Some mind-blowing history you never hear about:

That resolutely traditionalist country, basically all of southern Italy and Sicily, fascinated me. The Neapolitan kingdom was perhaps the most anti-liberal, traditionalist nation in all of Europe prior to it disappearance by conquest into the new centralized Italian state. Its capital, Naples, was an international center of culture and brilliance; musicians, composers, writers, and artists from all round Europe congregated there. All of that would end after Italian occupation. And southern Italy, “Due Sicilia,” would descend into an extended era of poverty, subjugation, and eventual neglect, much like that inflicted on the states of the Confederacy after the War Between the States.

But what was more intriguing for me was to learn that after the surrender of King Francis II and his small Neapolitan army at the fortress of Gaeta in late February 1861 (after an heroic four month siege), several thousand army regulars of the Royal Neapolitan Army clandestinely boarded ships, evaded a British cordon, and managed to sail for New Orleans to volunteer for the newly-formed Confederate Army. The first ships arrived from Naples with 884 former members of army of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies to take up arms for the Confederacy in early 1861. That number of Neapolitan volunteers soon rose to approximately 2000.

Nonbinary Teacher Insane-O


In clown world, people give angry speeches on video emphasizing their own irrelevance and signing off on arson & rioting:

"Black people’s bodies were literally the currency that our white founding fathers used to fund for revolution. As far as I’m concerned, as a white person, and as a history teacher, if your ancestors built this country, you have the right to burn the motherf—-r to the ground. And White people I’m [going to] need you to do better because your opinion on this is at best, irrelevant, and at worst, literally propagating white supremacy."

Moreover, since they are the experts on everything, they also apparently feel comfortable hiding whatever "gender changes" your kids may be going through because they know better than any parent possibly ever could.

"The teacher has also reportedly admitted hiding students’ gender changes, and said comments made regarding such changes were part of the district’s policy."

The analysis from Putin here is superior to what you get from the Western press, which is oddly uncritical of its governments geopolitical aspirations and heavy handed tactics in both crushing descent and forcing reform at home.

The Russian president said Moscow was not fighting the people of Ukraine, stressing that Ukraine “has become a hostage of the Kiev regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country.”
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Putin further said Western nations were trying to "distract people’s attention" from their domestic problems.

“They just tried to use these principles of democracy and freedom to defend their totalitarian values and they tried to distract people’s attention from corruption scandals … from economic-social problems," he noted.

He said the responsibility of the simmering crisis in Ukraine was "on the West and Ukrainian elite."

“The responsibility is on the West and the Ukrainian elite and government, which does not serve the national interest, but [rather serves the interest] of third countries [which] use Ukraine as a military base to fight Russia."

The Russian president was particularly scathing in his criticism of Washington, saying the country wants to control the whole world, adding that relations with the US have degraded completely.

Ultimately, the real reason Turkey is dragging its feet is because they don't want to escalate discord with Russia...

Which makes Turkey the adult in the alliance.

Like Parag Agrawal, the former Twitter CEO who would have smashed free speech on that platform if Elon Musk hadn’t stopped him, YouTube’s new raja is no fan of unapproved speech. Two years ago, Mohan said opinionating from the “basement” had to be stopped. Be prepared for YouTube to hand control of its content to the anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-free speech, pro-Great Replacement Mainstream Media.

In 2020, Protocol’s editor-at-large David Pierce asked whether YouTube is “slightly behind” when it comes to moderating content” because of the China Virus masking debate, Tom Parker reported at Reclaim The Net [YouTube: creators “espousing” opinions “in their basement” can’t provide context on the news, April 27, 2020]:

Only “authoritative voices” must be heard on YouTube, Mohan replied, because they, not someone in the “basement,” can provide the “context” viewers need to understand news and information. In this case, it was information about masks.

Some very important information about Khan:

[L]ike all Leftists, Khan wants to go after Big Tech for not censoring enough. She has written about the plague of “disinformation and inflammatory content” on social media. She helped aid an investigation by the House antitrust subcommittee that alleged social media were bad because they allowed conservative news stories to go viral on its platforms [Democrat Led Antitrust Bills Are a Massive Gamble, by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, June 17, 2021]. Khan has worked closely with Sandeep Vaheesan, another South Asian legal scholar, who argues that the FTC must be used as a “progressive secret weapon” that tackles “structural racism.” Khan has the power to act on that crazy recommendation [FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Co-Author: Use Antitrust to Address ‘Structural Racism,’ by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, June 22, 2021].

>A statement, issued on Monday morning on behalf of a dozen Primates connected to the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), says that the Church of England has “chosen to break communion with those provinces who remain faithful to the historic biblical faith” by allowing blessings for same-sex couples (News, 9 February).
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>“As the Church of England has departed from the historic faith passed down from the Apostles by this innovation in the liturgies of the Church and her pastoral practice . . . she has disqualified herself from leading the Communion as the historic ‘Mother’ Church,” the statement says.

