News Flash
Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.
I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.
But the past cannot actually be changed.
It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.
Let’s Go, Brandon!!
Hey China!
Or rather, “Hey Chinese Communist Party and your entire array of servitors, ass-wipers, and fellators!”
You’re not even worth my time this week. When you decide to act like civilized people, maybe I’ll give you a lesson or two in how non-barbarians behave.
Hey BiteMe!
(Or, Whoever Has Their Hand Rammed Up That Putrefying Meat Puppet’s Ass)
[Language warning]
You and yours have caused a lot of injury. Literal injury with your war on people who don’t want to take an untested vaccine. When people die in an emergency room because a hospital won’t admit them because they haven’t had their clot shot, that’s a crime.
I’m going to address here the insult on top of the injury, because I am among the insulted. I still have my health but apparently you want me to live under the 8th Street Bridge (which actually isn’t on 8th Street, but whatever, that’s what the I-25 overpass over Cimarron is called), so maybe if you have your way that won’t be true for long. Dreadful time of year to become homeless.
No, you’re just trying to make me unemployed, because I won’t take your fucking shots.
Well, that threat is NOT going to work. I. Won’t. Take. Your. Fucking. Shots.
And it looks like enough people agree, that you’re having to back down, you worthless asswipe.
You’re LOSING.
You LOSER.
You Chinese-bought ratfucking traitor.
I would love to see you die an agonizing, humiliating death. (This isn’t a threat, because I am not threatening to cause that death. I am just announcing my intention to party if it happens.) It would be just recompense for the way you’re killing America…and millions of Americans.
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot Prices.
Kitco Ask. Last week:
Gold $1,928.50
Silver $23.69
Platinum $1,021.00
Palladium $1,696.00
Rhodium $12,550.00
This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.
Gold $1,865.30
Silver $22.41
Platinum $983.00
Palladium $1,703.00
Rhodium $12,500.00
WOW. Major drops in everything just today. Gold was around 1950 on Wednesday, dropped a bit Thursday and went down almost 50 bucks today. Silver went down $1.14 today..
More Stupid Orbit Tricks (Orbital Mechanics Part 3)
Well, this is a bit embarrassing. This is one subject that I actually have some formal background in, albeit from over thirty years ago, and I flubbed something in the first column.
[Math note: Take the velocity vector for the satellite. Normalize it, so its length is 1. Take the cross product of it and the z axis unit vector. Take the magnitude of that product. You now have the sine of the inclination angle. For those of you who didn’t understand that, be assured that it’s dead damn easy and you don’t have to watch the satellite in orbit to figure out its inclination, so long as your velocity measurement is accurate.]
Me being slightly stupid two weeks ago
You can certainly do this. It works as described. But it’s vastly better to take the dot product of the normalized vector with the z axis unit vector, and treat that as the cosine of the inclination angle. Why? Two reasons. First, the cosine could be anything from 1 down to -1, and those correspond to angles of 0-180 degrees, the exact range of angles an inclination can be. Second…to take that dot product, just grab the z component of the normalized velocity vector; no need to actually do the dot product, (vx, vy, vz) (0, 0, 1) is a no-brainer.
OK with that out of the way, we can pick up where we left off last week. I gave you the formula for the period of an elliptical orbit of a certain semi-major axis (a), and used the special case of a circular orbit where a is the radius of the circle, to figure out the radius of a geostationary orbit. Here’s the formula once again:
(Last week, the one I found had GM where this one has μ; they’re the same thing, the gravitational parameter of the object being orbited, which is the mass of that object multiplied by the gravitational constant.)
It’s really easy to get from here to the speed the object is traveling at in its orbit. The orbit will have a total length of 2πa. (The circumference is 2π times the radius.) Divide that length by the period. Both of the 2πs cancel, and you’re left with a / sqrt of a3/μ, but that’s just the square root of μ/a.
Yes, this one has r instead of a. (This is what I get for copying and pasting formula graphics from Wikipoo; it’s not being consistent about using μ instead of GM, and the point I am about to make is obscured by using r instead of a.)
So does this mean that if you’re at a certain distance from the center of the object, a, and you’re traveling at speed v, you’re in a circular orbit?
Not necessarily. You’ll notice I said “speed” not “velocity.”
It is true that if you are at that distance, and traveling at that speed, your orbit will have a semi-major axis of a, but it won’t necessarily be a circular orbit; it could be an ellipse. The direction you are moving in at that distance matters. Draw a line from you to the center of the primary. That line defines “down” (even though you don’t feel weight while in orbit). Perpendicular to “down” you are moving “horizontally.” See the following very fancy (and stolen) diagram, where v is always in a horizontal direction:
If that is the direction you’re moving, and you are at the proper speed, you will be in a circular orbit. Otherwise, if you’re at the proper speed but not moving “horizontally” you are in an elliptical orbit whose semi major axis happens to match your distance from the primary. The more eccentric the orbit it, the farther away you will get from the primary at apoapsis…but the closer you will be at periapsis.
And this is where clean theory departs from actual practice. The theory pretends the entire mass of the primary is located at a point at one focus of the ellipse (or the center of the circular orbit). The fact of the matter is, the primary has a size, a radius, and if periapsis is less than that number, your time in orbit ends when you smack into the surface of the primary.
If you are in an elliptical orbit, then of course your speed at apoapsis is less than the speed we just computed, and your speed at periapsis is greater than that speed–unless it’s zero because you smacked into the surface of the primary. This formula is only good when your distance from the center of the primary is the same as the semi-major axis of your orbit. (Always true in a circular orbit, true at exactly two points of an elliptical orbit.)
Surely there’s a better formula useful in other circumstances!
Stop calling me Shirley, and yes, there is. It’s called the vis viva equation:
a is your semi major axis, and r is the distance from the center of the primary. Notice that you do not need to know the orbit’s eccentricity. More importantly, notice r and a don’t have to be the same.
(Also notice that if they are the same, things cancel and you get the circular orbit formula above. And notice also that if r is more than 2 times a, you get a negative sign under the radical. But that makes sense, it’s physically impossible no matter how eccentric an elliptical orbit gets, for you to be more than 2a away from the center of the primary, because the orbit itself is 2a in length, measured the long way.)
And now we have the background needed for today’s stupid orbit tricks.
Escape Velocity
If you set the semi-major axis a to infinity in the vis viva equation, you’re now thinking, basically, about an ellipse with apoapsis at infinity, which is to say, you’re not ever going to get to it, so you’re never coming back. Plugging that in to vis viva, the 1/a term becomes zero, and so escape velocity (at any given distance r from the primary) is:
(And now we’re back to GM.) You don’t have to be in orbit for this to work. So at the surface of the earth, 6,378 km from the center, escape velocity is roughly 11 km/s.
(And again, now reality crowds into theory. In reality there is more than just the earth and your spacecraft, there’s also the sun. You’ll get away from earth, but not from the sun…so you won’t travel infinitely far from the earth. To get away from the sun, you need 42 km/s (yes, even 150 million kilometers away from the sun). The earth’s orbital velocity of 26 km/s can help you with that, if you launch in the right direction; just add 16 km/s to get to 42 km/sec. This is how New Horizons was launched to–and past–Pluto.)
