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  • A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 3 Years

    04/29/2026 7:35:29 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | April 29, 2026 | Jackie Appel
    Computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes humanity will achieve “longevity escape velocity” in just three years. The concept basically states that due to medical and technological advances, we will soon reach a point where our life expectancies lengthen by more than one year per year, effectively giving us time back on the clock. This is a very controversial concept, and one that—even if possible—would require widespread access to cutting edge medical technology. ============================================================================ Death and taxes—the twin inevitabilities of human life. At least, for the moment. If you ask some of the most prominent futurists in the world, death...
  • The Missing Nuclear Weapons of Savannah

    04/29/2026 7:07:21 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 13, 2025 | Grapevine Documentaries
    Discover the chilling truth about 12 missing atomic weapons lost during American military operations. Join investigators in Savannah as they dredge the boggy waters, searching for a suspected armed nuclear warhead. Featuring firsthand accounts from pilots involved in these incidents, this documentary dives deep into the consequences of these devastating losses. 45 MINUTE VIDEO AT LINK.....................
  • USS-Scorpion: Two Nuclear Torpedoes Still Sit 3,000 Meters Down — And Nobody Can Retrieve Them

    04/29/2026 6:21:17 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    YouTube ^ | February 27, 2026 | Naval Report
    USS-Scorpion: Two Nuclear Torpedoes Still Sit 3,000 Meters Down — And Nobody Can Retrieve Them In May 1968, USS Scorpion vanished without warning in the Atlantic Ocean — taking 99 men and two nuclear torpedoes to the bottom. Found months later at 3,000 meters depth, the wreck has never been touched. Decades later, the cause of her sinking remains officially unsolved, and those warheads still sit on the ocean floor today. 40 Minute Video at link..................
  • USS Thresher Mystery FINALLY Solved—And It's Worse Than Anyone Imagine

    04/29/2026 5:58:38 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 07, 2026 | Unknown Footage
    In 1963, USS Thresher imploded at test depth killing all 129 aboard—the Navy blamed a "piping failure" and closed the case. But declassified documents from the 2000s revealed the submarine had over 800 documented defects before diving, whistleblower testimony proved inspectors were pressured to approve faulty welds, and acoustic analysis of the final moments shows the crew knew they were dying for nearly 5 minutes as water flooded in. The Navy knew Thresher wasn't safe, sent her down anyway, then spent 60 years hiding that 129 men died from institutional negligence, not accident. 26 Minute VIDEO AT LINK...............
  • Students are taught to hide in closets and under tables if there is a school shooting – but does practicing for this possibility keep kids safe?

    04/29/2026 5:40:29 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 48 replies
    The Conversation ^ | April 29, 2026 | James Densley
    There have been 63 school shootings – meaning any time there is gunfire on a school campus – so far in 2026. They happen so often that preparing for one has become normal. Students as young as 4 years old routinely practice for the possibility of a school shooting with lockdown drills – typically, hiding in the corner of a dark classroom, behind a locked door. Pauls Valley High School in Pauls, Oklahoma, went into lockdown on April 7, 2026, after an armed gunman fired shots inside the building. Kirk Moore, the school’s principal, tackled the gunman and got shot...
  • Dem wants to make New York lawmakers exempt from internet, utility bills as party standoff stalls budget

    04/29/2026 5:03:21 PM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Vaughn Golden, Carl Campanile, David Propper
    ALBANY- Poor us! A Democratic state lawmaker in the highest paid chamber in the nation pitched a bill that would allow her and her colleagues to skirt paying their utility and internet bills as Albany struggles to reach a budget deal. Assemblywoman Larinda Hooks (D-Queens) is pushing proposed legislation that would force energy companies to keep the lights on for legislators even if they don’t fork over their dough while they aren’t getting paid due to a late budget. “New York State employs over 130,000 individuals whose compensation depends on timely budget enactment,” a memo accompanying the bill said. “When...
  • Somalis From Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Area Back to Hijacking Ships Again - Three ships have been hijacked in a week by the Somalis.

