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Many Americans still have no idea this happened

re: gears of the machine
re: Elon Musk
re: Glenn Greenwald

Are you starting to see how the gears of the machine work?

It was obvious all along to anyone willing to see.

Many Americans still have no idea this happened

2024-03-16. Emphasis added.

The most under-reported and under-discussed story of 2023: a federal district court judge, upheld by a unanimous appellate panel, found the Biden WH and FBI committed one of the gravest attacks on the 1st Am in decades by coercing Big Tech to censor dissent online. — Glenn Greenwald.

WIND: or any idea about anything on how the system actually works. And that all the news is fake—witness today’s Rupar about “bloodbath”.

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Even Massive Government Handouts Cannot Fix the Reality of “Science Fair Project” Vehicles

re: Electric Vehicles: a Multi-Pronged Menace with Few if any Benefits?

I’ll grant that EVs, whether or not they are environmentally speaking actually a faint tinge of green or sludge-brown (surely the latter), do have their uses for some small-world situations, eg the person whose life is 99% within a ~100-mile radius and no cold winters and heavily subsidized at every step of the chain.

But in the real world, even massive government handouts cannot fix the reality of “science fair project” vehicles... what could possibly go wrong?

See also: Electric Transmission Buildout Could Cost Americans Trillions Of Dollars

Hertz CEO Out As Firm Seeks Traction After Big EV Bet Goes Bust

2024-03-16. Emphasis added.

CEO Stephen Scherr's barely two-year ride with Hertz came to a screeching halt on Friday. In his wake, he leaves a company still working to recover from a big bet on electric vehicles gone bad. It will do so under new CEO Gil West, whose previous posts include executive roles at Delta Air Lines and the Cruise unit of General Motors.

...In December 2023, Hertz emphatically demonstrated that its massive EV push just wasn't working outthrowing 20,000 EVs into the used-car market to start a systematic liquidation planned to extend through 2024. "The company expects to reinvest a portion of the proceeds from the sale of EVs into the purchase of internal combustion engine vehicles to meet customer demand," Hertz said at the time, adding, "The company expects this action to better balance supply against expected demand of EVs."
[WIND: eg few people want the hassles of an EV for rental]

The resale of fleet cars is a key driver of rental car companies' profitability. On that front, Tesla threw a wrench in Hertz's financials by aggressively slashing prices across its product line, crushing the resale values of not only Teslas, but the entire EV market. Top-selling EV's saw their secondary-market prices plunge by almost a third in 2023

Poor resale value isn't the only EV liability biting Hertz -- the company also pointed to the high cost of collision repairs. “For context, collision and damage repairs on an EV can often run about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle,” Scherr noted in an October third-quarter conference call. 

...most rental car customers don't want their first EV experiment to come on a business or vacation trip, where they may be in an unfamiliar area and unenthused about spending 20 minutes at a recharging station on the way...

...

WIND: you have to be either rich or financially illiterate to buy an EV. Though maybe a few people get lucky in a few areas—doubtful once the real costs of ownership are added-up over years. Of real costs in lifestyle: EVs are massively less useful and vastly more expensive. A science fair project disguised as a car.

EV purchases are funded via money the government takes from us by force (aka taxes) and then handed-out like Halloween candy treats to wealthy EV buyers as subsidies. While most of America struggles to put food onto the table and pay rent. Nothing more regressive could be possible.

For those living a second-hand psychological life*, EVs are a godsend: just-right virtue signaling. Hence my wealthy neighbors all have one (or two), and especially the mommy brigade driving $100K Rivians 3/4 mile to school rather than walking the best tree-lined trails you’ll find anywhere. That’s f*cked up. These are people looking to minimize their footprints—by driving!

With an EV, you cannot escape the ultra-high insurance costs, a regressive tax that brutalizes those who can least afford it (including non-EV drivers!). Or the astronomical repair costs. Or the fact that most EVs will never get to even the claimed environmental break-even point (which is propaganda bullshit based on fake models). Or that they are mostly charged by burning fossil fuels. We have the most self-destructive situation imaginable with EVs.

Or the $trillions we will all pay to transmit power from boondoggles resulting in widescale glass and metal and fiberglass environmental deserts spanning vast areas of formerly rich and beautiful land. Literally bulldozing fields of flowers for this 'green' menace. Someone will get rich off it, but you and I will never benefit. It’s the communist manifesto in green guise: we and our children have to suffer and endure, so that our grandchildren will benefit—and they will be told the same thing. Except that millions of acres of formerly pristine land will be nothing but shards of glass and rusting metal. What a nasty legacy.

