@QMS
...but that's what makes it a comfortable community.

The weather here is great..60's this AM headed to 80. However, we're supposedly headed for a dry hot week. So I'm going to get the last of my decks sealed and catch up on the mowing.

Have a good one!

Today we are once again blessed with a beautiful late summer day. Hope the weather gods
are not too fickle in your neighborhood. Very much enjoyed the Great Lakes Sailor video.
Brought me back to the commercial days of my sailing career down in the Gulf of Mexico.
The background music went well with the old ship and rusty terminals.

Many thanks for the biting commentaries in your watch. Wish those were delivered to a more
mainstream audience. But hey, we get it here. That matters.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Q

@on the cusp

..as I said the Maui fire just seems very suspicious. My first thought was a land grab, so I'm curious to catch your clip.

Have a great time at the concert! We're enjoying a bit of fall today, but headed back to summer next week.

It is cooling off a bit here. High of 97 today.
We are heading out to attend an afternoon performance by a popular Cajun band. We will spend the night near Beaumont, get home noonish tomorrow. I should be able to dig into to some of your articles and videos tonight.
Meanwhile, here is another interesting theory on the spate of wildfires around the globe:https://www.bitchute.com/video/O1aTo4CthTO3/
This is Catherine Austin Fitts and Sasha Laparova discussing fires in the context of billionaires snapping up real estate before their dollars are worthless. Catherine has analyzed fires and the aftermath for years. While these women do not address the method of starting fires, they agree they are intentionally set. She has experience in government, once the deputy secretary for housing and development. There are some comments that she witnessed government officials saying they were following orders, not obeying laws. Stunning stuff.
Well, have some fun today, LO.
Thanks for the great OT.

@ggersh

We're looking at 90's again next week. This time of year is always a roller coaster ride. Already leaves falling on the porch.

Fires and flooding. Well on we go.

Thanks for the autoearth!

it's Labor Day weekend and you didn't take it off, so again thanks

It's a scvhitz here in Chitown, in the mid 90's thru Wednesday, but
heck who's complaining, it could snow in a couple of month's, so
just enjoy....

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/09/debt-rattle-september-3-2023/

was on fire as well with the following

and hopefully the ex military came to the rescue

BREAKING: Claims surfaced of 36 ex-military Special Forces members showing up to Maui to help the local people and arrested some of the local police for treason to the country. pic.twitter.com/4JmPf8NVL8

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) September 2, 2023

@enhydra lutris

...but I'll say again something looks funny about the Maui fires. Tire rims melt but trees don't burn. Makes me wonder.

throw out some ideas and info on the "directed energy weapons" thing.

Regarding his first picture, he takes note of some things and says something to the effect of "That wasn't a forest fire, forest fires don't act that way". Too true, too true. It wasn't a forest fire because there was no forest there; that was a fookin' sub-division. There hasn't been a forest there for an enormously long time. When you look at suburban fires and urban fires in a woodsy setting, the appropriate analysis parallels suburbs and cities, not forests. Forests have a ton more trees, they are pretty tightly grouped, they almost always have an understory of highly flammable plant matter between and around the trees.

Let's look at subdivisions. Dense housing, not trees. Semi-isolated trees with no meaningful understory, the maintenance crews clean it out at least monthly. Much harder to set off a stand alone mature tree, especially one that is well watered.

Houses might have copper water pipes, or iron, or pex or pvc (both plastic). More and more since about the fifties, they have plywood sheeting or mdf or other manufactured panels that burn very hot (I suspect the fact that they're full of glue is a factor). On the inside they have sheetrock, doesn't really burn for shit, even if microwaved, but brittle if the framing burns up. Mostly, gas heating, water heaters, stoves, artificial fireplaces. GAS, brought in through underground pipes. If fire, from any source, gets to any of those lines or appliances, all hell breaks loose, and the fire spreads because the gas does. (As kids Californians learn where the gas shut-off valve is and that the first thing you do in a major quake or fire is run out and turn the damn thing off.) In a lot of semi-rural suburbs, many/most houses have large capacity external tanks full of gas that are filled when needed. Cars: if a car fire gets to the gas tank, and sometimes a fuel line is enough, you get a gas fire and spreading flames from the spreading gas. Both natural gas and automotive gas hang around and spread and keep on burning and burn hot, hot, hot. So, if such a place gets well ignited, houses and cars go up, trees very likely don't unless they're vulnerable and too close to the houses and cars.

