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By Jo Nova Let the Swamp Drain…For all its flaws, the US is still the largest military force on the planet and the world’s largest economy. If Trump chooses to use that power, and he appears to want to, the draining will be global. The only question is “how much”? The Pre-inauguration Victory Rally
Missed another bulletLet’s not forget how close it was. As truly awful as the Kamala word-salad was, she still allegedly got 71 million votes compared to Trump’s 75 million. And if a mere 30,000 voters in Wisconsin, 80,000 in Michigan, and 120,000 in Pennsylvania had voted differently or been ballot harvested more efficiently, or were electronically hacked more competently, Kamala would have won. (270 Electoral college votes to 268). The fate of the nation of 147 million voters (and the West) depended on just 230,000 choices or 0.16%.  Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election If the Blob had picked even a slightly less incompetent candidate, one without full blown dementia, or one able to string a whole coherent sentence together, then the advantages of state loving media, state directed tech censorship, mass immigration, electronic machines in 28 (or so) states and no voter ID would presumably have won the day. Or if Elon Musk had not jumped all in, and spent $44 billion dollars for X… Hopefully major election reform starts today. Who, exactly, was in charge of 3,748 Nuclear Warheads?When Mike Johnson got to meet President Biden he found out that Biden had no idea he had signed an EO to pause LNG exports to Europe. And Joe Biden was stunned… Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) says: Does everyone realize what was just said here? Speaker Mike Johnson not only confirms that Joe Biden isn’t in control and signing executive orders he doesn’t understand but that to meet with Biden, The CIA Director had to be present. He just confirmed The CIA is running our country, not the president. This just confirmed another “conspiracy theory.
UPDATE: Brett Moulton points out Mike Johnson [Speaker of the House] had every legal ability to hold Biden accountable and did nothing. He could have brought forth impeachment hearings and even removed Biden from office. And the announcements start:
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By Jo Nova Ponder the remarkable physics SpaceX just launched Starship Flight Test 7. As Elon Musk says about the booster section: “Atmospheric reentry speed is more than twice as fast as a bullet from an assault rifle and this is the largest flying object ever made“. Yet they still manage a perfect catch. The top speed on the return of the booster was 4,135 km/h. It went to space and back in just 7 minutes, reaching 90 km up. The unmanned test rocket though, wasn’t so lucky, as SpaceX described it, suffering a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent’. The launch itself is a spectacle of raw power. As the rocket lifts off, it is so powerful it appears to create the weather around it almost, tearing through the atmosphere. Elon explains: “You can see the much higher propellant mass fraction of the new ship design by the percentage of rocket that is frosty.”
One commenter said SpaceX will change the way we fly. Elon said “Yes”. Imagine being able to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour…
It’s a strange moment in history. So much corruption and graft, yet also something extraordinary…
A “Far Left Politician” is practically invisible, and usually harmless. But a Far Right politician is dangerous. (To the people who use namecalling to silence opponents).
To be called “Far Right” implies someone is a horrible person, and you should probably hiss at them if they get too close. But on the prime time news, even bureaucrats pushing for One World Government, or slave owning dictators like President Xi are rarely introduced as “the Far Left President Xi”. That would give the game away, wouldn’t it? There would be constant reminders of the dangers of going “too far left”. In its purest form the political right just want individual rights and smaller government, yet the “definition” of far right keeps shape-shifting to become somehow horribly authoritarian, “like Hitler”, of course, (the Socialist). Who benefits from this absurd definition? — Big Leftist collectivists, of course. We the people cannot even have a conversation with easily recognizable words. The word fog is not an accident. The real horrors are not the right wing people waving a national flag, and talking about individual rights, but the far left committees in Brussels or Davos that want to take your money, inject you, tell you what you can say, and take away a medicine that might save your life. Namecalling is a powerful tool.
January 16th, 2025 | Tags: Language, Name-calling, Political Correctness | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Savor the moment. Donald Trump says he wants no wind farms built during his Presidency, and before we can even crack the champagne , the AfD in Germany say if they are elected, they don’t just want to stop people building new wind plants, they want to tear some of the old ones down. That’s what we like to see, some competition… Who can get to Not Zero the fastest? Trump Says He Wants No Wind Farms Built During PresidencyBy Bloomberg Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects. “We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president. German Far-Right threatens To Tear Down Wind TurbinesBy MarketWire Far-right German poltical party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wants to tear down all wind turbines, according to the party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel. “Down with all these windmills of shame,” she said at a party congress on Saturday in the eastern German town of Riesa, according to Bloomberg News. Germany will hold Bundestag elections on Feb. 23, and AfD is in second place in the latest polls with 20-22% of eligible voters. This was later clarified by the AfD to say they urgently want to shut down the Reinhardswald turbines. This is the wind park in the 1,000 year old forest of legend in Germany — the sacred greenery that only an money-hungry industrial vandal would want to despoil with giant bird killing towers.