Anyone who thinks an EV is a value for the buyer is ignorant of the far greater utility and low pricing of ICE vehicles (and at discounted prices!). We have 4 of them for the 5 of us adults, one going on 150K miles—inexpensive to operate and they just work day after day, hot or cold, power outage or not. Sipping gas, and causing 1/2 to 1/3 the road damage of an EV and far less cardiovascular-damaging particulate pollution than an EV.

No EV with its outrageous up-front environmental burden could possibly compete with the environmental friendliness of our 150K mile sedan as it heads towards 200K miles with nary a problem. Its amortized environmental cost is extremely low. In other words, it is ultra 'green'. And there is every reason to assume that the other 3 such vehicles will also hit that mileage range. ICE vehicles, the right ones are an environmental boon.

Nothing in the history of humanity has been so damaging to our future as the lost opportunity cost of pouring trillions into science fair projects, of which EVs are only a part. It degrades all aspects of life for everyone, sucks-dry the public fisc (to be paid for by our children!), corrupts the political process, misdirects capital to the toilet bowl, damages companies (and therefore jobs), and most of all: it destroys vast areas of land/environment. The latter I see more and more of, and it is stomach churning to watch so much being destroyed and turned into glass and metal desert.

* A life that consists primarily of valuing oneself based on the approbation of others.

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Taibbi: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous

re: Matt Taibbi

Something very odd is happening with regard to the TikTok ban. And as might be expected, it’s a law lacking all objective standards, the most dangerous kind of law which guarantees abuse by the regime in charge against its enemies. No party should have such power.

The political about-face is shocking. Something isn’t right, something has happened to change the calculus. Something we are not being told. Nothing to see here.

As Newsweek reported, the bill was fast-tracked after a secret “intelligence community briefing” of Congress led by the FBIDepartment of Justice, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The magazine noted that if everything goes as planned, the bill will give Biden the authority to shut down an app used by 150 million Americans just in time for the November elections.

Yes, there is a data security risk, but that is a ordinary and minor thing vs the real issue. Anyone telling you that’s the real issue is either a fool or a liar. TikTok the most powerful tool of mass social persuasion ever to exist, a true national security threat already doing damage. And controlled by our enemy, the CCP. Push the “heat” button (a real thing) and influence millions of minds. Swing elections, cut off your gonads, etc. It is no accident that anti-Israel sentiment runs 100:1 on TikTok.

Taibbi: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous

2024-03-15, by Matt Taibbi

Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?

Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and 70-14% among conservatives. But Congress couldn’t get the RESTRICT Act passed.

...Yet the House just passed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” by a ridiculous 352-64 margin, with an even more absurd 50-0 unanimous push from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. What gives?

As discussed on the new America This Week, passage of the TikTok ban represents a perfect storm of unpleasant political developments, putting congress back fully in line with the national security establishment on speech....

...You’ll find the real issue in the fine print. There, the “technical assistance” the drafters of the bill reportedly received from the White House shines through, Look particularly at the first highlighted portion, and sections (i) and (ii) of (3)B:

As written, any “website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application” that is “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the National Security of the United States” is covered.

...
The definition of “controlled,” meanwhile, turns out to be a word salad, applying to:

(A) a foreign person that is domiciled in, is headquartered in, has its principal place of business in, or is organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country;

(B) an entity with respect to which a foreign person or combination of foreign persons described in subparagraph (A) directly or indirectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or

(C) a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).

A “foreign adversary controlled application,” in other words, can be any company founded or run by someone living at the wrong foreign address, or containing a small minority ownership stake. Or it can be any company run by someone “subject to the direction” of either of those entities. Or, it’s anything the president says it is. Vague enough?

...this TikTok bill has allowed the intelligence community to re-capture the legislative branch. Just a few principled speech defenders are left now...

...

WIND: umm... every social media platform could be shutdown by Presidential edict today. They’d all fall into the tentacles of this law already. This is very dangerous. For example, since Elon Musk builds cars in China, that would make it straightforward to shut down X.com (formerly Twitter).

