Monday, May 5, 2025

Jury Duty

 Observers,


  After all these years I was finally chosen to be a juror in a case which is expected to last a week, a civil case, which are not usually jury cases, but this one is.
I will provide a few things that come up, but I just had a big weekend for a memorial service for a family member who has passed, so I am not really able to keep up to even my own satisfaction.


​  Will Zoll,  Scamocracy, Part IV, the wrap up
The Economic Generals
  Pundits are criticizing Trump and his team for continuing to pursue tariffs as a means of tax revenue over and above the taxing of income on its own citizens. However, the men whom he has placed at the forefront of this battle could not be more experienced or accomplished in the wild game that is the financial markets. ​ 
​  Howard Lutnick began his career with Cantor Fitzgerald. They were a very professional outfit. During the 911 attacks, a huge chunk of the Cantor desk was wiped out in the World Trade Center attacks, including Lutnick’s own brother.
​  Lutnick knows his math, and the numbers he is crunching in the tariff game are designed to bring America back from the brink. Not only does he wish to see the revival of American industry, but he wants to make sure that the American consumer has a lot more money in their pocket to consume and/or invest with American industry.​  
https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/scamocracy-part-iv

​  Kyle Young, Power Outages and the Coming Pole Shift
  On the morning of the outage Ben measured a large weak spot in the magnetosphere that opened up over the North Atlantic. The suns energy poured though that weak spot and got caught up in the prevailing winds that just happened to be blowing right over the Iberian peninsula. Voilà! The electrical grid goes down.
  My speculation about the reason for the cover up is that acknowledgement of this phenomenon would present a world of problems for the powers that be. Like the Aztec priests who kept their knowledge of lunar and solar eclipses secret to wield as a weapons of fear to keep their populations in line, perhaps the same holds true for the modern powers that should not be. If the masses learned that the power grid was so vulnerable, they might abandon it for something more independent. That would leave a huge gap in the authoritarian control scheme. For instance, if threats to turn your power off became hollow, CBDC’s would become much less effective. They want to maintain control as long as possible and wring out as much proift as possible
  One of the things Ben points out is that when a major weakening of the magnetosphere (much bigger than what just happened) occurs and a massive induction current from the sun strikes earth, all electrical systems in the affected region will be over loaded to the point that fires will break out in every electrified building hit by that event. In this scenario, a wide swath of buildings on earth will be wiped out - not only cities and towns, but entire societies will be laid to waste. (For those of you who have read my series on the Maui fires and the more recent fires in Palisades California, this becomes believable.) Electricity from utility grids would end: There will be no gas, no refrigeration, no heating, no cooling, no grocery stores, no 911, no police, no hospitals, no phone service, no public transportation and so on. In a matter of two or three days, entire continents will be taken back to 1800. If the magnetosphere weakening continues, as the earth rotates, the rest of earth will follow suit.
  As we have seen up to this point in time, the pole shift will be an unfolding scenario. Things will get progressively worse as we get closer to the day of the shift. According to Ben, the good news is, that day will mark the end of the tribulation. And yes, apparently the shift will occur over the course of one revolution of the earth (one day).
  In other words, its the journey up to that day that will become increasingly difficult. Neither he nor anyone else knows when the shift will occur. It may not be until 2050, or it could be next month.
  I’ve spent more time looking into Ben’s work. This is not just his take on things. He draws from some of the best scientific minds of our time currently working on this. I recommend folks check out his site. He provides a lot of proof for what he says. 
https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceWeatherNewsS0s

Bali got a blackout at the peak of a solar storm event on earth, at the peak, which took out an undersea cable.  May 3, 2025  3rd Solar Storm Blackout in a Row!!!  (first 1:30 min)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRn4_0tsoY

U.S. Electricity From Fossils Fuels Dips Below 50% for the First Time Ever​   https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Electricity-From-Fossils-Fuels-Dips-Below-50-for-the-First-Time-Ever.html

  Professor Ugo Bardi,  Human Extinction Ahead: How Many Years Left?​  Human sperm count is rapidly declining, and that may lead to a fast demise of the homo sapiens species.​  
  The results lean toward a strong correlation between rising global plastic production and declining human sperm count, with the exponential modeling suggesting a tighter fit than linear assumptions. While not causal, the temporal alignment and biological plausibility via EDCs indicate plastics are a significant contributing factor. However, the ongoing debate over measurement methods and data consistency highlights the need for standardized, longitudinal studies to confirm these trends and disentangle confounding variables.
​  Summary and Conclusions
Using sampled data every five years, the Pearson correlation coefficient was -0.977, indicating a very strong negative correlation. Accounting for the steeper decline post-2000, this correlation likely strengthens, suggesting plastics' role via chemicals like phthalates, linked to reproductive issues ​  
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/human-extinction-how-many-years-left

​  Russia standing alone against West – Putin
The West has been long seeking to “finish off” Russia and partition it into several smaller countries, Vladimir Putin has said​   
https://www.rt.com/russia/616711-putin-collective-west-conflict/

​"Responds" without answering the question...  ZeroHedge In The White House: Who Blew Up The Nord Stream Pipelines? Trump Responds   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-white-house-certain-people-know-exactly-who-blew-nord-stream-trump-says

​John Helmer has more than is in the title:  THE SUMMIT IN THE SAND – PUTIN AGREES TO MEET TRUMP IN ABU DHABI  ON MAY 15-16   https://johnhelmer.net/the-summit-in-the-sand-putin-agrees-to-meet-trump-in-abu-dhabi-on-may-15-16/#more-91544

