VDH, an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator, explained to British journalist Piers Morgan on his "Piers Morgan Uncensored" podcast how Trump was able to take away voters from the Democrat Party and "middle America," and soundly defeat Harris and her stubborn adherence to identity politics (emphasis, mine).
He was able, for the first time in my lifetime, to replace racial tribalism with class solidarity ... and that’s what they do not want to confront. In other words, he said to people, 'If you're a Mexican-American truck driver, if you're a black electrician, if you're a poor white carpenter, you have more in common with each other than you do with your elites on the bicoastal, domain.' //
And that's what they do not want to confront, because that's the keystone of the Democratic Party. Victim, victimization, victimizers oppressor, oppressed. And they have this kind of Marxist binary. And people don't buy into it, and especially minorities don't buy it. //
GBenton Chelan Jim
11 hours ago
Yes, the degree to which they tried to destroy him is the degree to which he is an existential threat. Their entire success was based on a lie. And he did the ONE thing that threatened to tear it all down: tell the truth. The amazing thing is it took their demonization of him and his refusal to go away that eventually proved his point: they are the threat to democracy.
He said that all along but it took the past 10 years to show it in real time and finally enough people got red pilled.
The right/left paradigm has been turned upside down. It's really not that meaningful. The Uniparty divided us along party lines and kept themselves in power. Trump took a populist approach and is forming a coalition based on what we agree about rather than where we disagree.
The obstacle is that the nation is still highly divided and the Machine won't die easily. The Uniparty knows how to gum up the works.
BUT sunlight disinfects. The thing they can't survive is exposure. Since Trump cannot afford to let them rise back to power or we're all screwed, he has to expose their secrets. In doing so, he'll further vindicate his case and more people will reject the Democrat party as they wake up to decades of lies.
Politics as usual is over. It's not about retribution, it's about exposing why nothing has made sense for decades and how the two parties kept us losing rights and the Overton Window shifted to the brink of our destruction.
He can't be a dictator and wipe away everything in his way, they know that. BUT he can utterly destroy their ability to lie to the people and build a coaltion they cannot defeat in fair elections. //
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That is the challenge, for sure. But if you look at the collapse in rating of Hollywood and TV and corporations that go woke, the left is weaker than they appear. X.com has 10x the reach as the MSM.
I think Trump won bigger than it appeared. States with no voter ID cheated, as always, and most fo the counties in this country moved right. If they couldn't cheat in the high population center cities, what would they really have?
We're about to find out. This is an information war right now and not a shooting war, thankfully.
And their exposed flank is all their dirty secrets and lies.
My assumption is that Trump will hit that flank with disclosure of who and what they really are and simultaneously secure our elections and deport illegals so they can no longer stay in power illegitimately.
And they have almost no defense against that attack because it's all true and they are criminals.
You know what I think will be the exposures that sink a whole lot of them all at once?
Espstein and Diddy. Americans might argue over policy or unions or whatever, but no one will tolerate pedophiles. Plus the cartels and human trafficking and drugs. How many in the Elite are tied up in one or more of those things?
The depravity of the left will be its undoing.
While Gottlieb has the right to talk to as many senators as he wishes, I would suggest that his talk of a polio epidemic is more to scare than enlighten them. His real fear is that RFK, Jr., will upset the comfy, one-hand-washes-the-other that exists between regulators and regulated industries and the high-paying revolving door that shuttles regulators to regulated industries and then back to regulatory agencies. //
anon-89ic
13 hours ago
More likely than not, childhood vaccination rates are vastly lower than reported. As I've said many times, I never had those shots because the adverse reactions scared my doctors in the early 1970s, and my kids' pediatrician in the 90s never questioned the decision about whether or not to vaccinate our kids. Vaccination rates have dropped precipitously because so many parents don't trust the FDA. that's why Bobby's efforts, if they restore confidence in the FDA, may bolster vaccination rates, not lower them. Gottlieb is on the dark side and can't be trusted. //
jdquick
11 hours ago
The only thing I got to say is follow the money. Big Pharma is running scared and my bet is that they are spending millions on senators to kill RFK Jr's nomination. He will make them pay for what they have done to this country and they want to keep the gravy train rolling......for their fake vaccines and medicine for every little ache you have. Also, the medical community has probably chipped in a bunch because they follow their masters in big pharma.. //
Yoganana QueenieAnne
3 hours ago
Chicken pox vax is definitely one which cost benefit analysis needs to be done. we used to have chicken pox parties to get the disease immunity. You are correct that the epidemic of shingles is due to lack of community re exposure to chicken pox since the vaccine.
