No need for evacuation zones, can be placed near urban areas. Molten Salt Thorium reactors operate at atmospheric pressure and have a very high negative temperature coefficient, so there is no risk for a boil-over. They are easily made earthquake-safe and no pressure vessel is needed. This will greatly simplify the approval process, no need for elaborate evacuation plans have to be developed. Since the Three Mile Island accident there was a thirty year gap in approvals for new nuclear plants. The “not in my backyard ” mentality reigned supreme, and delay and denial was the rule of the years. But the lawyers still got their share, leading to escalating cost for new nuclear power. In the early days of nuclear power France took the approach of building some of their nuclear plants near the Belgian and German border, so they only had to develop half of an evacuation plan, leaving the other half to their understanding neighbors. It also leads to placing the nuclear plants where there is the least resistance, not where they are needed the most, adding to the strain on the electric grid. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors have one additional advantage. They do not need access to water, so they can be placed even in desert areas.
Category: politics
Another ballad of the Green Beret.
He was made in U.S.A.,
born in Kenya, what the hey.
this was all he had to say
He did hate the Green Beret.
Blamed Republicans each day,
They should shut up and obey.
Sign Iranian give-away
for he loathed the Green Beret.
He used blackmail every day
forcing Congress to obey.
make them do all he did say.
He despised the Green Beret.
ISIS did grow every day
everything he did and say.
Gave the Army no leeway.
Did not use the Green Beret.
He said ISIL all the day,
he did Israel betray.
The Levant is the whole bay
Useless was the Green Beret.
People still did hope and pray
for a while we went astray
Now he’s gone we did repay
and restore the Green Beret.
With new leadership in play
ISIS has been blown away.
Battle won, now come what may,
we still need the Green Beret.
For the vict’ry not yet won
and the fight has just begun.
We must choose November three
to preserve the Green Beret.
First Lady Melania Trump at Mount Rushmore, A Limerick.
First Lady in dress on Mount Rushmore
from Central Saint Martin’s design floor,
where some girls got a chance
make designs, think of dance,
a dance of a lifetime, and much more.
https://http://www.papermag.com/alexander-mcqueen-dancing-girls-dress-2645945769.html
Some lucky design students at Central Saint Martins got the opportunity of a lifetime last year when Alexander McQueen enlisted their help to contribute in the making of its Spring 2020 collection.
Worn by British model Stella Tennant, Look 10 consisted of a white sleeveless midi dress featuring abstract line drawings of “dancing girls” that were done by the aforementioned students. (All of their names were credited in the show notes.)
Alexander McQueen gave PAPER a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this dress. The students’ dancing girl sketches were done on long white sheets during a life-drawing class led by fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven at the brand’s flagship store in London.
Afterwards, creative director Sarah Burton enlisted the entire McQueen staff to hand-embroider and stitch over the sketches of a single ivory linen dress.
The Stitch School, a group that fosters community through needlework, provided the teams in London and Paris with specialist tables and looms so that every single person could contribute in the making of this look.
Tennant’s dress went on to inspire the dancing girls embroideries in Look 12: a blue linen dress with an open neckline and short, bulbous sleeves.
Between the school kids and her entire staff collaborating on this dress, it all amounted to the sense community spirit and togetherness that Burton championed this season. As she wrote in her show notes back then, “I love the idea of people having the time to make things together, the time to meet and talk together, the time to reconnect to the world.”
The case for Thorium. 3. Thorium based nuclear power produces 0.012 percent as much TRansUranium waste products as traditional nuclear power.
A Thorium based fast breeder nuclear reactor produces much less TRansUranium waste, 0.012% waste products compared to a Uranium-235/238 fast breeder with between 3 and 8% U235. The Thorium process has a much higher efficiency of fission than the Uranium process. See the figure below. 
Pu = Plutonium, Am = Americum, Cm = Curium, all TRansUraniums, nasty stuff.
