Although making Apple Jack or other liquor with the process of Cold Distillation may be a subject that doesn't belong in the Survival and Sustainability forum, like in my previous threads on wine and beer making, I would put forth that alcohol is fundamental in regard to a number of uses.

Now, putting that aside, I went from my Wild Berry Wine and IPA beer made entirely from scratch from the most basic brewing methods to an apple wine made from deer bait apples. That worked up really well and the alcohol percentage was really good, but the fermented apple smell and taste was barely tolerable or at best an acquired taste for someone who just wants to get drunk.

So I had thought about getting the still out and distilling the near 5 gallons of apple wine when I remembered my first deer hunting experience at a deer camp where my buddy and I were drinking Apple Jack made from hard cider. That's when I was introduced to the cold method of distillation. You freeze the hard cider solid, let it thaw slightly then pour out the alcohol leaving most of the water behind in the jug.

A gallon of my apple wine produced about a shot of high proof alcohol when poured off of the frozen block. After I let it thaw about 15-20 minutes I got about a cup and a half of something more like a strong brandy level of proof. But, what amazed me is that not only did the flavor improve enough to be drinkable, but it retained it's mild carbonation as it was still working a little.

I can see this as being a way to distill oils or aromatics for medicinal uses. Maybe I can extract menthol from mints and wintergreen or oils from medicinal plants. Perhaps flavors can be extracted this way also. I need to look into this more and see what this process can do.

Things do not bode well when of all leaders, an ally, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) openly expresses on the Biden regime saying the United States cannot talk about human rights with Julian Assange detained, cartel violence and with Joe Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, or democracy while arresting the leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Translated from Spanish:

Quote:AMLO will not grant subsidies for Tesla's investment in Mexico

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador revealed that, in a couple of calls he had with Elon Musk, he warned him that his government will not grant a 50 percent subsidy to install lithium battery plants to supply Tesla's gigafactory but may grant him another type of comparative advantages such as the quality of the labor force and natural resources.

AMLO defends Trump from the alleged crime for which he will be arrested

López Obrador suggested that the crime for which former President Donald Trump said he would be arrested this Tuesday is "manufactured" so that he cannot participate in the elections that will take place in the United States next year.

"If it were so, then everyone would know why we are not sucking our thumbs so that it does not appear on the ballot and if I say this it is because I suffered from the fabrication of a crime because they did not want me to be a candidate and that is completely undemocratic because the people are not allowed to be the ones to decide”, he accused.

AMLO calls the US a 'liar' for a report that points to human rights abuses in Mexico

"It is not true, they are lying, it is pure politicking, with all due respect, it is that it is their nature, they do not want to abandon the Monroe Doctrine and before the so-called Manifest Destiny, they do not want to change, so they believe they are the government of the world, they assume themselves as the government of the world and they only see the mote in the eye of others and not the beam in their own but it is not to get angry is that they are like that, just to say that it is not true that they are liars but that they are not going to take it to heart either wrong, ”he launched those responsible for the report.

López Obrador ruled out that there are significant human rights abuses in Mexico, as indicated in the Annual Report on Human Rights in the world prepared by the United States Department of State.

“It is as if we were evaluating them here: Hey, why don't you free Julian Assange, if you are talking about journalism and freedom, why are you holding him prisoner? If you talk about acts of violence, how is it that an award-winning journalist in the United States assures that the United States government sabotaged the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe? And so, why is a cartel or several cartels that distribute the fentanyl that does so much harm to young people in that country allowed to operate in the United States? ”, He criticized.

Quote:Today, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Joseph R. Biden, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City for the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS). The leaders are determined to fortify our region’s security, prosperity, sustainability and inclusiveness through commitments across six pillars: 1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development; 5) health; and 6) regional security.

Sounds as if they are dragging out the arrest news over multiple weeks...same as they did with the FBEYE raid at Mar A Logo
in my inexperienced opinion 



https://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-trump-...40283.html


MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER
Wed, March 22, 2023 at 12:32 PM EDT·2 min read
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors postponed a scheduled grand jury session Wednesday in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign, at least temporarily slowing a decision on whether to charge the ex-president.
The postponement was confirmed by four people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name. The grand jurors were told to be on standby for Thursday, another day when the New York panel has been meeting in recent weeks.
When the grand jurors next meet, they may hear from yet another witness, according to a person familiar with proceedings that appear to be nearing a decisive vote on whether or not to indict Trump.
The panel has been probing Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied the claim, insisted he did nothing wrong and assailed the investigation, led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as politically motivated.
Wednesday's abrupt development, which a person familiar with the matter said was not connected to security concerns, came amid growing anticipation that Trump could soon be charged. Grand jury proceedings are shrouded in secrecy, making it hard to predict with certainty what action might be taken and when.
As the panel has been hearing from final witnesses, Trump has contended his arrest is imminent and law enforcement officials have accelerated security preparations in the event of unrest accompanying an unprecedented charge against a former U.S. president.

