[Motorious] For the 1940 Mille Miglia, 42-year-old Enzo Ferrari finally achieved his dream, finally entering two cars fielded by Scuderia Ferrari. Previously, the man gained quite the reputation while working for Alfa Romeo, but he wanted to do things his way. Thanks to legal restrictions, his race cars couldn’t bear the Ferrari name quite yet. Still, the man was finally spreading his wings as a legend was emerging. Then World War II broke out, putting car races on ice and everything Ferrari had worked to build in jeopardy.
Enzo would face many more restrictions over the next five years, along with threats against his burgeoning business as well as his very life. The industrialist somehow strengthened his empire during that especially turbulent time, thriving in a fractured, vicious Italian political landscape. He did so by playing all sides in the civil conflict as only Ferrari could do.
Ah'm just waiting for a calamity to strike. Do they have a shark tank? Unsinkable ? Anchor of the Seas?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
The Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas set sail today on a seven-day island-hopping voyage in the Caribbean before returning to Miami
Despite claims that the LNG being used is better than traditional marine fuel, environmentalists believe the ship poses high risks for methane emissions
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is the second-largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide
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Imagine a sea-born, perpetual semi-elevator environment, where the lines for most things will rival Disneyword and your "staterooom" has less space than some walk-in closets. I will keep to the charming Sierra views from the Carson Valley and 61 degree forecast!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] New footage has emerged showing the moments after a 10-year-old boy had his leg bitten by a shark while swimming in a tank at a Bahamas resort.
The video shows the aftermath of the incident that happened while the youngster was participating at an event at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort on January 15.
Worried onlookers can be heard discussing what happened inside the tank as the water in the turn starts to turn red due to the blood.
As the boy attempts to make his way to safety, sharks can be seen circling the tank in a frenzy.
Blue Adventures by Stuart Cove, the group which runs the shark diving program for the resort said that the guest was in the water with a 'dive instructor and dive guide'.
The boy was immediately taken to a hospital and was in serious but stable condition. He was airlifted from the hospital to Maryland for continued care on January 17.
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"Here, let's rub you down with seal blubber. It makes 'em more interactive"
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the shark diving program
Every business plan has weak points. Speaking as your business advisor, I suggest we lean into the risk and make it a feature. Howzabout "Dive with Danger" for a marketing slogan. Or "Are You More Tasty Than a Ten-Year-Old?
[Yahoo] A U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury recently turned heads in Tucson, Arizona after it appeared there with what looked to be a heavily weathered paint job. The War Zone subsequently reached out to the Navy for more information and have learned that the service is itself working to get to the bottom of the matter. The Navy's E-6Bs are so-called 'doomsday planes' that serve as airborne command posts for America's nuclear deterrent triad.
The E-6B in question has the Navy serial number (also known as Bureau Number, or BuNo) 164387. Pictures, seen at the top of this story and below, show the jet with huge patches of paint missing across much its fuselage, tail, and some of its engine cowlings.
Navy ships have often drawn attention in the past due to running rust and other heavy weathering to their paint jobs. However, similar operational wear and tear does not appear to be what has happened to this particular E-6B.
"The paint on E-6B aircraft 164387 is not adhering to the primer," Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) Airborne Strategic Command, Control, and Communications Program Office (PMA-271) told The War Zone in response to our queries about this Mercury. "We are investigating this issue and an appropriate solution."
"The aircraft remains fully mission-capable and continues to support all assigned tasking," the statement added.
[Vigilant] "During a WEF discussion at Davos entitled ’Defending Truth,’ Wall St. Journal EIC Emma Tucker lamented this loss of control over ’the facts,’" ZeroHedge reported. "There's our 'facts' and the truth. Sometimes they are even close"
She said:
"I think there’s a very specific challenge for the legacy brands, like the New York Times and like the Wall Street Journal ... If you go back really not that long ago, as I say, we owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well."
Tucker continued:
"If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, then that was a fact ... Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying."
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The 'trust' arose when journalism was a trade and not a college accreditation. That was when there was at least some sensitivity to significant declines in readership as a signal that you were doing something wrong.
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They can't stand any other organizations challenging their version of the "facts", sowing doubt among the people about just who has been the primary propagator of disinformation for all these past years, decades and even centuries.
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The world will be increasingly open source. The recent rise in censorship efforts is a direct symptom of the old gatekeepers being cast aside.
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What fun we’re going to have, should he indeed beat the margin of cheating.
[GEO.TV] Former US President and Republican presidential forerunner Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... expressed his intentions before his advisors to impose 60% flat tariffs on Chinese imports after he comes to power again, according to the Washington Post Saturday.
Donald Trump has been a clear forerunner to secure the Republican primary, with all-out efforts to secure the presidency once again despite his legal troubles.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... experts warned that if such would be a case regarding tariffs, then this would have adverse impacts on the global economy. This would also have impacts far worse than the trade war that the former president had started with China in 2018.
According to the sources quoted in the Washington Post stated that Trump discussed with advisers "the possibility of imposing a flat 60% tariff on all Chinese imports."
As Trump is inching closer to assuming the US presidency, he has told his supporters that he would reverse China's status as a most favoured nation for trade.
Those countries involved in trade with the US, all enjoy the status of MFN. For those who do not fall under this category, the US can impose tariffs on their imported goods.
The four-time indicted former president claimed that currently, the US has the world’s lowest import levies, as this money is a crucial support for the country’s budget, criticising President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... , and vowing tougher position against China.
