Exchange Rate
It bites when you are God’s chosen people, and you’re forced to use the currency of the Great Satan to survive.
Strategypage (h/t Claudio) The Iranian economic situation worsens. While the government admits to an inflation rate of about 50 percent, most Iranians consider that unrealistic because many Iranians keep track of prices and know that many food items have doubled in price over the last two years. The real inflation rate is closer to 60 percent and rising. Most Iranians no longer trust the government when it comes to improving the economy. That means many Iranians seek to obtain dollars for their savings and significant purposes. The dollar is far more stable than the Iranian rial. The declining value of the rial and price increase is a substantial factor in the growing poverty rate. At the start of 2022, more than half the population was visibly living below the poverty line, even though the official poverty rate was about 40 percent. A year later, the poverty rate is over 50 percent, and that will get worse in 2024 and 2025. Another visible sign of economic distress is the decline in the value of the local currency versus the dollar and the subsequent overall inflation.
The situation has gotten a lot worse in the last few years. For example, in 2019, it cost 120,000 rials to buy a dollar. That led to a new currency, the toman (or “beard money”), which meant the exchange rate was 12 toman to the dollar. The toman was what some Iranian currency was called for a long time, until 1925. The revival of the toman was necessary because people needed too many rials to purchase essential goods. Many Iranians still use the term. The exchange rate has recently gotten a lot worse. In 2020, you needed 26 tomans to buy a dollar; in 2025, you needed 44 Tomans.
Despite strenuous efforts, the government cannot reduce that rate and keep it low. The government spent a lot of dollars trying to reduce the exchange and seemed to succeed in November. Still, the Americans increased restrictions on dollars headed for Iran, and the Iranian efforts could not handle that. Twelve years ago, a dollar could be had for three tomans. The current foreign exchange crisis is due mainly to exporters of non-oil goods keeping about half the money they receive in banks outside the country. That was in response to government efforts to enforce a fixed exchange rate that made life worse for businesses and consumers. Avoiding that is a good business decision because that money is safer from government corruption if kept in foreign banks. Many Iranians with jobs prefer to keep their savings in dollars, even if that is illegal and local banks cannot be used. Because of their corruption and economic incompetence, the religious dictatorship feels more threatened by their subjects than by any external threat.
At Ft. Hood, Texas
Bullet Points:
** Q and A – I was asked at what speed time stops for an accelerating object. I feel that if any object can reach light speed, it would be light speed. Time reaches zero for an object falling into a black hole. But it’s only a mathematical artifact. Something falling in from someone far away seems to stop moving through time. But according to the object falling In Time (assume it’s you), it still keeps moving normally, and you’ll still be stretched almost infinitely before you’re squished inside the singularity. Rock on!
** Majorana (quantum chip) – the Microsoft program was “part of the final phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computer (US2QC) program,” as reported by Microsoft itself, means that this is not just a baseless claim meant to generate buzz for the tech company.
** NEW TRAFFIC PATTERN AT PAX GATE 2—To reduce wait times and increase traffic flow, a new traffic pattern has been implemented when entering NAS Pax River Gate 2. Please anticipate this change when utilizing Gate 2. At all gates, drivers must present the backs of their ID cards with the bar code visible for easy scanning. (most of you reading this won’t care)
** (link) Authorities in the beach resort city of Acapulco confirmed that unknown gunmen threw a grenade at a police building, killing two people. The victims might have also been the suspects who threw the hand grenade at the building from a motorcycle. It bounced off the building and then detonated.
** Crocket and Jones – Men’s custom dress shoes – for when you’re in London and have a few extra bucks to throw down. They last a long time if cared for.
** Despite their much-vaunted Panzer divisions, Germany’s WW2 Wermacht was one of the least mobile armies in terms of logistics, relying heavily on horse-drawn wagons throughout the war. These would become particularly vulnerable as the war progressed, and devastating scenes of carnage on livestock were often recalled bitterly after the war by Allied soldiers.
** In the world of Nuclear Fusion Research – French researchers at the CEA have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in nuclear fusion. Using the WEST Tokamak reactor, they sustained a sun-like reaction for an unprecedented 22 minutes.
This record-breaking 1,337-second plasma run marks a 25% improvement over China’s previous benchmark. The plasma reached an astonishing 50 million degrees Celsius, pushing the boundaries of clean energy research.
As scientists continue refining fusion technology, this achievement brings the world closer to a limitless, sustainable energy future.
