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Monday's Energy Absurdity: Cornell Launches 'Respiration Chamber' to Measure Cow Burps and Farts
University officials assure us it is the 'gold standard' of fart chambers
David Blackmon
Apr 29, 2024
Like manna from heaven, today’s Energy Absurdity dropped right into my lap this morning as I conducted my early morning news gathering. Life is just like that sometimes if you follow the rules.
New York local TV station WBNG Channel 12 News reports that researchers at Cornell University have built the nation’s first and only “animal respiration stall,” an enclosed housing for cows that will enable them to accurately measure the exact amount of methane they belch and fart into the environment. In other words, they have built a hermitically sealed fart chamber.
Naturally, the researchers assure us that it is a world class fart chamber, or as they describe it, the “gold standard” of fart chambers.
“The respiration chambers are considered to be the gold standard to monitor methane emissions from cows,” said Associate Professor of Dairy Cattle Biology Joseph McFadden. “There are a lot of untested methane mitigation and monitoring technologies out there. But the only way you can provide absolute quantification of gas emissions is by using a respiration chamber system.”
You all know what’s coming next, don’t you? Within a few years, either in a Biden second term or the first term of some other Democrat president, the EPA will issue regulations requiring farmers to measure emissions from their cattle herds and force them to use “gold standard” respiration chambers like this one as “the best available technology” to accomplish the task.
Many of you are no doubt scoffing at that as just a “conspiracy theory,” the kind of which I have posed and been proven 100% right about many times over the last 20 years or so. For all of you, I urge you to bookmark this piece and refer back to it when, in just a few years, the EPA publishes this exact regulation in the Federal Register.
Because that is what is coming. Remember: A conspiracy is not a ‘theory’ when it is standing in front of you slapping your stupid face.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-cornell?publication_id=712558&post_id=144123536&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Thanks for sharing Gmenfan.
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Cardiologists Identify COVID-19 Vaccine as Possible Cause of Young Professional’s Heart Problem
by Jim H?ft Apr. 28, 2024 7:30 am
Medical professionals are beginning to take a closer look at the potential adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly following a series of health complications among younger adults.
Florencia Tarque, a 29-year-old Director of International Recruiting at Puulse Marketing, has come forward with a personal health crisis that her cardiologists suggest may be linked to her COVID-19 vaccination.
“Attention: Cardiologists are now saying my heart problem is more than likely a result of the COVID vaccine,” she wrote on Facebook.
Tarque, an athlete who has maintained a lifestyle centered around wellness, experienced a shocking medical scare earlier this month when she was admitted to the hospital after three electrocardiograms (EKGs) indicated signs of a heart attack.
Despite the alarming EKG results, an angiogram performed urgently revealed no blockages, leaving both Tarque and her medical team baffled. It was later determined that she had developed myopericarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle and surrounding tissue.
The image above shows the wrist of Florencia Tarque following her angiogram procedure. Tarque describes the process as painful, having been awake throughout. (Credit: Florencia Tarque/Facebook)
Tarque expressed her frustration and anger in a series of social media posts, particularly emphasizing the mandatory nature of the vaccination for her job and travel commitments.
“I’m angry because tons of 20-something-year-old athletes now have heart problems,” she said, reflecting a concern that has been echoed in various communities across the globe.
In a follow-up post, Tarque disclosed that an MRI confirmed she had indeed suffered a heart attack, despite the lack of coronary blockages or other typical indicators of such an event.
“Angiogram showed no blockage or coronary problem the day I had my heart attack. Three EKGs showed heart attack. Week later my MRI confirmed heart attack,” she said.
“29 years old, played sports my whole life. No health issues. WTF,” she wrote, encapsulating her shock and disbelief.
There are many similar cases to Tarque. Functional medicine practitioner Jon Mitchell commented, “I have many clients who have had a lot of random health stuff pop up after getting the shot. Autoimmune, clotting throughout the body, brain abnormalities, cardiac issues, iron deficiency, etc. Some docs are acknowledging it, but very few are speaking up. It’s infuriating.”
