The NYPD is using “Barnacles” to combat illegal parking.

They are commercial-grade suction cups that latch onto the glass with 1,000 pounds of force, making forcible removal next to impossible.

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An electric arc is a type of electrical discharge in a gas. It was first described in 1902 by the Russian scientist V. Petrov ⚡️

Electric arc is a special case of the fourth form of the state of matter - plasma - and consists of ionised, electrically Quasi-neutral gas.

A large voltage is applied to two side by side plates consisting of a conductor, the gas between the plates is electrically neutral, but the electron shells of its molecules are in a powerful electric field, with increasing voltage between the plates there is a shift of electrons inside the gas atom.
At a certain moment electrons under the action of increasing voltage are detached from the nuclei of gas atoms and rush to the positively charged electrode.

An electric current is generated, and the electrons are so energised that they actively emit photons, causing us to see fire, which is essentially plasma - the so-called electron ‘gas’.

Yes, vaccines are typically safety tested against a "placebo" that contains the same diluents or adjuvants in the vaccine under test, thus negating the whole point of the study by failing to provide a meaningful benchmark for comparison.

https://x.com/lmcoombe/status/1864132914671132899

Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

SYRIA UPDATE: Multiple reports state that Russia has allegedly informed the Syrian government (whatever is left of it) that their support will be limited going forward.

Some reports claim President Assad and family have left Syria - but this is unconfirmed at this point.

"It is unknown currently why Lutnick was passed over for Treasury, despite endorsement for the position from Elon Musk and RFK Jr., and appointed to Commerce instead. However, Trump’s previous Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, was widely believed to have been given the role to repay a past favor of major significance. In Ross’s case, it was his assistance in rescuing Trump from bankruptcy in the early 1990s. At the time, Ross worked for Rothschild Inc., and when clarifying why the European banking dynasty had bailed out the future President, Ross stated “the Trump name is still very much an asset.” Shortly before, Rothschild Inc. had been bankrolling the entry of Robert Maxwell, intelligence asset for Israel and arguably the Soviet Union, into the American economy, with a specific focus on New York City."
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/12/investigative-reports/howard-lutnick-and-the-commandeering-of-the-department-of-commerce/#:~:text=It%20is%20unknown,New%20York%20City.

The Russians are advancing, and we are retreating'

– French mercenaries on the situation in the Kursk region.

-This footage was filmed by a French mercenary in the Kursk region. The infantry is trying to repel an attack by Russian troops, who are becoming increasingly tough.

It's very difficult terrain. We call it 'the landing'. It's the tree line where we hide from the drones. They detect us very quickly.

- This volunteer has been fighting in Ukraine since January 2023. His face is hidden to protect his identity. His call sign is Kan. Luigi, another French fighter who is in the Kursk region. He is fighting to preserve the territory occupied by the Ukrainians.

The Russians are advancing. That's for sure. But we can retreat at any moment. We are very careful not to lose many people. This is a resource that we have in very small quantities.

French dying and retreating from Russia, a classic tale.

"Vicious tribalism is in vogue, and the stakes could not be higher. One side wants the other to submit to a "my government can inject me with anything it likes, at any time" policy. The other has filed genocide and war crimes complaints in at the International Criminal Court.

"When the end states of the game involve either of,

"1. Rounding up one side into concentration camps, or

"2. Holding international or military tribunals to hold the leadership of the other side accountable for genocide,

"it becomes harder and harder to imagine either side backing down. When we are in an endless bidding war for the attention of leadership that controls the levers or force through government—or to recreate those systems of government (which would be viewed as an act of war), we are in a dollar bill auction."

https://open.substack.com/pub/roundingtheearth/p/the-dollar-auction-game?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This is actually FANTASTIC news!

I'm pretty sure that The Economist doesn't realize how good of an endorsement this is. 🤡

https://x.com/dschlopesisback/status/1861992234586976764?s=46&t=G8osZoHuXTQhHbGFJD4WZg

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🇸🇾🇬🇪🇷🇺 The Russian army is helping protect Aleppo - not to mention there is an attempted colour revolution in Georgia.

All of which is not coincidental timing, as Ukraine & Western patrons lose grip on reality.

