Daily Shaarli
October 21, 2023
Green pursuit of a low-carbon future absent the introduction of more nuclear power on existing grids is nothing but a fantasy. Today nuclear power generates nearly 20 percent of U.S. electricity and more than half the nation’s carbon-free energy from 93 reactors, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). In contrast, the Department of Energy reports wind and solar produce 12 percent. While nuclear reactors maintain the ability to produce stable output, solar panels and wind turbines are dependent on weather.
Over-reliance on unreliable wind and solar has triggered short-term energy crises in Europe and California. Europe’s dependence on Russian fuel to generate instantaneous power when weather-dependent sources failed while shutting down nuclear plants has further constrained the West’s diplomacy with President Vladimir Putin waging war in Ukraine. The U.S. runs the risk of a similar dependency on Russian resources without diversifying its uranium supply to fuel the nation’s nuclear reactors. Forty-six percent of U.S. uranium comes from Russian-backed states.
Embracing nuclear, however, remains the only environmentally sustainable solution to a lower-carbon future, with plants requiring 300 to 400 times less land than that required to mass-produce from wind and solar, according to an analysis from Environmental Progress’s Michael Shellenberger.
In the 'swipe right' world of dating today I don't think my husband Sean and I would have ever fallen in love, gotten married and had 9 kids together //
Both Sean and I were cast and the very first moment we laid eyes on each other was captured on tape. Sounds romantic enough, except it wasn’t love at first sight.
For the next month, while Sean and I traveled together with other castmates throughout the U.S. and New Zealand, Sean invested a lot of his time flirting with me. Even after the show, when we parted ways, he continued to pursue me, racking up his long-distance phone bills and finding excuses to come to L.A. where he knew he would see me.
After five months, when he thought he was still stuck in the friend zone, we went out to breakfast. We spent three hours laughing and thoroughly enjoying each other’s company and at some point during that breakfast I realized that this conversation and Sean’s company was exactly what I wanted for the rest of my life.
When the waitress poured our last cup of coffee, I suddenly, and to Sean’s total shock, declared to Sean that I was going to marry him. The way he tells it, that was definitely way more than he was looking for, but we’ve been together ever since.
Had Sean and I met in 2023, I’m convinced we’d never be married. The disconnected and superficial nature of modern dating culture is killing romance and marriage. We need to bring back the art of flirting, and here are 5 ways to do it.
When news broke yesterday that Israel had bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing patients, children, and staff, every “anti-Zionist,” “critic of Israel,” and most big American journalism outfits ran with the horrible story. The tale incited worldwide condemnation and recrimination. But it wasn’t true. Israel did not hit the hospital. The Islamic Jihad did. Hundreds of people did not die. The missile landed in a parking lot. It was Hamas disinformation.
The media’s disastrous failure on the Gaza hospital bombing story is one of the most vivid and instructive examples of the structural and inherent problems plaguing contemporary journalism. It mirrors many other fiascos of the past decade.
It is clear at this point that journalism schools are producing closed-minded, credulous ideologues who will believe anything that comports with their worldview. It’s either that, or we have a bunch of closed-minded ideologues who are willing accomplices in spreading propaganda. Functionally speaking, it doesn’t really matter. //
Of course, any person who’s spent more than ten minutes on the Israeli-Palestinian situation — to say nothing of those who are paid to cover the conflict — knows full well that both Hamas and the PLO are constantly lying about alleged Israeli atrocities and casualties. Anyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of this situation knows that 30-40 percent of rockets that emanate from Gaza land in Gaza. And they know that Hamas not only operates among civilians to use them as human shields — often in hospitals — but that it is keen on seeing Arab civilian deaths to gin up sympathy and sacrifice martyrs.
If you’re gullible enough to believe Hamas’s “Health Ministry,” you need to be reassigned to a job that better aligns with your skill set. Something far away from reporting. Maybe become a journalism professor. //
Many of these same people are the would-be censors who lament the nefarious misinformation that festers and spreads on social media. There have always been conspiratorial people and rumors and disinformation. The real problem today is that we can no longer trust establishment media to debunk rumors and offer facts.
