Going to Mars: Why People Will, When They Can

With a mean surface temperature of minus 65C, you'll need more than a woolly took and gloves to stay warm outdoors on the Red Planet. What's more, the air pressure is so low that, outside, you'll need a pressurized suit to prevent your blood boiling despite the cold. Oh and don't forget about the cosmic radiation and the energetic solar particles that will fry your DNA if you spend too much time outside without something better than sunscreen for protection. 

So why is it a near certainty that we will see people by the dozens, hundreds and almost certainly thousands taking a three-month journey in a barely furnished steel tube to reach Mars. Some will surely go at government expense, as scientists, diplomats, and spies. Others, rich and bored, will go as tourists for the thrill and the kudos. But most will go for the reason both men and women joined the Klondike gold rush: They will go in pursuit of a fortune. 

As President Trump's uncle opened a hotel in Northern BC to provide accomodation to both the men in search of gold and the girls who entertained them, so a Trump of the next generation could well provide the same service on Mars, opening there the first Trump Interplanetary Hotel, Starbase Mars. But beside the hotel trade, there will be all kinds of other business opportunities from machine rental and construction services, to the provision of guided tours, medical treatment, facilities for banking and communication, and the local production of food in air-supported greenhouses: Anyone for radishes at a hundred dollars a piece? Mars Starbase will make the goldrush Yukon look cheap. 

Trudeauvian Inanity: Canada Sending Military Personel as "Gender Advisors" to Ukraine

There you are: the entire story in a headline. 

True, the source is Russian, but if the story is fabricated its genius satire. 

The Original St. Nick Was No Jolly Fat Fool

The Christmas celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ has been a religious tradition for more than 2,000 years. Yet, over the past decades the Christian holiday has been reinvented by Western secular forces to serve consumerism, indulgence and materialism alone. The deep, philosophical meaning of Christmas and God's love for humankind is gone from our atheist mainstream culture, and we are shifting into nihilism, vanity and lovelessness.

Santa Claus has become this fat, humorous troll from the North Pole who puts gifts into children's stockings, riding his sleigh on reindeer in the air like a witch, while occult figures such as gnomes and elves aid him in the pursuit of serving the interests of the retail market. It is all Walt Disney. The story of the true Santa is totally lost.

Church history explains well who the original Santa Claus was, namely an early Christian bishop in modern-day Turkey, Saint Nicholas (A.D. 270-343). He was a wealthy man and one of the greatest church fathers in Christian history, an example in humility, generosity, love for the suffering, fearlessly facing evil. He used his money to help the destitute, the poor, the orphaned, and courageously spoke up against political leaders when he found injustice and wrongdoing. Saint Nicholas' work was marked by a desire not to achieve praise for his good deeds. He kept giving in secret, so that only God would see it. The aim was to mimic Christ in doing good to others and helping solve their problems. "The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic His giving".

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 Biden: The President Who Never Was

Gang Violence Rampant in Once Prosperous and Peaceful Sweden

It wasn't smart of the Swedes to invite in millions of migrants. Better to have kept Sweden for the Swedes. The identity of this killer has not been revealed, but pretty certainly he's no blue-eyed blonde. (Neither for that matter was the victim of this shooting. His real name, Ninos Khouri, is of Arab origin).  

If they'd wanted more people, the Swedes should have told their girls to get on with it. But like the other European peoples, all the white peoples in fact, plus the Japanese and the Chinese, the Swedes are evidently intent on committing national suicide. 

TruGO: Liberal Canadian Lawmakers Revolt

Liberal MPs had no problem with their narcissistic half-wit leader until they reached the cliff edge. Now they've reached the edge its time to push the whole dumb crowd over it.

British Values: Bangla-Deshi-origin Anti-Corruption Minister, Siddiq, Took a Multi-Billion-Dollar Bribe

Bravo. Mass immigration of a replacement population is really bringing Britain up to speed.

Siddiq, Britain's enterprising Bangla-Deshi Laborite Minister, is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the former Bangladeshi prime minister who was ousted in August.

