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  Dr Kavanagh and the Chinese communists!
Posted by: Kurokage - 01-24-2024, 10:24 AM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (18)

I sometimes watch these types of videos, it's becoming popular for some big railway stations to have a piano in the public spaces. There was even a show on Channel 4 with poeple playing and getting to peform in a concert.
This guy Brendan Kavanagh has a Youtube Channel of him playing a lot of Boogie Woogie and recently has gone viral for another reason.



(OK, couldn't get the original vid to work, I think because it was a live stream? So I found this instead)

I'm glad he stood his ground and wasn't bullied away, this kind of behaviour by the Chinese communist party and it's goons is becoming very common around the world.
With evidence of secret police stations and bullying of ex-pats becoming more common. China seems to be asserting itself and is being more open about it's it treats other countries.

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  Whitey Bulger, yeah that guy.
Posted by: guyfriday - 01-23-2024, 09:36 PM - Forum: Crime - No Replies

Just for some general background details, let's look at WIKI
Whitey Bulger - Wikipedia

Quote: James Joseph "WhiteyBulger Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of SomervilleMassachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for sixteen years. After his 2011 arrest, federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.

The questions about what happened to him seemed weirdly never discussed by the media.
Quote:Bulger was transferred to several facilities in October 2018; first to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma and then to the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, near Bruceton MillsWest Virginia. Bulger, who was in a wheelchair, was beaten to death by inmates on October 30, 2018, within hours of his arrival at Hazelton. In 2022, Fotios Geas, Paul DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in Bulger's death.

Then we had this news come up about Bulger's nephew,
Hunter Biden laptop connects Whitey Bulger nephew to China dealings (nypost.com)
Quote: The namesake nephew of bloodthirsty Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger worked closely with Hunter Biden in his Chinese business ventures, according to emails reviewed by The Post.
Jim Bulger, chairman and co-founder of the Boston-based Thornton Group financial advisory firm, forwarded an email in January 2014 from associate Mike Leonard proposing a meeting among Hunter Biden — whose father, Joe Biden, at the time was vice president of the United States — Bulger, and Rosemont Seneca co-founder Devon Archer.

Now I might have tripped up on a story that really explains why and how Bulger was killed within hours of his prison transfer, as well as helping to explain why Bulger was allowed to be free for as long as he was. The story came from a poking into CIA brainwashing experiments.
The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control | HISTORY Channel
Quote: 
The CIA considered prisoners especially good subjects, as they were willing to give consent in exchange for extra recreation time or commuted sentences.
 
Whitey Bulger, a former organized crime boss, wrote of his experience as an inmate test subject in MK-Ultra. “Eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state,” Bulger said of the 1957 tests at the Atlanta penitentiary where he was serving time. “Total loss of appetite. Hallucinating. The room would change shape. Hours of paranoia and feeling violent. We experienced horrible periods of living nightmares and even blood coming out of the walls. Guys turning to skeletons in front of me. I saw a camera change into the head of a dog. I felt like I was going insane.”

Bulger claimed he had been injected with LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide, or acid, had become one of the CIA’s key interests for its “brain warfare” program, as the agency theorized it could be useful in interrogations.

Could the CIA be the ones that set up Bulger to sell drugs in Bostan that might have been laced with mind-controlling substances not to mention the FBI's ability to recruit Bulger as an informant. Seems to me that the CIA and FBI have been hand-in-hand for a lot longer than many might have suspected. The possibility of Bulger revealing this or maybe it was that Bugler was no longer useful that sealed his fate. I wonder how many others have been/are subjects to the FBI/CIA mind-control "tests".

Maybe this guy?
Google engineer accused in wife's murder sat ‘quiet and staring blankly’ before brutal beating: court docs (yahoo.com)

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  The Other Border Crisis - Thousands of Dogs Abandoned by Illegals at the Border
Posted by: FlyersFan - 01-23-2024, 07:59 AM - Forum: Social Issues & Civil Unrest - No Replies

This is awful.  The illegals come to the US, bringing their dogs with them, only to abandon them at the border.  The illegals enter the USA.  The poor dogs are left behind, not understanding what has happened, and left without food or water or human companionship, and no medical care.  They were a part of a family and now ... poof ... they are abandoned.  Thousands of them.  And they are breeding.

Videos at the link.

Story Here - The Other Border Crisis

Quote:In addition to the waves of human beings crossing America’s southern border every day, another crisis is unfolding. Thousands of dogs are being abandoned by the illegal border crossers who bring their pets only to learn that the dogs can’t come in.

These dogs that are left behind are then breeding which only makes the problem worse.

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  ATS Connection Issue
Posted by: Kenzo - 01-23-2024, 01:29 AM - Forum: Chit Chat - Replies (7)

I had two times allready problems with accessing ATS Rolleyes now morning during my coffee drinking.


Because the recents events  of past year, i wonder is it breaking again now ?


