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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804319 (211354ZOCT24) Notable: Earth's ancient APOCALYPSE: Huge comet hit Earth 12,000 years ago - sparking an ice age that decimated humans, expert claims in controversial Netflix series???

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Still one of the best.

Speaking of 12000 years..

Earth's ancient APOCALYPSE: Huge comet hit Earth 12,000 years ago - sparking an ice age that decimated humans, expert claims in controversial Netflix series

It's common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid 66 million years ago.

But what if that wasn't the only time in Earth's history that a space rock triggered an ancient apocalypse?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13965425/amp/ancient-APOCALYPSE-comet-Netflix.html

The Great Awakening is fucking awesome.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804347 (211359ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

October 21, 2024

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over California

The tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS were a sight to behold. Pictured, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was captured near peak impressiveness last week over the Eastern Sierra Mountains in California, USA. The comet not only showed a bright tail, but a distinct anti-tail pointing in nearly the opposite direction. The globular star cluster M5 can be seen on the right, far in the distance. As it approached, it was unclear if this crumbling iceberg would disintegrate completely as it warmed in the bright sunlight. In reality, the comet survived to become brighter than any star in the night (magnitude -4.9), but unfortunately was then so nearly in front of the Sun that it was hard for many casual observers to locate. Whether Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas becomes known as the Great Comet of 2024 now depends, in part, on how impressive incoming comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) becomes over the next two weeks.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804406 (211409ZOCT24) Notable: TWO MOAR WEEKS TO WINNING

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TYB

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804407 (211409ZOCT24) Notable: Q Reminder on Meme Camouflage

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804451 (211414ZOCT24) Notable: Profound Implications – Trump Transition Team Likely to Refuse Federal Assistance and Transition Funding if President Trump Wins Election [read law of war, devolution}

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Profound Implications – Trump Transition Team Likely to Refuse Federal Assistance and Transition Funding if President Trump Wins Election==1/2

October 19, 2024 | Sundance |

This is an inside baseball story that will be overlooked by most, but it carries profound implications.

The winner of the presidential election usually merges the president-elect’s transition team with the federal transition system. Current government bureaucrats then begin a process of briefings, agency/institutional transfer coordination and funding to assist the incoming president’s team. However, as we saw in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the government side of the transition worked behind the scenes to impede Trump’s ascendency into office, and factually supported the corrupt government IC officials who were targeting Trump.

For election 2024, President Trump’s transition team is now saying they are likely to go it alone and skip any federal transition assistance in advance of inauguration day.That decision is making the deepest parts of the Deep State apparatus very nervous. That decision has major ramifications and could, likely would, include the incoming Trump administration setting up offices outside Washington DC.

WASHINGTON DC – Former President Donald Trump is weighing a go-it-alone approach to presidential transition planning, which could dramatically slow his takeover of the federal government if he wins in November.

The Trump transition team has yet to sign two agreements with the federal government to receive transition funding and planning assistance and to share information — a break with modern precedent. Instead, transition co-chairs Linda McMahon, who served as small business administrator in the Trump administration, and investor and GOP mega-donor Howard Lutnick are plowing ahead with their own processes for vetting potential political appointees and preparing policy plans.

The decision not to take federal assistance allows them to raise unlimited funds without disclosing their donors, while avoiding oversight from federal bureaucrats, whom Trump and his advisers deeply distrust. But if Trump wins the election and continues to drag his feet on signing the agreement with the White House, it will limit the information he and his team can access to understand current federal operations and challenges.

While the Trump transition team insists it will be ready to hit the ground running if the former president wins, experts say it’s likely to further set back its preparations, already running well behind schedule, to take over the executive branch and its millions of employees.

[…] Beyond simply planning the future president’s policy agenda, a presidential transition is charged with identifying candidates to fill thousands of vacancies, readying plans to run the federal government’s voluminous agencies, and applying for security clearances for staff to receive sensitive information.

The Presidential Transition Act aims to facilitate a smooth transfer of power between administrations, establishing guidelines for the sitting government’s transition planning and designating various forms of assistance that the General Services Administration can provide to the presidential transitions and, post-election, the president-elect. By Sept. 1, the General Services Administration is expected to reach an agreement with the candidates’ teams regarding what kind of support and facilities it will provide before the election. By Oct. 1, the White House is expected to reach an agreement with the candidates’ teams around access to agencies, post-election, which includes an ethics plan for its staff. (KEEP READING)

Most readers are aware of my position. I do not think the Trump team should engage with the corrupt silo administrators at all, specifically because of their conduct in 2017 – which included the GSA giving all of the Trump transition material, emails, documents, text messages, cell phones etc. to Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann. The GSA even gave the IC and DOJ privileged information from President Trump’s lawyers on the transition team. In short, the DC system cannot be trusted.

