Even more remarkable is that the trapped air remains trapped almost indefinitely, which the researchers discovered after deliberately submerging one of their aluminum water-repelling sandwiches underwater for two whole months after which it immediately floated back to the surface once released.
Source: Researchers Create a Metal Structure That Will Not Sink or Stay Submerged Under Water
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2019-Nov-11
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/new-ebook-318817?e=39307912ab
Pro-war propaganda
Tom Woods
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Pro-war propaganda.
A fellow I do a fair amount of business with posted on social media today that this is not a day for “antiwar propaganda.”
Nonsense.
Veterans’ Day was originally Armistice Day, in commemoration of the cessation of hostilities in World War I. The armistice was signed in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918.
For four years, Europe tore itself apart, and sent millions of men into a meat grinder for no good reason. Tens of thousands would die, and the front would move a matter of yards.
Especially on this hundredth anniversary of the original Armistice Day, how does anyone seriously expect to honor the fallen without any discussion of the madmen who sent them into this horror?
Did their deaths occur in some abstract realm, outside time, space, and causation?
Or were they killed in specific ways, under orders from particular people?
Anyone speaking in mere platitudes today is an enemy of mankind.
The left-liberals and neoconservatives alike, who always seem to put aside their pretend differences when an idiotic war is in the offing, and who make saccharine speeches about democracy and openness and peace, are enemies of mankind.
As a reminder of how deranged our cultural elite and political establishment are, how many major political figures of the past hundred years have been dismissed from polite society for urging too much war?
There are lots of things that get you demonized and ostracized in America, but that ain’t one of them.
Usually it gets you called a “statesman.”
This is deranged.
Especially on Veterans Day should we speak out against war and the lying propagandists who foment them.
And the state cheerleaders who make excuses for them. (Why, Saddam really did have WMDs! etc.)
Especially culpable are the so-called conservatives who claim to distrust government propaganda — and yes, they’re indeed very sound on the milk subsidies question — but who can’t ape that Pentagon press release fast enough.
To hell with all of them.
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The best way to “celebrate” Veterans’ Day is DEMAND that “we” stop creating so many of then, and “wasting” their lives, IMMEDIATELY.
Never met a vet who disagreed.
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Murphy must be hiding misbehavior by his staff. Why else would he stretch out a fight that puts him solidly on the side of Harvey Weinstein in the growing debate over gag orders?
Source: What’s Murphy hiding with his gag order on women who worked for him? | Moran – nj.com
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The D’s seem to be against women … …
… … unless there are charges against R’s!
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2019-Nov-09
Shocking Proof How Google Censors Health News
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/joseph-mercola/shocking-proof-how-google-censors-health-news/
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Have to switch from “Doctor Google” to “Doctor Duck Duck Go”?
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This new relationship will allow Better World Books to provide a steady stream of books to be digitized by the Internet Archive, thereby growing its digital holdings to millions of books. Libraries that work alongside Better World Books will now make a bigger impact than ever. Any book that does not yet exist in digital form will go into a pipeline for future digitization, preservation and access.
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Interesting.
One would think that the original publisher has it in electronic form and could just submit the file.
If the original publisher has no plans for future publishing, then it would seem like a big win for humanity.
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2019-Nov-03
Was There Another Reason For Electricity Shutdowns In California?
Authored by Richard Trzupek via The Epoch Times,
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According to the official, widely reported story, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shut down substantial portions of its electric transmission system in northern California as a precautionary measure.
Citing high wind speeds they described as “historic,” the utility claims that if they didn’t turn off the grid, wind-caused damage to their infrastructure could start more wildfires in the area.
Perhaps that’s true. Perhaps. This tale presumes that the folks who designed and maintain PG&E’s transmission system are unaware of or ignored the need to design it to withstand severe weather events, and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) allowed the utility to do so.
Ignorance and incompetence happens, to be sure, but there’s much about this story that doesn’t smell right—and it’s disappointing that most journalists and elected officials are apparently accepting it without question.
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Here’s an interesting theory as to why PG&E has to cut power to Customers.
Of course, there’s no way for Joe-Sixpack to know if this is true, but it’s an “interesting question”.
