ABC News is reporting that Donald J Trump must testify in the NY Attorney General Investigation attempting to find something, anything she can remotely charge him in.
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PJ O’Rourke, famed conservative commentator, has passed away. No news yet on the cause of death. More to follow:
I’m afraid it’s true. Our panelist and my dear friend PJ O’Rourke has passed away. More later.
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 15, 2022
The NY Times and other MSM reported that a SpaceX Rocket was going to crash into the moon, but, it turns out the rocket is not a SpaceX rocket, it belongs to the Chinese.
China Not SpaceX May Be Source of Rocket Crashing Into Moon
From www.nytimes.com
2022-02-14 20:33:49
Kenneth Chang
Excerpt:
On March 4, a human-made piece of rocket detritus will slam into the moon.
But it turns out that it is not, as was previously stated in a number of reports, including by The New York Times, Elon Musk’s SpaceX that will be responsible for making a crater on the lunar surface.
Instead, the cause is likely to be a piece of a rocket launched by China’s space agency.
Last month, Bill Gray, developer of Project Pluto, a suite of astronomical software used to calculate the orbits of asteroids and comets, announced that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was on a trajectory that would intersect with the path of the moon. The rocket had launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, for the National Oceanic and the Atmospheric Administration on Feb. 11, 2015.
Mr. Gray had been tracking this rocket part for years, and in early January, it passed within 6,000 miles of the surface of the moon, and the moon’s gravity swung it around on a path that looked like it might crash…
Russia’s North Korean construction workers are being treated like virtual slaves by their own government handlers, and the Russians are continuing to benefit from this coerced labor. Around 20,000 North Koreans work as virtual slaves so the regime can get the cash from the Russians who are willing to pay for this slave labor.
North Koreans in Russia ordered to work in groups so they can’t escape — Radio Free Asia
From www.rfa.org
2022-02-14 21:20:02
Excerpt:
North Korean construction workers in Russia are being prohibited by their government back home from taking on small-scale side jobs, a policy change designed to prevent them from escaping, sources in Russia told RFA.
An estimated 20,000 North Koreans have been dispatched by their government to Russia to earn foreign cash for the regime. The government keeps the lion’s share of the wages they earn while abroad.
After several North Koreans disappeared while working apart from their handlers in mid-January, authorities gave the order that side jobs are no longer allowed. A Russian citizen of Korean descent from Vladivostok in the Russian Far East that authorities fear the workers will become “ideologically lax.”
“Since January, North Korean workers here in Russia have not been able to take on any individual small-scale contract work,” the source told RFA’s Korean Service on Feb. 9.
“From now on, all workers must work in groups of 10…
The Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a new type of nitrogen-based catalyst that greatly improves our ability to extract hydrogen in storage.
Department of Energy’s “Fairly Simple” Breakthrough Makes Accessing Stored Hydrogen More Efficient
From scitechdaily.com
2022-02-14 20:40:40
Ames Laboratory
Excerpt:
A nitrogen assembly catalyzes the cleavage of carbon-hydrogen (C‒H) bonds in LOHCs and facilitates the desorption of hydrogen molecules. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory
A new catalyst from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and collaborators extracts hydrogen from hydrogen storage materials easily and efficiently. The process occurs at mild temperatures and under normal atmospheric conditions, without using metals or additives. The breakthrough offers a promising new solution that addresses a long-standing challenge to adopting hydrogen fuel for transportation and other applications.
Hydrogen fuel is one potential solution in the nationwide effort to decrease reliance on fossil fuels. According to the DOE, improving hydrogen storage is key to advancing hydrogen fuel cell technologies. At Ames Laboratory, scientists Long Qi and Wenyu Huang research the extraction of hydrogen from a class of materials called liquid organic hydrogen carriers, or…
A horde of flying insect robots might one day rescue you when you get lost in the forest, or track you down when you’re invading a police state. Either way, scientists are making these things. To be exact, researchers from Bristol’s Faculty of Engineering are building these things, and their findings are ‘promising.’
Scientists develop tiny flying ‘insect robots’ that could help save people – and the planet
From www.bristolpost.co.uk
2022-02-09 12:46:38
Excerpt:
Scientists have developed tiny flying insect robots that could be made in their billions and help save people – and the planet.
The pioneering bug-sized machines have an artificial muscle system that creates wing motion using no rotating parts or gears.
They could help in search and rescue operations, after terrorist attacks.- or maybe act as pollinators.
Typical micro flying robots have used motors, gears and other complex transmission systems to achieve the up-and-down flapping motion.
This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter and more effective micro flying robots.
Thanks to graphene, our ability to think and see that thought become a machine’s action is just a few short years away. Researchers out of the University of Technology Sydney have been developing a new type of EEG sensor using graphene that could break down the hurdles that have prevented engineers from fully developed thought to machine action technology up to this time.
