Author: mfeilner

“You don’t believe in #climatechange. You are excused from this conversation.”

That’s so much exactly the way how to treat the deniers. Yes. Thanks, Governor! 

Reality update: California wildfire: evacuation orders lifted as Trump blasts Newsom | Wildfires | The Guardian … :  

“As authorities lifted all evacuation orders imposed by a wildfire that caused thousands to flee their homes north-west of Los Angeles, Donald Trump threatened to cut federal funding for aid during the kind of blazes that have hit California hard this fall.

Governor Gavin Newsom has done a “terrible job of forest management”, Trump tweeted. “When fires rage, the governor comes to the federal government for help. No more.”

Neither of the two major fires presently burning in California are on forest land.

California controls a small percentage of forest land. The federal government manages most of it.

Last year Trump made a similar threat as wildfires devastated Malibu and Paradise, California, accusing the state of “gross mismanagement” of forests.

At the time Newsom defended California’s wildfire prevention efforts while criticizing the federal government for not doing enough to help protect the state.

He replied on Sunday with a tweet of his own: “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.”“

Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’ | FAIR

https://fair.org/home/russia-has-oligarchs-the-us-has-businessmen/

Late Show host Stephen Colbert (7/20/17) defined “oligarch” as “Russian for ‘rich guy don’t ask where his money came from.’” (“Oligarch” actually came to English from Ancient Greek.) To be fair, Colbert joked about the selective use of the term—explaining that “over there, the political system is controlled by wealthy elites who buy influence and pull strings of the government, whereas in America, we speak English.”

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And when a politician like Bernie Sanders suggests that these oligarchs influence the media, senior editors react angrily, claiming he is “ridiculous” and a “conspiracy theorist.” What a strange country the US is—an oligarchy without any oligarchs

T4 and Gekra: Industrial Nazi Holocaust Killings Started in Regensburg (German)

Amazing. I wonder if there is any aspect in European history where this city was not involved … Read this article about how the first large-scale deportation of soon-to-be eradicated humans took place in Regensburg. Crazy. Sad. And even worse that there are humans again today that keep using the same speech, the same hate and the same threats. Sad. 

Als der Tod Pfleger in Regensburg war » Regensburg Digital

“Es ist der 4. November 1940. Mehrere graue Busse der Gemeinnützigen Krankentransportgesellschaft (Gekra) verlassen die Regensburger Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Karthaus-Prüll. Das Ziel der Gekra-Busse ist das oberösterreichische Schloss Hartheim. Für die Insassen des ersten T4-Transportes von Regensburg aus ist es eine Reise in den sicheren Tod. Historisch betrachtet ist die Aktion T4 der Beginn der Massenvernichtungsindustrie im 3. Reich.”

CV2 is on its Way, And It Will Be Ugly.

#toldyouso

Republicans go lower: They’re publicly spreading the name of purported Ukraine whistleblower | Salon.com

“The unconfirmed report named a 33-year-old CIA analyst as the purported whistleblower, although mainstream media outlets have declined to disclose the name after his attorneys warned that they have received death threats targeting their client. Republican lawmakers have reportedly repeatedly attempted to get the whistleblower’s name on record at impeachment hearings in hopes that it will be released publicly. (Salon has made the decision not to publish this person’s name, although it will no doubt soon be in the public record.)”

#CampCentury – a city under the Greenland Ice

Reality update: The Secret Base Greenland Base of Project Iceworm – YouTube … :

“The Secret Base Greenland Base of Project Iceworm”

 

Reality update: Access to the Greenland Ice Cap at Camp TUTO … :

“Many types of motorized transportation were tried on the ice cap. One technique was a train made up of a driving unit that had diesel engines driving two electrical generators. The electrical power was sent to sixteen 40-horsepower electric motors on the wheels of four trailer units. The wheels had tubeless rubber tires 10.5 feet (3.15 m) in diameter. This train could load at Thule Air Base and travel on the road to Camp TUTO and then out onto the ice cap, which was a big advantage over sleds. The train could haul 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg) of supplies up to 15 mph (24 km/hr). Unfortunately, the tires slipped and slid on the ice too much for safety and control, so were abandon for the sled trains.”

Elektroantrieb. Hybrid, mit E-Motoren in den Rädern…!  

Reality update: Access to the Greenland Ice Cap at Camp TUTO … :

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Reality update: Camp Fistclench – Wikipedia … : 

“Camp Fistclench (Fist Clench) was a U.S. Army research camp on and inside the Greenland Ice Cap 200 miles (320 km) east of Thule Air Base. It was in use from 1957 to 1960. It served to prototype techniques used at the much larger Camp Century.”

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Reality update: Camp_Century_layout_plan.png (1596×2018) … :

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Facts from #TheExpanse’s Names

Kittur Chennamma – Wikipedia … :

“Kittur Chennamma (23 October 1778 – 2 February 1829)[1] was an Indian freedom fighter and Rani of the Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the region, but was defeated in the third war and died imprisoned. The one of the female rulers to rebel against British rule (earlier first indian queen velu nachiyair madurai), she has become a folk hero in Karnataka and symbol of the independence movement in India.”

Caliban – Wikipedia … :

“Caliban (/ˈkælɪbæn/ KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own “outside” Shakespeare’s own work:[1] as Russell Hoban put it, “Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he’s always looking for someone to word him into being … Caliban is a necessary idea”.[2]”

Rocinante – Wikipedia … :

“Rocinante (Spanish pronunciation: [roθiˈnante]) is Don Quixote’s horse in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote’s horse, but also his double: like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.[1][2]”  

Pinus contorta – Wikipedia … : 

“Many populations of the Rocky Mountain subspecies, P. contorta subsp. latifolia, have serotinous cones. This means that the cones are closed and must be exposed to high temperatures, such as from forest fires, in order to open and release their seeds.[27] The variation in their serotiny has been correlated with wildfires and mountain pine beetle attacks.[28]”

Serotiny – Wikipedia … : 

“Serotiny is an ecological adaptation exhibited by some seed plants, in which seed release occurs in response to an environmental trigger, rather than spontaneously at seed maturation. The most common and best studied trigger is fire, and the term serotiny is often used to refer to this specific case.”

Tachi – Wikipedia … :

“A tachi (太刀) was a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (nihonto) worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and katana generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when sheathed, the latter depending on the location of the mei, or signature, on the tang. The tachi style of swords preceded the development of the katana, which was not mentioned by name until near the end of the twelfth century; tachi are known to have been made in the Kotō period, ranging from 900 to 1596.“