Thursday, April 25, 2024

Funny: All Anchors Read from the Same Script

Look at what happens when 6 megacorporations own "the media" AND are in bed with the govt: Fascism!


Prosecutorial Abuse: DA's Can Even Indict a Ham Sandwich

[Doug here: Look at Trump's sham indictments or most any indictments--they can mean literally nothing! Prosecutors use "conspiracy to do this, conspiracy to that" and countless other tricks and threats to force plea bargain and possibly enforce jail time 90% of the time--even though you may be completely innocent!! Trump has the resources to force a trial, while millions of Americans don't. Few can fight big "government" and ITS UNLIMITED RESOURCES!] 

From Martin Armstrong [with comments by Doug in brackets]

Lawyers for decades have said a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich because the system is outright corrupt beyond compare. 

That phrase was first coined by a New York State Judge named Sol Wachtler (born 1930). Wachtler was the former chief judge of New York State who coined that term in a January 1985 interview with the New York Daily News‘ Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi. The relevant portion:

“In a bid to make prosecutors more accountable for their actions, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler has proposed that the state scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments.

Wachtler, who became the state’s top judge earlier this month, said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”

A month later, the New York Times noted that Wachtler believed grand juries “operate more often as the prosecutor’s pawn than the citizen’s shield.” 

The fact that prosecutors can get grand juries to do whatever they want them to do is universal and if this is not seriously changed, we will see massive civil unrest tear the system apart limb for limb.

[Doug here: see excerpts of a Brookings article below entitled “Reforming our prosecutorial system is no longer just a proposition—it is an urgent imperative” which is making the same point that massive reform is necessary. We live in “prison nation” with far more people in prison than in China who has 5 times as many people.]

We now have another Democrat screwing with the 2024 election to ensure they win. Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes manipulated a grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday, indicting 18 Republicans with conspiracy, fraud, and forgery for submitting a document to Congress “falsely” declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona during the 2020 presidential election. She has listed a “prior U.S. president,” presumably referring to President Trump, as an unindicted co-conspirator. Mayes blacked out the names of seven individuals she indicted, saying they would be released once they were served.

Another Rogue, Sleeze Bag Democrat Prosecutor DA Kris Mayes

What is wrong with our legal system is that they can indict anybody for anything. I recommend you read America on Trial by Alan Dershowitz, about all the famous cases that were wrongful prosecutions. You will be shocked at how the government abuses the law all the time.

They are NOT required to tell even the truth to a Grand Jury, and they are NOT required to present ANY contrary evidence. The Supreme Court has WRONGLY held that you have no right to be present at a Grand Jury. You have the right to defend yourself before the jury in court.

What is wrong with it is they can accuse you of murdering your spouse with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, throw you in pretrial detention, keep you there for years, or pay an inmate to kill you all with NO EVIDENCE OF GUILT! You are then indicted, and it is your burden to prove your innocence. Our legal system is so bad that it is frustrating. They have killed people, claiming they murdered someone, and have no body or any evidence.

An  Indictment is an ABUSE OF POWER as it is being used today. In Florida, you have Trump fighting just to get a list of who will testify against him. They provide no notice and consistently seek to present guilt by surprise.

The way indictments are obtained is really a violation of the spirit of DUE PROCESS OF LAW, where a citizen MUST be provided with clear evidence of such a charge – fair notice.

[Doug here: Who’s fighting FOR the defendant?? Who’s gathering evidence for you while you’re in jail? What if you have few friends or little money? Answer: you’re screwed. Maybe defendants have a right to hire a private investigator paid by the State?]

Reforming our prosecutorial system is no longer just a proposition—it is an urgent imperative

From a Brookings Institute Article that is well worth a read. [Doug here: I recommend the entire article, but here’s some of it, my edit:]

Each year, more than 2.3 million felonies and 10 million misdemeanors are handled by over 2,300 individual prosecutor’s offices, but these crucial decisions are largely made outside the watchful eye of the public’s scrutiny. Prosecutors control secret grand jury proceedings, determine who will face prosecution, and decide the specifics of charges. They operate within a labyrinthine legal framework, armed with the threat of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences. This creates strong incentives for defendants to agree to lesser charges, even for crimes they did not commit.

More than 90% of both federal and state court cases are resolved through plea bargaining, sidestepping the courtroom entirely. [Doug here: This means few jury trials and any opportunity for a ‘jury of your peers’ to properly adjudicate your case and consider factors that matter such as prosecutorial misconduct. Heck, everyone should be able to get a trial by jury!] This confluence of autonomy, secrecy, complex laws, and powerful sentencing tools endow prosecutors with enormous leverage, leading critics to question whether this prosecutorial power is wielded too selectively and relentlessly, undermining the right to a fair trial, fostering mass incarceration, and eroding what’s left of the public’s faith in equal justice.

Official misconduct by both police and prosecutors contributed to nearly 60% of exoneration cases since 1989. Such misconduct can adopt many faces: a prosecutor might hide evidence that could absolve the defendant, a practice known as “Brady violations”; they might unduly influence witnesses, pushing them to exaggerate or fabricate testimonies; or they might cross boundaries during the trial by making misleading statements to the jury. Such actions have become commonplace, leading to wrongful convictions and playing a part in approximately 30% of wrongful conviction cases that have led to exoneration. Despite these unsettling figures, only 4% of prosecutors face repercussions for their actions, painting a grim portrait of a system in which misconduct often remains unaddressed.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Fascism is Flourishing Under the "Joe Biden" Regime

Fascism is the unholy alignment of business and government with the purpose of total control. It’s what happens when business’s interests, actions and even enforcement aligns intentionally with only the government views and ideologies. For example, when Google censors people on it’s public platforms for “wrong think” or “wrong speech” it’s doing so in alignment with and on behalf of the government; that is FASCISM. And it does! All these so-called “social media” companies are in bed with the government. That’s fascism! It’s because all these giant companies do enormous amounts of business with the US government and are “in servitude” to them.