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/19/profound-implications-trump-transition-team-likely-to-refuse-federal-assistance-and-transition-funding-if-president-trump-wins-election/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804482 (211420ZOCT24) Notable: Public access to intel? Kamala Funds Nazis

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>>245494

tyb

guud vidya

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/breaking-video-reveals-real-kamala-harris-kamala-funds/

Public access to intel?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804501 (211425ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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NASA Ranks Dystopian Thriller As The Most Accurate Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made

October 20, 2024

Usually, there’s no fiction involved in NASA’s science, but they got into the sci-fi game by naming the most accurate science fiction movie ever made, calling the future dystopian Gattaca a realistic depiction of a future society.

The film centers on a humanity so obsessed with perfection that they edit their offspring’s genes to give them near-perfect abilities.

At the time it was made, gene editing was still a fictional concept, but since then, processes like CRISPR have made it a very real possibility.

Gattaca was filmed way back in 1997 when the idea of genetic engineering was still yet to be realized.

However, genetic engineering is possible now, and scientists continue to hold it up as an example of science fiction coming to life.

The ethical questions involved in manipulating human genes are at the center of the story of Gattaca, and the same is true for real-life gene editing.

While giving children the best possible start in life by enhancing their desirable characteristics and deleting some of their changing traits might sound like a good plan, there are also a lot of moral glitches that Gattaca raises.

One of the film’s main points is that those without the engineered advantages of the rest of society could have non-engineered traits like tenacity that can’t necessarily be intentionally written into the genetic code.

Another consideration that Gattaca brings to the forefront is of course about how the decisions concerning what is considered a “good” vs. a “bad” genetic trait and who gets to decide that.

In addition to accurately describing a future technology, Gattaca also predicts the pitfalls of the technology, making it more accurate than some other, more rosy science fiction illustrations of science concepts.

Questioning society’s role in using science either for the betterment of humanity or for the enrichment of a few elites makes Gattaca a classic that is revisited frequently by fans as well as scientists.

Its enduring popularity is based partly on Gattaca’s central theme, which gains weight with each advance in gene editing science.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory came out with their science fiction ranking for most and least accurate depictions of science back in 2011, ranking Gattaca the most accurate, with Contact and Metropolis in the next two slots.

They gave the least accurate rankings to 2012, The Core, and Armageddon.

Notably, all of the least scientifically accurate films according to NASA involve sending human beings to drill into either Earth’s core or another large object to do a job that could be done by robots.

Director Andrew Niccol made Gattaca at a time when the Human Genome Project was still mapping animal genomes in the run-up to mapping out the human genome.

The success of the project and the speed at which the science was advancing put forward the ethical questions raised in the film, and Niccol was drawing on these developing social quandaries when he came up with the concept for the film.

Part of the reason for its lasting impact is that it built on real science and drew in elements from past human experience to tell its story.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/nasa-most-accurate-movie.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804510 (211427ZOCT24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Good morning PA… last day to register, GET OUT THE VOTE

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POTUS!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113345853179071135

https://vote.donaldjtrump.com/pennsylvania-get-out-the-vote/

Oct 21, 2024, 10:21 AM

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804541 (211432ZOCT24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Christians must register to VOTE now.

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Christians must register to VOTE now. This is the last day to do so. Our Country is at stake! God Bless You All! DONALD J. TRUMP

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1848364102764351811

https://swampthevoteusa.com/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804550 (211435ZOCT24) Notable: Earth's ancient APOCALYPSE: Huge comet hit Earth 12,000 years ago - sparking an ice age that decimated humans, expert claims in controversial Netflix series???

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>Earth's ancient APOCALYPSE: Huge comet hit Earth 12,000 years ago - sparking an ice age that decimated humans, expert claims in controversial Netflix series

WHAT A CROCK OF WEAPONS-GRADE BALONEYIUM

WE ARE CURRENTLY IN AN ICE AGE

IT BEGAN SEVERAL MILLION YRS AGO

within ice ages, there are smaller cycles of glacial advance and retreat

30,000 - 15,000 yrs ago, the polar ice caps extended 3/4 of the way to the equator

15,000 yrs ago, the glacial retreat began

we are now due for another 15,000 yrs of glacial expansion that will see the earth once again become covered in ice 3 miles thick

this has been known for over 50 yrs, and is STILL THE BEST CURRENT MODEL

for one of the FEW sources on the intewebz NOT totally corrupted by the globohomo hoax, see…

https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/ice-ages-what-are-they-and-what-causes-them/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804590 (211443ZOCT24) Notable: GA: What ya got planned there government? DHS?

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Interesting timing.

What ya got planned there government?

https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804624 (211453ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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Doritos' 1st ad filmed in space features special 'zero-g' chips

October 21, 2024

It is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly released footage of snack and space history being made, it is clearly there.

*Crunch.*

Doritos on Monday (Oct. 21) is releasing its first ad filmed in space, and it is filled with the sound of astronauts "crunching" down on the brand's first-ever chips to leave the planet.

As exclusively first shared by collectSPACE.com, the online video spot shows Polaris Dawn crewmates Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon each snacking on one of the "Zero Gravity Cool Ranch" Doritos chips as they floated weightless aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule last month.

The limited edition, safe-for-space version of Doritos was launched on the recent mission as part of an effort to raise funds for pediatric cancer research being conducted at St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

"Hey, thanks Doritos! Thanks for supporting St. Jude's. We appreciate this snack," Isaacman said, as captured in a behind-the-scenes clip.

