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Breaking news May 6th 2021.
(UPDATE: I got suckered by the news I wanted to read.)
Article at unilad.co.uk with NASA photos. Article at Science Times.
Most informative article as of today at the Daily Mail.
Photos from Daily Mail include possible growths on Curiosity itself.
Patterns of voting fraud will stand out in data analysis. Attempts to hide it afterwards will be even easier to spot. Browse "Election Fraud Hotspots - 10% of the Data are 70% of the Fraud" by Jay Valentine. The same patterns you find in insurance fraud will show in election fraud. The bad actors will have recruited friends and family, not strangers to help them. The faked votes have to match real names and addresses.
Imagine yourself trying to fake 100,000 ballots. Even with some of your pals, lots of them, sitting around tables with pizza and Cokes and #2 pencils, it’s daunting. Every ballot needs to tie to an address. Each ties to a name. This is fraud infrastructure. While you and your friends are filling out 100,000 ballots with Biden circles, do you think you took the time to use a different, real address for every one of them? Or, more likely, did you use a small group of addresses over and over? You get the picture.
If you filled out birth dates, did you use a different one every time you thought about it? How about those surnames? They are tied to real people and they better live in Pennsylvania.
We are getting reports some Secretaries of State are modifying mail-in ballot data to hide the tens of thousands of ballots received before they were sent.
This is a very bad idea. ....... We are thrilled people are trying to alter data after the fact. They are leaving tracks like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter.
He goes on to give examples. There are many signs to spot and many volunteers poring over data already available.
Related: The audit of Maricopa Country ballots is a big deal. Arizona has 15 counties but 2/3 of the state's population lives in Maricopa alone. Chart located here.
This 13 minute video of real city conditions is awesome and scary at the same time. You follow two drivers in the cab, a display screen, and the straightaways between major decision points are speeded up. Think "Google Voice" five years ago. A half dozen frightening and puzzling car decisions are embedded in a cautious but nearly flawless execution of other moves. The men think FSD may be reasonably safe in a suburb but not downtown. (h/t smalldeadanimals, sourced at Road and Track).
Oh My Goodness. This is so embarrassing. I swear this is unedited. pic.twitter.com/Sad3mBOkXc
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 25, 2021
If you want more, Biden said at the same viewing, "The US should return to the type of filibuster that existed when I came to the senate 120 years ago". Search to hear this painful clip too.
If I were China or Iran, I'd be focused on quickly. pushing all boundaries. Or Russia. Or North Korea. Or anyone who smells blood in the water. I wouldn't want to be living in Taiwan just now.
"The Supreme Court, like the rest of the judiciary, is fundamentally a Gentry Class institution no matter who appoints its members. That’s why non-textual rights, like abortion, that are important to the Gentry Class get more solicitude than textual rights, like the right to arms, that are not."
The first people who sought help from Covid-19 or the Wuhan Flu are mapped. The City of Wuhan map below shows the first intense cluster from before January 20 2020 was on a couple streets between the two virus research sites. (There was a second site nearby). The fish market and other early reporting incidents are few in number and scattered far. The article claims the people in the scattered reports had visited that same two street area.
UPDATE: The above is from Gateway Pundit's report but it links to an underlying China-sourced document with extended documentation. It is published at mdpi as "Exploring Urban Spatial Features of COVID-19 Transmission in Wuhan Based on Social Media Data". (Peng,Wang, Liu and Wu).The data was collected incidental to a larger study and is based on geotags of the people who voluntarily went online to ask for help. (The larger study looks at ages of the reporting patients, and the distribution of cases at later dates, again relying on geotags and cellular phone location data.) During the early spread, medical resources were overstretched and many turned to social media Sina Weibo which built an on-line medical help channel. This is the only tightly documented mapping I have seen of the early virus spread.
"China this century is on track to experience history’s most dramatic demographic collapse in the absence of war or disease. Today, the country has a population more than four times larger than America’s. By 2100, the U.S. will probably have more people than China."
Migraine is unlike other headaches and not linked to blood flow. Instead it stems from signal molecules housed in the the fifth cranial nerve, the trigeminal nerve. The target molecule is a pain receptor and it's motion can be dampened by a second molecule (CGRP) which allows a couple other types to hitch onto the pain target. Watch the 3D visualization. The whole sequence is now understood pretty much at the level of an individual atom. Next up is a fix to break the chain that binds pain messengers to the target molecule. Soon! (Below is an image, not a video, because it's in PIP format. The link has the PIP video.)
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The entire continent apart from the coasts in a unified deep freeze with a temperature gradient along the margin like the Grand Canyon. Sourced ventusky.com
This opinion is presented and scrutinized at Conservative Tree House.
"McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty senate does not matter to those underneath it. McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority; factually, he makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them."
