Happy Bastille Day, everyone: “As France’s President Emmanuel Macron kicked off Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, troops from Central and Eastern Europe joined the annual military parade in an apparent nod to the war in Ukraine.”
This Global News short video is the least annoying because 1) there is no reportorial voiceover; 2) it shows a decent sample of the various units of the French military, including the Garde républicaine, the cadets of Saint-Cyr (France’s West Point), and the French Foreign Legion (which always draws cheers from the crowd). About the presence of the Paris fire brigade (Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris): it’s part of the Bastille Day parade because Napoleon militarized it in 1810 and it’s still part of the French Army (the Marseille fire brigade is a unit of the French Navy).
Dog lovers will be happy to see that military service dogs are included in the parade.
This piece by Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Hoeg at Bari Weiss’s Substack is very good but also more than a little infuriating.
All of the doctors and scientists speaking anonymously out of fear of their own careers while their agencies push out garbage science. Have some courage people.
Except for the Wuhan virus and the post-George Floyd murders and mayhem, the Trump POTUS years were, for the most part, years of good events arriving with increasing frequency. The Biden POTUS years have been nothing but bad events arriving with increasing frequency.
getting back on thread its striking how lowell and schiaperelli helped create this conception of mars and life therein, which wells ran with, and burroughs, went hog wild with, bradbury tried to grasp a more realistic vision, it’s probably too small of a planet to sustain an atmosphere, suitable for life, not to mention the influx of cosmic rays,
Griffin, nice link.
BTW, I’m still plugging along gathering Covid data everyday. I almost stopped a month ago but there has been a rise in “cases” and my main motivation is to keep track of what the data says vs Fauci, CDC et al.
About 3 months ago nationally we started into a mini-wave of “cases”. Frankly, if people and government would just stop testing, I would guess 90% of these “cases” would disappear. Covid is now endemic, and really no different from other flu strains at this point. It’s only the incessant testing that puts a label on it and is then used by the left for fear mongering. Add to that new studies coming out that show a good portion of the people being infected are those who have been boosted.
Anyway: the current “wave” plateaued about 40 days ago. At that point the case data quality became very suspect. Did you know about 100k cases disappear from Friday through Monday, only to reappear Tuesday-Thursday ? During the last 4 weeks the CDC data can go from -150k cases to +200k cases in 2 days. The case data has never showed such large swings in values since I first started recording the data 2 1/2 years ago. Only in the last 40-50 days has it become so bad.
State level data is much better. For the states I follow, this “wave” is about 1/10 the peak of omicron wave. And, like before, the death toll is very small. Just for example, in CT the 10 day average covid death rate is 2.4/day. Just for comparison, from HHS, CT’s daily death rate from all other illnesses (heart, cancer etc) is 104/day.
physicsguy,
Yep, the real test of this all is what happens come October and then into the winter. And by ‘this all’ I mean whether the blue states and cities are going to go all in on masks again and remote schooling.
I am heartened somewhat by the number of people I know that took it all so so seriously for so long that are now complaining about it and how useless all these things are.
They are going to have a harder time pulling it off now. Look at the 2% uptake for under 5 year olds since the vax was approved for them. More and more people are on to the game.
My theory is we will see mask mandates in blue cities and states but they won’t be followed or enforced at all.
My daughter caught COVID two weeks ago where she teaches, and gave it to her husband. He got tested, and came up positive, so she was tested as well. He was sick for three days (fever, body aches), and she just had a cold, with recovery in seven days. Their four-year-old didn’t get it, nor did his parents, who were visiting. Now she reports it’s all over the university, with students and faculty getting it. No one so far is seriously ill. This “wave” is simply not very dangerous except to very fragile people.
Kate:
Glad they’re doing well. My son’s whole family had it last winter (including the grandkids), and fortunately they didn’t get very sick.
However, I think the elderly still have to be careful.
physicsguy and Griffin–
The Phillies just dropped two games to the Blue Jays because several of their players refused to comply with Turdoo’s vaxx policies and stayed home, and the team was short-handed:
While it’s rough to lose two games at a time when your team is in contention for a wild card spot, I’m proud of the players who stood up to Justine (who, incidentally, came down with COVID a second time about a month ago in spite of three boosters). More, Trudeau’s health minister Jean-Yves Duclos said on July 4 that Canadians should get vaccinated every nine months to be considered “up to date.”
