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History for January 5

History for January 5 - On-This-Day.com 

Walter 'Fritz' Mondale 1928 - U.S. Senator

• 1900 - In Ireland, Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond called for a revolt against British rule.
• 1914 - Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
• 1940 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first demonstration of FM radio.
• 1961 - "Mr. Ed" debuted. The show would run for six years.
• 1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.
• 1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery.
• 1998 - U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.

FAA expands ban on drones in New Jersey for reasons that remain unclear | Blaze Media

FAA expands ban on drones in New Jersey for reasons that remain unclear | Blaze Media: 

The mystery surrounding the apparent sudden proliferation of drone activity in New Jersey deepened Tuesday when the FAA announced that it was expanding its list of areas in New Jersey where drone flights are banned, adding another nine towns to the restricted area. The mystery regarding the drones began in November, when widespread reports of heavy and unexplained drone activity began circulating online, with numerous viral videos showing drones hovering over people's homes with no apparent justification. The reports led to an FBI investigation, which claimed that the drones presented "no threat to public safety" and furthermore claimed that the majority of reports it investigated were actually airplanes, stars, or "authorized drones."

The way we were-----Why Was Lead Added to Gasoline in the Early Days of Automobiles?

Throwing Punches feat. Meshawn Maddock | Ep. 53

Goon government!-----South Dakota ranching couple indicted by Forest Service for fence in place since 1950

U.S. Forest Service (USFS) special agent Travis Lunders arrived at their ranch without warning, armed and in full tactical gear, to serve the couple separate grand jury indictments. - Keely Covello 

CAPUTA, SD – A South Dakota ranching couple is facing 10 years in prison over a fence dispute.

• Charles and Heather Maude, both 39, of Maude Hog & Cattle have each been charged separately with theft of government property for allegedly placing a fence on federal grassland...
• The couple is barred from discussing the case with each other and must each retain their own legal counsel. Each separately faces up to 10 years in prison or a $250,000 fine...

The Maude family has had an ongoing grazing agreement with the Forest Service for 60 years. The fence was built in 1950, and its placement has been consistently acknowledged at each renewal...
“The Maude family has owned the US Forest Service allotment in question since the Forest Service came into existence and has managed that same land since 1913...

Starting in February, a new Michigan law will allow workers to miss work for three consecutive days without calling in or notifying their employer—without facing disciplinary action.

Surprisingly, if business owners take any disciplinary steps, they could face fines for doing so.

Dave Bondy@DaveBondyTV

Armed Tren de Aragua Thugs Mobbing Border Checkpoints to Force Way in Before Inauguration Day: Report

Armed Tren de Aragua Thugs Mobbing Border Checkpoints to Force Way in Before Inauguration Day: Report: 

You can say this about the migrants in the Venezuelan-originated Tren de Aragua gang: They may be thugs, but they keep abreast of American political news.

Now, thanks to the fact that a border hawk of a president is less than 20 days away from taking office, they’re flooding the border in an attempt to get into the United States before Trump gets into office.

According to a report in the New York Post published on Tuesday, border agents in El Paso, Texas, have been overwhelmed by mobs of gang members, wielding knives and looking to get into the country before Joe Biden hands Donald Trump the keys on Inauguration Day.

Police Deploy New ‘Grappler’ in High-Speed Chase - On Wrong Car

OECD Pushes Recruiting 15yr Old Child Climate Activists

“… take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’ …” -
Eric Worrall (OECD-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.)

How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act
OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’

“It’s going to get hot and everything’s going to be on fire and the oceans will rise,” says a year 11 student, Josh Dorian. “That’s just like the worst of the worst. How do you combat that?

“Well, you fix it, you stop it from happening, you take preventive measures,” says Josh, who is studying VCE environmental science at Mount Lilydale Mercy College, a high school in Melbourne’s outer east. “Involving kids in that is scary but I think it’s necessary.”

In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, science will be the major focus of the OECD’s program for international student assessment (Pisa) – which runs every three years (give or take Covid interruptions), its focus rotating between reading, maths and science.
This year it will measure the knowledge and ability of 15-year-old students from 92 countries and economies to act on climate change...

