Scattershots – 22apr24 (updated 5may24)

George Rebane

The worldwide climate ruse continues.  Now it’s come out that for years NOAA has been reporting and continues to report bogus temperatures from non-existent “ghost” recording stations.  For its nationally accepted temp data NOAA relies on published reports from the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) that operates the stations.  “NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist. … They are physically gone—but still report data—like magic.”  Anyone who cares to look under the hood of the ongoing climate change hysteria would see countless holes in the reported ‘science’ and the legions of just plain lies broadcast daily about a non-existent catastrophe intended to more firmly establish the control of the elites both nationally and globally.  (more here and here)

“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy,” advised Trump lawyer Todd Blanche. (here) That should be obvious to anyone with even a room-temp IQ – but apparently it is not.  This little item came up about the 2016 election during Trump’s hush money trial.  The entire purpose of election campaigning is the attempt to influence voters to vote for this rather than that; it was ever thus.  But not according to the Democrat pinheads prosecuting the former president.  And while we’re at it, can anyone really make a reasonable case against confidential agreements between private individuals concerning their private relationships that don’t violate any laws and don’t injure third parties?  If Trump reported the hush money payment as a legal expense, then that frequently encountered ‘error’ should be the concern of the IRS and so adjudicated, instead of making it an obviously trumped up felony prosecution.  The only more stupid and vindictive prosecution would involve parties, all of whom were willing and profiting participants, in which no one was harmed.  (Oh yes, Trump has one of those going on also.)

California’s plunge to authoritarian destitution continues.  This morning I had a blood test with a phlebotomist; a very nice young lady, native of Nevada County, loves what she does, and a lifelong happy camper in California.  But now she is moving to Colorado because, as she tells it, even though single, she can no longer afford to live in our socialist state.  Certified phlebotomists in California make $35K-53K a year.  These are hardworking, lower-tier, middle-class people, who constitute part of our ‘makers’, who contribute to the hoard of taxes and fees that the state and its local minions extract from citizens.  It’s been the oft-told story of upper and middle class exodus from the once golden state – they are the job-makers and those trying to build a nest egg for retirement.  We have become blasé about those folks turning tail for greener pastures.  But now the gun-toting government grifters are reaching down to people on the lower economic rungs who remain here trying to build careers.  Even for the Sacramento socialists that is a new low.  I can still hear her plaintive “Would you believe I had to pay $5.46 for a gallon of gas yesterday?!”

[24apr24 update]  Biden had his SecDHS Mayorkas divert congressionally approved border wall construction funds to do environmental studies and mitigation on the harm caused by the already built wall sections, instead of continuing to secure the border.  Meanwhile the SOS (sack of …) kept lying to the public at every chance that the “border is secure” as millions of illegal aliens used their Biden free-pass to invade the country.  (here)

Criminal campaign conspiracies exposed.  David Pecker (yes, that’s his real name), chief exec of American Media, testified that he agreed to publish only good stuff about Trump and bury the bad stuff (‘Catch and Kill’) during the former president’s 2016 campaign.  The hush-money trial prosecutor claims that this was a “criminal conspiracy” designed to influence the election’s outcome.  Well, no sh!t Red Ryder.  Thanks for that epiphany on a practice that the lamestream media has practiced for years using fabricated lies and paid pejorative sources against Trump while backing every leftwing candidate.  Showing media bias for your candidate is only allowed for Democrats, for others today such longstanding campaign practices are considered criminal conspiracies.  (more here and here)

[1may24 update]  Developing: Russia is jamming the heck out of GPS around the Baltic Sea, the Financial Times reported Sunday, citing the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The jamming, which seems to have escalated since December, is so disruptive that two Finnish airliners en route to the Estonian city of Tartu were forced to turn around on Thursday and Friday last week. 

The jamming is also affecting boats in the region, “leading to warnings from the Swedish navy about the safety of shipping,” FT reported. Unnamed experts told the outlet they believe there to be possibly three different sources for the jamming, “with one seemingly based in Kaliningrad, another responsible for the disturbances in Estonia and Finland, and a separate source affecting the far north of Norway and Finland.”

This was sent to me by a longtime friend and correspondent.  It is remarkable that such ongoing aggressive electronic warfare by Putin has not been part of the daily news about the thug’s plans to expand Russia’s control of its near-abroad lands.   NATO, with US leadership, needs to respond; isolationism is not a long-term solution for peace.

