Last month we progressed forward from 1935 to 1973, showing quirky, interesting videos from those years. This month of March we’re going to focus on live musical performances, starting in 2018 and working our way back to 1960. We’re going to start with this live full concert from Dave Matthews, performed at The Gorge, in Washington State.
Your best tips for this new month are much appreciated!
How bad is she? So bad she’s become the first incumbent Chicago Mayor in 40 years to be ousted.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on Tuesday denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city.
Vallas, a former schools CEO backed by the police union, and Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, advanced to the April 4 runoff after none of the nine candidates was able to secure over 50% of the vote to win outright.
Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person to lead the city, won her first term in 2019 after promising to end decades of corruption and backroom dealing at City Hall. But opponents blamed Lightfoot for an increase in crime and criticized her as being a divisive, overly contentious leader.
Good riddance.
Get this thing away from your kids.
New TikTok filters can convincingly alter a person's appearance — transforming a person of average attractiveness into someone considerably more physically appealing. Watch the transformation from "filter on" to "filter off" 12 seconds into this clip. https://t.co/tj4hG2gMu4
— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 28, 2023
In her most recent Substack article, Heather Heying lays out some valuable points:
Did it take Woody Harrelson on Saturday Night Live to point out to you that pharmaceutical companies are acting as drug cartels, and that the media is in their sway? Financial incentives drive success in business, and Pfizer is nothing if not successful these days.
Hunh, maybe Pfizer wasn’t the white knight we were told it was.
These last three years, too many of us have let social coercion and fear drive what we say out loud, and even what we think. We have outsourced our thinking to self-described experts—credentialed, well-dressed, well-spoken experts—who have been wrong, disastrously so, over and over and over again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, four times, fifty times, a hundred—what the hell. Shame on all of us who continue to fall for these games.
Eastern Canada’s PM is in trouble. Big trouble. I expect he’ll try to fight it as he can but IMO the “walk in the snow” happens before the summer break. I think the cabal around power in Ottawa is a little worried about the dope going up against the Conservatives. I don’t think they think he would win against Poilievre and let’s face it Pierre is as much a reaction to Trudeau as a reaction to the previous Conservative leaders.
In other words, while I think the CSIS thing is the real deal, I also think it’s being orchestrated.
That leads to a Liberal convention probably just before Christmas and a spring election next year with a different Liberal leader. Singh gets off the hook, Liberals get off the hook, the media gets a redo on the nasty Nazi running the CPC, etc. ad nauseum.
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, who campaigned on her goal to restrict natural gas use for Oregonians, is reportedly having a $300,000+ natural gas generator installed at the gubernatorial mansion.
Ken From, retired former CEO of SaskEnergy, asks if Norway or Canada is the climate hypocrite?
Nearly a decade ago, headlines highlighted a disturbing trend in science: The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions; one offender, anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt, had racked up almost 90 retractions after investigators concluded he had fabricated data and committed other ethical violations. Boldt may have even harmed patients by encouraging the adoption of an unproven surgical treatment. Science, it seemed, faced a mushrooming crisis.[…]
That list, formally released to the public this week as a searchable database, is now the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. It includes more than 18,000 retracted papers and conference abstracts dating back to the 1970s (and even one paper from 1756 involving Benjamin Franklin). It is not a perfect window into the world of retractions. Not all publishers, for instance, publicize or clearly label papers they have retracted, or explain why they did so. And determining which author is responsible for a paper’s fatal flaws can be difficult.
Still, the data trove has enabled Science, working with Retraction Watch, to gain unusual insight into one of scientific publishing’s most consequential but shrouded practices. Our analysis of about 10,500 retracted journal articles shows the number of retractions has continued to grow, but it also challenges some worrying perceptions that continue today. The rise of retractions seems to reflect not so much an epidemic of fraud as a community trying to police itself.