It’ll be interesting to see whether the usual blue state suspects will fall in behind Canada.
PA+Cat, KC Royals go into Tor down 9 players who can’t enter Canada, so nine tripleA guys come up to fill the roster. Hardly square dealing from the rest of the AL east’s point of view.
sdferr,
Yes, my long suffering Mariners are tied with Toronto so it’s just dandy that they get to play four games against a bad KC team made worse by a depleted roster.
There is no good reason for this border entry mandates at all.
Griffin, sdferr:
There is no good reason for this border entry mandates at all.
Time for the War of 1812, v. 2.0?
The enjoyed the video on the origin of earth’s water. I happen to know a little bit about the work that went into the first serious proposals that earth’s water came from comets. This video doesn’t begin to portray how much extreme resistance there was to that theory. The scientists who advanced the comets theory were called worse things than crazy, worse things than self-promoters. For better or worse, almost every issue discussed in this video originated in a similar amount of controversy. The history of science is one of violent arguments, smoothed over by time, and by the death of opponents.
Anyway, aside from smoothing over the history of scientific controversies, I thought that this series of videos was very well done. According to their YouTube page, the series was produced by just three people. Yes, the melodrama was laid on too thick, but it looks like they know their audience. Over the last two years, they’ve made 25 videos, acquired 322 thousand subscribers, and had 24,343,642 views. That’s a great success, and I’m happy to see YouTube put to good use. I probably spend too much time complaining about it.
Cornflour:
The water didn’t come from C1 carbonaceous chondrites? Holy Ort cloud?
Actually that’s what little that I remember from a single grad school geophysics class from 40+ years ago.
Snowball Earth? Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism, Geosynclines vs Plate Tectonics. Now it’s all AGW/Climate Change/Sustainability; fads, fashion, and dogma in science.
If you don’t want to read all of it, just look at the first two charts and the 5th chart.
These charts pretty much sum up the scam, the lie, the fraud that CO2 is an important component of climate change.
It is not at all.
Om:
According to the video, there was some dispute about whether earth’s water came from comets or from asteroids. Supposedly, recent analyses of samples from both comets and asteroids support the theory that water came from asteroids.
I’m many years away from current research on this topic, so I can’t offer an informed opinion — but I had fun watching the video.
“The global warming scam…”
Indeed.
And now, the NITROGEN IS AN AGRICULTURAL POLLUTANT scam…which is the basis on which the Dutch government, in cahoots with the WTF is attempting to royally screw Dutch farmers.
Here’s Michael Yon:
“Climate Mandates Imposed On Dutch Farmers Will Ruin Their Livelihoods…”— https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/climate-mandates-imposed-dutch-farmers-will-ruin-their-livelihoods-war-correspondent
Key grafs:
‘The livelihoods of Dutch farmers are under attack due to the Dutch government’s proposed nitrogen policy, which could necessitate the mass slaughter of livestock and potentially shut down almost a third of the country’s farms.
‘If this policy is implemented, it will have “major security consequences, not just for the Netherlands, but for all of Europe and the world,” said Michael Yon, a war correspondent who has recently arrived in the Netherlands to report on the ground from the Dutch farmers’ protests.
‘The Netherlands is a small country in Europe with a population of 17 million people, but it is the second-largest food exporter in the world…. They have the most efficient farmers in the world.”…
‘…But Yon said Dutch farmers are not polluting the environment and…they’ve been farming the land for thousands of years.
‘Nitrogen is being labeled as a pollutant and used as a decoy [emphasis mine; Barry M.] by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to put the farmers out of business and control the food supply, Yon said…..”
Canada’s next in line, with the US to follow.
There’s a reason for the food crisis.
There’s a reason for the energy crisis (which can apparently only be fixed by ANYONE-BUT-THE-US ramping up production—think about THAT!
There’s a reason for the supply chain crisis.
There’s a reason for massive inflation.