Been wanting to point out this site strategypage.com it's run by Jim Dunningan the guy the did the "Dirty Little Secrets of" WWII and Vietnam among other books. Though the site is a bit clunky it has decent content and it's the same no-nonsense 
concise balanced style.


War and sanctions hit Russia's space program

Roscosmos Dies In Ukraine
 The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February resulted in severe economic sanctions on Russia which the Russian government was collecting less money for national programs. Military spending took priority, but that did not extend to the Russian space program. This became evident six months after the invasion when Russia confirmed that it was not withdrawing from the ISS (International Space Station) program by 2024 but would scale back its support because of the economic sanctions. That means other members of the ISS consortium will have to provide the transportation services to and from the space station. The Americans are already doing that via the SpaceX passenger and cargo capsules. Other American and European firms have developed similar capabilities. Currently the ISS is supposed to remain operational until 2030.
Even without the sanctions the Russian space program (Roscosmos) was in financial trouble, and sanctions only added to the many problems the Russian space program has had in the last decade. Roscosmos is responsible for maintaining the Russian GPS (GLONASS) satellites as well as all other military communications and surveillance satellites. Roscosmos has been receiving between $3.4 billion and $3.9 a year. This also has to cover the cost of maintaining the Plesetsk military launch site and other military related space program infrastructure. Roscosmos also handles commercial launches at the old Soviet Baikonur launch center in Kazakhstan. Russia rents this site from Kazakhstan and has fallen behind in rent payments. In response Kazakhstan seized Roscosmos assets at Baikonur. Russia is not getting foreign commercial launch business because of the sanctions. Because of the Ukraine war sanction, Russia has less cash in general and can’t even muster enough troops to threaten Kazakhstan. There is also a problem with Russia referring to Kazakhstan as one of many areas, like Ukraine, that should be absorbed back into Russia. Kazakhstan agrees with Ukraine on that issue and is standing up to Russia to show its determination.
The current Russian government wants to eliminate all cooperation with Western nations (the United States and Europe). Roscosmos officials point out that is not economically possible or technically preferable.

Welcome to the future, where anything is possible and you never know what to believe. On one hand, you may be convinced we somehow assembled the original cast of The Matrix along side the ghost of Wilford Brimley to record one of the greatest rap covers of all time. On the other hand, you may find it more believable that we've been experimenting with AI voice trainers and lip flap technology in a way that will eventually open up some new doors for how we make videos. You have to admit, either option kind of rules.

Some clever advanced logarithmic optical and vocal manipulation...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles...party.html

Quote:March 21, 2023
Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party
By Steve McCann


The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson.  It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws.  It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia.  Over the past 60 years, the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society.  The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point of birth and what was once considered deviancy.
The Democrat party’s two most exalted figureheads are the fervently racist Woodrow Wilson who set the Party on the path of undermining the Constitution in order to remold the United States into a “modern administrative state” (i.e., socialist) and Franklin Roosevelt who was enamored with and utilized Fascist principles in his “New Deal” thus permanently embedding them in the Party’s psyche.
An unemotional examination of the underlying philosophies and the tactics the Nazi Party used to gain and maintain power reveals not just the common impulse to weaponize the judiciary to eradicate one’s political opponents (e.g., Donald Trump) but numerous other similarities between the Nazis and the Democrat party that cannot be ignored.  Here are eight uncomfortable dimensions of that resemblance.
First, racial and ethnic division was a central component of Nazi political strategy and philosophy.  The Nazi Party was the most racially obsessed political party in human history.  Today’s Democrat party is second only to the Nazi Party in their racial obsession.   Every piece of legislation, every accusation against their opponents, every aspect of American society, even weather and climate are framed in imaginary racism.  
The Nazi Party’s obsession focused on their perverted belief in the inferiority and superiority of the races or ethnicities.  This opened the door for blaming a specific ethnic group for all the problems facing their country.   The Democrat party is claiming the root cause of virtually all problems facing this nation is “systemic racism” as theoretically instigated by one particular race.
The Nazis used “fake news,” as does the Democrat party, in order to slice and dice the populace into identity groups and then promulgate grievance-riddled policies aimed at these manufactured factions in order to foment anger at a previously isolated group.  Which for the Nazis were the Jews; and for the Democrat party, white heterosexual Christians and Jews.
Second, In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazi Party relied on street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to project power through intimidation while blaming others for the violence.  Their ability to terrorize the citizenry and national political leadership played a major role in their ascendance to power as they promised peace and impartial justice if elected.  Almost immediately upon assuming the reins of government, they transformed the judicial system into a vehicle of oppression directed their political foes and the Jews while their allies were not prosecuted for any criminal activity.
The Democrat party revealed in the summer of 2020 that they, too, have the wherewithal and inclination to acquiesce to street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy and police brutality for the violence.   In the presidential campaign of 2020, the Democrat party implicitly promised peace and impartial justice if elected.  Almost immediately upon assuming the reins of government, they transformed the Justice Department into a vehicle of oppression directed at their political foes, Donald Trump and all Constitutional conservatives, while their allies were either not prosecuted or treated extraordinarily leniently. 

