A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a climate crisis. Commenting on climate alarmism, Clauser has said that “The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
Compare and contrast with the position of Jeffrey Sachs, one of Harvards “greatest hearts” (trigger warning – if possible, avoid looking at the picture).
In the article Sachs describes “John Kerry (special presidential envoy for climate) and Janet Yellen (treasury secretary), are individuals of outstanding ethics and deep and long-standing commitments to fighting poverty and climate change”. He goes on to state that ‘the most powerful nation in the world has a domestic energy policy still in the hands of Big Oil.” He is NOT referring to China, by the way. What is distressing is that his policies which would eliminate carbon-based fuel would drive much of the world’s population into unimaginable poverty, but not to worry, as one of Harvard’s greatest hearts, feelings are what really matter – reality and logic be dammed. We really do inhabit 2 different worlds.
RE: UFO Hearings
It’s been reported that the House Oversight Committee is planning on holding a Hearing on UFOs/UAPS on July 26th.
Congressman Tim Burchett, of that Committee, has said that DOD has been pressing some of the witnesses he wants to call not to testify, and there is even an article, put out by some sort of security clearance organization, laying out all of the catastrophic things which might befall anyone who does testify.
Thus, if all of this intimidation works, there may really not be much to see here.
I was kayaking in Elkhorn Slough a few days ago, not far from Santa Cruz. Lots of otters and other wildlife.
The otters are cute but a bit of a pain as paddlers are required to keep a distance from otters. I think it’s something like 20 or 30 yards. So you are cruising on a path you like, and an otter pops up exactly in front of your bow some distance away. As you steer left or right, another one pops up on that path. And so on.
The wildlife is always nice. Though the best was last year when I kayaked in the middle of some pelican feeding or migration frenzy.
For Neo:
Karolina Protsenko is a 14-yr-old Ukrainian immigrant who is studying classical violin (and performs amazingly in that realm). She “busks” in Santa Monica most weekends, I think. Has been doing it for about 5 years. (Not for the money, I’m sure!)
Her recent performance of “Stayin’ Alive” (from the Bee Gees):
(The little boy beside her is her brother.)
As always there will be a deep dark conspiracy to explain there is nothing there.
The impossibility of proving a negative keeps the UFO grift flying.
“To infinity and beyond!”
Homophobic otter? Hate crime? Right wing Otter supremacist?
That is a big otter ! It looks more like a sea lion.
Possibly of interest to Neo, an Open Therapy group has been organized to encourage and train therapists who are not antagonistic to their clients. This article at WSJ Opinion.
Today, people with unorthodox beliefs face unprecedented antagonism, yet the mental health profession largely ignores them. It’s staggering how many populations in need of counseling go overlooked. These include people who have to self-censor, those who’ve faced high costs for their speech, victims of antiwhite bias, cops who face hostility simply for doing their jobs, and couples who might be attached to some traditional features of gender. There are also black people who dislike the dominant racial narrative of the left, gay men and lesbians who feel alienated by aspects of LGBT culture, and women who disagree with aspects of contemporary feminism. Most of these people don’t know where to go to find a therapist who understands their concerns.
To work productively with these groups, therapists need to do more than simply refrain from attacking them or overtly politicizing therapy. Therapists need to have some understanding of patients’ experiences and feel comfortable supporting their goals. Therapists who judge, recoil, or quietly rage at their patients can’t provide effective therapy.
Karolina Protsenko is a 14-yr-old Ukrainian immigrant who is studying classical violin (and performs amazingly in that realm).
Her vids always bring a smile.
Mike K,
The otter does look a little chubby. There was some mention of humans feeding them, which is never good. But no, sea lions are huge by comparison to otters.
Very young sea lions are maybe about that size. But they do look quite different.
This could be huge news if the Democrats and their media are not able to cover it up. The Biden regime has been desperately trying to cut a deal with Iran. Now their chief negotiator Robert Malley has been fired for going too far even for them.
“At any rate, what is clear is that Malley’s dismissal was not due to a disagreement between the Secretary of State team and the National Security Advisor team.
These two teams have worked very well together to keep this issue secret and exploit it in the recent negotiations with Iran over the last three months. In fact, Malley’s extreme closeness to his unofficial advisers of Iranian origin, which was perhaps his greatest strength and the reason for his appointment to this position in the new American government, has now become his Achilles’ heel and caused his downfall.”
Will the leftist hacks in the news media ever tire of covering for the regime?
I’m always amused with people’s half second learning experience that “No, this animal is not cute.” Then again, there are some things I’m rather harsh about.