The four private astronauts filmed the commercial just before embarking on the first spacewalk conducted by a non-government crew.

"We had already done our pre-breathe — really reduced our cabin pressure and increased the oxygen concentration to ready our bodies — for the spacewalk and then, as one of our last meals beforehand, we got to enjoy the Doritos," Menon, Polaris Dawn mission specialist and medical officer, said in an interview with collectSPACE.

Menon, along with her crewmates, added the Doritos distinction to their list of firsts achieved on the five-day mission, including the EVA (extravehicular activity or spacewalk) and breaking an orbital distance record set in 1966.

Menon also read from her book, "Kisses from Space," while in orbit, sharing a personal project she created to stay connected with her children during the mission.

"It was awesome!" said Menon, describing the Doritos, which were individually wrapped and packaged in individual tins. "They held up incredibly well."

For the first 60 years of human spaceflight, Doritos and most other types of chips were on the no-fly list because the crumbs they create posed a risk of floating away in the microgravity environment of space.

These flakes could then become hazards to the crew, being accidentally inhaled or getting into their eyes, or lodging themselves behind electrical panels and interfering with the operation of the spacecraft's systems.

There were some exceptions, but the workarounds sometimes altered the chips' taste or made the snacks more time consuming to eat.

The easiest solution was to leave them on Earth and pick alternate, less crumb-prone foods.

"They did do some really creative things to package them for space," said Menon, recounting how Frito-Lay (a subsidiary of PepsiCo) made sure the chips would arrive in orbit intact.

"They flew individual canisters with several chips inside each to keep them protected, because there are a lot of G [gravity] loads, vibrations, etc. — a really dynamic environment that everything that is in the vehicle has to go through — to get to outer space.

So they had some protection around them to keep them safe."

The chips were of the Doritos "Minis" size, which the brand markets on Earth (in larger cardboard tubes) as "perfect for on-the-go snacking" but turned out to be also good for eating in space because they are bite-size.

The food scientists at Frito-Lay also made one other change: they used oil-based flavoring in place of "Doritos dust."

"They were very, very clean," said Menon, confirming that she and her crewmates didn't have to lick or wipe off their fingers after their snack.

Frito-Lay based the new space chips on its herb-flavored Doritos, rather than the "original" nacho cheese.

"They did taste like Doritos, but they also had a really cool flavor. It was 'Zero Gravity Cool Ranch,'" said Menon.

"It was super neat to taste that unique flavor that was made for space, but they were also very reminiscent of Doritos on Earth, so it was nice to have that taste of home up there."

cont.

https://www.space.com/doritos-ad-filmed-space-polaris-dawn-video

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102124a-doritos-first-look-space-exclusive.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804637 (211455ZOCT24) Notable: Banner flies over Taylor Swift concert in Miami today.

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Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

Banner flies over Taylor Swift concert in Miami today.

TRUMP 2024 - READY FOR IT, CAT LADY? MAGA!

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8:44 PM · Oct 20, 2024

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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1848163538809794716

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804686 (211503ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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Argotec inaugurates new satellite factory

October 21, 2024

Italian smallsat manufacturer Argotec formally opened a new manufacturing facility that will allow it to increase its production rate while it looks at new business opportunities in Europe and the United States.

The company held an event here Oct. 18 to open its new SpacePark headquarters and manufacturing facility, attended by regional and national officials, including Adolfo Urso, minister for enterprises in the Italian government, and Teodoro Valente, president of the Italian space agency ASI.

The building has 11,500 square meters of space, including 1,000 square meters of clean rooms.

While SpacePark is new for Argotec, the building itself is not new.

The unique building, whose round shape gives it the feel of an old sci-fi spaceship, was designed more than four decades ago for a paper company by Oscar Niemeyer, the famed Brazilian architect best known for designing many of the key government buildings in Brasilia.

David Avino, chief executive of Argotec, said in an interview that he had considered building a new facility on a greenfield site, but wanted to avoid the environmental impact of cutting down trees and pouring concrete.

“Then I came here and saw, you know, a spaceship,” he said. “And I said that I want to come here. I want to have the company here.”

Argotec spent 25 million euros ($27 million) renovating the building, adding clean rooms and mission control centers.

That required some work to deal with the building’s unusual design. “Everything had to be restructured into a circular shape,” he said.

“But the final idea was to have one of the most advanced space factories in Europe.”

The company has set aside 1,200 square meters of the building for SpacePark HUB, which Avino described as an accelerator for startups developing technologies that Argotec could use for its spacecraft.

“They have to have something already at technology readiness level six or seven,” he said of companies that would then spend one or two years in SpacePark HUB.

"We’re working together, enhancing the capabilities of their products and then flying in space with a more stable product.”

SpacePark is designed to produce up to one satellite a week.

That capacity will initially support projects like IRIDE, an Earth observation constellation funded by the Italian government.

Argotec was originally under contract to build 10 satellites and signed a contract Oct. 16 for 15 additional satellites.