There’s a reason why Joe Biden was elected “with a record number of votes….”
“To everything there is a [reason]”…
Cornflour:
There’s some great science stuff on YouTube and all kinds of other educational things. I often listen to them, speeded up, when I do housework. I especially like things about geology and cosmology, as well as early hominids and cultural history (the development of agriculture and that sort of thing). Then for entertainment, videos about the development of fashion, and of course the Bee Gees.
OTOH, the “In-The-Red” Guards(?) seem to just be following in the footsteps of “The Great Helmsman”‘s inspiring (if insipid) poetry…
Indeed “Let a hundred [million] flowers default…”
File under: “Swept away” (the sequel)…
Griffin, sdferr, physicsguy, and others concerned about COVID scare-mongering:
Bill Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection just posted an item about a physician who got kicked off Twitter for posting a link to an article (from a respected medical journal) about a study indicating that the COVID vaxxes reduce men’s sperm counts:
Griffin said at 2:03 p.m., “As the calls for mask mandates return and here in a couple months more booster requirements these people [doctors and researchers at the CDC and FDA] need to speak up. Have some integrity.”
Just think what could happen if word gets out that guys who want to be fathers some day (or who are already dads) might be risking their fertility if they submit to an endless series of COVID boosters . . . . Fauci would be looking for a bombproof hideout at the very least.
The link from John Tyler, 9:17 p.m., shows in its entirety the testimony of Lindzen and Happer (highly qualified physics professors) before the SEC on its proposed “climate change” rule. It is excellent! Naturally, the SEC ignored them. The states which prevailed in the Supreme Court have already written to the SEC pointing out that it has, even more than the EPA, no statutory authority to require anything to do with CO2 emissions.
I wasn’t going to comment on the water-comet idea, but WTH… 🙂
I couple of points not mentioned in the video: Volcanoes produce a large amount of water. It’s a fairly easy calculation to take the current volcanic water protection rate and multiply it out by the earth’s age and find it can account for a significant fraction of the the earth’s water. Add in that in the early cooling earth the volcanic rate was higher than today and it comes even closer.
Second point: Mars also had a significant early volcanic outgassing period as evidenced by the huge volcano remnants seen. Now evidence of early oceans and streams is piling up. One point that the video and the volcanic hypothesis agree is that due to Mars’ smaller size it was not gravitationally situated to retain its atmosphere and thus its water.
}}} Time for the War of 1812, v. 2.0?
Why go in for half measures?
Face it: It’s 1775.
}}} Then for entertainment, videos about the development of fashion, and of course the Bee Gees.
So you’re listening to a Robin Gibbs song played at 78?
😛 😀
}}} And now, the NITROGEN IS AN AGRICULTURAL POLLUTANT scam…which is the basis on which the Dutch government, in cahoots with the WTF is attempting to royally screw Dutch farmers.
Not just The Netherlands. It’s fucked over Ghana and Sri Lanka, too…
Yeah, that nitrogen!! Makes up about 70% of the atmosphere!
Of course, what they are talking about is nitrogen oxides, but like CO2 they want to confuse the rubes by just saying “carbon” or “nitrogen”. Fixed nitrogen fertilizers are absolutely necessary for modern food production which is why Sri Lanka, and the Netherlands, are in such trouble. And most likely the US next as these climate crazies continue to take over.
OBloody:
That would certainly be an interesting way to listen to the Bee Gees. Much of a muchness. But no, I prefer normal speed for them. It’s the academic lecturers I like to speed up.
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone: “As France’s President Emmanuel Macron kicked off Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, troops from Central and Eastern Europe joined the annual military parade in an apparent nod to the war in Ukraine.”
This Global News short video is the least annoying because 1) there is no reportorial voiceover; 2) it shows a decent sample of the various units of the French military, including the Garde républicaine, the cadets of Saint-Cyr (France’s West Point), and the French Foreign Legion (which always draws cheers from the crowd). About the presence of the Paris fire brigade (Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris): it’s part of the Bastille Day parade because Napoleon militarized it in 1810 and it’s still part of the French Army (the Marseille fire brigade is a unit of the French Navy).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQ4jtiMzYg&ab_channel=GlobalNews
Dog lovers will be happy to see that military service dogs are included in the parade.
