Philip Klein @philipaklein
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New poll finds that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 65% of Israelis overall support operation in Rafah, which Biden says is a “red line.” His efforts to portray the Gaza operation as Netanyahu policy will only help Bibi domestically. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53305
The Hill @thehill
President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping” https://trib.al/67YEzDN
12:02 PM · Mar 10, 2024
Biden is being a duplicitous snake and throwing Israel under the bus, trying to put pressure on Bibi to play both to our left and maybe to theirs. But Joe being Joe, he's wrong again, and he may be actually strengthening Netanyahu in the process.
Great job, Joe!
SLOTown Hoosier
8 hours ago
"can't have 30,000 more Palestinians dead,"- but apparently the number of dead Americans, at the hands of illegal aliens is of no concern //
edhuff SLOTown Hoosier
7 hours ago
Nobody in the Middle East or Ukraine would have had to die if Biden and his team had been even marginally competent in foreign affairs (or anything for that matter). //
houdini1984
8 hours ago
An Israeli expert who frequently consults for US officials is quoted by New York Magazine as saying, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.”
I'm old enough to remember when Trump was impeached for asking Ukraine's leaders to look into Biden's corruption in that country. And here we have a President whose administration is actively looking at options to undermine the government of one of our most important allies.
Add that to Biden's unbroken string of failed foreign policy positions. 50 years of being wrong on every major foreign policy issues. You almost have to admire his consistency. //
Mama Bear
4 hours ago
American Jews have had best friends in 3 US presidents:
1) George Washington.
He wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island, saying, among other things:
“May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Basically, he welcomed the Jewish people to this great country.
2) Thomas Jefferson.
His was one of the few voices in the early republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement of religious toleration.
After the Revolution he wrote a Jewish physician to say:
“Religious freedom is the most effectual anodyne against religious dissension.” Jefferson said he was delighted to see American Jews assuming full social rights and hoped “they will be seen taking their seats on the benches of science as preparatory to their doing the same at the board of government.”
3) Donald Trump.
In his first month in office Trump set about to accomplish the Abraham Accords — specifically taking the Palestinian lynchpin out of the equation and making US aid and support to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE conditional upon relations with Israel.
In 2019 President Trump signed an executive order that broadened Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to apply to discrimination based on anti-Semitism.
None of the networks carried it. Most Jews don’t even know about it.
In 2017, during his first year in office, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, helping fulfill a 2000 year old dream for world Jewry.
Trump is also the first and only US president to have Jewish children and grandchildren, and the first to have a rabbi do the benediction at his inauguration.
The list of what Trump has done for the Jewish people goes on and on. You would think American Jewry, including the so-called political leaders like Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, and their ilk would recognize this and be grateful.
It’s time for American Jews to wake up and see reality. The Dems no longer are our friends. But Donald Trump has been a very loyal one.
Retlag Mama Bear
3 hours ago
I agree with your assessment, but I think you would also have to include Harry Truman. He recognized Israel within minutes of their announcement of statehood. Without his support, Israel might never have survived 1948/49. //
IBM Vice Chair and former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn slam-dunked Biden's claim, and he brought the receipts.
"If you actually look at who pays taxes in this country, the bottom 50% of earners in the United States pay 2.3% of tax collected, and the top 10% pays over 70% of tax collected in this country," Cohn said, adding that this is in large part thanks to how the Trump administration redid the tax code in 2017.
Cohn then identified a problem with Biden's talking point about billionaires, noting that a billionaire is a measure of net worth, not a description of one's taxable income. //
Cohn went on to clarify the difference between wealth and income:
"We do a very good job in this country of taxing income," he said. "There is no income in this country, unless you buy a tax-free bond, that doesn't get taxed at a minimum of 20%, whether it's interest or dividends or capital gains. So, there's no billionaire in this country that has income that is not paying at least 20%." //
a person may hold wealth - say, in the form of a family farm that has no paper on it but may be worth several million dollars - without seeing any income from the mere existence of that asset. Taxing a person on that basis would be ruinous for that person and for the economy. //
MCPR
4 hours ago
Republicans and economists have been “fact checking” the Democrats on this since LBJ, but it doesn’t do any good. When it comes to worldly wealth, everyone who has less than another is jealous. Thinking people can overcome this and use logic to decide on reasonable policies. The rest vote on emotion. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Robin Hood gonna give me all their money! Emotional people don’t see the world is filled with people who have less than they, and when Robin Hood comes around, it’s gonna be them that lose.
