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Not to mention the fires in Hawaii.
When there is a huge pot of money involved, it is easy to assign evil intent on the part of evil / greedy people.
Perhaps we shouldn’t judge too hard, it is possible (however unlikely it may seem) that stupidity and poor judgement may have had a role in unfortunate circumstances.
Mrs O’leary and her cow may have started a barn fire in Chicago. Back in the lated 19th Century.
But it wasn’t the fault of the Irish lady and her milk cow, that most of the city of chicago was haphazardly built using wood and combustible materials(tar paper etc.)
One thing I am certain of, the cow didn’t kick over the oil lantern out of greed or vindictiveness.
This borders on conspiracy theory, but is it possible that drones can be used to drop something to initiate the bird flu that's been going around. In Ohio there were unknown drones spotted in the same county where thousands of chickens had to be put down. Coincidence?
Yes. The Illuminati Phone Police are behind the whole thing.
Mglawson: spread of bird flu is due to autonomous bio-drones (aka "birds"). They're fairly common.
True, it is common, but is it also possible? Tainting a food supply by making it look natural to disrupt the economy (society) would seem like a valid tactic used by shady governments nowadays.
Possible? Yes. Probable? Not even remotely. Endeavoring to conduct widespread distribution of H5N1 (which, remember, is mainly spread between birds via direct contact) using drones would require a full-fledged conspiracy involving large numbers people such as lab technicians and the like who are not particularly given to secretly tainting the food supply, a cadre of drone pilots able to maneuver their drones very close to the flocks, and a sufficiently robust spray system to coat said flocks with enough droplets to make transmission likely.
This is purely conspiracy-theory stuff.
A video done last year on one of my favorite channels (Millennial Farmer) showcased a company that promotes drones as aerial sprayers for things like fertilizer and fungicides.
(They don't do as good of a job as specialized sprayer vehicles, but if the ground is too muddy, they can at least do SOMEthing)
Anyhow, when spraying, what came out was too fine of a mist for me to see most of the time, so who knows, maybe this sort of weaponization of drones is possible.
Frightening for when SkyNet or the central computer from the Matrix series of movies decides to take over... 
Between us, though, I'm not going to worry about who might be doing it unless the administration runs out "An Expert" in a lab coat who "Definitively States" that such has been proven to not be the case...
The japanese used claypots filled with flies to spread Anthrax. Drones sounds pretty advanced technique by comparison.
The Japanese in WW2 China also spread diseases by dropping rats and other animals.
As for bird flu, look, we all know that it's an alien virus that comes in on meteors which burn up in the upper atmosphere and give the virus to high-flying birds which spread it to their low-flying relatives which spread it to farm birds. I mean, really, we knew that 20 years ago.
How many like that have been buried in glaciers for thousands of years that are let loose when ice samples are taken and studied....
No doubt, as enlightening as science can be, it's actually many times more dangerous....
Re: scientists and accidental plagues:
Frogs and other amphibians have been dying off in large numbers in the last few decades, in large part due to a fungal plague called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or BD for short.
One suggested method by which a fungal plague on amphibians could spread rapidly arround the world is herpatologists (frog scientists) handling frogs in different parts of the world, in part as part of the effort to figure out why all the frogs were dying. [Edited to add: I have no good source for the claim that herpatologists spread the plague, that's just something I've heard/read claimed.]
Stuff happens.
USS Truman has been in a collision in the Med. USN wasn't using AIS?
From the early report I saw, the ship that hit the Truman HAD it's AIS on and was on the usual track...
Looks like another bunch of officers are going to be relieved.
Attorney General Bondi has sued New York (the governor and head of the DMV among others) over the sanctuary city policy. She wants to stop New York from protecting illegal aliens (at least the criminal elements) and from issuing them driver's licenses. The Feds have "clawed back" $100 million in money previously given to New York on the basis that it was never legal to spend FEMA funds on illegal alien housing. Expect a court battle there.
Navy EA-18 Growler crashed into San Diego bay. Pilots picked up by commercial vessel about a minute after landing in water.
As far as I can tell, the whole "Sanctuary City" deal is more "We ain't going to help you because it's not what our voters want" more than active hiding.
Personally, I can see both sides.
Wonder how all the "States Rights" enthusiasts are taking this...
Or the Constitutionalists when someone sues saying "Federalism! You guys have your thing and we have ours."
Wonder how all the "States Rights" enthusiasts are taking this...
Some will look at it as, they crossed state lines to prevent prosecution, making it a Federal Issue....
The usual method when the feds want a local government to do something is to cut off all funding related to the activity from the feds to the local government if the local government does not comply.
So, as an example, the 55 MPH speed limit was enforced on the states via the federal highway funds.
Funding for prisons, law enforcement, and various state run but partially federally funded welfare programs (food stamps, school lunches, unenployment, ext) are all being used for illegal aliens, and thus could (at least arguably) be cut off from sanctuary cities or states containing sanctuary cities without this being any more of an encroachment on local authority than any number of other federal initiatives.
"Some will look at it as, they crossed state lines to prevent prosecution, making it a Federal Issue...."
Out of curiosity, does getting bussed to NY and IL by the governors of TX and FL count for that purpose, inasmuch as it wasn't particularly voluntary?
The bussed aliens from Texas were certainly voluntary. They were offered a chance to go and leapt at it because New York would treat them better. I think it was the same in Florida but don't have direct knowledge there.
The voters of New York do not want the criminal aliens. Opinions are more divided on the law-abiding aliens.
If the prior administration could have sought a legal case, however unlikely to win it in court, certainly they would have pursued it.
They fully embraced lawfare as a policy tool.
The fact the late administration chose not to seek a legal way to stop interstate transfer of migrants speaks more to the probability that such a court case would almost certainly have stopped the flow of migrants both into the United States as well as distribution of those same migrants between the States.
Haven't seen a total number, though the former administration was reportedly flying illegals into the country / NY etc on charter flights from outside the country......
Yes, it's clear that most border crossers wanted to be somewhere else, they just had to get across the river first....
Have to wonder, if everyone that crossed the Rio Grande stayed in Texas, would the group that wanted them counted in the 2020 census, still want that...
What would Texas gain in 2030, 6 or 8 new representatives.....
The early indications according to more than one media sites was that Texas was well on its way to gaining at least two congressional seats. Lately several political pundit’s (Fox news) have discussed the possibility of more. I haven’t heard 8 discussed, but it is within the realm of possibilities.
Aliens were not flown in from outside the US; the flights were for "refugees awaiting a court hearing" who showed up at the border. Technically, an alien waiting for a court hearing is "temporarily legal, pending..." The moral question is "If you know that 98% will be rejected at their hearing, and that 80% will never show up for their hearing, why are they being turned loose with a piece of paper telling them to appear months or years later?"
I haven’t heard 8 discussed, but it is within the realm of possibilities.
Put the numbers out, don't know exactly what the Population requirement for a new district/Rep...
Eight is not even within the realm of fantasy. Two is a lock, three is very possible, four is possible. Something very different would have to happen to reach 5.