This is a very interesting image of the Black Hole named Pictor A.



There it is in the center busily gobbling up the 2 stars circling around it.

What is unique about it is the viewing angle is from the top down which as far as we know is - it is the only time such an image has been taken from that angle.

So my team processed it and were quite surprised with the results -



It reminds me of science class in school where they put a sheet of paper over a magnet and poured iron filings over it.

The magnetic forces of this thing obviously must be tremendous!

Found this video at another site (not TOS). It's only a little under 16 minutes long but it's loaded with useful information on the off chance of getting arrested in the future. It does a great job of illustrating how the police try to take advantage of people who don't know any better (also in this case going through serious withdrawals)  and exercising your rights. 

Police are tricky. When I was pregnant with my oldest I had my house and yard searched and was brought in for questioning over something I had absolutely nothing to do with (and was physically IMPOSSIBLE for me to do while hugely pregnant). My answer to every single question and statement they made was "I didn't do shit!" so they told me "We're setting up a polygraph for you. After you take it you can leave." I told them "Fuck you! I want my lawyer NOW!" They asked who my lawyer was and the look on their faces! (My lawyer and former next door neighbor was the city judge.) They immediately told me I could leave and didn't bother me again for many years.

Enjoy the video!

So this happened in a neighboring town to my hometown down in Texas. Just the sort of thing I would expect but thought I would share to give those who haven't lived in a small town a taste of the beauty of small town life as an alternative to all the drama.

In Groves, Texas a girl with Type 1 Diabetes got a service dog named Sadie. Sadie has gone to school with her human, Annslee, since 3rd grade and Sadie will now graduated with honors from Middle School.

Quote:Round of a paws for a special Groves Middle School graduate!

Sadie is graduating with honors from the 8th grade. She was a service dog for Annslee Barbosa, who will now move on to high school. 
Sadie started going to school with Barbosa, who is a Type 1 diabetic, in the 3rd grade at Taft Elementary, then to Groves Elementary and now up to 8th grade at Groves Middle School.

This is just an opinion piece but.... The FBI was doing shady things under even Hoover and the CIA seems to do one thing good and many things bad IMO.. Maybe a change of leadership for both is all I can expect... if we get someone with balls and good body guards to attempt change in these organizations. Big bad body guards who are loyal and adept with security...
https://lists.youmaker.com/links/FsYNiK8...MhCAHj68NY