Keep “fact-checking” and keep losing. Reduce taxes and win.
We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. Until the craven Republicans in Congress can get together and CUT spending (not rate-of-increase) we are going to lose to jealousy, every time. //
anon-201n
4 hours ago
Remember, Joe Biden is absolutely brilliant - was in the top of his law class - 76 out of 85 - so it must have been at the top of a page with 25 in a column! I would rank his financial acumen less than that of a 10 year old so that's the reason why the whole Biden family had to be involved in its (illegal) financial dealings, with 10% for the big guy.
Taxing assets is, at present, constitutionally illegal but raises all sorts of questions. If assets decrease in a year, are the tax levies given back (fat chance)? As Reagan said, we don't have a revenue problem but a spending problem. Until federal spending is addressed, pressures to increase taxes will persist.
Hood of Judgement @BozOzler
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The lack of self awareness and optics is just breathtaking here
lauren kapp @laurenavakapp
responding rapidly from Biden HQ
9:51 AM · Mar 8, 2024
https://x.com/BozOzler/status/1766114591371903284?s=20
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The first point so many made was how the folks on the right looked just like everyone imagined the Biden HQs rapid response team would look -- like a bunch of NYU theater kids, as one person on X put it.
That explains so much about why we are in the mess we are now. The picture appears to be them checking out the State of the Union and/or its aftermath. What was hilarious was while the talking points on the left are that Biden hit a "home run," none of them look happy at all with what is going on. Kapp also clearly has no idea what that picture looks like. It looks like the picture of the Hillary people who cried in 2016, some on X observed. This is the adults back in charge?
Then the other hilarious thing that people pointed out to the Biden person is that the picture on the right did not show "Biden HQs"; it was the famous picture of Osama bin Laden being taken out in a raid, a raid ordered by Barack Obama—who you can see in the picture— and it was a raid that Biden opposed. So much for "rapid response."
Do his people not even know that? Why would they post that picture, of all pictures, with that caption? They're either clueless or believe everyone else is.
Once a paragon of quality, Boeing's focus on its stock price has caused hundreds to die.
When asked how Boeing’s recent door plug incident came about, company CEO Dave Calhoun cryptically explained “a quality escape occurred.” That kind of corporate doublespeak is indicative of the problem at hand. Boeing used to have quality, but it escaped, apparently sometime around when it merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997.
For the last three decades, the company has spent substantial amounts of money buying back its own shares to pump up the stock price, and issuing dividends, instead of researching and developing new high-quality high-efficiency airplanes. The results have been catastrophic, as HBO’s funny Sunday night news man John Oliver explains. //
Prior to Reagan-era deregulation, stock buybacks were considered illegal market manipulation. If a company wanted to boost its stock, it had to do something worth crowing about, like develop good product. //
The desire to push R&D costs off to the company’s suppliers meant that Boeing was essentially building its planes from kits that weren’t designed together, didn’t fit together, and didn’t meet the standard of quality the company had once been known for. This move may have been a short-term boon for company profits, the share price, or for CEO bonuses, but the reduction in quality has given rise to the phrase “If it’s a Boeing, I ain’t going.” //
Saigon_Design
Bradley Brownell
3/07/24 9:55am
It began when Boeing took over Mcdonnell-Douglas and transplanted their board and C-suite into Boeing’s, effectively making it a MDD takeover of Boeing when it was actually Boeing that actually bought MDD.
MDD failed precisely because of their shitty leadership, and they had the opportunity to try their shenanigans again at Boeing and... look where we are now.