Saved this :  my antivirus ( Avast ) give this alert :   HTML:Script-in [Susp]       That was labeled as threat

And firefox  give this :  PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR


Edit:  now some minuts later i can connect again . Anyone else notice issues ?

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  What if..
Posted by: Crazierfox - 01-22-2024, 08:32 PM - Forum: General Conspiracies - Replies (28)

Time Traveling Shape Shifting Reptile's are a distraction? 
for entertainment puroses only and no one really thinks the royals are octopi or reptiles 
I know the videos, etc. David Ickes work etc.
Wasn't he an injured sports guy?
The first 2/3d's of his books typically are a rehash of his prior books
If you tell a lie long enough 
Some good data here conclusion seems too easy
Now every lie has to have some truth so let's take a look the octopus a known intelligent shapeshifter that has been around for a long time, & is uber smart.
FTR I kinda posted this before somewhere else but not in thread format
Diving in 
Octopus Camouflage Ability Transferred To Human Skin Cells 

Quote:
Squids and octopuses are masters of camouflage, blending into their environment to evade predators or surprise prey. Some aspects of how these cephalopods become reversibly transparent are still “unclear,” largely because researchers can’t culture cephalopod skin cells in the lab.


The researchers acknowledge funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
 That's interesting what is this all about?
How (and Why) the Octopus Edits its RNA
Quote:The discovery and description of the elegant RNA editing of the octopus provides a compelling example of the fallacy of the widely-held idea of “scientific proof.” The beauty of science, to me, is that new evidence continually alters what we thought we knew.
Huh?
Maybe this will clear it up

 Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact These changes could explain the intelligence and flexibility of shell-less cephalopods
Quote:Octopuses are like aliens living among us — they do a lot of things differently from land animals, or even other sea creatures. Their flexible tentacles taste what they touch and have minds of their own. Octopuses’ eyes are color-blind, but their skin can detect light on its own (SN: 6/27/15, p. 10). They are masters of disguise, changing color and skin textures to blend into their surroundings or scare off rivals. And to a greater extent than most creatures, octopuses squirt the molecular equivalent of red ink over their genetic instructions with astounding abandon, like a copy editor run amok.
Let's tighten the C hat a Lil 
Why Do Squids And Octopuses Have Blue Blood?
Quote:The blood of octopuses and squids is blue because they use a different protein for oxygen transport than human beings do. This protein, hemocyanin, relies on copper to bind with oxygen, which causes the blood’s discoloration. Squids and octopuses have adapted to their environment by changing the hemocyanin concentration in their blood.

Lil Further Down
More primitive species (like the octopus, squid, and a number of other invertebrates) use a different protein, called hemocyanin, which relies on copper, rather than iron, as the binding mineral of choice. When copper binds with oxygen, the discoloration is different, resulting in the blue color of their blood.
Hmmm 
Sounds intriguing

Why you really wouldn’t want to have blue blood
Quote:Blue people of KentuckyThe Fugate family, or the “blue people of Kentucky” are a good example of those affected by genetic variants leading to methaemoglobinaemia.
The tale of the blue people began when Martin Fugate, a French orphan, moved to Troublesome Creek in Kentucky. Years later, he married Elizabeth Smith, an American woman, and began a family. Both Martin and Elizabeth carried a rare recessive gene that causes high levels of methaemoglobin. It takes two people with the same recessive gene to produce a blue child. Four out of Martin and Elizabeth’s seven children had the recessive gene from both parents, causing them to have high levels of methaemoglobin in their blood. As a result, they had blue skin and lips.


lil down
In animals such as crabs, the blue colour of blood is caused by a respiratory pigment containing copper as a key element instead of iron. If we look further into the animal kingdom, we can find examples of green blood in earthworms and skinks, purple blood in lamp shells, and even clear blood in ice fish, all due to the variation in haemoglobin and respiratory pigments. A small molecular change, with a rainbow of outcomes
Will circle back Intrigued by the blue people of Kentucky 
The 7 Oldest Bloodlines in the World Might Surprise You  Maybe
Hereditary blood disorders in blue-blood aristocrats  Intriguing
Quote: Two genetic blood diseases plagued the European Royals. The porphyrias are a group of inherited disorders associated with the production of heme, an iron-containing compound used to make hemoglobin in red blood cells. In each type of porphyria, one of the enzymes that controls heme biosynthesis is lacking, leading to a buildup of porphyrins in the body and causing symptoms such as abdominal pain, nervous system manifestations, mental health issues, and skin eruptions.

lil later 
Hemophilia A, labeled the “royal disease,” is inherited as an X-linked recessive, with an incidence of 1 in 5,000 male live births. It is due to a deficiency of factor VIII, a protein coagulant that plays a vital role in the blood clotting pathway.[sup]11,12[/sup] About one-third of affected males are new mutations, meaning the alteration in the gene occurs for the first time in them; hence there is no antecedent family history of the disorder. Hemophilia A is characterized by easy bruising, prolonged bleeding, and hemorrhaging into joints, muscles, and other tissues including the brain. The gene for hemophilia A has been mapped and cloned to Xq28. Carrier detection is possible and replacement therapy with factor VIII is effective.[sup]1[/sup]
Just read something about that