The pertussis ( whooping cough) vax does not prevent transmission, My sister and I had it after being vaxxed.
Measles may have some serious consequences: measles encephalitis, and other disabilities. But….what is the track record on the vaccination preventing it?
India saw an epidemic of polio cases resulting in some deaths and paralysis after Gates ran his polio vaccine program. India stopped the program and kicked him out.
Babies are routinely given the hepatitis vax in the nursery. What is their risk factor? Definitely stay away from HPV VAX, ( gardisil.) pediatricians are recommending it as part of the schedule for 11 year olds! It has had some severe disabling results.
RFK Jf is not eliminating vaccines. He is calling for an honest and thorough review of the literature and evaluation based on adverse events versus benefits.
Not even trying
Here in the UK HMRC will spend that on creating a 4 page document outlining its strategy to publish a statement of intent showing a roadmap to publish detailed steps in formulating a high level view of the processes involved in changing the shade of green on the logo and its environmental, cultural and social impact. These Indians aren't even trying to waste money.
The Voyager probes have entered a new phase of operations. As recent events have shown, keeping the venerable spacecraft running is challenging as the end of their mission nears.
As with much of the Voyager team nowadays, Kareem Badaruddin, a 30-year veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), divides his time between the twin Voyager spacecraft and other flight projects. He describes himself as a supervisor of chief engineers but leaped at the chance to fill the role on the Voyager project. //
With physical hardware long gone, the team has an array of simulators. "We have a very clear understanding of the hardware," said Badaruddin. "We know exactly what the circuitry is, what the computers are, and where the software runs."
And the software? It's complicated.
There have been so many tweaks and changes over the years that working out the exact revision of every part of Voyager's code is tricky. "It's usually easier to just get a memory readout from the spacecraft to find out what's on there," said Badaruddin.
We're sure there are more than a few engineers on Earth who are not entirely sure what their systems are running. The challenge for the Voyager team is that the spacecraft are nearing the half-century mark, as is the documentation. //
The Voyager spacecraft are unlikely to survive another decade. The power will eventually dwindle to the point where operations will be impossible. High data rates (relatively speaking – Voyager's high data rate is 1.4 kilobits per second) will only be supported by the current Deep Space Network (DSN) until 2027 or 2028. After that, some more creativity will be needed to operate Voyager 1's digital tape recorder.
Badaruddin speculates that shutting off another heater (the Bay One heater) used for the computers would free up power for the recorder, according to the thermal model, but it'll be a delicate balancing act. //
Badaruddin hopes to stick with the mission until the final transmission from the spacecraft.
"I love Voyager. I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool. It just feels like I've got the best job at JPL." ®. //
The Farthest
The Farthest is an excellent documentary on Voyager produced by a friend of mine, Clare Stronge.
Watch it here - https://youtu.be/1g6uFe3vZE0?si=BIQR-GjLt1E2a4Xh
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So, 2TB micro SD cards are how much volume? I am not sure what's novel here - or is it the WORM nature of the feat?
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Using the bounding box dimensions for a MicroSD card (15x11x1mm) gives a volume of 0.165 cm3, so with 2TB per card now, that gives 12.1TB/cm3...
..which, quite frankly, is insane. I mean, even being able to shovel 2TB of data onto something the size of a fingernail still blows my mind, but the thought of being able to store 12TB in the space taken up by a sugar cube or a D6, when it really wasn't all that long ago being able to store even 1GB on a 3.5" hard drive was every bit as mind blowing at the time, really does make me stop and think about just how far we've come in such a short period of time, and what sort of similar mind blowing technological advances are yet to come over the next few decades.
