In this week’s podcast we take a look at the election results, and the machines used to produce those results.
New Yorker Cover sums up the state of America
On the cover of the latest New Yorker Magazine, we find a young woman, hair pulled back tight in a bun, with a smile on her face. She has make-up on with a blouse and appears to be on a virtual date as she’s drinking a cocktail and trying to look her best.
If you’re the guy, this woman looks hot. Put together, sophisticated, and happy. She is perfectly framed for the camera. Her face is proud and smiling.
But what’s the reality??
She lives in a tiny, shoebox room with a bunch of cats, and their litter box.
The room is filthy. Trash is thrown everywhere, used masks and gloves on the floor, take out containers are lying about, and many wine bottles on top of the fridge.
A closer examination finds prescription pill bottles. You see hairy legs. You see soccer shorts and slippers on to go with that pretty shirt, Amazon boxes, some remain un-opened. You see Cheetos bags, a bed that hasn’t been slept in.
Everywhere around her is distress, symbols of waste, decadence, dependence on drugs, alcohol, fake appearances, and the ‘conveniences’ of modern life.
In her mind, she probably thinks she is a strong independent female. However, she is ignoring the isolation, the dependence, self-medicating, delusion.
She’s living a disgusting and empty life but puts on that pretty face for an unsuspecting dude on the call.
The cover of the New Yorker has summed up our current state of affairs perfectly. Modernity is killing us. And modern men and women are a disgrace.
Actually, the men are much worse.
If the New Yorker cover were a man, he’d be skinny fat, or just plain obese. He’d have no muscles. He would have trash and junk around him just the same. But instead of cats and wine there’d be soda, fast food, and video games. Today’s men are soft and ambitionless. They’re manipulated man-children who haven’t built a thing in their lives, which is why they flock to Democrats and their pathetic policies.
Soy boys. Weak, isolated, unproductive masturbation machines. No kids, no future, no legacy.
Welcome to the Machine.
So it goes.
Civil Disobedience is our Duty: Americans are Rejecting Democrat Policies
“I read it with the strong feeling that here was something that concerned me directly…. It was the concrete, the personal element, the “here and now” of this work that won me over. Thoreau did not put forth a general proposition as such; he described and established his attitude in a specific historical-biographic situation. He addressed his reader within the very sphere of this situation common to both of them in such a way that the reader not only discovered why Thoreau acted as he did at that time but also that the reader—assuming him of course to be honest and dispassionate– would have to act in just such a way whenever the proper occasion arose, provided he was seriously engaged in fulfilling his existence as a human person. The question here is not just about one of the numerous individual cases in the struggle between a truth powerless to act and a power that has become the enemy of truth. It is really a question of the absolutely concrete demonstration of the point at which this struggle at any moment becomes man’s duty as man….”— Martin Buber, “Man’s Duty as Man” (1962)
Weld County, a county in the northern part of Colorado with a population of roughly a quarter-million people, has said ‘No’ the governor’s new lockdown rules:
“Instead, county government continues to do what it has done since March, which promotes and encourage residents and business owners to take individual responsibility and make decisions to protect themselves, their families, their community and their businesses,” the Board of Commissioners said in a statement:
“The county will not enforce a rule confining individuals to their homes for an undetermined length of time;
the county will not enforce a rule that states residents cannot have personal gatherings;
the county will not tell the school districts how to provide education to their students;
the county will not enforce a rule requiring a reduction of attendees in places of worship;
the county will not enforce a rule demanding restaurants close their indoor dining areas;
the county will not enforce any rule that forces a business to shut down or impedes their ability to operate.”
Weld County’s defiance came just days before news that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was “furious” because a Brooklyn synagogue reportedly held a secret wedding earlier this month “with thousands of unmasked guests” in attendance.
“If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law,” Cuomo said in a briefing. “It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York.”
Reports say the synagogue, the Yetev Lev temple in WIlliamsburg, has been fined $15,000.