I used to have a couple of venomous snakes but I never once considered them pets. Or cute, friendly, cuddly……
Otters are cute.
I used to have a couple of venomous snakes but I never once considered them pets. Or cute, friendly, cuddly……
Sister in law had a family of Sea Otters set up their household and have their kits under the house SIL rented on Vashon Island, WA. SIL’s husband set up an “Otter cam” and got some interesting video of the adult’s and kit’s antics.
Downsides, they could be quite noisey, and they raise quite the stink. The Otters were re-homed after the kits reached the approved age.
Everybody thinks otters are cute right up to the point they drown a monkey
–BigD
_________________________
Everybody thinks chimpanzees are cute until they brutally murder the former alpha chimp then partially cannibalize the body.
Jane Goodall sat on her observations of chimpanzee brutality, but the science has been settled:
__________________________
For years, anthropologists have watched wild chimpanzees “go ape” and attack each other in coordinated assaults. But until now, scientists were unsure whether interactions with humans had brought on this violent behavior or if it was part of the apes’ basic nature.
A new, 54-year study suggests this coordinated aggression is innate to chimpanzees, and is not linked to human interference.
BTW, a chimpanzee can rip a human arm out of its socket.
Stay safe.
RE: UFOs–
I’ve found the UFO oriented website, “Need To Know,” operated by film maker Bryce Zabel and Ross Coulthart, the Australian investigative journalist who interviewed David Grusch on NewsNation several weeks ago, now, to be pretty well-grounded and thoughtful.
Coulthart, in particular, seems to be particularly well-informed.
On their most recent Youtube video they discuss the very detailed, comprehensive, and far-reaching bi-partisan Senate UFO Amendment to the FY2024 NDAA just introduced by Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, and several other Senators.
Their discussion echoes and reinforces my comment of a few days ago, that the very shrewd Chuck Schumer would not be introducing legislation that extensively mentioned “Non Human Intelligence,” and “off-world technology” unless he believed such things to exist, and that as a member of the “Gang of Eight” he, if anyone, would have access to the widest range of classified information about UFOs.
Schumer, they say, obviously “knows something.”
The pair also talked about how the events that seem to be leading to some big Disclosure are coming at a faster and faster pace, gathering what might be– after almost eight decades of disinformation and cover ups–unstoppable momentum.
They also speculated that some sort of “bad news” might be the driving force behind the increased focus and pace of efforts by Congress to force the disclosure of this previously hidden information. *
Everybody thinks otters are cute right up to the point they drown a monkey
The monkey deserved it.
Schumer, they say, obviously “knows something.”
Okay, that made me laugh.
that they know he’s an alien, well isn’t that self evident,
Schumer knows that Jan 6 2021 was an insurrection, but doesn’t know where the White House cocaine came from. Schumer knows UFOs.
Look squirrel!
Judging from the comments so far, it sounds like what we need is sea otter versus chimpanzee. Only then can we really tell who is strongest.
Everyone thinks polar bears are cute til they eat baby polar bears.
Philip Sells:
It’s the Planet of the Apes … and the Sea Otters!
Brrr….
FYI: A new surfboard costs $700-1000.
huxley says, “BTW, a chimpanzee can rip a human arm out of its socket. Stay safe.”
A chimp can also rip off a human’s face and hands. Some of Neo’s readers may recall the case of Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who was attacked by her friend Sandra Herold’s pet chimp Travis in February 2009. From the account at “All That’s Interesting”:
When police arrived, they found Travis stalking the area, covered in blood. The officer fired several rounds into him, and Travis, bleeding, fled into the house. A trail of blood followed his path through the kitchen and bedroom, into his room where he died grasping his bedpost. Bits of Nash’s body littered the yard — flesh, fingers, and nearly half her body’s blood. Travis had ripped off her eyelids, nose, jaw, lips, and a large portion of her scalp.
Interesting that the cartoonist Steven Bell repeatedly portrayed George W. Bush as a chimp: I don’t recall W getting violent enough to rip off anyone’s face.
Everybody seems to think Sea Otters are just the same as River Otters. There are many examples (YouTube) of River Otters being aggressive to people. Sea Otters, not so much.
It’s sort of reminiscent of a high school production of West Side Story, i.e., earnest but amateurish.
Be sure to read the comments. Hilarious.
The otters don’t hurt each other in these dust-ups. They just sort of wrestle around, squeaking and peeping, until one of the clans decides to break it off and run away.
Otters are all over Singapore. The government allows them to go wherever they want, and they do. They stroll through parks and across busy streets and through business districts.They are not in the leastways hostile to humans. The Singaporans, by and large, love them.