Quote:May 24, 2023Updated: May 24, 2023

Commentary
The FBI was a bad idea from its start in the days of J. Edgar Hoover. The agency began in an atmosphere of blackmail.
Now resembling police forces in totalitarian countries, the FBI has become an instrument of oppression of the people it was allegedly meant to protect and serve.
Reports that the bureau has been infiltrating almost all right-of-center organizations are myriad. In our elections, it hasn’t just put its finger on the scale; It has placed its full arm, elbow first.
Just as it’s said that Xi Jinping’s China is “Communism with Chinese characteristics,” it can be said that the FBI is the “STASI or KGB with American characteristics” (the pretense that the Bill of Rights is being followed).
Since centralized power tends to corrupt, in many ways, this was inevitable.
On May 24, we got yet another view—as if we needed one—into the culture of the agency when, as reported here, a deputy assistant FBI director of counterintelligence, Jill Murphy, admitted in congressional testimony that she hadn’t read the years-in-the-making Durham Report on her organization’s activities regarding supposed Trump–Russia collusion.
She was “too busy,” she said, in a response that sounded as if she were auditioning for Saturday Night Live. All she needed was a wink at the audience.
For good reason, the FBI (also the CIA—more in a moment) has come up as an important issue in the Republican presidential primary and also, via Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the Democratic one.
Outsider (is he still that?) candidate entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy shares my assessment and has said he would immediately “shut down” the FBI, as well as the Department of Education and other agencies.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, another GOP candidate, takes the reformist view, stating that “Heads need to roll” at the FBI after Durham. This same stance has been taken ad infinitum by Sean Hannity on all his Fox shows. Just punish the bad guys at the top and all will be well.
But would it? The FBI has more than 37,000 employees yet the whistleblowers–brave that they are—are but a handful. The overwhelming majority, afraid for their jobs, brainwashed, or just hunkered down, are in the end, much like Ms. Murphy, loyal followers of a corrupt and finally anti-democratic culture.
Besides, the reformist path was already tried by one Donald J. Trump, and look what it got him—Christopher Wray, the very image of the worst stonewalling bureaucrat.
Trump blames his nomination of Wray as FBI director on Chris Christie. One can assume that won’t happen again and the 45th president will choose considerably better should he become president again. But would that too be enough?
It would be interesting to hear more details of what Trump plans to do in his executive capacity with both agencies, the FBI and CIA; perhaps, for strategic reasons, that should be left as a pleasant surprise.
That shouldn’t stop us, however, from envisioning what replacement organizations might be like.
I am as interested here in what readers may think as much, or more, than I think, but I will throw out a few suggestions.
The FBI—with a new name—should be a seriously curtailed, domestic-only enterprise with a highly restricted budget and vastly fewer employees.
Most, virtually all, crime-stopping should be in the hands of local state and city constabulary with this new “FBI” stepping in only in obvious interstate situations—a serial killer on the run and so forth.
As an example, they shouldn’t, as they do, have their nose in the Covenant School murders here in Nashville, Tennessee. The further investigations of this nature go from ground zero, the more likely they are to be misused for biased political purposes.
They shouldn’t have anything to do with investigation of terrorism, spying and so forth, domestic or foreign. Their recent bungling, or apparent ignorance, of the Chinese communists having their own police forces in our cities is but one illustration of extreme incompetence in this area. They were evidently too busy spying on us.
The major job of this organization should be aiding states in coordination, not in solving crimes. Above all, it shouldn’t be located anywhere near the Beltway.
What to do about foreign and domestic spying is more complicated. The CIA that grew out of World War II’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS) exists for a reason that need not be explained here.
The problem is its authority and reach has metastasized far beyond that logical explanation.
Kennedy—with obvious personal motivation—has had the courage to point that out. That’s made his presidential campaign among the most noteworthy of recent times.
Mere reformation of the CIA, including the vaunted Church Commission of 1970, seems a prime example of that quote attributed to everybody and everything from Albert Einstein to a Chinese proverb: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Like the FBI, the CIA mustn’t be reformed but canned.
But how, with China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others in the present or future out to get us?
I would submit one word: smaller. Maybe two words: much smaller.
Intelligence agencies by their nature become less efficient as they expand, as do most bureaucracies. We apparently have 17, and computers do most of the work now anyway.
But who keeps tabs on some lean version? Congress? I hate internet acronyms, but somehow SMH comes to mind.
Perhaps we need a new, second, Supreme Court of sorts (with or without lawyers) specifically tasked with keeping tabs on the new FBI and CIA to ensure they are spying on our adversaries and not us.

Anyone listen to it?

I just finished listening to it a bit ago. Total Jeb energy.

Big mistake not to wait another cycle, imo.

Like the title says Canada is dying yet if you think about your own country you will recognize some of the headlines from where you live.

Good morning, fellow doers!

Earlier this spring, I was thinking about an idea I had. It came from a YouTube video (now so deep in my history as to be irrecoverable) and I started checking on the possibility. I have two goals for this project: honey (haven't been able to afford that golden elixir in a couple of decades) and pollination for my garden. So far the pollination hasn't been terrible as we do have an occasional wild honeybee and plenty of bumblebees, but more is better when it comes to pollination.

Now, surely, someone else on here raises bees... so I decided to post this to let that someone educate me. I want to learn all about this before I jump in with both feet. Here's what I am thinking:

Out near my barn there is plenty of room for several hives. That's maybe 50 feet from my garden as well (assuming bees don't get deterred by wire fences, lol). It's also a respectable distance from my house. I am about the only one usually out there, and bee stings don't hurt me all that bad. They sting, yes, but compared to a red wasp (those buggers have stung me plenty throughout my life) they're an annoyance.

I'm thinking of starting with a single hive and letting them swarm until I have maybe three at the most. I'm not interested in selling honey; I am interested in having honey. I could get all the equipment to make the honey, which as I understand it is a few 5-gallon buckets, straining material, and a small (2-frame?) centrifuge. I have plenty of room to set that up.

Yes, that includes a bee suit. I'm tough, not stupid.

I plan on making my own hives, too, and that includes the frames. I am decent at woodworking after all. I have one issue with the standard stackable hives, though, and that is the amount of work to lift them off one at a time. They need to be inspected regularly and of course taken out to get the honeycomb. But in my present health, any physical exertion is severely limited... I still have some strength, but stamina have I none. I have 5 minutes to exert on a good day, then it's a folding chair for an hour while I try to wheeze myself into a coma. I am therefore looking for the easiest hive to inspect and remove frames from; difficulty in assembly is a secondary consideration. So any advice on that front is appreciated. I even had the bright idea of making an outer frame with hives that could slide in and out, but I have been told that's just not feasible because of how the bees tend to seal their hive.

