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-Lurid Crime Tales-
California crash involved smugglers, illegal immigrants, Ford SUV totaled
[FOX] A California highway crash involving human smugglers and 25 illegal immigrants jammed into a single SUV left over a dozen dead Tuesday, a Border Patrol source tells Fox News.

The wreck involved an overloaded Ford Expedition, which normally seats eight, and a semi-truck near the U.S.-Mexico border, the source says. Officials noted that the SUV's back seats had been removed to create more space for passengers.

The crash occurred in Holtville, a town about 125 miles outside of San Diego, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.
Source of excellent carne asada
California Highway Patrol officers found 12 people dead on scene, while another person died at a local hospital. Meanwhile, the remaining eight victims with injuries were transported to different local hospitals.

ABC13 Story on the crash.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 04:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  .....the remaining eight victims with injuries were transported to different local hospitals.

Where their injuries were treated compliments of US Taxpayers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden immigration control?
Posted by: Glomort Elmomons5180 || 03/03/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
President Trump and First Lady both vaccinated at the White House
[Examiner via Right Scoop] RFormer President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to an adviser.

News that the Trumps have already been vaccinated broke on Monday, a day after the former president gave his first public address since leaving the presidency on Jan. 20. Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, where he encouraged "everybody" to get the vaccine.

The couple received their first doses in January when they were still in the White House, an adviser told the Washington Examiner. The couple has since been given their second inoculations, according to the Hill.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 07:54 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When it's ok to war aviation glasses and a flight jacket.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Uh, Trump has had it already, I think Mrs. Trump was exposed at the same time... them getting the vaccine was pointless.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/03/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ^"Faith is for the congregation, not the priest."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Why is this news?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/03/2021 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Next they will "discover" the 24/7 Secret Service protection.
Posted by: magpie || 03/03/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||


Air Force OKs shorts for maintainers on hot days, and other common sense uniform changes
[Stars & Stripes] Air Force wrench turners will be allowed to wear shorts to beat the heat at work under to an impending rule change.

Starting March 15, commanders can authorize maintainers to wear navy-blue shorts instead of Airman Battle Uniform or Operational Camouflage Pattern trousers in maintenance areas when temperatures are forecast to meet or exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an Air Force statement Tuesday.

"Authorized areas will include the flight line, hangars and dock areas outside of climate-controlled areas," the statement said.

If a commander OKs shorts, they’ll be worn with a coyote brown T-shirt and uniform green or coyote brown socks with boots.

Some stateside installations such as Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida rolled out shorts for maintainers two summers ago. Kadena Air Base on Okinawa has allowed members of the 18th Maintenance Group to wear them since early last year.

Four out of five maintainers will opt for shorts on hot days once they have the option, predicted Tech. Sgt. Jerry Sysourath, a C-130 maintainer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 07:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who wears short shorts?
We wear short shorts!
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 03/03/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Airman Battle Uniform™ because we need camouflage while turning a wrench!
Posted by: magpie || 03/03/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Air Force ghillie suit requires attaching concrete tiles and shiny tools...
Posted by: magpie || 03/03/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  the brits in N Africa wear shorts, wore shorts...
Posted by: 746 || 03/03/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Best Military Knee Pads
Posted by: Large Forkbeard8626 || 03/03/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Well better than the standard issue 'Valet' dress uniform, I guess.

Runs and hides
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/03/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||


StarShip SN10 attempting high altitude flight and landing today.
[Twitter]
Last 2 flights SN8 and SN9 had huge explosions landing after beautiful flights. Watch today (Weds) to see if they succeed with landing.

LabPadre has the most cameras on YouTube to watch it. Search YouTube for LabPadre.

SN stands for both Serial Number and StarShip Number.





Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nerdle Cam 4K- SpaceX SN10 At Boca Chica Starship Launch Facility
Posted by: Clomoque Gurly-Brown1771 || 03/03/2021 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2 
Beautiful launch and landing.... then about 10 minutes after landing it blew up on the pad while being cooled with water spray.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 18:52 Comments || Top||

#3  So good flight but a new error leg.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 18:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Request to join Dear Moon crew.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you 3dc, most excellent video.
Posted by: Dale || 03/03/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Pretty impressive couple of guys!
Posted by: 746 || 03/03/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||


People Moving to Texas Are Not Going to Turn the State Blue
I saw the news clip last night on the local CBS channel. This is the bestest part of the story about Texas real estate sales.
[Yahoo News] BROOKE KATZ [CBS]: She recently attracted the attention of actor Kirk Cameron who, in a Facebook post, said he too is considering moving to Texas, where taxes are lower, patriotism is higher, and biblical values are celebrated.

