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A couple of posts a week ago at this site on the subject of the enormous storage requirements of a fully wind/solar electricity generation system attracted several commenters who confidently asserted that a fully wind/solar energy generation system will prove cheaper than fossil fuels as soon as it is given a real chance. I invited those commenters to provide their own detailed calculations of how much storage it would take to get a fully wind/solar electric generation system through a year without fossil fuel backup with real-world weather conditions, but so far none of them have taken up my invitation....

One of the things that defines the American people is our passionate belief in fair play. No one should start out with inherent advantages, right? We should all be judged by the "content of our character" and based on our abilities, and let the chips fall where they may. That's why our laws against workplace discrimination were drafted in the first place. We were trying to ensure that every candidate for every position would be assessed as an individual, not based on their demographic profile. Needless to say, the recent decision of the Biden Administration to reserve a specific (and...

Using rate data recently released from the Department of Defense, Jessica Rose computes an under reporting factor (URF) for VAERS for spontaneous abortions is 118. Since there are 3,527 reports of SA in the US in 2021, this represents 416,186 actual events. But a small number of those were not caused by the vaccine, somewhere around 1%.Here’s Jessica’s article on spontaneous abortions (SA) post-vaccination.Using the DMED data, the five-year average was 1,499 codes for miscarriages per year. During the first 10 months of 2021, it was 4,182. So that’s 3.4X the baseline rate (when extended to an annual rate).I’ve notified...

For years, American corporations have given a wink-and-nod to China’s abhorrent human rights violations. They claim to support women’s rights by boycotting states in the U.S. that have pro-life laws, but say nothing about China’s one-child policy which forces Chinese women to have abortions (especially abortions of female babies). Even if they don’t care about the aborted babies, what about their claims that it’s a woman’s right to choose? Hypocrites. These woke corporations claim to support workers’ rights, some even strongly support unions — unless the workers are in China. They always support claims that America is racist — but...

THE UGLINESS OF THE MOB MENTALITY played out in Ottawa on the weekend as the so-called Freedom Convoy of truckers cluttered up the Parliament Hill precinct. Its supporters are complaining about the way the “fake news” mainstream media are reporting the event. They grouse about the protest being referred to as an “anti-vaccine mandate” event, and about the tone of news reports that supposedly don’t reflect the real intent and reality of it. True, no major violence has been reported, but it’s had some outstanding deeds of disrespect. Ottawa police say they’re investigating several incidents for possible criminality.

Joe Rogan, with his staggeringly huge audience, is probably a goldmine for Spotify. Neil Young’s challenge to him was always stupid. But when Spotify agreed to put misinformation labels on Rogan’s work, Rogan didn’t tell them to jump in a lake. He agreed. SNIP I was impressed when Rogan had Dr. Robert Malone and Peter McCullough on his show, both of whom have called out the government’s and media’s vaccine narrative—and rightly so: Leftists claimed that COVID couldn’t possibly have been a manmade virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Not only was that misinformation, we now know Fauci and...

Although the mainstream media is utterly silent about it, something very big has been happening in Canada. Truckers have pushed back against the Canadian government’s mandate that they must show electronic proof of vaccination to enter their own country from America. Canadians are flocking to the trucker’s flag. In a viral video, a woman named Gina, clearly raised in a former communist country, is seen trying to explain to a condescending Canadian reporter what constitutes freedom. SNIP This gets us to the three-minute-long video I mentioned. A reporter in Ottawa talks to a woman named Gina who explains that she...

Poland successfully, nonviolently defeated Marxism, and is a model for defeating Marxism in America today. Poland, faced with the Marxist destruction of their heritage and society, created a heritage and spiritual renewal movement, which led to Solidarity and to the end of communist rule in Poland and subsequently in the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, between 1979 and 1991. For Marxists, the destruction of America’s heritage and society is absolutely necessary. The Communist Manifesto states, “Communism… acts in contradiction to all past historical experience… can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” Therefore, the...

Jan 31, 2022 Saint John Bosco, Priest on Monday of week 4 in Ordinary Time St. John Bosco Church, Makati City, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Samuel 15:13-14,30,16:5-13 ©David flees Absalom and is cursed by ShimeiA messenger came to tell David, ‘The hearts of the men of Israel are now with Absalom.’ So David said to all his officers who were with him in Jerusalem, ‘Let us be off, let us fly, or we shall never escape from Absalom. Leave as quickly as you can...