Lunch video-----Climate: The Movie

THE documentary Climate: The Movie first released at the start of 2024 remains the most important contribution to the debate about the so-called climate crisis and antidote to today’s ‘alarmism era’ that is causing so much havoc with energy policy and supplies.

• The film is one and half hours of careful argument and evidence and requires considerable concentration! 
• After its release we thought it would help, for readers’ reference, if we published the transcript in sections. This we did between April 2 and April 5 2024. 

We are repeating these over the Christmas period, starting today with the film’s preamble followed by the first sections on the scientific history of the earth and the ‘history’ of CO2.
You can watch the full film here. 

The transcript follows: the sections in bold type are the commentary.

Noon-toon

 

Investigators exploring possible links between 2 New Year's Day terrorists * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Investigators exploring possible links between 2 New Year's Day terrorists * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Military records reveal possible links between two New Year's Day terrorists: They both served at Fort Bragg in North Carolina during their service careers. A report at the Gateway Pundit documents the intersections that may have occurred between Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, who rented a Ford pickup truck and drove it through a New Orleans crowd, killing 15 and injuring dozens, and Matthew Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado Springs, who detonated a rented Tesla truck in Las Vegas, killing himself and injuring a handful of passersby.

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Green Electricity Costs a Bundle - WSJ

The data make clear: The notion that solar and wind power save money is an environmentalist lie. - Bjorn Lomborg 

• As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. 

This exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already outmatched fossil fuels and that the “green transition” is irreversible even under a second Trump administration.
The claim that green energy is cheaper relies on bogus math that measures the cost of electricity only when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing...

America's skools are an almost complete failure!

 

The Constitution Does Not Grant Birthright Citizenship to the Children of Illegal Immigrants - Just Facts Daily

Dozens of media outlets are reporting in unison that Donald Trump cannot stop the U.S. government from awarding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. 

They claim this is the case because the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires it. - James D. Agresti 

• In reality, the legislative history of the 14th Amendment is clear that it only grants birthright citizenship to the children of people who are legally and permanently living in the United States. 
• This does not apply to the children of illegal immigrants, temporary residents, visitors, or tourists.
• The children of such foreigners are currently granted U.S. citizenship and its benefits under a misinterpretation of the Constitution. 

Although such citizenship could be conferred through legislation, no such law exists.
A Supreme Court ruling in 1898 presents mixed messages about this issue, but it is factually flawed on multiple levels and could justifiably be superseded by the current Supreme Court.
The Historical Background...

#1 This day 1962-----The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (Audio)

University of Michigan hosting ‘Pronouns 101’ seminar next month

While the school does not charge students and staff for these workshops, the public must pay $600, Campus Reform reports. - Tom Joyce 

The Spectrum Center at the University of Michigan will host a two-hour workshop called “Pronouns 101” on Jan. 29, according to the event website...
The workshop’s learning objectives include the following:

• Normalize the use of various pronouns.
• Identify two inclusive practices for sharing your pronouns.
• Understand the impact of using people’s affirming pronouns.
• Apply one action-oriented goal to be more inclusive of trans & nonbinary people.

Birds of feather flock together.

 

Chief Justice Roberts highlights worsening attacks on judicial independence | Blaze Media

Chief Justice Roberts highlights worsening attacks on judicial independence | Blaze Media: 

Chief Justice John Roberts highlighted the efforts of certain elected officials and other ne'er-do-wells to undermine the independence and legitimacy of federal courts in his annual year-end report.

Echoing former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Roberts noted that the independent federal judiciary established in Article III and preserved for the past 235 years remains "one of the 'crown jewels of our system of government.’" The trouble, according to Roberts, is that independence is under attack.

While figuring passionate reactions to judicial rulings as inevitable and strong criticism as occasionally warranted, Roberts stressed that "not all actors engage in 'informed criticism' or anything remotely resembling it."