The majority of the so-called healthcare experts continue to assert the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death due to the virus far outweigh the risks of side effects.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/cardiologists-identify-covid-19-vaccine-as-possible-cause/
Watch and learn from ‘Screams before Silence’
By Ethel C. Fenig
Terrorists and their useful idiot (at best) supporters are shutting down campuses all across the U.S. in approval of Hamas’s deadly attack on Israeli concert-goers while cowardly campus administrators, afraid of losing all that Muslim oil money, dither — at best.
But Sheryl Sandberg, groundbreaking COO of Meta, is made of stronger stuff. Now retired, so to speak, from Meta, she has released a powerful documentary, Screams before Silence, about Hamas atrocities against Jews in Israel on that evil day, six months ago, in the final days of the fall Jewish holidays, corresponding to October 7, 2023 on the Gregorian calendar.
Never-before-heard eyewitness accounts from released hostages, survivors, and first responders.
During the October 7 attacks on Israeli towns and at the Nova Music Festival, women and girls were raped, assaulted, and mutilated. Released hostages have revealed that Israeli captives in Gaza have also been sexually assaulted.
Despite the indisputable evidence, these atrocities have received little scrutiny from human rights groups and international organizations. Many leading figures in politics, academia, and media have attempted to minimize or even deny that they occurred.
Let’s repeat those last lines, as they are important. “Despite the indisputable evidence, these atrocities have received little scrutiny from human rights groups and international organizations. Many leading figures in politics, academia, and media have attempted to minimize or even deny that they occurred.”
Minimizing atrocities. Denial. Hmmm, wonder why! Afraid that oil money from Muslim countries underwriting so many “civil rights” groups and universities might dry up? Not so latent anti-Jewish bigotry in all its ugliness surfacing, disguised as...concern for another so-called “minority”? A combination of these plus more? Blaming Israel for fighting back and killing hospital patients in the process because Hamas headquartered in hospitals is so much easier. And safer. And approved by all the “right” people.
Now watch this truthful documentary. WARNING: very graphic! Not for the faint of heart! But necessary!
This behavior has reached Europe, too. Ask the French, the Swedes, and other European countries where Muslims have settled.
Coming soon to an American neighborhood near you? Ask the Jews on college campuses such as Columbia and Harvard for starters.
You have been forewarned! Now watch! And learn!
Thank you, Sheryl Sandberg!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/watch_and_learn_from_screams_before_silence.html
Could Democrats find a back door to putting Obama on their presidential ticket?
By Richard Berkowitz
The D.C. Court’s fiendish plan if the Supremes overrule J6ers’ 1512(c)(2) convictions
By Andrea Widburg
The Supreme Court is deciding Fischer v. United States, a case challenging how the DOJ and the D.C. court have been using 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) against January 6 defendants. Because it’s obvious that they’ve violated the most basic precepts of statutory interpretation, it’s likely that the Supreme Court will reverse the conviction. However, the D.C. court just issued an order establishing that defendants other than Joseph Fischer who use the decision to appeal their convictions will suffer an even worse fate. This is a reminder that the “law” in Democrat enclaves is unconcerned with justice. Instead, it exists to further the Democrat party’s power.
Section 1512(c)(2) contains a seemingly magical phrase that the DOJ and D.C. court have used to send hundreds of law-abiding citizens to jail or otherwise destroy their lives: “Whoever corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” According to the DOJ and the D.C. court, when Americans showed up to protest what they believed was an improper election certification based upon a corrupt election, they were obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding.
However, if one examines the statute, it’s obvious, from the title on down (“Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant”), that § 1512 addresses the crime of destroying or corrupting evidence in a criminal proceeding or investigation. It has nothing to do with exercising free speech in the legislative context. Taking language out of its statutory context to achieve an end the legislature never intended is a big judicial no-no. (See here for a somewhat more in-depth analysis.)
