Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is A Massive "Gravity Hole" Underneath Antarctica?

If everything you know about physics is via Newton ,  than all that i am going to say is impossible.  My cloud cosmoogy Changes all that..  Most important it makes the concept of a hollow Earth plausible and by extension, a hollow Mars, Moon, Sun and every other planet at least.

Equally important life mostly resides on the inside of these shells throughout the universe.  Our lifeway is both engineered and odd man out.

This normally means that we have a weak point at the poles able to connect the two surfaces and to allow equilization when necessary. In oour case, we have conforming evidence supporting a directed comet impact which moved the crust fifteen degrees south through hudson bay 12900 BP.

This induced an internal ocean movement which flooded through those two connectors inducing the Great global flood rigorously described in Genesis.  this obviously induced massive innundations globally, cleasning the continental shelf and much else.

We have appropriate gravity lows in Hud Bay and a likely mud plug. My open question was Antarctica.  And here we are.  of course no map to check against best potential.

Is this black knowledge?  mythology tells us thousands of NAZIs went there post WWII.  And they already had gravity ships.  My physics makes this at least possible, however implausible.  The hollow earth meme has persisted without the physics for over two centuries and has never gone away.  Did jules Verne know something?

Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is A Massive "Gravity Hole" Underneath Antarctica?

Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 - 04:45 PM

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/now-they-are-actually-admitting-there-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica?

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of the American Dream blog,

For decades, we were told to ignore any of the strange reports that we were hearing about Antarctica. Experts assured us that nothing unusual was going on and that there wasn’t anything to be concerned about. Of course we couldn’t go investigate for ourselves, because as you will see below, there are 72 areas of Antarctica that only those with a special permit are allowed to enter. And if you try to fly to Antarctica without authorization, you will get into all sorts of trouble.

So why all the secrecy?

What are they trying to hide from all the rest of us?

One thing that scientists are admitting about Antarctica is that it sits directly above the strongest “gravity hole” on the entire planet…

Earth may look like a smooth “blue marble” from space, but it’s better to imagine it as a slightly gnarled orange, with an inside that’s firm in parts, but squishier in others. Since the planet isn’t a perfect sphere and its internal density varies across the globe, gravitational pull changes from place to place. Where there’s less mass in the underlying geology, gravity is weaker, and vice versa.

These dips in the gravitational field are formally known as gravity anomalies, but they’re more commonly called “gravity holes”. The largest is found in the middle of the Indian Ocean, spanning over 3 million square kilometers (roughly 1,100,000 square miles), while the strongest is found in Antarctica.

Isn’t that interesting?

It turns out that there is a gigantic “hole” under Antarctica after all.

But the experts are insisting that there really isn’t anything particularly special about it. In fact, they try to make it sound as boring as possible…

A “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica sounds like the plot to a bad sci-fi movie, but it’s a very real situation deep beneath the Earth’s surface stretching back tens of millions of years. The phenomenon thankfully isn’t as apocalyptic as it sounds, either. In fact, researchers say these complex interactions between rock densities, gravitational pull, and sea levels are actually helping them understand how the southernmost continent’s ice sheets evolved, and what their influences mean for the planet’s climate.

Yawn.

That does sound pretty boring.

But could it be possible that there is a lot more to this than we are being told?

It is being reported that the team of researchers that mapped the colossal gravity hole directly under Antarctica was able to use a combination of methods to actually “reconstruct the three-dimensional structure” that exists underneath the continent…

In the study, published recently in Scientific Reports, Forte and Petar Glišović, Ph.D., of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics, mapped the Antarctic gravity hole and revealed how it developed over millions of years. They relied on an Earth-spanning scientific project that combined global earthquake recordings with physics-based modeling to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure inside Earth.

“Imagine doing a CT scan of the whole Earth, but we don’t have X-rays like we do in a medical office. We have earthquakes. Earthquake waves provide the ‘light’ that illuminates the interior of the planet,” Forte said.

It certainly appears that something is down there.

Could some of the reports that we have heard over the years actually be true?

I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the truth to come out.

Much of the continent is strictly off limits unless you have a special permit.

In fact, according to Wikipedia there are 72 sites that have been designated as Antarctic Specially Protected Areas…

An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies. The protected areas were established in 1961 under the Antarctic Treaty System, which governs all the land and water south of 60 latitude and protects against human development.[1] A permit is required for entry into any ASPA site.[2] The ASPA sites are protected by the governments of Australia, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Chile, France, Argentina, Poland, Russia, Norway, Japan, India, Italy, and Republic of Korea. There are currently 72 sites.

They take security in Antarctica quite seriously.

When a 19-year-old American named Ethan Guo decided that he would fly down there without permission, he was immediately arrested…

A teenage pilot, who is attempting to fly all seven continents solo, hit a patch of rough air this weekend when Chilean authorities detained him for changing his flight plan without their permission and landing in Antarctica.