This is the face of Fascism today:

It’s also when various Media companies become propaganda outlets and align only with government views and against anything contrary to gov’t views. It’s even when a public company like Budweiser screws-up and promotes bullshit woke-ism or gender fluidity or whatever they were trying to promote. It’s when nearly all media advertisements show about 50% black faces in it’s advertisements, and then portrays these same persons as being only well-off, responsible and mainstream, or shows mixed race couples as normal when they’re most often not any of these things. 

The truth is that US Blacks are only 1/8th the population & they remain a huge burden to this country—many/most living in the “custodial care”of the govt, incl those in prison. But they vote Democrat reliably and will cheat for and vote for the fascists in power; because they're massively dumb. Sorry, but screw them too.

It’s when Bank of America suddenly decides to suddenly freeze Conservative or Christian person’s bank accounts with little or no warning.

Bank of America is clearly doing it to advance the entirely Un-American narratives of our current regime, that is, the Biden Bolsheviks. The Biden Regime has become completely aligned with it’s ‘captured’ big businesses to harass, inconvenience or bankrupt someone just because they are in the opposing political party, have a religious world view that is “unacceptable” to our current regime. Or it’s when Bank of America locks your bank account because you’re a Christian ministry.

This is happening in America today. It’s wrong, it’s unconstitutional, it’s unethical, IT’S WHACKED!

Remember Canadian truckers being “de-banked” for participating in protests. It’s because Canadian banks got a call from the Trudeau “regime” to become enforcers FOR THE regime. That’s FASCISM.

Or when the FBI puts people under watch for use of the words “MAGA” or “Trump” in their private or public communications. Worse it’s when, under the bullshit guise of sedition or conspiracty for the FBI to launch investigations into Catholic persons for just being Catholic. It’s bizarre, out-of-touch and FASCISM and it’s an extraordinary chilling of free speech —and it’s blatantly unconstitutional. It’s when the FBI shows up at your doorstep because you bought 2 guns at a gunshop gun show. That’s intimidation, that’s fascism!

It’s fascism when the IRS or any agency of the government is weaponized against one political party or religious denomination or expression for any reason.

You can imagine that I’m pissed off when I search for the definition of Fascism on Bing and Wikipedia says:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy

Sorry Wikipedia, Fascism today is FAR-LEFT, AUTHORITARIAN AND GOVERNMENTAL AUTOCRACY, THE MILITANT SUPPRESSION OF THE OPPOSITION AND SUBORDINATION OF INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS FOR THE “GOOD” OF OUR LEFTIST REGIME. IT’S WHEN BUSINESS BECOMES FULL-ON PROPAGANDA ORGANS FOR GOVERNMENT.

All of this commentary is prompted by a very good peice from the great Martin Armstrong at Armstrong Economics:

Fifteen attorneys general sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan about his bank’s “troubling financial pattern” of debanking Christians. “Bank of America has a track record of de-banking religious organizations,” the letter states, “

We are especially troubled by Bank of America’s track record of discriminating against religious ministries.” Bank of America has been banishing Christians and Christian organizations from accessing their accounts for years without penalty.

Timothy of Two Project International founder Steve Curtis told Fox News about his experience with Bank of America. His organization trains Christian pastors in 65 countries, and has banked with BOA since 2011. Curtis said that one day in 2020, his card simply declined “out of the blue.” The bank said that his account would be restricted for three weeks before it was deactivated, but the bank failed to cite a reason for the closure. “We had people all over the world,” Curtis told reporters. “We travel a lot and we need these cards in the field. And so, it had the potential to be very disruptive for us,” he continued. The only answer he received was that his Christian organization was “engaged in a type of business that they had chosen not to service.”

Lance Wallnau, a Christian author and preacher, was falsely accused of money laundering and had his account frozen. Indigenous Advance Ministries, a Christian organization that cares for the poverty-stricken people of Uganda, was debanked by Bank of America in April 2023. A church in Memphis that donated to the organization was also debanked. Bank of America simply said that the business operated above the “bank’s risk tolerance” and it took months for the ministries to gain access to their funds.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects American citizens from blatant discrimination based on religion. If a bank were refusing to allow Hindus, Muslims, Jews, or any other religion from accessing their bank accounts, there would be civil unrest on the streets. The west permits the open persecution of Christians because 1) they do not want nations to have a united identiy (i.e. a Christian nation), 2) Christians tend to vote Conservative.

The corruption goes deeper.  “In addition to the bank’s religious account closures and disregard for viewpoint diversity, we are also deeply concerned about recent revelations that Bank of America voluntarily shared its customers’ private financial data with the federal government as part of a wildly overbroad financial surveillance scheme intended to identify domestic terrorists,” the letter reads. The Biden Administration has asked banks to back to them regarding their political adversaries and their supporters.

On March 6, 2024, the House Select SubcommiEee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government found that “the federal government was engaged in broad financial surveillance, prying into the private transactions of American consumers. This surveillance “was not predicated on any specific evidence of particularized criminal conduct and, even worse, it keyed on terms and specific transactions that concerned core political and religious expression protected by the Constitution,”’ the audit found.

Banks were instructed to search transactions for keywords such as “Trump” and “MAGA” to look for “domestic terrorists.” They even asked banks to look for people who had purchased certain books such as religious texts. The federal government announced years ago without hesitation that the right-wing Conservatives are the biggest threat that they face, and they see you as the enemy. The federal government has an ongoing list of “hate groups” that includes Christian organizations simple because they do not agree with the far-left narrative.

This is serious. Banks now have the ability to financially ruin individuals and organizations without just cause, bypassing every protection awarded to us in the Constitution. It is not only legal but encouraged for banks to discriminate against Christians and conservatives.

