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Politics & Religion / Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Last post by Crafty_Dog on Today at 04:53:57 PM »Heh heh!
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Politics & Religion / Media Matters Layoffs Due to X Defamation Suit?
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on Today at 04:39:14 PM »X defamation suit at the root of Media Matters layoffs? Couldn’t happen to a nicer collection of “Progressive” shills:
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/media/media-matters-hit-with-sweeping-layoffs-after-defamation-suit-by-elon-musk-federal-probes/
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/media/media-matters-hit-with-sweeping-layoffs-after-defamation-suit-by-elon-musk-federal-probes/
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Politics & Religion / Hanoi Jane Calls for a “Pussy Boycott” for Climate Change
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on Today at 04:30:06 PM »5
Politics & Religion / Re: The Goolag, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, Twitter, Gov censorship via Tech Octopus
« Last post by Crafty_Dog on Today at 03:57:07 PM »From the Deep State thread a few days ago-- guess who is behind this play?
"James Clapper and John Brennan"?!? The Axis of the Deep State and the Controligarchs burrows in deeper yet:
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Forward Observer
(2) DHS RESTARTS INTEL ADVISORY BOARD AFTER COURT LOSS: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will establish the Homeland Intelligence Advisory Board, which will mirror the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disbanded the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group earlier this month to resolve a lawsuit brought by America First Legal, which argued that DHS did not follow the law when it established the group.
Why It Matters: This is an additional data point supporting the likely increase in coordination between federal agencies and online platforms to censor political speech in the fight against “misinformation” and “election interference.” James Clapper and John Brennan, as part of the new advisory board and members of the disbanded experts group, signed a letter ahead of the 2020 election claiming media coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop “had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation operations.” This is likely to result in more censorship of online political speech and media coverage of stories that could negatively impact Biden’s reelection. – R.C.
"James Clapper and John Brennan"?!? The Axis of the Deep State and the Controligarchs burrows in deeper yet:
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Forward Observer
(2) DHS RESTARTS INTEL ADVISORY BOARD AFTER COURT LOSS: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will establish the Homeland Intelligence Advisory Board, which will mirror the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disbanded the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group earlier this month to resolve a lawsuit brought by America First Legal, which argued that DHS did not follow the law when it established the group.
Why It Matters: This is an additional data point supporting the likely increase in coordination between federal agencies and online platforms to censor political speech in the fight against “misinformation” and “election interference.” James Clapper and John Brennan, as part of the new advisory board and members of the disbanded experts group, signed a letter ahead of the 2020 election claiming media coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop “had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation operations.” This is likely to result in more censorship of online political speech and media coverage of stories that could negatively impact Biden’s reelection. – R.C.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Anti-semitism & Jews
« Last post by Crafty_Dog on Today at 03:53:57 PM »Nice work.
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Politics & Religion / Strange shooting in Carthage NC
« Last post by Crafty_Dog on Today at 03:52:55 PM »About 20 miles from our home:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/special-operations-soldier-under-investigation-in-deadly-shooting-of-accused-trespasser-in-north-carolina/ar-BB1mV91J
This is about three weeks old, but Jennifer Griffin had a major piece on this tonight on Bret Baier. Can someone find it and post it here please?
PS: Our local paper:
https://sandhillssentinel.com/sheriff-provides-update-on-dowd-road-shooting/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/special-operations-soldier-under-investigation-in-deadly-shooting-of-accused-trespasser-in-north-carolina/ar-BB1mV91J
This is about three weeks old, but Jennifer Griffin had a major piece on this tonight on Bret Baier. Can someone find it and post it here please?
PS: Our local paper:
https://sandhillssentinel.com/sheriff-provides-update-on-dowd-road-shooting/
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Re: FDA vs. medical freedom
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on Today at 03:37:39 PM »"prove cold treatment"
"proveN cold treatment"?
Big fingers & a little keyboard for my iPad, and I’m always racing to get back to my RSS feed to find the next interesting piece.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Re: Science
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on Today at 03:34:50 PM »OOOOOOHHH!!!