Note that the formula has a “greater than or equal to” sign; any velocity greater than this is also good for escaping, with some left over of course.
Changing Orbits
How do you change from one orbit to another?
If you’re in orbit you need some source of thrust, and the most common and obvious one is a rocket.
But here is the key thing…if you want to change from one orbit to another, you apply thrust where the two orbits–the one you’re in and the one you want to be in–cross each other. Because what you change with thrust is not position (not at the time you thrust, but of course later on your position will be different than it otherwise would be), but rather velocity. So the position before you thrust will be the same as your position after the thrust, but your velocity will differ.
Let’s go back to the eccentricity diagram.
Let’s say you’re in the red orbit and want to go into the green orbit. What you do is wait until you’re at one of the two points where the two orbits intersect–let’s pick the bottom one for this example, fire up your rocket, and change your velocity so that you’re now travelling on the green ellipse instead of the red circle.
But–and this is key–I said velocity not speed. The speed remains the same (remember, from above, that when those other orbits cross the red orbit, they’re at the same radius r and the orbits all have the same semi-major axis, a, so they have the same speed, just in different directions.
Velocity is defined both by speed and a direction of motion. In this case, you need to change the direction without changing the speed. This is a job for vectors! Just eyeballing it, at the bottom of the diagram where the red and green orbits intersect, you’ll want to point your rocket almost directly at the thing you’re orbiting, and thrust for a bit. That will result in your velocity shifting a bit downwards on the diagram, and you’ll be moving on the green ellipse instead of the red circle.
Remember what I said about being able to change velocity but not position, with thrust?
There was an egregious misunderstanding of this in a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Deja Q (from the third season). A certain planet was facing disaster, because its moon, formerly in a nice tidy circular orbit, was starting to drop inwards. With every orbit, the periapsis was getting closer and closer to the planet; eventually it’d hit the planet.
The Enterprise was going to try to pull the moon back into its proper orbit with the tractor beam.
But the Hollywood effects people were utterly ignorant of what I was just telling you. If you want to move the moon from that elliptical orbit back into its circular orbit, what do you do? You go to where the two orbits touch, at 3 o’clock in the diagram…and give it a good shove there. (You will want to speed it up at that moment; same direction, but make it go faster.)
Instead they depicted the enterprise waiting until the moon was at periapsis (9 oclock on that elliptical orbit) then pushing from there. Luckily they didn’t succeed, otherwise that moon would have ended up in a different orbit than what they wanted, quite possibly a very eccentric ellipse that would collide with the planet…oops!
Now a real starship crew would know this (unless they slept through orbital mechanics at Starfleet Academy), but Hollywood writers and producers? Nope. And either their “technical consultant” didn’t know Jacques Schiff about orbital mechanics (which, let’s face it, is an arcane specialty for people on Earth, though if we ever migrate into space in a big way, people up there will have to know it), or the Hollywood weenies decided not to listen to him.
(And let’s leave aside the fact that there’s simply no reason for a moon to suddenly have a shrinking orbit like this, in the first place! The only way it could happen, in reality, is if someone applied a small thrust to it at 3 o’clock, every time it was there, to slow it down and get the other side of the orbit to drop. I can’t think of a natural process that would do that. Once, yes, but every single time it’s at the same spot in its orbit?)
So there you go, an orbit change…and even an application (and you get to laugh at Hollywood too).
Hohmann Transfers
But what if the two orbits don’t touch? The short and glib answer is, then you use a transfer orbit; pick one that touches both orbits.
Hohmann transfers get used a lot by NASA for interplanetery probes. The orbits of Earth and (say) Mars are in very nearly the same plane, so you just pick an ellipse that touches both orbits, sort of like the way that wayward moon’s new orbit was touching the old one at 3 o’clock.
But it gets used for satellites too.
Imagine we have a satellite in a very low, circular orbit, say, 222 km above the earth’s surface or 6600 km from the center of the earth. And we want to put it into a geostationary orbit, which is at 42,164 km from the center of the earth.
We need a transfer orbit.
Like this one:
Our two circular orbits are connected by an elliptical orbit. (And yes my low special effects budget is in play here….the diagram is again stolen from Wikipedia, and it’s for the sun and two planets, clearly. Just imagine that’s Earth at the center instead of the sun.)
When you change an object from one orbit to another, its position doesn’t change, its speed does change. So what has to happen is the satellite, when it reaches 6 o’clock in orbit 1, has to change its speed to be appropriate for that elliptical orbit, at its closest distance, so now it’s in orbit 2. Then it will have to change speed again when it gets to 12 o’clock in orbit 2, to put itself in orbit 3. Needless to say, there’s a rocket attached to the satellite for doing this.
We know a for orbits 1 and 3, but we don’t know it for orbit 2. But look at it. The semi major axis of 2 is half of the long distance across the ellipse, and it should be pretty obvious that the long distance the sum of a for orbits 1 and 3. Because the top end of ellipse 2 is at the same distance as a for orbit 3, and the bottom end is at the same distance as a for orbit 1. Add them together to get the total distance, and divide by 2. A for the transfer orbit is 24,382 km.
Orbital velocity at 6600 km comes from . Using μ=3.986 x 105 we get v = 7.771 km/second.
Orbital velocity at 42,164 km comes from the same formula and is 3.075 km/sec.
So now we need to use vis viva twice, once for r=6600 km in an a=24,382 km orbit, and another for r=42,164km in a 24,382 km orbit (the same orbit, two different distances). At 6600km, to be in that orbit, the spacecraft must be moving at 10.22 km/second (not that much below escape velocity!) and at 42,164 km it will be moving at 1.600 km/sec (it’s 1.59968 but I am rounding everything to four significant figures).
So at the point where orbits 1 and 2 touch, the spacecraft is moving at 7.771 km/second and has to speed up to 10,22 km.sec, which is a change of 2.448 km/second.
And at the point where orbits 2 and 3 touch, the spacecraft will arrive moving at 1.600 km/sec but needs to speed up to 3.075 km/sec to go into the circular geostationary orbit, which is a change of 1.475 km/sec.
As I said this is done with a rocket attached to the spacecraft. This rocket must be able to change the velocity of the spacecraft 2.448+1.475 = 3.923 km/second.
With that, and the mass of the satellite and of the rocket with empty fuel tanks, and the characteristics of the rocket fuel, you can use the “rocket equation” to compute exactly how much fuel that booster needs to do the two “burns” it has to do, in order to move the satellite to geostationary earth orbit (GEO).
The rocket equation sounds like a good thing to talk about in a future Saturday daily, assuming anyone in my audience still has eyeballs that haven’t turned into glass.
But in the meantime, you at least have some notion of how to send the GOPe to its most appropriate next convention site.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
On this day…
Facebook Launches
February 4th 2004
On this day in 2004, Facebook launched as thefacebook.com. Allegedly created by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room as a successor to an earlier “hot or not” website. Jacob Greenberg was the beneficiary of the DARPA LifeLog project, which shut down and transferred technology and development teams to Facebook. Limited initially only to Harvard students, the site targeted university and college students to create excitement and buzz before eventually opening up to users from all walks of life. Today, Facebook has over 2.5 billion monthly active users but has long since lost its “hip” and “cool” factor when everyone’s grandmother began “liking” every photo of the kids that was posted, including grandchildren that weren’t theirs. Desperate to bring back the mojo, FaceBook was rebranded as Meta and released the 3d-immersive Metaverse, which will go down in history as the single biggest self-inflicted business flop since the Dot Com bubble.
