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My question is, did any of his neighbors loose their roofs? If not, then no test.
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#2
Houses in hurricane and tornado prone areas should be made to be aerodynamic. Eaves that hang over the outer walls are an invitation for high winds to lift the roof away from the rest of the house. Flat outer walls present obstacles to high winds so they might be flattened. But more rounded walls would allow the wind to pass around them. This is not rocket science but you might have noticed that rockets are not made in the shape of square or rectangular boxes. They wouldn't get far if they were. Instead, they are long round tubes with pointed tips to facilitate their movement through the air. Boats and ships are not made in the shape of square or rectangular boxes because it would take a lot more energy to move them through the water if they were. Instead they are made with narrow bows and hulls that gradually widen toward the stern so as to lessen resistance as they move through the water.
OK. It's easy for me to write all this since I live in California and we don't get tornadoes or hurricanes. Instead we get earthquakes and wild fires. The state has laws mandating that structures are built to withstand earthquakes. These standards are at least partially effective. We don't allow brick houses which is kind of a shame because they look so cool, better than stucco. But stucco is better in an earthquake. We don't do as well with fires but at least wooden "shake" roofs are no longer popular.
As a society, we've been living with these types of hazards for a couple hundred years now. It's about time we figured it out.
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[Regnum] A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, will approach Earth approximately on October 12. The comet will next appear in 80,000 years. CNN reported on the unique event.
Residents of the Southern Hemisphere were able to observe Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in September and early October.
"The comet won't streak across the sky like a meteor. It will just hang there and slowly change its position from night to night," said Bill Cook, head of NASA's meteorological environment division at NASA's Space Flight Center.
The specialist also said that the celestial body can be clearly seen through binoculars, and “you will simply be shocked.” In a dark sky, the comet will look like a bright fireball with a long tail.
According to NASA, the comet will make its first documented flyby of Earth at a distance of 70 million km.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, residents of Kiev, Kharkov, Zhitomir and other cities in Central Ukraine noticed a falling meteor on the night of August 17.
Asteroid 2024 PT5 will change its orbit under the influence of Earth's gravity, but it will not become a "second Moon", that is, a new satellite. This is the answer given by scientists to media reports about an asteroid allegedly approaching the planet, which will temporarily become a new satellite of the planet, rotating around it in orbit.
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[Regnum] A Persuader patrol aircraft of the Mexican Navy spotted a fisherman drifting on an overturned boat 100 km off the coast of Mexico. This was reported by the press service of the Mexican Navy.
"Our search and rescue system has located a person on board a boat that was drifting after Hurricane Milton. Personnel from the Yucalpeten search and rescue station have been dispatched to the site to rescue the sailor," the department said on social media.
Mexican navy has released a video showing a fisherman sitting on an overturned boat in the open sea.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Hurricane Milton hit the coast of Florida on the evening of October 9. The elements caused powerful tornadoes. Several people became victims of the emergency. The wind speed reached 195 km/h. Heavy rains also fell in Florida, and in a few hours the level of precipitation exceeded the multi-month norm.
By the morning of October 10, about 2.7 million people in Florida were without power, with more than 2.68 million customers experiencing power outages. More than a hundred homes were damaged in the county. The hardest-hit areas were on the state's west coast.
In the US state of Florida, people continue to die as a result of the elements — Hurricane Milton has already claimed 14 lives. These statistics were reported by the Washington Post newspaper, citing local authorities.
The hurricane swept across Florida, flooding and destroying communities. However, despite this, the number of victims was less than expected. Residents of Florida began to return to damaged and flooded homes.
Milton was blamed for at least 14 deaths, officials said. The first six people were killed on Oct. 9, when two tornadoes struck St. Lucie County the day before the storm. Authorities in Wolusha County reported four deaths, including two women, when trees fell on their homes. Two more people were killed in St. Petersburg and two in Citrus County.
Lord Garth comment at 17:05 yesterday:
as of 500 pm EDT, about 2.15M without power
so about 250k got power restored in previous 7 hours.
[X] Another step in the economics experiment of Trump-loving Argentinian president Javier Milei, who was only sworn into office last December. He is keen on government austerity and deregulation, thus far halving the number of ministries in the federal government, shelving plans for Argentina to join BRICS, applied to join NATO, taking steps to decrease government spending and staffing. As of June, Argentina’s food and drink inflation had dropped to zero.
