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Happy Asteroid Day

6/30/2023

I just discovered that June 30th is the official UN International Asteroid Day. A day to "raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard "

Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets that pass near the Earth's orbit and are potentially catastrophic threats to our planet. According to NASA over 32,000 NEOs have been identified. www.nasa.gov/image-feature/near-earth-asteroids-as-of-june-29-2023

Asteroid Day was co-founded by astrophysicist and famed musician Dr Brian May of the rock group Queen, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, filmmaker Grig Richters, and Danica Remy, to educate the public about the importance of asteroids (and to give us another boogey-man to anguish over).

Honestly, I'm completely in favor of tracking NEOs so we can be aware of potential threats. But, as a rational prepper, I have to conclude that there's nothing an individual can do to prepare for an impact... aside from evacuation.

The good news is that NASA is developing technology that may be able to deflect an asteroid that's on a collision course with Earth. Last year, the DART project confirmed that crashing a spacecraft into a smallish asteroid could alter its path. www.nasa.gov/feature/early-results-from-nasa-s-dart-mission

SO... this is one of those threats where we just have to trust the government to make the preparations.

DON'T PANIC

A New Tridemic?

6/29/2023

Just six months ago I was writing about the second Tridemic... the globalists second attempt to create a new boogeyman-of-doom. neoterra.us/blog/boogeymen-of-doom-the-tridemic-has-arrived

Six months before that we had the first scary Tridemic with COVID, Monkeypox and Polio on the roster. That one evaporated quickly when Monkeypox started popping up in children and pets (!!)... and the polio was traced to illegal immigrants. neoterra.us/blog/the-pandemic-trifecta

So, my friends, it seems that we are due for another round of pestilence. We already have two scary diseases warming up in the bullpen. Just one more and we'll have our third Tridemic.

Candida Auris
According to the CDC "Candida auris is an emerging fungus that presents a serious global health threat."

The fungus started out as a hospital infection and become resistant to all current antifungal agents. It has especially targeted patients in intensive care units and those weakend by chemotherapy or a deficient immune system. www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/index.html#

My best advice is to stay the hell out of the hospital!

Malaria
There is now an outbreak of malaria in Texas and Florida. According to the CDC, this is the first local spread of the disease in 20 years, which is confusing since the CDC also says there was an outbreak in 2008.

It's hard for me to consider this an 'outbreak'. As of Tuesday there was one case in Texas and four in Florida.

The malaria virus is conveyed by female mosquitoes and NPR (a bastion of truth) suggests that the current outbreak in Texas and Florida is due to Global Warming. YAY!

There are swirling conspiracy theories suggesting that Bill Gates is behind the current outbreak. I'm skeptical... but it is a strange coincidence that the Gates Foundation funded a program to create genetically modified mosquitoes and the Biden EPA approved the release of millions of these fraken-squitoes into Florida in 2021. You can read the glowing report from the CDC here... after all, unlike Jurassic Park, nothing could possibly go wrong when Bill Gates tampers with genetics:
www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/community/emerging-methods/genetically-modified-mosquitoes.html

My best advice folks is Repel 100. The Good Stuff.

New York - Clown World

6/27/2023

While I do enjoy mocking Illinois (in general) and Chicago (in particular), New York has taken the lead in Clown World Climate insanity.

No More Gas
Last month Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new law banning gas stoves, furnaces and water heaters and banning the use of propane heating. Starting in 2026 new buildings less than seven stories must be all electric. Taller buildings have until 2029.

So... no more gas grills and no more gas fireplaces.

The clowns who legislate this nonsense claim "Methane, the main component of natural gas used to fuel stoves and heat homes, has more than 80 times (the greenhouse effect) as carbon dioxide"
www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/new-york-natural-gas-ban-climate/index.html

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read... you see a methane molecule consists of one carbon atom and 4 hydrogen atoms (i.e. CH4). When you burn methane with your stove, furnace, etc, the result is one molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) and two molecules of water (H2O).

In other words, burning methane (natural gas) produces less greenhouse gas... it is definitely NOT 80 times more. As a point of full disclosure, unburnt methane (from farting cows) is, indeed, a potent greenhouse gas.

They will come after your charcoal grill and your wood-burning fireplace next... to save the Climate.

Give Us Pizza Or Give Us Death
You may think that I was just being snarky when I said they will ban charcoal grills. But you would be wrong.

New York City is banning the use of wood-fired pizza ovens (or requiring the owners to install CO2 scrubbers). Mayor Adams said "I love my vegan pizza with vegan cheese. And something about pizza, like, does anyone dislike pizza? Everyone likes pizza,"... but he goes on to say that the city must do everything it can to shrink the carbon footprint. YAY!

