The Elites Trying to destroy "Good Food"

 

I ran across this on Bongino Reports, it took over where "Drudge" used to be before it"Jumped The Shark".I believe that this is an ongoing problem and this is part of the "Great Reset" where the Elites of the world would have the Good food and we eat the "biofood" or the engineered Food,Think "Soylent Green".  This is a further attempt to split between the "Haves and Have Nots" using Food as an identifier.  if you are part of the "In crowd", you will have the good stuff, the real stuff, the wholesome stuff, well if you are what they consider "Hoi Pelloi", well we will eat "Dirt" for lack of a better word, here is a tongue in cheek Food pyramid I ran across a month ago...

  You will eat your portions and you will like it....or else.....Comrade....While I was working on my post yesterday, I had to go to work before I finished and I ran across this from Twatter...Compliments of "L.Jagi Lamplighter" whom I follow on twitter and it ties in with what I was working with......I'm not sure if this is a parody or if they are serious as f*ck.....

   Knowing some of the B.S from the Kung-flu studies and some of the other stuff, I wouldn't put it past some scientist to come up with some hokey bullshit like this and try to sell it off as "Truth" to force the "Dirt people" to go along with it while the Elitist carve up all the farmland and stop farming, you know that they are trying to put the brakes on the Dutch farming because of "Climate Change" and the Dutch farmers have a massive case of the ass right now and the protest is spreading...and of course you just had Pelosi rush through an "Assault Rifle Ban" here in the States.....You don't think all this crap isn't linked together?   The "Powers That Be" are pushing really hard...and I don't like it one bit and my dander is getting raised.

Food Compass gives high scores to fries, Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios, chocolate covered almonds and almond M&Ms, while rating whole egg fried in butter, cheddar cheese and ground beef as foods that should be avoided. (By JJava Designs/Shutterstock)

 

 It’s pure madness. This Great Reset tool has been designed to hoodwink you into second-guessing everything you thought you knew about healthy food. Move over, cheddar cheese and ground beef – fries, almond M&Ms and Frosted Mini Wheats are about to take your place at the table.

 

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy’s Food Compass, unveiled in late 2021, is another Great Reset tool designed to discourage consumption of animal foods by falsely rating them as unhealthy, and encouraging consumption of ultraprocessed foods by giving them high nutritional ratings
• Food Compass rates Frosted Mini Wheats as three times healthier than ground beef, with a score of 87 out of 100, compared to 26 for ground beef
• Food Compass also gives high scores to fries, Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios, chocolate covered almonds and almond M&Ms, while rating whole egg fried in butter, cheddar cheese and ground beef as foods that should be avoided. Based on this tool, you’ll be healthier if you replace whole egg, cheddar cheese and ground beef with candy
• Studies have repeatedly shown that diets high in processed foods lead to poor health and depression, and the more processed your diet is, the greater your risk of obesity and chronic diseases that shave years, if not decades, off your life span
• Health, food security, independence and freedom are what the global elitists, led by the World Economic Forum, intend to destroy so that they can then roll out a new food system based entirely on patented, processed imitation foods, including lab-grown and plant- or fungi-based “meats” and “clean, green” protein alternatives such as cricket meal and mealworms

In recent months, I’ve dedicated many articles to exposing the intentional destruction of our food system. The decision of the Dutch government to impose nitrogen pollution restrictions on farmers is but one example of this. This “green” policy will cut livestock production in the country by 30% in the next year, put farmers out of business, and force them to sell their land.

Since The Netherlands is the largest meat exporter in the European Union,¹ it will also result in meat shortages around the world. According to Dutch Parliament member Thierry Baudet,² this “green” policy is really a thinly veiled excuse for a land grab.

The government is following the script of The Great Reset, he says, which requires weakening the country, making it more dependent on food imports, and diluting nationalism by taking in more immigrants. And, to make room for immigrant housing, they need to take land from the farmers.

At the same time, Bill Gates is buying up high-priced farmland³ and telling the world to transition from beef to lab-grown meat alternatives. Insect farms to create human protein alternatives are also being set up and promoted,⁴ farms and food facilities are mysteriously being burnt to the ground at surprising frequency,^5,6 and the Rockefeller Foundation is calling for restructuring the whole food system⁷ to make it more “fair and equitable.”