  Israeli C-130 drops loitering drones to destroy civilian aid ship for Gaza?  Have we just witnessed a long range drone drop?
An aid ship bound for Gaza has suffered damage in international waters off the coast of Malta, with the crew alleging a drone attack.
​  While many elements remain unconfirmed, flight data showing an Israeli C-130 Hercules aircraft flying low over the region shortly beforehand has raised a striking question: have we just witnessed the first real-world long-range combat use of loitering drones deployed from a manned military aircraft?
​  The vessel, Conscience, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), was reportedly struck in the early hours of Friday morning. Activists aboard claimed an attack by drones, with two loud explosions, internal fire, and visible structural damage.​   
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/have-we-just-witnessed-the-first-long-range-drone-drop/

Iran Allegedly Begins Sea Trials Of Second Tanker-Converted Forward Operating "Mothership"​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-allegedly-begins-sea-trials-second-tanker-converted-forward-operating-mothership

​  Partisan, but worthwhile; Thanks Dan:  SCOTUS Thinks Church-State Separation Is Anti-Religious Bigotry
The Supreme Court is poised to open the floodgates to mandatory taxpayer support for religious education across the country, striking down restrictions on religious charter schools. The right-wing justices seem unconcerned about the consequences.​   https://portside.org/2025-05-02/scotus-thinks-church-state-separation-anti-religious-bigotry

​  Chemicals in Food Packaging, IV Bags Linked to 356,000 Deaths a Year From Heart Disease
Exposure to DEHP, a class of phthalate chemicals used in raincoats, food packaging, shower curtains, PVC flooring and pipes, IV bags
 and other items, is associated with multiple health problems, including hormone disruption, obesity, diabetes, infertility, cancer and heart problems, according to a new peer-reviewed study.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chemicals-food-packaging-iv-bags-linked-deaths-a-year-heart-disease/

​  Trump Bans Foreign Gain-of-Function Research — U.S. Experiments Paused
The executive order halts federal funding for dangerous virus experiments overseas and temporarily suspends high-risk U.S. research involving infectious pathogens and toxins.​   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-trump-bans-foreign-gain

​Juror #8  (pictured with onions hardening off)


Saturday, May 3, 2025

Declarations

 Hereby Informed,


  It's Official:  RFK Jr: HHS Became a ‘Collaborator in Child Trafficking’ Under Biden
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that HHS is no longer facilitating child trafficking in the United States and is instead “very aggressively” searching for the hundreds of thousands of migrant children lost by the Biden administration.
  “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said during a White House Cabinet meeting with President Trump and other top administration officials to mark the first 100 days of the president’s second term.
  “During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that”RFK Jr. declared.   
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/30/rfk-jr-hhs-became-a-collaborator-in-child-trafficking-under-biden/

  Destroy local food; cut supply lines, globalize the Gaza genocide.  Alex Krainer,  The global war on farming gathers pace
British farmers are pushing back, but the government is preparing large-scale culling of livestock toward the end of 2025   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-global-war-on-farming-gathers

  Celia Farber,  Florida House Passes Bill Banning ALL Geo Engineering and Weather Modification
Aircraft Outfitted For These Attacks On Life Must Be Reported To The Department Of Transportation.   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/florida-house-passes-bill-banning

Aluminum containing jet fuel works fine. The effects of alumina nanoparticles as fuel additives on the spray characteristics of gas-to-liquid jet fuels   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0894177717301309

  RFK Jr. was asked about chemtrails recently on The Dr. Phil Podcast and his response is noteworthy.
He confirmed they are real and then he said he believes DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is doing the spraying.
He also said he is bringing on someone whose entire job will be to investigate this and shut it down...
..There are no longer any massive spraying jets hooked up to planes. No, they knew that couldn’t be kept quiet. Not sustainable.
  No, it’s much simpler now. Now they’ve found a way to just put the chemicals directly into the fuel and as the fuel burns and the exhaust comes out, the chemicals come out with it. Simple!
  And almost no one needs to be “in on it.” In fact, most people flying the planes or working on the planes probably do not know any different.   
https://defconnews.com/2025/04/30/rfk-jr-explained-exactly-how-the-chemtrails-are-done-and-why/

  Caitlin Johnstone,  Israel's Backers Keep Whining That They're Losing Control Of The Narrative
  Amnesty International is now calling Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza “a live-streamed genocide” due to the way this nightmare is unfolding right in front of us on the screens of our devices around the world, and public support for Israel is plummeting in the United States...
..During a speech at a summit hosted by the Jewish News Syndicate earlier this week, former US senator Norm Coleman said that Jews are “the masters of the universe” and should use their power in Silicon Valley to control online information in order to win a “digital war”.
  Coleman, who is Jewish, made the following remarks on Monday:
  “A majority of Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel. And, my friends, I think the reason for that is that we’re losing the digital war. They’re getting their information from TikTok… and we’re losing that war.
  “And when you think about it, the masters of the universe are Jews! We’ve got Altman at OpenAI, we’ve got [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg, we’ve got [Google founder] Sergey Brin, we’ve got a group across the board. Jan Koum, y’know, founded WhatsApp. It’s us.
  “And we have to figure out a way to win the digital battle. We’ve got to get our digital sneakers on, so that the truth can prevail over the lies. And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because a majority of all Americans will support Israel. We’ll make that happen, we have to make it happen.”   
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-backers-keep-whining-that

Bernie and Rand:  Antisemitism Awareness Act 'in Jeopardy' After Pushback From Democrats and Rand Paul   https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64919

The Starvation of Gaza   
https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-starvation-of-gaza/   


Netanyahu Stirs Fresh Controversy: Victory In Gaza Is Top Priority, Not Hostages   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-stirs-fresh-controversy-victory-gaza-top-priority-not-hostages