Imagine how much easier this will be once we move to digital currency under CBDC and the government can see our transactions in real-time, debanking anyone who they feel does not fall in line.

Wells Fargo is also under investigation for similar discriminatory practices. Both are members of the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance that aims to financially jeopardize anyone not adhering to the climate change agenda. Over 144 banks in 44 different countries with total assets of $74 trillion have joined this alliance.

Major banking institutions have been weaponized by the government.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Strong Alert: Armstrong is Looking for the Start of War in May

Martin Armstrong’s private blog is suggesting that the start of a new World War may date from around May 7th, 2024 according to 72 of his computer-based models. That date also happens to coincide with Putin’s inauguration date. It’s a key target for his models.

Putin and Orban both have been warning repeatedly that more NATO troops in the Ukraine (there are already some there and Putin knows it) means the potential for the start of World War III. I guess you can say that it’s already starting. I had links open, but just search in Bing ‘Putin warning of World War III,’ or ‘Orban warning of World War.’

How many warnings does “The West” need?

It doesn’t matter because the plan by Western Governments is WAR with Russia. It’s been “in the works” since the US interference in Ukraine’s election in 2014 where the US (Hillary and Victoria Nuland) “installed” a Pro-EU prime minister instead of the “peace with Russia” candidate. It’s been “in the works” since “The West” has decided not to abide by the Minsk I and II accords and keep attacking Russian speaking persons in the Donbas. It’s also been “in the works” since the West scuttled peace talks with Zelensky and Russia which triggered Russia’s 2022 Special Military Operations. Russia DID NOT START THIS. IT’S ENTIRELY THE FAULT OF ‘THE WEST.’ See The US is to Blame for War in Ukraine from July 2022.

See my post The Blood of Millions of Innocent People Are On the Hands of Hillary, Kristol, Nuland, Obama and All the Insane Neocons That Have Now Hijacked America. I may need to update the post to reflect “the Blood of Billions….” I’m dead serious here.

I’ve written, in January 25, 2023, also from Martin Armstrong, a post entitled Armstrong: Russia Already Preparing for NATO Invasion. Be assured that Russia has revived it’s armament and munitions factories to fight Ukraine and also to take into account this external threat. Now that Putin has won another election by a landslide, he’s ready.

The EU and US don’t even have many munitions—they’ve already squandered them in the Ukraine meat grinder. US defense industries are not making munitions and probably can’t. (I said that the US is a “can’t do” country as nothing works anymore.) Ukraine doesn’t have any more men to send to the frontline as up to 500,000 men and boys have died FOR NOTHING. The US military is focusing on woke bullshit and is led by fools. The US doesn’t even have a Strategic Oil Reserve; it was released by our brain-dead “leadership” in a failed attempt to keep oil prices down.

The entirely ignorant West ignores the many doomsday weapons that Russia has developed. They have a monster submarine(s that has/have nuclear torpedos that could set-off massive tsunamis wiping away coastal cities in their entirety. They also have hypersonic weapons that travel at Mach 15 or more. These multi-warhead hypersonics also have evasive manueuvering upon re-entry to the Earth’s atmosphere to foil counter measures. To this day, “The West” has no answer to the Hypersonic weapons.

I urge you to see Alex Krainer: Russia's Hypersonic Weapons Change Everything; The US Has No Defense Against Them and US Checkmated by Russia and China Hypersonic "Orbital Bombardment" Missiles.

“The West” apparently is entirely ignorant of Russia’s propensity to use Nuclear Weapons in war since Russia doesn’t have the military might to counter all the Western forces (even as emaciated as they are). Their strategy all along is the use of nukes to defend the motherland. We’re really facing an armageddon scenario and quickly.

Armstrong thinks that the first nuclear weapon launched may be detonated in the upper atmosphere or in near-space over the EU and/or the US. This would disable GPS satellites with little radioactive fallout. (I find it unbelievable that I am writing this message.) And Armstrong thinks it all might start in May 2024. I hope that I am not giving away too much of Martin’s private blog. Martin, please forgive me as I only have about 350 followers and derive no revenue from these posts. I suggest readers subscribe to Armstrong Economic's private blog.

This nuclear weapon propensity of Russia may be why Deagal dot com issued it’s forecast for a 70% decrease in population of the EU and US by 2025 in it’s forecast back in 2014. Deagal is a defense weapon intelligence service like Janes and they are aware of Russian capabilities more than anyone else. See Deagal.com Predicts US and EU Population COLLAPSES 70% by 2025. Also Doug Casey on the Shocking 2025 Deagel Forecast.

All this information is holding together very well. It’s very scary actually.

Armstrong also suggests that the warmongering West is desperate to create a distraction from the fact that their “war project” in Ukraine is rapidly falling apart. Ukraine is losing and is near collapse. Unpopular “leaders” in ‘The West’ are also hoping to distract attention their failing and unpopular policies, and to distract from the incessant increases in market interest rates. The US bond markets have been seeing increasing inflation pressure from truly insane and out-of-control US government spending. Bonds are also sensing war— with interest rates rising sharply. We’re witnessing the final looting of America.

Furthermore Martin indicates that the insane Western “leadership” is looking for an excuse to declare Martial Law and force mail-in voting in yet more manipulation of the vote and our populations. Martial law under Dementia Biden and his unknown handlers!? I shudder to think, but here we are. Geez. And it’s all because the Democrats were able to steal the elections in 6 of the battleground states. Remember, Biden in a Freudian slip, said that “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” In dementia veritas. Paging Dr. Freud.

Anyway you look at it, it’s a total nightmare situation. The West Has Already Fallen. We're seeing it unfold.