These things are not happening by chance. It’s all part of a plan to eliminate naturally-grown foods so they can then be replaced with patented foodstuffs, which this “New World Order” cabal of course owns.

 

Food Compass to Further Destroy Nutrition Guidance

The hidden globalist cabal has been busy undermining health for decades, and if you want an example of what I’m talking about, look no further than the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy’s Food Compass,⁸ unveiled in late 2021. As explained by Tufts Now:⁹

“A scientific team at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts has developed a new tool to help consumers, food companies, restaurants, and cafeterias choose and produce healthier foods and officials to make sound public nutrition policy.

Food Compass is a new nutrient profiling system, developed over three years, that incorporates cutting-edge science on how different characteristics of foods positively or negatively impact health … The new Food Compass system was developed and then tested using a detailed national database of 8,032 foods and beverages consumed by Americans.

It scores 54 different characteristics across nine domains representing different health-relevant aspects of foods, drinks, and mixed meals, providing for one of the most comprehensive nutrient profiling systems in the world.

The characteristics and domains were selected based on nutritional attributes linked to major chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and cancer, as well as to risk of undernutrition, especially for mothers, young children, and the elderly … Potential uses of Food Compass include:

• Encouraging the food industry to develop healthier foods and reformulate the ingredients in popular processed foods and snacks;
• Providing food purchasing incentives for employees through worksite wellness, health care, and nutrition assistance programs;
• Supplying the science for local and national policies such as package labeling, taxation, warning labels, and restrictions on marketing to children;
• Enabling restaurants and school, business, and hospital cafeterias to present healthier food options;
• Informing agricultural trade policy; and
• Guiding institutional and individual investors on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) investment decisions”

All of that sounds good, in theory. The problem is, Food Compass clearly was not created to guide people toward optimal health through nutrition. Its primary purpose is to lead people away from wholesome natural foods, toward processed junk foods.

Absurd Food Ranking Tool to Mislead the Masses

While the food score example¹⁰ given by Tufts Now is not overly heinous, a deeper dive into the system reveals serious problems. Case in point: Frosted Mini Wheats scores three times higher than ground beef (87 out of 100, compared to 26), as illustrated in the graph below, posted on Twitter by independent journalist Nina Teicholz.¹¹

The fact that “egg substitute fried in vegetable oil” gets a score above zero is a frightening demonstration of their fundamental nutrition ignorance of the foundational fact that excessive omega-6 fats in the form of industrially processed seed oils are the most pernicious poisons in the food supply. The high scores of fries, Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios, chocolate covered almonds and almond M&Ms certainly don’t help.

Who in their right mind can believe M&Ms are healthier than whole food — any whole food? According to Food Compass, anything with a score below 30 should be minimized, so based on this tool, you’ll be healthier if you replace whole egg, cheddar cheese and ground beef with literal candy, which is nothing short of insanity.

Based on this tool, government would also be justified in restricting marketing of beef, egg and cheese to children, while schools could be encouraged to load M&Ms into school lunches. The whole thing is absurd and indefensible.

In a July 25, 2022, Substack article,¹² Teicholz also pointed out that one of the creators of Food Compass, Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, is also part of the development team for the White House conference on nutrition, scheduled to take place in September 2022. As noted by Teicholz, this doesn’t bode well:

“The Food Compass, which gives top ratings to Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs, is absurd on the face of it. In all, nearly 70 brand-named cereals from General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Post are ranked twice as high as eggs cooked in butter or a piece of plain, whole-wheat toast …

What kind of dystopian world has nutrition “science” entered into whereby a university, a peer-reviewed journal, and one of the field’s most influential leaders legitimize advice telling the public to eat more Lucky Charms and fewer eggs? Simply eyeballing these recommendations should be enough to know this diet is a get-sick, diabetes diet, a high-carb, sugar-laden, candy-coated highway to ill-health …

Since Mozaffarian is widely credited with being the driving force behind the upcoming White House conference, his views on nutrition are worth examining. If he and his team at Tufts really think Frosted Mini Wheats are a super food, there’s clearly reason to have some concerns about the outcome of this event.”

Reductionist Assumptions Can Be Disastrous

In an undated white paper, eight authors review “the limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System.” As noted in the abstract:¹³

“Nutrient Profiling Systems provide algorithms which are designed to assess the healthfulness of foods based on nutrient composition, and intended as a strategy to improve diets.