Siddiq previously worked as spokesperson for the UK branch of her aunt's party, the Awami League. Siddiq, her aunt, formerly the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and her UK-based mother Sheikh Rehana Siddiq, are all currently under investigation by Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Siddiq's aunt fled to India from Bangladesh in August after her security forces killed hundreds of civilians during violent anti-corruption demonstrations. But, not to worry, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continues to have confidence in his under-fire Treasury minister after she was named in a Bangladeshi embezzlement probe.

Lara Logan: The Lights of Freedom Are Going Out

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In Saskatchewan Trudeau Warned, in BC Liberals Wumped

 Reuters:  .... A woman at a town hall in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada's west, ..., accused Trudeau of "working for your globalist partners" to betray Canada.

She then asked:

"What do we do with traitors in Canada, Mr. Trudeau?"

"We used to hang them." 

Meantime, in today's Langley BC by-election, the Conservatives wumped the liberals, easily taking what had  been a Liberal-held seat, and reducing the Liberal representative to a mere 16% of the vote. 

Musk/Rogan: The Lies of the Mainstream Media

Is Recycling Garbage?

O Canada, Who Stands on Guard for Me?

A CULTURE OF DEATH: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Killed More Than 13.500 People in Canada Last Year, accounting for one in twenty of all deaths.

Google Follows the Budlight Route to Ridicule

 

PC BS Strikes Again: The Jaguar Automotive Brand, From Wild Cat to Tame Pussy

Believe It or Not

1. Young adults in Ukraine would rather have babies and raise families than die in a US-engineered war to hurt Russia

2. Bill Gates boasts of using Indian kids for vaccine experiments

3. Starmer: British people are owed an explanation for the immigration flood - They're not interested in the reason for treason. They want an end to it.

4. Starmer pledges to reduce immigration with points-based reform

The Treason of Canada's Elite

 The most essential role of the leadership of a nation is to ensure the survival of the nation. Canada's ruling elite are complicit in national genocide. 

Canada is a dying nation with a fertility rate barely half the death rate. 

What is the Trudeau Government's response?

Bring in half a million people from elsewhere to make up the population shortfall. 

Now, in general, there is nothing wrong with the folks from elsewhere. 

Most likely, in fact, they are younger, healthier, brighter and better educated than the mass of people of the countries from which they come. 

What's more, they are likely younger, healthier, brighter and better educated than the mass of Canadians. 

To the Canadian elite, those are all plusses that make migrants preferable to native-born Canadians, who need a dozen or more years of costly public education before they are ready to enter the work force. By contrast, many migrants arrive work-force ready. Furthermore, many of the migrants that are not work-force ready are fee-paying students who stay on in Canada after paying Canadian schools and universities for their work-force qualification. 

And the consequence of this policy?

1. An increased demand for immigrant housing, which means elevated house prices. 

2. An increased demand for jobs, which means depressed wages. 

The net result?

(a) Delayed household formation by native-born Canadians.

(b) Fewer Canadian babies. 

Canada's population policy is thus a concealed policy of national genocide, which means its time to boot the Liberal-NDP coalition. 

But will the Tories do better? 

Tokyo Adopts 4-Day Workweek to Encourage Women To Have More Kids

Percent Global Manufacturing: China versus the US

Despite the continuing rapid growth of industrial production in China and other Asian economies, the United States remains a manufacturing giant, in particular when production is calculated relative to population.

Thus the US, with a population of 335 million, or 4.2% of the World's total, accounts for 16.3% of global manufacturing versus China, with a population of 1.418 billion, or 17.4% of the World's total, which accounts for 31% of global manufacturing.

Thus on a per capita basis, US manufacturing is more than twice (2.16 times) that of China. This difference in relative productivity may continue for some time. Last year, China's industrial production growth outpaced that of the US only slightly at 3.6% versus 3.4%.

Evidently, with a moderate stimulus, the rate of growth in US industrial production might well catch up with, or exceed, that of China. The tariffs planned by the incoming Trump administration may be all it takes.