This is why I’m in Asia my friends. I want to be as far away from The West as I can be.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Melanie Phillips: How conservatism's chickens came home to roost in Gaza

The video below is from Melanie Phillips at Substack 

Here’s her very compelling statements about the Hamas attacks on Israel, how subsequent reactions were made-up and her arguments of how Conservatism has lost it’s way. It’s 24 minutes of powerful brilliance:

I wrote here about the extraordinary attempt by the Brussels authorities to shut down the National Conservatism conference that was held in the Belgian capital last week and in which I was a speaker. The three city mayors involved in this attempted silencing — articulating the received unwisdom of left-wing western commentators too — had decided that the speakers and topics were so dangerous the event had to be stopped. The participants faced them all down and the event went ahead. You can access the presentation I delivered by clicking the arrow below.

See her article about that their ordeal : The Brussels gangster state.


Here, Here Melanie!! She sounds exactly like the great Margaret Thatcher. This is what principled Conservatism sounds like people.

Also see Murray on Hamas’ Philosophy: All Civilians, all Children are Tools of War and Raymond Ibrahim: Europe Welcomes It's Historic Enemy with Open Arms (Idiots!!)

 

“They are EVIL!” Former Democrat Exposes that Party’s WICKED Plans

From the Stephen Gardner update on YouTube

 


The interview features Vince Ellison, who argues that the Democratic Party is actively trying to turn America into a Marxist nation.

He claims they are evil, supporting things like atheism, Marxism, abortion, open borders, and drug trafficking.

Ellison states they have a long history of trying to legally murder Americans, dating back to supporting slavery and later abortion.

Ellison also discusses the history of racism and the Ku Klux Klan, arguing they were connected to the Democratic Party, not the Republicans.

He explains how the Democrats have kept black communities poor and under their control.

The discussion touches on replacement theory - the idea that leftists want to get rid of white people by encouraging illegal immigration and abortion. Ellison warns this will lead to violence against white people in the future.

Ellison is critical of prominent black preachers and civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, claiming they are mostly on the Democratic Party payroll and keep black communities supporting Democrats through false religion and promises.

The interviewer notes Ellison's argument that Democrats strategically divide white and black Christians who should unite based on their faith.

Ellison states they have infiltrated black churches and made them arms of the Democratic party.

In total, Ellison portrays the Democratic Party as an evil institution with a history of racism, control, and moral decay that continues to mislead vulnerable communities today. He urges people to wake up to the truth he presents in his various books.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Tucker Interviews Telegram App Founder, Pavel Durov

Free Speech Telegram was founded by an amazing Russian and his genius brother who continues to maintain and sponsor a completely private communication platform for the world

 Article from Revolver. Video downloaded from TuckerCarlson network.


Tucker Carlson recently had a fascinating sit-down with Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, in what might be one of the most insightful “Big Tech” interviews you’ll ever see. While you may not have heard of him, Durov is a significant figure in the realm of “Big Tech.”

Operating his mega platform, Telegram, out of Dubai, this Russian entrepreneur is shedding light on just how desperate our government is to silence dissenting voices.

Thanks to his quest to support free speech and free thinking, Pavel is walking around with a giant target on his back. As a matter of fact, things got so dicey for young Pavel that the US government even tried to hire one of his employees to spy on users: “They wanted him to code open-source tools into the app that would serve as backdoors.”

Let freedom ring, right?

When Pavel started Telegram, which now boasts nearly a billion users, he had planned to headquarter the company in the Big Tech utopia of San Francisco. However, something significant altered his course. He was attacked while strolling down the street, which served as his first red flag that San Francisco wasn’t the right fit for him. Ironically, according to Pavel, the United States is the only country he’s been attacked in. That shouldn’t surprise you, especially in soft-on-crime liberal cities like San Francisco.

Clearly, folks are itching for social media platforms that let them speak their minds, no strings attached. Everyone’s tired of the heavy “government” moderation on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and others. Those sites feel too much like a nanny state. These sites also play favorites, especially politically, so it’s no wonder that people are looking elsewhere for platforms where they can say what they want and how they want without fear of an FBI smackdown.

Barron’s:

The encrypted messaging app Telegram has reached more than 900 million active users and should pass the one-billion mark within a year, its boss said in an interview published Wednesday.

“Telegraph is spreading like a forest fire. Two-and-a-half million users sign up every day,” said Pavel Durov, the Russian who founded the company alongside his brother Nikolai, in a rare interview with controversial right-wing US talk show host Tucker Carlson.

People “love the independence. They also love the privacy, the freedom, (there are) a lot of reasons why somebody would switch to Telegram”, Durov told Carlson.

The encrypted messaging app, based in Dubai, has positioned itself as an alternative to US-owned platforms, which have been criticised for their commercial exploitation of users’ personal data. Telegram has committed itself to never disclosing any information about its users.

Darren Beattie from Revolver had some interesting insights on Tucker’s deep dive into Telegram. He made a keen observation about how our country’s intelligence agencies have played a role in undermining America, which has fueled the popularity of platforms like Telegram. In other words, if the US government wants to know who “radicalized” Americans, perhaps they should look in the mirror.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

[Repost from August 2020] Only a Brutal Purge of the Left Can Save Us

Still relevant.......

From my post The Green New Deal is Part of Democrat's Bolshevik Power Grab, I ended with the need for a full-on Leftist purge by President Trump using the Emergency Powers Act to round-up and prosecute the large numbers of traitorous and seditious persons in the Federal Government. I figured that this prescription really needs to be a unique post due to it's importance. 

The degree of corruption in Washington, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12. Nothing is working properly in Washington or the Fed. government. We can't even trust the Judicial system as so many appointees are Obama- or Hillary-loving political hacks. We don't have ANYTHING functioning in Washington. The vast majority of the "deep-state" in Washington (mostly Democrats) is committed to the treasonous removal and reversing the Constitutional election of Trump and preventing his re-election.

You have to understand that a subversive war is already underway RIGHT NOW in this country by the most devious, unsavory and power-mad people in the world. The fight is already on.

