You are always on the ball! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! The rest of my post in a rant. Hopefully, I am not too much of a Debbie Downer!
I just read an article from Steve Kirsch. Actually, two articles from him, and several from the ANA. One of Steve's articles gave a link to Rumble recording a phone call to Bonita Johnson (CDC), from Steve, where he attempted to let her know about the Israeli data. Of course, she cut him off, lalalalalala... And then, an article about how doctors are unable to defend themselves in speaking out. This is a real problem. Doctors are not immune from depression, oppression, board reviews; which are costly and time consuming. The comments reveal people do not understand the corruption in the medical and nursing boards. I, certainly should add the state pharmacy boards are involved! Johnson and Johnson, as well as other 'Big Pharma,' give money to all agencies in governments that they can weave their web of deception and fraud, making the agency involved conflictual relationships. That is how Big Pharma gains power. Ever take a donut from Big Pharma? You're hooked!
Then the ANA sends out emails and wants to brag on Mary Wakefield, the nurse that is going to correct the CDC. Please, let's not hold our breath. Nurse Administrators are just as likely to become intwined in dishonest practices as anyone else. And, on anther front, the ANA is reporting a 47% of people are hospitalized with covid after inoculation. We already know those numbers are much higher because the hospitals are not even asking about 'vaccine status.'
On another topic, which nothing to do with Dr. Malone's article, is about supporting people on Substack. I support Dr. Kory on the FLCCC Alliance website and Dr. Malone on substack. We all have to pick who we can support. Dr. Malone gives extensive information, and keeps us up- to-date well beyond what we hear from our traditional professional newsletters. He is very human and very vulnerable. He always seems to be very humble, patient and just an all around good human being, so that is very much appreciated! The FLCCC Alliance provides services they do not charge people for and ask for donations, to keep them afloat. Those that have spoken out are getting targeted. Please sign up if you afford the time and money and watch the conference from Orlando October 14-16. You can sign up online to go there in person or watch on computer.
In the above article, my take away is that, California is scary! I love California, having that as my birth state, has always been a source of pride! But, let's do what we can to thwart the attempts of the Californication of our whole country. I don't want electrical vehicles without adequate energy back up. I don't want to see old car batteries leaking poison into the earth and water. I don't want to see massive energy blackouts and droughts from bad policy. I don't want to see increased homelessness caused from allowing people into our country we cannot accommodate. Homelessness is caused from all kinds of problems. Dr. Drew has spoken about drug addiction, alcoholism, joblessness, lack of parenting, trafficking, and all kinds of issues.
One more thing: Electricity is not an energy source. It is a delivery mechanism. When you plug in your EV, the energy comes from power plants. Fossil fuel, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, harnessed unicorns.
The analogy is the coal truck. Coal is (stored) energy; the truck is the delivery mechanism.
Cabystander, you are quite right. As an electrical engineer, I am always amazed that people seem to believe that their electricity is magically produced by the wall outlet. There is such a disconnect between the origin (and fragility) of our resources and our delivery of same.
Also an EE. PhD, 1971. Have made my living designing stuff for more than 50 years.
I am convinced that most of our policy makers didn't get a "C" or better in high school physics. Even that is no excuse.
BTW, I spent about ten years on the periphery of wind power. "Small Wind"--a technology completely obliterated by low-cost solar panels. In addition, very few people live in places with harvestable wind resource.
I am a proponent of renewables, to some extent, but have direct personal experience with their limitations.
Right now, we should be pedal to the metal building nuclear power plants. The rest of the world generally is.
The China Syndrome, The Pepsi Syndrome, and incompetent Russian design and maintenance have all scared and biased most people against Nuclear power generation in this country. California is down to only one operating Nuke plant at Diablo Canyon since SoCal Edison and SDG&E decided that San Onofre was not worth the investment to repair vs the regulatory headaches. Dear Leader Newsom is determined to close Diablo when it becomes politically expedient to do so.
All things considered, I doubt that nuclear will be our way out.
I'm going to go stake out my freeway overpass to live under soon.
I guess when you're toaster won't fire up, your values change. Europe may have relaxed their green policies for nuclear out of expedience, but I don't expect the zealots to Mother Gaia in the US to blink.