The lawsuits would be so thick on the ground that you could touch the courthouse roof. And even if a way was somehow found past that, the next argument would be that since so many GSs are minorities, any failures would fall disproportionally on them. But just because they can't pass the test doesn't mean they should lose their jobs.
The nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that China test-fired in September landed in Kiribati’s EEZ
The rare launch “enabled the Chinese to carry out a test with a full attack profile. In operational terms, this is inevitably an important step... the test… pic.twitter.com/kFiCj6gxUW
… the test represents the operational validation of the entire system.”
@nukestrat Good to know. Will China be ready and able to wage her long-planned war against America before her economy and population totally melt down?
#2
There's one in Quincy where I buy stuff here and there. They did a small renovation last year and it's pretty good for customers. I don't think that one's on the hit list.
[RVMnews] Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres
…who used to be funny…
recently found herself at the center of controversy after making a jab at former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , implying he was anti-LGBT.
The post, shared on her Instagram account, featured an image of a young boy in drag-style makeup with the words, "You can’t tell someone you love them and then vote for someone who will hurt them" written on his cheek.
The post was met with widespread criticism from users, many of whom identified as part of the LGBTQ community, pushing back on DeGeneres’ portrayal of Trump as harmful to LGBT interests.
One comment, which quickly garnered over 33,000 likes, read, "I’m gay and I’m voting for Trump. Do I hate myself? Absolutely not. Messages like these are what spreads hate."
Other users shared similar sentiments, with one commenting, "As a lesbian, I had more under Trump. He’s got my vote," while another added, "Lesbian for Trump right here, baby."
The responses continued to pour in, overwhelmingly in favor of Trump, leaving DeGeneres without much support for her original post.
The situation highlights a divide in the LGBTQ community, where not all members align with the political left.
While DeGeneres and many in Hollywood have vocally supported Democratic candidates, some individuals within the LGBTQ community have expressed their support for Trump, citing economic reasons and a focus on personal interests over identity politics.
In response to the backlash, many commenters noted that DeGeneres, like other celebrities, assumed she could speak for an entire community based on her status and fame.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the response from her own followers suggests a different reality, where many prioritize policy issues like the economy, inflation, and personal freedom over the identity-based narratives often promoted by the left.
Adding to the conversation, Trump himself has courted support from various groups, including the LGBTQ community.
During a campaign event on Tuesday, he playfully called out to a group in the audience, asking, "Where’s Gays for Trump?" The group responded enthusiastically, prompting Trump to joke, "You don’t look gay," which was met with laughter from the crowd.
Trump’s approach has resonated with many who feel that being part of the LGBTQ community doesn’t necessitate aligning with the political left.
Instead, they argue that voting based on one’s personal interests—such as the economy and national security—should take precedence over identity politics.
Ellen DeGeneres’ social media post serves as a reminder that public figures, even those with large platforms, don’t always reflect the views of the communities they claim to represent.
In this case, the backlash was swift and clear: many LGBTQ individuals are rejecting the notion that voting for Trump is incompatible with their identity, and they are making their voices heard.
[BBC] Gunmen have killed at least 20 people at a coal mine in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, according to local police.
The attackers stormed the workers' accommodation at the Junaid Coal Company mines in the province's Duki district in the early hours of Friday morning, rounded the men up and opened fire.
A hospital in Duki has received 20 bodies and is treating six injured people, reported Reuters.
The workers were attacked with heavy weapons, including rocket launchers and grenades, police said, while one survivor described seeing a drone overhead.
Subcontractor Hafeezullah told the BBC he spotted the drone and its red light as he and a number of others hid in the bathroom.
“When the attackers got closer they shouted ‘we told you to stop work here, why didn’t you?’,” he told the BBC. He said the attackers spoke in Pashto. “Then they opened fire.”
Hafeezullah estimates the attack, which he says started just after midnight, lasted for about an hour and a half, during which time machinery was set alight. He also heard loud explosions, which he thinks were grenades exploding.
Asim Shafi, police chief in Duki district, confirmed to news agency AFP both hand grenades and rocket launchers were used in the attack, which is believed to have been carried out by as many as 40 people who then disappeared "into the night".