Actually, considering their reach and role, establishment media are often the biggest disseminators of disinformation.
VLC doesn't have a 'Save As...' style function to save the currently playing video, sorry. What it CAN do however is... a little different:
Record the currently playing video
Just like tape recorders of old, VLC offers functionality to 'record' whatever is currently playing to disk.
You have to enable Advanced Controls first. Go to View -> Advanced Controls. You will see these options appear:
Now, whenever you start playing a DVD or other media, you can simply hit the Record button to start and stop recording. The files are saved your Documents folder in .mpg format i.e.:
C:\Users\{username}\Videos\Using this method you can save entire files, or just specific snippets. It's up to you. //
This is an example of downloading a youtube video via VLC command line options. The video is played very fast and can finish in seconds. The general format is:
vlc -vvv YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL --sout file/ts:YOUR_FILE_NAME.mpgExample:
vlc -vvv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hm-CebrzU --sout file/ts:yoram-ab.mpgDetails here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Receive_and_Save_a_Stream/
Two weeks ago, I posted a video to TikTok reporting on the globalist push to restrict freedom of movement in the name of “climate change.” //
How do I know these globalist “environmentalists” are scam artists using climate hysteria to consolidate power? To start, each of their goals, from eliminating jet fuel to doing away with privately owned vehicles, slowly prices the masses out of various modes of transportation, therefore restricting freedom of movement. //
But if regular people are priced out of air and vehicle transportation, the 15-minute cities won’t be a convenient neighborhood — they’ll effectively be prisons. //
Arguably, the best evidence that climate fanatics are using fear to “consolidate power” is revealed by the climate cultists themselves. French media and environmentalists admit that the country’s ban on short-haul flights will have close to no impact on the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, all the climate activists that head organizations like the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum galavant across the globe on private jets in spite of the “climate crisis.” These same individuals also reject real climate solutions, such as environmentally friendly nuclear energy, which is safe and more reliable than other green energy alternatives.
The United Nations openly admits to partnering with Big Tech companies, particularly TikTok and Google, to manipulate search results and censor or promote content related to topics like Covid-19 or “climate information.” According to the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming, “We [the UN] own the science, and we think that the world should know it.”
“We own the science” is like saying, “We own the truth.” But no person or group of people can “own” the truth. What Fleming means is that the UN owns the narrative surrounding climate change. My video, no matter how factual, deviated from their narrative, and it was erased from TikTok. //
The pressure to stay silent on the climate change scam is enormous, but the stakes could never be higher. The freedom to seamlessly travel when and where you want is basic and essential. Without it, people are easily traced and controlled.
He declined to run for the presidency, saying, "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected." //
Though vilified in the South as a demon who perpetuated atrocities on civilians, historians give Sherman high marks as a military strategist and quick-witted tactician. He changed the nature of war and recognized it for what it was: "War is hell." //
- I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
- If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
- In our country ... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
- War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Let's look at two cities that have a great deal in common. Both were under British rule for extended periods. Both were, as recently as 1950, backward regions with little or no economic activity; one was a "barren island" whose 600,000 residents had been left stripped by four years of WW2 occupancy by Imperial Japan, while the other was part of a territory administered by Egypt for a period before being taken by Israel in 1967, part of a larger package with no real economy and only 120,000 residents.
Today, one of these cities remains (despite, not because of, being re-absorbed into China) an economic powerhouse, a major global banking center, a place with a fully modern technological society and a high standard of living. The other remains a Third World hell-hole, governed by maniacs, ruled by hatred.
These two cities, of course, are Hong Kong and Gaza.
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/10/18/why-couldnt-gaza-be-another-hong-kong/
In an unprecedented scene, a Saudi Arabian reporter grilled the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, on Friday.
Mashal, who lives in the lap of luxury in Qatar while demanding women and children sacrifice themselves for him, was quite obviously caught off guard by the line of questioning. You can see him get visibly angry at times, perhaps due to an expectation that he'd be allowed to spew his normal talking points without any pushback.
The video is obviously in Arabic but is subtitled throughout.