  "Hamas-Linked Terrorists" says Israel:  Flotilla carrying pro-Gaza activists struck by drone near Malta, group says
“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition had been organizing a nonviolent action under a media blackout to avoid any potential sabotage,” the group said in an official statement on its website. “Volunteers from over 21 countries travelled to Malta to board the mission to Gaza, including prominent figures.”
  The statement said the vessel was struck twice by armed drones 17 nautical miles (31.5 kilometers) east of Malta, “causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull,” and that, as of the last communication with the boat, the drones were still circling the ship.   
https://www.timesofisrael.com/flotilla-carrying-pro-gaza-activists-struck-by-drone-near-malta-group-says/

  This is an act of war against the island nation of Palau, whose flag the "Conscience" flies.  Drones hit ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Gaza aid ship in international waters
Freedom Flotilla Coalition demands Israel answer to violations of international law, including blockade and ‘bombing of our civilian vessel’.
  Jenes, currently in Malta, said that the group was not aware of the situation on board the ship as communication with the crew had been lost.
“They were hiding in the night in the rooms of the ship because they were afraid of the drones …  We lost contact with them,” she said.
The FFC, formed by peace activists from several countries last year, uses a converted trawler to try to defy Israel’s blockade on Gaza.
  Israel halted humanitarian aid two months ago, shortly before it broke a ceasefire and restarted its war against Hamas, which has devastated the Palestinian enclave and killed more than 50,000 people.  
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/drones-hit-freedom-flotilla-ship-carrying-aid-to-gaza

  Israeli plane flew over Malta hours before aid ship attacked: report
An Israeli military aircraft was flying over Malta hours before a civilian ship carrying aid to Gaza was attacked by a drone, CNN reported, citing flight-tracking data.   
https://trt.global/world/live/6813df184f5c960d4bba541b

  Israel’s escalating campaign of demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank is the other side of the coin of seizing Palestinian land for settlement expansion. The objective is to force Palestinians to silently leave.   https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/israel-is-on-a-home-demolition-rampage-in-the-west-bank-its-aim-is-to-force-palestinians-to-leave/

  Over 423,000 people in Gaza displaced 'with no safe place to go': UN
'Recent strikes have reportedly hit residential buildings sheltering displaced people, especially in Rafah and eastern Gaza City.'   
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/over-423-000-people-in-gaza-displaced-with-no-safe-place-to-go-un/3554502

  Court orders Palestinian student's release
A US judge has ordered the release of Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi who was detained by immigration officials as he attended a citizenship interview.
  Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident for 10 years, has been held for more than two weeks. He was detained in response to his speech advocating for Palestinian human rights.   
https://www.dw.com/en/us-updates-court-orders-palestinian-students-release/live-72402646

  US GBU-39 Bomb Remnants Found at Location of Strike on Yemen Migrant Facility
The US attack on the facility, which was targeted by the Saudis three years earlier, killed 68   
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/01/us-gbu-39-bomb-found-at-location-of-strike-on-yemen-migrant-facility/

   No trade at all?  Even China?  Trump Threatens Major Sanctions on Countries Purchasing Iranian Oil
“ALERT: All purchases of Iranian Oil, or Petrochemical products, must stop, NOW! Any Country or person who buys ANY AMOUNT of OIL or PETROCHEMICALS from Iran will be subject to, immediately, Secondary Sanctions,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
  “They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form. Thank you for your attention to this matter, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” he added.   
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/01/trump-threatens-major-sanctions-on-countries-purchasing-iranian-oil/

  Trump calls China the ‘chief-ripper-offer’ on trade, with no sign of direct talks
Trump’s remarks come as his administration has signaled that negotiations with China are underway.
But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun has denied that they were negotiating on tariffs with the U.S.   
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/trump-china-trade-negotiations.html

  Mike Waltz And Deputy Deleted After Signal Fiasco
  Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are out of a job in the White House following an incident in late march in which Waltz 'inadvertently' added The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat which included discussions with top national security officials - and VP JD Vance - about plans for a military strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mike-waltz-and-deputy-deleted-after-signal-fiasco-report

  Trump nominates Waltz to be UN ambassador
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will wear two hats and serve as national security adviser during the interim.   
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/mike-waltz-un-ambassador-trump-00322007

  Making Russia look good:  Zelensky openly threatening Victory Day terrorist attack – Moscow
The Ukrainian leader has cautioned Russia to be wary about the safety of its May 9 celebrations   https://swentr.site/russia/616524-zelensky-threat-moscow-parade/

  Why would they do that?  Simplicius:  Another Shocker: WSJ Reveals Russia Arming Massive New Rear Reserve Force
  This should once and for all conclusively put to bed theories around where the Russian 30k+ monthly troops are going: a portion is replenishing hard losses, a portion replacing contract non-renewals, and a portion is going directly to the rear to stand up new armies meant to prepare Russia for a much bigger clash against NATO proper...
..Not only is Russia slated to hold a ‘fearsome’ round of Zapad exercises in Belarus this year, mirroring the pre-war drills of 2022, but there are even speculative rumors—courtesy of Legitimny channel—that North Koreans will soon be brought into the fray on Ukrainian territory proper; and in much larger numbers at that:
  "Our source reports that DPRK soldiers will take part in the war on Ukrainian territory (previously they fought only in the Kursk region) if Trump's peace case stalls....  It is the North Korean Damocles sword which threatens to unleash a mass unified rebuff to any unauthorized Western troop deployments.   
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/another-shocker-wsj-reveals-russia
  
US cannot sign peace deal on behalf of Kiev – Kremlin,  Moscow is urging the Ukrainian government to lift its ban on direct negotiations   https://swentr.site/russia/616556-kremlin-peace-agreement-washington/

  Hold this thought:  US ready to spend another 100 days on Russia-Ukraine peace – Vance:  Donald Trump’s team will work “very hard” to broker a ceasefire, the vice president has said   https://swentr.site/news/616648-us-100-days-ukraine-peace/

May 2, 2014:  Odessa Massacre: Point of No Return That Marked Ukraine's Slide Into Nazism​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/odessa-massacre-point-of-no-return-that-marked-ukraines-slide-into-nazism-1121967491.html