WILL HYPERINTELLIGENT OCTOPUSES TAKE OVER THE WORLD? Have they
Quote:BACKGROUND: OCTOPUSES HAVE STRANGE POWERSThe octopus has long been one of the ocean’s most intelligent and adaptive phylum with camouflage/color-changing abilities and limb regeneration. They pass intelligence tests, perform tasks like opening containers, and can physically communicate with other octopuses. Their brains are large; 500 million neurons (brain cells), and by comparison, humans have 86 billion brain cells. They evolve slowly. In 300 million years, just 300 species have existed, which could be attributed to their ability to alter their genetic instructions via RNA editing. This has given the species an evolutionary advantage. They can increase the variation in the proteins they produce, thus allowing them to adapt to evolving environments, such as polar waters.
Hidden in plain sight
PLANET OF THE OCTOPUSES: WHAT ANIMAL SPECIES IS MOST LIKELY TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW HUMANS?
Quote:“They have big eyes, connected with the big brain, which means they work in the same kind of world that we do,” he adds. “They’re large eyes, they’re very complex eyes, and they work much like ours.” You read it here first: Cephalopods have the perfect eyes for world domination.
 
What Is mRNA? Here’s A Crash Course On What It Does 
Quote:One surprising star of the coronavirus pandemic response has been the molecule called mRNA. It’s the key ingredient in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But mRNA itself is not a new invention from the lab. It evolved billions of years ago and is naturally found in every cell in your body. Scientists think RNA originated in the earliest life formseven before DNA existed.







Is Messenger RNA Patent-Eligible?  Wait wasn't this just answered?
Quote:Under patent law, an inventor may obtain a patent on “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”  Section 101 is subject, however, to an important implicit exception: “laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable.” (Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289, 1293 (2012)). Such “manifestations of a nature are free to all men and reserved exclusively to none.” (Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co., 333 U.S. 127, 130 (1948)).

 almost forgot The Fugate Family Of Kentucky Has Had Blue Skin For Centuries — Here’s Why
Quote:At that point, Benjy’s father, Alva Stacy, explained to the doctors, “My grandmother Luna on my dad’s side was a blue Fugate. It was real bad in her.”
Benjy Stacy was the latest child born in a long line of Blue Fugates – the blue people of Kentucky – who had lived in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky for the past 197 years.
Interesting familytree
Almost left this out sorry it's outta order.

Quote:Then again, a 2021 study on octopus brains found some revealing similarities to human brains. Among many other things, they determined that octopus brains have a lot of folds — a physical trait that brains acquire through a process known as gyrification — even though this trait is usually associated with mammals and other complex organisms that need to retain large quantities of information.
Exposed to cold water, octopuses will change the genes in their brain, study reveals

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  Hello
Posted by: Crazierfox - 01-22-2024, 12:20 PM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (4)

Crazy/Crazier fox is here.
 Shocked
Not to much else to say except thanks fo the invite, time to dig

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  NFL Great Tom Brady and Witch Craft
Posted by: FlyersFan - 01-22-2024, 09:35 AM - Forum: Paranormal Studies - Replies (5)

This is old news, but it's new to me. Just hearing about it.

NFL legend Tom Brady ... who is Catholic ... was 'helped' by witchcraft to win games.  He and his supermodel ex-wife are/were Catholic and married in a Catholic Church.  She turned to Wicca and got him involved in the rituals.  She got him to set up a Wicca altar before games and make intentions on it, and she got him to carry different stones that supposedly have different powers, etc etc.

So .... did Tom Brady win all those games and Super Bowls because he was a good player?  Because those players around him were good and carried him?  Because he cheated?  OR ... because of witchcraft?

Google Tom Brady Witchcraft.  Lots of mainline news stories on it.  It's not a made up thing.

Tom Brady and Witchcraft - CBS Sports

Quote:According to the 41-year-old quarterback, the other equally important part of the equation is the pregame rituals that his wife, Gisele Bundchen, has him go through. In the days after the Patriots' 13-3 Super Bowl win over the Rams, Brady described some of those rituals.  
 
First, Brady noted that Gisele makes an 'altar' for him at every game. "I've learned a lot from my wife over the years," Brady said. "She's so about the power of intention, and believing things that are really going to happen and she always makes a little altar for me at the game, because she just wills it so much. So she put together a little altar for me that I could bring with pictures of my kids."

"I have these little special stones and healing stones and protection stones and she has me wear a necklace and take these drops she makes and say all these mantras," Brady said.