Companies that do not toe the line will be threatened with being shut down. We are talking “regime”, not Republic. In other words, fascism encoded into law. Well, that’s already mostly the case (six ways to Sunday to presssure companies and people to do their bidding as COVID made so obvious). So maybe this is just the coup de grace that the intelligence community has been wet-dreaming about, a sledgehammer to give things the stamp of officiality so as to more easily bamboozle the public.


WSJ: Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin

re: WSJ
re: Bjorn Lomborg

Yep.

WSJ: Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin

2024-03-13, by Bjorn Lomborg

Climate policy needs to take into account the costs of draconian measures, which are enormous.

More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved if the cost would be economic and societal destruction. Yet . It’s simply a matter, they say, of “following the science.”politicians widely employ the same one-sided reasoning in the name of fighting climate change.

...When politicians tell us we must “follow the science” toward extreme climate policies, they are really trying to shut down the discussion of enormous, unsustainable costs. We shouldn’t let them....

Climate change is a real problem but isn’t the imminent existential crisis of which the media and activist politicians breathlessly warn... They run headlines and give speeches about extreme weather events, though the United Nations’ panel of climate scientists hasn’t been able to document evidence of most of them worsening. The data show that climate-related deaths from droughts, storms, floods and fires have declined by more than 97% over the last century, from nearly 500,000 annually to fewer than 15,000 in the 2020s. That’s a real human cost but far from cataclysmic. More people die in traffic accidents in an average week. 

Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels...

...Some of the most popular climate policies will have costs far greater than climate change itself. When politicians try to shut down discussion with claims that they’re “following the science,” don’t let them.

WIND: well put.


HPV Vaccine May Increase Risk of Several Autoimmune Diseases

Vaccines are not tested properly, and never tested in combination.

Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth @AMAZON

MD? Go find out—you might be shocked. You will find that a placebo is not used, but rather a deception is played to essentially raise the floor for risks well above zero, to make the vaccine look “safe”:

A new vaccine (one which does not have a predecessor), is always tested in a Phase 3 RCT in which the control group receives another vaccine (or a compound very similar to the experimental vaccine, see explanation below).

A new pediatric vaccine is never tested during its formal approval process against a neutral solution (placebo).

Most doctors wrongly assume they are tested in a reasonable way—biut they are not even placebo tested (no true placebo).

HPV Vaccine May Increase Risk of Several Autoimmune Diseases: Study

Girls who received the quadrivalent HPV vaccine had 4.4 times the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and 2.9 times the risk of thyrotoxicosis.

A new study suggests the quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (qHPV) may increase the risk of developing several autoimmune diseases.

A retrospective cohort study published on March 7 in Vaccine found that adolescent women who were vaccinated were 4.4 times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than those who were not vaccinated. Similarly, vaccinated adolescent women had a 2.76 times higher chance of developing juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

The study found that females who received the qHPV vaccine had a 2.86 times higher risk of developing thyrotoxicosis, while the risk of developing idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was 2.54 times higher in the vaccinated group. Thyrotoxicosis causes inappropriately high levels of circulating thyroid hormone, and ITP is a blood disorder characterized by an abnormal decrease in blood platelets.

...researchers used an observational period of 2,000 days to ensure they captured all individuals with a completed vaccination schedule....

WIND: I think that time will prove that most vaccines do harm. The only question is how much and to whom and the net benefit (or lack therof). Who suffers, who does not, who profits. Mostly, who profits.

To think I blindly had my 3 daughters get this vaccine. One of them has Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis that developed not long after (within a year or two). I do have to wonder if the irresponsible medical industry caused it—no family history.


Bitcoin is Struggling

This Jack Denton guy timed it just right: the meltup in Bitcoin around March 4th started about 10 hours after his insightful observation. Great job!

Financial “news” is largely the same propaganda as afflicts all other “news”.

“Bitcoin is struggling” by Jack Dention, about 2024-03-04
“Bitcoin is struggling” by Jack Dention, about 2024-03-04
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Environmental Apocalypse: 55 Million-Acre Federal Solar Plan

re: gears of the machine
re: green is the new brown
re: climate change

Green is the new permanent brown.

Solar power is the worst environmental disaster in history.

Windmills destroy not only the area they are deployed, but will destroy a vast area of Nevada by drying up the water table to mine the lithium

Rural America Set to Be Transformed by up to 55 Million-Acre Federal Solar Plan

2024-02-26

‘Our public lands are playing a critical role in the clean energy transition,’ said Laura Daniel-Davis, acting deputy secretary of the Interior Department.