With Thorium based Nuclear power, there are few storage problems, with traditional U235 power long tern storage is an immense and urgent problem, and has been since the 1960’s. At that time Sweden had a heavy water U-238 nuclear power program going using unenriched Uranium, but abandoned it in favor of traditional U-235 enriched nuclear power, because U.S. promised to provide the material and take care of the reprocessing and final storage of all nuclear waste at cost if Sweden joined the nuclear proliferation treaty. Reprocessing was to be done in Washington State, and one of the final storage sites mentioned was Yucca Mountain in Nevada, having the ideal geological properties.
Time went by and in 1982 – Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, requiring the establishment of a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste storage and isolation. Yucca Mountain was high on the list out of of 9 possible sites.
Time goes by, and Congress is still not able to decide on a solution. Meanwhile, TRU’s from spent and reprocessed fuel is piling up in less than ideal locations. There is now more than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities. Thorium based nuclear power would go a long way to alleviate this problem.
A swan song Ode to Nancy Pelosi
Since Nancy Pelosi again became speaker
she worked all the time to make our country weaker
Protect the deep State!
Impeach and spew hate!
As always the Democrats future looks bleaker.
When Nancy Pelosi becme speaker of the house the first time in 2007 I penned
Ode to Nancy Pelosi, Limerick style.
Since Nancy Pelosi took over the gavel
Was our economy quick to unravel.
She is more than bad,
The worst that we had.
We finally stopped contemplating our navel.
.
Since Nancy Pelosi took over as speaker
Our job situation has gotten much weaker
All jobs that are lost
Since she got the post
And as for advise, shame to all who still seek her.
.
For Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader
The Chinese exploiters a life-line did feed her
Our debt load increased
Four trillions at least
We all must this fall go and vote to unseat her
.
For Nancy Pelosi, known Tea Party hater
Gets scared when the grandmothers start to berate her
It does go to show
That she doesn’t know
The Tea Party is a great hate dissipater.
Then in the 2010 election she lost the majority, which led to this verse
Oh, Nancy Pelosi, she fondly remembers,
she only lost sixty-three Democrat members.
And it doesn’t compute,
as a leader astute?
Her party is burning, it’s ashes and embers!
But in 2018, at the age of 78, the Democrats again gained control of the House of Representatives and reelected Nancy Pelosi as speaker, which led to this verse, being much the same as the top verse of this ode.
When Nancy Pelosi again became speaker,
the ravage of time showed it made her much weaker
and how nervous she looked
for her goose is soon cooked.
The Democrats future is looking much bleaker.
Kente cloth, a royal symbol of power, slave ownership and slave trade. A Limerick
This explains a lot.
The kente cloth stemming from Ghana
A symbol of black africana
Worn by kings who sold slaves
They got guns, even trades,
Pelosi, her slave trade persona.
This helps to explain the strange scene that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and 33 other Democrats performed on Monday to commemorate the death of George Floyd
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (C) and Democratic lawmakers kneel while observing a moment of silence to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 08 June 2020. The death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis has sparked global protests demanding policing reform.
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers observe a moment of silence for George Floyd, Washington, USA – 08 Jun 2020
Blue State, Red State. How do they protect their nursing home population, and do they care?
How do Red States take care of their most vulnerable population as opposed to Blue States. There are two outstanding states, Red State Alaska and Blu state Hawaii, both with zero deaths from COVID-19 in their Long Term Care homes.
After that we can see that the difference in deaths as a percentage of all deaths in their state is not that great, except that all states where over 80% of all Corona virus deaths in nursing homes and other LTC facilities are all Blue States.
The New York statistics are misleading, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order forcing nursing homes to take in COVID patients, and when they were to ill they were taken to hospitals, died and were not counted as LTC patients any more. New Jersey more or less copied the New York order. Pennsylvania did likewise, but the health secretary Rachel Levine ralized what was happening and took her own mother out of her nursing home. Michigan had a special problem, too many COVID patients in greater Detroit nursing homes, but extra capacity in Northern Michigan, so she transferred Covid patients up north to even out the COVID load. These were all deeds of Democrat Governors.