** The Big Beautiful Bill passed the first hurdle in the House of Representatives. The lefties are unhappy with cuts to Medicaid. Spending “other people’s money” would be endless in a perfect world. If the states want to keep full Medicaid, they can do so as the Californians do and pay tax money into MediCal. Be content with paying more in your state for the same thing, but why load up on the states that don’t want to carry the/your socialist load? It cut taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, which can’t help but be popular.
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Earth’s magnetic poles are undergoing dramatic change — and the pace of change is accelerating.
The North Magnetic Pole, where Earth’s geomagnetic field is vertical, has steadily shifted for centuries. Historical mapping of its movement from 1640 to 2020 reveals a gradual northwest trajectory in more recent centuries, primarily toward Siberia.
This shift has significantly accelerated in the past century, with the pole rapidly approaching Russia.
Changes influence the movement in the dynamics of Earth’s molten iron core, which generates the planet’s magnetic field. Unlike fixed geographical poles, the North Magnetic Pole’s position fluctuates daily within an oval-shaped locus due to geomagnetic variations.
Scientists use historical data from magnetic measurements taken at various locations over centuries to create maps like these, including records from old compass readings, volcanic rock samples, and recent satellite observations.
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The Deal of the Century
(an article taken from Sharyl Attkisson’s blog/report)
The US signed a deal with a Mexican drug cartel to ‘operate their drug business without interference’ …according to a Sinaloa cartel leader. Some US officials deny it. This article first appeared on SHARYL ATTKISSON‘s free Substack
- Sinaloa cartel leader claimed US DEA agents gave him, cartel kingpin Chapo Guzman, and other Sinaloa leaders “carte blanche” to “operate their drug business without interference” as long as they snitched on other cartels
- Prosecutors admitted the US had a signed cooperation agreement with a Sinaloa cartel official: lawyer Humberto Loya-Castro
President Trump has named eight killer drug cartels to the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
That’s part of his effort to secure the US southern border and cut down on the trafficking of fentanyl and other illegal drugs that have been distributed in record proportions in the past four years.
Trump’s executive order names the infamous Tren de Aragua in Venezuela; Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) based in El Salvador; and Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, Cártel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas), La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Cártel de Golfo (Gulf Cartel), and Cárteles Unidos, all in Mexico, as terrorist organizations. That designation opens up a host of new enforcement actions and penalties for those dealing with the criminal groups.
But you might be surprised that the US admits to having a signed cooperation agreement with at least one of these groups: Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
I was surprised this story didn’t receive more attention when I first reported it in 2011.
At the time, I was breaking shocking news on the “Fast and Furious” controversy, where the US was engaged in secret operations to facilitate the delivery of automatic rifles, long-range sniper rifles, and other weapons into the hands of Mexican cartels.
Many sources and law enforcement officials were telling me that it was an open secret in their corners that the US cooperated with the Sinaloa cartel to supposedly get information on other cartels that we considered worse, such as the Zetas. We were even allowing the Sinaloa cartel to traffic drugs in America— or so the story was told.
While it sounds unbelievable, there seemed to be confirmation that came in a court case in Chicago against a key Sinaloa cartel member, the son of a top Sinaloa leader.
Vicente Zambada-Niebla oversaw drug running on a massive scale into the US, according to prosecutors. But when he was captured and facing trial in Chicago, Illinois, he claimed he had immunity from prosecution because he and other Sinaloa cartel leaders had a deal with the DEA: They could operate their business uninterrupted as long as they turned evidence against a competing cartel.
Zambada claimed that throughout the cartel’s agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Sinaloa cartel kept up their end of the bargain, turning over a lot of evidence.
In court documents, prosecutors admitted the US had a signed cooperation agreement with a different Sinaloa cartel lawyer, Humberto Loya-Castro. Starting as early as 2004, Loya passed valuable information to the DEA from cartel leaders, including Zambada. In return, Zambada claims, the US dismissed a significant case against Loya and agreed to “not … interfere with” the cartel’s “drug trafficking” or actively prosecute their leadership.
Elements of Zambada’s subsequent prosecution were shrouded in secrecy. In 2014, a plea deal was made public. Zambada pleaded guilty to smuggling tons of drugs and agreed to forfeit $1.37 billion to the US government. He got a reduced sentence of 15 years in prison.
However, in 2018, another plea agreement was filed. In return for Zambada’s cooperation, the US recommended that the judge relax the sentencing and allow Zambada and his family to stay permanently in the US.