In addition to SpacePark, Argotec has two facilities in the United States, in Largo, Maryland and Melbourne, Florida.

That allows the company to tap into interest from U.S. government customers for small satellites.

Argotec has 15 employees in the United States, compared to 200 at SpacePark, but Avino said his company is expanding in America.

Despite the investment in building out SpacePark, he said the company remains profitable.

He added the company may seek to raise funding in the coming years to support its U.S. expansion and for research and development towards a goal of having 80% of its satellite subsystems built in-house.

He added the company may consider an initial public offering of shares in three to five years.

Argotec doesn’t expect to need to invest much in expansion of SpacePark, though, as the building is able to accommodate up to 600 employees. “We have room to grow.”

https://spacenews.com/argotec-inaugurates-new-satellite-factory/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804689 (211504ZOCT24) Notable: GOP-leaning polls trigger questions about accuracy

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GOP-leaning polls trigger questions about accuracy

BY JARED GANS - 10/19/24 12:00 PM ET

The prevalence of Republican-leaning polls in recent weeks is raising questions about their effect on the overall polling average as the presidential race between Vice President Harris and former President Trump tightens even further.

Surveys from pollsters that lean toward one party are a regular occurrence in presidential contests along with independent polling. In recent weeks, however,GOP-leaning polls have flooded the zone, fueling speculation that they could be skewing perceptions of the race. But experts note their average models have methodologies in place to prepare for this. “When you look across all the averages, the net effect is less than a point, if you take out the Republican polls, or the partisan ones, so to speak,” saidScott Tranter, the director of data science for Decision Desk HQ. “So I don’t necessarily think it’s a huge thing there.”

Across the board, election models and polling averages consider the race almost neck and neck without a clear leader. The Hill/Decision Desk HQ model has the race as almost exactly even in each candidate’s chance to prevail. In FiveThirtyEight’s simulations of 1,000 possible outcomes, Trump wins in just more than 500 of them, a bit ahead of Harris. Pollster Nate Silver has Trump just ahead in likelihood of winning, still in line with other models.

Polling in general has been picking up as Election Day approaches — and in particular surveys from Republican-affiliated firms. Various averages include several polls from Republican-leaning pollsters or with Republican-leaning sponsors but not as many from Democratic-leaning pollsters.

This has raised the question of whether these GOP-leaning polls are to explain for why the race is tightening even more so with Trump seeming to make slight gains nationally and in key swing states.Tranter said these Republican partisan polls are having a minimal effect on the averages.He said Decision Desk HQ doesn’t weigh polls based on party associations. Polls that are most recent are given more weight than older ones, and sample size and meeting “basic requirements” are taken into consideration, but otherwise polls are treated the same way.

Tranter acknowledged that if the Republican-leaning pollsters were finding better results for Trump, the average would be more affected, but he noted that Decision Desk HQ’s model gives Harris a slightly better chance at winning than others that include a weighting system to limit the effect of partisan polls.

Silver’s model, for example, has Harris as the slight underdog but does weigh polls based on pollster quality and bias.

An elections analyst for Silver rejected the idea of GOP-leaning polls having much influence on the average in a post Wednesday, noting that Harris led by 3 points nationally in the overall average, while her lead shrunk to 2 points with just Republican-aligned pollsters. Taking them out, her lead increased to 3.4 points.

But the analyst said the weighing system prevents partisan polls from skewing the average, causing most models to roughly have the same averages on the national and state level, generally with differences within 1 percentage point.

Tranter also noted that not all GOP-leaning polls present good news for Republicans, pointing to internal polls from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that works to elect Republicans to the Senate, which showed several GOP candidates trailing their Democratic opponents in key states that the party has expressed high hopes for.

He said the impulse to consider the effect of partisan polls is a “reaction to the reaction,” with various media outlets reporting on good polls for one side or new surveys that move the average.“In a way, the polls are doing their job right,” he said. “They’re getting the media to talk about a potential movement here.”

But Tranter said he ultimately expects the polling for the race will appear mostly similar right before Election Day to how it currently looks and has looked throughout much of the race. He noted that Decision Desk HQ’s model has “inched” Harris’s probability of winning down from 53 percent to 50 percent over the past two months, which is measurable, but “it’s still essentially a coin flip.”

The closeness of the race is why these slight changes are seen as notable, Tranter said. “My take on it now is neither candidate should be surprised if they win or lose,” he said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4941955-gop-leaning-polls-trigger-questions-about-accuracy/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804704 (211507ZOCT24) Notable: Democrats only have a lead of 1,721 so far…For comparison to 2020, Democrats had a 40,000 lead to Republicans on 1st day of early vote.👀

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Courtney Holland 🇺🇸

@hollandcourtney

🚨NEVADA NEWS🚨 The ballot number totals are in, including mail from Clark County (Vegas), for the 1st day of early vote statewide:

Democrats only have a lead of 1,721 so far…For comparison to 2020, Democrats had a 40,000 lead to Republicans on 1st day of early vote.👀

h/t to

@jeremybhughes

for the data

Also notable…the voter registration gap between 2020 & 2024 has significantly changed:

2020: D’s led R’s in voter reg by ~86k

2024: D’s lead R’s in voter reg by ~15k

Like always in Nevada, it’ll come down to how the NPs/Indies break. We have a long way to go with more mail coming in but so far, Republicans are in a much better position than they were in 2020.

