has done everything to obstruct US oil and gas producers in the name of fighting climate change – while imploring Saudi Arabia, Russia and others to increase oil production to keep pump prices down
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/united-states/article/3146648/bidens-oil-and-gas-policy-makes-about-much-sense-his?mc_cid=472ed46dbb&mc_eid=eddac90d83
@ Guggi:
Good morning Guggi
It makes perfect sense once you understand he’s on the other side
mornin y’all
{rain}
So, this is odd
Lawyer defending 17 alleged Capitol breachers goes missing
John Pierce has been unreachable and missing court dates since early last week
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/lawyer-defending-17-capitol-breachers-goes-missing
@ eaglesoars:
Has anyone checked Kabul?
lobo91 wrote:
It appears an Oklahoma congressman has gone missing over there somewhere, I’ll see if I can find what I read
Here it is. They say he’s safe but nobody knows where he is or has seen him.
https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-representative-threatened-embassy-workers-121600583.html
Exclusive: In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul
“We are f*cking abandoning American citizens,” Army colonel wrote in a frantic series of texts that detail how a group of Americans were rejected at airport as rescue flight awaited.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away
It’s behind a paywall or something but Rasmussen poll shows Biden at 52% disapproval, and only 33% approval among independents.
That’s what’s called cratering.
ADP Private Payrolls Huge Miss 374K, Exp. 638K
off by half
@ rain of lead:
what on earth made them think it would be that high in the first place? Knuckleheads.
More Rasmussen numbers
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1433077726999715856
52% think Biden should resign
40% want him impeached
33% think Harris not qualified to be POTUS
And those are just the DEMS
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/resign-now-52-want-biden-out-but-fear-worse-under-harris
deep state strikes back
President Biden pressured Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to create the “perception” that the Taliban weren’t winning, “whether it’s true or not,” in a phone just three weeks before the insurgents seized control of the country, a bombshell leaked transcript shows.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/biden-pressured-ghani-to-create-perception-taliban-wasnt-winning/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/31/u-s-intel-hits-biden-again-leak-transcript-and-recording-of-call-with-president-ghani-biden-there-is-a-need-whether-it-is-true-or-not-there-is-a-need-to-project-a-different-picture/
@ rain of lead:
yeah, well, fuck U.S. intel, they worked to put him in office, they can suck it
I’m in the construction industry. A national pipe supplier canceled all orders back to June 1, 2021. Everyone told to reprice and reorder. Then you get told they have no way of knowing when you can get delivery. Could be up to 2 months. The crash is here. People just don’t see it
https://twitter.com/duper09/status/1433110718325329923
I head this on warroom this morning too. A guy who owns a business that sells dehydrated food that lasts 25 years says they can’t get buckets they ship their product in because there’s a resin shortage
Never underestimate McTurtle’s depravity
At an event in KY, @LeaderMcConnell is asked if Biden’s behavior is impeachable.
“Well, look the president is not going to be removed from office…I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box.”
“There isn’t going to be an impeachment.”
https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1433108460657381380
Archbishop Vigano has released a new & extraordinary speech on the Great Reset and the New World Order that should be read carefully by every Christian, every patriot, every citizen around the world.
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1433083906148929537
Viganò: considerations on the Great Reset and the New World Order
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/vigano-considerations-on-the-great-reset-and-the-new-world-order/
Yowser. A dam has failed in central PA. I think this is near Ebensburg
https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1433121373325496321
oh goody!
Reports and images on social media received from #Iran indicate that tanks and military vehicles which belonged to #Afghanistan’s army were seen in Tehran and elsewhere. https://tinyurl.com/2vy4bxkj
https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1433108596557033477
@ eaglesoars:
The Afghan Army didn’t have any tanks
@ eaglesoars:
Good morning {{{eagle}}}
Yes, it does
rain of lead wrote:
Well, that should be it for him, then. After all, it was a leaked phone conversation that led to the Trump impeachment fiasco and this transcript is way worse. So I expect Nancy and the dems to start drafting articles of impeachment ASAP.
/s /s
Chase Bank has re-instated General Mike Flynn’s credit card. I’m betting he tells them to piss up a rope.