Chilean prosecutors say American influencer Ethan Guo, 19, broke “multiple national and international regulations” by changing his flight plans without prior notice, landing on a part of Antarctica where the South American country maintains a territorial claim.

CNN requested a comment from Guo, whose lawyer on Sunday said the young pilot had experienced “complications” while flying.

Yes, tourists can visit Antarctica.

But you must carefully obey the rules, and you must not wander away from the very limited areas that tourists are allowed to see.

Of course most of the good stuff is in areas where tourists are never allowed, and that includes the colossal pyramid that appears to have been man-made…

I have to admit, the symmetry of that structure is quite striking.

But even though it looks like an ancient Egyptian pyramid, the official story is that this is simply a naturally-occurring structure that was shaped by erosion…

In the vast, icy expanse of Antarctica, lies a mountain that, from an aerial view, resembles an ancient Egyptian pyramid. This striking formation, nestled in a sea of snow, has captured the imagination of internet users since it went viral in 2016. However, this pyramid-like mountain is no work of human or alien architects; it’s a product of nature’s slow and relentless erosion.

This unnamed mountain stands about 4,150 feet tall. It’s located in the southern part of the Ellsworth Mountains, a rugged range first glimpsed by American aviator Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. The mountain’s pyramid shape is particularly notable because it has four steep sides, a feature that isn’t common among mountains.

I wish that I could go see it for myself.

But that certainly isn’t going to happen any time soon.

Interestingly, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse was visible in Antarctica on Tuesday…

A magnificent annular solar eclipse just swept over Antarctica, putting on an impressive display of orbital mechanics as the moon passed in front of the sun at the perfect distance from Earth to create a fiery halo in a darkened sky  —  at least for the few souls lucky enough to be in a position to see it.

Feb. 17’s annular solar eclipse occurred as the lunar disk slipped between the sun and Earth during its new moon phase. The alignment occurred as the moon travelled through a distant point in its elliptical orbit, making it appear smaller than usual in Earth’s sky.

Today’s eclipse got underway at 4:56 a.m. EST (0956 GMT), as the moon took an ever greater bite out of the solar disk, transforming its burning orb into a glowing crescent, before finally diving entirely within its fiery expanse. The moon — appearing fractionally smaller than usual — was unable to cover the entirety of the sun’s disk, leaving a thin sliver of its outer edge visible to surround Earth’s natural satellite to create a ring in the skies over Antarctica.

So many unusual things are happening in the heavens this year.

Next month there will be a spectacular blood moon eclipse, and the month after that an absolutely enormous comet may be visible to the naked eye during the daytime as it travels very close to the Sun.

The Blueberry Pie Recall Exposes a Failing Food System and Dire Health Threats

A little heavy, but the problem is in the processing step.  cold pack stabalizes the product but cannot eliminate microbiology.  We need fast ID during processing because that is were inattention allws accidents.

Cold pack from processor to consmer is secure.  as is fresh product, dried product and canned product.

decentralized processing to small local teams against local market access is profitable as traditionally shown and also highly secure when you know the who you trust.  Id think this needs to become regulatory choice.  A class action lawsuit blwback against a national operstor apeals.

Silent Contamination: The Blueberry Pie Recall Exposes a Failing Food System and Dire Health Threats

03/21/2026 // Coco Somers // 1.6K Views

Tags: badfood, badhealth, blueberry pie, Class I recall, Class II recall, Dangerous, Food and Drug Administration, food collapse, food poisoning, food recall, food supply, foodborne illness, fruits, infections, Listeria monocytogenes, listeriosis, outbreak, Product recall, products, Willamette Valley Pie Company

https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-03-21-blueberry-pie-recall-reveals-failing-food-system.html

Introduction

A quiet, nationwide recall of frozen blueberry desserts offers a chilling snapshot of a food system in terminal decay. In March 2026, over 3,800 frozen raw bulk blueberry crumble pies were pulled from shelves in Illinois and Oregon, flagged for potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium known for its lethal potential [1].

This event is not an isolated mishap but a predictable symptom of a centralized, industrialized food model that prioritizes corporate profit over human life. If nothing changes, the next contaminated bite could be your last, a silent killer hidden in the most mundane of meals.

A Deadly Dessert: The Immediate Danger on Shelves

The recall by the Willamette Valley Pie Company serves as a stark reminder of the fragile nature of our food supply [1]. For vulnerable populations – pregnant women, the elderly and the immunocompromised – Listeria is not a minor inconvenience but a direct threat to life.

The infection can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, severe neurological damage and death [1]. This pathogen is a known inhabitant of soil and water, but it finds a fertile breeding ground in the mass-production facilities that now dominate our food chain.

What the corporate press often omits is the alarming hospitalization and mortality rate associated with listeriosis. Around 90 percent of people infected require hospitalization, and 20% to 30% of patients die [1].