Police confirmed that four of the victims were Afghans, while the rest of the men were from Pashto-speaking areas of Balochistan.
Hafeezullah says he lost several friends in the attack.
"When I left, there were people lying on the ground," he said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the killings so far. In the past, the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has carried out several deadly attacks in the province.
Mine owner Khairullah Nasar told news agency Reuters they had been getting "threats from the militants for some time, but there was no information about the attack".
Friday's attack is the latest to be carried out in recent days, and comes just ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a major security summit being hosted in the Pakistani capital Islamabad next week.
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[WND] Report confirmed 'admission' is buried deep on the WHO's Vigiaccess web page. Among the known side effects of the use of Pfizer's BioNTech vaccine, WHO now lists monkeypox, smallpox, and cow pox, along with a long list of additional threats.
COVID-19, that modified bat virus first spotted near a Chinese research institute that was toying around with those dangerous pathogens, undoubtedly was and remains a threat to many people.
But the shots that the world's pharmaceuticals created to battle it also have been found to be related to heart diseases and failures as well as a multitude of other health threats.
Now even the World Health Organization, that bureaucracy that worked with China first to conceal the threat, then demanded entire populations be forced to take the experimental COVID shots, has admitted that they are problematic.
#2
It is good there is curiosity and concern about what is in the vax, but Monkeypox seems to be a very particular lifestyle. If the vax has a 1 in whatever chance of inducing Monkeypox wouldn't there be a widespread behavioral infection pattern?
If old Joe Clinger who had to get the vax because his wife was dying in hospice came down with the Monkeypox I'd be concerned; he's never been to Ibiza. Just always seems to be two dudes and their dog.
#3
I went to the article and followed the links there, but couldn’t find anything about monkeypox, let alone a link between monkeypox and the Covid vaccine. It could definitely be a a failure of my ability to search, so if someone could follow the links and find a connection, I’d be grateful.
#4
Cancel that, with my apologies. I went back and actually followed the very precise linked directions here,and it’s right where they said it was.
But six incidents for monkeypox, when other things are in the multiple hundreds of thousands out of tens of millions of injections given… Yes it could be related, but it’s curable and only an issue for one’s s3x partners, so as long as one is monogamous it’s not going to explode into a pandemic. And that is demonstrated by the fact of how few actual cases showed up in real people, and they all of a particular lifestyle and connected to a single summer festival in Spain, as I recall.
As the article points out, there are much more likely health threats connected to the vaccine.
#14
i'd say monkeypox is there because it depresses the immune system and shingles comes out which may be mistaken for monkeypox
or makes you more likely to catch due to immune suppression
its still weird and third world to include that in there because obviously the monkeypox virus isn't in the jab (if viruses even exist)
Jay Couey on Rumble: GigaOhm Biological has an interesting take that mRNA cannot pandemic as it can't replicate without errors enough to.
The whole pandemic was a lie, the increased death rate was just people denied antibiotics, treatment for heart attacks (they banned compressions in NY City remember), and those murdered by the hospitals with high flow oxygen, remdesivir and midazolam
He posits the reason you get sick is not because of a virus it's because of exosomes your body produces communicating with exosomes on other people.
The argument for no viruses is actually a lot sounder than you would think
#15
yes i've now looked too. clearly it can't cause monkeypox or smallpox which is eradicated and doesn't exist outside bioweapons labs.
so what it means, is that the WHO vigiaccess system accepts voluntary reporting that is not checked or cross checked
so it's a red-flag warning system only similar to VAERS in which you basically look for huge data bulges of mass-reported injuries and then investigate those.
the small stuff is ignored as artifacts which to be fair this clearly is
#2
At that time, Guetlein noted that “most of this kit is classified,” but that “a lot of it is focused on defeating the adversary’s kill webs, if necessary.”
CNN panel says Dems 'messed up' with Elon Musk
[DM] During a panel discussion on CNN NewsNight with Abby Philips, California Congressman Ro Khanna and left-wing podcaster Kara Swisher admitted the Democrats made a mistake by losing Musk's support.
'I think where the Democrats starting to lose Elon was actually personal. We should have celebrated his contributions to electric vehicles even though he was against unionization,' Khanna said.
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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