Well done, GSFA.

“President Biden was right to make his trip to Ukraine. And we recognize the hundreds of American officials who worked long and hard to make this a secure visit,” Issa said. “But while today was a logistical success, it was a strategic failure. Rather than an inspiring mission from a commander in chief, this resembled a VIP drop-by from a global celebrity.”

How bad American schools really are:

It didn’t take Yana long to realize that real life in her eighth grade classes at Marina Middle School was nothing like the scenes that played out on her [television] screen.

Students interrupted classes, jumped on desks, cursed at teachers. At first, Yana wondered what was going on, but then, “nothing happened.” Students were not disciplined or prevented from repeat behavior.

Yana just wants to go back to her hometown in central Ukraine, back to the only school she knew before the war, even as her mom and aunt have started to research camps and other programs in San Francisco to occupy the summer months.

Pay attention to what is going on India - they are attempting to undercut Modi and to blunt the development of the Indian economy.

They don't want to see India rise, since India is a truly neutral state that will work for its own interests and not be incorporated into the Western oligarch's geopolitical ambitions.

A Meditation for the beginning of Lent

“Each of us must come to the evening of life. Each of us must enter on eternity. Each of us must come to that quiet, awful time, when we will appear before the Lord of the vineyard and answer for the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or bad. That, my dear brethren, you will have to undergo. … It will be the dread moment of expectation when your fate for eternity is in the balance and when you are about to be sent forth as the companion of either saints or devils, without possibility of change. There can be no change; there can be no reversal. As that judgment decides it, so it will be for ever and ever. Such is the particular judgment. … when we find ourselves by ourselves, one by one, in His presence and have brought before us most vividly all the thoughts, words and deeds of this past life. Who will be able to bear the sight of himself? And yet we shall be obliged steadily to confront ourselves and to see ourselves. In this life we shrink from knowing our real selves. We do not like to know how sinful we are. We love those who prophecy smooth things to us and we are angry with those who tell us of our faults. But on that day, not one fault only but all the secret, as well as evident, defects of our character will be clearly brought out. We shall see what we feared to see here and much more. And then, when the full sight of ourselves comes to us, who will not wish that he had known more of himself here, rather than leaving it for the inevitable day to reveal it all to him! …………………….We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

St. John Henry Newman

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Not Limited to East Palestine


The big problem with this nobody mentions. While vinyl chloride burned in a high temperature incinerator might only generate water, CO2, and hydrochloric acid as byproducts, when it's burned in open like this it generates an unhealthy amount of dioxins which are strongly carcinogenic. These will enter water ways including the Ohio River, the Ohio River feeds into the Mississippi, so basically a huge portion of America's drinking water and farmland is fucked, we're all going to end up eating this shit. If they can't kill us with a lethal injection, then they poison our food and water supply. These WEF psychopaths need to be put to death while there are still any of us left alive.

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It is also absolutely the case that the 9/11 lawyers would know all about this having dealt extensively with issues pertaining to the lung health of firefighters and other first responders - the lawyer stating even that that clients of his “are dying every single day from 9/11 toxic dust."

Very damning lines:

Comparing the EPA’s assurances following the 2001 terror attacks with its recent ones, Barasch, a longtime legal advocate for first responders to the 9/11 attacks and others harmed by resulting toxic dust, argued that “21 years ago, the government at least had a reason: they wanted to reopen Wall Street.”

“They should have just been honest with people then and said, ‘Look, if you don’t have to be downtown in your office, stay away until the fires go out,’” he said. “And that’s what they should have done here.”

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It's truly disheartening to witness the repercussions of the 9/11 toxic dust on our brave firefighters and first responders. The comparison between past and recent government assurances by Barasch is damning. Honesty and transparency are crucial. On another note, if you're looking for a diversion, you can try the CarX Street Mod APK—a thrilling racing game that might provide a much-needed escape. Stay strong, everyone!

Remarkable:

"With California’s porous southern border, soaring taxes, and ongoing flow of overbearing and occasionally bizarre regulations (one law targets cow flatulence, for example), state residents could use a break from bad news. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. According to a recent report, California now leads the country in illiteracy. In fact, 23.1 percent of Californians over age 15 cannot read this sentence."

Every time they try to create oversight of agencies not explicitly for combating corruption as we understand it, it is truly just an effort at increasing the power of the government and, in this case, of their ideology.