This piece by Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Hoeg at Bari Weiss’s Substack is very good but also more than a little infuriating.
All of the doctors and scientists speaking anonymously out of fear of their own careers while their agencies push out garbage science. Have some courage people.
https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following
As the calls for mask mandates return and here in a couple months more booster requirements these people need to speak up. Have some integrity.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/07/the-hidden-agenda-behind-new-york-times-desperate-ray-epps-puff-piece/
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/07/14/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-mess-its-a-jungle-out-there/
Except for the Wuhan virus and the post-George Floyd murders and mayhem, the Trump POTUS years were, for the most part, years of good events arriving with increasing frequency. The Biden POTUS years have been nothing but bad events arriving with increasing frequency.
getting back on thread its striking how lowell and schiaperelli helped create this conception of mars and life therein, which wells ran with, and burroughs, went hog wild with, bradbury tried to grasp a more realistic vision, it’s probably too small of a planet to sustain an atmosphere, suitable for life, not to mention the influx of cosmic rays,
Griffin, nice link.
BTW, I’m still plugging along gathering Covid data everyday. I almost stopped a month ago but there has been a rise in “cases” and my main motivation is to keep track of what the data says vs Fauci, CDC et al.
About 3 months ago nationally we started into a mini-wave of “cases”. Frankly, if people and government would just stop testing, I would guess 90% of these “cases” would disappear. Covid is now endemic, and really no different from other flu strains at this point. It’s only the incessant testing that puts a label on it and is then used by the left for fear mongering. Add to that new studies coming out that show a good portion of the people being infected are those who have been boosted.
Anyway: the current “wave” plateaued about 40 days ago. At that point the case data quality became very suspect. Did you know about 100k cases disappear from Friday through Monday, only to reappear Tuesday-Thursday ? During the last 4 weeks the CDC data can go from -150k cases to +200k cases in 2 days. The case data has never showed such large swings in values since I first started recording the data 2 1/2 years ago. Only in the last 40-50 days has it become so bad.
State level data is much better. For the states I follow, this “wave” is about 1/10 the peak of omicron wave. And, like before, the death toll is very small. Just for example, in CT the 10 day average covid death rate is 2.4/day. Just for comparison, from HHS, CT’s daily death rate from all other illnesses (heart, cancer etc) is 104/day.
physicsguy,
Yep, the real test of this all is what happens come October and then into the winter. And by ‘this all’ I mean whether the blue states and cities are going to go all in on masks again and remote schooling.
I am heartened somewhat by the number of people I know that took it all so so seriously for so long that are now complaining about it and how useless all these things are.
They are going to have a harder time pulling it off now. Look at the 2% uptake for under 5 year olds since the vax was approved for them. More and more people are on to the game.
My theory is we will see mask mandates in blue cities and states but they won’t be followed or enforced at all.
My daughter caught COVID two weeks ago where she teaches, and gave it to her husband. He got tested, and came up positive, so she was tested as well. He was sick for three days (fever, body aches), and she just had a cold, with recovery in seven days. Their four-year-old didn’t get it, nor did his parents, who were visiting. Now she reports it’s all over the university, with students and faculty getting it. No one so far is seriously ill. This “wave” is simply not very dangerous except to very fragile people.
Kate:
Glad they’re doing well. My son’s whole family had it last winter (including the grandkids), and fortunately they didn’t get very sick.
However, I think the elderly still have to be careful.
physicsguy and Griffin–
The Phillies just dropped two games to the Blue Jays because several of their players refused to comply with Turdoo’s vaxx policies and stayed home, and the team was short-handed:
https://notthebee.com/article/im-not-gonna-let-canada-tell-me-what-i-do-and-dont-put-in-my-body-phillies-catcher-gives-up-quarter-million-dollars-for-not-complying-with-canadas-jab-rules
While it’s rough to lose two games at a time when your team is in contention for a wild card spot, I’m proud of the players who stood up to Justine (who, incidentally, came down with COVID a second time about a month ago in spite of three boosters). More, Trudeau’s health minister Jean-Yves Duclos said on July 4 that Canadians should get vaccinated every nine months to be considered “up to date.”