Boeing has literally no answer to Airbus and other competitors’ products, and won’t for at least a decade precisely because they focused on their stock price instead of the business. They claimed it would cost too much to invest in a new design - well, now you don’t have anything to offer airlines except the 777, 787, and 737Max, with big holes in the product lineup (e.g. a product to rival the A220). //
Mosko
Saigon_Design
3/07/24 10:31am
Somebody put it brilliantly in another comment on a previous article:
“McDonnell-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money”.
Internet Science Man Hank Green investigates why cars look like putty now
Pierson reiterated that Boeing’s woes began around 2017 when supply chain issues led to aircraft being assembled out of sequence. The pressure from management to crank out planes lowered quality control standards and employee morale. He retired over these issues in August 2018 and Lion Air Flight 610 crashed October that year. Pierson claimed that nothing has changed since the Boeing 737 Max’s two crashes. //
Polysyllabic
Ryan Erik King
2/27/24 1:12pm
At this point, the MAX design has been scrutinized over by pretty much everyone, from NTSB, FAA, Boeing, independent teams, etc. If all of them are wrong and Pierson’s the only one who’s right, that would be some amazing fail. I can’t believe, with the sheer number of outside experts reviewing this plane, that its design is faulty. Perhaps its construction is dogshit, but the design has been deemed acceptable by so many SMEs at this point. //
krhodes1
Margin Of Error
2/28/24 2:01pm
No, that is exactly oppositely WRONG. The bigger engines act as wings at high angles of attack, which pushes the nose UP slightly more than the old engines do. And more importantly, as I said, it causes the controls to get lighter as the angle of attack increases, which is the opposite of the certification requirements that control force increase with angle of attack to prevent over-controlling the aircraft. So MCAS was intended to add a SLIGHT nose-down force to counter act that. And as I said, after that, some well-meaning engineers decided to enhance it to provide the sort of stall protection that Airbus has, which meant GREATLY increasing how much nose-down force it could apply. Unfortunately without increasing the redundancy of the system to match that new-found control authority.
But any competent pilot would have zero problem flying a MAX without MCAS. the difference in how a MAX flies and the equivalent NG is very, very, minor, but it is technically in violation of the rather arbitrary certification requirements without it. For that matter, no competent pilot would have crashed the airplanes that had the AoA sensor failures that caused MCAS to activate unnecessarily. A trim runaway is a trim runaway, regardless of what causes it and any competent 737 pilot knows what to do about that (turn off the electric trim and trim the airplane manually). At the end of the day, all MCAS does then or now is adjust the horizontal stabilizer trim via the electric trim automatically under certain conditions.
I can guarantee you that the Airbus NEOs do the exact same thing with their also much larger and more forward engines. But being FBW, they don’t need a separate system to counter that slight tendency. On the other hand, WHEN the computers shit the bed and throw their electronic hands up in the air and say Jesus Take the Sidestick to the pilots (as has happened) you end up with an airplane that flies VERY differently than normal right when having more wierd things going on is the last thing a pilot needs.
Here’s some interesting reading about how things change on an Airbus when things start to get wonky:
https://apstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/FCS-Airbus-Quick-Reference.pdf
What this document doesn’t say is the big difference - under “normal law” and “alternate law” he sidestick sets the attitude of the airplane in pitch and roll and the computer maintains that attitude. So you ask for 10 degrees bank and let go of the stick and the airplane continues in a 10 degree bank. But in “direct law” you literally have direct control and have to fly it like the computer doesn’t exist - because at that point it doesn’t exist. And since that happens about never other than a few minutes in a simulator a few times a year, good luck when it does. Again, competent pilots can handle this, but my feeling it that Airbuses are really good at making pilots less competent at actual stick and rudder flying. But you are flying a 737 stick and rudder whenever the autopilot is off.
Many Airbuses have crashed because pilots did not understand what the airplane was or was NOT going to do for them, right back to the loss of the third A320 ever built at an airshow in France. And then there is AF447, a crash that was both an example of some stupendously bad airmanship AND something that simply could not have happened at all in a Boeing aircraft, even a FBW one.