  Andrew Korybko,  Radio Liberty Let The Cat Out Of The Bag Regarding The EU’s Game Plan For Ukraine
  Radio Liberty just let the cat out of the bag. The unnamed officials who they cited in their recent article confirmed that they envisage this “buy[ing] the Europeans time to assemble a ‘reassurance force’ in the Western part of Ukraine” and organize “air patrols” there.
  Their reported game plan is “keeping the Americans onboard” the peace process, “sequencing” the conflict by clinching a ceasefire that’ll later lead to a lasting peace, and using the aforesaid interim period to carry out the abovementioned military moves for pressuring Russia into more concessions. What’s omitted from Radio Liberty’s article is that Russia has threatened to target Western troops in Ukraine.   
https://korybko.substack.com/p/radio-liberty-let-the-cat-out-of

  US steps back from Ukraine peace talks as Trump ‘needs to move on’
  Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state and temporary national security adviser, has indicated that the White House will scale back its role in peace negotiations over the war in Ukraine.
  Rubio said the US was not abandoning peace efforts and that it would be ready to help “if we can”, but that the Russian and Ukrainian sides were “still far apart” and President Trump has to decide how much time to dedicate to the process.   https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/us-to-step-back-from-ukraine-peace-talks-as-vance-admits-no-end-in-sightus-withdraws-peace-talks-jd-vance-xqckld2h7

​  Simplicius,  Major Frontline Breakthrough Signals Start of Russian Spring Offensives   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5225-major-frontline-breakthrough

  "Mission accomplished":  Trump has forced Ukraine to sell itself for aid – Medvedev
Trump has advertised the agreement as a way to get back the roughly $350 billion he claims Washington has spent on support for Kiev in the conflict with Russia.
  The agreement does not mention security guarantees, which Ukraine previously insisted on. Instead, it focuses on future US aid, rather than paying back assistance provided to Ukraine in the past.
  “Trump has finally broken the Kiev regime into paying for American aid with minerals,” Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said in a Telegram post on Thursday. “Now military supplies will have to be paid for with the national wealth of a disappearing country.”    
https://swentr.site/russia/616630-trump-forced-ukraine-sell-wealth/

  Washington is no longer seeking to pressure or force President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold elections that could result in his being ousted office for the sake of peace, according to information in The Telegraph.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-relieved-trump-quietly-dropped-key-demand

Martin Armstrong has business details:  Trump Approves First Weapons Sales to Ukraine – Minerals Deal Secured   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/trump-sends-first-aid-package-to-ukraine-minerals-deal-secured/

Ukraine willing to ‘de facto’ cede land to Russia – Trump envoy:  Keith Kellogg has said Kiev wants to hold the current front line   https://swentr.site/news/616594-kellogg-ukraine-ready-give-up-land/

Ukraine Conflict 'Not Going to End Any Time Soon' - Vance​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/ukraine-conflict-not-going-to-end-any-time-soon---vance-1121965753.html

  The biolabs in Ukraine are REAL! 
Tulsi Gabbard: "We are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director on this, as well as Secretary Kennedy is looking at the gain of function research that in the case of the Wuhan Lab, as well as many others." 
  "Many of these other biolabs around the world were actually US-funded and led to this dangerous kind of research that, in many examples, has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis." 
  "It's because this gain-of-function research is happening in biolabs around the world. That by the way is still on the US Embassy Ukraine's website today about how the US has funded these biolabs."   https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1917961395238309903?

Dmitry Trenin: Here’s why Trump’s foreign policy is calculated, not chaotic  America’s new realism means peace with Russia and focus on China      
   In geopolitics, Trump embraces a realist doctrine grounded in great-power competition. He has defined his global priorities: secure North America as a geopolitical fortress from Greenland to Panama; redirect US and allied power toward containing China; make peace with Russia; and consolidate influence in the Middle East by supporting Israel, partnering with Gulf monarchies, and confronting Iran...                    ..Trump does not see Russia as a primary adversary. He views Moscow as a geopolitical rival, but not a military or ideological threat. Rather than pushing to sever Russia from China, he aims to re-engage Russia economically – in areas like energy, the Arctic, and rare earths – with the expectation that greater Western economic engagement will reduce Moscow’s dependence on Beijing.
  In fact, outreach to the Kremlin has become the centerpiece of Trump’s foreign policy in his second term. His goal is not to divide Moscow and Beijing outright, but to lay the groundwork for a new global balance of power in which Russia has options beyond the Chinese orbit...
..Trump is not tearing down the American system but striving to restore it. His counterrevolution is aimed at reversing liberal-globalist distortions, reinforcing sovereignty, and returning realism to international affairs.   https://swentr.site/news/616578-trumps-foreign-policy-calculated/

  The first 100 days of US President Donald Trump's second term in office have marked a profound shift toward searching areas of cooperation with Russia instead of confrontation, Rhode Island University Professor of Political Science Nicolai Petro told Sputnik.
  "President Trump has a very different view of Russia from his predecessors. Rather than assuming that Russia's interests must clash with American interests, he assumes that the two can find areas of cooperation, and that such cooperation has the potential to expand," Petro said.   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250429/trump-seeks-cooperation-with-russia-instead-of-confrontation---expert-1121952423.html

