The situation can be complicated and hard to follow, but if you read the above excerpts provided by Jerry Dunleavy, it boils down to this: There was a rabid, seemingly inexplicable desire by most of the federal government under Joe Biden to rebuff any suggestion COVID-19 leaked from a lab.
Much of that effort centers on an April 2021 assessment that was presented to Biden and would become the backbone of his administration's response to the origins of the virus. As is revealed above, the FBI had ascertained a lab leak from Wuhan was the most likely explanation, placing a "moderate confidence" in their findings. Notably, that was the highest level of confidence applied by any of the other intelligence arms despite the rest of them backing the "zoonotic theory" of natural origins. Yet, no one from the FBI was even present at the briefing with Biden to present the counter. //
It wasn't just the FBI either. Scientists from the National Center for Medical Intelligence also backed the lab leak theory. They even specifically cited evidence that "gain of function" research was taking place in Wuhan despite that being dismissed as a conspiracy theory by Fauci and others.
The findings of those scientists were scuttled altogether, though, because the Defense Intelligence Agency had come to a different conclusion and seemed to have no stomach for entertaining the lab leak theory. Are you starting to see how this web of intelligence agencies can be manipulated to present a certain narrative regardless of the truth? //
It is impossible to ignore what appears to be a disturbing level of Chinese influence in the Biden administration. Whether that was being dictated from abroad or simply Biden officials being so entangled with the CCP that they felt the need to dismiss the lab leak theory on their own isn't that relevant. What's relevant is that a presidential administration was and remains inundated with people operating as Chinese proxies. That they were willing to manipulate national intelligence on an issue as important as COVID-19 should leave people questioning everything asserted by the federal government. //
Musicman
10 hours ago
I suspect the coverup was less about protecting China and more about protecting Fauci and the NIH. Who do you think funded the “gain of function research that wasn’t really gain of function” at Wuhan? We did. Likely because it would have illegal for us to do that kind of research that makes a virus more virulent and more easily transmitted (but for some technical reason doesn’t meet Fauci’s definition of gain of function).
When is a flow sleeve required?
Submersible well pump motors are designed to operate with a cooling flow of water over and around the full length of the motor. In water up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit, a flow of 0.25 feet/second for 4” motors rated 3 horsepower and higher, and 0.5 feet/second for 6” and 8” motors is required for proper cooling. If the minimum flow is not maintained, the motor can overheat. In these cases, flow sleeves, also known as flow inducer sleeves, must be used to provide sufficient cooling.
The following conditions require a flow sleeve as the minimum flow rate will not be maintained:
Pump is in an open body of water (for example, here in northern Idaho we have a lot of clients that have submersible well pumps in a lake)
- Large diameter wells (use Franklin Electric AIM Manual Table 6 to determine requirements, shown below) Click here to go to AIM Manual
- Pump is in a rock well or below the well casing
- The well is “top feeding”
- Pump is set in or below screens or perforations
Table 6 from Franklin Electric AIM Manual below shows the minimum GPM required for proper cooling.
“This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle…. [B]efore we turn again to the stern task and the formidable year that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.” //
OwenKellogg-Engineer | December 25, 2024 at 6:09 am
I just finished reading “The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson, about Churchills first year as PM (May 1940-May 1941). What an incredible insight into one of the 20th Century’s most prominent figure. He truly understood that the freedom of western civilization was at stake.
My, how we have slipped away in such a short period of time…..
Energy Expert Robert Bryce: “It is a colossal black eye for the wind industry, which has collected tens of billions of dollars in federal tax credits by claiming its landscape-blighting, bird-and-bat-killing, property-value-destroying turbines are an essential part of the effort to avert catastrophic climate change.”
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty on September 7, 1977. This agreement relinquishes American control over the canal by the year 2000 and guarantees its neutrality. On May 4, 1904, Panama granted the United States the right to build and operate the canal and control the five miles of land on either side of the water passage in exchange for annual payments. For the history of the Panama Canal, visit the Library of Congress American Memory section.