In California, a saloon owner exposes Democrat’s hypocrisy, and is fighting back:
In Buffalo, New York, a protest of some 50 business owners (and supporters) at a local gym turned into a tense confrontation when a health inspector and deputies arrived (apparently after receiving an anonymous complaint) and refused to leave.
According to the Buffalo News, neither the health inspector nor the deputies would specify what rules the gym owner or those in attendance had broken. Authorities eventually left without issuing citations as protesters chanted “Get Out! Get Out!”
The gym’s owner, Robby Dinero, said the gathering was old-fashioned civil disobedience against lockdowns.
“It absolutely was a protest,” said Dinero, adding that enforcement of restrictions has been “arbitrary.”
Fraud: Using A Weighted Race Algorithm
It seems after almost every presidential election, we hear the left clamoring to do away with the electoral college, and go with one-person-one-vote. But in modern voting systems, does that even exist?
Are local officials guilty of violating Federal Election Laws by not providing a count of the digital ballot images, which are the actual ballot. Instead, you will see, that data has been deleted, and can’t be accessed? Why? Why would state officials be stonewalling attempts to get at the actual data?
In the video below, Dr. Shiva attempts to unravel how in many places there were more votes cast than actual voters:
Yes, and anything the GOP says about “fighting” against “election fraud” has nothing to do with the actual fight for election integrity, rather an occasion to raise more money for their coffers. Both parties have been using the Weighted Race feature for decades.
Time to get smart.
Mapping the Pain: The Human Toll of Pandemic Policy
We’re facing something much darker than a virus. 1 in 4 young adults are suicidal. Unemployed workers could lose $150 billion in 2021 and 40 million people are facing eviction. Elites are building a feudal society and telling us to give up everything that makes life worth living.
The following map shows how bad it could get in the next few months:
Endangered Sturgeon Get Help from Pamunkey Indian Tribe in Virginia
(NOAA) – The Pamunkey Indian Tribe received a NOAA Species Recovery grant in 2018 to assess the current number of Atlantic sturgeon spawning populations and expand the ecological knowledge and stewardship of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers.
The Pamunkey River in Virginia, named for the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, used to be filled with Atlantic sturgeon.
Atlantic sturgeon played an important role in Pamunkey life. They were not only food and income, but catching an Atlantic sturgeon and riding on its back was considered a rite of passage for young men.
Today, a small population of an undetermined size remains in the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers, tributaries to the York River. The York River is too salty for successful spawning, but Atlantic sturgeon are known to spawn in the Pamunkey. They may also spawn in the Mattaponi, although that has not been confirmed.
Warren Cook, a member of Pamunkey Tribe, recalls, “When my grandfather fished for sturgeon, the fish were so big that they had to put a halter around them and drag them in the water back to shore. They were over 6 feet long. Then, they would take the roe out. My grandmother would process it. She would take it apart and salt it, leave it a couple of days, and then wash and salt it again. Next, they would pack it up, and they would ship it by train up to Baltimore for processing as caviar.”
Survival Is at Stake
Atlantic sturgeon were once found in great abundance, but their populations have declined greatly due to overfishing and habitat loss. Added to the Endangered Species List in 2012, these large, bony-plated fish are struggling to survive as they continue to face a gauntlet of threats. Atlantic sturgeon are very sensitive to low oxygen, pollution, and other poor water conditions, which harm development of sturgeon offspring. These fish spawn in rivers, many of which have dams that block access to critical spawning grounds. Routine dredging of rivers to keep waterways open for commercial and recreational boats can kill eggs and young fish, as well as adults. They are also hit by vessels traveling the rivers.
Tribal Members Work Alongside Scientists
In 2018, the Pamunkey Tribe received a 3-year Species Recovery Grant from NOAA to address four goals:
- Create a more comprehensive ecological picture of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers and develop a Pamunkey River Keeper role to continue the work and foster improved stewardship
- Improve physical models of the rivers to better understand the relationship of water quality factors to Atlantic sturgeon spawning habitats
- Develop an estimate of the spawning population(s) in the rivers
- Determine how well sonar works for counting sturgeon
For the last three years, members of the Pamunkey Tribe have worked alongside researchers from Chesapeake Scientific to study these fish and their habitat. They collected water quality data at various stations throughout the river system, and captured and tagged Atlantic sturgeon. They also trained a Pamunkey tribal member for the York River Keeper position.