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  TDDA ---- Rest in Peace
Posted by: DontTreadOnMe - 01-21-2024, 07:19 PM - Forum: Members - Replies (18)

TDDA was a really wonderful woman.   She was a member here on DI briefly, and many will remember her on ATS.

I wish I had gotten to know her better.  I enjoyed talking with here about her life in Germany and her many interests.
I didn't know she was interested in cars and racing.

I knew she had health problems and sadly, those problems led to her being taken from this world far too soon.

There is an ATS thread about her passing:
Silent Moments --In Memory of Beloved Member TDDA
She was having trouble with the defib that was installed in Nov 2022.
zosimov said: "She went in on Dec 27th to have it replaced, and the replacement surgery didn't work, so spent several weeks under 24/7 watch, during which she was communicating with me and others on Discord (even after a heart attack!)."
"She had another procedure on Jan 15, this time was hoping to have a smaller and less intrusive device placed, but there were complications during the surgery and she did not make it."

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  Temple OS, connect to a legacy god
Posted by: BeTheGoddess - 01-21-2024, 12:56 PM - Forum: Psychology, Philosophy & Metaphysics - Replies (6)

I encountered Temple OS from a fellow dev a couple of years back. The catchcry was that this OS could talk to god... no really.

Quote:"The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis proclaimed that the system's features, such as its 640x480 resolution, 16-color display, and single-voice audio, were designed according to explicit instructions from God.[sup][1]"[/sup]


[sup]further...[/sup]
Quote:In mid-2013, his website announced: "God's temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads [sic]."[sup][6][/sup] Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.[sup][7][/sup]

[sup]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

I shoved it in a VM for shivers and gaggles, but it didnt open up a dialogue between me and god. I didnt expect it to tho.[/sup]

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  Selective Breeding and Evolution
Posted by: Halfswede - 01-20-2024, 08:58 PM - Forum: Science & Technology - Replies (5)

A lot of times, selective breeding is used to illustrate some of the process of evolution, but selective breeding actually punches a giant hole in the natural selection process of evolution theory.

Think about this:  Natural selection depends on random mutations that favor some survival in certain environments, and this, supposedly after gobs of very random mutations and time, makes for new species.

But selective breeding by humans is done with very careful selection of mutations specifically to create certain traits or exaggerate others.  It can cause change in a much shorter timeline. In fact we have some creatures used for genetic research like Drosophila melanogaster that have been bred for countless generations to drive change and show how natural selection "works".

But guess what?  NOT ONE creature, even with countless generations of very specific selection, has been made into a NEW and distinct genus.  No amount of selective breeding can make a cat into a dog. There are countless weird dogs, but every one is still a dog and inherently dog in nature. It doesn't start to become a bear or cat, or raccoon no matter how much it might kind of resemble something superficially.  No amount of selective breeding will make a mouse into a rabbit. They even start out extremely similar. There are tons of examples where centuries of breeding weird variants and they all still fall into the same genera.  Guppies are still guppies, goldfish with giant pop-eyes are still genetically goldfish, tomatoes are still tomatoes -- can't even squeak out an artificial eggplant. No amount of selective breeding can even make a fruit fly into a house fly. 

These things aren't even big leaps, just the simplest tiniest changes and we can't even make bacteria, with millions of generations of selection, become a new genus of bacteria. It's still the same type of bacteria with some different traits.  It's not now a multi-celled creature. Not once have we been able to even turn a single-celled rapidly reproducing genus into a multi-celled creature.

Given all of the very very focused efforts put into selective breeding and not one single micro-leap into a new genus and you want to believe that random mutations created all of this stuff, countless genera that exist from some single-celled bacteria.  What can't even be duplicated in the smallest increment in a lab with focused effort is expected to happen randomly over and over and over to where there are all these unique genera. 

It sounds like a joke to try and believe that.

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  Gazan Civilians Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme Released Israelis Say
Posted by: FlyersFan - 01-19-2024, 09:14 AM - Forum: The Middle East - Replies (19)

A topic that people strongly take sides over - Israel vs Hamas/Palestinians.  Controversial for discussion.

The freed hostages report how 'civilian Palestinians' kidnapped Israelies and held them hostage, and how Palestinian children and 'civilian wives' mistreated the hostages etc etc.  Some examples are given in the article.  You can not separate Hamas from the Palestinians.  They are one in the same.  Hamas is a way of life for the 'Palestinians'.

Some will say it's understandable on the part of the 'Palestinians'.  Some will say that this proves there are no innocent 'Palestinians' and that peace isn't possible.  

Gazan "Civilians" Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme Released Israelis Reveal

Quote:Gazan 'Civilians' Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme, Freed Israelis Say.

In primetime Hebrew TV interviews, the released hostages have confirmed that ordinary Gazans were deeply complicit in every stage of the hostage scheme. Unarmed teens helped to abduct Jews from their homes on Oct. 7, while Gazan women and children held some of the Israelis captive. In other cases, Gazan doctors collaborated with Hamas terrorists to covertly treat kidnapped Israelis and imprison them in hospitals. When the Israelis encountered Gazans on the streets, the results were often terrifying.