More Data Manipulation By NOAA, NASA, HadCRUT…Cooling The Past, Warming the Present

Global Temperature Data Manipulation - Kenneth Richard 

• 0.3°C Of Pause-Busting Warmth Added Since 1998
• 0.5°C Of Warming Removed From 1880-1950 Trend

Over the course of the last few decades, overseers of the 3 main 19th century-to-present global temperature data sets — NOAA, NASA, and HadCRUT — have been successfully transforming the temperature record to the shape dictated by climate models. 

Namely, there has been a concerted effort to cool down the past — especially the 1920s to 1940s warm period — and to warm up the more recent decades, especially after about 1950...

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History for January 4

History for January 4 - On-This-Day.com 

Jakob Grimm 1785

• 1884 - The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
• 1944 - The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.
• 1951 - During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
• 1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
• 1981 - The Broadway show "Frankenstein" lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.
• 1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
• 2007 - Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.

Gunmen open fire at teens outside NYC nightclub, wounding 10; they were at memorial for 16-year-old shot to death, police say | Blaze Media

Gunmen open fire at teens outside NYC nightclub, wounding 10; they were at memorial for 16-year-old shot to death, police say | Blaze Media: 

No arrests have been made. At least 10 teens were wounded outside a nightclub in New York City when four gunmen opened fire; the venue at the time was hosting a memorial for a 16-year-old who had been shot and killed in a separate incident, according to police. Investigators said three to four males walked up to a crowd outside the Amazura nightclub on 144th Street in Queens and started firing around 11 p.m. on New Year's Day. All the victims are expected to survive.

The way we were-----This Meant You Were Rich in the 1960s

CARIBBEAN PORT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY, CARNIVAL RUINS CHRISTMAS

"Army spox tells FOX the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion was an active-duty Special Forces operations sergeant

I just don't understand how someone from the US Army 10th Special Forces Group doesn't know how to make a proper bomb, but instead used fireworks, gas cans, and propane tanks.

Jacqui Heinrich@JacquiHeinrich - Army spox tells FOX the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion was an active-duty Special Forces operations sergeant...

• Dissident Wookie@dissidentwookie - I just don't understand how someone from the US Army 10th Special Forces Group doesn't know how to make a proper bomb, but instead used fireworks, gas cans, and propane tanks.  That's the weirdest thing for me.
• Youyoyotoo@youyoyotoo - Master Sergeant is no typical flunky, which continues to lead me to believe this was more accidental than intentional. But we will see. This seems more like a dude trying to show off at New Years. Rolling in with a Cybertruck to Vegas from out of town. I still maintain that IF it
• Sam Phillips@SamofSC - This does not add up. Would like to know more about what was recovered from the Cybertruck. A green beret knows enough about explosives to build a more effective bomb, but would also know to not carry around a bunch of incendiaries that could be accidentally detonated...

Resurfaced Video: Muslim Children in Houston Pledge to Be Martyrs

Resurfaced Video: Muslim Children in Houston Pledge to Be Martyrs 

After a New Orleans terrorist attack by an ISIS supporter from Houston, Texas, and amid intensifying warnings of Islamic terrorist threats within the U.S., a resurfaced clip showing hundreds of American children in Houston wearing traditional Islamic dress, chanting references to Iran’s supreme leader, pledging allegiance to him, and praising martyrdom has reignited concerns over growing homegrown Islamic extremism.
The chilling video, aired by Iranian state media in 2022, raises concerns about the spread of various forms of Islamic extremism within the U.S...

'Federal law supersedes state law': Sanctuary cities get serious warning * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Federal law supersedes state law': Sanctuary cities get serious warning * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

The chief of America's Border Patrol union is warning "sanctuary" ideologues, those officials who set up their own cities and towns as "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens and claim they will not help, or even allow, federal deportation plans, to beware. "Take President Trump and his administration at their word," explained union chief Paul Perez, "They're going to do the job of protecting Americans. And so it would be incumbent upon those sanctuary cities and jurisdictions to understand one thing. Federal law supersedes state law.