I’d bet there’s some truth to it.
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2019-Nov-02
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-prop-47-shoplifting-theft-crime-statewide
California’s Prop 47 leads to rise in shoplifting, thefts, criminal activity across state
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
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California is one of a handful of states that doesn’t hand out plastic shopping bags. To get one, the purchaser has to pay an additional dime. Residents looking to save ten cents and spare the environment typically put merchandise in a purse, backpack or have it in their hand when they walk out, an unintended consequence of which is shoplifters can easily “fit in and walk out” with the paying crowd.
“It’s nuts,” Michelin said. “Stores are going to be forced to lock up all their merchandise.”
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This seems to be the opposite of NYC’s (Bratton’s?) quality of life crackdown to decrease crime?
Insane!
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2019-Nov-01 1841
On October 12, I had a mitral valve repair.
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007411.htm
It was minimally invasive and no problems were expected.
Unfortunately, the anesthetic impacted my prostate and it shut the urinary tube. A catheterization solved that problem.
Apparently, the drugs prescribed to allow my recovery sent my bp and pulse into highs and lows. Changing them around — eliminate some, change others — seemed to get me back level.
Recovery took longer than I expected and wasn’t as easy as I anticipated.
But, I think I’m back to where I was before I was “fixed”.
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That redefinition of morality was a product of World War II, which included such barbarities as Germany’s systematic murder of six million Jews and Japan’s rape of Nanking. While the worst atrocities were perpetrated by the Axis, all the major nation-states sliced away at the moral code — often to the applause of their leaders and citizens alike. By 1945 there were few moral restraints left in what had become virtually a total war. Even F.D.R.’s prewar concern for sparing enemy civilians had fallen by the wayside. In that new moral climate, any nation that had the A-bomb would probably have used it against enemy peoples. British leaders as well as Joseph Stalin endorsed the act. Germany’s and Japan’s leaders surely would have used it against cities. America was not morally unique — just technologically exceptional. Only it had the bomb, and so only it used it.
Source: The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered
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November 1, 1945 was schedule for the invasion of Japan.
Who knows how many on both side would have died?
WW2’s “tactics” really ended the protection of non-combatant civilians.
So why should we be surprised that “terrorism” has emerged as the tool of Fifth Generation asymmetrical warfare?
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It’s plain sailing from there as the baby continues his feed without any problems
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I’d call it a photo finish?
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The Examiner’s report raises further questions about the so-called “whistleblower” and his complaint, which alleges President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate allegations of corruption against former Vice President and 2020 White House hopeful Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. In an August 26th letter, Atkinson said the officer was found to have harbored “political bias” in favor of a rival political candidate to President Trump. York’s report contradicts a claim by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who stated last week that the so-called “whistleblower’s” political bias was that he was a “registered Democrat.”
Source: Report: Ukraine ‘Whistleblower’ Had ‘Professional Relationship’ with 2020 Democrat
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Have to quibble about the use of the “whistleblower”!
Probably a “disgruntled partisan CIA bureaucrat” would be a better label.
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The dramatic thrust about 9/11 that is always the undercurrent of the mainstream narrative goes as follows: “Middle Eastern highjackers piloted American planes with American passengers into American buildings, killing thousands of Americans, so let’s make them pay!” As a support for this narrative, however, the destruction of Building 7 a full 7 hours later is at best anticlimactic. In fact, a closer examination of the evidence surrounding Building 7 begins to erode the entire narrative, and start us questioning whether the whole scene really played out the way we are being told.
If, as seems to be a growing consensus now, that all 3 buildings had been prepared for controlled demolitions in order to advance the narrative above, then perhaps Building 7, too, was meant to be hit by a plane. As it turns out, its demolition 7 hours later appears to have been damage control for a part of the plan that went wrong. By that time, word was getting out on the ground that Building 7 was going to be taken down. Reports came to journalists and other onlookers from law enforcement officers, the fire department and others that the building was going to be taken down, and that people should leave the area.
The video below provides compelling testimony of this, since it is from a collection of people who were there as it was happening, and with no particular agenda other than to say what they were told, what they heard, or what they saw.