It’ll be interesting to see whether the usual blue state suspects will fall in behind Canada.
PA+Cat, KC Royals go into Tor down 9 players who can’t enter Canada, so nine tripleA guys come up to fill the roster. Hardly square dealing from the rest of the AL east’s point of view.
sdferr,
Yes, my long suffering Mariners are tied with Toronto so it’s just dandy that they get to play four games against a bad KC team made worse by a depleted roster.
There is no good reason for this border entry mandates at all.
Griffin, sdferr:
There is no good reason for this border entry mandates at all.
Time for the War of 1812, v. 2.0?
The enjoyed the video on the origin of earth’s water. I happen to know a little bit about the work that went into the first serious proposals that earth’s water came from comets. This video doesn’t begin to portray how much extreme resistance there was to that theory. The scientists who advanced the comets theory were called worse things than crazy, worse things than self-promoters. For better or worse, almost every issue discussed in this video originated in a similar amount of controversy. The history of science is one of violent arguments, smoothed over by time, and by the death of opponents.
Anyway, aside from smoothing over the history of scientific controversies, I thought that this series of videos was very well done. According to their YouTube page, the series was produced by just three people. Yes, the melodrama was laid on too thick, but it looks like they know their audience. Over the last two years, they’ve made 25 videos, acquired 322 thousand subscribers, and had 24,343,642 views. That’s a great success, and I’m happy to see YouTube put to good use. I probably spend too much time complaining about it.
Cornflour:
The water didn’t come from C1 carbonaceous chondrites? Holy Ort cloud?
Actually that’s what little that I remember from a single grad school geophysics class from 40+ years ago.
Snowball Earth? Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism, Geosynclines vs Plate Tectonics. Now it’s all AGW/Climate Change/Sustainability; fads, fashion, and dogma in science.
The global warming scam; see here
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2022/07/13/professors-challenge-the-canard-of-anthropogenic-climate-change/
If you don’t want to read all of it, just look at the first two charts and the 5th chart.
These charts pretty much sum up the scam, the lie, the fraud that CO2 is an important component of climate change.
It is not at all.
Om:
According to the video, there was some dispute about whether earth’s water came from comets or from asteroids. Supposedly, recent analyses of samples from both comets and asteroids support the theory that water came from asteroids.
I’m many years away from current research on this topic, so I can’t offer an informed opinion — but I had fun watching the video.
“The global warming scam…”
Indeed.
And now, the NITROGEN IS AN AGRICULTURAL POLLUTANT scam…which is the basis on which the Dutch government, in cahoots with the WTF is attempting to royally screw Dutch farmers.
Here’s Michael Yon:
“Climate Mandates Imposed On Dutch Farmers Will Ruin Their Livelihoods…”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/climate-mandates-imposed-dutch-farmers-will-ruin-their-livelihoods-war-correspondent
Key grafs:
‘The livelihoods of Dutch farmers are under attack due to the Dutch government’s proposed nitrogen policy, which could necessitate the mass slaughter of livestock and potentially shut down almost a third of the country’s farms.
‘If this policy is implemented, it will have “major security consequences, not just for the Netherlands, but for all of Europe and the world,” said Michael Yon, a war correspondent who has recently arrived in the Netherlands to report on the ground from the Dutch farmers’ protests.
‘The Netherlands is a small country in Europe with a population of 17 million people, but it is the second-largest food exporter in the world…. They have the most efficient farmers in the world.”…
‘…But Yon said Dutch farmers are not polluting the environment and…they’ve been farming the land for thousands of years.
‘Nitrogen is being labeled as a pollutant and used as a decoy [emphasis mine; Barry M.] by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to put the farmers out of business and control the food supply, Yon said…..”
Canada’s next in line, with the US to follow.
There’s a reason for the food crisis.
There’s a reason for the energy crisis (which can apparently only be fixed by ANYONE-BUT-THE-US ramping up production—think about THAT!
There’s a reason for the supply chain crisis.
