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  • Does the First Amendment Protect Threats and Hate Speech?

    09/16/2025 5:20:06 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 47 replies
    FindLaw ^ | August 21,2024 | Balrina Ahluwalia, Esq.
    The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Bill of Rights. The aim of the Bill of Rights is to safeguard individual freedoms and constrain the power of the government.The First Amendment reflects these democratic ideals by establishing the freedom of speech. Its free speech clause reads,“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…”From this language, we can see that our First Amendment right to free speech begins as a prohibition on Congress. Our federal legislature is bound by the Constitution, which means that Congress cannot enact laws that violate our rights to free speech....
  • Ode To Greta Thunberg - How Dare You?! (AI Parody Song)

    09/08/2025 6:54:49 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 3 replies
    AI Trailer ^ | 6/9/25
    This AI parody song takes aim at Greta Thunberg’s endless lectures, photo ops, and political adventures — from blocking oil pipelines to sailing off on flotillas. If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at the drama, this one’s for you. 👉 Title: Ode To Greta Thunberg – How Dare You! 👉 Genre: Comedy / Satire / AI Music 👉 Audience: People tired of being told the world ends tomorrow. Highlights: Greta vs. Sydney Sweeney (because apparently looking like He-Man saves the planet). Scolding leaders, boat trips, and dramatic stares that could melt pipelines. Flotilla adventures where the West is always guilty...
  • 1983 NEWS SPECIAL: AIDS in America | Early AIDS Documentary

    09/05/2025 2:56:29 PM PDT · by Morgana · 17 replies
    WayBack Archives youtube ^ | Aug 24, 2025 | WayBack Archives
    In the early 1980s, AIDS was one of the most feared and misunderstood health crises in America. This News special report, originally broadcast when the epidemic was still new, takes a hard look at the growing menace that had been claiming lives since 1979. The program features the voices of people living with AIDS, giving viewers a rare glimpse into the human cost of the disease at a time when treatments were limited and misinformation was widespread. Some believed AIDS could be spread by casual contact — a reflection of the fear and stigma of the era. More show notes:...
  • Goodbye to copper worldwide—DARPA manages to transmit electricity remotely without wires thanks to the “POWER” program

    09/05/2025 8:06:38 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 79 replies
    El Adelantado ^ | 4/9/25 | Raquel
    What if we told you that DARPA, the U.S. government agency, has developed a way to send electricity through great distances… with no batteries or cables involved in the process? That’s right, like out of a cartoon (it actually looks like a Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz’s idea), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been able to transmit energy using focused light beams. Of course, they have decided to call their project POWER —great copywriting, even better science. But, how does the DARPA’s POWER project work? This scientific experiment turns electricity into a tightly focused beam of light, sends that beam...
  • America's Mayor Live (747): Mayor Rudy Giuliani Shares Full Details of Saturday Night's Accident

    09/03/2025 5:52:52 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 2 replies
    Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense ^ | 2/9/25 | Rudy Giuliani and Ted Goodman
    Rudy appears after release from hospital, wearing brace, giving detailed account of what occurred alongside Ted Goodman, his driver. No transcript or summary.
  • “Scientists Warn Planet Unsafe”: Report Reveals 60% Of Global Land Now Beyond Limits As Governments Struggle With Escalating Environmental Threats

    09/02/2025 7:47:10 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 60 replies
    Sustainability Times ^ | 28/8/25 | Eirwen Williams
    A groundbreaking study reveals that human activities have pushed Earth's biosphere to a critical tipping point, threatening the planet's ability to sustain life and prompting urgent calls for immediate global action. The integrity of Earth’s biosphere is under unprecedented threat, according to a recent study that sheds light on the planet’s declining ability to maintain ecological balance. Conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and BOKU University in Vienna, the research highlights critical challenges facing the plant kingdom’s capacity to regulate essential ecosystem functions. The study, published in the journal One Earth, examines the energy flows derived...
  • Earth's Seasons Are Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space

    09/01/2025 10:46:12 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 59 replies
    Nature ^ | 1/9/25 | Drew Terasaki Hart
    The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple. We present an unprecedented and intimate portrait of the seasonal cycles of Earth's land-based ecosystems. This reveals "hotspots" of seasonal asynchrony around the world – regions where the timing of seasonal cycles can be out of sync between nearby locations. .....
  • New audiobook release: An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Noah Webster)

    09/01/2025 3:45:46 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    LibriVox ^ | 2025-08-30
    I noticed some time ago that LV didn't have any works by Noah Webster, creator of that dictionary. Well, now they have one. https://librivox.org/examination-of-the-federal-constitution-by-noah-webster/
  • How do US Topo maps differ from historical USGS topographic maps?

    08/31/2025 4:41:54 PM PDT · by kawhill · 30 replies
    usgs.gov ^ | I don't know, they won't tell me | Someone at the U.S. Geological Survey
    Historically, USGS topographic maps were made using data from primary sources including direct field observations. Those maps were compiled, drawn, and edited by hand. By today's standards, those traditional methods are very expensive and time-consuming, and the USGS no longer has funding to make maps that way.
  • The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Was Just Scanned by An AI — And It Revealed Something No One Expected

    08/30/2025 3:55:02 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 139 replies
    The Secret ^ | 29/8/25
    The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Was Just Scanned by An AI — And It Revealed Something No One Expected Beneath the icy depths of Lake Superior lies the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship that vanished without warning nearly fifty years ago. No distress call. No survivors. Just silence. Now, for the first time, advanced AI has scanned the wreck with breathtaking precision. What it revealed was not just decay or twisted steel, but details that no one expected to see. How could one of the most respected ships on the Great Lakes disappear so suddenly? The answers hidden in this scan...
  • The Chamber Pot: An Object Full of Contradictions