SpaceX has unlocked an impressive achievement – 400 launches of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
The launch on November 27 at 0441 UTC was to deploy another batch of 24 Starlink satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 took off from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, and the booster landed successfully on SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, marking the 375th booster landing. //
117 of the 400 Falcon 9 launches were conducted in 2024 alone, and it is likely the company could achieve 136 total launches this year if things go according to plan. //
Male bovine excrement.
...it's difficult not to connect the company's breathtaking launch pace and acceleration with the emergence of some quality issues...
A 0.495% (99.505% success) chance of loss of cargo is phenomenal—Soyuz has launched 1800 times, and has a ~5% chance of failure. The recent incidents aren't quality issues. Space is hard. The fact that SpaceX's teams have achieved this reliability is a testament to their gold-standard quality control practices.
Re: Male bovine excrement.
They have probably learnt from Richard Feynman's statement regarding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, when he compared the NASA management's estimation of the catastrophic failure rate of the spacecraft with the engineers' estimates:
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinions to the probability a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from working engineers, and the very low figures come from management. What are the causes and consequences of this lack of agreement? Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could launch a shuttle every day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask, "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"
(From Appendix F: Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle, in 'What do you care what other people think?'.)
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SpaceX has made space look ... easy. Which, of course, it still isn't. But their achievements really cannot be underestimated - they have rewritten the book. Far and away Musk's most interesting company, although he obviously doesn't deserve all the credit. He certainly employs some stellar engineers. I'll always remember the first demo launch of Crew Dragon in 2020 - such an incredible thing, seeing that uber-slick capsule and those uber-slick suits, cruising up to space like a bus ride to town. One of the few highlights of lockdown!
In a case of an oft-overlooked food preparation risk, a 40-year-old man showed up to an allergy clinic in Texas with a severe, burning rash on both his hands that had developed two days earlier. A couple of days later, it blistered. And a few weeks after that, the skin darkened and scaled. After several months, the skin on his hands finally returned to normal.
The culprit: lime juice and sunlight.
It turns out that just before developing the nasty skin eruption, the man had manually squeezed a dozen limes, then headed to an outdoor soccer game without applying sunscreen. His doctors diagnosed the man's rash as a classic case of phytophotodermatitis, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The condition is caused by toxic substances found in plants (phyto) that react with UV light (photo) to cause a burning, blistering, scaling, pigmented skin condition (dermatitis).
Specifically, the toxic chemicals are furocoumarins, which are found in some weeds and also a range of plants used in food. Those include celery, carrot, parsley, fennel, parsnip, lime, bitter orange, lemon, grapefruit, and sweet orange. Furocoumarins include chemicals with linear structures, psoralens, and angular structures, called angelicins, though not all of them are toxic.
Furocoumarins can enter skin cells, and for those that are phototoxic, become activated by exposure to ultraviolet light. The light causes the chemicals to form cross-linking bonds with the pyrimidine bases in DNA. This ties the double-stranded genetic material together, halting replication, which in turn leads to cell death and inflammation. //
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I am just curious...did he squeeze a bunch of limes then not wash his hands? Is it as simple as wash places contacted by vegetables or this could happen to you? Or is this something we are just always rolling the dice on and there i no simple way to keep it from happening except to stay out of the sun?
Did a little googling out of curiosity:
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It takes between 30 to 120 minutes before psoralen is absorbed into your skin. If you can wash it off before it has time to absorb, you can prevent the chemical reaction to the sun.
Bartenders that work outdoors apparently call it "margarita burn" as a trade risk. //
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Wash your hands and apply sunscreen! There are plenty of other reasons why sunscreen is a good idea above and beyond preventing this kind of horribleness.
A scathing new report claims that the Biden administration's Department of Education's (ED) enforcement actions were focused at least 70 percent on Christian and career-based schools, even though they represent less than 10 percent of the students in the nation. This uncovers an unseen campaign that persisted over the administration's term and can hardly be seen as impartial.