Solar energy’s appetite for vast amounts of land has prompted the Biden administration to propose designating as much as 55 million acres of public lands as potential sites for industrial-scale solar farms.

That’s an area larger than 36 states and similar in size to Idaho or Minnesota.

...The least aggressive alternative would designate 8 million acres for that purpose. The BLM’s “preferred alternative” falls halfway between the two, setting aside 22 million acres for solar development.

...Another issue that many cite with using multi-use public lands for solar is that solar energy crowds out other uses on the land.

...Because utility-size solar installations such as the ones contemplated by BLM blanket entire areas with solar panels, often wiping out the vegetation and wildlife in those areas, both above ground and beneath it, they often displace farming, grazing, hunting, and recreation, while also preventing drilling and mining.

...solar farms in California have turned a natural oasis into what one resident called “a dead solar sea.” Examining 150,000 acres of solar development in the Mojave Desert, the report looked at the “devastating impact” on local wildlife, the drying up of local wells from the solar panels’ massive consumption of water, and the harm to the health of nearby communities. Environmentalists said this section of the Mojave Desert was home to vegetation such as 1,000-year-old woodlands that captured carbon from the atmosphere and sequestered it in root systems underground. Residents spoke of dust storms that cause respiratory problems, as local vegetation that had held soil in place was destroyed.

...

WIND: our “public lands” are under assault.

With a mine, a few hundred acres might be affected, and with strict regulation. Oh wait... not a lithium mine, which will destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of habitat by sucking the water table dry. Courtesy of a $2.3 billion dollar loan to corporate interests. Subsidy by you and me.

Green is the new permanent brown.

With financial scams like solar and windmills and lithium extraction, they’re forever razing vast areas of living and breathing ecosystem into a dead zone.

And once all that life and land are obliterated with bulldozers and replaced with metal and glass and dust, what will be left for 10000 years to come will be soil contaminated with toxic metals and broken glass. Because when this shit-brained climate-hoax hysteria passes, no one will pay to clean up the mess. Follow the money.

If you do not understand the vast destruction and environmental annhilation that garbage power like solar and windmills entail, you are living a self-indulgent fantasy and have not gotten out in the world.

The bulldozing of fields of flowers and wildlife habitat I’ve seen is sickening. Destruction of ecosystems thousands of years old with no possibility of recovery in less than 100 lifetimes.

Happening all across America, and it is going to get a lot worse. All so a few corporations can rake in billions.

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Harvard Fires Martin Kulldorff... for being a Scientist

re: gears of the machine
re: Scott Adams
re: Martin Kulldorff

Super-racist organization Harvard can’t tolerate science either. But would else would you expect from a university built on racism, plagarism and cheating? Not that my disgusting alma mater Stanford is any better.

Harvard Tramples the Truth

2024-03-11

I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.

...

Science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it. The scientific community will gradually lose public support and slowly disintegrate in such a culture. The pursuit of truth requires academic freedom with open, passionate, and civilized scientific discourse, with zero tolerance for slander, bullying, or cancellation. My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.

WIND: science is already dead. It’s a rotting maggott-filled bloated carcass corrupted at every level and in every organization.

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“You’d be mentally ill too if you believed MSNBC was real news”

re: gears of the machine
re: Scott Adams

re: Scott Adams: Levels of Awareness in Politics

Seems to match reality exactly.

Batshit crazy demographics

Matt Taibbi: America Enters the Samizdat Era

re: gears of the machine
re: Matt Taibbi

apropos: Scott Adams: Levels of Awareness in Politics

Here in America, and growing.

Taibbi: America Enters the Samizdat Era

2024-03-07. Emphasis added.

Thanking fellow honorees Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Miranda Devine, and explaining why an American Samizdat Prize is both great and scary

I began studying in Leningrad, in the waning days of the Soviet Union, beginning in the fall of 1989. I was 19 years old, more interested in girls than politics, and thought of life behind the Iron Curtain as more novelty than terror...

Not until much later, after I’d heard years of stories from Russians who’d lived through harder times, did I start to understand the brutal system whose end I got to witness... The bloodiest period of Soviet totalitarianism ended in the fifties, but the habits remained long after, including the advanced system of alternative media that ultimately broke the state: samizdat.