"The order is supposed to level the racial playing field by “addressing systemic racism in our Nation’s policies and programs”, but it does nothing of the kind. In truth, the order represents a massive and disturbing restructuring of the federal government in a way that fundamentally changes the manner in which the agencies operate. The new system will feature “equity” commissars who will have nothing to do with “systemic racism”, but will be appointees designated to enforce the edicts of the state. The senior agency official (in these agency equity teams) will then coordinate with the “Gender Policy Council” which is directly linked to the executive branch of government. In short, the administration is methodically building the basic scaffolding for a centrally-controlled police state masquerading as social justice operation."

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"Just as the Vaccine narrative was crafted by big pharma, Madison Avenue and an accommodating media, we expect that senior agency officials will generate propaganda that aligns with the Party Doctrine while advancing the agenda of elites."

Of course the policies will be sold & spoon-fed to Americans who will then think that without the government fulfilling these important tasks it'll fall apart.

Till Reexamined


Whether you like it or not, they have built a solid case:

"The answer is “Yes.” The heritability of psychopathic traits is high. For “fearless dominance,” it is 0.42, which means 42 percent of the variance for this trait is genetic. For impulsive antisocial behavior, heritability is 0.51, and for externalizing aggression it is 0.7 "

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"She claimed that many innocent black GIs were executed during the war for having sexual affairs with white married women, who rescued their marriages by claiming they were raped. She implied that this may have been true of her estranged husband. Emmett knew in 1955 that his father was not a “war hero.” Mamie told Emmett about a vague military telegram that said his father was guilty of “wilful misconduct.”

"But amateur boxer Louis Till’s pre-war character and behavior, which included brutal domestic abuse, was also entirely in line with his being capable of rape and murder. After a trivial disagreement with Mamie—Louis didn’t want her to eat her mother’s vegetables because he was jealous of her mother’s cooking—”the next thing I knew he had pounced on me,” Mamie recalled: ..."

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"Mamie’s book hints at other relevant factors. Emmett was a breech birth, a risk factor for later antisocial behavior and psychopathology due to brain damage."

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"As well, witnesses couldn’t believe Emmett Till’s fearlessness as the white men took him away. His cousins recall having to monitor him at all times, even when in a store, which implies that he did not know how to behave or, more likely, did know and didn’t care. Mamie had given him “The Talk,” emphasizing that he must abide by the segregationist code of the time. Till willfully ignored this, even failing to address his abductors as “sir” in what would have been seen as a serious act of “disrespect.”"

"Engineers has estimated that fixing the country’s surface transportation infrastructure would require an investment of at least $155 billion per year, which amounts to roughly 23 percent of the government’s $666 billion budget deficit in 2017.90"

"Maritime Administrator and retired rear admiral Mark H. Buzby testified that “over the last few decades, the U.S. maritime industry has suffered losses as companies, ships, and jobs moved overseas.” The Jones Act fleet is not only shrinking, but rapidly aging. The typical economically useful life of a ship is 20 years.24 Yet three of every four U.S. container ships are more than 20 years old, and 65 percent are more than 30 years old. Excluding tankers, the ships in the Jones Act fleet currently average 30 years old, fully 11 years older than the average age of a ship in the world merchant fleet of other developed countries."

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear#infrastructure-costs

It's certainly interesting how the Holocaust narrative stays relevant even into 21st century American immigration politics.

Also you should always remember when these people start talking about their family as victims, it's the signal for you to turn your brain off and view them as exceptional moral authorities on everything that is happening.

They can't be questioned. Especially when it's the Holocaust - you aren't allowed to say anything until you then pay your respects and then circle back...

And this is how American politics is still hlbeing done in America.

Didn't expect to see this again but I welcome it. Anyone who is going to do something different and shake stuff up which... She does.

But that's about all you can say about her.

I definitely hope you sort yourself out but ... this is quite a look when you have just won one of the hottest and most contested races in the US.

The most American thing ever is to go out and start shooting down so many balloons that you begin producing headlines like these:

The kpop industry is apparently megacorrupt - this is also really amateur hour over at SM Entertainment:

Lee Soo Man thus drew up a plan to increase capital by issuing new stocks. He took approximately 900 million KRW from SM Entertainment's funds, and approximately 250 million KRW from SM Enterprise. This money was used to pay for new stocks, thus "increasing" the capital owned by SM Entertainment with its own funds.

In March of 2000, Lee Soo Man owned 66.99% of SM Entertainment's stocks. His father owned 4%, his mother owned 3.3%. In April of 2000, SM Entertainment made its public offering. By June of 2000, SM Entertainment had a market cap of 180 billion KRW (~ $139 million USD). In just one year, Lee Soo Man took 1.15 billion KRW (~ $888,000 USD) of SM Entertainment's funds and transformed it into about 90 billion KRW (~ $70 million USD).

