INSANE SAN FRANCISCO COUNCIL MOVES FORWARD WITH UNCONSTITUTIONAL REPARATIONS PLAN – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going forward with their racist, unconstitutional plan of seeking to thug funds from one group of people based on race to give to another group of people based on race. Using the long-past “emergency” of slavery, the city that was never a part of a slavery system has decided to give blacks who are descended from slaves $5 million, exemption from taxation, and a $97,000 income for 250 years.
The plan seems so far fetched that even the race-grifting anti-American terrorist org called Black Lives Matter is not supporting it, accusing the supervisors of creating an unrealistic plan they know will never pass muster. In other words, they are accusing the mostly white board of virtue signaling.
Regardless, the actions should trigger criminal legal action against the board members, who are now in open defiance of the Rule of Law of our constitutional republic. One doubts very much that American DAs are present in the state of California.
The plan would mean that all households not exempt from taxation will be forced at gunpoint to pay $600,000 just to meet the initial $5 million dollar per slave descendent commitment.
One supervisor demonstrated the ruthlessness and illogic of the whole board when she commented after the vote, “Now the real work continues. As I’ve said before, we have to stay focused and stay together as a community because now it is 100 percent more prevalent that we cannot be separated or divided.” That supervisor is Shamann Walton, who made it clear that the “unity” is built around anti-whiteness and black supremacism, while also demonstrating themselves to be out of touch with simple logic. You cannot have unity when you burden one group of people in a way that destroys their ability to pursue their own prosperity and happiness just to give state favor to a special class of people, based mostly on race.
Logically, we would understand that the majority afflicted to give special privilege to the minority will not feel in unity with that group, but rather great enmity will build, between the afflicted and the pampered.
QANON SHAMEN REMAINS IN PRISON DESPITE VIDEO EXONERATING HIM – The Biden administration’s political activist lawfare assassins, also known as Federal Prosecutors, denied the plain evidence that exonerates wrongfully convicted American Jacob Chansley of leading an insurrection against the Federal government at the Federal capitol on January 6th, 2021, the day that seditionists from both parties certified an unconstitutional mass mailer election.
They then made claims which were quickly refuted that what was not shown in the video was that Chansley had to be forcefully removed from the capitol. A video release showed Chansley in fact left peacefully, following the instructions of police peacefully, and even thanking them for their service.
In addition to that video, another video release shows Chansley reading tweets by President Donald Trump telling the protestors to go home, and encouraging the protestors to go home.
DNC henchman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stood in the well of the Senate openly calling for a private news outlet to ban Tucker Carlson and prevent him from showing any more January 6 videos on their network, a move that was lauded and supported by DNC henchman Mitch McConnel (R-KY), revealing the true party, the DNC’s uniparty (with the RNC serving as controlled opposition to the pro-CCP, anti-American alliance), that is in charge of our republic, while itself hating everything America and Americans stand for.
MORE “AMERICAN” CITIES PUSH FOR NON-CITIZEN VOTING – DNC-Controlled formerly American cities are being run into the ground by Woketarian, anti-American, anti-human policies. Adding to that list is the latest trend among the anti-American left, pushing for non-citizen voting. The District of Columbia is joining Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco in moving to make it “legal” for non-citizens to vote in “American” elections, an act of sedition in and of itself, but not if you imagine these lands are the nation of the DNC, a nation at existential odds with our own.
The President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an American election integrity watchdog group, said of the overt acts of sedition by the largest political party in America, “When foreign nationals who have no stake in the future of our country are allowed to vote, it undermines the importance of citizenship and the more than century long [struggle] for black Americans to gain the right to vote. Foreign nationals are diluting the power of black Americans
CANADA PUSHES REGIME CHANGE IN CHINA – Canada’s Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly, recently made statements regarding Russia that are sending shock waves throughout the international community. Joly said, “We’re able to see how much we’re isolating the Russian regime right now — because we need to do so economically, politically and diplomatically — and what are the impacts also on society, and how much we’re seeing potential regime change in Russia.”
The Russian Ambassador to Canada, Oleg Stepanov, attempted to give the minister some cover, saying that her remarks may have been an “awkward slip of the tongue.” Experts worry the comments could give Putin more power at home as he will be viewed as the one man standing up to western bullying, connecting the war in Ukraine with Russia’s existential fight with the West simply to survive.
BIDEN WANTS AMERICANS TO HAVE DIRTY CLOTHES TO “SAVE THE PLANET” – Under the guise of saving the planet from man-made global warming, the Biden Administration’s Energy Department released a proposal in February to create higher “standards” of efficiency for washing machine manufacturers. The manufacturers say the Biden-dictated changes will render washing machines ineffective, resulting in Americans simply refusing to buy the new Woketarian junk this Kingly decree will create.
