Down 80% in an hour – says it all.
Andddddd… It’s Gone
No Evidence of Anthropogenic GHG Emission Reduction Impacting Atmospheric GHG Concentration
Dr. Roy Spencer:
The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates that the economic downturn in 2020 produced only an 11% reduction in fossil fuel use. The resulting change in atmospheric CO2 concentration was unmeasurable.
Furthermore, while we nibble around the edges of the “carbon pollution” problem, China’s CO2 emissions continue to grow.
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Fed Day – Mind the Wedge
Gimme Shelter
Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Ooh yeah I’m gonna fade away
“Gimme Shelter”, Mike Jagger and Keith Richards
Hilarious Reactions to the Sock Puppet Administration’s “We’re Monitoring” the Short Squeeze
See also Tyler’s reaction in ZH: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-administration-monitoring-marketwide-short-squeeze
China Virus Lab Breach
A story published today in the Washington Times covers the US intell assessment of the China Virus as a lab breach event. The breach at the Wuhan Institute of Virology likely involved gain-of-function research funded by Dr. “Death” Fauci through the EcoHealth Alliance.
Here’s Bill Gertz:
U.S. intelligence findings recently declassified by the State Department provide fresh evidence for the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s sole high-security laboratory that has links to the country’s military.
The department, in a report made public this month by the outgoing Trump administration, disclosed for the first time that several workers at the Wuhan institute, where research on deadly viruses is conducted, were sickened in the autumn of 2019 with COVID-19-like symptoms.
The report also made public U.S. intelligence that the People’s Liberation Army conducted secret research on covert biological warfare at the institute. Chinese leaders have consistently denied any link between the lab and the outbreak of COVID-19 and have even promoted speculation that the United States or some other foreign source brought the virus to China.
Here’s the full story: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/26/wuhan-lab-theory-coronavirus-outbreak-bolstered-de/
Happy Birthday, Admiral Rickover
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor used for generating electricity. Rickover is also one of four people who have been awarded two Congressional Gold Medals.
Though not often cited in the literature, Rickover also introduced quality management that became the basis for SQC, TQM, and a wide range of industrial initiatives.
Some notable quotes:
“Responsibility is a unique concept… You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you… If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”
“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”
“When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.”
“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”
“The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.”
“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.”
In a Paranoid Nation, “Treason” Is Everywhere
James Brevard:
In a free society, peaceful citizens deserve the legal benefit of the doubt. In an age where government agents have endlessly intruded onto people’s land and into their emails, citizens should not be scourged for transgressing unknown or unmarked federal boundaries. There are enough real criminals in this nation that federal prosecutors don’t need to seek publicity by destroying people who may have unknowingly illicitly violated politicians’ sacred turf.
Texas Smacks Lawless Sock Puppet Administration
Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a complaint and motion for temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking the Court to immediately halt the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) freeze on deportations of illegal aliens.
On its first day in office, the Biden Administration cast aside congressionally enacted immigration laws and suspended the removal of illegal aliens whose removal is compelled by those very laws. The move violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law, and a contractual agreement between Texas and DHS. Last night, Attorney General Paxton issued a letter warning that the Administration’s actions resulted in an abdication of DHS’s obligation to enforce federal immigration law, which would seriously and irreparably harm Texas and its citizens.
“In one of its first of dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law. Our state defends the largest section of the southern border in the nation. Failure to properly enforce the law will directly and immediately endanger our citizens and law enforcement personnel,” said Attorney General Paxton. “DHS itself has previously acknowledged that such a freeze on deportations will cause concrete injuries to Texas. I am confident that these unlawful and perilous actions cannot stand. The rule of law and security of our citizens must prevail.”
The petition is available here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-sues-biden-administration-demanding-immediate-halt-unlawful-deportation-freeze
And a Federal judge blocked the deportation freeze.
Paxton, in a statement on Twitter, hailed the victory, saying, “Texas is the FIRST state in the nation to bring a lawsuit against the Biden Admin. AND WE WON.”
“Within 6 days of Biden’s inauguration, Texas has HALTED his illegal deportation freeze. *This* was a seditious left-wing insurrection,” the Republican continued. “And my team and I stopped it.
Playing God and Uncontrolled Experiments
The highest-paid Federal civil servant and his gain-of-function research with Federal tax dollars – outsourced to the Wuhan Institute of Virology – developed the high affinity ACE-2 receptor.
Dr. “Death”‘s labelled his opinion in the Washington Post: “A flu virus risk worth taking” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-worth-taking/2011/12/30/gIQAM9sNRP_story.html):
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