A series of water main breaks across Los Angeles in recent days is raising concerns about the city's aging infrastructure and whether more failures could occur. Crews continued working to repair the massive trunk line that ruptured Thursday in West Hollywood, leaving behind a large sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard. The break is the latest in a string of water main failures that have flooded streets, damaged homes and businesses, closed roadways and disrupted water service. In Studio City, an 8-inch water main failed, flooding a street and temporarily leaving about 60 customers without water while crews completed repairs. read more
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said on Sunday that he would abolish his nation's elections ... read more
Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast ... read more
"While Texas moved quickly and aggressively, California could not provide the clear, expedited approval process needed to compete. This is an enormous loss for Solano County, California workers and our state's manufacturing economy." "Joshua Arce, executive director for the California Alliance of Jobs, which represents thousands of union construction workers across the state, confirmed that "10,000 permanent jobs and thousands of union construction jobs" that would have accompanied Saronic's Port Alpha shipyard in California are headed to Texas instead. He said "state leaders failed to act with the urgency this project demanded." read more
Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they've been let down by nearly all corners of the party: would be-presidential hopefuls who have flocked to early and swing states but don't bring their megaphones elsewhere; congressional leadership focused on majority-making battlegrounds while safe Black seats are drawn out; and years of chronic underfunding that has allowed local party apparatus to wither away. read more
LOL This is pretty funny, doing any sort of search and you dig up this ----- been going on for sometime now.
BUT NOW its a problem LMAO ..
In 2024, the agency signed a now-ended $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions for an unspecified product. Whether ICE ever used the tool or continues to use it is an open question.
That contract was swiftly put on hold by the Biden administration to investigate whether it complied with a 2023 executive order signed by the former president that prohibits federal agencies from purchasing commercial spyware that poses a significant security risk to the U.S. or risk of misuse by foreign governments.
www.vpm.org
Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware
Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.'s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research and development purposes.
www.nytimes.com
You know the governments been using it .... for quite sometime now.
Let me help you DonorBot
One of the most illuminating interpreters of this strategy beyond official definitions is Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent who defected to the West in 1970. In a series of interviews and lectures, Bezmenov broke down ideological subversion into an identifiable multi-stage pattern. Contrary to popular imagery of spies blowing up bridges or conducting sabotage missions, he emphasized that throughout most of its lifecycle, ideological subversion is overt, legal, and non-violent.
It is carried out not by secret agents or saboteurs, but by journalists, educators, entertainers, academics, civil society organizations, celebrities, and influencers. These agents of influence often act within the bounds of law and free speech, projecting their worldview with persuasive consistency.
Over time, the accumulated effect is strategic indoctrination, which changes the DNA of the targeted nation.
In this state, the target population no longer recognizes what interests it should defend, nor how to defend them. Individuals become unable to distinguish truth from propaganda, and even when confronted with factual evidence, their reactions are shaped by pre-programmed ideological responses.
politicsgeo.com
Like I said, you're a idiot
LOL you're the idiot TruthNNuts.
If TruthNNuts was honest, he's say Trump is saving the planet...
Globally, nitrogen use efficiency is 46%, but the ratio should be much closer to 100%, said environmental scientist Xin Zhang at the University of Maryland, who led the latest study. The crops with the lowest nitrogen efficiency are fruits and vegetables, at around 14%, said Zhang. In contrast, soybeans, which are natural nitrogen fixers, have a high efficiency of 80%.
Approximately 10% of the world's nitrogen based fertilizer comes through the Persian Gulf That supply line has been severed.
Just a 10% decrease in nitrogen fertilizer led to only a 0.6% yield reduction and cut nitrous oxide emissions and nitrogen leaching. "Our analysis revealed hot spots where excessive nitrogen fertilizer can be cut without yield penalty," said bioproducts and biosystems engineer Zhenong Jin at the University of Minnesota.
eos.org
I always thought this was also a good tell.
OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework
futurism.com
Students are definitely using it to compose.
#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg
To wit:
A college professor in Mississippi recently went viral for the technique he used to catch students who used AI in their midterm. According to him, 32 out of 35 students across two classes did not pass a portion of their coursework after failing to notice a hidden instruction embedded in the assignment.
thenerdstash.com
"The US has never done that before. We have never helped another country enrich on their own soil," she said, adding that this was because "if you can produce your own nuclear fuel, you become a much bigger risk" for building nuclear weapons."
This is just more white supremacy talking ...
The US and Europe have been "trading" enriched uranium since the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org
Oh but now the US can't trade with the brown man ..
~ Lumpers.
People in non-democratic Egypt and Jordan do not like the Israelis, but the mukhabarat keep a tight lid on them and dissent in general.
Egyptians are Islamic, they don't like any other religion, their slaughter of Christians is well documented.
All your anti-israel talk is just rubbish. The ME is Islamic and it hates any other religion. Corky's support for the religion is caused by a disease.
Nothing can be done, the fuse was lit long ago.
Give more tax cuts to his uber-wealthy friends, possibly representing the largest increase to the Federal deficit of any President.
Now you complain, when it was Biden *shrugs*....
I said this is end of empire, America doesn't have a revenue problem it has a spending problem.