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Note: I discovered rather quickly that this video is a new simulation of the TWA800 disaster, but that is obviously NOT how it is presented. The following is how this video is presented by the YT publisher, 'the last mayday':Normally, the average flight from New York to Rome takes 8 hours and 24 minutes. Emphasizing 'normally.' However, during the horror flight of TWA 800, this was anything but normal. Just fifteen minutes after takeoff, the pilot received a distressing message:"Look at that crazy fuel flow indication on number four."What is going on here? Stay tuned!A Boeing 747-100, carrying 230 passengers...

As Joe Biden’s Hindenburg of a presidency continues its fiery descent into historically low popularity, the whiz kids at the White House think they have a solution. Their answer, amazingly, seems to be to double down on their cavalcade of failed policies and get Mumbly Joe out in front of the American people more. That’s right, the man who rode to the presidency hiding in his basement is supposed to electrify voters and save the Democrats in the midterm. **SNIP** Take education. At a time when Republicans are having electoral success taking aim at critical race theory and gender ideology...

A graphical summary of the xenon-lamp flash photo-pyrolysis method. Credit: EPFL As the world's energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely adverse environmental effects. To address this, scientists have been searching for alternative, renewable sources of energy. A main candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or biomass, of plants and animals. Biomass also absorbs, removes and stores CO2 from the atmosphere, while biomass decomposition can lead to negative emissions or greenhouse gas removal. But even though biomass heralds a way forward, there is still...

Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga instructor and “body activist.” Jessamyn is making headlines for some reason after blaming white supremacy for polluting yoga. Seriously. This happened. PEOPLE reported: Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about – and it’s not the poses. In her new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, the yoga instructor and body activist shares reflective personal essays that touch upon everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis. And while the timing couldn’t be better considering the current cultural climate, the idea for the book came to...

Previously unseen video footage has been helping scientists learn more about the fate of the airship. One of the 20th Century's most infamous disasters, the destruction of the Hindenburg - a large German passenger airship - occurred following its arrival at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey in May 1937. The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time, of which 37 lost their lives when the vessel inexplicably burst into flames and crashed to the ground, bringing with it any remaining confidence in airship travel in general. Although it is obvious that the gas...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie threw some shade at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley over remarks she made about whether or not she would run for president in 2024. Last month, Haley was asked if she would support former President Trump if he threw his hat in the ring, which she said "yes," but also made clear that she would not launch a GOP primary bid against him. "I would not run if President Trump ran and I would talk to him about it," Haley told the Associated Press. "That’s something that we will have a conversation about...

Is Joe Biden following Paul Von Hindenburg’s path? Let’s see. Hindenburg, second President of Germany facilitated turning Germany from the most liberal Western republic that it was in late 1800s into a national-socialist dictatorship of 1930s and 40s that later transformed itself onto a monster responsible for genocide of unprecedented proportions.

The fire killed his father, sister and 34 others. He was just 8 years old at the time. As the 80th anniversary approached in 2017, Doehner told The Associated Press that he and his parents, older brother and sister were all on the 804-foot-long (245-meter-long) zeppelin traveling to Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. The airship departed on May 3, 1937. Doehner’s father headed to his cabin after using his movie camera to shoot some scenes of the station from the airship’s dining room. That was the last time Doehner saw him. Doehner and his family were on their...

The disaster struck without the least warning. The ship had angled its blunt nose toward the mooring mast, the spider-like landing lines had been snaked down and the ground crew had grasped the ropes from the nose, when the explosion roared out, scattering ground crew and spectators like frightened sheep. The passengers, who were waving gayly a minute before from the observation windows, were so stunned they could not describe late what happened. Some jumped to the sandy landing field along with members of the crew. Others seemed to have been pitched from the careening skyliner as it made its...

Hydrogen fuel-cell cars face an uphill battle toward mass adoption. Both cars and fueling infrastructure need to be made widely available before large numbers of consumers can seriously consider switching from gasoline to hydrogen. But under certain circumstances, hydrogen could prove very attractive to consumers for one simple reason. When produced using renewable energy, hydrogen could cost nearly the equivalent of 50-cent-per-gallon gasoline, according to a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). That will only happen if "the stars align" and several factors work in hydrogen's favor, notes industry trade journal WardsAuto noted in a June report on...

Gov. Chris Christie, who has long avoided wading into the immigration debate, said Thursday in Mexico City that he won't lay out his position on immigration reform unless he decides to run for president. "Until that time I have no role in the immigration debate, except for how it may affect the individual citizens of New Jersey, which I'll deal with as governor," the New Jersey Republican told reporters. "But I won't have anything to say on immigration unless and until I become a candidate for president of the United States," he continued. "If that happens, then I will articulate...

