Paul Haeder, Author

…thus the dream of oranges in Southern Cal and verdent monocrops in the Imperial Valley, all the doings of the hoarders, the takers . . . Captain Powell knew the jig was up!

Powell’s map of the “Arid Region of the United States,” which he presented to the U.S. Senate in 1890, offered a radical new vision of the American West centered on watersheds rather than on traditional political boundaries.

The Visionary John Wesley Powell Had a Plan for Developing the West, But Nobody Listened

He told them all too rightly that the West offered not enough water to reclaim by irrigation more than a tiny fraction of its land. Their dreams of a verdant West needed to be tempered and shaped to reality. Powell might as well have told them the Earth was flat. The senators were outraged.

He had brought a map to explain—one of the profoundest such documents ever created in American history. The “Arid Region of the United States” features the western half of the United States, the territory carved up in a jigsaw-puzzle riot of color. Shapes of various sizes, some half the size of states, are colored in oranges, greens, blues, reds, yellows and pinks. It’s a visually stunning.

At first glance, one is captivated purely by its aesthetic. But the significance of a well-designed map—as this one certainly is—comes from the powerful perspective it imparts. Contained within such maps lie reams of fact, conclusions and assumptions, which can often persuade its viewers to confront new, sometimes revolutionary, ways of taking in the world.

Powell’s map, assembled under his direction by USGS cartographers, reveals the western half of America separated into watersheds, the natural land basins through which water flows. Each patch represents a watershed—a hydrographic basin—where all rainfall drains into a common outlet.

Powell understood that a mountain ridgeline determined the flow of water into larger rivers and finally into the sea. Two drops of rain hitting the ground only inches apart along the Continental Divide, which runs along the crest of the Rockies, could travel far different directions. One raindrop might eventually reach the Pacific, while the other could flow into the Atlantic or Arctic oceans.

This marked the first time that a map had been used to visualize a complex intersection of geographical factors—integrating water and land into a nuanced understanding of the Earth’s surface. It was the country’s first ecological map, building on, but pushing far beyond, earlier efforts that century.

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Yeah, who’s listening?

I stumbled upon yet another childish, infantile, less-than-weak-nursery rhyme flick on Nut-Fux, Flicks, Flix, whatever the outfit is called.

Oh, so some impossible machine sucks the life out of you — you can sell five years of your life, so a “match” can pay for those five years, or in the case of the protagonist, his wife gets 40 years sucked out because she owes the bank for a fancy apartment mortgage in Berlin.

The rich get to pay for extra time on earth (the machine sucks up the whatever DNA and then it is put into the recepient and that person does reverse aging while the dupe gets rapid aging parallel to the years taken.

Incarcerating people simply because they cannot afford to pay their legal debts not only is unconstitutional but it has a devastating impact upon men and women, whose only crime is that they are poor. The sad truth is that debtors’ prisons are flourishing today, more than two decades after the Supreme Court prohibited imprisoning those who are too poor to pay their legal debts.

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Debts. Life sucked from us daily, minute by minute, death by 10 billion cuts.

The Olympics Are Always A Disaster For Poor People

[Photo: President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Techwood Homes in 1935. When it opened the next year, it was America’s first federally subsidized public housing project. By the time the Olympic Games began, the demolition was complete, leaving behind the one building that alone bears the designation of the Techwood Homes Historic District. The listing in the federal historic register saved it, barely.]

You know, refugees held at bay to be bodies for these body snatchers.

Fucking vapid netflix plots.

Reality:

[Number of migrants crossing border hits another record, with surges in migration by nationalities once rarely seen . . . The number from countries like India, Turkey and Russia is up, while the number from Central America, a traditional source of migrants, is down.]

Reality:

Oh, those perverted, over-paid movie makers, no? Gotta come up with a stupid sci-fi script when reality is right here on Planet Earth.

How Biden’s border policies will increase sex trafficking of children to US: She admitted she fleeced the first son for nearly $US20,000 ($30,000) during her relationship with him from 2018 to 2019. This was the same period of time Hunter Biden was notoriously polishing his credentials as an international powerbroker and raking in millions for himself and his family.

“He was like a dog that I dragged and led on,” Kennedy, 35, told a researcher from the non-profit investigative organisation Marco Polo in a stunning text exchange obtained by The Post.

“I just led him on and played with him like a walking ATM. I had a few guys like Hunter who I would lead on and take tips and shopping from and leave them ‘hanging.’ It’s part of the stripper gig. Get all you can out of these idiots and move on.”

Kennedy’s remarks come just days after Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer offered testimony to the House Oversight Committee, revealing that Joe Biden phoned into meetings with business associates on at least 20 occasions. Both Hunter Biden and Archer served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, whose CEO, Mykola Zlochevsky, also allegedly compared Hunter Biden to a dog.

Hunter Biden hooked up with ‘sex trafficking ring,’ wrote bogus cheques?

Versus:

Tim Ballard has one mission: to track down child traffickers. Four months ago Colombian authorities asked him to investigate a tip that children were being sold there as sex slaves.

American Tim Ballard helped authorities in Colombia bust a major sex-trafficking ring, saving 54 children.

“Within a half hour this individual walks up to me asking me what I’m here for, what I want and within minutes he tells me that I have kids here as young as 11 years old,” Ballard says.

A former Homeland Security agent, Ballard now heads up Operation Underground Railroad, a non-profit group that rescues trafficked kids. After that first meeting, the Colombians asked him to put together a sting.

