Should be an interesting result
French Election 2022 Today and open
by coldwarrior ( 295 Comments › )Filed under France, Open thread at April 24th, 2022 - 1:54 pm
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Play nice!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/stunning-upset-lepen-trounces-globalist-macron-guadeloupe-martinique-guayana/
@ coldwarrior:
Is this first or second round results gateway is citing? I didn’t see clarification in the article.
@ eaglesoars:
today.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-emmanuel-macron-wins-reelection-frances-president/
@ coldwarrior:
That’s too bad. Altho I did see someone say it was like a choice between cholera and plague
Finland is going to make a bid for NATO and DeSantis signs bill limiting tenure. *snort*
https://dothaneagle.com/news/state-and-regional/desantis-signs-bill-limiting-tenure-at-florida-public-universities/article_4d5df741-c733-5da7-a1d8-fed45bc41113.html
As Speculation Grows That Rash of Food Facility Fires Are Intentional, Here’s a List to See for Yourself
https://noqreport.com/2022/04/24/as-speculation-grows-that-rash-of-food-facility-fires-are-intentional-heres-a-list-to-see-for-yourself/
https://noqreport.com/2022/04/24/as-speculation-grows-that-rash-of-food-facility-fires-are-intentional-heres-a-list-to-see-for-yourself/
more nuts n bolts
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-board-more-receptive-deal-meeting-musk-today-it-re-examines-bid
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/how-to-say-stupid-in-french
coldwarrior wrote:
Finanial wizards on twitter last week saying musk would never get financing. that he was just manipulating the stocks.
@ darkwords:
financial talking heads. yeah, if they were so smart they would be retired by now
eaglesoars wrote:
well in the 60’s we would get plant breakdowns due to Union action. I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden via the DOJ via the FBI are stimulating arson on food sources as a means to control and be seen as a savior. It’s an old political philosophy i believe. The new progs want to want groups like BLM, CRT, and food sourcing to stress the country nationally. While remaining comfortable themselves and asserting plausible deniability.
national security interest.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
heh.
i like stuff like that
@ darkwords:
@ coldwarrior:
Well, there has to be some shareholder feedback getting thru to those knuckleheads.
crabcrawler has a thread on Blackrock.
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1518312809230368768
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I went with the simpler Biden est Pas fute-fute. Bookmarked for future value.
Heavy read
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/era-financialized-fiat-dollar-standard-ending
But worth it
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t understand all of it. But Biden’s catastrophe in Afghanistan, active acceptance of BLM,CRT, and Trans had made other countries and their citizens lose confidence in the US. Then the Russia sanction made them sit up and realize they need to go a different way.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh. I thought it was going to say “Macron” or “Macron Voter”
coldwarrior wrote:
what would be an example of ‘commodity backed currency’?
what is shadow banking?
eaglesoars wrote:
I understood that as being wheat. A value is attached to a nations grain stores and futures. 1 bushel of wheat equals 1000 rubles equals 10000 ren. No dollars involved. I’m not sure about gold. OR natural gas. And hostile nations pay in rubles. The dollar gets weaker.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-twitter-appears-to-make-major-reversal-in-potential-elon-musk-buyout-of-company
@ eaglesoars:
@ darkwords:
more or less yes.
shadow banking avoids the normal dollar driven transactions in favor of anything else including barter.
Lobo: I just signed up for StarLink. Should have signed up earlier in the year when there were openings. I’m now being told that my area is full and availability will be 2023 or later. It will cost the equipment charge which is not trivial, but the monthly service charge is $10.01 per month more for 20 times the download speed and 2x the upload speed. Totally worth it. If I ever get it. But if I don’t get in line now, the line will just get longer.
If Russian exports are denominated in Commodity backed Roubles then there will be a drift towards the Rouble and its value will increase. This is a double edged sword as it makes Russian exports more expensive and imports cheaper. Still if Russia has loads of commodities then it can stand a wee bit of export driven inflation.
🙂
The likes of zero hard commodity economies like Singapore and even Japan will have to translate their services, skills and IP to back their money supply
coldwarrior wrote:
Haven’t the Swiss been doing this for centuries with their banking services?
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m having a hard time believing that the Brandon administration did this on purpose. The use of the US Dollar as the standard reserve currency is what has given them the ability to spend the outrageous amounts on frivolous nonsense that they have been spending. I don’t think anyone in the cabal had the foresight or thought things through when they came up with the Russian sanctions regarding potential side effects or possible ramifications. Nobody bothered to war game out all of the possible outcomes or weren’t smart enough to recognize that showing the control we have of the SWIFT system for arbitrary purposes would potentially lead to other countries stepping away from the dollar. This totally screws the cabal. Even if they are trying to destroy the US as founded, they needed the ability to manipulate the currency to achieve their ends.
@ Aussie Infidel:
yes, and it also insulates said currency against outside intervention and meddling.
an interesting question, would said country participate in the futures market and commodities markets in the traditional sense. if these trade deals are not denominated in dollars, the two countries can set whatever price they like for the deal in a barter system.
like adam smith, english wool for portuguese port wine . why not grain for gas? coal for rice?
the possibilities of this style of market are interesting
@ AZfederalist:
Unless they believe they have finally achieved their goals and the only thing they needed to do was light the final match to burn it all down. That then makes their choice of Biden as the puppet for their governance make sense. He is totally disposable, and if he gets taken out because of the chaos the cabal has caused, that’s great symbolism for the cabal, he is a completely expendable asset.
@ AZfederalist:
bingo.
time to get responsible, and this is gonna hurt, bad. but, in the long run it makes for a stronger economy that is production driven, not finance driven.
coldwarrior wrote:
… and actually make much more capitalistic economic sense than a trade system based upon fiat currency that is manipulated at the political will of an unreliable trade partner.
@ AZfederalist:
very capitalist, in the real traditional sense.
coldwarrior wrote:
One of the fatal errors made by the macroeconomic establishment is about inflation. The proper definition is that inflation is the debasement of a currency by increasing its quantity. It is not about an increase in the general level of prices, which is what the economic establishment would have us believe. The reason this is particularly relevant is because governments through their central banks have come to rely on increases in the quantity of currency and credit to supplement taxes, allowing governments to spend more than they receive in terms of revenue. To properly describe inflation draws unwelcome attention to the facts.
Typical Galbraith- Keynesian fairy tales that have been blowing smoke up our collective arses for 80 years. Hayek actually knew a thing or two but the swamp couldn’t be convinced as huge $$$$ were there for the getting.
@ Aussie Infidel:
inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon – friedman, milton
long read, but it is very thorough and detailed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
coldwarrior wrote:
Or Aussie dollars based on a basket of critical raw materials and know-how (AKA…IP). The market decided the value of the currency. One can then use that currency to purchase whatever one needs in the marketplace. Crypto is based on algorithms that are worth security of data. That is a commodity in itself. When speculation drives a commodity away from its base value is when you start getting into trouble. Think of Crypto as solidified electricity and IT smarts.
Nation States with lots of valuable commodities will end up with currencies in demand. Dirt poor nations with loads of dust, not so much. Vapour commodities like Singaporean Geographic position and shipping servicing, crude oil refining and organizational and logistics smarts can make their own vapour commodities. Dumb as a bag of rocks nations … not so much
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
At last the world may be breaking the Galbraith – Keynesian mindset and wandering back to the real world of real value rather than empty promises backed by …. zip!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
so it’s a derivative
coldwarrior wrote:
hmmmm…what is that system use in the Muslim world?
coldwarrior wrote:
Getting from where the world is now to a world based on real provable value of necessary commodities is going to be bloody and will hurt a LOT, except for those few nations with riches in the ground and smarts between their ears!
coldwarrior wrote:
there was a time when salt was used as currency
@ eaglesoars:
You mean hawala?
Today:
Unexplained Fires Engulf Russian Tank Farms; Oil Pipeline to Germany May Be at Risk
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/04/24/unexplained-fires-engulf-russian-tank-farms-oil-pipeline-to-germany-may-be-at-risk-n555529
Yesterday:
Bad Luck Strikes Russia as Three Major Fires in Two Days Damage Defense and Private Industry
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/04/23/bad-luck-strikes-russia-as-three-major-fires-in-two-days-damage-defense-and-private-industry-n554988
lobo91 wrote:
yes, I think that’s it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Islamic finance is a type of financing activity that must comply with Sharia (Islamic Law). The concept can also refer to the investments that are permissible under Sharia.
