More idiots in positions of authority. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that firefighters were ordered to leave a smoldering brush fire days before it reignited... Big winds came and big fire to follow ! https://www.latimes.com/california/story...-burn-site

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• Firefighters alerted a battalion chief that areas of a New Year’s Day fire in Pacific Palisades, known as the Lachman fire, were still smoldering the next day, according to text messages.
  
• The firefighters were ordered to pack up and leave anyway, instead of monitoring the burn area for reignitions.
  
• Federal authorities say the blaze reignited on Jan. 7, destroying thousands of homes and killing 12 people.
  

Firefighters mopping up a small brush fire that authorities say reignited as the Palisades fire five days later were ordered to leave the original burn scene even though they complained the ground was still smoldering and rocks remained hot to the touch, according to firefighter text messages reviewed by The Times.
To the firefighters’ surprise, their battalion chief ordered them to roll up their hoses and pull out of the area on Jan. 2 — the day after the 8-acre blaze was declared contained — rather than stay and make sure there were no hidden embers that could spark a new fire, the text messages said.
On the morning of Jan. 7, according to federal authorities, strong winds stoked the remnants of the New Year’s Day blaze into the firestorm that killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Topanga.

In one text message, a firefighter who was at the scene on Jan. 2 wrote that the battalion chief had been told it was a “bad idea” to leave the burn scar unprotected because of the visible signs of smoldering terrain. “And the rest is history,” the firefighter wrote in recent weeks.
The text exchanges among three firefighters and a third party provide previously undisclosed details about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s handling of the Lachman fire, which federal investigators say was deliberately set and had burned underground in a canyon root system until the winds rekindled it. The third party ask

Full Title: Chicago’s Decade-Long Rodent Reign Ends: Los Angeles Now America’s Rattiest City

From the Orkin Press Room, Orkin’s annual Top 50 Rattiest Cities List.

Please note that the top 20 are all politically liberal. The whole list is like that, pretty much. So, this must mean they really are demorats, not democrats.

Quote:This year, California is the most represented state, with four cities in the top 50: Los Angeles (No.1), San Francisco (No. 4), Sacramento (No. 19) and San Diego (No. 24). Notably, two of these, Los Angeles and San Francisco, appear in the top five.

Orkin’s Top 50 Rattiest Cities:

1. Los Angeles, Calif. (+1)
   
2. Chicago, Ill. (-1)
   
3. New York, N.Y.
   
4. San Francisco, Calif.
   
5. Hartford, Conn. (+8)
   
6. Washington, D.C. (-1)
   
7. Detroit, Mich. (+1)
   
8. Philadelphia, Pa. (-1)
   
9. Minneapolis, Minn. (+2)
   
10. Denver, Colo. (-4)
    
11. Cleveland, Ohio (-1)
    
12. Baltimore, Md. (-3)
    
13. Boston, Mass. (-1)
    
14. Indianapolis, Ind. (+1)
    
15. Dallas, Texas (+7)
    
16. Milwaukee, Wis. (+3)
    
17. Seattle, Wash. (-3)
    
18. Atlanta, Ga. (-2)
    
19. Sacramento, Calif. (+1)
    
20. Pittsburgh, Pa. (+1)
    

Full Title: "Lesbian couple tortured boy, 12, until he shrunk and died, court told, with doctor missing chances to save him"

Disclaimers:

• By posting this, I'm not making a remark about gay couples with children. 
  
• Also, it comes from the Daily Mail.
  

Quote:A lesbian Canadian couple tortured a 12-year-old boy until he shrunk and died as a family doctor and social worker failed to save him from the horror, a court heard.

The child, only identified as LL, had stopped growing and even got shorter than he was a year before he died on December 21, 2022, while in the care of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber.
He was found soaking wet, unresponsive and emaciated in the basement of the couple's home before being rushed to the hospital where he later died. 

LL and his brother, identified as JL, started living with the couple in their Ontario home in 2017 after being moved from a foster home in Ottawa. 
They had planned on adopting the Indigenous brothers, who were still wards of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) at the time of LL's death, but the adoption was never finalized, CBC reported. 

Quote:President Donald Trump on Nov. 1 threatened military action in Nigeria if the West African country doesn’t do more to halt the killing of Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!” he continued.
Replying to Trump’s message, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has begun “preparing for action.”
“Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Hegseth added.
Trump’s threat of military action was made a day after he announced he would designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). Such a designation empowers presidents to cut foreign aid and discourage further financial transactions with subject nations.