"The main issue is that the organization is very much melted into the social structure of Gaza," Michael Milshtein, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer and a leading expert on Hamas, told the Washington Free Beacon. "There is no way you can really know who is Hamas. Someone might have a grocery store where he sells tomatoes and water, but he might also have storehouse of weapons and give religious lessons there.  And his wife and kids might be keeping an Israeli hostage at home.  "Hamas is not only a political matter in Gaza. It's a way of life," 

"I experienced hell. Everyone there are terrorists," Schem said in a separate interview on Israel's Channel 13. "There are no innocent civilians, not one."

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  Study finds there are nasty people on social media
Posted by: xpert11 - 01-17-2024, 11:18 PM - Forum: Education & Media - Replies (11)

Moreover, the posts users write in hate subreddits tend to demonstrate hatred or even violence towards these out-groups. Both findings lead us to conclude the users exhibit greater out-group hostility. Because we do not know what users think, we cannot directly determine if they are rejecting egalitarian and democratic values more than they did prior to exposure (Marwick et al. 2022), but this is a reasonable if still hypothetical conclusion. Our work therefore provides evidence that users adopt these extremist beliefs simply from exposure to hate subreddits.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...23-01184-8

I am still pondering this study, but it is strange or dicey in places. I detest racism, sexism and fat shaming, but labelling those people/Reddit users extremists is problematic. The same also applies to the Alt-right label.

Mathematical calculations can't replace knowing someone's character before they join a social media platform or community. People might seek fall guys for their circumstances, but they don't magically join a social media community and become morons.

The authors admit the evidence behind their findings is tentative. So, are they intellectually honest or just seeking to justify a pre-determined conclusion?


Incidentally, I live in regional New Zealand, where the people are extremely clique, judgemental/set in their ways, and often casually racist. Nobody is a harsher critic of their local population than me, but I wouldn't label the majority of the people in my area as extremists.

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  Bob Roberts -- Political Satire
Posted by: BeTheGoddess - 01-17-2024, 11:38 AM - Forum: Movies - No Replies

Bob Roberts is a folk singer and conservative politician on the campaign trail, but the subtexts take digs at both left and right.

"I wish I could vote for you twice"
"well you actually can--"
"Really?"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103850/

Its a political satire, so there is only one shooting.

Hope you enjoy.

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  The Catalpa Incident
Posted by: BeTheGoddess - 01-17-2024, 08:55 AM - Forum: History - No Replies

This little tidbit of history is little known outside of my little town, even tho it was an act of war from the British toward the US, and the wiki article is 'sanitized" to be more "neutral".

First some context. In 1772 the UK banned slavery in Brittan and all her colonies under the decision of the Somerset case...

Quote:The case was closely followed throughout the Empire, particularly in the thirteen American colonies.[sup][2][/sup] Scholars have disagreed over precisely what legal precedent the case set.

As I said, the wiki on these is sanitised

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart

Well that meant the British had to create this thing called "convicts", Finnian disseats the majority of them. By increasing penalties for things like eating bread or farting in the general direction of an Etonia, they created a "criminal class" and then what did they do?...

Then they sent them here to Australia!. And the most awesome of those sent here were sent to Fremantle Prison.

But the awesome Finnian's were too smart for the British guards, and some escaped, and were picked up by longboats from the US ship the Catalpa. The British prison guards were British military, and by shooting at the longboats, it could be seen as an act of war, and by the  time the news got back to Lundun it was too late to even say passive aggressive words and they had already just lost one war to the US so they pretended it didn't happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue

The wiki states they were picked up near modern day Rockingham, but it was South Fremantle where they were rescued, I dont know what revisionist claims Rockingham, but they have never walked that distance if they think so.

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  Lets just debunk this.
Posted by: guyfriday - 01-17-2024, 03:19 AM - Forum: Aliens & UFOs - Replies (5)

So, this story came from New York Post:
'UFO' whizzes past Poland-bound airplane, video shows (nypost.com)

Quote: A flight attendant believes she captured the moment a hot pink “UFO” nonchalantly buzzed past her plane as it soared above Europe.
Four unusually shaped pink orbs blinked clearly against the dark nighttime sky, distinctly separate from the cityscape down below, the video she shot shows.
“I’ve been a flight attendant for a year and have never seen anything like this,” Wizz Air worker Denisa Tanase, 36, told SWNS.
The UK native didn’t initially notice the odd sight when she filmed it on her flight from Luton, England to Syzmany, Poland.

Now pink is one of Wizz Air's corporate logo colors, and the flight attendant even points this out in the story:
Quote: “It was a weird shape, like a circle flashing pink. At first, we thought maybe it was a reflection of our pink uniform but on the video, you can see the motion — you can see it’s flying.”

