The Challenger Explosion

History 6 Minutes

Today is the 37th anniversary of the Challenger explosion that killed all 7 astronauts aboard. I found the following information on the Britannica website:

The primary goal of shuttle mission 51-L was to launch the second Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-B). It also carried the Spartan Halley spacecraft, a small satellite that was to be released by Challenger and picked up two days later after observing Halley’s Comet during its closest approach to the Sun.

The Crew

Greatest visibility among the crew went to teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe of Concord, New Hampshire, the winner of a national screening begun in 1984. McAuliffe was to conduct at least two lessons from orbit and then spend the following nine months lecturing students across the United States. The goal was to highlight the importance of teachers and to interest students in high-tech careers. Other members of the crew were commander Francis (Dick) Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, mission specialists Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, and Ronald McNair, and Hughes Aircraft engineer Gregory Jarvis.

Challenger disaster: icy conditions on day of launch

The mission experienced trouble at the outset, as the launch was postponed for several days, partly because of delays in getting the previous shuttle mission, 61-C (Columbia), back on the ground. On the night before the launch, central Florida was swept by a severe cold wave that deposited thick ice on the launch pad. On launch day, January 28, liftoff was delayed until 11:38 am. All appeared to be normal until after the vehicle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of greatest aerodynamic pressure. Mission Control told Scobee, “Challenger, go with throttle up,” and seconds later the vehicle disappeared in an explosion just 73 seconds after liftoff, at an altitude of 46,000 feet. Tapes salvaged from the wreckage showed that the instant before breakup Smith said “Uh-oh,” but nothing else was heard. Debris rained into the Atlantic Ocean for more than an hour after the explosion; searches revealed no sign of the crew.

The incident immediately grounded the shuttle program. An intensive investigation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a commission appointed by U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and chaired by former secretary of state William Rogers followed. Other members of the commission included astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, test pilot Chuck Yeager, and physicist Richard Feynman. What emerged was an appalling pattern of assumptions that the vehicle could survive minor mishaps and be pushed even further. The ill-fated launch brought to the fore the difficulties that NASA had been experiencing for many years in trying to accomplish too much with too little money.

The immediate cause of the accident was suspected within days and was fully established within a few weeks. The severe cold reduced the resiliency of two rubber O-rings that sealed the joint between the two lower segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster. (At a commission hearing, Feynman convincingly demonstrated the loss of O-ring resiliency by submerging an O-ring in a glass of ice water.) Under normal circumstances, when the shuttle’s three main engines ignited, they pressed the whole vehicle forward, and the boosters were ignited when the vehicle swung back to center. On the morning of the accident, an effect called “joint rotation” occurred, which prevented the rings from resealing and opened a path for hot exhaust gas to escape from inside the booster. Puffs of black smoke appeared on the far side of the booster in a spot not visible to most cameras.

As the vehicle ascended, the leak expanded, and after 59 seconds an 8-foot stream of flame emerged from the hole. This grew to 40 feet and gradually eroded one of three struts that secured the booster’s base to the large external tank carrying liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for the orbiter engines. At the same time, thrust in the booster lagged slightly, although within limits, and the nozzle steering systems tried to compensate. When the strut broke, the booster’s base swiveled outward, forcing its nose through the top of the external fuel tank and causing the whole tank to collapse and explode. Through ground tracking cameras this was seen as a brief flame licking from a concealed spot on the right side of the vehicle a few seconds before everything disappeared in the fireball. Even if the plume had been seen at liftoff, there would have been no hope for crew escape, because the shuttle orbiter could not survive high-speed separation from the tank until the last seconds of the boosters’ two-minute burn.

Challenger disaster: remains of the crew

Challenger broke up in the explosion, but the forward section with the crew cabin was severed in one piece; it continued to coast upward with other debris, including wings and still-flaming engines, and then plummeted to the ocean. It was believed that the crew survived the initial breakup but that loss of cabin pressure rendered them unconscious within seconds, since they did not wear pressure suits. Death probably resulted from oxygen deficiency minutes before impact.

The boosters also survived the fireball and righted themselves to continue flying, something totally unexpected. Range safety officers finally detonated their charges 30 seconds later to prevent them from overflying land. After the accident, NASA immediately began work on a redesigned solid booster for future launches.