@ lobo91:
Let me rephrase that. The Afghan Army didn’t have any tanks that the Iranians would be interested in. They had some refurbished T-55s and T-62s. They had no American tanks.
lobo91 wrote:
And they still don’t. Imagine that.
lobo91 wrote:
Excuse me, are those Russian?
eaglesoars wrote:
See, here’s the difference between a party that wins its objectives and you Mitch. If the roles were reversed Schumer wouldn’t be saying what you just said, he’d have gone high order, screaming epithets about an unqualified White House Occupant who is also a traitor, and “darned right we are going to work on impeachment even if we aren’t in the majority!”
Winners and losers Mitch. Guess which one you are. … and no, the fact you keep killing off primary challengers and getting re-elected from a heavily republican district doesn’t make you a winner. It makes you the leader of the losers, that, God help us, we are having to depend upon to keep our country from falling into the Abyss.
Growing fire risk of battery cars forces GM to recall its electric vehicles
AP, 21 August 2021
General Motors said Friday it is recalling all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles sold worldwide to fix a battery problem that could cause fires. The recall and others raise questions about lithium ion batteries, which now are used in nearly all electric vehicles. Ford, BMW and Hyundai all have recalled batteries recently.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-joe-biden-business-health-environment-and-nature-bbe51b0c8e644c4448d634fc3c0f3461?mc_cid=4013cbbc49&mc_eid=eddac90d83
eaglesoars wrote:
Ancient Russian, yes. Older than the crap we had such fun blowing up in Desert Storm, even
Guggi wrote:
Hi ya, Guggi!
I haven’t posted much about it and don’t know what’s being covered in your neck of the woods, but there’s a global crash coming, stock up on food and batteries.
We close on the sale of our house in Virginia on Friday. With the proceeds of that sale, we will have zero debt. If we have to, we can live just on our social security (in the event our investments income crashes too)
lobo91 wrote:
… and if they were maintained by Afghans, probably barely serviceable. Guessing these were captured from the Soviets when they did their “orderly withdrawal”? Which was probably way more orderly than this fiasco that the Biden puppet masters have conducted.
Guggi wrote:
There have always been questions about those damn things. The problem is that the eco-nazis are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Can’t get rid of fossil fuels if you tell the truth about those cars (which use electricity generated from fossil fuels). So they just ignore it.
AZfederalist wrote:
How do you maintain a T-55? Those things are almost as old as I am. Seriously. T-55 went into production in 1957 or 1958? Don’t ask me how I know that, I have no idea, it’s just part of my mental clutter
Russia Today correspondent
From what we saw, and the Taliban confirmed this, every single military aircraft at Kabul airport was sabotaged/destroyed by evacuating US troops.
Many vehicles too – but ammunition, small arms, grenades and even mortar rounds were plentiful. All functional
https://twitter.com/MuradGazdiev/status/1433138047030288396
@ AZfederalist:
They actually bought them from some former Soviet country in eastern Europe fairly recently. They were in decent shape when they received them.
@ eaglesoars:
At the Kabul airport, yes. But not the ones the Afghans had in other places.
400,000??!!
Huge Find of 400,000-Year-Old Bone Tools Challenges Our Understanding of Early Humans
The bones were collected from a place called Castel di Guido, close to modern-day Rome. In the dim and distant past, it was a popular watering hole for the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), and it looks as though a substantial number of the animals died there too.
This newly identified collection of tools shows the ancient hominids of Castel di Guido didn’t waste the bones that were left, but instead set up a primitive production line with methods that we haven’t previously seen this far back in time, at least not to this extent.
“We see other sites with bone tools at this time,” says archaeologist Paola Villa, from the University of Colorado Boulder. “But there isn’t this variety of well-defined shapes.”
“At Castel di Guido, humans were breaking the long bones of the elephants in a standardized manner and producing standardized blanks to make bone tools. This kind of aptitude didn’t become common until much later.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-number-of-elephant-bone-tools-found-at-a-400-000-year-old-site-near-rome
Apparently this is not satire
FOX News
Taliban fighters upset, feel betrayed that US military left non-working helicopters: report
Taliban fighters are feeling angry and betrayed Wednesday after discovering that Afghan National Army helicopters abandoned at Kabul’s airport have been rendered inoperable by departing U.S. troops, according to a report.