Boeing has some REALLY serious issues with quality control currently that they need to sort out yesterday, but there is not a thing wrong with the design of the current generation of 737. Simple, rugged, very safe airplanes that make airlines a LOT of money, which is why Boeing is going to sell 5000-6000 of them.
TSA's self-screening trial in Las Vegas' airport should have been the standard checkpoint ages ago //
skeffles
liffie420
3/08/24 11:59am
A 9/11 style takeover became impossible once they started locking the cockpit doors. That was the only real change they needed. //
skeffles
Ryan Erik King
3/08/24 11:05am
The TSA is designed to be noticeable, intrusive, and cumbersome, as a feature and not a bug. If it ain’t creating a whole hassle, then how will the public NOTICE the government is DOING SOMETHING about that terrorism stuff? It is pure theater like that. It is meant to be in your face, and down your pants, by design.
If it just worked, seamlessly and quietly, then nobody would notice it. //
_beveryman
Ryan Erik King
3/08/24 2:26pm
I am going to regret weighing in with this perspective, but I have been mulling over some security theater in computer security (Web Application Firewalls), and unfortunately there’s a parallel here which explains the value of TSA security theater.
WAF’s do not stop dedicated attackers.
...
So too, the TSA. Security theater doesn’t keep the dedicated attackers out, it keeps the volume of attackers lower, especially the less sophisticated ones. WAF’s provide value in the same way the TSA does, and this was a very uncomfortable light bulb to go off in my mind. //
ilya212
_beveryman
3/08/24 10:30pm
You are not wrong, and you are not the only one. The best summary of TSA I had ever seen came from Israeli airport security (and I trust these guys know what they are talking about): It stops stupid terrorists.
The question however is: How much damage can stupid terrorists actually do? And does preventing this rather minor damage outweigh all the frustration, wasted time, and overall societal grief TSA causes? //
ncbo
Ryan Erik King
3/09/24 11:50am
“theater” itself is a deterrent. It’s like how your front door could be made of thin glass floor to ceiling, trivially easy to smash by a 9 year old. But has anyone ever? That small step of having to break something deters 99% of would-be criminals. //
xspeedy
Ryan Erik King
3/09/24 1:41pm
My biggest frustration is the lack of consistent rules between airports. Some have you remove laptops, others don’t. And so one is always guessing.
an illegal immigrant who was attempting to cross the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, inadvertently cut a tailor-made ad for the GOP on the topic, standing behind a barbed wire fence while wearing a Biden-Harris 2020 t-shirt.
When he was reminded by someone off-camera that Biden and Harris were the President and Vice President, the man wearing the t-shirt said he was wearing it in hopes that they would let him in:
"Why is Trump winning?" Maher asked talking about the latest NY Times poll. "Trump was beating him rather soundly. It was quite a warning light. 48 to 43. Also winning way more among women. Winning outright Latinos. What do you attribute that to?"
"I don't know," De Niro whined. "I just don't want to feel the way I did after the election in 19, 2016. Uh, where we couldn't believe that it happened."
There it is in a nutshell: me, me, me, feel, feel, feel.
It isn't about reality, it's just about how the talking points from the media make him feel and that's bad. That's how out of touch some of these folks in the bubble of leftist celebrity are. //
Watch De Niro do the "it's different when we do it" move when it comes to questions about Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul deploying the National Guard to the subways to search people's bags before they get on to allegedly reduce crime. Maher obviously has concerns about the infringement of freedoms, as he should. But De Niro has no idea because it doesn't concern Trump, and he's not upset with Hochul But if Trump did it, that would be different, "it would be for another reason."
Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante
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Maher: "But I do see that the Governor of NY is putting the National guard in the subway? As a New Yorker what do you think of that? What would they say if he [Trump] did it?
De Niro: "Well if he did it, it's for another reason."
The liberal brain encapsulated in one simple… Show more
10:47 PM · Mar 8, 2024
The people complaining about this part of the president’s speech have not directed even an iota of rage against the fact that an American citizen was killed by a person who had no right to be in the country in the first place.
There is a reason for this, of course.
For those on the far left, the agenda is everything. It takes precedence even over the lives of innocent Americans. They will push their open borders beliefs even in the aftermath of a person being murdered by one of the folks Democrats want to let into the country.
