China Can Cause Blackouts In US And Europe Through Solar Inverter Technology, Suggest Officials

Governments around the world are investigating and banning Chinese inverters after radio and backdoor kill switches discovered - Michael Shellenberger

It sounds like the far-fetched plot of a cheesy James Bond movie: 

the Chinese military causes civilization-crippling blackouts around the world, plunging cities from San Francisco to Berlin to Seoul into chaos, while invading Taiwan. Hospitals stall. Subways freeze. Data centers go dark.

But it’s not far-fetched. 

In fact, China just demonstrated that it has the power and may be willing to use it...

Remember the left's "...if we can save only one life..." lie??!!

 

I just finished reading Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, about his climb on Everest - he was the only one who survived on his team that year.

K2 appears to be much harder to climb. - Ileana Johnson
Few bodies remain on K2, a pyramid with continual slopes. 

Most wind up at near the same place at the bottom, in ice which churns over against the rock. 

A writer for Outside Magazine visited and photographed the multitude of colors you see in the ice from hiker's clothing.

#1 This day 1960-----Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown (1960)

Musta been the Amish?-----Vandalism of University of Michigan peonies was in support of Palestine, police confirm - mlive.com

“Plant lives don’t matter. Human lives do,” read the flyer - Jordyn Pair | jpair@mlive.com

ANN ARBOR, MI - Vandalism at the University of Michigan peony garden was done as a political protest, confirmed the university’s police.
Roughly 100 flyers calling for more support of Palestine amid the ongoing war with Israel in Gaza were found in the wake of vandalism that destroyed roughly one-third of the garden...

In the USPS/government mail today. From same company that is telling me I use too much LESS ELECTRICITY!

 

WATCH: Jasmine Crockett tries to describe Dem 'playbook' on the fly. It doesn't go well * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation

WATCH: Jasmine Crockett tries to describe Dem 'playbook' on the fly. It doesn't go well * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Crockett acknowledged in a March interview with "Lone Star Politics" that she was more focused on opposing President Donald Trump than passing legislation in Congress. In an interview with FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, reporter Steven Dial asked Crockett what "the Democrat playbook for the midterms" was and whether the party would focus on denouncing Trump or discussing "kitchen table issues."

7 Hard Questions That Everyone Should Be Asking About The “Pearl Harbor” Attack On Russia - Michael Snyder

In a world where deception is running rampant, it is so important to question the narratives that we are being fed.

Ukraine’s “Pearl Harbor” attack on Russia was extremely impressive, and it appears that quite a bit of damage was done. 

But we are also extremely fortunate that this attack did not spark a nuclear war. 

• If our nuclear bombers at Minot Air Force Base, Barksdale Air Force Base, and Whiteman Air Force Base were hit in a surprise attack, would we show similar restraint? 
• We are literally closer to nuclear war right now than we have ever been in all of human history, and those that are mindlessly celebrating Ukraine’s recklessness don’t seem to have any idea. 

Striking Russia’s strategic nuclear assets is a really, really, really bad idea. 

Now Vladimir Putin will feel compelled to respond very forcefully, and the Ukrainians are very much counting on that. 

The following are 7 hard questions that everyone should be asking about the “Pearl Harbor” attack on Russia…

• #1 Does anyone actually believe that Ukraine was able to pull this off without any outside help?...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com 

Allen Ginsberg 1926 - Writer, poet

• 1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
• 1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
• 1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
• 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
• 1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
• 1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

EU Praises Trump's 'Tough Love' Demands to Spend More on Defence

EU Praises Trump's 'Tough Love' Demands to Spend More on Defence: 

(AFP) — The European Union’s diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas said Saturday the continent was beefing up defence spending after “tough love” from the Trump administration, as she called for stronger ties to counter China’s “economic might”.

The way we were-----The American MAN Who Saved a BILLION Lives!

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Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning after treatment, trial finds

First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing - Andrew Gregory

Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients

• dying by a third, 
• stop tumours coming back 
• and is even more effective than drugs, 

according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide...
Now a world-first trial involving patients from the US, UK, Australia, France, Canada and Israel has found that a structured exercise regime after treatment can dramatically reduce the risk of dying, the disease returning or a new cancer developing...

• For the first time in medical history, there was clear evidence that exercise was even better at preventing cancer recurrence and death than many of the drugs currently prescribed to patients, one of the world’s top cancer doctors said...

James Woods Presents the Most Unhinged Anti-Trump TikTok Rant We’ve Seen

So this wasn't a live stream of a temper tantrum; this was edited, text was added, and then the guy uploaded it and hit "Post." - Brett T.
Enjoy this rant about, well, everything. 

Is this a bit? 

Or is the guy really melting down in his car? (Strong language warning.)

James Woods had thoughts:

'Zombie DEI': Is this med school circumventing the law? * WorldNetDaily * by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal

'Zombie DEI': Is this med school circumventing the law? * WorldNetDaily * by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal: 

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A medical watchdog thinks the University of Kansas' medical school is engaging in "zombie DEI" initiatives, even though diversity, equity, and inclusion projects are banned by state and federal law.

"Rebranding DEI as 'health equity' or other such terms is a clear effort to skirt state law in the name of woke ideology. Medical schools should drop their DEI agenda," Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told The Daily Signal. "Instead, they should focus on merit as the basis for recruitment and admission decisions, and lawmakers should target schools that fail to comply with state laws."