Travis Fisher, a fellow for the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and the Environment, said of the move, “When you’re squeezing all you can out of the efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower,” said Fisher, who serves as a senior research fellow at the foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. “Why are we so focused on the energy output, as opposed to if it’s helping me wash my clothes? That standard has kind of gone off the rails.”
CHINA GETS MILLIONS FROM U.S. TO CREATE A PANDEMIC – While American leaders are warning of China’s continued existential threat to American liberty, leftists continue to defend China, even calling the effort by anyone to ban their spy software, TikTok, an infringement on free speech (which they don’t actually believe in). They do so in the face of recent news that the Wuhan Lab in China, where Dr. Anthony “I am the science” Fauci sent millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for the development of a biological weapon of war, double-billed the government that unconstitutionally, and in violation of international war laws, sought to fund the villainous venture.
Despite China’s overt assault on the American republic, “American” investors continue to be willing to prop up the deadly enemy, with Morgan Stanley economists now openly encouraging investment in the police state nation, which uses the wealth gained from American investors and trade to prop up its efforts to undermine the American republic at home and abroad, with the sometimes tacit, sometimes overt approval of the Democratic Party and its high-placed members who make millions selling America to China (including Joe “the mass mailer President” Biden).
DEI OFFICER AT STANFORD JOINS STUDENTS IN CHILLING FREE SPEECH OF JUDGE – Anti-American students at Stanford University yelled racial epithets and other derogatory comments at Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan for having American values and beliefs while on their anti-American, anti-human campus.
The violence, the intimidation against an American citizen because of his beliefs alone was incited and joined in by the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) officer, who made it clear that DEI Officers are de facto DNC police state party enforcers, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to enforce the DNC’s woketarian code on students.
After the Dean of Stanford’s Law School apologized, the Marxist-trained anti-American students demonstrated their lack of understanding of the first amendment, the right to free speech, by equating their violent intimidation of a speaker with “free speech,” to the cheer of the DEI officer, the Democrat Party’s de facto thought police enforcer, Tirien Steinbach, who never met an American she didn’t want to silence.
The dawn of the 19th Century heralded perhaps the greatest explosion of technological development in human history. While technologies in most areas had been advancing slowly for centuries, a little-understood combination of factors combined to radically reshape human societies, developing – for better or worse – faster in one hundred years, than at any other point in human history. Steam engines radically reshaped transport on land and sea, opening broad new ranges of products, both agricultural and manufactured; the telegraph radically altered patterns of human communication; medicine suddenly evolved from speculation and bloodletting to observable and testable practices, radically reshaping human mortality rates. The maturing of electrical power generation, transmission and use resulted not only in the telegraph and the light bulb, but of an early form of fax machine.
Caselli’s pantelegraph tinfoil mechanism, 1866. Public Domain.
In firearms technology, the developments were just as radical. In 1800, the only personal firearms out there were flintlock muskets (aside from some pretty radical one-offs). Less than thirty years later, the percussion cap significantly changed the calculus, by making the musket vastly more reliable. By the end of the 1860’s, self-contained rimfire and centerfirecartridges had begun to dominate the battlefield. Well before the end of the century, smokeless powder and functional machine guns had begun to fundamentally alter infantry warfare.
This steamroller of technological advancement held true in the world of artillery technology, as well. The muzzle-loading cannons of 1800 gave way to breech-loading guns by 1870…Which is where our story actually begins, when artillery met steam power, but off the railroad or warship.
Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, (1849 – 1909) was a Polish-born American soldier, military engineer and inventor. Born to a Jewish family in Kórnik, Prussian Poland in 1849, he immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1853. Lying about his age to enlist, he joined the US Army and served during the Civil War. Commissioned a 2nd LT in an artillery regiment from the state of New York, Zalinski served on the staff of General Nelson Miles. While not much is known of the details of his exact service, it was apparently enough to see him offered a commission in the Regular Army after the war, which is a notable thing, given the drastic post-war cuts in manpower and budgets. During his career, he served as an artillery officer at the Fort Jefferson military prison in Florida (where he authored an appeal to President Andrew Johnson to pardon Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had been convicted as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, for the doctor’s service during an outbreak of Yellow Fever at the prison), and as a professor of military science at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). During this time, he patented a number of inventions, including an artillery sight.
