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  1. DePape opened the door, probably at Pelosi's request. You can see his hand retract from the door handle area then travel underneath Pelosi's right arm. He then places his hand at his side, only later on the hammer and Pelosi's right hand (also on hammer), Look at the bottom of the door, DePape's feet are at the exact distance required for the door to swing open. Note Pelosi's demeanor. He first stares as DePape (som nam na) then to the police and begins smiling as if humored. The whole time Pelosi is carrying a glass in his left hand. DePape had been in the house just over 21 minutes. Looks like Pelosi, an intelligent man, was working hard to keep the situation with a crazy as relaxed as possible after having called the police unbeknownst to DePape. Pelosi's demeanor is understandable as he had just outwitted a crazy guy threatening him. Unfortunately, this likely triggered the hammer attack, which likely would have happened at some point without the police. Nothing inconsistent with the reported news.
  2. Probably to mount an 'offense' against Russian forces illegally occupying parts of Ukraine.
  3. If you want it to stop, please address your concerns to: Mr. Vladimir Putin 23, Ulitsa Ilyinka, 103132 Moscow, Russia
  4. Quick, what's the diameter of a small truck? Asteroid danger chart ---------------------------------------------- meter megaton megaton kilometer diameter kinetic E airburst crater ---------------------------------------------- 2 0.001 0.001 0 daily, around world 3.3 0.002 0.002 0 trivial 4 0.004 0.004 0 very small 5 0.008 0.008 0 small 6.5 0.017 0.017 0 notable 8 0.032 0.032 0 notable 10 0.063 0.063 0 scary, but safe 13 0.14 0.14 0 window breaker 16 0.26 0.26 0 20 0.5 0.5 0 Chelyabinsk 25 1.0 1.0 0 more: asteroid-size-danger-chart
  5. Poland has 240 Leopard tanks, other NATO countries have many more. The important thing is that Germany has given permission for these to be sent to Ukraine.
  6. There are no legitimate targets in Putin's criminal war.
  7. I have long time Russian friends who recently arrived in Thailand after fleeing Putin's war of horror. They first fled to Georgia (remember the news about vast numbers of Russians fleeing to Georgia?) but decided to come here when their visa options ran out. They have never to Thailand before. Do you know what they told me? Never believe anything from Putin's Russia, ever. It's all fake propaganda, even videos of old rural women saying kill all the Ukrainians. Probably good advice for you too.
  8. She is rated the no. 1 most famous nobody. Launched her nothing career by leaking a sex tape. She was formerly an assistant to Paris Hilton, another famous nobody who also sex taped her way to fame. Do keep up. (jeez, sorry I even looked that up)
  9. Your statement: "Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated" is false, nor does your lead quotation suggest it. Please see my post to you in the other thread here. Unless you have some scientific proof, you might consider a retraction.
  10. You continue to repeat the nonsensical idea that vaccines 'cause' people to get infected, or that 'a person' is more susceptible after vaccination. In support, you post poorly interpreted media statements and publications like the Cleveland study, which does not say this. To be clear. There is no scientific evidence showing vaccines make an individual physically more susceptible to catching or dying from Covid, nor have scientists suggested they do. None. As oft explained, there are many reasons a vaccinated cohort may be more susceptible to Covid than an un-vaccinated cohort. Trivial reasons include they were vaccinated because they were more exposed, like hospital workers, or because they were more susceptible to begin with. Even the Cleveland study explains this, did you read it? So before you repeat this false claim again, the burden of proof is on you to prove it, not others to prove a negative. I await your proof.
  11. Good for Sweden. Although a million tons is significant for Europe, it's not huge on the scale of things. China's 44 million tons is just 38% of the world's total 116 mt reserves. The problem is more about complex and dirty refining. A quote from the article: 'The newly discovered raw materials may not reach the market before 10-15 years' time, LKAB mining company's CEO said. Permitting processes take time due to environmental risk evaluations. China dominates world production of refined REMs because of environmental issues, which are many. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rare-earth-elements-where-in-the-world-are-they/
  12. I don't think they are bricks. Zoom in as far as possible and look at the bricks on the outside corners near the door and particularly just above the chair. What should be the face and side of a single brick are misaligned and appear the be cemented.
  13. Put on a per capita basis, the Soviet Union and more so Russia nearly disappear. The USSR had almost 300 million people. Even from Soviet days, the Russian economy is mostly a weapons factory funded by oil and resources with abysmal consumer production. That's why they are stealing washing machines.
  14. Many ran away to escape the war. I recently got a surprise call from the daughter of long time Russian friend. She and her husband had initially escaped to Georgia, when their visa options there ran out they thought of Thailand though they had never been here. At the end of the call she deplored me to never believe anything that comes from the Russian state. I told her I know, I was there during the Cold War and I know her father well. Her parents are vehemently anti Putin and hated the Soviet system. Many Russians are but you would never know that from state propaganda. Putin has only improved on Soviet misinformation.
