April 17, 2026
While the Cat's Away
Timothy Birdnow
While we've all been busy with Iran:
And what did the vaunted Royal Navy do about it? Squat.
FTA:
Defence Secretary John Healey says three Russian submarines carried out a "covert" operation above cables and pipelines in the Atlantic, north of the UK, lasting longer than a month
In a Downing Street news conference, Healey says he deployed a warship and aircraft in response, and the Russian vessels were "monitored 24/7"
He says there is "no evidence" of any damage to UK infrastructure in the Atlantic
And in a message to Vladimir Putin, he says: "We see your activity over our cables and our pipelines, and you should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences"
This is not the first time the UK has accused Russia of spying close to critical undersea cables, writes Jonathan Beale, but this appears to be a more sophisticated and clandestine Russian operation
Earlier this year, the BBC looked at the Russian threat to British cables - read the InDepth piece here. You can also see our map of crucial cables and pipelines around the UK here
Why didn't they drop depth charges? Putin could hardly protest.
This proves Europe and Britain are incapable of defending themselves and need the U.S. So why do we need them?
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Mortgage Rates Dropping
Timothy Birdnow
More good economic news:
Freddie Mac
The avg. 30yr FRM decreases to 6.30% https://bit.ly/4csh8IX
(FRM means Federal Reserve Mortgage, or the prime interest rate.)
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The Dirty Little Secret
Timothy Birdnow
What the media won't tell us:
Nick Searcy
April 7 at 9:23 AM
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From Nima Ebadi on X:
"As an Iranian, let me tell you what President Donald J. Trump is talking about here:
In Iran, if you protest, you die. Not metaphorically. Snipers on rooftops shoot people in the head and chest. In January, the regime massacred thousands in the streets, many of them young people whose only crime was demanding a normal life.
When he says Iranians are telling the U.S. "please keep bombing” he’s describing a population so desperate to be free from a regime that murders them for protesting, that they’re willing to endure war if it means the system that has terrorized them for 47 years finally falls.
You may not understand that. Most Westerners can’t. You’ve never lived in a country where your daughter can be shot in the face for not covering her hair. Where your son disappears into Evin Prison and you get a call to come pick up the body. Where the internet goes dark so the world can’t see the killing.
That’s what "they have lived in a world that you know nothing about” means.
Before the media turns this into "Trump wants to bomb civilians,” understand: the Iranian people have been begging the world to see them for years. This is the first U.S. president to say it out loud.
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The Horse's Mouth
Timothy Birdnow
Pope Simplicio aka Leo XIV put Lebanon forth as an example of Christians and Muslims living in domestic bliss together:
Brigitte Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
Pope Leo grew up in Chicago.
I grew up in Lebanon.
I wasn't forced to leave Lebanon because there was peaceful coexistence.
I was forced to leave Lebanon because Islamic terrorists blew up my home and killed many of the people I grew up with.
I wish the Pope would talk to the persecuted Lebanese before making ignorant statements about countries he knows very little about.
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USCCB Attacks J.D. Vance Over Pope
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Council of Catholiic Bishops is going after J.D. VAnce for his defense of President Trump over the war in Iran.
No surprise there; the USCCB has always been a leftist institution. But they attack Vance wrongly.
From the MSN article:
"For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war,” read the statement issued by Bishop James Massa, who chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ doctrine committee.
But that is not what the pope has done, what the Pope has done is attack the Iran war based not on Just War Theory but on his peculiar interpretation of Just War Theory, one which essentially makes any form of war impermissible.
Among the things that make a war just is that you must have been attacked and this Pope claims that didn't happen to the U.S., completely ignoring decades of attacks by Iran and her proxies starting with the seizure of our embassy in Tehran, going through attacks on U.S. servicemen and civilians in multiple places around the globe including the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon (where we had gone to act as peacemakers), to Kobar Towers, to a host of other attacks and culminating in the Iran-backed terror attack on Israel (taking Americans hostage in the process) and two assassination attempts on President Trump. Leo ignored all that with his claim we were not attacked. They sound like attacks to me.
Also, you must attempt to limit civilian casualties and not target civilians. Mr. Trump has bent over backwards to avoid targeting civilians, or their infrastructure. He has largely limited himself to military targets and leadership. In fact had he not this war would be long over but he's tied his hands behind his back and is essentially attacking them by butting his shoulder against them. But he did that to avoid civilian casualties.
And while there has been some collateral damage the fact remains Trump has tried very hard to actually help the Iranian People, who he is trying to liberate as much as he is trying to protect our people.