Tonight, along with Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and New York Post reporter Miranda Devine, I’ll be accepting the inaugural Samizdat Prize, given by the RealClear Media Fund.

...the Internet gave ordinary people access to information in ways that before had never been allowed. The inevitable result was that populations all over the world began to see more clearly the warts of leaders and governments that had previously been covered up, thanks to tight control over the flow of information... the election of Donald Trump was the Rubicon-crossing event for information overlords.

...Then Trump came along and destroyed the whole system with one stroke, getting elected in spite of the blunt disapproval of media. His single Twitter account allowed him to bypass the press and speak to people directly. When that worked, and similar episodes like Brexit caused panic abroad, governments decided to take the anarchic potential of the Internet and turn it on its head. What was something like the “Self-publish” culture of the Soviet Union suddenly became, as we saw in the Twitter Files, an instrument of surveillance and social control

...The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdatWorse, while the Soviets had to rely on primitive surveillance technologies, like the mandatory registration of typewriters, the Internet offered breathtaking new surveillance capability, allowing authorities to detect thoughtcrime by algorithm and instantaneously disenfranchise those on the wrong side of the information paradigm, stripping them of the ability to raise money or conduct business or communicate at all.

...

DIGLLOYD: I hardly recognize my country anymore.

Meanwhile, the hell with the Constitution:

'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump

Scott Adams: Levels of Awareness in Politics / News

re: gears of the machine

Useful.

Levels of Political Awareness

Levels of Awareness in politics

Level 1

They believe what their preferred news say and do not sample other sources. Not aware of counter arguments. Not aware their news is mostly narrative.

Level 2

Sample news from multiple sources but believe only their own sources are accurate. Think the other side is all narrative, but familiar with all sides of issues.

Level 3

Aware that ALL news is fake, at least in the sense of missing context and spin. Also known as Gell-Mann Amnesia. But still believe the experts in various fields are usually correct.

Level 4

Understand that NONE of our experts are reliable. Some might be right, not none can be trusted without verification. The distortion of money makes no expert credible.

Level 5

They see the gears of the machine, Mike Benz style. The Republic no longer looks like whatever the Founders intended. The control of powerful billionaires and intelligence professionals is now obvious.

Level 6

You are dead because you know too much. Also known as Epstein Level.

And.


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Thanks to users who reported a “cannot establish a secure connection” issue this morning / last night.

There was never a real security issue. It was an expired SSL/TLS certificate (these are forced to expire every year, thank you Apple for the make-work security theater)

Now fixed. Certificate good until next January, and I will put that date into my calendar.

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Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data

re: electric vehicles and cognitive dissonance

Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.

The climate change thermometer scandal is a mind boggling exercise in scientific malfeasance. Except that it’s not—it’s obviously a simple case of follow the money. If you pay me to find ghosts, I’ll find plenty.

The idea that we can measure the temperature of the earth with thermometers... and look back 1000 years... Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy.

Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data

2024-03-03. Emphasis added.

‘Climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,’ said astrophysicist Willie Soon.

Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.

Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as “homogenization.”

The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data—and the models based on it—essentially useless or worse,...

...While it is “definitely warmer” now than in the 19th century, Mr. Soon said that temperature proxy data show the 19th century “was exceptionally cold.” “It was the end of a period that’s known as the Little Ice Age,” he said...

...“If we exclude the urban temperature data that only represents 3 percent of the planet, then we get a very different picture of the climate.”...

...“They use the same homogenization computer program and re-run it roughly every 24 hours,” Mr. Connolly said. “But each day, the homogenization adjustments that they calculate for each temperature record are different.”...

...“NOAA is addressing the issues raised in both these papers in a future release of the GHCNm temperature dataset and its accompanying documentation.”...

...

WIND: are we done here? Yep.

I don’t just smell bullshit but the nauseating maggot-infested bloated carcass of science.


Green is the new Brown: ‘The War Below’ Review: Digging for Minerals

re: electric vehicles and cognitive dissonance
re: WSJ: The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
re: WSJ: The Six Months That Short-Circuited the Electric-Vehicle Revolution
re: ChatGPT: Calculating EV Charging Power Requirements
re: Electric Vehicles: a Multi-Pronged Menace with Few if any Benefits? <=====

ICE = Internal Combustion Engine
EV = electric vehicle

Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.