A woman from Georgia was arrested for allegedly stealing lottery tickets while a convenience store clerk lay dying on the floor. Police said that Lakiesha Deshawn McGhee, 43, was inside of a J&J Dollar Store in Warner Robins when three men burst in demanding money. The men took cash from McGhee and another woman. Then, one of the suspects pulled out a gun and shot the clerk, identified as Sabrina Renee Dollar. After the men left, McGhee called 911. While she was waiting for officers to arrive, she allegedly cut the power to the building's security system and went into...

Notoriously anti-authority film's ending is neutered for Chinese release, in the latest example of Hollywood yielding creative freedom to appease ruling Chinese Communist Party and retain lucrative access to vast film market. Hollywood is remaining largely silent on the cult classic film "Fight Club" getting an entirely different ending for release in China, continuing a years-long pattern of the U.S. film industry appeasing Chinese authorities to maintain lucrative access to China's vast market. However, amid charges of Hollywood "selling out" to China, a tiny number of actors and directors — most recently film star Keanu Reeves — have refused to...

Why I was WRONG about guns! In this video I share why are used to be anti-gun and why I changed my mind to now be pro gun, pro 2A. You can Watch my old anti-gun video in full here: https://youtu.be/MWA0rukqrYQ

On this All Hallows' Eve, a special Halloween look at last week's program - "Hitler's Monsters". The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, and in reality the supernatural was an essential part of the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. Join Eric Kurlander, professor of history at Stetson University and author of Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, for an eye-opening look at the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and...

resident Biden at his first 2022 press conference made a point of saying that Republicans are just blocking his "Build Back Better" agenda. He kept asking, "What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thingthey're for?" Later in his press conference he asked, "Is there any president who has done more in his first year?" Try Donald Trump. He made promises, and he delivered.President Trump made a costly mistake of focusing on the inadequacy of Joe Biden instead of emphasizing what he accomplished and what he would do in his second term. Republicans again are sure that...

Having already established his cowardice by fleeing Ottawa before the arrival of the truck convoy, Justin Trudeau now proves the wisdom of the ancient observation that bullies are often cowards. Rather than address the demand that vaccination mandates for truckers who cross the US border back into Canada be suspended, Trudeau is flipping the bird and escalating, as Hank Berrien reports in the Daily Wire: On Sunday morning, the day after the massive Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, Canada, to protest vaccine mandates that would force unvaccinated Canadian truckers crossing into the United States to quarantine once they’ve returned home,...

As talking heads on cable TV obsessed all weekend over the pending African-American female Supreme Court nominee—once Joe Biden’s handlers reveal to him who she will be—overlooked in the fracas is National Public Radio’s latest taxpayer-funded blunder involving the High Court. In mid-January, NPR Legal Affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reported—incorrectly—that Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor who has diabetes “did not feel safe” while sitting so close to people who were unmasked. Specifically, Tonenberg singled-out Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch who typically is seated near Sotomayor. The NPR veteran added that a “request” had been made for all justices to be masked when...

Transcript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and...

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The face mask debate is unfortunately again rearing its ugly head in many parts of the country, and it’s becoming ever more clear that it will never entirely go away. Even as OMICRON confers some form of natural immunity to large segments of the population before it begins its fade into the sunset, the next sniffle-causing variant will inevitably come along and again compel paranoid hypochondriac leftists to cover their faces and hysterically demand you do so as well. Sadly, manufactured fear over Covid has truly broken so many people who will never, ever be the same. Our side, the...

Republicans in states across the country are pushing bills that would prohibit medical boards from disciplining doctors who promote, prescribe, and distribute unfounded COVID treatments that the Federal Drug Administration has said are ineffective and, in some cases, dangerous. At least 11 state legislatures have introduced bills that limit medical licensing boards from taking action against professionals who prescribe hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. In North Dakota and Tennessee, it’s already the law. Abortion care aside, state legislatures have typically let the medical profession govern itself, leaving licenses to medical boards and professional organizations. But the promotion of unapproved COVID treatments and...