Challenger disaster: recovered main engines

An intensive salvage operation was organized to retrieve as much of the wreckage as possible and the bodies of the crew. The task was complicated by the force of the explosion and the altitude at which it occurred, as well as the separate paths taken by the boosters.

The Rogers Commission report, delivered on June 6 to the president, faulted NASA as a whole, and its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and contractor Morton Thiokol, Inc., in Ogden, Utah, in particular, for poor engineering and management. Marshall was responsible for the shuttle boosters, engines, and tank, while Morton Thiokol manufactured the booster motors and assembled them at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Rogers Commission heard disturbing testimony from a number of engineers who had been expressing concern about the reliability of the seals for at least two years and who had warned superiors about a possible failure the night before 51-L was launched. One of the Rogers Commission’s strongest recommendations was to tighten the communication gap between shuttle managers and working engineers. In response to this implied criticism that its quality-control measures had become slack, NASA added several more checkpoints in the shuttle bureaucracy, including a new NASA safety office and a shuttle safety advisory panel, in order to prevent such a “flawed” decision to launch from being made again.

Aside from these internal fixes at NASA, however, the Rogers Commission addressed a more fundamental problem. In NASA’s efforts to streamline shuttle operations in pursuit of its declared goal of flying 24 missions a year, the commission said, the agency had simply been pushing too hard. The shuttle program had neither the personnel nor the spare parts to maintain such an ambitious flight rate without straining its physical resources or overworking its technicians.

This judgment cut to the core of the way in which the national space program had been conducted in the shuttle era. Indeed, the Challenger accident merely focused attention on more deeply seated problems that had existed for as long as 15 years. From the time it was approved by Pres. Richard Nixon in 1972, the shuttle had been conceived as a “do-everything” vehicle for carrying every kind of space payload, from commercial and scientific satellites to military spacecraft to probes bound for the outer planets. NASA’s fleet of conventional “expendable” rockets such as the Delta and Atlas had been phased out in the shuttle era as a result and were being used primarily to reach polar orbits that the shuttle could not reach from Cape Canaveral.

Although this reliance on the shuttle was the officially stated national space policy, the Department of Defense had begun to retreat from relying exclusively on the shuttle even before the Challenger accident. Concerned that shuttle launch delays would jeopardize the assured access to space of high-priority national security satellites, the Air Force in 1985 began a program of buying advanced Titan rockets as “complementary expendable launch vehicles” for its own use.

Other, less powerful groups came forward after the Challenger accident to express their long-standing unhappiness with exclusive reliance on the shuttle for their access to space. Among those calling for a “mixed fleet” of shuttles and expendable launchers were scientists whose missions now faced long delays because the shuttle had become the only existing means of carrying their spacecraft.

By July, when NASA announced that the shuttle would not be ready to fly again until 1988, there was still no decision from Congress or the White House as to whether another orbiter would be built to replace Challenger. Proponents argued that another vehicle—perhaps two more—would be needed to meet the launch needs of the 1990s, which would include construction of NASA’s international space station, a permanent facility in Earth orbit.

In mid-August Pres. Ronald Reagan announced that construction of a replacement shuttle orbiter (later named Endeavour) would begin immediately. When the shuttle resumed service, however, it would no longer be in the business of launching satellites for paying customers but would be devoted almost exclusively to defense and scientific payloads. The Reagan administration had long had the goal of stimulating a private space launch industry, and now, with the removal of a heavily subsidized competitor from the market, three different companies stepped forward within a week’s time to announce plans for operating commercial versions of the Delta, Titan, and Atlas/Centaur launchers.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster

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149 thoughts on “The Challenger Explosion”

    1. Good morning! Love this open, Pat! I never knew all of the details and never saw the AA (after-action) report. HB was only 6 when that happened, so I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to news then but that one, I remember very clearly! I was walking around the office delivering documents/mail, with a walk-man on my belt, listening to the launch. I was stunned when it blew up – totally stunned, and I quickly spread the word around the office to those who weren’t gone for lunch. They set up a TV in the conference room so people could stop in and get updated on the disaster.

      Well, we got our snow – it’s piled up about 4 inches on my front door – have no clue how much fell. But it’s still 19 degrees so the REAL cold hasn’t arrived yet – soon, I expect. Still dark so I can’t see anything yet.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        sadly there is another one coming up soon–the anniversary of the Columbia Disaster…feb 1st.
        we have partial sunshine now. we’re going out for a banana run in a couple of hours.

