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Bad News For Bibi: New Poll Shows Most Americans Oppose Israel

12:46 pm on March 27, 2024

Cliffhanger: Assange Gets Temporary Reprieve From UK Court

12:40 pm on March 26, 2024

re: “The Hoax of Multiculturalism”

Lew’s article today reminded me of something Dinesh D’Souza said in his 1991 book, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus.  He pointed out that in the university world “multiculturalism” did not mean the study of various cultures but instead the hiring of Marxist professors from all cultures — an Asian Marxist, an African Marxist, etc., etc.  Marxists from all cultures of the world.

4:19 pm on March 25, 2024

The Norwegian Illusion

You can always manipulate data to have it support your interests. The question becomes when looking at statistics, how can you standardize the comparison so that all the factors involved are meaningful “apples to apples” evaluations?

Electric vs. ICE vehicles have become a political debate with all real costs based on the total inputs and how that relates to output very rarely considered. Even less so are they put on a standardized plane to make objective vs. subjective decisions.

A perfect example is when looking at different populations of people, we use a “per X,000 people” rate. E.g., per 100,000 people.

This is one of those exceptions that attempts to take all factors in EV vs. ICE vehicle production and consumption, and then standardize that in order to make an equivalency evaluation. The results won’t be shocking for anyone that isn’t a part of the Church of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development global hegemony establishment:

Most articles list EVs as anywhere between two and three times more energy efficient than the ICEs they replace. The basis for this claim is that internal combustion engines are only 40% efficient and that nearly 60% of the energy contained in gasoline or diesel fuel is “wasted,” –mainly in the form of heat and friction. On the other hand, an electric motor transfers nearly 90% of its electrical energy directly to the wheels. The difference leads many to erroneously conclude that an EV is almost three times as “efficient” as an ICE.

This common argument is fundamentally flawed for three reasons. First, it fails to capture the energy needed to make the battery; second, it fails to distinguish between thermal and electric energy; and third, it fails to account for the poor energy efficiency of renewable energy.

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In a combustion engine, the driver converts gasoline (high entropy) into forward motion with approximately 40% efficiency. Electricity (low entropy) drives a motor with approximately 90% efficiency in an electric vehicle. However, electricity does not exist in nature but instead must be generated. Burning natural gas (high entropy) to generate electricity (low entropy) is only 40-50% efficient. The EV is not inherently more efficient; instead, the inefficient “upgrade” from thermal to electric energy occurs off-stage and is conveniently omitted by most analysts.

[…]

We study the total energy required to produce various forms of energy, a metric known as energy return on investment (EROI). While a single unit of invested energy might generate fifty units of (thermal) energy over the life of a productive oil well, it will only generate ten units of (electrical) energy with wind or less than six from a solar panel. Furthermore, wind and solar power must be buffered by grid-level battery storage to avoid intermittency, which requires far more energy. Fully buffered wind likely has an EROI of six to seven, while solar may be as low as three. Claiming a renewable-powered EV is efficient because its motor operates at 90% fails to account for the poor upstream efficiency.

Instead, we have taken a completely different approach when calculating automotive efficiency: assuming 100 kWh of available thermal energy, how far can a driver expect to travel in an ICE compared with an EV. We prefer this methodology, as it aligns with our intuitive understanding of “efficiency:”: how much can we get out of a single unit of energy. Using this approach, the race isn’t even close –the ICE wins “hands down.”

1:14 pm on March 25, 2024

New York Robbery Of Trump…Put On Hold?

12:37 pm on March 25, 2024

Inquiry Abt Economics

From: Walter Block <[email protected]>
To: ‘Anthoney
Subject: RE: inquiry abt economics

Dear Anthony:

I do indeed have a “tip” for you. See below.

Best regards,

Walter

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6:16 am on March 25, 2024

New Squatters Coming: Invaders Quartered In Our Houses!

What kind of country allows itself to be invaded? A vast majority of what the federal government does, it should not be doing. It’s almost all unconstitutional. But they ignore the constitution and do it anyway. The federal government does have a job that it actually does have to do – protect the border – and it fails miserably at it. Our entire nation suffers as a result. Invaders are now squatters in our houses? That’s the severity of the failure that we’re now experiencing.