“Desperate to bring back the mojo, FaceBook was rebranded as Meta and released the 3d-immersive Metaverse,”
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Except “meta” is so beta it’s gamma.
If we say that we saw something on ‘meta’, most people will have no idea what we’re talking about.
If we say we saw something on Facecrook, they understand immediately.
So Suckerberg may have changed the name, but the ‘rebranding’ never took.
It was like McDonald’s trying to rebrand itself as ‘neta’ 😂
Yeah, nothing says “mojo” like Meta. /sarc
I’ve been laughing at this all afternoon!
Yes, meh-tah “go down in history as the single biggest self-inflicted business flop since the Dot Com bubble.”
Of course, the use of transfer orbits jumps right into using an Aldrin Cycler — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler .
You can even play with them in Kerbal — https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Earth-Moon_Aldrin_Cycler
This is somewhat fortuitous.
When I saw “Aldrin” (as in Buzz Aldrin) I was immediately reminded of the very cool “Diels-Alder adducts” (a type of organic chemical product) called Aldrin and Dieldrin – which are pesticides. In looking for a picture of the synthesis…..
http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/d/di/dieldrinsynthesis.png
Edit: Added locally….
…..I found an image of a story about two hillbilly kids drinking some 5% Dieldrin and one of them dying.
When I went to find the image on the original site, I stumbled upon this story, about Cocaine Mitch.
https://www.everybodyhatescharlie.com/?p=1221
Which is on this YouTube video:
Which I then tweeted.
Anyway, back to Aldrin & Dieldrin. I always thought this was such a cool example of a Diels-Alder cycloaddition, albeit with reversal of the normal polarity. But the polychlorinated chemicals are nasty, so just a part of history now.
OMG – I just got retweeted by Sundance. This is gonna go through the roof.
BY SUNDANCE? 😮 🤓
Wolfie needs to check under his car before he starts it.
AH CROSSED COCO CHOW!!! 👼 😅 😆
Couldn’t help noticing the shovel.
This woman has courage.
Just to show that your improved suggestion on that Z component calculation really is improved, I actually read it as your correction the first time through (dot product and cosine), and was stunned when you said it was something else – I had to go back and re-read it to understand that I had misread it the first time through. I had literally READ cross product and UNDERSTOOD it as dot product. Not good!!!
^^^ This.
Most normies have no idea they are in the middle of a huge PSYOP. Most know things are weird, but they just go along with it and spout what they hear or read.
It’s not “fake news”, it’s the “killing fields news”.
A comment lifted from Larry Johnson’s article today:
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Everything in the west/America plays out in public and the Chinese know it. They know that this balloon could be full of paper towels and nothing else and the public/TV drama and display of incompetence and lack of ability to respond to a simple issue such as this one would still be out there on TV for all to see. At the same time it is a test to see what we would do. Finally, it is to show the rest of the world that we too have “red lines” (the same kind as the ones we have been pushing with the Russians and to which they have not responded – at least not publicly) and that we too will not do drastic things in response. I mean, what WOULD be a rational response now that the cat is out on TikTok, Twitter, CNN, Fox and the rest? There would always be someone unhappy with said response – hence, decision making paralysis. Trying to make hundreds of parties happy equals making nobody happy equals “rather not make any decisions than making the wrong one for which later you will be torn apart on Twitter”.
In America everyone is an expert and everyone has an opinion and everyone questions everything and everyone has some kind of an agenda – so it is impossible to actually have a long-term national policy on anything and make any decisions of national interest “quietly”. In places like China or Russia such decisions are made daily and nobody questions/challenges them but then again, their leaders today are much more responsible with the weight of those decisions so they do not need to air every detail of everything on TV and the public still knows there are responsible adults in the room. In America, on the other hand, we have a perception of public decision / consensus process – but too many midwives and the babies end up being in charge while the midwives are arguing on what to do….
It’s a systemic fault.
Link to Larry’s blog https://sonar21.com/more-on-the-high-flying-balloons/
This sounds like the ‘blame everybody’ approach. That was always Bill O’Reilly’s favorite.
He would go down some long list of political Leftist organized crime, and then say something like “But we had this one guy ten years ago in the GOP who got caught paying less than he should have on his taxes, so they’re ALL guilty!”
Everything doesn’t play out in public in the West, only the things the criminal political class WANT played out in public happens in the West.
Everything else is suppressed.
Thanks to the Interwebs, a fair amount of actual truth escapes, and maybe 10-15% of the population is paying attention to that.
Meanwhile, everybody else is paying attention to deep state propaganda media, and then the political-class reacts to state propaganda media.
The criminal political-class writes the scripts and acts the parts.
The People (including us) are just sitting in the audience.
10-15% of the People (people like us) know we’re watching a steaming pile of B.S.
The rest don’t realize they’re watching a farce.
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Getting torn apart on Twitter is an extremely recent development, if he means getting torn apart by anyone who isn’t supporting state propaganda.
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“I mean, what WOULD be a rational response now that the cat is out on TikTok, Twitter, CNN, Fox and the rest? There would always be someone unhappy with said response – hence, decision making paralysis.”
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I don’t know what ‘cat’ he’s referring to, unless he’s claiming that everyone knows they’re all just state propaganda media outlets — except (very recently) Tweeter, which appears to be having an internal civil war.
But it’s comical to suggest that anyone in a position of power or authority GIVES A RATS ASS about making anyone “happy”, and this leads to decision paralysis. As if the political-class wants to help, they’re just so concerned with making everyone happy that they don’t know what to do… 🙄 (where’s the vomit emoji when we need it?)
“In America everyone is an expert and everyone has an opinion and everyone questions everything and everyone has some kind of an agenda”
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That’s humanity, and it’s going to be true wherever there is some semblance of freedom. It’s not a recent development. The alternative is Stalinism / Maoism / Nazism.
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“– so it is impossible to actually have a long-term national policy on anything and make any decisions of national interest “quietly”.”
____________
It’s impossible to have any long-term national policy because:
A) far too much power has been concentrated in the federal gov’t generally, and the presidency specifically
B) because of ‘A’, big money spends whatever it takes to control ‘A’
C) because of ‘A’, foreign adversaries also spend whatever it takes to control ‘A’
D) because of ‘A’, big money and foreign adversaries work TOGETHER to control ‘A’
E) before UniParty, changing leadership every four or eight years would cause policy to swing wildly to the Left or mildly back toward the middle every 4 or 8 years
F) it’s practically impossible to have any long-term national policy anyway, when the world is changing as rapidly as it is today, due to exponential advances in technology and instantaneous communications
G) and behind it all, the 24/7/365 unrestricted psychological warfare deployed against domestic populations (population of the entire planet) by big money and foreign adversaries who seek to control ‘A’
So everything is about a tiny percentage of the human race with money and power, seeking to control 7.5 billion people, who just want to be left alone to live their lives.