MARIE BAILEY [RE agent]: There is a huge misconception that Californians are here to turn Texas blue.

BROOKE KATZ: Bailey says the buyers she works with are overwhelmingly conservative.

LUIS TORRES [expert]: Don't forget, people will vote with their feet, and they're voting for taxes.

BROOKE KATZ: Research economist Dr. Luis Torres says our state's business-friendly reputation draws tens of thousands of people every year. But many agents say 2020 brought even more buyers hoping to escape their state's COVID restrictions.
Tuesday, the Gov announced lifting all restrictions as of March 10.
KATHERINE MEYERS [agent]: I have people that have contacted me from California, Illinois, New York to help them find homes here.

MARIE BAILEY [agent]: They know what they are coming from and they are thrilled.
I am too, as long as they are "overwhelmingly conservative".
Posted by: Bobby || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fingers crossed. Not that it ever helped anybody.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/03/2021 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2 
Brook Cats, Very Rare, Don't mind getting their feet wet.


.
.May the Texas Republic Thrive
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.Brooke Katz <- Happy, Mom Did Not Name Her "Allie"
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Posted by: Benoni Protector of the Mongolia Horde1730 || 03/03/2021 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  See - Colorado and Arizona

'Hope' is not a strategy
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4 

Brooke Katz

I might watch TV again, if I moved to Dallas/Fort Worth TX

Posted by: Foozled Shipment6182 || 03/03/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  They sure as hell fucked up Colorado.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/03/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Friends of ours moved here from WA & CA for the right reasons, but a lot don't - see Austin, aka East Berkeley. And there is the biggest group moving in - from Latin America...
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/03/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#7  People Moving to Texas Are Not Going to Turn the State Blue

Lets look at the latest voting record - county by county.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2021 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Beware the Trojan Horse.
Posted by: warthogswife || 03/03/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Metastasis is the spread of cancer cells to new areas of the body, often by way of the lymph system or bloodstream. A metastatic cancer, or metastatic tumor, is one that has spread from the primary site of origin, or where it started, into different areas of the body.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  "overwhelmingly conservative"

Doesn't mean they know how to drive 70-85 on a 1.5 lane road.
Posted by: Clomoque Gurly-Brown1771 || 03/03/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Then one day, you wake up and all of your local positions are filled with lunatics, they run off what will be known as the good employees, and fill those positions with bigger lunatics.

Watched it happen to Colorado.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||


Texas Lifts All COVID Restrictions March 10
[the post millennial] “So today," he said, "I'm issuing an executive order that rescinds most of the earlier executive orders."

"Effective next Wednesday, all businesses of any type are allowed to open 100 percent," Abbot proclaimed. "That includes any type of entity in Texas."

"Also, I am ending the state-wide mask mandate."
Hat tip to Mrs. Bobby, who called the Gov "an idiot".
Texas and Mississippi lift mask mandates and say all businesses can open at 100% capacity, as health officials warn not to ease restrictions
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that the statewide mask mandate imposed eight months ago will be lifted on March 10, making Texas the largest state in the US to lift its mask mandate amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Texas businesses will also be able to operate at 100% capacity, including bars and restaurants. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves made a similar announcement following the one from Abbott. The CDC and health officials still advise that people wear a mask and avoid crowds to reduce transmission of the virus.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After the massive damage caused by extreme cold, the governor is wisely removing all restrictions so Texas can rebuild asap.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/03/2021 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Trickle of CA businesses leaving for TX will become a flood
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Floling9442 || 03/03/2021 4:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Media people from California, UK's Pinewood Studios, and elsewhere appeared to have assimilated and remain hard working conservatives.

Having failed to turn the state via immigration, the left successfully targeted Fulton County and the voting process.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 4:11 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ you mean via Georgia's voter-tourism?