MEMRI @MEMRIReports
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Hamas Leader Abroad Khaled Mashal Rejects Accusations of Transgressions against Civilians on October 7 Attack: We Have Nothing to Apologize For; Hamas Only Fights Soldiers, But Sometimes There Are Civilian Victims in War; Hizbullah, Arab Countries Should Do More to Help Us #Hamas…
7:21 AM · Oct 20, 2023
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1715327479684960374
The pressure in the interview starts immediately, with a question about Hamas launching its new war against Israel without any backing from other Palestinian groups or Arab governments and then expecting them to all come rushing in to help. Mashal first answers by praising the brutal massacre of 1,400 people, mostly civilians, as "ingenious" and a part of the "air of resistance."
To her credit, the reporter kept pushing, countering by pointing out that Hamas wasn't resisting but instead butchered civilians and recorded themselves doing it. She goes on to point out that Hamas is now being compared to ISIS.
Naturally, Mashal again deflects, claiming such comparisons are a conspiracy invented by the Jews, and then the mask comes completely off. In an astonishing exchange, he begins to cite the 30 million Russian deaths during World War II as an example of the "sacrifice" needed to win. That's the leader of Hamas coming right out and saying what we all know: He is willing to see an unthinkable number of women and children die for his "cause" while he gives orders from his penthouse in Qatar, never putting himself in danger.
There's no greater picture of cowardice. //
At that point, the questioning returned to the issue of Hamas launching its attack unilaterally, with Mashal making a "demand" that Egypt get involved. It was in the context of Lebanon and Hezbollah, though, that the Saudi reporter delivered her most devastating line.
REPORTER: The last thing they need is another war that will come with another bill to pay. They say: Khaled Mashal is sitting in an air-conditioned room, talking about wars, jihad, and bombings
Mashal's answer is absolutely laughable.
MASHAL: We are in the middle of the battlefield. No one is sitting this one out.
Fact-check: False. He is literally sitting the war out, something he's done for most of his life. This is a man who was exiled by his fellow Arabs in Jordan before going to Syria and then Qatar. He has others die in his name while he lives off the fruit of the aid money he stole from them.
Chronically online and unable to forge meaningful relationships, romantic or otherwise, it’s no wonder Gen Z is the most mentally ill generation to date.
It’s ironic that such disturbing rates of suicide, depression, and anxiety are coming from the generation superfixed on “self-care” and “self-confidence.” Perhaps, however, Gen-Z’s self-love mantra is the reason they are spiraling into loneliness and depression. //
Participants are making themselves look foolish and the people around them feel uncomfortable for views, likes, and shares on TikTok. The only “cause” the tube girl trend promotes is self-obsession. TikTokers are engaging in it “for the gram” or for “clout.” In other words, they are sacrificing their dignity in the physical world for validation in the digital world. //
The tube girl trend is one of the most stereotypical Gen Z phenomena to come out of TikTok. It is the epitome of toxic self-obsession. It symbolizes a generation deprived of human connection and unable to see anything greater than themselves.
But the real outrage in this whole affair is that there are hospitals that have been bombed – in Israel. On his Substack, journalist Julio Rosas reported:
Barzilai Medical Center is a major hospital in Israel’s southern region, the epicenter of the nearly two-week-old high-intensity conflict between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of rockets from Gaza have been fired at the seaside city, with many hitting buildings and people who happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Despite being a hospital, Barzilai Medical Center has been attacked at least four times by rockets fired by terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip. //
Barzilai Medical Center serves as the main hospital for wounded soldiers and provides medical services to about half a million people in Israel’s southern region. “We know it from former rounds of battles here that the hospital is being targeted directly. They want to give the impression to the people in Israel that nowhere is safe,” Dr. Givaty told Rosas. //
So, where’s the wall-to-wall coverage for the constant bombing of Barzilai Medical Center? Where is the outrage coming from the elite members of the chattering class? Where are the rallies at the Cannon House Office Building? //
If America’s once-vaunted Fourth Estate were serious about journalism, they would report on instances in which both Israelis and Palestinians are suffering – and they would do their level best to ensure they are giving their audience the truth instead of perpetuating narratives designed to promote a particular agenda.