12:38 pm on March 22, 2024

A Funny Video Spoofing Commies…

… sent to me by a friend who grew up under Communism.

1:33 pm on March 21, 2024

A Deal For Assange?

12:36 pm on March 21, 2024

“Progressivism’s Belief in the Redemptive Powers of Democracy . . .

. . . is that the solution to all the problems of democracy was more democracy.”

–Ralph Rossum, Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment, p. 191.

Rossum was referring to late nineteenth/early twentieth-century progressives, but of course today’s progressives are totalitarian communists who define “democracy” as permanent monopoly power in the hands of themselves and their party, held together by censorship, never-ending lies and propaganda, cancel culture, lawfare, character assassination, vote fraud, corruption — by whatever means necessary.  You know, just like in the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and other socialist hellholes.

10:43 am on March 21, 2024

Does This Mean That Hillary Will Be the Demo-Bolshevik Party Nominee?

I read that the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, Bryan Malinowski, who worked there for the past sixteen years, was shot in the head in his home in a dawn raid by BATF thugs a few days ago.  Another addition to the Clinton Body Count gone bad? (He survived).  Interestingly, news reports give no reason for the raid.

5:55 am on March 21, 2024

You Asked, I Am Answering

No, I am not related to Senator J. D. Vance of Ohio. He is not the best Republican U.S. senator, that would be Rand Paul, but neither is he the worst.

5:58 pm on March 20, 2024

Asking The Wrong Questions On Afghanistan Withdrawal

12:35 pm on March 20, 2024

Ron Paul Pinpoints the Date When We Lost Control of Our Government

Lindsey Graham In Ukraine: ‘More Of You Need To Die’

12:35 pm on March 19, 2024

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Constitutional Ignorance on Full Display

Brandon’s affirmative action quota appointee to the supreme court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, recently decried the fact that the First Amendment is “hamstringing” government.  Well duh, Ketanji.  That’s the whole idea of the Bill of Rights, which is why it is colored with the language, “Congress shall make no law . . .”  Ignorance on steroids by one of nine people in the entire country who is given the power to decide what ALL of our constitutional liberties are to be.

It’s time to revert back to the pre-Lincoln, founding fathers era of constitutionalism where five government lawyers with lifetime tenure are NOT given the power to decide what everyone’s freedoms are to be.  Before Lincoln it was assumed by everyone that the president had an equal say on constitutional matters, as did the Congress, and especially the people of the free, independent, and sovereign states.  Lincoln’s war destroyed the founding fathers’ constitutional system through the violence and mass murder of war, and imposed the constitutional dictatorship of five political appointed lawyers that Americans have slaved under ever since.

This will be important historical knowledge once states/regions begin seceding from Washington, D.C. again as they did in 1860-’61.

11:01 am on March 19, 2024

Keith Olberman Expresses “Hope” on X that President Trump Will be Assassinated

Will Brandon send the FBI to shoot and kill Olbermann for this threat, like he did to the 75-year-old Air Force Veteran from Utah, Craig Robertson, who had said “threatening” things about Brandon?   Will the Secret Service even give him a phone call?

5:02 pm on March 18, 2024

Running On Empty: 70% Of F-35s ‘Not Combat Capable’?

4:38 pm on March 18, 2024

“The Bulwark of Freedom”

States’ rights, federalism, divided sovereignty, decentralization, home rule, whatever you want to call it.

As Frank Chodorov wrote in The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (pp. 84-86):

“Long before Hitler came on the scene, Bismarck had liquidated the autonomous German states.  Mussolini’s march on Rome would not have gotten started in the nineteenth century when Italy was an aggregation of independent units.  And of course, the Czars handed Lenin a thoroughly centralized government.”