Obviously, since wind turbines make reliable generators more expensive and inefficient to run and drive the good ones out of business, clearly, the sooner the better. Do it while you still have a grid. Do it while you still have an economy….
By Jo Nova The more CO2 we emit, the less we spend on global weather disastersFully half of all human emissions of CO2 ever, have been emitted since 1990. This super-molecule was supposed to cause stronger cyclones, nastier storms, more droughts, floods, sea level surges, blizzards, and fires. We were going to save a fortune by installing solar panels and windmills to reduce CO2 and slow the storms. Instead, we make more CO2 than ever, and 34 years of data suggests that the more we make the less we have to spend on flattened or flooded homes. Munich Re says the world has experienced $298 billion dollars of catastrophic disaster losses due to weather events in 2024. This sounds terrible in terms of mindless “big numbers” , but Roger Pielke Jnr points out that these losses are shrinking in terms of the size of the global economy. And they are nothing compared to the size of the dead end “transition” spending. Catastrophic weather losses in 2024 “were about 0.26% of global GDP.” We are rebuilding our entire energy system, supposedly to reduce the damage caused by climate change which that hurts one quarter of one percent of our global economy.
 The more CO2 we emit, the less we spend on global weather disasters. For what it’s worth, Pielke notes that “Global Catastrophe Losses” turns out to be in large part due to US Hurricane losses. We can argue the toss about better ways to measure weather related costs, but we can’t argue that the media spins relentlessly one-sided lies about the cost of “climate change”. If it suited their narrative they could just as easily say “burn oil” and protect us from floods and storms. Or even more easily, since it is true — the rich world survives fires, floods, droughts and storms so much better than the poor world and fossil fuels are unarguably essential to make the concrete, the fertilizer, the planes, and the fuel to power satellites and mobile phones, ambulances and fire trucks. Fossil fuels made us rich and keeps us safe. REFERENCES
DATA56% of all human emissions have occurred in the period from 1990-2024. Percentage of human emissions from 1990 – 2024 = 56%
The Los Angeles Fires seem to symbolize the great achievements of collectivist governance. It took decades to reach these Black Belt levels of incompetence: to weaponize the committees, neutralize the media, and to teach the people that fires are caused by hamburgers and stopped by solar panels. Currently 150,000 people are still under evacuation orders in Los Angeles and some 10,000 buildings are estimated to have been destroyed. To twist the knife on the pain, some insurance companies have recently abandoned Californian clients due to a 1988 law called Proposition 103. The State government regulates price rises in insurance. It’s a form of price fixing. It means insurance companies can’t adjust their premiums to take the higher risks into account, so they do they only thing they can — stop offering insurance. Then there is the irony that green activists have worked to stop fuel reduction burns. @MarioNawfal names the Sierra Club. The Californian situation by Dennis Presiloski In a form of Democrat maths — the LA mayor Karen Bass saved $18m from the fire department budget but the state lost $150 billion in damage (so far). “The bluest people on the planet are going to flip vote red”Adam Carolla points out that the areas that burnt were some of the wealthiest, most democrat-voting precincts in the country. “It’s about 80% Democrat” — who he predicts will flip red when they drown in regulations trying to rebuild. What he doesn’t say is that these are often the most important donors who may abandon the party. It’s not the size of the votes that matter but the financial clout and cachet of the famous and wealthy that the Democrats will lose. (Though there will be 10 million people in LA watching this debacle and they might not actually need to have their own house burn down to get the point.)* The people in the $20 million dollar mansions on the beach are going to be “knee deep” in regulations. The deep blue democrat fire victims are going to spend years trying to permits to rebuild their own homes and that will turn them into red voters. He names one couple that tried to get a permit to rebuild their home of 40 years on PCH (Pacific Coast Highway). In the end they gave up and moved. He says the point that got to Bill Maher (the comedian who seems so much more conservative lately) was the three year epic he went through to set up his solar panels on his house in Beverley Hills. “He was strangled by the regulations, the overreach.” “That’s when he turned against the government”. These are wealthy people who love their homes, he says. They love Malibu, they love the Palisades… there is going to be a whole bunch of rich people and they want to build as fast as they can. From the time they go in and fill in the first form, til the time they get delivery of the first load of wood on their property will be three years. [This Australian wonders if they will rebuild with wood. How does anyone defend a wooden house against embers during the Santa Ana winds? — Jo]* Then there are the extras: You want a swimming pool… it has to be double hulled in case it leaks into the water table. Carson Daily had to build a swimming pool like a modern day oil tanker. It’ll just cost $500,000 for a swimming pool. He’s in a hotel room, evacuated from his home at the time he did this, and “language warning”, he doesn’t hold back: “You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you f**ing get what you get. Now that your house is on fire.“ He doesn’t think the coastal commission of California will even let people rebuild on the beach. “They are in the business of getting you to leave …” Warning: his language is strong.