To me, the real news here was the US admitting it had a signed cooperation agreement with the Sinaloa cartel.
It wouldn’t be the first time the US worked with criminals it was supposedly fighting publicly. Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was once on the CIA’s payroll. In Colombia, the US worked with select cartels, allowing them to continue drug smuggling operations in the US as long as they helped in destroying the more dangerous Cali and Medellin cartels.
Read on for the transcript from the original report in 2011.
CBS News by Sharyl Attkisson
Oct. 26, 2011
A Mexican drug suspect awaiting trial in Chicago is making a startling claim. He insists he can’t be prosecuted because he worked as an informant and had a secret immunity deal with the U.S. government.
Prosecutors say Vicente Zambada-Niebla oversaw drug running on a massive scale into the U.S. But now, from behind bars at a maximum security prison in Chicago, he’s making his explosive accusations — that U.S. government agents have been aiding Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa cartel — even tipping off leaders on how to avoid capture.
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports that Zambada’s court filings claim federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents gave him, cartel kingpin Chapo Guzman, and other Sinaloa leaders “carte blanche” to “operate their drug business without interference,” as long as they snitched on other cartels. For years, Zambada’s attorney argues, Sinaloa leaders helped “authorities capture or kill thousands of rivals.” Their chief rivals are the Zetas, considered the most vicious and ruthless.
Phil Jordan used to head the DEA’s Center for Drug Trafficking Intelligence, called “EPIC,” in El Paso. He says he doesn’t buy Zambada’s claim that the DEA promised immunity.
Jordan told CBS News, “We do not have the power to offer immunity.”
But in court documents, prosecutors do admit the U.S. had a signed cooperation agreement with a different Sinaloa cartel leader.
That agreement was with Sinaloa cartel lawyer Humberto Loya-Castro. Starting as early as 2004, Loya passed information to the DEA from cartel leaders, including Zambada — the one now on trial. In return, Zambada claims, the U.S. dismissed a significant case against Loya and agreed to “not … interfere with” the cartel’s “drug trafficking” or actively prosecute their leadership.
Jordan says any agreement with a cartel leader is controversial but may be deemed necessary.
He said, “It’s probably a matter of trying to get inside or closer intelligence to the whole Mexican federation, as we call it.”
Jordan points out that Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was once on the CIA’s payroll. And in Colombia, the U.S. worked with select cartels, allowing them to continue drug smuggling operations in the U.S. as long as they helped in destroying the more dangerous Cali and Medellin cartels.
They don’t say whether the government has similar plans in Mexico, but this case, Attkisson reported, raises the question.
Prosecutors say it’s unenforceable even if federal agents did promise Zambada immunity — which they deny.
Link to the CBS article is here.
Dead Sea
A few decades ago, the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth-largest inland sea, stretching across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Little of it remains today, its waters drying up, leaving behind a barren desert and rusting abandoned ships.
Identify the Aircraft
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Once you’ve identified the livery, the ID is easier.
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VIEWER WARNING: Big Intel is up to no good. Creeps at the NSA were caught fantasizing about having hermaphrodite babies so they could raise them non-binary, newly uncovered messages show. Over at the FBI, a source says the bureau’s destroying evidence. And sources at the CIA are telling CNN that if agents get DOGE’d, they’re going to sell state secrets to Russia.
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Having made deals with the devil, it shouldn’t be surprising that certain government officials have been making deals with lesser villains.
Indeed. The government made deals with the Mafia to keep ports open during WW2.
They did and it worked. The Italian and Sicilian Mafia groups also provided real-time intelligence to the US Government (War Department and the Office of Strategic Services). There is a difference here, though. I can parse it out, but the deaths of US Citizens that resulted from the devil’s deal wasn’t something that goes down well with the American people.
There was a Bogart movie along those lines.
All Through the Night.
IDA:
1. PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
2. PZL.37 Łoś, a Polish twin-engine medium bomber
3. Aero L-29 Delfín
4. IAR-93 Vultur, aka the Soko J-22 Orao, Romanian-Yugoslav attack and reconnaissance aircraft.
Yep, those are them, all right.
– Kle.
Good job, HogsbreathSS
The CIA people will start selling secrets? The FBI is destroying evidence? Sounds like the NEW FBI & DOJ have an extra bit of work to get started on!
I read that “we” were looking at a prison deal in Costa Rica… Might be just the place for crooked FBI & CIA people!