I think I like this!!!
Who judges?
Who pays?
How is the amount to be paid calculated?
And to whom does it go?
Don’t let the practical gum up the elegant, damn you!
If there was a will a way would be found. Alas, the gatekeepers hold the purse strings as well as a vested interest in controlling the narrative. It would require a change of the scale needed where politics are concerned in this country. Not impossible, but it’ll take a major wake up call to goad such a change.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Everest Cornice Collapse
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on Today at 03:22:30 PM »By happenstance, I started off as a climber, spending most of my time on the granite an hour north of Madison, WI found at a place called Devil’s Lake. When I moved down to the flatlands around Champaign, IL, there wasn’t much rock to climb up so I took up with some cavers and began climbing down instead.
Caving was a revelation, project caving, at least, as opposed to recreational caving. As a project caver there was a goal: collect data, draw maps, survey biota, etc. Climbers just get to the top, usually of something umpteen others have also topped, reach around to pat their own back, before starting down the rock face. Cavers are often the first into a section of cave and are establishing the baselines various disciplines will then use to tie their science to space and time.
Anhoo, check out all these climbers, trotting on down the Everest assembly line, relying on the lines and ladders sherpas and far better climbers of which the sherpas are a subset of provided, getting to the top, planting the flag, patting their back, checking whatever ego box that drove them to tread the nylon and aluminum highway laid down by sherpas, quaffing the O2 others humped up there for them, and then heading down until … the unexpected occurs, unsupported climbing skills are needed lest the ego parade stall in front of the fallen cornice.
Scary stuff, the attraction to which I no longer get as if it isn’t adding to a body of knowledge it no longer feels worth doing. Check out the post-collapse pic of the ~28,000 ft. traffic jam:
Terrifying Footage of Mount Everest Cornice Accident Aftermath
GearJunkie.com - Outdoor Gear Reviews / by Angela Benavides / May 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
(Photo/Vinayak Malla)
IFMGA guide Vinayak Malla summited Mount Everest at 6 a.m. on the morning of May 21, the busiest summit day, with Elite Exped clients. On their way back, they videoed just after the snow cornice couldn’t stand the weight of hundreds of climbers and gave in, dragging a number of people into the void.
This article was originally published on ExplorersWeb.
The video doesn’t show the actual collapse but its aftermath. Still, the footage is mind-blowing for its clarity and for depicting the mad sight of an overcrowded summit ridge. Dozens of climbers inch across a narrow snow arete, which couldn’t bear the weight and eventually crumbled. The image above shows a climber desperately trying to lift himself back to safety after the collapse.
“The Everest summit ridge felt different than my previous experiences on the mountain,” Malla said. “There was soft snow, many cornices, and rocky sections covered in snow. Even the weather station was half buried in snow.”
Climbers jam the narrow snow ridge to step on the summit of Everest
Dozens of climbers shuffle along meters from the summit of Everest; (photo/screenshot from video by Vanayak Malla)
Sudden Disaster on Mount Everest
“After summiting, we crossed the Hillary Step. Traffic was moving slowly. Then suddenly, a cornice collapsed a few meters ahead of us,” Malla recalled. He and his clients were on another section of that cornice, which happened not to give way.
Malla’s video shows the broken cornice section and climbers clinging to the fixed ropes and desperately trying to lift themselves back to safe ground.
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by Vinayak jaya malla (@malla.mountaineer)
“As the cornice collapsed, four climbers nearly perished yet were clipped onto the rope and self-rescued,” Malla wrote. “Sadly, two climbers are still missing.”
Then Malla recounts how he saved the situation — and perhaps many lives. “We tried to traverse, but it was impossible due to the traffic on the fixed line. Many climbers were stuck in traffic, and oxygen was running low. I was able to start breaking a new route for the descending traffic to begin moving slowly once again.”
The situation resembles other mountain accidents where a broken rope leaves climbers trapped behind. Something similar occurred on Broad Peak in 2021 when the fixed rope on a ridge broke, stranding Russian climber Nastya Runova and, a little later, Korean Kim HongBin.
