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They are not, despite what they call themselves, "scientists". A true scientist will archive his/her data set and make it available without reservations to other scientists for true study.
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For research to be valid, the findings have to have "replicability" in that the data, analysis and findings must be so clearly presented that other researchers can take the same data and arrive at the same results...a long winded way of saying that I as a doctoral candidate cannot believe the findings were accepted without supporting research arriving at the same conclusions.
The fact that they sprang on a research project that was essentially a statistical outlier compared to other research is a significant red flag that the entire climate change circus is a fraud and a scam lining someone's pockets at the expense of jobs and economic growth.
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Can't they just make up new data, or re-adjust the old data?
Do any of these vaunted 'models' fit the Medieval Warming Period or the Little Ice Age? Any historical data?
How about the Pinatubo eruption? When they factored in the volcanic dust, did their models show cooling?
How much cleaner is the air of today compared to 1970? Because the reduced particulates should reflect less sunlight, adding to earth's temperatures.
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Seeking cure for ignorance overstates things. I can point you to several scientists who, though obligated to release their data 2 years after publication of the results, are convinced that there is just a little more refining of the analysis they need to do first. They're probably right--the experiment is gearing up to redo the calibration, and that may slightly effect the list of directions and energies we publish.
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It's probably the first time you've seen 300 drones flying in formation, but it's almost certainly not the last.
Each drone is about a foot long square, weighs just over eight ounces, and sports a plastic and foam body to soften inadvertent impacts. They aren't as flashy as consumer quadcopters, which is just as well, because you're not supposed to notice them. Instead, you're supposed to notice the four billion color combinations created by the onboard LEDs, and the aerial acrobatics choreographed with meticulous coding. Just got a glance at the flag (photo at link) but it was pretty slick.
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President Trump almost perfectly predicted the Super Bowl outcome.
During his pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, Trump predicted the New England Patriots would win.
"By how many points?" O'Reilly asked.
"By eight points," Trump replied.
The final outcome -- which for the first Super Bowl was decided in a sudden death overtime -- was Patriots 34, the Falcons 28.
Here's the full exchange:
O'REILLY: "Fox Sports is demanding that I ask you to make a prediction."
TRUMP: "Well I hate to make predictions."
REILLY: "But you have to."
TRUMP: "But I hate to do it. But I'll say --"
O'REILY: "-- Because I won't leave unless you do."
TRUMP: "I'll say -- I don't know, what are the odds? I guess it's pretty even, right? Two great teams."
O'REILLY: "Yeah."
TRUMP: "I'll say the Patriots will win."
O'REILLY: "By how many points?"
TRUMP: "By eight points."
O'REILLY: "That's a good presidential prediction."
TRUMP: "I shouldn't be doing those things but that's OK."
O'REILLY: "And you don't need any data."
TRUMP: "I need no data. Aaaand with that, given their reaction to everything else, liberal heads around the world are probably exploding by the millions.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The wife of a 92-year-old Paleostinian recently delivered a baby girl in the city of al-Khalil in the West Bank. And I'll bet the kid looks just like him.
Mahmoud al-Adam named the baby Tamara and said he was very happy as she is a gift from God.
"I now have 8 daughters and 5 sons. It was such a surprise to have a baby at this age but this is God's will," Adam said.
Tamara's mother Abeer is thrilled she's become a mother especially that she wasn't expecting she will be able to have any children from her elderly husband.
Abeer is over 42 years old and is deaf and mute. She married Adam few years ago after his first wife passed away.
Fertility doctors and specialists agree that man's fertility deceases as he ages and that fertility is affected by some chronic illnesses such as diabetes, blood sugar, arteriosclerosis and others. A man who has a good health and who follows a good diet can be fertile his entire life.
Adam confirmed this is true in his case and said he eats natural foods and performs various activities all the time.
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Mute madam met Mahmoud al-Adam:
"By Allah, I'm glad to have had 'im!"
A couple! Abeer's
Lucky little emirs
Look like five miles of Muslim macadam.
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Tamara's mother Abeer is thrilled she's become a mother especially that she wasn't expecting she will be able to have any children from her elderly husband.
Abeer is over 42 years old and is deaf and mute.
So she won't be telling him the truth then?
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[DAWN] At least 14 people were killed in an avalanche in Chitral's Sher Shal area on Sunday.
Chitral Scouts Commandant Col Nizamuddin Shah told DawnNews the bodies of 14 had been recovered from the debris, including six women, six children and two men.
Nine people injured in the natural disaster have been shifted to Civil Hospital Garam Chashma, according to Radio Pakistain.