The main difference between conventional finance and Islamic finance is that some of the practices and principles that are used in conventional finance are strictly prohibited under Sharia laws.
1. Paying or charging an interest
is usury (riba), which is strictly prohibited.
2. Investing in businesses involved in prohibited haram activities are forbidden. No brewery investments or pork farms! 🙂
3. Speculation (maisir)
Sharia strictly prohibits any form of speculation or gambling, which is called maisir. Thus, no contracts involving future risk.
4. Uncertainty and risk (gharar)
No contracts with excessive risk and/or uncertainty. So no short sell allowed!
Material finality of the transaction: Each transaction must be related to a real underlying economic transaction.
Profit/loss and the sharing of risk between borrower and lender.No one can benefit from the transaction more than the other party.
Hope that helps Eagles
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
First sentence is misleading by ommission: In economics, inflation refers to a general progressive increase in prices of goods and services in an economy CAUSED BY A DEVALUATION OF THE CURRENCY
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yeah, I get the rules, I’m reading about how it actually works. Cuz we may need something like it
coldwarrior wrote:
Red tooth and claw capitalism is good for nobody in the end, hence the need for minor interventions by government, early and minimalist!
🙂
10 mins ago
Three oil bases in Russia burning this hour. Oops.
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1518417345982734337
@ AZfederalist:
I suspect that those wait times are mostly a guess. Last week, it said I wouldn’t get mine until 2023 sometime. Then they sent me an email a few days later saying I could have it now. According to their little colored map, my area is still unavailable.
eaglesoars wrote:
It does tend to restrict innovation and entrepreneurial flair however. I don’t mind if some Elon type risks his shirt and wins big! That is where the Renaissance trumped the Islamist empires and lept ahead. And please don’t labour me with stories about Islam inventing algebra and architecture. Indians and Greeks were doing that for yonks!
ANZAC Day holiday this Monday
(Australian & New Zealand Army Corps)
107th anniversary of the landings at ANZAC Cove n the Bosporous in Turkey.
Lest We Forget
eaglesoars wrote:
A source from TASS informed SOTA that 17 are dead as a result of the fire in this aerospace research military facility, in Tver, Russia. Scope included development of S-400 SAMs and Iskander.
Local journalist Alexander Gamburg saw a list of the deceased that contained 25 names.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1518387653867020288
Apr 19
Posting this in case Russia attacks Bryansk and tries to blame Ukraine. Again
(snapshot of tweet saying military evac’d their families from Bryansk)
https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211/status/1516454620335415300
Yeah, I don’t think Russia is going to blow themselves up
Rewatching Justified. It holds up to a second look. Peaky Blinders I lost interest the second time around. Podcast said Mad Men is a good watch.
@ darkwords:
Did you hear about the Justified revival/spinoff that’s in the works? I think it’s going to be a “limited series” of 6 episodes or so
And then of course we have Justified: Tatooine, with Timothy Olyphant playing Cobb Vanth. Basically Raylan Givens with a blaster.
wut?
Far out, Man: Washington State Declares Term ‘Marijuana’ ‘Racist,’ Strikes It From State Law
As reported by KIRO-7 in Seattle, Washington Democrat state Rep. Melanie Morgan, who sponsored the bill, argued that “the term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and racist.” Sure it is. Before long, the list of terms not racist will be exceeded by the number of terms that are racist by a left-wing country mile.
So why “marijuana”? Ready to connect some ridiculous dots? Here we go.
Morgan discussed the term’s history, which originates from Spanish. “As recreational marijuana use became more popular,” she said, “it was negatively associated with Mexican immigrants.” She declared “marijuana” therefore is “racist terminology” that was used “to lock up black and brown people.”
“This is just another layer, of peeling off the systemic racism that’s built in our system,” Morgan said. And there it is, ladies and gentlemen: pretend “systemic racism.”
“Even though it seems simple because it’s just one word,” Morgan said, “the reality is, we’re healing the wrongs that were committed against Black and Brown people around cannabis.”
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/04/24/far-out-man-washington-state-declares-term-marijuana-racist-strikes-it-from-state-law-n555432
lobo91 wrote:
That has to be the best television I have ever watched
@ eaglesoars:
I’m currently watching Billions
A must read (can’t copy/paste)
Ukrainians at church (I think in the UK) who burst the bubble – war started by cocaine addict Zelensky, the EU caused the war, the Russians got them out – etc etc.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eafa3854cd8e93e12db33aa86398842a8366c1da7b21e3153690417eb3c8bd88.png
And Mark Levin saying anyone who doesn’t want war over Ukraine hates America. He’s lost the plost
lobo91 wrote:
Also excellent.
lobo91 wrote:
Cool, that gives me hope
Locals are reporting explosions in Cherkassy, Vinnitsa, Odessa & Rovno oblasts.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1518463721437380615
bed. nite.
AZfederalist wrote:
If so, why has it never been pursued til now? Or has it?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
lobo91 wrote:
NO i didn’t. Would be fun to watch.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
107 years ago there was just a singly Turkish company guarding the beach when the ANZACs landed at the wrong beach due to the currant. The Brit generals forbad the ANZACs from moving to take the high ground and gave the 20,000 Turks a chance to get back into their positions. The rest as they say is history.Only in 1918 France did Australian General John Monash (a Jew actually) take command for the whole Corps and the ANZACs with an inexperienced US Division under command (although Pershing hated it), swept the Germans from the Left coastal flank Broke through and began true mobile All Arms Battle, with integrated artillery, air armour and supporting infantry. Sweeping the right German flanking divisions aside Germans sued for peace. The ANZAC Corps should have been given its head 4 years earlier, flanked the Germans, won, and gone home.
Instead of leaving 45,000 Aussies and 18,000 Kiwis dead in Flanders field and 120,000 wounded. The British General Staff have a LOT to answer for. I see the Brits are even trying to rehabilitate Kitchener’s reputation after 100 years. The hopeless, bloodsoaked bastard.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
One of the most powerful anti-war songs written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8
The US weren’t there at Gallipoli at the beginning but they finally made it at the end and the ANZACs with 4 years of hard and bloody fighting behind them took the green US division under it’s wing and they fought and won together. Since that time 104 years ago the ANZACs and Yanks have fought their enemies together.
“After Emmanuel Macron was announced as the winner of the presidential election in France, some #antifa gathered for a direct action in Paris but were quickly cleared out by police. #Antifa opposed the election, viewing Macron as too right wing.” With video
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1518423013527592962
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I first heard it performed at an Irish festival a few decades ago. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know the significance, and applauded at the worst possible moment…
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s not misleading at all. It is exactly what happens when M1 and M2 get too large.
Too many dollars chasing too few goods
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Indeed.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Kitchener ranks right up there with Cromwell.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/twitter-could-finalize-deal-with-elon-musk-this-week-wsj/
@ eaglesoars:
Levin is just a word whore. I don’t get why people love him.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/disney-has-lost-34-billion-value-embarking-culture-war-florida
Ouch.
@ eaglesoars:
These are very impressive ops given the security structure in Russia.
coldwarrior wrote:
Indeed. I’m thinking drones.
Anyhoo, crabcrawler has more on Blackrock. They’re pulling crap in France too, which I didn’t know
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1518585151713861633
(2/2020) “The American Blackrock Vulture Fund threatened to withdraw thousands of homes from the rental market in France if price regulations were passed. Hours later, the yellow vests paid a visit to their headquarters in Paris” — via https://twitter.com/union_dublin/
interesting visuals at the link
hearing twitter and Musk have reached a deal (Bongino)
Beijing’s Influence Group Seeks Partnership With US Agricultural Officials, After Teaming Up With Bill Gates for Years
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The roundtable featured a number of U.S. officials, including Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture Blayne Arthur, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Mike Beam, Missouri Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, and Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.)
https://www.ntd.com/beijings-influence-group-seeks-partnership-with-us-agricultural-officials-after-teaming-up-with-bill-gates-for-years_770726.html
Macron didn’t take Biden’s call, Joe had to talk to staff
https://twitter.com/KyleMartinsen_/status/1518630130834452481
eaglesoars wrote:
$44 Billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-buyout-deal.html
BWAHAAAA!!!!!!