What makes me believe that she is only seeing something reflected back in the window is that she states:
Quote: “But when I checked the video 20 minutes later I spotted it and I spoke to the pilot to ask if they knew anything. Everyone was confused — they hadn’t seen anything while flying and there had been no turbulence.

Now if nobody else saw these flying around, and even the pilots were not aware of these flying around, then isn't it most likely that the items she saw were just reflections in the window?

Ok, so now why does this matter at all. Well, I'm concerned that a new UFO-Panic is going to get shoved on the public, and stories like these that are not being vetted before being printed is going to be the norm like they were back in the 1940s-60s. The more of these stories that get shoved out to the public, the more we need to debunk the frauds and HOAXes as quickly as possible in order to concern ourselves with possible real UFO/UAP events. 

What's your take on this UFO seen by Wizz Airlines? 
And not to capitalize on this, how does everyone else feel about this renewed interest in the UFO/UAP phenomenon?

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  Weaponized: Episode #47
Posted by: pianopraze - 01-16-2024, 06:50 PM - Forum: Aliens & UFOs - Replies (4)


SUMMARY SUMMARY SUMMARY

This episode is 2 in one, an old episode never aired plus current day with updates on Senate SCIF and Jelly Fish Video.

They are having a lot of new whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork. They had a lot before, but recently a lot more are coming out and talking to them.

TMZ very trusted now. They are very into UFO reporting because of leadership at channel. Most mainstream still ignoring UFO topic.

Jellyfish debuted on TMZ. This podcast partially recorded months ago: had both UAP videos on it but never released.

*Pre recorded session begin*
9 flying saucers according to Lazar at Area 51, all different shaped. A lot of odd shapes get reported to corbell and Knapp. They share it with government officials to get feedback. Jellyfish a commonly reported shape but not publicized. 

Jellyfish ufo started 10 year Russian ufo investigation but blamed on rocket launch as cover story.

Pantex nuclear base - work on nuclear weapons on the base. Jellyfish ufo recorded there. Thermal and night-vision video both recorded.  Domed 8 foot radius with tentacles. 

Jellyfish recorded 2017 Iraq Middle East base. Classified as UAP. Feeds shut off to other countries so they could not see this video. Could not lock on the jellyfish which was highly unusual. There is a close up video of it. Geometric shapes on tentacles. Not balloon, metal of some sort. All hands on deck when they started recording it and cut off all feeds to allied.  People dispatched to record it with other equipment. But could not see or record it in night vision devices. They ask everyone. Did you see anything? Had to sign ndas. They play second video of jellyfish. This video is from much further away. They video is zooming in and out on the video as they record it. [Definitely not camera smudge/pidgeon poop.] there is a 3rd video of the jellyfish going into the water and coming out. It is being held by an intelligence agency. Jellyfish was slow over base, started going very fast over water. 

There have video of ufo over nuclear base in France they are not releasing yet - they didn’t mention the shape.
*End pre-recorded segment*

Many years people have being seen at the base. Called ghost on the base or spaghetti monster. They received these videos many times over the years from multiple sources. People saw it in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 by multiple people telling them about this. 

More witness have come forward since it aired on TMZ who saw it.

Could be active jamming on jellyfish. Could not lock on. Not balloon. Users trained on balloons being viewed. They easily lock balloons, could not lock this object. This was first time this weapon system could not get a lock.

They have visitor who saw video when he gets to base after. New York Post twisted his words. He doesn’t know what it is he just knows he saw longer video of this. Post tried to get him to debunk it. He doesn’t hold firm position, thinks it might be prosaic but open to it being something else. There are multiple recordings of various lengths. His job to detect enemy drones and stop them, and to direct our drones. Only thermal picked it up, no other systems. He wasn’t there when video recorded, was on server and shown it. 

The chandelier ufo is on a server with a lot of interesting ufo videos. 


Grusch Ig SCIF:

They confirmed Grusch telling truth about what he said publicly and is who he says he is. Very bipartisan. Tim Burchett gave it 4/10. Wants more info. Congressmen seemed stunned with info received. The takeaway is there are going to be more public briefings on this - sources Ogles and other congressmen. 
END SUMMMARY




My take:

Very good episode. Not a lot of new info, but it sets things firmly in context. 

The jellyfish is real, no one knows what it is, but it was there and not bird poop/artifact on lense. There have been multiple seen and recorded around the world.

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  Cloned rhesus monkey created to speed medical research
Posted by: putnam6 - 01-16-2024, 01:33 PM - Forum: Science & Technology - Replies (8)

Cloned rhesus monkey created to speed medical research. So it's lived for 2 years and is perfectly fine.
So how much longer till I can get a clone for all my parts that are wearing out. 
PS wasn't sure where to put this either....

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67987633

Quote:Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to humans.