I propose that Trump invoke the Emergency Powers Act to bring in the military, military police and prosecutors to arrest all of the actors in the Russia Hoax scandal. They are all traitors. Jail them all. People like Hillary, Obama, Comey, Rosenstein, Mueller, Podesta, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Strock, Page, Schiff and many others should be arrested for Treason or Sedition and/or other applicable crimes and sent to military trials. It has to be the military--since the US justice system is now totally failed as is every other part of the government. Only the military can be trusted now.

With the Emergency declaration, military police could seize control of the DOJ, CIA and FBI by locking down these entities, lock down the computers and servers, gather all significant information that they've been hiding, begin to interview and look to prosecute all of the traitors in these departments involved in betrayals. Everything would be locked down for investigation and for evidence.

There should have already been a torrent of indictments after so many years of investigation by the DOJ and CIA after the disastrous Jeff Sessions. The DOJ doesn't even "work"anymore. Nothing works in Washington except the money printers. Personally, I think the whole Federal colossus should be burnt to the ground to start over with a government based in St. Louis, MO for example.

The military should also be supervising this next election since it will likely be the most fraudulent election in American history. There should probably be military observers at every polling station. Trump should demand today that an audit-able paper trail be generated for every vote cast in every precinct so that election results in any district CAN BE AUDITED and validated. Put the Dems on notice NOW. If the election must be delayed for this plan to be implemented, then so be it.

I know that you think I'm being insanely radical here, but you have no idea of the desperation of the Democrats at this time. They desperately are trying to control the narrative thru the lying Media and plans are afoot to steal this election. From Martin Armstrong, he says that Podesta and other Democrats are planning scenarios to seize power:

They had four possible scenarios, which even include one that looked like 2016 where they would lose the Electoral College. Mr. Podesta played Mr. Biden, and he responded that his party wouldn’t let him concede as Hillary had done alleging voter suppression. Podesta then persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College to change the vote.

They also played out a scenario where a Trump victory would lead to California, Oregon, and Washington moving to secede from the United States. He also played that if the Electoral College could not make a decision because of the delays from the mail-in votes, then the House leader, Pelosi, would name Mr. Biden president. The Senate and White House would reject that and support Mr. Trump. At that point, Podesta would turn to the military to remove Trump.

Never in the history of any election, has there ever been such a political war game played. This warns what our computer has been forecasting about the rise in civil unrest and the risk that this will prove to be the most corrupt election in American history.

Even Leftist leaders of sanctuary cities should also be arrested in this Leftist Purge, where they have knowingly obstructed Federal Law. Send troops into American cities that have been decimated by radical Leftist BLM, Antifa, governors and/or mayors.

The current Status Quo can not stand. This country must be saved from a Communists coup by violent and deadly purges of the treasonous, seditious opposition, if necessary. If Trump does what I propose, he'll go down in history as the 2nd Abraham Lincoln -- who similarly saved the union. We're in a civil war right now! Look around you!

Meanwhile at The Black House

Saturday, April 13, 2024

[Updated] After Decades of Subsidies and Hysteria, Wind and Solar Power Contributes Just 6% Of Germany's Total Energy Requirements

When you search online for information regarding the penetration of “renewable” energy in Germany, you’ll get something like this:


Wow, Renewables make up 46% of their energy, that’s amazing! But it’s a bit misleading. What they mean that it’s 46% of their ELECTRICAL energy.

Many countries have hydro-electric power and Germany’s share is 4% of their ELECTRICITY total. In Germany, Biomass (wood) is 9% of their ELECTRICAL power. Does burning wood sound environmentally sound to you?

So, now that carbon-free Nuclear ELECTRICITY will be effectively gone in 2023, and replaced by coal or natural gas, only 37% of their ELECTRICITY is carbon-free (incl hydropower) — down From 50% carbon-free before nuclear was shuttered. Progress??


 Let’s look at the big energy picture in Germany. Refer to the Chart below:

Germany’s TOTAL Energy Picture 2022; 94% Fossil Fuels (After Nuclear Shut Down)

 From examining the Chart above, here’s the punchline: Wind and Solar are just a surprisingly paltry 6.1% of Germany’s TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMED. This after $100s of Billions of subsidies for solar and wind farms over decades.

Remember “Renewable” (Intermittent) Energy is a religion in Germany and has been for decades. And after $100s of Billions of subsidies for solar and wind, they fail to tell you that they must also subsidize CONVENTIONAL power plants because they are only partially-used but must remain online to “back up” the “Intermittents.” This is also necessary to keep all the conventional energy in business—since you need 100% backup to wind/solar.

That’s why German electricity costs 3X the cost of US power cost at $0.34/kW-hr (and rising). I read where, in one German state, the cost of power has been raised to $0.45/kW-hr immediately after all the Nuclear plants were shuttered. See below:

Europe Electricity Prices. The US Average Cost of Power has run $0.11 to $0.12 per Kw-hr in recent years (not sure what the average is in 2024)

Now that they’ve recently shut down all their remaining nuclear plants —while mandating electric cars, they’d better hurry up building something….. The truth is that those in power (no pun intended) don’t know what they’re doing.

What About US Renewables “Intermittents?”

From the Chart Below: “US Energy Consumption By Source and Sector, 2021,” Renewables are shown as 12.2 Quadrillion BTUs or 12% of our total energy sources. 73.5 Quads is our total end-use energy required.

Let’s say all 100% of that “renewable” energy is directly consumed by the “End-Use Sector” on the right (no thermodynamic losses like burning fossil fuels to make electricity). Then “renewable” energy is 12.2/73.5 x 100 or 16% of our end uses. Sounds good? It’s not bad.

US Energy Consumption by Sources and End Use and Sector, 2021

 
US Electrical Power Generation, 2021

But of that 12.2 Quads renewable, wind and solar (only) is 60% that or 7.3 Quads. Hydro and Biomass make up the remainder. Therefore, Wind and Solar is about 10% of USA’s total energy use. Good, I guess.