The richest lithium deposit in the world is in Maine of all places
But under Maine’s recently enacted mining laws, it’s unclear whether it will ever be extracted.
“We know that the Maine mining laws are such that there’s not one single active mine in Maine,” said Mary Freeman, who owns the land with her husband, Gary, a co-author on the paper describing the find.
“We’d have to get clarification from the state,” said Freeman, when asked whether the couple planned to apply for a mining permit. “They don’t have an area of the rule that explains this kind of work.”
Maine’s metallic mining law was designed to protect the state’s natural resources and keep its water clean. But the state, and its residents, will also need lithium-ion batteries to store energy from wind and solar panels, and run electric vehicles.
https://www.mainepublic.org/2021-10-25/a-1-5-billion-lithium-deposit-has-been-discovered-in-western-maine-but-mining-it-could-be-hard?_amp=true
Iowahawk
The 4 Stages of Elon Twitter Cope
It’s a cheap PR feint
He doesn’t have the cash
LOL he was fired by the Twitter board
JFC WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1518583759670497280
Oh, what happened to “Go build your own platform”?
Musk and his apologists say if consumers don’t like what he does with Twitter, they can go elsewhere. But where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach millions of people other than Twitter?
The “free market” increasingly reflects the demands of big money.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1518655243541618689
@ eaglesoars:
this is delicious to watch.
they need some real honest free speech
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t remember when I laughed so much. But Trump is saying he won’t return to twitter, he’s sticking with his own platform (Hello, Robert Reich!)
Unfortunately, TruthSocial is only on Iphones so I won’t be there for awhile.
I think Musk said something about making Twitter open source. That’s MAJOR. Take your banning algos and shove ’em.
Bezos trolls Musk. Envy/jealousy – not a good look
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/25/23041965/jeff-bezos-twitter-troll-elon-musk-china-spacex-blue-origin
James Carville said the quiet part out loud and totally outed the Prog philosophy of gov’t. YOU NEED FEAR. And this useful idiot at the NAACP (the President, no less) just proved it. They are terrified.
“Mr. Musk: Free speech is wonderful, hate speech is unacceptable. Disinformation, misinformation and hate speechHAVE NO PLACE on Twitter. Do not allow 45 to return to the platform. Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech, or falsehoods that subvert our democracy. Protecting our democracy is of utmost importance, especially as the midterm elections approach. Mr Musk: lives are at risk, and so is American democracy.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1518718443859685379/photo/1
Wouldn’t you love to hear their definition of ‘democracy’?
I will drink their blood from their skulls.
Vlad, you fucked up
Finland, Sweden to begin NATO application in May, say local media reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-sweden-begin-nato-application-may-say-local-media-reports-2022-04-25/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Happens all the time. You’re not alone!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I was about to say that I was looking forward to pissing on their gravestones…. but I like your clause so much better!
HEH
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Just heard that AI #2 son just passed his final exams and is now officially a Detective Sergeant.
Happy dance. I’m exhausted and the whole AI clan needed a lift . Chris is back in ER having the rest of the fluid drained before his Chemo can start. SKYPED him yesterday and he was upbeat but tired.Our baby Brother is flying down to Sydney from the Gold Coast to perk Chris up. He could always get Chris rolling about laughing.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
from one cancer family to another
[hugs]
bed. nite. new dishwasher tomorrow
@ eaglesoars:
Congratulations!
( never saw the previous divorce announcement )
“Django Unmelanated.” 😀
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1518774889129603072
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://twitter.com/ZeekArkham/status/1518683869712719876
It’s earnings week for wall street…
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lot of memes piling up on that dude. Talcum X also.
@ lobo91:
He has some talent.
I think Elon is a classic liberal who wants to hear the conservative side. He realizes that a lack of corruption of these social media platforms benefits his business goals. And the woke virus is bad for every free thinker.
But also in billionaire business thought he sees every person in every country as a customer. Even if they are Chinese or Russian. Biden does also. But Biden and family are corrupt.
@jack seems excited about the Elon purchase. It seems @jack was getting suppressed also? Rumors that Elon is listening to Micheal Malice and Lex Friedman. https://lexfridman.com/
heh.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1517585309495709696
Food shortage – by design
Stuff in here even I was not aware of
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/food-shortage—by-design/article_3fada3f4-c4bd-11ec-be1a-a3c822925ee5.html
eaglesoars wrote:
That is the history of Rome. I have no doubt that there are Soros type disruptors embedded in the Biden government. And they want to make their bones by subverting normal society. Food panic. Kid Panic. Both vectors they like to attack. the woke virus is more deadly than covid. A lot of kids are going to die in African and Asia this year because Biden and cronies want to spend budgets with built in kickbacks on Zelensky.
That honest people can’t organize against this makes me think people are selling out for comfort and money.
I need to get my thoughts more organized around the corruption. I tend to avoid it.
@ lobo91:
He didn’t sound intelligent or wise to me. Just another hack who fell into success. push him hard enough and he’ll get ugly.
There’s enough food to feed everyone in the world. What stops it is corruption in the country economics or supply chain inefficiencies.
China is starving Shanghai on purpose.
A small negative example is Ben and Jerrys ice cream who consciously choose not to direct their food towards Israel. That is where all that woke, crt stuff is headed. NO food unless you convert. It doesn’t have to be that way but the world isn’t stamping out the woke virus well. The US will probably signal a direction in this next election.
@ eaglesoars:
Spooky, but why was it written under a pseudonym?
darkwords wrote:
Yep. At this point in civilization, I think all famines are man made
A look at the twitter Board of Directors. Meet 11 of the most vapid, intellectually bankrupt people ever to grace a board room.
A Look Back at the Deranged Twitter Board Members Who Nearly Murdered the Company
https://www.revolver.news/2022/04/disastrous-twitter-board-members-and-the-elon-musk-takeover/
@ eaglesoars:
That was one of P.J. O’Rourke’s points in “All The Trouble In The World” (1995).
Oh not this crap again
Incandescent light bulbs being phased out to save energy
The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, speeding an ongoing trend toward more efficient lighting that officials say will save households, schools and businesses billions of dollars a year.
Rules finalized by the Energy Department will require manufacturers to sell energy-efficient light bulbs, accelerating a longtime industry practice to use compact fluorescent and LED bulbs that last 25 to 50 times longer than incandescent bulbs. The Trump administration had slowed an earlier phaseout of incandescents, saying it was targeting rules that burden businesses.
https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-3b67bbd3c37886459d07d5aad7c03984
@ eaglesoars:
And the perma-lie that it saves money, that is until your local utility raises rates to compensate for lost revenue due to efficiency gains. FTFF. Bought enough 60 and 100W back when jugears was in office to last my life and whoever inherits my junk when I kick.
Thanks for the email, will reach out.
/galt
@ CynicalConservative:
Fred Upton, the RINO who is responsible for that legislation last go-round, has decided to retire. I’ve never forgiven him
Vice President Harris has been prescribed and has taken Paxlovid, an antiviral pill used to treat COVID-19.
Harris press secretary Kirsten Allen tweeted the announcement about the vice president’s treatment on Tuesday. It came just hours after it was announced that Harris, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, tested positive for COVID-19.
https://thehill.com/news/administration/3467171-harris-prescribed-covid-19-antiviral-pill-after-testing-positive/
People who took Pfizer’s COVID pill Paxlovid, reported that following the five-day treatment period, they would begin testing positive for Covid again and it has as a result failed in clinical trials.
https://greatgameindia.com/paxlovid-fails-clinical-trials/
E. coli scare prompts recall of more than 60 tons of ground beef
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/ground-beef-recall-e-coli-se-grocers-thomas-farms-weis-by-nature-rcna26154
@ eaglesoars:
Chris STILL hasn’t been drained again because of staff shortages!
Maybe later today or tomorrow…. he’s suffering and is quite uncomfortable..
Just drain the poor guy.
Oncologist gave him the 6-12 months tops call. Upset him because it draws a line under it. Disobey. Don’t use their bloody schedule. Live on your own schedule.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I don’t know WHAT the hell is going on in your neck of the woods re staffing. CW and my BFF who has been in nursing since she was 19 (51 years and still at it) could rain fire about what’s going on here.