Directed Energy Weapons exist. They're not too portable and use humongous amounts of power. They have a tightly focused beam. Some are mounted on warships. Were any funny looking warships seen hanging around Hawaii for hours before and during the fire? How about Herky-birds, any flocks of them hanging around any of these fire sites? None that I've ever heard of. Not a surreptitious method of arson. They're talking about putting lasers on Strykers, how powerful they'll be, and how much they can fire without a recharge I don't know. They're lasers so there is no possible magic microwave effect, and I know of no reports of large numbers of strykers rolling up and firing on any of these places either,

Just some things to consider

be well and have a good one

@MrWebster @exindy

I'm just hillbilly on lookout mt. The great game is simply beyond my comprehension. However, it is obvious there is a great game...at least to my mind.

Round and round we go...where we end up, nobody knows.

I believe an inspiration is in order. Spoiler: it doesn't have a happy ending. When I was growing up I was an avid reader. I read everything I could get my hands on, acceptable or not. My mother had taught me to read when I was a toddler. We really had nothing else.

Some years later I was introduced to the library. Oh what a wonderful opportunity. Andrew Carnegie went from being a bobbin boy in a textile mill to being the richest man in the world.

In 1889 Carnegie wrote an article called "The Gospel of Wealth," in which he spelled out his views on philanthropy: "In bestowing charity the main consideration should be to help those who help themselves."

The rich should give, so the poor could improve their own lives — and thus the lives of the society. Giving was a code of honor. "The man who dies rich dies in disgrace," Carnegie said.
...
"It is his responsibility to give it back," Nasaw says, "to return it to the community because the community — all of those men and women who contribute to the making of Carnegie steel, the mothers who feed their children, the day laborers, the whole large community — is responsible for making this wealth and they're the ones who have to get it back."

https://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/207272849/how-andrew-carnegie-turned-his-...

In response to a worker demand during a labor strike he said:

"If I had raised your wages, you would have spent that money by buying a better cut of meat or more drink for your dinner. But what you needed, though you didn't know it, was my libraries and concert halls. And that's what I'm giving to you."

And so he did: 1,689 public libraries. Temples of learning, ambition, aspiration for towns and cities throughout the United States.

The Gospel of Wealth is available at https://www.carnegie.org/publications/the-gospel-of-wealth/

He gave it all away. There ya go, Bill... match that.

When I was graduating from high school I wanted to go to what was Carnegie Tech in those days. We didn't have much money in those days so I couldn't go to the schools I really wanted so Carnegie Tech was struck from the list, as was Case Tech. I managed to do ok anyway and I am thankful for it. I couldn't have done it without the support of a man who dropped out of school after the 8th grade cause he couldn't overcome the stigma and quarantine of polio.

Carnegie Tech is now Carnegie Mellon. The libraries are being coopted by KKR and being priced out of reach of someone like me. Time for the John Donne poem.

I heard from a guy who knows a guy that one of the things submariners are afraid of is hitting freighters. The reason: freighters rev up their engines using enormous amounts of horsepower. And once they get their massive tonnage moving, they turn off their engines and rely on the momentum for travel. Of course, a submarine cannot hear them and could come up and collide with the freighter. Does this sound right to you?

@soryang TPTB are losing control, and that's the fear. How badly will they react? I don't know nor can I predict, but my bet is they react badly because TPTB seem to lack the ability to think critically...too much arrogance and hubris, IMO.