The people enabling such ludicrous shite are beneath contempt
Posted by: Vernal Thinetle2559 || 03/03/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Restrictions are lifted only if hospitalizations remain at manageable levels. Mask and other requirements may still be imposed by private businesses if they choose. I wonder if other states (like NY or CA) will impose restrictions on travelers coming from or through Texas?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/03/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  'Idiot' seems to be the common response.

Good news is, it isn't an order to remove masks, and masks work right?

I do appreciate the humor of everyone going after Abbott for opening in 10 days, when The Magnolia State is open for business today and is shit-catching free.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  'But..but..but..all those diseased border jumpers will travel around!'

Fuggin beautiful.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||



-Land of the Free
Fox News insiders RAGE about the hire of Kayleigh McEnany
[Right Scoop] The Daily Beast went dumpster diving for salacious insider info from Fox Newsers on Kayleigh McEnany today and they got exactly what they wanted, with one insider calling her a mini-Goebbels. Anonymously, of course:
Harf! Harf, harf!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 04:30 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The "raging insiders" are not paying attention. Fox is bleeding viewership.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 4:35 Comments || Top||

#2 
FOX NEWS could not have screwed the pooch worse with its DC COUP support and ANTI-TRUMP Election period focused reporting.

It is no wonder why the Fox News Jan. 2021, TV viewer numbers were down 14% from a year ago.

At this rate the bean counters at FOX NEWS will pretty soon need to decide; if they will cut staff, sell off holdings, or return to their successful 25+ year truthful Conservative factual NEWS format.
Posted by: JustSayingIt || 03/03/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm down to 7:58PM to 8:59PM with Fox News. The rest is trash.
I do miss Shannon Bream, she's a looker.
Posted by: Spoter B || 03/03/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't watch Fox anyway.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/03/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I haven't had a cable tv subscription for a decade now and almost never turn on the tv.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I kind of like 'Park*d' with Abby Hornacek.

Well, maybe it's just Miss Hornacek.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/03/2021 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  "I haven't had a cable tv subscription for a decade now and almost never turn on the tv." same with me...
Posted by: 746 || 03/03/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Those of you who are not watching Tucker Carlson are missing some pretty decent rants.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/03/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Fox News only down 14%?

I watch Tucker on YouTube. No TV.
Posted by: KBK || 03/03/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libyan Electricity Company Reports Theft of 2000 Meters of Copper Wires
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Tuesday, the General Electricity Company in Libya (GECOL) announced the theft of high-pressure wires in western Libya.

In a statement, the company announced that 1000 meters of copper wires in western Libya were stolen, causing the loss of supply to about three ground stations, a ready station, and ten antenna power transformers
Who knew they had tweakers in Libya?
It added that a further 1,050 meters of copper wires were also stolen from the Ali al-Zuibi branch on the Majer line (1), from substation 220 in the central Zliten distribution department of the al-Murqub Distribution Department.

GECOL had previously announced the theft of 1,200 meters of copper wires last month. This resulted in a major blackout in the region.
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia says Moscow will respond in kind to any new US sanctions over the treatment of Navalny
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China in Focus (March 2): Japan Asks China to Stop Anal Swab Testing
[NTD]
  • China comes under fire again for subjecting foreigners to an invasive virus test. Japanese officials say it needs to stop.

  • The head of the Chinese Communist Party is determined to stand against democratic principles. He vows not to follow constitutionalism.

  • Florida's governor takes new action to protect the state from China's communist influence.

  • One Chinese sailor is speaking out against the Chinese regime after traveling around the world opened his eyes.
Posted by: Flake Glitter4857 || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  How about a little spritz of those 'essential oils'?
Posted by: Slavising Shasing8401 || 03/03/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||


China says that it was discussing a visit to its Xinjiang region by UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns
[AlAhram] China's vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccine to more than 45 countries, according to a country-by-country tally by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named

The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago's airport in late January, and Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera, was beaming. ’Today,’ he said, ’is a day of joy, emotion and hope’.