What I’ve noticed that has changed during the pandemic is a callus disregard for patient care. Patients aren’t people anymore. They’re ‘units of measurement’ that are evaluated according to whatever metric the hospital system is going to incentivize or minimize. And the ‘racial equity’ bullshit some of these med professionals are trying to impose. Triage now includes racial reparations for supposedly past injustices. A black woman with a broken bone will take priority over a white male with an auto accident head injury. And doctors have seemingly disappeared unless they’re required to sign off on something.
I’m seeing in the UK suspicions that elderly were murdered using a drug similar to valium (while families were not allowed to visit) and marked as covid deaths. Easier on an over-worked staff, clear the bed, NEXT!
I’ve seen one case about that in the US – a teenage girl, the family put up a billboard. But I’ve had a really busy day and it didn’t sink in until I was about 30 minutes after my ‘scan’
bed. nite.
The whole ‘let Omicron rip’ plan is working out as planned with up to 50% of staff especially ambulance and ER staff vanishing home to isolate. Couldn’t have happened at a worse time for Chris. He is jst in the Public system and they are just overwhelmed and it shows. Still it costs nothing to be clear about what they plan and the schedule. Information is in short supply and those who don’t complain go to the end of the line. This drain BS is a case in point. It should have been fixed when a drain became disconnected accidentally. It should have been reconnected immediately. What happened was yet another long public holiday weekend and another very painful delay after two previous Easter delays.
SPIT
darwin award winners
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/couple-electrocuted-death-attempting-viral-tiktok-wood-burning-art/
these two did take physics in high school
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/four-european-gas-buyers-fold-russian-demands-pay-gas-rubles
the ruble is at a 2 year high v the euro…
Issues & Insights has a damning rundown of Janet Yellin’s take on inflation. Keep in mind this moron has a Ph.D. in econ.
Feb 2021: “I’ve spent many years studying inflation and worrying about inflation, and I can tell you, we have the tools to deal with that risk if it materializes.”
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Mar 2022: “We’re likely to see another year in which 12-month inflation numbers remain very uncomfortably high.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/04/27/see-if-you-can-follow-yellens-bouncing-inflation-ball/
These people look at computer models instead of doing the grocery shopping. In knew LAST SUMMER it was coming when I spent about 3 months of my food budget on meat at Costco and loaded it up in the garage freezer I bought just for that.
Oh, and that IMF idiot who said they didn’t ‘understand’ inflation. Don’t get me started on the Pathetic Powell.
I’d love to see Tim Cook try this. The pig in the mud would have a field day
A left-wing government watchdog group with a dubious history is demanding Apple engage in mass preemptive censorship with the removal of a free-speech-branded alternative to Twitter from its app store.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a four-page letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday urging the American tech executive to nuke former President Donald Trump’s new platform, Truth Social, from its digital marketplace despite no violations of company guidelines.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/25/left-wing-group-demands-apple-preemptively-nuke-truth-social/
eaglesoars wrote:
To be clear, I’m not calling her a moron because she didn’t see it coming or downplayed it. I’m calling her a moron because she’s lying thru her teeth and expects me to believe her.
Who said “Milton Friedman is no longer in charge here”?
Bannon is saying Musk should pull his twitter bid to fuck over the board. The stock tanks, mgmt all lose their jobs, etc. Also, it’s INSANELY overpriced.
Alito gets it
Some areas of Maine are so thinly populated that towns can’t afford public high schools. Instead, the state of Maine offers tuition assistance for families in these rural areas to send their children to the private schools of their choice. The hitch is, state law says they must choose a secular school, not a religious one. Parents sued, challenging the religious school exclusion.
If schools that teach religion are ineligible for state money, Alito asked, are schools that teach critical race theory also ineligible? The lawyer for Maine’s school system stammered and confessed he didn’t know.
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2022/04/27/justices-ask-whether-lefts-wokeness-should-be-the-only-religion-allowed-in-public-schools-n2606377
@ eaglesoars:
Heh.
watch this space
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1519379124070068224
BREAKING: Biden Admin Department of Homeland Security to create a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ dedicated to ‘countering misinformation’
The DHS board will be headed by Nina Jankowicz, who once claimed militarized Trump supporters would show up to the polls with weapons to intimidate voters
coldwarrior wrote:
This is a thing in the woodworking world, particularly for those who make charcuterie boards and trays. The effects are quite stunning; the process quite dangerous. I have my MSEE and wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole, especially not with garage-shop equipment and home-made protective equipment.
@ AZfederalist:
Speculation on my part: One of the two started the process with the equipment and started getting shocked, the second person went to help and instead of pushing the person away with something insulated, touched the other person and was also electrocuted.
@ AZfederalist:
@ AZfederalist:
I know just enough about electricity to know not to do that.
eaglesoars wrote:
they are getting desperate
eaglesoars wrote:
These phones apps need a law that makes them independent of the phone operating systems.
coldwarrior wrote:
It will be a board pulled from crying e twitter employees and dedicated to publishing misinformation.
AZfederalist wrote:
i wonder what the natural urge is when some one is getting eletrocuted like that. Run to help them in a spontaneous fear and panic or realize to grab a broom and push them. Could be though that there was nothing around to assist,
AZfederalist wrote:
Who would have thunk this was a thing? And a number of deaths. This one related to hacking a microwave.
But most shocking in that story was the ad.
TRENDING: Swamp Rat Mitch McConnell Said He Was “Exhilarated” on Jan 6 that President Trump “Had Finally Tarnished His Reputation”
eaglesoars wrote:
I wonder if that would work? Musk seems to want to steer change. With a reputation of a good actor for the world. And he likes to compete. Gettr, Parler, and Truth Social might not survive until they get absorbed into something else.
Musk is correct that Truth Social is a bad name. Trumpet would have been much better.
@ darkwords:
Seen lots of safety vids about not getting out of your vehicle after any kind of accidental contact with any kind of electrical transmission.
An initial urge after an accident is to get out and surveil the damage, making the operator a path to ground.
75 percent through my voters pamphlet. I’m impressed by the resumes of most of these people. Far superior to mine. And it looks like everyone in my area is a job holder-trucker/logger/firefighter of some type. About everyone has some experience in the timber industry.
I’ve never read a voter pamphlet completely in my whole life. So this is a first. I do know that they used to be 15 pages instead of 75.
coldwarrior wrote:
When lasers were just getting going I decided to build a very large N2 laser I saw in scientific American. Saved up gold caddying $$$ and purchased a neon sign transformer, a large sheet of two sided circuit board sone perspex sheet and a coil of copper wire. Some fool gave me an old vacuum pump and voila my N2 laser. The spark gap was a piece of bent copper strap and a large bolt and the channel inside the perspex (plexiglass) tube was brass sheet. It worked… but even I knew not to stand anywhere near it as it made a hell of a racket and totally screwed all TV reception in the street!
That when I was not mixing my own solid fuel rocket grain from tar ‘borrowed’ from the street and Potassium perchlorate. You could just waltz into the local scientific supply company as a kid and buy anything off the shelf. Somehow I managed to keep all of my digits and didn’t fry myself with my ‘scientific’ endeavours.
🙂
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
With the complexity of the world today I would think i need a yearly safety course is all stuff like this.
how to apply a tourniquet.
how to avoid electrocution.
how to stop a mountain lion.
how to gun safety and keep skills up to date.
how to slap a CRT advocate.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s a lot better than me. I was trying to hack my sisters easy bake oven into a firecracker bomb. I just wrecked her oven and all my good fire crackers.
@ darkwords:
In those days we could purchase dynamite and hydrochloric acid at our local hardware store.
I hear its 6 months for Elon to close on twitter. That makes me nervous like the election. Lots of time for progressive wrench throwers. I hope money and support line up with him.
Tech is overinflated right now. With inflation and a war all that stuff is not the first go to for wealth. Musk will need some large creativity to rise above the noise. The sooner the better. But not like the messed up Truth Social roll out.
