2022·07·16 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Two weeks ago:

Gold $1,813.90
Silver $20.00
Platinum $901.00
Palladium $2,032.00
Rhodium $14,550.00

Last Week:

Gold $1,743.60
Silver $19.40
Platinum $901.00
Palladium $2,263.00
Rhodium $14,850.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,709.60
Silver $18.83
Platinum $861.00
Palladium $1,901.00
Rhodium $15,300.00

There’s no question–the traditional precious metals (gold and silver) are getting hammered. The PGMs aren’t getting hit as badly; in fact rhodium is up!

JWST Update
(Last One for a While?)

The James Webb Space Telescope has been commissioned. It has returned its first operational pictures. I posted them on Tuesday.

The science mission now begins. This will run, hopefully, for years. They plan on getting ten years out of the telescope. But NASA either fails spectacularly coming out of the gate, or ends up running missions for far longer than expected (the Voyager probes are closing in on fifty years). Since the first didn’t happen…well, we can look forward to all sorts of interesting stuff!

What do we expect? Well, we hope to look further back in time, to the formation of the very first stars–those are expected to be different from anything around today because they formed from almost pure hydrogen and helium; no recycled “burned” fusion products as every star today is made from. The idea is these will probably have been gigantic stars and maybe we’ll learn something about those supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

I’m going to go way out in front of my skis here and ask if perhaps those supermassive black holes are remnants of first stars, and the galaxies formed around them rather than them forming after the galaxies did. (Hopefully my faceplant will be entertaining. Any real astrophysicist reading this is probably rolling on the floor laughing at some elementary idiocy in what I just said.)

Another thing JWST hopes to do is look at exoplanets. We know of hundreds of them indirectly; now we finally have a tool that might be able to see something directly.

Of course, it stands ready to investigate the next unscheduled “kaboom.” If there’s a supernova nearby you can bet JWST will be on it. SN 1987A (which wasn’t exactly nearby but you could see it with the naked eye so it wasn’t that far away either) happened before Hubble. Generally about 10 or 20 percent of the time on the telescope is not allocated ahead of time just in case something crops up. With Hubble the scientist who administered it got to assign that time to whatever he wanted (with the understanding that if something big happens unexpectedly, he’ll drop what he’s doing and use his time on that). Of course the truly unexpected is…well, unexpected, so we can’t know what will come of it.

But the larger point is, we actually do not know what JWST will discover; we have a list of what it will investigate. If we did know what it would discover, we wouldn’t need it! We have questions we can use JWST on, but no answers. When we have answers…they will lead to questions we couldn’t even think to ask today. That’s real science. (Quite unlike the crap that goes on in medical research.)

Meanwhile, I am going to have to find something else to write about, at least until some results come in. A scientist granted time on JWST generally has some set period of time where s/he has exclusive access to the data, so they can write their paper and publish. Then it’s opened up to everyone.

So I don’t expect to see news reports about what “JWST has found” for at least a little while.

You Read It Here First

Slate (okay, I’ll pause while you vomit…OK, better now?) has an article about false-color images from JWST:

James Webb Space Telescope: How the photos get their colors (slate.com)

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

2022·06·11 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last week:

Gold $1,852.30
Silver $22.00
Platinum $1022.00
Palladium $2,074.00
Rhodium $15,500.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,873.20
Silver $22.00
Platinum $982.00
Palladium $2,020.00
Rhodium $14,900.00

All over the map here. Gold up, silver is exactly where it was (though I am sure it moved around a bit over the week), all of the PGMs down. That says to me the industrial users are demanding less, and gold is serving as a safe haven.

But that interpretation is worth exactly what you just paid for it.

JWST Update

JWST instrument commissioning proceeds apace.

This morning, I saw they had two of the seventeen instrument modes checked off. It’s now 3PM mountain time…and they have four!

That tells me they’re working a bunch of them (maybe even all of them) at the same time.

The JWST blog is busy, too. As some here noted, they’ve already dealt with a micrometeor strike. They expected these and designed with that in mind. (Though if a meteor isn’t so “micro-” there could be problems. However, the bigger they are the less likely they are.)

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/08/webb-engineered-to-endure-micrometeoroid-impacts/

Also they’ve posted about the near infrared imager and slitless spectrometer (NIRISS), one of the four instruments on JWST (there’s a fifth, but it’s used to keep track of the JWST itself). They can do spectroscopy on one object, or everything in the field of view at once, interfermetry (getting increased resolution at the cost of some light), and just plain old imaging to back up and/or supplement NIRCam.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/03/the-modes-of-webbs-niriss/

If I were to try to overstate how important spectroscopy is to astronomy, I’d fail. It’s thanks to spectroscopy that we can tell radial velocity (how fast a star is moving towards or away from us), how fast something is rotating, what it is made of, and (with a lot of sophisticated processing) the mass and period of many exoplanets and even what the atmosphere of an exoplanet might contain (provided in the latter case we are in the exoplanet’s orbital plane), all without leaving the comfort of our home planetary system (and let’s face it, we still haven’t much choice there). The overwhelming majority of what we know about “out there” is thanks to spectroscopy. And it was key in discovering at least a dozen chemical elements, including one that was discovered in the sun before it was discovered here (I’ve told that story–hint/reminder, it’s the chemical element named after the sun).

You may have wondered how they’re going to decide who gets to use JWST. After all there are more astronomers than there are James Webb Space Telescopes. And, it turns out, it’s a bureaucratic process.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/09/scheduling-webbs-science/

I know that some of the available (24/7 minus takedowns for maintenance, usually adjusting mirror secoment alignments) time is held in reserve, at the discretion of the manager of the JWST. That’s quite a privilege, but other than his personal research, he’ll be expected to use it to study things that go kaboom or comets, especially comets about to hit things. In other words, if a supernova were to go off near by (a totally unanticipatable event), it gets priority over the guy who wants an image of NGC-1234…and that guy would probably even agree with the decision; we haven’t had a really gonzo supernova since before Galileo’s telescope. (The fact that the one back in 1987 was visible even though it was a hundred thousand light years away tells you something about how bright a star like Betelgeuse would be if it went kaboom! since Betelgeuse is a couple of hundred times closer. Yes, it would be visible in daylight.)

Meanwhile, we wait for the awesome.

An Interesting Point Made Here

Yesterday cthulhu linked to this:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/06/09/let-the-leftists-beat-each-other-up-n2608458

(Very first post for Friday.)

And the first part of that was worth a read:

When we conservatives decline to volunteer as a dish in the progressive buffet, the leftists have no choice but to feed upon each other. We will see more of it as conservatives wake up and smell the kombucha – leftists only win when they can bully and intimidate, and if we choose not to let them do that to us, then it’s not as if they will give up their go-to move. No, they will turn on each other, and we will gobble up the Orville Redenbacher as they fight to the death for our amusement.

And we are amused.

Donald Trump was the first guy to push back, really push back, but it was not simply his pugnacious nature and cunning ability with mean tweets that made him important. It was his moral position. At some level, for some reason, so many establishment Republicans had approached these bad faith actors as legitimate critics who were at best misguided and who might actually have a germ of a point within their critiques. Trump, however – having been among them for decades and understanding exactly who they are – read them correctly. He considered them garbage. 

It was not so much that Trump fought back, it was that he made it clear that the leftists are scum. And because he did not credit them with any moral stature, their slings and arrows bounced off his armor. Of course, Ron DeSantis has taken the same tack with them, refusing to credit them with any kind of merit. And that deprives them of their most powerful weapon – their victims’ complicity.

The thing about words is that they can only hurt you if you let them. At one point, “racist” and “sexist” and all the other lies might have stung. Now, we consider them a punchline and an outright slander. We laugh at them.

Kurt Schlichter on TownHall

This is precisely what Ayn Rand called “the sanction of the victim.” It comes about when, deep down, you cede moral authority to your oppressors. Rand would, in particular, highlight the effects of an altruistic world view in this connection, i.e., where your worth is measured by how much self sacrifice you are willing to do. If you can be guilt-tripped for not being willing to give up something you value, to help out a bum on the street, they’ve got you.

This sort of thing is, I believe, why many RINOs cave regularly. They believe that the Left has a bunch of impractical ideals, and they think of themselves as practical people who have to rein those impractical people in. But the problem is, they think of the left’s ideals as ideals that can’t be achieved practically–which means they say to themselves, “Well it’s nice in theory.” So they can be pressured to help try. After all, it would be nice if real communism could work, so why not get as close to it as is practical?

But in doing this they cede the moral high ground to the Left. Which is why RINOs are inveterate invertebrates.

Rand, of course, thought altruism (which she considered sacrificing something of greater value for something of lesser value, about which more below) was a crock, so she was immune to that.

But even those immune to altruistic appeals might not be immune to accusations of “sexism” or “racism” and modern Leftism isn’t so much about Marxism of the “workers own the means of production” as it is about race and sex inequality “built in” to the culture. (Though the former is supposed to be a means to correct the latter…or maybe the latter is the excuse to implement the former…ah, well, who cares which one it is?) So they pull guilt trips that can only work if you cede them the high ground. If you do that, you will feel you deserve what they do to you.

That’s a major philosophical thread underlying the entire novel Atlas Shrugged.

(By the way in her non-fiction writing Ayn Rand was explicit that she was not talking about “sacrificing” to put your kids through college or things like that–you are trading a lesser value (that fancy car you couldn’t buy) for something of greater value (your children’s futures. She would not consider that an actual sacrifice but rather a high price paid for something of great value. A sacrifice is giving up something more valuable to you, in exchange for something less valuable. With that in mind, Ayn Rand opposed sacrifices in life, often gotten from people through guilt trips.)

And now, thanks in part to the Left going over the top with accusations of “racism” and in part to Trump showing them to be paper tigers, the Left is losing their power…and they’re losing their shit over that.

Quarters

The subject of the new quarters came up a couple of days ago, and I thought I’d bring in a historical perspective.

It’s hard to imagine today, but in the early days quarters weren’t that popular a denomination. Since, back then, the mint made coins to order by anyone who brought silver or gold in, that meant if people didn’t specifically ask for it, they didn’t make it. And most people bringing in a bunch of silver would want it done as dollars or half dollars.

But, nevertheless they did make a few thousand of them in 1796.

Note there’s no denomination on the coin. You were expected to know what it was by its size. And the other silver coins had the same design themes on them.

They made a few more quarters in the 1800s (i.e., 180x, not the 19th century) with a different eagle (and now, the denomination is given as 25 C though it looks like an afterthought):

And then in 1807 or so they changed designs completely.

Collectors refer to the prior designs as “Draped Bust/Small Eagle” and “Draped Bust/Large Eagle” and this design is the “Capped Bust” because Liberty is wearing a cap. This ran until mid 1838, though the recently-founded New Orleans mint adopted it a couple years later. Again, all silver denominations basically used the same theme, the coins looked like each other except for size and the written denomination (half dimes, dimes, quarters, and halves–there were no capped bust dollars at all). [Yes, half dimes…silver coins half the size of a dime. The nickel we know and love didn’t exist until 1866.]

Again, there’d be multi-year gaps where no one ordered quarters from the mint.

Next was the “Liberty Seated” series which ran until 1891, i.e., it lasted longer than the mint had been in existence when it was adopted. Again, all of the silver coins basically looked the same. We had silver dollars again. But the half-dime and dime were a little different, instead of an eagle they had a wreath on the reverse. So we finally started to see a breaking up of the monolithic one-design-for-all-denominations rule.

There was one major change to this in 1866 for the quarter, half dollar and dollar, because “In God We Trust” was added, on a ribbon over the eagle’s head and wings.

A multimillionaire might decide it would be fun to get one of each date and mintmark, in uncirculated condition…that’s the typical collecting type, albeit with a budget the typical collector doesn’t have (most collectors don’t even delve into Liberty Seated and earlier coinage at all; if you collect by type–one of each design type rather than one of each year and mint mark–you have a considerable advantage; you need six or eight coins instead of over a hundred).

That multimillionaire will never succeed if he undertakes that quest. Many dates, especially from the San Francisco mint, are unknown in uncirculated condition; i.e., absent someone opening a box in an old attic somewhere and making a discovery, there aren’t any. Period. Again, quarters were not that popular, and the mint didn’t make many. (And the Civil War was not good for specie coinage on top of that.)

The mint got bored with the Liberty Seated coinage and decided to replace it starting in 1892. We were now down to four silver denominations, the dime, quarter, and half dollar, plus two distinct types of silver dollars. The silver dollars had their own designs, now, but the dime, quarter and half dollar still had liberty seated on the obverse and an eagle (or wreath) on the reverse. Anyhow, the replacement quarter was…

And collectors are almost unanimous in finding this design to be incredibly blah. (What’s with Liberty’s neck?) This design had one big advantage though, and that is that it struck up well, with all the detail, and as it wore down, it was still readily recognizable. That was the criteria Charles Barber was working from, and he succeeded.

Why am I showing you all of this? Because people were talking about the artistry and symbolism of the new quarters. So the design has been my focus so far.

In the 1900s…as in 190x, not 19xx..none other than President Theodore Roosevelt decided our coins were artistically atrocious. Not just silver but also the coppers, nickels, and gold pieces. (Probably the only then-current design liked a lot today is the Indian head cent.) So he embarked on a crusade to change the designs. There was, at the time, a law against changing the designs more than once every twenty five years, but the then-current gold designs had been around since 1839 or 1849 depending on the denomination, so those could be done right now. Roosevelt brought well-known sculptors famous for their work into the project, and this was in the days before modern “art.” (You can look those up: Indian head quarter eagle, half eagle, eagle, and St. Gaudens double eagle, I want to focus on quarters).

But the effort to change our coinage actually did outlive Teddy Roosevelt. In 1916, under Woodrow Never-to-be-Sufficiently-Damned Wilson, the silver was addressed (and again, there was no dollar being produced at all). And this time the designs were completely different for each denomination.

So I present you the “Standing Liberty Quarter.”

Only a few were made at the tail end of 1916 and command a huge premium today, but more were made in 1917 and then there was a design change.

The shield looks different, the eagle is higher up, the stars on the reverse are rearranged…and yeah, Liberty is now overdressed.

[The modern “old wives’ tale” is that there was a huge hue and cry over the bare breast and that’s why they changed the design, but in fact little evidence of such can be found in contemporary newspapers. And John Ashcroft wasn’t even alive then.]

These coins are much, much more artistic than the Barber series, but the mint hated them. The design was nearly impossible to strike up. Oftentimes detail in Liberty’s head was just not there, and so today, if you’re shopping for one of these, an “FH” or “Full Head” designation can bring a premium. But even on “Full Head” coins, many of the rivets on the shield (and the US shield on the shield) can be soft or nonexistent.

It was difficult to mint these well in the sorts of quantities the mint was now being called upon to produce. (The “Mercury” dime and walking liberty half dollar also introduced in 1916 had similar issues…also worth looking up.)

Charles Barber was stung that his design had been dropped after 24 years (with a little creative interpretation of the exact text of the 25 year rule), and considered these designs failures–and by his criteria, as a man charged with producing designs that would strike up and wear well, he was actually right.

Washington’s 200th birthday was fast approaching, and Congress passed a bill to put Washington on the quarter in 1932. The last standing liberty quarter was made in 1930 (none dated 1931).

So now, who gets to sculpt George Washington?

The Commission on Fine Arts had hired Laura Gardin Fraser to sculpt a commemorative medal, and they suggested the same bust be used on the quarter. But instead Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon chose the James Flanagan portrayal, which in turn was based on a sculpted bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon made in 1786–i.e., a sculpture made using Washington himself as a model.

A plaster copy of Houdon’s bust of Washington

So the Flanagan portrayal should be very, very close to an actual image of Washington. (It can be hard to nail down a good image of someone who lived before photography.) Anyhow, here it is:

This of course is what we’re used to. But please note, there is actual detail in Washington’s hair. By the 1960s and 1970s the master hub from which the dies are made had worn smooth from repeated use and Washington’s hair began to look like a skullcap.

A touched up version of this began to be used sometime in the 1990s, but they overdid it and it looked like Washington’s hair was made of spaghetti.

Honestly, from 1994 they couldn’t find a coin that wasn’t heavily dinged up around George’s mouth?

It only got worse in 1999. The image was shrunk slightly to make room for legends brought from the reverse for the state quarters series.

And the spaghetti looks even worse. For that matter so do the dings on the coin.

And the spaghetti hair looks even worse. (BTW, here he faces away from “In God We Trust.” This is nothing new; it has been like that since 1999.)

Still, it looks very much like before. Flanagan might not have liked what was done to his portrait, but at least it was recognizable as an attempt at his portrait.

The state quarters series, and the subsequent national seashore series ended, finally in 2021, early in the year, and the mint reverted to the 1990s full-size, spaghetti hair portrait, for just that one year (with IGWT on the left again below Washington’s chin).

On the reverse is this image of Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. (I couldn’t find a decent sharp image of the obverse of this coin; the focus was on the new reverse.)

But this was just a gap filler. We’re on to a new program for quarters, one recognizing women…and OBTW it’s quota time. One White, one “Native American,” one Black, one Asian, one Hispanic. (And we get to do this for three more years after this one. Oh joy. Oh rupture.)

(The feminazis must be downright orgasmic over the Amerind honoree, Wilma Mankiller.)

And it being women…well, it has been alleged that Mellon made his decision for the Flanagan portrait over the Fraser portrait on purely sexist grounds, and so, where better than on quarters designed to honor women should one rectify such an injustice? So Fraser’s portrait, used once on a $5 gold commemorative in 1999 (shown below), got brought back.

Well, Mellon’s choice might have been due to sexism, or it might have been that he thought this was butt ugly by comparison. Judging from the commentary here earlier this week, I’ll go with butt ugly.

On the other hand, a “Fine Arts Commission” did recommend this over the Flanagan design. So I’ll allow that perhaps sincere people could differ over which one is better.

Perhaps. 🙂

Now I’m going to come to Fraser’s defense, a bit. She and her husband, James Earle Fraser, were “real” sculptors too, just as St. Gaudens, Bela Lyon Pratt, Adolph Weinman, Victor D. Brenner, and Hermon Atkins MacNeil were (these people had all done coin designs in the early 20th century). In fact James Fraser did the Indian Head (or “Buffalo”) nickel. Laura did one of the two sides of the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar (struck intermittently between 1926 and 1939):

She and her husband both liked to use American Indian subjects in their sculpture, and I realized earlier this week that might be why Washington looks very “Indian” in her portrayal.

(By the way the other side of that coin was done by James:)

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

2022·05·07 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Busy Week

Between 2000 Mules and the SCOTUS leak, things have been hectic out there. The latter item is “real” to the establishment (i.e., the Left), and they’re melting down. 2000 Mules, on the other hand, isn’t “real” to them.

I’m sure you’ve noticed now that no revelation gets any sort of traction in Washington DC, traction that causes someone in authority to actually act, until it gets into the Yellow Stream Media. (And these days, only information they want to act on, gets there.) 2000 Mules will probably never do so; and if not, it won’t show up on the DC radar and nothing will come of it. The claim that the election was stolen will continue to be dismissed by anyone who has any power to do something about it.

This is not the same as them not knowing about the election being stolen. They do know. It’s just that while the YSM isn’t hollering and screaming about it, they can ignore it. And they do. The YSM still continues to act as agenda billboard, and the Left controls the YSM. So this week we deal with abortion, not the stolen election. Last week it was Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last week:

Gold $1.897.70
Silver $22.84
Platinum $948.00
Palladium $2,404.00
Rhodium $18,800.00

So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:

Gold $1,884.10
Silver $22.44
Platinum $966.00
Palladium $2,122.00
Rhodium $17,400.00

Precious metals continue their downward slide. This is partially due to manipulation, but the fact of the matter is that investors will put their money where it will make a return. With interest rates going up, they actually like dollars, because dollars earn more interest. Gold, to them, is a way to not lose money most of the time.

JWST Update

JWST instrument commissioning proceeds apace.

NASA made a blog post explaining one of the more practical aspects of the James Web Space Telescope. Where can it point?

It must perpetually present the heat shield towards the sun, or it’s toast. Literally. Well, “toast” is a relative term; getting up to room temperature would be bad for the optics and sensors.

James Web Space Telescope. Mirror in gold, sunshield in gray “below” it.

So it seems like JWST can only look at half of the sky, basically the same half someone on Earth would see at midnight, with the sun on the other side of the big heat shield we call Planet Earth. And it doesn’t rotate like we do here, which lets us see almost all of the sky between just-after-sunset and just-before-sunrise, with the thin band in between only up when the sun is up and thus washed out. So even though we can see most of the sky on any given night, JWST can only see half of the sky (albeit 24/7, there being no daytime for it), right? [Note: I am ignoring the effect–on the Earth observer–of latitude, which permanently hides part of the sky from him or her, but on the other hand allows other parts of the sky to be seen any time at night.]