The Mayor is also upset that a 'pizza activist' hurled slices of cheese pizza over the gate at City Hall... screaming "Give us pizza or give us death". Kind of catchy.

Keep in mind that the 100 (or so) wood-fired pizza joints in New York City release less CO2 in a year than John Kerry's jet spews out in an hour... maybe we should keep the pizza and ban John Kerry.

Future Food - Eat Zee Lab-Meat

6/26/2023

Vat Chicken
As I reported a few months ago, highly-processed, plant-based 'meat' is not doing too well in sales. The global elites need a new way to make us eat fake crap (to save the Climate). SO, the USDA recently approved two California companies to allow the sale of "cultured chicken" in the United States.

What is cultured chicken??? Well, lab-grown meat — or cultivated or cell-based meat — is meat that is developed from animal cells and grown, with the help of nutrients like amino acids, in massive bioreactors. It sounds totally safe and healthy... right??

Once they extract the chicken goo from the bioreactors they can 3D print it into nuggets or 'fillets'. Commentators report that "it tastes like chicken". LOL

According to the cheerleaders, chicken meat grown in vats will used less water, less feed(??) and less land that raising real chickens. In spite of these enormous economic benefits the vat chicken is expected to sell for around $20/lb. I have to ask... if it uses less of everything, shouldn't it cost less??

Perhaps the day will come when we will eat 'meat' grown in massive bioreactors. Perhaps the day will come when we have Star Trek replicators that instantly create burned replicated bird meat out of thin air.

Perhaps I'll just keep eating real meat.... unless Counselor Troi invites me to dinner...

The 2nd - Lyin' Biden and God Save The Queen

6/19/2023

The crazy stupid $hit that comes out of Joe's mouth is beyond belief. I can imagine that Joe is actually mentally impaired but his speech writers should have a few facts at hand.

Three days ago Joe actually said that when you put a brace (a piece of plastic) on the back of a handgun it turns it into a gun. Folks, a handgun is a gun. "Put a pistol on a brace, and it ma- — turns into a gun".

I can forgive Joe for this bit of word salad, but then he went on to say "Makes them where you can have a higher-caliber weapon — a higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun"

Seriously?? Does anyone actually believe that putting a piece of plastic on the back of a gun somehow makes bigger diameter bullets come out the front of the gun? Even Progressives should know this is bullshit.

The primary purpose of a pistol brace is to improve accuracy... particularly when shooting with only one hand. I'm not sure that I agree with the concept... but it DOES NOT make the pistol shoot bigger bullets.

BUT... Best Of All, Joe concluded his anti-gun speech with the words "God save the Queen, man".... to rousing Progressive applause.

But please, don't just take my word for it. Here's the entire transcript right from the White House archives.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-national-safer-communities-summit/

The Underwater Railroad

6/15/2023

The Underground Railroad
I'm sure that everyone is familiar with the Underground Railroad that was thrown together in the era of slavery... to help slaves escape to freedom in the North. Of course, it wasn't a real 'railroad' ... it was a metaphor.

The Underwater Railroad
Yesterday, as part of a ridiculous rant about the existential threat of Climate Change, Joe announced that 'we' will "build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean"

I'm not sure what this has to do with Climate Calamity, but it was said in the same breath as "We have plans to build in — in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world". Now that sounds like a terrific investment for American taxpayers.

Perhaps Joe was speaking metaphorically. Perhaps, in the spirit of the Underground Railroad, he plans to use our submarine fleet to transport Asylum Seekers to freedom in India. BUT I DOUBT IT.

Then he goes on to blame the Climate Catastrophe on MAGA Republicans. He completely ignores the fact that his buddies in China were already spewing twice as much CO2 as the United States by 2017. AND China is currently building 6x as many coal power plants as the rest of the world combined. www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin

It does not seem to me that MAGA Republicans are destroying the Earth. Here is a picture of reality from Visual Capitalist.

BUT, please don't take my word for it. Here's the transcript directly from the White House.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/14/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-league-of-conservation-voters-annual-capital-dinner/

And here it is in Joe's own words.

The Scarcity Report

6/14/2023

Scary Scarcity
As y'all probably know by now, our global overloads relentlessly try to keep us in a state of irrational fear and anxiety. To help maintain my Rational Prepper perspective, I give the biggest, baddest boogeymen cute names.

Scary Scarcity (i.e. famine, poverty, declining prosperity) has been a recurring boogeyman ever since The Limits To Growth was published by The Club Of Rome 50 years ago. Though none of their dire predictions came true, they continue to tell us that the world will end if we don't reduce ourselves to poverty.
neoterra.us/blog/the-boogeymen-of-doom-scary-scarcity

Many times, shortages are due to natural causes (bad harvests, for example) but some of our most dire shortages are intentionally created by a dishonest or incompetent government. Let's look at the latest news.