The fact is the Iranian regime murdered 40,000 of their own citizens to hold onto power and neither the Pope nor the Council of Catholic Biships called them out for it, but they are eager to call out the President and Mr. Vance for resisting.
Just war theory is more than satisfied in this. In fact it is a holy quest, one that mercy and Christian love demands of us. Turning our backs on the Iranian People is the unchristian thing to do.
Also, in the era of nuclear weapons you don't just sit and wait for an enemy to attack with those weapons. Pre-emption is a necessary component of warfare in the modern era, and that should be obvious to even the dimmest among us.
The article continues:
Pope Leo has expressed opposition to the war in favor of peace negotiations and said in an April 10 social media post that those who are disciples of Christ are "never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”
What does Pope Leo think we've been doing? Trump offered them every chance to negotiate before the war started, and has offered them repeated ceasefires so negotiations may continue. What Trump is not willing to do is be played for a chump, something the Iranians are trying to do. They want a ceasefire so they can rebuild and rearm and the USCCB and Pope Leo apparently think that is our duty, to let them.
This kind of pig-ignorant pacifism is astonishing in today's world. Christianity is not a suicide pact, nor is it a doctrine for weenies.
Let us look at some Biblical passages about such matters:
Ecclesiastes 3:8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Jeremiah 51:20"You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Exodus 15:3The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.
Ephesians 6:12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Deuteronomy 20:1-4"When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’
Proverbs 21:31The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
Psalm 144:1-2Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
Romans 13:4For he (the King) is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Psalm 144:1Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
Matthew 10:34"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Joel 3:9-10Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior.”
Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
Luke 22:36 ESV / 70 helpful votesHe said to them, "But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
Luke 12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
Psalm 18:39For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.
You get the idea; the Bible is chock-full of passages about warfare and the need for it. God often commanded Israel to wage wars, especially against the Amalekites, whom He ordered Israel to destroy utterly (genocide).
Warfare, though, is clearly a power granted to nations and to national governments and not to the individual. People are not to wage private wars and that is obvious. Sadly Pope Leo and the USCCB fail to understand this distinction and try to apply the passages where Jesus called for mercy and restraint to any and all situations - something not intended at all. People forgive People - nations wage wars to compel behavior. It's a world of difference.
As Rush Limbaugh used to say, this is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. You can wish it weren't so and try to not be the one to start trouble but in the end you had better be strong enough and have enough grit to finish it or you will be enslaved to the ones who don't hold to your pacifist views. (Speaking of slaves, every one of them brought to the Americas from Africa were losers in a war with other Africans or with Arab slave traders; few of them were just captured while coming home from fishing or whatnot by white slavers.) As it was once said, those who beat their swords into ploughshares will plough for those who kept their swords.
No matter how ivory-tower liberals like this Pope and the USCCB may wish it not so it is a fact and we are called to be "wise as serpents" if we are to follow Christ. That will occasionally require military action. In this case we are engaged in a very moral, righteous military action. That should be apparent even to a spiritually occluded man like Pope Leo.
But of course this isn't about Iran but about President Trump and the MAGA movement. Leo was put there to splinter the MAGA movement, to break Catholics away from it. Watch his future statements; it will often be about unity and our place in a broader world and about how we have no right to look to our own nation, even while he has condemned this President for doing precisely that.
Many Catholic theologians over the centuries have believed the False Prophet - the spiritual leader who would throw his weight behind the Beast aka Antichrist - would be a Pope. Given the sharp Left turn the Papacy has made I can truly believe that.
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April 16, 2026
The Pope Owes an Apology
Timothy Birdnow
There was an absolutely dreadful article excusing Pope Leo and excoriating President Trump for getting into a tiff over Ian. This article claims the Pope "prayed for peace" and Trump jumped down his throat. Horsefeathers! This Pope has been making a concerted attack against Trump for weeks now.
Anyway I responded thusly:
Sadly no, this politicized Pontiff is not owed a single word of apology from Donald Trump nor J.D. Vance. Praying for peace is one thing but accusing the President (and thus impeaching his credibility with gullible Catholics) is quite another.
This Pope did not merely ask for peace but for America to just back down on this despite this meeting the criteria of a just war in almost every way. This Iranian regime has been at war with US since 1979 and has killed thousands of Americans, and Jews in Israel. It has promoted war throughout the Middle East, funding terrorist proxy armies like Hizbollah or Hamas or ISIS. It attempted at least twice to assassinate President Trump, an act of war. You apparently have forgotten the attack on the Marines in Lebanon, or the Kobar Towers, or the hostages taken in the U.S. embassy. And that is not even mentioning what the Iranians have done to Israel, and even their own neighbors.