On Oct. 31, Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.V.) urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to apply the IRFA designation against Nigeria, citing an attack on a United Church of Christ congregation in the Nigerian community of Kaduna.
“Horrific news out of northern Nigeria. A Pastor was shot and killed and 20 Christians were abducted,” Moore wrote in an X post. “This is the second attack on this same Christian community just this month.”
Responding to Trump’s decision to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern,” the country’s foreign ministry issued a statement on Saturday.
“We remain committed in our resolve to tackle the violent extremism that is fueled by special interests who have helped drive such decay and division in countries across the intersecting West African and Sahel regions,” the Nigerian Foreign Ministry said in its statement.
“We mourn all the victims of violent extremism and salute our armed forces as they continue to fight against vicious but cowardly foes. The Federal Government of Nigeria will continue to defend all citizens, irrespective of race, creed, or religion.”
Stacy Robinson contributed to this report.

Citric acid as a food additive is not natural citric acid; it is created through fermentation using the fungus Aspergillus niger, a type of mold .Aspergillus niger is a potent allergen .


Why Avoid Synthetic Citric Acid


Are you unknowingly ingesting toxic mold?


I have been taking potassium citrate suplement ,  i am going to change it to another forms ...


Sure the manufacturers can claim citric acid being 100% pure and not containing traces of Aspergillus niger aka black mold or other harmfull substances , but they dont have a trustworthy reputation to me so there`s that ....


Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to
 serious disease states: A series of four case reports


I am mold sensitive person,  so not going to play any games ...

Quote:UPDATE 31OCT25: Avi Loeb accuses NASA (Never A Straight Answer) of withholding data on 3i/ATLAS.

I will open today’s missive by stating that I subscribe to the Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology model. I am convinced that the long-sought Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is as simple as saying “zap”.

It’s a very long, detained conversation to describe the theory, its predictions, and successes. I recommend the reader enjoy The Thunderbolts Project channel, which has many hours of videos exploring the topic. What I want to focus on here, though, is the concept of comets and asteroids, and how it relates to an object called 3i/ATLAS.

Despite popular miseducation, comets and asteroids are the exact same thing behaving differently. Comets are most emphatically not “dirty snowballs,” nor even “snowy dirtballs”. They are dry, dusty rocks similar in all ways to asteroids. Various spacecraft have visited several comets, taking samples of their tails, images of their surfaces, and even orbiting and landing on one for long-term study. There are no giant balls of ice, nor powerful jets of steam, as dramatized in the film Armageddon (1998), or in Star Trek: Enterprise.

A comet is actually an asteroid with a strong negative charge moving perpendicular to a positively charged field, causing electrical machining of the surface in a way very similar to the process used in industrial applications. It also causes something similar to St. Elmo’s Fire on the rims and sharp edges of craters and mountains.


The machining creates a very fine dust from the rock, which is propelled away from the comet by static electricity, forming the coma and tail of the comet. The tail flows away from the Sun following the Sun’s magnetic field lines and the flow of protons commonly called “solar wind”.

I apologize if your eyes have defocused from this technical summary, but we need to know the basics of comet behavior to understand why 3i/ATLAS (3iA) is so unusual. On almost all comets, the tail follows the “solar wind” away from the Sun. A few occasionally have an “antitail” that points toward the Sun, caused by a particularly strong current “pulling” material off the surface. It’s rare, but has been observed.

Now for the woo-woo fun!

Comet 3iA is considered to be an interstellar object. By calculating a part of its orbital arc, it is possible to estimate its origin, and its speed tells us whether it will leave the Solar System, or hang around for a few million years.

Most comets form a “coma” (dust cloud around the rock) and tail (flowing away from the Sun) out beyond Jupiter, and sometimes even beyond Saturn. Comet 3iA did not form a tail until it was near the orbit of Mars, and the tail pointed TO the Sun, not away. This may be due to unusual chemistry, as some scientidiots are suggesting, or it may be…something else.

Sci-Fi fans are likely familiar with one of Arthur C. Clarke’s signature novels, Rendezvous with Rama. In the novel, a long cylindrical object enters the Solar System, clearly on an interstellar orbit. An Earth ship lands on the object, finds a way in, and discovers a manufactured habitable world inside. Sequels follow events surrounding identical objects following in a specific pattern of 72 years.

For those who keep up with their astronomy, you may recall the object named “Oumuamua,” a long cylindrical object that passed through the Solar System in 2017. It did not exhibit the usual coma and tail of a comet, and seems to have accelerated out of the Solar System in a way that cannot be explained by gravity or “sling shot” moves around the Sun.

Oumuamua literally scraped the face of the Sun at closest approach, yet did not seem to suffer any harm. Comet 3iA, on the other hand, will not pass closer than Mars on its way through. Yet, both are showing unusual velocity changes—Oumuamua sped up, 3iA seems to be slowing down. Also, it’s just been announced that 3iA’s tail has swung around from pointing at the Sun, to point away from the Sun. This behavior could imply a braking maneuver like our spacecraft perform when dropping into orbit around an object.