We constantly hear from pro-Russian voices on social media (like David Sacks) and in Congress (looking at you, JD Vance) that all that is needed to stop this war is for negotiations to begin on how much of Ukraine has to be surrendered to make Putin feel good about himself. We have the answer. There is no limit on the amount of territory that Russia declares to be its own.
In this speech by Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, he flat out says that Ukraine does not exist. //
As Lithuania's minister of foreign affairs noted:
Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis
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Some people say NATO is no longer necessary while the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia stands in front of a huge map of the planned imperial conquest of Eastern Europe 🤷🏼♂️
1:03 PM · Mar 4, 2024 //
Again, a war that was conceived to dismember Ukraine and reduce the rump state to a Muscovite satrapy has expanded NATO and anchored Ukraine more firmly to the West than anything possible without the war.
Award-winning solar astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger shares his stunning photos of the Sun - and talks about his fascination with our closest star.
Photographing the Sun using a hydrogen-sensitive telescope reveals textures and details invisible to the naked eye: a swirling, volatile world of moving plasma.
Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had ‘no evidence’ to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had asked for 10,000 National Guard troops. //
In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.
Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city.
He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.
Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. //
Cheney frequently points skeptics of her investigation to the Government Publishing Office website that posted, she said, “transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report.” That website provides “supporting documents” to the claims made by Cheney and fellow anti-Trump enthusiasts.
However, transcripts of fewer than half of the 1,000 interviews the committee claims it conducted are posted on that site. It is unclear how many of the hidden transcripts include exonerating information suppressed by the committee. //
Ornato said White House concerns about January 6 were related to fears that left-wing groups would clash with Trump protesters and that no one in the White House anticipated a riot at the Capitol. Antifa and other left-wing groups were planning protests for the same day. Left-wing groups had been involved in violent assaults on Trump supporters following public protests. //
Once the Capitol was breached, the Trump White House pushed for immediate help from Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and grew frustrated at the slow deployment of that help, according to the testimony. //
Days prior, Cheney had “secretly orchestrated” a pressure campaign to prevent the Defense Department from deploying resources on January 6, 2021. She organized an op-ed for the Washington Post from her father and other former secretaries of defense specifically to discourage Miller from taking action. //Cheney hid this testimony and instead asserted in her report that President Trump “never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other day. Nor did he instruct any Federal law enforcement agency to assist.” //
Because Ornato’s corroborating information had been suppressed from the public record by the January 6 committee, the Colorado Supreme Court improperly dismissed evidence.
If Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have any interest in stopping Biden’s weaponization of the federal government to boost Democrats’ get-out-the-vote machine, they must be willing to halt all federal funding until the aforementioned provisions are included in any spending bill that comes across their desks. Otherwise, Biden’s secret election-rigging scheme will derail the GOP’s electoral prospects for years to come.
Democrat Fani Willis’ legal troubles extend beyond recent revelations that she deceptively hired her otherwise under-qualified, secret, married lover to run the political prosecution of former President Donald Trump and other Republicans in Georgia. A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare. //
However, the person who recorded the phone call wasn’t in Fulton County or even in Georgia. That’s a problem. Jordan Fuchs, a political activist who serves as Raffensperger’s chief of staff, was in Florida, where it is illegal to record a call without all parties to the call consenting to the recording. She neither asked for nor received consent to record. //
Fuchs first gave The Washington Post fabricated quotes they later had to retract about a phone call President Trump had with someone in the elections office. Though Fuchs was not busted for her lie until March 2021, months after the fabricated quotes were used to impeach President Trump, the authors of the book say the embarrassment of being found out taught her the importance of recording phone calls such as the early January 2021 phone call that forms the basis of Willis’ investigation. They do not explain how this lesson worked in terms of the space-time continuum. //
Fuchs has never talked publicly about her taping of the phone call; she learned, after the fact, that Florida where she was at the time is one of fifteen states that requires two-party consent for the taping of phone calls. A lawyer for Raffensperger’s office asked the January 6 committee not to call her as a witness for reasons the committee’s lawyers assumed were due to her potential legal exposure. The committee agreed. But when she was called before a Fulton County special grand jury convened by Fani Willis, she was granted immunity and confirmed the taping, according to three sources with direct knowledge of her testimony. //
With Fani Willis repeatedly saying the entire investigation into Republicans was the result of a phone call that was illegally recorded, defendants might pursue legal recourse. It’s the latest challenge for Willis, even if the political ally judge reviewing whether she can continue prosecuting Georgia Republicans rules in her favor.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis used the phone call as the foundation for her RICO prosecution against Trump and his associates. According to a new book published by Michael Isikoff (who was an original pusher of the Russian collusion hoax), that call was illegally recorded by Jordan Fuchs.