Iran murdered 40,000 of their own citizens for protesting against the regime, guess you missed that.
Most of the countries in the region wanted our protection against Iran.
By any metric they posed a clear and present danger. And they themselves told us they had enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear weapons. Oh, and their use of ballistic missiles to attack Diego Garcia proved they lied about their missile range and meant they ha weapons capable of delivering nuclear warheads. Iran had been experimenting with implosion triggers to make their nukes smaller and lighter and thus they could deliver them on their weaponry. I would also add they seem to have an inexhaustible supply of missiles. They didn't build those to defend against Israel; those were and are offensive weapons.
All of this went over Pope Leo's pointy little noggin. Instead he said "god does not listen to the prayers of those fighting wars" which is sheer nonsense; He listened to King David, didn't He? He ordered Israel to implement the ban when fighting with the Canaanites, didn't He? In fact, God was angry with Saul for not obeying the ban (which was basically a genocide, the killing of all the people in Canaanite towns, including children and livestock) and drove him mad then had him fall on his own sword.
In fact God would probably be displeased with President Trump if he simply ignored the gathering crisis and left the Iranians and everyone else to their fate. We are supposed to help and protect our neighbors. That is why the state is "given the power of the sword" in the first place.
But Leo is just a mini-me of Francis and was chosen solely to act as a counterweight to Trump and hopefully peel off Catholics from MAGA. It was always said there would never be an American Pope as long as the U.S. was the world leader but that changed and they got someone from the Chicago Way specifically to go after Trump. And since Francis stacked the College of Cardinals he got his pick.
Francis was a Peronista Pope and Leo is an Alinsky Pope.
I would add Leo did this just when he was having a nice friendly visit with a Jewish Marxist atheist named David "deadfish" Axelrod, Obama's political hitman. Now, why do you suppose the Pope was meeting with Axelrod and he had not even met with Trump or anyone else in Trump's administration?
As a lifelong Catholic I was highly offended at the Pope's condemnation of the U.S. and Trump. If he wanted to pray for peace he should have prayed for peace, not pointed fingers. The Papacy is, by agreement with the Italian government going back to the foundation of Italy, supposed to stay out of politics.
If this Pope had a right to speak his mind (and I don't deny that, but he should have said it was his personal opinion) fine but so too does the President. BTW many Catholics misunderstand ex cathedra and think the Pope is ALWAYS infallible, which is exactly what Leo was counting on. No Pope has speaken ex cathedra since 1959.
The author here says the Pope is "trying to save souls" yet not one single thing he said has anything to do with saving souls. If this Poope wanted to save souls he would talk about transgenderism (a sin), homosexuality (a sin), promiscuity (a sin), crime (a sin), heavy taxation (the sin of theft), and a host of other such things. But he chooses to attack Trump over a just war. No, this Pope will have to be the one answering to God for not supporting the protection of the Iranian People, and the Israelis, and everyone else. It was his duty to call out the Iranian Mullahs but he's more worried about his precious New World Order.
Pope Leo is the one who owes an apology.
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The Cadillac of Nuclear Reactors
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure how much power they will put out but I'm sure these will be the classiest nuclear reactors around. I wonder where they'll put that famous grill...
And here in the States we're stuck using Fords or GMC...
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A Little Insurance Policy
Timothy Birdnow
I've long argued this; the Democrats (and probably the Republicans too) use blackmail to control their politicians and if you play ball you do well but if you buck them they destroy you. Swalwell is proof of that - he no doubt fell afoul of his handlers. This collapse of Swalwell was too fast and orchestrated.
Speaking on Jesse Waters Miller gave the game away:
"[The] real story here is how the Democrat Party controls its members through blackmail, It’s got a blackmail file on all of its politicians, and it uses them to leverage and control them until it’s time to release it, That is how sick and twisted the Democrat Party is.”
He's right but don't excuse the Republicans. Remember Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert? Hastert was a good little boy as Speaker, never moving any controversial legislation and basically leading a do-nothing Republican Congress. We now know he was being blackmailed by a young man he sodomized when he was a wrestling coach and nobody in Congress apparently knew about it. Ri-ight.
I submit to you that everyone knew about it and it was the fact Hastert could be easily controlled that led to his getting the nod to be Speaker. In many ways our politics are a sham, a kabuki theater to make it appear we have two warring parties but really both ships sail in the same direction.
Only Trump came from outside and refused to play along, which is why they have tried to destroy him with such venom.