Musicman
13 hours ago
So much for the Constitutional Right to face your accuser. If true, this is the cherry on top that proves beyond all doubt that Merrick Garland is a partisan hack. Thank God he didn’t make it to the Supreme Court.
NavyVet Musicman
13 hours ago
"no one cares about this anymore"?
I do. This is a deliberate and malicious swipe at the president-elect, hence an effort to divide and harm our country. It is an indicted ham sandwich, selectively packaged "evidence" that buries all exculpatory evidence.
It angers me, and it calls for a thorough investigation by a trustworthy special counsel. I nominate Sidney Powell. Let that bulldog go after those scumbags and ruin their lives, just like they have been doing to Trump and everyone close to him. //
GreenLanternMD Largo Patriot
12 hours ago
If they had anything persuasive, they would have released it before the election. //
emptypockets
11 hours ago
"full of sound and fury signifying nothing".
Incoming AG Bondi should respond, not Trump. She should begin by noting--clearly and loudly that Smith was an illegally appointed SC. Remind that many others also "mishandled classified docs" including Biden who treated them like a pack rat stashing shinies. Ones he never HAD any right to have while ALL Trump's were his to legally remove as POTUS.
Then she could add that she would be doing some deep cleaning, reviewing of records which should be carefully NOT "lost" or heads might indeed roll sooner than even she expected.
This is sore loser-itis highly inflamed. Maybe someone still loves them enough to give them an ointment for that. Not me, though.
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This is heartbreaking. A 10-year-old boy was rescued by Texas State Troopers after he crossed the border on Thanksgiving Day. He was abandoned by smugglers in the middle of nowhere.
Where is @AOC and her little sullen, puppy dog eye photo-ops for this little boy?
9:54 AM · Nov 29, 2024.
Democrats owe this boy an apology.
"They left me alone," he tells authorities through a quivering voice.
Not only was he abandoned by the smugglers, but he's been abandoned by the very party that, for years, pretended to champion the cause of children brought to the United States illegally. There has not been one Democrat politician who has commented on this video as of yet. Not one person who previously cried their little crocodile tears over fake stories of 'kids in cages' spoke up in support of this poor, young child. //
It's odd how there was also radio silence from the 'but the children' Democrats earlier this week, when a two-year-old girl from El Salvador was found alone at the US border in Maverick County, Texas.
This child was clutching a piece of paper with a name and phone number, telling police she was there to find her parents, who reportedly already live in the United States.
She was among a group of over 200 illegal immigrants, including 60 unaccompanied minors, detained after crossing the border. //
Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, himself grew emotional when discussing the two-year-old found alone at the border.
“That is an example of what I’ve been saying for the last few years, that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime,” Homan told the New York Post.
He added,
“People always ask, ‘Why do you get so emotional when you’re on Fox News, why do you get so emotional when you’re testifying to Congress and start yelling?’ It’s because I’ve seen more tragedies in 34 years than I can stomach. I’ve held dying children and I’ve helped dead children."
Nobody on the left helped. Nobody has even said a word. //
OrneryCoot
3 hours ago
I want the Democrats that let this happen or championed it to have to wander with only a piece of paper and the clothes on their backs throughout the wilderness in that area with no guide, and certainly no help from Border Patrol, who they despise and want to dismantle. Maybe the ones that made it out alive could knock sense into the rest of their ilk. Inclusion and equity, you know?
Iran thundered in apocalyptic prose: Israel will be destroyed! Death to America! Destroy the infidels! Kill the Jews! The future is ours!
General Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, smugly told the media, “Iran’s response to the Zionist aggression is definite. We are capable of destroying all that the Zionists possess with one operation.”
At least, Fadavi felt that way on October 31, when he issued that statement. Since then, America had a pretty big presidential election. (You might’ve heard about it.) But if you haven’t, here’s the highlight: The crazy, scary Orange Man is back in the saddle.
And suddenly, Iran’s singing a dramatically different tune.
It was released on Thanksgiving Day, so most people probably didn’t see it, but The New York Times released a fascinating story yesterday: “With Trump Returning and Hezbollah Weakened, Iran Strikes a Conciliatory Tone.”