REPUBLICANS - Do not get complacent, get out and vote! Let’s do this!

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https://x.com/hollandcourtney/status/1848033973420675371

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804752 (211517ZOCT24) Notable: DEF CON 32 - Inside the FBI’s Secret Encrypted Phone Company ‘Anom’

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield

It was a sting operation that intercepted millions of messages sent through the supposedly secure smartphone-based proprietary messaging app ANOM (also stylized as AN0M or ΛNØM). The ANOM service was widely used by criminals, but instead of providing secure communication, it was actually a trojan horse covertly distributed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), enabling them to monitor all communications.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804755 (211519ZOCT24) Notable: US Judges Have a Social Media Problem

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US Judges Have a Social Media Problem

Published Oct 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM EDT

Two judges have been suspended for social media posts as ethics panels continue to crack down on online content. On October 7, Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline ruled that the case ofJudge Mark Cohen was the worst case of defiance they had ever seen after he refused to stop posting political comments. "No other case in the history of the Court of Judicial Discipline has involved such defiance post decision," the eight-judge panel ruled.

"People appearing before judges deserve fair, unprejudiced jurists to weigh their cases," they added.The court referenced the previous case of Justice Michael Eakin, who resigned from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2016 after sharing sexually explicit jokes with friends and lawyers through emails and texts.

However, it noted thatEakin had never intended the public to view the posts and had apologized for his behavior. In contrast, Cohen refused to apologize and continued to post political messages. The court suspended Cohen without pay until his judicial term runs out at the end of the year. As Cohen is 75, he will be age-barred from running for judgeship again.

Cohen, who sat on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, had beenposting mostly pro-Democrat comments online, even after the court ruled against him last May and warned him to immediately stop posting political comments online. Throughout the process, Cohen insisted that his Facebook posts were protected free speech. They covered everything from environmental protection to the minimum wage.

In the same week in New Jersey, Bergen County Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox was suspended for three months for TikTok videos in which he lip-synced songs with "references to violence, sex, and misogyny," according to an ethics complaint against him.

In some videos, Wilcox is wearing his judicial robes and in others he is in his court chambers. In some,he was only partially dressed while lying in bed, New Jersey ethics regulations wrote in a complaint to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Musicians he lip synched to included Rihanna, Miguel and Busta Rhymes and he had previously been warned about his conduct.

"In all 11 of the videos Respondent posted to TikTok, either the content - e.g., including references to violence, sex, and misogyny - location - i.e., in chambers, in the courthouse, and in a bed - or Respondent's physical appearance - e.g., wearing his judicial robes and/or partially dressed while lying in bed - were inappropriate and brought disrepute to the Judiciary," the ethics complaint reads.

Newsweek sought email comment on Thursday from Judge Cohen and Judge Wilcox.

Former federal prosecutor, Neama Rahmani, told Newsweek that all judges are prohibited from making prejudicial or inappropriate comments online."Each state has its own judicial ethics codes, many of which are based on the Model Rules of Judicial Conduct. They all prohibit judges from making prejudicial or otherwise inappropriate remarks. Racist or sexually harassing remarks would not be protected," he said.

On Judge Cohen, he said the question is whether political or partisan remarks are protected by the First Amendment and "is more difficult to answer."

Rahmani, now president of the West Coast Trial Lawyers law firm in California, said it depends on whether the judge is speaking in his or her capacity as a bench officer or a private citizen.

"In Garcetti v. Ceballos, the Supreme Court ruled that government employees can be punished for statements made pursuant to their position as a public employee," he said."In other words, there is no First Amendment protection for expressions made pursuant to their professional duties.

"Even if a judge is acting as a private citizen, ethical rules can limit political speech if it furthers the state's interest in an independent and impartial judiciary and are no more restrictive than necessary."

New York University law professor Stephen Gillers told Newsweek that judicial ethics rules everywhere forbid judges from engaging in public political activities.

"The judiciary is a non-partisan and non-political branch of government," he said. "When a lawyer becomes a judge, he or she forfeits certain first amendment rights that belong to private citizens. A separate set of rules aims to encourage public confidence in the courts and judges."

Talking about Wilcox, he said: "The behavior of Judge Wilcox, even after being warned, seems to have led the judicial ethics commission to conclude that he crossed that line and thereby threatened public confidence in the courts."

https://www.newsweek.com/judges-posting-social-media-ethics-complaints-judicial-robes-new-jersey-philadelphia-1970494

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804758 (211519ZOCT24) Notable: House Judiciary released deposition of Nathan Wade

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House Judiciary released deposition of Nathan Wade

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-10/2024-10-15%20Nathan%20Wade%20Deposition_Redacted_Errata.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804764 (211520ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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Northrop Grumman unveils flying data center for military intelligence

October 21, 2024

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has demonstrated new technology that turns aircraft into a flying data center, processing real-time intelligence from satellites and drones to aid military operations.