Third, in January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.  Within four weeks a mysterious, and in all likelihood staged, fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which the Nazis blamed on Communist agitators as their opening salvo in a violent coup.  Using this pretext, the Nazis rushed to arrest and harshly prosecute selected elements of their political adversaries, thus intimidating the balance.  They also forced through the Reichstag the Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year.   This law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Nazis could win future elections. 
The Democrat party seized upon in all likelihood a setup disturbance at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an “armed insurrection” and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by Trump, his supporters and white supremacists.  Using this pretext, the Democrats rushed to arrest and harshly prosecute those in attendance in order to intimidate their political enemies.   In the footsteps of the Nazi Party, the Democrats immediately pushed to pass the For The People Act, which would have overturned virtually all existing voter laws, embedded the Democrats as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Democrats could win future elections. 
Fourth, antisemitism was a foundational principle of Nazism.  Antisemitism, through the Democrats’ nine-decade alliance with the Ku Klux Klan, has long been foundational in the Democrat party.  Today, many elected Democrats openly denigrate the state of Israel, glorify the Palestinian terrorists, and claim that Jews are disloyal.  Thus, fomenting an exponential increase in anti-Jewish attacks in America’s major cities.
Meanwhile, virtually the entire Democrat hierarchy bows at the feet of America’s most virulent antisemite, Louis Farrakhan, who has referred to Judaism as the “religion of Satan” and Adolf Hitler as “a very great man.”   This obeisance to Farrakhan and his ilk is concordant with the mindless acceptance of unbridled antisemitism by the hierarchy of the Nazi Party in the mid-to-late 1920’s.
Fifth, the Nazi Party was fixated on censorship and eliminating any cultural institution, publication or speech that did not fully support them.  Further, per socialist dogma, they were determined to destroy the family structure, replacing it with the state.   The Nazis were notorious for book-burning rituals to intimidate and send the message that they would shut down anyone and anything that did not align with their ideology.  Once in control of the national levers of powers, they did so with impunity particularly in the education sector whose revised primary purpose was to brainwash the youth.    
The Democrat Party is figuratively burning books as it uses social media mobs as the vehicle to send the message that they will shut down anyone or anything that does not align with their ideology.  Further, they, in league with the teachers’ unions, are hellbent on programming America’s youth and destroying the family structure replacing it with the state.
Sixth, the Nazis perfected the art of indoctrinating the citizenry through propaganda and “fake news.”  Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, is credited with saying: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”    
This strategy has been and continues to be used to great success by the Democrat party and their fellow travelers in the so-called mainstream media.  Whether it is the Russian collusion hoax, the so-called armed insurrection on January 6, 2021, climate change as an existential threat to mankind, suppression of voting rights, white supremacy running rampant, the necessity of lockdowns for the Covid pandemic or a myriad of other fabrications, the Party hierarchy lies with impunity as a means to their ends… as did the Nazis.
Seventh, the Nazis, true to socialist ideology, preyed on class envy to stoke tensions and resentment as they blamed the Jews and wealthy capitalists for their nation’s economic woes.   The Democrat party hierarchy began in 2009 blaming so-called “white supremacy” together with their century-old tactic of blaming wealthy capitalists for income and economic inequality in order to foment class envy and resentment. 
But the similarity does not end there.  In an extraordinary juxtaposition, the Nazis were able to vilify the wealthy and the industrialists while the subjects of their vitriol financed the Nazi Party.  Hitler assured the German corporate titans that, despite their rhetoric, the Nazis would leave them alone and award them lucrative contracts if they sustained the Party through massive financial support.  
The Democrat Party has established a similar rapport with the corporate establishment, in particular the finance and tech sectors.  In the belief that they will be left alone by the Democrat party, the American corporate elites have financed the party out to destroy capitalism.
Eighth, Hitler, after serving in World War I, was an avowed communist who eventually joined the National Socialist Party, later renamed the National Socialist Workers (NAZI) Party.  He did so because it was larger and also espoused Marxism/socialism.  Influenced by Mussolini and his Fascist Party, in the 1920s the National Socialist Party adopted extreme nationalism and government-controlled capitalism as a part of their foundational Marxist/socialist underpinning.  
While flirting with it for a number of decades, in the latter half of the Twentieth Century the Democrat party began to fully embrace an American version of the Marxism/socialism that underpinned the NAZI Party.   Mark Levin in his seminal work American Marxism, lays out in detail this metamorphosis.  For all intents and purposes, the Democrat party could easily be renamed: The National Marxist/Socialist Party. 
The greatest threat to the survival of United States as founded is not offshore but within its borders: the Democrat party.