Climate change grifters are not interested in any objective risk assessment or even costs vs benefits. All social policies we see today fail on that count, so they can hardly be blamed as suffering from a unique form of insanity.

WSJ: ‘The War Below’ Review: Digging for Minerals

2024-03-03. Emphasis added.

Governments seek an expansion of global mining as part of the transition away from oil and coal. It’s a disruptive undertaking.

Civilization would not exist were it not for miners...

...governments of Europe and the U.S. implement policies requiring that global mining expand, and soon, by 400% to 7,000%.

Those policies are meant to force a transition away from the oil, natural gas and coal that supply 80% of global energy. But it’s an unavoidable fact that building the favored transition machines—wind turbines, solar panels, electric cars—will require astonishing quantities of minerals to produce the same amount of energy. That reality is the “bug not a feature” of so-called green energy.

...Global mining today involves excavating and moving a quantity of rock each year equivalent to the tonnage of 7,000 Great Pyramids. Transition aspirations would require a tonnage north of 50,000 pyramids annually...

..China has become the dominant global supplier of energy minerals and controls roughly 80% of the world’s electric-vehicle battery market....

...

WIND: the “save the planet” hysteria is mass psychosis that is also driving a national security threat. One in which your pollution and environmental impact is dumped elsewhere so you can moralize and virtue signal by buying that new EV.

The Death of Medical Ethics: DEI to DIE For

re: Brownstone Institute

The woke mind virus infects medical schools. Better not be White.

Best summarized as “Racist UCLA Medical School Requires White Hatred Indoctrination”.

You can find dozens of similar stories. Just ask Jordan Peterson.

Ben Shapiro at X.com:

2024-03-01

1/ BREAKING: We've obtained internal emails from UCLA's medical school -- supposedly one of the best in the country. If you want to understand how DEI and anti-white, anti-American hatred have been mainlined into the medical profession, you need to see this.

2/ These emails come from a mandatory class called "Structural Racism and Health Equity." UCLA med students are told to read about wars of “Indigenous resistance” – in which Native Americans killed thousands of white people – to “imagine what liberation could look like."

3/ Students are also taught about "Blackness and Indigeneity" & "how we can imagine a world in the aftermath of settler colonialism and white supremacy." Just to really drive home the point, students are also urged to read an article titled, "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor."

...

WIND: and so on. It’s everywhere and spreading faster than COVID.

Old-school doctors are being hounded out of medicine, first by forcing most of them into industrial medical giants as employees. Now the younger generation, largely unencumbered by ethical concerns, will do the bidding of Big Pharma, Big Food, and their DEI masters.

The Consensus Conspiracy

re: Brownstone Institute

All news and all science is propaganda whose bulk ore eventually leaches out a little gold over many years. But it’s not organic stupidity, quite the contrary: it’s driven by powerful forces shaping the narratives who know exactly what they are doing.

Even the weather: the raging “hunker down” storm that hit us the past 4 days was just a normal rain with sun thing. The media cannot even tell the truth about the weather any more.

The Consensus Conspiracy

2024-02-29

What is a consensus? At its heart it is a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something.

What is a conspiracy? At its heart it is a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something.

The difference between the two is the impression of the intent of the group by those on the outside. Conspiracies are manifestly suspect and created out of nefarious motives to achieve a specific, most likely at least unethical, goal. Consensuses are seen as positive constructs, having been arrived at after open discussion, healthy debate, and a consideration of all relevant factors.

But over the past decade or so, at least as to some of the most important moments of supposed consensus – Covid, climate change, and the idea that democracy is being in being imperiled – they have actually turned out to be nefarious conspiracies while supposed conspiracy theories – elite global restructuring, the threat of climate change being used to gain political power, and, of course, Covid – have turned out to be correct.

In other words, the conspiracies were in fact the consensuses and the consensus are in fact the conspiracies.

The psychological implications of consensus are powerful. People immediately think of experts gathering around tables or lab benches, unreservedly hashing things out, and coming up with a well-considered, fair, and objective “this is really pretty much how it is” decision. This remains true in popular conception even though most current consensuses are made by only asking people who the originators already know (97% of climate scientists say global warming is real and caused by humans, for example) will agree with whatever is being posited.

The psychological implications of conspiracy are just as powerful. People immediately think of backrooms, secrets, code words, winks all being exchanged in order to scheme out how to best reach a false goal.

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