Yes, and no. JWST in orbit about the sun, once a year (since it sits at Earth/Sun L2), so six months from now, it can see the other half of the sky, just like our midnight astronomer here on Earth.

But it’s a bit more restricted than that. The JWST mirror cannot be moved. It’s not on any kind of a swivel. It cannot swivel either left-right or up-down in the picture above.

To aim the telescope, the entire spacecraft has to be rotated, with gyros. In the picture above it can be rotated 360 degrees about a “vertical” axis, keeping the sunshade where it is but turning it (and the antenna) like a record on a record player. (This is the yaw direction of rotation.)

It can also tip, just a bit, up and down, “nodding” basically, this is called the pitch direction. It has about a 50 degree travel in the pitch direction, as shown in the following two diagrams.

When JWST’s sun shield is face on to the sun, that shield is getting the maximum amount of solar radiation, and thus this is called the “hot” attitude. When the telescope is pointed halfway towards being pointed directly away from the sun, the sun shield is presented to the sun at a 45 degree angle and thus collects 70.7% percent as much energy as in the “hot” attitude (i.e., the sine of 135 degrees). We don’t dare tip the spacecraft any more than that lest the actual telescope (and sensors) be exposed directly to the sun (and thereby become “toast”).

The practical effect is that the patch of sky directly opposite of the sun cannot be looked at by JWST; that part lies outside the telescope’s “field of regard.” However if you actually want to look at something there, you can wait three months and get it when that patch of sky is at a 90 degree angle to the sun because JWST has moved 90 degrees around the sun.

Over the course of one year, JWST has access to the entire sky.

Full explanation here:

The Hot and Cold of Webb – James Webb Space Telescope (nasa.gov)

As to the current commissioning activity, at least part of it is “astrometric calibration.” In other words, if we tell the telescope to point at such-and-such pitch and yaw, what does each sensor actually see? There might be a tiny bit of error from what we would expect, no instrument is exact straight from the fabrication. We’ll be able to specify an exact right ascension and declination (the analogues to longitude and latitude in the sky) and know exactly how to rotate the spacecraft to look at that point.

There’s a lot more to it than that, but I’m going to let NASA explain it:

Examining the Heart of Webb: The Final Phase of Commissioning – James Webb Space Telescope (nasa.gov)

Other Space News

Do you remember the moon rocket that was undergoing a “wet dress rehearsal”?

Well, it has gone through several of them, and the test was a success. They found problems they now know they need to correct.

Yes, I called it a success, even though the spacecraft would have likely malfunctioned if it had launched. Because that’s the purpose of testing: to find such problems. We found them. A test isn’t a failure just because it found something wrong; it’s a failure if it fails to find problems that do exist.

If you remember the attention given to something called Biosphere 2 about 25 years ago, that’s another example. Biosphere 2 was an attempt to build a large, perfectly sealed greenhouse and see if people could live in it indefinitely, growing their own food and being sustained as part of a balanced system (plants to absorb the CO2 they exhaled and generate O2 for them to breathe).

The idea is if we are ever to start living in space or on other planets, we need to know how to do this, at least long enough to “terraform” other planets (make them more earthlike and establish an earthlike biosphere on them so we can live there as if we were native to the place). A long manned space mission probably won’t be able to bring several years’ worth of food along; we’ll have to grow it…inside a tin can that had better not leak. The only resource “out there” is sunlight (and that’s the one thing that could get in and out of Biosphere 2 once the doors were sealed).

It was a test of our ability to make a closed system.

And the test “failed.” The concrete in the structure continued to absorb oxygen even after we thought it was done curing.

But it wasn’t a failure; we learned a lot from it. Sure on one level our first attempt at building a closed system “failed” because it couldn’t sustain people for two years, but no one actually expected it to work perfectly; the point of the exercise was to discover what we don’t know. And for that, it worked beautifully.

Biosphere 2 is still standing; you can take tours of it. It’s being used for botanical research because it’s the most isolated environment on earth (even with people traipsing about on tours).

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

2022·04·02 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Mozart

Sedate. The adagio (2nd movement) from his clarinet concerto.

And a bit…less sedate. Last movement of his Symphony #41 which is the last one he wrote.

(Don’t be fooled by the fact that there’s a Symphony #42, or 43, or…well up to #55 at least…as I explained last time the numbering isn’t really chronological. To the best of my knowledge he’s got at least 51 symphonies under his belt (though some are disputed), so if we were ever to renumber them, this one would be #51. But we never will renumber them; that would cause confusion for centuries.)

By the way, that sucker ends in a five part fugue. Not easy to write!

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last week:

Gold $1,959.40
Silver $25.63
Platinum $1,010.00
Palladium $2,418.00
Rhodium $19,800.00

So here it is, Friday after markets closed and we see:

Friday, 3PM MT close:

Gold $1,926.60
Silver $24.72
Platinum $994.00
Palladium $2,365.00
Rhodium $20,400.00

Everything down except for rhodium. Gold seems relatively solidly in the lower half of the 1900s, with the recent spike being history. Platinum, meanwhile, is going back on sale.

JWST Update

Apparently the James Webb Space Telescope imaging team has done such a good job with the initial mirror alignment that most of the instruments are properly focused.

The one exception to this is the MIRI (Mid InfraRed Instrument). Actually, it might be too. But this is the instrument that rounds out the bottom end of the JWST “visible spectrum” (quite a bit lower frequency than yours and mine, even with night vision goggles). In order to operate properly it needs to be cooled by liquid helium (!) which means a temperature of 4 K, or about 7 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero, or roughly -453F. There’s a special cryogenic cooling system for this instrument.

(On the temperature of warmth, relative to Hitlary Klinton’s personality, we’re talking about 14 degrees higher. And yes, I know that puts her at -10K which should be physically impossible…)

The other instruments are happy with a relatively balmy 33-44K (-400F to -387F) or so.

So MIRI is slowly being cooled. They didn’t bother doing anything with it before, so (ironically) it’s the toastiest-warmest instrument right now at 53K (-364F), but it is dropping fairly rapidly.

Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb If you click on the temperature plots button you can see what’s going on. And you can read the official statement from NASA here if I wasn’t clear enough:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/01/webb-completes-first-multi-instrument-alignment/

(Of course sometimes I can write an entire post unpacking their release for non-geeks. But this one seems OK.)

Other Space News

We’ve got a double feature this week. Triple, if you count the JWST news.

First off, the Hubble Space Telescope ain’t dead yet! (Nor should it be so long as we have the will and resources to keep it going…it and JWST will complement each other nicely.) It has spotted a star–a big one, obviously–12.9 billion light years away. It has been named Earendel (the star, not the telescope), an obvious Tolkien reference. Well, it sounds like a name he’d make up; apparently you have to be nerdy enough to have read the Silmarillion to “get” it. The character became a star (literally).

Earendel…brought to us by gravitational lensing.

So what’s the big deal? Well, if the star is that far away…then that light has been travelling for 12.9 billion years just to get to us. Which means the star itself was around only about 800 million years after the Big Bang. (It’s long, long, gone now–it probably blew up over 12.8 billion years ago. Big stars live hard and die young, burning fuel almost as profligately as Al Bore flying to a Global Warming summit.)

One of the goals of the JWST is to be able to see the very first stars that formed; we think those will generally be big honkin’ things that formed about the same time galaxies began to form. And since they will not contain anything other than the original hydrogen and helium that formed when the universe was a few minutes old. Among other things, for reasons I’m quite unclear on, stars made from pure “primordial” hydrogen and helium can likely be much larger than stars today can be. (We won’t know for sure until we can see them.)

Earendel is not one of these first stars, but it probably only had a couple of generations of predecessors. It’s certainly closer than we’ve come before. To do any better, we’ll need the (wait for it…) James Webb Space Telescope.

Meanwhile, if I understand correctly, the only reason we saw this star at all is it happens to lie in a place that’s gravitationally lensed; in other words, the curvature of space between us and Earendel is acting like a magnifying glass.

The other bit of space news is more on the “practical” side.

This is the most powerful rocket ever built. Even beating out the Saturn V which put Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and ten others on the moon over fifty years ago.

…As I described in the post above.

This rocket will be capable of putting 27 metric tons (spelled “tonnes”) of stuff in “Trans Lunar Injection” (in other words, to send 27 tonnes to the moon). Future versions will send over 46 metric tons Moonward. (The Saturn V did 43.5 tonnes at its best.)

This rocket will develop 8,800,000 lbf of thrust (39,000 kN) of thrust (versus Saturn V 7,891,000 lbf (35,100 kN)). The later versions will develop 9.2 million lbf of thrust. (lbf = “pounds force”, in other words a pound regarded as a unit of force, not a unit of mass…the English system is a hot mess when it comes to weight, force, and mass.)

The center stack (tan/brown) consists of liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen stages, similar to the shuttle. In fact it’s almost as if they simply stuck shuttle engines on the bottom of a shuttle external tank. (It’s more complicated than that, though.) The two boosters (HA!!! I can use that word for once without it being about f***ing slab jabs) are like the solid rocket boosters from the shuttle, only longer (an additional segment added); and they won’t be recovered after use.

Yes. It’s a moon rocket. An actual moon rocket, and is sitting on the launch pad. It’s either being fueled or IS fueled, today, and there’s a countdown in progress for a launch.

But that launch will be cancelled mere seconds before ignition.

This is a “wet dress rehearsal,” and it’s “wet” because that’s NASA/space travel slang for “with full fuel tanks.” Yes, they’re going to fuel it up, not launch it, drain the fuel, then take it back to the tall building where they assemble rockets (creatively named the Vehicle Assembly Building) and look it over to see if there are any problems. Because if there are problems caused by just filling the gas tank, you’d better address them before you launch the sucker for real!

Sometime in the future, there will be a real launch of an unmanned capsule. (Best guess, June.) Eventually…sometime around 2026…we go back to the moon. I’m going to repeat that, because the wokester Left is going to hang so much PC/CRT baggage on it that we risk losing sight of what’s important here while we vomit our lunches:

WE GO BACK TO THE MOON.

T2 Temperature

We talked about heat, as a form of energy last time around. Our discussion relied on the concept of temperature, which we’re all pretty comfortable with. It is, after all, part-and-parcel of any discussion of the weather, which nearly everyone likes to talk about and even plan their lives around.

But temperature is not heat. If it were, two objects at the same temperature would contain the same amount of heat.

“Wait, Steve,” you might say, “Of course a big boulder will contain more heat than a pebble, even at the same temperature, because it’s bigger!”

OK, not a bad thought. But as it turns out, two different substances, of the same mass, at the same temperature, will still contain different amounts of heat. In fact we can even hang a number on every substance, defining how much heat must be added to it to raise the temperature one degree (once we correct for the mass of the thing); that’s the specific heat. Water’s is unusually high, much higher than iron’s. (How we figured that out was largely covered last time.)

A very mundane observation comes into play here: If you put a hot object next to a cold one, or better yet, dunk one into a pool of the other, like hot iron into cold water, the iron cools off, and the water heats up. The process continues until everything is the same temperature. Then we’ve reached a state called “thermodynamic equilibrium” where heat is no longer flowing from the iron to the water. So temperature has to do with thermodynamic equilibrium.

Another clue came when chemists/physicists (pick either one: depending on where you draw the line between the two) investigated the behavior of gases in the 1600s through the early 1800s.

For instance, they found out that you could compress a gas, say to half its original volume, and it would both heat up and increase in pressure. You could then wait for the heat to dissipate (i.e., for thermodynamic equilibrium) and note the pressure was exactly twice as high as it was before the compression. (This is Boyle’s Law, from 1662.)

If you kept the gas at a constant pressure, heating it up would make it expand, cooling it would make it contract (this is Charles’s Law, from the 1780s).

And from 1800-1802, Gay-Lussac’s Law: Heating the gas while holding the volume constant would also increase the pressure. Cooling it would decrease the pressure.

But in order to go further with this, we need to be able to measure temperature. Here in the United States, we still use the Fahrenheit scale. It’s named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), who developed a 100 degree scale, with 0 being the temperature of a particular kind of freezing brine, and 100 being tied to human body temperature. He did note that pure water froze at 32 on his scale. Of course hot water would bust the upper bound of this; by the 20th century the scale had been defined by setting the temperature of boiling water 180 degrees above freezing point, or 212 °F. (I must add here that this is the boiling point at sea level; it turns out to depend on air pressure.)

Of course when the metric system came along and defined a scale called centigrade (since renamed to Celsius after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744) who had had a similar idea in 1742), the tie to water became even stronger with 0 set to the temperature of ice water, and 100 set to the boiling point. (That hundredth of the difference is where the name “centigrade” came from, from Latin for “hundred steps.”) You can measure temperature on this scale, or talk about the difference between two different temperatures.

Now that last sentence is kind of odd; I seem to be pointing out the obvious there.

But there is a difference between Celsius being used to measure temperature, and (say) the meter used to measure length. For length, no matter what you do, you’re not going to find an object of negative length. But you can, apparently, measure the temperature of something and come up with a negative number. And because the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales have different starting points, an object can have a positive temperature in Fahrenheit and a negative one in Celsius.

Not at all like length, or mass, where it’s pretty easy to agree on where to set zero and the only thing you have to worry about is the size of the unit. Two different systems (English and Metric) both agree on what zero length means; it’s just the size of a foot versus a meter that’s at issue. You can compare the size of a Fahrenheit degree with a Celsius degree (and find that it’s 5/9ths the size of the other), but that’s not all you need.

Imagine measuring the distance from Washington D.C. to New York City, with a zero point in Baltimore. You’d have to travel a few dozen miles from DC to even get up to zero distance. Now that’s weird, even post general relativity. And honestly, it’d be a pain to plan trips, make maps or do anything like that if we had to deal with such a mess…especially if, when doing it in metric, the zero point was in Philadelphia instead!

But that’s the way the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales work. The zero point isn’t at anything that might be considered a real zero, because you can get below that point. (That’s why you have to multiply by 5/9ths and then subtract 32…or was it subtracting 32 then multiplying by 5/9ths…or adding and multiplying by 9/5ths…or whatevertheheck. [OK, I’m clowning here. To get from Fahrenheit to Celsius, you subtract 32…to get a number that is zero when water freezes; it’s the number of Fahrenheit degrees above freezing. Now your number has the same starting point as Celsius, and you can multiply by 5/9ths to account for Celsius having “bigger” degrees. Invert the process to go the other way: multiply °C by 9/5ths, then add 32.])

So now lets return to our gas laws. Gay-Lussac’s law says heating a gas increases its pressure (keeping the volume constant). And Charles’s law says heating a gas makes it expand (keeping the pressure constant). In both cases, how much?

It’s not a neat proportion like Boyle’s law, where you can halve the volume and double the pressure (holding temperature constant). Heating a gas from 20 to 40 °F doesn’t double its volume (if pressure is constant), or its pressure (if volume is constant). And it doesn’t work going from 20-40 °C either (in fact it works a bit worse).

Aaah, but remember, temperature measurement is goofy! Zero seems to be picked at some unnatural point. Boyle’s law works as a proportion because neither quantity is temperature. The other two don’t work as a proportion.

Actually, as it happens, if you measure temperature relative to -273.15 °C or -459.67 °F, instead of the scales’ zero points, it does work. Doubling the temperature measured from this point does indeed double the volume (or the pressure).

But working in reverse, if you were to cool your gas to -273.15 °C, then you’re at zero on the adjusted scale, and the volume of your gas should be zero. And so should its pressure.

It can’t shrink any more than that, and it can’t exert less pressure than that. So have we found an absolute lowest temperature?

It turns out we have. And so the modern metric unit…the real one, not the one people outside of the US see in their weather reports, which is still Celsius, is the kelvin, named after William Thomson (1824-1907). [Not a typo. Yes, “kelvin” and “Thomson” are distinctly different words, but he was named first Baron Kelvin by Queen Victoria in 1892 and used that name henceforth. In fact, he was the first scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords.]

Kelvin has the same degree size as Celsius. And it starts at absolute zero. So we don’t even bother with the word “degrees.” We don’t say “50 degrees kelvin” (unless by mistake), we just say “50 kelvins” or “50K.” And we skip the cute little circle: °. Water melts at 273.15 K, and boils a hundred kelvins higher, 373.15 K. And physicists think in kelvins. And so, especially, do astrophysicists, who will always quote the temperature of an astronomical body in kelvins. (If it’s something hot, they’ll just double that to give the science “journalists” Fahrenheit…it’s fairly close, and let’s face it, you and I don’t really know what 10,000F means other than “damned hot.”)

There is a similar scale using the Fahrenheit degree. It’s called the Rankine scale, symbolized with °R or °Ra. (And we’re back to the little circle.) It was proposed by Macquorne Rankin, using similar logic with the kelvin scale. But this is something you can safely forget about, as even English and American scientists and engineers stick with kelvins and no one but a scientist or an engineer cares about absolute zero.

As for the gases? Well, no they don’t shrink to zero size at 0K. Because long before then they liquefy or solidify, because the molecules of which they are made have a size greater than zero. Helium, it turns out, remains a gas all the way down to a bit over 4K. So the gas laws are an idealization, they work pretty well when the gases aren’t close to condensing or freezing.

The three laws I’ve mentioned so far can be combined into one rule. In fact, even better than that. If you work with moles of gas (i.e., accounting for the differences in molecular weight), you can bring in Avogadro’s law, which states that one mole of gas, at standard temperature (25 C) and pressure (one atmosphere) occupies 22.4 liters. So you can, if your name is name is Benoit Paul Emile Clapeyron and it’s 1834, tie all these other laws to that (double the temperature and leave pressure constant and that mole occupies 44.8 liters; leave the volume constant and the pressure doubles to 2 atmospheres, etc.) and write:

PV = nRT

Where P is pressure, V is volume, T is temperature, n is the number of moles…and R is the fudge-factor constant. Without it, the law becomes a bunch of “is proportional to” statements, much messier to deal with and harder to nail down.

I once had to pressure-test gas piping, in winter. I’d pump a bunch of air into the line, measure the pressure and seal it off. Then come back a day later and hope the pressure had stayed the same.

But this was winter, in Colorado, and the temperature can change a LOT, day to day. Which would mean the pressure would change even without a leak. It could go up (which would confuse the ignorant and make him suspect a prankster was pumping more air into the system), or down (which would make him think he’d messed up the pipe work). But I knew better. Volume, of course was constant, so was simply dealing with Gay Lussac’s law. I’d convert the temperature to the absolute scale (for this I did use Rankines since I was starting with Fahrenheit), and see if the pressure I had initially measured dropped or rose to what it should be. (And of course, there really were a number of leaks…and it didn’t help that the pressure gauge was one of them!) But at least once I got a new pressure gauge and fixed my work, I knew it was good and didn’t get thrown off by the 30 degree temperature one day dropping to -10 the next day (which is enough to reduce the pressure almost seven percent all by itself).

Well, there are two possible directions to go from here…and I’ll take them both. See you next time.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

2022·02·26 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Mozart

Sedate. The adagio (2nd movement) from his clarinet concerto.

And a bit…less sedate. Last movement of his Symphony #41 which is the last one he wrote.

(Don’t be fooled by the fact that there’s a Symphony #42, or 43, or…well up to #55 at least…as I explained last time the numbering isn’t really chronological. To the best of my knowledge he’s got at least 51 symphonies under his belt (though some are disputed), so if we were ever to renumber them, this one would be #51. But we never will renumber them; that would cause confusion for centuries.)

By the way, that sucker ends in a five part fugue. Not easy to write!

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Gold seems to be see-sawing around the $1900 mark. This is what we’ve been seeing for months now. No…wait. Until just a couple of weeks ago it was see-sawing around the $1800 mark.

I start these posts by copying the one from five weeks ago. That way I get to keep the eagle from back then. One of my chores is to go in and modify the precious metals prices (which otherwise would be, respectively, six and five weeks out of date on publication).

But this time I’m going to keep them, just to show you.

January 15 (“last week” for January 22):

Gold $1,819.10
Silver $23.06
Platinum $979.00
Palladium $1,875.00
Rhodium $17,400.00

January 22:

Gold $1831.80
Silver $24.31
Platinum $1043.00
Palladium $2194.00
Rhodium $17,650.00

I then asked if this was a break out. But the prices went right back down again! Here’s January 29 (four weeks ago):

Gold $1791.20
Silver $22.56
Platinum $1019.00
Palladium $2466.00
Rhodium $17,750.00

Now I’ve been watching gold bounce around just under, just over 1900 bucks (at least through Wednesday).

OK, so here’s what I’d normally put in this spot:

Last week:

Gold $1,896.50
Silver $23.98
Platinum $1,077.00
Palladium $2,432.00
Rhodium $19,550.00

Gold actually crossed the 1900 line briefly last week. Now it has been above and below it; it is at $1908.50 right this second (12:14 PM Wednesday). Thursday, it touched $1980.10 briefly in overnight trading.