Here is the table, per state. Three states have not reported yet.
…………………………………….Deaths Deaths
………………………………….per as per as
……………….Trump 10,000 percentage Clinton 10,000 percent
State Plurality LTC of all deaths State Plurality LTC of deaths
Wyoming 47.6% 12 28.6% D. C. 88.7% xx 34.3%
West Virginia 42.2% 38 56.6% Hawaii 32.2% 0 0%
Oklahoma 36.4% 72 53.8% California 28.8% 88 43.5%
North Dakota 36.3% 46 77% Vermont 28.5% 52 50%
Idaho 31.6% 42 57.1% Massachusetts 27.3% 796 62.2%
Kentucky 29.8% 80 57.4% Maryland 25.2% 326 54.7%
South Dakota 29.8% xx xx New York 21.3% 265 13.8%
Alabama 28.3% 82 44.4% Washington 16.2% 103 61.1%
Arkansas 26.6% 19 35.9% Illinois 16.0% 309 52.1%
Nebraska 26.3% 39 48.4% Rhode Island 15.6% 515 81.8%
Tennessee 26.2% 32 39.7% Connecticut 13.3% 808 48.2%
Kansas 21.0% 36 51.2% New Jersey 13.2% 866 42.2%
Montana 20.0% 7 35.3% Delaware 11.5% 407 62.8%
Louisiana 19.7% 385 39.9% Oregon 10.6% 28 57%
Indiana 19.3% 178 47.8% New Mexico 8.3% 168 45%
Missouri 19’1% xx xx Virginia 4.9% 176 56.4%
Mississippi 18.6% 198 50.6% Colorado 2.8% 210 49.4%
Utah 18.1% 42 42.5% Nevada 2.4% 107 26.1%
Alaska 15.2% 0 o% Maine 1.8% 29 54.7%
South Carolina 14.1% 83 43.9% Minnesota 1.5% 109 81.4%
Iowa 9,6% 107 48.4% New Hampshire 0.4% 180 81.9%
Texas 9.2% 66 45.8%
Ohio 8.6% 144 70.5%
Georgia 5.7% 176 48.8%
Arizona 4.1% 145 55.3%
North Carolina 3.8% 76 47.8%
Florida 1.3% 84 49.3%
Pennsylvania 1.2% 305 67.4%
Wisconsin 1.0% 47 41.7%
Michigan 0.3% xx xx
Red state – blue state. It is a matter of survival from the corona virus.
Based on the 2016 election results you have a much better chance of escaping the coronavirus if you live in a state that President Trump won. The exceptions are Louisiana, that allowed Mardi Gras to go ahead in spite of the epidemic. This affected Mississippi as well. Pennsylvania and Michigan have democrat governors, which explains a lot. The death rates speak for themselves. A standout exception is Hawaii, highly democratic, but with the lowest death rate of all!
