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Posted on 07/23/2024 9:14:52 AM PDT by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
SpaceX just stomped the competition for a new contract—that’s not great
NASA wants a “robust” commercial space community. But it has a long way to go.
Excerpt:
There is an emerging truth about NASA’s push toward commercial contracts that is increasingly difficult to escape: Companies not named SpaceX are struggling with NASA’s approach of awarding firm, fixed-price contracts for space services.
.....The recently released source selection statement for the “US Deorbit Vehicle” contract, a process led by NASA head of space operations Ken Bowersox, reveals that the competition was a total stomp. SpaceX faced just a single serious competitor in this process, Northrop Grumman. And in all three categories—price, mission suitability, and past performance—SpaceX significantly outclassed Northrop.
Although it’s wonderful that NASA has an excellent contractor in SpaceX, it’s not healthy in the long term that there are so few credible competitors. Moreover, a careful reading of the source selection statement reveals that NASA had to really work to get a competition at all.
.....A commercial approach generally means that NASA pays a “fixed” price for a service rather than paying a contractor’s costs plus a fee. It also means that NASA hopes to become one of many customers. The idea is that, as the first mover, NASA is helping to stimulate a market by which its fixed-priced contractors can also sell their services to other entities—both private companies and other space agencies.
NASA has since extended this commercial approach to crew, with SpaceX and Boeing winning large contracts in 2014. However, only SpaceX has flown operational astronaut missions, while Boeing remains in the development and test phase, with its ongoing Crew Flight Test. Whereas SpaceX has sold half a dozen private crewed missions on Dragon, Boeing has yet to announce any.
.....Some of NASA’s most important traditional space contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman, have all said they are reconsidering whether to participate in fixed-price contract competitions in the future. For example, Northrop CEO Kathy Warden said last August, “We are being even more disciplined moving forward in ensuring that we work with the government to have the appropriate use of fixed-price contracts.”
So the large traditional space contractors don’t like fixed-price contracts, and many new space companies are struggling to survive in this environment.
The US Deorbit Vehicle offered an interesting test case for how NASA would approach commercial contracts given all of the above. This mission required a spacecraft capable of docking with the International Space Station, remaining attached for about a year, and then powering the large station down through the Earth’s atmosphere, where it could make a controlled descent into the ocean. This, NASA determined, was the safest way to dispose of the aging station after more than 30 years of operations.
While there were myriad potential solutions, it seemed clear that SpaceX, with Dragon, and Northrop Grumman, having acquired Orbital Sciences and the Cygnus spacecraft, were the clear favorites. What happened next is telling. I have pieced the following together from the source selection statement, publicly available documents, and on-background interviews with a handful of key officials.
Initially, within the International Space Station program, the expectation was that a deorbit mission would cost less than $1 billion. However, the agency’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer later estimated it might cost as much as $1.7 billion. This prompted NASA to ask the Office of Management and Budget for $1.5 billion for the program.
.....Certainly, this is not attributable to favoritism—indeed, NASA would prefer not to be beholden to a single contractor, however excellent its present performance and price may be. SpaceX, rather, is winning because it is often the best and sometimes only option for the government.
Notably, the initial draft “request for proposals” for a deorbit mission issued in May 2023 called for a “single-award Hybrid Cost-Plus Incentive Fee and Firm Fixed Price core” contract. However, four months later, in its final request for proposals, NASA said it wanted to maximize competition. Companies, therefore, could propose contracts that were either largely based on cost-plus or fixed-price.
Essentially, Northrop told NASA it would not bid for a firm, fixed-priced contract. And conversely, SpaceX said it would not bid under a cost-plus contracting mechanism, which would require the company to add a new layer of bureaucracy to process such contracts. .....
SpaceX’s bid price was $680 million. The source selection statement did not reveal a price for Northrop’s bid other than saying it was “significantly higher.” Based on NASA’s budget request, Northrop’s bid was likely approximately twice as high.
But SpaceX did not just win on price. Its “mission suitability” score, effectively its technical ability to design, develop, and fly a vehicle capable of deorbiting the space station, was 822, compared to Northrop’s score of 589. SpaceX’s approach had one weakness, compared to seven weaknesses in Northrop’s bid, according to NASA evaluators.
Finally, the selection was also based on past performance by the contractors. SpaceX’s performance was rated as “very high,” given how it has delivered with the Cargo and Crew Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket. Northrop’s performance on Cygnus and its various rockets was given a “moderate” rating. Overall, the NASA evaluators expressed a “very high level” of confidence in SpaceX being able to complete the mission, whereas a “moderate level” of confidence was expressed in Northrop.
.....This really is the point. In this competition, for which NASA expressly wanted multiple bidders from its “robust contractor community,” the agency had to bend over backward from a contracting standpoint to get two entrants. And when the competition unfolded, it was not even close: SpaceX had the far lower bid, with a far higher chance of success.
......only one company—SpaceX—is thriving in NASA’s commercial space ecosystem.
That is not a great position for the space agency to find itself in, so there are plenty of questions for NASA and policymakers. Do they cave to traditional space contractors and go back to cost-plus contracts for most services? (Slow and expensive.) Do they turn over many of their spaceflight functions to SpaceX? (Not desirable or politically practical.) Do they continue to hope and wait for other companies to make the next step? (The early returns are not great.)
The push toward commercial space seems admirable. But NASA needs a strategy, likely involving fewer requirements and more financial support, to help us get there.
hahaha I think it every day, things are so cray cray.
Dem gopher. https://twitter.com/i/status/1816158923633910090
I was watching on iPad RSBN and hubby had it on the tv on Newsmax.
Carry iPad around when I am doing things around the house.
When he turned the last corner he danced, I saw on RSBN, hubby did not see it on Newsmax.