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            1. Partially the wind – it’s piled up even higher on the east side of my west gate – but mostly snow. It was already about half-way up the side of the beds. Birds everywhere scavenging for the seeds that dropped.

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              1. yeah, we have deer digging thru the snow with their front hooves trying to get to the grass underneath. they’re even eating the tips of the sticker bushes and lower trees.
                a couple of years we put out some corn we bought from a local farmer…but they swarmed it after a few found it and it was gone in a matter of hours. the old neighbor we had bought a corn wagon and used that for a few years, but the raccoons would camp put in there and he’d have to shoot them or the deer wouldn’t get any…

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  15. accident prone? or does someone not like him?
    FTA
    In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal published Thursday, the comedian, 72, revealed that he is recovering from a recent motorcycle accident that left him with several broken bones, only months after he sustained second-degree burns in a fire that broke out in the garage of his Los Angeles home.

    Detailing that he “got knocked off” his motorcycle on Jan. 17, Leno told the outlet, “I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”

    “But I’m okay!” the star — who is returning to Las Vegas in March — added. “I’m okay, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”
    https://people.com/health/jay-leno-broke-several-bones-in-motorcycle-crash-after-garage-fire/

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  19. this would be the obstruction they claim REALPOTUS was doing. obummer’s residences NEED to be raided NOW! this is NOT cooperation at all!!!
    FTA
    However, Obama has responded to the calls by refusing to commit to a search.

    Obama is not willing to publicly agree to a consensual search of his properties in D.C., Illinois, Massachusetts, or New York.

    In a statement addressing the recent push to comb through his personal files, spokesperson Hannah Hankins only said: “We have nothing for you at this time.”

    https://slaynews.com/news/obama-refuses-commit-search-possible-classified-documents/

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  20. shifty pencilneck being shifty again. in a campaign ad for his senate run he uses footage from the senate floor. an ethics complaint has been filed against him–cannot use footage from house or senate but shifty says it’s only in the house rules…
    FTA
    “The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency in government and civic arenas.

    “We request the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) immediately investigate whether Representative Adam Schiff abused official resources for political purposes.

    “On January 26, 2023, Representative Schiff announced he was running for U.S. Senate. In his campaign announcement video, he uses a video of himself speaking on the Senate floor, as seen below.

    “Federal law states that ‘appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.

    “To enforce this law, the ethics rules prohibit members from using any official resource for campaign or political purposes.

    “‘Official resources’ includes anything funded by taxpayers, such as a member’s official website, social media accounts, and photographs and video from the House or Senate floor.

    “To make it abundantly clear, both the House ethics rules and Senate rules specifically identify congressional video of floor proceedings as official resources that members are prohibited from using for political purposes.

    “Simply put, under the House ethics rules, a Member is prohibited from using either House or Senate photographs or video because both are official government resources.

    “This includes any photograph or video footage of floor proceedings even it was reposted from a third party source, i.e. another website or news organization,” the complaint says.

    “As the Ethics Committee has stated, Members may not re-use an image of a floor proceeding published by a third party, if the Member could not use that image in the first instance.

    “In the present case, Rep. Schiff is clearly using official government video for campaign purposes in violation of federal law and the House ethics rules.”

    https://slaynews.com/news/adam-schiff-hit-with-ethics-complaint-one-day-after-launching-senate-bid-to-replace-dianne-feinstein/

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  23. Pfizer Lawyers Help Pfizer Confess Gain of Function Research “in a limited number of cases”
    In true gaslighting form, after denying they are doing it, they admit… they are doing it.

    James Lyons-Weiler
    20 min ago

    “In a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells…”

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    1. NOPE…
      no more “it depends on what the definition of “is” is…” bullshit.
      if they admit to doing it…then it’s ILLEGAL and they MUST be punished according to the THE LAW!

      i can’t get away with i only steal from bad grocery stores…

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    1. i read this yesterday i think–the reasoning part i mean. they (along with 2 states?) are saying that ultra maggot is bypassing congress in this–usurping congress’ power.

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  25. “The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow”

    IN POLITICAL NEWS —

    1) First, the NYSlimes, now Politico, says Rutabaga is in trouble with the docs.

    2) President Trump calls out Rutabaga over the escalation in Ukraine. So Trump is now the “peace candidate.”

    3) New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Gills) could face a primary challenge from Occasional Cortex. Well, that wouldn’t be a challenge at all.