Wow! That’s not an all time high but it’s within sight of it (I believe the all time high was about $2025.)

So here it is, Friday after markets closed and we see:

Friday, 3PM MT close:

Gold $1,890.00
Silver $24.36
Platinum $1,065.00
Palladium $2,457.00
Rhodium $20,750.00

Gold has been shoved down ninety dollars from its midweek high.

JWST Update

Webb has made a lot of progress just in the last couple of days. There have been two entries to the blog. The first was basically explaining in a great deal of technical detail how it’s going to search for very early galaxies. This is to try to shed some light (so to speak) on how galaxies formed in the first place. This happened at a time before the maximum look-back time Hubble could see. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/24/to-find-the-first-galaxies-webb-pays-attention-to-detail-and-theory/

But today I checked again, and it looks like HUGE progress has been made on the mirror alignment. They’re still looking at HD 84406, a star in Ursa Major that’s fairly bright (but still not bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye) but more importantly relatively isolated on the celestial sphere.

Here’s the blog entry: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/25/webb-mirror-alignment-continues-successfully/ I will summarize below.

Last week they had swiveled all of the segments so that the light from each segment landed in a certain place, forming a pattern that matched up with the actual layout of the mirrors.

This week they tried to focus each individual mirror, and it appears they have largely succeeded. Here is a GIF showing “before” and “after”

Not only did they complete that step (which is step 2 of the mirror work), but then they swiveled the mirrors some more, and put all 18 images in the same place, completing step 3! (They weren’t even scheduled to start work on it for another week or so!)

HD 84406, as seen by JWST with the 18 individual mirror images stacked but not yet in phase.

Now, you’ll notice six spikes coming off the star, and they are showing diffraction (they look dotted). That’s because the mirrors are not in phase with each other–in other words the distance the light must travel from each mirror to the sensor is not quite the same. If the difference is a full wavelength, it doesn’t matter, but if the difference is a partial wavelength, it will. (And different colors of light will have different wavelengths, so some light is in phase, and others going through the same two mirrors, is not–unless the length of the path through each mirror is exactly the same.) So now they are going to do Step 4, “coarse phasing” as the first part of sharpening the image. (Step 5 is “fine phasing,” Step 6 “Telescope Alignment” and Step 7, “Final Correction.”

According to the Where’s Webb page, four of the five sensors are at temperatures ranging from 38-48 K (-392 to -373 F), but one, MIRI (which is being used for most of this alignment work) is at 112 K (-258 F).

Round, Comma Dammit!

I shouldn’t even have to write this. It has been just about 2,500 years since people figured out Earth is round. In other words this was Old News when Jesus was preaching. But such is the abysmal state of science education today, that many are taken in by hucksters and outright bullshitters who can slip subtle lies into their arguments, and be convinced the earth is flat.

OK, I’m going to deal with some terminology. I don’t want to say “Earth has a spherical shape” because a sphere is a precisely defined mathematical concept (the set of all points that are at the same distance, r, from a given point in three dimensional space). Which means that, technically, a bump the size of a coronavirus on the surface of the earth is enough to make it not-a-sphere. Of course, there are much bigger bumps on the earth, anything from a fire ant hill in southern Louisiana, to big mountains like the rather famous one to my west.

But then, on the other hand, all of that isn’t enough to make the earth (proportionally) less spherical than a cue ball.

Even the fact that the earth is slightly oblate (thicker through the equator) and that deviation from a perfect sphere is greater than that caused by mountains, isn’t enough to make the earth less spherical than a cue ball.

But Earth is better described as an oblate ellipsoid, than as a sphere. But terrain, and a few bulges caused by the fact that the earth’s interior is not perfectly uniform, mean it’s not quite an oblate ellipsoid, either.

So to avoid nitpickers, I’m just going to say it’s round. Or if I need a noun, I’ll say “ellipsoid.” Rounder than a cue ball, but not quite a perfect sphere or even oblate ellipsoid.

Round, comma dammit.

What Does It Take to Replace an Accepted Theory?

I could just as easily have titled this section “What Does It Take to Revise an Accepted Theory,” too.

And another note on terminology. A theory to a scientist is something that is actually pretty solid. It’s almost settled. (Nothing is absolutely settled.) They’d be greatly surprised to find it wasn’t true. (But they are quite conscious of the fact that surprises do happen!) In popular parlance “theory” is a much weaker word. [Hence the (ignorant) argument that goes “It’s just a theory…”] We have the theory of gravitation, atomic theory, and so forth; these are all pretty “solid” right now.

When a scientist is spitballing, speculating, or has something he believes is supported well enough by the evidence to be worth considering and testing, that is a hypothesis. In writing the physics series I tried to avoid explanations that are currently at the level of speculation, though I included one very strong one, cosmic inflation (there’s little doubt it happened; the problem is they don’t have any clue why or how, so they don’t claim it’s a full-on theory–yet).

Basically it takes three things to get scientists to the point where they will reject an old theory.

  1. There must be something the accepted theory doesn’t explain very well (or at all); the more the better. One or two anomalies will make scientists wonder what they’re doing wrong or if there’s some subtlety in the current theory that they’re missing, lots of anomalies will make them question the theory itself.
  2. There must be a proposed replacement theory that explains those things, and also explains the stuff the prior theory DID explain well. That’s key. If you chuck out theory A for theory B because theory A didn’t explain phenomenon 27 (but does explain 1-26), then even if B explains phenomenon 27 perfectly, it is no good unless it explains 1-26 as least as well is A did. Otherwise you’re just trading one problem for another.
  3. The proposed replacement has to make some sort of prediction of a phenomenon never seen before, that the old theory does not. And then this phenomenon must be found by observation or experiment.

To take an example, Einstein’s General Relativity replaced Newtonian gravitation. How did it do it? Let’s step through the list above.

  1. Mercury’s orbital semimajor axis was precessing around the Sun, and only part of the motion could be explained as perturbations from other planets. This wasn’t enough to junk Newtonian gravity, or even seriously call it into question, however, because there’s always the chance of an unseen body accounting for the difference. Astronomers looked for it but couldn’t find it. But that just left an irritating question mark especially since such an object would be very hard to see.
  2. The proposed replacement theory would explain Mercury’s precession perfectly. (It was one of the highlights of Einstein’s life when he did the computation and it matched.) But it also correctly explained every other planetary motion as well as the old Newtonian theory did, because further away from the sun, the math of General Relativity reduces to Newton’s Law of gravitation; the additional terms fade to insignificance.
  3. General Relativity predicted that strong gravity would bend light. This was totally outside of anything Newtonian gravity would do, and was a phenomenon not directly connected to Mercury’s orbit. So if someone looked and it turned out gravity bends light, this criterion is satisfied. And indeed only four years after GR was published as a hypothesis, Arthur Eddington observed the Sun bending light from stars near it in the sky during a total solar eclipse.

Another example is plate tectonics (a/k/a “continental drift”), which was initially laughed at, largely because no one could explain how the continents could possibly move, but then it turned out to explain things that hadn’t been noticed yet and the explanation for how it could happen, was uncovered. That’s a fantastic story, and it happened largely in the 1960s. There are still geologists alive who remember that; when their whole subject got upended, and things they had no understanding of (such as why volcanoes and earthquakes happened in some places but not others) began to make sense. And now, of course, geology simply doesn’t make any sense without it. What a thrilling time to live through! [I could maybe do a post on this–or maybe a short series of them–but geology is even less my bailiwick than chemistry is.]

Returning to today’s topic, we have an accepted theory, Round Earth. More specifically we have “Round Earth that rotates on an axis, and orbits the sun in an elliptical path, and the axis is tilted with respect to the plane of the orbit around the sun.” Round Earth isn’t the only component that matters, the rest does too. But I’m going to refer to the grouping as “Round Earth” for convenience.

There is a proposed replacement hypothesis (though I hesitate to dignify it with that term), “Flat Earth.” The idea is that the earth is actually a disk, laid out much like the UN flag. Everything we see on earth is on one of the two faces of the disk, which you can think of as facing “up.” The sun and moon move around entirely above this disc, in circular paths centered on the “north pole” (i.e., the center of the disk). Antarctica is a raised rim around the edge of the disk. Different suggestions are made for how the sun and moon move.

How does it fare with the three criteria?

  1. Round Earth explains the (apparent) motion of the sun across the sky, the length of a day, the seasons, the year, and the (apparent) motion of the celestial sphere. It also explains sunsets, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. So far as I know, there’s nothing relevant that a good theory of this type should explain, that Round Earth doesn’t explain. (I qualify like this because of course Round Earth can’t explain such inexplicable phenomena as more than three people actually voting for His Fraudulency–because they are totally unrelated phenomena. It doesn’t explain everything; just everything that it ought to be able to explain.)

    One putative example that was brought to my attention turned out to be a conflation of the sidereal day (rotation of the earth relative to the stars) with the mean solar day (rotation of the earth relative to the sun). Unfortunately, when elementary school teachers explain Round Earth to their students, they simplify it to the point where it’s possible to confuse these concepts, and I don’t blame them; explaining the difference would treble the length of the lesson. But unfortunately, that confusion sticks around in many people’s minds, ready to be exploited by charlatans.

    Another “proof” that the earth cannot be round was brought up in that intercontinental aircraft flights from the southern hemisphere always go to the northern hemisphere, rather than to another southern continent. E.g., no flights from Australia to South America. This is supposedly because the distance is actually much, much greater than it would be if the earth were round. Unfortunately this claim is simply a LIE, as such flights do exist.
  2. Flat earth not only doesn’t explain anything that Round Earth cannot, it utterly fails to explain things that Round Earth does explain. This is a huge failure. It’s masked to some extent because as it turns out there isn’t a flat earth theory. There are several of them, and they’re inconsistent with each other. Usually a flat earth theory can explain something we can see, but not anything else. For that you need a different flat earth theory. As long as they can drag one of these out of the closet to answer an objection, hopefully no one will notice it contradicts the one brought up five minutes before for the prior objection.
  3. It can’t even make a prediction. That’s because it’s multiple theories with multiple models. Nevertheless, some predictions are made, but turn out to be false. For instance, according to Flat Earth, Antarctica is actually an icy fringe around the edge of the earth, and to protect the Flat Earth secret, people aren’t allowed to go there. This fails, of course, because people do go there.

Let’s look at #2 some more. Here’s a list of things Flat Earth cannot explain, at least not without switching through various variants of the model(s).

  1. No Flat Earth map ever includes a scale that lets you determine the distance between any two points. A globe, of course, can and does.
  2. Flat Earth cannot explain differing day lengths, in the Southern hemisphere, or rather, in the continents closer to the edge. According to the Flat Earth model, during the (northern) summer, the sun is running in a circle around the center point (which is the north pole to Round Earthers), fairly close to the center. But then in (northern) winter, the sun recedes further from the center and makes a larger circle around the center point. Since it’s further away from the continents clustered near the center point, those continents are colder at this time of year. The problem is, when the sun is over south America, for instance, in January, it illuminates all of Antarctica (even the parts on the opposite edge of the disk) while NOT illuminating the Arctic Ocean at all (even though the arctic is between the sun and that part of Antarctica.

    Because this is such a huge fail, Flat Earthers have to assert that we’re not allowed to go to Antarctica, or we’d see the problem.
  3. Make any sort of astronomical prediction. Given the Flat Earth model, you should be able to tell me where any object “up there” will be at any time. You should be able to predict solar and lunar eclipses, for instance. Round Earth can do this, with great precision, certainly good enough I could go see the total solar eclipse of 2017. More mundanely it can tell you how high in the sky the sun will be at any given time, at any given location. Flat Earth cannot. If they were to try, they might be right some small fraction of the times and places, but the geometry won’t allow it to be simultaneously right for a number of places all at the same time, or for the same place at multiple times. (And if you cannot make a prediction, your theory is useless.)
  4. If the earth is flat, it should be possible to see (say) Pikes Peak from St. Louis. There’s nothing in between tall enough to get in the way. If you’re worried there might be some hill I am forgetting about, go up into the Gateway Arch and look out the windows on the west side. (Note that Flat Earth adherents do post photos claiming “you shouldn’t be able to see this” but it’s generally over water, and a city skyline that’s quite a lot closer.)
  5. Instead of just taking a picture of a far away boat over water, how about watching it as it moves away? If the earth is flat, it should just get smaller and smaller. Instead, it will disappear bottom-up, sort of as if it was curving down over the horizon.
  6. Sunsets. If the sun and moon stay above the disc, how do you explain sunsets?
    Ironically, the believers in Flat Earth from centuries ago would have no problem with this; the sun drops down through the plane of the disk, travels under the disk and rises on the other side. But that old idea can’t explain why it’s daytime in Tokyo when it’s midnight in the US, so it had to be discarded. But now it can’t explain sunset. What you would expect to see is the sun getting smaller and smaller as it moves further away, then eventually you can’t see it at all and it’s nighttime. That’s not what we see; the sun does not change apparent size in any appreciable way over the course of the day.
  7. Lunar eclipses are impossible with this theory. What shadow can be cast upon the moon when the sun and moon are always above the disk of the earth? Instead, we see the shadow of something ROUND cross the face of the moon. Always round, always with the same radius, no matter where the moon appears in the sky. Almost as if something nearly spherical were casting a shadow on the moon (since a sphere is the only thing that would do this without fail regardless of the orientation), eh?
  8. What would you see if you attached a camera to a weather balloon and sent it up there to where the Sun and Moon (which according to Flat Earth are small and close to the earth) are?

Flat Earth fails on all of these.

I watched a series of videos on this and it added to my list of objections to the flat earth theory. The background is the channel owner took on Flat Earth, then caught a ton of flak from the Flat Earthers. He then published a second video, and a third, and a fourth (actually a four parter), over the space of a few years. The last quadruplet is most useful because it tells you about things you can do to validate round earth and disprove flat earth, without having to do a lot of math and physics.

He is very snarky (meaning he insults the other side routinely and IMHO quite unnecessarily) but his actual arguments are solid. I’m going to paste in the four parter here. If you want to see the earlier videos (which are much longer), he links to them in the descriptions.

If this guy is so obnoxious, why am I using his videos? Because he has a lot of graphics that makes the point clear, and I haven’t the time to duplicate them. So please, ignore the insults.

Flat earth cannot explain how the moon can present the same face to us, no matter where we are. (Cued up after the snarky intro.)
Flat Earth cannot explain the differing behaviors of stars in the sky, by latitude. Again cued up after the snarky intro.
Direct flights in the southern hemisphere. In fact the graphic in the thumbnail is wrong; the flight should skirt Antarctica…but that’s even worse for Flat Earth theory.

As it happens, Flat Earth comes with a conspiracy theory. Apparently, lots of people conspire to suppress the “truth.” But there are problems with that…it’s too many people.

Now here’s the absolute best part.

There is a flat earther by the name of Bob Knodel. He at one point claimed to be a commercial pilot (and therefore could put the lie to Round Earth, if it were in fact a lie), but was exposed as lying about that.

He then actually did something responsible and ran an experiment to try to prove Round Earth wrong. Since, according to Round Earth, any point on the surface of the earth is rotating every 24 hours, a gyroscope ought to pick that up, since it will not rotate. So if the gyroscope appears to be turning 15 degrees every hour, it’s a sign the earth is rotating once every 24 hours. If it isn’t, though…then Round Earth is bunk.

I’ll give him credit for running the test.

Well, he performed the experiment, and saw the 15 degree per hour turn.

Flat Earthers love to claim Round Earthers are dogmatic and only repeating what they’ve been told in school, but that is exactly what Bob is doing here. He is ignoring and trying to explain away a result that supports the theory he claims is wrong. Evidence is staring him in the face, but he’s sticking to HIS damned dogma. Further experiments trying to eliminate other possible effects lead to the same result. But will he consider for a moment his bullshit flat earth theory might be wrong? Nope.

As I said, I give him credit for running the test, and then trying to control for other things.

But no credit for refusing to believe what it was telling him.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

COVID and BEYOND FAKE NEWS: The “Trusted News Initiative”

How the Fake News, Social Media and the Deep State set up the Scamdemic behind our backs

A Gail Combs deep dive into a curious item revealed by Robert Malone on Joe Rogan.

https://www.mediainfoline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Beyond-Fake-News-logo.jpg


Preface by Wolf Moon

Follow along as Gail Combs digs down a snake-infested rabbit hole from something that Dr. Robert Malone mentioned on Joe Rogan.

Once you understand how much preparation went into what is going on RIGHT NOW, you’ll realize that all the usual suspects had a plan, and it’s exactly what we’re seeing now, except they weren’t banking on us understanding their criminal conspiracy.


2:40:50 “We are in an environment where truth and consequences are fungible. This is Modern media management and warfare. The Truth is what those that are managing ‘The Trusted News Initiative’ say it is. “

Dr Robert Malone

From video Dr Robert Malone on Joe Rogan

https://rumble.com/vrv7k1-dr.-robert-malone-on-joe-rogans-podcast.html

CRITICAL TIMELINE

JULY 2019

BBC: Beyond Fake News

Trusted News Initiative

How news organisations can rebuild trust and tackle the next disinformation challenges.

Trust In News

The BBC’s Trusted News Initiative is a partnership that includes organisations such as Facebook, Twitter, Reuters and The Washington Post. It is the only forum in the world of its kind designed to take on disinformation in real time. Now we and our partners are going to share what we’ve all learned about how to tackle disinformation, and you are invited.

Trusted News Initiative or Corrupted News Initiative? Mission: Systematic censorship of the world’s top public health experts

In this August 13, 2021 article for Global Research, Elizabeth Woodworth explains how the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was formed and what it means to our modern society.

According to Woodsworth, even before the pandemic, there has been a continued increase in public distrust to mainstream media. The TNI began in July 2019 when BBC Director-General Tony Hall convened various media companies and Big Tech companies to “arrive at a practical set of actions we can take together, right now, to tackle the rise of misinformation and bias…[by creating a] global alliance for integrity in news…to promote freedom and democracy worldwide”.

From the beginning, the goal of TNI was to counter “anti-vaxxers [who] were gaining traction on social media as a part of a “fake news” movement spreading “misleading and dangerous information”….

TNI has become an instrumental tool for the suppression of life-saving information….

Trump-Ukraine impeachment scandal: timeline of key events

YEAR 2019

18 July Trump issues instructions to withhold $392m in military aid from Ukraine

25 July Trump and Zelenskiy speak on the phone.

12 August A whistleblower complaint is filed.

24 September The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announces a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump’s actions.

6 October Lawyers for the first whistleblower say they are now representing a second.

8 October The state department prevents Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the EU and a Trump donor, from testifying to a congressional impeachment hearing.

October 18 Event 201

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Event 201

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

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October 18 – 28, 2019

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CISM Military World Games – U.S. Department of Defense

Top U.S. military athletes are competing against their counterparts from more than 100 nations during the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China, Oct. 18-28.

Did the Military World Games Spread COVID-19?

The 2019 Military World Games, branded the “Peace Games,” was the largest military sports event ever held in China. More than 9,000 athletes representing the militaries of more than 100 countries competed in 27 sports

Whistleblower: 2019 Wuhan Military Games Were China’s First Intentional COVID Super-Spreader Event

On July 21, 2021, Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. broke the news on The Gateway Pundit from a China source that the release of COVID-19 at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a test of the longer-term effects of that type of bioweapon because foreign visitors to the Games would carry it back to their own countries and the consequences could be observed. . .

Letter to Congress:

https://gallagher.house.gov/sites/gallagher.house.gov/files/Letter_World%20Military%20Games_6.21.pdf

December 11, 2019 The Hill

Scientist claims first known COVID-19 case was Wuhan market vendor

Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, wrote in a piece published in the journal Science that a female seafood vendor who worked at the live animal market in Wuhan and became ill on Dec. 11, 2019, was likely the first known case of COVID-19.

December 18 – House voted to impeach Trump

CDC Museum COVID-19 Timeline



December 31, 2019 The World Health Organization China Country Office is informed of a number cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology…

January 2, 2020 The World Health Organization activates its incident management system…

January 5, 2020 CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) activates a Center Level Response…

January 7, 2020 Chinese authorities identify and isolate a novel coronavirus….

January 7, 2020
CDC establishes a 2019-nCoV Incident Management Structure to guide the response….

[January 16, 2020 – Articles delivered & Impeachment Trial began in the Senate]
January 17, 2020 CDC begins screening passengers on direct and connecting flights from Wuhan, China 

January 17, 2020 CDC deploys a team to Washington state to assist with contact tracing efforts in response to the first reported case 

January 20, 2020 CDC confirms the first U.S. laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S.