Surprise, surprise, surprise…
Jab will decimate the military! Two fronts accomplished. U- n police force used for peasant control and bioweapons, digital currency will accomplish depopulation and slavery. Who ever is left will own nothing and be happy.
But at least the jab didn’t get ’em 👍
China Joe! Traitor!
Oh, China is watching us . . .
China is watching us . . .
China is watching us . . .
From a distance . . .
Intentional Weakness: Biden Botches China Watching US
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
https://www.lifezette.com/2023/02/intentional-weakness-biden-botches-china-watching-us/
I haven’t watched this video yet . . .
One of the guests is Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman of Center for Security Policy, joins the show to discuss the Chinese spy balloon hovering over America.
. . .
“The balloon goes up”
February 3, 2023 Frank Gaffney, Jr.
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/the-balloon-goes-up/
“When the balloon goes up” is military slang for the start of a shooting war. The Chinese Communist Party has literally sent a very large balloon up to collect intelligence over sensitive sites in the continental United States and the Biden administration’s refusal to shoot it down invites actual hostilities.
Presumably, a determination to avoid any unpleasantness on the eve of Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s visit to Beijing next week contributed to Team Biden’s latest act of submissiveness. But it will only reinforce the CCP’s calculation that it can behave aggressively against us with impunity.
Unfortunately, as a powerful Committee on the Present Danger: China webinar yesterday made clear, the Chinese Communists are already at pre-kinetic war with America. Their serial appeasement by our “captured” leadership elites only intensifies the likelihood of that war becoming a violent one.
This is Frank Gaffney.
“Their serial appeasement by our “captured” leadership elites only intensifies the likelihood of that war becoming a violent one.”
Does the above statement make logical sense? The inclusion of the word “captured” suggest that leadership is already under the control of China. In that case why would China provoke a violent response from people already doing their bidding? I suppose “captured” could be a referent to some other faction. In the context of the paragraph it does not seem likely.
It’s meant to move your focus from the Neocon/Ukr disaster to another ‘enemy’ – and at the same time memory-hole the US/NATO latest in a serious of failures … reminds me of the 3-shell con … and ‘gatekeeping’ – but that’s just my warped thinking 😉
The Chinese found out American political class love money more than God and County.
The elites are for sale for money without personal consequences.
The people protecting the country are all compromised. Do they really believe they get a seat at the table when china takes over? They will be the first to go . They have learned nothing from history.
THIS! “…They will be the first to go . They have learned nothing from history.”
So True
😳 🙀 😱
Granny Killer New-Scum!
Random Nuisance and Justin Castreau are largely interchangeable.
Pretty face hiding a demonic soul….
what did he know?
well, we know he’s related to one (D’Alesandro) of the four major Mafia families in California … if you like Nanzi, you’re gonna LUV ‘Newsom’ (Don Jr.’s current partner was once married to him…)
Kimberley Guilfoyle might have valuable insight that our side could use.
She better have some because she ain’t that cute. Yeah, I said it.
She’s a nice looking woman – but desperately needs a makeover to soften the look. Very dark, long straight hair – with no highlights or color variation, is harsh and aging. Her makeup is also dark and heavy. Clothes always a little too tight, and a little too low cut – distracting. Only works when you’re young. She just needs to soften it up, she has the framework. 😄
From your voice to her ears!
It’s a simple fix. 👍🏻
Her inner tyrant doesn’t help either:
If he runs, the whole world better hope he ‘dies suddenly’.
And there is a whole long list of people just like him, about whom the whole world should hope the same.
There is nothing funny about any of what’s going on.
If Hitler had “died suddenly”, WWII wouldn’t have happened.
There are dozens of people being groomed or already in positions of power today who are already worse than Hitler.
They meet at Davos every year, and worship at the altar of WEF.
Post added to the science sidebar!
The idea of a transfer orbit is an amazing simplification of the problem of changing orbits. Such a VERY cool idea. At first, I was thinking “WTF!” But then to realize that one is ALWAYS in orbit, and simplifying the problem to three orbits – that’s freakin’ ingenious!
Twelve minutes of Japanese Synchronized Walking.
(Too cold for parkour.)
It’s a competition! Nicely done, and they move so fast. No doubt that is part of what they’re judged on.
“We are all individuals!”
h/t Monty Python
Saw what you did there! 😎
They just need band instruments and they could fill in at a Texas A&M half-time show.
My friend’s daughter was in their marching band. Dad was so proud. Here’s an example: Watch video10:11A&M vs Florida Fightin’ Texas Aggie Marching Band Halftime Show (11/…101.4K views3 months agoYouTubeZacherey Casey
Pretty cool stuff!
On this day in history, February 4, 1783, King George III declared a permanent ceasefire to the American Revolution (1775-1783).
Timeline of the ending of the Revolution:
1781
October – Gen. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
1782
February 27 – House of Commons votes to end the war.
March – British Prime Minister North resigns.
April – Informal peace negotiations begin in Paris between Ben Franklin and Richard Oswald, the representative of the new Prime Minister.
September – John Jay and John Adams arrive in Paris.
November 30 – A preliminary peace treaty is signed. Britain agrees to withdraw its troops from the U.S.
1783
January 20 – The preliminary treaty is ratified by Parliament.
February 4 – King George declares a ceasefire.
April 11 – America’s Congress declares a ceasefire.
April 15 – Congress ratifies the preliminary treaty.
September 3 – The final Treaty of Paris is signed by John Jay, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, and David Hartley of Great Britain.
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/treaty-of-paris-of-1783-september-3-1783.html
1784
January 14 – Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
April 9 – Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
May 12 – The signed documents are formally exchanged in Paris, officially bringing the American Revolution to a close.
Excellent!
Thank you TT …
and now the EOL ‘rules Britannia’ … bet the Britons didn’t see that in their future when Caesar landed on their shores…
European ‘leaders’ tossed their people on the sacrificial altars the moment they were told to …
EOL??? Waz dat???
The only EOL meaning I know is “end of life”. This reminds me that Roku has some BBC documentaries called “Britian” and the host is a younger Neil Oliver. He is exploring ancient history starting with the ice age. I learned that Neil studied to be an archeologist and that makes perfect sense to me. His interest is in the ancient individuals and what their lives were like. He’s showing us bones, tools, old burial sites, and so on.
“Empire of Lies” – basically the UniParty as we know it. It’s a common term used on Moon of Alabama.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Empire+of+Lies%22+site%3Amoonofalabama.org
Isn’t it clear, Twitter IC embeds? Journalism “harasses” and “abuses” wrongdoers with TRUTH.
This episode demonstrates that Elon still has work to do. Once again, “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”
Elon should seriously consider suing for his money back. Those bastards lied in order to make the sale. They should pay dearly.
Amen…
SUE for the COST of FIXING the software. (X 3) 🤓
It’s the same problem, on a smaller scale, that Trump had on a much larger scale.
You cannot ‘manage’ a workforce that is in open rebellion to your leadership.
Either you fire everybody and hire people who support your cause, or you may as well just quit before you’re deposed.
The Left understands this intuitively, which is why they are able to put skis on the Overton Window and shove it down Mount Everest.