An Al Jazeera reporter who toured a hanger on the military side of the airport said in a video that the terrorist group “expected the Americans to leave helicopters like this in one piece for their use.”
“When I said to them, ‘why do you think that the Americans would have left everything operational for you’? They said because we believe it is a national asset and we are the government now and this could have come to great use for us,” she continued.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-fighters-upset-feel-betrayed-that-us-military-left-non-working-helicopters-report/ar-AANZ8Oa
Well, tsk…
Criminey. Remember the EPA’s LOTUS rule? I called it the mud puddle rule. It gave the EPA authority to tell you what to do with every mud puddle on your property?
Trump killed that rule. And a Federal judge just vacated Trump’s override.
darkwords wrote:
Neither have I, but the band is amusing – taking a Tina Turner song and mangling it.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s covid. I mean stress. Oh wait, dehydration.
Elvis has left the building.
eaglesoars wrote:
According to Rasmussen, Biden’s approval numbers have been all negatives since 15 February 2021 when they hit zero. Prior to that they were in the negatives also.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/biden_approval_index_history
Not sure it means much. Rasmussen had Trump mostly in the negatives, too.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. Darned shame.
Bunk X wrote:
It means that even a polling organization as in the tank for the dems like Rasmussen is can’t polish this turd of an administration.
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder if the Biden administration outed him to the Taliban?
@ AZfederalist:
I came to view all these polls as purchased opinions. I wonder if Biden admin peeps are funding these to drive his popularity down in his base.
Here are a few readily available facts about Musk:
…He’s a good father with six sons: triplets, twins and one solo.
** he has almost hit for the cycle. One more at bat.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/29/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.wtrf.com/top-stories/breaking-cambria-county-dam-overspilling-residents-evacuated/
Interesting confession of a CA teacher working to indoctrinate students into ANTIFA.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1433137005316218880
darkwords wrote:
That was a fun read. I used to hate his guts, then I learned a little bit more. I still have problems with the way lithium is mined but it’s an industry problem, not his.
@ AZfederalist:
Point.
Bunk X wrote:
That was a close call. I never faced a dam break but I’ve been thru more floods than I care to remember and I refuse to live anywhere near someplace that can flood.
AZfederalist wrote:
The numbers I showed were for DEMS – not the entire polled cohort
monster tornado video (outside Philly I think)
https://twitter.com/jjbowen89/status/1433198658724503556
@ darkwords:
Local news: The missus says public school enrollment here is down and classes have been cut by half. Meanwhile, private schools are at capacity.
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Daughter returned to NOLA from FL with her doggles and cat, her apartment building is standing but the porch ceiling was sucked away. No power, internet is sketchy, lots of debris, flooding and gators. She’s decided to return to CA and wait for the cleanup before returning.
eaglesoars wrote:
There was a water storage tank a couple miles away that fell apart and sent a 3-foot wall of water into nearby houses.
Whatever happened to the Chinese dam that DID fail? Haven’t heard much about that, and I think there was a twin that wasn’t maintained either.
Bunk X wrote:
I read a few weeks ago that so many kids didn’t show up in Fairfax County schools, they had to start emailing the parents asking “Where’s Johnny”?.
No stats on whether they’re homeschooling, got to private schools or just moved out
Here are the dogs the Pentagon said they didn’t leave behind. Oh, sorry, these are military contract dogs.
Bastards
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1432829324764323848
eaglesoars wrote:
IC leak of Biden transcript shows the Overstate has chosen to hang their failures on him
The institutions exist to protect the institutions
Not serve the American people
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1432862063227965441
Tucker is about to cover the dogs left behind
I think I’m going to become weary of saying “this better not be true” but…this better not be true
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Pardo-Maurer said the U.S. Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was ahead of time, before the bombing and when and where the Kabul attack would occur — the Abbey Gate was at “highest risk.”
Pardo-Maurer went further in his interview. He said not only did they know where and when it would happen, but that they had a Predator drone lock on the bomber.
“Permission to shoot was requested and was denied by the Taliban. Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban who aren’t even in control of their own government or their own people.”>/i>
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-impeachment-bombshell-u-s-predator-drone-had-kill-shot-on-terrorist-before-he-killed-13-marines-biden-bowed-to-taliban-who-denied-permission-to-shoot/
https://twitter.com/NWS/status/1433244740728786945
A Flash Flood Emergency has been issued for Metro New York City. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!
