“This app saved my life” says rescued paddleboarder Rebekah She was struggling to describe her location somewhere off the coast of Virginia Beach when she remembered she had the what3words app.”
FYI FWIW YMMV
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INNOVATION: Another significat contribution to the public domain
Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere
- Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
Publication Date: March 16, 2023
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Air pollution is a major public health problem: The World Health Organization has estimated that it leads to over 4 million premature deaths worldwide annually. Still, it is not always extensively measured. But now an MIT research team is rolling out an open-source version of a low-cost, mobile pollution detector that could enable people to track air quality more widely.
The detector, called Flatburn, can be made by 3D printing or by ordering inexpensive parts. The researchers have now tested and calibrated it in relation to existing state-of-the-art machines, and are publicly releasing all the information about it — how to build it, use it, and interpret the data.
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“We” should have an award for people who make a discovery and make it free to use because of its great benefit.
It should be named for Frederick Banting (note below) for insulin or Volvo for the three point seat belt.
Maybe Volvo would sponsor it.
I’d nominate these folks from MIT for this invention and releasing it to the public domain.
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Note: When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1.
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SECURITY: Passkeys don’t solve every security problem
https://www.reviewgeek.com/148254/why-you-should-start-using-passkeys/
Why You Should Start Using Passkeys
Danny Chadwick
Mar 16, 2023, 2:55 pm EDT | 5 min read
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Passwords have been our first line of defense against hackers since the 1960s. But, now they’re showing their age and limitations in the 21st-century data wars. Not even password managers are safe. Passkeys are now here to help. Here’s why you should switch and enjoy a more secure digital future.
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Passkeys solve the “password” problem for only one use case.
Use cases are programmer speak for how the application interacts with the User.
If you’re the average plain vanilla User, then they are fine.
But, if you access the application from different hardware, then you can’t use a passkey.
Apple shares the passkeys in its walled garden, so that is another use case addressed.
I’m not sure how Google / Android addresses the use case of a different platform usage.
Having password managers storing the passkey may solve the problem but defeat the concept.
IMHO
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INSPIRATIONAL: What the police od right is seldom recognized
Best cry I’ve ever heard’: Cops describe relief after saving unconscious boy, 3, trapped in his car seat, completely submerged – and reviving him with CPR
- Boy was trapped in seat after car had plunged into canal following a car crash
- Rescuing officer had to pull car seat ‘as hard as he could’ to break child free
- Another officer gave the boy CPR and kept telling him ‘you’re going to be fine’
By Miriam Kuepper
Published: 08:54 EDT, 16 March 2023 | Updated: 09:01 EDT, 16 March 2023
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Officers have described the utter relief after they battled to save an unconscious three-year-old boy who was trapped in his car seat and completely submerged by water for three minutes before he was rescued and revived with CPR by the police.
The child was trapped in his seat after the car had plunged into a canal following a car crash, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department in Florida, which was called to the rescue.
Despite ‘heroic efforts’, the driver was unable to get the boy out of the car, even after good Samaritans saw the accident and tried to help.
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Not sure if I would have the huevos muchos grande to dive into a murky Florida canal. I’d be thinking aligator. But evidently this man proved his courage and saved a life. “Whoever Saves a Life Saves the World” is well know in both Jewish and Islamic writings.
“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on … as long as the women and children are saved. But if you fail to save the women and children, you’ve had it, you’re done, you’re through! You join Tyrannosaurus Rex, one more breed that bilged its final test.” — The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973) from Heinlein’s address at the U.S. Naval Academy (5 April 1973)
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The DoJ protected the Bidens while prosecuting DJT45
Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations|March 15, 2023
- Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, convicted in a 2018 corruption case. At trial, U.S. prosecutors redacted Hunter Biden’s name from court exhibits and did not explore evidence of his lucrative dealings with the powerful Chinese figure.
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At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of their corrupt Chinese business partners, DOJ documents and federal court records reveal.
In 2016-2017, the evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, a Chinese national suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and brother James.