    04/29/2026 5:01:31 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 13 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 29 Apr, 2026 | Daniel Greenfield
    Now that the FBI is busting fake Somali day cares in Minneapolis, Somali pirates are taking to the high seas back in their own country and hijacking ships, taking hostages and hoping Gov. Tim Walz shows up. Thus far the piracy has been mostly internal with a Pakistani crew, Indonesians and Syrians taken hostage. That also says something about which sailors and ships felt comfortable operating near Somalia. Thus far three ships have been hijacked in a week by the Somalis. Somali officials who have benefited from massive amounts of foreign aid are arguing for negotiations and claiming that they...
  • Sinister 'inside' plot and messages targeting NASCAR legend Greg Biffle just HOURS after family died in plane crash exposed: 'I heard you're dead'

    04/29/2026 5:00:05 PM PDT · by CaptainK · 11 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | Oliver Salt
    The burglary that took place at NASCAR legend Greg Biffle's home weeks after he and his family were killed in a plane crash was likely an inside job, authorities believe. Advertisement Biffle died on December 18 along with wife Cristina and their two children - Emma, 14, and Ryder, 5 - when their private jet crashed into the runway at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina. In the wake of the tragedy, burglars kicked in his bedroom door and stole $30,000 in cash, two handguns, NASCAR memorabilia and a backpack after staging a break-in at his Mooresville mansion the night...
  • Dems will double down on terrorism if Trump is killed - For leftists, violence is effective.

    04/29/2026 4:30:00 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 29 Apr, 2026 | Texas Hughes
    On Monday, Breitbart’s main man, Alex Marlow, said, “All of these people have normalized this climate of violence, and they will not stop until Trump is dead.” Marlow is on target much of the time. His anti-liberal rants are often delivered in scorching rhetoric, so they stick in listener’s minds. He’s 100 percent correct that many Democrats advocate and defend hateful actions against conservatives. But I must disagree with Marlow on one thing. When you are in a conflict, and you discover that inciting your followers to violent actions is effective in damaging your enemy, the last thing you do...
  • WATCH: American Hockey Fans Deliver Full-Throated Rendition of Canadian National AnthemWATCH: American Hockey Fans Deliver Full-Throated Rendition of Canadian National Anthem (BARF ALERT)

    04/29/2026 3:14:44 PM PDT · by balch3 · 35 replies
    Yahoo Sports ^ | April 29, 2026 | Ahmad Austin Jr.Ahmad Austin Jr.
    When the national anthem singer at Tuesday’s Buffalo Sabres game had microphone issues, the crowd helped her out by singing along. The moment came as the Sabres hosted the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night at the KeyBank Center. Prior to puck drop, singer Cami Clune was chosen to do the honors of singing “O Canada.” As noted in a report from The New York Times, Sabres home games include both the Canadian and American national anthems, due to the city being so close to the border. At other U.S. venues, the Canadian anthem is only included when a Canadian team...
  • Report: Saudi Arabia Pulls Funding From LIV Golf

    04/29/2026 2:55:00 PM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 12 replies
    Reuters ^ | 29 April 2026 | Reuters
    LIV Golf plans to tell players and staff ​by Thursday that ⁠Saudi Arabia's ​Public Investment Fund ⁠will stop funding the circuit ​after this season, the Wall Street Journal reported on ⁠Wednesday, citing ⁠people familiar ⁠with ⁠the matter.
  • Boyfriend brought chicken to girlfriend's apartment to make in the air fryer instead of taking her to dinner, so she stabbed him to death: Police