Move to higher ground now! This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding. Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
At 928 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2 and 3.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 3 to 5 inches in 1 hour. Flash flooding is already occurring.
video
Not what the baggage room at Newark Liberty International Airport is supposed to look like. Flooding right now as Ida’s remnants move through the northeast.
https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1433244758713962496
I think we’ve discovered how Biden made his decisions surrounding the surrender of Afghanistan:
Absolutely insane rainfall rates in NYC metro area with MRMS showing greater than 5″ per hour over a significant area. FLASH unit streamflow values off the chart over a large swath. Now over 10″ of rain in 6 hr between Allentown & Trenton. #Idawx #njwx #pawx #nycwx
https://twitter.com/Wxmanms1/status/1433240457539166208
NYC video
https://twitter.com/amgilbert7/status/1433246836337385472
Not. A. Fucking. Chance
Pfizer Is Now Developing A Twice-Per-Day COVID Pill That Must Be Taken Alongside Vaccines
Pfizer is so confident the pill will be approved and likely mandated that it has started production before the end of clinical trials
https://nationalfile.com/pfizer-is-now-developing-a-twice-per-day-covid-pill-that-must-be-taken-alongside-vaccines/
not sure where in the NYC metro area this is, but this is biblical
https://twitter.com/NYJuve/status/1433261176620732417
NYC subway
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1433259058518274048
SO MY DAUGHTER WENT TO OUTBACK AT THE ORLANDO AIRPORT TODAY AND THEY HAD NO STEAK. Yeah, you read that right. I don’t know why. Couldn’t hire a line cook who could be trusted to cook a steak? Supply chain problems? Whatever, it was weird. I was texting with a friend who commented “No steak at the Orlando airport Outback has a canary in a coal mine sound about it.” Well, maybe. There are a lot of canaries out there and most of them don’t mean anything. Most of them.
I keep getting messages and emails from friends about food shortages in the restaurant industry, but they’re all friend-of-a-friend stuff. I’ve asked some of my friends who actually own restaurants and they say supply is okay but delivery is iffy due to a shortage of truck drivers. Meanwhile my daughter made do with a barbecued chicken sandwich. Me, I had a lovely 16 oz. ribeye at J.C. Holdway last night for a birthday dinner. Also a grilled bone marrow appetizer.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/471447/
I was talking to a painting contractor today and asked if he noticed any problems. He said where he used to do one-stop shopping he now has to visit several suppliers to get what he needs.
@ eaglesoars:
and do read the comments on the thread…informative
eaglesoars wrote:
From Cass Information Systems – “As the nation’s largest payer of freight bills, Cass manages more than $26 billion annually in freight spend, enabling Cass to compile meaningful data that serves as an indicator of transportation industry trends.” https://www.cassinfo.com/fr…
“The short-term skid is consistent with recent slowdowns in rail and LTL volumes, much of which is attributable to equipment and driver capacity constraints. Shipment volumes remain limited to no small extent by the capacity of the freight network, as the 121 containerships anchored off North American ports on August 10th attest to.” From the July monthly report. https://www.cassinfo.com/fr… Awaiting August report.
*NYC MAYOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NEW YORK CITY
*DEBLASIO DECLARES NYC STATE OF EMERGENCY DUE TO RECORD RAINS
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1433270670855659524.
ok, this is adorable
https://twitter.com/RandomGrl_/status/1433106432677879811
HAR!
https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1433240104017989634
I’m out, nite.
@ eaglesoars:
I see Red State picked up on the story, as did NewsBusters. That Univision released it is surprising.
eaglesoars wrote:
What about that 3rd rail electricity… and water?
@ eaglesoars:
Huawei
@ eaglesoars:
One commenter called the report fake, as the Predator drone was retired in 2018.
https://twitter.com/phenomenalonex/status/1433263851865264130
He linked to this:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/02/16/air-force-announces-official-retirement-date-for-iconic-mq-1-predator/
Thank God they’re taking care of important matters.