Dan Bongino has his hands full.
I would think the current traitorous filth have WAY too many connections
in Costa Rica for that to be a good option.
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In a more perfect world, we would just throw them into active volcanoes.
– Kle.
” throw them into active volcanoes.”
What !? And anger the gods????
Yup…and is a man of action with principles…he’ll get it done. Starts in March.
Costa Rica is the only country in the world that accepts Bitcoin as its national currency – coincidence? You decide.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. PZL.23 Karaś
2. PZL.37 Łoś
3. Aero L-29 Delfín
4. Soko J-22 Orao
Yes!
I remembered writing about the connections between the Sinaloa cartel and the US Fed.gov back in 2012, and it’s part of a big, nasty picture. Just as many have concluded that the cartels run Mexico, when I see things like that apparent “merger” I assume the money is flowing to our politicians, too. I wonder if DOGE will find it?
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More interesting to me is the accelerated movement of the magnetic north pole. The difference at the southern extremes, from 1620 to 1850, are so convoluted compared to the 20th century’s (relatively) straight line that it makes me doubt whether the accuracy of measurements done with magnetic domains in rocks are similar enough to modern measurements. There’s a guy on YouTube who’s always beating the drum that the north & south poles are going to flip “real soon now” and while I don’t think so, I have exactly as much evidence as he does.
Paleomagnetism as a science has come a long way and is surprisingly accurate.
In the news a Texas rancher was killed by an IED planted potentially by drug cartel members. The question of course was it meant for him, or someone else?
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All eyes and resources seem to be aimed at the interior of Mexico to take the battlefield to them. But the enemy in the upcoming drug war, or maybe it’s actually the continuing drug war’s new active phase, may decide the battlefield should be active on the usa side of the border. I’m not sure we’re ready for or can understand the level of cartel violence that Mexico experiences.
Forgot to add… rancher was on Mexico side of border. But who was the IED meant for?
Beck said Brownsville. Regardless, Hegseth will have a response…and the cartels – which our host more than most about – should be worried. The American people want these people dead, there can be no equivocation on the matter.
I’ve been around Mexico and drug cartels professionally, on the other side of the game, for a very long time with different degrees of interaction depending on what I specifically did. Even when I wasn’t working on them, I had/have excellent sources so I kept up. I don’t know any family in Mexico that doesn’t have direct involvement to some degree with the narcos. NOT ONE FAMILY. You’d have to kill everyone in Mexico to be sure, PaulM. It’s gone that far. And when we’re talking about narcos in the US, you’d need to kill off an equal number of Americans.
First so I’m not misunderstood. The drug problem does need figured out. I don’t have answers. But military boots on the ground in Mexico is unlikely to provide the expected outcome.
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As a country we are embarking on a fools errand with trying to send regular troops, special forces, so on inside Mexico without the explicit help of the Mexican government, Mexican military, local officials, and more importantly the help and support of the local population.
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We’ve been at the drug war since Kennedy was President and the only thing that changes is there is even more illicit money now than there was in the past. Let alone the corruption it’s created inside the USA.
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Folks seem to forget… mankind has been a using drugs, alcohol, so on for all of recorded history. They will continue to do so. The spice will flow… maybe less from Mexico, but it will simply find a new place of origin. Then what, attack Africa, South America, our own towns?
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I strongly recommend everyone read LL’s two main books on cartels.. “Bloody Mexico” and “The Old Whore.”. You will have a fundamentally different understanding of the situation.
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We’ve also been treating The Drug War with kid gloves tied behind our backs.
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Harse penalties for dealers and users. No waffling, no drug court, no deferred prosecution. Announce it. Tell everyone. Then slam the lid. Kill someone or death results due to being on drugs? Welp, people have known for millennia that drugs impair, which means that the person who took the drugs was fully aware, which means willful planning, which means FIRST DEGREE MURDER. Capital offense please.
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Every death tied to a dealer or a batch of drugs should be felony murder.
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Every entitled snot, rich stock broker, local drug user, everyone, community service or jail or prison.
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And that’s in this country.
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Prosecute the Cartels and the gangs and the foreign enablers to the fullest extent you would prosecute a foreign terrorist or military that attacks the US of A. Full force, none of this nambly-pambly miminal force and restrictive rules of engagement.
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The Cartel bosses disappear, along with their properties and people and money and weapons in a flash-boom of JDAMS and special forces wiping them out. The storage locations get blown up and shot. All the financiers end up dead in a most unhappy way.