The system, called Deep Sensing and Targeting (DSAT), was showcased at a U.S. Army exercise last month, the company said Oct. 21.

“We’re providing intelligence collection from space-based sensors to the airborne platform and delivering it to operators in real time,” said Brent Swift, director of the DSAT program at Northrop Grumman’s Colorado-based intelligence unit.

The technology could help solve a persistent military challenge: getting precise targeting data quickly enough to guide long-range missiles and artillery in fast-moving combat situations, he said.

The demonstration took place during Vanguard 24, a two-week Army exercise in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, designed to test advanced military sensors and surveillance systems.

The DSAT system showed it could process multiple types of intelligence data aboard a commercial aircraft, drawing information from both commercial and military satellites.

The setup uses tactical radios to communicate with forces both within and beyond direct line of sight.

This airborne approach helps overcome limitations of traditional fixed ground stations, which can lose direct contact with satellites due to terrain or distance constraints.

The Army is already investing in ground-based intelligence systems, including the TITAN (Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node) station made by Palantir Technologies.

Swift said Northrop Grumman’s airborne system builds on an earlier TITAN prototype the company developed in 2022.

This development comes as the Army modernizes its intelligence capabilities.

In a separate $1 billion program, defense contractor Sierra Nevada Corp. recently won a contract to build HADES (High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System), a specialized intelligence aircraft.

That award is currently being challenged by competitor L3Harris Technologies.

https://spacenews.com/northrop-grumman-unveils-flying-data-center-for-military-intelligence/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804798 (211528ZOCT24) Notable: task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024

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task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024

https://taskforce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/july13taskforce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804801 (211530ZOCT24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump When will CBS release their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris?…

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When will CBS release their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris? They changed her answer in order to make Kamala look intelligent, rather than “dumb as a rock.” This may be the Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History! CBS MUST GET THE TRANSCRIPT OUT NOW — Litigation has already started. Harris wasn’t able to put two sentences together, so they completely removed her answer, and put in another one. The Public has a right to know what was changed to save this TOTALLY UNFIT Presidential Candidate from our Country’s Voters. SHE IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113346028169366176

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804804 (211530ZOCT24) Notable: task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024

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Task Force Interim Staff Report Chronicles Stunning Security Failures and Key New Findings in Investigation of Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler, Pa.

October 21, 2024

Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump released a bipartisan interim report entitled “Interim Staff Report: Investigating the Stunning Security Failures on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.”

The report contains preliminary findings and includes information obtained during the initial phase of the Task Force's investigation, which focused on the state and local law enforcement partners who assisted Secret Service at the rally. The preliminary findings in the report are based on 23 transcribed interviews with local law enforcement officials; thousands of pages of documents from local, state, and federal authorities; and testimony from the Task Force’s public hearing on September 26th.

Notably, the report reveals new excerpts of testimony from Butler, Pa. local law enforcement produced during closed-door transcribed interviews with the Task Force. The report also provides a glimpse into the Secret Service’s inadequate preparation and communication with local law enforcement partners prior to and during the July 13 rally. 

The Report Contains Eight Key Findings: 

• There was inadequate planning and coordination by the Secret Service with state and local law enforcement before and during the July 13 rally.

• The Secret Service did not place the AGR complex that the shooter fired from, and the surrounding area, inside of the secure perimeter.

• Local sniper teams positioned inside the AGR complex had a narrow field of vision and were not positioned to monitor the full AGR property.

• There was no unified command post to facilitate communications between the Secret Service and its state and local partners

• Critical pieces of information about Crooks and the escalating threat situation at the AGR complex moved slowly due to fragmented lines of communication and unclear chains of command on July 13.

• Testimony from local law enforcement indicates that they fired a shot at Crooks prior to the USSS sniper firing the kill shot.

• Crooks did not use a ladder to access the AGR roof. Instead, he climbed on the roof using an air conditioning unit.

• The autopsy report indicates a single bullet killed Crooks.

“Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic events of July 13 were preventable,” the report states.

You can read the full report here. >>245550

https://taskforce.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/task-force-interim-staff-report-chronicles-stunning-security-failures

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804807 (211531ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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Fatal crash reported at Las Cruces Air and Space Expo

Updated 10:10 p.m. on Oct. 20.

The second annual Las Cruces Air and Space Expo came to an abrupt end on Sunday afternoon as a plane crashed during an aerobatic performance over the city's municipal airport west of town.

In the immediate aftermath of the crash, the city released few details: At approximately 2:30 p.m., a single plane went down.

The pilot was not identified as family members were being notified.

Later, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported that New Mexico State Police, handing the initial investigation, confirmed that a person was killed.

The Las Cruces Bulletin was not able to independently confirm the death Sunday night, but tributes began appearing on the Facebook page of stunt pilot and flight instructor Chuck Coleman.

The event, scheduled to end at 4 p.m. Sunday, was immediately canceled.

A live stream of Sunday's air show appeared to show the crash occurred at about 2:32 p.m. during a solo aerobatic performance by Coleman.