The report is due in March 2022.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/01/can-the-military-boost-recruitment-by-allowing-more-tattoos/
eaglesoars wrote:
I guess it’s even worse here in the EU with the new promise that poverty will be the new paradise otherwise we all will die 8,5 years from now. The German election for a new government is a disaster. The conservative candidate Armin Laschet is without spirit, charisma and program. He is even worse than Olaf Scholz from the SPD but they are geniuses compared to the green candidate Annalena Baerbock who is the darling of the media and the rich. To call her stupid as a rock would be an euphemism. She faked her ecucational curriculum, her recently published book is in most parts plagiarism and she doesn’t know the difference between “cobalt” and “kobold”. She always speaks about the “kobold” from the Congo. She will tell you, this is no joke” that Germany can generate (!) power during the night by cooling down (sic!) the chickens in the freezers in the supermarkets one or two degrees. *)
“Political moralism” has become the dominant agenda setting in all three parties. I couldn’t find anything usefull about “poltical moralism” in English but there is a great essay from 1983 (!) from a German political scientist and former SPD-politician Prof. Hermann Lübbe, which was re-printed 2019. He really foresaw what would coming.
Facts don’t count any longer b’cause they are only a question of perspective you look at them what counts are feelings. It is all about emotions while the EU handed over its industry to China and this is welcomed by the greenies b’cause China “is the leading country to prevent climate change”. Yeah, of course, say “cultural revolution” again. While Germany is closing its last six coal power plants (and buys now power from the coal power plants in Bosnia-Herzegovina built by the Chinese) China is building 43 new coal power plants in China. The West is heading for a dystopia leaving back all we have built up during the last 200+ years.
I’m scared, I’m fed up, I’m tired of this.
Btw.: California is planing to build 5 new gas-power plants b’cause they have discovered solar and wind can’t provide all the needed power.
*) She and her party are still at 18% compared to Armin Laschet (CDU/CSU) 21% and Olaf Scholz (SPD) 23%. So she will probably be a member of the new German government.
@ Guggi:
Oh, I forgot. Cargo bikes are the innovation of the 21st century for transportation of goods and passengers. We don’t need cars any longer in the citys. Make the citys carfree!
Guggi wrote:
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/california-adding-5-temporary-natural-gas-power-plants-to-help-alleviate-energy-shortage/
This is because of the recall election. Gov. Newsom desperately needs to tout an accomplishment, ANY accomplishment, even if it means fossil fuel power plants.
eaglesoars wrote:
UK’s giant battery ‘farms’ spark fears of explosions that can reach temperatures of 660C – even worse than the Beirut port blast – with one expert calling them ‘potential bombs’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9775467/UKs-battery-farms-spark-fears-explosions.html?mc_cid=c6a5a48542&mc_eid=eddac90d83
Now they look for new and less dangerous batteries
(…)
Campaigners against battery facilities have pointed to the prospect of overwhelming fire departments.
One solar farm proposed by the energy firm Sunnica on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border, which would be among the largest in Britain, is attracting fierce opposition both for its proposed size, equivalent to 900 football pitches, and for the potential consequences of a battery failure.
Edmund Fordham, of the group Say No To Sunnica, claims an explosion at the site could be several times bigger than the blast at the Port of Beirut last year. “If you really did have a major accident here, it would be utterly beyond the capacity of any local fire and rescue service to control it,” he says.
Next-generation batteries
Almost by definition, any method of storing large amounts of energy carries risks. But the solution to concerns over batteries may be new chemistry. Barker’s Faradion is developing sodium-ion batteries which he says are less volatile, as well as using elements that are more widely available. “It’s a lot more robust from a safety angle,” he says.
(via Daily Telegraph, behind a pay wall)
Neighbors having a chat.
https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1433145790394998788
Guggi wrote:
I bet Big Lithium will do everything to shut them down.
@ eaglesoars:
A friend of mine developed some of their software.