DOJ later used information obtained from the searches and wiretaps – which included conversations with the current President’s son and brother – to convict Ho of bribery and money laundering, as part of a separate corruption case involving United Nations officials. But it declined to tap into its trove of evidence – including “over 100,000 emails” – to explore the connections between Ho and the Bidens, who received millions of dollars from Ho and a Chinese intelligence front and discussed sharing office space.
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Sorry this is NOT “equal justice under the law”. “We, The Sheeple” must set things right. The FBI and other TLAs (Three letter agencies) must be terminated completely. Those responsible must be procsecurted. “Just following orders” is NEVER a defense.
Argh!
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DISCOURAGING: What’s messed up and what’s not
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Pretty sure everyone with even a couple of functional brain cells can see that everything is falling apart. Whether by design or coincidence can be debated, personally I believe it is a mix of by design and unintended consequences thrown in for good measure. Inflation, Crime, Random acts of violence, a failed public education system, supply chain malfunctions, work force participation, illegal immigration, food shortages, sheer Government incompetence, Polarization and Deep Divisions, A general mix of fear and hostility out in society. The list just keeps going to the point that the list of things NOT wrong and messed up is a lot shorter than the list of things that ARE wrong and messed up.
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I’d point out the SVB depositors bailout as a “national disaster”.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Sorry, no “bonuses” for failing corporations at Taxpayers’ expense
https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/no-govt-bailout-for-silicon-valley-bank-yellen/
Government won’t bail out Silicon Valley Bank, which paid workers bonuses hours before collapse
By Bruce Golding
March 12, 2023 12:19pm
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Silicon Valley Bank employees received their annual bonuses shortly before the bank was seized Friday, NBC News reported late Saturday.
The bank traditionally hands out bonuses for the prior year’s work on the second Friday in March, and the payments had been in the works for days, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.
It’s unclear how much cash was distributed, but NBC said the bonuses likely ranged from $14,000 each for associates to $140,000 apiece for managing directors, based on figures posted on the Glassdoor website.
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Can anyone say “clawback”?
If the firm fails, why should AYONE get a “bonus”?
I’d argue that alll executive compensation packages should be contingent on the enterprise surviving.
In other blog pasts, I’ve argued that no one should get a “salary” that is more than the US President. They should then get compensation in the form of bonds strung out over 20 or 40 years.
We need to figure out how to incentivize long term thinking as a matter of public policy. The tax code can help in this regard.
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Laugh — Groundhog’s Day
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
A truly epicPHYSICS lesson. What is the nature of time?
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MONEY: “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.” -Voltaire, 1694-1778
FROM AN EMAIL FROM BITCOIN.COM
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Unlike dollars, there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.” -Voltaire, 1694-1778
The history of fiat money (ie. money issued by government decree) shows that governments consistently increase supply far beyond demand. This invariably leads to devaluation of the currency over time, something that we experience as inflation. Looking at some examples:
The U.S. dollar has lost 96% of its value since 1913
The euro has lost 40% of its value since 1997
The pound has lost 99.602% of its value since 1751
“It’s going to be very hard to unseat bitcoin as a store of value, because it’s got a 14-year brand, and there’s a finite supply.” — Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller
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I have put some spare change into ₿ and bullion on the off chance that the USA goes into a hyperinflation. Based on the spending by Congress and the “printing” by the FED — The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians. — I think more and more that this is a distinct probability. Look at Turkey, Venezuela, Nigeria, and many other countries. That’s what a runaway inflation looks like.
YMMV FWIW FAIWWYPFI
“Bullets, beans, bandaids, bullion, booze in a safe retreat” — Unknown
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100% Inflation in Argentina Opens the Door for a Presidential Upset
(Bloomberg) — An outsider candidate for Argentina’s presidency is gaining traction by tapping into voter anger at rampant inflation.
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Not sure that replacing the currency with the dollar is the correct strategy. Suggest tying theircurrenvy to gold will-solve the problem.
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RANT: If history is uncomfortable, good. Let’s learn not to repeat it!
