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Surely the Russian's would soon back off if they knew that Ukraine had nukes too.

The ship lost power. Was it sabotage?  The Yemeni Houthi movement will expand its targets to include U.S. ships, an official from the Iran-allied group said in January.

Maybe instead of US ships they are targeting US Ports.

This is from https://anxietycare.org.uk/anxiety/poor-thinking-habits/

Most of us believe that we are always thinking; it’s not true. The bulk of what we consider thought is just the mind going through its normal process, drifting past our consciousness like a river, full of debris that has been dumped there in the past. Much of this debris will have come from powerful figures such as parents, teachers, religious advisors and our early peer groups. Little of this will have been thought about at the time; rather it will have been assimilated as ‘truth’ with little or no investigation as to its value. This flowing river will be generating memories spurred by current input through the five senses and there will probably be some sort of intuitive linking occurring because of all this bumping together. This intuitive response is often accepted as another version of ‘truth’; but it is at least as likely to be wrong as right, and is one of the ways that many people with anxiety disorders maintain their inability to cope with life.

This is all mental activity but it isn’t thought. Thinking is a logical process that considers all the provable facts of any situation, not the biases, hopes and fears. To work it has to call on the part of the mind that looks at things rationally and logically. Unfortunately, most people with anxiety disorders lock into their emotions when the feared situations occur. This activates the part of the mind that deals with hunches, preconceptions and the willingness to swallow ideas whole and makes logical thought next to impossible. But the luckless person still believes that he or she is ‘thinking’ and equates this activity with the rest of his or her life where thinking actually does take place. This results in the situation where such a person believes, quite reasonably, that he or she is a perfectly and provably adequate thinker in many areas, so the anxiety-driven process has just as much value as the rest. Sometimes, the more successful a person is in the outside world, where his or her thinking is valued or makes this person a good living, the more difficult it is for him or her to accept that the anxiety-driven process not only has no value but is actively working against life-values.

A group whose members have described themselves as “God’s army” is heading to the southern border to protest record numbers of migrants illegally crossing over from Mexico. 
Organizers with “Take Our Border Back” say they want to stand up to “globalists” who they believe are conspiring to let migrants illegally flood the country.
“This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one organizer said during a planning call, according to Vice News. 
“We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. 
The group is planning a convoy, set to leave Virginia Beach on Monday for Texas, followed by three rallies on Feb. 3 at sites near Eagle Pass, Texas; Yuma, Arizona; and San Ysidro, California. 

 Israeli troops on Friday mistakenly shot to death three hostages in a battle-torn neighborhood of Gaza City, and an Israeli strike killed a Palestinian journalist in the south of besieged territory.
The hostages were killed in the Gaza City area of Shijaiyah, where troops have been engaged in fierce fighting with Hamas militants in recent days. The soldiers mistakenly identified the three Israelis as a threat and opened fire on them, said the army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
He said it was believed that the three had either fled their captors or been abandoned.

Buffett stated, “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.” 

I think this would be a great plan.

Christians must be devastated.

This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.

After the cumulative warming of these past several months, it’s virtually guaranteed that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, according to  Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European climate agency that routinely publishes monthly bulletins observing global surface air and sea temperatures, among other data.

Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry Leonard to win Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black candidate elected to Congress.

That must be what God says.

Being smarter as a child means you are more likely to live longer than people of lower intelligence, according to the most comprehensive study yet to look at the connection between IQ and longevity and that analyzed a sweeping range of causes of death, from injuries to dementia to heart disease.
Among the thousands of people studied, those in the top 10 percent of childhood intelligence were two-thirds less likely to have died from respiratory disease by age 79 than people in the bottom 10 percent. They were half as likely to have died from heart disease, stroke, smoking-related cancers, digestive diseases, and outside causes such as injury.

What was the USA thinking?

Republicans want to give part of Ukraine to the Russians. This is very similar to 1938 when Chamberlain got an international agreement

 that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of  Czechoslovakia in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe.

Chamberlain said it was 'Peace for our time'. Hitler said he had 'No more territorial demands to make in Europe.

Six months later, in March 1939, German troops took over the rest of Czechoslovakia. Poland seemed to be the next most likely victim of Nazi aggression and Chamberlain made an agreement with the Poles to defend them in Germany invaded. Hitler did not think Britain would go to war over Poland, having failed to do so over Czechoslovakia. He sent his soldiers into Poland in September 1939. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany.

People say I look like Jim on Breeders. I wonder what people say badger looks like?