“We are going out there and tagging them, taking DNA samples, and trying to get an abundance estimate of the adult spawning population,” says tribal citizen April Deacy in a new video premiering at the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival called Pamunkey River: Lifeblood of our People.
“I’d never actually seen one before I worked this grant,” says tribal citizen Desiree Nuckols, who helps tag and track the enormous fish, “so it’s cool to actually work with the fish you hear stories about.”
“This work provides vital information about sturgeon and how each of us can make a positive difference toward recovering sturgeon populations,” says Lynn Lankshear, NOAA Fisheries regional species recovery coordinator for Atlantic sturgeon.
History Notes this week of Nov 30
799: Charlemagne, grandson of the great Charles Martel, holds an audience in the north-central German city of Paderborn with the embattled Pope Leo III, who fled Rome under persecution by the nobility of that city. Leo requested the protection of the powerful French king, and Charlemagne reciprocated with a vow of fealty to the papacy, which included a promise to forcibly re-install Leo in Rome. The meeting today began a chain of events that culminated in Leo’s re-installation as Pope, and him, in turn, proclaiming Charlemagne as the Protector of the Roman Empire. He thus became the first Holy Roman Emperor, a title that remained essentially intact through multiple dynasties over the course of 1,120 years, finally ending with the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which stripped the Austrian Royal family of any lingering claim to the throne.
1755: Birth of American portrait artist Gilbert Stuart (d.1828), best known for his unfinished portrait of George Washington, an image that is the central focus of the dollar bill, and one he copied for sale over a hundred times. His portraiture list reads like a Who’s Who of the Founding generation.
1763: Dedication of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest such assembly in the United States.
1775: Lieutenant John Paul Jones hoists the Grand Union Flag aboard USS Alfred, a Philadelphia-built merchantman, converted to a 10-gun warship under the command of John Barry. Jones, recently commissioned as First Lieutenant aboard Alfred, had the honor of ordering the new national flag raised on the new national warship.
1804: Fresh from his consolidation of dictatorial power as First Consul of the Directory, and fresher still from his recent gutting of a major Jacobin-inspired coup d’etat plot, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first since the demise of the Charlemagne’s dynasty a thousand years earlier. Napoleon assumed the title and crown as a specific means to re-establish a hereditary monarchy without the complications of getting the Bourbons back in the mix. There remains widespread belief that Napoleon grabbed the crown from the hands of Pope Pius IV* to negate the idea that the French monarch was subservient to the authority of the Church, but evidence to support the supposition remains apocryphal at best, although it is consistent with his character. After crowing himself, the new Emperor crowned as Empress, his wife Josephine.
1823: During his annual State of the Union address to Congress, President James Monroe outlines a new doctrine that asserts a fundamental change in the relationship between the United States and the nations of Europe. It boils down to two parts: 1) European colonization of the Western Hemisphere is over, and the United States will actively resist any further European military intrusion on this side of the Atlantic; 2) The United States will remain studiously neutral across the full range of real and potential European conflicts. The Monroe Doctrine was essentially the bedrock foreign policy of the U.S. through the Great War and well into the 1930s.
1824: As proof that U.S. presidential election drama did not begin with 2020, the 1824 presidential election this day is sent to the House of Representatives for decision under the terms of the 12th Amendment. Four men ran for the office: General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee; former Senator John Quincy Adams, son of President John Adams and long-serving envoy of the United States; former Senator William H. Crawford of Georgia; and Kentucky Representative Henry Clay, “The Great Compromiser” and Speaker of the House of Representatives. None of the men achieved a majority of Electoral votes, although Jackson received a plurality, with Adams a close second. You would be correct if you thought that between today and the time of the House vote, a great deal of politicking went on; when the vote finally came on February 9th, Adams won on the first ballot.