Sir Michael Caine hits out at ‘bull***t’ suggestion his 1964 movie Zulu incites extremism after it was included on list by government’s Prevent scheme for ‘encouraging far-right sympathies’
By Laurence Dollimore
Published: 08:03 EST, 9 March 2023 | Updated: 08:43 EST, 9 March 2023
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Sir Michael Caine has blasted the ‘bull***t’ suggestion his 1964 film Zulu incites the far-Right after it was included on a government list of works that may ‘encourage’ extremism.
The epic war movie, which also starred cinematic greats Richard Burton and Stanley Baker, depicts the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift during the Anglo-Zulu war, in which 150 British soldiers successfully held off 4,000 Zulu warriors.
While the soldiers were awarded 11 Victoria Crosses for their efforts, the re-telling of their victory – released some 59 years ago – has previously come under fire for alleged ‘racist overtones’ and ‘factual inaccuracies’.
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But leader of the Zulu tribe Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, now 94, who played own his great-grandfather King Cetshwayo in the film, said it should not be viewed through a 21st century lens.
‘Even if the past is uncomfortable, and perhaps especially when the past is uncomfortable, it needs to be examined and unpacked rather than hidden away. Of course race is a central theme in the film’, he previously told The Times.
He urged critics of the film to look beyond the view that Africans were depicted as ‘savages’ and praised the way the community recreated history.
He added: ‘When we filmed Zulu, both black and white were recreating a part of history that held tremendous meaning for all of us. Rorke’s Drift was only one battle.
‘It was preceded by Isandlwana, the greatest military victory of an African nation against the British, and it was followed by the Battle of Ulundi, where our nation was defeated and subjugated.
‘What followed was decades of hardship and sorrow. But the spirit of the Zulu nation remains unconquered, and we still thrive in 21st century South Africa.
‘There is still a king on the throne of King Cetshwayo and millions of black South Africans still honour our culture and traditions.
‘Whenever that past is remembered it should always be a celebration of our ongoing fight, and victory, against division. That is worth thinking about, as that is the present-day context of the film Zulu.’
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I’ve watch this move several times at different points in my life. And, each time, I have taken away a different message. Initially, it was what would make men die like that? Im sure my high school teachers, mostly ex WWII marines, could have helped me make sense out out if. I never was able to and hence went on my way. Later in life, I watched it again and was shocked as “spears versus rifles” ensure a massacre. Reminded my of the American Revolution and men would line up to be shot at. And, it WWI where the same tactics rendered huge casualties. Generals fighting the next war with the last war’s tactics. Finally, just recently, I watched it again and felt the futility of just all that killing. Argh!
I was surprised in this article by: “The Zulus, known for their bravery and ferocity, were eventually forced to retreat with 350 of their number killed compared to 17 British.” Watching the movie, you’d have thought it was much worse. I guess that is “dramatic license”.
Argh!
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maybe we will learn someday?
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DISCOURAGING: The USA is and has been in a “Fall of Rome” death spiral
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/when_strength_is_needed_america_shows_weakness.html
When Strength Is Needed, America Shows Weakness
By John Green — March 6, 2023
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In the past, America was feared by its adversaries because of its sheer industrial might. During WWII, we built over 300,000 airplanes and 99 aircraft carriers. Now we can’t keep store shelves stocked with basics like baby formula. Unloading ships in a timely fashion seems to be a skill beyond our ability.
We’ve sacrificed the reliability of our electric grid in a quixotic attempt to control the weather. In pursuit of renewable power sources, we have allowed far more reliable sources to become vulnerable to sabotage and poorly maintained.
The Biden administration has depleted our strategic petroleum reserve in a failing attempt to control prices at the pump — something the reserve was never intended for. The reserve is now at its lowest level since 1984. At the same time, the administration has restricted domestic energy production. We are now energy dependent on some of the most unstable regions in the world.
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When we need “leadership”, we don’t get it. Say what they want about DJT45 and RWR40, it was handy for the world to think they were strong and a little crazy.
Argh!
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MEME: EDST or EST rather than GMT all the time
Since “Time of Day” is just a label, why isn’t everywhere on GMT (for example)? Does it really matter if a business hours are 9 to 5 or 1400 to 2200! I don’t think so. As someone who had to work with people in different time zones, (and in one job supervise people around the globe), scheduling “thru” time zones was a mess. There’s a reason the military use Zulu (aka GMT) for all orders. Sigh!
