Hey Pete, how about a media release?
[FoxWeather] Within hours of Helene's passage, Norfolk Southern crews swiftly mobilized along the hardest-hit areas along their Salisbury-Morristown line which suffered extensive damage. Over 21,000 feet of track were washed out, and thousands more were damaged by scour, fill failures and slides. Multiple bridges were also damaged.
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Pete won't be there in months.
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I understand he is busy with a trip to Ibiza to discuss trains, and look into whether the Baltimore Bridge Collision was the result of a bad Dutch Rudder.
[Gallup] Trust in political and civic institutions highest for local and state governments, lowest for media and Congress.
Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
Gallup first asked this question in 1972 and has measured it in most years since 1997. In three readings in the 1970s, trust ranged from 68% to 72%, yet by Gallup’s next readings in the late 1990s and early 2000s, smaller majorities of 51% to 55% trusted the news media. The latest findings are from a poll conducted Sept. 3-15, which includes Gallup’s annual update on trust in the media and other civic and political entities in the U.S.
As has been the case historically, partisans have different levels of confidence in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Currently, 54% of Democrats, 27% of independents and 12% of Republicans say they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. Independents’ trust matches the record low in 2022, while Democrats’ and Republicans’ are statistically similar to their historical low points.
Over the past two decades, significant gaps in trust have also emerged by age. An analysis by age groups using aggregated data to increase sample sizes shows a 17-percentage-point gap in trust between the oldest Americans (those aged 65 and older) and those under age 50 -- 43% vs. 26%, respectively.
Young Democrats trust the media far less than older Democrats do: 31% of Democrats aged 18 to 29 versus 74% of those aged 65 and older have a great deal or fair amount of confidence.
[NYPOST] In a symbolic display of anger, North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... on Tuesday blew up the northern section of unused roads that once linked it with the South, with the rivals exchanging threats days after the North claimed that its rival flew drones over its capital Pyongyang.
The roads' choreographed demolition underlines North Korea's growing anger against South Korea's conservative government.
North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has vowed to sever relations with South Korea and abandon the goal of achieving peaceful Korean unification.
Observers say it's unlikely Kim will launch a preemptive, large-scale attack on South Korea because of fear that an almost certain massive retaliation by the more superior forces of the United States and South Korea would threaten Pyongyang's survival.
In response to the earth-shattering kabooms, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said its military fired within southern sections of the border as it bolstered its readiness and surveillance posture.
The statement did not give details, but the move could have been an attempt to avert cross-border fire by North Korea. It wasn't immediately known whether North Korea responded.
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That'll show them!
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I'm sure the south is quaking. North Korea just had half of an engineering platoon in Kursk desert and surrender to the Ukrainians.
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There was a time when seismic sensors were in place to detect Tunnel digging and drilling. There should be some good 3D mapping data from the shock waves.
[NYPOST] Cult hero Nedd Brockmann's gruelling 1600-kilometer charity run is part of a broader trend of men ''repackaging mental health as mental toughness'', according to a writer who suggests the ''blokeification of mental fitness'' is ''just toxic masculinity
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep... rebranded''.
Conceding her ''unpopular opinion'' was ''going to upset some people'', author and journalist Jill Stark stressed that Brockmann had done an ''admirable job'' raising money to combat homelessness and ''should be applauded''.
But she explained there had ''always been something that troubles me about the philosophy he espouses and the message he's sending about what it means to be 'mentally strong'''.
''It's a uniquely masculine approach to wellbeing that is less self-care and more self-flagellation,'' she wrote on Instagram.
''In this world view, the more gruelling the challenge, and the more performative the suffering, the more psychologically robust you are. It's part of a growing trend in recent years of men repackaging mental health as mental toughness.''
Stark said extreme endurance runs, ice baths, paleo diets, biohacking and ''raw-dogging'' long-haul flights were ''just some of the things men are doing in the name of self-improvement''.
''Is this really an example of 'mind over matter'? Or is the blokeification of mental fitness just toxic masculinity rebranded?'' she asked.
Stark, author of High Sobriety and When You're Not OK, laid out her thoughts about why she was ''disturbed by this modern brand of male wellness'' in her Patreon subscriber newsletter.