  15. Mutations. It's much too early to know what new mutations have/will occur in China as the outbreak just began. The time from a new variant occurring in a person to being detected by national surveillance can be long, especially from rural areas. Even longer to find it in a planeload with a few people from a country of 1.4 billion. They still have no idea where and how omicron itself started. With 1.4 billion people mostly unprotected against omicron BF.5 etc., China could see nearly a billion new cases. As of today worldometers reports 667,861,371 total worldwide cases. Without some super magic, there will be many mutations in China. The question is what will they do. The answer is no one knows. If you remember, the beginning of the pandemic saw many experts suggest mutations were not a worry, partly because corona viruses have a special 'proofreading' mechanism to greatly limit errors, unlike influenza. Coronavirus mutations: Much ado about nothing March 3, 2020
  16. Pakistan had A. Q. Khan, the infamous father of Pakistan's atomic bomb. Originally from India and educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European universities where he pioneered studies in metallic alloy phase transitions , uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. All the technologies you need to make an atomic bomb. wiki And yet Pakistan has not come anywhere even close to N. Korea in terms of depth and breadth of development of modern strategic type weapons. Lil' Kim destroyed an entire mountain with his miniaturized hydrogen bomb, vastly more difficult than a simple atom bomb. Just being smart is not enough. Point being that it's just not possible for a place like NK to do all that without outside assistance. And who benefits the most strategically from an advanced nuclear state pointing nukes at the US? Vladimir Putin.
  17. How can North Korea, one of the world's most isolated, least developed, and impoverished countries develop all the latest nuclear, thermonuclear, ballistic missile, cruise missile and submarine launched missile technology, including both uranium and plutonium bomb grade material volume production? These things are all very difficult. When sanctions are on, who provides North Korea with illicit deliveries of oil and other essential materials? Vladimir Putin. Who is Iran's primary strategic partner? Vladimir Putin. Who is actively developing some of the most horrific doomsday weapons ever envisioned? Vladimir Putin. This name keeps coming up.
  18. You mean every planet in the solar system aligning together, at Christmas time? Has that even happened in the last 2022 years? Well, you know who's a comin'... If you want to enjoy the sight, or maybe the final consummation, this website describes the position of all planets in the Bangkok sky and the time they can be seen, much better than CBSNews. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/thailand/bangkok
  19. The full transcript of Kennedy's speech is here: JFK library. The tone of Kennedy's speech is directly opposite that of your out of context quote. He was calling out bad guys like the USSR and Mr. Putin, to come. A few sentences: "We cannot, as a free nation, compete with our adversaries in tactics of terror, assassination, false promises, counterfeit mobs and crises. " (Putin's Polonium and nerve gas) "We possess weapons of tremendous power--but they are least effective in combating the weapons most often used by freedom's foes: subversion, infiltration, guerrilla warfare, civil disorder. " "And while we believe not only in the force of arms but in the force of right and reason, we have learned that reason does not always appeal to unreasonable men." The opposite of your misquote.
  20. You forget that the US was once under the heel of a great tyrant just like Ukraine is under Putin today, and like Ukraine, fought a bloody war of independence against a greater repressive force. Here is a small passage from the US Declaration of Independence referring to that tyrant: "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation." Who today would not think this refers Putin's tyrannical war against Ukraine? If you really want to fight tyranny, which you don't, the world must start with Vladimir Putin. Free the Russian people! https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
  21. OK, the NIF fired 550 WHr of laser energy into a spec and got 830 WHr out. Although a milestone, they forgot to mention the whopping 83,000 WHr of grid electricity used to fire the lasers. Just wait for that electric bill. I thought mine were bad. Such omissions have long been a problem in the fusion industry as theoretical physicist and youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder explains here. If so, then why so much hoopla? Maybe it is to impress Mr. Putin as someone suggested above. The NIF is one of a few super high technologies the US uses to ensure it's aging nuclear weapons work. Mr. Putin has no such high technologies at his disposal. The only thing he can be certain of is that US weapons will work, he should avoid going down the nuclear road. The NIF role in nuclear stockpile stewardship
  22. ??? I am defending her from the previous poster who suggested she is a floozy young liberal. I am championing her for her strength, ability to learn quickly, and hit the nail on the head saying the only way out is for Russia leave Ukraine. Also love the way she belittled the reporters with a mike drop laugh and walking away. Classic.
  23. This is a false equivalence. In both cases Russia was brutally invaded and had every reason to fight. This time, Putin and his thugs wrongly invaded a legally sovereign country. The Russian people do not want this war and even the Russian military is deeply unhappy about the position they're in. They have gone from justly fighting Napoleons and Hitlers to illegal invasions, war crimes, and loosing. They are not happy.
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