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POLITICAL: January 6th was a “tour” or entrpament; not an insurection
January 6 Video: Capitol Police Were ‘Tour Guides’ for ‘Q Shaman’
Joel B. Pollak — 7 Mar 2023132
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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 6: Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, is seen at the Capital riots. On January 9, Chansley was arrested on federal charges of “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct …
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IMHO all those folks were “lured” into a Democratic trap to discredit DJT45 and misdirect “We, The Sheeple” from the election frauds.
Immediately all those convicted of these bogus charges should be immediately exonerated. And, all those involved in the conspiracy to make this happen should be immediately arrested and tried.
Why didn’t these defendants have these videos at their trials? Any of the prosecuting lawyers should be disbarred!
Argh!
“No justice; no peace”
Or “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” — MLK
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SECURITY: PARKMOBIL has been cracked
ATTENTION: ParkMobile
I use dedicated email addresses from my own domain. Yours is “parkmobile@reinke.cc”. I just received a spam message addressed to my unique email address for you. That means it was sent after someone got your data. Please investigate the hack.
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Anyone bet that no one responds? And probably no one, other than me, cares.
This demonstrates the value of your own domain and using unique emails.
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VETERANS: A tremendous descritpion of what the naval veterans on both sides expereinces
How the Battle of Surigao Strait Brought Revenge for Pearl Harbor
- At the Battle of Surigao Strait, a line of American battleships, raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, decimated a Japanese task force.
This article appears in: December 2008
By David Alan Johnson
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At 2:43 pm on October 24, 1944, one day before the Battle of Surigao Strait, Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf received a dispatch from Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the Central Philippines Attack Force. The message was straightforward and direct: “Prepare for night engagement,” and was duly logged aboard Oldendorf’s flagship, the heavy cruiser USS Louisville. Admiral Oldendorf, commander of the Leyte invasion fire support warships, was not surprised by the order. Naval intelligence had already been apprised of the fact that a Japanese force was on its way toward Leyte Gulf
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I can’t imagine the terror that these men suffered through. A tremendous loss of life is just sad.
I assume that FDR, and all the politicians and bureaucrats of Japan and USA, bear a heavy share of the blame for these deaths and injuries.
So sad. And, so wasteful.
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POLITICAL: Mandatory mental competency test for politicians — s great idea for ALL of them regardless of age!
Jill Biden calls it ‘ridiculous’ that Nikki Haley wants to impose mandatory mental competency test for politicians older than 75 as Joe, 80, weighs launching 2024 reelection bid
- Nikki Haley wants politicians over 75 to take mental competency evaluations
- First lady Jill Biden said her husband would ‘never’ consider taking such a test
- Joe Biden would be 82 for inauguration if reelected and Trump would be 78
By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:46 EST, 5 March 2023 | Updated: 13:08 EST, 5 March 2023
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Jill Biden is pushing back on GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, 51, for proposing that all politicians over the age of 75 be required to take a mental competency test to qualify to serve in public office.
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I don’t see what the problem is.
If fact, I like it for ALL politicians.
Maybe John Fetterman from PA isn’t fit to serve regardless of age.
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VOCABULARY: Dunning–Kruger effect — perception versus reality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Dunning–Kruger effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Relation between average self-perceived performance and average actual performance on a college exam.[1] The red area shows the tendency of low performers to overestimate their abilities. Nevertheless, low performers’ self-assessment is lower than that of high performers.
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RANT: Isn’t this like slavery or indentured servitude?
https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/jpmorgan-chase-requires-workers-give-6-months-notice/
JPMorgan Chase ‘requires its tech workers give 6 months’ notice before they quit’
By Ariel Zilber — March 3, 2023 12:08pm Updated
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A veteran JPMorgan Chase banker fumed over the financial giant’s policy requiring staffers to give six months’ notice before being allowed to leave for another job.
The Wall Street worker, who claims to earn around $400,000 annually in total compensation after accumulating 15 years of experience, griped that the lengthy notice period likely means a lucrative job offer from another company will be rescinded.