  Pepe Escobar, Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
  Can’t define the Ukraine regime as Nazi.
Can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza...
..So let’s go to Kashmir – to the sound of Jimmy Page’s hypnotic riff. Both India and Pakistan are escalating the war of decibels. Turkey is offering weapons – to Pakistan. Iran offered a mediator role: no takers...
..After the Kashmir bus terror attack, Hindutva fanatics went on a cyber-attack spree.
The crude tactics spell out classic Divide and Rule. Double whammy: revamped weaponization of India, and destabilization of a key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) China front: the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A thing of beauty: splitting BRICS from the inside.
  None of that, of course, legitimizes the ghastly Pakistani military, which have thrown in jail, on spurious charges, the man who was trying to bring Pakistan to respectability: Imran Khan.
  It’s up, once again, to the adults in the room, any room – Russia – to de-escalate. This could be ideally performed inside the SCO – where both India and Pakistan are members, side by side with Iran. Moscow chose to take the initiative, by itself.
  Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko met with both India’s Ambassador to Russia, Vinay Kumar, and Pakistan’s Ambassador to Russia, Muhammad Khalid Jamali.
  Russian terminology is essential: not only there was a call for both parties to “engage in constructive dialogue”. Moscow stressed, “we are ready to counter the global terrorist threat together.” The operative word is “global”. Delhi and Islamabad don’t seem to be getting the message – yet...
..Lavrov cut to the chase on the financial and geoeconomic front. He stressed that BRICS are working hard on the 2024 Kazan summit-approved  “Trans-Border Payment Initiative”; a “payment and clearing infrastructure”“a re-insurance company”; and a new investment platform.
  He had to once again explain to Western media – from the US to Brazil – that “it would be premature to discuss a transition to a single currency for BRICS".
   https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/30/going-to-kashmirjust-to-find-alice-in-wonderland/

​   A​fD opposes World War III: Germany’s AfD party is declared ‘definitely right-wing extremist’ by BfV spy agency, paving the way for a ban
"A severe blow to German democracy," said AfD co-leader Alice Weidel in response to the groundbreaking news​   
https://rmx.news/article/breaking-germanys-afd-party-is-declared-definitely-right-wing-extremist-by-bfv-spy-agency-paving-the-way-for-a-ban/

​  Brussels floats solution to Trump – FT
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has offered Washington a deal whereby tariffs on all industrial goods would be removed. However, Trump has rejected the zero-for-zero tariffs proposal, saying that it doesn’t solve the problem of the trade imbalance.
​  Trade volumes between the US and the EU amounted to $975.9 billion in 2024, according to official data tracked by the Office of US Trade Representative. The US purchased $605.8 billion worth of EU goods, while the bloc’s imports from the US amounted to $370.2 billion.​   
https://swentr.site/business/616655-eu-trump-tariffs-imports-increase/

  Michael Hudson and Yanis Varoufakis with Ann Pettifor on Economic and Political Paradigm Changes
Yanis Varoufakis: "I think Michael Hudson is very poignantly bringing into the conversation about the global order of things is what I call cloud capital. So you can have an industrial robot, which is very technologically advanced, uses information technology and algorithms and so on to assemble Teslas, right? You can have OpenAI, which produces a standard service in a standard capitalist model.
  But what lives in here? What lives in here? In Google? In Facebook? In Meta? In X? In all these platforms, this is not just information technology. We get it wrong. It’s a new form of capital.
  Because every form of capital we’ve had up until now, since we created the first tool to the old singing, old dancing industrial robots that assemble Teslas, they’ve been produced means of production. That’s what capital was. With this, we had a mutation of capital.
  For the first time, we have automated systems that are not produced means of production, but are purely produced means of behavioral modification. So unlike the machines that Henry Ford employed to produce other machines, Model Ts, and create a monopoly capitalist system whereby he’ll use the monopoly profits in order to buy newspapers to influence people and governments and to rip up all the streetcars, trams, in order to replace them with his own cars. Unlike that, you know, Jeff Bezos doesn’t sell anything.
  I mean, he doesn’t sell anything he makes. His capital, his cloud capital has created a digital fiefdom in which he’s encased producers and consumers charging the equivalent of ground rent, of the feudal ground rent
, which are called cloud rent. And today, most of the value in the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, it comes from cloud rent.
  It doesn’t come from capitalist profit. It’s exactly what Michael was saying. So when you saw this cabal of Bezos and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and Tim from Apple and all these nice boys around Trump during his inauguration, I would call it the coronation this time around.
  And what you saw was these cloudalists, the owners of cloud capital, who some of them are losing a lot from the tariffs, like Elon Musk loses a lot from the tariffs. They don’t like the tariffs, but what they see in Trump is the gateway towards the complete political domination of this new form of capital, cloud capital.   
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/michael-hudson-and-yanis-varoufakis-with-ann-pettifor-on-economic-and-political-paradigm-changes.html

  Martin Armstrong,  Trump’s EO to Support Trade Apprenticeships
  A Deloitte/Manufacturing Institute report warned of 1.9 million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2033, as 3.8 million role will need to be filled. Manufacturing employment plummeted to its lowest level during the pandemic with nearly half (46.3%) of the sector out of work. Pandemic aside, manufacturers are struggling to find skilled laborers, with the same Deloitte poll noting that 65% of manufacturers found attracting and retaining talent was their primary business challenge. It was also revealed that 47% of companies would begin to offer work-study or apprenticeship programs.
  Trump’s new plan would provide support for 1 million apprenticeships annually. No amount of academia can compensate for a lack of hands-on experience.   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/trumps-eo-to-support-trade-apprenticeships/

  Meryl Nass MD,   EPA Press Release: Rolling out a plan for PFAS (and sludge)
PFAS is just one class of chemical that is found in sludge. We need an assessment of risk for many more chemicals in our air, food and water. We need to interrogate the research that hundreds or thousands of EPA scientists have performed over decades, and find out what happened to it. But this is a great start.   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/epa-press-release-rolling-out-a-plan

  "That's a feature":  Mass mRNA Injection Campaigns Likely Fueling the Global Fertility Collapse
Among ~1.3 million Czech women aged 18–39, those vaccinated against COVID-19 had ~33% fewer successful pregnancies 
compared to unvaccinated women.   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-mass-mrna-injection-campaigns