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Given those of us on fixed incomes are aleady hard pressed now. Imagine 60% added to the acknowledged CCP made goods that made up near 70+% of consumed items in the USA.. eg. Medications.
How about lower Taxes for US makers and a Balanced budget that repays the national debt in 25 years?
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#2 Grom
I acknowledge it was extremely wishful.
But in my defense, it was before I had my 2nd cup of coffee.
NOTE: NAFTA was created to boost South America's economy and increase employment there. The CCP & other nations all abuse the Congressionally planted loop holes to bring in stuff and bypass taxes.
What if Congress closed the loop holes? Would it reduce the number of ILLEGALS flooding in maybe as originally promised?
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China is already in a pretty hard recession with and estimated 40-50% youth unemployment rate. A tariff like that, while it would hurt us, would be the bullet in the back of China's economy.
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That is just Trump's opening bid for negotiating deal that he wants. A 60% tariff would a fatal blow to China's economy and is guaranteed to get their attention.
[Yahoo] North Korea has fired several cruise missiles for the second time in just a few days, according to the South Korean military.
The launch was recorded from the waters near Shinpo on the east coast, the General Staff in Seoul announced on Sunday.
It was initially unclear whether the cruise missiles were launched from a submarine, or how far they flew.
"While strengthening our monitoring and vigilance, our military has been closely coordinating with the United States to monitor additional signs of North Korea's provocations," the joint chiefs of staff said in a text message sent to reporters at South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
The launch marks the North's second cruise missile launch this year after it test-fired strategic cruise missiles, named Pulhwasal-3-31, toward the Yellow Sea on Wednesday.
These flew westwards and fell into the sea between the Korean peninsula and China. A day later, North Korea said it had tested "a new type of strategic cruise missile," without providing any further explanation.
The designation as a strategic weapon suggests that North Korea may also have designed the cruise missile for the deployment of nuclear warheads. North Korea is subject to international sanctions because of its nuclear weapons and missile programme.
In contrast to ballistic missiles, however, tests of cruise missiles are not directly affected by the UN ban on the largely isolated country. Unlike ballistic missiles, cruise missiles have their own permanent propulsion system.
[PJ] The power-hungry scapegraces in the World Economic Forum (WEF) thought they could scare the world into killing off our farmers to make the weather gooder or something cute, but the world has had enough.
Farmers in Western Europe are fighting globalist b*llshit with the real thing: they are spreading manure on government buildings everywhere, and that's just the beginning.
Sacre Bleu!
The weatherman in Paris is predicting at least five inches of bovine revenge in certain parts of the City of Lights.
American news media hasn't mentioned this much, but French farmers have been protesting over escalating diesel fuel taxes and the introduction of cheaper food from Latin America, which they see as a one-two punch to drive them out of the farming industry and compel them to sell their land, most likely to the French government.
Food from Ukraine is currently duty-free and is also a threat to French farmers' profits. The French government is also trying to drive prices down at the supermarkets. French farmers see all of this as an existential threat to their livelihoods.
Thousands of tractors have clogged French highways. Tires and hay bales have been stacked up in streets to cause barricades.
[WND] The federal government is being sued for the details of an alleged CIA scheme to "get rid" of President Trump.
Officials with government watchdog Judicial Watch confirmed in a statement they are pursuing a Freedom of Information Act case against the Defense Department over reports from a military officer "to his superiors regarding an alleged conversation."
That reportedly happened around January 2017 and involved CIA analysts Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko.
And it concerned a plan to "get rid" of then-President Trump.
The case is seeking access to "any and all reports submitted by a U.S. military officer assigned to the National Security Council to his superiors relating to a conversation he overheard circa January 2017 at an 'all-hands' NSC staff meeting between CIA analysts Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko regarding trying to 'get rid' of then-President Trump, as discussed in a January 22, 2020 Real Clear Investigations article..."
The case also seeks records about any investigations about that alleged conversation, and emails and communications to and from members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about those discussions.
According to the Real Clear Investigations article, "Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella — the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous 'whistleblower' who touched off Trump’s impeachment — was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues."
[ET via ZERO] It is well-known that dementia is often a result of aging. However, sometimes it can be caused by medications.
Drug-induced dementia, the late neurologist and neurosurgeon K.K. Jain wrote, is a type of reversible dementia different from common neurodegenerative disorders.
Several drugs increase the risks of dementia, the most prominent being anticholinergic drugs, anti-epileptics, oncology drugs, and sedative-hypnotic drugs. These are all common prescriptions for older people.
In recent years, antidepressants have also been linked with dementia risks.
THE LINK BETWEEN DEMENTIA AND COMMON DRUGS
Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, who has published several books on psychopharmacology, told The Epoch Times that most drugs on the market have some degree of neurotoxicity, which can lead to cognitive and neurological side effects.
Not everyone will be affected by a drug’s neurotoxic effects, though older people and those with brain deficits are more vulnerable.
With illnesses that surface in old age and the pills prescribed to treat each symptom, older people also tend to be the most likely cohort to be prescribed drugs that damage their cognition.
For example, many drugs prescribed to treat Parkinson’s disease are linked with dementia risks since they block acetylcholine in the brain as a way of preventing tremors and sudden movements in patients. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that also facilitates cognitive function.
Proton pump inhibitors, often prescribed to treat heartburn, have also been shown in studies to increase people’s risks of dementia by 44 percent.
Within the literature, the most well-known class of drugs that can induce dementia are anticholinergic drugs.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