    04/29/2026 2:05:01 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 86 replies
    Law and Crime ^ | Apr 28th, 2026, | Jamie Frevele
    A Wisconsin woman is behind bars after police say she stabbed her boyfriend to death during an argument over dinner. Mikayla Kloth, 27, appeared in a Waukesha County court on Monday, days after prosecutors said she fatally stabbed 25-year-old Lukas Rosch at her apartment in Lac La Belle, Wisconsin. She was charged with first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint obtained by local ABC affiliate WISN, Kloth told Rosch that she wanted to go out to dinner on Friday night. Instead, he showed up at the apartment with chicken drumsticks and seasoning that he intended to cook at her...
  • Bongino: “We have made enough dramatic changes. We put a TON of new FISA rules in place. We have made enough dramatic changes.,, "We're not done. That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you're out of your mind."

    04/29/2026 1:53:31 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 21 replies
    x.com ^ | April 28, 2026 | Overton @overton_news
    https://x.com/overton_news/status/2049226546171568400 Overton@overton_news·Apr 28He just put the Deep State on notice.Dan Bongino says he and Kash Patel made so many important changes at the FBI that whoever comes in next and tries to reverse them will leave a massive paper trail.He then dropped a major hint for what's coming:“That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you're out of your mind.”BONGINO: “We have made enough dramatic changes. We put a TON of new FISA rules in place.”“I mean, Kash and I were on FISA probably three, four times a week in special meetings just for that.”“I brought in a...
  • Subsatack has gone wacky

    04/29/2026 1:49:25 PM PDT · by FlatulusMaximus · 2 replies
    Has anyone else had problems with Substack? None of my subs load properly--the display is barren and the links are dead.
  • "Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps. A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them" SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable

    04/29/2026 1:27:22 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 26 replies
    x.com ^ | Apr 29, 2026 | Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter
    Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter·1hNOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULINGYes, the Court ruled 6-3.Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.But here's the part everyone is missing:Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district→ Their House margin is FOUR seats→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally...
  • $65B lithium mother lode hidden beneath Appalachian Mountains could supply US with power for centuries

    04/29/2026 1:25:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Ben Cost
    They’ve hit the mother lode. We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multi-billion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years. “This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement. According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and...
  • Infamous ‘Quality Learing Center’ is now totally abandoned after FBI conducts massive fraud raid in Minneapolis

    04/29/2026 1:17:18 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Steven Vago, Chris Nesi
    MINNEAPOLIS — The infamous Somali immigrant-run “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis was abandoned on Wednesday — a day after the FBI raided the daycare and about 20 other local operations as part of an investigation into allegations of massive social services fraud in Minnesota. The business’s misspelled sign has been removed, and replaced with a sign warning visitors that security cameras are in use. The building itself — which was painted a spearmint-like color when The Post was there in December — has been repainted a more neutral slate-blue hue, and a pair of “no trespassing” signs were newly hung...
  • President Trump Participates in a Greeting with Artemis II Astronauts

    04/29/2026 12:42:29 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 5 replies
    YouTube ^ | 04/29/2026 | The White House
    Interesting back and forth with the press. Media quickly turned it to Ukraine. Seesh.
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades

    04/29/2026 12:17:10 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    NASA ^ | 29 Apr, 2026 | Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    Explanation: No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today’s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades' and the Moon “visit" each other once per month due to the Pleiades' location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster’s visibility across the world, there are many myths...
  • Rise of the AI-rport robots! Japan Airlines is using humanoid baggage handlers to load luggage on and off flights

    04/29/2026 12:00:37 PM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/29/2026 | William Hunter
    Lost luggage and battered bags could soon be a thing of the past, as Japan Airlines starts testing robotic baggage handlers. Starting in May, human workers at Tokyo's busy Haneda airport will have a helping hand from an army of humanoid robots as part of a two–year trial. The Chinese–made bots will be trained to tackle ground handling tasks like loading cargo containers of luggage on and off flights. Japan Airlines (JAL) hopes that the new robotic workers will help ease staffing issues as Japan juggles a surge in tourism and a slumping workforce. The airport will trial two robots:...