His prediction sounds outlandishly pessimistic, but Elon says “Accurate” and @StewMama71 agrees, saying: Only 25% of the houses burned in Malibu in 2018 Woolsey fire have been rebuilt. UPDATE: The Democrats could change this in five minutes, by dropping most of the regulations. But will they?* Then there is the Oscar level Virtue Signalling:Bureaucrats in California were so concerned about breaking glass ceilings they seemingly forgot their first priority.
Nothing quite sums up how far gone everything is, better than this — listen to the assistant fire chief who blames the man caught in a fire (that she can’t carry) for being in the wrong place:
Not only did the Assistant Chief of the LAFD say it — apparently other people edited that into a professional little promo clip. What were they all thinking? Apparently of rainbows, and not fire hydrants and fuel loads.  *A few late additions this morning. ** The Rainbow hydrant photo is a Grok image “Satire”
January 11th, 2025 | Tags: California, DEI, ESG, Fires | Category: Big-Government, Fire, Ideology, USA | Print This Post | |
A few years ago they were all going to save the world from the sixth mass extinction, but now they just want to avoid an anti-trust suit.Such is the phase change of the Trump win, the largest banks in the USA, JP Morgan and Morgan Chase have now joined Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo the Bank of America, and Citigroup. Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inaugurationThe Guardian Analysts have said the withdrawals are an attempt to head off “anti-woke” attacks from rightwing US politicians, which are expected to escalate when Trump is sworn in as the country’s 47th president in just under a fortnight. The giant super-squid of asset management is also thinking of leaving the UN Net Zero Alliance. BlackRock may exit woke business climate group Net Zero Alliance as backlash over ESG investing widensBy Charles Gasparino, New York Post BlackRock — which for years has courted controversy with its focus on so-called ESG, or Environmental Social Governance investing — is considering an exit of the so-called “Net Zero” coalition of top corporations who pledge to reach zero-carbon emissions by 2050, The Post has learned.
BlackRock’s likely departure is more significant [than all the other banks]. The world’s largest investment fund, with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, was a leader in ESG investing, with its top executives including Fink evangelizing on the need to use the company’s investing might to force corporations to reduce their carbon footprint.
Mum’s the word: BlackRock press officials declined comment. A rep for State Street and JPMorgan didn’t return a call for comment. A press official for the alliance declined to comment.
Their lawyers will have beaten them into silence. If the world is facing a crisis they look like cowards, and if the world isn’t facing a crisis they look like crooks for abusing clients funds for ideological quests or worse, traitorous sell-outs to the global oligarchs. As I said, the Net Zero Banking Alliance was the UN-banker cabal that were colluding to use $130 trillion dollars in assets to bully the first world into sabotaging their economies by buying expensive, unreliable Net Zero electricity. It was dangerously close to being a proto World Government. The club effectively could decide national policies on who could build competitive electricity grids, and who had to do the fantasia plan to control the storms of 2100 with their electricity grid in 2024. They wouldn’t be jumping ship if Kamala had won.
January 10th, 2025 | Tags: Bankers, Climate Money, World Government | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Something awful is going down today in California. Pray tonight for the people of the Pacific Palisades, LA. The infamous Santa Ana wind phenomenon is running at 80 to 100 mph. 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, so far, and there are two deaths and 1,000 buildings destroyed. It’s winter, but there is no water in the fire hydrants, hardly any firefighting planes, and “it’s like a third world Armageddon”. The fire department can’t do a thing… Two other fires have broken out around Los Angeles in other areas.
Then there are videos like this one, or a raging inferno surrounding the house, with a thousand comments below, wondering if they survived, and asking “why are they filming”? The men sounded far too calm, saying “I’ve turned off the gas”. “Oh Shit”. The scene is so surreal I wonder if this is AI generated, but it may be people raised in Californian education, living through a moment they could not parse.
In this video, they’re leaving the house, but the trees outside (the trunks!?) are already on fire.
Just in: Daybreak on Sunset Boulevard
Incompetence plus fuel = disaster“There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants. What was your brush mitigation program. The brush up in these hills … probably have been handled, mitigated, pruned, removed for probably thirty or forty years. It was a disaster waiting to happen.” — Rick Caruso, Real Estate Developer.
One video has the sound of “popping” and we wonder about all the EV’s or home batteries that surely line the wealthy streets of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu. We hope everyone’s EV was fully charged before the evacuation. Imagine being told to leave your home immediately and you only needed an hour to charge? If a thousand cars are bumper to bumper it might only take a few to run out of charge and lock up to really screw the traffic flow. Donald Trump says “Newscum” made it dry to save a worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!) but didn’t care about the people…  https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877036020081803468 It’s winter, but we know they’ll blame “climate change”. Thinking of you Scott of the Pacific, who can see the fire from his apartment miles away.
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