%%Post image thumbnail below.%%  # Episode Overview > - **Date Aired:** [[08-01-2023]] > - **Title:** Groundhog Day > - **Episode:** 230 > - **Description:** "There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him." > - **Link:** <https://rumble.com/v33yflr-big-dig-energy-230-groundhog-day.html> # Replay <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v31d0sn/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> # Greetings & Announcements # Segments ## Shitty Journalism Archive: <https://archive.is/10oN8>   ## The Comeback Kid Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, tested positive for Covid on July 17th.  Dick Durbin tested positive for Covid for the "third time in past year."   Nancy Mace [tested positive](https://www.live5news.com/2023/07/24/rep-mace-tests-positive-covid-19-3rd-time/) for Covid for the **third time** in late July.  **Thread:** <https://twitter.com/elisaperego78/status/1684398881751060480>  **New York Times Posts A Groundhog Day-Worthy Article** A conspiracy theorist would find the timing of this odd, but not me! Tweet Archive: <https://archive.is/brxiI> Article Archive: <http://archive.today/UCWEC>  Of course, doing one's own research is strictly a no-no, if you recall this [banger of an article](https://archive.is/4ryRk) from [[Forbes]] in July 2020.  So let's see what the experts have to say! ### Insufferable Twitter Talking Heads on Covid **Ellie Murray:**  Ellie Murray is an [Assistant Professor of Epidemiology](https://web.archive.org/web/20200809032242/https://scholar.harvard.edu/eleanormurray/home) at Boston University and one of the Twitter "elite" among Covid talking heads. She got her Master's Degree from the [[Columbia University]] Mailman School of Public Health, which has employed people like Peter Daszak and Jeffrey Sachs previously. I typically consider the Mailman School to be a bit of a "red flag."  Ellie was a co-author of a [March 2020 article](https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2020/stick-figures-vs-covid-19/) that used stick figures to teach people how to sneeze… among other things.  **From the Archives:** [May 30, 2020](https://archive.is/XpBq9)  [June 3, 2020](https://archive.is/yaOXO)  [January 9, 2021](https://archive.is/OsIIc)  [August 21, 2021](https://archive.is/tPgp5)  [December 22, 2021](https://archive.is/83nPT)  --- **T. Ryan Gregory** - Evolutionary Biologist  %%Footer Starts Here%% --- **Laura Miers** Twitter Bio: "Pro-Kindness/Compassion/Love. Wealth inequality will destroy us. Ex-Texan, Global citizen. Law, Medicine, Sustainability, Languages. LongCovid since 2020."  --- **Danny Interrupted**  --- **Chris Dancy** Twitter Bio: "📢 Google"Most Connected" 🤖MindfulCyborg 🧙🏼‍♂️TechnoPagan 🧠NeuroDivergent 🏳️‍🌈NonBinary 📍Values first, technology second."   Honorable Mention:  --- **VioletD** Twitter Bio: "Back to the social media circus under cat alias. Here for `#Resistance`. Quiet observer who will pounce…also cat-like."  --- **Pete `#COVIDisAirborne`** Twitter Bio: "Chemistry. ChemEng. UK DIY filter team. Use shared air mitigations. High quality FFP2/3/N95 masks, ventilation, effective air filtration. `#Spaceshost`"  --- ## Illegal Laboratory Discovered in California Archive: <http://archive.today/GHofQ>  "Prestige Biotech, a Chinese medical company, operated an illegal laboratory in California where they bioengineered and infected almost 1,000 mice with diseases including HIV, E. Coli, malaria, and Covid-19." ## Military.com Publishing Articles Advocating for a "Limited Draft" Archive: <http://archive.today/TOd8h>  "It's time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military. Since 1775, our nation has used a combination of volunteers and draftees to meet our national defense personnel needs, especially in times of crisis. Today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war -- both of which ended unsuccessfully -- and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low. The fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we recruit." **Joe Plenzler** Joe's Twitter account said to "find him on LinkedIn." Archive: <https://archive.is/t2QGC>  Because he left in a post-Elon hissy fit…  So I did. Archive: <https://archive.is/x3fsF>  People Who Liked: > [!grid|masonry] >  >  > >  Comments:     Work History: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeplenzler/details/experience/> ## Military.com Ghost of Kyiv Revisit Archive: <http://archive.today/tRXn1>  > ""The Ghost of Kyiv," however, is almost certainly a myth, albeit an incredibly useful one as Ukraine tries to rally its citizens to resist Russian conquest." > "On Feb. 25, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine stoked the rumors by tweeting that "The Ghost of Kyiv" may be one of the reserve pilots who returned to fight after the Russian invasion. > > "Dozens of experienced military pilots, from captain to general, previously released from the reserve, are returning to the Air Force," the ministry tweeted. "Who knows, maybe one of them is the pilot of the MiG-29, which is so often seen by the people of Kyiv!""  ---  --- # Keep Digging %%Space%% ## Tags #Stream/BDE ### Footnotes & References