Therefore, as a rough estimation, Wind, Solar and Hydro is 16% of US total energy consumption  (12 Quads/73.5 Quads of end use). So, the US is actually doing BETTER than Germany with regard to wind and solar energy. AND we still have our Nuclear at about ~5% of our Total Energy1 (Germany today has ZERO Nuclear).

SO, TODAY, ABOUT 21% OF THE US TOTAL ENERGY IS CARBON-FREE THANKS TO NUCLEAR, WIND, SOLAR and HYDRO. Pretty good, but the path to Net Zero is impossible.

Remember, going forward to Electrical Generation And Grids and Must VASTLY Expand To Accommodate Transportation Loads if we are to convert even 50% of our transportation to electric. It’s not even be technically and practically feasible and it’s CERTAINLY not financially feasible. We’re talking $5+ Trillion and only 1/2 of our transport would be electric! For virtue signaling??

Net Zero is just crazy and it’s not going to happen because it’s not feasible, it won’t work and we can’t afford it.

Bogged-Down In Bullshit: The US is Now a "No Can Do" Country, Part 2

In my post Bogged Down in Bullshit: the US is a “No Can Do” Country, I discussed how the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, a natural gas pipeline to supply natural gas to N. Carolina, Virginia, the East Coast is still being built after being harassed and stymied by environmentalist “lawfare” for 10 years and is still not quite finished.

The opponents are hindering it due to ‘environmental’ reasons, saying “oh, but..but…but think of the carbon!” I hate to tell these idiots that no carbon literally equals no economy— no jobs, and a return to the economy and population of the US in 1890. The truth is that we’d be back in the Stone Age. That’s where we’re heading.

As I sit this morning, natural gas futures are $1.75 per 1000 cubic feet, which is dirt cheap. It’s priced at the equivalent energy content as $10 oil! What a bargain! Oil is pushing $90 per barrel this morning. Of course, this abundant natural gas is a by-product of our abundant US oil production.

The truth is that natural gas transmission lines should be constructed and massively extended into New York state and all of New England. There, they currently have to deal with much more expensive LPG truck deliveries and burning oil or electricity for heat in the winter. They could have safe, inexpensive and clean-burning natural gas if they wanted.

The Mountain Valley Project is just ONE project of THOUSANDS of projects that are “bogged-down in bullshit.” Nothing can get done in a timely manner.

Take the entirely green TransWest Express (high voltage) electrical transmission line. You see, Wyoming and other places on the high plains, have A LOT of wind.

Some seventeen years ago, that transmission line was proposed to link the power generated from wind farms in Wyoming to electricity grids in Las Vegas and SoCal. But all those wind projects have been on-hold for 17 frigging years while the above ground transmission line was “bogged-down in bullshit” until this year.

And this is true even though the $5 billion Trans-West Electrical transmission line is an entirely “green project.” If the transmission line is not available, then either Wind farms are idle or also not constructed. As I said in my recent post Bogged Down in Bullshit: the US is a “No Can Do” Country:

From the LA Times: “TransWest Express transmission line, which will move electricity from the $5-billion, 3,000-megawatt, 600-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm in WY to Southern California, a place legally mandated to switch to clean energy. The wind farm(s) will be the country’s biggest yet.”

It took them all those years to get all the final permissions. SO AFTER 17 YEARS OF WASTED TIME, THEY JUST STARTED CONSTRUCTION this year. So there are many more years before the lines are energized. 

Now, we’re hearing that Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging stations has only produced 7 stations in two years since authorization and funding.

Resident Biden has vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030. Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution.

But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. (From the WaPo via MSN, the funding should be enough to build up to 20,000 charging spots or around 5,000 stations, according to analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy.)

That’s 7 stations out of 5,000 proposed and budgeted. It’s only been too years, but I guarantee that nearly all of these stations won’t be built at all. The government and industry can’t do anything in a timely way.

Already demand for electric vehicles is already subsiding dramatically due the cost of the cars and their driving range and/or reliability in cold weather.

The so-called “Green Transition,” which is an enormously expensive boondoggle based on a hysterical misunderstanding of slight global warming, will not be possible. This is true because I say in my post Electrical Generation And Grids and Must VASTLY Expand To Accommodate Transportation Loads, the entire US power grid must be upgraded which would cost $5 TRILLION or more. That’s 1000s of big projects. It’s not going to happen, because nothing can happen in a timely way in this country.

Already there are a surprisingly abundant number of alternative “green” energy projects awaiting for grid modifications and connections. And at the current rate of progress, we’ll literally need 100 years to complete them. Of course, by then the US will be anything but united, definitely broke and/or completely collapsed or Balkanized or BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

From an excellent article A Silent Threat to the Energy Transition: America’s Broken Infrastructure Policy, indicates the extent to which alternative projects are UNAPPROVED. They said:

“There’s a massive gap between our efforts to transition to sustainable energy and our ability to make it happen. Countless examples and data points bear this out. Here are just a few:

  1. The Inflation Reduction Act included hundreds of billions of dollars for solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and other technologies to tackle climate change. Yet if we can’t build new transmission at a faster pace, around 80% of the emissions reductions expected from that bill might not happen, according to researchers at Princeton University’s Repeat Project. [Doug here— Read: IT WON’T HAPPEN]

  2. At the end of 2022, there were over 10,000 projects in the U.S., most of them wind, solar, and batteries, waiting for permission to connect to the grid, up from 8,100 the year before, according to researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  3. In 2021, backlogged projects sitting in the queue represented 1,300 gigawatts of solar, wind, and battery projects – technically enough to supply about 80% of the country’s electricity demand. [Doug here: Remember, installed capacity and actual generation are two entirely different things. Solar is guaranteed offline for 1/2 of the day on average, so the installed capacity is double the delivered quantity of energy.]