I think Washington is a snake pit, and I think blackmail is as common as coffee there.
The Democrats hardly ever suffer their members going it alone, bucking the official party line. That isn't happening by accident. Many Democrats know, for instance, that the public hates illegal immigration and I am sure many in Congress would have loved to have taken a harder line against it but the Party says no. So they go along with the open borders policy, and risk losing their seats. Oh, and their country too. They clearly are more afraid of something else.
Probably blackmail.
How many others have sold their souls , and are hiding some bad stuff in D.C.? We know Congress had a "bimbo eruption squad" and maintained a publicly-funded account to pay off people who made accusations of sexual misconduct against members. If they were paying off women/men/horses that means they knew about who was doing that kind of thing, and yet nobody in Congress spilled the beans about it. What does that tell us?
It tells me they are ALL compromised. All of them.
Miller is right.
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The Ukraine Connection
Timothy Birdnow
More on the conspiracy to take out Trump with the 2019 Ukraine phone call.
Ultimately this was Trump's own fault; he left an old Obama guy in a position of high authority and that burned him. Insead of finding someone new Trump kept intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson in charge and Atkinson, working with others (notably Eric Ciaramella) had worked for Mary McCord prior and McCord was one of the key people involved with the impeachment.
Trump was naive and thought these types would be above politics. He was horribly wrong.
At any rate read the whole sordid thing. Hopefully the new AG will not be so slow to indict these creeps as was Pam Bondi.
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Impeachments and Cream
Timothy Birdnow
Ah spring....when a young Democrats fancy turns to impeachment.
These clowns just can't stop impeaching Trump and his people. It's a craze, like the dancing sickness that swept Europe in 1518 or the Salem witch hunts.
Housemocrats file impeachment articles against Hegseth
What "high crime or misdemeanor" is Hegseth guilty of, other than obeying his Commander in Chief and doing his job?
Well, here are their accusations:
The six articles of impeachment cite offenses including waging unauthorized war in Iran and reckless endangerment of U.S. service members, as well as breaking the laws of armed conflict and targeting civilians. Civilian casualties in Iran have included more than 160 people killed in an attack on a girls school in February.
The same could have been said of any Sec. Def. under Obama or Clinton and even under Joe Biden but of course since it's a patriot working for Trump these are suddenly crimes.
This is the same strategy used against Richard Nixon; to take his aides out one at a time and eventually isolate the President. It is, essentially, the strategy employed in the novel The Firm "take their lawyers" only it's not just the lawyers the Democrats are going after.
Of course this won't go anywhere for the next seven months, but it gums up the operations of Congress and sets the stage for another such effort if the Democrats take the House.
Trump Derangement Syndrome really needs to be put in the medical books.
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Bypassing Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like we got a pipeline up and running, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz! Won't hear THAT in the mainstream media.
Captain Allen
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It's almost as if the Americans figured they needed up to around two weeks to get this pipeline operating at full capacity.
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#Breaking: The East West pipeline is now operating at its full capacity of 7 million barrels per day. According to Saudi Ministry of Energy.
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Right now the Emiratis and Saudis can and are getting their oil to market w/o using the Strait. with the blockade by the US, only Iran cannot ship its oil.
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The Moment of Conception
Timothy Birdnow
So, it's a human life at conception after all!
Sci-Tech Astronomy
April 12 at 12:17 PM
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NEW DISCOVERY : For the first time, researchers at MIT have been able to witness the exact moment human life switches on — not minutes or hours later, but the very instant fertilization occurs.
What unfolds in that split second is remarkable. The egg doesn’t simply react randomly. Instead, a coordinated surge of biochemical activity sweeps across it, like a silent signal being flipped on. Scientists describe this as a clear starting point — a biological "time zero” that launches all development that follows.
Even more fascinating is how structured this activation is. The waves move in rhythmic, ordered patterns rather than chaos, echoing mathematical forms found everywhere in nature. The same proportions seen in spirals, shells, plant growth, and even galaxies appear to be reflected at the very beginning of human life.
It’s a powerful reminder that from the very first second, life follows deep and universal rules woven into the fabric of nature itself.
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Trump's Blockade Stopped Chinese Shipment of Air Defense Systems to Iran
Timothy Birdnow
China was just weeks away from shipping air defense weapons to Ian when Trump blockaded the whole country. China has now called off the sale and is buying oil from Saudi Arabia instead:
Rod D. Martin
April 14 at 7:17 PM
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Told you so. STRAIT of HORMUZ: CNN reported China was weeks from shipping air defense systems to Iran. Trump blockaded Iranian ports. China immediately announced no weapons sales to Iran & started buying Saudi & Iraqi oil instead. The blockade stopped Iranian oil exports & a Chinese arms deal simultaneously.
