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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Trump verbally assaulted Former Vice President Pence.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Rule of Law
By Michael Booth
Someone shot and killed an extremely rare California condor (click here) near McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado this spring, and wildlife officials are now asking for the public’s help in tracking down a poacher who eliminated one of the big birds that have been coaxed for decades into rewilding.
After avian flu in 2023 hit the complex condor revival program, there are only about 85 of the giants flying through canyons of northern Arizona and southern Utah, with occasional forays into Colorado. About 560 exist now from Mexico through the Southwest, and the reintroduction efforts recently expanded to the Pacific Northwest.
The shot condor was found just a day after it was killed in late March, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said Wednesday. The bird’s carcass was discovered west of McPhee Reservoir and northeast of Lewis, in a remote area. Cortez is the nearest larger town....
One of the greatest differences (click here) between the two species is size, which can be difficult to estimate determine at a distance. A gray wolf is much larger than a coyote. Wolves weigh 80 to 120 pounds, while coyotes weigh 20 to 50 pounds. Track size measures about four by five inches for wolves, compared to two by two and a half inches for coyotes.
Ear shape is also much different; wolves have somewhat rounded ears while coyotes have taller, pointed ears. Wolves have a broader, shorter snout, while coyotes have a narrow more pointed nose. A wolf’s howl is long and drawn out, while a coyote produces a shorter, yapping sound. Fur coloration can be quite similar between wolves and coyotes and therefore is not a good characteristic for separating the two species. For more visual comparisons, visit: Wolf Identification: Physical Appearance of Wolves.
Large dogs and wolf-dog hybrids can also be mistaken for wolves, although they usually act more familiar with people. Wolf-dog hybrids can be unpredictable and aggressive. Some hybrids have been released into the wild, living like feral dogs. Distinctions between these hybrids and wild wolves can sometimes be made only by DNA testing.
And forget about the DNA testing, DO NOT SHOOT THEM. There are laws! Hybrids are gigantic (click here for picture above). I have seen hybrid wolves that came from litters by a dog. Why anyone wants a dog that size from that lineage is beyond understanding.
287.279 (ckick here)Sec. 19.
Any person including a law enforcement officer may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pursuing, worrying, or wounding any livestock or poultry or attacking persons, and there shall be no liability on such person in damages or otherwise, for such killing. Any dog that enters any field or enclosure which is owned by or leased by a person producing livestock or poultry, outside of a city, unaccompanied by his owner or his owner's agent, shall constitute a trespass, and the owner shall be liable in damages. Except as provided in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person, other than a law enforcement officer, to kill or injure or attempt to kill or injure any dog which bears a license tag for the current year
Separately, authorities who received a report about the DNR's investigation said Thursday that no charges would filed against the hunter or guide.
"The conduct here appears to be based on a reasonable and honest belief they were legally shooting a coyote,” Calhoun County prosecutor David Gilbert told The Associated Press.
The 84-pound wolf was killed roughly 300 miles (482 kilometers) south of the Upper Peninsula. The DNR said it learned through social media about someone shooting a “world record coyote.” But this was no coyote....
The energy perks proposed by Trump are crude and completely irresponsible.
One of the ideas being floated by the Right Wing media is that Trump can cut the cost of energy in half immediately upon winning the election and before inauguration. How that would work in how he would leverage power before inauguration must be an interesting discussion regardless of the proposed method. That is not why I am writing this.
There are costs to producing energy. There are production costs, but, one aspect of producing petroleum based energy are the HUMAN COSTS.
The USA and the rest of the world are involved in a severe and sudden climate crisis. This ABRUPT climate crisis has been developing since the Industrial Revolution and hasn't stopped. The progress being made to have human impacts minimized on the climate that supports human life has been moving forward at a more vigorous pace since the presidency of Barak Obama. Since the years of George W. Bush there have been changes in the way Earth is manifesting hurricanes with some of the worst having impact on lives beginning in 2005.
Currently, the North Carolina Outer Banks are experiencing extremely high sea level rise that is costing homeowners their property and homes. The property is disappearing as storms and high tides are taking away sand by the feet and not simply an inch or so. The latest in storms and high tides to hit the Outer Banks removed several feet of sand making it impossible for crews attempting to work on that emergency access. Now, the only recourse if to allow the homes to fall into the ocean.
This past year has seen record high temperatures across the USA. We are currently experiencing climate "at the nature of the planet" which only worsens as time goes by if nothing is done to reverse this deadly trend.
There is also a nice breeze of 8 mph that helps with sweat evaporation that allows some relief from the heat so long as the person is well hydrated. The humidity is 40 percent with indoor humidity about the same. The dew point is 57 F if anyone can find an area of the land where it is 57 F. Have the folks of this country been experiencing DEW IN THE MORNING? I know I haven't and I should have as I am located near a body of water. There should have been mist drifting in and settling overnight with dew in the morning. That did not happen this year. The visibility is 25 miles which means there is no fog (water vapor).
Friday, September 20, 2024
Russia does not recognize PRIVATE interests in science and uses every bit of knowledge it obtains to enhance war.