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Do that. Cut the head and middle part of the cartels to shreds and the lower level people will, what, have what to do what with?
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And every time a gang springs up, cut it down. This side of the border and that. Every time. Be as vicious and mean as El Salvador is to their gangs.
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Yeah, you can’t stop people from taking drugs. But you can sure f them up for doing it. Rather than celebrating their ‘illness,’ punish their stupidity.
Why , in the name of God , does the United States not seal( I mean so a pack rat can’t get through) the US/Mexico border and let the cartels/ Mexico wither on the vine. Guarding the US border is the only legitimate use of our military(not the National Guard). Let Sheinbaum eat meth and cocaine. Seal the border , close the Ports of Entry if necessary and see who hollers calf rope first. Increase the inspections of rail/truck and car traffic. What we are doing is like treating cancer with ASPIRIN.
Sealing the border doesn’t seal the tunnels or keep drugs from arriving by water or air. I spoke with Tom Hardin, former Customs Intel/Internal Affairs. He said that one in three US Customs officers were in the pay of the cartels.
I agree, but the border is the logical first step. Air force in the air over land and water, navy/coast guard on the east/west and gulf coasts. Hunt for the tunnels. Make it where the profit margin goes way down. All the while beefing up the northern border. If we don’t this will continue and get worse. Defend ourselves against the rest of the world. Maintain our sovereignty. Sooner or later the cartels will not be making much profit and we will have 100K plus young americans/year still alive. Unless we dosomething drastic it ain’t going to get better. We are in World War lll.
GPR the tunnels and then MOAB them.
1 in 3? Well, when that 1 is found, charge them with capital felony homicide, as obviously people on both sides of the border are being killed and are dying because of those. Plus, well, in the service of a foreign power, which drug cartels are, that’s treason, which should also be punishable by death or forever-prison in a not-nice prison.
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Be nice. Tell everyone in Customs and Border Control that they can quit now and not face being prosecuted for Treason and Capital Felony Murder. Or they can wait two weeks and say hello to the hangman.
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By the way, the same should apply to every federal worker across the board, from the lowest janitor to the highest elected official. Take money from and expedite fuckery for a foreign government or organization, and make decisions against the Constitution and these United States and that’s treason and felonly fuckery most foul. Hang, gas, electrocute, firing squad. Let the punishments finally equal the foul crimes being committed against the US citizens.
The USA did close the entire border with Mexico 40 years ago this month because of the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Kiki Camarena.
It stayed shut until his body was “found and recovered” in March of 1985…
Mag Poles- I’ve heard the magnetic poles were changing all my life, and while my HS teacher tried to say it was a problem, then again that guy thought Paul Ehrlich was a soothsayer, I have always had one question: “Does it matter?”
In my – compared to Earth’s age – short time frame, and despite trying my hand at a few Darwin Awards over my life, I’m still here…the earth hasn’t imploded or gone off axis to any perceivable detriment. The only thing I see – assuming it’s has an affect – weather patterns have shift here and there over my 64 years, but not drastically. One less thing I need to worry about…or…like the Amish not worrying about Covid…because they don’t have TV. Aa joke but if we didn’t have people running around on grants measuring this sort of thing that we can’t control, would it make a difference in our day to day? Doubtful.)
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BigBeautifulBill: Stigall reviewed this earlier, I appreciated his take (and why Masse, a solid guy, said ‘no’ because…spending). To paraphrase…said the government looks at our tax dollars as their payroll and a cut in taxes is a direct threat to their so-called income.” Truth.
I see the BBB as ‘step one” in a long process to reduce government takings and thievery on the backs of taxpayers, to be used – as DOGE has uncovered inside of only a month. IT’S NOT THEIR MONEY…it’s ours. At least those who made a system to take our wages for[the emptied by these same thieves] SSA – then, because they decided returning our money back to us was to be redefined as us getting “income”, so taxed it again. Yeah, I’d vote for the bill just on that alone. These people are greedy bas–rds (not ‘bass fishing rods’) and need to be put in their place. Step One will hopefully snowball, then we’ll see how many become millionaires on $174K/year salary…those bailing left and right will be the tell.
The movement of the Magnetic Poles matters for those that use magnetic compasses for navigation. Lots of aviation is still dependent on magnetic compasses. So are a lot of water craft on the open seas. The magnetic deviation/variation is some areas has changed a few degrees over the last 50 years.
