"The report warns of "extremists" using aesthetics, humor, and memes." Yes, memes.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1...6437796910

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/03/14/fe...n-n2393989

Quote:White supremacy was the number one domestic terrorist threat in America until it was toppled by parents at school board meetings, Catholics praying in front of abortion clinics, and now Christian nationalism. We've already seen from the Twitter files how heavy a thumb the federal government had on social media platforms like Twitter. But now the feds are going after sites frequented by gamers, who are the next domestic terrorist threat.

This "Disinformation Primer" from the GAO warns that "problematic information" regularly originates from networks of alternative sites and anonymous individuals who have created their own "alt-media" online spaces: Reddit, 4Chan, Discord, and "gaming sites." To users, these spaces "enable them to collaborate and validate their own interpretations of the world that differ from "mainstream" sources.

The government has become obsessed with "disinformation" to the point where it set up a Disinformation Governance Board. There's the accepted "mainstream" narrative, and then there are "interpretations of the world that differ from 'mainstream' sources."

This is what the government is monitoring: your gaming chat while you play Call of Duty.

I am of the opinion that a fact is a fact regardless of how you arrived at that conclusion and I am irritated at how "science" seems to have the final word on the facts.

The term "science" gets used all the time when people want to present solid facts, but facts stand alone without science needed to prop them up. Political propagandists love the terms "science" or "scientific" when trying to shut down debate with "the facts", but science is merely an investigative method, one of many.

Why is it that science must come around and place its stamp of approval on the facts that have always been facts long before people developed the scientific method? Common sense (not so common these days) has always known the simple fact that what goes up must come down, yet it took an apple to fall on Newton's head for "the science" to catch up with that fact.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that science is a good thing if properly used to determine facts, but I get pretty perturbed at people who use the word "science" as if that proves something without debate. It gets so loosely used all the time that unless something is verified by "the science" it is merely an opinion. If you produce some evidence that refutes a given "scientific fact" (remember that the word scientific is not that same as science itself), then your source is pseudo-science or worse racist.

So, while science is good it is too often used politically by way of "scientific facts", facts that were always facts but are now claimed as something science gave to us. It has gotten so bad that it has become a feature of our culture now and is used in common everyday language.

Sometimes we need to be reminded of how untrustworthy TPTB in government actually are.

There has been plenty of conspiracy talk about possible radiation damage from Cell phones; but, if you do not look for "something" you usually do not find "something!"

Quote:Federal agencies are cancelling research, differing significantly from Europe’s more precautionary approach to cellphones.

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By George Citroner
3/11/2024
Updated:
3/13/2024


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Decades of animal research point to serious health risks from cellphone radiation exposure, but examining a possible link stops now.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP), tasked with studying potential toxins, recently announced it would no longer investigate evidence that cellphone radiation can harm animals or people. The move stunned scientists like Devra Davis, a former senior adviser to the assistant secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, who called the abrupt reversal scientifically unjustified.
There’s “no scientific explanation or justification for this sudden reversal,” Ms. Davis told The Epoch Times.
Unpublished NTP Research Undermines Decision to Halt Cellphone Radiation Studies
The NTP recently claimed that additional radiofrequency radiation (RFR) studies are not planned, stating the research was “technically challenging and more resource-intensive than expected.”

Ms. Davis criticized this decision, noting that technical challenges are not a reason to avoid studying something that appears to cause cancer in animals. “Everything that we know for sure causes cancer in people will produce it in animals when adequately studied,” she added.
Despite admitting to developing a novel small-scale RFR exposure system in 2019 to clarify earlier findings, the NTP canceled further investigations. This system only studied older 2G and 3G devices, not newer 4G or 5G technologies.
Ms. Davis, a former NTP advisor, said she helped recommend smaller test chambers. The agency takes years to plan studies, so scrapping this project is “beyond my comprehension at this point,” given millions of children’s daily exposure, she noted.