State Trump Deaths per State Clinton Deaths per
State Plurality milliom State plurality million
Wyoming 47.6% 29 District of Columbia 88.7% 666
West Virginia 42.2% 44 Hawaii 32.2% 12
Oklahoma 36.4% 86 California 28.8% 110
North Dakota 36.3% 85 Vermont 28.5% 88
Idaho 31.6% 46 Massachusetts 27.3% 1028
Kentucky 29.8% 99 Maryland 25.2% 430
South Dakota 29.8% 70 New York 21.3% 1546
Alabama 28.3% 133 Washington 16.2% 149
Arkansas 26.6% 45 Illinois 16.0% 436
Nebraska 26.3% 94 Rhode Island 15.6% 691
Tennessee 26.2% 56 Connecticut 13.3% 1114
Kansas 21.0% 77 New Jersey 13.2% 1327
Montana 20.0% 16 Delaware 11.5% 383
Louisiana 19.7% 611 Oregon 10.6% 37
Indiana 19.3% 326 New Mexico 8.3% 175
Missouri 19’1% 130 Virginia 4.9% 165
Mississippi 18.6% 258 Colorado 2.8% 256
Utah 18.1% 35 Nevada 2.4% 137
Alaska 15.2% 14 Maine 1.8% 70
South Carolina 14.1% 97 Minnesota 1.5% 192
Iowa 9,6% 178 New Hampshire 0.4% 188
Texas 9.2% 60
Ohio 8.6% 194
Georgia 5.7% 198
Arizona 4.1% 129
North Carolina 3.8% 92
Florida 1.3% 118
Pennsylvania 1.2% 445
Wisconsin 1.0% 104
Michigan 0.3% 556
Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc is the answer? Check the death rates of nine countries that use it.
This is a very interesting chart:
But wait. Not so fast. These countries have a younger population, and the death rate is much lower for younger people. This chart tells it all.
The death rate doubles for every 8 years as you age or about 9% per year. The world median age is 30.4 years. So let the world death rate be the norm
World death rate as of May 21 is 6.42% of diagnosed cases.
Turkey: Death rate 2.77%, median age 30.9, adjusted death rate 2.64%
South Korea: Death rate 2.37%, median age 30.9, adjusted death rate 2.26%
Malaysia: Death rate 1.61%, median age 28.5, adjusted death rate 1.91%
Senegal: Death rate 1.13%, median age 18.8, adjusted death rate 3.00%
Costa Rica: Death rate 1.11%, median age 31.3, adjusted death rate 1.02%
United Arab emirates: Death rate 0.88%, median age 30.9, adjusted death rate 0.84%
Bahrain: Death rate 1.43%, median age 32.3, adjusted death rate 1.20%
Morocco: Death rate 2.70%, median age 29.3, adjusted death rate 2.92%
Russia: Death rate 1.00%, median age 30.9, adjusted death rate 0.95%
Taking the average, not adjusted for the size of the populations we get the average adjusted death rate for countries, where people are taking HCQ + Zinc when diagnosed positive, is 1.89%.
This means that the risk of death is reduced by a factor of 3.4 if HZQ + Zinc is taken as early as possible after a positive diagnosis for coronavirus!
These 9 countries are living proof of it. Why are we not implementing it today?
Sweden is leading the way. Throw out the Chinese infiltrators!
Sweden is a globalist country. Ever since Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary of the U.N. Sweden has advocated leadership in foreign aid and is leading the world in foreign aid as a percentage of GNP (1.45% in 2015). They welcome immigrants and refugees, the foreign born population is now over 20%. When the coronavirus outbreak started in Wuhan, China, Sweden pitched in and sent over 100,000 masks to help out.
All of this changed when the Chinese quarantined over 50 million people in and around Wuhan, prevented all travel within China to and from the guaranteed provinces but allowed international travel to continue in and out of Wuhan International Airport, thereby spreading the Wuhan virus worldwide, but stopping it within China. When the virus hit Sweden they tried to replenish their protection equipment they found out that China had mopped up nearly all supplies from the whole world and was now reselling them at scalpers’ prices, if they were available at all.
This did not sit well with the Swedes, they have now abolished all sister city arrangements with China, the last to go was the Gothenburg – Shanghai arrangement. Gone are also the Confucius institutes, and finally the last Confucius classroom in the little town of Falkenberg.
We should do the same thing. San Francisco has a sister city arrangement with Shanghai, Pittsburgh has one with Wuhan, and so on. Suspend them all! Likewise abolish all Confucius Institutes, and they are legion
Besides providing Chinese propaganda they are a major source of “information gathering.” The Chinese people are wonderful, but before they are sent off to the U.S. to study they must swear loyalty to the Communist Government, and so the Confucius Institutes are in reality low level spy operations.
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