January 21, 2020 CDC transitions from a Center-led Incident Management Structure to an Agency-wide Structure and activates its Emergency Response System

[January 25, 2021, House impeachment managers delivered the article of impeachment to the U.S. Senate.]

February 5, 2020 Senate voted to acquit

March 27 2020 CARES act passed It pays hospitals to kill elderly covid patients. See Sec. 3710….. Assoc of American Physicians & Surgeons : Biden’s Bounty on your Life

The Timeline seems to indicate that President Trump was kept distracted while the Democrats and Mr Global put the pieces in place to unleash the Plandemic and force the world to take the clot shot.

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The NUREMBERG CODE is worth rereading before we go down into the snake pit.

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While Collins, Fauci, hospitals and medical boards moved to silence and censor ALL opinions by dissenting experts, the Trusted News Initiative also muzzled anyone else not advocating for the Clot Shot. However Mr Global went even further than censorship and threatening jobs and medical licenses.

TEN NIH STUDIES ON ‘VACCINE REFUSAL’

‘Vaccine Refusal’ is considered a ‘condition or disease’ that needs ‘treatment’ The following are trials to determine how to convince brainwash people into consenting to taking an experimental drug WITHOUT giving them full disclosure.

NEW TRIAL!!! COVID-19 Messaging for Vaccination

MIT Cambridge, MA ; Behavioral: Doctor Videos

  • Behavioral: Sharing Videos
  • Behavioral: Sharing Videos (Influencers)
  • (and 3 more…)

Collaborators:

Facebook, Inc. aka Mark Zuckerberg who was Caught Stealing Election With Ballot Drop Boxes

And his CHINESE WIFE (Red Diaper Baby from China?)

She was mostly raised by her Chinese grandmother, who spoke no English. She was a very dignified woman who clearly was a huge influence in Priscilla’s life…. But the precise details of how the family arrived in America are unclear. Reports in China say they came originally from the city of Xuzhou in eastern Chandong province, also the home city of Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng. Others say that the family lived in Nanjing, an industrial town 150 miles west of Shanghai, before leaving to live first in Hong Kong and later in the US.

A source at the Asian-American Civic Association in Boston said it was ‘highly likely’ the family spent time in a refugee camp, either in Hong Kong or on arrival in the US.

Priscilla’s father said he was a refugee who had lived in Vietnam, according to Thai-born Napat

Records show Dennis,[Her father] who now owns a small wholesale fish business, was given a social security number as an ‘Asian Refugee’ between April 1975 and November 1979.

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Stanford University

Harvard University

Yale University

Johns Hopkins University

Massachusetts General Hospital

Ludwig-Maximilians – University of Munich

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Study Description

Brief Summary:

This study will distribute videos of health professionals encouraging Covid-19 vaccination to a large sample of Facebook users, and will test the most effective ways to maximize diffusion of this vaccine-related content to increase vaccination rates. The study sample will be U.S. states where vaccination rates remained low in fall 2021. The experimental design is an RCT with 4 groups, randomized at the county level: 1) a control group which receives no intervention, 2) a treatment group in which Facebook users receive ads which include videos of health professionals telling them to get vaccinated, 3) a treatment group in which Facebook users receive ads which include videos of health professionals encouraging them to help their friends to get vaccinated, and 4) a treatment group in which Facebook users receive ads which include videos of health professionals encouraging them to get their most influential friends to help their friends get vaccinated. In treatments 3 and 4, participants will have the option to sign up to be a “vaccine ambassador,” in which case they will get notifications when the study team posts new vaccine-related content, and will receive reminders about encouraging their friends to be vaccinated. The vaccine ambassadors will also be entered into a lottery to win prizes. The study team is building a website to host the videos of health professionals which answer common questions about Covid-19 vaccination. The investigators will measure engagement with the vaccine-related content as well as assess effects on vaccination rates at the county level.

Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment  :40,000,000 participants
Allocation:Randomized
Intervention Model:Parallel Assignment
Intervention Model Description:There are four arms in the study which geographic areas are assigned to in parallel. The geographic areas in the three treatment arms will receive a Facebook ad campaign over the same time period to one another.
Masking:None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:Treatment
Official Title:Increasing the Effectiveness and Diffusion of COVID-19 Messaging for Vaccination
Actual Study Start Date  :December 22, 2021
Estimated Primary Completion Date  :January 2022
Estimated Study Completion Date  :June 2022
THAT IS 40 MILLION PEOPLE!!!

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A Tailored, Health Communication Intervention for HPV Vaccine Hesitant Families – Meharry Medical College, Nashville TN

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Dental Faculty Staff Members

– Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

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Development and Testing of ADEPT: A Parent Decision Support for Childhood Vaccinations

Duke University Health System, Durham, NC ( Childhood vaccination decision support tool) Principal Investigator Lavanya Vasudevan, Ph.D.

Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1KL2TR002554 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )

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Clinic-based HPV and COVID-19 Vaccine Promoting Intervention for AfAm Adolescents in Alabama

– University of Alabama at Birmingham (Behavioral: Intervention)

Contact: Henna Budhwani, PhD, MPH 

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Improving Health Equity for COVID-19 Vaccination for At-risk Populations Using Online Social Networks

– Annenberg School Philadelphia, PA

Behavioral: Online Social Network and Collective Intelligence Intervention :

Behavioral: Independent Control

Collaborators: University of California, Davis, University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley

Brief Summary:

Social technologies for health have already become essential means for providing underserved populations greater social connectedness and increased access to novel health information. However, these technologies have also had negative unintended consequences. The resulting digital divide in social technology takes many forms – from explicit racism that excludes African American and Latinx populations from the resources enjoyed by White and Asian members of online communities, to self-segregation for the purposes of identity preservation and community-building that unintentionally results in limited informational diversity in underserved communities. The result is an often unnoticed, but highly consequential compounding of inequities.

This research seeks to use an online social network approach to address these challenges, in which the investigators demonstrate how reducing the online levels of network centralization and network homophily among African American community members directly increases their productive engagement with health-promoting information.

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Project 2VIDA! COVID-19 Vaccine Intervention Delivery for Adults in Southern California

San Ysidro Health Chula Vista CA;

Care View Health Center San Diego, CA;

San Ysidro Health Care View Health Center, San Diego, CA; and 3 more…

Principal Investigator: Argentina Servin, MD, MPH, Asst Prof,

Sponsors/Collaborators National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Behavioral: COVID-19 Individual Awareness and Education;

Behavioral: COVID-19 Community Outreach & Health Promotion;

Behavioral: COVID-19 Individual Health Education & Linkages to Medical and Supportive Services;

Biological: Pop-up community vaccination sites

-GC


Conclusion by Wolf Moon

Do you see it now? They knew exactly what they were doing. Schiff’s kabuki with Zuckerberg was like a GO signal to start the censorship.

That creepy pedophile loser, the compromised Dem Rep on the committee that’s SUPPOSED to control the IC, but is in fact CONTROLLED BY IT, signals to the IC social media that’s SUPPOSED to serve us, but in fact SERVES THE IC, that they need to start censoring us by removing InfoWars and Natural News.

It ALL makes sense now.

CHICOMS. These people are no better than CHICOMS. Allies of the enemies of America. Traitors of the worst kind.

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2022·01·22 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread


SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom

I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”

Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.

Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?

Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:

OK, with that rant out of my system…

Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit

…we can move on to the next one.

Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.

Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.

Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!

It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.

In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.

Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.

The So-Called Vax

I think I can actually make sense of the Vaxers now. (And I’m going to call it the “treatment” from here forward.)

Everything they do makes sense (from their point of view, that is), if you assume that they believe the purpose of the treatment is to prevent the recipient from infecting others. It’s not to protect the recipient from others, it’s to protect others from the recipient.

(Now it is true that an actual vax helps slow the spread of the disease. I know you can sometimes transmit a disease if vaxed, but it’s more difficult if you don’t actually don’t catch it. But I am not talking about the side-benefit of a real vax; I’m talking about what they think of THIS treatment, where, apparently the only benefit it confers is to prevent people from transmitting it.)

Under those circumstances, they can consider you selfish for not wanting to protect others. After all you refuse to take a treatment that will prevent others from catching the disease from you. And, indeed, they do consider you “selfish” and not in the positive way that Ayn Rand used the term.

But it’s yet another one of those things where ONE non-compliant individual ruins it for everyone else–at least, that’s what they think it is. ONE untreated person could infect the entire human race, because they aren’t protected from him.

Never mind that this is not what a vaccine is supposed to be doing. If you assume that the motherf*cking toilet licker in front of you shrieking about how you’re Satan Incarnate for not being jabbed believes that the sole purpose of the treatment is to prevent the recipient from spreading the disease–not to prevent the recipient from catching it–suddenly his behavior makes sense, at least based on what he believes (and you can’t expect anyone to behave in accordance with things they don’t believe).

So perhaps the best way to argue with these people is to simply point out calmly that a vaccine (their word) is supposed to protect the recipient from those with the disease [which of course we say] not prevent them from giving it to other people [identify their false premise and face it head on] they might actually feel like they’re being argued with, rather than talked past.

If you don’t confront their actual premise, arguing with them can accomplish nothing.

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.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Mozart

Sedate. The adagio (2nd movement) from his clarinet concerto.

And a bit…less sedate. Last movement of his Symphony #41 which is the last one he wrote.

(Don’t be fooled by the fact that there’s a Symphony #42, or 43, or…well up to #55 at least…as I explained last time the numbering isn’t really chronological. To the best of my knowledge he’s got at least 51 symphonies under his belt (though some are disputed), so if we were ever to renumber them, this one would be #51. But we never will renumber them; that would cause confusion for centuries.)

By the way, that sucker ends in a five part fugue. Not easy to write!

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

All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last week:

Gold $1,819.10
Silver $23.06
Platinum $979.00
Palladium $1,875.00
Rhodium $17,400.00

This week, markets closed for the weekend at 3:00 PM Mountain Time

Gold $1831.80
Silver $24.31
Platinum $1043.00
Palladium $2194.00
Rhodium $17,650.00

Is this a break out? Platinum and palladium are up like gangbusters. Rhodium hasn’t moved much, but gold and silver are up fairly nicely (again, today they’re down, Thursday’s close was even higher).

Is the inflation of the “Fern” (Federal Reserve Note) finally manifesting?

JWST Update

The James Webb Space Telescope has succesfully deployed all 18 pieces of the primary mirror and the secondary mirror from their “stowed for launch” positions. That involved moving them half an inch (12.5mm) from where they were before, using the same actuators that will be used over the next three months for the next major phase of the mission.

I was surprised to see that NASA had slipped the L2 insertion burn a day. I didn’t think that was possible; at some point the spacecraft has reached where it needs to be to do this, and you don’t want to miss the window. Obviously, I don’t know all the details…because despite being originally scheduled for Sunday, it’s now slated for Monday.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/

More about the orbit.

https://www.webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html

At some point after that, I believe, they will begin the process of lining up the mirror segments with each other. They need to mimic a single parabolic mirror, and that will require them all to be re-positioned with accuracies of less than ten billionths of a meter. This will be done with the same motors that took the mirrors out of “stowed” position. That motion was a million times larger, yet the same actuators were responsible. It’s as if you had a combined brain surgery scalpel/chain saw for cutting things around the house. The mirror alignment is expected to take three months, and the impression I’ve received is that they will be done one at a time and checked with algorithms that have benefited people with certain visual impairments here on Earth (including one that I have). I have no idea how much, if any, NASA will be updating people during the process.

Meanwhile the sensors that these mirrors gather the light for, continue to cool and will also be brought on line and calibrated. We’re still looking at June for the first meaningful pictures, which will be false-color infrared pictures.

The First Exoplanets Not Orbiting Star Corpses

One Last Detection Method

There’s one more, rather rare, method of detecting extrasolar planets (or “Exoplanets” for short) and the surprising thing about this method is it actually has happened.

Occasionally we will see one (fairly close) star pass directly in front of a more distant star; the closer star will appear to be moving faster (more likely) than the distant one.

When that happens, the gravity of the nearer star bends some of the starlight from the more distant star, and that star is “gravitationally lensed.” More light from that star reaches us than would otherwise be the case and it gets brighter as the other star crosses in front of it.

This has actually been observed to happen. Furthermore, sometimes there’s a secondary “spike” in the brightness of the distant star, which we believe is due to gravitational lensing around a planet of the nearby star. It’s a lot weaker and of shorter duration than the main event, but it can be detected.

It seems incredibly unlikely that this should ever happen, but it has. A small (but significant) number of exoplanets have been detected this way. However, we’ll almost certainly never be able to confirm the planet by the same means, because the star would have to pass directly in front of yet another star for this to happen.

But that’s getting ahead of our story for tonight.

Patience Rewarded

Geoffrey WIlliam Marcy (b. 1954) was, in the early 1990s, chasing rainbows. He was having trouble with his main line of research, and was beginning to think he was a failure as an astrophysicist. So he decided to flame out with a bang…and search for exoplanets.

Remember that back then, this was something no one wanted to be caught dead trying to do; it smacked too much of looking for E.T.

That didn’t stop Marcy; he began trying to use the Doppler Shift method I described last week. And I should have been more careful describing it; it turns out it’s called the “Radial Velocity Method.”

He looked for years, and found nothing. His instruments weren’t sensitive enough to detect a small (Earth size, say, or smaller) planet, and there simply weren’t any indications of large planets, either. He had spent years looking for a signal of a large planet, in a large (and therefore long-period) orbit. This is what everyone expected. But, nothing.

But then in December, 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, Swiss astronomers, reported having found an exoplanet in orbit around a star named 51 Pegasi.

“51 Pegasi” is a “Flamsteed designation” according to a system invented by John Flamsteed in the early 1700s; he essentially numbered the stars in each constellation, and 51 Pegasi is a star in the constellation Pegasus. Almost every naked-eye-visible star visible from England got a Flamsteed number. This includes stars that already had a Bayer designation (constellation name plus a Greek letter). For instance Betelgeuse, Alpha Orinonis, is also 58 Orionis according to the Flamsteed designation.

The upshot is that 51 Pegasi is a faint star, but is visible to the naked eye (barely) on a very dark night far away from city lights. In fact, it’s of almost exactly the same spectral class as our Sun; it’s a G2IV whereas our Sun is a G2V. It’s believed to be a bit older (6.1-8.1 billion years versus 4.6 billion) than our Sun.

But it’s a nice, ordinary star, maybe getting a bit long in the tooth, but a nice, ordinary star. Not some pulsar corpse of a star, made of solid neutronium, spewing massive amounts of radiation everywhere like a firehose as it spins like a top hundreds of times a second!

The planet was immediately designated 51 Pegasi b (according to that convention I complained about two weeks ago), and it fell to Marcy and his team mates to confirm it.

Which they almost immediately did.

It didn’t take long to do so. They were able to watch it orbit 51 Pegasi a couple of times, because this planet (originally dubbed Bellerophon, after the mythic rider of Pegasus, but now called Dimidium), has a 4.23 day year. So they could look for a Doppler “wobble” with that period, and they found it, immediately.This is a damned short year. Mercury is the closest planet to our Sun, and its year is 88 days.

In other words, no one expected such a short year, from any sort of planet.

But that wasn’t the biggest surprise. The planet’s mass is 0.46 Jupiter masses; in other words, it’s more massive than Saturn. It’s a gas giant!

OK, now if you remember back two weeks, I described what we expected a “typical” planetary system to look like…based on our own. And the gas giants should be far away from their stars. Not just because that’s what we see here, but because there’s simply no way they could form any closer to a star; it’s simply too hot for the ices, and the hydrogen and helium, to hang around long enough for the rocky core of such a planet to be able to capture them. Out at 5 AU, it is possible–that’s Jupiter’s distance–but at 0.05 AU, where 51 Pegasi b is, no way!

That sound you’re imagining is the sound of bullshit meters pegging in the skulls of every astronomer and astrophysicist in the world.

But here was a discovery, from Switzerland, confirmed by a team in the United States, of something that shouldn’t exist.

Well, OK…maybe the planet formed farther out and somehow migrated inwards? Seems unlikely, but it could happen. Current thinking is that much of the time, planet formation is a very chaotic process and planets, as they form, fling other planets clear out of the planetary system, to wander forever in interstellar space as “rogue” planets. Or planets can be flung into their stars. Or into some close orbit.

But it gets better: Marcy and his team may not have bagged the first planet orbiting a normal star, but they had been gathering spectroscopic data from hundreds of stars for years. When they went back and looked–this time for very short period signals instead of ones with periods of several years–they found a lot of exoplanets like 51 Pegasi b.

Within two months, Marcy’s team was able to announce planets orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris (the Big Bear) and 70 Virginis (Virgo).

47 Ursae Majoris b is at least a bit more normal. The parent star is again, very much like our Sun. The planet orbits in just under 3 years at a distance of 2.1 AU. But it is at least 2.5 times as massive as Jupiter. (Remember that masses found by the Doppler method are minimums; if the orbit is tilted with respect to our line of sight, then some of the velocity of the star induced by the planet is transverse, rather than radial and the Doppler effect is smaller than it “should” be…meaning the planet is more massive than the signal would indicate.)

That’s still a bit close to its star for a gas giant. And yes, as mentioned, it’s a bigger planet than Jupiter. How big can a planet get? Once it gets to be about 10-14 Jupiter masses, it’s considered a “brown dwarf” star since some nuclear fusion of rare isotopes of hydrogen and helium can (and does) occur.

(Today, we know there are two other planets orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris orbiting at 3.6 and 11.6 AUs. That outer planet takes almost 40 years to orbit and has the distinction of being the longest-period planet ever discovered by the radial velocity method.)

70 Virginis is a star a bit more massive than the Sun and might be starting to swell into a red giant phase. It has a planet orbiting it, about 7.5 Jupiter masses…and it’s in a 116 day orbit. Although not as extreme as 51 Pegasi b, it’s too close to be a gas giant. But the bigger surprise is that the orbit’s eccentricity is 0.4!

One of the other things we expected, based on our own Solar System, was that planets would be in almost circular orbits. A circular orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0. 0.4 starts looking distinctly oval shaped.

Red: Eccentricity 0 (a circular orbit)
Green: Eccentricity 0.2
Cyan: Eccentricity 0.4
Orange: Eccentricity 0.6
Magenta: Eccentricity 0.8
All orbits have the same semimajor axis (that’s half of the width of the ellipse, measured the long way), so the planets shown have the same period. Note how much the magenta planet speeds up and slows down, though.

(Mercury is the most eccentric planetary orbit in our Solar System, at about 0.2. Which is why it was possible to spot the precession of its aphelion so easily, as figured into Einstein’s discovery of general relativity.)

A large planet in an eccentric orbit will tend to destabilize things in orbits in between its periastron (closest approach) and apoastron (furthest distance) from the star it’s orbiting. So this is yet more evidence of chaos in planetary system formation.

Many of Marcy’s exoplanets turned out to be gas giants orbiting “too close” to their stars…so we’ve given this absurd-seeming class of planets a name: we call them “Hot Jupiters.”

And they don’t seem to make sense. But they were, for a while, by far the most common kind of planet we knew of.

But…and this is an important lesson…that is because they were far and away the easiest to detect! They orbited close to their parent star (which increased the Doppler wobble) and they are massive (which increases the Doppler wobble). Remember, a nice normal planet like Earth would be undetectable by this method! So of course they didn’t find anything like Earth, because they couldn’t.

Kepler Space Telescope (2009-2018)

Fast forward to 2009. The business of looking for exoplanets is now very respectable.

And NASA launched a space telescope named Kepler, after Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), who first identified the laws of planetary orbital motion. There couldn’t be a better choice of name.

This was a very specialized instrument. It did exactly one thing. It hunted for exoplanets.

It simply stared at a patch of sky near the constellation Cygnus (the Swan, it contains the Northern Cross). It continuously stared at 150,000 stars all at once, watching their brightness.

Kepler Field Of View

What was it doing? It was applying the transit method of detecting extrasolar planets.

If you recall, this method relies on the planet crossing between us and the star it’s orbiting. This is a very unlikely configuration (the orbit could be tilted at any angle with respect to the line of sight; it has to be very, very close to crossing directly through our line of sight to see the planet move in front of its star). But if you’re looking at a hundred and fifty thousand stars all at once, you will get some hits. If there are any planets. And remember that if you can detect a planet this way, you won’t just get its mass and its orbital period, you’ll get a good estimate of its physical size…and hence you’ll be able to compute its density. And that tells you whether it’s made of rocks or gas…or ice.

In other words, we could collect a statistically meaningful sample to find out just how common exoplanets really were (many times as common as were detected, because most planets won’t transit as seen from here). The transit method is more sensitive and can detect planets closer to Earth-like if it works at all.