The region has been hit by heavy snowfall that is four feet deep in some places.
The avalanche struck around 3am, Sheema Ayub Khan, a spokeswoman for the Disaster Management Authority in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , told AFP.
A Frontier Constabulary soldier died and six others were maimed when a Chitral scout post was affected by a second avalanche in Chitral's Pishotan area near the Pak-Afghan border. The soldiers were rescued early morning, ISPR said.
At least 25 houses have been buried and five houses have been destroyed, Col Shah said.
Chitral District Nazim Maghfirat Shah told Dawn that due to heavy snowfall in the area over the past two days several families had been shifted to safer locations.
Rescue operations are ongoing in Chitral. ─ DawnNews
Rescue operations are ongoing in Chitral. ─ DawnNews However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he added, some families had remained in the locality which was affected by the avalanche today.
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[FOXNEWS] A 13-year-old girl has died after being flung out of a fast-turning ride at an amusement park in southwest China.
China's product safety regulator said in a statement late Saturday that an initial investigation showed her seatbelt had broken and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly enough at the Chaohua Park in Fengdu county, which comes under Chongqing municipality.
Cellphone footage carried by state media showed the girl flying out of the "Travel Through Space" ride on Friday afternoon as seats repeatedly spun round 360 degrees. Media reports say she fell on to iron railings and was taken to a hospital, where she died.
The West China Metropolis Daily reported Sunday that the girl's family had reached a compensation agreement with the park for their only child's death amounting to $127,000.
The newspaper also said the ride had passed a routine quality inspection in December.
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An impotent outrage pervaded
New York when the workers invaded:
"Their sense of direction
Has wrecked our election!"
Thus Saturday Night was deflated.
DOZENS of China's billionaires, millionaires and business executives have disappeared in "state-sanctioned abductions" ‐ only to reappear days or weeks later without explanation ‐ in the past 12 months.
In the latest incident, Chinese-born Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua was kidnapped from his luxury apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel by mainland security agents on January 27.
Hong Kong Police investigating the alleged abduction have seized CCTV footage from the hotel which reportedly shows the businessman being escorted from the hotel without a struggle.
The probe is going ahead against the wishes of Mr Xiao's family who fear any intervention may compromise his safety.
According to the South China Morning Post, Mr Xiao's wife fled to Japan after reporting his kidnap to Hong Kong and then retracting it.
Mr Xiao is the most high-profile of a long list of moguls and executives from at least 34 Chinese companies to be seized in bizarre circumstances over the past year alone.
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I'm no friend of the commies, but I have to admire how they cut these despicable shitheads down to size. I think it's because they don't have campaign contributions.
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I think they are looking for contributions. It's just they don't have to spend them on campaigns.
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The communist chinese have an interesting approach to organ donation as any falun gong unfortunates will tell you. In the west, a person needs an organ so they go on a wait list and when a registered donor dies by accident or naturally, they harvest the organs and look for people on the wait list that match the organ.
In china, the needy recipient is tested then they find a political or other prisoner who matches that recipient. They are then executed for prompt organ delivery.
Vault 114 was set up as a sociological experiment - the inhabitants were described as "high ranking local and state government, local luminaries, business people, and their families", however the luxury living conditions were exaggerated to the inhabitants, and when they arrived at the vault random families were chosen to occupy one room apartments and share minimal dining and bathing facilities. In addition, the Overseer was selected from the local public outside the vault, and the interview process favored those with no leadership or governmental experience and a strong anti-authority bias. Vault-Tec staff were asked not to undermine the authority of the new overseer "even (and especially) if it may cause physical discomfort, embarrassment or harm to the inhabitants"
[Daily Caller] Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission. These lads all have access, security clearances ?
More likely, given that the Representatives' offices hired them, it'd be 'Public Trust'. Then again, Members of Congress themselves don't need a security clearance to see classified information. Some could never get a clearance.
Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism.
Jamal handled IT for Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who serves on both the intelligence and foreign affairs panels. Jamal also worked for Louisiana Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is on the Committee on Homeland Security.
Imran worked for Reps. Andre Carson, an Indiana Democrat, and Jackie Speier, a California Democrat. Both are members of the intelligence committee, and their spokesmen did not respond to TheDCNF’s requests for comment. Imran also worked for the House office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who was previously the target of a disastrous email hack when she served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign.
Then-Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, employed Abid for IT work in 2016. She was a member of House committees dealing with the armed services, oversight, and Benghazi. Duckworth was elected to the Senate in November, 2016. Abid has a prior criminal record and a bankruptcy. Abid also worked for Rep. Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat who is member of the foreign affairs committee.
The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress.