  Also not "bugs":  Steve Kirsch,  There are two primary reasons the COVID vaccines should be stopped:
In actual use, they provide no protection against COVID infections or deaths and
  It was shown in a study by the Florida Dept of Health that they can increase risk of non COVID death by 36% or more.
Vaccines are NEVER supposed to increase all-cause mortality. They are always supposed to decrease it.   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/why-we-should-stop-the-shots

  NEW STUDY — Pfizer Recipients Face 37% Higher Risk of Death Than Moderna Recipients
Study of 1.47 million Florida adults
 by MIT’s Retsef Levi and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo finds significantly higher all-cause, cardiovascular, and COVID-19 mortality after Pfizer vaccination.   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-pfizer-recipients-face

Department of Justice Launches Inquiry Into Top Medical Journals Over Pandemic Bias, Fraud, and Corruption   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-doj-launches-investigation

U.S. Government Finds ‘Significant Risks,’ ‘Irreversible Harms’ in Medical Interventions for Child Gender Dysphoria   https://lumennews14.substack.com/p/us-government-finds-significant-risks

  Meryl Nass MD,  Confirming what I wrote about yesterday, FDA Commissioner Makary said he is not going to approve COVID shots or any drugs without data   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/confirming-what-i-wrote-about-yesterday

RFK Jr. to Require Placebo-Controlled Trials for New Vaccines as FDA Admits “Void of Data” on COVID Boosters   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-rfk-jr-to-require-placebo

  Epidemiologist Nicholas Hulscher of the McCullough Foundation on Mind Matters and Everything Else with Dr. Joseph Sansone, EP 66
Discussing 'Sansone mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act' and Harms From mRNA Bioweapon Injections   
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/epidemiologist-nicholas-hulscher

  Trees 'Sync Up' During a Solar Eclipse in a Forest-Wide Phenomenon
  The researchers were monitoring the bioelectrical impulses of spruce trees, when a solar eclipse passed over. They left their sensors running to record the trees' response to the eclipse – and what they observed was astonishing.
  The spruce trees not only responded to the solar eclipse – they actively anticipated it, by synchronising their bioelectrical signals hours in advance.
  This forest-wide phenomenon, detailed today in the journal Royal Society Open Science, reveals a new layer of complexity in plant behaviour. It adds to emerging evidence that plants actively participate in their ecosystems.   
https://www.sciencealert.com/trees-sync-up-during-a-solar-eclipse-in-a-forest-wide-phenomenon

Hanging Out (pictured with small oak trees)


Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Here Comes The Sun

Illuminated,


  Simplicius,  Russian Vise Tightens as West Dawdles and Dallies with "Ceasefire" Sham
To encapsulate: Russia is advancing in their war of attrition, growing stronger, as Ukraine goes weaker, and insists upon demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine, as well as recognition of Crimea and 4 Novorossiyan oblasts as part of Russia.
  Ukraine is not yet at the point of capitulation, and concedes nothing, not even Crimea.
  The US has made a "final offer" to cease-fire now, and then negotiate, which would allow re-arming of Ukraine and training of new Ukrainian forces, which Russia will not allow. Russia will press the advantage until a final-status deal is on the table. A final-status deal will include a new European security framework to meet Russia's needs, not merely the desires of NATO. Sergey Lavrov keeps saying the same thing and "you're not listening".
  Russian preparations are being made, apparently with American understanding, to impose a government upon whatever the Ukrainian rump-state will be during reconstruction. Personnel considerations are underway. Trump says Russia's big concession is "to not take the whole country".
  Putin has announced 3 day ceasefire for May 9, Victory Day [Russia lost 26 million citizens to win WW-2.] and Zelensky has immediately rejected it, calling for 30 day ceasefire now, for Ukraine to re-trench and re-supply. That makes Ukraine/Zelensky look not-desirous-of-peace. Point: Russia.  
  Not mentioned here is that The "minerals deal" between the US and Ukraine has not yet been agreed-to or signed and is almost certainly precluded by the 100 year partnership treaty between the UK and Ukraine, signed January 16. The pretend negotiations continue. This ultimate failure may give Trump an excuse to drop Ukraine, or if Ukraine does sign something, it removes banking-collateral from the Bank of England, which could precipitate a crisis.
  There is a cool video of a nuclear-powered US aircraft carried doing high-powered "drifting" evasive maneuvers at sea (without any airplanes on deck).
  The must see video is of North Korean elite forces in live-fire training, then embracing and and holding up a Russian flag and a Company flag after retaking a Russian town in Kursk. These are fast, strong, fit, and agile crack-troops that seem to be very steady with their weapons in all conditions, and practice shooting down drones with shotguns while on the move.   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-42825-russian-vise-tightens

As would I...  Lavrov claims Kiev wants ceasefire to halt battlefield losses   https://swentr.site/russia/616513-lavrov-outlines-kiev-indefinite-ceasefire/

Past US aid to Ukraine not included in minerals deal, Kyiv says   https://www.reuters.com/world/past-us-aid-ukraine-not-included-minerals-deal-kyiv-says-2025-04-28/

  Ukraine Ready To Sign Trump's Minerals Deal Wednesday, Breakthrough Reached
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal first unveiled Sunday that the Trump administration had dropped this requirement of paying back past debt.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-ready-sign-trumps-minerals-deal-within-hours-breakthrough-reached

Another 'Last Minute' Dispute Delays Signing Of Ukraine Minerals Deal   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-ready-sign-trumps-minerals-deal-within-hours-breakthrough-reached

  Really?  Trump Vows US Won’t Exit Ukraine Peace Negotiations After Vatican Meeting 
US President Donald Trump has pledged to Estonian President Alar Karis that the United States will continue its participation in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.    https://united24media.com/latest-news/trump-vows-us-wont-exit-ukraine-peace-negotiations-after-vatican-meeting-7895