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I posted this a while ago but just in case anyone missed it and runs into SGAnon, here some digging, lots of images at link:
https://elizabeththepunisherdove.substack.com/p/exposing-sganon
Exposing SGAnon
By ElizabethThePunisherDove and PunishDem1776 with additional information from Jordan Sather
Elizabeth The Punisher Dove
Jan 9
Who Is SGAnon?
In September 2022, an unknown account appeared on Truth Social by the name of SGAnon. In the time between his first post on September 8, 2022 and January 3, 2023 and without having any previous social media presence, SGAnon has amassed 95,000 followers. That is 95,000 followers in 117 days, or to put it in perspective, 811 followers per day.
In its description, we see a list to a Rumble channel by the name QNewsPatriot which was created shortly before. This Rumble channel first started posting videos on August 20, 2022 before the Truth Social account was even created. To date, SGAnon has amassed over 111,000 followers to his rumble channel in 136 days, or 816 followers per day.
That seems like pretty steady and consistent growth of approximately 811-816 followers per day to both his Truth Social account and Rumble channel.
What is curious is between by August 24, 2022, just 4 days after its creation, this Rumble channel had thousands of views. We see a sharp uptick in views and rumbles between its first creation, which numbers tens of thousands of views and hundreds of rumbles to hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of rumbles.
Any new content creator (or even established ones) will explain how difficult it is to create this kind of viewership in such a short time... especially without any online presence prior to September 2022. One might even say that this is miraculous indeed.
To understand this phenomenon, let’s take a closer look at the personality who goes by the name SGAnon and the claims he has made. Let’s take a look at his content first.
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Much, much more at link. Well worth checking out if anyone wants to know more abut SGAnon.
Noah’s Nightly Newsletter – 7/24/24
https://truthlion.com/noahs-nightly-newsletter-7-24-24/
* ‘$91.5 Million Heist’: Trump Campaign Files FEC Complaint About Biden’s ‘Excessive Contribution’ To Harris
* Legacy Media Now Claiming THEIR OWN REPORTING Is Fake News
* STRANGE JULY! Another Kim Clement Prophecy Unfolding Before Our Eyes In 2024 — Yellowstone Eruption!
* HARVARD DOCTOR WARNS: Stock Up On These Meds Before They Are Gone
* COMING SOON: A Second Assassination Attempt + “Someone will emerge only to quickly drop down again”
* Anti-Israel Protesters Release Maggots And Crickets In Hotel Where Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Is Staying
* Rashida Tlaib Holds “War Criminal” Sign As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress
* Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Honors Trump During Speech Before Congress
* Punished for Donating to Your Local Church?
* So…If Kamala Harris Replaces Joe Biden Before November, Is She Eligible For ONE Or TWO More Terms?
* CNN Now Admits: THREE Weapons Fired At Trump Rally!
* Joe Biden Busted For Calling Kamala Harris a “DEI Hire”
* MASSIVE MAGA Crowd In Charlotte, NC Is FIRED UP Waiting To See President Trump
* REPORT: President Trump To Stop All Outdoor Rallies — Here’s Why I’m Still VERY Worried, Even More So!
* Trump Campaign Manager Reveals Who Kamala Harris Will Likely Pick As Running Mate
ONLY three things at once? my my....you’re slipping.
(Ha I can barely done one thing at once)
Noah’s Nightly Newsletter – 7/24/24
https://truthlion.com/noahs-nightly-newsletter-7-24-24/
* ‘$91.5 Million Heist’: Trump Campaign Files FEC Complaint About Biden’s ‘Excessive Contribution’ To Harris
* Legacy Media Now Claiming THEIR OWN REPORTING Is Fake News
* STRANGE JULY! Another Kim Clement Prophecy Unfolding Before Our Eyes In 2024 — Yellowstone Eruption!
* HARVARD DOCTOR WARNS: Stock Up On These Meds Before They Are Gone
* COMING SOON: A Second Assassination Attempt + “Someone will emerge only to quickly drop down again”
* Anti-Israel Protesters Release Maggots And Crickets In Hotel Where Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Is Staying
* Rashida Tlaib Holds “War Criminal” Sign As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress
* Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Honors Trump During Speech Before Congress
* Punished for Donating to Your Local Church?
* So…If Kamala Harris Replaces Joe Biden Before November, Is She Eligible For ONE Or TWO More Terms?
* CNN Now Admits: THREE Weapons Fired At Trump Rally!
* Joe Biden Busted For Calling Kamala Harris a “DEI Hire”
* MASSIVE MAGA Crowd In Charlotte, NC Is FIRED UP Waiting To See President Trump
* REPORT: President Trump To Stop All Outdoor Rallies — Here’s Why I’m Still VERY Worried, Even More So!
* Trump Campaign Manager Reveals Who Kamala Harris Will Likely Pick As Running Mate
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen;
it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness,
for it runs faster than death.
Socrates
I'm later than you -- but happy to be here.
BREAKING: Bevelyn Beatty Williams has just been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in front of an abortion clinic.
This is an attack on our faith. Please pray for Bevelyn, her husband, and their young daughter as they face the most… pic.twitter.com/Of3Cq6AXIU— Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) July 24, 2024
Carmella's cabinet with look like an orgy in the back room of the Cantina in Starwars.
I think they need to boost the thing up to geosynchronous. It costs a mint to get stuff out of the gravity well and leaving it up, even if merely for the element content makes sense.
Another option would be to slingshot it off earth out to the moon. Depending on how “whole” you want the scrap, would dictate impact parameters. The modules in it could even be rigged up for/as initial structures or shielding.
Border Czar pic.twitter.com/aqkLU1uGaL— Wyatt Evergreen (@wyatt_evergreen) July 25, 2024
Prairie dog 🤠
Et tu, Kaybar?
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