And therein lies the problem- too many of our fellow citizens are stone cold ignorant. The people of CA (I’m one) cannot make the connection between rolling black outs in CA and the electric car mandates. They seem to think it’ll work itself out. Or, are only too complacent and happy to do with less. They’re not stupid, they’re soft. In body and mind.
Possibly true. The true believers in the green movement are just more socialists, and they use the same logic in green policy as in socialism, that the only reason it hasn't worked is because its never been done "right". They think they'll do it right.
The politicians who support this crap are in it for the power, and so not true believers.
As for the rest, most just believe, based on prior life's experience, that it's all just more noise that won't affect their daily lives. Like frogs in the pot of water, they haven't seen it coming, and that's a comfort to them.
Now they just want to be left alone, but that won't happen. They might wake up if they stop being gullible and naive and get educated,, but it's not a good bet.
Exactly. Many people just don't think in terms of the interaction of systems, both natural and constructed. Decades ago there was a story about a child who was astounded to find out that milk came from cows. Unfortunately, disconnections re: sources persist and are not limited to children.
The most oppressive aspects of the government are unelected and of one mind. Dr. Malone is correct when he refers to the federal government as a UN-I-party. I suggest everyone read Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia ratification convention on June 5, 1788. Our founding fathers should have left the Declaration of Independence as the only founding document. I pray that someday either I or my children taste true liberty.
My concern is that they have pulled out all the stops to cheat and do not care if they get caught. All they have to do is, like the child with cookie crumbs all over his lips - is say, "I dinna eat no cookies."
2000 Mules would suggest they have been caught which points out that when those in control cheat there are no consequences. We are being pushed to the point where some folks start to think the 2nd amendment is the only remedy. That may be just what the progressives are hoping for
Elections are rarely between a good choice and a bad choice, but usually between a bad choice and a worse choice. We have opportunities to improve the choices in the months prior to every election, which most people ignore. Then on election day, we have the opportunity to choose the best of the available options, which many people ignore. So we are always ruled by the people with greater commitment. We only get the government we deserve. Complacent people deserve tyranny.
I think sometimes what we get are the candidates who can spend more, either directly themselves or indirectly, on deceptive or otherwise negative campaign advertising.
They're always legitimate, by definition. They're also always rough around the edges. I worry more about morons casting legal votes than smart criminals stuffing a few ballot boxes. The real problem is a divided electorate, always with evenly split decisions. That's where cheating matters. If it ain't close, they can't cheat. Up to us to convince others to not make it close. Our duties are more than just pulling the occasional handle.
Interestingly, the Declaration also suggests that we have a DUTY to throw off a government that has become destructive of our ability to pursue happiness and the other inalienable rights (Life, Liberty, etc), by altering that government or abolishing it. Now the ironic part. The Declaration also suggests that the duty is clear when there has been a "long train of abuses and usurpations". Unfortunately, one of the usurpations is the decades long replacement of democratic representation with oligarchic rule, including big-money control of the election process and congress. Bad choices and worse choices.
So without the full power of the vote, how do we do our duty and alter or abolish the abusive government?
That's strange! I don't know if Pennsylvania is tied to California like this, but one thing is for sure, I don't remember ever being asked to vote on being allied with California in this regard. And aside from that, this sort of thing is ridiculous anyway. Why would any state, for any reason, obligate its citizens to fall in line with some dictate from another state???
In Maryland most of the Republicans do vote against the insanities, but there are way too few of them (and no one pays them any mind in any case). The last session the vote was for every new home having to have charging capacity (wonder what if one has 2 or more EVs). Don't know if it passed. Martin O'Malley (prior Gov) set us on a course of ever increasing carbon initiatives and increasing costs. The wages of buying in to the scam or ignoring issues.
Reality does not bend to those who feel they can use tools other than logic & reason to make decisions. I predict that over the next 13 years, as Marxists continue to run specific states in the US into the ground, that those states will continue devolving into third-world hellholes, inhabited only by those who are unable to leave or who feel at home in the dysfunction & shared misery. The once proud, productive segments of the population will pack up their gas powered cars and head off to states that still honor the rule of law and are governed by leaders who are all in on the concept of 2 + 2 = 4. The hellholes will slowly and then all of a sudden lose all political influence and will eventually be purchased for 3 cents on the dollar by the productive classes of those areas that commit to low-cost energy independence and investment into actual products & services that improve their citizens' standard of living. As we are seeing with the current Russia/Ukraine/US/Europe dynamic, the lunatic ravings & actions of the neocons and the Marxists has no effect on those who acknowledge reality. It most certainly dooms the citizens who are governed by the lunatics.
