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A fed-up California homeowner developed a 'diversion security' device to prevent homeless people from camping out in his building's carports. Santa Monica resident Stephen McMahon, 76, invented the Blue Chirper motion-activated device that emits blue strobe lights and a cricket noise to dissuade homeless people from getting comfortable. Security footage has captured the device successfully scaring off people who have tried to sleep in the carports when alarm system starts going off. 'I call it diversion security, that is we're diverting them away from our 20-block radius somewhere else,' McMahon told KTLA. McMahon said he has grown frustrated with the...

Explanation: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now visible in the early morning sky. Diving into the inner Solar System at an odd angle, this large dirty iceberg will pass its closest to the Sun -- between the orbits of Mercury and Venus -- in just two days. Long camera exposures are now capturing C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), sometimes abbreviated as just A3, and its dust tail before and during sunrise. The featured image composite was taken four days ago and captured the comet as it rose above Lake George, NSW, Australia. Vertical bands further left are images of the comet as the rising...

An Arizona man has been caught crawling past detention officers to allegedly rape a female inmate. Justin Avery, 29, was arrested on April 12 after he was accused of assaulting five different women near Arizona State's Tempe campus. Five days after his arrest Avery is accused of attempting to assault a woman inmate at Maricopa County Jail Intake Transfer and Release Center. Avery was caught on video - obtained by ABC15 Arizona on September 17 - crawling near a detention officer's desk to avoid detection. The facility is separated into two sides based on gender and the serial assaulter was...

Media Propaganda and Lies Used to Blame Georgia Heartbeat Law…Again! Atlanta, GA — Candi Miller, a 41-year-old mother of three children, learned she was pregnant in the fall of 2022. Candi had several health conditions (high blood pressure, lupus, and diabetes) that needed to be carefully managed by a qualified obstetrician throughout her pregnancy. Unfortunately, Candi reportedly fell prey to fear and trusted a website that provides mail-order abortion pills instead. In 2022, when Candi ordered the drugs from Aid Access, the international organization was using an unregulated distributor in India to ship the pills. It wasn’t until a year...

Take a unique walk inside one of the best preserved monuments of ancient Rome: Trajan's Column. Ascend the spiral staircase- rarely open to the public- to the top viewing platform for a one-of-a-kind view of Ancient Rome, and learn about the construction and meaning of this funerary monument that narrates the battles against the Dacians (modern Romania). Walk inside and ascend Trajan's Column | 8:22Darius Arya Digs | 28.1K subscribers | 127,903 views | August 14, 2023

SNIP When German troops took control of Kyiv in 1941, they were welcomed by “Heil Hitler” banners. Soon after, nearly 34,000 Jews — along with Roma and other “undesirables” — were rounded up and marched to fields outside the city on the pretext of resettlement only to be massacred in what became known as the “Holocaust by bullets.”The Babyn Yar ravine continued to fill up as a mass grave for two years. With as many as 100,000 murdered there, it became one of the largest single killing sites of the Holocaust outside of Auschwitz and other death camps. Researchers have...

Actor Randy Quaid, a vocal Donald Trump supporter known for playing Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation series, has blamed Michelle Obama for both attempts to shoot the former president. "It's @MichelleObama who asked Twitter to ban Trump in 2019, it's she who started the hateful 'I fear Trump rhetoric,'" Quaid wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. "I blame her and Biden/Harris for both shootings." In another Tweet Quaid says: "The assassin probably had Michelle Obama on a loop saying "Do something!" "Do something!" "Do something!" "Do something!" Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with gun offenses following...

What Hillary Clinton lost was her chance to be the first female US president; what she has gained in the eight years since that wrenching disappointment is less clear. “My life is richer and my spirit is stronger,” she insists, but her new book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty, reveals her to be also the victim of lingering PTSD. Brooding about her defeat, she muddles the five-step grieving process and alternates between denial and anger, bargaining and depression. As yet, despite walks in the woods and romps with her grandchildren, she seems not to have...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a nuclear power supporting another country’s attack on Russia will be considered a participant in aggression. Speaking during Wednesday’s meeting of Russia’s Security Council that considered changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, Putin announced that a revised version of the document says that an attack against Russia by a non-nuclear power with support of a nuclear power will be seen as their “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

My brother Nicholas Spyridon Kass has made foreign policy his life’s work, knowing that the world is a dangerous place and many out there hate us, and want us dead, or as their slaves. Or perhaps they dream of using us as their jesters, to kneel near their feast tables, so they can clean the grease from their fingers on our hair. Part of that work involved knowing and appreciating how American elected officials think about the world, and how they learn about the dangers for our county, how they process the information. Do they try to think independently? Or...