In war, if you’re not winning, you’re losing. For the Ukraine, there’s no denying that this is pretty bad news. A string of blank checks from Biden is not going to change things that much. Maybe, just maybe, the leftist corporate media and various politicians could start doing their jobs and demand to know what the Ukrainian strategy for victory is and what it will cost. At that point, the West could determine whether all this is remotely worth it. To see where this might be headed, it’s worth looking into the story of the mutiny of French troops in 1917.
As Moscow intensifies its campaign on the eastern front, the tone from Ukrainian officials on the embattled city marks a reversal. Zelenskiy declared on Feb. 2 that Kyiv won’t surrender Bakhmut. Less than three weeks later, he said his forces won’t hold the city “at any cost and with everyone dying.”
CSIS is at war with Trudeau.
Sharp eyes update – I think if we can track down all these video’s produced on behalf of Han Dong, we might will find out some of the other 10 names on the list.
Beijing Butts targets the whistleblower.
Trudeau’s Canada: CBC explains that Islamophobia is running rampant in Canada. Looking to hire a transgender, black, Muslim tree pruner, at Ontario school board. Trudeau supports his accused CCP backed MP. Shania Twain praises drag queens. Performer cancelled over “Justin” puppet. Feds spent millions on TikTok advertising.
Biden’s America: The border. Some crazy California bills. America’s new woke museums. Joe Biden denounces Joe Biden. A partisan judge. Biden a white boy, but not stupid.
China Virus News: The pandemic treaty. Your morning meme.
Pervert News: Sex education in the UK. The end of women’s sports in Canada.
On our last day of this month we return to 1973 to enjoy a documentary called People on the Go (in Ontario). We also remember the Oil Crisis back then.
Hoping your February has been a decent one and hope you’re looking forward to March! Do share your best tips of late.
The better term is “magical thinking”: Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas
They want oil and gas locked in the ground. “We don’t need petrochemical products, especially synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.” Or tractor tires, paint, windows, GPS/computer housings, and more.
Have these illiterati looked at their own clothing, food, homes, offices or world? Synthetic fabrics, cosmetics, cell phone and computer housings, pharmaceuticals, tapes and adhesives, protective gear, eyeglasses, car bodies, detergents, wind turbine nacelle covers and blades, medical devices, car bodies – practically everything around them and in their lives exists because of oil, gas and petrochemicals.
But we can just use biofuels to replace feed stocks for products we really need, they proclaim. Right.
If an oil company can’t make money in a period when oil prices skyrocket, it’s probably safe to say that there’s no hope for them. The darling of Mexican socialism seems to have fallen into that rut. How long until the defaults start and the country becomes another Venezuela?
The Mexican state oil company said Monday it had a fourth-quarter net loss of 172.4 billion pesos ($9.4 billion) compared with a net loss of 52 billion pesos in the third quarter, once again foregoing profits at a time when many major oil companies are raking in record billions.
Pemex is struggling to pay down debts that have risen to the highest of any oil major in the world. It must find the means to pay for about $8 billion in maturing debt this year.
“Dark fleet,” anyone? U of R professor Jim Warren writes about how Russia’s doing an end run around oil sanctions. Too bad we never built Energy East and were able to replace some of those barrels.
Speaking of oil – it’s expected to have a big impact on Alberta’s budget on Tuesday.
The same corporate media that never showed any interest in seeing the full police video taken during the mostly-peaceful January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol are now demanding all 41,000 hours of it.
That’s right; for over two years, the fake media knew there was a buttload of video that the rigged January 6 Committee was not showing them. Nevertheless, not once did this same media demand to see all the video.
Nope, instead of being interested in the full context and truth of what happened on January 6, the very same media outlets now demanding the full 41,000 hours spent two years dutifully broadcasted only the video Nancy Pelosi told them to broadcast.[…]
This is my favorite part:
“Without full public access to the complete historical record, there is concern that an ideologically-based narrative of an already polarizing event will take hold in the public consciousness[.]”After TWO YEARS of bending over for Pelosi, look who’s suddenly interested in the “complete historical record.”
After TWO YEARS of bending over for Pelosi, look who’s suddenly concerned about an “ideologically-based narrative.”