The sub-header: “As Iran faces domestic and foreign challenges, its bellicose rhetoric on the United States and Israel has given way to signs that it wants less confrontation.”
The contrast is striking: Just weeks earlier, Iran was vowing to utterly eviscerate its enemies. No compromises, no exceptions! And remarkably, the world was largely falling into line: Biden even pressured America’s allies to “respond in proportion” to Iranian missile attacks on civilian targets.
But after Election Day? Even The New York Times noted the Iranian sea change:
In mid-November, Iran dispatched a top official to Beirut to urge Hezbollah to accept a cease-fire with Israel. Around the same time, Iran’s U.N. ambassador met with Elon Musk, as overture to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inner circle. And on Friday, it will hold talks in Geneva with European countries on a range of issues, including its nuclear program.
Get ready for the money quote:
Five Iranian officials, one of them a Revolutionary Guards member, and two former officials said the decision to recalibrate was prompted by Mr. Trump winning the Nov. 5 election, with concerns about an unpredictable leader who, in his first term, pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran. [emphasis added]
During the Nixon years, we called it the madman theory: When foreign adversaries cannot predict the actions of a “mad” U.S. president, they’re suddenly risk-adverse. It’s a very old idea: Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in 1517 that sometimes, it’s “a very wise thing to simulate madness.”
But there’s nothing “mad” about it.
All nations make risk-reward calculations. //
Flawed worldviews lead to flawed results.
Iran isn’t motivated by insecurity; Iran is motivated by self-interest. When you’re not a superpower, your actions aren’t driven by utopian ideals, but risk-reward calculations: How much can we get away with before the cost is too great?
During the Obama-Biden-Harris years, they read the numbers one way. With Trump, it’s an entirely different calculation.
It’s not just morning again in America: It’s morning again in the Middle East, too.
We should never forget that the Plymouth colony was headed straight for oblivion under a communal, socialist plan but saved itself when it embraced something very different.
In the diary of the colony’s first governor, William Bradford, we can read about the settlers’ initial arrangement: Land was held in common. Crops were brought to a common storehouse and distributed equally. For two years, every person had to work for everybody else (the community), not for themselves as individuals or families. Did they live happily ever after in this socialist utopia?
Hardly. The “common property” approach killed off about half the settlers. Governor Bradford recorded in his diary that everybody was happy to claim their equal share of production, but production only shrank. Slackers showed up late for work in the fields, and the hard workers resented it. It’s called “human nature.”
The disincentives of the socialist scheme bred impoverishment and conflict until, facing starvation and extinction, Bradford altered the system. He divided common property into private plots, and the new owners could produce what they wanted and then keep or trade it freely.
Communal socialist failure was transformed into private property/capitalist success, something that’s happened so often historically it’s almost monotonous. The “people over profits” mentality produced fewer people until profit—earned as a result of one’s care for his own property and his desire for improvement—saved the people.
We have all heard of the Mayflower Compact, the set of laws that all agreed to live by, But it included something else. Before the Pilgrims left Holland, they needed to fund the trip. They found sponsors who would do just that. But their merchant sponsors in London and Holland required that the Pilgrims agree that everything they produced went into a common store, a common bank, and every family would be entitled to one share of the common store.
So, the Pilgrims got down to the business of living life in the New World. They cleared land, and they grew crops. The other part of the story we have heard was of the Pilgrims' first winter. Nearly half of them died of starvation, sickness, and exposure. The group's leader, William Bradford, who later became the governor of the colony, realized early on that the whole "common store" idea was a huge failure. He decided to scrap that portion of the Mayflower Compact and came up with another idea.
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The Pilgrims' Abolition of Socialism (Photo Credit: Jenny A. Brownscombe) William Bradford delivered the Pilgrims from the ills of socialism to a healthy culture of economic freedom based upon individual property rights.
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Even though they didn't call it socialism or capitalism back then, the Pilgrims soon figured out that a common bank and collectivism were not going to work. It was only when they implemented the incentive to work and invest themselves in the land that they became prosperous, and it benefitted themselves and the Indians.