    08/29/2025 6:32:36 PM PDT · by kawhill · 28 replies
    friendsofdalnavert.ca ^ | They don't list it as I can find | Sean Hetherington
    To properly understand an object, it is necessary not only to understand its function but also to understand the web of values, associations, and historical contexts that surround the object. If we are to put the chamber pot in its proper place in Victorian society, it is necessary to understand the chamber pot’s history and the values that emerge from that history.
  • The Two Babylons

    08/25/2025 10:57:48 PM PDT · by kawhill · 12 replies
    cbcg.org ^ | First published as a pamphlet in 1853 | Alexander Hislop
    Section II : The Mother/Child, and Origin of the Child Sub-Section I: The Child in Assyri Sub-Section II: The Child in Egypt Sub-Section III: The Child in Greece Sub-Section IV: The Death of the Child Sub-Section V: The Deification of the Child
  • If the Smithsonian Institution was more interested in promoting a patriotic version of U.S. history, would it put the Abolitionist Founding Fathers on display?

    08/23/2025 4:28:03 PM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 464 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 8/23/25
    An interesting thing is happening right now and its really a fantastic opportunity to highlight just how useful our current roster of audio books is in the context of how home schoolers and others can remind our fellow Americans that yes, our Founding Fathers did get it right - and that includes on the topic of slavery, and where can you find the truth? How can you give others the truth? How can we all join together to undermine America's historical class who does not want anybody to know the real American history? Slavery was indeed bad. Let's get that...
  • Israel to discontinue fluoridation of tap water

    08/23/2025 12:03:38 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 10 replies
    Illustrative photo of a woman brushing her teeth. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90) Israeli tap water will no longer contain fluoride after Tuesday, following a decree by Health Minister Yael German earlier this month discontinuing the practice. The decision has been lauded by various rights groups, but criticized by many in the medical and dental communities as a serious mistake. Fluoride is commonly added to national water supplies by governments throughout the world in order to prevent tooth decay, but critics say overconsumption of the invisible, odorless, tasteless gas is a health hazard. Israel originally mandated water fluoridation in 1970...
  • My Current Thoughts on a Possible Peace Deal

    08/19/2025 9:02:58 AM PDT · by Brian Griffin · 22 replies
    Brian Griffin | 08/19/2025 | Brian Griffin
    Putin probably has all the pro-Russian territory of Ukraine already. Ukraine will not give up territory without a fight. Putin will probably effectively insist to the end that: 1. Russian assets to be returned by the EU, US & UK (over a specified time), 2. Ukraine to not be a threat to Russia as follows: a. Ukraine to be neutral, b. Ukraine not to be a member of any military alliance, c. Ukraine not to have secret treaties, d. no foreign military personnel, or any that have been employed by a NATO member government, to be on territory under control...
  • Trump solved 6 wars?

    08/15/2025 5:50:00 AM PDT · by Fawn · 21 replies
    https://freerepublic.com/ ^ | august 15, 2025 | none
    Does anyone know where to find the facts that Trump solved/ended 6 wars? Even the AI chats are calling him a liar stating things like he stopped it for one day, he had nothing to do with it or it never really ended. Thanks
  • Are You Talking to Bots? The Alarming Truth About the Dead Internet Theory

    08/12/2025 9:03:33 AM PDT · by Openurmind · 74 replies
    Geeky Gadgets ^ | July 1, 2025 | Julian Horsey
    What if the internet as you know it—teeming with human creativity, genuine conversations, and authentic connections—was already gone? Bold as it sounds, the Dead Internet Theory suggests that much of the web has been overtaken by bots, algorithms, and now, generative AI. Imagine scrolling through your favorite platform, only to realize that the content you’re consuming, the comments you’re reading, and even the conversations you’re having might not be from real people at all. As generative AI continues to evolve, this once-fringe theory is gaining unsettling credibility. Could it be that the internet has quietly transformed into a machine-driven echo...
  • Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in airstrike targeting one it accuses of heading ‘a Hamas terrorist cell’

    08/11/2025 6:33:46 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | 11 August 2025 | Emily Crane
    A prominent Al Jazeera journalist was killed in an airstrike alongside four of his colleagues as Israel’s military accused him of posing as a reporter to run a Hamas terrorist cell. Anas Al Sharif, a 28-year-old correspondent, was among those killed Sunday when the strikes hit a tent near Al Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, Gaza officials and Al Jazeera confirmed. “Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, calling him a “terrorist” who “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.”
  • How did people keep food cold in olden times?

    08/10/2025 7:25:37 PM PDT · by kawhill · 37 replies
    vermontpublic.org ^ | Published February 25, 2022 | Jane Lindholm, Melody Bodette
    Violet, 5, wants to know: what was life like before refrigerators? And Ellinor, 6, asks: how did they make ice in the old times? In this episode, we learn about the history of ice harvesting and the industry that built up around it, where ice cut from lakes in New England was shipped to as far away as India and the Caribbean.
  • Sources and ideas needed regarding real estate and how the private investor is being pushed out of the market.

    08/09/2025 1:02:04 PM PDT · by Red6 · 78 replies
    Various ^ | 8/9/2025 | Self: Red6
    Background: There are forces that create major shifts, and in the last years there has been a lot of talk about how "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy That is what I am seeing in the real estate sector. Does anybody have any solid sources on the topic that puts things together (an analytical piece that shows where policy changes are driving what is happening), concerning who actually owns the real estate in the US? It appears, but I have no solid sources, that real estate is getting bought up by commercial investors, and often is longer for...