    4) Schiffty the Human Lemur has vowed revenge against McCarthy for booting him from the Intel Committee. Dunno, but I never heard of serious Lemur attacks.

    5) First, Arizona, now Iowa, has a school choice law.

    6) One small step for mankind. In Kollyfornia, Shasta County has banned Dominion voting machines.

    7) Classified docs found in former veep Mike (Tuppence) Pence include briefing papers for foreign visits.

    8) Huge victory in Florida as more than half of the homosexual/transoid parents are considering leaving the state. -Psst. Try Kollyfornia.

    9) A rookie Georgia cop has resigned after the department barred him from expressing views on traditional marriage.

    10) Cong. Matt Gaetz says that the Deep State is telling Mike (Tuppence) Pence not to run for president. The Deep State, he says, is against both Trump and Rutabaga.

    11) A Kollyfornia judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the China Virus “misinformation” law.

    12) Rutabaga is ecstatic! New research has found that a certain variant of dementia is treatable.

    13) A new study shows the U.S. would run out of long-range munitions in a week in a war with the ChiComs.

    14) Just like that, much of Kollyfornia’s water problem went away. (See the side-by-side comparisons).

    15) Rutabaga had a big donor pal give his niece an $85,000 a year job while she was on probation for shoplifting, and she claimed it was a minimum wage job and wouldn’t take anything under $180,000.

    (36 total)

    https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/01/27/the-news-of-today-is-the-history-of-tomorrow-january-27-2023/

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  26. SparrowHawk
    January 28, 2023 8:29 am

    The sheer numbers are staggering, this is what people are not seeing yet, but they will …. then look out !

    Vaccine Disaster: ‘We’re Talking North of 450,000 Americans’ Losing Their Lives Due to the Jab
    The CDC has certified over 16,000 Americans that have died after the vaccine — 16,000 times an underreporting factor of 30 = 480,000 C19 jab deaths. @redvoicenews @P_McCulloughMD

    2022 should be called the year of mass death

    It is estimated that 250k excess deaths occurred in the United States alone.
    We are no longer in a pandemic & there were no bombs dropped on American cities so what happened?

    This is more American deaths than in all of World War 1

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  27. “SEL: Teaching “Development Agents” the Ropes”
    By Wendi Strauch Mahoney -January 26, 2023

    EXCERPT: “The West Shore School District (WSSD) in Pennsylvania denied lawful opt-out requests from parents who do not want SEL curricula forced on their children. Stephen Miller’s organization, America First Legal (AFL), and counsel Wally Zimolong filed a lawsuit against the district “for illegally subjecting children to radical and invasive Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum and illegally denying lawful opt-out requests from multiple concerned parents.” Four parents are named as Plaintiffs in the case.

    CharacterStrong is the SEL platform WSSD uses in its schools in grades K-8. According to the website, the curriculum is built “into the daily fabric” of the school day. As the lawsuit states, the CharacterStrong SEL curriculum “intentionally teaches character traits and goes in-depth into what these traits look like and then follows up with practical ways to improve them in their own lives and with those around them.”

    The perhaps well-intended curriculum communicates a specific ideological stance meant to influence young, impressionable minds in the domain of social-emotional behavior. Many parents believe schools should teach the fundamentals of math, reading, and science instead of wandering into the realm of parental responsibility. Per the lawsuit, “the School District acknowledges that the CharacterStrong SEL curriculum is designed to supplement the personal values that parents instill in their children.” The Plaintiffs believe the curriculum “conflicts with their Christian beliefs.”

    Kristi Alwine is one of the Plaintiffs and the mother of two children who attend one of the District’s schools. On August 25, 2022, Alwine provided written notice under 22 Pa. Code § 4.4(b)(3), which allows a parent to apply in writing for an excuse from instruction because of a religious belief. Nothing in the code states the parent must justify or explain the request. Alwine’s request stated, “I am writing to opt my children (identifies children and schools) out of the SEL/CASEL program CharacterStrong as it does not reflect our values, morals, and beliefs in our religion.” Concerning religious beliefs, the lawsuit cites a Supreme Court Opinion that states, “[R]eligious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection.”

    The Principal, Chris Stine of the Rossmoyne Elementary School, initially responded to Alwine affirmatively, accepting her request. Stine responded, “I have received the form and will let the teachers know that your children will not be present for these lessons.” However, later in the day, Alwine was informed by “defendant Whye” that Alwine’s rights would not be respected and essentially asked Alwine to justify her right to request the excusal.