Who is Fuchs? She is Raffensperger's Chief of Staff and has a very checkered history of political activism. Her hatred of Trump can be described as obsessive, and she was in Florida when she recorded the call in question. Why is that a problem? Because Florida is a two-party consent state. //
In other words, she broke the law because Trump did not give his consent to be recorded. In fact, according to Isikoff and his co-author, she didn't have Raffensperger's permission to record the call either. //
As Mollie Hemingway explains in her write-up on this revelation, this could put the entire case against Trump and his associates in jeopardy.
“Fruit of the poisonous trees is a doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained,” according to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute. “As the metaphor suggests, if the evidential ‘tree’ is tainted, so is its ‘fruit.’ The doctrine was established in 1920 by the decision in Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, and the phrase ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ was coined by Justice Frankfurter in his 1939 opinion in Nardone v. United States. The rule typically bars even testimonial evidence resulting from excludable evidence, such as a confession.” //
Rollin L
18 minutes ago
Not sure why this is a bombshell or revelation. When this call was leaked years ago, it was known then that it came from Raffensperger's office. This was a Presidential phone call which was by definition classified. It was illegal to leak even if it had been legally recorded. So the only news is the confirmation that the actual recording of the call was itself illegal. Federal charges should apply even if immunity was given from state charges. Jordan Fuchs should be charged, and Raffensperger for conspiracy to hide the crime. //
SD 6 24 minutes ago
If Fuchs was in Florida when she recorded the call… and Florida is a two party state… how can Willis give immunity for a crime that occurred in Florida? I think Florida would have standing in this case to prosecute Fuchs… not Georgia…
Did Donald Trump request National Guard troops to protect the Capitol Building on January 6th? That claim has been a point of contention for years, with figures like Liz Cheney steadfastly claiming no evidence exists to support it. Now, newly unearthed testimony, allegedly suppressed by the January 6th committee for years, is telling a different story.
A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.
Back when scientific publications came in paper form, libraries played a key role in ensuring that knowledge didn't disappear. Copies went out to so many libraries that any failure—a publisher going bankrupt, a library getting closed—wouldn't put us at risk of losing information. But, as with anything else, scientific content has gone digital, which has changed what's involved with preservation.
Organizations have devised systems that should provide options for preserving digital material. But, according to a recently published survey, lots of digital documents aren't consistently showing up in the archives that are meant to preserve it. And that puts us at risk of losing academic research—including science paid for with taxpayer money. //
The risk here is that, ultimately, we may lose access to some academic research. As Eve phrases it, knowledge gets expanded because we're able to build upon a foundation of facts that we can trace back through a chain of references. If we start losing those links, then the foundation gets shakier. Archiving comes with its own set of challenges: It costs money, it has to be organized, consistent means of accessing the archived material need to be established, and so on.
But, to an extent, we're failing at the first step. "An important point to make," Eve writes, "is that there is no consensus over who should be responsible for archiving scholarship in the digital age."
A somewhat related issue is ensuring that people can find the archived material—the issue that DOIs were designed to solve.
Sierra Space says it has demonstrated in a ground test that a full-scale inflatable habitat for a future space station can meet NASA's recommended safety standards, clearing a technical gate on the road toward building a commercial outpost in low-Earth orbit.
Take a look at the fastest, smallest, and silliest aircraft to appear in the James Bond franchise.