And, as I wrote in The Real Lincoln (p. 169), quoting Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War:

“The impulse to unification was strong in the nineteenth century . . . and if we would grasp the significance of the Civil War in relation to the history of our time, we should consider Abraham Lincoln in connection with the other leaders who have been engaged in similar tasks.  The chief of these leaders have been Bismarck and Lenin.  They with Lincoln have presided over the unifications of the three great new modern powers . . . .  Each established a strong central government over hitherto loosely coordinated peoples.  Lincoln kept the Union together by subordinating the South to the North; Bismarck imposed on the German states the cohesive hegemony of Prussia; Lenin . . . began the work of binding Russia . . . in a tight bureaucratic net . .. . .  Each of these men became an uncompromising dictator . . .”

 

 

 

4:04 pm on March 18, 2024

What the Demo-Bolsheviks Expect the Voting Lines to Look Like . . .

. . . on November 5th.

7:06 am on March 18, 2024

The Final Pandemic: An Antidote To Medical Tyranny, Dr Mark Bailey Interview, Part One

In this interview Paul Hellier discusses with Dr Mark Bailey the new book he wrote with his wife, Dr. Sam Bailey, The Final Pandemic: An Antidote To Medical Tyranny.  I recently posted about their new book HERE.

This is a very readable, simplified version of Virus Mania, a massive reference that goes into extensive detail debunking Germ Theory and exposing the Myth of Contagions as well as documenting the biggest scams (multiple) ever created and maintained on humanity.

Alas, most people may never get around to reading Virus Mania – even though it’s a fabulous book – because it’s so huge.

Mark and Sam’s new book solves that problem by being shorter and more accessible.

I highly recommend their new bookThe Final Pandemic: An Antidote To Medical Tyranny” and please listen to Mark’s interview about the book, HERE, for Pt 1 (63min)

7:53 am on March 17, 2024

Rothbard Air Pollution Question

From: Walter Block
To: ‘Harry
Subject: RE: Rothbard Air Pollution Question

Dear Harry:

I just exhaled. I’m in New Orleans. Where are you? Let’s say, Seattle. That 2000 miles away. One million billionth trillionth of my carbon dioxide will visit you in about a week, let us suppose. You don’t really like me. The idea of you breathing in what I exhale makes you sick. You have a clear psychic income loss.

All Murray is saying is that insofar as the law is concerned, you are plain out of luck. My CO2 is “invisible or undetectable” to you. Yes, you suffer psychically, I posit that. But you have no remedy in law in the view of Murray. I think he is absolutely correct.

I think the reasonable expectation is that the restaurant puts good milk in their coffee. If not, they would be legally liable. Poison the coffee? Then, they are criminals. Ditto for the private road owner.

In my view, this essay by Murray on air pollution is the single best thing ever written on that subject.

Thanks for these important questions. I hope my responses have been helpful to you.

Walter E. Block, Ph.D.

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3:43 am on March 17, 2024

Recommended Reading: Virus Mania

Are you aware of the 2002 book, Virus Mania?

It’s a massive 516 page tome with 56 pages of references that thoroughly debunks the existence of the HIV “Virus” (pp 101 to 168) – as well as debunking the concepts of “Pathogens and Contagions” in general (pp 35 to 100).

Virus Mania is now in it’s 4th Edition… Greatly expanded.

It’s a monumental work that destroys the Myth of the Spanish Flu “Pandemic” (pp 245 to 260). This section documents how researchers failed to prove the “Contagion Concept despite forcing soldiers to repeatedly drink the coughed up fluids of sick individuals (Really – YUCK!!) as well as making the sick cough directly in volunteer’s faces – over and over. Yet – Not One Volunteer Got Sick!

Betcha never learned that tidbit of history, yes? Well, there’s a lot more in this exhaustively documented book (References: pp 459 to 515).

Please go HERE to learn more about the physical or Ebook or please consider the Audiobook (available in 8 different formats) narrated by Dr. Sam Bailey.

I Highly Recommend this for everyone.

5:56 pm on March 16, 2024

Alan Dershowitz on Fani Willis Exoneration: “Terrible, Terrible Opinion” (3.15.24)

Best take of the day, and better than Jonathan Turley’s. No one should be surprised at this outcome. Judge Scott McAfee donated to Fani Willis and was appointed by Georgia governor Brian “Goober Pyle” Kemp, the Nikki Haley of Georgia.