1857: Birth of Josef Teodor Konrad Natecz Koreniowski (d.1924), the Polish mariner better known by his English pen name, Joseph Conrad. Even with English as his second language, Conrad’s finely crafted prose is widely acknowledged among the best of the late 19th and early 20th Century. His novels plumb the depths of the human spirit, casting his characters within the venue of a sea voyage or river exploration that leads to ultimate truth. His long professional association with the sea, including duties as a captain, gave him an unparalleled eye for detail, and his own restless spirit, torn between his native Poland and his adopted Great Britain, sought meaning and truth from much of the ugly realities of life at sea. You probably read Lord Jim in high school, and perhaps Heart of Darkness; the latter provided the basic story line for the film, Apocalypse Now.
1859: Abolitionist John Brown is hanged by the neck until dead for his role in fomenting the bloody raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia back in October.
1866: Death of Colonel Sir George Everest (b.1790), Surveyor-General of India 1830-43. The mountain was named after him, much to his objection.
1877: Inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his gramophone for the first time.
1885: The U.S. Patent Offices recognizes Dr Pepper as a commercial drink. It beat Coca-Cola by a year.
1898: Birth of British author C.S. “Jack” Lewis (d.1963), best known over here for his deeply felt Christian conversion (“I went kicking and screaming”), that helped guide his writing of the great Chronicles of Narnia series.
1913: The nation’s first drive-in gasoline station- designed, owned and operated by the Gulf Refining Company- opens in Pittsburgh. Prior to its opening, gasoline was usually purchased at pharmacies or hardware stores. But now, dear motorist, you drive right up to the hose at a dedicated oil business, hand-crank a pump from the main tank, and drain the gasoline right into your automobile. Price at the time was $0.27/gal, or about $6.25/gal in current prices.
1917: The new communist government of Russia signs an armistice with the Central Powers. The cease-fire leads immediately to negotiations for a separate peace, ratified in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March, 1918. The cessation of hostilities allowed the Bolsheviks to concentrate their energies on their own increasingly bloody civil war, and gave the Germans in particular a boost of forces back into the Western Front.
1927: Birth of Vin Scully, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who just retired at the close of the 2016 season.
1927: After 19 continuous years of Model T production, Ford Motor Company begins sales of its next design, the Model A.
1929: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd becomes the first to fly over the South Pole. After learning to fly during the World War, the Virginia native pursued solutions to increasingly difficult flying problems, most notably long-range navigation. He developed a number of navigation instruments, including the bubble sextant, with which he proved that planes could be safely flown across great distances with reasonable accuracy. He played a key role in developing the routing of the Navy’s first trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 (DLH 5/27 Addendum). In May, 1926, he planned- and took credit for- a flight from Spitsbergen Norway to the North Pole and back, a feat for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1928 he led a two-year Antarctic expedition of two ships and three airplanes which surveyed and photographed vast areas of that frozen continent. The South Polar flight today was well-documented and earned Byrd a gold medal from the American Geographical society.
1935: Birth of film-maker Woody Allen.
1955: Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus, and is subsequently arrested. Her run-in with white authorities was not the first of its kind, but it was carefully designed to force a confrontation and to present the problem of segregation to a national stage. It succeeded, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the months that followed.
1959: The Antarctic Treaty is signed by the 12 nations participating in the International Geophysical Year (IGY), opening it for ratification by member states and others who will abide by its provisions. Antarctica remains the only land mass on the planet that is considered non-sovereign, and thus is part and parcel of the Global Commons– the regions of earth and space that, by belonging to no-one, are free to be used and exploited by everyone. The other Commons are the high seas (including the airspace over the high seas), exo-atmospheric space, and increasingly, the realm of cyber-space. The latter presents some complications, as it does not exist with the physical realm, but is dependent on engineering protocols and physical equipment** to function. One of the interesting questions in this regard is whether the State in which a server operates bears liability for the data that passes through the server.