Appendix B: Texts of the Panama Canal Treaties with United States Senate Modifications -- Panama
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24
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Donald Trump looking at a meme on his phone of the U.S. buying Canada, Greenland and Panama on Amazon
4:06 PM · Dec 24, 2024.
Like so much else Trump says, this comes with more than a grain of truth. //
OrneryCoot
12 hours ago
At the heart of this is Trump trying to alarm Chinese officials to no end. The original Monroe Doctrine posited that there would be no influence by Europe any more in the Americas. China has apparently thought that since they are Asian, it doesn't apply to them. Trump, I believe, through his trolling, is sending a message to the Chinese that they should focus on their own durn backyard and get out of ours. It's trolling on the surface, but it is serious in undertone, and I think the message is being received by the Chinese quite clearly. Whether they take more persuasion is anyone's guess, but I think that they will probably have to be bonked on the nose a few times before they quit sniffing around. China is our main adversary now. All of the others are secondary. That doesn't mean that Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other bad actors don't deserve our attention, but the main focus HAS to be on China. That's why Rubio, Mike Waltz, and other China hawks are being chosen for Trump's second administration. He's got it together. He knows his priorities. That he uses unconventional tactics like these are good...it will keep the Chinese flustered and unbalanced. January needs to come quickly. //
1776-2023RIP
12 hours ago
Trump is always eventually proven right. In essence, if not in rhetoric. Trump sees the macro while the left focuses on the micro. The Right takes him seriously but not literally. The Left takes him literally but not seriously. I could list all the examples but they are well known and become more apparent by the day.
Obviously the Panama Canal and Greenland are of vital strategic and economic importance to the U S.
Our relationship with Canada is as well.
While purchasing Greenland or “taking back” the Canal, may not, or even should not happen, it is obvious that corrective measures to keep them in our sphere of influence, is imperative. Trump knows this.
And he says as much, in his own unmistakable way.
The same thing with Canada. Since he is always right, let’s take him seriously . But not necessarily literally.
NVIDIA's CEO reflects on Elon Musk and the xAI team building the world's fastest supercomputer in just 19 days.
“Building a massive factory, liquid-cooled, energized, permitted, in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. And, as far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.
Elon is singular in this understanding of engineering and construction and large systems, marshaling resources. It's unbelievable. //
From the moment that we decided to go, the planning with our engineering team, then all of the infrastructure, all of the logistics and the amount of technology and equipment that came in on that day, to training, 19 days. Incredible.
So, I think what Elon and the X team did is singular. Never been done before.
Just to put in perspective, 100,000 GPUs is easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet, as one cluster. A supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan, and then they deliver the equipment, and it takes one year to get it all working.
We're talking about 19 days.”
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA on the
@BG2Pod
, October 13, 2024
T'was was the night before Christmas and all through the nation, everybody was excited about mass deportations, and the illegal bad hombres who shouldn't be here are all dreading the day that Tom Homan appears.
Soon I'll be your next president... Kamala will not.
We were sent with a mandate. We won by a lot.
On day one, we'll get work done to boost our morale, we'll annex Canada and Greenland and the Panama Canal. Everybody's excited to be finally done with Joe, including our 51st governor -- I call him Queen Justine Trudeau.
In addition to cached redirects, HTTP Strict Transport Security (aka HSTS) may be at play. HSTS is a security feature that forces the browser to use HTTPS even when accessing an HTTP URL.
The browser will start using HSTS for a domain after receiving a Strict-Transport-Security header from the server. The browser also ships with a list of domains for which HSTS is enabled by default.
In Chrome, there is a way to delete your domain from HSTS after it was added by the server. Though, you can’t exclude domains that are baked in the browser (this includes popular websites and notably everything under the new .dev TLD)
Go to chrome://net-internals/#hsts. Enter example.com under Delete domain security policies and press the Delete button.
Now go to chrome://settings/clearBrowserData, tick the box Cached images and files and press click the button Clear data.
already known bug. And very nasty. As i can see internally no fix ready yet.
Unofficial workaround:
Open in Vivaldi's address field chrome://flags/#https-upgrades
Set to Disable
Restart Vivaldi
⚠ Flags settings are always very experimental, unofficial and can cause other issues.