  4. Most energy storage projects never get built.Clean Energy Group report found that “lengthening wait times and rising interconnection costs dramatically restrict the rate at which renewable generation and energy storage resources are installed.” This creates obstacles to hitting so many goals, including emissions reduction targets, renewable generation and energy storage procurement targets, and grid modernization plans.

  5. California’s big three utilities may need to invest up to $50 billion by 2035 to upgrade their grids in order to meet the state’s ambitious electric vehicle goals. That’s a staggering sum, what is arguably the greenest and most forward-looking state regarding renewables, and it highlights the needs every state will face when tackling energy infrastructure investment.

A recent Department of Energy draft analysis cited “a pressing need for additional electric transmission,” especially between different regions. The McKinsey study framed it more dramatically: The U.S. grid will need to expand by 60% by 2030, and doing so would require “a mind-boggling acceleration of the typical ten-year capital project timeline. It is, arguably, a century of work to do in less than a decade.

In my post Electrical Generation And Grids and Must VASTLY Expand To Accommodate Transportation Loads, I not only estimated that the US power grids will have to nearly double in capacity but we’ll require significant additional (and parallel) fossil fueled generating plants for back-up to the “intermittents.” I guesstimated the cost to do so would be $5 trillion. Of course, this estimate will balloon to $10 T or $20 T as everything drags on and delays and lawsuits halt progress.

Yes, 2050 will come and go and, if the US still exists, (which is doubtful) many or most of the “Green transition” ambitions will NOT be fulfilled. Owners of the MANDATED electric cars will be frequently in the dark for about 50 years waiting for new power lines.

Alternatively I’m guessing that electric cars owners will only be able to only charge between 12 am and 5 am, if then, and during all other times there will be huge penalty pricing. Suddenly, all the “cost advantages” of using electricity “fuel” vs. gasoline will go away. Bye bye electric cars for now.

Monday, April 8, 2024

A Relevant Repost from Aug 2020: "The Green New Deal Was the Democrat's Bolshevik Power Grab & Only a Brutal Purge of the Left Could Have Saved Us"

This may be one of my most important posts ever (updated at Substack and now here).

From Aug 19, 2020:

There is now a desperate effort by Democrats to steal this election, to gain power in order to institute a Socialist (or Bolshevik) Green New Deal.  It's a huge power grab to subvert your freedoms, take your guns (of course), take over the economy through higher taxation and controlling all aspects of your life. Democrats aim is to overthrow all of your freedoms by enshrining a radical Left-wing Socialist Green New Deal.  In a way, it's the Socialists last gasp, as Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and others are very elderly and on their way out. It really now or never.

This attempted Communist coup, currently underway in this country, has been gaining ground for quite a long time. The Left's agenda is really about control which slowly evolves into total control and power over your life, ie., Marxism or Bolshevism. 

First, let's put to bed the first and biggest lie of the Green New Deal.  Slight global warming can't be fixed and won't be fixed. Period. Just to halt the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere would require a gargantuan reduction of CO2 emissions of 50%. First, it can't be done. Even if it COULD be done, it would NOT roll back temperatures or CO2 -- just halt any more slight increases. Such reductions would cost $10s of Trillions in the US alone and cripple our finances and economy. Al Gore himself put the cost at $70 Trillion 20 years ago. With or without the spending, the effects on the climate would be imperceptible: A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY.   It amounts to financial suicide. No country like China or India would commit economic suicide either -nor should they. 

Oh, and even if you could scrub power plant exhaust stacks (you can't), no one knows what to do with the massive volume of captured liquid, high pressure CO2. But there are basically zero people in the world who have even the slightest idea of any of this, least of all idiots like AOC.  They have no idea of what they are talking about. In a few decades the problem will fix itself as the end of the hydrocarbon era is already in sight. 

Back to the power-grab aspect of the "Green" New Deal:  from my post "'EPA Carbon Regulation Power Grab," I talk about the unlawful abuse of the Clean Air Act by the courts to regulate an essential and natural trace gas in the atmosphere, CO2. They did this under the phony guise that carbon dioxide is "harmful or threatening to human health."  But unlike other gases such as man-made sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide is an essential and naturally occurring trace gas at about 0.040% in air, and it's absolutely essential for all plant and crops that require it for their photosynthesis. To call such levels harmful to human or public health is a vast overstretch that must be reversed. But it's part of creeping Socialism/Communism and a huge power grab.  Notice that Left-leaning courts are all part of this creeping Bolshevism. (Add universities and schools of all levels to the institutions long-controlled by the radical Left.)

But in regulating CO2, it opens the door for bureaucrats to regulate every business in America to "enforce" CO2 emissions controls and new taxes. In my post Nice Sounding' Liberalism Leads to a Police State, I indicate that there would have to be a new, vast and costly Federal agency for "Carbon Emissions Policing" which would require armies of 20-something, know-nothing Socialists as carbon police with powers over every business, ranch, and any and all enterprises that use energy, ie., everyone.  All this for nothing, just raw power. 

Then, for Socialists, there would have to be "Equal Pay" police to stop the non-existent pay discrimination against women. And another phony cause, "Hate Speech" laws would require censoring all communications between every human by know-nothing 20-year olds to enforce only the "correct" speech, ie., against anything remotely "conservative" or against the approved Leftist Democrat talking points. 

We're already have this in spades at YouTube, Twitter, Google. Idiot little boys and girls sit in Silicon Valley and impose their idiot ideas on the masses. There is massive censoring against Conservatives, Conservatism or anything that contradicts the Left's agenda (lies) -- all to illegally manipulate the outcome of the next election. You know these little shit-heads are over their skiis when they muzzle Dennis Prager of all people, one of the most tolerant, educated and highest integrity man in this country.