Many Nutrient Profiling Systems are founded on a reductionist assumption that the healthfulness of foods is determined by the sum of their nutrients, with little consideration for the extent and purpose of processing and its health implications.

A novel Nutrient Profiling System called Food Compass attempted to address existing gaps and provide a more holistic assessment of the healthfulness of foods.

While a conceptually impressive effort, we propose that the chosen algorithm is not well justified and produces results that fail to discriminate for common shortfall nutrients, exaggerate the risks associated with animal-source foods, and underestimate the risks associated with ultra-processed foods.

We caution against the use of Food Compass in its current form to inform consumer choices, policies, programs, industry reformulations, and investment decisions.”

The team correctly stresses that “health is not determined by the consumption of single foods but rather by overall diet quality.” Of crucial importance is whether a food has been processed, and what kind of processing it has undergone.

“Food processing is not invariably benign,” the authors write, noting that “While acknowledging there is a large variation in the health effects of different types of ultra-processed foods (UPF), in general the higher the share of UPF in the diet the higher the risk of non-communicable diseases.”

There’s absolutely no shortage of studies^{14,15,16,17,18,19} showing that diets high in processed foods lead to poor health and depression, and the more processed your diet is, the worse your health and the greater your risk of obesity and chronic diseases that shave years, if not decades, off your life span.

In my references, I’ve included several studies published in 2020, 2021 and 2022, but similar findings have been published for decades. Remember, in most processed foods seeds oils are the highest percentage of calories.

Ultraprocessed Diets Lead to an Early Grave

For example, a February 2021 study²⁰ found those with the highest intakes of ultraprocessed food were, on average, 58% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease compared to those with the lowest intake, 52% more likely to die of ischemic heart disease, and 26% more likely to die from any cause.

As noted by the authors, “These findings should serve as an incentive for limiting consumption of UPF, and encouraging natural or minimally processed foods …” Another meta-analysis, also published in February 2021, found:²¹

“… the highest UPF consumption was associated with a significant increase in the risk of overweight/obesity (+39 %), high waist circumference (+39 %), low HDL-cholesterol levels (+102 %) and the metabolic syndrome (+79 %) …

For prospective cohort studies evaluating a total population of 183,491 participants followed for a period ranging from 3·5 to 19 years, highest UPF consumption was found to be associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality in five studies (risk ratio (RR) 1·25…), increased risk of CVD in three studies (RR 1·29…), cerebrovascular disease in two studies (RR 1·34…) and depression in two studies (RR 1·20…).

In conclusion, increased UPF consumption was associated … with a worse cardiometabolic risk profile and a higher risk of CVD, cerebrovascular disease, depression and all-cause mortality.”

As detailed in “Ultraprocessed Food Makes You Vulnerable to COVID-19,” a processed food diet is precisely the wrong choice at a time when infectious disease is widespread, as it causes metabolic dysfunction, impairs your gut microbiome and harms your immune system.

Food Compass — Another ‘Great Reset’ Tool

Despite such evidence, Food Compass’ algorithms encourage consumption of ultraprocessed foods, while strongly discouraging consumption of all animal foods, including saturated animal fats.

So, this tool — just as the Dutch effort to get rid of livestock farmers — is really all about eliminating animal foods from the average person’s diet. And why? Because the ultra-rich elitists who want to rule the world don’t want you to eat real food, be healthy and live long. They want you to be dependent on their processed and patented foods so that you’ll be under their control.

If you get sick, they’ll clean out your bank account to treat you, and if you die sooner rather than later, all the better. They think there are far too many useless eaters on the planet as it is, and humans will soon become even more expendable as artificial intelligence and robotics take over.

Saturated Fats Do Not Cause Disease

The fact that saturated animal fats continue to be demonized is a testament to the fact that current “nutritional science” is not based on actual science. It’s based on ancient, outdated assumptions that have long since been debunked and proven wrong.

