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More decadent-empire behavior from Democrats, this time via Governor Nero of Michigan:pic.twitter.com/GHXwXEVBgy
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) October 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024
WHAT A SHAME HE COULDN’T BE THIS GOOD AS PM: Boris Johnson Sets the Record Straight About Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy.
SPACE: Debate over Space Guard rekindles amid growing reliance on satellites for disaster relief.
The role of satellite communications in disaster response has expanded. Starlink, a satellite internet system operated by SpaceX, has become a critical resource for emergency connectivity, offering stable internet access when terrestrial networks are down.
During Hurricane Helene’s aftermath, the Federal Emergency Management Agency shipped 180 Starlink kits to North Carolina, reinforcing calls for better integration of satellite technology into disaster relief efforts.
Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, noted the shift in his own perspective. Formerly opposed to the idea of a Space National Guard, Pace said Klein’s comments brought back memories of past debates about state-level space programs.
“Back when Governor Jerry Brown proposed a space program for California, I didn’t think it was a great idea,” Pace said. “But now, seeing the role that Starlink has played in North Carolina’s disaster response, I’m beginning to think there might be room for a Space National Guard.”
Having any spare space resources — much less enough spares to activate in times of crisis — is a luxury that was almost unimaginable a few years ago.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS? Oh, SNAP! Germany Has a New Way to Defend Yourself Against Machete-Wielding Migrants.
OUCH: Bankrupt Fisker says it can’t migrate its EVs to a new owner’s server.
Car publications were already warning consumers to steer clear of the Ocean as early as this March, despite massive price cuts that saw these electric SUVs being offered for less than $25,000. A New York-based company called American Lease was less deterred by this warning and in June agreed to purchase the remaining Fisker inventory—approximately 3,300 cars for a total of $46.3 million dollars. By October, American Lease had paid Fisker $42.5 million and had taken delivery of about 1,100 Oceans.
That was the plan until the end of last week, at least. Last Friday evening, Fisker informed American Lease that the Oceans “cannot, as a technical matter, be ‘ported’ from the Fisker server to which the vehicles are currently linked to a distinct server owned and/or controlled by” American Lease.
American Lease says it “cannot overstate the significance of this unwelcome news,” particularly since it had already paid Fisker the vast majority of the agreed price.
Caveat emptor.
COMPETENCE VS POLITICS: Ron DeSantis Nukes Kamala Again for Politicizing Hurricane Response.
THEY’RE JUST MORE OPEN ABOUT IT NOW: Democrats Want To Dismantle The Constitution.
JONATHAN TURLEY: Deadspin Loses Major Motion in Defamation Case Over Blackface Column. “The opinion turned on whether this could be treated as opinion as opposed to a statement of fact. California law applied in the case and the court focused on two opinions that held that claims of racism can be statements of fact.”
WELL, GOOD: Trump campaign, Arizona GOP brings in a big gun to run election integrity operation. “And that big gun is popular Trump supporter and attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who previously ran against Ronna McDaniel to be RNC Chair.”
CREEPING WORLD WAR III UPDATE: North Korea Now Sending Troops to Ukraine to Fight Alongside Russians.
FINALLY, THE TRUTH: Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output Have Fallen Overall for Four Years.
The phenomenon of undercounting inflation is particularly concerning today given how high the official inflation measurements have been for the last several years. The inflation itself has increased the nominal values of several key economic metrics without resulting in any real change. This is why there has been such a disparity between the rapid rise in nominal, pre-inflation GDP and the relatively slow increase in real, after-inflation GDP.8
The following data are presented in such a way as to show the reader the change in nominal and real values through the second quarter of 2024, beginning in either the first quarter of 2019 or January 2019, when applicable.
Note that not only are the inflation adjustments large, but they are highly variable, ranging from under 20% for wholesale sales to 22% to 23% for manufacturing inventories and new orders.
While 3% may seem like a small difference, in the context of GDP growth it represents nearly a $1 trillion difference in real output – roughly the GDP of Saudi Arabia. And in the context of annual economic growth, 3% over a 4-year period is a very large number – the difference between robust and anemic growth. Or between anemic growth and recession.
Plus: “On a per capita basis, the results are worse because the population has increased approximately 2.1 percent from the first quarter of 2019 through the second quarter of 2024. During that period, nominal GDP per capita increased $22,182, or 34.7 percent. Real GDP increased $7,038 in chained 2017 dollars, or 11.4 percent. Adjusted real GDP fell $1,540, or 2.5 percent.”
We can’t afford four more years: “On differences with Biden, Harris says ‘not a thing that comes to mind.’”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: This Biden Guy Doesn’t Seem to Be a Big Kamala Harris Fan. “We can’t be positive, but it would seem that President LOLEightyonemillion is not amused and may be harboring some animosity. It makes sense to direct it at the person who benefitted most from his forced ouster — Kamala Harris.”
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Reddit bans forum dedicated to sharing information about would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks. “The posts issued on the forum varied, but all pertained to seeking answers and sharing information about the historical assassination attempt on the 2024 GOP nominee’s life. Questions about Crooks, security failures that day, and whether the attempt was an inside job were discussed in the section before the ban. Reddit did not provide an example of the violent content shared that went against its company policies.”
DON’T BE EVIL: Google Does It Again, Buries US-Based Right-Leaning News on Election 23-Pages Deep.
Last week, MRC researchers found that Google buried US-based right-leaning news outlets on the 14th page of search results. It appears that the tech giant is still at it, as it continues to hide right-leaning outlets in the depths of search results.