Yes, declination is critical for navigating…good point.
Nuclear Fusion Research
Keep goin’, guys (or Guy); I hope your containment’s as good as you think it is – and my middle name’s Optimist.
I never thought I’d live long enough to see The End of the Earth, but, in my mind, someone should consider doing fusion experimentation in space (Mars, mebbe?)
BTW: who’s putting in the money for the research; it’s gotta be très cher.
if there is a deal (Vladimir Vladimirovich vs. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych), is there any likelihood the Russia sanctions will soon be re-evaluated?
The first controlled nuclear chain reaction took place on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago’s football stadium. The experiment was called Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) and was led by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Enrico Fermi.
Yes, I’ve been there. I also worked at Fermilab during my career, and met many people who worked on the Manhattan Project, including the Fermilab Director at the time, R.R. Wilson. Enrico’s widow Laura was there the day the lab was dedicated. Quite an interesting place.
Boron – Robert Heinlein already discussed putting nuclear power plants in space in 1940. See his short story “Blowups Happen”.
NAS Pax River entry has always been a problem. Too many people, few too few roads. Now that I no longer live and work there, it’s OBE. Reading the back of the CAC for base entry is commonplace where I’m at (Northern Nevada). I’ll pass along the info to this week’s visitors, they’ll get a laugh.
MAGVAR, magnetic deviation, is critical in my environment. If not all “event participants” have the proper MAGVAR set, targets don’t get hit. And all participants must agree on which map and what year to use. Certain operating areas have significant MAGVAR changes between years. NOAA lists four potential map/date ranges.
Boy Scouts (I’m dating myself), Survival School students, Navi-guessers all learn magnetic variation based on the map that they’re using, to point to True North. Forget that small wedge on the map, get very lost.
All good stuff!
“A Map of the Northern Magnetic Pole’s Shift Over 400 Years”
Oh, no! It’s the Russians. They’re stealing it.
It’s Climate Change. We need more taxes to stop it.
It’s Trump’s fault.
It’s white supremacy.
Over 400 years? Of course it began in 1619. White supremacy, indeed. And the magnetic north pole has been fleeing North America since 1850, heading for one of the whitest countries on Earth. Note that it’s not heading for Western Europe. Magnetism is racist! We must find an alternative.
That’s right up there with “Unprecedented temperatures recorded” bullscat we hear about all the time.
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Why? The thermometer wasn’t invented till 1598, and many places didn’t take and record records until the 1800’s or later. Spain finally started taking official temperatures in the 1960’s.
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So we have no definitive weather data, temperature, pressure, rainwater amounts, snowfall, etc, from before the 1800’s. At all. And many places we haven’t had continuous data since before the early 1900’s.
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We can guess what the overall temps were in past-times, but no actual data at all. Nobody was at Hastings Field and getting a weather report on that fateful day in 1066. There were no continuous weather reports during the Time of Christ. Nor during Hannibal’s failed expedition to Rome.
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We can parce data from vegetation and from the ground, from fossils and such. But actually know what the weather data was? Not so much.
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Same with the magnetic poles. We hear the doomsayers about every 4-5 years telling us the imminent shift of the magnetic poles is imminent and is going to shift, imminently. But what do we really see? That the magnetic poles are actually getting closer and closer to the actual physical poles. How is magnetic north getting closer to physical north so horrible and dangerous? What, it’s going to open up the access to the inner Earth and let out all the space Nazis and the inner Earth dwellers and such?
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Bah. Sheer speculation. Yes, the data is there. Showing the slow shift of the magnetic poles, which one would expect in a spinning ball of molten iron and other metals. Spins and wobbles, wobbles and spins. Wooooooo… Soooo… Scary… End of the Earth. Mass deaths. Trump getting elected. Ahhhhh!!!!!
I remember those reports back in the 2010 timeframe. And I’m NOT surprised… It was/is always about numbers…
“Because of their corruption and economic incompetence, the religious dictatorship feels more threatened by their subjects than by any external threat.”
Quite the parable.
Wasn’t Sicario a reference to the Sinaloa deal?
That or a bargain with Amado Carrillo before them.
Does anyone recall Alberto Sicilia Falcone?
Way back in the last century when I spent time in Iran, the “Official” exchange rate was 70.35 Rials to the dollar, but you could easily get over 100 Rials per dollar on the street.
Makes me wonder if my stack of Rials is worth anything other than curiosity value.