The Niagara of evil and dumb Democrat policies keeps washing over the country.  Jason Riley outlines Gavin Newsom’s California idiocies that inevitably go on to infect our land (here and here), and now we hear that Bumblebrain has been sneaking illegal aliens into the country via a taxpayer sponsored airlift directly from their countries of origin.  But the latest is that our excuse for president is also planning on importing America-hating Palestinian Arabs in a program that will guarantee them a fast track to citizenship.  It’s hard to come up with more destructive ideas for our country than those proposed daily by the woke and progressive Democratic left.

[5may24 update] Christian Nationalism – The Left’s new target.  “The label is ‘assigned’ to Americans who believe there is a link between faith and freedom.” (here and here)  It is a historical fact that our Founders forged a specific form of republican democracy that would only endure with a citizenry that is educated and shares a common culture of morality.  At the time (ca 1790s) they thought they were on firm ground with that prescription since the country was in-the-large uniformly Christian.  But even then they had some apprehensions – witness Benjamin Franklin’s “A republic, if you can keep it" response to “What kind of government have you given us Dr Franklin?”.  The last fifty years have clearly demonstrated that in America’s ideologically fragmented multi-cultural society we no longer enjoy such a common morality, and require more and more the presence of laws, regulations, and the government gun in the attempt to keep the peace.

Comments

[scenes]

I had to laugh at the NOAA story. I'll bet it's some software problem that they can't fix, so they just do the next best thing. The guy who knows which punch card in the FORTRAN deck to change died some time ago.

Regarding election influence, it appears to matter what the desired result is. There's no problem to have Democratic Party activists running election departments, DNC hooks into the social media monopolies, huge campaign contributions from DEI-oriented banking and tech corporations, and government-scale money and effort coming in from the UK and Israel to help 'their' candidates.

Plus, after a few years of lawfare, it's pretty obvious that the 'progressives' are not only on a roll, but can't see that they are bending the system to their will. You choice is to either avoid/ignore it all, or bring the same hardness to your game. In California, I can't see that it matters in the long run as either our Robot Overlords will be running matters, and/or the state will switch to Spanish as it's primary language. Any 'victory' by progressives will be fairly short-lived.

[Individual Juan]

“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy,”

Tell that to the Hunter Biden Laptop pinhead contingent.

[fish ole']

Speaking of "Pinhead Contingent"....they seem to have a presence in the Attorney Generals office and the DOJ

"F**king Clown Show": Unsealed Court Docs Reveal Biden DOJ Colluded With National Archives To Target Trump, Jack Smith Tried To Conceal

If you could only see my "shocked face"!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fking-clown-show-unsealed-court-docs-reveal-biden-doj-colluded-national-archives-target

[Scott O]

Hilarious!

"Tell that to the Hunter Biden Laptop pinhead contingent."

This, from the crew that denied the existence of the laptop.

[fish ole']

I see no reason to doubt this claim.....

Bannon Slams ‘Performative’ Jim Jordan, Says House Republicans Secretly Want Trump to Lose

Nearly as much as I imagine as the democrats want Biden to lose!

I don't think anyone wants to be tarred with the crap economy we're likely to see over the next 4 or 5 years!

https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/bannon-slams-performative-jim-jordan-says-house-republicans-secretly-want-trump-to-lose/

[Paul Emery]

fishh ole'

zerohedge is not a credible source because they collaborate with the Russians to spread their propaganda.

Here's an example:

"Washington (AP) -- U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies.
The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/us-accuses-financial-website-of-spreading-russian-propaganda

[Scott O]

I'm sure Jordan thinks the way a lot of conservatives do. Another 4 more years of Biden or whatever sock-puppet they run will put Americans off of the Dems for a long time.
It don't work that way. The left wants the country to run into the ground and so more of the same, please. And the 'moderate' Dems will absolutely refuse to acknowledge the damage their party causes with their good intentions and lavish vote-buying.
Look at how bad things are in CA and the Dems still have an easy time on election day.
The Dems can count on Idiot Juanita and his ilk for votes far into the future no matter what happens.

[fish ole']

Posted by: psul Emery | 23 April 2024 at 12:39 PM

zerohedge is not a credible source because they collaborate with the Russians to spread their propaganda.

Yawn....!

Still can't spell can you? ....and you got to go through the California public schools (I think) when they didn't suck quite so bad!

Anyway Mr. National Propaganda Radio/raw sewage.com spare us any complaints about sources....

#seniledementia

[Scott O]

Paul E - "U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused ..."

Accused.

Well that's the exact same thing as being proven true in a court of law. Because they 'accuse'.
Same crowd that told us Hunters laptop was just Ruskie dis-info. Yessir - extremely trustworthy.

[Gregory]

"The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia".

And then there's the connection between Michael Bloomberg and the Democratic Party

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"And then there's the connection between Michael Bloomberg and the Democratic Party"

The thing to remember is that Bloomberg is goodthinkful while Zero Hedge is badthinkful.

