900 of 3108 US Counties are in the "wrong" time zone based on longitude.

https://redd.it/1j6w4ax
@r_mapporn

“The West has a Sunk Cost problem: they’ve invested everything not only into the Ukraine war itself, but now into the image of their own strength and ability to manifest peace at will. In other words, they told the world Russia was weak, and that they had the global clout to bring Putin to the table anytime they saw fit.

Instead, the rampaging bear has not slowed, and Western puppet leaders are panickedly fighting the narrative current, pushing inertia for its own sake to signal faux-strength and leadership on global issues. They continue pretending that negotiations are drawing ever-nearer in a comic rendition of Zeno’s Paradox, all the while Russia cajoles them with the ol’ snickering wink as it pushes inexorably forward.”

simplicius76.substack.com/p/boots-on-ground-theater-conceals

"People of Serbia are normally wary of street protests, remembering the bitter aftertaste of their October 2000 “democratic revolution” against then-President Slobodan Milosevic. Many of the people involved believed they were taking part in a spontaneous revolt against Milosevic’s purported “betrayal” of Kosovo—only to discover they had been played by the National Endowment for Democracy and its clever blueprint of subversion that would become known as the “color revolution.”

"Those protests too were led by “students”—or rather, what started as a student group before getting infiltrated by NED. Known as Otpor (Resistance), they used a black fist as their symbol and also had clever marketing and branding, all funded by the American taxpayer.

Some of the people behind the October 2000 coup later openly boasted about getting “suitcases of cash” via the U.S. embassy and various NED cutouts, and a small number went on to become professional revolution-mongers in places like Georgia, Ukraine, and North Africa."

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/red-hand-revolt-in-syria-people-power-or-color-revolution/

Disgusting.

"For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth.

"Most of those folks didn’t even realize they were in an experiment. Many of them, including me, weren’t born when the experiment started. If we had noticed what was going on, maybe we would have demanded a basic level of scientific rigor. Maybe nobody objected because the hypothesis seemed so obviously true: science will be better off if we have someone check every paper and reject the ones that don’t pass muster. They called it “peer review.”

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

​Trump Administration Cancels Grants Worth $400 Million for Columbia University https://1.breakingheadlines.news/slqndr

That Can’t Be Good

COMEX: Delisting of the Gold Kilo Futures, London Spot Gold Futures, London Silver Spot Futures, and Cleared OTC London Gold Forwards Contracts I have no idea what this means, but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t bode well. DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2025/03/17/that-cant-be-good/

NOW - Trump says JFK files will be released tomorrow.

@disclosetv

You and Him Fight Won’t Fly

But Macron and Starmer are probably going to get a lot of young French and British soldiers killed trying to draw the US military into the war in Ukraine: First, you don’t get to send in “peacekeepers” when you are one of the belligerent parties, which both France and Great Britain absolutely are. Second, it’s […]

https://voxday.net/2025/03/17/you-and-him-fight-wont-fly/

Article III of the Constitution does not lay out any enforcement mechanism for the Judiciary to restrain the executive. It is Article II where the Executive must "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" and swear an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" - not the Judiciary

In The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton describes the judiciary as the "least dangerous" branch, lacking the "sword" of the executive or the "purse" of the legislature (Federalist No. 78). He argues it depends on the executive to enforce its judgments, suggesting a relationship of persuasion rather than command. This aligns with the English common law tradition, where courts advised the Crown but lacked coercive power over it. The Constitution’s framers, wary of centralized authority after the Revolution, intended a similar dynamic: the judiciary could warn the executive of unconstitutional acts, but ultimate accountability rested with the executive’s oath and the people’s elected representatives as outlined in the Constitution explicitly

Oh look what they can do…! 🤨🤨🤨

Laser to redirect lightning for the first time during real-world storms.

https://weather.com/storms/severe/video/scientists-redirect-lighting-in-a-storm-for-the-first-time

Iran responded to Trump's warning about not funding the Houthis

"The United States Government has no authority, or business, dictating Iranian foreign policy. That era ended in 1979" - Iran's Foriegn Minister

That means Iran will continue helping the Yemenis

https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1901157735615303928

Crowds in Germany celebrate the outbreak of WWI, holding up portraits of German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, August 1914