To use Chatgpt you have to register with an email and since I have a couple of emails I used the email of google which I never use for correspondence. I still felt weird as I might be entering the den of lions from some old movie. I got the CHAT to write or expand on some of the stories I have written before and after playing around I finally asked it to write a story about "When Aliens Arrive."

This is the story it came up with:

Quote:It was a normal day on Earth when suddenly, a strange object appeared in the sky. At first, people thought it was just a shooting star or some kind of experimental aircraft, but as it got closer, it became clear that something strange was happening.
The object landed in a remote area, and a team of scientists was quickly dispatched to investigate. When they arrived, they found that the object was not of earthly origin - it was a spacecraft, and it was occupied by creatures unlike anything they had ever seen before.
The creatures were humanoid in shape, but their skin was an iridescent shade of blue, and their eyes glowed with an otherworldly light. They communicated with the scientists using a strange language that was completely unintelligible, but through gestures and expressions, the scientists were able to communicate basic concepts.
The aliens seemed friendly enough, and the scientists were eager to learn more about them. They invited the aliens to come back to their base, and after a few hesitant moments, the aliens agreed.
As they entered the base, the aliens were amazed by what they saw. They marveled at the technology, the structures, and the various creatures that inhabited the base. They seemed to be curious about everything, and the scientists were more than happy to oblige them.
Over the course of the next few days, the scientists and the aliens spent countless hours communicating, learning, and exploring. The aliens showed the scientists amazing things, like holographic projections of their home planet and advanced medical technologies that could cure almost any ailment.
Eventually, the time came for the aliens to leave. The scientists said goodbye, and the aliens boarded their spacecraft and disappeared into the sky. But even though they were gone, their impact was felt across the world. People had seen their spacecraft, heard their stories, and realized that there was more to the universe than they had ever imagined.
In the years that followed, humanity would make great strides in science, technology, and space exploration. And all because of the day when the aliens arrived.

Quote:It was a sunny afternoon in a small town nestled in the hills of northern California when suddenly the sky grew dark. At first, people thought it was just a storm coming, but as they looked up, they saw something they could never have imagined. A massive spaceship, larger than anything they had ever seen, was descending from the sky. It hovered over the town, casting an eerie shadow over everything below. People were terrified, and some began to run for cover. Others stood frozen, staring up at the ship in disbelief. As the ship landed, a door slowly opened, and a bright light shone out. Everyone shielded their eyes as a figure emerged from the ship. It was unlike anything they had ever seen before. The being had large, black eyes, a small mouth, and an elongated body. For a moment, there was silence as the being looked around at the stunned crowd. Then it began to speak, but the words were not in any language the humans had ever heard before. The being pointed to a device on its wrist and pressed a button. Suddenly, a holographic image appeared in the air, showing the being speaking English. "Greetings, humans," the being said. "We come in peace. We have traveled a great distance to make contact with your species." The crowd was still in shock, but slowly they began to approach the being. It explained that it was part of a peaceful alien race that had been observing Earth for many years. They had detected signals that indicated the humans were ready to make contact, and so they had come to initiate a dialogue.

Some of these might surprise you https://toplawyer.law/celebrity-mugshots...y-Mugshots

Boeing produces over FORTY  B-737 airplanes a month!  That's about one every 18 hours!  How do they do it?  A train arrives with the fuselage (main body section) in the morning. That starts a moving production line process that results in a completed plane, ready for flight testing, about 18 hours later. This 3 1⁄2 minute video - (yes, the motions of the humans and robots who build the plane are speeded up) - that shows the entire process, is truly fascinating. Pilots and engineers will especially enjoy it... but so will anyone who flies!

IMO a great thought provoking video about cultural words