Eggstra, Eggstra
Yikes, there is actually some good news. The chicken population is recovering from last year's Avian Flu epidemic and egg prices are returning to normal. YAY!
www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/business/egg-prices/index.html

The Cocoa Crisis
We have been hearing about the end of chocolate for a few years now... BUT it's getting serious!

Cocoa prices have soared to a seven year high due to a worsening global bean deficit.... that is media-speak meaning "we eat too much chocolate".

Climate Hysterians now claim that the Cocoa plant will become extinct by 2050, because of global warming (It's funny how the Climate Calamity is always 30 years away).

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the climate in West Africa will become too hot and dry to grow Cacoa (or coffee) by 2050.
www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-chocolate

BUT, the Prophets of Doom never think of a creative solution. If the global temperature becomes too warm in West Africa then neoTerra will become perfect for growing coffee and cacoa.

Maybe I'll start a cacoa plantation when I grow up. YAY!

The Coffee Crisis
It seems that coffee is suffering the same fate as cocoa. Coffee prices have recently hit a 12-year high due to El Nino. We stocked up last year and only replenish our supply when it's on sale.

Wheat and Corn
Last year's extreme drought in California has been replaced by abundant snow (and even flooding).

However, changes in El Nino have shifted the worst of the drought to the Great Plains. Experts predict that the Kansas wheat harvest will be the worst in 60 years and the United States may actually have to import wheat.

Of course weather predictions are notoriously bad so the drought could break. That said, it might be prudent to stock up a bit when you see a good sale. Pasta has a really long shelf life.

FREE Beer
Finally, some good news! The Bud Boycott is continuing and AB is getting desperate. The beer aisle is filled with 'Buds' while the alternatives are selling out.

They are so desperate that they are literally paying you to haul their (crappy) beer away. While some stores are selling 24 packs for $3.49, AB is offering a $20 rebate. Yikes, you can make a $16 profit!

If it wasn't one-coupon-per-customer I would buy a truckload and replenish my retirement account.

So there ya' go... Anheuser-Busch, fighting inflation one Bud at a time!

Conclusion
Food insecurity is real, but the response from globalists is hypocritical.

On one hand the UN 2023 Global Report on Food Crisis is dire, claiming over 253 Million people face serious food shortages or starvation.
www.fsinplatform.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/GRFC2023-hi-res.pdf

On the other hand, the Globalists are doing everything they can to make the situation worse. For example, The Netherlands, one of the world's leading food exporters, is forcing thousands of family farms out of business 'to save the climate'.

And Ireland plans to force dairy farmers to kill 200,000 cows to stop them from farting. You can't make this $hit up.
humanevents.com/2023/06/03/ireland-moves-to-slaughter-200000-cows-over-climate-concerns

The Ministry of Plenty was forced to reduce the chocolate ration from 30 grams/week down to only 20. So the Ministry of Truth announced that the chocolate ration would be increased to 20 grams per week. The people went to the streets... to thank Big Brother for his generosity.

Depopulation and The Fate Of Useless People

6/12/2023

One year ago I wrote my first article on the WEF and their goal of depopulation.
neoterra.us/blog/wef-depopulation-and-the-fate-of-useless-people

Eldercide
In that article I talked about how the Globalists are working to normalize "eldercide"... a means of eliminating the medically expensive elderly. Dr. Ezekial Emanual, a WEF sycophant and advisor to Joe Biden, claims that "a life past the age of 75 is worthless." because you are no longer productive for society (i.e. The State) after that. (He makes an exception for his boss Joe who is already 80).

To accomplish this, Dr. Emanual advocates a reverse Medicare allotment where you are entitled to ever diminishing medical care as you get older. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.
www.liveaction.org/news/ezekiel-emanuel-rationed-health-care-biden-covid/

Euthenasia
About six months ago I wrote about the growing trend to allow and expand euthanasia in Globalist countries. This was originally pitched as providing a merciful and dignified death for the terminally ill but has been expanded to include those who are handicapped, depressed or merely homeless.
neoterra.us/blog/wef-the-fate-of-useless-people

Canada (you know the place with free universal healthcare) is the world leader in killing its own people. The number of euthanasia deaths in Canada increased by 1000% in the five years between 2016 (when it was legalized) and 2021. Numbers for 2022 are not yet available.

Total Convenience
This has become such a big business in Canada that funeral homes are now getting into the act.

YES, for $700 you can now have a 'turnkey' suicide and wake right in the funeral home. You can even be alive during your farewell service and hoist a few with friends before you make your trip to the hereafter (and the cremation oven).