One vital condition of “earthlike” is the size of the planet…but another is its distance from the star it’s orbiting. We want to know if the planet is at a temperature where water can be a liquid on its surface. And that requires that it be in the “Goldilocks zone.” Not too hot, not too cold…but just right. More formally, this is called the star’s habitable zone. This is about 1 AU out for a star the size (and brightness) of our sun. Most stars are smaller and cooler and their habitable zones are closer to the star as a consequence.

The mission ran until 2018, when Kepler ran out of fuel. It was switched off on November 15th, the 388th anniversary of Johannes Kepler’s death.

And Kepler found 2,662 confirmed exoplanets–plus an additional 3600 unconfirmed candidates. Every star that seemed to have planets got a Kepler number, e.g., Kepler 1544, so the exoplanets have imaginative names like Kepler-1544 b.

In many cases multiple planets were detected orbiting a star.

A handful of these planets orbit in the habitable zone and appear to be rocky planets. In fact, Kepler-1544 b is one of them. Its radius is 1.78 times as much as Earth, and the mass is 3.84 times as much as Earth.

There are a number of these “Super Earths,” in fact, many not in their stars’ habitable zones. It’s hard, even with this method, to detect smaller planets. The planet orbits at about .54 AU with a year of 168 days. This is NOT too close to the star, however, because Kepler-1544 is a cooler star than our Sun. In fact most finds seem to have been around stars markedly cooler than the Sun.

Want to see the list? Here you go, knock yourself out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanets_discovered_using_the_Kepler_space_telescope

Here’s another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-1649 . This star appears to have both a Venus-like planet and an Earth like planet in orbit about it. The star itself is a red dwarf, so the planets orbit at less than 0.1 AU, and their years are 8 and 19 days long, respectively.

Post Kepler

Kepler did a lot of work, but others have been adding to the count.

One system that is famous right now is TRAPPIST-1. It’s 39 light years away in the direction of Aquarius, and is 9% as massive as the Sun–hence much cooler in temperature. In 2016-17, astronomers at the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope in Chile discovered that there are no less than seven terrestrial (rocky) planets in orbit about this star. Three, or maybe even four, of the planets appear to be in the habitable zone. Orbits range from 0.011 to 0.06 AUs. Remember this is a cool star. In fact, it radiates mostly in the infrared, so even at noon on the planets, it probably wouldn’t seem brighter than at sunset here on Earth, though temperatures would be closer to “normal.”

(Apparently Kepler did look at this star at one point.)

There is also a new satellite, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in 2018. It has already found over four thousand candidate planets, yet to be confirmed.

Using the gravitational lensing method, in 2020 astronomers reported an earth-mass rogue planet (one that is wandering interstellar space). Apparently it crossed in front of some star when someone was looking at that star.

A device called a vortex coronagraph has allowed astronomers to directly image large, distant exoplanets more easily than before. Recall that direct imaging works for such planets (the farther out the better; the closer the star to us, the better); I’ve even seen a time lapse GIF of four planets orbiting a star. The Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar has been very useful for this sort of thing. (Seventy years old and still going strong!)

So, we’re getting better at this. I’ve pointed you to lists and some number counts, but let’s look at a diagram that might clarify things:

The higher up you go on that diagram, the bigger the planet. You can see pictures of Jupiter, Neptune and Earth at the right to give a sense of scale. To the left, planets orbit near their star. Hot Jupiters appear here. To the right, they’re further out and you will see a group labeled “Cold Gas Giants.” Then further down you see large planets that appear as though they may consist largely of water, or ices.

But the overwhelming majority of dots, mostly Kepler detections, are “Rocky planets” like our own, many, many of them much larger than Earth (which is the largest rocky planet in this planetary system). And ones very close to their star are expected to have molten lava surfaces, simply because that close to the star they get very hot.

But in the lower right, is the “Frontier.” If there are planets here, we can’t detect them yet. (And we know of some such planets, for instance Mars.)

The Future

This is very, very much a story in progress. The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be able to not only see some of these planets, but also detect and analyze their atmospheres.

What we would be really excited to see is planets with water and an oxygen atmosphere.

Water, because that’s the one thing every life form we know of must have. Even oxygen isn’t as universally necessary. (There are bacteria that manage to live in water near boiling, and others that manage to thrive inside nuclear reactors, and of course there are plenty of anaerobic critters out there (like botulism) but nothing we know of can live without water.)

Oxygen, because if we find an oxygen atmosphere it’s almost certainly a sign that life exists on that planet.

If plants stopped photosynthesizing right now, no oxygen would be created. And the oxygen in the air would slowly combine with other things on Earth and be bound up, much like on Mars, which is largely a rusty planet. In other words, an oxygen atmosphere is not stable, because oxygen is so reactive. An oxygen atmosphere can only exist if something continually creates more oxygen. And although there are some other possibilities a strong candidate for creating oxygen would be living things. It would be by far the strongest evidence we have that life exists elsewhere. Though that doesn’t mean “ET” because that life might just be algae–pond scum in other words.

But pond scum is still life, after all no one accuses Joe Biden of being dead, just demented.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

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 !!!

Branch Covidians – Seven Ways To See Through The Phony Pharmageddon of COVID-19


PREFACE

I thought that I might withhold this post on Easter Sunday, and then I changed my mind, thanks to Deplorable Patriot, Trump, Gab and Jesus. If anybody ever FOUGHT on Easter Sunday, it was Christ. It’s time to FOLLOW POINT.

The Branch Covidians have taken a toll, but the WAR is turning, and – somewhat in honor of the Branch Davidians who were SET UP and MURDERED by the globalist scum, it’s time for some JUSTICE.

I look at the people of this blog – many of whom HAD COVID-19 or whatever – being forced by socialist idiocy to take a vaccine that seems to show the most side effects in those who had the virus, and I am ENRAGED.

WHY? Where has science gone? Who will stand against this insanity?

The PEOPLE of America, LEERY OF THE LIARS, need to STAND against being subjects of the world’s greatest socialist medical experiment since Mengele and Auschwitz. The CHINAZI SCUM and their GLOBAL PUNK ALLIES who created this convenient misfortune – who seared my lungs to take my freedom – will not get away with this. It’s time to FIGHT BACK HARD.

LIKE TRUMP.

This is a long post that will, like vaccine side effects, expectedly yet unexpectedly rock a lot of people’s little worlds, so buckle up.

We take out something rather large in the intro, to “train the guns”, and then move on to Bio-9/11.

INTRO

The name Branch Covidians just suggests itself for the madness of turning a secondary sub-flu into a phony super-plague, but the truth is, the PLOT to pull off this MIND-FRACK was neither mad nor stupid, and goes much, much deeper than the abusable psychology of the people who were predictably ginned up as Mask Karens and Vaccine Custody Kens.

The roots of what was intended to be the first biological endless war, lie in the previous kinds of endless war. So let’s start there, with the endless war on guns.

If you know how Hillary Clinton was researching the apocalyptic Branch Davidian sect before the Clintons even got into the WH, then you will have a leg up on what I’m doing here and why I’m doing it. However, to nip this stuff in the bud, we will use PEACE, not VIOLENCE.

Observe.

You will see that the people running in with the convenient and money-moving solutions were, once again, the people who orchestrated the convenient problem.

I am learning to FIGHT LIKE TRUMP, and I’m going to SPREAD THE TECH, so to speak.

KNOWING THEIR M.O. is really starting to pay off for our side, and combining that with NUKES (of the information kind) and KNOWING WHO TO NUKE – which isn’t always the guiltiest party, but frequently the most STRATEGICALLY VULNERABLE…..

Sometimes being an escaping Buffalo lets you hear more than your friends Fly or Wolf.

…..is a real form of force multiplication.

Let’s get distracted by the “Branch Covidian” analogy for a second. This goes somewhere. Like the Branch Qvidians we were supposed to be.

Thus, to go back to the Clintons, we see a “future-proves-past” application of the Alinsky technique of freezing and isolating a “bad guy” was used on the Branch Davidians to go after guns, and yet in the beautiful way that Hillary Clinton always SCREWED UP…..

…..the other side was left in a kind of political debt which they never really got out of, and IMO that is part of why the GREAT AWAKENING is actually a thing.

This is not to say that the other side wasn’t able to keep pushing historic CRAP into the blender…..

…..or to subvert the American military and FBI almost fully into their designs…..

…..combined with some aspirin factories that eventually became a headache when a wolf sniffed some bottles in the rubble…..

…..thus realizing how this all connected to a repeatable and rather portable scam of creating security-state-monetizable bad guys who require us to give up our freedoms at the same time everybody gets robbed…..

…..however, the more beautiful part, in the Wolf’s opinion, was how much Great Awakening happened between THAT little incident and the NEXT bad guys – ISIS.

Why, one doesn’t think this much ACCEPTED REVELATION…..

…..happened all by itself, does one? Of course not. Some guys named “Q” were almost certainly doing quite a bit of work during that second Obama term that was supposed to be so fundamentally transforming.

Which it was.

You starting to see where I’m going?

Good.

Thus, when a certain…..

Buffalo Jump

I cannot claim credit for realizing that the tactical maneuver of Trump’s supporters to their political demise on January 6, 2021 at Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, was something known to American historians and anthropologists as a buffalo jump. However, as soon as I heard the ill-fated demonstration called that, all my questions about what …

…..happened – perhaps with a little buffalo-tipping…..

….. and it became clear not only how prefabricated this little REICHSTAG was…..

Buffalo Jump: The Plot Thickens

Alternate Title: Bring Out The Owl! We continue with Part 2 of the Buffalo Jump series. For background, see Part 1: If you want a TL;DR version of what was wrong with the Capitol Rally on January 6, 2021, imagine trying to fit a million people into the little area numbered “8”, in the upper …

…..and that certain “white hats” who went along with this shit aren’t “uniformly” “white hats” (thank you, Scott)…..

Buffalo Jump: The Intolerable Lie

Alternate Title: The moment I realized that GOD would back me in going asymmetrical on these unworthy China-compromised “U.S.” military bastards. I have recently come into possession of information which made a lot of things start making a lot more sense. I only needed a final confirmation that I was correct – and I just …

…..and how all the old parties involved in prior “events”, seem to be involved in the new ones…..

Buffalo Jump: Mafia Princess Mysteries

Impeachahontas Now Wearing Two Diapers Nobody expected Chris Wray to play Mafia Nan’s queen of diapers face-up on January 6, but that is exactly what appears to have happened. The only question now is WHY. To quote a friend from a former life, “AYE-YI-YI!” OK – let me back up a bit. First, I want …

…..then it ALL started coming together that We, The People had actually FORCED the “monetizers of created bad guys and events” to bring their little schtick a little closer to our little home on the range.

Breach Club Blotter

Please add links, tweets, videos, etc. for ALL identifications, charges, arrests, prosecutions, and sentencing of those who were at or in the Capitol Building on January 6. I’m finding a TON of this stuff hitting the media right now, and I’d like to keep it all in one place. This includes *JOURNALISTS* (CNN or others), …

Now – this here buffalo has to tell you – the Great Mystery might get a little pissed off if this guy…..

…..(that would be the OTHER QAnon garbageman) is going to be blamed for the sins of all the folks inside that building behind him, including this lady…..

…..as well as other potential information warfare targets who might be able to put a lid on this shit by backing the fuck off before alliances are deservedly shattered….

…..and by this shit, I mean where QAnon (QA) and other patriotic American groups are supposed to be the next Al Qaeda (AQ), in a kind of globally forced implosion on America, because we can already see that the money-grubbing phony “national security” people, who sure seem a lot more like global leeches, including a bunch of pseudo-American Brits and Aussies (OK, let’s be kind and show a DIFFERENT one with a 5-letter name)…..

…..every bit as phony as the Chinese American “citizens” who spy for the ChiComs – are just chomping at the bit to come down on AMERICAN PATRIOTS who can see what’s REALLY going on, having been the victims of a little bit of, what might we call it, maybe “Britcasting”?

…..which didn’t exactly work…..

…..but hey – sometimes it’s better to surprise the burglars and robbers, and instead of going after THEM, just put a round in the ATM machine, so it stops spitting out the bills!

…..and it’s not like the Great Spirit needs to use the crude methods of self-infliction used on that fine September day, because – in this case – self-infliction happened on a fine January day, and at a lovely place a short ways away from the ATM, indeed, at a place where I sang the Star Spangled Banner, written the LAST TIME some Brits tried to burn Congress down, only that time without any chumps in polygonal buildings, and not trying to pass it off as having been the work of American patriots.

ARE WE REACHING AN UNDERSTANDING YET?

Good. I have actual [American] [and ironically global] National Security WORK to do, which is not simply cleaning up absolutely unnecessary shit. But I did have time for an intro, which allowed me to skip a fuller and more blatantly obvious, accusatory, evidence-filled, and alliance-rending post. Some people should be thankful that I’m as lazy as I am.

TL;DR- = BTFO


SECOND INTRO

Now it’s time to get down to some science – the purpose of all this.

COVID-19 is both real and a scam, and that’s why it’s hard for people who’ve been deprived of AND LOGIC their whole lives to decide which one it is. It’s not one or the other – it’s BOTH.

The entire subject of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 reflects this conjoined reality of truth and falsehood. Almost every aspect of this subject is both REAL and A SCAM. Every piece of the puzzle appears to be both TRUE and FALSE.

One might expect such a cunning thing, in YET ANOTHER MONETIZATION PLOT.

Are you seeing why I had that other intro? Good. What we have here, is ANOTHER fake bad guy – albeit rather microscopic – being used to gin up ANOTHER fake event, but a whole lot of REAL MONEY.

OK, I’ll admit it. Maybe it’s just REAL FAKE MONEY.

Better? Yeah, I like that better, too. Because I like REALITY, and that includes REAL MONEY.

Which seems to be becoming a bit POPULAR lately.

COVID-19 doesn’t want to answer questions. People who need solid answers FAST will not get them. People who need satisfying answers will have to wait. However, they won’t have to wait much longer. CRACKS are forming in stonewalls. Stories are being whispered by data. Many theories and ideas dry up and blow away, but some are sticking around, and appearing fundamental.

This post is NOT going to explain the basics of viruses and vaccines. THAT will be another post.

This post is going to throw some HONKIN’ HUNKS of precious metals, and some BIG-ASS diamond and sapphire pavers, through some MASSIVE picture windows – and these objects will just pass through glass to your amazement. I am going to CHANGE YOUR VIEW of this disease in fundamental but GOOD ways. Ways that tell you REAL NORMAL is still there, like it always was, and all this other BULLSHIT is an illusion.

I’m going to challenge your fundamental thinking about this disease, hopefully so that you “can’t unsee” certain ideas.

Are you ready? Here we go.

I will start off with an idea that will be used, very admittedly, to GAIN CREDIBILITY, by showing you where somebody SMART could have been EVEN SMARTER.


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Resisting The Vaccination of Children And Supporting Natural Immunity Is Valorous

One of the absolute best things that President Trump ever did was to bring Dr. Scott Atlas aboard, as a common sense counterweight to the plotters Fauci and Birx.

And I mean PLOTTERS. When I’m done with this post, you’re going to want to see Fauci and Birx in prison. They will be lucky to get off with simply losing power. But when you see what REALLY happened – how DELIBERATE DECEIT about Influenza-Like Illnesses (ILIs) was weaponized against the world, to get rid of Trump and advance the Democrat, Globalist and Chinese political agendas, you will also see that the only way this could have been possible, is by deliberate misrepresentation of the facts to President Trump and America.

Fauci and Birx HAD TO KNOW. In my opinion, they felt that it was SO NECESSARY to get rid of Trump, that they were morally justified to hide the truths that they hid from us.

Well, we will let the justice system be the judge of that.

And, of course, Trump knew. I love that he finally got a chance to LET THEM HAVE IT.

And it won’t be the last time, either.

Back to Scott (Atlas).

Dr. Scott Atlas has a new essay in the wonderful Hillsdale College publication Imprimis.

Here are the first few paragraphs.


Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail?

 • Volume 50, Number 2 • Scott W. Atlas

Scott W. Atlas
Hoover Institution

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on February 18, 2021, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona.

The COVID pandemic has been a tragedy, no doubt. But it has exposed profound issues in America that threaten the principles of freedom and order that we Americans often take for granted. 

First, I have been shocked at the unprecedented exertion of power by the government since last March—issuing unilateral decrees, ordering the closure of businesses, churches, and schools, restricting personal movement, mandating behavior, and suspending indefinitely basic freedoms. Second, I was and remain stunned—almost frightened—at the acquiescence of the American people to such destructive, arbitrary, and wholly unscientific rules, restrictions, and mandates.

The pandemic also brought to the forefront things we have known existed and have tolerated for years: media bias, the decline of academic freedom on campuses, the heavy hand of Big Tech, and—now more obviously than ever—the politicization of science. Ultimately, the freedom of Americans to seek and state what they believe to be the truth is at risk.

Let me say at the outset that I, like all of us, acknowledge that the consequences of the COVID pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 500,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will follow. Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. And despite all efforts, there has been an undeniable failure to stop cases from escalating and to prevent hospitalizations and deaths. 

But there is also an unacknowledged reality: almost every state and major city in the U.S., with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person schools, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least last summer. And despite any myths to the contrary, social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have all shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask-wearing since the late summer, similar to the extent seen in Western Europe and approaching the extent seen in Asia. 

MORE: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/science-politics-covid-will-truth-prevail/


I cannot recommend this article highly enough. This article should be a rallying point for our fight, on many, many fronts. This is Scott Atlas “setting the record straight”, and in the process, revealing the moral and logical failure of our intellectual institutions to be HONEST in their disagreements about COVID-19, and all that surrounds it.

But I’m not going to get into that right now. I want to talk about only ONE particular point, but it is one which TOTALLY CHANGES THE FIGHT.

It is my only criticism of Dr. Atlas on COVID-19. It is a point where, I believe, he should have been even MORE aggressive, seeking utter clarity, and fighting for the CONSERVATIVE POSITION of natural immunity.

So what was the point?

One of the things you will notice, if you read this piece, is that Dr. Atlas defends himself as having ACTUALLY SAID or having NOT ACTUALLY SAID certain things – including whether or not he said, either verbatim or in essence, that we should “let children catch the disease.” He denied – or perhaps it’s better to say he quibbled about – having said this.

And he’s right. Dr. Atlas was terribly misread, misquoted, and even maliciously slandered.

People always look weak when they very correctly say “I didn’t say that”, about something which may or may not be an implication of what they DID say, but the “optics” of weakness are beside the point.

The problem is much more fundamental. The problem is that the media uses this questioning technique to pin people down AWAY from where they should be. It is a brilliant deception, by which the media keeps its victims stating that – TRULY – they did not say the controversial but correct thing that they SHOULD HAVE SAID.

It’s a game. A form of misdirection. A con job. Intellectual whack-a-mole, where the TRUTH is the mole that should be a lion. A cunning use of “Alinsky fears” – “YOU DIDN’T SAY THAT, DID YOU?” – to keep an opponent away from that opponent’s most powerful argument.

And the proper answer to the question, quite literally, is “I didnt say that – BUT I SHOULD HAVE, AND HERE’S WHY.

Under further questioning, “Yes. I’m saying that NOW.

The technique of media misdirection away from an unstated power point is a brilliant kind of “forced inverted quasi-strawman”, which gets one to refute their own best implied argument, by backing off from the insinuated truth.

It’s ingenious, and it works. But it’s WRONG. It DEMANDS push-back.

Stated bluntly, I believe that Dr. Atlas SHOULD have admitted the following:

YES – we want to let children risk catching COVID-19, because we have NO REASON to believe that vaccine immunity will be better than natural immunity, and every reason to believe that natural immunity will be SUPERIOR to vaccine immunity in every possible way, including both effectiveness and safety. It will be stronger and more durable immunity, almost without a doubt. And for children, it’s very likely to be safer than the vaccine. We need to think about the children’s future – not assuaging our own fears now.”

Once you SEE this – once you REALIZE how true this is – you realize that IT WAS A HILL WORTH DYING ON – AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE DIED.

There would have been a week-long firefight, where the media would attempt to “push it through” to “chickenpox parties” – just NO, YOU FUCKERS (we’d be rough, and it would be fun) – ending in the media pouting “well, you have no proof the new vaccines won’t be just as safe as current childhood immunizations”.

And you KNOW it would have been a “safe” bet that the new vaccines could not be that safe, but NOBODY HAD TO SAY THAT. Just wait for the facts on safety, but KNOW the following already:

(a) The actual HISTORY of the immune effectiveness of childhood diseases versus the LOWER effectiveness of our vaccines for them, says that natural immunity would be more effective – stronger and more durable.

(b) The actual HISTORY of all vaccines tells us that the low-hanging fruit has been more thoroughly picked already, and newer vaccines against harder targets, tend to be less safe, less effective, or both.

