How it feels most of the time...
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for October 27, 2024...
My two cents: Since when is asking for evidence (source) a bad thing? Why reject critical thinking?
Am I crazy?
I saw this scrolling my timeline on social media and my initial reaction was “well, duh, why would a news source endorse a candidate? If anything, isn’t that clear media bias and subjective journalism to do so?”
And then I thought it was weird that 3 editors resigned over this.
And then I opened the comments and was shocked to see people genuinely pissed off and claiming they’re canceling their subscription.
At which point I thought, “wow, people are fucking brainwashed af if they think it’s normal for their source of information to be biased.”
I mean, talk about conditioning. People are so used to a 2 party (uniparty), corrupt system of no real choice that they think it’s outrageous that a news source wouldn’t back a candidate.
Sure, is there an implication that the newspaper USUALLY backs someone and they’re doing it, in fact, to influence the election? Yeah, but regardless, why are we not more outraged by the fact that this is considered normal?
I think I am not crazy - Having the media being unequivocally aligned to a political agenda and that being the norm is completely wrong…
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Australia bans Candace Owens from entering country due to "antisemitism."
The US Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, has accused Owens of coming to “embrace and promote antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel rhetoric”, noting comments where she called Judaism a “pedophile-centric religion”.
LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation Glaad has pointed to allegedly anti-trans comments from Owens, including calling the trans equality movement “evil” and “satanic”.
She has also claimed “white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America”.
MORE & Archive version of article…
By the way, this is the same country which kicked Novak Djokovic out for not taking the magic covid shots…
159 participants from 20 countries have signed up to use the new BRICS settlement system.
US and EU will no longer be able to use economic sanctions as a weapon.
BRICS allows countries to settle trades and payments in their own currencies, reducing reliance on the $US, which has long been the dominant global currency…
The group of countries invited to join the BRICS as "partner states" includes Turkey, Indonesia, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Uganda… Not really that much of win if you ask me…
In the meantime, BRICS member India rejects de-dollarization – embraces the US dollar… LOL!
$41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for…
Unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices…
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International…
Hoard of 1,000-year-old coins unearthed in a farmer’s field sells for $5.6 million…
In a farmer’s field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than 2,500 silver coins that had lain in the ground for almost 1,000 years. Valued at 4.3 million pounds ($5.6 million) and now bound for a museum, they will help shed light on the turbulent aftermath of the Norman conquest of England…
That's nice they gave them a proper reward for it…
Human settlements and stations in Antarctica…
I was in 3 of them…
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Rights groups in Mozambique say at least 11 people have been killed, dozens injured and hundreds arrested in protests following the disputed presidential election.
Police have used teargas and live bullets against demonstrators in several cities in the last week.
The electoral commission says the ruling Frelimo party won.
The West Sumatra volcano Mount Marapi erupted on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The eruption was recorded on the seismogram of the Marapi Volcano Monitoring Post with a column of 1,000 meters above the summit.
Mount Marapi is at Level III or Caution. The mountain, located in the regency of Agam and Tanah Datar, has erupted 231 times this year.
Cyclone Dana floods Kolkata, India, 4 killed across state - 6.4 inches of rain in a day…
In the wake of Cyclone Dana, Kolkata is grappling with severe waterlogging that has turned streets into rivers and left many residents stranded.
Over 100 mm of rain fell in just 24 hours, inundating key areas of the city and impacting essential services, including hospitals.
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is falling into the sun. Look in the lower right corner of this Oct 26th coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
Not to be confused with Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, Comet ATLAS is a Kreutz sungrazer, a family of comets that are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet ~1000 years ago.
Comet ATLAS is special because astronomers thought it might be larger than average Kreutz comets, with the potential to survive and put on a magnificent display. Instead, it looks fairly ordinary. Comet ATLAS will probably disintegrate completely when it comes within 0.008 AU of the sun on Oct. 28th. Stay tuned for updated movies.
Here’s an awesome picture of Comet Zijinshan-ATLAS and the erupting Fuego volcano in Guatemala, October 2024.
A CME gently grazed Earth's magnetic field on Oct. 26th. At first it seemed like nothing would happen. Then, the sky exploded:
A similar CME due to arrive on Oct. 28th could cause a repeat light show. Arctic sky watchers, keep your eyes to the sky…
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Please be kind to each others. Please accept views of others and please do not put everybody in the same shitbag.. Thank you, Manuel
Great picture by Mr. Rojas of the comet and volcano was really good!