Maybe Zero Hedge is worse because it's mostly an aggregator, so the badthink is second generation. It's doubleplus badthinking.

Things must be mighty slow in Pridetown USA for psul to lean up from his pee-stained BarcaLounger to bitch about Zero Hedge, but that's the nature of the modern world I guess.

As a side note, one of the funniest facts of our age is the repurposing of Russia as a tool for domestic policy from the Right to the Left. Them folks in Eurasia are tricky bastards I guess.

[Gregory]

"for psul to lean up from his pee-stained BarcaLounger to bitch about Zero Hedge"

The trick in one's old age is to get up when you first feel the need to pee. Paul, shame on you. No pissing on the furniture.

[Paul Emery]

What are you talking about Gregory? Just passed on some news from a reliable source.

[Gregory]

Try Depends next time, Paul.

[Gregory]

" zerohedge is not a credible source because they collaborate with the Russians to spread their propaganda."

Punch... where is the evidence ZH "collaborates" with the Russkies?

[Scott O]

"...published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence."

What articles? Links? Notice they don't even try to claim the articles were false.

It's hilarious that the US authorities are mad that the Russians do the same thing that they do with news outlets.

[scenes]

scotto: "It's hilarious that the US authorities are mad that the Russians do the same thing that they do with news outlets."

I had to resume my composure after someone suggested that Bloomberg news is a more reliable source than ZH. I guess that if you swim in the 'progressive' pool you don't notice the water. At least ZH, which is mostly an aggregator, makes it more obvious that it publishes opinion pieces. Bloomberg is opinion pieces masquerading as news, like MSM generally in a clickbait era.

In any case, the amount of attempted US influence on Russian elections since the USSR broke up enormously dwarfs (is there a bigger word than 'enormously'? that's what I'll use if I think of it) Russian influence on the US. At this point, 'RUSSIA' is mostly just a marketing term for ginned-up sign waving. While Putin&Co are not nice guys, I can totally see the outrage in the post-Soviet rape of the place by Western interests and the continuing adventures by NeoConLibs in Eastern Europe over the last couple of decades. It's all your typical outrageous behavior by a hegemon, there's really nothing new here, but peoples' blindness to the situation always surprises me.

Dunno how far the US will take all this as the Rainbow Flag would make a poor photo-op at Mount Suribachi.

[fish ole']

Somebody beat you to your thought.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/07/01/iwo-jima-marines-gay-pride-and-a-photo-adaptation-that-spawns-fury/

[Individual Juan]

“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy,” advised Trump lawyer Todd Blanche"

Blanche will say anything.

Then why were so many pinheads whining about the Mueller Report, the Trump Dossier, Hunter Biden's laptop being withheld?

Maybe Blanche is FOS

Christina Bobb, recently appointed to lead the Election Integrity Committee wing of the RNC was just indicted for Election Subversion

You gotta love the ironic hypocrisy.

The Republican Party is so corrupt they don't even try to hide it any longer.

You cannot make this shit up, lol!

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/

[Scott O]

"Mueller Report, the Trump Dossier, Hunter Biden's laptop being withheld?"

Those involved our tax dollars, actions by the fed govt - not private money.
And they lied about it under oath.
Hunters laptop reveals criminal activity being covered up by the govt.
The Dossier was fraud.
Completely different stuff.
Everything a candidate does influences an election.
But you don't get to cook up a fraud report, have buddies in the FBI use it to lie to a court and try to criminally charge your opponent with it.
Unless you're a Dem and then you can break all the laws you want.

[showmekid]

Gregory on 4/23/2024;
you reminded me of a story. Mel Brooks was on a panel taking questions from the audience and was asked if he wore boxers or briefs. He quickly replied, "Depends." The guy is wonderful and at 97 years old still has his wit about him that has made him great.

[scenes]

Quote o' the day from Caitlin Johnstone, courtesy of Edward Snowden.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1783238665218539874

I'm still holding my sides watching FOUR MORE YEARS...PAUSE. lol. Man, we are so fucked.

[Gregory]

"The worldwide climate ruse continues..."
Yes, it does.

I didn't save the link yesterday, but I saw a vid of President Trump being grilled by journos recently, saying there would be a cooling. No background mentioned.

If he's referencing Dr. Valentina Zharkova's research, he might be jumping the gun but then I think water is wet so who am I to judge?

I'm waiting for a downturn, and will whip out Zharkova when and if the time comes.

Regarding the missing sensors in the network, it's my understanding that generating phantom sensors by averaging temps from decommissioned locations was done not to make phony records... they were just being lazy.