Real-world data also do not support the notion that saturated fats harm your health by clogging arteries and promoting heart disease. This was yet again highlighted in a systematic review in the Frontiers of Nutrition, published in January 2022, which analyzed dietary trends and food consumption data in the U.S. from 1800 until 2019:²²

“Processed and ultra-processed foods increased from <5 to >60% of foods. Large increases occurred for sugar, white and whole wheat flour, rice, poultry, eggs, vegetable oils, dairy products, and fresh vegetables. Saturated fats from animal sources declined while polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oils rose.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) rose over the twentieth century in parallel with increased consumption of processed foods, including sugar, refined flour and rice, and vegetable oils. Saturated fats from animal sources were inversely correlated with the prevalence of NCDs.”

Looking back again at the Food Compass chart above, “egg substitute fried in vegetable oil” is listed as having a nutritional rating of 62 out of 100, while whole egg fried in butter gets a suboptimal rating of 29. These two examples are basically inverted.

In my view, vegetable oils — also referred to as seed oils — are the single most dangerous food component there is, exponentially worse than sugar even, and a key metabolic driver of obesity, heart disease, cancer and most all chronic disease.^{23,24,25,26,27,28,29}

One of the reasons these oils are so harmful is because they’re loaded with linoleic acid (LA). When consumed in excess — and you really don’t need much LA — it acts as a metabolic poison, damaging your metabolism and impeding your body’s ability to generate energy in your mitochondria. I’ve discussed the ins and outs of this in many previous articles. For a refresher, see “How Linoleic Acid Wrecks Your Health.”

Saturated fats such as butter and red meat, on the other hand, are rich in important micronutrients that are hard to obtain elsewhere. In fact, foods high in saturated fats are among the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, and these nutrients are also highly bioavailable.

Interestingly, research³⁰ published in 2020 even found that high saturated fat intake was associated with lower COVID-19 mortality, while high intake of unsaturated fats raised that risk.

Nutritional Guideline to Limit Saturated Fat Was All Wrong

In mid-June 2020, we even had a paper³¹ in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that admitted the long-standing nutritional guideline to limit saturated fat has been incorrect, and ought to be changed. As noted in the abstract:

“The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke.

Although SFAs increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol, in most individuals, this is not due to increasing levels of small, dense LDL particles, but rather larger LDL which are much less strongly related to CVD risk.

It is also apparent that the health effects of foods cannot be predicted by their content in any nutrient group, without considering the overall macronutrient distribution.

Whole-fat dairy, unprocessed meat, eggs and dark chocolate are SFA-rich foods with a complex matrix that are not associated with increased risk of CVD. The totality of available evidence does not support further limiting the intake of such foods.”

They’re Coming for Your Food, Your Wealth and Your Freedom

Acknowledging that saturated animal fats are healthy, and that processed industrial seed oils and processed grains are not, would decimate the processed food industry, as it relies on cheap seed oils and grains. The healthy alternative is real food, and there’s no big industry profits to be made from that.

The same goes for unprocessed animal foods in general. They can’t be patented, and just about anyone with enough land can raise their own food and become partially, if not fully, independent of major food conglomerates.

Health, food security, independence and freedom are what the global elitists, led by the World Economic Forum, intend to destroy so that they can then roll out a new food system based entirely on patented, processed imitation foods, including lab-grown and plant- or fungi-based ‘meats’ and ‘clean, green’ protein alternatives such as cricket meal and mealworms.

All of this — health, food security, independence and freedom — are what the global elitists, led by the World Economic Forum, intend to destroy so that they can then roll out a new food system based entirely on patented, cheaply-made, ultraprocessed imitation foods, including lab-grown³² and plant-³³ or fungi-based³⁴ meat substitutes and “clean, green” protein alternatives such as cricket meal and mealworms.^35,36

If they get their way, the entire world will go the way of Sri Lanka,³⁷ where new “green” agricultural policies implemented in 2021 resulted in island-wide harvest failures which, combined with simultaneous fuel shortages and national bankruptcy, have led to violent riots and famine. Predictably, the United Nations — which is part of The Great Reset — has stepped in to offer food vouchers to underserved areas.

That’s how the takeover occurs. They destroy your ability to work, make a living and feed yourself, and provide shelter for you and your family, and then they offer to “help” you by making you dependent on them for your most basic needs. It’ll only get worse from there.

The end goal of The Great Reset-pushing elitists is to own everything and control the entire global population through a combination of false flag disasters, social engineering technologies, “green” and “sustainable” development policies, a revamped food system of their own making, and global biosecurity measures.