There’s a reason for massive inflation.
There’s a reason why Joe Biden was elected “with a record number of votes….”
“To everything there is a [reason]”…
Cornflour:
There’s some great science stuff on YouTube and all kinds of other educational things. I often listen to them, speeded up, when I do housework. I especially like things about geology and cosmology, as well as early hominids and cultural history (the development of agriculture and that sort of thing). Then for entertainment, videos about the development of fashion, and of course the Bee Gees.
Looks like “Biden” might have to double-, triple- and even quadruple-down to help out his pals in China.
‘ “The Damage Could Be Huge”: Chinese Banks Tumble, Swept Up In Mortgage Nonpayment Scandal As Borrowers Revolt ‘
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/damage-could-be-huge-chinese-banks-tumble-swept-mortgage-nonpayment-scandal-borrowers
Yikes (sire): The peasants are revolting!
OTOH, the “In-The-Red” Guards(?) seem to just be following in the footsteps of “The Great Helmsman”‘s inspiring (if insipid) poetry…
Indeed “Let a hundred [million] flowers default…”
File under: “Swept away” (the sequel)…
Griffin, sdferr, physicsguy, and others concerned about COVID scare-mongering:
Bill Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection just posted an item about a physician who got kicked off Twitter for posting a link to an article (from a respected medical journal) about a study indicating that the COVID vaxxes reduce men’s sperm counts:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/physician-threatens-to-sue-twitter-over-suspension-for-tweeting-scientific-article-on-covid-19-vaccine-lowering-sperm-counts/
Griffin said at 2:03 p.m., “As the calls for mask mandates return and here in a couple months more booster requirements these people [doctors and researchers at the CDC and FDA] need to speak up. Have some integrity.”
Just think what could happen if word gets out that guys who want to be fathers some day (or who are already dads) might be risking their fertility if they submit to an endless series of COVID boosters . . . . Fauci would be looking for a bombproof hideout at the very least.
The link from John Tyler, 9:17 p.m., shows in its entirety the testimony of Lindzen and Happer (highly qualified physics professors) before the SEC on its proposed “climate change” rule. It is excellent! Naturally, the SEC ignored them. The states which prevailed in the Supreme Court have already written to the SEC pointing out that it has, even more than the EPA, no statutory authority to require anything to do with CO2 emissions.
I wasn’t going to comment on the water-comet idea, but WTH… 🙂
I couple of points not mentioned in the video: Volcanoes produce a large amount of water. It’s a fairly easy calculation to take the current volcanic water protection rate and multiply it out by the earth’s age and find it can account for a significant fraction of the the earth’s water. Add in that in the early cooling earth the volcanic rate was higher than today and it comes even closer.
Second point: Mars also had a significant early volcanic outgassing period as evidenced by the huge volcano remnants seen. Now evidence of early oceans and streams is piling up. One point that the video and the volcanic hypothesis agree is that due to Mars’ smaller size it was not gravitationally situated to retain its atmosphere and thus its water.
}}} Time for the War of 1812, v. 2.0?
Why go in for half measures?
Face it: It’s 1775.
}}} Then for entertainment, videos about the development of fashion, and of course the Bee Gees.
So you’re listening to a Robin Gibbs song played at 78?
😛 😀
}}} And now, the NITROGEN IS AN AGRICULTURAL POLLUTANT scam…which is the basis on which the Dutch government, in cahoots with the WTF is attempting to royally screw Dutch farmers.
Not just The Netherlands. It’s fucked over Ghana and Sri Lanka, too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyTP_oaXUdY
Yeah, that nitrogen!! Makes up about 70% of the atmosphere!
Of course, what they are talking about is nitrogen oxides, but like CO2 they want to confuse the rubes by just saying “carbon” or “nitrogen”. Fixed nitrogen fertilizers are absolutely necessary for modern food production which is why Sri Lanka, and the Netherlands, are in such trouble. And most likely the US next as these climate crazies continue to take over.
OBloody:
That would certainly be an interesting way to listen to the Bee Gees. Much of a muchness. But no, I prefer normal speed for them. It’s the academic lecturers I like to speed up.