In an emailed statement, the NTP confirmed that although work on the small-scale exposure system and accompanying research has been completed, the results will be publicly available and posted on the agency’s webpage only “when internal reviews are finished.” As of this writing, the 2019 research remains unpublished.
Court Finds FCC Illegally Ignored 5G Health Risks
The NTP published results in 2018 from two-year toxicology studies showing “clear evidence” of associations between 2G/3G cellphone radiation and tumors in male rats. Follow-up research in 2019 revealed DNA damage in the brains, livers, and blood cells of exposed rats and mice.
Despite originally requesting and overseeing these studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has since dismissed the NTP’s findings, Ms. Davis said.
In 2019, the Federal Communications Commission affirmed outdated 1996 radiation exposure standards for new 5G technologies, which did not even exist then. To justify this, the FDA anonymously produced an unreviewed document in 2020. The Environmental Health Trust (EHT) sued the FCC.
In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the FCC. The court said the FCC acted improperly and illegally by keeping its 1996 wireless radiation exposure limits. The court found the FCC ignored evidence that radiation below its current limits can cause adverse health effects besides cancer, noting that the FCC also failed to respond to comments about the environmental harm caused by radiation.
The court ordered revised standards accounting for EHT’s records on risks to children and the environment.
FCC Let Carriers Abandon Landlines
Since 2019, France has mandated cellphones include warnings to keep such devices away from teens and pregnant women’s lower abdomens because of radiation risks. The European Union also funds extensive research on RFR hazards.
“So why are we ignoring animal study results showing harm?” Ms. Davis said. “There’s only one reason: because there’s so much money involved.”
Landlines offered an alternative to cellphones, but the FCC’s 2019 order let carriers abandon copper lines. Companies like Verizon have begun retiring landlines, leaving consumers with only wireless options.
People can still reduce RFR exposure by:

• Not carrying phones in pockets or bras
  
• Using speakerphone and holding phones away from the head/body
  
• Keeping devices away from reproductive organs
  
• Using wired over WiFi internet
  
• Not sleeping near phones
  

How people in America put up with this crap is beyond me ? The Hur testimony and the reason there was no conviction is because he knew he could not get a conviction in Washington D.C. in spite of all the blatant wrong doing... Biden was working on a 8 million dollar book deal so he needed the documents he unlawfully had in his possession to help with the book..  IMO if you are better off today than you were 4 years ago you must be an illegal alien with a government issued credit card !

Found this short presentation quite interesting. Especially the ancient Londinium "financial document" and the mystic esoteric cult of Mithra artifacts.

Quote:Join us on an immersive journey through the ancient streets of Roman London. We explore archaeological finds that offer glimpses into daily life, from deciphered wax tablets revealing trade dealings to artifacts like spearheads, arrowheads, and fragments of armor. London's Roman history traces back to around 50 AD, when a mercantile trading post was established on a gravel terrace above the river Thames. At the time, this area was a floodplain surrounded by thick woods. But this muddy valley would eventually become one of the greatest cities in the world.

In my opinion, a very lucky man. (Link)

A buyer's agent drove up. He says he has a client who wants to make an offer on the property. I asked him how much and he said he'd like to sit down and discuss it. I told him he better say a number or turn around and leave.

Well ... he told me. I almost sat down right there on the driveway. 'Somebody' wants this place at over three times what I've got invested in it. We went inside to discuss details over coffee. The wife was ready to sign right there on the spot. If that number is real we won't ever have to worry about money again.

We've been planning and preparing to move closer to our kids ... and I really am getting too old for this kind of lifestyle. The property I have under development will be finished between September and December. It's still a hardhat area and a little too soon for even limited occupancy. I say this as my Army brother has to have a roof over his head too.

I guess if we have to we can move down to Texas for a while. Moving sucks. Was hoping for just one last bounce ... but we'd have to do two if this thing happens in a hurry.

Cross your fingers for us!!

Uh oh! Grandpa is "McConnelling" again! 

Fly by wire computer controlled flight systems and controls; what could go wrong ?

Quote:On the 23rd of February 2008, a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit crashed just seconds after take-off. This mistake ended up becoming the most expensive mistake in the history of aviation, with costs approaching $2 billion dollars in damages. So, what happened?