In 1883, Zalinski witnessed a demonstration of a pneumatic artillery weapon, designed by D. M. Medford of Chicago, Illinois. Zalinski began working on the idea, and eventually designed his own pneumatic gun. While the Army was not initially interested, the US Navy was intrigued. As chemistry had advanced, it had started to create high explosives, that were far more powerful than the older black powder; however, these new explosives were very unstable, and were liable to detonate when fired in a conventional gun. The Navy, wanting to find a way to use the new tool, thought that Zalinski’s new system might be the answer.
USS VESUVIUS Dynamite Cruiser, 1888-1922. Photo: H.C. Peabody. Public Domain.
In late 1887, the USS Vesuvius was laid down at the William Cramp & Sons yard in Philadelphia, PA; she would be commissioned some six months later. As fitted out, the Vesuvius (named for the Italian volcano) carried three 15-inch “dynamite guns” (a term coined by the press), that could each throw a 500-lbs shell (called a “torpedo”, because – Navy) out to about one-and-a-half miles, adjusting the range by varying the air pressure. Without a war to fight, however, the ship was mostly relegated to the dreaded “dog & pony” circuit, visiting port towns to help them celebrate various holidays. In South America, the Brazilian Navy also fitted a 15-inch model to an auxiliary cruiser named the Nichteroy, which was later sold to the US Navy, which named that ship the USS Buffalo.
15inch ‘Dynamite Gun’, mounted on the Brazilian Navy ship Nitheroy, 1892. Photo by Marc Ferrez, 1982. Public Domain.
Wanting to stay as far ahead of the game as possible, the Navy also commissioned the USS Holland in 1900, to see if an 8-inch version of Zalinski’s gun could be used on a submarine.
USS Holland (SS-1), the first submarine of the U.S. Navy, showing the 8-inch dynamite gun muzzle open at the bow. Taken in 1898. US Navy Photo.
Following a two-year stint in the yards for repairs, Vesuvius returned to the fleet in 1897, as relations with Spain worsened. These tensions would soon lead to the Spanish-American War, in 1898. While the Vesuviusperformed well in nighttime raids on the Cuban city of Santiago, the ship was saddled with a number of flaws, not least of which was the fact that it was very difficult to aim her main guns, as they were set deep into her hull, instead of being mounted in more conventional turrets. This led the Navy to convert the Vesuvius into a torpedo test vessel in 1904, stripping her of her ”dynamite guns” and replacing them with a variety of torpedo tubes.
U.S.S. Vesuvius, c. 1890-1901, showing its main gun barrels protruding from its deck. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
As well, the US Army would abandon their experiments with Zalinski’s guns. The Army, which was responsible for coast artillery defense, had installed a number of 8- and 15-inch guns at various forts around the country. But, by 1900, the “dynamite guns” had all been dismounted and sold for scrap.
“Battery Dynamite” at Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco, CA. Photo c.1900. Public Domain.
The reasons for the abandonment of Zalinski’s design are simple: the development of stable high explosives and the limited range of the guns made the “soft-launch” of the pneumatic guns irrelevant, as both issues were easily overcome by conventional artillery. As well, the low velocity of the shells forced them to fire at a high angle, limiting both their accuracy and impact force against armored targets.
While it is neat to speculate on “what if,” the fact remains that pneumatic artillery, although playing an interesting and important role in late-19th Century artillery, has had its day: the support infrastructure to operate pneumatic guns, even using modern technology, is not sufficient for use in combat, even using rocket assist to increase their range.
There’s no reason to reinvent the wheel.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell recently declared that the road back to economic health is to be filled with higher interest rates than most might be expecting. “We raised rates very quickly last year, and we know that monetary tightening policy has delayed effects; it takes a while for the full effects to be seen,” he said.
He infused more confidence in the market when he added, “We have many unusual factors, and I don’t think anybody knows with confidence how this is going to play out.”
Powell promised indirectly that eventually we will all benefit with the Fed’s decisions to dramatically raise rates while the government continues to spend trillions funding Ukraine and Woketarian causes (as reflected in their baby green new deal).
The New York Fire Department is dividing over the appointment and leadership of FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh, who seems to be more concerned with assuring the department reflect anti-American leftist ideals rather than being an efficient fire fighting force. The Chiefs have had enough, and now they are suing the leftist diversity hire.
The leftist appointed by Mayor Eric Adams has put a priority on getting women fire fighters, at risk to other fire fighters, and at risk to the people whose homes and businesses are on fire and in need of efficient handling. She has no previous experience fighting fires herself, something that is not lost on the firefighters that are forced to follow a “leader” who wants to use the department to advance her leftist bona fides rather than serve the public securely, a trait more often than not seen in leftist politicians across these lands.
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