Bunk X wrote:
Australia, Chile, China and Argentina?
there will be a new thread at 1900 tonight, for info, n’at yinz.
morning y’all
https://thelibertydaily.com/candace-owens-denied-covid-test-by-deranged-white-clinic-owner-over-politics/
Good morning, haven’t read the thread yet, wanted to post this as it’s so…outrageous
https://thelibertydaily.com/candace-owens-denied-covid-test-by-deranged-white-clinic-owner-over-politics/
While visiting Aspen, Colorado, Owens went through the standard process of finding a testing facility. Her assistant turned to Aspen Laboratories, known as Aspen Covid Test, which bills itself as the “Only CLIA Certified High Complexity laboratory capable of resulting Covid-19 PCR and antigen tests in the Roaring Fork Valley.”
They denied her request for appointment.
.
.
Below is the email sent to her by Suzanna Lee, the co-founder of the clinic. It reads:
I’ve just learned of this testing request and as the owner of this business am going to refuse this booking and deny service. We cannot support anyone who has pro-actively worked to make this pandemic worse by spreading misinformation, politicizing and DISCOURAGING the wearing of masks and actively dissuading people from receiving life-saving vaccinations.
The only other local testing facility option is the free kiosk by city hall. They mail their tests to Texas and have inconsistent result times, do not take appointments so its walk in only midday weekdays in their back alley.
My team and myself have worked overtime, to exhaustion, unpaid and underpaid this past year, spending our own capital to ensure that our community remains protected. It would be unfair to them and to the sacrifices we have all made this year to serve you.
Suzanna
Normally, I’d bet Suzanna is in for some serious ridicule, but Aspen…..
@ rain of lead:
oh, dang, you beat me to it!
how’s trick and stuff?
Guggi wrote:
Aren’t we all.
She will tell you, this is no joke” that Germany can generate (!) power during the night by cooling down (sic!) the chickens in the freezers in the supermarkets one or two degrees. *)
People who are that stupid and end up in politics are usually puppets of some other, socially unacceptable, entity that need to find an easily manipulated front. Also, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a month!
I hate solar panels for the sole reason they fry birds. There are other reasons to hate them, but that’s the only one I need. I dropped the Audubon Society over their support of wind turbines because they also slaughter birds. The entire industry got a waiver over the American Bald Eagle, our national bird. If you’re an ordinary schmuck, you get fined for picking up a feather off the ground and sticking it in your hat.
I’m waiting for when enough lithium batteries get dumped into landfills and start leaking into water tables. Morons.
Bunk X wrote:
temporary?
Toyota, GM and Tesla have all recently cut back on production due in part to chip shortage.
Guggi wrote:
Primarily China.
eaglesoars wrote:
The missus is not a schmuck and it fell onto her hat.
In our back yard.
eaglesoars wrote:
Newsom has to say that to placate the daisyheads.
Something called The Center for International Maritime Security has what they call the 66-70-80-90-99 Rule.
66% of global wealth comes from in or near the sea.
70% of the globe is oceanic.
80% of its population is coastal.
90% of goods arrive by sea.
99% of international digital traffic goes by submarine cable.
That last one is interesting. By cutting cables, a nation could isolate another from world communications.
Interesting thread from people all over the country about empty store shelves. One good point made – it may be an issue of packaging.
https://twitter.com/TrumpsBlond_1/status/1433155048289161217
Many reasons. One I heard first hand is: There is a delay in getting parts for trucks in need of repair. Parts come exclusively from China
https://twitter.com/pepperpotmary/status/1433478054467231744
eaglesoars wrote:
and its about time to stop this. Bring production back to the US and to Europe and stop the dependency on China. Industrialisation 4.0 will not bring back jobs on a large scale but self respect and power. The EU (especially Germany) has sold out its economy to China.
China tells U.S. prolonged tensions would hurt climate cooperation
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told U.S. climate envoy John Kerry that prolonged tensions between the world’s two major powers would make it difficult for them to work together in the climate field, according to official Chinese media.
Wang’s remarks on Wednesday came as Beijing has been at odds with Washington over several issues, including its alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong, and security challenges to Taiwan and in the South China Sea.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/09/fb68ea859633-china-tells-us-prolonged-tensions-would-hurt-climate-cooperation.html?mc_cid=1b895c5378&mc_eid=eddac90d83
China’s new U.S. ambassador warns of “disastrous consequences” if Biden administration violates Beijing’s “red lines”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/01/china-new-ambassador-speech-508465?mc_cid=1b895c5378&mc_eid=eddac90d83
@ Guggi:
China has owned the Bidens for a long time. Not to mention Mitch McConnell via his wife’s family
Climate Policy with Chinese Characteristics
Xi Jinping’s emissions-trading scheme shows no indication that it will curb the country’s growing appetite for coal, oil, or natural gas — but it was never meant to.