Spectator Terre Blevins, who attended both days of the expo, captured Coleman's thrilling display on her mobile phone.

For four minutes, Coleman executed loops, rolls and cuban manuevers, frequently pulling straight upward and soaring over the runways with a stream of white paraffin smoke trailing behind the plane. Then, suddenly, the plane appeared to tumble awkwardly before heading nose-first to the ground, disappearing behind a layer of desert brush at a distance from the spectators.

"It was this big puff of dirt," Blevins recalled, "and then I looked at the security guard next to me. I'm like, 'Did he crash?' And she just took off running."

Blevins said she brought her 87-year-old father, an air show enthusiast, with her, and that they briefly met Coleman before his performance.

She said they were both in shock after witnessing the crash.

"He died doing what he loved," she said. "I feel bad for his family."

The live stream's audio captures the sounds of spectators exclaiming in horror, and the announcer asking them to remain in their seats while first responders rush to the crash site.

The live stream abruptly ends just after a fire department vehicle can be scene racing down the runway.

Blevins said that after first responders arrived at the scene, spectators were instructed to leave the airport calmly, and to refrain from posting about the crash on social media until more information was available.

According to his website, Coleman is an aerospace engineer, air show stunt pilot and flight instructor who flew in hundreds of air shows piloting an Extra Flugzeugbau 300L two-seat plane.

This was the plane he flew on Sunday, according to his appearance at a media event at the airport on Oct. 18, when he pointed out the plane on the tarmac behind him.

Coleman also has appeared in movies and television, and trained actors in the film, "Top Gun: Maverick."

Neither the city nor state police reported any passenger on Coleman's flight.

A phone number associated with Coleman went straight to voice mail Sunday evening, as commenters on his Facebook page reported witnessing his plane crash.

Coleman had flown during the inaugural air and space expo last year as well.

https://www.lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/fatal-crash-at-las-cruces-air-and-space-expo,97100

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804808 (211531ZOCT24) Notable: task-force-interim-staff-report-10.21.2024

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>>245545

Rep. Mike Kelly

Today, @TFAADJT released its interim report.

Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic events of July 13 in Butler were preventable.

Read the full report⬇️

>>245552

>>245550

10:00 AM · Oct 21, 2024·13K Views

https://x.com/MikeKellyPA/status/1848363802489692663

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804816 (211532ZOCT24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump MI: Make A Plan To Vote

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POTUS!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113346124385416478

https://vote.donaldjtrump.com/mi/

Oct 21, 2024, 11:30 AM

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804835 (211536ZOCT24) Notable: @realDonaldTrump MI: Make A Plan To Vote

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Donald J. Trump

MICHIGAN! Today is the last day of voter registration, go to: vote.donaldjtrump.com/mi/

Oct 21, 2024, 11:30 AM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113346124385416478

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804882 (211543ZOCT24) Notable: Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump over tell-all book

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Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump over tell-all book

The justices turned away Cohen’s appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.

Oct. 21, 2024, 9:33 AM EDT By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen’s last-ditch effort to revive a civil rights claim against his former boss Donald Trump.

The justices left in place lower court rulings that said Cohen could not pursue his allegation that then-President Trump and other officials violated his rights by putting him in solitary confinement for writing a tell-all book.

In 2020, Cohen was serving a three-year sentence on various charges relating to the work he had carried out for Trump.

He had been in home confinement because of the Covid-19 pandemic but was ordered back to prison after refusing to sign a form that would have prevented him from speaking to the press or posting on social media.

After 16 days in solitary confinement, a federal judge ordered Cohen released,finding that officials had retaliated against him on free speech grounds.(what officials?)

Cohen then sued Trump and other officials, seeking damages for the alleged violation of his right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, among other things. He recently told NBC News that if Trump is elected to a second term in November, he “won’t stop with just locking people up” unless there is a significant deterrent.

But constitutional claims against individual federal officials are notoriously difficult to bring as a result of a line of Supreme Court rulings.

The court in recent years has made it almost impossible to bring constitutional claims against individual federal officials, rolling back a 1971 precedent called Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics that first allowed them.

In a 2022 case called Egbert v. Boule, the Supreme Court effectively put “Bivens claims” on life support in a ruling that tossed out allegations against a Border Patrol agent.

As NBC News reported last year, the 2022 Egbert ruling has been cited hundreds of times by lower court judges when throwing out Bivens claims in cases concerning a broad range of allegedly unconstitutional conduct.

A federal judge in New York and the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals both highlighted the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in throwing out Cohen’s claims.

Unless Congress passes legislation to allow a form of Bivens claims, there are few legal avenues to seeking accountability when federal officials, including thousands of law enforcement officials, commit unlawful acts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-michael-cohens-civil-rights-claim-trump-rcna176094

KEK Cohen assumes the SC is like the court of Judge Merchant

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804904 (211546ZOCT24) Notable: questionable election results in Moldova

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THANK YOU BAKER

>>245494

questionable election results in moldova

mail in ballot fraud…

https://www.rt.com/russia/606029-moldova-eu-referendum-turnaround/

even the russians know it!

https://www.rt.com/russia/606029-moldova-eu-referendum-turnaround/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804918 (211548ZOCT24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science/SciFi

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'Lunar soil bricks' to be sent to China's space station for experiment

Updated: Oct 20, 2024 11:35 PM

Bricks made from simulated lunar soil, a potential building material for future habitats on the moon, are scheduled to be sent to China's space station for exposure experiments, with the first brick anticipated to return to Earth by the end of 2025.