Apparently Otters are very popular in Japan, and a Youtube channel chronicling the life of a Japanese family which has two pet otters appeared on my Youtube feed.
The Otters are very cute, have been given cutesy names, and have been taken by this family on all sorts of “adventures”—out to eat, to the beach, to wander along local streams, to meet and interact with their new baby, etc.
When you think about it, though, it appears that this Japanese family has rearranged it’s life around the behaviors and needs of these Otters.
Moreover, in a cautionary note, someone who actually has Otters, I think it might actually be this family, wrote that Otters stink, properly caring for them is expensive, they scratch and bite, and they make all sorts of mess, thus, they’re not a particularly good “pet.”
This is yet another example of the Disneyfication and anthropomorphisizing of wild animals.
P.S.—Of course, the same problems could be said of a dog, but the key difference, it seems to me, is that a dog—unless you might be talking about a wolf-dog hybrid— is no longer a “wild” animal.
Snow on Pine:
I bet you’re fun at parties.
P.S. Humans stink if you don’t properly care for them. Worse than otters, arguably.
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a climate crisis. Commenting on climate alarmism, Clauser has said that “The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4167594/posts
Compare and contrast with the position of Jeffrey Sachs, one of Harvards “greatest hearts” (trigger warning – if possible, avoid looking at the picture).
https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1215468/us-politics-and-the-paris-finance-summit/
In the article Sachs describes “John Kerry (special presidential envoy for climate) and Janet Yellen (treasury secretary), are individuals of outstanding ethics and deep and long-standing commitments to fighting poverty and climate change”. He goes on to state that ‘the most powerful nation in the world has a domestic energy policy still in the hands of Big Oil.” He is NOT referring to China, by the way. What is distressing is that his policies which would eliminate carbon-based fuel would drive much of the world’s population into unimaginable poverty, but not to worry, as one of Harvard’s greatest hearts, feelings are what really matter – reality and logic be dammed. We really do inhabit 2 different worlds.
RE: UFO Hearings
It’s been reported that the House Oversight Committee is planning on holding a Hearing on UFOs/UAPS on July 26th.
Congressman Tim Burchett, of that Committee, has said that DOD has been pressing some of the witnesses he wants to call not to testify, and there is even an article, put out by some sort of security clearance organization, laying out all of the catastrophic things which might befall anyone who does testify.
Thus, if all of this intimidation works, there may really not be much to see here.
I was kayaking in Elkhorn Slough a few days ago, not far from Santa Cruz. Lots of otters and other wildlife.
The otters are cute but a bit of a pain as paddlers are required to keep a distance from otters. I think it’s something like 20 or 30 yards. So you are cruising on a path you like, and an otter pops up exactly in front of your bow some distance away. As you steer left or right, another one pops up on that path. And so on.
The wildlife is always nice. Though the best was last year when I kayaked in the middle of some pelican feeding or migration frenzy.
For Neo:
Karolina Protsenko is a 14-yr-old Ukrainian immigrant who is studying classical violin (and performs amazingly in that realm). She “busks” in Santa Monica most weekends, I think. Has been doing it for about 5 years. (Not for the money, I’m sure!)
Her recent performance of “Stayin’ Alive” (from the Bee Gees):
(The little boy beside her is her brother.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gO5BfjefY
As always there will be a deep dark conspiracy to explain there is nothing there.
The impossibility of proving a negative keeps the UFO grift flying.
“To infinity and beyond!”
Homophobic otter? Hate crime? Right wing Otter supremacist?
That is a big otter ! It looks more like a sea lion.
Possibly of interest to Neo, an Open Therapy group has been organized to encourage and train therapists who are not antagonistic to their clients. This article at WSJ Opinion.
https://archive.is/MMFIE
VV on July 17, 2023 at 11:33 am said:
For Neo:
Karolina Protsenko is a 14-yr-old Ukrainian immigrant who is studying classical violin (and performs amazingly in that realm).
Her vids always bring a smile.
Mike K,
The otter does look a little chubby. There was some mention of humans feeding them, which is never good. But no, sea lions are huge by comparison to otters.
Very young sea lions are maybe about that size. But they do look quite different.
Sea otter
https://wallpapercave.com/wp/woYjpXZ.jpg
Sea Lion
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dqi27KA1j0/UY3qa0lVNRI/AAAAAAAAE5Q/uwJaZoaKw60/s1600/Sea+Lion.JPG
This could be huge news if the Democrats and their media are not able to cover it up. The Biden regime has been desperately trying to cut a deal with Iran. Now their chief negotiator Robert Malley has been fired for going too far even for them.