At some point, the victims of hellholes find a way to dig themselves out. It has to get pretty hellish to motivate most of them. We're not there yet. We're in a purgatory hole.
Take your point but with some salt. Logic functions as a tool - reason is similar. The establishment of the premises on which they operate is where the troubles and the whole mess starts. Science and modeling fill a gap but we have witnessed the cognitive biases and corruption to which all mortal men are subject. As a right brained human I would also add 😊 — there maybe merit to looking into the wisdom of the heart (“the heart also thinks” and has an electromagnetic power vastly larger than the brain) and our access to higher wisdom via kinesiology which maybe bypasses corruption and bias. Maybe lost your interest on that last bit, but emerging quantum science and acknowledgement of the vast majority share of the universe as dark matter that maybe not subject to known laws (!) ought to give us pause. The problem is settling the premises on how things work together and in what setting and timeline. BUT in the spirit of most friendly agreement with your truth seeking, and hatred of corruption and self aggrandizing bias, I would just add — logic, reason, and audits of outcomes and predictive logic model accuracy… followed by consequences and publication: 🙏
The heart has a lot of "electromagnetic power" but its thinking is just "off" or "on." Not much interesting info there. But our consciousness is certainly greater than the neuronal activity in the brain. Eastern medicine has explored the interactions between brain and the remote functions of the nervous system much longer than western medicine.
Take a look at the work of David Hawkins, MD, PhD on this topic of accessing the universal wisdom with yes/no kinesiology— he developed the uses of this tool in fascinating ways and explored the correspondence between vibration, emotions, mindsets, outcomes in a fascinating series. You might enjoy it. 😊
His interest in quantum biology as a factor in our consciousness seems likely to become more important. A good intro to that in Life On The Edge (McFadden).
Tyranny of the majority can be quite dangerous. But so can tyranny of an autocratic minority. Constant vigilance, and preparation, are the price of freedom.
Franklin said the republic would last until we learned we can vote ourselves money. He probably didn't think it would last this long.
We've been getting daily texts during the heat wave of the past few days, telling us to conserve electricity, or face shutdowns. So, this seems poorly thought out.
Right before C-19, the summer previously, we had rolling blackouts that took out power for millions of people, to prevent the kind of electrical fires that burned Paradise to the ground. It went on for weeks, off and on, and you never really knew if you'd get shut off at any moment. Gas lines were long, generators hard to get, and the whole thing felt like a natural disaster, even though all that had happened was the grid was old and in poor repair.
Let's add 20 or 30 million electric vehicles charging off that grid, shall we?
Is there really no budget money allocated for helping (or at least "encouraging") the power companies to upgrade the power grid? What kind of plan is that?
PG&E is a private body that isn't responsible to the people. They could have updated the grid, but they preferred their profits. When Paradise burned down, the settlements really ate up those profits, so they just waited for fire season and turned the power off when they chose.
Just make sure those bureaucrats are chosen solely for their demographics and not their merit. As long as we have BIPOC or LBGT(all the others) members instead of engineers we'll be fine.
Well, they came and cut all the trees pretty indiscriminately. It was a clear-cut.
There was no interest in being surgical about it, they just went in and cut every tree that could be seen from the power line. It was pretty brutal. They cut ten times more than necessary.
"Proper brush and tree clearance". Yeah, get rid of all the trees, that will solve the problem.
I would have thought that legislators, in one state, ceding the governance of their state to the legislators of another state, would tend to violate the first state's constitution.
Just signed up for Oct 1st ! These people are crazy - but I just read that the new English PM has lifted the ban on fracking and has approved 100 licences for oil research in the North Sea! Hope after all?
The ultimate goal of Agenda 21, of which 2030 is just a milestone along the road, is to have everyone living in urban centers in regions, not states. I guess requiring vehicles that are too expensive for most and inoperable much of the time, will "nudge" people into the city where there will always be public transportation. Pretty maniacally clever. A good book on Agenda 21 is by the late Rosa Koire entitled "Behind the Green Mask"
Cal Native here, that's been in the frontlines trying to put the fire out under the slow boil frog pot.
Californians passed Prop 187 to end handouts to illegal aliens. The usurpers had a lefty judge overturn the will of the people.