Glad you avoided Idalia!. Hope the summer continues in your favor. Some of my buddies lost power but are back in business now. All the best!

I wish they were losing control in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. However, it looks more like a retrograde movement, where pro-US, anti-China elements are digging in and arming up. Perhaps this presents the illusion of control as the situation grows more unstable.

You know if it's Saturday in Seoul, there are a lot of demonstrators out. I hoped to gather the best screen shots I could, but something changed, and I'm having inordinate difficulty with pics today. So Tim made this first demonstration picture easy.

A rally of 200,000 TEACHERS to protest recent suicides from abuse and push for worker rights is pretty amazing. https://t.co/1xJEOxObSt

— Tim Shorrock (@TimothyS) September 3, 2023

200 to 300,000 teachers demonstrating in Yeoido outside the national assembly building. Very impressive and well organized teachers making their voices heard about recent suicides of young teachers caused by family harassment of teachers trying to control their misbehaving children in school. Their demos have been are the largest I've seen in some time. Unfortunately, they are basically one issue workplace issues.

These were a couple of other demonstrations. There was an opposition led demonstration against the Fukushima reactor waste water release. Started at 3pm Seoul time and lasted a few hours. Democratic Party National Assembly members were present including the party leader Lee Jae-myung. Also present were a few representatives of the Justice Party and Basic Income Party. Lee started a hunger strike 3 days ago. He didn't limit his dissent to the Fukushima issue but went down the extensive list of shortcomings and failures of the current authoritarian Yoon administration. The media coverage was not extensive.

Saturday afternoon demo protesting Fukishima reactor waste water dumping into the Pacific Ocean. I think this assembly is near City Hall in Seoul. There were several thousand people, whom the police apparently separated into two groups when they began marching past Seoul Station.

The later demonstration was the 55th Candlelight movement parade, opposed to just about everything concerning South Korea's current direction. They basically want Yoon impeached or to step down. The parade was led by demonstrators carrying pictures of Korean independence movement heros who opposed Imperial Japan's colonization of South Korea. Recently, the Defense Ministry proposed removal of the busts of some of these leaders from the front of the Military Academy building where officers are trained. This represents an ideological move to change the historical perspective to one beginning with the US post WWII occupation and Korean conflict rather than a national foundation based upon Korean resistance to Japanese domination. This is consistent with President' Yoon's submission to US and Japanese foreign policy goals. It is also consistent with his hard line anti North Korean and anti-communist approach to domestic politics. All domestic opposition is implicitly labelled as communist in nature, or communist sympathizers. The removal of independence fighter busts from the military academy grounds is viewed as an extreme move even by conservatives who are not a part of the Yoon/Lee Myung-bak clique ruling South Korea currently.

Another example of this ideological trend is the gutting of the Unification Ministry by the brand new Yoon appointee, Kim Yung-ho. Who needs exchange or dialogue with North Korea?

Candlelight movement demonstrators, Saturday, Sep. 2, carrying placards with images of famous independence fighters who resisted Japanese Imperial rule of Korea. (edit) Korean independence hero General Hong Bum-do (placard fourth from the right) was the focus of the controversy. Kim Ku, the founder of the Provisional Republic of Korea in exile (in China) during the Japanese colonial period is far right. Ahn Jung-geun, (second from the right) was the assassin of Ito Hirobumi, the former Resident General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister.

Great WW Lookout. Thanks for the OT.

@snoopydawg

Look at how many times big pharma has been found guilty of committing criminal acts and after they paid a fine that came nowhere near what they made from the crime they were allowed to go forward and commit more crimes.

Think Vioxx
Results showed an increased risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes, in patients taking Vioxx compared to those taking a placebo (sugar pill). This risk was especially apparent for those taking Vioxx for more than 18 months,
oxycotin
Members of the Sackler family who are at the center of the nation's deadly opioid crisis have won sweeping immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to their privately owned company Purdue Pharma,
etc. etc...