The bricks made from simulated lunar soil have a density comparable to that of ordinary bricks, but their compressive strength exceeds that of standard red bricks and concrete bricks by more than three times, with one square centimeter able to support over one ton of weight, according to China Central Television (CCTV).

The combination of these durable bricks employs mortise and tenon techniques, making them more suited for the structural design of future lunar bases, said Zhou Cheng, a professor from National Center of Technology Innovation for Digital Construction, as reported by CCTV.

However, building a house on the lunar surface could face challenges due to drastic temperature changes on the moon, with temperatures exceeding 180 C during lunar days and reaching -190 C at lunar night.

As the moon rotates and orbits, day and night occur on different parts of its surface, with lunar day and night each about two Earth weeks long.

Without atmospheric protection, significant levels of cosmic radiation and many micrometeorites would also hit the surface of the moon, and there is frequent moonquake activity.

All of these will place demanding requirements on the mechanical, thermal and radiation resistance properties of lunar surface construction materials.

As these bricks are set to travel to the Tiangong Space Station aboard the Tianzhou-8 cargo craft to test their suitability for building habitats on the moon, Zhou outlined three key properties of the bricks that will be verified, including the potential degradation of their mechanical properties, their heat preservation and insulation effectiveness, and their ability to withstand cosmic radiation on the moon.

The whole process of making such bricks by vacuum hot pressing and sintering is divided into three steps, Zhou explained. Researchers need to weigh the simulated lunar soil and then place it in the mould according to its weight.

They have to press it into the mould container as the lunar soil is very loose.

The researcher will then put it into the vacuum hot-pressing furnace. After locking the whole vacuum experimental device, it can be heated up and sintered, Zhou introduced.

The lunar soil material that the researchers modeled in the lab is similar to the Earth's soil, which is dispersed. To process it, researchers must subject it to high temperatures.

Zhou noted that the process does not involve any additional material additives, making it a highly promising construction method for future lunar base development, allowing the use of in-situ resources on the moon, such as lunar soil, solar energy, minerals to build a house, eliminating the need to transport prefabricated building components from the Earth.

Such an approach could greatly reduce the cost of lunar surface construction.

These simulated bricks will be exposed to experiments in space to accumulate scientific data for building houses on the moon in the future, so as to optimize the actual scheme, according to CCTV.

Whether for scientific research or construction on the moon, transporting materials from Earth is impractical, Wang Yanan, chief editor of Beijing-based Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the Global Times on Sunday.

Given the current capacity of rockets, the valuable room of each launch should be reserved for personnel, essential equipment, and supplies.

Therefore, lunar soil is an abundant and easily accessible building material, which solves the problem of obtaining raw materials in situ on the moon, Wang noted.

The total planned exposure period for the bricks is three years, so every year researchers will return one sample panel exposed on the space station to Earth and conduct related experiments, Zhou said.

The research team also designed the bricks in two shapes: columnar and flaky. The pillar-shaped lunar soil bricks are primarily intended for mechanical testing, while the larger-exposed flakes are used to assess thermal and radiation effects, according to CCTV.

In addition to their various forms, these bricks are made from five simulated compositions of lunar soil and undergo three distinct sintering processes, providing more accurate scientific data for the construction of future lunar bases.

China's lunar exploration program will carry out two more launch missions to lay the groundwork for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), with the first launch expected to take place as early as 2026, announced the China National Space Administration in September.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202410/1321536.shtml

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21804934 (211550ZOCT24) Notable: questionable election results in Moldova

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Moldova's referendum on joining the EU, which took place alongside elections in the country, occurred under "unprecedented interference" by Russia and its proxies, European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said. "This vote took place under unprecedented interference and intimidation by Russia and its proxies, aiming to destabilize the democratic processes in the Republic of Moldova," Stano said on Oct. 21 during a press briefing in Brussels.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-uk-canada-warn-russian-interference/

US, UK, Canada warn of Russian interference in Moldova's election

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21805046 (211605ZOCT24) Notable: #26700

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Dough

https://fullchan.net/?4d6f6d70c1554648#4vijr5UhXvCAp4K2v9Bii3FafyQ7fPH6wLfRQTUFfu3t

Baker ready for off hand

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21805078 (211610ZOCT24) Notable: @elonmusk - Take the red pill

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Take the red pill

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1848375429008073034

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21805100 (211615ZOCT24) Notable: October 21st - Happy #BackToTheFutureDay

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Happy #BackToTheFutureDay

https://x.com/bttfHQ/status/1848339152783159433

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/21805107 (211616ZOCT24) Notable: AsheVille NC Trump Quotables

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>>245567

https://rumble.com/v5jip4d-real-americas-voice-247.html