A criminal investigation into five unnamed people began late last year related to serious and potentially illegal violations of House IT policies, Politico reported Thursday. Chiefs of staff for the members were briefed Thursday by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the investigation was still ongoing, and arrests have not been made but staff were “asked to update their security settings.”
Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices. All we know just how well these prohibition are enforced at Foggy Bottom don't we.
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RedState excerpt from 5 Feb. Unless I missed something, not sure where they got the "20 member offices" piece. Nothing yet on the teevee.
Seems like they buried the lede, doesn’t it. I would think that there are larger risks than mere equipment theft. They also fail to mention that the “more than 20 member offices” have one thing in common: they are all Democrats.
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Then-Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, employed Abid for IT work in 2016. She was a member of House committees dealing with the armed services, oversight, and Benghazi. Duckworth was elected to the Senate in November, 2016. Abid has a prior criminal record and a bankruptcy. Abid also worked for Rep. Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat who is member of the foreign affairs committee.
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Likely a matter of indolence in that the brothers were already working on premises (thus presumably vetted) and the Congress-critter's offices could share the cost of the contract. Then again, as
g(r)om mentioned, it could also be virtue signaling.
[DAWN] TAXILA: A man was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Hassanabdal police on Saturday.
SHO Aabid Muneer told the media they had information that a man, wanted in an abduction for ransom case, was hiding in the house of Sian Ramzan. When a police party raided the house, the accused allegedly opened fire on the police. In retaliation, Ramzan, 55, died while the main accused managed to flee.
Police recovered three pistols and one Kalashnikov from the hideout of the kidnapper. No policeman was injured in the encounter.
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They're "dead" now. [DAWN] LAHORE: Four suspects allegedly involved in a kidnap-cum-murder case were killed in an encounter in Manawan, claimed the CIA police here on Saturday.
No personnel of the law enforcement agencies were maimed in the encounter.
A front man for the CIA police claimed that four suspects identified as Abdul Sattar alias Nannha, Baber Nadeem, Muhammad Azam and Muhammad Ejaz were being taken for recovery when their five to six accomplices attacked them near Manawan.
He said the suspects along with their accomplices tried to flee after the attack, but the police team was already on alert and retaliated swiftly, killing four suspects in a brief shootout. Their accomplices managed to escape in the darkness. Police recovered the bodies and shifted them to a morgue.
The front man said that suspects were involved in kidnapping and later killing a ninth class student, Aman Qamar of Samanabad, in 2016.
He said the suspects had taken the boy to Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... and demanded Rs3 million as ransom from his family. Though the family paid Rs2.5m ransom, the suspected kidnappers killed the boy and buried him in a graveyard in Faisalabad.
He said the suspects were involved in a number of kidnap for ransom cases registered against them in different areas of the city.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Young doctors thrashed the grandson of an elderly patient who died in the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Saturday.
Eighty-year-old Yaseen, a resident of Shahdara, was brought to the hospital in the evening and referred to the emergency ward where postgraduate trainee of North Medical Ward Dr Zafarullah Lashari was on duty.
Eyewitnesses said when Shahbaz repeatedly requested Dr Zafarullah to properly attend his grandfather the medic was rude to him. The elderly patient could not survive and Shahbaz started holding Dr Zafarullah responsible for the death.
Instead of pacifying Shahbaz, Dr Zafarullah slapped him and along with his colleagues, gave him a sound thrashing. The officials deputed at the police post of Mayo Hospital remained unmoved and attendants of other patients came to the rescue of Shahbaz.
Gowalmandi police SHO Tahir reached the spot along with some officials and brought the situation under control.
Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendant Dr Tahir Khalil said a committee, under Deputy Medical Superintendent (Admn) Dr Khalid and Dr Irshad, had been constituted to probe into the incident.
Action would be taken against those guilty after the inquiry, he said.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A lawyer and his office assistant were rubbed out allegedly by another lawyer over a property dispute at Jia Musa Bazaar in Shahdara on Saturday.
Police said Advocate Muhammad Bilal called Irfan Mushtaq Khokhar, 40, of Jia Musa, to settle a property dispute. Khokhar, along with his office assistant Muhammad Afzal, 42, reached the appointed place. During the course of discussion, police said, both parties exchanged harsh words and Bilal shot at and injured the other lawyer and his assistant. The suspect expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
People gathered on the spot and shifted the injured to a hospital, where they succumbed to injuries.
A police contingent reached the spot after the firing incident in the market and launched search for the killer. The police teams collected forensic evidence from the scene of the crime and recorded statements of eyewitnesses.