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    How Prevalent is SEL and Why is it Being Pushed?
    According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a governing body committed to spreading SEL, “27 states have adopted K-12 SEL competencies, and all 50 have adopted pre-K SEL competencies.” This is not a movement that plans to disappear. In fact, global organizations are doubling down in the name of “sustainable development goals” or SDGs.

    According to an article on the importance of SEL from The Federalist, “UNESCO is hellbent on getting SEL into every school in America and across the world.” Using the word “resilience,” a term also found frequently in the halls of our own government lexicon, UNESCO explains that educational institutions must employ “emotional resilience programs.”

    What does that mean? It means these global and local governmental bodies are committed to knocking the spark out of the child. When the spark is gone, molding that child to a more alien (to him) prescribed philosophical agenda is much easier. The child is much less likely to assert or challenge his familial or individual cultural mores and much more likely to step into line. The goal is to reduce the “taxing cognitive dissonance.” If children are taught to value certain targeted behaviors early, they will be more “resilient.” In this case, “resilience” means they will be more malleable and amenable to the specific, targeted agendas of the woke-minded gods.”

    https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/01/26/sel-teaching-development-agents-the-ropes/

    “Nebraska — Free Standing Competencies/Standards: Nebraska ‘s Learning and Development Standards (2018) include SEL competencies/standards for children birth to age 5.

    Guidance/Resources: The Nebraska Department of Education provides resources on SEL, including resources for Nebraska Educators and Leaders.

    Webpage: More information can be found on NE SEL Webpage.”

    https://casel.org/systemic-implementation/sel-policy-at-the-state-level/#NE

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    1. schools should attempt to usurp parental responsibilities. they bear no responsibility for the child other than to teach them math, reading science.
      unless they would like to be sued should the child commit a crime–that would show a failure of the school to instill good character.

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  28. “Dubai Paid Beyonce $24M. She Gave Them Her Integrity — Our celebrities call democracy tyranny, then don’t recognize real tyranny when it hands them a check.”

    By Tanya Gold
    January 28, 2023

    EXCERPT: “I went to Dubai once. It is where tyranny meets hyper-capitalism, and it is as awful as it sounds. I was helping a journalist friend research an article. I spent my days admiring an undersea bedroom in a lagoon and a ski slope inside a mall. At night I would meet trafficked maids, or a woman imprisoned for adultery. I asked an ancient British tourist why he came here for his holidays. He said, “The staff will hold your dick if you ask them.” That is what Westerners like about Dubai: the indentured servitude. And the weather.

    Last week, at the grand opening of Atlantis The Royal, Dubai’s newest luxury hotel, Beyoncé gave her first live performance in five years. This gig featured a 48-person all-female orchestra—how feminist—a Lebanese dance troupe, and her daughter. She was reportedly paid $24 million for the occasion.

    Her latest album, Renaissance, is, among other things, an homage to black queer culture. She performed no songs from it; how could she in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death? So she sang her back catalog for the equivalent of ten Bugatti Chirons. Oil-rich tyrannies have generous marketing budgets; they’re selling tyranny itself.

    What Beyoncé does or doesn’t do for money wouldn’t matter but for the trend of celebrity activism, which insinuates that morality travels with a star like her wardrobe. Beyoncé acolytes say that just by arriving in Dubai she made the city gayer, a kind of subtle protest. Perhaps so subtle that even Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid—accused of abducting two of his daughters for noncompliance with his wishes, one from England, and another from a ship as she tried to flee Dubai—wouldn’t notice. Did his enforcers reconsider their stance on gayness as they sang along to “Drunk in Love”? Or are they laughing themselves stupid at the PR coup of persuading an until-now gay ally to perform at the opening of a hotel in a country that hates gays?”

    https://www.thefp.com/p/dubai-paid-beyonce-24m-she-gave-them

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  29. “YouTube Strikes Project Veritas Video – Objective Journalism – For Violating Their “Community Standards” — Kinda tells you what type of community you’re supporting if you use YouTube. And it’s a damned shame – SO many good things about YouTube!!!”