The fact that Trump went with Truth Social over Trumpet suggests to me he is trying to some brand negativity in politics. I think he has a lot of people on him trying to tone him down. But his tone was what shattered all this nefarious progressive crap in politics and the media.
eaglesoars wrote:
I can’t recall a time when Bannons intuition was ever off. He has a good global view. His Mike Lindell support was sketchy but he asked Lindell for receipts. Lindell has never delivered as far as I can tell.
Bitcoin skeptics suggesting BTC might reach $10,000 this year. $60,000 loss from it’s early high this year. My $150 BTC/ETH investment from last spring is worth $83 dollars a year later.
In the year, I have seen a lot of ponzi schemes, phishing attempts, and 200 million dollar rug pulls. I’m not confident in crypto. Yet. I buy some Cardano every month as it’s not attached to the high fee BTC/ETH blockchains.
The slow loris is remarkable for being the world’s only venomous primate: they have a poison sac in their armpit which they will lick before biting something.
I used to work with a gay guy who had been a professional ice skater. He thought the majority of ice figure skating males were gay. And that ice skating rinks where places predators could succeed. And from some Zombie post there was a note of a class of gay men that specifically sought out teenage males.
Those are the type of progressives trying to hide in plain sight and manipulate kids. And the ones that that are mad about DeSantis. TikTOk Libs and BLM protests are predator adjacent in their own vocabulary.
darkwords wrote:
And he drove me home after work once and hit on me. I was a little shocked. I said no and he took the boundary really well. He was a solid guy in his work. Most reliable person in the organization.
For a few years there I was fascinated by Saltwater Crocodiles and their favorite meals. Sleeping tourists on Great Barrier reef beaches.
One interesting thing about crypto is that my close online associates are from Britain, Manilla, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Vancouver, and Dubai. They all speak English and have definite opinions on American culture. They all tend to be much more serious about money than I am. They are all very tech savvy.
darkwords wrote:
Some fool gave me a chemistry set early on and I slowly built it up with Golf Caddying $$$$$$. Selby Scientific in York St Sydney near the Sydney Harbour Bridge sold EVEREYTHING. Including Concentrated nitric acid, Sulphuric acid as well as Hydrochloric acid, all the glass work one could ever want. (drug labs weren’t invented then) and you could buy anything. My ‘lab was in the back of the garage …. with a sand floor.. and only kerosine and eventually meths fuelled lay burners…. after an unfortunate incident with a Kero fuelled heater, a jam tin full of liquid tar and a bottle of Potassium perchlorate oxidizer. Weighed out on my mum’s weighing scales \, after I was banished from her kitchen and stove to my ‘lab’. White hot flame erupting from the top of the jam tin of rocket fuel and curling 4 feet across the tin roof of the ‘lab’ certainly ‘concentrated’ my mind!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
My #1 son living in Melbourne is married to the former owner of the Selby Scientific Instruments and Supplies, chain of stores. If I had have known that at the time I’d have asked for a discount!
🙂
married to the daughter of the former owner of Selby Scientific. At the time Claire would have just been a glint in her father’s eyes!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
That and Great white sharks and Tiger sharks on the outer Great Barrier Reef. Very large saltie crocks have been found up to 30 miles offshore near the reefs. Sharks are terrified of them.
coldwarrior wrote:
Here’s a link showing the process along with a warning regarding the dangers: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3X9vNgVCK/
The results are pretty awesome, but this isn’t something to be undertaken lightly.
Hi from Amarillo, where it’s ridiculously windy.
Otherwise known as Wednesday.
Dallas tomorrow, assuming I don’t blow away
lobo91 wrote:
In North Texas, if you are lost and need to know which way is north, just look at the direction the trees are leaning. 😉
@ AZfederalist:
Of course if you are lost in North Texas, you could wander for days trying to find a tree.
Dep. Sec. Treasury under Yellin is one Brian Deese (phonetic spelling). Formerly of – wait for it – Blackrock
per Bannon
Providers can now dispense ivermectin in Tennessee w/o worrying about getting their licenses yanked.
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/04/27/tennessee-makes-ivermectin-available-without-prescription/
Best damn decision I ever made
How to lose black voters AND create a black market – yeah, there’s a pun in there
FDA Proposes Rules Prohibiting Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars to Prevent Youth Initiation, Significantly Reduce Tobacco-Related Disease and Death
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in cigars. These actions have the potential to significantly reduce disease and death from combusted tobacco product use, the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., by reducing youth experimentation and addiction, and increasing the number of smokers that quit.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-rules-prohibiting-menthol-cigarettes-and-flavored-cigars-prevent-youth-initiation
Amex
The company has adopted an “Anti-Racism Initiative” designed to have “privileged” employees defer to “marginalized groups.” In training sessions, white employees were told to “identify the privileges or advantages you have.” Amex brought in Khalil Muhammad, who told Amex employees during training sessions that they should charge black customers lower premiums than white customers.
Multiple Amex employees have also alleged that the company has engaged in “reverse discrimination” and consistently wouldn’t promote white employees because they weren’t minorities. One employee was even told by a supervisor, “It would be advantageous and important for me to note that I am a minority when I apply for internal promotions.”
CEO Stephen Squeri has been behind many of these initiatives, launching a 2020 effort that includes spending $1 billion to promote “Racial, Ethnic and Gender Equity.” Squeri has also spoken against climate change and participated in the corporate pile-on against Georgia’s election integrity legislation. Amex’s very public progressive agenda belies a pattern of corporate misconduct records indicate.
Multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, have investigated Amex for certain sales practices, including issuing phantom credit cards. Additionally, Amex had to pay $112 million in fines because it deceptively strong-armed its customers into paying illegal late fees.
In a repudiation of Amex’s supposed commitment to diversity, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that Amex discriminated “against consumers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories by providing them with less-favorable financial products and services.” Amex was forced to pay these customers $96 million.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/28/busted-unamerican-express-goes-woke/
The FBI and the OKC bombing? Nothing surprises me anymore
Operation PATCON
As most know, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have conducted surveillance and infiltration operations against right-wing groups for decades. Chief among them being the “Patriotic Conspiracy” or “PATCON” operation. Despite its official ending in late 1993 (although some say it was carried forward in some form), PATCON only became public in 2007 thanks to a public records request.
Partly citing internal FBI documents, Painting in her explosive 2016 book about PATCON and McVeigh, describes how the former’s secret operatives and paid informers “were given license to engage in provocateur activities and instructed to make known their willingness to commit violence and advocate for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.”1 She quotes one informer who went public about the operation, John Matthews, saying he realized that although initially told “the objective was to infiltrate and monitor,” he would later come to understand that its real objective was to “to infiltrate and incite.”2 This, says Matthews, included providing “the ideas, detailed instructions, and even live C4 explosives and automatic weapons to targeted individuals as a way of entrapping them into terrorist plots, so the FBI could capitalize on foiled and actualized plots.”3 According to Trentadue, through PATCON, the FBI was actually trying to sow a full-on rebellion.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/how-involved-was-the-fbi-in-okc-bombing/
@ eaglesoars:
damn. we have a TON of amex points and platinum cards…i’d hate to shit can all of that.
https://unherd.com/thepost/is-crypto-just-one-big-ponzi-scheme/
i’m not buying this justification for one second
https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-pills-sent-ukraine-more-reports-russian-rapes-emerge-1701726
planned parenthood sells abortion, it’s their product, it’s what they do. so, who is paying for this?
eaglesoars wrote:
This has been the boogeyman of the left for years. It’s also patently a lie. It’s their camel nose in the tent to large scale banning and taxation of tobacco. The dem administration in my state made the rules so convoluted that the DJARUM company completely blacklisted Montana from being allowed to sell their products. And it’s all based on the lie that kids are rushing out to buy “flavored” tobacco products. All the sensible protections are already in place, age restrictions and id verification. You don’t need large scale bans and other bullshit like they are trying. The game is to take these out of the hands of adults not children. They already did it in MT it took years to partially reverse some of it and we still haven’t managed to undo all of the damage the dems did.
coldwarrior wrote:
Is that rhetorical? It’s rhetorical, isn’t it?
coldwarrior wrote:
HARRRR!!! No WONDER we couldn’t make sense out of it!
eaglesoars wrote:
indeed
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
anything for more control.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
More effective to ban cool if they want to stop tobacco. It’s an identity product for everyone I know that uses it.
coldwarrior wrote:
You’ll see 200 percent rates of return on your investment for some of these yield farming coins. Warning flag right there. And they are advertised with no embarrassment.
eaglesoars wrote:
There is one someone tried to get me to do.