Californians passed Prop 208 No Homo Marriage. The usurpers had a lefty judge overturn the will of the people.
The point of restating what many already know? This doesn't happen in a 2/3rds lefty state!
California is not now 2/3rds leftist even with all of those exiting for freedom to other states.
It was the most reliable GOP state for decades. What happened?
The elections started going against the norms, slowly at first. As each town, city, and county got a few more communist types in office, the election results went even more and faster against the norms to the point it defied any sensible rationale.
There has been a direct correlation between the use of VOTE COUNTING machines and cities, counties, and states turning purple then blue. Check it out for yourselves.
At this point the usurper communists in California have made "Ballot Harvesting" (form of vote stuffing) legal to further control the VOTE COUNT for their own power.
Is it necessary to have VOTE COUNTING Machines and BALLOT HARVESTING for any legitimate reason? Of course not! There is no real purpose other than fraud.
The machines gained greater acceptance after FL "Hanging Chad" Bush v Gore dog and pony show.
The VOTE COUNTING MACHINES made it easier to do what had been done before manually, and outright fraud with lying usurper officials, or those that had been compromised.
No voting or VOTE COUNTING machines
Voter ID
In person, traceable ballots,
Everything open and transparent to whomever wants to look at it, all records kept for ten years instead of being hidden then destroyed in 18 months.
More than all this though is: Repent, Read, Pray, and do things HIS Way! That changes everything!
We are not now, and probably never were, a nation of laws, but of political wills. Dems, from the president on down to his bureaucrats aren't interested in following laws. Youngkin should follow that guidance when it benefits the people of Virginia. If we don't want electric vehicles, don't buy them. Economic pressure is the best weapon against irrationality. Money is the great rationalizer.
Perhaps, but how many “useful idiots” embraced lockdowns, masks and vaccination and multiple boosters to feel good about themselves? Way too many to call us a “free country.”
Freedom isn't created by the masses, but by a few. I've seen estimates that only about 10% of the population fought in the Revolutionary War. It was enough.
But. . . But you mean Elon Musk is NOT going to be harnessing free energy from the universe using Nikola Tesla's instruction manual??? ( we have no sarc mark; can we please have a sarcasm emoji??? )
The last few years have taught me the importance of state and local government. While I live in a "progressive" college town which extended mask mandates in 2021, the Governor outlawed all mask mandates so the city rule was unenforceable. Our lockdown was limited - most stores closed less than a month and my church for three months ( three months too long - but another story). There are still plenty of people walking around masked - remember - "progressive" college town but there is a sense the governor watches out for the state's people and is not beholden to an ideology.
OK - I added a table to the end of the article that listed the 17 states and corrected a few typos. Sorry - My mind is elsewhere this morning!
You are always on the ball! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! The rest of my post in a rant. Hopefully, I am not too much of a Debbie Downer!
I just read an article from Steve Kirsch. Actually, two articles from him, and several from the ANA. One of Steve's articles gave a link to Rumble recording a phone call to Bonita Johnson (CDC), from Steve, where he attempted to let her know about the Israeli data. Of course, she cut him off, lalalalalala... And then, an article about how doctors are unable to defend themselves in speaking out. This is a real problem. Doctors are not immune from depression, oppression, board reviews; which are costly and time consuming. The comments reveal people do not understand the corruption in the medical and nursing boards. I, certainly should add the state pharmacy boards are involved! Johnson and Johnson, as well as other 'Big Pharma,' give money to all agencies in governments that they can weave their web of deception and fraud, making the agency involved conflictual relationships. That is how Big Pharma gains power. Ever take a donut from Big Pharma? You're hooked!
Then the ANA sends out emails and wants to brag on Mary Wakefield, the nurse that is going to correct the CDC. Please, let's not hold our breath. Nurse Administrators are just as likely to become intwined in dishonest practices as anyone else. And, on anther front, the ANA is reporting a 47% of people are hospitalized with covid after inoculation. We already know those numbers are much higher because the hospitals are not even asking about 'vaccine status.'
