ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Pride Cult Really Hates Judeo-Christian Values.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 24, 2023
GREEN NUDE EEL: How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea.’
Over the last few years, this swathe of desert has been steadily carpeted with one of the world’s largest concentrations of solar power plants, forming a sprawling photovoltaic sea. On the ground, the scale is almost incomprehensible. The Riverside East Solar Energy Zone – the ground zero of California’s solar energy boom – stretches for 150,000 acres, making it 10 times the size of Manhattan.
It is a crucial component of the United States’ green energy revolution. Solar makes up about 3% of the US electricity supply, but the Biden administration hopes it will reach 45% by 2050, primarily by building more huge plants like this across the country’s flat, empty plains.
But there’s one thing that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – the agency tasked with facilitating these projects on public land – doesn’t seem to have fully taken into account: the desert isn’t quite as empty as it thought. It might look like a barren wilderness, but this stretch of the Mojave is a rich and fragile habitat for endangered species and home to thousand-year-old carbon-capturing woodlands, ancient Indigenous cultural sites – and hundreds of people’s homes.
Residents have watched ruefully for years as solar plants crept over the horizon, bringing noise and pollution that’s eroding a way of life in their desert refuge.
“We feel like we’ve been sacrificed,” says Mark Carrington, who, like Sneddon, lives in the Lake Tamarisk resort, a community for over-55s near Desert Center, which is increasingly surrounded by solar farms. “We’re a senior community, and half of us now have breathing difficulties because of all the dust churned up by the construction. I moved here for the clean air, but some days I have to go outside wearing goggles. What was an oasis has become a little island in a dead solar sea.”
Well, they have been sacrificed — to appease an angry Gaia and to grease the correct palms.
I’d just add that carbon-free nuclear plants have tiny footprints and produce reliable energy for decades.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: A New Low: Biden to Halt Familial DNA Testing at the Border.
HEALTH: Life-changing vaccine provides long-lasting protection against rheumatoid arthritis. “According to the report, the vaccine, which uses a protein called 14-3-3 zeta, promotes a strong and immediate response from the body’s innate immune system, providing long-lasting protection against rheumatoid arthritis.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (ITALY EDITION): Italian ‘pasta strike’ proposed amid soaring prices.
Pasta costs rose by 17.5% in March and 16.5% in April. That’s more than double Italy’s roughly 8% inflation rate.
The reason is simple: Much of the pasta now making its way to store shelves (and imported here to the U.S.) was manufactured during the pandemic, when commodity costs were higher.
As a result, retail costs now reflect the higher production expenses.
Even so, that’s not sitting well with Italians.
“High prices are maintained in order to have greater profits,” an Italian consumer group called Assoutent told CNBC.
The group is seeking a “pasta strike” by consumers lasting at least 15 days to reduce demand and force retailers to lower costs.
It’s hard to imagine Italians giving up pasta at any price.
COOL. NOW ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT: Washington state fires first-ever director of equity after failing to maintain stable work environment.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Vin Scully Is Rolling In His Grave After Dodgers Cave to Pride Mob. “The Dodgers are glorifying a blasphemous hate group that delights in mocking Roman Catholics. Los Angeles has the largest Roman Catholic population in North America. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has almost five million members, a number that I’m sure is far greater than however many drag queens might be buying Dodger Dogs one day.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joe Biden isn’t speaking coherently enough to fact-check him.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (RUSSIA EDITION): Fighting in Russian Border Region Following Incursion Enters Second Day.
Russian military correspondents said battles were continuing well into the afternoon on Tuesday, with Russian forces trying to stop two units of combatant reinforcements from joining up with the groups inside Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had launched attacks against the combatants using artillery and air power. Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the groups had been encircled and at least 70 members had been killed.
The extent of the original incursion and the affiliations of the combatants couldn’t be confirmed independently but the incident has exposed embarrassing weaknesses around Russia’s border areas as Moscow’s troops prepare for an expected Ukrainian offensive.
When reports first starting coming in on Monday morning, the incursion looked like a propaganda stunt — and in some ways, is sure is. But it’s also turned into an aggravating game of Whack-a-Mole for Moscow.
CHRIS QUEEN: Democrat Déjà Vu: This Election Feels Like 1980 All Over Again in Many Ways. “From the outside looking in at the Democrats, it seems like they would want to shake themselves loose from the oblivious octogenarian Biden, but they can’t seem to quit him. I’m old enough to remember the last time an incumbent Democrat who was sinking the country into oblivion became the standard-bearer in his quest for a second term. Of course, I’m talking about Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the road to 2024 so far feels like déjà vu for that election.”
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Social media risks for youth mental health highlighted in new surgeon general report.
Amid what he called the worst youth mental health crisis in recent memory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Tuesday warning about social media’s impact on developing young brains.
“Through the last two and a half years I’ve been in office, I’ve been hearing concerns from kids and parents,” Murthy told STAT. “Parents are asking ‘Is social media safe for my kids?’ Based on our review of the data, there isn’t enough evidence that it is safe for our kids.”
The surgeon general’s report comes in the wake of a recent health advisory on teens and social media use from the American Psychological Association, which noted the increased risk of anxiety and depression among adolescents who are exposed to discrimination and bullying online. Other research has shown that adolescents ages 12-15 who spent more than three hours per day on social media face a heightened risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes compared to those who spent less time online.
It isn’t that great for adults, either.
THE WAR ON WOMEN: California parent whose daughter lost to biological male in girls’ track competition responds.
One of the parents of the runners who lost to Ryan, whose name is being withheld due to fears of retaliation and bullying, blasted the competition for allowing a biological male to compete against the girls.
“I’m absolutely opposed to it. There’s no way this should be allowed,” the parent said. “Ryan was in like fifth place with 100 to go, and all of a sudden he… blew past the girls.”
“How do you not understand that that’s unfair?” the parent said.
“I 100% percent empathize with the need to belong and the desire to compete. [However,] you have to understand how hard these girls work to do this.”
“You’re cheating [the sport], like the narcissism of this whole thing,” the parent said about CIF’s policies.
The parent’s fear of retaliation and bullying is the real story here.
THEY CAN’T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO WRITE A NEW PLAYBOOK: Just in Time for 2024: WHO Chief Warns of Looming Disease ‘Deadlier’ Than COVID.
LEARN TO CODE? CHATGPT ALREADY DID: Software company CEO says using ChatGPT cuts the time it takes to complete coding tasks from around 9 weeks to just a few days.
ANOTHER NON-WHITE FACE OF WHITE SUPREMACY: False Flag? Suspicion Surrounds White House U-Haul Attack.
I’M NOT FEELING VERY SUPERIOR WHEN THE ALARM GOES OFF AT FIVE: Social Justice™ Now Claims Waking Up Early Is White Supremacy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin finally gets coveted moon contract. “NASA has selected Blue Origin to build a human lunar landing system for the Artemis V mission, which is currently targeted for 2029.”