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    This thread has been cleaned up of ad hominem and propaganda and is now re-opened. Further posting of propaganda may result in being banned from the thread.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    Matt Drudge called out Fox News for their callous response to the synagogue shooting. How upside down things have become.
    This is weird...


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    I thought maybe something would pop op in the Emporium...

    Stan Lee passed away yesterday. He wrote the following when I was a tyke. It holds true today, and is most applicable.


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    Rest in peace, Stan. I too loved your comic book heroes...

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    Not sure where to place this bit. Dutchsinse has been following the relationship between old volcanic fields and earthquakes and possible fires in California. That makes sense to me.

    I think that this article form SOTT is interesting in light of that hypothesis. I am quite concerned about the way superficial concerns have been preventing humans from looking at systems that will support us in the wake of disasters that I am thinking will continue. The evidence is that unstable (at best) is now the new normal.

    I read on SOTT too that men are more interested in systems and women in people. Then there needs to be a hybrid of those who are interested in people therefore are interested in systems that support life.

    https://www.sott.net/article/400439-...-one-knows-why

    When it comes to matters of geology and rumbling earth in California, the San Andreas Fault is usually the star of the show. But this time around, the area near the infamous fault has caught people's attention due to a mysterious pot of bubbling mud.

    Refusing to stay in place, a roiling mass of carbon dioxide and slurry-like soil is migrating across the state at a pace of 20 feet a year. So far, it's carved a 24,000-square-foot basin out of the earth, and it's set to continue its crusade until whatever's driving it dies out. Scientists currently have no real idea why it's moving or if it can be stopped.

    So, what do we know about it?

    This curiosity appeared in the Salton Trough, an area of California that's being stretched apart by a tectonic battle between the forces of the San Andreas Fault and the East Pacific Rise, a mid-ocean ridge. This unique environment is where the Colorado River dumps plenty of its sediment, which gets packed up so that the lower layers a few miles down get heated up and squashed a little.

    This low-grade metamorphic action transforms the sediment into new rock types, and in the process, CO2 gets emitted. Escaping up to the soggy surface through pre-existing cracks and faults, this gas fuels features known as mud pots or-if they're protruding from the ground-mud volcanoes.

    California creepin'

    Mud pots and volcanoes are common but normally stationary objects. That's why scientists sat up and took notice when this mud pot began to move sometime between 2015 and 2016.

    Currently located just north of Niland, the mud pot is moving toward Union Pacific Railroad tracks and giving engineers there a headache. A well dug to depressurize the source of the gas had no effect. Steel walls driven 80 feet into the ground were also nonchalantly circumvented; the mud pot simply ducked under them and continued its freakishly linear path of destruction.

    "No one has seen a moving mud pot before," says David Lynch, a consulting physicist who has long studied the area's geothermal features. Mud pots and mud volcanoes also generally don't emit much water, but this one is extremely vigorous, producing somewhere around 40,000 gallons of water a day. Lynch and other experts have taken to calling it a "mud spring."

    So, why is it moving? "That is the big question, and I don't know the answer," Lynch says. It isn't accelerating, as some news outlets have reported, and it certainly didn't move 60 feet in a single day. Contrary to a handful of reports, there is no link between seismic changes in the area and the mud pot's road show.

    "This mud spring's movement has no relation whatsoever to any variation in seismicity," says Ken Hudnut, a research geophysicist working with the U.S. Geological Survey. "The two are unrelated." The San Andreas Fault is one of the most heavily monitored seismic zones on the planet, he adds, so people can rest assured that the muddy monster isn't in any way a harbinger of a massive earthquake. (IF science don't know what drives it how is that any conclusions may be drawn?)

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    Quote Originally posted by Maggie View Post
    Not sure where to place this bit. Dutchsinse has been following the relationship between old volcanic fields and earthquakes and possible fires in California. That makes sense to me.
    recommend this video start in at 40 minutes. He is quite cogent IMO.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wH57yNdugY

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    Almost 50% of the electorate voted in November. That's the largest percentage in a century.

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    I don't know if this is the right place, but over a week ago I went to see Jordan Peterson with my brother when he came touring here in Helsinki, I got the ticket back in July and the event was sold out in minutes. I wouldn't call myself a fanboy, but I do admire him in many ways. It was interesting to see and hear him speaking live, he had all the mannerisms as he has in his Youtube lectures. Most of the audience was young males and in the end he even got a standing ovation, I can tell you that's quite a rare thing in Finland. It was well worth the money, the cheaper ticket must have cost some 30 euros.

    I was just sitting so far away in the audience that I could barely see him, but that was fine too. The media has been writing a lot about him here too recently and "wondering" why he is so popular, they just don't seem to get it. It's not a cult, but he sure is a very captivating speaker and people are thirsty for meaning & deep philosophical discussions. He is the right man in the right place at the right time. What he says might be controversial, but I feel that he truly cares about (all) people and not just his "own kind".
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    This is what I'm talkin' 'bout.

    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    Last edited by Emil El Zapato, 21st November 2018 at 12:35.
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    For sci-fi fans: I just read the 1st chapter of Peter Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams. I can't even begin to do it justice with my description skills. This is weird and brilliantly bizarre hard science fiction. I highly recommend it.

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