Trafficking bust reveals worries over missing kids:

• FBI: 168 kids rescued, 281 pimps nabbed in sex-trafficking crackdown
• FBI: 16 juveniles recovered in Super Bowl prostitution sting

Operation Underground Railroad spent months planning — renting a house, rigging it with hidden cameras to document the crime, coordinating with Colombian authorities and negotiating with the traffickers.

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Epstein was accused of sexually assaulting countless teenage girls, some of them as young as 14 years old, according to prosecutors. Epstein allegedly exploited a vast network of underage girls for him and his wealthy clients to have sex with at his homes in Manhattan; Palm Beach, Florida; and his private island near St. Thomas. He was also accused of utilizing a network of employees to ensure continued access to victims.

In June, JPMorgan Chase reached a $290 million settlement with victims of Epstein over claims the bank overlooked the financier’s sex trafficking and abuse because it wanted to profit from a banking relationship with him.

Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and is deeply intertwined with life in every corner of the world.

Each day, people are tricked, coerced, or forced into exploitative situations that they cannot refuse or leave. Each day, we buy the products or use the services they have been forced to make or offer without realising the hidden human cost.

An estimated 50 million people were living in modern slavery on any given day in 2021, an increase of 10 million people since 2016.

The plot of the film is loosely based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria involving antibacterial testing by Pfizer on small children. The film’s title derives from Justin’s gentle but diligent attention to his plants, a recurring background theme that informs his patience and persistence.

That grand experiment on us all: On the mRNA vaccines’ pathways for damage: Overview of the last year’s research on etiological mechanisms

In other words, we’re getting into the territory of the psychology of the “big lie” here.

The epistemic conditions are such that the very abundance of evidence makes it very difficult to accept the conclusion. Not least given the Nobel award, the situation is one where the average person, without delving into the data, and without a strong, epistemic anchoring of his or her own, would generally be less rational to accept the conclusion indicated by the evidence.

And this is precisely why I think we now need to compile these comprehensive overviews of etiological mechanisms, and connect them to the epidemiological data as clearly as possible, to provide a stable and accessible foundation for the proper assessment of the effects of these products.

William M Briggs – if you’re reading this, perhaps you could be persuaded to give us a follow-up overview pertaining to the possible questions we could ask ourselves regarding connections between these mechanisms and the epidemiological data.

Instead, however, we dole out the Nobel Prize in support of big pharma’s marketing campaigns. We awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for a product that certainly did vastly more harm than good – something which was obvious and easy to ascertain more than two years ago.

Would it really have been so difficult for the committee to perhaps research one or two of these modalities for potential harm before deciding to place their royal acclamation on an obviously unsafe experimental therapy whose long-term consequences are just beginning to show?

All of this should obviously have been stopped as soon as we had minute indications of serious adverse events in the pharmacovigilance data, and the presence of several plausible mechanisms of harm should be the end of the discussion.

But perhaps they really are that incompetent.

Perhaps Rintrah’s outlook is in this case correct. That these are not serious people, that “it’s like they’re not really trying to think, but rather, they’re trying to gather the words they like and then they try to find some sort of rhetorical string to tie them all together with.”

And journalists. All the papers are now yellow papers, it seems. Journalists are the group of people tasked with doing this sort of investigative work and sticking their necks out. Instead, we find them uncritially fawning over the Nobel Prize recipients, musing on the crucial role played by Xerox machines in bringing these brilliant geniuses together so that countless millions of lives could be saved, as they lambast actual, critical research as “conspiracy theory”.

And all the while, excess deaths remain high all over the world throughout 2023. (shadowrunners)

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Now a few “news” items on my feed (sic)!

Ahh, so all those Netflix mind mushing series and movies, and the rest of the streaming cretins’ shit, the reality is the sci-fi drama has been in our midst for a very long time.

With medical plan costs anticipated to increase 7% in 2024, transparency is even more imperative.

Patients at private-equity-owned hospitals get more infections and fall more often, says a new study by Harvard researchers

Previous studies say patients at those entities pay higher costs, experience reduced staffing levels and have higher death rates in nursing homes.

Ahh, the stupidty runs hard in AmeriKKKa. Nikki Haley doesn’t cite slavery as cause of the Civil War after question at campaign stop: She responded it was about “basically how the government was going to run.”

Jews in Paradise: Dozens arrested in anti-Israel protests at two major US airports: Police make over 60 arrests near New York’s JFK and Los Angeles’ LAX as demonstrators block roads; LA police says protesters attacked officer, passersby.

Money for war, terror campaigns, coups, proxy wars: US Army to purchase thousands of counter-UAV interceptors from Raytheon

Scammers ‘r Us.

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced it has sued Grand Canyon University (GCU), becoming the second agency under the Biden administration to take action against the largest Christian school in the nation within the past few months in what the university says is a coordinated attack by multiple agencies against the institution.

The FTC said in a press release it filed suit in federal court against GCU, its marketer Grand Canyon Education, Inc. and its president and CEO Brian Mueller, claiming the defendants used deceptive advertising and engaged in illegal telemarketing.

The complaint says the Arizona-based school misled prospective doctoral students about the amount of time it would take to finish its accelerated program, deceptively marketed the school as a nonprofit, and illegally called prospective students who submitted their contact information on the school’s website but requested not to be contacted.