Brockmann, 25, kicked off his ''Nedd's Uncomfortable Challenge'' at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre on October 3 with the goal of running 1000 miles (1610 kilometres) to raise money for homelessness charity We Are Mobilise.
In his latest effort, Brockmann was seeking to break the 1000-mile world record of 10 days, 10 hours, 30 minutes and 36 seconds, set by Greek ultra-marathon runner Yiannis Kouros in 1988.
It would have required him to run 403 laps of the 400-metre track per day for 10 days, finishing by 3am on Monday.
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You must under no circumstances think for yourself.
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She should stick with her area of expertise, you know, When You're Not OK.
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It’s America’s Toxic heritage that bothers her.
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The mentally upset have had 4 years to pleas their case with a near monopoly in entertainment, media, business leadership, and politics.
And what do we have for it? Disney, Bud Light, Kamala Harris, and this bint?
Seriously, this guy could be raising money for free nudey mags for kindergartners, which by the way the mentally depressed education complex, and I'd still be like, 1.6k km is still impressive, and Karen has to try and take a piss on it because she can't help but a box of wine with her pills. Because Make America Healthy Again strikes the nerve of people who don't want that.
Set of basic free weights a mat and routine, disconnecting from the web at least an hour before bed, getting off the fast food, reading an actual paper book with a plot which requires at least a little effort, an easy to get into but hard to master hobby, would do so much for so many people.
Especially guys, who are getting it from the cat ladies and male feminist allies from all angles. Like to watch the team play on Sunday? Well now your beer wants you to cut off your dick and the announcers when they aren't talking about how pretty the scoring dance is, are arguing about whether Taylor Swift's butthole smells like roses or hibiscus.
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[Regnum] The price of Brent crude oil futures for December delivery fell below $75 per barrel during trading on the London ICE exchange for the first time since October 2. This follows from the trading platform data on October 15.
As of 08:03 Moscow time, the price of Brent crude oil fell by 3.33% and amounted to $74.88 per barrel.
At the same time, by 08:18 the price of Brent oil decreased to $74.54 (-3.77%). At the same time, the futures for WTI oil fell by 3.82%, to $71.01 per barrel.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 30, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak stated that Russia will withstand any reduction in oil prices. According to him, the dependence of the domestic economy on hydrocarbons is decreasing.
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister specified that the events taking place in the Middle East definitely influence the energy market. At the same time, according to Novak, everything will eventually return to normal.
[FOX] A mysterious fleet of drones entered restricted airspace and swarmed a U.S. military base along the Virginia coast for 17 days late last year, stumping the Pentagon, according to a new report.
For several nights last December, U.S. military personnel reported witnessing a fleet of unknown unmanned aircraft breach restricted airspace over a stretch of land at Langley Air Force Base along Virginia's shore, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
The drones would start to arrive about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset each night, one official reportedly told U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, who joined several other officers responsible for the country's most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors, on a squadron rooftop.
Kelly described the first drone he saw as roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. As many as a dozen or more drones followed, flying across Chesapeake Bay, and then traveling toward Norfolk, Virginia, and through a space overlooking the base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port, according to the Journal.
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And then having gotten use to them, their operators one day will strike. It's what the Egyptians did in practicing for crossing the Suez. The Israelis were put in a mindset that it was just another training run. Someone needs to send the chain of command notice of what happen to Gen. Short and Adm. Kimmel at Pearl Harbor.
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[Regnum] The Earth's magnetosphere may "sway" due to solar activity, the Phobos weather center reported on October 15.
"The Earth will pass through a stream of fast solar wind. The first signs of this in the form of weak disturbances in the geomagnetic field have already been noted in the middle of today," the report says.
Experts note that a weak magnetic storm is expected on Wednesday.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 8, the leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Mikhail Leus, reported a strong magnetic storm on Earth.
On October 2 and 3, two powerful flares of the maximum class X–X7.1 and X9 were recorded on the Sun, and at that time, spot group No. 3842 was located near the Sun-Earth line, due to which two clouds of solar plasma ejected by the flares should have reached the Earth and caused strong and prolonged magnetic storms on it.
On October 10, scientists warned of the approach of the largest magnetic storm in six months to the Earth. One of its consequences was the northern lights, which were observed by residents of Russia, among others.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