By Elizabeth Gibney
Europe’s particle-physics laboratory (click here) CERN will expel hundreds of scientists who are affiliated with Russian institutions on 30 November unless they move to establishments outside of the nation. The date marks the official end of the lab’s collaboration with the Russian Federation, following CERN’s decision to cut ties with the country after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
But tension over CERN’s relationship with Russia remains among researchers, because the organization will continue to work with Russia-based scientists through an agreement with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) (click here), an intergovernmental centre in Dubna (click here), near Moscow. JINR’s arrangement with CERN is separate from Russia’s. The decision to not cut ties with the lab has divided researchers, some of whom point to its relationship with the Russian state, which continues its deadly war in Ukraine....
Russia needs to replace Czar Putin. The question is will the Russian affiliated scientists defect to the Free World for the sake of their craft and if so are they trustworthy? I remind there have been deaths as well as survived poisonings of Novichok. The decisions by these scientists and any continued contact with Russia is important to understand and reconcile. Is the science sound without Russia and it's scientists?
Dubnium (click here) is named after this unique city that is dedicated to science and the young scientist. These collaborations have been some of the most incredible cultural enrichment of people to benefit a path of peace and prosperity. It is difficult to simply say, "Good bye to colleagues."
It is most probably an algorithm.
In January 2010, (click here) inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency visiting the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran noticed that centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the Iranian technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them.
Five months later a seemingly unrelated event occurred. A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot a series of computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly. Again, the cause of the problem was a mystery. That is, until the researchers found a handful of malicious files on one of the systems and discovered the world's first digital weapon.
Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm that came before. Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak physical destruction on equipment the computers controlled....
By Claire Parker, Mohamad El Chamaa, Lior Soroka and Shira Rubin
...Still, the operation marked an embarrassing breach of the group’s supply chain, and the explosions also injured the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon....
...On Wednesday, (click here) a second round of explosions killed 20 and injured at least 450. This attack appeared to impact a broader range of electronic devices, including radios and fingerprint analysis devices.
Israel uses sophisticated cyberespionage methods to spy on and track members of the militant groups it opposes, including Hamas and Hezbollah. It has also built a far-ranging surveillance system using facial recognition to monitor Palestinians in the West Bank....
...But the scale of such an attack, targeting thousands of Hezbollah members at once by use of their own devices, is unprecedented....
...“The scale suggests a complex supply-chain attack, rather than a scenario in which devices were intercepted and modified in transit.”...
...Lithium batteries that overheat can reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Meier said. Devices are generally designed to vent this heat, but if they don’t, “the battery can and will explode,” he said.
Some batteries rely on the devices’ own software to regulate their use and temperature, so it is theoretically possible to hack into a pager and trigger its battery to heat to the point that it explodes, Meier said....
People die in war. War is not clean. If one looks at Russia's wars in the Middle East they are brutal, inhumane, and completely devastating. Russia's war in Syria looks exactly like Israel's war into Gaza. There is no difference.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Reflexive Control by Russia aimed to confuse the Free World.
See the Ukrainians and the post Soviet States are aware of aspects of Russia the USA and NATO may not accept. These folks know who they are. They stand the wall between what was once a horrible life for their people. They don't want it back. The Free World should take their scholars seriously to add to the intelligence dialogue that increases excellence.
Russia (click here) has been using an advanced form of hybrid warfare in Ukraine since early 2014 that relies heavily on an element of information warfare that the Russians call “reflexive control.” Reflexive control causes a stronger adversary voluntarily to choose the actions most advantageous to Russian objectives by shaping the adversary’s perceptions of the situation decisively. Moscow has used this technique skillfully to persuade the U.S. and its European allies to remain largely passive in the face of Russia’s efforts to disrupt and dismantle Ukraine through military and non-military means. The West must become alert to the use of reflexive control techniques and find ways to counter them if it is to succeed in an era of hybrid war....
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
I don’t buy it.
Treaties govern the treatment of civilians, soldiers and prisoners of war in a system collectively known as the "Law of Armed Conflict" or "International Humanitarian Law". It applies to government forces and organised, non-state armed groups, which would include Hamas militants....
By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily
Lebanon's health ministry said the initial casualty toll was one person killed and more than 100 injured. Earlier the state news agency said three people had died.
At least one of the blasts took place near a funeral organised by Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country and wounded many of its fighters....
At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday. According to a senior Lebanese security source and another source, explosives inside the devices were planted by Israel's Mossad spy agency.
The Hungarian government’s position on the "pager issue": authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary. It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary.
Monday, September 16, 2024
One of the reasons…
So, what is the issue besides attempting to raise a sympathetic vote for “The Don?”
Thursday, September 12, 2024
The Convention…
(click here)
(Senate Document-click here)
…on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (click here).
This is a United Nations convention that originated in 1979 has never been
ratified in the USA. It is believed grassroots Republican organizers work to victimize women and take away their civil and human rights.
The signatures over the decades were freely elected USA Presidents (click here).
In the year 2024 it is time for American women to elect a woman friendly federal legislature so major women’s movements can become part of their lives.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
There are laws.
Kamala won the presidential debate.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Fracking is highly destructive to land.
The petroleum industry is selective with information about their practices. Unfortunately, it takes experiencing the instability of the land for citizens to begin to realize what is happening.