And don't forget the never-ending pitch for the beauty of socialized medicine. We already have true socialized medicine at the Veteran's Administration: government owned and operated hospitals for veterans.  The result is always massive cost overruns and poor care: veterans have been dying due to higher rates of infection caused by unsanitary conditions and poor maintenance due to poor management. And don't forget that others are dying due to delays in treatment thanks to secret lists that delay treatment. Horror stories of poor care abound. Oh, and this poor performance is covered-up by the bureaucracy and hospital management that persecute any whistle-blowers brave enough to come forward. It's really an Orwellian nightmare. And because it's "government" it can never be fixed. Socialism can't be fixed!! There's no cure for stupid or Socialism.

Kamala's Medicare for all, really Medicaid-for-all, would impose all of problems at the VA for EVERYONE.  The result is total government tyranny over every aspect of your life.  This would provide justification of much higher taxes to pay for an even bigger government. Then, no one will be able to save money for retirement, so you'll become a "ward of the state" from cradle to grave (like Europe) where you depend on Government for your medical care and your retirement money. And if you don't like it, then you will be considered crazy like in the Soviet Union and institutionalized in psychiatric wards.  If you're conservative, medical treatment can be withheld entirely. Kamala, Bernie, AOC, Omar are all unabashed Communists who want power and money for themselves and a platform to impose their communist views on YOU.

Notice that everything about the Leftist agenda is a lie??  Everything is phony, false, lies, and propaganda with the Democrats. And since every corporate media outlet is controlled by the CIA and DNC, you have unending propaganda supporting all these lies. Every cause that the Democrats uphold are fake and all lies:  Black Lives Matter is all based on lies. Hands up, don't shoot was all lies. That the US is still a racist country is a lie. That police kill blacks disproportionately is a lie. What BLM stands for now is a lie. Welcome to Nigger Nation, where everything is a false meme, an outright lie or a manipulation. Communists are the greatest liars in human history and that's exactly what we have with the Democrats and we're seeing it every day in America.  

America is under attack by both internal and external globalist enemies to IMPOSE their loser world views on you and overturn freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution. These people are all about power and control.  Of course, they know that only those in power have money in Socialism, so in reality, they are really trying to get rich AND impose their views. Most of these people are stupid or sociopaths and could barely survive in the real world because they are such idiots. Look at AOC, a dip-shit bartender, who thinks she's so brilliant, is a foolish know-it-all, truly an idiot, steeped in Socialism at University and completely full of shit.  She wants to rule YOUR life and impose her child-like ideas. This is Generalissimo Cortez, a little tyrant in the making. She's only one of many. 

Can't you see where Leftism and Democrats are headed? 

Only a Brutal Purge of the Left Can Save Us

 
The degree of corruption in Washington, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12. Nothing is working properly in Washington or the Fed. government. We can't even trust the Judicial system as so many appointees are  Obama- or Hillary-loving political hacks. We don't have ANYTHING functioning in Washington. The vast majority of the "deep-state" in Washington (mostly Democrats) is committed to the treasonous removal and reversing the Constitutional election of Trump and preventing his re-election. 

You have to understand that a subversive war is already underway RIGHT NOW in this country by the most devious, unsavory and power-mad people in the world. The fight is already on.

I propose that Trump invoke the Emergency Powers Act to bring in the military, military police and prosecutors to arrest all of the actors in the Russia Hoax scandal. They are all traitors. Jail them all. People like Hillary, Obama, Comey, Rosenstein, Mueller, Podesta, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Adam Schiff should be arrested for Treason or Sedition and/or other applicable crimes and sent to military trials--since the US justice system is now totally failed as is every other part of the government. Only the military can be trusted now.

With the Emergency declaration, military police could seize control of both the DOJ, CIA and FBI by locking down these entities, lock down the computers and servers, and begin to interview and look to prosecute all of the traitors in these departments involved in betrayals. Everything would be locked down for investigation and for evidence.

There should have already been a torrent of indictments after so many years of investigation by the DOJ after the disastrous Sessions. The DOJ doesn't even "work"anymore. Nothing works in Washington except the money printers.  Personally, I think the whole Federal collossus should be burnt to the ground to start over with a government based in St. Louis, MO for example.

The military should also be supervising this next election since it will likely be the most fraudulent election in American history. There should probably be military observers at every polling station. Trump should demand today that an audit-able paper trail be generated for every vote cast in every precinct so that election results in any district CAN BE AUDITED and validated. Put the Dems on notice NOW. If the election must be delayed for this plan to be implemented, then so be it.
I know that you think I'm being insanely radical here, but you have no idea of the desperation of the Democrats at this time. They desperately are trying to control the narrative thru the lying Media and plans are afoot to steal this election.  From Martin Armstrong, he says that Podesta and other Democrats are planning scenarios to seize power:  

They had four possible scenarios, which even include one that looked like 2016 where they would lose the Electoral College. Mr. Podesta played Mr. Biden, and he responded that his party wouldn’t let him concede as Hillary had done alleging voter suppression. Podesta then persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College to change the vote.

They also played out a scenario where a Trump victory would lead to California, Oregon, and Washington moving to secede from the United States. He also played that if the Electoral College could not make a decision because of the delays from the mail-in votes, then the House leader, Pelosi, would name Mr. Biden president. The Senate and White House would reject that and support Mr. Trump. At that point, Podesta would turn to the military to remove Trump.

Never in the history of any election, has there ever been such a political war game played. This warns what our computer has been forecasting about the rise in civil unrest and the risk that this will prove to be the most corrupt election in American history.

Leaders of sanctuary cities should also be arrested in this Leftist Purge, where they have knowingly obstructed Federal Law. Send troops into American cities that have been decimated by radical Leftist BLM, Antifa, governors and/or mayors. 

The current Status Quo can not stand. This country must be saved from a Communists coup by violent and deadly purges of the treasonous, seditious opposition, if necessary.  If Trump does what I propose, he'll go down in history as the 2nd Abraham Lincoln -- who similarly saved the union. We're in a civil war right now!  Look around you!