We're pawns in the game.

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left there and that humanity had woken up to the horrors that were committed on people. But as we see what’s happening today that just isn’t true. The eugenics programs just went underground. Because of the Supreme Court’s decision on the smallpox vaccine, eugenicists decided that meant that they could do a force sterilization program on people that they didn’t think were fit to further their lineage.

But the reckoning cannot be confined to Scandinavia: Britain has some soul-searching of its own to do. What’s more, as in Sweden, the culprits are not long-forgotten fire-breathers of the far right. On the contrary: eugenics is the dirty little secret of the British left. The names of the first champions read like a roll call of British socialism’s best and brightest: Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes, Marie Stopes, the New Statesman even, lamentably, the Manchester Guardian. Nearly every one of the left’s most cherished, iconic figures espoused views which today’s progressives would find repulsive.

Thus George Bernard Shaw could write: “The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man”. Later he mused that “the overthrow of the aristocrat has created the necessity for the Superman”. The revered pacifist, disarmer and philosophical titan, Bertrand Russell, dreamed up a wheeze that would have made even Nazi Germany’s eugenicists blush. He suggested the state issue colour-coded “procreation tickets”. Those who dared breed with holders of a different-coloured ticket would face a heavy fine. That way the high-calibre gene pool of the elite would not be muddied by any proletarian or worse, foreign, muck. The New Statesman agreed, explaining in July 1931: “The legitimate claims of eugenics are not inherently incompatible with the outlook of the collectivist movement. On the contrary, they would be expected to find their most intransigent opponents amongst those who cling to the individualistic views of parenthood and family economics.” The bottom line is bleak but clear. Eugenics, the art and science of breeding better men, is not just the historical problem of Germany and now Scandinavia, nor even of the jackbooted right. It took root right here in Britain – pushed and argued by the left. Indeed, contempt for ordinary people and outright racism were two of the defining creeds of British socialism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/e...

When criminals aren’t held to account then the crimes they committed will continue to be committed. Look at how many times big pharma has been found guilty of committing criminal acts and after they paid a fine that came nowhere near what they made from the crime they were allowed to go forward and commit more crimes. Pfizer paid $2.3 billion for whatever it got caught doing and they just went back to business as usual until they got caught again, paid another fine and rinse and repeat.

A comment on the SC smallpox decision.

This isn't surprising at all - sadly. When Courts upheld vax mandates based on Mass. v. Jacobson and no media or attorney outlet analyzed the decision, I thought it was very strange. So I looked it up. A minute later I stumbled on Buck v. Bell which upheld state forced sterilization based on the Jacobson decision. Justice Holmes literally wrote the same police powers that can force a vax (a fine actually) can force sterilization of the unwashed.

@Blue Republic

...but I'm an ecologist and understand there are pyroclimax systems (fire driven ecospheres)...but Maui look questionable. So we should question. Today we should question most everything!

Thanks for the clip...I'll check it out.

Don't know *that* much about them, but they have been researched and most likely
developed starting back in the Cold War period. The HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) in Alaska and kindred facilities elsewhere are some of the main suspects (on the US and allied side, anyway).

Idea, if I'm remembering correctly, is to use energy transmitted by the radar arrays to redirect the energy of the magnetosphere as it is conducted through the ionosphere and (in conjunction with one or more similar arrays) cause energy to be concentrated at a given point and then to control the energy's release.

Thing being that unlike nukes, which leave an unambiguous signature when used, HAARP-type weapons may resemble natural phenomena or some sort of mundane human action - which means the bar to them actually being used (especially offensively) is much lower than for nuclear or conventional weapons.

Nexus Magazine (Australia) has covered this over the years, I've got hard copies of their magazine from the late 90's with coverage of it *somewhere*...

https://nexusmagazine.com/?s=HAARP&v=24d22e03afb2

BBC HAARP documentary (1995)