Source: The Implosion of Building 7 Remains the Irrefutable ‘Smoking Gun‘ of a 9/11 Inside Job – LewRockwell
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All that is necessary is to ask the question.
If this upsets, some people so be it.
If this is true, then it becomes the biggest hit on Gooferment propaganda since Pearl Harbor. (Referring to FDR engineering the Japanese attack to get out of the Great Depression.)
While this story is not imho “proven” yet, it certainly is more open and honest that the NIST report or other Gooferment “pronouncements” on the whole 911 disaster. NIST never shared its data or models for “security” reasons. That’s what the Gooferment always says.
Remember that the CIA created the phrase “Conspiracy Theories” to discredit any disagreement with the “official story”.
In my opinion, from my brain square in my tin foil hat, a Conspiracy Theorist merely needs to assert “inconvenient facts”, ask questions, or put “small holes” in the Gooferment propaganda balloon to have default credibility. They may be wrong. They may have been wrong on other topics in the past. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), they deserve a “fair hearing”; not dismissal out of hand.
If there is a “conspiracy”, it’s from the “Deep State” and / or “the rich elite”. So, “We, The Sheeple” need to suspect everything they are EVER told by Gooferment politicians or bureaucrats.
As I said in my recent vaccine post, where the NY DOH bureaucrat swears that vaccines are same, I point to my personal “EXHIBIT #1” of Christie Todd Wittman, the head of the EPA, assuring us that the air around the 911 site was safe to breathe. Argh! TO quote a famous TV jurist, “I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
YMMV, but I think the Gooferment “explanation” of 911/7WTC is suspect at best.
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“Judicial Watch just caught the State Department and DOJ red-handed in another email cover-up – they all knew about the Clinton email account but covered up the smoking-gun email showing this guilty knowledge for years,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
The scope of court-ordered discovery that produces this email find includes: whether Secretary Clinton used private email in an effort to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); whether the State Department’s attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 and 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.
During a recent hearing, Judge Lamberth specifically raised concerns about a Clinton email cache, carterheavyindustries@gmail.com, discussed in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and wants Judicial Watch to “shake this tree” on this issue.
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It seems that lying goes unpunished in the Deep State swamp!
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2019-Oct-07
Recently went to the Octoberfest at:
Deutscher Club of Clark 787 Featherbed Ln, Clark, New Jersey 07066, United States
///ranged.after.accent
It was mobbed. More than ususal. And, once again, we had trouble finding our firends.
If only, they were what3words Users!
They could have told me EXACTLY where on the property they were.
///making.vest.doctor (or https://what3words.com/making.vest.doctor)
And we would have linked up without the searching.
And, in case your wondering, cell phones were unusable because of poor signal and the loud music.
Argh!
It’s a great tool that EVERYONE should have for that one time when you really need it.
imho
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Your certified letter dated 11/17/12 has been handed to me. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane, Trout Run, Pennsylvania.A couple of beavers are in the process of constructing and maintaining two wood ‘debris’ dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials ‘debris.’I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
Source: Man Responds To Letter Received By Dept. Of Environmental Quality
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Pretty funny stuff.
How dumb can the Gooferment bureaucrats be?
This is an example of the principle at work.
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The R-rated supervillain flick smashed October opening-day box office records after taking home $39.9 million in domestic ticket sales on Friday, is on pace to take in a $92 million weekend total.
Source: Joker viewers around the globe WALK OUT of movie theatres | Daily Mail Online
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‘It’s way too terrifying’: Joker viewers around the world WALK OUT of movie theaters and urge cinemas to BAN the ultra-violent film saying it glamorizes gun crime and deals with mental health issues in a ‘triggering’ way
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I saw it and think it’s all hype to get folks to see it.
Sigh.
It was “good”; not “great” imho.
Excellent acting.
Reminded me of “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest”.
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On top of everything else, the call gave the Seahawks a first down at a critical point in the game and may have very well proved to be the difference in the ballgame.
Source: WATCH: Fans Erupt After Terrible Roughing the Passer Call on Clay Matthews
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I couldn’t believe that call when I saw it.
