Category: Things I Read

Reality update: Die unglaubliche Reise eines verrückten Supertankers | Telepolis … :

“Wie so viele seiner Kollegen fuhr er mal unter der Flagge der Marshallinseln, mal unter der Panamas. Mal gehört er einer amerikanischen Schiff-Holding, mal einem Unternehmen aus Dortmund. Aber egal in wessen Auftrag der Tanker auch gerade unterwegs war, er machte immer dasselbe: Er transportierte Rohöl von einem Land zum anderen. Um genau zu sein 2,084 Millionen Barrel Rohöl. Zum Vergleich: Das entspricht in etwa dem Inhalt von 130 Olympischen Schwimmbecken oder dem Rohöl-Bedarf der Bundesrepublik pro Tag.“

Reality update: US government files civil lawsuit against Snowden over publication of memoir | US news | The Guardian … :

“The lawsuit alleges that Snowden published without submitting the book to the agencies for pre-publication review, “in violation of his express obligations under the agreements he signed”. Additionally, the suit argues that Snowden has given public speeches on intelligence-related matters, “also in violation of his non-disclosure agreements”. Although it does not seek to block publication, the suit aims to recover all proceeds earned.“

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Reality update: Here’s what happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos | Ars Technica … :

“Big enough impact craters actually have a knob of uplifted rock in the center that forms due to the incredible shock forces involved. But the very largest impacts—like Chicxulub—end up with a ring of uplifted rock around the center, as if to mark the bulls-eye. Computer modeling, supported by observations of the deepest bedrock in the core, shows that the rock would have bounced around like jelly. Over 10 minutes or so, a new mountain would have soared into the sky before collapsing and spreading out into a raised ring on the crater floor.“

Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas | World news | The Guardian … :

“Greed, not water, sank the Oyang 70. The ship had tried to swallow too much fish; the ocean swallowed the ship instead. The last men off the drowning ship said that they saw Shin in the wheelhouse, refusing to abandon his post or put on a life jacket. Hugging a pole and clutching his clear bottle, he was muttering in Korean and crying.“

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Sind-die-Menschen-zu-bloed-fuer-eine-Demokratie-4521893.html?wt_mc=rss.tp.beitrag.atom

Fairbanks University, Alaska: A study paid for by 3000+ engineers and architects concludes that the official version including the NIST report cannot be correct: 

 WTC7 collapse was NOT because of fire… :

“The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse.

The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.“

“leghlaHchu’be’chugh mIn lo’laHbe’ taj jej”“A sharp knife is useless if the eye is unable to clearly see.”

“A Tweet has shown us the capabilities or the current generation of US spy satellites. By analyzing the images shared the location of the satellite was determined and traced to USA-224 AKA NROL-49 – an image intelligence satellite that is derived from a design in the 1970’s and also shares some design charactersitics with the Hubble Space Telescope.”

Operation Northwoods – Wikipedia … :

“The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by John F. Kennedy.[3][4][5]“

Trapping the Tiniest Sound – Scientific American

In a new study, scientists at JILA (a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder) tuned the energy units of their superconducting qubit so phonons would not be destroyed. Instead the phonons sped up the current in the circuit, thanks to a special material that created an electric field in response to vibrations. Experimenters could then detect how much change in current each phonon caused.

Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame

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Transnistrian Time-Slip – The New York Times … :

“And so, the rebellion that established the independence of Transnistria [7] was not motivated by Russian nationalism, but by Soviet nostalgia — or, rather, by the inability to imagine a future other than a communist one. For many years after independence, Transnistria tried to re-establish that ineffective mainstay of communism, so eagerly rejected elsewhere: a centrally planned economy.”

If you don’t know what Hypernormalisation means, watch this: 

My answer? No.

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Ist-die-deutsche-Autoindustrie-noch-zu-retten-4501504.html?wt_mc=rss.tp.beitrag.atom

Reality update: Als Afroamerikaner in Berlin: Multikulti ist der Kern von Rassismus – Kultur – Tagesspiegel … :

Nach diesem Artikel kam eine alte Weisheit zurück in mein Hirn: “Toleranz, das kommt von Aushalten” sagte Gerhard Polt. Und deshalb ist sie falsch. Deshalb ist auch Multikulti eigentlich falsch, und da hat der Autor sehr Recht. Solange man etwas erwartet oder als gegeben annimmt, diskriminiert man irgendwo. nur Offenheit kann da helfen. Dann braucht es auch keine Toleranz mehr. Oder das ist dann wirkliche Toleranz. Viel zum weiteren Nachdenken, auf jeden Fall. 

“Rassisten treten nicht mehr nur mit Springerstiefeln und Glatze auf. Die Weigerung, jemanden in einem Lokal zu bedienen, übermäßige Aufmerksamkeit in Geschäften, also angestarrt werden oder von Angestellten verfolgt zu werden, rassistische Polizeikontrollen (Racial Profiling) oder die Weigerung, Englisch zu sprechen, selbst wenn man Englisch sprechen kann – all das ist rassistisch. Der Alltagsrassismus hat in den letzten Jahren zugenommen Ich musste Sprüche hören wie: „Das hier ist Deutschland, sprich Deutsch“ oder „Du bist hier ein Gast!“. Das sind Abwandlungen von „Geh dahin zurück, wo du hergekommen bist“ – und das kennen wir doch von irgendwoher.“