Unless we want to end up in a slave system we’ll never be able to break free from, we have to resist and reject all of these takeover strategies in whatever form they appear, and start building our own parallel systems on the local level.

This would also include the wholesale rejection of the Food Compass tool, and the rejection of and opposition to any institution that uses it to make nutritional decisions for large numbers of people. It’s not just unreliable. It’s absurd, and a blatant attempt to condition people into embracing an even unhealthier diet than what’s been pushed upon us in decades past.

Originally published July 27, 2022 on Mercola.com

Sources and References

• ¹ Plant Based News September 27, 2021
• ² Sott.net July 11, 2022
• ³ AgWeb June 28, 2022
• ⁴ WEF July 12, 2021
• ⁵ Think Americana June 16, 2022
• ⁶ Pro Deo et Libartate Substack June 11, 2022
• ⁷ Rockefeller Foundation Reset the Table
• ⁸ Food Compass
• ^9, 10 Tufts Now October 14, 2021
• ¹¹ Twitter Nina Teicholz July 17, 2022
• ¹² Unsettled Science Substack July 25, 2022
• ¹³ Limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System
• ¹⁴ National Kidney Foundation June 6, 2022
• ¹⁵ Clin Gastroentorol Hepatol June 2022; 20(6): e1323-e1337
• ¹⁶ Advances in Motion December 15, 2021
• ¹⁷ European Heart Journal November 30, 2021; 43(3): 213-224
• ¹⁸ Nature Food 2021; 2: 554
• ¹⁹ Frontiers in Nutrition December 15, 2020
• ²⁰ Am J Clin Nutr February 2, 2021; 113(2): 446-455
• ²¹ British Journal of Nutrition February 14, 2021; 125(3): 308-318
• ²² Frontiers of Nutrition January 13, 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.748847
• ²³ STAT April 19, 2017
• ²⁴ BMJ 2016;353:i1246
• ²⁵ NIH Grantome, Dietary Treatment of Hyperlipidemia in Women vs Men
• ²⁶ Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2004;24:498–503
• ²⁷ Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging 2018;22(8):885-891
• ²⁸ British Heart Journal 1995 Oct;74(4):449-54
• ²⁹ The Lancet August 29, 2017; 390(10107): 2050-2062
• ³⁰ Gastroenterology 2020 Sep; 159(3): 1015–1018.e4
• ³¹ Journal of the American College of Cardiology June 17, 2020 [Epub ahead of print]
• ³² Mother Jones April 2022
• ³³ Greenmatters August 20, 2019
• ³⁴ The Counter October 29, 2019
• ³⁵ Cricketflours.com
• ³⁶ Exoprotein.com
• ³⁷ Aljazeera June 19, 2022

 

Vietnam building new MRO facilities

 This is interesting,Many Airlines send their widebodies to China and Singapore for overhaul, with the hostilities going on, I wonder if many airlines will switch over because of the Chinese being hostile to foreigners in their country, I do know that they don't like the FAA(Friends Against Aviation) going over there to observe the overhaul operations  and made it extremely difficult for them to enter the country to the point that the FAA has to inspect the aircraft after it leaves China.  I wonder if "EASA" deals with the same problems and I'm pretty sure they are similarly restricted because the Chinese are being obstinate.  I also am putting this out there because it shows that the Vietnamese are serious about becoming major players in the aviation world and build their homegrown industry. and they have no love of the Chinese.  

 

Rendering of a proposed New Long Thahn Airport near Ho Chi Minh City(SGN)

 

SINGAPORE—The Vietnamese Transport Ministry has approved an investment of VND2.7 trillion ($118 million) to develop four MRO facilities at the new Long Thanh International Airport that will serve Ho Chi Minh City. 

The facilities will be able to support aircraft as large as Code F—Airbus A380s and Boeing 747-8s—and comply with FAA, EASA and Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam regulatory standards. 

An initial investment of VND688 billion will be allocated to each of the four projects, which will have plots of around 45,500 m² (490,000 ft.²). Under a public-private partnership scheme, the concession period for the facilities will be around 25 years. 

The four-runway Long Thanh airport is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in 2025, when it will replace Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Vietnam Airlines Engineering is the primary MRO provider at Tan Son Nhat, which also has a joint venture with Singapore’s ST Engineering operating as Vietnam Singapore Technologies Engineering Aerospace.

The GOP introduced legislation to raise the retirement age of Pilots.

 I saw this in my email, This  reminded me of something from my youth, ya, ya laugh it up...I ain't as old as some of y'all....Well anyway It brought to mind the episode from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with Gil Gerard and Erin Gray that had Peter Graves in it and there was a forced retirement of Earthforce/ Directorate Pilots and Buck made the comment about "Throwing people away because they were too old, and they were doing this in the 25th Century too?"  If y'all want to watch the episode, it was the "Return of the Fighting 69th",   I hope I embedded the link right.  Well anyway, The GOP is trying to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 with medical certifications, for those pilots that want to continue to fly.  Perhaps it will alleviate the stress on the system a little, I don't know.

Credit: American Airlines

Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to raise the mandatory retirement age for U.S. commercial airline pilots from 65 to 67 years old, part of an effort to head off a deepening shortfall of qualified pilots in coming years.

The “Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act” was introduced in both chambers of Congress on July 25 along partisan lines with no support from Democratic lawmakers. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) in the Senate and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) in the House with four GOP senators and five House Republicans acting as co-sponsors. 

In addition to raising the mandatory retirement age to 67, the legislation would require that pilots older than 65 maintain a first-class medical certification that must be renewed every six months. Beyond age, the bill does not seek to modify any other requirements to become a commercial pilot.

In a press conference held July 25 at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), Sen. Graham framed the effort as a means to address the regional pilot shortage that has led to service cuts at smaller airports around the country. He noted that GSP has lost 17% of its 2019 levels of service, while other South Carolina airports like Columbia Metropolitan Airport and Florence Regional Airport are down 24% and 27%, respectively.

Graham also warned the crisis affecting small community air service will only get worse unless action is taken, pointing to 5,000 anticipated pilot retirements over the next two years, and 14,000 over the next four years. Within 15 years, half of all the airline pilots serving today will reach retirement age, Graham said. 

“We have a crisis today when it comes to air travel,” Graham told reporters. “We have a pilot shortage, and those who say we don’t—well they’re just full of it—because they’re misleading the public.”

The bill has support from the Regional Airline Association (RAA), the National Air Carrier Association and the San Antonio International Airport. 

“There are approximately 500 fewer regional aircraft operating today than in 2018. That equates to a deficiency of approximately 5,000 pilots,” RAA Senior Director for Government Affairs Drew Lemos told reporters. “The shortage has meant that 71% of the airports that have commercial air service have seen a decline in flights.”

But the proposal faces stiff opposition from pilot unions. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)—which denies there is a pilot shortage—in May adopted a resolution opposing any effort to increase the retirement age, citing “significant unintended consequences to aviation safety and the pilot workforce as a whole.”

“The plain truth is that airlines should take responsibility for their business decisions to cut or reduce service to less-profitable markets while adding service to high-demand communities,” ALPA President Joe DePete said in a statement. “Instead, they’re making excuses that aren’t supported in fact or, far worse, calling for regulation rollbacks that would threaten safety.”

The effort faces an uphill battle to become law given its lack of support among Democratic lawmakers who currently control both chambers of Congress. But Graham promised the bill would be taken up by the Senate if Republicans win back control of the upper chamber in November’s midterm elections.

 

Monday Music "Shadow Dancing" By Andy Gibb

 

 

 I started this theme back in November of 2019?...With a couple of interruptions it has been consistent...Dang.

 

           Saw this meme and *rescued it from farcebook*, why? because I am a humanitarian, that's why.

I am continuing my string of "bugaloo" songs.  This discussion was started in the "Monster Hunter Nation, Hunters Unite", back in November of 2019? it is a Facebook group with enthusiast of the ILOH "International Lord of Hate" A.K.A Larry Correia.  We were talking about what song would we use if we looked out of our window or glanced at our security camera and saw this.....

One of the alphabet bois lining up to take down your house...What would be your "Valhalla" song and you would set it up to play as you load up magazines set up the Tannerite Rover, turn on the water irrigation system and fill it with gasoline instead of water and prepare yourself.

 I figured it would scar the alphabet boys if they come busting in and hearing a song about people having a good time and standing up for themselves and having the best music from the best decade and  playing  it Loud will scar the Alphabet Boi's as they force the stack through the door, because they will be exposed to good music for the first time unlike the crap they listen to now sipping their soi latte's and comparing notes on the latest soyburger recipes and who wears the best manbuns in the team

 

I am old enough that I remember "Disco", and I actually liked it...well most of it...some of it was really strange.  The "Studio 54" was endemic of the era along with the solid gold dancers on TV.  I was a young teenager when Disco exploded partly because of the movie "Saturday Night Fever" and other movies.  I used to listen to music when I was growing up, I always had music playing in the background and I still have a bunch of my "Ronco Records" that had a bunch of disco songs on it.  The early 70's was known for the "folk music" and I considered it boring and Disco was a total change up from it.  We went from " Me and you and a dog named Boo" to "Night on Disco Mountain".  I have this song on my mp3 collection, and whenever I hear it I think of the South park episode where Mr Garrison gets a nose job and the cartoonist use the likeness of "David Hasslehoff" from Knight rider fame.

 

 "Shadow Dancing" is a disco song performed by English singer Andy Gibb that reached number one for seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. The song was later sampled in the title track of Skrillex's 2010 debut EP, My Name Is Skrillex. Albhy Galuten (who also produced this song) arranged the song with Barry Gibb.

The song was written by Andy and his brothers (Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb) of "BeeGee's" fame in Los Angeles, while the trio of brothers were working on the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. "And one night," Andy would recall, "while we were relaxing, we sat down and we had to start getting tracks together for the album" (also titled Shadow Dancing, which would eventually hit #7 on the U.S. album charts). "So we literally sat down and in ten minutes, we had a group going, (singing) the chorus part. As it says underneath the song, we all wrote it, the four of us." While Andy Gibb would have three more Top 10 hits in the U.S., this would be his final chart-topping hit in America.
According to Billboard's Book Of Number One Hits, Gibb became the first solo artist in the history of the U.S. pop charts to have his first three singles hit the number-one spot. Additionally, "Shadow Dancing" was listed by Billboard as being the number one single of 1978. In addition the song peaked at number eleven on the soul chart and sold 2.5 million copies in the United States alone.Its two B-sides "Let It Be Me" appeared on US version and "Too Many Looks In Your Eyes" was from his previous album Flowing Rivers.

 

 In July that year, Gibb performed "Shadow Dancing" at the Jai-Alai Fronton Studios in Miami, when Barry, Robin and Maurice unexpectedly joined him on stage, and sang this song with him. It was the first time that all four brothers performed together in concert.

 

 And yes there is a Babylon5 episode called "Shadow Dancing" it is based on the ongoing "Shadow War"  This is a 3 minute clip from that episode.   Yes I couldn't resist....:)

Some more goings on at Casa De Garabaldi

 Been really busy at work so my postings have been off a bit, but this happened to me on Wednesday evening as I was driving.  I had left home, got to the entrance of my subdivision and realized that I forgot my coffee, turned around and went home and got it.  Was leaving again and saw a lady, her 4 year old daughter and their dog in the street walking on the right side of the road, so I swung over to the left side and drove slow to avoid them and I heard a *Boom* and felt a bump and the "Low Pressure Lights" came on in the dash and I turned around in a driveway and commented to the lady"I think I lost a tire"...She replied..."No you lost 2"  I grimaced and and told them to have a nice evening as I limped the Focus back home.  I parked the Focus, quickly transferred my stuff to "My Precious" A.K.A The F150 and headed to work and made it with 3 minutes to spare.  I wondered if God was telling me to stay home this day....

     Well next morning I stopped and took a few pictures at the scene of the crime....

     That is what I hit...

   Here is "My Precious" at the scene of the crime....

       This is what my Focus looked like the Thursday morning.....$$Depressing.$$

Friday Morning........

I was glad my floor jack was low profile, the Focus was low to the ground....

I then started to break the lug nuts loose.....

Drivers front.......Sliced sidewall......Grrr

Drivers rear.....*Mutter*$$$$$

Both tires in the back of the truck.....

The Focus looks kinda strange now......

All the Lugnuts are in a dish, I and my son had replaced the factory lugnuts a year ago with aftermarket lugnuts because the factory lugnuts have that crappy plastic cap on top of them, Fords have them as do Chrysler.  Changing them out keeps from crushing them when trying to remove them, especially on the side of the road ;).

 Got the tires back from the tire shop, and got them positioned, and started installing the lugnuts.