Depopulation
Remember that Dennis Meadows, the author of 'Limits To Growth' in 1972 believes that we must eliminate 7 BILLION people to save the Earth. Keep in mind that none of his apocalyptic predictions from 50 years ago came true... but it's gonna happen any day now.

He is hoping that it could be something 'peaceful', like a massive epidemic. BUT maybe eldercide, famine and euthanasia will get the job done.

Constitution Under Attack

6/11/2023

Intro
The Socialist, Democrat (but I repeat myself) State of Illinois has just decided to throw the Constitution out the window.

Last week Democrat Gov Pritzker signed HB 3062 that infringes upon the checks-and-balances guaranteed by the Constitution.

Let's review how the Constitution is supposed to protect us and then look at HB 3062.

The Government Has No Intrinsic Rights
The United States is fairly unique. Most countries assume that a Monarchy or "The State' have per-ordained authority over the populace. Many governments rule with a velvet glove... but there is an assumption that the government grants rights to the people.

The United States is the opposite. The government has no intrinsic rights. It does not even have the right to exist. All initiative, authority and rights intrinsically stem from the individual. All rights are the unalienable Provence of the individual. The government is formed and granted limited powers and authority by our mutual consent, for our mutual harmony and benefit.

Checks And Balances
The Constitution was carefully crafted to protect our Liberty and ensure that authority and initiative always belong to the people.

Governmental power is separated between three branches.

Only the Legislative Branch is empowered to create new laws. The House directly represents the people by 'democratic' apportionment while the Senate provides equal protection to the individual states. This was specifically done to prevent more populous regions from riding roughshod over rural areas.

The Executive Branch (i.e the President and the increasingly vast bureaucracy) cannot create laws. This Branch is only empowered to implement and enforce the laws that have been enacted. (This firewall is increasingly infringed by the use of Executive Orders and by regulations created by unelected bureaucrats).

The Supreme Court has no power to create, implement or enforce laws. It's only purpose is to guarantee that the rights of the people are not trampled by the Legislature or by Executive overreach. The Supreme Court is intentionally not elected to insure that they are not vulnerable to populist whims.

Illinois HB 3062
There are 102 counties in Illinois. This newly enacted law (signed by Priztker on June 6th) will disenfranchise the people of 100 of those counties (i.e. 98% of the State).

Under the new legislation (which takes effect immediately) citizens may only challenge the constitutionality of an Illinois law from within two of the 102 counties. The two magically privileged counties are Cook and Sangamon (Where the State capitol is located in Springfield).

The courts in both counties are controlled by Democrats (aka anti-American socialists) which insures that no challenges will ever make it to the Illinois Supreme Court.

The following map illustrates the only two areas where a citizen's rights will be protected by the 'checks-and-balances' of the Constitution.

Conclusion
There is a saying that "actions speak louder than words". There is a corollary that states "the true purpose or essence of an organization is what it does".

The Democrat elites rant and scream about protecting Democracy (from deplorable Conservatives). BUT, in reality, they hate Democracy... they will demean, cancel, shout-down, intimidate and even persecute anyone who doesn't bow-down and embrace their 'superior' ideology.

The essence of the Democrat Party is what it does... not what it says.

Woodland Gardens - Cardboard Compost

6/10/2023

Folks, I'd like to write about how the Democrats in Illinois tossed out the Constitution last week but I'm just too tired. Let's talk about something fun, for a change.

The Great Replacement
As I mentioned in a previous newsletter, we lost over $2000 in shrubs from the record cold last December (so much for Global Warming). Consequently, I haven't expanded the gardens this year ... I've been busy replacing deceased shrubs with plants that are more cold-hardy, such as hostas (for shade) and cannas (for sun).

We put in about 120 hostas... this was the first batch of 50.

Upcycling Cardboard
We don't recycle corrugated cardboard... we use it as a weed-block that decays to create compost in about one year. We've been doing this for the past four years and it works.

Here's how it works for us. I pile mounds of dead leaves into an area that will be a future garden (we have a LOT of dead leaves every Fall). I cover the leaves with cardboard (thanks Amazon) and then cover the cardboard with 2 - 3 inches of topsoil.

The cardboard plus topsoil will gradually compress the dead leaves down to just a few inches as they decompose.

The cardboard has a number of benefits.

It blocks the weeds
It prevents the topsoil from washing down into the leaves.
It's organic and decomposes along with the dead leaves
Worms love the cardboard. The corrugations are like a luxury apartment complex for our wriggly little friends.

This area (about 200 square feet) will get covered as Amazon donates more packaging. It will be a new expansion to our woodland gardens next spring.