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UPDATE—- This was supposed to be a week of two new Free Zone Communique shows. But my new laptop had other ideas. It is in the Geek Squad’s shop waiting to find out why it can’t be backed up and why 50 small documents equals half of my 8G of onboard storage. And I am still full time nurse to my best girl with the busted wing.

So the “Best Of” series continues. I wrote and recorded this last April. There is an real education on the Green Scam industry on this Substack. Feel free to search and browse the subject. I’d love to claim credit for all the knowledge offered, but it is the result of much brighter people I discovered in the process of researching liquid fluorine thorium reactors (LFTRs). The study of Green scams, energy and reactors have quite a bit of overlap.

April 2023

I am going to present you with two inputs that are not my own. But they fit nicely with what I’ve been saying on this subject for a number of years now.

The first is a quote from a post I read this morning. It explains what we do to the planet and the atmosphere every time we build a turbine or make an EV car battery or solar farm battery

And the picture it paints is incomplete in that it doesn’t cover ALL the costs and increases in transportation and diminishing material sources associated with the lofty goals of the Green movement.

I have held, and still do, that the energy goals blurted out by our government are absurd in the extreme. We will not achieve them in the time they propose. And the damage we’ll do trying doesn’t justify aspiring for X and only achieving say 50% of X.

There are two reason for this. I believe the people setting these goals know what I know. They and their cronies don’t care if we ever actually get anywhere near them. They have long since been in the process of buying up blocks and/or controlling interest in the materials we need to do it all. Just the effort to move along a bit toward the goals will provide them huge returns whether we get to net zero ANYTHING by 2030…or even 2060.

So the aspirations are not honorable. They are not genuine efforts to improve the world or clean the environment. They are not idealistic. They are dishonest. The aspirants already know we won’t get there.

That knob, Al Gore has made billions selling his green snake oil around the world. He’s got at least half of you believing his entire gospel. As a result, he’s got most politicians pretending to believe it. They write the checks with our tax dollars to subsidize companies like the ones that knob, Al Gore owns.

Before we begin, I’ll give you my conclusions upfront. We must STOP now and send everyone back to the drawing board. With the present and future supply of materials needed for the grand plans, especially copper, we have set ourselves on a collision course with disaster. For example, as demand for just lithium doubles and redoubles, as it quickly will on our present trajectory, what do you think will happen to just the price of your cell phone. Copper demand will many times greater. What will happen to the price of 50 feet of copper wire to power your garage?

After first quoting the input from earlier today, I will embed a video in the text below the audio line. If you are listening as a podcast, you should be able to simply click on the video and continue listening. The video supports and expounds on the quote with hard numbers.

As you read or listen to quote, keep in mind that our mineral mining yield per ton of earth goes down every year. That is NOT going to change.

“This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car. To manufacture it you need:

--12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be extracted from sea water)

-- 5 tons of cobalt minerals (Most cobalt is made as a byproduct of processing copper and nickel ores. It is the most difficult and expensive material to obtain for a battery.) 

-- 3 tons nickel ore

-- 12 tons of copper ore

You must move 250 tons of soil to obtain:

-- 26.5 pounds of Lithium

-- 30 pounds of nickel 

-- 48.5 pounds of manganese

-- 15 pounds of cobalt

To manufacture the battery also requires:

-- 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic 

-- 112 pounds of graphite

The Caterpillar 994A is used to move the earth to obtain the minerals needed for this battery. The Caterpillar consumes 264 gallons of diesel in 12 hours.

The bulk of necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor in Africa is done by children. When you buy an electric car, China profits most.

The 2021 Tesla Model Y OEM battery (the cheapest Tesla battery) is currently for sale on the Internet for $4,999 not including shipping or installation. The battery weighs 1,000 pounds (you can imagine the shipping cost). The cost of Tesla batteries are:

Model 3 -- $14,000+ (Car MSRP $38,990)

Model Y -- $5,000–$5,500 (Car MSRP $47,740)

Model S -- $13,000–$20,000 (Car MSRP $74,990)

Model X -- $13,000+ (Car MSRP $79,990)

It takes 7 years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the battery is 10 years (average). Only in the last 3 years do you start to reduce your carbon footprint, but then the batteries must be replaced and you lose all gains made.

And finally, my new friend, Michael, made some excellent points: I forgot to mention the amount of energy required to process the raw materials and the amount of energy used to haul these batteries to the U.S. sometimes back and forth a couple of times.

But by all means, get an electric car. Just don't sell me on how awesome you are for the environment. Or for human rights.”

You must harangue your representatives to CUT OFF all subsidies for industrial expansion of what is inaccurately called “green” technology until we remove the religious fervor for it and study the long-term implications of it all.

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11 November 24.

I brought this forward as Trump enters his Transition. He has said he’s going to end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. He has an opportunity to do so in a way that will tips the scales of history. But in Gaza, that MUST include the total elimination of Hamas, or we will be right back here again, and the killing and the hate will continue.