12:23 am on March 16, 2024

Uh Oh. Trouble in Paradise

A judge has ruled that the goofball prosecutor in Georgia, Fani Willis, can remain in the job only if she fires her totally-inexperienced-as-a-prosecutor lover who she hired to administer the case (which apparently involves simply taking orders from the Biden White House, which is the actual prosecutor).

3:30 pm on March 15, 2024

You Can’t Protect Freedom By Abolishing Freedom

The government cannot protect our freedom by taking away our freedom. It cannot shield us from harm (real or imagined) by censoring the truth and ripping away our privacy. It cannot “battle” communists by acting just like the communists. It cannot protect us from corporate fraud by mandating the use of their fraudulent products.

The government is supposed to follow the law, which is the U.S. Constitution, not ignore it and give it lip service only when it’s politically convenient. The Bill of Rights is not a joke. Those rights precede the government itself, and do not come from them. The primary job of every good citizen is make sure that those rights remain uninhibited.

12:34 pm on March 15, 2024

How Listening to Birds Singing Can Improve Your Health & Slow Brain Aging

Everyone knows that music can set the mood.

And it’s no surprise to most of you that music can also positively affect our health. Much research has been done on music therapy to reduce anxiety.

But I had no idea that listening to birds singing could have such an impact on my health – and not just mental health, but positively impacting our entire physiology!

I have a YouTube link on my computers I regularly listen to which is about 8 hours of birds singing.

There are lots of these kinds of links and I picked one with a hilarious title that my friends and wife think quite suitable for me. 😉

It’s called Relaxing Your Dog and you can find it HERE. I recommend it. Works for me LOL.

There are many benefits of listening to birds singing; go HERE for a good summary.

If you’d care to take a deeper dive about how birdsong impacts our overall health and particularly brain health – and slows brain aging, I recommend this article HERE: Music and the Vagus Nerve: How Music Affects the Nervous System and Mental Health.

12:29 pm on March 15, 2024

The Infectious Myth Busted Part 7: The Common Cold “Vacation”

It’s called the common cold for a reason.

Everyone gets one and everyone assumes that it’s a mild little problem that’ll pass quickly OR can morph into something more serious – like the flu – if a person’s not careful.

But what is it really?

Is it really an infection?

Or is it simply a detoxing process that without much muss or fuss the body will clean up and we’ll be on our merry way?

Back in the 1940s unique experiments were held. The public was offered “vacations” where they’d be studied with researchers trying to inflict on them the common cold.

Ads were placed:

“Free 10 Day Autumn or Winter Break: You May Not Win A Nobel Prize, But You Could Help Find a Cure for the Common Cold.”

Researchers would go on TV and radio promoting the ammentities offered, even targeting honeymooners looking for a relaxing time.

All that the volunteers had to do in order to partake in this paid vacation was subject themselves to experiments with fluids which may or may not contain a common cold “virus.” The ads worked.”

In this excellent essay Mike Stone of ViroLIEgy.com explores these questions and this history, HERE.

It really is fascinating and will change your thinking forever.

Funny how COLD hard facts can do that. 😉

Highly recommended.

11:11 am on March 15, 2024

Conservatives for Communism

The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, fully supports the TikTok ban winding its way through the Congress. Isn’t telling people what media they can and can’t use what communist countries do?

“For years, we’ve stood by and watched as ByteDance, a Chinese-owned company, has collected the personal data of American citizens without any real consequences,” Jake Denton, research associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “They’ve been allowed to gather sensitive information like our browsing history, our location, and even our biometric identifiers, all while maintaining close ties to the Chinese Communist Party”

But when the U.S. government does these things to Americans without any real consequences, the Heritage Foundation is silent.

 

10:56 am on March 15, 2024

Neocons Want to Ban Tik-Tok Because it Supposedly “Harms Young Americans”

If that’s the standard, then they should be campaigning 24/7 to abolish the public schools which have become nothing but commie (aka “woke”) brainwashing academies, or worse.

2:51 pm on March 14, 2024