Football has become almost unwatchable.
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British teen killed in a car crash outside an American spy base in the UK ‘was hit by a US diplomat’s wife who claimed diplomatic immunity and has now left the country’
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“Ugly American”?
Sorry but the US State Department should get busy.
While it may have been an accident, why rush her out of the country?
Argh!
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Wealth manager, 62, and his wife, 57, are killed in horrific car crash after intoxicated woman driving the wrong way rammed her Volkswagen into the couple’s taxi
Source: Wealth manager, 62, and his wife are killed in horrific California car crash | Daily Mail Online
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Sorry but this happens all too often.
Why can’t we have the those “wrong way” preventers that I’ve seen in parking lots?
If lot owners can use them to keep folks from leaving without paying, then why can’t the interstates use them to stop drunk or confused drivers?
Argh!
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Sweeney acknowledged that his school consolidation plan would be unpopular, but he also believes that it could provide the state an additional $1 billion.
Source: Big Move On Plan To Eliminate Nearly 300 NJ School Districts | Patch
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I love how there is no thought that Gooferment Skrules could be the problem?
I’d like to return education to the parents!
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An Obama program that offers foreigners free English, history and civics courses as well as naturalization legal services just received another multi-million-dollar infusion from the government. The Obama administration launched the costly initiative, known as “citizenship and assimilation grant program,” in 2009 and dedicated more than $62 million to it. The Trump administration has kept the taxpayer dollars flowing with substantial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants allocated to leftist groups in chunks of several hundred thousand dollars apiece.
Source: DHS Gives Obama Immigrant Assimilation Program $10 Million Infusion | Judicial Watch
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Sorry but it’s yet another unConstitutional program that “We, The Sheeple” just can’t afford.
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1) What exactly did Joe Biden Do in the Ukraine? President Obama made him his point man there after the overthrow of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in the 2014 revolution. Biden visited Ukraine at least a dozen times over the next two years, ostensibly to help new pro-Western president Petro Poroshenko root out corruption. But what was Biden really doing? We should be told.
2) How and why did Hunter Biden come to land such a lucrative job in the spring of 2014 with Burisma, the largest private gas company in Ukraine? He doesn’t appear to have any real credentials for it other than being the US Vice-President’s son. We should be told.
3) What did Hunter Biden do for Burisma? Who did he meet, what deals did he fix, what influence did he wield and how? How did he earn his $50,000 a month? We should be told.
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Some EXCELLENT questions!
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U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents identified a migrant child being smuggled in what they call a fraudulent family unit. Border Patrol agents cared for the small child until officials with Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) arrived.
Source: Migrant Child Rescued from Fake Parents near Texas Border, Say Feds
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More criminal behavior!
This needs to be stopped.
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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) posted a flashback featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accusing Republicans of being “paralyzed with hatred” for pursuing the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, who denied having an affair with Monica Lewinsky under oath.
Source: Pelosi Claimed GOP Was ‘Paralyzed with Hatred’ for Impeaching Clinton
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Interesting what happens when the tables are turned.
It’s all politics, all the time.
And, it’s tiresome.
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Sens. Dick Durbin (D–Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R–Iowa) introduced a bill this week that would expressly prohibit the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing. “If any American is acquitted of charges by a jury of their peers, then some sentencing judge shouldn’t be able to find them guilty anyway and add to their punishment,” Grassley said in a statement released this week. “That’s not acceptable and it’s not American.”
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Well that’s not “fair”!
Argh!
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Chris McCabe, who evaluated seller performance while employed at Amazon and who now runs a consulting firm for its retailers, estimates the number of inauthentic reviews on the site to be around 30%. Amazon estimates it at less than 1% and said it spent more than $400 million last year alone to protect customers from reviews abuse, fraud and misconduct, leading to action against more than 5 million reviewers. Even so, “Amazon doesn’t have the right defenses,” Mr. McCabe said.
Source: Have Online Reviews Lost All Value? – WSJ
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I always found the reviews worthless.
But, I could be wrong. if only there was a way to only see the reviews of my contacts?
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