Chris Christie is plunging into what amounts to a cross-country revival tour, looking to recover from a clumsy political scandal and reclaim his place as a promising Republican presidential prospect. In one recent week, it was on-the-ground politics in Tennessee and New Mexico. This week, after a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, the New Jersey governor returns to the late night comedy circuit with an appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show." Then he'll stop by Mitt Romney's Utah summit, a private event for donors and GOP establishment leaders, and the week after that he heads to Washington to court Christian conservatives at...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t relish the idea of campaigning against Jeb Bush in 2016. In fact, a presidential primary tussle with the former Florida governor would be “stressful,” Christie acknowledged Tuesday. “You like to run against people that you don’t like, not run against people that you do like and respect, so of course it would be stressful,” Christie said on New Jersey radio station 101.5′s “Ask the Governor” program. “I am close with the Bush family … [Jeb] has been a wonderful friend to me, especially during [superstorm] Sandy and the aftermath,” he added. When asked about...

O-flation Highlights Chilling Similarities between Obama & Emperor Nero Craving of Fame, Lavish spending and unprecedented currency debasement. Comparing and contrasting the two tyrants.

Today has the dubious distinction of being the 6th Hindenburg Omen in eight days. hindfed The New York Stock Exchange has seen a massive rise in its index since Quantitative Easing began. nyafed All eyes are on St Louis Fed President James Bullard for hints on tapering at 3:15pm EST today. Chances are he will say the same things as The Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart. Like the raptors in “Jurassic Park,” The Fed board members are doing coordinated attack patterns to signal their taper intentions. Raptors-in-Jurassic-Park--002 Both the US Treasury yield and dollar swaps curves are upward sloping indicating that rates...

The US Treasury auction went off better than last week’s 10 and 30 year auctions. ta36mth Particularly with regard to the bid/cover ratios. The 6 month bid/cover remains at 5.01 while the 10 year and 30 year are lower and at their 2nd lowest point since early 2009 when QE1 began. This is indicating that there are fears that The Fed will slow down the taper of $88 billion per month in Agency MBS and Treasury purchases. But at the long- and mid-section of the yield curve, not the short-end. Here is a chart of Expected Future Outcomes and Most...

The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet has swelled to $3.6 trillion since 2008. And The Fed keeps adding $88 billion in Treasury and agency mortgage-backed securities purchases each month. fedbal081113 The stock market has taken off like a jackrabbit, particularly after March 18, 2009 when the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced that the program would be expanded by an additional $ 1 trillion in purchases of Treasury and Agency MBS securities. $750 billion in purchases of agency MBS and $300 billion in Treasury purchases, to be precise. fedbalspx Now The Fed is hinting at tapering of the $88 billion...

The stock market has experienced a fantastic run with the advent of quantitative easing (QE) policies by The Fed. Here is a chart of the S&P 500 index versus the Fed Funds Target rate. spxfed20`13 But The Hindenburg Omen* oracles (like Mark Faber) are coming out with warnings of a 20% drop in the SPX. To be sure, the Hindenburg Omen is flashing red … again. homentoday Will this be a redux of the 1987 stock market crash (as Mark Faber claims) when The Fed jumped in after the crash? spx1987 Or will it be a gradual decline like gold?...

The stock market has experienced a fantastic run with the advent of quantitative easing (QE) policies by The Fed. Here is a chart of the S&P 500 index versus the Fed Funds Target rate. spxfed20`13 But The Hindenburg Omen* oracles (like Mark Faber) are coming out with warnings of a 20% drop in the SPX. To be sure, the Hindenburg Omen is flashing red. hund080913 Will this be a redux of the 1987 stock market crash (as Mark Faber claims) when The Fed jumped in after the crash? spx1987 Or will it be a gradual decline line gold? gold080913 Of...

“Something will happen to the back of the Hindenburg,” said a letter to the German Embassy in May 1937, just before the huge dirigible burst into flames above the Lakehurst, New Jersey. The letter was eerily correct, but lacked specifics. Was it a bomb? A hydrogen leak? A thunderstorm? A spark? Saint Elmo’s Fire? Scientists and engineers from San Antonio’s very own Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) helped design, test and build Hindenburg 1/10 scale replicas to test each theory 75 years after the fact. A team of local engineers, scientists and historians teamed up with the Discovery Channel’s series “Curiosity”...