The Right wants to be liked by their enemies, and gives the Left enough seats at the table to destroy everything from the inside.
Kanekoa has a thread about other balloons: in Japan in June of 2020, etc. Note that the balloons in the pic did not appear at the same time.
CHINAZIS UP TO THEIR CHIHITLER CHIT!!!
I am still having a hard time understanding why Chyna uses “Balloons” when there are supposedly thousands of “satellites” up there that can read our car license plates?
Chinee, much like NSA knows all about out computer keystrokes, texts, phone conversations…
It might be like the two kids in the back seat, one is pointing his finger 1″ from the others’ face, saying,” I’m not touching you”
First, why buy the narrative that this is a Chinese spy balloon. It cannot see anything as you said that their satellites cannot already. Plus Google Earth and Maps provides everything anyway. For free.
As to any sensors picking up data, that can be done just by driving around with equipment in a small van.
This balloon thing is a joke.
They can, but judging from what I’ve seen of my house their imagery can be months out of date.
A spy satellite can provide real time coverage, if it happens to be in the right place at the right time.
Apparently there are web-based services that can show you something close to real time, but they cost $$$.
Yes, they have spy satellites which is why this balloon thing is a joke.
What was the action taken by other countries, particularly India?
Good question. I haven’t delved into it in detail.
We’re all Ukrainians now(?)
If we all pledge allegiance to Ukraine, will the U.S. military finally defend us?
Only if Xi approves.
What is the point of the “solar array” UNDER the balloon?
Would they not be SHADED by the balloon itself?
Solar panels lose much of their power in the shade.
There’s no other place to put it.
If they put it on top of the balloon, it will simply roll over from the weight being on top.
wouldn’t a ring of those flexible ones, mounted close to the equator of the balloon, then something hanging below to offset the top-heaviness work?
I suppose, but it would depend on how heavy the instrument package is compared with the solar panels. (They would be reluctant to deliberately add weight for such reasons; it forces the balloon to be larger for the payload it is carrying.)
Also, simply putting the whole thing on a long enough tether below the gas bag would work, it’d never be in the ballon’s shadow unless the sun were almost directly overhead (which would only happen in or very near the tropics).
It may be long enough actually, we don’t have any side-on photos. I’m leaning towards that being the answer, though I don’t know.
Exactly. Eratosthenes to the rescue. The amount of time that the sun would be blocked by the balloon in the Northern hemisphere has to be null ATM.
In fact, right now, the sun is so low, the solar panels could be almost right below the balloon. Orientation toward the sun is the real problem.
Crap. We’re getting a physics lesson from China! 😂
😂
Tell it, brother!
U.S. Naval Institute:
Venus is a hottie. Not surprised a bunch of sailors got fired up over her.
I’ve seen her backlit.
😳
YOWZA!
You could put eclipse glasses on, look at the sun, and see the black dot that is Venus, transiting.
You could back in 2008 or 2012. If you missed those, you’re SOL, next time is in 2117 if memory serves.
The planets are such little dustbunnies compared to the sun!
The solar system consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris.
LOL!
That sounds a lot like “Biology is the study of plants and plant parasites.” Which is not quite true, but close enough to be hilarious.
A zygote is a gamete’s method of producing more gametes.
One small Venusian crumb cake…
One giant Easy-Bake Oven 👍
😅
[loud groan] 😜
Evening Star and Morning Star. Amazing the Ancients had that one figured out.
1945 New York Times Headline above the fold.
US NAVY PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT IT IS ANTI-WOMAN.
“Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.”
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Well it’s a good thing Venus didn’t strike back.
U.S. Naval Institute:
He had a film career from 1934, when he was four years old, until Bambi in 1942, his final film role. He’s 88 years old now and living in Texas. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Great city, despite libtards destroying it!
One source said San Antonio and one said San Angelo, so I changed it to Texas.
I can see why he might not have shared that widely…..
“Sir! Yes, Sergeant Bambi, Sir!”
“Sergeant Bambi” would have made them drop and give him pushups until he got tired. So “Sergeant Bambi” would have died a quick death as a nickname.
Since a Marine Drill Instructor’s purpose is to knock the wiseacre out of a recruit and install a Marine in its place, this would probably not have ever been uttered out loud in his presence.
Speaking of Marine Drill Instructors, it must have been quite the experience to have been trained by Donald Yarmy and seen him several years later as Don Adams in Get Smart.
Assuming the above information about his film career was correct he would be at least 92 years old if he is still alive.
Mistake: The film career started in 1938. He is 88 years old. He has a website too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Dunagan
Congrats, you sure cleared that anomaly quickly.
wow…have the dominoes started to fall…?
Top microbiologist alleges Thailand may cancel Pfizer contract after suspected vax injury to princess – LifeSite
OMG, I just posted this, too! Awesome!
the Spirit is a-moving…
^^^ G R E A T start to my Saturday.
Big story. A Thai princess, 44 years old, went into a coma shortly after getting the jab. Doctors told the royal family that it was due to a bacterial infection. Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi in Germany (he’s Thai) hears the diagnosis and says “no way – it’s the jab!”
So activists in Thailand take it from there, and guess who gets an audience with “top men” in Thailand?
Pfizer may be in deep shit.
So it will play here…..
This is the King’s eldest daughter. I don’t think, “if she survives, she’ll likely be sterile” is going to be very popular.
I suspect there is pissedness in the Royal Palace.
Could be their first experience with a world the rest of us have to deal with every day.
Sorta like Hamlin, we gotta have a big name, suddenly collapse, perhaps die. Or a big name have a massive reaction to a jab.
In this case, A Thai Princess, in a coma. The King unhappy. IIRC, Thais revere their Royals.
Hope the Thais burn Pfizer down.
It’s pathetic.
We should stop pretending that human beings have any meaningful capacity for reason.
Clott Adams is right. For the most part, people are just moist robots, wholly given over to drama and emotion.
BIG mistake in not making sure that the Thai royal family was given saline…
Pfizer arrogance.
The doctor in that clip says the royal family has been sent info that the princess is likely a victim of the vax. He talked to the top advisers to the government and told them the vaxes are based on fraud and that safety pharmacological studies were never performed. When he told the Thais this, they hit the roof. “We will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world to declare this contract null.” He says it means that Pfizer will have to pay back billions to Thailand and that Thailand will “recompensate those people that have lost their existence.” Oh, how I hope this happens.
One would have thought that the “high ups” would be more informed or have their ear to the ground more that us riff raff, surprising.
More concerned with palace intrigue.
Vast wealth usually buys total insulation from any such concerns… about anything in this world, really.
“The doctor in that clip says the royal family has been sent info that the princess is likely a victim of the vax. He talked to the top advisers to the government and told them the vaxes are based on fraud and that safety pharmacological studies were never performed. When he told the Thais this, they hit the roof.”
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They should have hit themselves instead of the roof.
The information has been publicly available for 3+ years now.
Apparently the complete detachment of ‘royals’ from the reality of the world in which their subjects suffer, had an unexpected personal consequence.
“He says it means that Pfizer will have to pay back billions to Thailand”
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Pfizer doesn’t need Thailand’s business to prosper.