Makes you wonder, if we have only heard the "official" story of Thanksgiving for this long, what else have we only heard the "official" story of? //
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I looked forward to Rush Limbaugh telling us the true story of Thanksgiving every year. Let’s keep it going.
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Currently, the Navy has more admirals than ships.
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The U.S. Navy has more Admirals than ships, yet it can’t keep the Red Sea open or deliver new ships on time.
So, how do Navy Admirals spend their time? World travel to 4-star hotels!
Here's their Nov conference list
P.S. The list for Army & Air Force Generals is even longer.
8:08 AM · Nov 8, 2024. //
It's a good thing that he is not a creature of the Navy hierarchy and is not beholden to the military-industrial complex for his next gig. I can't be convinced that either of those groups cares much about winning wars and protecting America. //
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There is a clear pattern in President-elect Trump's cabinet picks: they have proven successful in competitive real-world endeavors, based on merit.
This is a sharp contrast to the last four years, where power was given for pure political reasons, with nary a real success among them.
Because these are not isolated producers swimming in a sea of political incompetence, they will be a force to be reckoned with. //
NavyVet DukeUSA
7 hours ago
My point has nothing to do with the Navy per se, what I am observing is the overall theme of his cabinet picks: proven winners, willing to approach government like a business, rather than corrupt political wrangling. //
Douglas Proudfoot
8 hours ago
There is no accountability for failure in the flag officer ranks of the US Military. The British famously executed failed Admiral John Byng in 1757, to, as Voltaire put it in "Candide," encourage the other admirals. Britania ruled the waves for about 180 years after the execution. In the US, a flag officer's failure on the battlefield or in weapons procurement should, at the very least, lead to retirement after a reduction in grade, at the lower grade. The president should see this done as Commander in Chief. If not, the Senate can refuse to confirm retirement as a 3 or 4 star flag officer. Right now, morale is low. Nobody respects senior leadership, because they take no responsibility even for obvious failure. This has to change. Rewarding failure means we'll get a lot more of it.
Me=USAF Systems Analyst Officer 1972-1976, Meritorious Service Medal 1976. //
anon-x1lc
7 hours ago
Congress's lack of a proper budget since Pres Bush have done great harm to the Navy. Continuing resolutions screw everything up. Can't budget for 5 and 10 years out for repair and refit. Plus the DEI cluster fark didn't help. FOcus on social engineering instead of competent leadership also screws things up. Cpt allowing a Starlink Sat antenna on her ship tels me the leadership is FUBAR and incompetent. If the command doesn't notice an extra antenna bolted on the side of the superstructure, they are complete idiots.
When it first appeared in their radar images, NASA scientist Chad Greene and his team of engineers weren’t sure what they were seeing.
Flying above northern Greenland in a Gulfstream III in April of this year, Greene and his crew were monitoring radar information collected from the ice sheet below when, about 150 miles east of Pituffik Space Base—formerly Thule Air Base and still the northernmost installation operated by the U.S. Armed Forces—they spotted something unexpected.
The aircraft’s radar system had detected some kind of structure buried beneath the ice.
“We didn’t know what it was at first,” recalled cryospheric scientist Alex Gardner with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In the radar imagery, what appeared to be a massive structure had been revealed deep beneath the frozen landscape.
“We were looking for the bed of the ice,” Gardner said, “and out pops Camp Century.” //
A remote U.S. military base once used as a top-secret testing site for the deployment of nuclear missiles from the Arctic, Camp Century was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959. Remaining in use for less than a decade, the base was decommissioned after just eight years and abandoned beneath Greenland’s frozen landscape.
Also known as the “city under the ice,” this forgotten Cold War relic consists of a network of tunnels hewn into the near-surface portions of the ice sheet. Today, the remnants of the secretive base lay hidden beneath close to 100 feet of snow and ice that have continued to accumulate since it was decommissioned. //
Although the radar imagery obtained in April by Greene and Gardner could prove useful in terms of ongoing monitoring of such threats as melting continues, the researchers said the images of this forgotten vestige of the Cold War they obtained occurred entirely by chance.
