History for July 24

History for July 24 - On-This-Day.com
Simon Bolivar 1783, Alexander Dumas 1802, Amelia Earhart 1898


Chief Dan George 1899, Pat Oliphant 1935, Lynda Carter 1951


1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.


1847 - Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.


1929 - U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.


1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.


1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.


1985 - Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon. The work was "The Black Cauldron."


1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.


1998 - Roy O. Disney received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

How Obama years were 8-year hacking nightmare

How Obama years were 8-year hacking nightmare:

If indeed Russia actually conducted dirty cyber tricks, as alleged, it happened on Obama’s watch. It happened before the election. Obama’s national security officials watched it and did nothing.
Interestingly, there is no special counsel investigating that kind of “collusion” by omission. There are no congressional hearings on it. And there is no media concern.

Boob-tube-----Abbott & Costello Who's On First

Will Geomagnetic Reversal Effects Cause a Worldwide Blackout?

Will Geomagnetic Reversal Effects Cause a Worldwide Blackout?
"Geomagnetic reversal effects are natural and spectacular, but they could also destroy the world as we know it.
While that may sound dramatic, renowned science journalist Alanna Mitchell’s book “The Spinning Magnet“ revealed that the next time Earth’s magnetic field flips, it could seriously damage the electric infrastructure that defines our modern civilization.

• What is an Electromagnetic Field?

While magnetism is fascinating, it has also been historically misunderstood. According to Physics.org, Earth’s magnetic field exists because the planet’s solid iron core is surrounded by liquid metal...

• Flip-flopping Poles

Earth’s magnetic poles have reversed many times in the past, but scientists can’t predict when the next reversal will occur. 
In other words, a magnetic field flip is coming, we just don’t know when...

• Potential Geomagnetic Reversal Effects

...What are the potential outcomes of swapped North and South Poles? 
Mitchell warns that a reversal could destroy anything electronic, including home appliances, satellites, wireless devices and the electric grids that make all these items work.
In an essay on Undark.org, Mitchell wrote, “We have blithely built our civilization’s critical infrastructure during a time when the planet’s magnetic field was relatively strong, not accounting for the field’s bent for anarchy.”
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Russia’s Intelligence (No, Not That Kind!) Is | VDARE.com

Russia’s Intelligence (No, Not That Kind!) Is | VDARE.com
VDARE.com’s John Derbyshire recently expressed puzzlement over American Ruling Class Russophobia, arguing that the country is a “economic nonentity” with a population that is “increasingly composed of aging drunks.” 
Maybe so, but in at least one alarming respect Russia may be converging with the West.
In recent months, the MSM have been reporting research that has found that IQ scores in developed countries have been getting worse and worse [Young people ARE getting more stupid, By Isabella Fish, Mail Online, June 12, 2018 ]. 
So overwhelming has the proof for intelligence decline become that it’s now being explored even by “mainstream” academics..."
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FBI used anti-Trump media to obtain spy warrants on Carter Page, campaign - Washington Times

FBI used anti-Trump media to obtain spy warrants on Carter Page, campaign - Washington Times:

The FBI continued to tell judges that dossier writer Christopher Steele wasn’t the source of a news article the bureau used to corroborate a wiretap application when in fact Mr. Steele had publicly acknowledged he fed the anti-Trump story.
This chronology is contained in four heavily censored Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents also show the FBI relied as evidence on mainstream media stories critical of the Donald Trump presidential campaign.

'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' - Slashdot

'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' - Slashdot
"An anonymous reader quotes this opinion piece by former derivatives broker Brett Scott:
Banks are closing ATMs and branches in an attempt to 'nudge' users towards digital services -- and it's all for their own benefit... I recently got a letter from my bank telling me that they are shutting down local branches because "customers are turning to digital", and they are thus "responding to changing customer preferences". I am one of the customers they are referring to, but I never asked them to shut down the branches... I am much more likely to "choose" a digital option if the banks deliberately make it harder for me to choose a non-digital option. In behavioural economics this is referred to as "nudging". If a powerful institution wants to make people choose a certain thing, the best strategy is to make it difficult to choose the alternative...

Digital systems may be "convenient", but they often come with central points of failure. Cash, on the other hand, does not crash. It does not rely on external data centres, and is not subject to remote control or remote monitoring. The cash system allows for an unmonitored "off the grid" space. This is also the reason why financial institutions and financial technology companies want to get rid of it. Cash transactions are outside the net that such institutions cast to harvest fees and data.
A cashless society brings dangers. People without bank accounts will find themselves further marginalised, disenfranchised from the cash infrastructure that previously supported them. There are also poorly understood psychological implications about cash encouraging self-control while paying by card or a mobile phone can encourage spending. And a cashless society has major surveillance implications..."Read all.

(5) Janet Shagam - "They have yet to name a single meme or story that...

(5) Janet Shagam - "They have yet to name a single meme or story that...
"They have yet to name a single meme or story that gained real attention that was put out by the Russians. 
The MSM puts out a "fake crying immigrant child photo" level meme about once a month. There are "Treason, crisis, unsourced, rolled by Korea, racist" level memes daily. 
Name a meme the Russians put out. 
What moved the dial? 
What changed a vote in PA, WI or MI?

Wikileaks is all they've got, but they

• A- they can't prove it was hacked by Russians
• B- they can't prove it was a hack at all, vs copied to a flash drive, which better fits the time stamps on the files.
• C- can't claim that a word of wikileaks was false. All it did was confirm the lying, thieving, rigging corruption weve come to expect from the Clintons
• D- can't prove any republican had anything to do with it

If there was fakenews in the election it was the media's downplaying of wikileaks while blowing up their own nonsense memes that every republican is some kind of closet Nazi.

The left is colluding with Mexico. 

10s of millions are here illegally, many voting, many engaging in political activism. 

The NY Times is owned by a Mexican Billionaire. 

What do the Russians control that is even remotely comparable and where are a comparable number of Republicans aiding their efforts." ~ Jeffrey Varasano

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Lunch video-----Stossel: Plastic Straw Myths

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Illegal Immigration: Yes, Democrats Are Now The Party Of Open Borders

Illegal Immigration: Yes, Democrats Are Now The Party Of Open Borders:

Democrats want to neuter the one agency responsible for enforcing border security. They want to make it easy for illegals who cross to stay in the country. And they want to give them the right to vote.
Leading Democrats also adamantly oppose building a secure border wall. They support "sanctuary cities" that actively protect illegals from deportation. And they want to grant every illegal in the country amnesty.
And we're supposed to believe that Democrats aren't for open borders simply because they say so?

Congressman Jason Lewis Tells the Truth about Black Violence

Congressman Jason Lewis Tells the Truth about Black Violence
"The journalistic hounds at CNN have a new target, a politician whose sin is so egregious – so unthinkable – that it can hardly be spoken aloud: the recently elected congressman from Minnesota disagrees with CNN orthodoxy on race.

And now, with enthusiasm we have not seen since hordes of reporters descended on Rick Perry's boyhood hunting grounds where they found a 30-year-old racial expletive written under a rock, CNN has set out to punish Congressman Jason Lewis.
The sins of the congressman were easy to ferret out.  
They came during a stint as a talk show host in Minneapolis around six years ago.
Lewis made the fatal error of questioning whether welfare dependence is good for black people.
Per usual CNN standards, none of the genius CNN talking heads are willing to actually talk with Lewis, other than call him names and say he is a bad person and hope no one notices the difference.
...The semi-official Starbucks-CNN policy is that black people are relentless victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere, and that explains everything..."

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