My tin foil hat is probably too tight, but this vibe doesn't feel right...
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for May 24, 2023...
The Marine Rotational Force in Darwin has begun its first training of the year: Exercise Crocodile Response at Mt Bundy… Partnering with the ADF and the Indonesian National Military, the trilateral operation sharpens the groups' skills in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief…
In metro Detroit, they did a "water plane crash simulation in the Detroit River" yesterday with a whole bunch of different crews, including lots of military in what news described as the biggest simulation in Michigan history.
Military exercise in Romanian mountains are behind the damaging sonic booms felt in the region…
That train full of ammonium nitrate pellets disappears without a trace, a bunch of places around the world happen to be doing some mass military training exercise right around the same time, non-white Nazi "crashes U-Haul into white House gates," US senators getting satellite phones…
My tin foil hat is probably too tight, but this vibe doesn't feel right...
SAS and other British special forces have been involved in covert operations in 19 countries in the past dozen years, including in Nigeria, the Philippines and Russia, as well as in Syria, Ukraine and most recently Sudan, a study reveals…
France is banning short-haul flights… The government decides where and how you travel… Does that sound like freedom?
And just like that in lockstep the UK Media now pushing for domestic flights to be banned. Inverness or Aberdeen to London? Gone! Also the trains here are useless and RIDICULOUSLY overpriced like France…
Want to live longer? Don’t breathe… Mice breathing only 11% oxygen — equivalent to the base camp of Mount Everest — live 50 percent longer than those kept at ambient levels: Hypoxia extends lifespan and neurological function in a mouse model of aging…
The white supremacist with a Nazi flag who rammed his U-Haul into White House barriers last night is this guy, Sai Varshith Kandula… LOL!
Musk went from being the Henry Ford of his generation to being the Henry Ford of his generation… Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford…
The head of the World Health Organization warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which could be “even deadlier” than the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO warned on Monday…
Meanwhile, China braces for new Covid wave with up to 65 million weekly cases…
Shell’s annual shareholder meeting in London descended into chaos with more than an hour of climate protests delaying the start of a meeting in which investors in the oil company rejected new targets for carbon emissions cuts…
Best protection ever… Russian propagandist Solovyov has a "secret family" with US-born children…
Puebla, Mexico covered in ash after the eruption of the Popocatepetl Volcano… Two days ago, the ash cloud over the city was so dense that, when it started raining, it seemed like there was mud falling from the sky…
Did they need a reminder that royals don’t give a shit about peasants… Woman hit by royal police escort motorbike dies…
Travel advisory for ‘socialists’ in Florida…
$32 million for vehicles capable of entering orbit? Seems like a great deal for the buyers… Virgin Orbit shuts down after selling assets in bankruptcy auction… This one also looks like a steal… Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M…
Canne’s red carpet gets really bloody…
Wasn't Hertz the company that was falsely reporting cars as stolen, and getting people arrested due to paperwork mistakes? Now Hertz calls cops on Puerto Rican for not being American…
In 34 U.S. states, women are legally allowed to go topless anywhere a man can. The practice is only explicitly illegal in two states, with the remaining 14 having ambiguous legal situations…
Always follow the money… Explosion of AP climate change stories following $8 million environmental grant…
Toronto has cancelled Canada Day, following Calgary's lead. This means no fireworks at City Hall (Nathan Phillips Square) or any of the usual programming. Volunteers learned of the development via e-mail today. Do you think the woke left has gone too far?
Just another asshole… Crypto scammer refuses to return £10,000 to cancer patient…
AM in cars… Most people know about the Emergency Alert System from the scary buzzing noises and random tests at night and how annoying it is when local emergency managers overuse the Civil Emergency Message alert. But on the highest level, it's designed to take over every broadcast station in the country in the event of a grave threat - think a nuclear attack or alien invasion.
The medium wave band used by AM broadcasting in the United States has propagation characteristics that make it the best way to send a signal for very long distances. For this reason, FEMA has a direct link to ~75 clear-channel AM stations called "primary entry point" to use as the first level of this system. A "clear-channel" AM station is one that is allowed to use the maximum power output of 50 kilowatts 24 hours a day, and more importantly there are, in almost every case, no other stations on that frequency anywhere in the country.
The EAS is part of a larger internet connected system called IPAWS and every broadcast station also monitors that, but if a cyber attack takes out the internet, guess what - you still have the radio path. IPAWS also feeds the emergency alerts on your phone. Something takes out the mobile phone infrastructure, guess what - you still have the radio path.
In practice, this generally just means all the radio and TV stations in your area have a tuner locked onto the nearest primary entry point AM station and the local stations relay these emergency messages should they come. But if something takes out all your local TV and radio stations, that's when it becomes important for you to be able to receive the PEP station directly.
This is why Congress wants to keep AM available in cars, and EV manufacturers who cut corners when minimizing RF interference are taking the lazy way out and nixing AM radio. Hyundai and GM figured it out, so you can definitely have AM radio in an EV. This isn't because right wing talk radio almost exclusively exists on AM and the lawmakers somehow depend on that, that's not rational.
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Manuel
LOL, our county council is feverishly looking to make our island carbon neutral. So just like Puebla, I pose this question to my "polar bears are dying friends": How exactly do you go carbon neutral on an island with two active volcanoes? The stupidity abounds. Wonder if Mt Pinatubo will go carbon neutral, too?
AM Radio:
There are no right wing radio stations on AM. Just fake Conservatives. Beck, Clownity, LaVin, Cuck n' Buck, Bongino etc. All fakes. Lame establishment broken record mouthpieces and chatterboxes.