  Ukraine won’t win – Vance  
  “Sometimes you’re incredibly frustrated with Ukrainians. Sometimes you’re incredibly frustrated with the Russians,” Vance said. “And sometimes you just want to throw your hands up, but that’s what President Trump doesn’t let us do.”
  Vance’s remarks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian troops would observe a three-day ceasefire starting on May 8 to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over Germany in World War II. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky responded by accusing Moscow of “manipulation” and called for an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
  According to Russia, Ukraine violated both the 30-day ‘energy truce’ brokered by the US last month and the 30-hour Easter truce, despite having promised to respect both arrangements. Putin has argued that in order for a comprehensive ceasefire to succeed, Ukraine must halt its mobilization campaign and the West must stop delivering weapons to Kiev.   
https://swentr.site/news/616463-vance-ukraine-will-not-win/

  The explanation of the Spanish and Portuguese grid failure Monday, describing atmospheric conditions as the cause, struck me immediately as incompatible with what appeared to be a sudden huge induction of current in high voltage transmission-lines, implying action in the global electrical circuit, but there was not a coronal mass ejection or unusually high plasma stream at the time, which would readily explain it. 
  My NASA friend, Mel says NASA has been warning (not the public) about these "wormhole" conductive anomalies suddenly arising, to exactly this effect. There will be more of this. Will it be openly disclosed?
  Red caught Ben Davidson's live broadcast Monday evening, which I summarize here:
Official explanation is "only half a lie".
  Ben is showboating, taking his time to get to the point, sigh...
He gets more coherent at 7:00 minutes. 7-10 minutes gives the explanation.
"This was a weak spot in Earth's magnetic field, which allowed a solar wind plasma penetration" that shot down to the high pressure area over Europe, making a "flash" Ben can see , but we don't have that screen.
..
  Magnetic poles on Uranus and Neptune happen to be shifting right now, according to the James Webb telescope...
We could have a Carrington event any day. "You need to be prepping yesterday."   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYuPQ2NbkwA&t=7s

  Will they be able to mention the global electric circuit?  Power is back on in Spain and Portugal, but questions remain about Monday’s blackout.
Spain’s electrical grid was running as normal until 12:33 p.m. (6:33 a.m. ET) when, suddenly, it suffered a disturbance.
  Eduardo Prieto, the director of services for the grid operator Red Eléctrica, said the grid recovered after that first shock. But a second disconnection, one and a half seconds later, caused “a degradation of operating variables” of the system, leading to a “massive generation disconnection” and “disconnection of the connection lines with France.”
  In the space of a few seconds, 15 gigawatts of energy suddenly dropped from Spain’s supply, Spanish government sources told CNN – equivalent to 60% of the electricity being consumed at the time – and the entire Spanish grid collapsed as a result.   
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/europe/what-caused-spain-portugal-blackout-explainer-intl/index.html

   What caused the blackout in Spain and Portugal and did renewable energy play a part?
Some initial reports suggested a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” may have been to blame, citing a statement attributed to the Portuguese grid operator REN... However, the weather in Spain was normal on Monday. On Tuesday REN denied it had been responsible for the statement, but did not give further details... 
..“The nature and scale of the outage makes it unlikely that the volume of renewables was the cause, with the Spanish network more often than not subject to very high volumes of such production.”
  The Spanish grid operator said on Tuesday that there had been two events akin to loss of power generation followed by a massive loss of renewable power, which had destabilised the grid. They said it was “very possible” the first of these events was a sudden loss of solar power.   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/29/what-caused-the-blackout-in-spain-and-portugal-and-did-renewable-energy-play-a-part

  Today there is still no mention of the anomalous opening of a current flux in the solar-wind current flow from the sun over Spain & Portugal.
What we know so far about the massive blackout that hit Spain and Portugal
  About three hours before the outage, power quality sensors in homes in the Madrid area showed warning signs of an unstable grid – there were small fluctuations in voltage around 9:30am local time, Whisker Labs CEO Bob Marshall said Tuesday. The Maryland-based software developer has a couple of dozen sensors in homes in and around Madrid, testing the technology for use in Europe for home fire prevention and grid monitoring.
  Instead of normal, steady voltage, Marshall said the data shows there were oscillations whose frequency and magnitude increased over the next three hours until the grid failed. He does not know what caused the instability.
  Around noon, there was a big jump in the magnitude of the fluctuations, with the voltage measured going up and down by about 15 volts every 1.5 seconds, Marshall said.
  “The way I would interpret our data," Marshall said about Monday's events, "is that the grid is struggling. Something’s wrong. And it’s showing increasing signs of instability".   
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250430-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-massive-blackout-that-hit-spain-and-portugal

  Celia Farber is in Spain.  Scenes From Unprecedented Blackout In Spain: Street Dancing, Teenagers Having A Blast Without Their Phones, Men Directing Traffic, People Cutting Through A Fence To Bring Food To People On A Train... Outdoor Cookouts, Women Being Carried Upstairs, And More     https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/scenes-from-unprecedented-blackout

Maybe if the electrical grid crashes more often...  Stop the Digital Control Grid – Catherine Austin Fitts   https://usawatchdog.com/stop-the-digital-control-grid-catherine-austin-fitts/#more-30893

Caitlin Johnstone,  Biden Never Pushed For A Ceasefire In Gaza  https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-never-pushed-for-a-ceasefire

Netanyahu's Wife Caught On Mic Saying 'Fewer' Than 24 Hostages Alive In Gaza   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahus-wife-caught-mic-saying-fewer-24-hostages-alive-gaza

Israeli warplanes bomb mosque in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, leaving many injured   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250418-gaza-200000-patients-risk-death-amid-border-closures/