Based on the unending nonsense surrounding the war in Gaza, and dovetailing very nicely into our discussions with Duke Brooks in Episode 11, I brought forward two posts from 2014 and 2023. There is a bit of overlap among them.

I decided to record the works as a podcast. I want to demonstrate the pattern of rhetoric we are seeing. Anyone my age with two brain cells to rub together will recognize all of it from every cross-border attack Israel has endured since 1967. Now, the rhetoric is more strident and amazingly ignorant.

As we speak, we have an administration pandering to a tiny fraction of mostly anti-American voters and illegals, so that our collectively simple-minded media will speak well of them. This is causing no end of conflicting and feckless messaging.

Over three days last week we witnessed the nonsense. We heard Obama’s third term talk about how tough they were being on Israel, and how it is again incumbent upon Israel to exercise restraint.

The next day, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Israel. Joe, the puppet, was brought out to say we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel. There was no light between us.

When the media lit up on that, the Regime quickly reverted to telling Israel to [get this] exercise restraint in its response to Iran. What we should be doing is shutting down Iran’s economy and freezing every penny they have outside their backward country.

The first reading is from a 2014 essay I wrote when Hamas, as they frequently do, attacked Israel then cried foul when they were duly punished for it. That the entire organization was not scraped off the planet after any one of these terrorist or rockets attacks, was a lost opportunity.

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”     

― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography

Western Ignorance on Parade

It is most disturbing to witness the rise in blind, rabid anti-Semitism that oozes out of the sewer every time Israel is put in the unfortunate position of having to defend itself in the same way any country would. I had a most unsettling discussion with someone a few weeks back.  Being of part English and part Indian ancestry, she is a sweet and attractive, spunky girl with amazing eyes.  

She is also a dupe in the all too common and predictable propaganda war launched against Israel every time that nation even discusses its own defense. She is daily drinking the pro Hamas Kool-Aid.

What is most astounding this time, is how the young people are taking to it.  In Europe they are unashamedly shouting things like, “Jews to the ovens!” in their silly, shallow, uninformed demonstrations. It’s like Occupy Wall Street meets the SS.  In Canada, from whence my correspondent hails, one of their social mentors is (get this) Doctor David Duke.  What the hell did he get a degree in, Militant Mouth-Breathing?  

Those under 40 may be forgiven for not knowing this name.  That cohort and the next are not setting the world on fire with their ability to read and understand even recent history.  But those who remember the battle for the right in this country just a few years ago, remember Duke as a rabid racist politician.  A punk of the first order and still the archetype the left conjures when they want to distort what it means to be a thinking conservative in this country.

The irony lost on my debate opponent is that Duke would look on her as being a lower form of life than even his dreaded Jew. Anybody who thinks David Duke gives the least shit about Palestinians or Jordanians or Anglo-Indians almost deserves to be treated as a rube.

Equally disturbing is how gleefully the press dives into the fray, reporting from the Middle East how “terrible” the toll is on the poor Gazans and politicians talk of proportioned response; more on this later.

But at times like this, it is easy to see how a Hitler can rise to power and how a Mussolini was such a darling of the American and European left * in the thirties.  When you are ignorant of facts and are ruled by your emotions, it is easy to be led down rosy paths into the jaws of the dragon.

But there is hope.  As we look upon the excrement that fills the ranks of the organizations fighting in the name of the religion of peace, even Hollywood elites are starting to throw up in their mouths a little bit.  With a few glaring exceptions, even these champions of previous senseless violence are starting to admit that beheadings and human shields are nothing more than cowardly and psychotic.

The Historical Backdrop

Consider first, the history of this silly region.  Broken into pieces by self-important “intellectuals” such as Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations, the region was supposed to look upon us as their mentors and suddenly become advanced and civilized.  There was nothing wrong, according to Wilson, with us deciding what area would and would not become a nation.  It was the fate of such places to simply accept the new world order and behave.  Resentments roiled immediately and kept the area in turmoil until the end of World War II.  In 1948, the second League of Nations, the U.N. (just as incompetent as the first) had to consider, among many things, what to do about a declaration dating back to the 1920s, giving the Jews a homeland.  Everyone was holding their breath to see what the US would do.  To his credit, Truman gave it more thought than Clinton gave our recognition of Bosnia, another fuse lit by the intellectual west, recreating pre-WWI Europe.

George Marshall, then Secretary of State advised against recognizing Israel at that time, threatening to literally withhold his vote for Truman if the US did so.  In Israel, David Ben-Gurion was practically begging the leaders of the new country NOT to establish a country based on religion, but to make Israel a purely secular nation.  Sadly, the US recognized an Israel that chose to be a Jewish (religiously speaking) state.

[The author, with the advantage of historical hindsight, believes that Marshall was right.  Marshall was a realist and knew that forcing the issue of recognition would morally bind us to the region and not lead to stability.  Further, the author is an atheist who cares nothing for religion on any level.  Ben-Gurion was also right.  He took power with a heavy heart.  He knew that identifying Israel with ancient superstition was no way to enter a hostile world.  It gave enemies just one more bullshit excuse to foster hate based on their own outrageous superstition.]