Do you see how EASY this would have been? We should have HELD THE LINE on letting children – our precious children – get the STRONGEST IMMUNITY POSSIBLE, AS SOON AND AS SAFELY AS KNOWINGLY POSSIBLE.

And not just that – THESE ARGUMENTS extend to many adults as well, who are at LOW RISK.

Trump insinuated more strongly on children’s natural immunity – as strongly and as often as he could – but we the scientists could have been stronger. Yeah, I will admit it – I’m a year late and trillions of dollars short, too.

THIS is why I say that Atlas was STRATEGICALLY correct – we needed to defend children – which he did. But TACTICALLY, we should have pushed further and deeper, to not just hold the ground on children, but to advance past it.

And that brings me to my next point.


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Volunteers for Natural Immunity are Braver than the Vaccinated and Deserve Respect

Again, we see how the phony Fake News media, as a SHILL for med-pharma-socialism, the Democrat Party, and the CCP, has inverted the reality of the vaccinated vs. those who choose to risk the disease for the stronger immunity it imparts.

Play CHICKEN GAMES – get CHICKEN IMMUNITY.

And this extends to those of us who were merely VICTIMS of the disease, and didn’t even get a T-shirt saying:

“I HAD MULTIPLE COMORBIDITIES, I WENT THROUGH HYPOXIC HELL, AND ALL I GOT WAS STRONG IMMUNITY AND THIS DAMN T-SHIRT”.

This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, actually, as a VICTIM of COVID-19, who is now holding, as my meager golden chump change, the ACTUAL STRONGER IMMUNITY.

I don’t WANT your weak and unpredictable vaccine. I got the disease and LIVED. I like my immunity. I pick my nose, I eat off other people’s plates, I don’t wear a mask, and life is just like before.

GO TO HELL, KAREN.

I have watched how SO MANY people, who understand their own health and their own RISKS, have felt FORCED to do the opposite of their natural inclination – to either get the vaccine or NOT get the vaccine – because of pressure by those around them, or worse yet, by highly conflicted stakeholders like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates, highly conflicted organizations like CDC and WHO, and highly conflicted politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom.

I have watched these same victimized people – including posters on this blog – dealing with what I can only describe as psychological and social ABUSE at the hands of the ant-like MINIONS of the conflicted socialist scum – victimization that should never happen in a free society.

The Karens and Kens and Chicken Littles who try to FORCE upon these victims their vaccine paranoia – and by vaccine paranoia I mean the absurd idea that “you have to get the vaccine to save ME – and GRANDMA” – I mean WHAT THE HELL – sorry – just CUT IT OUT, you BLUE SCUM. This is socialist propaganda, mediated through false and blame-shifted guilt-mongering, and it needs to be driven from American society with prejudice, because we don’t want this crap back.

Now – I’m not just blowing SMOKE that natural immunity to COVID-19 is QUALITY STUFF. You see, there is an excellent and respected scientific study on this, appearing in Science, funded by Fauci’s own rat operation, and touted by NIH, that you have not heard about, because our SHILL MEDIA didn’t want you to hear about it.

Yeah, think about that. An NIH-touted study that the media just missed. DARN!

LINK: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19

The study says the natural immunity is mediated by multiple known and measured immunological mechanisms, and is still nice and strong even 8 months after recovery.

IN FACT, the NATURAL immunity is giving them HOPE that the vaccine immunity MIGHT BE just as good.

This work is not unique – similar early studies by other researchers were cited in the New York Times back in August of 2020.

You got that? Natural immunity is proven to last. Your vaccines which – as we know from over a century of experience, are almost invariably LESS immunizing than the disease – may last as long IF WE ARE LUCKY.

Yeah, I’m a little pissed about having had this disease, having permanent shortness of breath, and then being forced to wear a STUPID hypoxia-inducing mask, when I’m IMMUNE, and more immune than with your damn vaccine.

You want a link for the hypoxia part? I DID THE WORK MYSELF.

The Bidening of America – How Cognitive Decline is Being Forced Upon Us All Through the ChiNazis’ Useful Idiots, the Mask Nazis

TL;DR – skip down to “Crucial Experiment” and read how you can prove to yourself that masks cause real and measurable cognitive decline that lasts long after you unmask. NPR and other leftists who say masks don’t affect you and your children are LYING. LOOK, it’s time to be blunt. Senility – Cognitive Decline – …

BYE, KAREN! You hear me? And take your damn masks and vaccination passports with you!

I’m IMMUNE, you BITCH!!!

Seriously, having a population of CONTROLS is smart science, and if Fauci were a better and more honest scientist, he would have gotten out ahead on that long ago, and ironically would have gotten more of the right people vaccinated, but – well – they’re not in this for any of their stated reasons.


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In The Game of Mutant Variant Fear-Mongering Chicken, Fauci Swerved

Have you noticed how there is SO MUCH BTFO on the COVID-19 “variants” thing, lately?

It’s like all of a sudden, nobody wants to talk about variant doom. Indeed – THIS article….

T cells recognize recent SARS-CoV-2 variants

…..was news released on March 30, and Anthony Fauci is even LISTED as “available for comment” on it!

There’s a reason.

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Playing Chicken With The Truth Is Always Dangerous

Now, it is WAY TOO EARLY for a non-epidemiologist like me to opine as to which side of the “variants” infinity-hedron is most correct, but I’m here to tell you that THIS THING’S GOT SIDES OUT THE WAZOO, and yet the number of sides is dropping electric-razor fast, and it will be painful when whatever remains passes through Fauci’s rear end as the final truth, whatever that truth may be.

On the one side, there is, and has been, from the very beginning, evidence that “variants” are real, but not a big problem.

But did MUH VARIANTS suddenly get worse?

Doctor Rand Paul brilliantly but subtle as a ship-destroying laser through a window CALLED OUT the author of the Fauci Virus on his role in scaremongering against persistent realities, and I will admit to having ridden down on his bomb with some of my own contribution to the massive BTFO which ensued.

Rand Paul Nails Fauci and Cuts to the Chase on Coronavirus Variants – Are the Vaccinated and Recovered Even Getting Reinfected or Sick?

Introduction You have GOT to see the video I’m going to show you. It’s not just what they’re talking about. It’s WHERE IT LEADS. Most of the people who watch Rand Paul go after Fauci here, are concentrating on MASKS, because that is the TOP LAYER of the argument. But THAT is the small potatoes. …

And yeah, I could not help but notice WHERE the suddenly bad variant problem got suddenly bad…..

But before that, the “variants” problem turned even further South for the Branch Covidians, when yet another scientist – this one uncomfortably close to Bill Gates – noted that the “variants problem” could mean vaccines were a huge backfire all along – but without going “full Marek”. And this dude went “full chicken” against the vaccine establishment, with that little medical mafia punk in the driver’s seat.

Not trusting Twitter, let’s just save that tweet….

…..as well as his open letter…..

He also did a nice interview explaining his warnings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtHfI00D_s4

That interview was then re-explained by Del Bigtree.

What you are seeing RIGHT NOW is how politicized the science has become, to where this guy has to go on TWITTER, or get picked up by YouTubers and podcasters, to call into the open what should be a big open question in science.

The game is normally – if you want to keep your job in science – to massage one’s own message of truly perceived truth toward the media’s badly managed but persistently publicly perceived mainstream “bag of somebody’s intentional errors” so as not to lose the credibility needed to stay in the game. It’s sick, it’s wrong, and it’s ugly. But honestly, you have to be RETIRED in science to speak what you’re really thinking, any more. The MEDIA controls too much of it.

Watch PBS science these days, and you realize it’s all about DAMAGE CONTROL.

That’s a good thing, compared to what it was. It means WE’RE WINNING. Slowly, painfully, and at great cost, but we’re beating these bastards back.

REVEL in the coast-down, brothers and sisters.

https://youtu.be/3xOkF0PtsTE
“YOUR LAPTOPS ARE *GROUNDED*!!! ok not really.” “SIR!!!”

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Vaccine Passports Are a Gift to Patriots

I’m just gonna keep this short. Vaccine Passports are going to create a rebellion like you’ve never seen. They’re the best enemy overreach since Obama made the mistake of including “Bibles” with “guns” in his “bitter clingers” statement.

Here I am – a recoveree – science NOW on my side PERSONALLY to keep my natural immunity – science IN THE FUTURE (if it were honest) on my side to take a risk and KEEP me as a CONTROL going forward, even though I’d probably tolerate the vaccine no problems – even idiot-build Moderna 1.0……

…..meaning I’m volunteering to catch “in the wild” version COVID-25 just to make the science better…..

……and yet the statists, dumb as oxen, just keep pushing the forced vaccination stupidity.

Because it’s not about the disease. It’a about control.

Just keep overreachin’, guys. I never thought they’d set me up to win SCIENCE MINDS.

And yet HERE we are…..


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Treating SARS-CoV-2 as Flying Snakebite Solves Most Mysteries of the Disease and the Vaccines

I’m just being cute there. Here is a better title, probably acceptable to many scientific journals.

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Analogies to Components of Crotalid Snake Venoms and Application to Treatment of COVID-19 and Vaccine Adverse Effects

The first title is so very “Q Tree”. The second is more like Wolf in his former life. The word “analogies” is pushing it, editorially, but that can be played properly in the body of the paper, baiting in a reviewer-pleasing disclaimer on limiting the extent of the comparison, and all is good.

I’m not sure when I first realized that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (hereafter “SP”) bore a remarkable resemblance to hemotoxic snake venoms, but I am thinking it was after I realized that the preponderance of vaccine side effects in the clinical trials were either hematological, cardiovascular, similar to the disease itself, or all of the above.

Analogies are frequently crap, and they’re never perfect BECAUSE they’re analogies, but they’re still the best beater screwdrivers ever to start fixing stuff in Scienceville. When Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell saved millions of elderly lives from Chinese/Deep State duplicity by a limited but very useful comparison of COVID-19 hypoxia to high-altitude sickness, and realized we were doing vents seriously wrong and killing people, God smiled, wept, and said “The fallacy of fallacy – this guy gets it.”

What follows isn’t anywhere near that good, but it gave me an opportunity to retweet Doc Cameron’s angelic post in a form Twitter and YouTube can never take down.

The idea that side-effects of the C19 vaccines might be similar to the disease itself is just baseline reasoning. The main active vaccine component of ALL of the vaccines for COVID-19 is either a stabilized spike protein (SSP), or the genetic instructions thereof (in mRNA or DNA). SSP is basically SP with a very few amino acids or corresponding genetic sequences replaced to make the SSP molecule hold its shape in the most immunizing form reminiscent of SP. This is done because natural SP changes shape drastically upon interaction with cellular receptors to which it attaches, This vaccine-undesirable behavior assists virus entry, and also suppresses the opportunity to gain immunity by antibodies reacting to the “normal” unchanged form. Evolution. Beautiful stuff. GOD-MODE reality. Antibodies react to the CHANGED form instead, and become fairly useless. Life gets Lagrangian, and we’re in the pipe, 5:5.

Once you realize how “out of the pipe” that movie really is, you start seeing some really interesting curves. But what the heck, it’s Good Friday. It’s all good.

Back to the story. Snakes and all.

Wikipedia denigrates (or more charitably overlooks) a guy named Bill Haast to obscurity as a proponent/explorer of mitrhidatism, which bluntly means the near-if-not-actual fallacy of taking poison to gain immunity to it, but in my opinion Haast was really one of the first people to explore in a serious way not only the general mithridatism-vaccination continuum, but even more specifically the fact that small molecules don’t provide enough mathematical possibility for organisms to beat poisoning (yet – wink), but proteins do, and thus life as a multi-faceted thing which makes and breaks protein poisoning as a tactic, can bargain and negotiate back to the beautiful place where it works for all beasts, great or small.

Come again?

Sure.

Bill Haast was injecting himself with snake venoms, which don’t contain fluoride, strychnine, tetrodotoxin, dioxin, cocaine, meth, lead, osmium tetroxide, or a lot of other small-molecule poisons, but DO contain, as their most interesting and active components, PROTEINS, which do in fact lend themselves to mithridatism – whoops – I meant vaccination.

Proteins which do things remarkably similar to the SPIKE PROTEIN of SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Once you see this, almost every aspect of reality underlying Branch Covidianism can be explained logically, which I find wonderfully ironic, coming from a Branch Qvidian who actually believes in God as a useful tool of deep protoscience, because a universe that gunpoints everybody toward where Moses went on TRUTH without guns – oh, man – what a ride. I’ll take more Top Macguffin with my popcorn, please!

I’ve pontificated intermittently and increasingly on the utility of looking at spike protein through the snake venom looking glass, which is not meant to keep people from vaccinating, but rather to show people how some of the most useful scientists – like Bill Haast and some guy named Faraday – are a deep part of the beauty, and if your child out there is some little girl who likes snakes and spiders, don’t change her sex – just LET HER. Science doesn’t have to be neat. It just has to be RIGHT.

I will include a few links to those pontifications as I find them, but here is one for starters.

How AstraZeneca Vaccine Problems May Be Soluble Using Antibody Treatments

Maybe I won’t find the other links. Why? I’m going to throw a freebie to the “natsec” people I just burned. If instead of “going after” QAnons and other “extremists” you did something incredibly useful, and got all Bob Massie and SciFinder on the future of populist good, you might do more good than harm.


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Did Fauxi and Birx Hide Beta Coronavirus Prevalence and Diagnostic Cross-Over in Antibody Tests, and Non-Infective Coronavirus Genetic Incorporation, To Assist PCR-Based Fragment Fraud?

I think it’s time to ask.

One of the biggest mysteries / non-mysteries of this whole COVID thing has been the seeming disappearance of ACTUAL INFLUENZA from epidemiological statistics, as well as the prior 4 weak beta coronaviruses, almost all being not just displaced, but REPLACED by COVID-19.

There are “good” explanations for this, but to be frank, they support the Branch Covidian narrative a little too much for my tastes. Have a listen. This dude is WAAAAAAY SOOOOTHING to listen to.

You gettin’ that same vibe?

The fact is, viruses DO COMPETE, and that competition activates our defenses, making the competition even more severe, so one virus DOES help protect you from the next. But that doesn’t make ALL the funny business I’m seeing go away.

Now, it’s a bit ironic that this guy’s same reasoning about interferons from one infection preventing others – which also happens during vaccination (as taught to me by Dr. Shiva), is EXACTLY why you should never get two vaccines at the same time, in my careful opinion, because I get the feeling that this dude would check the PC position on multi-vax before assuring us that “Medicine Knows Best(TM)” and “don’t worry about multiple vaccines – your vaccines have all been tested and are found to be safe, blah, blah, blah.”

But there is something that even more fundamentally bothers me about his explanation. Viral interference only works by something ACTUALLY infecting people, who then become protected against THAT virus and OTHER THINGS. The only non-infected people who are protected beyond that, are protected by herd immunity.

Stated differently, if there are enough infections with COVID-19 in the population to STOP THE FLU (that’s how it works – RIIIIIGHT?) then surely there must be enough infections with COVID-19 to be preventing COVID-19 itself from finding new hosts by that same mathematical protection, too – RIIIIIGHT? Which is herd immunity. That should be showing up BIGLY.

But we’re not at COVID-19 herd immunity yet. And yet FLU doesn’t seem to be standing a chance.

You seein’ that? This is, quite bluntly, “weird kinetics”. Something very fishy about this excuse. I’m not exactly buying it – especially when the “kinetics” of faulty testing seem to explain things better, as we will see.

I am buying that SOME viral interference is likely going on, but his whole reassuring spiel just seems a bit too pat. Certain meters are just pegging out, and they’re not the good meters.

If you read the comments on this video, there is evidence that (1) many places are no longer even testing for flu, which very much supports where I’m going, but (2) supposedly, in some that HAVE tested for both COVID and flu, influenza has basically disappeared.

Sure, the absolute MESS that CDC created in both testing and statistics is not making me trust all the numbers, so let’s just say that viral interference is VERY LIKELY. But is it responsible for everything?

I have even thought – and I simply CANNOT dismiss this hypothesis – that maybe – just MAYBE – the flu vaccine was working a LOT better than these people were letting on, but that the argument in Branch Covidian clerical circles was “We can’t let off on the mantras of MOAR COMPLIANCE, or we’ll lose ground.”

What this would have meant is that ACTUAL endemic levels of influenza are far lower than we the public thought, because the CDC was pushing for vaccine compliance at levels that would solve flu at its frequently epidemic levels. Combine a different bug grabbing the golden epidemic ring with people still taking their flu shots for epidemic influenza levels, and influenza was just beaten down silly.

Which is viral interference PLUS flu vaccination “over-compliance” – basically vaccination that was actually working as a public health response, even with MANY people not taking it, but no, they have to always lie to us about things NOT working to get more compliance. Flu vaccine “failure because of YOU” is the white guilt of public health. Now coronavirus vaccine “failure because of YOU” is the Christian guilt to go with it.

Bastards. It’s not about solving the problem. It’s about CONTROL.

But it gets WORSE.

Enter TWO very interesting phenomena that were EXPOSED and oddly not anticipated.


(a) Antibody Testing Yahooism and Crossover from Other Coronaviruses

One of the things that really bothered me about American antibody testing was that the CDC loaded those numbers into normal infected “cases”. They didn’t count antibody positives as a separate kind of case, which would have made sense. They actually added them to regular infection case numbers, along with the numbers from the (already bad) PCR test.

But it got worse. We couldn’t even trust the antibody tests to give us good numbers on COVID-19, because once they arrived, there was a disclaimer that they might – or as was verified later WERE – picking up antibodies from prior infections with OTHER, NON-COVID-19, coronaviruses.

Holy CRAP.

And then, of course, this gets worse because we later learn that people are over-cooking PCR tests everywhere, trying to get bigger COVID numbers, or just because they never calibrated their machines.

Science! Yeah – it really works WHEN YOU ACTUALLY DO IT.

When you fake it? Not so much.

(b) Benign but Test-Significant Genetic Incorporation of SARS-CoV-2 and Possibly Other Coronaviruses

I have a VERY hard time believing that Anthony Fauci didn’t KNOW “coronavirus fragment replay from genetic incorporation” was either a FACT, or at least a possibility. OK – I’ll be more blunt. I think he KNEW, and kept it as an ACE IN THE HOLE.

Now I could explain this one very quickly, too, but I think people need the full monty here, because we have been having a lot of debates on genetic incorporation, and this is a point that is hotly debated with Branch Covidians. So I’m going to take this one very slowly. You may learn something.

One of the most “fun facts” – I thought – was the idea that our genomes, and the genomes of most life on this planet, seem to be literally chock full of VIRAL TRASH, accumulated over eons. It’s almost like that principle that everybody has royalty SOMEWHERE in their family tree, except it would be more like double digit percentages of royalty. I mean, “WHUUUUUUT? You KIDDING me?”

So just keep that in mind as we go forward. There is viral TRASH filling up our genomes. It must have gotten there somehow. I’ll bet it was VIRUSES!

“VIRUSES DID WHUUUUT?”

So – I walk into this whole COVID thing, and the very first vaccine that gets into the news, I go digging on it, and it not only turns out to be a “Bill Gates vaccine” [HINT – almost ALL the top vaccines have Bill Gates funding] – it turns out it’s a DNA vaccine.

Yup. Those little circles are DNA.

So I’m just a stupid outsider with too much knowledge to keep from asking stupidly annoying questions, so I ask one, like “well, if these are genetic vaccines, which are supposed to have all the “genetic advantages” of viruses as genetic vectors, what happens if they actually DO act like viruses and leave JUNK?

It’s NOT an unreasonable question, and this not only gives me an opportunity to explain WHY – it gives me a opportunity to deal with multiple types of annoying propaganda very quickly.

The first vaccines (as we know them) were ACTUALLY VIRUSES. That’s why they’re called “vaccines“, and vaccination is called “vaccination” – because it started with infection with cowpox, which eventually “gained function” (meaning mutations that make a virus “better” at something) to become the vaccinia virus. [This is disregarding the likely fact that part of that gain of function may have been humans foisting a sequence quantum jump to the very similar horsepox, already a natural GOF.] So in a WAY, we treated smallpox with one of the very first “DNA vaccines” [MASSIVE QUOTES] – that being an actual live virus.

Let me drill down on that a bit.

Viruses are just DNA or RNA in a protein wrapper which is coded for by the DNA or RNA, along with any other proteins useful in the HACK that viruses are.

THUS, any vaccine which uses “live” RNA or DNA which THEN creates protein antigens which prompt your immunity, is essentially (but not precisely, in the way we ACTUALLY talk about them) an RNA or DNA vaccine. If it’s weakened or dead virus, and it’s only the PROTEIN of the shell of the virus that’s activating your immunity, then it’s NOT “in essence” an RNA or DNA vaccine.

Let me say this in another way that is more direct in dealing with certain propaganda.