But if Thailand is just one of dozens of nations to go after Pfizer, critical mass might be reached.
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“…and that Thailand will “recompensate those people that have lost their existence.”
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Not holding my breath on that one.
Whenever big money is involved, there’s never any left by the time it would reach the people for whom it was ostensibly intended.
Pfizer has billions of dollars (IN THAILAND, ALONE) to push back. But this is a start.
So in order to awaken from our own national coma, all we need is for an American princess to collapse or do a “died suddenly” from the jab.
The light of a thousand suns shining on the obvious truth won’t do it…
But the emotion of one pampered princess doing the jab jitterbug will.
We live in a bad cartoon.
Seen in the replies
edit so this is not in direct reply to WM…oops…
This one is enjoyable! Featuring “Trustworthy Rochelle” right up front! 🙃
I trust science, it is FRAUDSTERS I DO NOT TRUST! FRAUDSTERS THAT CHASE GRANT MONEY INSTEAD OF DATA.
How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
NATURE International Weekly Journal of Science: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers
The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote:
*http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)60696-1.pdf
Similarly, the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, wrote in 2009:
“We can no longer trust Drug company clinical trials”
(Original Article I quote below has vanished… imagine that!)
Of course this is the same thing that Dr Fang was saying more recently.
Right on, Gail. Science has become a whore for grant $.
Grant money gives whores a bad name.
Another aspect of this is that if you hold a position at a university, your productivity is often measured by how often you publish.
That can often make people desperate for grant money.
So what they’re saying is that there is no need for Chat GPT in the area of scientific research papers. The market is already saturated.
It is only a CULTURE of corruption which could allow such fraud to become commonplace.
One of the amusing things about this post is that it would be required to get through junior high school for a kid growing up on a space station.
To catch up to something ahead of you in the same orbit, you don’t speed up, you slow down. (That puts you into a smaller orbit with a shorter period, so you will drop below the level of the other object, pass below it, then slow down and then rise up, at first in front of it but as you get closer to its altitude, it will catch up with you.) By slowing down, you will return to your present location just a bit sooner than you would have otherwise, in time to catch the object ahead of you just as it’s passing through the same point (which takes it slightly less than one of its orbits, because it had already passed that point when you began your maneuver).
More future junior high school trivia. It sounds counter-intuitive when you look at it from the spacecraft’s point of view; if you adopt a wide field of view that can see the whole orbit, it makes more sense.
“back is down, down is forward, forward is up, up is back.” My probably mis-remembering a quote from science fiction.
THAT is interesting.
The Integral Trees?
“East takes you Out, Out takes you West, West takes you In, In takes you East. Port and Starboard bring you back”. (Also sometimes, “North and South bring you back”.)
Either The Integral Trees or its sequel, The Smoke Ring.
That’s undoubtedly what I am (mis)remembering. I was thinking it might be integral trees, but was totally uncertain. (I haven’t read that in a LONG time; it’s not a book I liked so much I went back and read it again.)
Here, it seems “east” describes “the direction of orbital motion” (which is consistent with a prograde orbit). North would equal port then.
North and South would represent (small) plane shifts, and the planes intersect at two laces, the first where you did the maneuver, the other on the opposite side of the orbit…similar to the ascending and descending nodes. The other directions (E/W, in out) function as I described except I described the cycle in the opposite direction.
You can go EAST forever…
You can go WEST forever…
You can only go so far NORTH until you reach the North pole,
then you will be going SOUTH.
Same thing going SOUTH, until you are going NORTH.
Or so they say.
MOAR cultural Marxism.
Destroying beauty in all forms.
OOoooH YOU TOUCH ME sniff I am going to call the police! sniff sniff.
(He was never touched)
I sure hope HE got all FIVE covid shots from the ‘hot’ batches.
Hope PV posted that video on YT. Sure, it’ll get taken down. Post again and again by others.
That is a GREAT one 😁
Here’s Matt, youtube’s VP and head of Global Trust & Safety, going for a walk 😂
After all the fun with ligers last night, I finally got my imaging referral in the mail today — and the doctor that’s supposed to do it is named Tiger Singh.
Thing is, “Singh” means “lion” (and is a well-nigh universal last name among male Sikhs [female Sikhs tend to use “Kaur”, which means “princess”]). So, the day after talking about ligers, I get a referral to go to Doctor Tiger Lion.
Enjoy the Simulation!!!
Long thread of short tweets “debunking” the Chinese weather balloon back to a nothingburger. Don’t agree – I think this was typically ChiCom, mostly a psyop.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1621753847390830592
80% of the world is laughing at our reaction…
it’s only a psyop if it works… and it sure did…
“80% of the world is laughing at our reaction…”
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But our reaction was NOT to the chyna balloon.
Our reaction was to our own government responding in a way that could not possibly be rationalized or justified, magnified by the fact that they didn’t even try.
The reaction was to yet another curtain being pulled back, showing everyone that we live in a clown asylum.
If anything worked the way it’s supposed to, people’s reactions would be far more ‘normal’.
But when up is down, and left is right, and right is wrong, and black is white, that is what causes the outsized reactions.
And it should, shouldn’t it?
What’s the other option?
That we live in Wonderland, and we become so desensitized to the insanity, that nobody even notices?
Russia does not set itself any restrictions in the form of a response to attacks, depending on the nature of the threats, it is ready to use all types of weapons – Medvedev
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The response in case of strikes on the Crimea and deep into Russia will be quick, tough and convincing – Medvedev
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If Ukraine tries to strike at Crimea, there will be retaliation strikes, all Ukraine remaining under the rule of Kiev will burn – Medvedev
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Good.
Thank you RAC …
Neocons continue to poke the Bear … the stupid burns…
I don’t remember where or when, but I remember reading about a situation where an inflatable boat was drifting close to a bunch of rocks in the Canadian surf. A Coast Guard helicopter showed up….
….the helicopter kept far enough away to not spray the foundering boat, lowered down to about 15 feet above the water, and threw a Newf out its door. The dog immediately started paddling to the boat. The helicopter lifted to a safe distance and turned on its loud-hailer, saying “Let the Newfoundland do its thing. Do not attempt to assist.”
The Newf got to the boat, grabbed a mooring rope in its teeth, and started pulling the boat parallel to shore, away from the rocks. Once at a safe distance, it pulled the boat to a sandy beach and landed it.
I am continually amazed at how much wisdom is packed into the ROM of specialty dog breeds.
A Newfie!!! We had a Newfoundland – Russian wolf hound cross…. Did I mention I like BIG dogs?
Wow, I can’t even imagine how big!
I was thinking of fitting her with a saddle…
Verse of the Day for Saturday, February 4, 2023
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“For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.”
Isaiah 41:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
My go to Larry Johnson has an informative piece this a.m. He also brings some words from our old friend Monkey Werx…
MORE ON THE HIGH FLYING BALLOONS
3 February 2023 by Larry Johnson
Did you know that the U.S. intelligence community has a number of balloons flying over the United States at very high altitude — e.g., 90,000 feet? They do. I recommend the following video for your enlightenment. It is by a former U.S. military special operations bubba who knows how to read and decipher air traffic. Meet Mr. Monkey Werx:
What I tried to convey in my previous article was the lack of international agreement governing overflights of a nation’s territory by balloons, fixed wing and satellites. There is an international consensus about aircraft that operate in controlled airspace. And countries such as the United States, Russia and China will shoot down a fixed wing intruder.