Historical Background to the Ukraine/Russia War

There's a Real chance You Could Be Hit By a Black Hole: But Not to Worry, You Won't Feel It

Live Science: Minuscule black holes that can hollow out entire planets could be tunneling through objects on Earth, according to a wild new theoretical study. These hypothetical space-time missiles may be leaving microscopic traces of their passage in everyday objects and even our own bodies, the new research suggests.

Formed in the fiery afterglow of the Big Bang, primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates for dark matter — the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up 85% of the universe's matter. As heavy as mountains these hypothetical entities are barely larger than hydrogen atoms. 

The existence of promordial black holes has yet to be demonstrated. However, as reported in the December issue of the journal Physics of the Dark Universe, physicists are thinking about where to look for proof.

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Ukrainians Would Like to be Shot of Zelinsky. Some Might Like to See Zelensky Shot

As reported in Britain's Times newspaper, "Just 16 per cent (of Ukrainians) would vote to re-elect him (Zelinsky) for a second term," that being according to an opinion poll of 1,200 Ukrainians published this week by the Social Monitoring Centre in Kyiv. And the report continues: "The poll, the most comprehensive study of electoral preferences since the invasion began in 2022, also found that about 60 per cent would prefer Zelensky not to even stand for re-election." 

That's about how most Canadians feel about Zelly's bud, Justin Trudeau, whose national approval rate hovers at under 30%. Yet Trudeau has given Zelinsky about $5 billion of taxpayers' money in support of his war with Russia. That's about about five hundred dollars for every Canadian family of four, something the Canadian media has made no attempt to draw to the attention of Canadians.

Another thing that Canada's media have no interest in telling anyone is that the self-governing provinces of Eastern Ukraine against whom Zelinsky is at war assumed self government in accordance with the universal right of peoples to have a government of their own chosing. That is right recognized by both the Charter of the United Nations and also the Atlantic Charter, which was a joint declaration made during the course of World War II by US President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

When It Can No Longer Be Concealed, the Media Report the Truth

Britain's The Times newspaper reports that there has been:

... a general disenchantment with Ukraine's war leader, Volodymyr Zelensky both at home and abroad as he's clearly lost his "shine".

Yeah, well that will happen to the best of Amerika's puppet warmongers when the war they instigated has killed a million or more of their own people, when almost half of what remains of their population has migrated to some place else, and when the neighbour whose ethnic relatives in their country they set out to destroy has occupied a third of their territory with no intention of giving it back -- Ever.

Ukrainian Soldiers Are Deserting the Frontlines – Catastrophic Numbers Could Be as High as 200,000 Troops AWOL

Historian David Starkey on Sir Keir Starmer, Britain's New Puritan Commander-in-Chief and Self-Described Former "Chief Prosecutor"

Related:

Socialism: Science Or Cyanide?

Scott Horton vs Niall Ferguson: The Ukraine War

How the Ukraine War Ends?

Biden Officials Consider Returning Ukraine's Confiscated Nukes

The NY Times reports that US and European officials have discussed providing Kiev with nuclear weapons, for example, by returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Oh,good idea. And to enable delivery, better include some US ICBM's too.

Question is,though, how will Russia respond?

Will they target the White House first? The Capitol? Manhattan Island?

Which makes one wonder whether a better outcome might not be achieved if, for about five minutes, someone were to apply a pillow firmly over Joe Biden's face.

 ESCALATION: NATO & Biden Regime Edge Closer To WW3

Douglas Macgregor Reveals: Biden's SHOCKING Plot To Send NUKES To Ukraine!

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: American Aid With Ukraine's Missile Attacks on Russia Could Trigger World War

Here's the Problem With Never Trumpers Leaving the USA

They louse up some other place.

At least we can be thankful that Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have moved to rural England, not Canada. 

Even better, Whoopi's just abandoned her plan to grace Canada by her presence. And really, it would have been a drag to move all those shoes to Canada.

Trump's AG Pick, Gaetz, and Others Torments Lying FBI Director Wray -- A Pleasure to Watch

 

Aircraft Carriers -- The Pride of the American Navy: Now Obsolete

China's Submarines Can Track (And Sink) The American Navy's Aircraft Carriers

Likewise Britain's new carriers.

Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier ..

The Brits should convert their carriers to disaster relief ships. At least then they might do something useful in a time of crisis anywhere on Earth. 

Were Britain to do that, Britain's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, however much he may be loathed and despised by all and sundry, would have at least one claim to worthy action. 

Why Germany's Ruling Party Want to Ban the AfD (Because the ruling party is bleeding support to the AfD, obviously)

How Useful Is Artificial (so-called) Intelligence"?

 We just asked Chat GPT a question about forests and climate.

Specifically, we asked:

If all the world's forests burned, what effect would that have on global temperature?

Here's the answer we got:

Estimation of the Increase in CO₂:

Let’s assume that about 50% of the biomass carbon is released during a global forest fire:

• If global forests contain around 650 billion tons of carbon, then:
  • 50% of that (325 billion tons) would be released into the atmosphere.
• This would increase atmospheric CO₂ by 325 billion tons (or 325,000 million tons).

[Hey, wait a minute. 325 billion tons of carbon do not equate to 325 billion tons of CO₂.  The atomic weight of carbon is 12, the molecular mass of CO₂ is 44. So already CHAT GTP is out by a factor of 3.67]

Next:

Given that the atmosphere currently holds around 3,170 billion tons of CO₂, this would increase the total atmospheric CO₂ by about 10%.

[So, taking account of the above noted 3.67-fold error in estimating the amount of CO₂ that would be released on burning all the forests, it is evident that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration would increase not by 10% to around 460-480 ppm, but by 37% to 582 parts per million.]

So much for this so-called artificial intelligence that consumes so much electricity that it requires a nuclear power plant to operate. For now, we should regard such supposed intelligence with considerable scepticism while doing the best we can with the mere eighty or ninety billion neurons with their quadrillion or so interconnections that each of us is blessed with.

Checking the potential of AI further, we asked Gemini the same question we'd asked Chat GPT and got a more vague response -- but at least it made sense. Moreover, Gemini mentioned the negative impact of deforestation on global temperature through its effect on the amount of solar radiation reflected to outer space. Trees have a climate warming effect due to their high efficiency in absorbing solar radiation, up to 95% in the case of coniferous forests, whereas grassland, for example, absorbs only 80 to 85% of incoming solar radiation, the balance being reflected to outer space.

Relative importance of carbon dioxide and water in the greenhouse effect: Does the tail wag the dog?

Writing in the Journal SCE, Demetris Koutsoyiannis of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens assesses the relative importance of carbon dioxide and water vapour in the greenhouse effect. 

His conclusion?

... that the contribution of carbon dioxide is 4% – 5%, whereas water and clouds contribute  87% – 95%.

That carbon dioxide has only a minor effect is confirmed by the  hardly discernible effect on global temperature of the recent, more than one third increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration from 300 to 420 parts per million.

That doesn't mean that we should not care about the effects of human activity on the composition of the air we breath. But it does mean that because The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, or The Guardian have been telling you for years that life on Earth will soon be Hell due to carbon emissions, does not mean that what they say is necessarily so. 

Britain's Thought Crimes Police

So Much for the Church of England

Head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Pressured To Resign for Covering up the Crimes of a Serial Abuser of Boys and Young Men

Members of the Church of England Synod are "calling on Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby* to step down, saying he had ‘lost the confidence of his clergy’.

LOL. Anyone knowing anything about this former oil industry "money man" with deep involvement in the Nigerian oil business would have asked him to step aside before he was appointed. 

See: The Archbishop and the oil sharks

*Welby's father was Bernard Weiler, a German-Jewish immigrant and importer of luxury items who changed the family name to Welby."

Welby Gone: He failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps

Robert Kennedy Jr.: Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Kill My Father

Ukraine: An American War

GOOGLE WARNING: This Blog May Contain Sensitive Content: WTF?

 Is Google using some mentally deficient AI to censor content? 