On another topic, which nothing to do with Dr. Malone's article, is about supporting people on Substack. I support Dr. Kory on the FLCCC Alliance website and Dr. Malone on substack. We all have to pick who we can support. Dr. Malone gives extensive information, and keeps us up- to-date well beyond what we hear from our traditional professional newsletters. He is very human and very vulnerable. He always seems to be very humble, patient and just an all around good human being, so that is very much appreciated! The FLCCC Alliance provides services they do not charge people for and ask for donations, to keep them afloat. Those that have spoken out are getting targeted. Please sign up if you afford the time and money and watch the conference from Orlando October 14-16. You can sign up online to go there in person or watch on computer.
In the above article, my take away is that, California is scary! I love California, having that as my birth state, has always been a source of pride! But, let's do what we can to thwart the attempts of the Californication of our whole country. I don't want electrical vehicles without adequate energy back up. I don't want to see old car batteries leaking poison into the earth and water. I don't want to see massive energy blackouts and droughts from bad policy. I don't want to see increased homelessness caused from allowing people into our country we cannot accommodate. Homelessness is caused from all kinds of problems. Dr. Drew has spoken about drug addiction, alcoholism, joblessness, lack of parenting, trafficking, and all kinds of issues.
Only you … you are a diligent doctor and writer.
There is the best idea all morning!
One more thing: Electricity is not an energy source. It is a delivery mechanism. When you plug in your EV, the energy comes from power plants. Fossil fuel, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, harnessed unicorns.
The analogy is the coal truck. Coal is (stored) energy; the truck is the delivery mechanism.
Same (mostly) true for hydrogen.
Cabystander, you are quite right. As an electrical engineer, I am always amazed that people seem to believe that their electricity is magically produced by the wall outlet. There is such a disconnect between the origin (and fragility) of our resources and our delivery of same.
Also an EE. PhD, 1971. Have made my living designing stuff for more than 50 years.
I am convinced that most of our policy makers didn't get a "C" or better in high school physics. Even that is no excuse.
BTW, I spent about ten years on the periphery of wind power. "Small Wind"--a technology completely obliterated by low-cost solar panels. In addition, very few people live in places with harvestable wind resource.
I am a proponent of renewables, to some extent, but have direct personal experience with their limitations.
Right now, we should be pedal to the metal building nuclear power plants. The rest of the world generally is.
I'm with you on this. The 1970s, TMI,
The China Syndrome, The Pepsi Syndrome, and incompetent Russian design and maintenance have all scared and biased most people against Nuclear power generation in this country. California is down to only one operating Nuke plant at Diablo Canyon since SoCal Edison and SDG&E decided that San Onofre was not worth the investment to repair vs the regulatory headaches. Dear Leader Newsom is determined to close Diablo when it becomes politically expedient to do so.
All things considered, I doubt that nuclear will be our way out.
I'm going to go stake out my freeway overpass to live under soon.
I guess when you're toaster won't fire up, your values change. Europe may have relaxed their green policies for nuclear out of expedience, but I don't expect the zealots to Mother Gaia in the US to blink.
Not in Europe
You are correct:
"About 55 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries, notably China, India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates."
Same old same old? Middle East having all the means of producing our energy? Way too funny....
And therein lies the problem- too many of our fellow citizens are stone cold ignorant. The people of CA (I’m one) cannot make the connection between rolling black outs in CA and the electric car mandates. They seem to think it’ll work itself out. Or, are only too complacent and happy to do with less. They’re not stupid, they’re soft. In body and mind.
Possibly true. The true believers in the green movement are just more socialists, and they use the same logic in green policy as in socialism, that the only reason it hasn't worked is because its never been done "right". They think they'll do it right.
The politicians who support this crap are in it for the power, and so not true believers.
As for the rest, most just believe, based on prior life's experience, that it's all just more noise that won't affect their daily lives. Like frogs in the pot of water, they haven't seen it coming, and that's a comfort to them.
Now they just want to be left alone, but that won't happen. They might wake up if they stop being gullible and naive and get educated,, but it's not a good bet.
Exactly. Many people just don't think in terms of the interaction of systems, both natural and constructed. Decades ago there was a story about a child who was astounded to find out that milk came from cows. Unfortunately, disconnections re: sources persist and are not limited to children.
That is quite right. Thank you for translating my subconscious for me.
Let's see what happens on the midterm vote in a few months. If there isn't a red wave, then electric cars will be the least of our problems.
The most oppressive aspects of the government are unelected and of one mind. Dr. Malone is correct when he refers to the federal government as a UN-I-party. I suggest everyone read Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia ratification convention on June 5, 1788. Our founding fathers should have left the Declaration of Independence as the only founding document. I pray that someday either I or my children taste true liberty.