"Overextending & Unbalancing Russia" is a 2019 white paper from the Rand Corporation (anti) think-tank, on how to be a geopolitical menace. It's quite the diabolical read...

Read it here, cookies & trackers free (that means they can't, on the backend, see who is reading them): https://pnqk.me/0kldyb

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'Jurors at Daniel Penny’s trial in the caught-on-camera subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely said Friday they’re struggling to reach a verdict on the top charge of manslaughter."
https://nypost.com/2024/12/06/us-news/jurors-deadlocked-in-daniel-penny-manslaughter-trial/#:~:text=World%20News-,US%20NEWS,to%20reach%20a%20verdict%20on%20the%20top%20charge%20of%20manslaughter.,-3

BREAKING! Jury is deadlocked in the Daniel Penny case.

the jury in the Daniel Penny trial just sent the judge a note: “We the jury request instructions from Judge Wiley. We are unable to come to a unanimous vote on count one”

REMINDER:  Count 1 is 2nd degree manslaughter, the main charge

The judge is conferring with prosecution and defense before responding

The concept of gender is a complete nonsense. Feminists stole it from grammar in the 1970s and it's been worked into our system to ridiculous and harmful effect.

https://archive.ph/i8Ft4

DO YOU SEE IT, YET?
'Eugenics and the master race of the left':
"Eugenics is the dirty little secret of the British left. The names of the first champions read like a roll call of British socialism’s best and brightest: Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes, Marie Stopes, the New Statesman even, ..the Manchester Guardian..

Thus George Bernard Shaw could write: “The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man”. Later he mused that “the overthrow of the aristocrat has created the necessity for the Superman”. The revered pacifist, disarmer and philosophical titan, Bertrand Russell, dreamed up a wheeze that would have made even Nazi Germany’s eugenicists blush. He suggested the state issue colour-coded “procreation tickets”. Those who dared breed with holders of a different-coloured ticket would face a heavy fine. That way the high-calibre gene pool of the elite would not be muddied by any proletarian or worse, foreign, muck. The New Statesman agreed, explaining in July 1931: “The legitimate claims of eugenics are not inherently incompatible with the outlook of the collectivist movement. On the contrary, they would be expected to find their most intransigent opponents amongst those who cling to the individualistic views of parenthood and family economics.” The bottom line is bleak but clear. Eugenics, the art and science of breeding better men, is not just the historical problem of Germany and now Scandinavia, nor even of the jackbooted right. It took root right here in Britain – pushed and argued by the left. Indeed, contempt for ordinary people and outright racism were two of the defining creeds of British socialism.

The trouble began with Charles Darwin. His breakthrough work, The Origin of Species, did not restrict its impact to the academy and laboratories. Instead it transformed the very way mankind understood itself in the 19th century, its message fast spilling over into the realm of political ideas. Suddenly the religious notion that all life was equally sacred was under attack. Human beings were like any other species – some were more evolved than others. The human race could be divided into different categories and classes. When Karl Marx took on the task of charting human development and defining the class structure, he acknowledged his debt – dedicating an early edition of Das Kapital to none other than Charles Darwin.

From the beginning, socialism regarded itself as the natural ally, even the political version, of science. Just as biologists sought to understand animals and plants, so scientific socialism would master people. According to Adrian Wooldridge, author of Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England 1860-1990, and a recognised authority on early ideas of human merit, progressives believed the only enemies of Darwin were reactionaries, the religious and the superstitious. Science, by contrast, represented progress. Crucially, these early leftists regarded science as an utterly neutral tool; something could not be scientifically right and morally wrong. In this climate, says Wooldridge, “eugenics became the political correctness of its day”. If you were modern, you believed in it.

The result was a Darwinian commitment to improving the quality of the nation’s genetic stock. Many of the reforms admired by today’s leftists were not, in fact, borne of a benign desire to improve the lot of the poor, but rather to make Britons fitter – to guarantee their survival as one of the globe’s foremost races. Thus the Webbs pushed for free milk in schools not because their hearts bled for undernourished kids, but because they were alarmed by Britain’s performance in the Boer war, where troops had taken a good kicking at the hands of the black man: the Webbs believed a daily dose of calcium would improve the bones and teeth of the future working class." Jonathan Freedland

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997