The source of that hope: China - a country that Chile and dozens of other nations are depending on to help rescue them from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "Never let a crisis go to waste"
Posted by: Bobby || 03/03/2021 18:28 Comments || Top||

#2  It's pretty nice to have the vaccine before the pandemic breaks out.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/03/2021 19:27 Comments || Top||


Economy
10% GDP growth?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2021 01:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you pretend inflation isn't happening, it looks like growth.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/03/2021 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  by traditional measures, the core inflation is under 2%

gasoline is up a lot, also a big bump in electricity costs (because of the Texas situation)

but food, appliances, housing, insurance and so forth have been stable

there is a data problem however comparing prices in our present partially closed retail sector with prices in ordinary times, e.g., hospitality services are discounted heavily all over the USA and this is just one of the distortions
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/03/2021 4:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I saw a graph recently of housing prices and it looks worse than inflation, more like another bubble. When it bursts we'll get to bail out the 'too big to fail' banks again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/03/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  In Northern Nevada, Arco cash prices for regular have gone from $2.28 pre-election to$2.86 yesterday. Crushing impact on any recovery efforts.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/03/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||


Europe
Pentagon Announces $125 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine
[AntiWar.com] On Monday, the Pentagon announced a $125 million military aid package for Ukraine. The $125 million package includes two armed Mark VI patrol boats, giving Ukraine a total of eight such vessels provided by the US.

The Pentagon said the package also includes "capabilities to enhance the lethality, command and control, and situational awareness of Ukraine’s forces." This means additional counter-artillery radars, other tactical equipment, continued support for satellite systems, and some medical equipment.

This package is the first part of the $275 million approved by Congress for Ukraine in the 2021 fiscal year. As per the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the additional $150 million is contingent on Ukraine reforming its military. The Pentagon said it will work with the State Department to certify "that Ukraine has made sufficient progress on key defense reforms this year."

Since the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine that sparked the war in the eastern Donbas region, the US has provided Kyiv with $2 billion in military aid. Despite the controversy around President Trump and aid to Ukraine, he took a step the Obama administration was not willing to take and sent Javelin anti-tank missiles to Kyiv.

Last week, President Biden released a statement on the seventh anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and said the US would "never" accept Russian sovereignty over the peninsula. He said the US "will stand with Ukraine against Russia’s aggressive acts."

Like the war in the Donbas, the annexation of Crimea was also sparked by the US-backed coup in Kyiv. The largely ethnic Russian populations of Crimea and Donbas rejected the nationalist post-coup government in Kyiv, and the majority of Crimeans favored joining Russia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 07:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the Bidens' cut?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/03/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean, $112.5 Million.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Anti-Voter ID Activists Storm Georgia Capitol. Has Anyone Called the National Guard?
{PJ] Georgia legislators just got serious about fixing this nation’s voter fraud problem by passing a bill requiring ID to vote absentee. The Hill reported,
We must be over the target.
The Georgia state Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would require voters to submit a driver’s license number, state identification card number or a photocopy of an approved form of identification in order to vote absentee in the state.

Predictably, the passing of this bill sparked a protest by Democrats on Monday who don’t want anyone to know who is voting absentee. Voter ID laws mean less fraud, a thing no Democrat I’ve ever known wants. Instead, they pretend it’s "racist" to require IDs. They have no problem, however, requiring IDs to get into their conventions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 07:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And where is the FBI? (Bueller? Bueller?)
Posted by: b || 03/03/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Hardly a storm. Give the Real Capital Protesters some credit, sheesh.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/03/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


Clarence Thomas documentary pulled from Amazon
[The Global Herald] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ documentary has been pulled from Amazon. The documentary features President Biden’s behavior during his confirmation hearing.

Few surprises here. The 'Cancel Culture' once again cancelling.


Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 03:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Cancel culture' is a misnomer. This is Communism in action.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Hitler4690 || 03/03/2021 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2 
Actually met the man at my Liberty University 1996 Liberty University Graduation Commencement .

I can see why the LEFT wants to erase his success.

He is a Conservative Black-man that came from next to nothing. But thru hard work and a work ethic of "never let the sun catch you in bed." pulled himself up to the Highest Court in the USA.

Posted by: JustSayingIt || 03/03/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Never ordered anything from Amajerk.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/03/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  I think it was Bee who 'Amazon introduces Kendle Bonfire App which allows you to digitally burn books'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Blasphemy suspect gets bail over four years after arrest
[Dawn] The Lahore High Court on Monday granted post-arrest bail to a man facing trial on blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
charge for over four years.