My concern is that they have pulled out all the stops to cheat and do not care if they get caught. All they have to do is, like the child with cookie crumbs all over his lips - is say, "I dinna eat no cookies."
2000 Mules would suggest they have been caught which points out that when those in control cheat there are no consequences. We are being pushed to the point where some folks start to think the 2nd amendment is the only remedy. That may be just what the progressives are hoping for
Elections are rarely between a good choice and a bad choice, but usually between a bad choice and a worse choice. We have opportunities to improve the choices in the months prior to every election, which most people ignore. Then on election day, we have the opportunity to choose the best of the available options, which many people ignore. So we are always ruled by the people with greater commitment. We only get the government we deserve. Complacent people deserve tyranny.
I think sometimes what we get are the candidates who can spend more, either directly themselves or indirectly, on deceptive or otherwise negative campaign advertising.
Their spending only influences those who lack the commitment to learn the truth. That's a lot of people, of course, but they deserve what they get.
Unfortunately, we also get what they deserve.
So true. I've been voting since 1968 and I can count on on hand the times I voted for someone. I usually have to vote against someone.
I did once. Voted for Goldwater in 1964
True, assuming the elections themselves are legitimate.
Remember these words on this subject: "If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it."
They're always legitimate, by definition. They're also always rough around the edges. I worry more about morons casting legal votes than smart criminals stuffing a few ballot boxes. The real problem is a divided electorate, always with evenly split decisions. That's where cheating matters. If it ain't close, they can't cheat. Up to us to convince others to not make it close. Our duties are more than just pulling the occasional handle.
I always say: voting is not enough. Get involved, donate money, tell your friends. But just voting is not enough.
They do, but darn it we (involved and active) get punished too!
The Declaration didn't promise us happiness, just pursuit of happiness. Winning always requires work.
Interestingly, the Declaration also suggests that we have a DUTY to throw off a government that has become destructive of our ability to pursue happiness and the other inalienable rights (Life, Liberty, etc), by altering that government or abolishing it. Now the ironic part. The Declaration also suggests that the duty is clear when there has been a "long train of abuses and usurpations". Unfortunately, one of the usurpations is the decades long replacement of democratic representation with oligarchic rule, including big-money control of the election process and congress. Bad choices and worse choices.
So without the full power of the vote, how do we do our duty and alter or abolish the abusive government?
We do have the power of the vote. We also have the power to convince others to vote. One vote never matters. Enough votes matters.
"Poli- Ticks"
Many blood sucking parasites!
That's strange! I don't know if Pennsylvania is tied to California like this, but one thing is for sure, I don't remember ever being asked to vote on being allied with California in this regard. And aside from that, this sort of thing is ridiculous anyway. Why would any state, for any reason, obligate its citizens to fall in line with some dictate from another state???
Not strange at all. It's routine, actually. How entrenched did CRT get to be in schools before parents knew it was going on?
Lefty progressives making laws out of public view. If anyone points out what they're doing, they deny it. And the media is complicit.
While so-called Republicans stay quiet about it. Don't want to be thought of as bad sports.
In Maryland most of the Republicans do vote against the insanities, but there are way too few of them (and no one pays them any mind in any case). The last session the vote was for every new home having to have charging capacity (wonder what if one has 2 or more EVs). Don't know if it passed. Martin O'Malley (prior Gov) set us on a course of ever increasing carbon initiatives and increasing costs. The wages of buying in to the scam or ignoring issues.
We don't vote on most things government does. We vote for the people who vote on those things, then we ignore them. Ignoring them invites mischief.
Reality does not bend to those who feel they can use tools other than logic & reason to make decisions. I predict that over the next 13 years, as Marxists continue to run specific states in the US into the ground, that those states will continue devolving into third-world hellholes, inhabited only by those who are unable to leave or who feel at home in the dysfunction & shared misery. The once proud, productive segments of the population will pack up their gas powered cars and head off to states that still honor the rule of law and are governed by leaders who are all in on the concept of 2 + 2 = 4. The hellholes will slowly and then all of a sudden lose all political influence and will eventually be purchased for 3 cents on the dollar by the productive classes of those areas that commit to low-cost energy independence and investment into actual products & services that improve their citizens' standard of living. As we are seeing with the current Russia/Ukraine/US/Europe dynamic, the lunatic ravings & actions of the neocons and the Marxists has no effect on those who acknowledge reality. It most certainly dooms the citizens who are governed by the lunatics.