In January of 2003, Lee Soo Man was listed as a wanted criminal on Interpol. In May of the same year, Lee Soo Man was tried and found guilty of embezzlement, receiving 2 years in prison, deferred by a probationary period of 3 years.

During the trial, the court concluded, "Lee Soo Man embezzled 1.15 billion KRW in his company's funds and used it to acquire stocks. With no evidence of any real capital, Lee Soo Man used fake capital to purchase stocks and pretended as if the company's capital had increased. Due to the seriousness of this crime, the defendant must face punishment." Lee Soo Man's legal representative attempted to defend the producer by claiming that the decision to invest company funds in new stocks was agreed upon by the board of directors, and that Lee Soo Man directly returned the borrowed funds.

Are rumors bad?

Yes. I don't believe in putting too much stock into them.

Nonetheless, the idea that you can just sue random people talking on the internet and speculating seems a bit off. If no reputable news site is covering these, there is no need to pretend that they actually affect you.

This is all fascinating:

Percepto International, which is owned by media consultant Lior Chorev and Royi Burstien (a retired lieutenant colonel from the Israeli army’s intelligence corps), is in large measure a continuation of Psy Group – the business Burstien used to run. Among other activities, Burstien’s previous business ran a sophisticated mass-deception system on social media and came to public attention mainly over an FBI investigation, after which it shut down.

Psy Group, its founder Joel Zamel and CEO Burstien were investigated by the U.S. bureau on suspicion of offering their services to Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters on his first run for the presidency in 2016. The suspicion was that a foreign player, and not Trump, had offered to pay for the services. The investigation did not result in indictments, but did lead to the demise of Psy Group – which had been facing financial difficulties even before the investigation.

A 2020 report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on foreign involvement in the 2016 election contained quotes from internal company emails regarding negotiations between people from the firm and Trump’s people. It included remarks by a company employee, Arnon Epstein, regarding “intel on the Lady and her team” – a reference to Hillary Clinton. It noted that intelligence gathering regarding 10 targets associated with Clinton would cost about $250,000. In another email, an offer was made to deploy avatars (complex fake digital personae with a presence across social media platforms) in support of Trump’s election campaign.

Following the collapse of Psy Group, Burstien and Epstein established a new deception enterprise based less on technology and more on target-oriented influence operations. The organization, which was initially called Athiri, worked in collaboration with Chorev. In 2021, the team that was running it began operating under a new name: Percepto International. Burstien is Percepto’s CEO, Chorev is company chairman and Epstein acts as a senior salesperson. One of the new mudslinging enterprise’s biggest initial wins was against the ICRC.

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Burstien, the company CEO who coordinated Percepto’s presentations, revealed his company’s arsenal to us. It included creating defamatory articles; the use of the services of an antisemitic social media influencer whom the U.S. State Department has identified as a long arm of the Kremlin; the establishment of fake nonprofit organizations; and a “news agency” that was actually a covert propaganda tool.

To top it off, it boasted of having an investigative journalist in Paris who was actually an avatar run by company staffers in Ramat Gan.

In one of Burstien’s presentations, the Percepto CEO showed a screenshot of a report linking the ICRC to terrorist organizations in the Sahel region. The photo was pixilated to keep the details confidential, but it was not blurred that well.

“Our client had a real problem with a specific NGO that really was not really objective,” Burstien explained in English. “So the question is, how do you get this NGO out of the ball game? … First thing is [to] obtain intelligence. … We obtained really good intelligence. We understood that if we published this information in [the] local media, it [wouldn’t] resonate. We worked with tier-one French media. … The process took over a month for them to validate the information.

“Immediately after they published it … we took it and published it within our assets,” Burstien said, using a phrase he repeated several times during our conversations to describe the avatar network and outlets controlled by Percepto that were purportedly news websites.

“It went viral in the country, but also it was picked up by a lot of European media. This is a very well-known NGO,” he said.

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All fabulously interesting content.

Especially titillating is the fact that they will work with essentially anybody.

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We agree 100% on this. While some amount of middle eastern DNA is present in the Ashkenazi, it's actually the case that modern day Greeks & Italians are far more closely related to modern middle eastern populations (including the Jews still native to the region).

They are imposters and Palestine is 100% in the right.

I could hear Jared Taylor's voice in my head the whole time, lol:

" Nearly 38 percent of women — twice the percentage of men — think a point of view can be like a punch in the face. Moving to the right, the pink and gray lines, more than 40 percent of the non-cissies and non-heteros take the same nutty position, with lower numbers for normal people. Moving over to the green bars, whites, as expected, are not as nutty as non-whites, but even non-whites are slightly less nutty than women: 37.2 percent for them versus 37.7 percent for women. In yellow, we have levels of craziness by academic discipline, with people in humanities and social sciences most likely to think an opinion might as well be violence, and more good sense in science and business. On the right in purple, we have what would you’d expect: Very liberal students are the nuttiest of all, but even 10 percent of the “very conservatives” over on the end think the wrong opinion “can be seen as violence.”"