10 Minutes of Delusional Woke People Getting OWNED #3

MUST READ! USA needs to see this threat too!-----Massive Ukrainian Drone Attack Deletes a Third of Russia's Bomber Fleet and Sends a Warning to the US - streiff

Ukrainian special forces operatives launched simultaneous attacks on four Russian strategic bomber bases and the home port of the Russian Northern Fleet early Sunday.
The attack was reportedly a year-and-a-half in the making and involved a novel means of delivery and the first use of autonomous drone swarms.
This is what we know as of this writing....

They were located from the Siberian Far East to the Arctic Circle. 

• The furthest target, Belaya Airbase in Irkutsk, is over 2700 miles from Ukraine...
• By any standard, this was a devastating attack. Nearly half of the Tu-22, a quarter of the Tu-95MS, and a third of the Tu-160 fleet, representing just over 30 percent of Russia's strategic bomber force, were damaged or destroyed in one attack...

How did this come to be? 

The special forces operated by Ukraine's intelligence directorate, the SBU, used semi-trucks hauling trailers that were drone launch pods.

• China has access to some 43,000 container ships registered in either the People's Republic of China or Hong Kong (which is basically the same thing). 
• Imagine a few hundred of them carrying containers modified for launching drones.
• I would submit that a similar attack by China on US Naval and Air Force bases throughout the world would render a crippling blow that would force us to either acknowledge a possible Chinese conquest of Taiwan as a fait accompli or go nuclear...

Lunch video-----South Africa’s Crumbling, Corrupt Electricity Monopoly

Noon-toon

America First Immigration Team launches national effort to expose immigration industrial complex * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

America First Immigration Team launches national effort to expose immigration industrial complex * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta: 

A growing number of Americans are asking why qualified U.S. workers are being sidelined while corporations continue to import foreign labor. In response, WND has launched the America First Immigration Team, a dedicated unit of investigators, researchers and writers committed to exposing the full scope of what's become known as the Immigration Industrial Complex, the network of corporations, law firms, universities and foreign governments that profit from America's immigration and labor systems. Our team will publish a series of investigative reports and special features to shed light on the policies, programs and players that have transformed America's work visa system from a tool of last resort into a pipeline for replacing U.S. labor. What we'll expose and report on:

As student test scores plummet!

 

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#1 Movie this week 1976-----THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - Trailer

What is MAGA? - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry

In short, it isn't conservative, populist or even Republican. 

It has elements of all of those, but at its root, it is simply an anti-progressivism movement. - Michael Smith

MAGA is not really a populist movement, at least in the traditional concept of populism...

I think the easiest way to understand both the division – and strength - within MAGA is this: it is not conservative, moderate, or even Republican, what it is, is anti-progressive. 

• It has united people from across the political spectrum, most of whom agree on only one thing – that the collectivist progressivism that has coalesced within the modern Democrat Party is anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-reason, anti-science, and is destructive to prosperity and a positive future.
• Because MAGA is a movement of common sense for common people, the Democrats routinely characterize MAGA supporters as ignorant, stupid, and uneducated. 
• Democrats see themselves as elites who look to “intellectuals” to provide the “authority” upon which their infinite appeals to authority (a logical fallacy) depend...

#1 This day 1974-----Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Elon Musk explains the reason why members of congress don't want to codify DOGE cuts

"There is a massive amount of corruption... - Christina Aguayo News | Facebook

...What happens is your taxpayer money is sent to various government organizations who then send it to NGOs, which an NGO is an non-governmental organization. But obviously, if it's a government funded non-governmental organization, it's just an organization. It's just a government." "And effectively, there's a giant fraud loophole, which is that the government can send money to an NGO that is no longer governed by the laws of the United States"

• "Then they'll send the money overseas to one NGO, then they'll go through a bunch of them."
• "I'm highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of people like Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer etc'
• "Let's just say that there's, a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. How did they become rich? How do they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year?"
• "Nobody can explain that."

As the media continues to bury the truth!

 

God, guns, and glory: Trump's DOD obliterates woke DEI madness in patriotic recruiting video | Blaze Media

God, guns, and glory: Trump's DOD obliterates woke DEI madness in patriotic recruiting video | Blaze Media: 

Under the former Biden administration, woke policies and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives infiltrated all aspects of the federal government, including the U.S. military. Upon retaking office, President Donald Trump vowed to root out the dangerous DEI programs and refocus the military on its mission to fortify national security.

Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets

Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs through competitive bidding and merit-order dispatch. - From Climate Etc. 

 While markets can optimize resource allocation in many sectors, they struggle to deliver affordability and reliability in electricity systems dominated by intermittent renewables. 

This post first explains how power markets operate, then highlights their challenges, and finally explores why they amplify the cost challenges associated with wind and solar.

• In Part 1 of this series, we explored how the fat tail problem undermines the cost-saving potential of wind and solar. It’s easy to supply electricity most of the time. The fat tail occurs in the rarer periods of maximal demands, when wind and solar are not available. These periods, not savings during easy times, drive system economics. 
•   Part 2 discussed how rate structures distort perceptions of affordability for solar applications.

How Power Markets Work (and Fail)
Power markets use a merit-order dispatch system, where generators bid their costs, and the market sets prices based on the most expensive unit needed. During “easy” times—when demand is low or renewable output is high—wind and solar often dominate. 

Their near-zero marginal costs (no fuel expenses) allow them to bid low, displacing higher-cost fossil fuel plants and driving down market prices. 

This creates the appearance of cheap electricity and fuels the narrative that renewables are inherently cost-effective...