This imagery is looking good: A seasonal reflection off dusty ice and a wash-out canyon that starts where the ice shows. Water to drink, water to break into oxygen for breathing and hydrogen and oxygen to power vehicles and return trips to Earth, water to grow stuff, and apparently over 100 meters thick. . Reported at Behindtheblack.com
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Since world population 2000 BC was under 100 million and is now close to 7 billion, it's not possible for every individual to own a single thread of multiple lives on earth. A good answer is to say there is no disharmony because there is no reincarnation. A double-down answer is to say that each individual has their own thread of lives but some are lived on other worlds or alternate worlds to our own. Sounds complicated but the alternate worlds has a place in modern physics speculation. A third answer that reconciles the numbers and keeps reincarnation as a not-disprovable hypothesis is to say all lives past and present are connected nodes of the same being. There are then many possible pathways back in time for you to trace, they just are not uniquely you.
Maybe it's wind tunnel performance combined with fads, but mid-size SUV's look almost identical these days. What triggered this post was me waiting at the ferry terminal when a lady opened the back door and started to load her dog aboard. She was one row and one space out of position. To fix this, I bought 3" diameter adhesive red dots and put several on my CRV.
Left colun:
Subaru Forester
Volvo Estate
Honda CRV
Buick Encore
Right column:
Audi Q7
Ford Escape
Toyota Rav 4
Mitsubishi Express
Even little things are influenced by sex chromosome #23 and that includes shoes.
A lot of men and women are in the same group, owning 6 to 10 pairs of shoes.
In the 5 pairs and under group, there are twice as many men.
In the 11 pairs and over, there are twice as many women.
And one oddity: The extreme ownership group includes almost as many men as women.
A pitched battle is underway to control new wealth. Covid lockdowns with masking is one battle ground and so is Cancel Culture and so is control of elections. The new wealth is data on almost every human being alive and the ability to exploit it and to throttle it cheaply at the speed of light. Who is the top dog? We don’t know yet. Governments are trying for the lion’s share but give ground to large operations in Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Mass media, the papers, and entertainment purveyors are in there tweaking and stealing and corralling data. The big surprise is that NGO’s and private interest groups and even individuals own some of the internet space because access to millions of followers is so cheap and so fast. The power structure is changing rapidly. If government gets the upper hand, expect to see Chinese Communism with American Characteristics featuring mass surveillance and behaviour interdiction. More likely is a mixed recasting of federal-corporate-interest-group powers.
Human nature is reverting to the tribal in this setting. Behind “woke” “white privilege” and other badges of approval and shame is the old time simple fact of xenophobia, fear of strangers. Sadly, the strangers are fellow citizens who don’t live in my bubble.
If we own our own data and can capitalize it, not just have it snuffled up or stolen by a few big players, perhaps this will change. Don't expect justice but hope for a measure of competition between thieves of freedom.
"In the modern world, data is wealth"
Set your camera up to take a selfie
but don't take it.
Stand the camera on its edge a little further off
maybe leaning against something
with the display towards you.
Compose the shot so you and your friends look good.
Say, "OK Google. Take a Selfie".
Three seconds later it's done.
No more fat noses or extra tools.
Think about it carefully…. 25,000 troops needed at the U.S. Capitol to install the Biden administration. How many armed soldiers do you need at the inauguration of the “most popular Presidential candidate in American history after the most secure election in history?”
There won't be another fighter of Trump's stature in the near future. America's core institutions have become corrupt with Justice, sadly, the chief, followed closely by election machinations in many states.
The hope of nations now turns from the USA to China but not as you may expect. The Chinese model of mass surveillance and control of the economy by your (corrupt) betters is ascendent in America. My hope is now in the Chinese people, that their still-to-come revolution will be in my lifetime.
The near future is clear: Chinese communism with American Characteristics. Today Twitter and Google and the rest are wiping out all they hate about America. Goodbye to freedoms. Hello to apps and cameras reporting on all you do and write to others. Attached are screenshots from this historic day as voices the Left despises are cancelled.
The longing for a sweetheart and a darling is so great that it puts a burden on hetero friendships. I remember what it’s like having a big puppy climb onto my lap while I was driving. It was licking my face, wriggling around, half out the window and wanted to drive too. That’s hard to manage
The stuff they scrape off your teeth at the dentist is a petrified residue from bacteria. In that calcareous plaque, specks of food are trapped. Researchers at the ancient city of Megiddo in modern day Israel have examined teeth of a dozen bronze age people. They found turmeric and bananas and soy and proof of trade out of Asia centuries, even more than a thousand years earlier than previously guessed. Science Daily News.
The New York Times reports on musicians, artists and dancers, over half of whom have no job at all now. This is shocking but it isn't 100 percent bad news for me. The Arts along with Academia, and Insiders-with-Power are the main support for top-down commands about masks and lock-downs for your own good and safety. For some of them to suffer painfully the consequence of their standard bearers' decisions is good. That will shorten the Lawmaker's learning curve and allow average people to get back to making their own choices sooner. This link is to a sympathetic and well-researched story about those in the arts and out of work.
This September Gallup poll shows a sharp worry & compliance distinction between Democrats and Republicans. The sub-story is that the Democrat men and women are indistinguishable on the issues but the Republican women and men, besides being very different from Democrats, are often quite different from each other, the men expressing greater confidence and willingness to risk changes.