It is kinda silly (to me) to say that mRNA vaccines and DNA vaccines are not vaccines, because of the genetic angle, when they actually get back to the principles of the ORIGINAL vaccines, which used the DNA or RNA of a live or attenuated virus to CREATE ANTIGEN.

I’m basically saying that not only do mRNA and DNA vaccines fit the very general and beautiful MODERN CDC definition of a vaccine – they very closely hew to the OLDEST definition of a vaccine from GEORGE WASHINGTON’S TIME – thanks to the dependence on mRNA or DNA.

I mean, DAYUM – the history of science is SO FREAKIN’ COOL. Stuff just COMES BACK INTO FASHION.

It was only later, when we used dead viruses, or synthetic recombinant proteins and glycoproteins from the viruses, that we actually GOT AWAY from using vaccines that relied on DNA or RNA, and were INSTEAD using the final protein itself.

Now if you want to go on saying “mRNA and DNA vaccines are not vaccines – they’re gene therapy” – I will make you one final offer of compromise – could we agree that they’re BOTH? Because if you can agree to that, you’re going to love an upcoming section of this post.

OK – I’m done with that point for now.

ANYWAY, what I found in this COVID thing, is that NOBODY in Big Pharma or Big Vaccines (like Bill Gates) really wanted to talk about the genetic aspects of these vaccines. There are multiple reasons, some obvious, some not. The genetic stuff is simply controversial.

And THAT is useful, if you don’t want people talking about it FOR OTHER REASONS – like making a scam work.

Now I was talking to Duchess, Grandma, Cthulhu and Scott, about Fauci, in the comments HERE, when Cthulhu said THIS:

“The thing is, this isn’t Fauci’s first rodeo. He spectacularly failed during the AIDS crisis, forever calling for vaccines that never happened — and pooh-poohing therapeutics, thereby sentencing many thousands to a miserable death.

And then Scott said THIS:

“What if he’s not ‘failing’ at all?
What if he is accomplishing exactly what he intends to accomplish, it’s just not what you think he’s trying to accomplish?”

To which I responed like THIS:

“Yeah, that is the key. You nailed it. Fauci likely had his eyes on a vaccine that could be given to everybody, which would allow gene therapy to commence.
OMG, that’s it. You solved the crime! 
THIS PAPER gives away the game!!!”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1.full

I urge you to read that whole section, starting HERE.

Now – my speculation right there, on Fauci’s motive being gene therapy, is just pure speculation, since I don’t yet even have any idea what KIND of vaccine he was interested in for AIDS, but I think that gene therapy is at least PART of the motive of almost everybody in the Big Pharma push for COVID-19 vaccines right now. This is not a hard bet. Wait for the next section of this post.

Short version – a good SCAM to force gene therapy on society targets the “red up arrow” “special” feedback to DNA in the following image, doing so accidentally, which both HIV and (apparently) coronavirus(es) do.

LOL. Why, what a coincidence.

However, more relevant to the question of this section, RE the “fragment fraud”, is the idea that Fauci has now shown TWICE an extreme interest in vaccines for viruses which incorporate to some significant extent into the genome. This means that a person infected with them, is basically STUCK as a positive test, if you scam things properly using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This isn’t the same motive as genetic therapy, but it COULD be a bonus.

SO….. was PCR identified as an abusable all along? Hold my wine, I’m getting Kary Mullis on the science-radar-love phone without resorting to dark means (meaning I did a great web search and found this real treat for you). Kary always said it WAS being abused. And while I suggested a maybe kinda “well, at least try this” fix for that on these pages a while back, I imagine I was far from the first to suggest it.

OK – let’s back up AGAIN. In my response to Scott, I cited THIS paper, submitted December 14, 2020.


SARS-CoV-2 RNA reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome

Summary

Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding and recurrence of PCR-positive tests have been widely reported in patients after recovery, yet these patients most commonly are non-infectious114. Here we investigated the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 RNAs can be reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome and that transcription of the integrated sequences might account for PCR-positive tests. In support of this hypothesis, we found chimeric transcripts consisting of viral fused to cellular sequences in published data sets of SARS-CoV-2 infected cultured cells and primary cells of patients, consistent with the transcription of viral sequences integrated into the genome. To experimentally corroborate the possibility of viral retro-integration, we describe evidence that SARS-CoV-2 RNAs can be reverse transcribed in human cells by reverse transcriptase (RT) from LINE-1 elements or by HIV-1 RT, and that these DNA sequences can be integrated into the cell genome and subsequently be transcribed. Human endogenous LINE-1 expression was induced upon SARS-CoV-2 infection or by cytokine exposure in cultured cells, suggesting a molecular mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 retro-integration in patients. This novel feature of SARS-CoV-2 infection may explain why patients can continue to produce viral RNA after recovery and suggests a new aspect of RNA virus replication.


This paper is showing that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is incorporating into the genetics of people, and it potentially explains why some people shed test-triggering virus protein and/or protein FRAGMENTS for a long time.

And remember – this could be happening for very mild cases, because those same mild cases are giving lasting immunity.

But what is so cool about this work is how politically incorrect that science was at the time, and still is, precisely because the TRUTH might be ammunition for the antivaxxers! HA. What scientific WEAKLINGS. Follow that link above to the paper, or to a Science article discussing it, and you will see – there were Branch Covidian clergy already thinking there needed to be an Inquisition, and maybe suppression of this work which might lead people into error. Oh, Ann Coulter was so right – it’s a RELIGION.

So – how does this ALL come together? Let’s replay the title of this section, to bring all the pieces together.

Did Fauxi and Birx Hide Beta Coronavirus Prevalence and Diagnostic Cross-Over in Antibody Tests, and Non-Infective Coronavirus Genetic Incorporation, To Assist PCR-Based Fragment Fraud?

The pieces of the scam are:

  • lots of pre-COVID coronaviruses – more than people realize
  • influenza baseline being effectively beaten down by “hidden” vaccine over-compliance
  • early release of COVID-19 which was denied by the media, WHO and the CDC
  • cross-over in testing by (maybe) influenza and/or (mostly) pre-COVID coronaviruses
  • counting antibody tests as actual cases NOW
  • COVID-19 definitely engaging in “fragment genetic incorporation”
  • other coronaviruses likely doing the same
  • PCR tests being run at default cycles
  • PCR tests being run at too many cycles “to be safe”
  • PCR tests for COVID-19 being run either FIRST or EXCLUSIVELY
  • PCR tests picking up recoverees shedding fragments in an accelerating curve
  • antibody tests picking up other coronaviruses and recoverees b/c fragments

If you look at this honestly, the whole thing is TIPPED to giving too high of numbers, and the only thing that will get good numbers is scientific discipline, pushing back AWAY from a positive diagnosis. One has to talk BACK to borderline diagnosis and say NO.

The PROBLEM with that is that FEAR pushes people to ERR on the side of CAUTION and say MAYBE or YES – this is a case – resulting in borderline tests being run for extra PCR cycles, or cycle settings being WAY too high, or people just calling it a case to be safe.

The psychology sabotaged this thing from the beginning. And I think people KNEW THIS.

And yet, they clearly didn’t have HIGH ENOUGH numbers to guarantee removal of Trump (the obvious objective), so CUOMO and his henchmen and henchladies conspired to push the numbers even HIGHER in nursing homes.

WHATEVER.

The real point is this. The TESTING PARADIGM was FLAWED, and people who knew better did NOT try to get accurate numbers by pushing back on known defects or risks in the testing – they tried to get BIGGER numbers by PRETENDING they didn’t know.

Yeah.

Democrats. Like Fauci and Birx.


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No Matter What One Calls The COVID-19 Vaccines, mRNA and DNA Vaccines are Now an Open Gateway to Gene Therapy and Genetic Modification

This is where I come out of the closet on transhumanism. Bluntly, I’m not TOTALLY opposed to ideas of advancing technology. I just think we have to be HONEST and RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE in letting technology advance.

There is a continuum on “trans”, with transbutchery on one end, and transfiguration on the other end, but I refuse to call everything in the middle “bad”, because God implements in the real world, and building the Kingdom of Heaven means HERE and NOW.

Yup. I listened to too many radio preachers. I spoke to too many Christians and Jews and Buddhists on the opposite end of the world and everywhere in between, thanks to technology. MAXWELL and FARADAY helped save my ass. And TESLA says there’s MOAR, and it can be a GOOD THING.

One of the things I did at the beginning of this COVID ride, when I saw that everybody was HIDING the fact that we were rolling out genetic vaccines with minimal disclosure on the genetic part, clearly as a way of keeping the anti-vax response from going off the charts too soon, was to challenge everybody on Twitter with rather neutral mini-disclosures, as well as polls that would help everybody ‘fess up to reality. On the one side, it’s important to “ease out” the truth, but on the other side, it’s just important to get the truth out AT ALL.

So I got GREAT responses on my various polls including (1) would you take a BILL GATES VACCINE and (2) would you take a TRUMP VACCINE, with TRUST turning out to be a big thing – up to a point. But what people may not have noticed, was my craftily mixing in there, as much as I could, the more real ideas of mRNA and DNA vaccines.

Now I’m rightfully leery of mRNA and DNA vaccines simply as an honest scientist who knows MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE in the past, and now is no time for that to stop, in our much more finite universe than some that are possible. Yes, it’s a small risk, given the larger truth that…..

old-school vaccines that use live viruses, are *literal* DNA and RNA vaccines, if you get right down to it

……but the smaller truth is, even the Moderna scientists pre-quibbled on their own mRNA technology, with jazz hands aloft, saying as obscurely as they could, in one of their first vaccine papers, “BUH BUH BUH we warned you on long-range side effects as unknowns”, which are still a small but real risk, and that risk being IN ADDITION TO any dishonesty in Big Pharma, which of course NEVER happens.

Yup. Nobody can ever beat Scott467’s point that dishonesty by the industry AUTOMATICALLY JUSTIFIES vaccine refusal. Sorry – it just DOES. I don’t want to say YOU DAMN IDIOTS, but YOU DAMN IDIOTS.

But here is my new freebie to avoid the next debacle:

We’re CONTROLS, you idiots

Yup. Science needs controls. Vaccine refusers ARE CONTROLS – totally voluntary – fully informed – and just imagine if somebody smart came out and back-talked the idiot media and said:

“We will need controls – we’re good with the people who don’t want to vaccinate – they’ll help”

And when Blubbering Acosta and Sneering Welker push back in outraged tones, that person might say:

“Look, vaccine technology is accelerating – and it has to, and will, no matter what. Mistakes will be made along the way, but honesty fixes them as soon as possible. Keeping technology adoption voluntary is one of the single most important and best absolutes we can adhere to, as a nation and as a planet, for a bright future – just like free speech, just like independent science, just like respecting religious freedom – that can help us steer straight and not miss the mark. The press needs to stop being SCOLDS if they want to win back the hearts and minds they lost through helping their favorite party and candidates politicize science.”

Then, just let chattering, argumentative, toes-bouncing-on-fancy-chairs, press stupidity prove itself right there.

See? THAT is how to deal with advancing tech. VOLUNTARILY and HONESTLY.


OK, I really will get back to the subject.

How do I KNOW that they’re irreversibly gatewaying from these genetic vaccines to gene therapy and genetic modification (hereafter “genvac”, “genvax”, “genther”, “genmod” and the like)?

TWO WAYS.

(1) CRISPR-based vaccines – which are straight-up genvax by genmod – are waiting EXCITEDLY in the wings.

(2) The Bidenoids at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) couldn’t wait for the COVID-19 bodies to cool, before they started getting a serious Bidenish jones for GenVac‘s sexy sister GenTher and her crew of transhuman beauties.

And yeah – them Bidenoids are getting CRISPR and CRISPRER.

Let’s start with CRISPR-based vaccines.

LINK: https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/19/crispr-might-work-when-vaccines-fail/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/8QtlZ

If you see CRISPR or CRISPR-Cas9 (explanatory infographic below) cited anywhere NEAR a vaccine, then you are talking actual, straight-up, genetic modificationGENMOD – and anybody who is denying that is LYING. (Yes, sabotaged CRISPR-Cas9 can be used for gene BLOCKING – see later.)

CRISPR – and any other future tools like it – are used to splice genes. Remember that old term, “gene-splicing”, that seems to have disappeared for some reason?

Yeah – that is where we are.

If you read this article, you will see that, in early 2019, gene-splicing vaccines were NOT that far away, and were being openly tested on animals. YOU KNOW they had already been tested on humans, but – hey – you can’t say it, even though you know it’s true.

So where does Chemical & Engineering News figure into this?

C&EN was basically taken over by climate commies in the first stage of subversion of American science to the climate agenda and eventually “Demmunism”. Journalists! From there, it only got worse. As one can expect, during the Trump administration, every single issue was a protest against the Trump presidency. Worse still, during COVID insanity, cubic miles of water were carried for the COVID commies and the ChiNazis, to whom the American Chemical Society seems somehow eternally indebted, just like everybody else in science.

Scientists are such chumps.

But when Joe Biden “won”, C&EN had an orgasm, and THAT issue is a beauty.

Water-carrying in this issue includes (and I go into self-discrediting territory here to make a TIP to the right people):

  • justify top-down government control of science
  • bring back those ChiCom and other student spies
  • double-down on Earth abiotic life boot-up to distract from [COUGH]
  • COVID, COVID, COVID!
  • back-handed shill for Indian dependence on China for chemicals
  • Black Chemists Matter! (They do, but damn it, can you be less obvious?)
  • We love Joe Biden and President Harris!
  • Military must be “greener”!!!
  • VARIANTS! (But still, this is excellent reporting.)
  • MOAR COVID!
  • Pollutant cooling overstated, so GLOBAL WARMING IS BACK!!!
  • Neutral article on drug reshoring (I’m impressed!)
  • Biden HFC Treaty!
  • Biden scientific integrity guidelines ordered! (you may puke now)
  • Biden reviews everything about EPA! Hooray!
  • Massive fraudulent scientific paper bust! (Chinese authors not mentioned, of course)
  • [Black] Communities push for say in environmental regulations!
  • Will Biden and Harris outlaw common pesticide on the ropes? Please? Hooray!
  • Biden-Harris cabinet love-fest! (two page celebratory spread)
  • Tariff relief! Hooray!
  • More EPA regulations needed!
  • You can become an advocate!
  • [and the list goes on…..]

BUT HERE IS THE IMPORTANT ONE….

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINSTRATION
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Get ready for gene-edited pigs and other animals

LINK: https://cen.acs.org/policy/Biden-and-Harris-look-to-restore-science-to-US-governance/99/i4#Get-ready-for-gene-edited-pigs-and-other-animals

This was the warning shot, right here. It was the LAST item in the “Biden-Harris Love-Fest”, but it is clearly what’s for dinner.

BIDEN-APPROVED GENE-EDITING IS COMING. That’s the message.

But what follows, interestingly, is a bit different.

What’s interesting here is that this food animal genmod stuff was being SHIFTED from FDA to USDA, and this shift was being pushed by the TRUMP administration and Sonny Perdue, against the wishes of FDA. So it may not be what it appears to be, and the TITLE here may amount to some AOC lipstick on some pork that the Bidenistas don’t actually like.

It seems to have something to do with the meat market and keeping up with other nations. Could that mean China? Complicated business. Do I trust Sonny Perdue? Yes. Do I trust Trump? Yes. Whatever they did here, I trust, but I’d love to know the deep story. Maybe Gail has some insight here.


GENTHER doesn’t make an appearance until the March issues, but DEEP LIFEMOD gets a shocker cover on the very next issue, if you know what to look for.

The message here is two layers. The ostensible top layer is pretty much like what Kary Mullis intended with PCR – in this case, “let’s use ribosomes to make stuff!” That isn’t a particularly scary message – that’s pretty much what any kind of agriculture is – we’re just taking control of it down at the ribosome to “extend things”. But the hidden message layer is just as sneaky and cunning as what they DID with Kary’s baby – to abuse it for “outcome-controllable” diagnosis and even politics, in evicting Trump.

“Retooling the ribosome” is what you do to create life that’s – well – different. Want to increase the alphabet of life? To go from the planet-portable ASCII of our current amino acids and nucleic acids to EXTENDED ASCII – and maybe even someday UNICODE? This is the key step.

We are KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. And you can’t do nothin’ about it.

That is the psychological message of this issue of C&EN.

So – even though this is nothing explicit – nothing to be worried about right now – perfect demonstration of the difference between me and Dr. Carrie Madeij on how we’re reacting to transhumanism – I still agree with her that we need to WAKE UP on these topics, where others are going with careless abandon, thanks to DOMINION voting systems and their knowingly, intentionally bad security choices.

Let’s compare the deception here to climate change.

One of the problems with what I call phony anthropolitical global warming is that “solving” it doesn’t really solve OUR immediate problem of ice ages and intermittent dangerous global cooling (the reality), but it DOES solve a future problem of long-term SOLAR warming on this planet. Whether that’s OUR problem or “somebody else’s”, it’s not a problem NOW. Thus, it seems that the problem of global warming is duplicitously framed.

Even if the deception is beneficial as in – people with billions of years of planetary experience think an ice age now is helpful against the background of eventual heat death – the societal costs of the LIES are adding up.

Likewise, I feel that the push to advance genetic modification of humans is duplicitously framed. The phony pandemic – the push to GENVAX – the denial of hydroxychloroquine – it all STINKS.

Back to C&EN.

In the March 1, 2021 issue, there is coverage of an mRNA drug company, Orna Therapeutics, being launched with an 80 million dollar war chest – which is a buck for every year of Nancy Pelosi’s life, per MTG. This venture is being spun off of MIT research.

Orna launches for circular mRNA drugs

LINK: https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-discovery/Orna-Therapeutics-launches-80-million/99/i7

It is explicitly stated that this mRNA therapeutics venture is going forward because of the success of the SCAMDEMIC vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. And who is investing in Orna? A whole bunch of drug companies, including Gilead, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Novartis.

TOLDJASO.

Big Pharma GOT RID OF TRUMP and forced a human experiment on all of humanity, while using leftist politics to force buy-in by as many people as possible. WE CAN SEE IT.

Just because they could do it, does not make it right. SHAME on them all, including the CHEERLEADERS at Chemical & Engineering News. SHAME.

Now, jump forward to the March 15, 2021 issue, and we tie this all together with CRISPR.

Gene therapy relieves pain in mice
CRISPR-based method could treat chronic pain

LINK: https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/gene-therapy/Twist-CRISPR-alters-gene-expression/99/i9

What scientists at Navega Therapeutics did here was actually very cool – they used a BAD version of CRISPR-Cas9 which doesn’t properly snip the gene for a pain receptor, but instead PARKS there and blocks it, to prevent pain in mice. They didn’t do “gene splicing” – they did “gene blocking”. They used adenoviral vectors – kinda like the Johnson+Johnson and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines – to “send in the clowns”. AND IT WORKED. As an independent pain researcher said of the whole thing, “super-exciting paper”.

This is pure research, and it’s actually very cool, and even morally acceptable to people who don’t believe in gene tampering per se but – yeah – it’s all moving forward because they know they can use it on people because of the SCAMDEMIC. The next stop on this one is NON-HUMAN PRIMATES.


Bottom line: Gene therapy is here – it’s coming to your doc soon – and you can’t stop it. Not only that – if you resist too much, they will launch a phony sociobiological event to try to MAKE you take whatever they want.

Welcome to “The Biden-Harris administration – How the new leaders aim to restore science to US governance”, as stated on the February 1, 2021 cover of Chemical & Engineering News.

It’s going to be an interesting ride, no matter what.


Conclusions

I could end on that SOUR NOTE of Branch Covidian and ChiNazi end-zone dancing at COVID-19 half-time. We could all remain AT their game, which is really IN their game. We could run out for CRISPR doughnuts and GMO Pork Sausage and come back to our socially distant seats for the Cuban National Anthem and the “accidental” wardrobe malfunctions.

Or we could get up, walk out, embrace a life which truly respects nature, the universe, and TRUTH ITSELF. We could read some books and magazines, gain awareness of what is happening, and TAKE CONTROL OF THE WHOLE DAMN STADIUM from afar. Maybe not right away, but sooner than we think.

I believe that others have gone where we are now, and sympathize with our plight. Likewise, I believe that higher powers serve THE LORD, and in doing so, will not abandon us to the Evil One.

Freedom, independence, justice and TRUTH are all worth fighting for – and we are NOT ALONE in wanting them.

No matter WHAT you think of any of this technology, or the vaccines…..

I AM WITH YOU.

If I would defend your right to SAY anything, would I not defend your right to LIVE as you wish?

COUNT ON IT.

We will bring SANITY and MORALITY back to this country, and we will do it sooner than many think.

W

CCP: The Hidden Tax On Chinese Money That Always Comes Due

I have been warning people about “taking money from China” for a long, long, long time, but I finally realized that this warning is best expressed in exactly the same TEMPTATION that China uses.