    James Lyons-Weiler
    3 min ago

    “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO)”

    James O’Keefe calls out YouTube for the illogic of their reasoning. “I really think it’s third world…”

    “We know… there are sources in Pfizer that tell us… Pfizer’s going through turmoil today… A lot of people talking about what they are doing inside, they are in damage control mode there is more information coming out…”

    Project Veritas has reached critical mass with this undercover reveal. Thank goodness for independent journalism.”

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  30. LOL

    SparrowHawk
    January 28, 2023 9:31 am

    Do you know what we are not hearing anymore ? The silence is deafening.

    ” I am Thankful to be fully Vaxxed and Boosted “
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  31. Jim in TN
    January 28, 2023 9:32 am

    This summary of Dave Rubin’s visit of Twitter makes it clear that Twitter is designed to control communication.

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/26/dave-rubins-jaw-dropping-walk-through-twitter-hq-bans-secret-labels-and-what-elon-is-doing-to-clean-it-up-n694269

    Rubin says he was shadow banned for protesting that Jordan Peterson was banned. And was not cleared when they restored Peterson. And that he was shadow banned two other ways too.

    And, it is turning out that Jack’s Magic Coffee shop is running on Magic Code. Designed to censor and magically fail if anyone tries to tinker with it. It is so bad that they are calling it a Rube Goldberg machine. They are seriously considering restarting from scratch.

    “The entire machine behind Twitter is designed to shadowban. It’s almost as if that was the primary goal rather than the product itself.”

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      1. It started snowing heavily again – straight down, very small, fine flakes. That means it’s colder higher in the atmosphere….the bitter cold that is coming our way but they have modified that somewhat now – not as cold for as long – but that changes hourly so who knows??!!??

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  33. “Pfizer Responses to Veritas Expose — A Primer on Modern Crisis Management when you can control Google, Corporate Media, and have virtually unlimited Social Media assets”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS
    23 min ago

    (Once again, Babylon Bee knocks it out of the park. Never forget the power of humor when operating on Fifth generation warfare battlefield terrain.”

    EXCERPT: “Just for the record-

    An example of directed evolution with comparison to natural evolution. The inner cycle indicates the 3 stages of the directed evolution cycle with the natural process being mimicked in brackets. The outer circle demonstrates steps in a typical experiment. The red symbols indicate functional variants, the pale symbols indicate variants with reduced function. Source: Wikipedia, encyclopedia of the approved narrative.

    Wow. What a whirlwind of a week. Still trying to catch my breath, never did make it over to my personal physician for an ECG and prescription to get my tachycardia under control. Delivered a talk/wake up/shock on the fifth gen warfare deployed on all of us over the last three years to 1,300 paying European attendees at a Stockholm conference exactly one week ago. Delayed getting back from Stockholm (via Frankfurt) due to Lufthansa’s ongoing slow decay and inability to adhere to their own flight schedules. Got Tuesday’s essay written on the plane, posted it from the airport on landing, and finally made it back to the farm by about 11:00 EST. Wednesday I drag my sorry rear end out of bed, get the obligate three cups downed and begin the day with an out-of-the-blue call from a mainstream New York investigative reporter that you would recognize seeking background information on what the heck is going on with the Florida Grand Jury investigations (which I know very little about – they are running a tight ship!). Of course I have to make a few calls to prepare for that before the 10:00 AM “on background only” discussion. Scheduled long format “Gray Matter” podcast recording at noon, requiring some background reading prior. And then, out of an otherwise cloudless blue sky, a lightning strike.

    Project Veritas pings me, asks if I would review an embargoed video that they have prepared, and then allow them to record my reaction to the material via a Zoom call. The Zoom hit scheduled so tight that I can barely get through the embargoed material before we start. And boom. We launch the call and I am still reeling from what I have just viewed. Veritas uses a very tight, abrupt editing style, and they compress a half hour of my interaction/reaction with their reporters into a few moments of the most powerful comments. The investigative reporter who did the interview and captured the video is present but off screen. I am told he is a former Pfizer employee. I am told that the drop time for the resulting video product will be 8:00 PM EST, asked to participate in a Twitter Spaces discussion beginning at 9:00 PM EST, and asked to get other physicians to join. I push out alerts that Veritas has something big coming, and to watch for it, including a personal “heads up” text message to Tucker Carlson. Steve Kirsch calls trying to noodle whatever intel I will give him, but it is embargoed and I hold the line on that. The video drops early. The Twitter Spaces discussion goes big, north of 17,000 on line live participants. Much ado over whether this is real or not. Among other things, another Pfizer whistleblower sends James O’Keefe a Pfizer org chart listing the young physician in question as having the role and title as advertised, and that gets posted in real time. The Twitter Spaces discussion keeps going after I have to drop off at 11:00 PM EST, my brain still being on European time.’

