#4
Taiwan Geographic coordinates
"Taiwan is located at latitude 23.69781 and longitude 120.960515. It is part of Asia and the northern hemisphere."
New York City Geographic coordinates
"New York City is located at latitude 40.71427 and longitude -74.00597. It is part of America and the northern hemisphere."
#8
The 2010 Baja California earthquake (also known as 2010 Easter earthquake, 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake, or 2010 El Mayor – Cucapah earthquake) occurred on April 4 (Easter Sunday) with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The shock originated at 15:40:41 local time (3:40:41 PM PDT) south of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.
Son and I were driving thru Calexico on our way to New Mexico in a Corolla...never knew about the quake till much later.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Worth it!
Researchers say that jeans sold in fast fashion produce 2.5kg of CO2 per wear
Buying second-hand or recycling old clothes can cut emissions by 90 per cent Sure, but buying used means the items won’t last as long, then will need to be replaced. It’s a wash.
#5
'Fast Fashion' jeans worn just seven times versus 'traditional' jeans are worn 120 times.
Fast fashion is a business model that focuses on the production of garments in bulk, and as quickly as possible, in response to current trends, according to Dr. Preeti Arya CNN
Study debunked!
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#6
"Life'll kill ya."
- Warren Zevon
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#7
Average people say listening to QUACK Scientists
playing the $$$$ game is deadly.
#9
First, its Daily Mail, which is as retarded as a Panda on a heavy metals diet.
Well thats it really. No need to keep reading after the first Covid article.
So jeans, or any product, certain energy goes into getting those pants on you. Each wear then makes the energy per product less. 10 energy, 5 wears, 2 energy per wear. 10 energy, 20 wears, 0.5 energy per wear.
So what we are looking for here is durability, something The West used to do before getting hooked on chinesium and The Beatles.
I am sure though, Daily Mail will retort that a dashiki is good for the environment.
#2
...We practice this too - have since the mid-50s, when airlifters started getting big enough to make it practical. It's pretty damned cool to watch.
A few very minor drawbacks, however:
*Dumping a tank from altitude is...probably not practical. LAPES = where they motor along about 30 feet off the ground and boot it out the back - work a LOT better, but at that altitude the guys on the ground with AKs have a chance of bringing you down.
*Whatever they're dropping, they have to do it (relatively) slowly and in a straight line, so the air defense guys on the ground and anybody in the air will appreciate it.
*We practice it regularly, and we still drop sh!t straight down.
*No, you can't drop it with the crew in it, because it will give them a severe case of the dead.
*Which means you have to drop the crew before/after the vehicle, and they now have to form up and find it.
*Oh, and unpack it.
*And even the United States By-God Air Force has yet to do any of this under combat conditions.
Past performance would seem to indicate that the Russians aren't going to get this quite right.
#4
An air dropped armored force (no tanks, but the Russian do have an armored light 125mm gun carrier: the Sprut) will likely be dropped (as in US doctrine) in an area known to be absent of MANPADs and other AA weapons.
Previously, in order to land their airborne forces, the Russians/Soviets needed to capture an airfield intact, as in Gostomel in the war's early going. This necessarily included a paradrop/heliborne assault by light infantry, to expand their perimeter to allow aircraft in to land the armor vehicles.
The initial air assault to capture an airfield is apparently baked into the Russians airborne doctrine with the twist being the landing by parachute of light armor vehicles instead of aircraft landing on the airfield.
I agree this has never been done in combat conditions, but it now appears we may get free tickets to the show, as long as NATO continues to move troops to eastern Europe.
#5
Add to Mike's list: *Charge the EV Tank's batteries at the convenient charging station they also dropped
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I recall when I went to eldest son's graduation from jump school at Benning. The AF had been practicing 'slick drops' with an M1A at the air field there. They had to stop, because they broke the Abrams, and the C17.
Meanwhile, the 'black hats' borrowed a North Carolina Air Nat Guard C130 for their drop week runs.
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Wiki cite: "The M551 "Sheridan" AR/AAV (Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle) was a light tank developed by the United States and named after General Philip Sheridan, of American Civil War fame. It was designed to be landed by parachute and to swim across rivers."
#2
Dem first wives historically meddle. GOP first wives historically just sit back and take vile abuse from the left.
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Jill Biden is pro-Arab or pro anything but Israel.
In June 2023, Biden and her daughter Ashley attended the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan and Rajwa Al Saif. In the same month, she visited Egypt, Morocco and Portugal... Wikipedia
[AmericanThinker] Readers of the New York Times can be forgiven for thinking that Gaza suffers from the greatest famine on the planet today, because that paper's coverage bias leaves room for no other conclusion. But a very different picture emerges when consulting the website of the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP), which alphabetically lists 14 territories with a food emergency.
For each of these 14 areas, the UNWFP notes the number of people affected by food insecurity except for Ukraine, where the UNWFP says only that "One in five households is estimated to be food-insecure." If the remaining 13 countries are ranked by the total number of people affected, according to the UNWFP, the resulting list looks like this:
1) Gaza: 1.1 million
2) Sahel: 3.3 million
3) Somalia: 4.3 million
4) Haiti: 4.97 million
5) Congo: 5.4 million
6) South Sudan: 7.1 million
7) Ethiopia: 11.8 million
8 and 9) Syria: 12.9 million
8 and 9) Myanmar: 12.9 million
10) Afghanistan: 15.8 million
11) Yemen: 17 million
12) Sudan: 18 million
13) Nigeria: 26.5 million
So, according to the UNWFP's own reported figures, Gaza has the fewest people affected by hunger. Note that the UNWFP is hardly hostile to Gaza, to which it has already granted statehood (the UNWFP's page for Gaza is called "the State of Palestine").