The simple fact is, we did legitimize Israel.  We did enter into military agreements with them.  We are bound, unless those agreements are scrapped, to assist them and we have.  And with one completely legitimate exception, the Six-Day War, 1967, Israel has made it easy for us to help them. After seeing the pointlessness of cross-border hit and runs of the 1950s, they don’t attack first.  If you look at the history of the battles, skirmishes and terrorist attacks that have occurred since the canal crisis, Israel has always responded to attack.  They don't unleash an unprovoked offensives against a neighbor.  

In 1967, with five countries massing on their border, and Nasser stupidly announcing his determination to destroy Israel, Israel knew they were in big trouble.  The decision was made to fire the first shot and try to put an end to the attacks with this their third war since ‘48.  It was then that they took control of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem from Syria and Jordan and the Sinai and Gaza from Egypt.

After repeated dust-ups with Gaza, events Hamas leaders living in Qatar use to fatten their back accounts, Israel put Hamas back in their cage. In this piece written at the start of the present war, I lament letting these people (Hamas) to continue to exist and to continue to torture the region and their own people.

As I said in the previous piece, I have no dog in this hunt, emotional or religious. But the lack of reason demonstrated by politicians, protestors, the media and knuckleheads on social media is intolerable for a thinking person.

We face all of our challenges the same way: The easy way, or based on what we really really want! Sadly, the answers to all our problems have no easy ways. The right way is almost always the most challenging. And what people want is too often the root of the problem.

Flush Hamas

First published on October 8, 2023

Bloody hell!

We are about to be treated, once again, to our media calling for restraint from both sides [emphasis will be theirs] in the renewed violence in Israel. This is so depressingly predictable.

Once again Hamas, supported by Iran (they can’t buy Kleenex without mullah money), who are supported by Joe Biden’s puppet masters, has decided to be stupid.

Oh, but MJ, snowflakes will say, Israel blockades Gaza. And indeed they do. If they didn’t there would never be even a lull in the violence. Understand this: the religious nut bags in Iran (Persians) couldn’t give two shits about a single life in Gaza.

They know their goons in Hamas have kept the dark ages version of Islam alive long enough in Gaza that there is an inexhaustible supply of cannon fodder that can poke the bear for them.

There shouldn’t be a free Gaza.

I have always believed the Israelis were suckers to allow Gaza to continue to exist as a Palestinian territory when they started swapping land for peace. Now, for the umpteenth time, Israel has a justifiable opportunity to change the status quo.

Gaza is a security and logistic nightmare. Israel has to check everything going in to try to keep weapons out. Meanwhile, Hamas sends endless annoyance attacks into Israeli territory.

Israel, considering their firepower, has shown amazing restraint up until now. Any of the incursions from Gaza has justified completely taking and annexing the Strip. It has been a thorn in Israel’s side for decades.

It’s time. Tell the religious nut bags they have 48 hours to release all hostages or they will cease to exist. Then give Gazans an option. Expel Hamas NOW. Or the IDF is going to do it for them. At that point Gaza becomes a permanent part of Israel.

There is a legitimate solution.

In ‘48-’49, when Israel beat back the first Arab attacks and established their nation, Golda Meir was sent to Jerusalem and Haifa to beg the Palestinian Arabs to stay. That’s more than Jordan did for them. There were reasons, pragmatic and humanitarian, for this.

Humanitarian: David Ben Gurion didn’t want to trigger a diaspora. And no decent human being would have encouraged the establishment of refugee camps. We had just come out of a war where the world had become too familiar with them.

Pragmatic: Ben Gurion did not want Israel to be a religious state. If the Palestinian Arabs had stayed and continued to live in the now larger Israel, it would have been constitutionally more difficult to base the state on a religion. He and Golda failed at both. Ben Gurion took office with a heavy heart.

Let’s try it again.

To be certain, EVERYBODY would be better off without Iranian-backed nut bags in Gaza. So, offer the Palestinians there the same deal. Please stay. You’ll have full citizenship. Your kids can be educated in our universities, just like Hanan Ashrawi. And you’ll be free to insult the government just like she did. And there will be peace.

BUT WE’RE COMING. Leave if you wish. That’s on you. But Hamas will no longer exist among you.

To be certain, living in that god-forsaken place under the thumb of Hamas has GOT to be a permanent migraine. I’m pretty sure that average Gazan wouldn’t mind seeing them gone.

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I sat down with Cameron Hamilton today. He’s a Congressional candidate for VA—07. He scored a few points that made an impression.

In my book1 I said, in today’s world, the candidate who is teaching is winning. Pay attention to the quality of Cam’s answers. There is a lot said here that many of us need to learn…or relearn.

I hope to spend time with all the candidates from VA-07, as well as other races, to give you quality information directly from the horse’s mouth. No fifteen-second sound bite here. The speaker needs to commit.

Cam and I had much more to discuss. And he may be back. But in the future, I will ask each candidate for at least the option of a full hour of raw video/audio.

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