 As the Democratic presidential nominee, she would give Democrats their best chance at retaining the White House.

As it stands, President Biden's chances of winning reelection against a credible Republican presidential candidate (which excludes former President Trump) aren’t great. If Michelle were on the Democratic ticket, Barack would be a close adviser, not just to Michelle but to the administration and the Democratic Party. In short, capturing Michelle would be the best way to recapture what Democrats see as that ole’ Obama magic. And she would become the first women President of the USA.

 The special grand jury investigating efforts by Donald Trump and others to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results recommended indictments against twice as many people as the 19 prosecutors ultimately charged, leaving South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham among those not indicted.
The grand jurors' lengthy report released Friday showed they recommended charges against 39 people, including Graham, former U.S. Sens. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.

 The role that fake slates of electors played in Donald Trump's desperate effort to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 election is at the center of a four-count indictment released against the former president.
The third criminal case into Trump details, among other charges, what prosecutors say was a massive and months long effort to "impair, obstruct, and defeat" the federal process for certifying the results of a presidential election, culminating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The 45-page indictment states that when Trump could not persuade state officials to illegally swing the election in his favor, he and his Republican allies began recruiting a slate of fake electors in seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to sign certificates falsely stating that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, had won their states.
While those certificates were ultimately ignored by lawmakers, federal prosecutors say it was all part of "a corrupt plan to subvert the federal government function by stopping Biden electors' votes from being counted and certified."

Actually, I think that he will flee to Russia and finish the Moscow Trump Tower there.

Donald Trump has been criminally charged in a separate federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.

If he is found guilty he should be removed as the 45th President and all his records expunged.

Remember that he was not elected by the people, but lost his 2016 election by 2.8 million votes.

According to an excerpt from Bob Woodward‘s Fear, Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs president turned National Economic Council director came away from his very first meeting with Donald Trump “astounded” by just how dumb the guy was.

Yet Republicans elected him President.

From Globe US

Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people. 

In 1950 the population of the World was 2.5 billion. It is presently 8 billion.

In 2050 it will be 10 billion.

Over 42 per cent of CEOs believe that AI will eventually replace humans, according to a CNN study taken at the Yale CEO Summit. In the recent few months, AI has been the talk of town, but now it is slowly becoming a cause for worry too.  The report stated that around 42 percent of CEOs and top business tycoons believe that AI has the potential to "destroy humanity five to ten years from now."
The survey is said to have included 119 CEOs from a cross-section of businesses, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, Xerox, Zoom, and many more.
In the survey, many billionaires, including Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter, are concerned about artificial intelligence consuming humans.

This might make a case for Antinatalism.

On Aug. 18, 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said, "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."

Extreme supporters of Donald Trump have met news of his federal indictment with visions of violence and retribution.
At The Donald, a forum for ultra-MAGA Trump supporters, users demanded public executions and other forms of lynching to avenge the Federal prosecution of Trump, for the alleged mishandling of state secrets at Mar a Lago after he was no longer president. 

 SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas.

A new study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggests that vaccination may protect against major cardiovascular events — like heart attacks and strokes — associated with Covid.
The study analyzed data from nearly 2 million people in the National Covid Cohort Collaborative database. About 218,000 had received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccine, or Johnson & Johnson’s single dose vaccine. Even partial vaccination was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events for at least six months, the researchers found.

Do you think anybody will be watching the new movie Brady is 80, which is about Tom Brady?

As the U.S. government raced to shore up small businesses' finances at the height of the pandemic, it may have erroneously awarded more than $1.3 billion to foreign applicants - raising new suspicions that the program might have helped fund overseas crime syndicates.

The trouble concerned the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, or EIDL, an initiative dating to the Trump administration that provided grants and other financial support to struggling small companies. More than 27.8 million applicants ultimately sought funds from the SBA, overwhelming an agency that had been tasked to oversee a vast array of emergency spending that dwarfed its annual budget.
Congress required the SBA to disburse its EIDL aid only to those businesses affected by the pandemic and located in the United States or its territories. But a crush of applications from foreign sources still flooded the agency over the life of its program - and the SBA repeatedly appeared to fund them anyway.