Police later shifted the bodies to morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Bilal on the complaint of victim’s father Mushtaq Khokhar.
City Division SP Operations Muhammad Naveed told Dawn that the lawyer and his assistant were killed over property dispute. He said they had incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! the suspect.
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[DAWN] A police official accused of fatally shooting a man near a police picket in Islamabad in the wee hours of Friday has surrendered before the police, an official said on Sunday.
The officer of police's Eagle Squad, Samiullah Niazi, had expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the incident and police had initiated a search for the suspect.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... two days after the incident the officials informed media that Niazi has presented himself in front of the Superintendent Police (SP) Sajid Kiani.
Niazi will be taken to court on Monday, the officials confirmed.
The victim, later identified as Taimoor Riaz, a salesman of auto spare-parts, was rubbed out in Islamabad's Sector I-10/1 in the early hours of Friday after allegedly failing to stop at a checkpoint.
A police officer had told Dawn on the condition of anonymity that between 4:30am and 4:45am on Friday a rashly-driven Toyota Corolla approached the picket set up on a link road between the I.J. Principal Road and Sector I-10 from the Islamabad side.
Around three to five officials deployed at the picket signalled the driver to stop but he ignored and drive through.
The victim was hit by three bullets ─ two in the back and one in the head.
Station House Officer (SHO) Sabzi Mandi Saleem Shah was suspended for his failure to respond on time and arrest the officials.
The police said a woman travelling in the car with the dear departed had taken him to the hospital in a taxi.
The incident sparked rioting and protests on Islamabad's IJP Road, with the victim's family dismissing the police statement and saying there had been no prior warning or order to stop before the officer opened fire.
The police handed over the body to the relatives of the dear departed after an autopsy at the hospital.
The protesters took the body to the road and damaged public and private property during the protest.
They later dispersed after officials of the police and the capital administration assured them that the suspected coppers would be tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! within 48 hours.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the officials in response to a complaint lodged by the victim’s brother on the charge of murder, the police stated.
Talking to the media, the dear departed’s mother, Syeda Bibi, said her son had two children. His brother Sajjad Riaz told Dawn: "We are in the dark as nobody is telling us what actually happened."
He added: "We have been told that an official of the Eagle Squad fired at Taimoor when he crossed the picket, killing him on the spot."
According to the standard operating procedure (SOP), police can only fire in retaliation and self-defence, the police officer explained, adding if any person ignored the police signal to stop, they should be chased. In case of unavailability of a vehicle, the police control should be alerted to arrest the escapee.
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[FOXNEWS] President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, announced he’ll name Vice President Pence to lead a commission investigating voter registration fraud ‐ while also laying out timelines for top domestic priorities like tax cuts and health care, and leaving the door open to scrapping the Iran nuclear deal.
The president, in the interview aired Sunday on Fox Sports ahead of Super Bowl LI, defended his past complaints about "illegals" potentially voting.
"You take a look at the registration, you have illegals, you have dead people ... it’s really a bad situation," he said.
Though Trump did not sign a previously expected executive order initiating a voter fraud probe, he said in the interview he’s going to assign Pence to the job, seemingly making good on a vow to hold a "major" investigation.
"I’m going to set up a commission, to be headed by Vice President Mike Pence, and we’re going to look at it very, very carefully," he said.
The president ‐ who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million but won the Electoral College and with it the White House ‐ has insisted since the election that millions of illegal immigrants colonists and others improperly cast ballots.
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Electoral College? Let's use the House of Representatives, shall we? 240 (R) and 193 (D), even with any/all the illegal votes.
55% (R) and a mere 45% (D). A bigger majority than many or any Presidential elections. Doesn't that tell the media/Dems anything about the "regular, ordinary everyday people versus the far-right-wing, evil Republicans"?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
President Trump almost perfectly predicted the Super Bowl outcome.
O'REILLY: "And you don't need any data."
Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission.
[DAWN] TAXILA: A man was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Hassanabdal police on Saturday.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Four suspects allegedly involved in a kidnap-cum-murder case were killed in an encounter in Manawan, claimed the CIA police here on Saturday.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Young doctors thrashed the grandson of an elderly patient who died in the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Saturday.
[DAWN] LAHORE: A lawyer and his office assistant were 
[DAWN] A police official accused of fatally shooting a man near a police picket in Islamabad in the wee hours of Friday has surrendered before the police, an official said on Sunday.
[FOXNEWS] President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, announced he’ll name Vice President Pence to lead a commission investigating voter registration fraud ‐ while also laying out timelines for top domestic priorities like tax cuts and health care, and leaving the door open to scrapping the Iran nuclear deal.