Day #22 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done by late October. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity...

September 13, 2024: Is HIV stigma finally decreasing in the United States? More Americans believe so, found the 2024 State of HIV Stigma report. “For the first time in five years, [the report] found a statistically significant decline of HIV stigma in the U.S., with 85% of Americans saying they believe HIV stigma exists, down from 89% in 2020,” according to a press release from LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD, which spearheaded the annual report in partnership with pharma giant Gilead Sciences’ Gilead COMPASS Initiative. Troublingly, though, is the finding that fewer people believe everyone should get tested for HIV...

The ban of DJI drones in the US has stalled out in the Senate, at least for for now, as emergency responders came to the rescue. The Senate Armed Services Committee recently released its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA FY25), and it does not include the Countering CCP Drones Act, which aimed to ban and ground all DJI drones in the US. Whether it be a drone made by a Chinese company, or a trained pigeon, governments around the world are always worried about how other countries can spy on them. Such is the case with DJI...

The execution of a death row inmate whose murder conviction has been doubted by the prosecutors that convicted him has sparked a wave of outrage across the US. Missouri Governor Mike Parson has been branded 'shameful' and 'racist' and the state and federal justice systems accused of being 'flawed' after Marcellus Williams was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday. Williams, 55, was sentenced to death over the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was stabbed repeatedly during a burglary of her suburban St. Louis home. The St. Louis County prosecutor's office - which originally secured his conviction in...

Why is there only one firsthand account of the Vesuvius eruption? How is it possible the Romans had such well-cared-for teeth? After nearly two thousand years, there are still plenty of unanswered questions about the Pompeii eruption.Voiceover By: Tim BenschWhy ignore the warning signs? | 0:00A foggy timeline | 1:42Why didn't a water evacuation work? | 3:08How big was the eruption? | 4:21What's with the nice teeth? | 5:28Did they not understand volcanoes? | 6:24What about the refugees? | 7:28Where are other firsthand accounts? | 8:36Why blame the inhabitants? | 9:49Things That Don't Make Sense About The Disaster Of Pompeii...

Grapefruit is weird even among other citrus fruits.The Weird History of Grapefruit | 16:20The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered | 1.36M subscribers | 117,898 views | September 18, 2024

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny a second term to a man in line to be judged the worst president in American history?The litany of Trump’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.Trump has made it clear that in a second term he will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger...

A potential 370-mile-wide crater in Australia, known as MAPCIS, may reshape our understanding of Earth’s geological history. Researchers found geological evidence, including shocked minerals and melt rock, suggesting a massive impact at the end of the Ediacaran period. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com =========================================================================== Research team is delving into history, exploring events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. A potential crater over 370 miles (600 kilometers) wide in central Australia may transform our knowledge of Earth’s geological past. Researcher Daniel Connelly and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Arif Sikder, Ph.D., believe they have found evidence to support the existence of MAPCIS...

A former bodyguard of Sean “Diddy” Combs has once again claimed that the rapper, accused of sex trafficking and racketeering, has footage of elite politicians engaging in compromising activities. The bodyguard, Gene Deal, says the secret footage was captured at Diddy’s various so called “freak off” parties, which are claimed to have involved victims being forced to engage in sex acts while Combs masturbated and recorded the events. He made the repeat claim during a second appearance on The Art of Dialogue podcast, suggesting that Diddy’s arrest is connected to corrupt city officials in New York. “You know who else...

For families struggling to make ends meet, Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to lower energy costs. What she will deliver is more pain. Just ask anyone paying energy bills in a state her party controls. On Harris’ campaign website, she pays lip service to reducing energy costs, but then rattles off a long list of plans to tackle the “climate crisis.” We already know you can’t have one with the other. At a congressional hearing last week, members of the House Budget Committee heard from witnesses about how Biden-Harris policies have fueled today’s energy crisis. One of the...