“At any rate, what is clear is that Malley’s dismissal was not due to a disagreement between the Secretary of State team and the National Security Advisor team.
These two teams have worked very well together to keep this issue secret and exploit it in the recent negotiations with Iran over the last three months. In fact, Malley’s extreme closeness to his unofficial advisers of Iranian origin, which was perhaps his greatest strength and the reason for his appointment to this position in the new American government, has now become his Achilles’ heel and caused his downfall.”
Will the leftist hacks in the news media ever tire of covering for the regime?
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/203272/The-secret-talks-that-doomed-Rob-Malley
I believe Neo used to post some that girl’s videos here. She’s been at it for a few years so I would think she closer to a senior in high school now
malley tells the regime what to do, notably his school mate anthony blinken,
the aliens are already here, schiff, schumer, buttigeg, change my mind
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/the-war-on-merit-teacher-edition.php
@ Snow on Pine. Just FYI re ‘UFO’, no comment from me:
Project Blue Beam is the theory that the powers that be are planning to fake an alien invasion in the coming years with the intention to bring the worlds nations together to ‘fight against a common cause’ – the ultimate objective being to usher in a New World Order. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/117w62t/ive_put_together_all_factchecked_project_blue/
@physicsguy at 1:09:
Quote: “Karolina Protsenko was born on October 3, 2008, which makes her 14 years old as of 2023. ”
https://thebeetalks.com/entertainment/the-fascinating-journey-of-karolina-protsenko-a-musical-prodigy-and-youtube-sensation/
(There are other listings of her date of birth, but my browser keeps giving me warnings about them, for some reason.)
@physicsguy:
Violin Recital of 14 year old Karolina Protsenko:
Karolina Protsenko is playing Sarasate: Caprice Basque Op. 24 on her violin recital in November 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWXLzKpfso
the bigger picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6gjeSTPSFs
The Malley Dossier (probably more than anyone wants to know…or read for that matter)
https://emetonline.org/robert-malley-and-the-call-from-the-third-world/
FWIW…
File under: TLTR…and yet, and yet…
shorter summary, malley has supported islamists all around the world, like effendi khashoggi, hamas armed islamic group, taliban, nusra front,
Speaking of ‘ufo’… anyone care to claim this one, Aussies want to clean up their beach:
https://twitter.com/AusSpaceAgency/status/1680832020937846785
I’m always amused with people’s half second learning experience that “No, this animal is not cute.” Then again, there are some things I’m rather harsh about.
I used to have a couple of venomous snakes but I never once considered them pets. Or cute, friendly, cuddly……
Otters are cute.
Everybody thinks otters are cute right up to the point they drown a monkey
Sister in law had a family of Sea Otters set up their household and have their kits under the house SIL rented on Vashon Island, WA. SIL’s husband set up an “Otter cam” and got some interesting video of the adult’s and kit’s antics.
Downsides, they could be quite noisey, and they raise quite the stink. The Otters were re-homed after the kits reached the approved age.
Everybody thinks otters are cute right up to the point they drown a monkey
–BigD
_________________________
Everybody thinks chimpanzees are cute until they brutally murder the former alpha chimp then partially cannibalize the body.
–“Aftermath of a Chimpanzee Murder Caught in Rare Video | National Geographic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XP6T1CMgBQ
Jane Goodall sat on her observations of chimpanzee brutality, but the science has been settled:
__________________________
For years, anthropologists have watched wild chimpanzees “go ape” and attack each other in coordinated assaults. But until now, scientists were unsure whether interactions with humans had brought on this violent behavior or if it was part of the apes’ basic nature.
A new, 54-year study suggests this coordinated aggression is innate to chimpanzees, and is not linked to human interference.
https://www.livescience.com/47885-chimpanzee-aggression-evolution.html
_____________________________
BTW, a chimpanzee can rip a human arm out of its socket.
Stay safe.
RE: UFOs–
I’ve found the UFO oriented website, “Need To Know,” operated by film maker Bryce Zabel and Ross Coulthart, the Australian investigative journalist who interviewed David Grusch on NewsNation several weeks ago, now, to be pretty well-grounded and thoughtful.
Coulthart, in particular, seems to be particularly well-informed.
On their most recent Youtube video they discuss the very detailed, comprehensive, and far-reaching bi-partisan Senate UFO Amendment to the FY2024 NDAA just introduced by Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, and several other Senators.