How does the Times cover the famine affecting the fewest people, compared to the three famines affecting the most people?
A search of the Times website containing the words "Gaza" and "famine" from April 3, 2024 going back to October 7, 2023, produces 205 results. There are 179 days in that date range, so that means the Times has published about 1.1 articles per day mentioning "Gaza" and "famine" (even though the first few weeks of that date range included no events affecting food supplies, so the relevant daily average is actually higher).
Searching the exact same dates and the word "famine" and "Yemen" for the same 179 days yields just 16 articles, and incredibly, the word "Gaza" still appears 9 times in the headlines and/or snippet text summaries below each headline resulting from a search for stories about hunger in Yemen. But in reality only five of the 16 articles specifically focus on Yemen (with "Yemen" or "Houthis" in the headline of the story).
So, comparing just the articles resulting from the search, the 17 million people in Yemen affected by hunger got one Times article for every 3.4 million Yeminis compared to the 1.1 million Gazans who got 205 articles (one article for every 5,366 hungry).
Now for a look at the NYT famine coverage for Sudan during the same period. A search yields just 18 articles and this time the word "Gaza" appears 20 times in the headlines and/or snippet text summaries below each headline. But just three of the 16 articles actually focus on Sudan (with "Sudan" or "Sudanese" in the headline of the story). So, comparing just the articles resulting from this search, the 18 million people in Sudan affected by hunger got one Times article for every six million hungry), compared to the 1.1 million Gazans who got 205 articles (one article for every 5,366 hungry). So one hungry Gazan has the same importance to the NYT as about 1,118 hungry Sudanese.
Finally how much coverage has the NYT given to food insecurity in Nigeria, where a famine emergency affects 26.5 million people -- the most among the 13 territories listed by the UNWFP as having a hunger emergency? A search for "famine" and "Nigeria" yields a whopping six articles. Even more outrageous, "Gaza" still appears four times among the headlines and snippets of the six search results, but not a single article has a headline or snippet mentioning "Nigeria."
Ironically, this Times article (from the same group of six that result from a search for "famine" and "Nigeria") indirectly acknowledges the paper’s skewed coverage: "While hunger crises in regions such as South Sudan and Tigray have unfolded with little media attention, there is intense international scrutiny on Gaza."
Some of the disproportionate Gaza coverage is attributable to Arif Husain, the Pakistani-American head of the UNWFP, who has tweeted more about hunger in Gaza than anywhere else since October 7th. Nearly all of Husain’s feed since October 7th is about Gaza, and his bias stands out even more in his Tweet of November 23, 2023. In that Tweet, Husain notes that "Evil comes in all ways, shapes and forms!" and shares the infamous video of the ex-Obama official harassing a NY street vendor. While such harassment is indefensible by anyone (whether a VIP or not), it’s hardly at the level of raping, burning, beheading, and massacring 1,200 people and abducting another 240; yet Hamas’ atrocities on October 7th never inspired a single tweet about "evil" from Husain. Indeed his Twitter feed is conspicuously silent from October 7th until October 15th, when he reposted about the need to help Gaza.
In one of the six NYT articles resulting from a search for "famine" and "Nigeria," (with the headline "Half of Gazans Are at Risk of Starving, U.N. Warns"), Husain is quoted as saying, "I’ve been doing this for about 20 years... I’ve been to pretty much any conflict, whether Yemen, whether it was South Sudan, northeast Nigeria, Ethiopia, you name it. And I have never seen anything like this, both in terms of its scale, its magnitude, but also at the pace that this has unfolded."
But the NYT article negligently takes Husain’s sweeping claim at face value, reprinting it without any further investigation, comparative analysis, or caveats. Both the NYT and Husain apparently forgot about two far bigger famines during Husain’s tenure: the 2003-5 famine that killed about 200,000 in Darfur, and the 2011 famine in Somalia that claimed 260,000 lives.
Moreover, the article notes that, according to Husain, Gaza meets "at least the first criteria of a famine, with 20 percent of the population facing an extreme lack of food," but he is never asked why that is still more important than the exponentially larger hunger emergency in Nigeria:
"Conflict and insecurity, rising inflation and the impact of the climate crisis continue to drive hunger in Nigeria -- with 26.5 million people across the country projected to face acute hunger in the June-August 2024 lean season. This is a staggering increase from the 18.6 million people food insecure at the end of 2023."
In other words, in the last few months, the already huge number of Nigerians facing acute hunger increased by 7.9 million, but the 20% of Gaza "facing an extreme lack of food" (i.e., 440,000 Gazans) deserve virtually all of Husain’s Twitter attention and priority in the Times interview. Wouldn’t any responsible reporter striving for objectivity challenge Husain on his moral math? Apparently not at the paper of record, which can’t devote a single article to Nigerian hunger since October 7th.
But division by zero is undefined in mathematics, so -- for the sake of comparison -- suppose that the Times gave one article to Nigeria’s 26.5 million hungry people. Under that assumption, for the New York Times, one hungry Gazan deserves the same level of coverage as do 4,939 hungry Nigerians.
Such a disproportionate emphasis on Gaza inevitably causes the international community to neglect exponentially greater hunger problems. But for the Grey Lady, apparently Black lives don't matter nearly as much as Gazans. Actually, the amounts of food already delivered to Gaza should last them for years. But admitting that would not serve the anti-Israeli agenda.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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