Taking to the social media platform Blind — which allows career professionals anonymity so that they can freely post without concern about retribution from their bosses — the worker in the e-trade division lamented over the policy.
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Seems like this is a form of slavery. Even if a well compensated form of it. I can understand wanting to protect your business but it’s a fact of life that every night your most important asset walks out the door.
A six month notice requirement is different IMHO than a noncompete clause. One “indentures” you; the other just limits where you can go.
I would assume that if one litigated this, the courts would see it as slavery.
Of course, that assumes you can get “justice” in a Gooferment court, when Big Business owns so many politicians and bureaucrats.
Argh!
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GOVERNACIDE: Does the EPA demonstrate “willful ignorence”?
Here’s the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine
Stephen Lester
- The agency is familiar with dioxins, having researched its adverse effects, and if they test the soil in East Palestine for it, they will find it
Thu 2 Mar 2023 09.00 EST
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The most toxic form of dioxin is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or TCDD. TCDD is more commonly recognized as the toxic contaminant found in Agent Orange and at Love Canal, New York and Times Beach, Missouri, both sites of two of the most tragic environmental catastrophes in US history.
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This is important because of the adverse health effects associated with exposure to dioxins. Exposure to dioxins can cause cancer, reproductive damage, developmental problems, type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, infertility in adults, impairment of the immune system and skin lesions.
The EPA is very familiar with dioxins. For more than 25 years, the agency evaluated and assessed the risks posed by exposure to dioxins. They published multiple draft reports on the health effects caused by exposure to dioxins. They published an inventory of dioxin sources and devoted an enormous amount of time to studying dioxins. The agency knows this chemical very well.
So why is EPA unwilling to test for dioxins in the soil? My guess is because they know they will find it. And if they find it, they’ll have to address the many questions people are asking. It will not be easy to interpret the results of the testing for dioxins in soil, but to avoid testing is irresponsible. The EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. Clearly the situation in East Palestine is the place where EPA should follow its mission and do right by the people who live in this town. EPA must test the soil in East Palestine for dioxins.
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Time for the politicians and bureaucrats to get serious about protecting the public. (Like that ever mattered to them.). If they don’t, time to force them out and make them get jobs IRL!
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INNOVATION: Why can’t air tags be put in a shoe?
I wonder when someone in the shoe business gets the bright idea to enable shoes for children and mentally disabled adults to have an Apple Air Tag or Tile Tracker to be inserted? Then when someone goes missing, they can be quickly found. Seems like an easy design change. I was thinking about cutting the heel of a sneaker, hollowing out “cave”, putting an Air Tag in, and the epoxy the cut. I was concerned that it might make the shoe uncomfortable. I’m going to wait for him to outgrow his current pair and has a new pair ready to put into service. Then do a human factors test, Laugh!
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Found an interesting report of doing this exact idea.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/
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MEME: Epstein’s black book
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VOCABULARY: “cakeism” — the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive
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cakeism
noun. the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive, or have it both ways.
📝 The first records of the term come from 2016. Derived from the expression “to have one’s cake and eat it, too,” the term is especially associated with Brexit and Boris Johnson.
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I never had the concept of “false belief”. It goes along with the Overton Window, the JoHari window, and all the perceptions that are “misleading” us.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USA needs to help Iran see the light
‘This is not the way to conduct an interview’: Smiling Iranian foreign minister says women in his country ‘have all the necessary required freedoms’ in combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
- Iranian foreign minister smirks as he’s grilled about women’s rights to protest
- Hossein Amirabdollahian repeatedly lambasted CNN host Christiana Amanpour during tense exchange
- It came after diplomats walked out of his human rights speech to the UN
By Helena Kelly For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:56 EST, 2 March 2023 | Updated: 02:12 EST, 2 March 2023
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Iran’s foreign minister could not stop smirking as he was grilled about his country’s record on women’s rights in a combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
Hossein Amirabdollahian told the host ‘this is not the way to conduct an interview’ after he insisted women in Iran had ‘all the necessary, required freedoms’ and accused Western media of fueling protests there.