I hope you can remember much later that you made such changes when something is wrong.
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The U.S. Census Bureau will now count refugees and border releases in its population estimates, a move that will affect congressional apportionment forecasts and demographic data. In a blog post Thursday announcing the change, the bureau noted, “a net of 2.8 million people migrated to the United States between 2023 and 2024. This is significantly higher than our previous estimates.”
The data offers a glimpse of how congressional apportionment maps could change by 2030. It also shows how, as U.S. citizens flee states with garbage leftist policies, the inclusion of noncitizens in census data allows those states to keep congressional seats because their population is propped up by illegal aliens. //
Domestically, people are leaving Democrat-led states in droves. California is down 239,575 domestically, but it gained 361,057 internationally. New York lost 120,917 people domestically and gained 207,161 internationally. Illegal immigration is slowing the loss of population and congressional seats in blues states. //
The 14th Amendment requires that “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state.” The “whole number” has traditionally been understood to provide congressional representation for every person in a district, not just citizens eligible to vote.
“Generally, we should want an apportionment that best reflects the people of the United States and where they live,” Kincaid said. “If people are voting with their feet and moving from California to Florida, that should be reflected in our apportionment.”
The new numbers illustrate how illegal immigration can shape the balance of power for U.S. voters.
The Census Bureau asks about citizenship in its annual American Community Survey, but asking about citizenship on its 10-year census became a political issue in 2018 when President Donald Trump called on the bureau to put the question “Are you a U.S. citizen?” back on the census, as it had been in past years. As Federalist contributor Ben Weingarten reported at the time, Democrats fought the request. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Trump on a technicality, and the question was not used in 2020.
Nevada is investigating hundreds of potential election integrity violations from the 2024 elections, including 180 open cases of double-voting, according to a Friday report from the secretary of state’s office.
The office noted 182 investigations of potential double-voting in the state, with only two having been resolved, with no violation found. Likewise, for 2024’s primary and general elections, 762 Election Integrity Violation Reports were filed by Nevadans who believe state election law has been violated, but 515 cases have been closed with no violation found, while 243 cases remain open and four were found to be violative of election law.
“The Secretary of State’s report is only scratching the surface of this problem, which exists because Nevada’s voter rolls are still littered with voters who have moved out of state. Yet Secretary Aguilar has stymied efforts by outside groups such as the Pigpen Project to assist in cleaning them up,” Chuck Muth, president of the Citizen Outreach Foundation (COF), which runs the Pigpen Project, told The Federalist.
Then Vice President Joe Biden met his son Hunter’s foreign business partners during a 2013 overseas trip to China, newly released photographs show. The unearthed records also document Hunter meeting Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Obtained by America First Legal (AFL) via open records request, the photographs from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) appear to show Hunter introducing his father to several Chinese members of BHR Partners, a Chinese investment firm with ties to the country’s Communist government.
As the New York Post previously reported, Hunter “cofounded BHR Partners in 2013 within weeks of joining then-Vice President Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two on an official trip to Beijing.” The First Son reportedly “held a 10% stake in BHR Partners at least through part of his father’s first year as president and the terms of his divestment remain murky,” according to the outlet.
The pictures obtained by AFL appear to show Joe meeting BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li and Director and Managing Partner Ming Xue. The released records also show Hunter meeting Xi and then Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao.
For those unacquainted with Li, he and the Bidens helped arrange the transfer of stealth technology to a blacklisted Chinese military manufacturer. No, that's not the plot line of a movie. That actually happened, and there has been zero accountability in the aftermath of those revelations. With Joe Biden's recent pardoning of his son, that's unlikely to change.
RedState's Jennifer Van Laar exposed the aforementioned deal through her original reporting back in 2020. In 2023, Devon Archer, one of Hunter Biden's business associates, confirmed her reporting surrounding Li and the Bidens while testifying before Congress. These newly released pictures provide the final piece of evidence that the meetings did take place. //
Notably, lawyers representing Joe Biden and Barack Obama worked with the National Archives to stop these photos from being released before the 2024 election. That alone would be treated as a major news story if we were talking about a Republican. The size of the cover-up here is immense, spanning former and current presidents along with US federal agencies.