The DOJ and D.C. court know that their interpretation of § 1512(c)(2) is likely to be reversed. Even the most ideologically corrupt Supreme Court justice will have a very difficult time pretending that the statute can be extended beyond its manifest purpose of protecting evidence.
Any reversal will apply only to Joseph Fischer, the J6 defendant whose case is before the Supreme Court. However, once the Court overturns his conviction, the way is clear for every other J6 defendant convicted using § 1512(c)(2) to challenge the conviction. This has the DOJ and the D.C. court in a panic, but they’ve come up with a plan.
For those few J6 defendants convicted only under § 1512(c)(2), there’s nothing the DOJ and D.C. court can do to stop them from tasting freedom and having their records wiped clean. However, most of the J6 defendants were charged and convicted on myriad grounds. (One of the things prosecutors do is stack as many charges as possible in an indictment. This gives them huge leverage in negotiating plea bargains and means a probable win on something—anything—if the matter goes to trial.)
With an eye to the charge stacking common in criminal prosecutions, the D.C. court has just issued an order in the case of Larry Brock telling him that, if he dares challenge his § 1512(c)(2) conviction, the court has something much worse in store for him: It will change its initial order so that the various penalties originally imposed upon him will no longer be served concurrently but, instead, will be served consecutively.
Here's what that means. Under the “concurrent” standard, if a defendant was sentenced to two years for Crime A and two years for Crime B, both those sentences will be fulfilled by the same two years in prison. After two years, he’s a free man. However, if they’re switched to a “consecutive” system, the defendant will serve two years for Crime A. Once those two years are completed, the term for Crime B immediately begins. Thus, it will take four years for the prisoner to be freed:
I really hope SCOTUS is paying attention to how DC judges are scheming to keep J6ers in prison on 1512c2 convictions if SCOTUS reverses that charge in J6 cases.
This order is not just a warning to the defendant involved—Larry Brock, a decorated military veteran with no criminal… pic.twitter.com/f9CncQUz8W
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 26, 2024
You may have noticed that what you’re seeing is an order, meaning it comes from the judges. However, the D.C. judges haven’t impressed anyone as a particularly intelligent bunch. They are ideologues. That’s all. That’s why I keep throwing in the DOJ when I discuss this issue. I’d bet good money that the bright minds in the Democrat party, both in the DOJ and among the Democrat cadre of lawyers who lurk behind the scene, are the ones who came up with this idea.
I practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area. What became obvious very early was that Democrat party judges held themselves to a very special standard. They saw themselves as above the justice-based principles of due process, the facts of the case, and the applicable law.
Instead, almost all of them believed that their black robes put them in direct contact with the higher power of social justice, allowing them to determine entirely upon ideological rather than constitutional and legal grounds. The only surprise for me now is that Democrat judges have become so open in their corruption and so blatantly partisan in their desired outcomes. This is evil and will stop only if they are held to account for their criminal trespasses. It’s to be hoped that when Trump returns to the White House, reforming our broken judicial system is one of his first acts.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_d_c_court_s_fiendish_plan_if_the_supremes_overrule_j6ers_1512_c_2_convictions.html
At Emory, civil disobedience ain’t what it used to be
By Andrea Widburg
The University of Washington canceled its planned protest because it was too white
By Andrea Widburg
This sounds like a sit-com set-up, but it’s not: The progressive Democrats at the University of Washington in Seattle, a very white, very affluent public institution, wanted to hold a pro-Hamas, antisemitic rally. However, they had to call it off because there were way too many white kids and way too few actual Muslims to provide cover for these kids’ anti-American activities!