It comes just two days after diplomats walked out of a speech given by the Iranian minister to the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Sad to say, there’s not much that we can do to convince these men that they are wrong in their world view of women, women’s rights, and their role. As a little L libertarian, I can’t solve the world’s problems. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), we can “help” them understand the issues. How about we make all their men PNG and they have to stay confined to their cesspool until they fix the issue. And, they shouldn’t have a role in UN “Human Rights” proceedings!
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MONEY: Fractional Reserve Banking is troublesome at best; fraud at worst
bullionmax.com
The Past, Present and Future of Gold
Posted on February 16, 2023
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Amsterdam had the first truly centralized monetary entity, as it opened shop in 1609, but the Bank of Amsterdam lasted longer without trouble, having “only” started collapsing in 1790. In essence, the BoA took our love of growth a little too seriously. It expanded from being mostly a storage intermediary for gold and silver to a lender. And, when it turned out it had nowhere near the gold and silver holdings it should to lend the amounts it has, a crisis hit… until banking was made very modern once again, with banks being able to lend far and away in excess of what they have.
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It seems that a “bank” mixes up a “100% reserve custodian” and “fractional reserve lender”.
“We, The Sheeple” need to insist that the Gooferment differentiate between the two types of entities.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Prosecution and Police needed a reprimand and retraining in this case
5 Key Facts About The Jessica Chambers Murder Case | Murders and Homicides on Crimefeed | Investigation Discovery
- Jessica Chambers suffered an agonizing death: Firefighters saw her walking toward them, wearing only her underwear & burned over 93 percent of her body.
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On December 6, 2014, a 19-year-old cheerleader named Jessica Chambers, pictured here taking a mirror selfie, was set on fire in the small town of Courtland, Mississippi.
By: Catherine Townsend
May 26, 2021
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Karas said that the judge concluded that any potential prosecutorial misconduct by Champion “was not prejudicial” to Tellis.
The Cell Phone Evidence
Intelligence Analyst Paul Rowlett testified about Chambers’ and Tellis’ phone data, and claimed that phone data put Chambers and Tellis together at the same location just before, or possibly even during, Chambers’ murder. The defense team has questioned Rowlett about the accuracy of the data.
Another troubling point for the defense is the fact that Tellis deleted all the texts and calls between he and Chambers after her death. Tellis, who has always maintained his innocence, stated that he deleted the data because he did not want a dead person’s information in his phone.
The cell phone data appears damning, but according to Karas, cell phone tower pings and other related evidence are not always conclusive — especially in rural areas where there are only a few towers. In these cases, she says, experts have told her that the location of the cell phone can only be narrowed down to an “around two to 10 or 20 square mile area.”
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I watched this show all 6 or 7 hours of it over two days. A lot of commercials and repetition to get thru.
- Race and the “Missing White Woman Syndrome”
- The Other Murder
- The “Eric/Derrick” Debate
- The Cell Phone Evidence
- The New Witnesses
There were also SIGNIFICANT differences between the two trials that the second jury wasn’t told about that were dispositive. In my recollection, they mostly went AGAINST the prosecution.
- The shoddy police work around crime scene search may have missed critical and “finding and photographing” the keys certainly was an attempt to fabricate evidence.
- The testimony of the first responders in the first trial was very authentic; in the second, they all sounded rehearsed and coached.
- The cell phone data was unbelievable and unreliable.
- Where did they dig up the witness that supposedly gave him a ride? Her testimony had to be the result of a quid pro quo from the prosecutor for her son.
- They couldn’t find the guy that found the keys was totally bogus.
Now this fellow definitely was not the sharpest tack in the box, and probably was a “bad guy” for other things, but the prosecution failed to make a good case.
I especially like the candid gang leader who said: “If he did it, he was a pretty dumb ***** to think he could burn up a white woman in Mississippi and get away with it.”
I don’t think the prosecution came close to proving their case and how can prosecutorial misconduct NOT prejudice the case against the defendant.
Watch it and see how incompetent the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats can be. And be thankful that you’re not their target.,
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