On Oct. 8, MRC researchers once again used AllSides “right” and “left” bias classifications and found that Google search results for “kamala harris presidential race 2024” and “donald trump presidential race 2024” were stuffed with leftist, legacy media sources. The results featured outlets like CNN and The New York Times as well as publications of leftist billionaires like Jeff Bezos’s The Washington Post and Marc Benioff’s Time. When searching for the aforementioned Harris search prompt, researchers did not find any U.S.-based media outlets that AllSides rates as “lean-right” or “right” until Fox News appeared as the first result on page 11 of Google search results. Likewise, Google buried the first U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” result for the aforementioned Trump prompt as the sixth result on the 23rd page, as Google featured a Fox News video in this spot.
Although one “lean right” video appeared in the search results for the Trump prompt, Google outrageously did not display a single “right” or “lean right” news article from a U.S.-based source anywhere in the tech giant’s search results, which ran out after 26 pages.
This overt leftist bias is especially concerning considering that according to a November 2023 Pew Research survey, a rising number of American adults receive their news from search.
Related:
Google is going from horrifically bad to just completely unusable as a deliverer or real information. I'm legit using Twitter as a search engine with more success.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 9, 2024
October 9, 2024
CBS NEWS LIES:
Here are the two different 60 Minutes edits layered on top of each other in full. You will hear where Whitaker's questions line up, and the different edited answers from Harris.
SC 1842 (bottom) is what aired on Monday night.
SC 1843.5 (top) is what the Face the Nation X account… pic.twitter.com/FEuQp2o0kn— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024
“Besides inserting a different response from Harris, CBS edited out everything about Harris defending Israel from Hamas and Hezbollah and their right to do so,” Miller continued. “The tracks time up almost exactly. This was not ‘edited for time’ as CBS and 60 Minutes will likely claim.”
UPDATE (From Ed): Miller ponders if the CBS edits dovetail with their massive anti-Israel bias, as exposed in their ongoing struggle session with Tony Dokoupil over his grievous crime of committing actual journalism by interviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates:
UPDATE (9:19 pm) John Nolte makes the connection: CBS Corruption – Anchor Shamed for Coates Interview, ‘60 Minutes’ Rigs Kamala Interview. “If CBS had released the full, unedited transcript, Kamala’s word salad answer would be found elsewhere in the transcript, and it’s not. So this is not an unedited transcript. This is the Kamala Harris Campaign-Approved Transcript. And let us never forget that this is the same CBS News and 60 Minutes that still hasn’t retracted its lies about the Hunter Biden laptop being Russian disinformation. So, to sum things up, if you gently ask an antisemitic leftist like Ta-Nehisi Coates a few challenging questions, CBS News will publicly shame you until you buckle. But if you rig an interview to make a Democrat look smarter than she is, that’s a-okay. Antisemites and Democrats sure got it good…Especially at CBS.”
SPACE: NASA Strengthens Safety Protocol in Response to Persistent Air Leak in International Space Station.
The leak, first identified in 2019 within the Zvezda module’s PrK vestibule, has been under investigation and mitigation efforts.
A report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General indicated that the leak had escalated to nearly 1.7 kilograms per day by April 2024, prompting the ISS program to categorise it as a high-risk issue. However, NASA officials have reported significant improvements, noting that recent repairs have decreased the leak rate by about one-third.
The root cause of the leak remains under scrutiny, with both NASA and Roscosmos investigating internal and external welds. As a precaution, station crews maintain the hatch to the affected area closed when not in use to minimize the leak’s impact on overall station operations.
While NASA and Roscosmos collaborate on resolving the issue, they have not yet agreed on what constitutes an “untenable” leak rate. If the situation deteriorates further, a potential long-term solution could involve permanently sealing the hatch, which would eliminate a docking port for Progress and Soyuz spacecraft.
“Long-term” isn’t much for a station tentatively scheduled to be deorbited in 2030.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood AWOL on Hurricane Helene (And We All Know Why). “A smattering of stars have finally entered the frame. It’s mostly driven by country crooners.”
RED-PILLED: Teamsters President Sean O’Brien: Democratic Party Is ‘Bought And Paid For By Big Tech Companies.’ “I had a heated debate/discussion two weeks ago with Chuck Schumer, and it got ugly because — these politicians, the one thing I’ve learned is they walk in and tell you, ‘I did this for you.’ Okay, great, let me tell you what you haven’t done for us or our members. We got into it pretty heavy.”
DON’T GET COCKY: The 2024 Presidential Election Really Isn’t That Close.
DOWNRIGHT UNAMERICAN: Major McDonald’s french fry supplier closes plant in Washington, slashes jobs as inflation continues. “Fast-food chains have felt the consequences of inflation as cash-strapped customers have been more careful about patronizing many restaurants. A survey in May revealed that 80% of Americans considered fast food to be a ‘luxury’ because of high prices.”
VICTORIA TAFT: It’s Time to Talk About Kamala’s Husband’s ‘Woman Problem.’ “Now, Emhoff is accused of being a creepy, lecherous, misogynist while at the Los Angeles law firm he managed.”
FASTER, PLEASE: US FAA could approve SpaceX Starship 5 license this month, source says.
The Federal Aviation Administration could approve a license for the launch of SpaceX’s Starship 5 as soon as this month, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Last month, the FAA said it did not expect a determination on a license before late November. SpaceX said on social media late on Monday that Starship’s fifth flight test could launch as soon as Oct. 13, pending regulatory approval.
The FAA, which has repeatedly said it did not expect to decide on a license until late November, on Tuesday only said it continues to review the proposed mission and would make a decision “once SpaceX has met all licensing requirements.” It made no mention of the November timeframe.
Previously:
🚨 MUSK: “The next fight of Starship is ready to fly. We are waiting on regulatory approval 🤦♂️. It shouldn’t be possible to build a giant rocket faster than the paper can move from one desk to another.” 😂 💀 pic.twitter.com/O5mx71nAqr
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) September 10, 2024