The kids are most certainly not OK.

You know the policy worked when you see this happening:

Mexico’s top diplomats are openly fighting and calling each other liars over who flinched before their U.S. counterparts during the Trump era. The issue centers around “secret” meetings that led to the Remain in Mexico policy which effectively forced the country to stem the flow of migrants.

The diplomatic fight exploded this week when Mexico’s Foreign Relations Minister and Presidential hopeful Marcelo Ebrard said during a news conference that his former ambassador to the U.S., Martha Barcena (2018-2021), was out to tarnish his reputation. Ebrard charges that she was the one who accepted Remain in Mexico and a safe third country agreement that would invalidate most of the asylum claims at the time. Ebrard said that he was the one who fixed everything and stopped the third-country agreement.

Very slightly lost more - not enough to really blast them on or anything - but it's still impressive how this was not something that anyone was talking about anywhere.

Just by choosing to keep their demographic numbers more under wraps, they were able to preserve their reputation.

I doubt this was even really by design or anything.

Imagine how much more sinister it could be if they wanted it to..?

Very interesting series of comments concerning the Indian attitudes, caste as it scales out, etc.

Of course, this is from a non-Indian, and I have every intention of discussing this with Indian friends down the line, but I think there's surely something to it.

검찰이 '위례·대장동 사업' 과정에서 4천895억원 배임을 저지른 혐의로 이재명 더불어민주당 대표에 대해 사전구속영장을 청구했다.

16일 서울중앙지검 반부패수사부는 지난 2013년부터 2014년 위례 신도시 개발, 대장동 개발사업 중 민간업자들에게 직무상 비밀을 알려줘 성남시에 4천895억원의 손해를 끼친 혐의로 이 대표에 대한 구속영장을 청구했다,

검찰은 이 대표가 성남시와 관련한 기업들의 민원을 해결하는 대가로 성남FC에 후원금을 받은 혐의도 있는 것으로 보고 있다.

농담 아니다

Someone's Talking Business


These laws always end up being declared unconstitutional and unenforceable and make no difference at the end of the day, but it's always nice to know that someone out there is fighting.

"States invest huge amounts of money in their universities. As a result, and despite the hand-wringing of academics pleading for non-interference in the Woke take-over of our universities, states not only have the right, but a duty, to ensure that public funds are used wisely. The wise use of university funding means, at minimum, ensuring that they fulfill their primary truth-seeking mission. The failure of previous attempts to ensure that universities seek to pursue their highest mission, even in red states such as Texas, suggest that the only way to do so is with robust changes at the top. This is what Governor DeSantis has done at New College of Florida by appointing board members and senior executives steadfast in their goal of making sure that universities are accountable to the people and uphold their highest mission. DeSantis's initiative aligns with the recent model DEI legislation proposal of the Manhattan Institute, and it could inspire other states to do the same."

The part that really caught my attention was how the Chinese are trying to report on the story unlike American media.

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Shooting Down Unidentified Objects


Maybe it's just me but seems to me that shooting down unidentified objects is perhaps not the brightest plan. A Chinese spy balloon okay, but tic-tac and hexagonal shaped objects which have yet to be identified perhaps not such a good idea.

There are islands in the Pacific and there are some in the Aleutians that we do not step foot on because the native inhabitants either find us tasty or threatening and in either case tend to end life rather quickly. Granted, we could drop a nuke and eliminate all the hostiles in an instant but we are wise enough to realize they are simply not very developed so we leave them alone. I imagine for the majority of interstellar travelers view our planet the same way, but sooner or later we're going to run into that minority that will just view us as something worthy of extermination.

So perhaps attacking everything in the sky without identifying it first is not such a wise idea?

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French Girls


I was listening to a copy of Iggy Pop's The Passenger done by a group called French Girls. I was curious what the group looked like so I searched for images in Google, not very hopeful because I knew the phrase French Girls would most likely just bring up images of girls in France, but it did bring this up which I found amusing.

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Global Warming, Future of Mankind, Energy, Innovation, Scarcity, Plenty


I don't mean to be disrespectful to those who think they are environmentalists and trying to save the planet, but I do at times have difficulty controlling my anger because they know not what they are doing.

First, let's consider the history of the Earth. It started with hardly any atmosphere, and then at the crust formed and volcanoes vented CO2, SO2, and H20 an atmosphere formed, a rather hellish atmosphere similar to that of Venus. During that early time of the Earth, the Sun's output was about 15% less the current, or about 1350 watts / square meter verses 1500 of today (by contrast Venus receives around 2350 watts / meter). Because of that lower output, even though the Earth had a CO2 atmosphere with a lot of water and sulfer dioxide (and as a result sulfurous and sulfuric acid) the temperatures were still low enough that liquid water could form.

Over time the weathering of rock thinned the largely CO2 atmosphere, nitrogen gradually became a larger share of the atmosphere largely owing to it's much lower reactivity with the surface minerals, and as the atmosphere thinned, the heating caused by CO2 declined, but the solar output increased, still not as fast as the atmosphere thinned so there was a period of at least 100 million years, perhaps several hundred million where the Earth was entirely frozen pole to pole, not great for life.

Eventually this thawed, and scientists still today do not totally understand why, but at some point enough water accumulated and enough crust thickness accumulated that we began to have plate tectonics. This was crucial, because now CO2 taken out of the atmosphere was taken back into the Earth as the plates subducted under one another and the rate of decline in the atmospheric pressure increased.

Around 500 million years maybe sooner some ancient forms of bacteria emerged but they did not use oxygen in their metabolism, in fact oxygen was highly toxic to them, instead they mostly received their energy by reacting sulfur with hydrogen. If humans could have survived, the atmosphere would have smelt like a giant fart because it would be full of hydrogen sulfide, one of the primary stinky components of farts.

Around two billion years ago some bacteria developed a primitive form of photosynthesis, this gave it essentially an infinite food source, solar energy, and so it thrived. Over time it released oxygen into the atmosphere and aided in the removal of carbon dioxide. By this time the solar output had increased maybe 7-8% and somewhat compensated for the reduction in the thickness of the atmosphere and in it's carbon dioxide content.

By around 300 million years ago, the CO2 levels had dropped to somewhere around 1000-3000 ppm, depending upon which model you use, there are at least a dozen with a fairly wide error bar, and with this CO2 rich atmosphere relative to today there was really an ideal atmosphere for life. There was enough oxygen in the atmosphere for a robust ozone layer and at the same time enough CO2 for robust plant growth, perfect conditions for dinosaurs to thrive. But as the time of the asteroid impact that finished most of the non-avian dinosaurs off, the CO2 levels had fallen to levels approximating those of today. Plant growth had become much less robust and already dinosaurs where dying off, especially the larger species.

One of the things that began to contribute to further reductions in CO2 were not just the weathering of rocks, but now marine organisms that incorporated calcium carbonate into their shells. These organisms then died and were swept under the crust at subduction zones. The asteroid was really just the final blow, the dinosaurs would have starved to death soon anyway.

By 20,000 years ago, the Earth reached it's minimal CO2 level of about 200ppm, this level only C4 plants could really do well and these are the minority of species today. C4 plants can tolerate levels down to about 150ppm though their growth at that rate is greatly reduced, C3 plants require more CO2 because they lack the cellular CO2 concentration mechanism of C4 plants. Reducing our atmospheric CO2 concentration back to 180PPM would leave us basically with two food crops, sugarcane and corn and neither would be abundant enough to feed today's population.

None the less, without human intervention, CO2 would in a relatively short time frame, fall below those levels and life on Earth would cease to exist, save for some hydrogen-sulfur reacting bacteria near hydrothermal vents in the ocean.

Crop production has increased significantly as CO2 levels have risen from around 240 ppm to todays 420 ppm. Given the population today this is NOT a bad thing. Further, plants use water more efficiently when higher CO2 levels exist because they do not have to open their stomata, tiny poors through which they acquire CO2 from the atmosphere, as far, their opening also looses water through evaporation. This is why increased CO2 levels have caused extensive greening of the Earth.

So for the sake of ALL higher life forms on Earth, it actually behooves us not to allow nature to take the CO2 level down to pre-industrial levels. Also, as the Sun continues to increase it's output, the Earth will get warmer and it's natural response would be to reduce CO2 but that WILL extinguish all life if allowed to happen. If we do not allow it to happen, then in about half a billion years, the Earth will boil away the oceans and life will become impossible anyway.

Given that global warming is inevitable for the next half billion years (and beyond for that matter because the Sun will continue to expand until it eventually envelopes the orbit of the Earth), we best find ways to deal with it in the short term and develop the ability to travel to distant solar systems in the meantime because that is the only hope for long term survival of man.

Now that said, at some point hydrocarbons, be they of fossil or mineralogical origin, those that we can economically recover will exhaust, and besides, our need for denser energy sources for a robust and prosperous future require greater (not lesser as the greenies would have it) energy sources.

