Edward;
John Kerry mentioned that the free market capitalism is over… The monopoly of public private partnership will now be the new system. (A mixture of technocracy and feudalism)
As World Architects Schwab and George Soros failed to show up to WEF citing scheduling conflicts or bad health. Something weird is going on.

The Intermountain west is getting hammered by rain and snow. 40° weather and rain has melted all the snow on the ground locally, but the mountains are boasting record snowfall… Some places as much as 20 and 30 feet.
The great Salt Lake was at a record low due to drought, and excessive mineral extraction as the demand for potassium and magnesium and lithium has gone up.
It’s a foot higher today and still rising. (Most of the lake has causeways that prevent freshwater from entering the lake for municipal use… overflowing)

Thanks for the info Wayne, I’ll tell my daughter. She located a source and did not have to buy from Mexico… In which you take a chance in getting medication laced with fentanyl.
I have a grandson who helped me change the timing chain on a Durango when he was five, Smart as a whip and quick to comprehend… Forced to go on Ritalin because his school teacher couldn’t handle the energy. (he’s fine if he doesn’t have sugar which is the majority of his diet)
Now he’s quit growing, skinny as a rail at 10 years old, stares at a screen all day and he’s shy and emotionally reserved. Always angry. If only….

Victor Davis Hansen-
Keynote Address: California at the Crossroads
Kern County Economic Summit (March, 2018)
https://youtu.be/bgmR_5Hi2fw
34:25

It seems to have been constant since Christmas, but the reality is that we have had daily rains except for three days interspersed throughout this period. As I write this, there is a drizzle. I haven’t kept up on how many inches of rain has fallen, but things have not dried out very well. I don’t think I can ever mow my lawn again without leaving deep tracks in the mud under the grass. One of my doors that has been sticky since the beginning of this recent drought has become free swinging again, but another door that never stuck has started being a little hard to close, meaning that the ground under my house has swelled in both the usual ways and an unusual way. There are interesting sinkholes that have opened up under roads and one railroad so that Amtrak’s Coast Starlight cannot get all the way south to Los Angeles. Two weeks ago there was a flood warning — the first since I moved in — for a creek that is a quarter mile from my house but a mile farther downstream.

I am thinking that the prediction that California would fall into the ocean is finally coming true. If you will excuse me, now, I will swim over to the grocery store. If I can find my water wings.

Interestingly– the hydrocodone (Vicodin et al) production quota for 2012 was 79,700 kilograms. In 2013 that jumped to 99,625 kilograms. (Does anyone remember when Obama told people to “just take a pill?” well, Medicaid paid for over 400 million dosage units of Vicodin during the obama administration. How did that turnout? The rest of us don’t get any painkillers, even if you need them.)
In 2021 the quota was 30,821 kilograms. The Cartels filled the void.

If I could address something briefly– I’m sure everyone has seen the news reports of illicit fentanyl and how all the pills are brightly colored, “like candy,” –> that is done expressly for the reason they all look exactly like Mallinckrodt brand morphine tablets. Nobody is trying to sell “candy” colored fentanyl to school children, that’s just not how it works.

and wayne responded: “Everyone should be aware that the DEA sets yearly production quotas for ALL Scheduled drugs, the big ones being speed and opiate pain killers. (What could possibly go wrong with that scheme?)”

This is what happens when government takes over a free-market system. Fortunately they have yet to take over the pipe organ industry or the music played by these organs. Yet.

Reference the shortage of speed:
see:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/02/2022-26351/established-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and-assessment

Everyone should be aware that the DEA sets yearly production quotas for ALL Scheduled drugs, the big ones being speed and opiate pain killers. (What could possibly go wrong with that scheme?)

“DEA determined that the proposed APQs {“aggregate production quotas”] for amphetamine, dexmethylphenidate (Ritalin analogue), methylphenidate (Ritalin), and lisdexamfetamine (amphetamine analogue) are sufficient to supply legitimate medical needs, reserve stocks, and export requirements for 2023.”
“The majority of the manufacturers contacted by DEA and/or FDA have responded that they currently have sufficient quota to meet their contracted production quantities for legitimate patient medical needs. According to DEA’s data, manufacturers have not fully utilized the APQ for amphetamine in support of domestic manufacturing, reserve stocks, and export requirements for the past three calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
–>Based on this trend, DEA has not implemented an increase to the APQ for amphetamine at this time.”
(Thanks Joe Biden.)
On the upside– the Mexican cartels HAVE increased their production of speed, so there’s plenty to go around, you just have to pay cash for it.

https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-hardware/this-mini-paper-balloon-powered-pipe-organ-will-blow-you-away

The Simpsons in church, singing “In the Garden of Eden” by I Ron Butterfly… on the Organ.

https://youtu.be/ulDC1w1ydLI

(Can’t believe I beat Wayne to it)

By the way Wayne, there’s of shortage of drugs for ADHD kids… Adderall has skyrocketed, it’s used doubling in the last two years and now there’s a shortage for everyone.
Road accidents have climbed as people are attempting to drive without their medications.
And the bombshell broke yesterday that the covalent authorized drug is causing strokes… nearly fell out of my chair when I saw it on national news and heard it on the radio. Normally such people would be blacklisted and fired for not saying that it’s a conspiracy theory! but the dam is breaking. They’re starting to admit that the clot shot kills people.

According to this, it started with water pressure in pipes, and moved on to bellows:

“With the exception of water organs, playing the organ before the invention of motors required at least one person to operate the bellows. When signaled by the organist, a calcant would operate a set of bellows, supplying the organ with wind.[65] Because calcants were expensive, organists would usually practise on other instruments such as the clavichord or harpsichord.[66] By the mid-19th-century bellows were also being operated by water engines,[67] steam engines or gasoline engines.[68][69][70] Starting in the 1860s bellows were gradually replaced by rotating turbines which were later directly connected to electrical motors.[71] This made it possible for organists to practice regularly on the organ. Most organs, both new and historic, have electric blowers, although some can still be operated manually.[72] The wind supplied is stored in one or more regulators to maintain a constant pressure in the windchests until the action allows it to flow into the pipes.[73]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ

“Now Witness the Firepower of this fully Armed and Operational Battle Station!”
https://youtu.be/g7-tskP0OzI
0:08

I’m going to drop this in here…

“Caruso”
Luciano Pavarotti [ 12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007]
&
Jeff Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023)
->audio only
https://youtu.be/RQYVnY-C4_c
5:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEdqx3MdZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmdKax2248

Metallica– Organ Cover
“E nien´altro importa”
[Nothing Else Matters]
Steffen Schlandt 2021
https://youtu.be/EEJ8-nTj8Ws
8:19