You pay a monthly subscription of $15 to have access to a crypto coin. That access gives you the right to build a node for a $30,000 fee. The node has to grow for a year and then it starts to generate more of the coins.
several of the original coin owners hawking that they have 8 nodes and are pulling in $100,000 a year on their node farming. Then they sell their nodes and coins to the noobie crypto buyers.
I asked one of them what the actual product behind the coin was and he said the it was the $15 a month subscription fee and some cute NFT’s that would change the crypto world.
NFT’s as of today have no real value. They may someday, I called it a ponzi scheme to him and he got pretty aggressive. Trying to intimidate me to not talk about his coin. There are tons of these rugpull operations in cyrptoland,
Another one was liquidity mining. Guy established a friendly conversation with me for a few months then offered to teach me liquidity mining for a 20 percent return. I went though a lengthy sign up process. With him trying to FOMO me in a nice way. I signed up for his exchange and went and read his terms of service. He had no liabilities. Some glaring typos in the terms of service. The SEC didn’t regulate him. No phone number but an address in Melbourne Australia. I did a google view search on the address and his office was in a run down apartment complex surrounded by closed retail stores.
Twitter shut him down on twitter a few days later. He was scamming people.
I checked on him in a reddit forum and no one had heard of him.
David Sacks interview about Elon and Twitter. Says Twitter has 8,000 employees. And Musk will probably lay off half of them. And telecommute half of the rest. Then move the HQ to Texas most likely.
That will stablize his pledge of TSLA shares as collateral to the banks.
Peter Schiff was on Megyn Kelly yesterday and gave a good overview of the risk of the Twitter purchase. He thinks Musk will back out.
Well, I made it to the RV park in Dallas. Pretty nice place. Half hour drive to the festival, but Dallas seems to have a shortage of RV parks. At least I get to drive my own vehicle instead of a toy rental car.
Driving all the way across the Dallas/Ft Worth metro area while pulling a trailer was fun. I think they’ve added about 100 new freeways since I lived here in the ’90s. I’d be completely lost without GPS.
@ lobo91:
How is it driving IN the wind? What concert?
eaglesoars wrote:
Spoiler phrase. No need to read further.
@ darkwords:
Totally killed my gas mileage. I got something like 6 mpg today.
I’m here for the Dallas International Guitar Festival at the Market Center
@ darkwords:
AMWAY
“unexpected”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/04/28/economy-first-quarter-decline/1471651151672/
ummmhmmmmm
Tim Conway Jr. discussed the chips embedded in people’s hands (allowing them to open electronically controlled doors and purchase items in lieu of credit cards). Now thieves and burglars will only have to cut off your hand.
@ coldwarrior:
It’s always higher than expected, lower than expected or unexpected. I’ve never heard a news story that begins “Holy crap! They TOTALLY nailed it!”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It could be worse.
Penis, penis penis LOL
Thinking about this, a MANDATORY implant of an RFID chip in all biological males penises and RFID sensors in women’s bathrooms that set off alarms when a penis enters one may actually be a good thing…
If a male decides to become a female then the first part of the transition is to remove the implant.
@ Possum:
Conway’s follow up comment was to have the chip implanted in your butt.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
GMTA
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Dangerous though. Some 16Chan nerd will do the wireless implant and send a tweet out every time they go crop dusting.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Because banning the leaf of a plant that can be grown by motivated people has been so successful for the past 60 years. /s
… and the same leftists wanting to ban tobacco are all in for full-scale legalization of another burnt inhaled product, one that just rots the mind instead of the body.
darkwords wrote:
Amway has gone block chain and high tech. 😆
coldwarrior wrote:
Dang! I should have read down farther. You beat me to it
coldwarrior wrote:
How do these prognosticators keep their jobs? Everything that happens is always “unexpected”. Heck, I could do a Monte-Carlo pure random number generator and get better results.
AZfederalist wrote:
I ke
How many times do I have to say this?
It’s because they are looking at computer models instead of going to the grocery store.
I keep telling people…..
scroll down to the ‘Disney Troll’ video. Mark Dice comedy gold
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/mark-dice-comedy-gold/
So I’m thinking about the new Department of Wrongthink. If someone is considered to be guilty of wrong thing and infecting others with ‘misinformation’ – what are the consequences that this new department intends to impose?
This will be fun. Do you think they’ll have a ‘snitch’ website? We could have fun reporting on all the bullshit the Biden admin tries to feed us
What the Hell Is Going On in Russia?
There’s a lot of stuff getting blown up in Russia, and it might not just be the Ukrainians blowing it up.
The weirdness got going in a normal way, with reports earlier this week of Ukraine’s “embrace of the British special forces model” to strike targets inside Russia that the regular Army (or even Ukraine’s inadequate Air Force) could never reach.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/04/28/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-russia-n1593602
I just realized…Greg Gutfeld is the new Johnny Carson. It’s the 11 pm viewing hour when all the dinosaurs prepare to say goodnite by spending time with the cultural ‘influencers’ that inform the equivalent of their entertainment world.
Unfortunately Kat Timpf will never be Joan Rivers and Tyrus will never be Don Rickles.
Apple, Intel, Tesla, Meta and Amazon all took punches to the gut on the market today
This is the total bullshit of ‘NFT’. It has zero underlying value, it is derived from nothing
Hi fam, I just adjusted the reserve price of one of my favorite shots in Indonesia, Heart of Bromo to .50 ETH! This piece was chosen by
@farokh to be showcased at the NFT Liverpool 2022! Come join my
@foundation fam!
https://twitter.com/winmagphoto/status/1519878510562914304
It’s a fucking picture of a volcano. These people. When the SHTF, I sincerely hope they are the first to starve. They produce/contribute nothing.
eaglesoars wrote:
Anyone interested in buying some Tulip bulbs. Going cheap, but tomorrow you will be able to sell for x1000 times. Don’t think act now or you will miss out on the deal of the century… the 17th century!
Nothing is new under the sun!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
They will eat each other,because everyone else will be waiting for them loaded and cocked!
When they run out of eating each other THEN they will starve!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
There is nobody left in Herrifordshire as all the SAS Regiment is 100% operational and has been for the past 3 months. This stuff is what they do. Actually this is what the Royal Marine Commando and the SBS do, but let’s not split straws. There is plenty available for everyone. No pushing guys!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I have no insight into what’s going on with our equivalent forces here but I would be surprised if we didn’t have forces in place MONTHS ago.
None of this is an accident. I actually feel sorry for Putin. He got baited.
eaglesoars wrote:
He was baited and was badly let down by his INTEL establishment. He did actually think his troops were going to be welcomed as liberators.
He was badly mislead.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
At least with Tulip bulbs there was careful selective breeding and development. Anyone with 10 seconds and microsoft paint is puking up NFT’s.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/chip-roy-starts-tossing-photos-of-fentanyl-victims-at-mayorkas-during-hearing/
THIS is how liberals should be treated everywhere and at all times
A US government watchdog is warning that the Pentagon may have wasted more than $22 billion on Microsoft’s HoloLens by failing to ask if the soldiers who would be theoretically responsible for deploying the hardware actually wanted to use it or perceived any benefit from doing so. This is an observation so banal, one might wonder why the government needed to put it in an audit in the first place. This isn’t the first time, however, that we’ve heard rumors about soldiers not liking HoloLens — or IVAS, as the combat variant is known.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/334713-the-us-government-may-have-wasted-22-billion-on-hololens
Anytime ‘Microsoft’ and ‘Pentagon’ show up in the same sentence, just consider it a PUKE alert
$22 BILLION.
And look at the pics. Does this put anyone in mind of META? Which, apparently, people also don’t like.
Oh this is gonna be great. Don Winslow is one of the best writers I’ve ever found. But I stopped getting his books because he went off the rails about Trump. And I mean OFF. THE. RAILS. Now hear this.
Author Don Winslow Announces Retirement From Book Writing To Focus On Political Videos
Bestselling author Don Winslow has announced that the two already-written sequels to his current novel City On Fire will be his last books.