Remember Gary Powers? He piloted a U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, flying at 70,000 feet. The United States mistakenly believed the Soviets had no weapon system capable of taking out a plane at that altitude. We learned the hard way that our intelligence had some major gaps.
Today that ceiling is even higher. Frankly, any fixed wing spy plane flying on the edge of space could be shot down because the U.S., Russia and China have missiles capable of reaching them. There is no international agreement that I can find (if you come up with one please pass along) that imposes a cap proscribing a fixed wing air flight over a country.
Let suggest another explanation why the United States so far has declined to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon. Could it be that the United States has similar balloons at 100,000 feet loitering over China or Russia (or just outside their national boundaries) and do not want to risk losing those balloons in retaliation if we take out the Chinese one currently sauntering above the United States? While I have never held clearances on such systems I would not be surprised that such a capability was kept in a highly protected SAP (Special Access Program). Balloons can gather more precise and voluminous intelligence than your average satellite.
If you watched the Monkey Werx video you realize that most folks have no idea about the various intelligence platforms that are working out of sight overhead.
What you need to understand is that once a balloon is above controlled air space it is in a legal gray zone with no controlling treaty or international law. The fact that the U.S. has spy balloons operating at the upper reaches of earth’s atmosphere helps explain why the United States has resisted efforts to create clarity and definition on this frontier.
One final thought. I have listened to a number of politicians voicing outrage at this violation of U.S. air space. I just wish they were equally upset by the millions of illegal immigrants flooding the U.S. southern border. I conclude they are really not serious about doing something substantive that would make a real difference in the lives of American citizens and in the lives of those immigrants who are being exploited by narcotics cartels and human trafficking rings.
https://sonar21.com/more-on-the-high-flying-balloons/
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yesterday’s hysteria across the internet reminded me of back when the (photoshopped) images of people collapsing in the streets of China appeared online… mass hysteria, and it was thus for years… hyped by yellowstream media and alt media, and esp our “leaders”
Akin to shouting “Fire” in a theatre. I confess I was disappointed when first POTUS and then Don Jr… were screaming “Shoot it down, shoot it down.” (Hold your fire … I am not saying it shouldn’t have gotten our attention… but … / Kassandra)
Serious question.
Have not clicked the video link.
MonkeyWerx.
Yes … he still does identify air traffic…
Thanks. For me, MonkeyWerx hoopla over military aircraft, was click bait.
MonkeyWerx may very well be spot on with is thought on balloons.
I do thank ya for sharing, and replying.
I wondered that myself at times …
but a comment at Larry’s connected to Larry’s praise of him …
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Small planes of immigrants rarely are spotlighted in the media flying into various cities.
The video is an eyeopener as to what the government is doing to us flying large planes of illegals and seeding the country throughout with trouble and a destructive strain on resources.
Maybe we should do the same as we do with any other destructive critters. Declare open season…
Your point on click bait is a good one …
My observation (as a political junkie 😏 ) is that there is a lot of it in Alt Media … apparently the yellowstream media doesn’t have a corner on that market.
Thanks. Validating what we’ve been saying!
Is there a Readers digest sentence or two, “what we’ve been saying”?
Yes, in short the balloons have a far greater ability to suck up info/data important to spies than satellites do because a) they are closer. b) they are on station longer. c) They can be fully dedicated to the spy mission unlike satellites where instruments on each pass are contended for by varying agencies for varying projects/missions and may not be available for the spy master when he needs them (someone of equal or higher rank wants the instruments focused on something else).
In short the balloons don’t have the same share problem satellites have and have better or equal abilities in data suck up stuff.
The way I see it, playing SECOND on this deal gives our military the option to pick the best outcome for their own purposes. We either start enforcing against balloons, or start doing overflights on China at the same altitude.
I’ve read this a.m. (in Larry’s comment section) that the US KNEW days ago, this balloon was airborne and said nothing about it
it provided an excuse for Blinken to reschedule his trip to China… and that rumor (meaning no source cited) has it China has stated it was a civilian research balloon that went astray and apologized …
I ain’t ready to believe China even addressed the matter… nor am I ready to brush aside the possibility that the US Gov’t launched the balloon… the whole thing shouts FF to me, right at the time Ukr is imploding and the West is ‘acknowledging it’ and the narrative changes to ‘war with China’ – stated by a current American General to his troops “Be ready to engage China in 2 years”
Yea, nothing the CCP can be believed at face value. Same for USG.
Daily, there is a narrative to shape. As Ukraine narrative collapses, Lookie There…Chinee balloon. Oh Me, Oh My, Taiwan.
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While I do not know the answer with Taiwan.
But I do know, War Over Taiwan is Stoopid on Steroids. To the point of suicide.
If the U.S. gov’t had ANY moral standing whatsoever, we would never have to fight chyna over Taiwan.
The threat of the U.S. and other legitimate governments (none of those in the West now) making chyna a PARIAH nation would have been enough to deter chyna from stealing Taiwan.
But today, when the U.S. government is the #1 criminal mafia in the WORLD, what moral standing does the U.S. gov’t have to point a finger at anybody, for anything?!?
The criminal and illegitimate U.S. government makes oligarchs in Russia and drug cartels in Mexico (and banana republic dictators everywhere) look upstanding by comparison.
Or… we already have them over Chyna (and other places).
Thank you. Makes sense.
What about “satellites” that are in “Geosynchronous” orbit?
Aren’t they stationary over its target?
And what about the stories that claim they can read our car license plates?
They’re stationary over target, but much, further away, over 20,000 miles away instead of a few hundred miles up. Which makes it harder for them to read license plates. Also, they cannot go to high latitudes and still be geostationary. (If they’re merely geosynchronous, they’re not necessarily stationary in orbit, it just means they’re over the same spot every 24 hours.)
The way I understand it is:
“Geosynchronous” means over the same spot FOR 24 hours… Not ONCE every 24 hours.
Nope. Can’t be done except for objects in equatorial circular orbits. There’s simply no such thing as an object whose orbit keeps it over (say) a point at 30 degree N latitude. Because the plane of the orbit has to pass through the center of the earth, half of that orbit will be over the southern hemisphere.
I am confident enough in this that I will tell you flat out that any definition that says “FOR” is wrong, with respect to geosynchronous orbits that are not geostationary orbits (circular and in the plane of the equator).
ok
https://www.spacefoundation.org/space_brief/types-of-orbits/
Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO) & Geostationary Orbit (GEO)
Objects in GSO have an orbital speed that matches the Earth’s rotation, yielding a consistent position over a single longitude. GEO is a kind of GSO. It matches the planet’s rotation, but GEO objects only orbit Earth’s equator, and from the ground perspective, they appear in a fixed position in the sky. GSO and GEO are used for telecommunications and Earth observation.
OK they are saying FOR here…but they are saying “over a specific longitude.”
Which means that they’re not saying it won’t move north to south. Which is good because it will.