Right now we have two possibilities for much more robust energy sources, nuclear fission and fusion. Conventional boiling or pressurized water reactors have several substantial problems. First, at best they use only about half a percentage of natural Uraniums energy potential in one pass. Two they create very long term radioactive waste. Third, because fission products aren't continuously removed during their operation, a shutdown does not stop heat production immediately, that continues for a long time as fission products decay to more stable isoptopes. So they require active cooling. Further, operating at pressures of several hundred atmospheres, they are prone to failures in which these fission products are spread over large areas.

But there is another type of reactor called a molten salt reactor, and a close cousin, liquid metal cooled reactors in which the coolant is either sodium or lead, that are much safer because they do not operate under significant pressure, thus if a plumbing problem occurs pressure isn't instantly released resulting in a huge steam explosion dispersing highly radioactive fission products.

Of these two I favor molten salt reactors because the salts are not reactive in air and thus do not start fires if you have a plumbing leak, unfortunately this IS a problem with sodium cooled reactors. The reason some designs favor sodium is that it is easier to find container materials that are corrosion resistant to sodium verses salt, but corrosion with the wrong choice of materials can be a problem in either case. Still, the Soviets have been operating a 800 mw sodium cooled breeder reactor for many years successfully and an experimental liquid metal fast flux reactor ran successfully for ten years at Oak Ridge and was even run 24 hours control rods out and cooling systems shut off to demonstrate the self-regulating inherent safety of these reactors. These reactors have the fuel dissolved in the liquid metal or salt coolant, and as a result, as the temperature increases the medium expands reducing reaction rates, thus causing them to be self-controlled and limited.

Because these reactors can "burn" the actinides (the products that result when a uranium or plutonium atom capture a neutron rather than fissioning become a yet heavier nucleus) these reactors produce no long term nuclear waste. The fission products decay back to radioactivity levels equal or less than the ores that were mined within 300 years. This can transform a million year storage issue into a much more manageable 300 year problem and even many of these fission products have uses like medical isotopes for cancer treatment or imaging.

So for the short term (and estimates of how long the Earth's Uranium and Thorium plus existing actinide nuclear waste could provide our energy needs vary from 10,000 to a million years depending upon our rate of energy use growth), this is a viable option for electrical and process heat energy needs.

In the longer term fusion is our next go to, this has seemed like an impossibility for years but two recent developments have changed this immensely, first is the invention of RebCO, Rare-Earth Barium Copper-Oxide ribbon super conductors. Superconductor magnets are necessary for sustained controlled nuclear fusion because the currents required to produce the necessary magnetic fields would melt conventional conductors after anywhere from 15-300 seconds of operation. But superconductors don't have resistance and thus do not heat up. However, superconductors lose their superconductivity above some magnetic threshold, the old style ceramic superconductors lost their superconductivity at around 8-10 Tesla, but these new RebCO superconductive ribbons can produce fields up to 40 Tesla, and in addition lend themselves to being wound into complex shaped coils much better than the old ceramics. Because confinement of hot plasmas scales with the cube of the magnetic field strength, 40 tesla can confine plasma 64 times better than 10 tesla can. So right there is a 64x improvement. Then add to that the way a plasma wiggles makes it prone to escape but recent advancements in computer neural network AI has allowed the magnetic fields to be adjusted in real time to counter this wiggling tendency. Between these two things I think we will see fusion as a power source sooner than later.

Now both of these sources are good for generating electricity or process heat, but not so much for liquid fuels like gasoline or aviation fuel, however, recently the US Navy has invented a process where by they can take carbonic acid from ocean water (dissolved CO2) and water and combine them with the use of electricity and some catalysts to produce O2 and hydrocarbons of any desired length, they invented this technology to allow aircraft carriers to have a supply of jet fuel without having to put tankers at risk in a war zone. But with adequate supplies of energy from nuclear fission or fusion, we can produce these fuels in abundance and they are carbon neutral because they are taking carbon from the air.

I am concerned that the direction that Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and other psychopathic globalists are taking us is in the wrong direction. It's going to lead to the death of already impoverished people, impoverishment of the middle class, and a great reduction in exactly the innovation we need to succeed as a species long term. This is why I get angry at the greenies who believe we can subsist on solar and wind. It is not a viable path long or short term, but especially long term.

As a people, as a species, we need to innovate as much and as fast as we can to allow us to meet our energy needs and adapt to a naturally changing environment over the long term, and eventually to migrate on interstellar terms in the long term because that is the only viable path for our long term survival as a species.

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The Science Behind Proper Wire Length Calculation For Solar Panels


The use of solar panels to generate of energy that is renewable has grown in popularity in the last few years. While the installation of solar panels is quite simple however, ensuring the highest efficiency of the panels isn't easy. One factor that plays the most important role in optimizing efficiency of solar panels will be the power cables that connect them to an inverter. This article we will explore the reason behind various lengths of wire with different ratings , and how the correct determination of the length of wire will return voltage to its original level.
Understanding the electrical Resistance

Electrical resistance is the opposing force to the flow electricity through a substance. As long as the wire is, the more electrical resistance it'll encounter. This causes a decrease in the voltage across every inch of wire, which lowers the power that is transferred. For solar cells, this decrease in voltage could result in an overall decrease in the efficiency that the panel is able to provide.
Important to have the proper Wire Length Calculation

A proper calculation of the length of wire is essential to ensure maximum efficiency of solar panels. This calculation takes into account how much electrical resistance the wire, the distance between the panels and the inverter and the overall length of the wire. The aim is to reduce the electrical resistance of the wire, thus reducing voltage drop and maximizing efficiency.
Re-sizing of the Power Cable

As the length of the cable increases, the electrical resistance builds up, resulting in a drop in voltage. By resizing the power cable, you can aid in restoring the voltage to its intended level. This can be accomplished by selecting a wire with a larger cross-sectional area, which will have lower resistance to electricity and be able to transfer more power while causing lower voltage drop.
It is the relationship between voltage drop and Efficiency

The voltage drop along the length of the wire may affect the effectiveness in the solar panels calculation system. An increase in voltage can result in a reduction in the energy that is transferred, which directly impacts the effectiveness for the solar panels. If you calculate the length of wire and increasing the size of the power cable to ensure that the voltage drop will be minimized, thereby increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
Important to take into consideration environmental influences

It is important to think about environmental factors when calculating the wire length for solar panels. The temperature of the wire, as an example, can impact its resistance to electrical current. In hot environments it is essential to select a wire that is able to withstand extreme temperatures without experiencing an increase in electrical resistance. This will ensure maximal efficiency for solar panels, even under adverse climate conditions.
Conclusion

In conclusion, accurate measurement of wire length is critical to maximize the effectiveness that solar panel panels. Electrical resistance on the cable and the voltage drop it causes can have a significant impact on the overall effectiveness and effectiveness of the entire system. By up-sizing the power cable while taking into consideration environmental factors, the voltage drop can be reduced and the efficiency of the solar panels maximized. The use of solar panels as a source of renewable energy could be significantly improved by taking the time to properly calculate length of the wire, and then making the necessary adjustments.

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Seeing videos like this all over the place, almost always at small retail stores.

The green revolution isn't going so well.

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"Scottish Power — led by a Spaniard, Ignacio Galan, and actually a subsidiary of Spanish firm Iberdrola — conceded that some 71 of its turbines had to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in December, according to the Sunday Mail, with a whistleblower telling the left-leaning newspaper that problems with the turbines are deep-seated.

"“During December 60 turbines at Arecleoch and 11 at Glenn App were de-energised due to a cabling fault… In order to get these turbines re-energised diesel generators were running for upwards of six hours a day,” they revealed.

"Indeed, the Record went on to say that some 4,000 litres (over 1,000 U.S. gallons) of leaking hydraulic oil was “sprayed over the countryside” by the turbines — a less than environmentally-friendly impact.
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It is also worth noting that only something like 1/5th of power consumption is actually the public energy grid. The majority of energy is already being done using coal, oil, etc., in industrial processes that we all make use of.

Even when are successfully using some green energy in the public power grid, we are only chipping away at the problem.

... and spilling oil, all the while.

All in front of the kids:

"In the background, a young boy can be heard screaming, and at one point, he can be seen punching an airline employee, apparently in defense of the passengers. A witness quoted by the Daily Mail expressed sympathy for the child."

The hell that we create on this earth:

"A senior Nigerian politician plotted to transport a street trader to the UK to harvest one of his organs for as much as £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard."

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"The then-deputy president of the Nigerian Senate is on trial at the Old Bailey alongside his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, their 25-year-old daughter Sonia and medical 'middleman' Dr Obinna Obeta.

"Sonia Ekweremadu is alleged to have been the intended recipient of the kidney in an £80,000 private transplant operation at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London.

"The daughter had a 'significant and deteriorating' kidney condition which could be managed through dialysis but cured with a transplant. "
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"Dr Obeta had distributed a GoFundMe page quoting £60,000 for the private procedure, some £20,000 less than the cost of Sonia's transplant had it gone ahead, it was alleged."
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"He goes on to say the classmate would need some £2,000 to start the search for candidates and testing.

"The following month, messages between Diwe Ekweremadu and Dr Obeta - forwarded to Ike - revealed that potential donors would travel for screening at a lab in the capital city, Abuja.

"The 21-year-old donor was among them, having been recruited by an acquaintance at a Lagos street market who turned out to be Dr Obeta's kidney donor, the court was told."

It is kind of interesting because an argument can be made that it is a legitimate transaction... One that is, of course, highly questionable. Nobody wants anyone in their family giving up their body parts for money.