Certainly the censorship seems mentally deficient. Here's the warning [Now removed] they are [were] giving anyone attempting to access this site:

Sensitive Content Warning

This blog may contain sensitive content. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Community Guildelines.

What does that even mean. Sensitive? sensitive! Is it now obscene, dishonest, or subversive to be "sensitive"?

Does Google's censor even know what the word "sensitive" means?

Isn't everyone alive "sensitive"? And what's wrong with that? 

This apparent effort by Google to discourage readership is so inane, we have to assume it is either done by a poorly educated teenager employed as a censor at sub-minimum wage, or by a really dumb AI.

Which is it Google?

Not that we're expecting a reply, let alone an apology. Sadly Google is not as it once was. In the early days, when I wrote to Google expressing concern about Google caching all of my proprietary published data (I was at the time a publisher of scholarly journals) I had a polite and reassuring email from Sergey Brin. Now we're just pissed on without any means of effective response -- other than this comment which I suspect Google's current censorship regime is too dumb to understand. But let's see.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Discussing the Social Impact of AI With Elon Musk

Tucker Carlson: Tim Walz and Kamala Harris - A weak Man and an Unhappy Woman

Proof That Trump Is Hitler -- Or Could It Be That Democrats Think Their Supporters Are Stupid?

 The Babylon Bee has put together the following list of startling similarities between Trump and Hitler to help you see the light:

1. Mein Kampf is German for The Art Of The Deal: Some people may try to tell you that's not the correct translation, but that's just revisionist history.

2. Both were called Hitler by their political opponents: Obviously not a coincidence.

Source 

When Tim Walz Spoke of Elon Musk "Jumping around skipping like a dipshit"

Trump applied Walz's nasty comment on Musk more appropriately to Walz himself:

Elon Musk Pennsylvania Town Hall: If Trump Does Not Win, This Will Be the Last Election

Quote of the Day, Week, Month, Year

 The western world has a population decline problem... 

So

The elites claim that’s why we need mass immigration...

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What is the idea?

Canada has a shortage of babies so you, the arrogant ruling jackasses, Justin Trudeau and others, have decided to bring in a mass of people from elsewhere. 

This is a plan that forces young Canadians to compete with a yearly influx of half a million migrants in the search for jobs and housing. The consequences are obvious: lower wages, higher house prices. 

They think that will raise the birthrate? 

No. They know it will drive the fertility of the native Canadian population even lower. 

So the plan is basically genocidal: it is to replace the mass of Canadians with people from elsewhere. Good people, for the most part, the migrants may be. But they're not Canadians. 

And mostly they're from nations with oppressive and tyrannical governments. To an anti-democratic elite that's a plus. It makes for a population more easily managed -- more submissive, more deferential, more grateful than the native population.

This is not democracy. It is the Chinese-style dictatorship so admired by Justin Trudeau as by his father. Why won't the people of Montreal vote the bastard out?

Jordan Peterson has one thing right: Justin Trudeau Is Stupid

‘I’m Not Amused’: Conservative Commentator Jordan Peterson Considering Defamation Suit Against Canadian PM Trudeau, Who Accused Him of Being Funded by Russian News Outlet RT. Gateway Pundit

No Need for Electric Cars

The world has too many politicians seeking power by promising to save the world from disasters of their own imagining. Expensive, electric cars weighed down by half a ton of batteries and with a range barely half that of a gas-powered car are a consequence. 

Yes, continuing to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration may be unwise. But battery-electric cars are probably not the best way to eliminate the effect of carbon emissions by gas-powered motor vehicles. 

Burning a litre of gasoline produces 2.3 kg of carbon dioxide. But carbon dioxide can be captured from the atmosphere and permanently sequestered underground for an estimated cost of 23 cents per kg. So why not add a Carbon Capture Charge of 53 cents to the price of a litre of gas and invest the proceeds in so-called direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide?

The answer to that question seems to be that governments headed by people like Justin Trudeau lack the either the expertise or the brains to govern well in a technological age. 

Tucker Carlson: Biden Voters Own 70% of the Wealth of the Nation