At some point, the victims of hellholes find a way to dig themselves out. It has to get pretty hellish to motivate most of them. We're not there yet. We're in a purgatory hole.
Take your point but with some salt. Logic functions as a tool - reason is similar. The establishment of the premises on which they operate is where the troubles and the whole mess starts. Science and modeling fill a gap but we have witnessed the cognitive biases and corruption to which all mortal men are subject. As a right brained human I would also add 😊 — there maybe merit to looking into the wisdom of the heart (“the heart also thinks” and has an electromagnetic power vastly larger than the brain) and our access to higher wisdom via kinesiology which maybe bypasses corruption and bias. Maybe lost your interest on that last bit, but emerging quantum science and acknowledgement of the vast majority share of the universe as dark matter that maybe not subject to known laws (!) ought to give us pause. The problem is settling the premises on how things work together and in what setting and timeline. BUT in the spirit of most friendly agreement with your truth seeking, and hatred of corruption and self aggrandizing bias, I would just add — logic, reason, and audits of outcomes and predictive logic model accuracy… followed by consequences and publication: 🙏
The heart has a lot of "electromagnetic power" but its thinking is just "off" or "on." Not much interesting info there. But our consciousness is certainly greater than the neuronal activity in the brain. Eastern medicine has explored the interactions between brain and the remote functions of the nervous system much longer than western medicine.
Take a look at the work of David Hawkins, MD, PhD on this topic of accessing the universal wisdom with yes/no kinesiology— he developed the uses of this tool in fascinating ways and explored the correspondence between vibration, emotions, mindsets, outcomes in a fascinating series. You might enjoy it. 😊
His interest in quantum biology as a factor in our consciousness seems likely to become more important. A good intro to that in Life On The Edge (McFadden).
Tyranny of the majority can be quite dangerous. But so can tyranny of an autocratic minority. Constant vigilance, and preparation, are the price of freedom.
Franklin said the republic would last until we learned we can vote ourselves money. He probably didn't think it would last this long.
You can run but you can't hide. They'll catch you eventually.
We've been getting daily texts during the heat wave of the past few days, telling us to conserve electricity, or face shutdowns. So, this seems poorly thought out.
Right before C-19, the summer previously, we had rolling blackouts that took out power for millions of people, to prevent the kind of electrical fires that burned Paradise to the ground. It went on for weeks, off and on, and you never really knew if you'd get shut off at any moment. Gas lines were long, generators hard to get, and the whole thing felt like a natural disaster, even though all that had happened was the grid was old and in poor repair.
Let's add 20 or 30 million electric vehicles charging off that grid, shall we?
Is there really no budget money allocated for helping (or at least "encouraging") the power companies to upgrade the power grid? What kind of plan is that?
PG&E is a private body that isn't responsible to the people. They could have updated the grid, but they preferred their profits. When Paradise burned down, the settlements really ate up those profits, so they just waited for fire season and turned the power off when they chose.
Clearly, having PG&E run by state bureaucrats will make everything better. Works every time.
Just make sure those bureaucrats are chosen solely for their demographics and not their merit. As long as we have BIPOC or LBGT(all the others) members instead of engineers we'll be fine.
We are talking about CA. There are no other criteria that matter. White male heterosexuals need not apply.
Touche! How silly of me to think I even had to point that out.
Why should a public utility be run by a private monopoly?
Do you think that's "capitalism"?
So, having PG&E run by bureaucrats, the breed that runs the DMV, will solve the problem?
If you say so. It's your strawman.
This wheel has already been invented. Find the “best of the best” and copy what they do.
Well then, I would say that's a problem that should be accounted for in any viable plan.
Do you live here?
Well, they came and cut all the trees pretty indiscriminately. It was a clear-cut.
There was no interest in being surgical about it, they just went in and cut every tree that could be seen from the power line. It was pretty brutal. They cut ten times more than necessary.
"Proper brush and tree clearance". Yeah, get rid of all the trees, that will solve the problem.
I can tell by your reply that you think you're better for wherever you live.
Probably a place without many trees.
There are forty million people in California. Care to insult all of them?