Graphene biosensor will drive new innovations in brain-controlled robotics – Physics World
From physicsworld.com
2022-02-09 09:33:53
Excerpt:
Recently, researchers have developed EEG sensors made from graphene, which offers excellent conductivity and biocompatibility. Graphene-based biosensors, however, often have low durability, corroding upon contact with sweat, and exhibit high skin-contact impedance that hampers the detection of signals from the brain. A novel graphene-based biosensor developed at the University of Technology Sydney aims to overcome these limitations, detecting EEG signals with high sensitivity and reliability – even in highly saline environments.
The sensor, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, is made from epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on a silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon substrate. This structure unites graphene’s favourable properties with the physical robustness and chemical inertness of SiC.
“We’ve been able to combine the best of graphene, which is very biocompatible, very conductive, with the best of silicon technology, which makes our biosensor very resilient and robust to use,” says senior author Francesca Iacopi in a press statement.
….“With our sensor, the contact resistance improves when the sensor sits on the skin,” Iacopi explains. “Over time, we were able to achieve a reduction of more than 75% of the initial contact resistance. This means the electric signals being sent by the brain can be reliably collected and then significantly amplified, and that the sensors can also be used reliably in harsh conditions, thereby enhancing their potential for use in brain–machine interfaces.”
Douglas Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ Husband, was recently rapidly evacuated from a high school in America after the school received a bomb threat. Emhoff was making at an appearance at Dunbar High School in Washington DC to talk about Black History Month when he was suddenly escorted out of the building.
US Vice President Kamala Harris’ Husband Douglas Emhoff Evacuated In Bomb Threat
From www.ndtv.com
2022-02-09 06:00:32
Excerpt:
The husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated Tuesday after a reported bomb threat at the Washington high school he was visiting to celebrate African American history, officials said.
Douglas Emhoff, whose official title is second gentleman, was pulled away by his security detail during commemorations of Black History Month at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. Pupils were also told to leave.
“It was a bomb threat,” Washington public schools spokeswoman Enrique Gutierrez told reporters. “We had a threat today to the facility so… basically we took the precaution of evacuating everybody, as you saw. I think everyone is safe. The building is clear.”
No immediate details about the nature of the bomb threat were made public.
After the EU fined Poland for not bending its knee to the EU’s demands that it cuts off a power station and ends a lignite mining operation, Poland told the EU it’s just not paying the fines. Now, as the EU prepares to doll out the cash it gives out to member nations, it has informed Poland it will simply withhold the funds that it needs to pay the fine.
EU notifies Poland it will withhold its EU cash to cover unpaid fines
From www.euronews.com
2022-02-09 10:15:41
Excerpt:
BRUSSELS – The European Commission notified Poland on Tuesday it would withhold cash that the EU was to pay Warsaw as part of regular EU transfers, to cover the first part of fines imposed by the EU’s court on Poland which the country did not pay.
This is the first time that the Commission has to withhold EU money for a member country because it is not complying with a ruling by the EU’s top court.
Last September, the Court of Justice of the European Union put a 500,000 euro ($571,000) daily fine on Poland for not stopping the operations of its Turow lignite mine and power plant on the border with Czech Republic.
This followed a complaint from Prague that its operations were endangering water sources of residents across the border. Poland’s eurosceptic and nationalist government refused to comply with the court ruling.
“The Commission has informed Poland that it would proceed with the offsetting of payments for penalties due under case C-121/21 Czechia v Poland on Turów lignite mine”, Commission spokesman Balazs Ujvari said in a statement.
More and more California students are rebelling against Governor Newsome’s school mask mandates. Hundrreds of students in the Oakdale School District showed up without masks at school knowing they would be banned if they did so. The school went from a body of hundreds to a small minority of 100 that chose to comply with the mask mandate.
Hundreds Of Students at CA High School Arrive Maskless to Protest Gov. Newsom Hyopcrisy
From legalinsurrection.com
2022-02-06 21:00:38
Leslie Eastman
Excerpt:
Last week, I reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom was among the many state politicians who were slammed for going maskless at an NFL playoff game, incidents which were captured in photographs taken with former Laker Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
The hypocritical behavior, coupled with the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention basically came out and called cloth masks ineffective, and the revolt of the Canadian truckers against covid restrictions inspired hundreds of students at one California high school to arrive maskless.
Hundreds of students in Oakdale were banned from class for not wearing their masks.
The students say they were following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s example after photos showed him maskless at the NFC Championship Game over the weekend.
The students were bare-faced and packed into the Oakdale High School gym. Freshman Nolan Harris was one of them.
“By the end of the day, there was about a hundred kids in there,” he…