MONEY.

Here is the truth, expressed in MONEY.

All. Chinese. Money. Comes with a string attached. A TAX. And that TAX is WHATEVER THE CCP WANTS TO TAKE.

It’s as if there is a TAX on any profits you make in China, and that tax is GREATER – always – than the profits you were promised, more so the lesser profits you will actually GET, if you are LUCKY. You will have to get that tax money from OTHER PEOPLE. By cheating your customers, by losing your reputation, by helping create a Chinese competitor who will use YOUR intellectual property.

SOMEHOW you will pay.

You CANNOT get past this. China doesn’t ASK – it TAKES. And if you refuse, they take something else.

This tax is not something that goes away. It’s not something you can cheat BETTER than the CCP to get a leg up on them.

The ONLY way to WIN is to NOT PLAY.

Take, for example, the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Remember when the CoC was regarded by almost all people as a LEGITIMATE VOICE OF CONCERN whenever they WERE in fact “concerned”? Remember when people worried about what the Chamber of Commerce said, rather than thinking “OK – the Chamber of Chinese Commerce In America is against it – so it’s good – right?”

And I am NOT alone on this any more.


https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/20/will-the-gop-finally-turn-from-the-chamber-of-commerce/


The thing that REALLY clued me into the power of Chinese money to OWN people, was the way that HOLLYWOOD was essentially lost to China.

Who does THAT? Who suckers HOLLYWOOD? Man alive, talk about GIFTED! That is criminal genius!

I have covered Hollywood and the CCP before, and that picture is not pretty.

A short bibliography on Hollywood, caught between the Scylla of China-backed cultural Marxists here in America, and the Charybdis of Chinese CCP-taxed investment money – a WHIRLPOOL of destruction where all bucks flow to CHINA.


Caballywood

I’m going to make a list of four important points about Hollywood – (which was to a large extent ideologically molded by communist RUSSIA, and is now significantly owned by communist CHINA, although being uniquely developed by AMERICAN communists) – and elaborate on those four points for your interest. Remember – this is from the …


Why I Believe That Chinese Communism is Raping Western Symbols And Must Be Punished by Tariffs on Hollywood Investments

It was the MOMENT that I realized that we are dealing with DEGRADATION of Western symbols…. That we are being forced to DEGRADE THEM OURSELVES…. That it is being done using RACIAL REVENGE as a psychological subtext…. And it was ALSO being done using SEXUAL REVENGE as a psychological subtext…. That REVENGE is a form …


Why I Believe That Chinese Communism is Fomenting Civil War in America and Must Be Punished by Tariffs on Hollywood Investments

Perhaps you remember my last column on Chinese Communism’s insidious cultural attack on America through Hollywood. If not, then here it is for your background consideration: Why I Believe That Chinese Communism is Raping Western Symbols And Must Be Punished by Tariffs on Hollywood Investments It was the MOMENT that I realized that we are dealing …


HATE PORN – The Most Evil Weapon in the Arsenal of Hollywood’s Cultural Marxists

Do you remember the movies “Walking Tall” and “Billy Jack”?  Do you also remember the hundreds of “me too” movies…


Ultimately, it sometimes seems like TRUMP is the only person who has a CLUE how to play hardball in a game where the CCP actually plays hardball, but will let everybody else pretend it’s softball all day long.

That is how the CCP’s overwhelming, smiling, lying, SOFT POWER works.

It is VERY instructive to look at all the victims of the CCP, and simply say “maybe I’ll do something other than what they did.”

Hollywood not only cannot contradict China – it can’t even TALK about China, except in approved ways. Worse still, Hollywood has to accept “instruction” from idiotic cultural radicals in America, who are BACKED by China, and who would be CRUSHED in China, but who force Hollywood to contradict AMERICA, insuring Hollywood’s alienation from its core market, until – yeah – who does Hollywood serve?


However, if you REALLY want to see the TAX extracted by China, look no further than CHINA JOE and his weak, pathetic, demoralized, mind-controlled administration.

You’ve seen the news – the DRESSING DOWN that Biden’s State Department nebbish received from China.


Complete Foreign Policy Disaster in Alaska During U.S-China Summit – Secretary Blinken Destroyed by His own Arrogance, Had to Recall Journalists to Hear Talking Points After Initial Public Statements

To say the first major diplomatic summit between the United States and China was an unmitigated mess would be an understatement.  Apparently U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken thought it would be of value for the domestic audience if he was to lambast the Beijing delegation in public and on camera.  His efforts were a complete fail as the Chinese knew everything was presented for domestic consumption… so, the Red Dragon threw fire right back onto the purple hair and obviously stunned an unsettled U.S. Secretary.


This is NOTHING. This isn’t even the BEGINNING of the TAX that the Biden administration will pay to China for its little Dominion hoax to make sure that the little Democrats got their little White House.

CHINA. SCORED. BIGLY.

The Democrats were almost over a barrel with the GOP and Trump.

Now, the Democrats are completely over a barrel – NAKED – with China in control.

To understand where we are at, it’s very helpful to take an hour and enjoy some “Fake Entertainment” from Hollywood, when it was on a “demoralization” kick, and one of the later incarnations of “The Outer Limits” was making a fairly prophetic statement, in a 1996 episode about tyrannical geopolitics dressed up as science fiction, called “The Deprogrammers“.

I warn you – even the demoralization-loving LEFT thinks this episode is depressing. Watch at your own risk.

The Mao Jackets – the sullen workers – the haughty and oppressive aliens living in luxury over the masses – it’s all there except – OH WAIT – yes – COVID-19, or at least the aftermath, even makes a cameo appearance!

There is a line at about 56:00 minutes into the show that is straight out of the China Virus. The word “jollem” is a disparaging term for humans, who are all slaves to the aliens.

“Jollem aren’t allowed to touch anybody! EVER!”

Yeah. That is EXACTLY where we are at. One would almost think the people behind this show had a direct line to the future to plant this stuff.

Or maybe the predictive programming knew exactly what it needed to get us used to – I don’t know – for some weird reason that maybe we discover eventually.

The Outer Limits S02E16 The Deprogrammers from Abraham Hickey on Vimeo.

Now – we don’t HAVE to live like this. We can talk back to it.

Start small. You don’t have to BOMB CHINA yourself.

Come to the aid of the next victim of the COVIDIAN ALIENS.

https://twitter.com/LightTruthpaper/status/1374110712373592068

Yeah. Even Israel. Americans, Israelis, and Chinese.

JOLLEM. We’re all JOLLEM to the CCP.

W

Dear KMAG: 20201113 Open Topic / The Glitch Ain't a Glitch / Theory of Trump's Treason Tweet / Two Swigs of Moonshine / What's at Stake / Get Thee to a March or Rally


Free speech, yada, yada, yada. But don’t give Komrade Kamala any excuses to shut us down. This has been addressed elsewhere. Such as HERE:

TERMS OF SERVICE: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/

YOU KNOW THE DRILL.

Give them nothing but one more day to rue, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Remain LEGAL, generally CIVIL, and possibly even GENTEEL.


A reminder:

I will not live under CHICOM TRAITORS.


Today we have FIVE SHORT LESSONS in politically incorrect WOLFTHINK.



The Glitch Ain’t a Glitch

Zuckertreason. Read all about it.

LINK: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/09/most-of-bidens-221000-vote-margin-gain-in-georgia-in-3-counties-that-received-15-million-from-zuckerberg-funded-safe-elections-project/

We need to understand that “Muh Russia” – the idea that paltry Russian ad buys had any effect in “subverting” our elections on Facebook – is literally NOTHING next to Mark Chinaberg’s “Muh China” problem. Chinese money for advertisement of Chinese products into America is HUGE.

Where does that money go? FACEBOOK. What does Facebook spend it on? SUBVERTING ELECTIONS.

Trust me – Muh China is HUGE and NASTY and – yeah – very deniable. They’re just making HUGE ad money from SOMEBODY and spending it to subvert our elections.

Keep an eye on the Xuckster’s “Muh China” problem.

Now – let’s dig into “The Glitch”!

MUH GLITCH GIRL!

It turns out that the great Tony Heller of “real climate science” is also a super-hard-core computer guy, having worked on historic hardware and software.

He says they are LYING – it’s NOT a glitch.

Computers don’t make mistakes. Attempts to blame election fraud on “computer glitches” are not credible.

Tony Heller

It’s a FEATURE, not a bug. It may be DESIGNED to look like a bug, but it’s not a bug.

Yes, we’re all familiar with computer bugs, but most people don’t truly understand how computers work. Computer bugs are NOT because the computer did something wrong. They are because the computer did everything RIGHT, and we gave it conflicting, backfiring, and poorly thought out orders. There is no computer error. Not really. There is HUMAN PROGRAMMING ERROR.

It is not only possible but actually very easy to HIDE INTENTIONAL DECEIT in those human “errors”.

This is the level of evil we are up against.

EVIL SOFTWARE.

LIES TOLD THROUGH SOFTWARE.

So just how evil is a stolen election – stolen through software?

Just how evil are MANY stolen elections, world-wide, to keep a compromised party – the communist party – in “infiltration, not invasion” mode?

Could it be…..


Theory of Trump’s Treason Tweet

I have a new theory of Trump’s “Treason Tweet”.

I had always felt that Trump’s tweet saying “TREASON?” was NOT about what it was supposed to be about.

The tweet was posted around the time of the “Anonymous” letter to the editor of the New York Times – the author of which turned out to be a short-time Chief of Staff to DHS head Kirstjen Nielsen, not actually a person in the White House, not actually a top person in the administration. Worse still, the guy was fired for [OTHER] cause – poor performance – shortly thereafter. Worse still, he had only recently gotten the position.

No, it was not Mike Pence (and I feel stupider for just repeating that one).

No, it was not [FILL IN THE BLANK]. If you will recall, proposed authors included practically everybody, especially General Kelly.

That is how BADLY this thing was overplayed by the Times – and how badly everybody else was played. They really had us going.

Q was accused of LARPing. This toadie actually WAS LARPing.

Yeah, that kind of hubris is bad, but it creates a bigger mystery.

In my opinion, Trump – who said they knew who the “Anonymous” letter-writer actually was – would NEVER have tweeted even lower-case “treason” about some anonymous bit player writing a screed that was picked up by the already treasonous New York Times. There was never any reason, just on the face of the letter, to believe that the “Anonymous” author was even a high-level staffer, much less an official.

SO – REALLY?

Trump writing “TREASON” because he was spooked by a bad “dramatic squirrel” letter?

NOPE. Not buyin’ it.

So when I realized that the “treason tweet” was back around the same time as other things…..

Just read it.

Text version:

THEORY.

This tweet was about THIS ELECTION and the failed attempt to plausibly oust Trump.

This tweet was exactly 1 week before the 09/12/2018 Executive Order which takes down anything and anybody related to the current CHINA ELECTORAL COUP, whether or not you include China’s biological release. That executive order was typical Trump genius. It appeared to be politically pressured CYA on “Muh Russia” for the 2018 election, based on the 2016 election strategy against Trump, when in fact it was designed to bring down everybody associated with the China Cheat Coup.

Note that Trump did very little about voter fraud after the 2018 midterm election, which followed shortly after the EO. Based on that experience, and counting on a short period of time and TOTAL big media control (including Paul Ryan at Fox News) to cover the downside, the Coupists were “all in” and confident for 2020.

Trump tweets always age well. He would not waste an all-caps “TREASON” on some dildo anonymously making larpy claims of “MUH RESIST”. Methinks he spoke of real treason, like we’re seeing now.

https://gab.com/WOLFM00N/posts/105189700488481353

If you want further context from around that time – to understand that people on the left (who never actually investigated “covfefe”, by the way) were far too quick to assume what the tweet was about, just look at the rotten HuffPo for grins.

LINK: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-treason-tweet_n_5b908131e4b0162f4729ab82

Nope. I think Trump was pulling a “gotcha” on the treasonous crowd who framed him, investigated him, impeached him, and otherwise made both his life and America’s life hell.

Trump let his enemies think that he was “rounding off in the dark” on Anonymous, when in fact he was making sure that his enemies THOUGHT that he was actually rattled by a poison pen letter.

Exactly one week before he delivered the executive order that would catch them in bed with CHINA, but needed to look “reactive” to accusations on RUSSIA.

I keep telling people – the guy is a VSG.


Two Swigs of Moonshine

Speaking of VSGs, I know that many people find Political Moonshine to be a very astute observer of all things political, much in the way of people like Sundance.

Well, here are TWO articles I think are very worth reading, to understand the current situation:


Enemies of the American People

Which entity determines the election result and the president-elect? Is it the collective entity of the states, the electoral college and the processes of the federal government all as underpinned by the U.S. Constitution and election laws or is it the mainstream media?

Which entity is currently determining the election result and the president-elect? Is it the collective entity of the states, the electoral college and the processes of the federal government all as underpinned by the U.S. Constitution and election laws or is it the mainstream media?

Those are rhetorical but critically important questions; the answers to which have the Republic hanging in the balance and caught between good and evil.

The answers to which demonstrate that a sizable portion of Americans are unable to discern reality from their programming and simply because they believe the mainstream media to be either legitimate, in which case they have been properly and fully propagandized; or it’s because they are afraid to challenge their own conventions, in which case they are feeble-minded; or it’s because it easily and conveniently fits their virtuous but deeply flawed belief system, in which case the ends justify the means; or it’s because of some other explanation that matters not.

So, why is the MSM projecting itself forward so forcefully and circumventing electoral conventions? Why did they deliver Joe Biden to the American public with a result drowning in a sea of fraud in an election that saw the President win an historic 71 million votes?

Again, rhetorical questions.

https://politicalmoonshine.com/2020/11/08/enemies-of-the-american-people/

This is a strong indictment of the role of the mainstream media and CHINA in our current state of affairs. For those who can only see the shadowy OWNERS [or so those “dragon owners” may think, bwahaha] of China – the CABAL – as being the root of the problem, I urge a bit of patience here.

Apex-hunting is NEVER profitable in untangling conspiracies, and I urge you to resist it. Conspiracies evolve as a form of negotiation, be those conspiracies alliance, opposition, coincident interest, or mutually desired outcomes. All sides manipulate each other, and apex-dependent explanations will blind you to much of the story. Worse still, you cannot fight either a proximate enemy or a more distant manipulating enemy smartly by only looking at either one alone, or by making ASSUMPTIONS about who is calling the shots, much less ALWAYS calling the shots, which is NEVER.

Yes, the Cabal is always there, already a messy alliance of conspirators with both coincident and divergent interests. Keep an eye on it, while you fight the two most lethal close-in enemies BEHIND the Democrats themselves right now: CHINA and the MEDIA. I would throw in Silicon Valley for good measure, but they are basically a part of media now – or trying to become that.

Anyway, the bottom line here is that CHINA and the CHINATIZED MEDIA are both neatly subject to Trump’s EO, designed to nail DEMOCRATS for conspiring with China. Looks like the MEDIA are also nicely subject to it.

Buckle up.

You can take your MASKS OFF when Karen’s not looking.

And now for your second swig of moonshine.


THQUGHTS ON THE STATUS (Q)UO

The status quo is intolerable and excruciating. There is no way around it and despite much deliberate effort to be mindful and not let it dominate life. It’s easier said than done to just let it not bother you constantly when considering the possible outcomes hanging in the balance.

This especially so since it appears as if folks are standing idly by as others are cinching-up the theft of the nation so as to deliver her to China and the CCP; delicately wrapped in a red silk bow and presented on a silver tea tray.

It’s a truly dystopian landscape. And it’s real. Never in my lifetime… eyes down, slow head shake.

Here’s some more perspective to perhaps mitigate the misery. It doesn’t really work well for me and it’s my own work product for crying out loud – it’s a leopards/spots situation; nature of the beast, if you will – but it may work for you.

Here are some thoughts for perspective, but before we go there, let’s take an introductory sidebar with this.

This is how my day got started. This below will be my first post when T_____r lets me out of the doghouse.

https://politicalmoonshine.com/2020/11/09/thqghts-on-the-status-quo/

This post references ANOTHER post by Political Moonshine (hereafter PM) on QAnon, back during impeachment, in which PM claims he was informed by somebody with DIRECT ties to POTUS, on who the person of “Q” actually is.

I am not going to put words in PM‘s mouth, or even state what I think he means. I’m not going to offer any new speculations on who “Q” – meaning the persona who writes for Q team as Q – actually is.

But I will include a graphic from PM’s post which I think is important.

I do know ONE THING FOR SURE from my own research. The identity of Q team personnel is a top priority of the leftists. I believe that even the Mueller fraud included, as part of its mission, an attempt to get “QAnon” information out of people around Trump. So if Esper was (1) following fake news, and (2) interacting with Biden and team without proper suspicion, and (3) getting schmoozed real good, and (4) letting loose the lips, then (5) it’s very likely that he confirmed enemy suspicions.

CHUMP.

I can only speculate on the deepest motivations of the “Q Team”. However, I believe that their primary mission was established long ago – possibly under Eisenhower – and their mandate is STRONG. That mandate is – as Q stated from the beginning – related to Q clearance.

And that leads to my next topic. What is at stake, if China wins this.


What’s at Stake

If you haven’t figured it out by now, this election is about MORE than just whether this nation becomes like CHINA or not. It’s about whether China controls…..

not just our government

not just our military

including our nuclear weapons

and not just our BIBLE, which they will “re-write”

but our VERY LIVES

Down to whether you are LOCKED IN YOUR HOME WEARING A USELESS MASK.

THAT – IS CHINA.

I don’t know about you, but AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE is worth preserving, IMHO.

https://twitter.com/LadyIld/status/1324776325983444994

But here is the thing. We’ve got this. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

https://twitter.com/LadyIld/status/1324800207775764485

If we wait for the TRUTH to come out, there is no way that Biden and CHINA win this thing. NO WAY.

That is why Biden has to pretend like he won, and try to RUSH THINGS to a PHONY WIN.

That is why WEASELS like CHINA JIM Lankford, Puppet Pastor and BETRAYER of Chinese Christians, push for national security information to be given to CHINA JOE.

That is why treasonous John Brennan is openly calling for a COUP against Trump (and why TEAM Q was brilliant to LET THINGS KEEP GOING UNTIL HE DID IT).

The STEAL is REAL.

At all levels.

The FEC recognizes this.

LINK: https://thegoptimes.com/chair-of-the-federal-election-commission-drops-bombshell-announcement/

But all we have to do is TRUST THE PLAN.

That doesn’t mean SIT BACK and TAKE IT.

That means RISE UP and TAKE IT BACK.


Get Thee to a March or Rally

I will try to keep this short.

THIS SATURDAY is pivotal. Saturday, November 14. NOON.

BE THERE.

Not only is there going to be a rally and march at 12 Noon on Saturday in Washington, DC – there are rallies planned NATIONWIDE, including ALL STATE CAPITOLS.

Find yours HERE: https://stopthesteal.us/

It’s TIME to STAND UP.

Bring YOUR VOICE and YOUR CONCERNS.

I went to one of the rallies last week – it was AWESOME. It was spiritually RECHARGING. There was much focus on GOD – it was truly a blessed event.

We vastly outnumbered the small groups of BLM and ANTIFA. It remained peaceful, except that ANTIFA tried to create an incident out on the street nearby, which drew “journalists” and had to be broken up by cops.

The cops are clearly getting orders from above to “squish along” with Democrat pressure groups, like BLM and Antifa, which seem to have a permanent presence near the rally – in sight of boarded-up windows everywhere.

The cops tried to talk us into “hiding” on the side of the building, to prevent conflicts.

NO! One lady patriot REFUSED, and it was the right thing! NO MORE HIDING!

We refused to cede our ground. The tiny BLM and Antifa bullies did NOT move our vastly larger group from the front steps of the Statehouse.

I found it fascinating that there were NO network journalists covering the rally itself, when a MUCH SMALLER rally for Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch in the same place had actually drawn multiple networks. Instead, the Fake News concentrated on Biden supporters across the street, celebrating BIDEN having just called himself “President Elect”.

EXPECT THE SAME MEDIA TRICKS THIS SATURDAY.

Expect China Joe and the FAKE NEWS to try to create DIVERSION NEWS of some kind.

HELL NO, CHINA JOE!

The FAKE NEWS will be there, shilling for BIDEN, and what we need now are CAMERAS ON THE FAKE NEWS, catching them in the act of CREATING THE FAKE NEWS.

Don’t worry – they will NOT win. The Coup will not succeed. The American People will not put up with it.

CHINESE SLAVERY WILL NOT COME HERE.

GOD AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM WILL NOT MOVE FROM THIS LAND.


SO…..

We begin. These are the days we were born to live.

MAKE THE MOST OF THEM.

CALM. STEADY. TO VICTORY.

W