You have a lot of opinions for someone who hasn't lived here for fifteen years. Did you read about it in the news?
Gov. Youngkin needs to actively find opponents for and campaign against these legislatures that want Virginia to be ruled by California.
Not me. I live in the free state of Florida. Youngkin is going to do his best to make sure that doesn't happen.
I would have thought that legislators, in one state, ceding the governance of their state to the legislators of another state, would tend to violate the first state's constitution.
Bureaucrats aren't in any Constitution.
Just signed up for Oct 1st ! These people are crazy - but I just read that the new English PM has lifted the ban on fracking and has approved 100 licences for oil research in the North Sea! Hope after all?
But as SHE is also affiliated with the WEF and her policies contradict those of the WEF's, one has to wonder what is going on ......
Yes definitely
Hegelian dialect
The ultimate goal of Agenda 21, of which 2030 is just a milestone along the road, is to have everyone living in urban centers in regions, not states. I guess requiring vehicles that are too expensive for most and inoperable much of the time, will "nudge" people into the city where there will always be public transportation. Pretty maniacally clever. A good book on Agenda 21 is by the late Rosa Koire entitled "Behind the Green Mask"
WE are the carbon they want to reduce, this is the hard truth.
Cal Native here, that's been in the frontlines trying to put the fire out under the slow boil frog pot.
Californians passed Prop 187 to end handouts to illegal aliens. The usurpers had a lefty judge overturn the will of the people.
Californians passed Prop 208 No Homo Marriage. The usurpers had a lefty judge overturn the will of the people.
The point of restating what many already know? This doesn't happen in a 2/3rds lefty state!
California is not now 2/3rds leftist even with all of those exiting for freedom to other states.
It was the most reliable GOP state for decades. What happened?
The elections started going against the norms, slowly at first. As each town, city, and county got a few more communist types in office, the election results went even more and faster against the norms to the point it defied any sensible rationale.
There has been a direct correlation between the use of VOTE COUNTING machines and cities, counties, and states turning purple then blue. Check it out for yourselves.
At this point the usurper communists in California have made "Ballot Harvesting" (form of vote stuffing) legal to further control the VOTE COUNT for their own power.
Is it necessary to have VOTE COUNTING Machines and BALLOT HARVESTING for any legitimate reason? Of course not! There is no real purpose other than fraud.
The machines gained greater acceptance after FL "Hanging Chad" Bush v Gore dog and pony show.
The VOTE COUNTING MACHINES made it easier to do what had been done before manually, and outright fraud with lying usurper officials, or those that had been compromised.
No voting or VOTE COUNTING machines
Voter ID
In person, traceable ballots,
Everything open and transparent to whomever wants to look at it, all records kept for ten years instead of being hidden then destroyed in 18 months.
More than all this though is: Repent, Read, Pray, and do things HIS Way! That changes everything!
You don't lose until you surrender. Lots of surrender in California.
Dr. Malone sending prayers for good thoughts for you and yours.
You’re the best!💛
We are not now, and probably never were, a nation of laws, but of political wills. Dems, from the president on down to his bureaucrats aren't interested in following laws. Youngkin should follow that guidance when it benefits the people of Virginia. If we don't want electric vehicles, don't buy them. Economic pressure is the best weapon against irrationality. Money is the great rationalizer.
Perhaps, but how many “useful idiots” embraced lockdowns, masks and vaccination and multiple boosters to feel good about themselves? Way too many to call us a “free country.”
Freedom isn't created by the masses, but by a few. I've seen estimates that only about 10% of the population fought in the Revolutionary War. It was enough.
Half of the population opposed separation from England
Most of them didn't do anything about it, but complain.
But. . . But you mean Elon Musk is NOT going to be harnessing free energy from the universe using Nikola Tesla's instruction manual??? ( we have no sarc mark; can we please have a sarcasm emoji??? )
Nikola Tesla. Memory Eternal. Vjecna ja Pamjat!!
The last few years have taught me the importance of state and local government. While I live in a "progressive" college town which extended mask mandates in 2021, the Governor outlawed all mask mandates so the city rule was unenforceable. Our lockdown was limited - most stores closed less than a month and my church for three months ( three months too long - but another story). There are still plenty of people walking around masked - remember - "progressive" college town but there is a sense the governor watches out for the state's people and is not beholden to an ideology.