Their discussion echoes and reinforces my comment of a few days ago, that the very shrewd Chuck Schumer would not be introducing legislation that extensively mentioned “Non Human Intelligence,” and “off-world technology” unless he believed such things to exist, and that as a member of the “Gang of Eight” he, if anyone, would have access to the widest range of classified information about UFOs.
Schumer, they say, obviously “knows something.”
The pair also talked about how the events that seem to be leading to some big Disclosure are coming at a faster and faster pace, gathering what might be– after almost eight decades of disinformation and cover ups–unstoppable momentum.
They also speculated that some sort of “bad news” might be the driving force behind the increased focus and pace of efforts by Congress to force the disclosure of this previously hidden information. *
* See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXdU8QbJkbofER2eljn7ve_opEmDgDg9I
Everybody thinks otters are cute right up to the point they drown a monkey
The monkey deserved it.
Schumer, they say, obviously “knows something.”
Okay, that made me laugh.
that they know he’s an alien, well isn’t that self evident,
Schumer knows that Jan 6 2021 was an insurrection, but doesn’t know where the White House cocaine came from. Schumer knows UFOs.
Look squirrel!
Judging from the comments so far, it sounds like what we need is sea otter versus chimpanzee. Only then can we really tell who is strongest.
Everyone thinks polar bears are cute til they eat baby polar bears.
Philip Sells:
It’s the Planet of the Apes … and the Sea Otters!
Brrr….
FYI: A new surfboard costs $700-1000.
huxley says, “BTW, a chimpanzee can rip a human arm out of its socket. Stay safe.”
A chimp can also rip off a human’s face and hands. Some of Neo’s readers may recall the case of Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who was attacked by her friend Sandra Herold’s pet chimp Travis in February 2009. From the account at “All That’s Interesting”:
When police arrived, they found Travis stalking the area, covered in blood. The officer fired several rounds into him, and Travis, bleeding, fled into the house. A trail of blood followed his path through the kitchen and bedroom, into his room where he died grasping his bedpost. Bits of Nash’s body littered the yard — flesh, fingers, and nearly half her body’s blood. Travis had ripped off her eyelids, nose, jaw, lips, and a large portion of her scalp.
Full account of Herold’s relationship with Travis and the chimp’s attack on Nash here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/charla-nash
Nash has since had a full face transplant. She gave testimony in support of the Captive Primates Safety Act in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6DxrYHa5Dc&ab_channel=CNN
Interesting that the cartoonist Steven Bell repeatedly portrayed George W. Bush as a chimp: I don’t recall W getting violent enough to rip off anyone’s face.
Everybody seems to think Sea Otters are just the same as River Otters. There are many examples (YouTube) of River Otters being aggressive to people. Sea Otters, not so much.
PA+Cat:
That was sad and tragic for all involved.
For a good laugh, see the YouTube video of two otter clans in Singapore engaging in a gang rumble. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPgmKZ59jeo
It’s sort of reminiscent of a high school production of West Side Story, i.e., earnest but amateurish.
Be sure to read the comments. Hilarious.
The otters don’t hurt each other in these dust-ups. They just sort of wrestle around, squeaking and peeping, until one of the clans decides to break it off and run away.
Otters are all over Singapore. The government allows them to go wherever they want, and they do. They stroll through parks and across busy streets and through business districts.They are not in the leastways hostile to humans. The Singaporans, by and large, love them.
And, yes, they are very cute.
More otter funny:
A “comprehensive” guide to Singapore’s top 3 otter families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL1vJBG_OdE
Apparently Otters are very popular in Japan, and a Youtube channel chronicling the life of a Japanese family which has two pet otters appeared on my Youtube feed.
The Otters are very cute, have been given cutesy names, and have been taken by this family on all sorts of “adventures”—out to eat, to the beach, to wander along local streams, to meet and interact with their new baby, etc.
When you think about it, though, it appears that this Japanese family has rearranged it’s life around the behaviors and needs of these Otters.
Moreover, in a cautionary note, someone who actually has Otters, I think it might actually be this family, wrote that Otters stink, properly caring for them is expensive, they scratch and bite, and they make all sorts of mess, thus, they’re not a particularly good “pet.”
This is yet another example of the Disneyfication and anthropomorphisizing of wild animals.
P.S.—Of course, the same problems could be said of a dog, but the key difference, it seems to me, is that a dog—unless you might be talking about a wolf-dog hybrid— is no longer a “wild” animal.
Snow on Pine:
I bet you’re fun at parties.
P.S. Humans stink if you don’t properly care for them. Worse than otters, arguably.