  Israeli attacks kill 51 more Gazans as death toll nears 52,400:  Nearly 118,000 Palestinians injured in Israeli assault since October 2023, Health Ministry says   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-attacks-kill-51-more-gazans-as-death-toll-nears-52-400/3551890

  UNRWA medical supplies in Gaza are completely depleted as a result of Israel’s almost 2 month blockade on the entry of essential aid to the enclave on 29 April 2025   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250429-unrwa-medical-supplies-in-gaza-are-completely-depleted/

  Screaming soldiers and open revolt: How one video unmasked Israel's internal power struggle
  Although the Israeli army has tried to minimise its death toll since the start of the war on 7 October, 2023, it has faced many leaks, some initiated by the military itself. The aim? To put pressure on Netanyahu to end the war, especially in light of new information that at least half of Israel’s military reserves are refusing to return to the battlefield.   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250429-screaming-soldiers-and-open-revolt-how-one-video-unmasked-israels-internal-power-struggle/

  Israel's Ben-Gvir ends US visit amid pro-Palestine protests
During his trip, Ben-Gvir faced pro-Palestinian chants at multiple locations, as shown in videos circulating on social media platforms.
  The Israeli minister also encountered criticism from supporters of Israeli hostages' families upon arriving at a Florida airport, according to widely-shared social media videos.
  While Ben-Gvir mentioned meeting US Congress members in his posts, he, however, didn't say that he met any official from the US administration.
He also claimed on Wednesday that US Republicans back his call for bombing food and aid stores in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
  A day later on Thursday, the US State Department dismissed Ben-Gvir's claim, saying his remarks are a “complete contradiction” to US policy.   
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/israels-ben-gvir-ends-us-visit-amid-pro-palestine-protests-3701559

  "Veiled death threat" is another rumor:  Trump allies say 'Mossad agents' and 'warmongers' trying to derail Iran talks
Media personalities close to President Trump say isolationists are being attacked by pro-Israel voices  
  According to a Pew Poll published in April, 53 percent of Americans now express an unfavourable opinion of Israel, up from 42 percent in March 2022.
The shift in negative sentiment has been notable among young Republicans under 50, who are more likely to tune into podcasts like Morris’s Redacted and Carlson’s show.   
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-allies-say-mossad-agents-and-warmongers-trying-derail-iran-talks

  US Imposes More Sanctions on Iran Despite Negotiations
The Trump administration has continued its so-called 'maximum pressure campaign' against Iran   
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/29/us-imposes-more-sanctions-on-iran-despite-negotiations/

But Bibi has really deep, secure bunkers.  Iran to Netanyahu: Any hostile action will be met with a devastating response   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250429-iran-to-netanyahu-any-hostile-action-will-be-met-with-a-devastating-response/

 See the video of evasive maneuvers from Simplicius above:  Fighter Jet Falls Overboard As USS Truman Evaded Inbound Houthi Fire   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fighter-jet-falls-overboard-uss-truman-evaded-inbound-houthi-fire

  This should pair well with the little "hydrogen bombs".  China develops 2-pound drone that looks like a flying thermos and drops grenades
These autonomous drones are deployed as a part of China’s intelligent warfare doctrine.   https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-2-pound-thermos-inspired-drone

Virginia Giuffre’s Father Denies Suicide Narrative — Demands Full, Independent Investigation Into Her Death   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/virginia-giuffres-father-denies-suicide-narrative-demands-full/

  AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks warns that Elon Musk’s efforts to expose waste and abuse at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be futile unless Congress significantly reduces federal spending.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/david-sacks-warns-doge-will-all-be-nothing-unless

3 year transition-period:  Lutnick Rolls Out Auto Tariff Relief As US Pushes To Reshore Supply Chains   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-moves-ease-automaker-pain-tariff-relief-foreign-parts

  Thanks Michael. It's lovely, and they are buying it with their own money, from the interest we pay them on the money we borrow from them, which they create with the special-powers which we transferred to them in 1913, so everything is fair and reasonable.   The New Federal Reserve HQ   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/central-banks/the-new-federal-reserve-hq/

PepsiCo breaks out from the pack.  America's largest food company makes major recipe change to appease RFK Jr that'll change taste of snacks   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14659771/food-giant-recipe-change-rfk-jr-dyes-additives.html

  They will find that about 80% of transgender children have both diagnoses. NHS to Screen All Transgender Children for Autism Under New Policy
A key step to protect neurodevelopmentally disabled kids from dangerous and irreversible "gender-affirming" medical procedures that increase death and suicide risk.   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/nhs-to-screen-all-transgender-children
  
  Geoengineers Want Boeing 777s to Dump Sulfur Into the Sky, Risking Acid Rain Catastrophe: Journal 'Earth's Future'
Plan "would strongly increase side‐effects such as acid rain," study authors admit.  
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/geoengineers-want-boeing-777s-to

  Scientists are rightfully afraid to contradict dominant CO2-Only narratives.  Physicist Anastassia Makarieva:   What's Happening with Global Precipitation?
Land vs. Ocean, Observations vs. Models and the Official Narrative
  The data focuses on global precipitation—how it has changed over the past forty years, especially during the anomalously warm year of 2023. The narrative aspect is about how these changes align with expectations from global climate models, and how reporting differs when models agree or disagree with observed data...
..Stating clearly that the observed trends in global precipitation do not conform to climate models is important. As we have seen in “We are losing soil moisture, why?”, a decline in precipitation over land is consistent with independent assessments of soil moisture stores—and would be incompatible with the rising precipitation projected by the models. Also, a relative reduction in precipitation by 1% due to reduced transpiration (as compared to the pure CO2-driven warming) can result in significant additional global warming, as we have discussed in “Global cooling from plant transpiraton”.   https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/whats-happening-with-global-precipitation

​Endothermic Life Form (took this picture of Jenny at dawn, now shorter than corn)