(…)
“Unlike other ETSs,” writes Carbon Brief’s Hongqiao Liu, “the Chinese scheme does not currently put a fixed cap on emissions, nor promises a declining cap over time. Therefore, it is not guaranteed to cut carbon.”
Whereas programs such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the European Union ETS have firm emissions limits for the sectors they cover and offer fewer permits over time, China’s scheme takes the “cap” out of “cap-and trade.” In so doing, it grants its sanction to the Chinese power sector’s continued emissions increases.
“The current design, this intensity-based target that you allow emissions to increase, that is not very helpful,” says Yan Qin, economist and lead carbon analyst at Refinitiv.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a Russian-Chinese energy and business forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 7, 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
Xi Jinping’s emissions-trading scheme shows no indication that it will curb the country’s growing appetite for coal, oil, or natural gas — but it was never meant to.
As planned, China’s new emissions-trading scheme (ETS) is doing nothing to reduce its emissions.
Launched in July, the ETS encompasses 2,200 companies that operate coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants — facilities responsible for 40 percent of China’s total greenhouse-gas emissions. It builds upon pilot programs in seven delimited regions — including Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing — that began in 2013.
On the opening trading day, July 16, 2021, allowances to emit one ton of carbon dioxide swapped for between 50 and 53 yuan ($7.72 to $8.18), roughly equal to the cost of permits in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, in which eleven states along the U.S. Atlantic Coast participate. By August 20, prices had dropped to 49 yuan, or $7.57.
At $7.57, the permit trading price is 84 percent lower than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates would be necessary to effectively drive down China’s emissions.
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The foremost problem with China’s ETS, however, is not the price at which permits are trading. Instead, the problem is that the plan revolves around “emissions intensity” — a term of art denoting the ratio of emissions to power generation — rather than around absolute volumes of emissions.
China’s scheme allocates tradable permits free of charge to existing power entities as a function of their operations’ emissions intensity and historical power output. The plan places no firm upper bound on the sector’s emissions, nor does it set a timetable for doing so. According to the International Carbon Action Partnership, an intergovernmental climate-policy monitoring group, the nominal cap will be adjusted ex post facto based on actual power-production levels.
While the ETS does introduce an incentive for companies to generate lower-emissions electricity, climate change is precipitated by absolute volumes, not by ratios. This structure guarantees that the power sector’s cumulative emissions will continue to increase.
“Unlike other ETSs,” writes Carbon Brief’s Hongqiao Liu, “the Chinese scheme does not currently put a fixed cap on emissions, nor promises a declining cap over time. Therefore, it is not guaranteed to cut carbon.”
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Whereas programs such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the European Union ETS have firm emissions limits for the sectors they cover and offer fewer permits over time, China’s scheme takes the “cap” out of “cap-and trade.” In so doing, it grants its sanction to the Chinese power sector’s continued emissions increases.
“The current design, this intensity-based target that you allow emissions to increase, that is not very helpful,” says Yan Qin, economist and lead carbon analyst at Refinitiv.
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However much the scheme may have been hailed, this emperor wears no clothes. Even if we account for an intensity-based system’s low expectations, China’s ETS will encounter another set of hurdles around compliance and enforcement.
China differs from the countries and subnational regions that have implemented emissions trading in that its political system begets corruption. According to Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, China ranks below 77 other countries, including places such as Cuba and Belarus.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/climate-policy-with-chinese-characteristics/?mc_cid=1b895c5378&mc_eid=eddac90d83
Guggi wrote:
Absolute volumes of water vapor and methane. Not CO2.
What a load of crap.
lobo91 wrote:
Everyone should have their own special flag!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/you-have-15-minutes-to-take-a-picture-of-your-face-and-text-the-government/
WTF????
i’m gonna launch the new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2021/09/02/ncaa-college-football-open-week-1-and-2-2021/
Guggi wrote:
Guiggi, I’ve been out all day and am tired, will respond tomorrow.