Dr. Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard, predicted that if 3iA were a manufactured object, it might display this kind of behavior at this particular point in its travel around the Sun. Naturally, he’s generating headlines crowing about the alien origins of the comet, and well…he has a point.

According to Loeb, 3iA is too big, too bright, too unusual, and too close to the ecliptic (where the planets orbit)—not to mention particularly close to Mars, Venus and Jupiter, as if doing a grand tour of the inner Solar System. He gives it s 30% to 40% chance of being technology, rather than a stray rock. Loeb gives all this a probability of ≲ 0.005% for all-natural random chance.

The fun part of all this is Loeb has the general scientidiot community clutching its pearls and sniffing indignantly at Loeb’s artificial argument, much less the Electric Universe (EU) in general. Loeb does these exercises and a means of stirring the pot and keeping minds open and limber. The EU folks are looking for a far better cosmology that doesn’t require constant applications of bubble gum and baling wire to hold it together.

Once upon a time, astronomy—and science in general—was not populated by creaking fossils wrapped in sheep’s skin, but rather by vibrant minds fighting the status quo, making world-changing discoveries in their home labs and workshops (one of my favorites being Tycho Brahe).

One of the primary malfunctions of the world today is it has become calcified, ossified, fossilized. There is a sad dearth of free thinking and open-mindedness. I suspect future historians will view our era as not unlike the Spanish Inquisition, with people literally being murdered for unorthodox opinions and preaching heretical gospels.

Public discourse has devolved from a dynamic marketplace of ideas competing against each other in a civil crucible of acceptance. Instead, we now have hardened bunkers of ideology lobbing rhetorical grenades across no-man’s-land, more interested in destruction than persuasion. Debate has been replaced by denunciation; curiosity by certainty. What was once a contest of reason is now a siege of slogans, each side mistaking volume for truth and outrage for conviction.

Today’s column isn’t so much an exploration of comets and cosmologies, as a look at the flights of fancy that are possible with the facts at hand. We need to lighten up, loosen up and open up. Locks are made to be picked, and walls are built to be breached. We need to reform our educational institutions and rethink our media, so that they once again reward curiosity instead of conformity. We’ve traded wonder for obedience.

Just some thoughts on this monsoon evening in the concrete jungles of Jakarta.

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Today’s cinematic main course is a weird but wonderful film called Coherence (2013). I don’t know anyone involved in this film, and I wouldn’t call it high art, but it does a great job setting up a unique situation loosely based on H. G. Wells, and following through with a well-built mystery. Well worth an hour and a half of your leisure time. If you can find it, pair it up with Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), a British made-for-TeeVee spectacle with James Mason, David McCallum and Michael Sarrazin. It’s a real treat for the persistent seeker.

The incident happened a couple of hours ago police say multiple people have been stabbed and 2 people arrested , no indication of why or who did this but thoughts to those affected.

Quote:A witness who was on the train tells Sky News he saw someone moving through his carriage saying: "They've got a knife, I've been stabbed."
"They were making their way through the carriage to get away from the suspects. They were extremely bloodied," says the man, giving his name as Gavin.
He says by the time the train stopped, "they were basically on the floor".
"That person ended up collapsing on the floor. They were taken to an ambulance pretty much straight away," he said.
Gavin said passengers were ushered out into the station, adding: "There were multiple people who had been stabbed". 

https://news.sky.com/story/train-stabbin...d-13462248

How do you go 200 knots under water? Why are there many UFO reports around water? Fuel for a nuclear powered craft? I don't really care, ramjets are badass. Too bad about the dolphins and radioactive shrimp, but otherwise rad






Project Pluto
Nuclear-powered Ramjet Cruise Missile: LASV-N1 (Progress Report 1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qMuS5kaDBI

Good take from dark docs, able to fly for weeks or months. I wonder what one of these looks like flying at high altitude. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoRg4CJ6kU

50 years ago yesterday Bohemian Rhapsody was released to an unsuspecting world , the Rock Opera song which was too long to be a single redefined what a song could be back in 1975 as it stormed the UK singles charts and held the No1 spot for an incredible nine weeks , it has become one of the greatest songs ever written in my opinion and must have been a real eye opener for musicians of that time.


50 and still awesome.

Quote:Multiple people have been arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot, FBI director says

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) —

Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.

Patel said more information would be released later. But the law enforcement effort appeared to be in the Detroit area.

FBI and state police vehicles were in a neighborhood near Fordson High School in Dearborn. People wearing shirts marked FBI walked in and out of a house, including one person who collected paper bags and other items from an evidence truck.