One of the things many have noticed is that the campus protests we’re seeing are mostly taking place at rich students’ colleges and prestigious state institutions, both of which have a combination of rich white kids, affirmative action kids (grants and scholarships), and foreign students (especially beloved at chichi state institutions, where they pay full fare, in cash), many of whom come from Muslim countries. The city and state colleges that normal American kids attend, however, have mostly ignored the whole protest phenomenon.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, I heard a StandWithUs talk at which one of the group’s founders explained what was happening at these affluent American campuses when it came to rising antisemitism. She explained that Jewish kids were at a loss when dealing with anti-Israel and antisemitic protests on campus because they were there to have the college experience—classes and fun—while the antisemitic agitators were professionals.
Thus, these professional “students” were sponsored by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries and had no interest in either grades or fun. They were there to work, with the work being to build a strong base of hostility on campus to Israel and Jews.
The money didn’t just go to these professional “students.” Muslim countries have been pouring money into academia, money that pays for the institutions’ vast faculty and administration infrastructures. This chart (original unknown) helps explain how much money lies behind this approach to foreign-funded campus indoctrination:
As you can see, other than China, Russia, and Venezuela, every one of the countries flooding campuses with money is Muslim. It’s noteworthy in this regard that the Palestinian Authority (a) isn’t even a country; (b) has no economy of its own; (c) always cries poor; and (d) is using other countries’ money to fund this indoctrination. Nevertheless, it can still pay indoctrination money into American colleges and universities.
The above cash flow is the bedrock of the increased antisemitism on college campuses. When you in the George Soros money funding the top-line agitators, you can see that what’s happening on these campuses isn’t an organic outcropping of American values. It’s a very Astroturfed phenomenon done with overseas cash and heavily funded anti-Western NGOs.
The thing about Astroturf, though, is that you’ll never have enough cash or bodies to go around. There are, after all, slightly shy of 4,000 institutions of “higher education” (a term of dubious descriptive value) in America today. It’s impossible for Muslim countries and George Soros to put together all the money or manpower needed to flood every campus in a way that will create a critical mass for Nazi-style rallies across America.
That gets us to the University of Washington in Seattle. It’s kind of white (36%) and Asian (26%), with only 15% of its students from foreign countries and only 3% being black. It’s also wealthy, with 80% of its students designated as affluent.
But as we’ve learned since 2020, the students who have most absorbed the Marxist indoctrination inculcated beginning in kindergarten are those white, affluent kids. There the ones who perfectly embody Lenin’s two sayings, the first about the “useful idiots” and the second about those “capitalists [who] will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Naturally enough, these rich, white, useful idiots were all set to have a campus occupation in solidarity with the pro-Hamas, antisemitic moving sweeping the progressive Democrat party. To their chagrin, they discovered that the identity altar before which they pray has let them down:
Activists with the UW Progressive Student Union (UWPSU) announced they are postponing Thursday’s “UW Palestine encampment” because there were too many white students involved. The group received criticism for not including Muslim and Arab students in the organizing. And now you have warring factions of extremists quibbling over who will get credit for demonizing Jews and Israel.
The encampment was scheduled for Thursday morning at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. UW administration privately told Jewish leaders that the school did not intend to intervene with the direct action unless “the event escalates and threatens life safety.” Still, the predominantly white UWPSU opted to call off the encampment in order “to make sure this encampment is a better reflection of the UW community, and having even greater unity with Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students.”
“We want to be part of a much larger coalition of groups and make no mistake, WE WILL HAVE A UW ENCAMPMENT! We want to make sure everyone’s voice is included and this action is as safe, secure, and strong as possible,” a UWPSU Instagram statement said.
I don’t have words of wisdom or quips to offer here. What we’re seeing is the inevitable collision of Marxism, crazy white people, antisemitism, academia, and identity politics. The only thing that’s stopping it from going full 1938 is that, so far, the Muslim immigration to America hasn’t got enough warm bodies to go around.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_university_of_washington_canceled_its_planned_protest_because_it_was_too_white.html
Are the rats starting to flee Joe Biden's sinking ship now?
By Monica Showalter
Are the rats fleeing Joe Biden's sinking ship now?
