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1. Interesting how the narrative (Trump shooting) started falling apart apart within hours. Is that on purpose OR is it because enough people have woken up and are not falling for it anymore?

   No one in the coffee shop in my neighbourhood is talking about it. Are they under a spell or are they completely disinterested? It’s hard to tell.

   1. JUST CURIOUS-HOW DID IT FALL APART?

2. Two thoughts:
   1) Surprised no alt media flashing this as worth burying this week – even James R quiet which seems particularly odd. perhaps it really isnt what it appears to be from this
   https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/07/16/default-calendar/tenth-meeting-of-the-intergovernmental-negotiating-body-(inb)-for-a-who-instrument-on-pandemic-prevention–preparedness-and-response
   2) Thank you for the beautiful wrap ups recently. You mentioned how
   how you’d like to price the impact of AI this week. Dutch F&F reminded me that I have wanted to price the impact of a “windmill” for many years. My team tried to in 2020, but we didn’t have the data or bandwidth. Quite sure now one could, and suspect the environmental cost of the concrete alone (gathering and transporting ingredients all the way through to leaching into the subsoil for 100yrs) would outweigh any purported benefits of the entire project. I’d be very happy to lend your team a hand.

   I dined with a Tory leader hopeful in November, and took her to task on Net Zero, and specifically the decommissioning costs for panels, turbines, batteries, etc that don’t seem to be in anyone’s sums ,asking if the poor old taxpayer was going to be bunged them as usual. instead of responding with curiosity or candour she went on the attack, and the 10 people round the table put away their cheque books. My key takeaway was that people need something “understandable” to translate the net Zero word salads and pretzel talk, and I wonder if pricing the environmental impact of a solar panel or wind turbine (from ashes to dust…) might capture the imagination.

   1. Great idea. I will keep an eye out for more on this. Nothing like one case study to bring the message home. My understanding is that a lot of the solar farms seriously mislead about the end costs.

3. The shit show rolls on.
   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-eldest-son-allegedly-leaks?publication_id=257742&post_id=146679786&isFreemail=true&r=emskg&triedRedirect=true

   1. Yes, we know that Trump knew this in 2016.

4. The CDC is at it again, resurrecting the evil Covid con. Video from Lincoln Karim, NYC on the ground documentarian featured in “The Legend of Pale Male”. Just watch the first 5 minutes of the CDC warnings, the rest is of crowds ignoring it to attend a show:
   https://youtu.be/oT3A3OsdR04?si=HZvTt6onHLdf-opv

   1. Lincoln is pretty great, been a fan for many years

5. On the heels of the staged Trump campaign event, I highly suggest CJ Hopkins latest newsletter titled The Civil War Simulation. Great take on the big picture.

   1. Link

      https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-civil-war-simulation

      CJ doesn’t believe the totalitarian state can be stopped.

      Each one who withdraws their energy given to the fomation of the building of the control grid strikes a mighty deficit in the required harvesting of our human power.

      Keep building the new.

      1. Yup. Notice in the Iwo Jima 2.0 flag was upside down.

         1. https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2024/07/the-masonic-shoe/

            1. Oops. Sorry for the expletives on the second video on the link. Feel free to delete.

   2. Will check out.

6. In Edmonton (Alberta), you now have to register on-line to go to the pool. There are only certain times where admittance is allowed, but you’re allowed to stay as long as you like.

   1. I’m in the Edmonton area and yes they started requiring registration during Covid and it stuck I guess. I suppose it’s also a way to manage their capacity limits or maybe they’re tracking something, I’m not sure.

   2. I suspect the lines are shorter during the winter time in Edmonton AB

7. What I learned in summer school…

   TRIAL BY FIRE: What the last week has told us about Trump, Biden, the American polity, our various agencies and the people who serve in government

   https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-dzwonczyk-39740415_a-lot-of-tests-have-been-taken-during-summer-activity-7219403710890700802-V2U4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

   Some did well, others not as well…

   1. John:

      Alas, our opinion on Trump diverges even more. As described in Money & Markets this week, the various factions are organizing around Trump who is now well controlled to do the next round of control and centralization. Big difference between staging a photo op and bravery.

      Catherine

      1. So, elect someone they didn’t try to kill. Makes sense.

         1. I don’t underestimate the performance Trump gave. Hard to do. He did a great job. Wonder how many practice runs.

            1. I think you’ve gone ’round the bend.

            2. Remember Trump was in WWF and Reality TV for decades. While not an easy “skit” to pull-off, with sufficient rehearsals, Trump slapping a blood packet on his ear on-cue is definitely possible. I just stopped by the local gun shop and asked the owner (Vietnam Vet) what his thoughts were, and his immediate response was, “staged”, and that Trump slapped a “blood packet” (his words) on his ear. It was interesting because I prefaced my question to him with, “I am sure you have been getting this question a lot this week”, and he told me “Nobody really talking about it around here at all- we all (meaning the loads of guys who work and hang out there) know it was faked”

            3. Let’s assume it is a real assassination attempt. If someone is shooting at you. You are surprised by it. You don’t know who it is, or how many? All you know is that there was a massive security breach; a bullet grazed your ear. So what do you do? Do you run for cover as fast as you can, or do you stand up and raise your fist?

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