Winslow says he will devote his time to launching digital campaigns supporting Democratic causes and opposing “Trumpism.”
“It’s time to do something else,” Winslow said in a statement. “I want to continue on speaking out where I see what I think is wrong. It’s a big deal. It’s not a decision I made easily. Democrats have better ideas, better candidates, and a better vision for tomorrow. What they don’t have is better messaging and I’m going to try and change that. I will be paying for everything myself and not accepting any donations.”
https://deadline.com/2022/04/don-winslow-retirement-political-videos-city-on-fire-1235009247/
Messaging? The DHS’ Ministry of Truth is right with ya bro’.
What fascinates me is that in his books, his analysis of the cultural milieu of, say, the cartels, is beautifully forensic. But when it comes to his own culture, his mental scape behaves as tho it’s being electrocuted and he has these massive emotional seizures. The entertainment value of this guy is endless. But keep an eye on him. It wouldn’t surprise me if he becomes one of the Left’s most valuable ‘influencers’ and it would be a mistake to underestimate him.
I never heard of the Asch experiment, but here ya go……
We have just gone through a nationwide, and actually a worldwide, Asch Conformity Experiment. As implied, the goal of the experiment was not to get to the truth. It was to get conformity. Only conformity is allowed.
Asch showed that people will actually believe things that they know to be false if they think everybody else believes those things. That is the point of the COVID nightmare experiment we just lived though. You must believe:
.
.
However, no dissent can be allowed because the Asch Conformity Experiment showed that if one person stands up to the narrative, it is easier for the second one to dissent. Then another and another stand up, and then control is lost.
That is why every dissenting voice must be silenced. If one person cries, “The Emperor has no clothes,” people will see the naked truth. And that can’t be allowed.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/this_scary_experiment_explains_two_years_of_covid_hell.html
So, courage is contagious. And, I gather, so is cowardice
‘What I’ve Seen in the Last 2 Years Is Unprecedented’: Physician on COVID Vaccine Side Effects on Pregnant Women
Dr. James Thorp is an extensively published 68-year-old physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, who has practiced obstetrics for over 42 years.
Thorp told The Epoch Times that he sees 6,000–7,000 high-risk pregnant patients a year and has seen many complications among them due to the COVID vaccines.
“I’ve seen many, many, many complications in pregnant women, in moms and in fetuses, in children, offspring,” Thorp said, “fetal death, miscarriage, death of the fetus inside the mom.
“What I’ve seen in the last two years is unprecedented,” Thorp asserted.
Thorp explained that although he has seen an increase in fetal death and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with the COVID-19 vaccination, attempts to quantify this effect are hampered by the imposition of gag orders on physicians and nurses that were imposed in September 2021, as reviewed in the publication “Patient Betrayal: The Corruption of Healthcare, Informed Consent and the Physician-Patient Relationship” (pdf).
https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-ive-seen-in-the-last-two-years-is-unprecedented-physician-on-covid-vaccine-side-effects-on-pregnant-women_4428291.html
Cool stuff for the day. Webb telescope pics are starting to come in
https://www.inverse.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images
Well, I made it to the Market Center. I hope this line to get in is just a first day thing
@ lobo91:
take pics!
Most expensive thing I’ve seen so far is a 1954 Gibson for $315k.
Probably won’t be taking it home.
There’s a guitar owned by George Harrison being auctioned. Opening bid is $250k
I’d forgotten about the humidity in Dallas. I think the sky is leaking. It’s not actually raining, but there’s water dripping on me
So far it’s been a good show. Kelsi Kee is up next with her new band. I guess Salvation From Sundown split up. Reece Malone has his own band now, too. They’re not here this weekend, though.
@ lobo91:
Good Times. Saw a Dallas traffic report this am from someone living there. the 635 ? was hateful to them.
Psaki sez the Ministry of Truth was created under Trump
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10768791/Psaki-gives-throated-defense-Bidens-new-disinformation-czar.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field
@ eaglesoars:
Thus proving what everyone has been saying since it was announced
That was a really great set. It’s not every day you hear a band play Heart, Aerosmith, Kansas and Led Zeppelin in the same set.
Kelsi sure has grown up from the 9 year old girl singing in the frozen food aisle at Walmart
https://youtu.be/VVY3H8PRpN4
lobo91 wrote:
yowser!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/coyote-attack-injures-girl-californias-huntington-beach-84396913
The coyotes breed in the wetlands adjacent to the beach, you dolts.
Had another CT scan yesterday morning, got the report today, and like the previous scans this one showed nothing significant.
Except for one thing. They noted that I hadn’t taken a dump before the scan.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Great news. They graded you on your CT scan?
eaglesoars wrote:
Jankowicz confirmed reports on Wednesday that she is being brought on as executive director of the new board at DHS.
In the article. “new board”.
DHS hiring too many FBI agents. I watched her video unfortunately. Major cringe. And a mental condition.
eaglesoars wrote:
Elon Musk called on Thursday the creation of Joe Biden’s new ‘disinformation’ board ‘discomforting’ as the president tapped a Russia misinformation ‘expert’ to lead the initiative.
‘Who else did something like that?’ he continued. ‘Oh I remember, the Nazi’s. And there’s some data showing some interesting things going on post- @elonmusk’s Twitter takeover!’
@ darkwords:
Among examples of her”expertise” is her claim that Hunter’s laptop was fake
Ally killed, as usual. This is like old home week for her. She’s played every year since she was 14
lobo91 wrote:
Very cute. What a talent at that age. I was still eating dirt.
lobo91 wrote:
Timcast staff just now watching her video and they are in pain. I’ll have to go look at her wiki. IF she had a good credential I would think they would have said so.
@ darkwords:
She’s 17 now
lobo91 wrote:
Jankowicz attended Bryn Mawr College, double-majoring in Russian and political science.
Jankowicz attended Bryn Mawr College, double-majoring in Russian and political science.
Wiki calls Psaki a liar by saying the job is brand new. She has no real government experience. No sense that she can manage people. A lot of sense that she can scam people like Fauci. No mention of her color rev work in Ukraine by wiki.
darkwords wrote:
She’s 33 years old, with a masters in some BS from Georgetown. Her bio starts by declaring that she’s one of the world’s foremost experts in disinformation.
So it must be true
darkwords wrote:
All I know is I passed – conditions normal for my age. Haven’t spoken with the onkydoc yet.
TImcast: Misinformation is any information that is bad for the regime.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Besides the poop report, they saw that I had a loogie ready to be hocked up. “Trace secretions in the trachea.”
eaglesoars wrote:
Most truthful line in the whole article:
But probably not in the way she intended that statement.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
old folks stuff. None of the odd stuff people swallow and end up on twitter x-rays.
darkwords wrote:
WHAT??!!
AZfederalist wrote:
There are people highly qualified in this area. Like Gad Saad.
I haven’t listened to his podcast in awhile. I’ll have to go check and see if he says anything.
How long before they declare Musk a Russian agent?
I suppose it’s a step up from Joy Reid saying that he misses apartheid the other day
Jankowicz
Hannity is playing that obnoxious video. She has a mouth shape/movement that puts me in mind of Rashida Tlaib. Utterly gross.
@ lobo91:
Yep. Another case where you have to read and parse what they say literally. … and she has the resume to back it up: “Hunter Biden laptop is a fake” for starters. They are telling the truth and people are not hearing what they are really saying.
lobo91 wrote:
When a case could be made that he’s a little to cozy with China. But they won’t touch China with a barge pole
Today was a mixed day here in Houston.
Woke up to find out my TV had died in its sleep.
Uber finally recognised my credit cards so I zoomed off to get my hair cut.
Now I have to get a tan so I do not look like the perfect mugging victim in this area.
The $27.01 electronical robotty cat toy I bought on Amazon that arrived Wednesday still was totally ignored by all four cats so in frustration I kicked it towards a group of disinterested cats and yelled ” KILL IT!!! ”
The kick killed it. Anyone want to buy it for parts? A couple of motors, some flashing lights, a battery and some fucking feather on a stick thing.
Paid rent. It went up $100
Oh, as to the TV. I do not watch TV. I was using it as a screen connected to my little laptop.
Fortunately I found my 3x glasses so I can still communicate with the rest of the world.