Unfortunately, as is to be expected, mainstream "news" outlets have no interest in digging deeper into what is legitimately the biggest presidential scandal in modern history. You've got pictures of a vice president using taxpayer money to introduce his son to Chinese officials, some of which the Bidens would become entangled with professionally, including the reception of large sums of money. Then once Joe Biden became president, he weaponized the National Archives (just as he did against Donald Trump) to stop the release of damaging evidence to protect himself and his party politically. //
Republicans don't need to let this go. While legal accountability may be off the table, exposing the rank corruption and criminal activity of the Biden family is an important endeavor. The American people deserve the truth, and the Democratic Party needs to pay a high political price for this.
Javier Milei has shown what can be done. He's turned a deficit into a surplus for the first time in more than 100 years in their country, and in such a short time in office.
It may take a little longer for us, but how do you do it? With commitment, will and afuera! //
Musk cited remarks from Ronald Reagan from 1975, before he was president. But it's all kinds of sense when it comes to tax policy as he explains that even then the government was taking about half of what Americans earn. Reagan spoke out against taxes on businesses that the left pushes but then end up landing on the people. //
"We oughta have tax reform, and we oughta start by making it so simple you don't have to hire a lawyer to figure out how much you owe every year," Reagan said.
"We live in the only country in the world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax than it does to earn the income," he quipped.
"There's very little that government can do as efficiently and economically that people can't do themselves. And If government would shut the doors and sneak away for three weeks, we'd never miss 'em." //
How much of a tangle is everything in? The Office of Management and Budget can't even tell you how many "boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are in the federal government."
We've been talking about this for almost 50 years. We're at a point where the words are more true than ever and where we now have a golden opportunity.
You finally have Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy with the force and the will. Now, they need to harness that same common sense and make it happen, despite the people who will try to stand in their way.
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Meredith Angwin @MeredithAngwin
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Dec 23
Grid frequency drifting outside operational limits implies the system is running at the margins. https://watt-logic.com/2024/12/23/gb-grid-frequency/
Thanks to Kathryn Porter for this analysis!
From watt-logic.com
chrispydog @chrispydog
When I explain this stuff to people: "Have you seen when a spinning top starts to wobble, and what comes next?"
Most people 'get it' pretty fast.
4:34 PM · Dec 24, 2024. //
I then analysed the number of 15-second intervals in each winter season for which the operation or statutory limits were breached. The results are in the table below. As can be seen, in the past 4 years, there have been c 500 times the upper operational limit was breached, but in 2017 – 2019 the number was higher. The lower limit has tended to be breached less often – 2022 was an outlier with a very high number of breaches. There has also been a consistent trend of lower limit breaches increasing in frequency, which is consistent with falling grid inertia (see chart). //
This fits with the expected picture that the grid is becoming less reliable. It is also interesting that when individual occurrences are inspected, it is more often the case that frequency has drifted outside the operational range rather than suddenly falling out as would be expected from an outage. This is more worrying as it points to a general difficulty in maintaining stable frequency – things will always break and trip, and the grid is designed to deal with that, but these drifts outside the range speak more to a wider reduction in stability versus what is expected.
He said that when one of his vice presidents spoke with Harris, Harris arrogantly told her, "You better get on board! You better get on board! Better get on board soon." O'Brien told the story, chuckling in disbelief at that arrogance.
Then, she finally agrees to come to the roundtable after all the pressure from O'Brien. Rank and file members asked questions -- 16 questions. Trump did it. But Harris didn't want to answer them. On the fourth question, O'Brien describes how one of her handlers slips him a note saying, "This will be the last question," ending the session twenty minutes earlier than when it was supposed to. Yikes, she couldn't even make it through 16 questions? But that was typical; she didn't want to be put on the spot, even in what might be friendly environments.
O'Brien then said that her incredible declaration on the way out was, "I'm going to win with you or without you."
Probable Cause
18 hours ago
There's a fourth factor. When President Trump attempts to motivate the sea of government workers, he can say:
"Do you want me to send you back to where you were?"
"Unemployed?"
"In Greenland?!"