The suspect was a juvenile when Phoolnagar Saddar police, Kasur district, arrested him in 2016 following an FIR registered under sections 295 and 295-A of Pakistain Penal Code against him on the complaint of one Akhtar Ali.

The PPC sections in the FIR deal with the offences of injuring or defiling a place of worship, with intent to insult the religion of any class and deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.

The suspect’s counsel argued before the high court that his client had been languishing behind bars for the last four and a half years with no progress in the trial.

The counsel said the forensic report proved that the alleged blasphemous post in a WhatsApp group had not been generated by the petitioner, who is now 20-years old.

He argued the legal requirements for the registration of the FIR on the blasphemy charge including approval from the deputy commissioner (for filing a case), had not been fulfilled by the police.

The counsel said the complainant had been delaying the proceedings on one pretext or another while the prosecution had also not presented the evidence so far.

After hearing the arguments, the judge allowed the bail petition subject to furnishing bonds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  the FIR deal with the offences of injuring or defiling a place of worship

So, the defendant was injured and defiled?
Posted by: Jumbo Glaviling9087 || 03/03/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Unknown source of oil spill fouling Israeli beaches.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If it was Iran, the oil may not have come from a tanker at all.
Posted by: Grunter || 03/03/2021 22:06 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Austria, Denmark look beyond EU to Israel for future vaccine
[IsraelTimes] Austria and Denmark have further dented the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
’s already fragile coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
vaccine solidarity by announcing plans to team up with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines against COVID-19 variants.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz plans to visit Israel with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen later this week and confer with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on vaccine research and production cooperation. Kurz said Tuesday that his country and Denmark intend to stop relying solely on the European Union for coronavirus vaccines.

As part of its strategy, the EU has six contracts for more than 2 billion doses of vaccines, with Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer-BioNTech and CureVac. It is in negotiations with two other manufacturers, but only three vaccines have been approved for use so far in the bloc.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2 of the smarter members of the EU
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Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation
[Big Think -> Nature -> PDF]
  • Princeton physicist Hong Qin creates an AI algorithm that can predict planetary orbits.

  • The scientist partially based his work on the hypothesis which believes reality is a simulation.

  • The algorithm is being adapted to predict behavior of plasma and can be used on other natural phenomena
If this interests you go to Big Think read their synopsis and if you want to dig deeper follow their link to the PDF for the Nature article.
Qin developed this algorithm to predict the orbits of planets in the solar system, training it on data of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, and Jupiter orbits. The data is "similar to what Kepler inherited from Tycho Brahe in 1601," as Qin writes in his newly-published paper on the subject. From this data, a "serving algorithm" can correctly predict other planetary orbits in the solar system, including parabolic and hyperbolic escaping orbits. What's remarkable, it can do so without having to be told about Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation. It can figure those laws out for itself from the numbers.

Qin is now adapting the algorithm to predict and even control other behaviors, with a current focus on particles of plasma in facilities built for harvesting fusion energy powering the Sun and stars. Along with Eric Palmerduca, a Ph.D. graduate student at PPPL, Qin is using his technique "to learning an effective structure-preserving algorithm with long-term stability to simulate the gyrocenter dynamics in magnetic fusion plasmas," as he elaborated. He also plans to utilize the algorithm to study quantum physics.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sussman and Wisdom showed that the solar system is chaotic, with expected stability less than 300 million years.

This leaves unanswered the question of why it has been stable for billions of years.

Though I’m very cautious about thinking this fellow has a handle on chaotic motion, I’m certainly going to read his paper.
Posted by: KBK || 03/03/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  The AI knows, but it’s not telling us how it knows, because it doesn’t know. We don’t either, because we just built a computing structure. We didn’t program it.
Posted by: KBK || 03/03/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  GIGO
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/03/2021 0:49 Comments || Top||

#4  It's rediscovering laws of physics and other rules that govern behavior. How is that in any way "proving reality is a simulation"?
Posted by: Whaise Sforza1697 || 03/03/2021 3:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Aristotelian had it wrong? I'm figuring out how to pay the tax lady. I'll ponder the universe another day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2021 3:56 Comments || Top||

#6  If I understand correctly, the writers of the article possibly just needed a catchy title. Hong just based his work on the premise that the universe may be running off a set of parameters that recur and can be thus predicted. Discrete Field Theory is not the position that the universe is a simulation, it just treats the universe as one to catch patterns in it.