They say they could speed up drug testing, as genetically identical animals give like-for-like results, providing greater certainty in trials.
Previous attempts to clone a rhesus have either not led to births or the offspring have died a few hours later.
One animal welfare group has said it is "deeply concerned" by the development.
In mammals, sexual reproduction leads to offspring made up of a mixture of genes from their father and mother. In cloning, techniques are used to create a genetically identical copy of a single animal.
The most famous cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, was created in 1996. Scientists reprogrammed a cell from another sheep to turn them into embryos which are building block cells that can grow into any part of an organism. These embryos were then implanted into Dolly's surrogate mother.
Writing in the journal Nature communications, the researchers say they have essentially done the same thing but with a rhesus monkey. They say that the animal has remained healthy for more than two years, indicating the cloning process was successful.
Dr Falong Lu of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences told BBC News that ''everyone was beaming with happiness'' at the successful outcome.
But a spokesperson for the UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said that the organisation believed that the animal suffering caused outweighed any immediate benefit to human patients.

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  Obama’s ‘Leave The World Behind’ movie WEAPONIZED
Posted by: Kenzo - 01-16-2024, 09:41 AM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (11)

If this is true It`s crazy ....

I cant still totally confirm this as all true, i just seen it reported elsewhere....anyway, just what the heck is going on ?


Source:  Laura Aboli Official X

Quote: 
[Image: https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/203c.svg]THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND[Image: https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/203c.svg] Video editing expert discovers ‘Low Frequency Infrasound’ embedded in Obama’s ‘Leave The World Behind’ movie. [Image: https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f631.svg] When Downloaded & Put Into An Editing Program the Movie Has 4 Audio Files Instead Of The Standard 1 file. One Of The Audio Files Is A “Low Frequency Infrasound” “For the last 15 years that I have been using Sony Vegas and other editing software and have gone through downloading movies, 100% of the time, it's either an MKV or a MP4 (…) There’s always 1 video file and 1 audio file. Now let me show you what happened when we downloaded the movie “Leave the World Behind” onto Sony Vegas. Here you go: One video file, 4 audio files opened up! And this one, this 4th audio file seems to be the weapon. This is a low ELF - Low Frequency Infrasound.”



Sonic Weapons Introduction


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  What's the Deep State up to now?
Posted by: guyfriday - 01-15-2024, 09:32 PM - Forum: General Conspiracies - Replies (9)

Recently we had a special kind of nonsense take place. The Miss America Pageant took place and I'm willing to bet that the winner is going to be a Political Canidate before too long (maybe even running in 2028). Madison Marsh might not be what she seems, though I will admit I could be wrong so let me explain why I think she's Deep State Actress.

She is the first contestant to win the Miss America Pageant that is active-duty personnel (this isn't a big deal, but let put a stick in that for now)
She graduated from the US Air Force Academy with a degree in Astrophysics (so if aliens land she would have some expert opinion about it)
She's also a pilot (not sure if she's a pilot in the Air Force or if she just likes to fly, again though she would know the difference between a balloon and a space craft)
She's attending classes at Havard Kenndey School of to pursue a Master's degree in Public Policy (so MKUltra Institute itself as well as a degree in something outside of her original degree of Astrophysics.)
Finally, she is a founder of a cancer institute (which I'm having a hard time find much about)

Now it seems to me that a very liberal organization such as the Miss America Organization isn't the kind of group that would push a member of the Armed Forces to be a winner, but here we have it Madison Marsh 2sn LT in the Air Force. We have a very grifty group in the US Government that is pushing money and possible fear of Aliens through in the publics attention. Here we have an officer in the US military getting attention through "other means". Let's look at the boxes checked off for voters:
Military Service                        Check
TV Attractiveness                    Check
Specialized education             Check
Ivy League Grad                       Check (well soon to be checked)

Now as I pointed out above Harvard of a hot spot for CIA backed mind control projects, MKUltra being the most famous. Her education and celebrity is either being used already or will be used very soon. Something else I noticed about her; neither the Air Force News nor Military.com are talking about this win. I'm getting the weird feeling that she is going to be pushed out into the world of politics as a conservative and get the "Obama Treatment" in order to sell her to the American Public as the first woman President.

So, am I wrong here, does anyone else get this weird feeling about her background, or what?

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  Legendary Comic George Carlin Brought back to Life with AI - Is this too Far?
Posted by: putnam6 - 01-15-2024, 08:34 AM - Forum: Current Events - No Replies

Legendary Comic George Carlin Brought back to Life with AI - Is this too Far?

Good write-up here and link to video, got to agree with Carlin's daughter.

This is shit, Microsoft Windows trying to do a bad Carlin impressionist with hemorrhoids and attitude. Its not wrong on all topics mind you, it just misses his essence and nuances and isn't funny. Trying to sound like an angry hack trying to be somebody who does a bad Carlin impression. The canned fake laughter BS trying to be updated no more no less

Won't be long till people are saying did you hear what Carlin said about Taylor Swift.