    More: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/pfizer-responses-to-veritas-expose

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  36. This is interesting….we’ve all wondered why Tucker is given so much leeway at Fox….from Malone’s article: “Clearly Pfizer has decided that the best response at this point is no response. They have disabled comments on all of their websites and social media outlets (except for those that they are “following”). Pfizer has managed to block every single major corporate news outlet from covering the story (except Tucker, who has considerable content freedom by contract with Fox). Jill posts a warning basically stating that we should expect the Empire to Strike Back.”

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    1. More from that article – I highly recommend reading the whole thing….BTW, from my own experience using Brave, they have changed and are getting worse; in most cases, now I cannot copy a picture link and post that – I have to import it to Imgur, whereas I can still do that from DDG. When I can’t find something anywhere else, I use this one: https://www.iseek.com/#/web

      “Which brings us to Friday night. Dogs wake me up at midnight, and I find that Pfizer legal has finally dropped a response at 8:00 PM EST Friday night. Again, classic textbook timing. Designed to bypass the Friday PM news cycle and more importantly to give Wall Street maximal time to digest the news before opening bell next Monday. These guys are professional grade. To recap, they have shut Google searches down, memory holed/scrubbed the internet, deployed an army of bots, trolls and chaos agents to cause confusion and doubt on social media, and almost completely suppressed any coverage of the story by the many corporate media outlets that they have been pumping money into over the last three years. Payback time.

      And in the face of all of this, still the social media chaos agents persist with their work, claiming that since they are unable to find the actual Pfizer document primary source which others have found and screen shot, this is all fake news. Are they paid and nefarious or just “dull” and incompetent? Hard to differentiate between those two options. But when the vectors of their words and actions repeatedly point in the same direction, then it gets hard to make the case against nefarious intent. That said, their seeming incompetence and apparent dependency on Google providing the confirmation of their bias provides another practical fifth gen. warfare schooling lesson. For the rest of you, can you just bypass Google searching on this topic please? I use Brave, but there are many others. When trying to triangulate truth these days, it is often useful to employ multiple different search engines.”

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      1. I don’t use them quickly enough so I just bought a package of six for $2.89 @ WM so it’s not much better here. I used to have a couple of local farmers that sold some eggs but they both lost their chickens to varmints and gave it up.

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          1. Oh, no – the horses won’t come until a certain stage, when I’ve got the basic necessities covered. And getting someone to supervise the house will be critical, so I can focus on the barn(s), pastures, shelters, fences, getting hay planted, etc., etc.

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              5. I even had it worked out that it would be part equine rescue and small animal rescue, with my Sis running the small animal portion and advising me with the equine portion. Put my brother, Red, to work doing farm work…..too late for that now – we’re all too old for it! LOL

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    1. ABOUT: “Patty Davis decided to purchase Corgi Glen Farm when Cindy Newberry decided to fulfill a long-held dream of moving to Florida. Renamed White Dove Stables after a lovely white dove that decided to frequent the farm and bring joy to all that see her!

      Raised in Texas, Patty and her dad would ride on her grandparents’ farm, Patty on her shetland pony in a western saddle. Despite being in a “rodeo town”, her interests turned to twirling in the band and other school activities. She attended the University of Texas in Austin where she met her husband and started a family. They moved to Virgina after her son Ryan was born. Patty taught Special Education in the Fairfax Co. Public Schools for 13 years.

      Her daughter Lisa began riding at age 6 out in Purcellville where they lived, so when her “sadly outgrown pony” did not want to leave, Easter was recruited to do birthday parties and taught hundreds of youngsters at Frying Pan Park until they moved (again) to Marshall and Patty began a successful breeding operation as Gypsy Stables, while continuing to teach and Lisa continued to show.

      Foxhunting, Pony Club, eventing, pony races as well as hunters and jumpers rounded out their education in the horse world. Breeding turned Patty’s attention in a whole new direction. She eventually bred her own small pony stallion, Gypsy Time Traveler who became the sire of some great ponies including Gypsy’s Sweetheart, Miss Bermuda, Gypsy Happy Go Lucky, Gap Springs Hearts Desire, as well as some small horses. When came time for “Little Man” to retire, he became a beginner lesson pony.