But the academics must have been drawn to only the words 'reality is a simulation' because it covers so many of their own suppositions like 'gender is imaginary', 'history is relative uhh.. because time is relative?', etc.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/03/2021 4:23 Comments || Top||

#7  #6, you forgot Global Warming.
Posted by: Spoter B || 03/03/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#8  The algorithm just printed out 42
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/03/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Great! Now we can blame this recent clusterf%$k iteration we live in as a simulation gone amok. I suggest Hon Qin look into leftist policies as the cause for this current debacle.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/03/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, I saw this movie, its called The Matrix
Posted by: Courts Snout8066 || 03/03/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#11 

Well, if AI says we are a simulation then, we should strive to replace useless things with more usable things.

Our first priority:



Replaced with





Oil Refinery
Posted by: Gnomon Phones6812 || 03/03/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 Yeah, I saw this movie, its called The Matrix

I think "13th Floor" is more appropriate. A simulation within a simulation within reality (or simulation?).
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/03/2021 19:48 Comments || Top||

#13  John Von Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." An anecdote by Freeman Dyson relates that he was gently chided by Enrico Fermi using this quote -- the moral of the story was that hypothesizing without physical tests doesn't prove anything.
Posted by: magpie || 03/03/2021 20:02 Comments || Top||

#14  Actually Reality is, by definition real.

The Physicist, however, is a simulation.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/03/2021 21:00 Comments || Top||


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-PC Follies
At link - Images the PC-Correct hate in Seuss Books.
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#1  omg!! i LOOKED AT THOSE PICTURES AND NOW MY BRAIN HAS BEEN REWIRED!! I'M A RACIST NOW MORE THAN EVER! I CAN'T DRINK COCA-COLA!!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/03/2021 19:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey kids, Dr Seuss forgot to teach you the indispensable comeback to adults who tell you he and his drawings are rayciss: Fuck Off. Very much. Sam I am, and Fool you are.
Posted by: Herb Thud5683 || 03/03/2021 21:27 Comments || Top||


Berkeley Teacher's Union Leader Criticized After Video Surfaces
[NBCBayArea] Parents in Berkeley are turning up the heat on the president of the teacher’s union after a group of moms posted a video that they say shows hypocrisy of the union leader.

The video released by the so-called "Guerilla Momz" shows Federation of Teachers President Matt Meyer walking his two-year-old child to a private preschool.

Meyer confirmed to NBC Bay Area that he is shown in the video.

A representative from Guerilla Momz would not go on camera out of fear that teachers would retaliate against them and their children.

But Jonathan Zachreson, with an affiliated group called Reopen California Schools, said this new tactic only reinforces how frustrated parents are with delays in returning to class.

"It’s really a message of hypocrisy where we see this union representative saying it’s not safe to go back, yet he feels safe enough to take his daughter to an in-person institution," said Zachreson.

Meyer also turned down repeated requests for an interview.

In an exchange of emails he said this was a non-issue. He wrote, in part, "Unfortunately there are no public options for kids her age. There are major differences in running a small preschool and a 10,000 person public school district in terms of size, facilities, public health guidance and services that legally have to be provided."

Berkeley parent Mara Kolesas is also pushing for schools to open faster. She’s been critical of some of Meyer’s recent comments about the delayed timeline of in-person instruction.

"There are doctors speaking up, epidemiologists, heads of UCSF, the letters have been published," Kolesas said. "It is safe to go back to school full-time following protocols when you have masks and vaccines."

But she disagrees with the tactics Guerilla Momz are using in this situation.

"I think that harassing someone in their private life is not the way I roll," she said.

The Berkeley Unified School District announced a plan for the youngest students to return to in-class learning through a hybrid model beginning March 29.

Older students will be phased in after that.

A big part of the plan involves getting the teachers vaccinated.
Posted by: Beavis || 03/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is just demonstrating that he is too important for rules to apply to him. Standard practice.
Posted by: Tom || 03/03/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||



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