I'm also trying to decide what kind of wood to use. I am et up with cedar and red oak, and of course pine is cheap to buy. I do have the capacity to turn rough-cut boards into finished lumber, so I could find other indigenous species at local sawmills (and maybe barter some standing logs for lumber; I'm not able to run a sawmill anyway so I deal with them time to time).

The only competition around that area would be the bumblebees and the occasional wasp (very few wasps out there). We do have yellow jackets, but they are on the opposite end of the place, 500 yards or so away.

I missed getting everything running this spring; I was unprepared and things take me longer than they do normal people. But come next spring, I would like to be ready to get some bees. That means I need to start preparing now. So come on, all you rogues and roguesses out there in virtual conspiracy land! What advice you got for an aging, decrepit redneck who so far has refused to fall down?

TheRedneck

A "Closer" look at a hyped UFO /  UAP recent story that hit the alien boards recently. Appears 2 years of investigation may not conclude what they thought it would conclude.

Yeah, I post Alien stories as well.... sometimes. It is not like there are many good ones.


https://www.theblackvault.com/documentar...oser-look/

Complete Statement from Pentagon

Quote:On May 23, 2023, investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp released exclusive footage of a UFO, dubbed the “Mojave Triangle UAP”, hovering over the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms – Camp Wilson. The event, which took place on April 20, 2021, between 8:20pm to 9:30pm PST, is labeled by Corbell as a “mass UFO sighting” and said to have over fifty eyewitnesses. The object, captured on iPhones and infrared, is described as a silent triangular-shaped craft, estimated to be between half the size of a football field and a three-bedroom, two-story house.

Following the sighting, Corbell stated there was a “significant air and ground response,” which he further claimed was a search and reconnaissance effort related to the UAP event, lasting approximately three hours. Given the location of this sighting within the restricted airspace of an active United States military installation, it is believed by Corbell that a significant amount of data, including radar, thermal, electro-optical, and signature intelligence, were accumulated.

Oh Oh, China is attempting to compromise US cyber and critical infrastructure. Not good as this is a "state sponsored" attack and not some random hacker group. 

Couple this along with the sudden issue of sat phones to Senators and the DHS terror alert earlier today and it does not look minor.


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security...echniques/

Quote:Microsoft reported Wednesday that alleged China-backed hackers have conducted a cyberattack on "critical infrastructure," raising concerns about potential disruptions to communications infrastructure.

"Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States," it said in a statement.

The company said the attack was carried out by Volt Typhoon, which it said was a state-sponsored actor based in China that focuses on espionage and information gathering.

"Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises," it said.

Volt Typhoon has been active since mid-2021 and has targeted critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the US, it said.

"In this campaign, the affected organizations span the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors.

"Observed behavior suggests that the threat actor intends to perform espionage and maintain access without being detected for as long as possible," said the statement.

Quote:Microsoft officials on Wednesday issued an advisory saying a Chinese hacking group compromised “critical” U.S. cyber infrastructure focused on gathering intelligence – and urged customers to close or change credentials for exposed accounts.

An enlightening article about engineered destruction and the scourge of organized theft. Did you know that some are carrying calculators with them to ring up the value of items so they can stay under the "Felony" dollar limits?

I had no idea it had gotten THIS bad. They refuse to prosecute, some of these professional thieves have been arrested over 30 times and they let them out to do it again and again. This is a manmade disaster and engineered to cause chaos in my opinion.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/shoplifter...destroyed/

Quote:Target, Home Depot and other retailers announced last week they are taking big hits to their profits because of “double-digit” increases in theft nationwide.

That’s after hiking prices on consumers. When the guy next to you loads a bag with whatever merchandise isn’t locked up and walks out without paying, keep in mind you’re paying for his stolen stuff.

Stores are fleeing New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, cities that soft-on-crime mayors and district attorneys have made shoplifters’ paradises.

NPR reporter Sandhya Dirks says taking necessities without paying shouldn’t be considered a crime.

Ridiculous. Most poor people don’t steal. It’s an insult to claim they do.

But organized thievery is increasingly the problem.

Thieves go into drugstores carrying calculators to be sure the value of the items they’re loading into their bags doesn’t exceed what the law defines as a misdemeanor — $1,000 or less in New York and most states.

A felony risks jail time, and shoplifters will put items back on the shelf to avoid that.
They can return the next day for another haul.

They’re gaming the law and stealing goods to resell them, not because they’re hungry or need diapers for a baby.
In New York City, nearly one third of shoplifting incidents that led to arrests last year were committed by the same 327 people — professional thieves — who were taken into custody a total of 6,000 times.

But they’re still on the streets. “We have individuals that have been arrested over 30 times just this year,” reports NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri.