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WTF?
By: Surly1 Date: June 20, 2019, 7:59 am
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For some reason TPTB are mainstreaming UFO information. The
History Channel is running a series on this, of which I watched
the first yesterday. It appeared as fact based, credible and
sober, offering interviews with serious military and political
types with reputations to risk, in stark contrast to "Ancient
Aliens," which is highly speculative and never sees a rabbit
hole not worth jumping down. Video evidence can be seen
demonstrating how these craft regularly defy known laws of
physics. Why they are sharing this now is anyone's guess.
Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings
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/></picture></div> <figcaption> <p>“If naval
pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air,
that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to
get to the bottom of,” Sen. Mark Warner's spokesperson
said. | Mark Wilson/Getty
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;<p><a
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20:25:44">06/19/2019 08:25 PM
EDT</time></p> </footer></div> </div> <div> <div
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Twitter</a></div> </div> <p>Three more U.S. senators
received a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday about a
series of reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified
aircraft, according to congressional and government officials
— part of a growing number of requests from members of key
oversight committees.</p> <p>One of them was Sen. Mark
Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, whose office confirmed the briefing to
POLITICO.</p> <div> <div
aria-label="Advertisement"> <div aria-hidden="true"
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iv> </div> <p>“If
naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the
air, that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we
need to get to the bottom of,” his spokesperson, Rachel
Cohen, said in a statement.</p> <p>The interest in
“unidentified aerial phenomenon” has grown since <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">revelations</a> in late 2017 th
at
the Pentagon had set up a program to study the issue at the
request of then-Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Officials interviewed
multiple current and former sailors and aviators who claim to
have encountered highly advanced aircraft that appeared to defy
the laws of aerodynamics when they intruded on protected
military airspace — some of which were captured on video
and made public.</p> <p>The Navy has played a prominent role
in light of the testimony of F/A-18 pilots and other personnel
operating with the <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">USS Nimitz</a> aircraft carrier
battle group off California in 2004 and the <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">USS Theodore Roosevelt</a> in t
he
Atlantic in 2015 and 2016.</p> <p>The growing congressional
interest is credited for playing a major role in the
service’s recent decision to update the procedures for
pilots and other personnel to report such unexplained sightings,
which POLITICO <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> in
April.</p> <p>“In response to requests for information
from Congressional members and staff, Navy officials have
provided a series of briefings by senior Naval Intelligence
officials as well as aviators who reported hazards to aviation
safety,” the service said in a statement to POLITICO at
the time.</p> <div> <div></div> </div> <p>The
Navy had no immediate comment on Wednesday, and few details of
the latest secret sessions were
available.</p> <div> <aside> <div> <figure>
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alt="USS Theodore Roosevelt"
src="
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/>width="996" height="664" /></div> <figcaption> <p>The
Navy has played a prominent role in light of the testimony of
F/A-18 pilots and other personnel operating with the USS
Theodore Roosevelt (shown) in the Atlantic in 2015 and 2016. |
Matt Cardy/Getty
Images</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </asid
e> </div> <p>They
come several days after President Donald Trump <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/15/trump-says-he-doesnt-particularly-believe-ufo-reports-1365848"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News that he, too,
had been briefed on the reports. “I did have one very
brief meeting on it,” he said. “But people are
saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not
particularly.”</p> <p>But several current and former
officials with direct knowledge describe the Capitol Hill
briefing as the latest for members of Congress and their staff
representing the Intelligence, Armed Services and Defense
Appropriations panels.</p> <p>“There are people coming
out of the woodwork,” said one former government official
who has participated in some of the meetings.</p> <p>A
current intelligence official added: “More requests for
briefings are coming in.”</p> <p>The sessions have
been organized by the Navy but have also included staff from the
under secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the sources said.
Both were not authorized to talk publicly about the
briefings.</p> <p>Advocates for giving the mystery greater
attention say they hope Congress will take <a
href="
HTML https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/444422-friend-foe-or-unknown-force-flying-overhead-congress-should-find"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">more formal steps</a>, such as
requiring the Department of Defense to collect and complete a
detailed analysis of data collected by satellites and other
means of unidentified craft intruding into military airspace or
operating under the sea.</p>[/html]
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Re: WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: June 20, 2019, 11:39 am
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The "growing congressional interest" may have some thing to do
with the uncomfortable, and increasingly well documented, FACT
that the M.I.C. can have their arses handed to them any day and
twice on Sundays.
M.I.C. 🦍 Full Spectrum Dominance, another hubris based
mirage, bites the dust. ;D
But that ain't the worst part of it!
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The very idea that these fiying machines (or critters) that can
eat M.I.C. lunch DO NOT RUN ON HYDROCARBONS is enough to PANIC
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Re: WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: August 17, 2019, 9:59 pm
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EcoWatch
By Jordan Davidson Aug. 16, 2019 10:35AM EST
SNIPPET:
Sources told CNN that President Trump has made repeated
inquiries into the possibility of buying Greenland, an
autonomous territory, from the Danish government. He has raised
the issue during meetings and dinners and even gone so far as to
have White House counsel examine the possibility. The story was
first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
"It has to be an April Fool's joke. Totally out of season,"
former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen wrote on Twitter.
"If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof,
that he has gone mad," said Soren Espersen, foreign affairs
spokesman for the Danish People's Party, to a Danish
broadcaster. "The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to
the United States is completely ridiculous."
"I am sure a majority in Greenland believes it is better to have
a relation to Denmark than the United States, in the long term,"
said Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, Danish MP from Greenland's
second-largest party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), to Reuters. "My
immediate thought is
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/>'No, thank you'."
Even Rufus Gifford, a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark weighed
in on Twitter in words not often seen in diplomacy.
"Oh dear lord. As someone who loves Greenland, has been there
nine times to every corner and loves the people, this is a
complete and total catastrophe," he wrote.
Full article: 👀
[center]Trump Proposes Buying Greenland
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Sea Level is RISING but New York is building an Underground Park
By: AGelbert Date: August 25, 2019, 6:44 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Plants can certainly grow underground, as long as
the light they are given contains the proper wavelengths. Tuned
LEDs have been doing that in underground and interior building
greenhouses for at least a decade. However, unless plants are
aquatic, they drown underwater, which is the flooded condition
this underground park being built is going to be in within a few
decades. :P
[center]Can Plants Grow Underground?[/center]
New York City isn't exactly the kind of place you'd go to "get
away from it all," but one spot in Manhattan is striving to help
people go underground when they need to -- literally.
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[center]Lowline[/center]
The borough is currently at work finishing the Lowline, which
bills itself as "the world's first underground park." The acre
of space was once a trolley terminal, but it has essentially
been abandoned since 1948. That has all changed thanks to
co-founders Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, who are hoping the
Lowline will soon offer a beautiful, lush space where people can
take a break from the busy world above by venturing just below
the surface. There, they will be surrounded by a year-round
garden that utilizes state-of-the-art skylight technology to
provide the greenery with all of the sunlight it needs. Barasch
and Ramsey hope the project will prompt others to follow suit,
turning unused spaces into cultural and educational oases. The
Lower East Side is expected to formally unveil the Lowline to
the public in 2021.
Parks in the Big Apple:
• In 1858, New York's Central Park became the first landscaped
park open to the American public.
• Flushing Meadow-Corona Park in Queens opened the country's
first fully accessible playground to children in 1984.
• Staten Island's Greenbelt Park is three times larger than
Central Park and is considered one of America's most
biologically diverse green spaces.
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width=640]
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[center]Trail in Staten Island's Greenbelt Park[/center]
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Re: WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: September 15, 2019, 4:31 pm
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[center]Doctors are about 15% less likely to refer a patient for
a cancer screening in the afternoon than in the morning.
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[quote]Interestingly, the time of day also seemed to influence
the percentage of patients who actually went through with the
screenings: 33 percent of morning patients got the breast cancer
screening and 28 percent went to the colorectal screening,
compared to only 18 percent of afternoon patients in both
cases.[/quote]
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WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: October 5, 2019, 5:20 pm
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[move]WOOPS![/move]
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[center]MAIB: Watch Officer Was Watching Videos on Phone Before
Grounding[/center]
October 3, 2019 by Mike Schuler
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[center]Photo courtesy MAIB[/center]
A UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch investigation has
revealed that the sole watch officer on board the general cargo
ship Priscilla was watching videos on his phone prior to the
ship running aground off the coast of Scotland in July 2018.
The Netherlands-registered M/V Priscilla was sailing from
Lithuania to England when she ran aground on Pentland Skerries
in the eastern entrance of Pentland Firth in Scotland early in
the morning on July 18, 2018.
According to the MAIB, for about 2 hours prior to the accident,
the officer of the watch had been unaware that Priscilla was
drifting away from the planned passage. Once noticing that the
vessel was off track, the officer chose an alternative route
that resulted in the vessel heading directly into the Pentland
Skerries.
The MAIB said the accident happened because the officer of the
watch was distracted from monitoring the passage by watching
videos on his mobile phone and possibly falling asleep.
“He was the sole lookout at night as the vessel headed towards
land, and the electronic navigation system was not set up to
warn of danger ahead. Priscilla’s officer or the watch also
responded to two radio calls from shore authorities warning of
the danger ahead; however, his reaction to the warnings was not
sufficient to avoid danger,” the MAIB said in a summary of the
report.
Safety lessons identified by the MAIB include monitoring the
vessel’s progress along the planned passage is a vital component
of safe navigation, and the officer of the watch should not
become distracted from this responsibility; reducing to a sole
lookout must be properly assessed; it was not appropriate at
night when Priscilla was heading towards Pentland Firth; and
electronic navigation aids should always be set up to aid the
officer of the watch by giving warning of danger ahead.
The agency made a safety recommendation (2019/118) to the owner
of Priscilla to take measures necessary to improve the standards
of watchkeeping and safety management on board.
The Priscilla was eventually refloated about a week after the
grounding. The incident caused significant hull damage, but
there was no pollution or injury.
You can find the full MAIB report here
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Re: WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: October 26, 2019, 5:44 pm
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[center]Based on geotagged Twitter data, a look at America’s
“Dream Cars” by state (Source: AutoWise)[/center]
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Agelbert SNARK: What's a Range Rover? ;D I see lots of Foresters
in Vermont, but I rarely see those ridiculously expensive
imitations of one.
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What's twitter data? Is that what twits (Hi Trumpy) generate?
Yeah, I definitely think the above map is in the WTF category
(especially the Vermont and Florida stuff), but I've been wrong
about lots of stuff rather consistently :-[ for my entire life,
so feel free to take the map seriously.
[font=times new roman]CleanTechnica[/font]
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October 26th, 2019 by Guest Contributor
SNIPPET:
AutoWise analyzed over 100,000 geotagged tweets that mentioned
“dream cars” and related hashtags such as #dreamcar, and found
that automotive dreams vary across different regions of the
country. The resulting map shows which cars are the favorites in
which states.
And the overall winner is … naturally, the Tesla ⚡ Model
S, which is the most sought-after car in 20 states. The
runner-up is the perennially popular Ford Mustang, which took
the prize in 13 states. The Range Rover (6 states), Jeep
Wrangler (4), Corvette (4) and Camaro (3) round out the
rankings.
Of course, as Gear Patrol pointed out, studies of this kind are
undertaken more for fun than for serious scientific purposes. A
professional pollster might argue that the results reveal as
much about social media usage as about automotive aspirations.
Perhaps Tesla fans tend to be tech-savvy social media users, and
perhaps like our hero Elon Musk, we tend to favor Twitter over,
say, Facebook or Instagram.
Some of the findings, however, make perfect sense. Tesla was the
favorite in the states where Tesla sales are highest, such as
California, Florida, and Washington. It’s no surprise that the
Mustang took Michigan, and the Corvette took Kentucky (GM
assembles it in Bowling Green). And it’s only logical that
drivers in rural, rugged states such as Alaska, Maine, Montana,
North Dakota, and Wyoming dream of Range Rovers.
Full article:
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Re: WTF?
By: AGelbert Date: January 23, 2020, 4:47 pm
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[move]The Court recognized that climate change is exponentially
increasing and that the federal government has long known that
its actions substantially contribute to the climate crisis. Yet
two of the judges on the Panel refused to set the standard for
redressing the constitutional violation, to protect our Nation’s
children. [/move]
January 22, 2020
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/>Ninth Circuit Dismisses Youth Climate Suit, While Agreeing
Government Policy Is Destroying The Planet[/center]
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By Staff, Static1.squarespace.com. Eugene, Oregon
Today, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
“reluctantly” concluded that the youth plaintiffs’ case in
Juliana v. United States must be made to the Congress, the
President, or to the electorate at large. The decision finds
federal courts cannot provide the youth with a remedy for their
climate change injuries. In her dissent, District Judge
Josephine L. Staton wrote that the youth plaintiffs brought suit
to enforce the most basic structural principal embedded in our
system of liberty... -more-
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