“Our goal was to calibrate, validate, and understand the capabilities and limitations of UAVSAR for mapping the ice sheet’s internal layers and the ice-bed interface,” Greene said.
“Without detailed knowledge of ice thickness, it is impossible to know how the ice sheets will respond to rapidly warming oceans and atmosphere, greatly limiting our ability to project rates of sea level rise,” Gardner added.
Fulton County failed to follow the legal requirement to compare the total number of votes recorded with the total number of people who cast ballots, according to Fulton County Board of Elections member Julie Adams and another person who requested anonymity. //
Except Fulton County never did any of this, according to Adams and another source familiar with the matter who requested anonymity. Nonetheless, FCBRE members were forced to rubber-stamp the results of the election even though the law to ensure the tallies were accurate was allegedly not followed. That’s because a judge ruled in October that election superintendents may not “refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”
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The violent left has been calling in bomb threats and swatting incoming members of the Trump Administration. Enough is enough with this type of deranged crap!
Fox News: Trump Cabinet nominees, appointees targeted with ‘violent, unAmerican threats’
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The county elections board decided to accept the votes of deceased residents despite guidance from the state board to remove them. //
The voters in question had cast ballots either during early voting or via absentee voting prior to Election Day but had passed away after casting ballots and before Nov. 5, which could theoretically disqualify their votes. The controversy highlights one of the glaring problems with having a season of voting instead of a single day to hold an election. In recent memory, before elections took place over a period of months, none of the individuals at issue would have been able to vote because they passed away before Election Day.
In their 2020 report, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., exposed how the GSA “secretly handed over the first Trump team’s privileged and confidential information to the FBI” (Federal Bureau of Investigation), even as the FBI played political games with the infamous and unfounded counterintelligence probe into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Grassley at the time served as chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee. Johnson led the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The report, titled “Don’t Brief the Trump Team: How the GSA and the FBI Secretly Shared Trump Transition Team Records,” details how the FBI and then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office trampled all over the transition team’s private property rights. https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.finance.senate.gov%2Fdownload%2Fcommittee-report_-gsa-and-trump-transition/1/010001936e6d3951-b8b527a2-58d3-479c-9d46-f64e7a7c706d-000000/Kn3v3ppYuup1odtt5SAvm4pzrLUXOBKz0X45tmGIvNw=381. //
On Dec. 19, 2017, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee received a letter from Trump for America general counsel Kory Langhofer. In the letter, Langhofer stated that “the GSA provided Trump for America’s records to the special counsel without giving prior notice, obtaining its consent, or providing it an opportunity to review the records for privilege or relevance.” The committee reviewed and confirmed the information. //
GSA’s creepy conduct led to the Presidential Transition Enhancement Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Johnson that requires advance notice if either party intends to deviate from the memorandum of understanding. Trump signed the bill into law in March 2020.
In a fractured nation with a toxic public square, ham radio — even in this always-online digital age — is a thriving part of civil society. //
What makes ham radio so uniquely American?
First, it’s an enduring public square. It was the first social media, but it carries on without the bitterness and acrimony on social media platforms now. Part of this is because it’s not anonymous. Operators are required to identify themselves by their call signs every 10 minutes that they are on the air and at the end of every conversation. And part of it is because the FCC has rules against profane language on public frequencies, and the ham community is largely self-policing. //
It has been said ham radio is “a hobby, where you use the hobby to talk about the hobby.” That’s true, but let’s check back with Robert D. Putnam. Bowling Alone was never really about bowling — it was about community.
Next, ham radio is ruthlessly DIY. In an age of throwaway electronics and user-friendly interfaces, ham radio operators look down on mere “appliance operators.” Hams will build their own radios from kits, and then they’ll cobble together their own antennas from trash, old speaker wire, and attitude. There’s a bustling YouTube community of hams to help new licensees with the more complicated aspects of the hobby. But DIY — known as homebrewing in the community — is the goal. You might even call it “self-reliance.”