Still waiting for comment from all the idiots screaming about "WORLD WAR III!!!!!!!”
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A New Atmospheric Layer Regulates Climate
Timothy Birdnow
I've long argued micrometeor bombardment of the Earth's atmosphere probably played an unknown role in planetary climate and it seems I was right all along:
sweetie Market
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Scientists just confirmed the existence of a previously unknown atmospheric layer sitting at 70 to 90 kilometers altitude that plays a critical role in regulating Earth's surface temperature — a discovery that reveals current climate models have been missing an entire regulatory mechanism from their calculations.
Researchers at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts identified the layer using data from 14 years of satellite measurements from the MIPAS instrument on ESA's Envisat satellite, combined with reanalysis from weather balloon networks at 127 stations worldwide. The layer, located in the mesosphere between 70 and 90 kilometers altitude, shows distinct chemical and thermal properties consistent with a boundary layer controlling heat exchange between the upper and lower atmosphere. Most significantly, the layer's thickness and thermal properties vary seasonally in patterns that correlate with surface temperature anomalies 6 to 8 weeks later, suggesting it acts as a delayed regulator buffering surface temperature changes.
The layer consists of a chemically distinct zone where sodium and potassium metal atoms — deposited by meteors entering the atmosphere — catalyze reactions that convert ozone at a rate previously unaccounted for in atmospheric chemistry models. The resulting thermal effect adds a previously absent negative feedback mechanism to climate calculations that slightly moderates warming trends compared to current model projections.
Climate models will require revision to incorporate the layer's regulatory effect, and the discovery opens new research into how the mesosphere interacts with tropospheric weather and climate across timescales from weeks to decades.
Source: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, European Space Agency, Nature Geoscience, 2025
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Biden DOJ Colluded with Abortion Activists to Suppress Civil Rights of Pro-Lifers
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone think otherwise"
Big Abortion was one of their core constituents.
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April 15, 2026
Prosecutors Blocked from Federal Reserve Offices
Timothy Birdnow
Hmmm....the shape of things to come?
Prosecutors from Jeanine Pirro's office tried to access Federal Reserve headquarters, but were turned away
Fed chairman Jerome Powell is under investigation for fraud over the renovations of the Federal Reserve HQ. Turning prosecutors away is a sign they are hiding something.
I imagine some shredders are working overtime right about now.
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Biodegradable Plastics
Timothy Birdnow
I snoozed and now I've lost. Remember, not long ago I said someone needed to invent a biodegradable plastic utensil.
Science Talks
April 13 at 6:55 AM
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Scientists in Japan have developed a groundbreaking plant-based plastic that maintains its strength during daily use but dissolves completely in seawater within hours. Created by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo, this material is derived from plant cellulose rather than petroleum. Its chemical bonds are specifically designed to break upon contact with saltwater, allowing natural bacteria to finish the decomposition process in as little as three hours.
This innovation addresses a critical gap in environmental technology by providing a material that behaves like traditional plastic until it enters the natural environment. Beyond the ocean, laboratory tests show that samples buried in soil disappear within approximately ten days without leaving behind harmful residues. This rapid degradation offers a promising solution to the global crisis of long-term plastic pollution in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
While currently in the research stage, the potential for mass production could fundamentally transform the global packaging industry. By replacing persistent petroleum-based materials with cellulose-derived alternatives, this technology could significantly reduce the amount of waste accumulating in our oceans. This breakthrough represents a major step toward a future where functional convenience no longer comes at the cost of permanent environmental damage.
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The Stop Nick Shirley Act in California
Timothy Birdnow
This will never pass judicial review.
This act would allow fraudsters to demand the removal of any video showing misconduct from the public view, and also impose fines on citizen journalists who expose such crimes.
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio introduced this bill, which was passed by the Democrats. DeMaio is a REPUBLICAN from San Diego married to another dude. He was originally from Dubuque Iowa but I suppose that midwestern city was too tame for him.
With Republicans like these...
At any rate this is wildly unconstitutional and will almost certainly be overturned by the courts at some point.
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Schiff the Leaker
Timothy Birdnow
Now that Eric "grabby hands" Swalwell, the Bill Cosby of American politics, is gone it's time to turn our attention to another Trump-hating creep, this time Adam Schiff.
With luck we'll bring Schiff down as well and then perhaps some justice will be served. And with even more luck we'll flip his Senate seat (not holding my breath over that though).
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