1961: Two years into his Cuban Revolution, strongman Fidel Castro admits that he was a Marxist-Leninist, and that Cuba under his rule would be built into a communist state.
1964: 800 protesters from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement are arrested on Sproul Plaza and the Administration Building at UC Berkeley, where they occupied the building and staged a “sit-in” to protest the UC Chancellors’ decision to limit protests on campus. The OWS and other leftist goombahs over the past couple years are attempting to re-duplicate this movement, but without the internal fire and, probably more importantly, the fear of being drafted to go to Vietnam.
1970: Under Republican President Richard M. Nixon, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opens its doors.
1975: Death of Formula One World Champion, the great British race car driver Graham Hill (b.1927), in a crash of a small plane whilst attempting to land in foggy conditions near London.
1990: Napoleon Bonaparte’s cross-Channel dream comes true as “Chunnel” drilling machines from France and England meet 120 feet under the seabed of the English Channel (ou La Manche, si vous preferez).
2001: Death of George Harrison (b.1943), youngest of The Beatles.
Congresswoman Luria, Problem Solvers Caucus, and Senate Partners Unveil Bipartisan, Bicameral 4-Month COVID-19 Emergency Relief Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Luria joined her colleagues in the Problem Solvers Caucus and a bipartisan group of Senators in announcing a four-month bipartisan, bicameral COVID-19 emergency relief framework that will prioritize support for families, students, small businesses, and health care providers.
“Eight months after the CARES Act became law, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate families and small businesses across our nation,” said Congresswoman Elaine Luria. “Congress must do its job by finding common ground and putting forth a realistic COVID-19 relief package. I am encouraged by this framework that presents the viable and bipartisan proposals our communities need during this unprecedented public health emergency and economic crisis.”
The framework consists of $908 billion in aid and includes relief in the following key categories:
$288 billion for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
$160 billion for state and local governments
$180 billion for additional unemployment insurance
$82 billion for education funding
$25 billion for Healthcare Provider Relief Fund
$25 billion in housing assistance
$10 billion for dedicated broadband funding
Congresswoman Luria is a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is a bipartisan group in Congress comprised of 50 members, equally comprised of Democrats and Republicans, who are committed to forging bipartisan cooperation on key issues.
Video Evidence of potential Georgia Voter Fraud
I don’t know who needs to hear this but, legitimate ballots do not come packed in a Samsonite.
Observers testified: People in charge told the observers that they were shutting down for the night, and told observers to leave the building. They pulled hidden ballots out and “processed” them for two hours, out of sight of the observers.
Is it believable that “official ballot carriers” are under a table, and under the only table in the room with floor-length table cover? Surely 200+ years into our electoral system there is some basic standard for ballot containers. Something without multiple pockets where ballots could easily get lost. Are Samsonite suitcases with wheels that standard?
Odd: The room was full of people. Then it wasn’t. You can see other ballot boxes all over the room. These were hidden. Then they were run through the machines with no observers present. Sometimes things are exactly what they look like.
This appears to be a premeditated ballot stuffing operation which was only caught because the location was changed to a new facility (stadium) a few weeks before and the perpetrators did not know where the cameras were.
Also, it wasn’t just GA that stopped counting. Wisc, Mich, and PA all stopped within 30 minutes of each other.
The video below appears to capture a USB drive being diverted:
Mike Tyson and the Best Moment of 2020
Iron Mike Tyson has not boxed professionally since 2005, yet his performance against Roy Jones Saturday, and then hearing the humility and joy in Tyson’s voice during the post-fight interview proved to be one of the best moments we have witnessed this year. This was a great moment for Mike, to return to the ring in such a positive manner and make a difference in doing so by donating his check (he made a guaranteed $1 million per CSAC) to charity. Tyson talked up how great it felt to be a humanitarian, which is a far different label anyone than would’ve given him back in the day. He also showed, that he is at heart, a philosopher:
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