Please tell me we aren't listening intently to AI to make our decisions.

Found this on Reddit and thought it would make for a good topic here


 

Quote:A "new" special was recently released titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead!" Just like the title suggest, Carlin's been dead for the last 16 years. The special was created by an AI program called Dudesy, which did something similar earlier with Tom Brady, but was quickly removed after an onslaught of legal threats from the QB. It's not really surprising how the special was received, with Carlin's daughter saying, "No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again."
This was the original article I found.
I think that while AI has come a long way, it's still incredibly difficult to emulate the actual human part of people. Carlin is arguably one of the greatest social commentators of the last century. That is an extremely difficult thing to replicate - for any person, let alone a string of 1s and 0s. Is this something that we actually even want? I get that there may be some social good aspects, but this feels like diluting the memory and work of such an influential figure. I may be biased, having grown up on Carlin, but his catalogue of actual work is so expansive - why bother?
Should this be a warning sign for other comedians, entertainers, etc..? Turning in your grave is one thing, but for living people, I feel that there could further implications. Tom Brady's stand-up is one thing, but emulating the cadence and material of living performers in their exact industry... Take Drake for example. Remember the string of songs that came out in 2023 using AI voice replicators? Whether or not they were good, or not is besides the point (although they sounded a lot more like Drake, than Drake's recent catalogue).
What do you think? I wrote more about this here, if you want to check it out. I'm not a big fan of using peoples likeness, whether commercially or not. While the advancements have been cool to see, it can go down a much more malicious route that I'm not sure we have the safeguards in place for.

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  Anyone into darts ?
Posted by: Ravenwatcher - 01-14-2024, 08:07 PM - Forum: Sports - Replies (4)

Just had a dart bounce out and went down the heater vent , Cant get to it unless I rip the whole pipe off from the basement . Ironic the throw before it I had a bounce out that went close the the vent said to myself better watch that .. Next throw one bounce out down the tube . Now I got fiberglass in my arms from cutting a hole down below lol

Edit---Got that bastard back after much misery I'll be itching for days no way I was going to let a $180 set of darts get ruined !!!

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  Hi all - found my way over from ATS
Posted by: UKTRUTH - 01-14-2024, 05:52 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (4)

Long time poster on ATS and was told about this place.
Looks good.
See you in the threads.

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  Aliens from Peru, or Occult idols?
Posted by: guyfriday - 01-13-2024, 10:02 PM - Forum: General Conspiracies - Replies (2)

Now that the news is out, we have to ask ourselves why push these things as real in front of the world unless there is something else behind them.
‘Non-human’ alien corpses are dolls made of bones, paper: experts (nypost.com)

Quote: The tiny “non-human” mummified remains found in Peru over the summer that spurred dozens of alien conspiracy theories are nothing more than dolls, forensic experts ruled.
The creepy figures — with only three fingers on each hand and elongated ET-style heads — are made with paper, glue, metal and human and animal bones, the country’s prosecutor’s office said Friday.
“The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times,” forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada, who led the analysis, told reporters.
“They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens.”

So, what was the real purpose of showing these fake aliens?

Well, it could have been an occult ritual. These items are made from both animal and human bones, and of course there was that famous video of the cakes that were eaten that looked just like these items. I'm calling the fake aliens items for now since we don't know the full story of what these were about. This could indicate the symbology of cannibalism and animal sacrifice while the world watched. 

I guess we have to ask ourselves why these known fakes would be allowed by the Mexican Government to be showcased to the world, and then allow for some of the governmental officials to take part in that cake video. These items were, in my opinion, were not about aliens but was about forcing others to witness some type of occult ritual.

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  World will become exponentially weirder
Posted by: Kenzo - 01-13-2024, 02:51 PM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (16)

I dont know where this belongs in forums, mods can move it to right place.


Terence McKenna, the American botanist, psychonaut, and philosopher in short video , which i find interesting ...





And for the term "  Novelty Theory "  McKenna is talking about, here is two links that give some picture about it :

Mysterious Object at Noon: Terence McKenna’s Novelty Theory.

The Curious Case of Accelerating Time


It`s interesting that , in some way it has to been looked or feeled like time is speeding up, accelerating......i thought it´s because i am getting older, which is also good explanation.....But this fast ? Rolleyes and same time so weird , like McKenna express it " just what the hell is going on ? "

IDK....but i have a feeling McKenna is on to something here...But not sure what to think , let`s say this is one option , and keep our eyes open .

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  My GSD
Posted by: Ravenwatcher - 01-13-2024, 02:38 PM - Forum: Pets - Replies (7)

My boy ---- Got to be one of the most difficult dogs I've ever owned lol ( years old and still a puppy that needs 24/7 attention and will not let me get more then a foot away from him I walk he walks so close he runs into me if I stop suddenly . Oh and he steals stuff and stashes it in his kennel .

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