      Living on the 200 hundred acre farm where White Dove Stables is located at the Solomon Simpson Plantation (circa 1783), Patty enjoys the serene setting, lovely trails, berry-picking, gardening and her hot tub!”

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  44. Issue: January 27, 2023
    “Elon Musk confirms more info on Twitter’s secret blacklists–An “overeaching” keyword list.”
    By Cindy Harper
    Posted 1:11 pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ ReclaimTheNet: “Commentator Dave Rubin recently revealed that he spent two weeks at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters discussing the current state of the platform with engineers, product managers, and Elon Musk. According to Rubin, the Twitter team still lacks answers to multiple questions, such as those pertaining to the use of “secret” labels for shadow banning.

    Rubin also stated that his own account was marked with three labels, namely “Recent abuse strike,” “Recent misinformation strike,” and “Recent suspension strike.”

    In July 2022, Rubin was suspended from Twitter for defending Dr. Jordan Peterson’s tweet, which resulted in the account receiving a “suspension strike.” The suspension was later reversed; however the action on the account remained. Rubin noted that there was “an entire KeyWord database” that Twitter’s algorithm uses to categorize and potentially censor tweets but Rubin called it a “mess of overreaching” words. “Literally the word ‘gay’ was on the KeyWord list which would make you not advertiser friendly and harm the tweet in the algo,” Rubin wrote.

    “Backing up for a sec, they found the ‘recent suspension strike’ on my account most interesting because it was from July 2022, when I was suspended for calling out @jordanbpeterson’s unjust suspension. So though suspension was reversed the action on the account remained,” Rubin added.

    On December 8, 2020, reports were confirmed that Twitter leadership had implemented blacklists and shadow banning practices for years under the supervision of Vijaya Gadde and Yoel Roth, the former Twitter lead counsel and head of Twitter Trust and Safety. These practices, which included tagging Charlie Kirk (founder of Turning Point USA) with a “Do Not Amplify” tag and Dan Bongino (commentator and show host) with a “Search Blacklist” tag, had a suppressive consequence.

    Musk confirmed Rubin’s reporting, saying that the tread was “accurate.”

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  46. launch a pac? do you use them to run for an office? why would jenner be doing this?

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    1. They are Political Action Committee’s so yes, they are always attached to some cause or sometimes specific individual campaigns. They will endorse candidates that support their cause and collect money for them.

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  49. Robert R Guzzardi
    January 28, 2023 2:23 pm

    No Republican can win the nomination without Florida and no Republican can win Florida without the Palm Beach County Republican Party. We are organizing like never before. Much is happening below the radar. 

    There is NO support for a DeSantis primary challenge to Trump in Palm Beach County. I am active in the PBC Republican Party and there is no support by rank and file activists, by leadership by Republican voters or by donors for a DeSantis challenge. . NONE A DeSantis Trump primary in Florida would be devastatingly divisive and very damaging to Gov. DeSantis. Palm Beach County Republicans are 100 % for President Trump who energized a Movement LIKE NO OTHER.

     Trump 2024 is a necessity because LIKE NO OTHER only Trump can challenge the Swamp.

    Please do NOT fall into the Democratic Trap of promoting a DeSantis Trump Primary. A DeSantis Trump Primary would weaken the MAGA/America First base.  

    We elected Ron DeSantis to govern Florida for four more years because we need him here and because his work is not done here. The Republicans of Palm Beach County leadership, donors, rank and file would consider this an abandonment. 

    Please call Michael Barnett, chairman of the Palm Beach Republican Party to verify what I have said. He knows me. 

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  50. here’s my ground report from walmart:
    lots and lots of people shopping today–but less kids than normal. usually a Saturday has many many kids running and dancing (yep, dancing) in the aisles.
    not a strawberry in the place. the bananas were sparse also.
    plenty of avocados (dip for super bowl party?)
    the snack aisles were getting stacked and stacked.
    i finally found a hickory smoked ham from the supplier i liked…then i saw the use before date: 1/01/23!!!!! it’s nearly a month PAST that!
    so i went thru the rest of them–all had the same date.
    I saw a “beyond meat” display that looked untouched from the last time we were at walmart. i can’t believe they sell any of that crap

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