   Got both tires then lowered the car and finished tightening the rims using the "Star" method"

   This is what I'm using to torque the lugnuts...it is a 1/2 inch extended ratched with a 16mm impact socket.

This is what it looks like before it goes back in the trunk of the car.

     This was an expensive experience, glad I have the overtime to cover it...but sheesh....

Emirates Airlines is asking for larger widebody airplanes..

 

I saw this in my email.  Emirates is asking for a bigger plane and they are targeting Airbus.  Boeing just shut down the 747 line and Airbus quit making the A380 because it was a money loss for them.  Most airlines can't or won't afford super widebodies, the routes don't support them. Emirates and the other Middle Eastern Airlines are heavily subsidized by their host countries so they can afford to buy big airplanes whereas the United States and to a lesser extent the European airlines are not subsidized by their host countries nor the Asian Airlines.

Credit: Nigel Howarth / Aviation Week

FARNBOROUGH—Emirates president Tim Clark has again called on Airbus to develop an aircraft larger than the A350.

With large-capacity widebodies such as the A380, A340-600 and Boeing 747-400 out of production, rising passenger numbers demand a new twin-aisle design, Clark said at the Airline Leaders Summit on the sidelines of the Farnborough Airshow.

“I’m hoping Airbus will be a little bit braver,” he said.

Airbus and Boeing seem largely focused on narrowbodies, to the exclusion of new widebody designs, he said. “To say it’s all about the A320/321 and the MAX, in my view, is not that smart.”

IATA director general Willie Walsh, who also spoke at the summit, agreed there were parts of the world where a 350-seat, four-class aircraft would be needed in future.

The two executives also took shots at Airbus and Boeing over how they leverage their duopoly.

“We’re customers, and I don’t feel we’re always treated as customers,” Walsh said, noting that Bombardier built “a good aeroplane” with the CSeries, but was unable to compete against Airbus and Boeing. Ultimately, Airbus bought the CSeries program and renamed the aircraft the A220, which is selling well as an Airbus.

Walsh said that China’s COMAC C919 would eventually become a competitor, “but I think it’s a long way away.” And while China could design airframes satisfactorily, engine development remained a problem, which meant that for the foreseeable future, China would continue to depend on western engine manufacturers.

Monday Music "Its My Life" by Talk, Talk

 I started this theme back in November of 2019?...With a couple of interruptions it has been consistent...Dang.

 

           Saw this meme and *rescued it from farcebook*, why? because I am a humanitarian, that's why.

I am continuing my string of "bugaloo" songs.  This discussion was started in the "Monster Hunter Nation, Hunters Unite", back in November of 2019? it is a Facebook group with enthusiast of the ILOH "International Lord of Hate" A.K.A Larry Correia.  We were talking about what song would we use if we looked out of our window or glanced at our security camera and saw this.....

One of the alphabet bois lining up to take down your house...What would be your "Valhalla" song and you would set it up to play as you load up magazines set up the Tannerite Rover, turn on the water irrigation system and fill it with gasoline instead of water and prepare yourself.

 I figured it would scar the alphabet boys if they come busting in and hearing a song about people having a good time and standing up for themselves and having the best music from the best decade and  playing  it Loud will scar the Alphabet Boi's as they force the stack through the door, because they will be exposed to good music for the first time unlike the crap they listen to now sipping their soi latte's and comparing notes on the latest soyburger recipes and who wears the best manbuns in the team

 

"It's My Life" is a song by the English new wave band Talk Talk. Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, it was the title track on the band's second album and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart, but did better in several other countries, reaching number 33 in Germany, number 32 in New Zealand, and number 25 in France. In North America, it entered the Top 40 in both the United States (at number 31) and Canada (at number 30). It peaked at number 1 on the US Dance Club Songs chart. 

 

The single was re-released in the UK in 1985, but reached only number 93. In 1990, however, "It's My Life" was reissued again to promote the compilation album Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk. This time, the song was a hit in the UK, reaching number 13, the band's highest chart-placing single in its native country. 

 

There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director Tim Pope as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from the 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth pointedly shut tight, the latter often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines that occasionally appear in the documentary footage sequences as well.

                                                                    The Extended Version

The second version, recorded at the behest of EMI, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures(I am unable to find this version on Youtube)