Saturday, December 26, 2020

The way we were-----Pandemic and 1918: How History and Illness Intertwine

Boob-tube-----Fatal Attraction: Support Group - SNL

WHO (Finally) Admits PCR Tests Create False Positives | ZeroHedge

WHO (Finally) Admits PCR Tests Create False Positives | ZeroHedge

  • Warnings concerning high CT value of tests are months too late…so why are they appearing now? The potential explanation is shockingly cynical...

The World Health Organization released a guidance memo on December 14th, warning that high cycle thresholds on PCR tests will result in false positives.

While this information is accurate, it has also been available for months, so we must ask: why are they reporting it now? Is it to make it appear the vaccine works?

...This new WHO memo states that using a high CT value to test for the presence of Sars-Cov-2 will result in false-positive results...Read all!

It may not be EXACTLY the same, but it is not WHOLLY different either.

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It may not be EXACTLY the same, but it is not WHOLLY different either.


Texas DACA Lawsuit Threatens Many Work Permit Giveaways

Texas DACA Lawsuit Threatens Many Work Permit Giveaways

A Texas judge may strike down President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty for roughly 700,000 illegal migrants — and undermine other giveaway programs that allow U.S. employers to keep foreign workers in jobs needed by Americans.

In a December 22 hearing, the pro-migration supporters of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty asked District Judge Andrew Hanen to preserve the award of work permits, regardless of the economic impact on non-college Americans.

Wonky but good explanation of why "simple answers" won't work-----Battery Basics for Climate Warriors

Battery Basics for Climate Warriors
"Got to thinking about...some of the fact ammo climate skeptics here might need if/when Kerry becomes Biden’s climate guru. 
So here is a bit more...fact ammo for the maybe coming renewed climate war.
One of the BIG problems with renewables is their intermittency
Another is their lack of grid inertia. (See my recent guest post on Grid Stability for details.) 
Innumerates like Kerry persistently claim both issues can be/will eventually be overcome by more grid interconnectivity or by better grid battery storage. 
Those hopes/beliefs are almost certainly wrong.
...This hopefully not too technical complementary post explains why their rechargeable grid battery hope is also wrong. It does so in a simplified yet easily researchable way. 
It provides all the key words for anyone seeking deeper grid battery storage understanding.
,,,Two final definitional climate warrior ‘ammo’ reminders
  • First, batteries live in a DC world. 
  • Grids live in an AC world. 
There is always the significant added cost and limited reliability of the necessary high voltage high power DC/AC interfaces...
Second, using batteries to solve renewable grid intermittency is something touted by Elon Musk, and ‘gifted’ by him to South Australia after their 2016 renewable induced disastrous grid blackout. 
But Elon used a simple marketing ‘con’, same as the California flow batteries exposed in essay California Dreaming.
...Elon ‘conned’ South Australia (IMHO to gain free ‘advertising’), and Australia’s MSM never caught on.
Tesla’s Hornsdale, SA facility (below, now expanded by 50%)...can hold up the SA grid for little more than an hour. 
The South Australia blackout duration depended on where you were; metropolitan Adelaide was restored first. Central Adelaide was dark for at least three hours. 
More symbolic hopium that doesn’t work in the real world."

"...if your 911 system can be taken down by an explosion 180 miles away, your 911 system sucks."

Instapundit--if your 911 system can be taken down by an explosion 180 miles away, your 911 system sucks.
HMM: “A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded flights at the city’s airport. 
Authorities said they believe the blast was intentional. .
. . AT&T said the affected building is the central office of a telephone exchange, with network equipment in it.
The blast interrupted service, but the company declined to say how widespread outages were. . .
 . The AT&T outages site showed service issues in middle Tennessee and Kentucky, including Bowling Green about 65 miles (105 kilometers) north of Nashville. 
Several police agencies reported that their 911 systems were down because of the outage, including Murfreesboro and Knox County, home to Knoxville about 180 miles (290 kilometers) east of Nashville. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily halted flights out of Nashville International Airport because of telecommunications issues associated with the explosion.”
This reminds me a bit of the mysterious shot-up substation in Silicon Valley a few years back, like it’s someone trying to demonstrate a capability to monkeywrench things. 
Stay tuned.
Also, if your 911 system can be taken down by an explosion 180 miles away, your 911 system sucks.--
Posted by Glenn Reynolds

Lunch video-----Ep. 2 | Climate Alarmism

Noon-toon


 

Caruzo: In Socialist Venezuela, Coronavirus Christmas Is Just as Bad as All the Others

Caruzo: In Socialist Venezuela, Coronavirus Christmas Is Just as Bad as All the Others

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro decreed a flexibilization of the Chinese Coronavirus quarantine for the whole month of December 2020 to allow Venezuelan citizens to enjoy Christmas, but the ongoing collapse of this country has irreparably damaged people’s ability to partake in Venezuela’s Christmas traditions.

Venezuela braces itself to celebrate yet another modest but bleak Christmas. Its citizens, uncertain of what’ll happen in 2021 with the ongoing political crisis, find themselves battered by a brutal year where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic exacerbated everything already going wrong: the hyperinflation, the blackouts, and the shortages of gasoline, cooking gas, and water.

The way it "works".


 

What happens when we don't trust our governments any more.

Instapundit---What happens when we don't trust our governments any more.

TWITTER THREAD:

Read the whole thing.--Posted by 

Priorities...or pure election theft collusion?


 

Their hate is all consuming-----The New Yorker’s final cover of the year: “In with the New” (Harry Bliss).

The New Yorker’s final cover of the year: “In with the New” (Harry Bliss).


#1 This day 1966-----I'm a Believer - The Monkees

"...So long as men write what they think..."

 

Pure vote payback to their liberal university "supporters". Disgusting waste!


 

Michigan AG threatens sanctions against lawyers who attempted to overturn election - TheBlaze

Michigan AG threatens sanctions against lawyers who attempted to overturn election - TheBlaze

Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel will seek sanctions against attorney Sidney Powell and other lawyers she says made "intentional misrepresentations" in filing lawsuits to challenge the results of the Michigan presidential election.

A a freedom-hating, near-criminal organization.-----The Top 10 Worst UN Actions of 2020 - UN Watch

The Top 10 Worst UN Actions of 2020 - UN Watch

7. UN Elects China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan to Top Human Rights Body

The rights-abusing regimes of China, Cuba, Russia and Pakistan were elected to the UN’s top human rights body, raising the percentage of non-democracies on the UN human rights council from 51% to a staggering 60%.

UN Watch published a report evaluating all of the candidate countries, and filed formal protests at the United Nations—published as official UN documents—against the election of ChinaCubaPakistanRussia, and Saudi Arabia.

UN Watch also organized an online press conference featuring top human rights dissidents who urged UN member states to oppose the candidacies of their oppressors.

UN Watch was quoted by the Associated PressBBC NewsNewsweek and other major media. Even as apologists for UN immorality sought to justify the election of abusers, UN Watch’s viral tweets dominated the global conversation.

AM Fruitcake


 

History for December 26

History for December 26 - On-This-Day.com
Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) 1893- Chinese dictator
  • 1620 - The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
  • 1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
  • 1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed a resolution that set the a fixed-date, the fourth Thursday of November, for the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.
  • 1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
  • 1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.
  • 1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.