Category: Little Known Facts

Missed Information

Even since the pandemic began, I’ve been looking for the perfect retort to the “misinformation” smear. At long last, I may have found it.

In 2020-2022, if you tweeted the following flavors of #wrongthink, you may have been shadowbanned by Roth’s team:

—the costs vs. efficacy of lockdowns
—the safety & efficacy of off-label drugs for COVID
—the safety & efficacy of COVID “vaccines” or new Crony Pharma antivirals

Thread reader link.

Spinny things don’t work for over 200 hours a month, says retired engineer from Alberta

From Pipeline Online: Letter to Editor: No matter how many wind farms are built, there will always be over 200 hours of zero wind power, says retired engineer

Perhaps of most concern is that there were 257 hrs (over 10 days in total) when the wind power output was zero – and the months of most ZERO hours are the coldest months when freezing temperatures are happening.  So the 2017 data confirms the earlier 2012 data – meaning that no matter how many wind farms are built, there will always be over 200 hours of ZERO wind power.  From an atmospheric viewpoint, whenever there are recurring periods of prolonged stable high pressure (such as frigid winter weather or summer heat waves) when there is also next to no wind – leading to no (or very low) wind power.

Ivan Purdy, P.eng, (retired)

Slavery, Company Towns, and the World Economic Forum

The average life expectancy of an Irish immigrant worker after arriving in America was just fourteen years =

In the current year, when the 1619 Project is considered history, Django Unchained is treated like a documentary, and Gone With the Wind has been thrown into the burn pile, most Americans have a very distorted understanding of how the institution of slavery operated on a day-to-day basis. Pop culture portrayals (the ones that have not been banned) would have us believe that sadistic Southern plantation owners routinely starved, beat and killed their slaves for the sheer thrill of it. When we meet Leonardo di Caprio’s planter character in Django Unchained, he is amusing himself by forcing two slaves to fight a gladiator death match. Well, as with all historical events that are integrated into a founding mythology – for example, the American Revolution, slavery & the Civil War, and World War 2 – the truth is a bit more complicated than the legend.

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War stories

Contrary to the emotions evoked by humorous pictures of Ukrainian farmers towing Russian tanks, the war may not be going as well for the Ukraine as the standard narrative would have us believe. They may, in fact, be on their way to losing, underequipped as they are and outgunned by the Russian military. Delivery of NATO armor is simply not going to happen, since it would take months to train Ukrainian soldiers in its use. Besides that, no NATO country wants hardware full of high tech weapons falling into Russian hands.

The Russians are well-equipped with infantry fighting vehicles and tanks, he said, while the Ukrainians have no artillery support. “We’re moving in the tree lines with just Javelins and N-LAWs (shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons). But we are moving without mortars. The problem is we are sitting ducks for their artillery and sniper fire — the advance is not happening,” he said. “To be honest, we are not doing good. We go in with eight to fight 50. Down here, it’s 5-10 km fields, separated by drainage ditches and that’s the only way to move. We know where they are and they know where we are at all times … (We) need to get big guns down here, like yesterday.”

Mandated shortages

With every Keynesian talking head now claiming that higher interest rates are the solution to rising consumer prices, maybe they would care to explain how this will resolve the problem of a chronic shortage of refinery capacity? Green energy mandates and various other useless ingredients are setting the economy up for one big train wreck. Higher capital costs may see some existing refineries shut down or unable to expand output.

Refining capacity has fallen in western countries in recent years as investors and policy makers move away from fossil fuels.

In fact, in a recent interview on Bloomberg TV, Chevron Corp.’s CEO Mike Wirth warned that there may never be a new refinery built in the U.S.

“We haven’t had a refinery built in the United States since the 1970s,” Wirth told Bloomberg. “My personal view is there will never be another new refinery built in the United States.”

Fun with Maps

A colleague in Lima, Peru shared this website with me: TrueSize.com

Standard 2D maps are inaccurate in that countries further away from the equator appear larger than ones closer to the equator.

On this website, enter Canada or United States into the search box to highlight it. Then drag it up or down. Quite fascinating, eh?!

Asset forfeiture

Ezra Levant has a detailed explanation on his Twitter feed of the process by which the Ontario government is attempting to block the use of the donated convoy funds. He notes that the protest organizers will have an opportunity to respond in court in a day or two.

It’s clearly an attempt at asset forfeiture; it’s similar to the cops’ theft of the convoy’s fuel a few days ago. This is a tactic that would normally be used to seize a boat or a car belonging to a drug dealer. They are likely to have a hard time proving that Tamara Lich is some sort of dangerous felon.

But you can’t rule out the simplest answer — that the government was under such political pressure to shut down the truckers, by any means or method necessary, that they simply decided to deceive the court — anything to make these truckers go away, to hell with the law.

Update (from Robert) : Here’s the ThreadReader version of Ezra’s tweets.

Acknowledging reality

The narrative must be shifting when even the CBC recognizes the sheer logistical nightmare of trying to tow all those trucks in Ottawa as a means of stopping what has now become a growing insurgency.

Police don’t think towing the trucks is an effective solution, said Matt Skof, president of the Ottawa Police Association.

“You can tow all you want — they’re just going to return to the location, so it hasn’t resolved the issue,” Skof said. “And where are you putting all these vehicles?”

Towing large trucks is “incredibly logistically difficult,” Skof said, and any trucks removed would likely be quickly replaced by new ones arriving. Even if barriers were set up to prevent their re-entry, that would just push the problem to another part of the city, Skof said.

The Polish Immigrants Have Arrived!

Reminiscent of the Polish Solidarity Movement, something amazing happened this afternoon in Ottawa.

“We came from communism. We want a free country.”

h/t Jack Posobiec, Colonialista

Coming to Canada?

The mass vaccination program may not be so great at preventing transmission and infection, but at least it’s successful at preventing hospitalization and death, right?

If trends in the UK are anything to go by, even that narrative seems to be taking on a lot of water.

The latest figures published by the UK Health Security Agency show that despite the elderly and vulnerable receiving a booster shot in September and October, …. the triple/double vaccinated population still accounted for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 deaths throughout December 2021.

With the vaccinated population accounting for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 cases, 6 in every 10 Covid-19 hospitalisations, and 8 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths, is there really any justification for turning the NHS into the National Booster Service and the introduction of vaccine passports in which an unvaccinated person must take a test to be permitted entry but a vaccinated person does not?

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