Urban streams in the Puget Sound and Seattle area have Coho salmon mortalities of 50% before reaching spawning areas, notably after big rainfalls. The easy villain was "climate change". The surprise villain is leached tire preservative combined with ozone in urban stormwater runoff. This was confirmed in the Los Angeles and San Francisco area too. See University of Washington report (hat tip Alan Watts)
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The detective work reported is fascinating leading to an unsuspected chemical whose general formula they figured from the salmon deaths but whose source they initially knew nothing about.
6PPD is added to extend tire life. Particles worn away from tires have a byproduct of 6PPD-quinone after reacting with ozone. The chemical signature with 18C 22H 2N and 2O matched.
The most economical and recommended fix is to look for other tire preservatives. Treating storm water at that level is impractical.
From a legitimate question publisher.
YouTube announced Tuesday it will take down videos questioning the integrity of the U.S. presidential election that millions of Americans, most notably President Trump, believe was stolen through numerous fraudulent actions, lawfare chicanery and computer manipulation.
From an illegitimate question publisher:
YouTube said content “that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome” of the presidential election will be removed. ... YouTube said Wednesday it will start removing any content uploaded to its platform that contains allegations of widespread fraud or errors in the 2020 presidential election after Tuesday's so-called safe harbor deadline that essentially locked in President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Yes, Washington institutions are staffed by Democrat types and generally work against their current president, Donald Trump. Richard Grenell, previously acting DNI, points to another factor in this Epoch Times interview. Transparency is not welcome in Washington because controlling information is power and to open up is to lose power. That explains why so many officials said publicly they had evidence the Russian Collusion story was real but under oath and away from the cameras, they said they did not. If they wished to be transparent, the matter would have been settled in a few weeks and the initiative would be from the Executive Branch and not from their Fiefdom. Who's the boss? Institutions as high up as FBI, CIA, Justice have been significantly captured by inside players. Regulatory capture.
My grandmother took eyedrops every six hours for twenty years by night and by day to save her sight from glaucoma
The aqueous humor fix has been done in animals, not people and lasted four months, not six months yet but seems like a sure thing. Glaucoma is the main cause worldwide of irreversible blindness.
Story at medicalxpress.com/news
Read over this article from Defenceindepth.co in London and adjust opinions about the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. The bits of news easily available helped me to the ignorant belief that I knew something of the region. At the link you'll get a much bigger view based on Russian sources. Another resource to follow is Mike Doran at Twitter's doranimated where you'll get an insider's view from a connected American who was in Azerbaijan during the conflict.
The key points are that Russia likes frozen conflicts in its near abroad with all parties looking to them for military peacekeepers and clout, thus keeping NATO out of the area. It also means that Turkey is getting hit harder over in Syria as a message that it's role (with Israeli support) was unwelcome even though the outcomes are satisfactory for Russia.
"I'm not telling people what to do or think", Van Morrison says, "the government is doing a great job of that already".
Age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility, or a significant component thereof, have been reversed in mice and almost with a single dose. Source is at medicalpress.com
The back story. When cells are stressed by viral or cancer gene attacks, they try to throttle protein production in those cells. Aging brain cells are getting some of this throttling too. "ISR" is "Inegrated Stress Response" and "IB" is "Inhibitor". ISRIB turns off the throttling and a couple doses seems to restore quite a bit of the cognitive decline in aging and brain-damaged mice without stopping the body's ISR defense against viral and cancer gene attacks. A single treatment was enough to get aging mice to try flexible maze solutions like their younger counterparts.
An implication: Senility may be more about idled repair machinery and less about long term degeneration of nerves.
This is almost too good to want to believe, that a generic response to stress casts its net too wide.
At -63C, liquid some H20 water molecules restructure to a 20% less dense form. Because no one could observe water at that temperature without it turning to solid ice, this couldn't be proven until high speed recording captured the change before the solid ice could form. It seems to be a dynamic equilibrium at local levels and the authors wonder if this property of water might appear at body temperatures in minute loci, affecting biological communication. The geometry behind the density isn't described at the link.
The review linked here has many surprises. The Axis mostly killed and starved non-combatants and the Allies mostly killed combatants. LeMay repurposed the B29 bomber for low altitude flights with much higher bomb loads. The Japanese jet stream played a role. WW2 was multiple wars. Production dispersed away from the battlefield helped Russia (factories moved east of the Urals) and Japan (factories dispersed in civilian areas which were not attacked initially) and USA (no serious effort was made to bomb the USA). In an existential war, the side that can destroy the other side's homeland is the winner. Hitler's unforced move to declare war on the USA is highlighted again as a major failure. The London Blitz was a strategic mistake after Berlin had been bombed when Hitler should have stayed focused on bombing air fields, aircraft factories and radar. And more.
Update: I'm just finishing my copy. Very readable. The exceptional can redirect a war but outcomes favour the one building and delivering the most killing resources. Immense detail included about tanks, planes, infantry weapons and repair issues and how many were fielded and how fast they were fielded.