They’re still not quite right, because they’re claiming it won’t move east to west…but in fact, such a spacecraft will make a figure 8 centered over that line of longitude, with the crossing point over the equator. (Provided: The orbit is circular but inclined.)
Take the extreme case of a geosynchronous orbit that is at a 90 degree inclination. At time zero, say, the satellite is over the equator at 90 W, heading north. It is NOT going to stay over 90 W, because the earth is rotating under the satellite and 90 W will move to the east as the satellite moves straight north. Six hours later, the satellite will be at the north pole, and 90W will be to its right (the earth having rotated 90 degrees in 6 hours). The satellite will then head south, and reach the equator just as 90W reaches that same point. Mirror image for the southern hemisphere.
At lower inclinations the effect is less extreme, but you do get a figure 8. And the satellite will spend very little of its time at the highest latitudes that it can reach.
Google earth can read your car tag…
I’m frequently harassed by real estate agents who have googled my property and have the ‘unmitigated gall’ (as my late Mother would say) to suggest we meet and discuss possibilities for such…
An agent who wanted some people’s property asked what the owners planned to do with it. Excuse me? None of their business. They get so pushy and cross boundaries.
I’ve received offers in the mail to purchase my property for less than ten percent what it’s worth. UFB
Yes they do TT… and they call me by my first name..!
I tear up the postcards, brochures with photo of portion of property… the texts? I try to be a lady here… but they insult my intelligence, call me by name used by friends, so I tell them where they can go before typing STOP …
I don’t bother with STOP. It confirms to them they have a valid phone number for you. I just block that number completely.
Exception: When some effing RINO hits me with campaign texts. Then I reply as obscenely as I can.
Hubby just give them a very high quote. Haven’t heard from any of them since.
Now I am seeing texts that look like wrong numbers. Probably trying to get you to start “talking” to them. I just send back “wrong number” (on the off chance it really is some poor schmuck who fatfingered a phone number) and block them.
Hubby has a great shut down. He tells them he will sell for X million — about 10 X the going price.
We never hear from the SOBs again nor anyone else.
I’ll use that! Thanks …
COUGH.
Yes, and US Gov’t has many in sky over Russia and China and the USA …
and as far as we know, there is no international agreement or law about ‘air space’
and if one does exist, the US Gov’t would violate it just as they do the ones that do exist on international waters.
Yesterday, either posts(s) or linked article(s), suggested USG balked at defining, the altitude space begins.
USG, like common criminals, ignore laws, agreements, when convenient. Glaringly obvious these days.
“Could it be that the United States has similar balloons at 100,000 feet loitering over China or Russia (or just outside their national boundaries) and do not want to risk losing those balloons in retaliation if we take out the Chinese one currently sauntering above the United States?”
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Well if we do, then shame on the U.S. government, and we should stop doing it, instead of secretly using it as a justification to allow our enemies to do it to us!
There was a time when one could reasonably hope that the U.S. government was doing something, anything, in the interest of or to protect the American People.
That time is gone, gone, GONE.
The U.S. government has ZERO credibility, except in wrongdoing, where they have 100% credibility.
Let the light of truth shine brightly, every where!
What about if this was a decoy and the next balloon could have bacteria in it and release it over the US and other country. We have shown we are tolerant and do not react quickly. Next time Generals will say it is nothing no danger until it is. This Balloon should have never been allowed into our airspace. Just my humble opinion.
There was a reason why China did this.
Very true.
Although sadly, if chyna wanted to release another bioweapon in the U.S., they could just mail it.
Or send it in a shipping container to a U.S. shipping dock owned by the CCP.
Or just release the bioweapon from one of their own biolabs in any of the U.S. universities owned in whole or in part by the CCP.
They have a hundred ways to release a bioweapon in the U.S., and the U.S. government made all of it possible, and the U.S. military allowed the government to do it.
The NSA knows what the government is doing. It’s their job to know. Same with the C-eye-A, the Pentagram, FIB and every other intelligence agency in the U.S. government.
They all know, and they did nothing.
Military and intelligence agencies in other countries have done something, and do.
In one of my replies earlier, referencing Hitler, I was going to reference Mussolini and Hirohito too.
But before I posted, I did a quick search on Hirohito, and eventually decided it was easier to just use Hitler to make the point without Mussolini and Hirohito.
But the info I read about Hirohito certainly showed that in relatively recent history, the military was not just a lap dog of the national government, selling themselves out to whoever signed their paycheck.
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https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito-1
“When Hirohito assumed the throne, a universal male suffrage law had just passed, and political parties were near the height of their prewar powers. However, a plunging economy, rising militarism and a series of political assassinations soon caused a crisis for the pro-democracy movement. Hirohito, who as emperor was the nation’s highest spiritual authority and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, essentially fired the prime minister in 1929.
The next prime minister was shot and mortally wounded, and in 1932 yet another prime minister was assassinated by naval officers upset about a treaty limiting the number of Japanese warships. From then on, almost all prime ministers came from the military rather than from the political parties, which were disbanded altogether in 1940. More political violence occurred in 1935, when a lieutenant colonel slashed a general to death with a samurai sword. And in 1936, over 1,400 soldiers mutinied in Tokyo, seizing the army ministry and murdering several high-ranking politicians.
Meanwhile, Japan’s conflict with China was growing. In 1931, Japanese army officers initiated the so-called Manchurian Incident by detonating a railway explosion and blaming it on Chinese bandits. They then used the event as an excuse to take over Manchuria in northeastern China and set up a puppet state there. Excursions into other areas of the country soon followed, and by 1937 war had broken out.
That winter, the Japanese army massacred an estimated 200,000 civilians and prisoners of war in and around the city of Nanking. Rape is thought to have been commonplace, and women throughout Japanese-controlled regions of Asia were brought in to serve as prostitutes. Hirohito did not condone the invasion’s more repugnant aspects, but—perhaps because he worried the military would make him abdicate—he failed to punish those responsible. He also sanctioned the use of chemical warfare and the uprooting of peasants.”
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The point being that we’re always fighting the last war, trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, instead of dealing with the reality of the present.
In order to make sure we never do what Japan did, our military goes overboard the OTHER direction, not intervening NO MATTER WHAT the treasonous civilian [stolen] government does.
True there is an easier way of spreading bio weapons. Sad world we live in but still live better than most .
“What you need to understand is that once a balloon is above controlled air space it is in a legal gray zone with no controlling treaty or international law. The fact that the U.S. has spy balloons operating at the upper reaches of earth’s atmosphere helps explain why the United States has resisted efforts to create clarity and definition on this frontier.”
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Is the author still operating under the assumption that ANYONE in the U.S. government is a ‘good guy’?!?
Is he still operating under the assumption that America is the GOOD GUY protecting the world from the Evil Empire?
I know it’s a mindset that is hard to shake, but the fact is, the U.S. government is illegitimate, compromised, corrupt and stolen.
So whatever the U.S. government is doing with balloons that is being used to justify why we let our enemies do the same to us, the U.S. government is NOT doing anything to protect national security or the American People.
That’s not even part of their mission, because our country is run by our ENEMIES, and our enemies don’t care about our national security — they are ENEMIES.