Above them, over a dozen climbers waited, not skilled enough to progress across that section without ropes. Several suffered from frostbite. Runova was rescued, but Kim died.
However, the numbers on Everest’s summit ridge on May 21 were larger than on any other mountain.
https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/mount-everest-cornice-accident-aftermath-video
Caving was a revelation, project caving, at least, as opposed to recreational caving. As a project caver there was a goal: collect data, draw maps, survey biota, etc. Climbers just get to the top, usually of something umpteen others have also topped, reach around to pat their own back, before starting down the rock face. Cavers are often the first into a section of cave and are establishing the baselines various disciplines will then use to tie their science to space and time.
Anhoo, check out all these climbers, trotting on down the Everest assembly line, relying on the lines and ladders sherpas and far better climbers of which the sherpas are a subset of provided, getting to the top, planting the flag, patting their back, checking whatever ego box that drove them to tread the nylon and aluminum highway laid down by sherpas, quaffing the O2 others humped up there for them, and then heading down until … the unexpected occurs, unsupported climbing skills are needed lest the ego parade stall in front of the fallen cornice.
Scary stuff, the attraction to which I no longer get as if it isn’t adding to a body of knowledge it no longer feels worth doing. Check out the post-collapse pic of the ~28,000 ft. traffic jam:
Terrifying Footage of Mount Everest Cornice Accident Aftermath
GearJunkie.com - Outdoor Gear Reviews / by Angela Benavides / May 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
(Photo/Vinayak Malla)
IFMGA guide Vinayak Malla summited Mount Everest at 6 a.m. on the morning of May 21, the busiest summit day, with Elite Exped clients. On their way back, they videoed just after the snow cornice couldn’t stand the weight of hundreds of climbers and gave in, dragging a number of people into the void.
This article was originally published on ExplorersWeb.
The video doesn’t show the actual collapse but its aftermath. Still, the footage is mind-blowing for its clarity and for depicting the mad sight of an overcrowded summit ridge. Dozens of climbers inch across a narrow snow arete, which couldn’t bear the weight and eventually crumbled. The image above shows a climber desperately trying to lift himself back to safety after the collapse.
“The Everest summit ridge felt different than my previous experiences on the mountain,” Malla said. “There was soft snow, many cornices, and rocky sections covered in snow. Even the weather station was half buried in snow.”
Climbers jam the narrow snow ridge to step on the summit of Everest
Dozens of climbers shuffle along meters from the summit of Everest; (photo/screenshot from video by Vanayak Malla)
Sudden Disaster on Mount Everest
“After summiting, we crossed the Hillary Step. Traffic was moving slowly. Then suddenly, a cornice collapsed a few meters ahead of us,” Malla recalled. He and his clients were on another section of that cornice, which happened not to give way.
Malla’s video shows the broken cornice section and climbers clinging to the fixed ropes and desperately trying to lift themselves back to safe ground.
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by Vinayak jaya malla (@malla.mountaineer)
“As the cornice collapsed, four climbers nearly perished yet were clipped onto the rope and self-rescued,” Malla wrote. “Sadly, two climbers are still missing.”
Then Malla recounts how he saved the situation — and perhaps many lives. “We tried to traverse, but it was impossible due to the traffic on the fixed line. Many climbers were stuck in traffic, and oxygen was running low. I was able to start breaking a new route for the descending traffic to begin moving slowly once again.”
The situation resembles other mountain accidents where a broken rope leaves climbers trapped behind. Something similar occurred on Broad Peak in 2021 when the fixed rope on a ridge broke, stranding Russian climber Nastya Runova and, a little later, Korean Kim HongBin.
Above them, over a dozen climbers waited, not skilled enough to progress across that section without ropes. Several suffered from frostbite. Runova was rescued, but Kim died.
However, the numbers on Everest’s summit ridge on May 21 were larger than on any other mountain.
https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/mount-everest-cornice-accident-aftermath-video