Did I mention I cut my toenails in the bath tub?
Yep, you guessed it. Afterwards during a relaxing soak I sat on one.
So, in conclusion it was a great day!
I didn’t slip when getting out of the bath, fracture my skull on the sink, lay unconscious and bleeding for days and when found by paramedics they noticed my cats looked well fed.
And my testicles were missing…..
eaglesoars wrote:
looks like she worked for the group that participated in it. Before her time.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/04/nina-jankowicz-bidens-new-minister-of-truth-moaning-myrtle-rundown/
But she doesn’t believe in free speech.
@ darkwords:
Nobody in this administration believes in any part of the Bill of Rights
A great set by Joanna Connor. First time I’ve seen her live.
Supposed to be a girl’s all star jam next, but I’m not sure who’s still here. I see Ally, at least
@ darkwords:
I’m looking at her 2019 tweets in that revolver article. The Ukrainian flag is on twitter tag line
And as a result of my deepest fear an Amazon order is on its way.
Hey…Kara Grainger turned up. Excellent!
eaglesoars wrote:
oh crap she’s been neck deep in Ukraine.
Watching another video. Her voice is nails on a chalkboard, her mannerisms make me want to smack her. Her mouth moves as tho it’s a giant worm that has a life of its own and is stuck to her face.
While we are discussing the Ukraine if certain countries ( looking at you Britain, USA and Germany ) don’t stop sending weapons and cash to the Ukraine this is going to get nasty.
Possum wrote:
This is just the West’s attempt to bleed the Russians to the last Ukrainian.
Pretty cynical actually.
Using surrogate (Ukie) blood and Western treasure is an improvement in wasting western treasure and blood I guess, to get revenge on the Russians and Putin in particular. An improvement but is risks painting Russia and Putin into an economic and operational corner from which he will have difficulty extracting both Russia and himself. Just re-reading the latest tactical Russian Manuals and tactical nukes STILL star front and centre.
On the attach a string of up to 6 small nukes (1-5 Kilotonnes) sprinkled along the front line,a couple of medium nukes (20-100 kT) back at the Corps HQ level and a large nuke( > 1 mT) back in the massed logistics and theatre CaC regions. Heavy use of armor and light armoured Motor rifle troops leading a general breakthrough and envelopment.
The fly in the ointment is 1.The degree of blow-down damage that precludes easy crossing of the front lines by armor. 2. Degree that light armored troops will have to spend in a radioactive environment trying to cross highly damaged areas.3. The viability of truck bourne follow on reinforcements forced to cross highly radioactive limited numbers of roadways and the total dose of fallout, these lightly radiologically protected troops, will get. 4. The general persistence of the fallout cloud, moving East on the prevailing winds, contaminating Russian territory.
The Russians practiced these scenarios a lot pre 1988 but they still use the same manuals and planning data to this day. There acceptance of much higher radiological doses for their troops makes their planning a lot more robust than typical Western radiological planning scales.
This should worry the Western planners and give them call to question pressing Putin too hard, lest he push back if he thinks that he has nothing to lose.
i won enough at the cc today to fill my freezer with beef.
i hate to play for money, i hate to be pushed into it. but, an ass beating was due to a young man who dosnt quite get it yet.
i let him keep his car,
@ Possum:
@ Aussie Infidel:
I expect if the west over extends into Ukraine and a tactical nuke is launched then we will see a breakdown of law and order in the US. Leaders will get assassinated. It won’t be safe on the streets for any R or D.
IT’s time to settle in Ukraine. As far as I can tell the Russians are winning and the Ukrainian army is on its last legs. Danger point for everyone then.
No kids need to die in these countries. The US slime class that wants wealth from war needs a Trump against them.
@ coldwarrior:
I was gonna say leave your brother alone but sounds like you beat a local entrepreneur instead.
eaglesoars wrote:
I notice in that article DeSantis is the critic they go to quote. No mention of Trump.
@ darkwords:
dude, this was a riot, bro was there and warned him off, mrs coldwarrior was on the bag.
Based on a comment at Instapundit, I found this Russian youtuber, The Ushanka Show
https://www.youtube.com/c/USHANKASHOW
life in Russia, a lot about Ukraine, etc. Haven’t watched it yet but looks interesting
@ Aussie Infidel:
I wish I had saved or bookmarked an article about the ratio of civilian casualties to military.
It went along the lines of in conventional war there was a 1:1 ratio of military to civilian dead. ( I think that is when the military are chasing each other in tanks and blowing each other up )
When a war gets nasty there is an 8:1 ratio. Many more civilians are killed.
Going back to WWII where Germany bombed London and other cities and we bombed Dresden and Cologne and Tokyo.
Prolong this war and civilians will be killed.
Berline 1945 7 minute color video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A
@ darkwords:
@ coldwarrior:
listen, i never play for money. i hate what it does to the game.
asshat pushed, ok. i peeled off 5 franklins from my bag and my amex platinum as collateral at the clubhouse. he almost folded but said he could cover, i already won. he had me onthe first two holes close and then, well…i let him off after 9. he owed me 500 and his car. i made him buy everyone dinner.
i hate playing for money. i get really good and focused, and i dont like it.
Two months ago we discussed how you could not destroy the electric power grid of a country that has nuclear power stations.
A controlled shutdown of a nuclear power station is safe.
They had weeks. Now is the time to shut of the electricity.
Like NATO * SPIT * did to Serbia…
coldwarrior wrote:
how old?
Possum wrote:
war
crimes.
Possum wrote:
Aussie and I have both been saying there is a lot of money to be made from this war. The U.S. is in on it.
eaglesoars wrote:
fashionable turd boi is about 30, he has a great golf look. very good looking. mrs coldwarrior, near the end, said out loud, his head would look great over the fireplace at the cc. (i am not responsible for her comments)
no participation trophy given.
coldwarrior wrote:
That was a different issue.
NATO got involved and attacked Belgrade to make Kosovo a separatist new country.
Kind of like Russia is trying to help eastern Ukraine become independent now.
coldwarrior wrote:
Lol Mrs. Coldwarrior writes a good movie plot.
coldwarrior wrote:
How did the match get created? Sounds like he was trying to Lee Trevino you and got Tiger Wooded.
Anyway, I just realised tomorrow is Saturday and I do not have to be anywhere tomorrow.
No reason for me to eat bland food for supper. Others here with a Semi Colon may understand.
So, guess what I found in the freezer? A CURRY!!!!!
Going to regret it tomorrow, but tonight I don’t care.
Goodnight….. I will be online early tomorrow. LOL
darkwords wrote:
she said it in her perfect russian accent.
it was almost, but not quite as good as:
bond: ‘do you expect me to talk?’
no! i expect you to die!!!
darkwords wrote:
lol. that’s the funny part.
Possum wrote:
enjoy.
i make a ton of indian here.
Brett Cooper is on the case of the disinformation lunatic, too:
@ darkwords:
@ coldwarrior:
“who is the geezer that plays these clubs?”
he said in passing as i was walking to the pisser.
geezer? yeah, ok. the cart and bag are almost a grand and those are tour blades.
lol
eaglesoars wrote:
For a start all of those systems and ammo that have been shipped or will be shipped have to be replaced ASP to maintain US minimum holdings and replace stocks reaching ‘end of life’. That means tens of billions of new orders and mega-$$$$$ to the Military industrial complex (AKA … the Swamp)
coldwarrior wrote:
if you golf. well…you know what those are
night yinz.
coldwarrior wrote:
Small Penis Syndrome
nite CW
re: Ukraine. Victoria Nuland is in on it, the Bidens are getting kickbacks. After 9/11 when we had a lot of military deployed overseas I joined groups that sent ‘care’ packages to individual soldiers (AdoptASoldier was one). One of the more interesting soldiers I was assigned clued me in. He was a logistics officer at one of the POW camps in Iraq. There were 2 biggies, one held high value targets, (Camp Copper, I think?) the other ‘normal’ prisoners. He was at the ‘normal’ one. There was MAJOR graft going on with – get this – the food service concessions. What? You think our soldiers get MickeyDs in Iraq out of the goodness of somebody’s heart. Think again. Hence, the jading of eaglesoars
bed. nite.
new, depressing thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/30/freefall-open/