Here is a list of Atheist Nobel Prize Winners:

Chemistry

Harry Kroto, joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Svante Arrhenius
Paul D. Boyer
John Cornforth
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
Richard R. Ernst
Herbert A. Hauptman
Roald Hoffmann
Harold W. Kroto
Jean-Marie Lehn
Peter D. Mitchell
George Andrew Olah
Wilhelm Ostwald
Linus Pauling
Max Perutz
Frederick Sanger
Michael Smith
Harold Urey

Economics

Milton Friedman
John Harsanyi
Friedrich Hayek
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Amartya Sen

Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre, recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Samuel Beckett
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Albert Camus
Anatole France
John Galsworthy (1932)
Dario Fo
Nadine Gordimer
Gao Xingjian
Pablo Neruda
Eugene O'Neill
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Jean-Paul Sartre
Wole Soyinka.
John Steinbeck
José Saramago

Peace

Norman Angell (1933)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1908)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Linus Pauling
Andrei Sakharov
Elie Wiesel

Physics

Pierre and Marie Curie.
Peter Higgs
Zhores Alferov
Hannes Alfvén
Philip Warren Anderson
John Bardeen
Patrick Blackett
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Niels Bohr
Percy Williams Bridgman
Louis de Broglie
James Chadwick
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Paul Dirac
Albert Einstein
{Einstein used many labels to describe his religious views, including "agnostic", "religious nonbeliever", and a believer in "Spinoza's God." However, he rejected other labels like "atheist" and "pantheist"}
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
Val Logsdon Fitch
James Franc
Dennis Gabor
Murray Gell-Mann
Vitaly Ginzburg
Roy J. Glauber
Peter Higgs
Gerard 't Hooft
Herbert Kroemer
Lev Landau
Leon M. Lederman
Albert A. Michelson
Konstantin Novoselov
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Isidor Isaac Rabi
C. V. Raman
William Shockley
Erwin Schrödinger
George Smoot
Jack Steinberger
Igor Tamm
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Eugene Wigner

Physiology or Medicine

Francis Crick.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Julius Axelrod
Robert Bárány (1914)
George Beadle
J. Michael Bishop
Sydney Brenner
Francis Crick, DNA codiscoverer
Max Delbrück
Christian de Duve
Howard Florey
Camillo Golgi
Andrew Huxley
François Jacob
Paul Lauterbur
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Sir Peter Medawar
Jacques Monod
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Herbert J. Muller
Élie Metchnikoff
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Hermann Joseph Muller
Paul Nurse
Ivan Pavlov
Richard J. Roberts
John Sulston
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Nikolaas Tinbergen
James Watson, DNA codiscoverer

On Feb. 1, the U.S. Treasury Department reported that the U.S. gross national debt surpassed $30 trillion for the first time, a figure that’s incomprehensible at the best of times, let alone when many Americans are still dealing with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

During the eight years of the Eisenhower presidency, from 1953 to 1961, the top marginal rate was 91 percent. (It was 92 percent the year he came into office.)

Today the tax brackets are adjusted for inflation, but are exceptionally lower than in Eisenhower’s day. The top rate in 2015 is 39.6 percent, applied to single people making $413,200 or more per year, or married couples filing jointly making $464,850 or more annually. If we went back to 1954, single people making the equivalent of $413,200 would be in a 72 percent tax bracket, while a couple making $464,850 would end up in a 75 percent bracket.
What’s the highest income tax bracket ever put in place? In 1944-45, during World War II, couples making more than $200,000 faced an all-time high of 94 percent.

While the first congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years didn’t reveal the existence of extraterrestrial life, it did affirm that the U.S. military is taking sightings of unknown craft seriously as a national security threat.
A House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing convened Tuesday morning with a 90-minute public session that was followed by closed-door testimony later in the day.
“Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are a potential national security threat and they need to be treated that way,” Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., said at the beginning of the hearing, referring to the preferred technical term for unidentified flying objects or UFOs.
“For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis,” he added. “Pilots avoided reporting or were laughed at when they did. DOD officials relegated the issues to the backroom or swept it under the rug entirely, fearful of a skeptical national security community.
“Today, we know better,” Carson continued. “UAPs are unexplained, it’s true, but they are real. They need to be investigated, and any threats they pose need to be mitigated.”

This week, China switched on a nuclear fusion reactor. The “artificial sun” is known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (or EAST for short). After turning it on, China noticed record high levels for sustained temperatures. According to China’s state media, the EAST reactor ran five times hotter than the real Sun for over 17 minutes.

Why are there 300 sextillion stars. Was it design or chance that one planet of these stars would evolve life?

I say it was chance, and because of that there is no other human life in the Universe other than that on Earth.

Tim McGraw and Jim Parsons. What am I?