Joe Biden is losing a signature lieutenant, Richard Cordray, the guy who runs all his student loan shovel-outs and 'forgiveness' programs. He's quitting in June, in what's officially the end of his three-year term, not wanting another.
According to Politico:
Rich Cordray, the Biden administration’s top student loan official who has been a key ally of progressives pushing for debt relief, will leave the Education Department at the end of June, the agency confirmed on Friday.
Cordray’s departure comes as the administration has been scrambling to recover from its troubled rollout of a new student aid system that delayed college financial aid offers for millions of families this spring and drew bipartisan criticism in Congress.
It's an odd departure, given that it leaves his successor just six months to clean up his agency before a new administration takes over. Lucky DEI hire.
Politico noted that it was his agency that was behind the FAFSA student aid bunglings.
Most controversial, however, was Cordray’s leadership of the Office for Federal Student Aid amid its disastrous implementation of a bipartisan overhaul of the federal financial aid process that Congress passed in the waning days of the Trump administration.
The new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, was meant to provide a simpler, easier experience for millions of families. But the years-long technology project was months behind schedule and failed to work when it launched earlier this year.
The Education Department for months could not process millions of federal financial aid applications and is in the process of re-processing millions more that were processed incorrectly.
Politico noted that congressional Republicans (to their credit) were angry at the botch-up because Cordray's agency was so focused on granting student loand debt forgiveness it never got around to doing its job competently in processing incoming students' applications for financial aid.
I know young people who were affected by this screw-up -- they couldn't tell whether they could enroll in a school they'd been accepted at or not because the FAFSA botch was so extensive.
What an interesting thing that this illegal focus on student aid "debt forgiveness" actually spilled over into the quest of legitimate students to get their financial aid in order to go to those overpriced schools, creating huge backups, and universities extending their deadlines. I know university administrators who said this was a major hassle for them, too.
It seems that for all the brownie points Biden is getting over student aid "forgiveness," and making the lives of the upper middle classes easier, the flip side was that he made life harder for all the young people coming into the system with that FAFSA blunder. Maybe that's why polls are showing that Biden is losing the youth vote. You can bet young people are talking about this to each other.
And sure enough, Cordray has a history of being on the forefront of failed and overreaching federal programs. Not too long ago, he ran President Obama's Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, an agency of unaccountable power. Now he's gotten involved with this.
That he's leaving is the most interesting thing of all, given the legal challenges to most of Biden's debt forgiveness schemes coming up, as well as the FAFSA mess-up. Can it be that Cordray, a political animal if there ever was one, might be reading the tea leaves and want to get out while the getting out is good?
Maybe the rats are starting to flee the sinking ship of Biden now, which means we ought to watch for more of them.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/fafsa_failure_biden_s_student_loan_chief_hottails_it_out.html
Banning American gun exports
By Mike McDaniel
A funny thing happened on the way to the trial
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
The plan was sort of like this. First, we call Trump every name in the book, from racist to fascist. Second, warn everyone that a dictatorship is around the corner if the bad guy is back in the White House. Third, and not least, tie up Trump in the courts and destroy his candidacy.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the courtroom. Trump is rising, and Biden is talking about cannibals having his uncle for lunch.
According to news reports, former President Trump is making money sitting in the court. Here is the story:
During an appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley discussed Trump’s campaign strategy in New York and elsewhere and said that “every day that President Trump has been in court, he’s been getting a million dollars or more in small-dollar donations that are coming in online.”
There you go. Be careful what you wish for, because the other guy may get all the money.
I see a couple of things going on here. First, Trump’s presidency looks better and better, especially in comparison to the Biden record. Did you hear about the GDP slowing down?
Second, I think more and more Americans are saying, “No banana republic for me.” In other words, if you hate Trump, then vote against him, but don’t destroy the country in the process. My guess is that this is true of people who came here from other countries and saw this kind of political vengeance destroy their countries. I think my parents would say that if they were alive.
Am I the only one thinking that some Democrats are having second thoughts about lawfare? It ain’t working, babe!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_the_trial.html