This is not a remote risk; it is a statistical probability baked into a system where food is treated as a commodity, not a source of sustenance and health. For healthy individuals, the symptoms may mimic the flu, but for others, it represents a catastrophic failure of public safety.

The Industrial Food Chain is Broken and Poisoned

Centralized, mass-produced food is inherently vulnerable to catastrophic, nationwide contamination events. A single point of failure in a sprawling industrial network can poison thousands of pounds of product, spreading across state lines before a recall can even be issued. The recent blueberry recall follows a related incident where 55,689 pounds of blueberries from Oregon Potato Company were recalled weeks prior, proving these are systemic failures, not anomalies [2], [3].

This industrial model strips food of its natural vitality through chemical-dependent farming and long-distance transportation. As noted in scientific literature, contamination threats are categorized into biological (like Listeria), chemical, allergenic and physical categories [4]. The reliance on chemical pesticides and industrial-scale monocropping creates toxic, pathogen-friendly environments that undermine the very nutritional value of the food.

The science is clear: foodborne pathogens thrive in these compromised systems. One study on fresh-cut lettuce processing concluded that legislation setting maximum standards for pathogens like L. monocytogenes is essential due to the high risks in industrial processing [5].

Regulatory Betrayal: The FDA's Dangerous Game of Risk Classification

In a stunning betrayal of public trust, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the recent blueberry pie recall as "Class II," a designation indicating the probability of serious adverse health consequences is considered "remote" [1]. This is a deadly pathogen with a known, significant fatality rate – yet the agency charged with protecting public health downplays the threat, prioritizing corporate stability over human safety. This is not an error; it is a policy.

The recall of the frozen blueberries just weeks earlier was deemed a "Class I" event by the FDA, indicating "a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death" [2], [6]. The fact that regulators are constantly playing catch-up, reacting to outbreaks instead of preventing them, demonstrates a captured agency serving its corporate masters.

As one expert analysis of meat and poultry recalls noted, effective crisis management requires timely intervention, but the system is often too slow to protect consumers [7]. The window for preventative safety is closing, and the FDA's reactive posture is a guaranteed recipe for more sickness and death.

Your Health is in Your Hands: The Urgent Case for Decentralization

This crisis illuminates the only rational path forward: radical self-reliance. Trusting a centralized, industrial food system is a lethal gamble. Growing your own food through organic gardening and sourcing from verified local producers is no longer a quaint hobby; it is a critical survival strategy.

The scientific literature acknowledges that consumer concerns about food safety are valid and growing [8]. Decentralization is the antidote. Clean, home-grown food fortified with natural phytonutrients is the only reliable defense against a compromised supply chain.

The industrial system strips food of these vital compounds through processing and chemical use. In contrast, organic agriculture, as reviewed in scientific journals, focuses on producing food of higher nutritional quality without synthetic inputs, addressing the ecological awareness and distrust born from repeated food scandals [9]. By taking control of your food source, you reject the poisoned offerings of a broken model and reclaim your health sovereignty.

Conclusion: If Nothing Changes, the Next Recall Could Be Your Last Meal

The pattern is undeniable and accelerating. From celery [10] and cantaloupe [11] to packaged pasta [12] and now blueberry pies, the industrial food chain is delivering consistent doses of contamination alongside its products. Regulatory agencies like the FDA have proven they are not guardians of public health but facilitators of corporate risk management.

The time for passive consumerism is over. The time to act is now. Reject the centralized, contaminated offerings. Seek out local farmers, start a garden and invest in food sovereignty.

Your health and the health of your family depends not on the next government warning or corporate recall notice, but on the conscious choices you make today to source clean, life-giving nourishment. The silent contamination in your freezer is a warning. Heed it, or become another statistic in a failing system's body count.

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Food safety crisis Packaged pasta recall expands as Listeria death toll rises exposing gaps in retailer oversight - NaturalNews.com. Patrick Lewis. October 03, 2025.

Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage

For this to end, Kharg Island needs to be taken.  Then the coin runs out.

And just who is running Iran today?

The body has to be dying.

Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage

Saturday, Mar 21, 2026 - 01:55 PM

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/iran-ready-let-japanese-ships-use-hormuz-chinese-indian-tankers-already-allowed-passage

While Iran's decision to close the Straits of Hormuz in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign was understandable, after all it's the biggest point of leverage the IRGC-controlled nation has left (it is certainly more understandable than bombing all of its Gulf neighbors in the process pushing them from being on the fence to being staunchly anti-Iran), there was always a bit of a glitch in Tehran's calculus: as we showed the day the war broke out, the biggest clients of Gulf exporting nations by far are China, India, Korea and Japan, namely Asian countries which - with the exception of Japan - are hardly allies of the US. Therefore, the countries that would be hit the hardest were those Pacific rim nations that would buy millions of barrels of oil daily from Gulf countries before the war, and now find that oil indefinitely blocked behind the Strait.

Nowhere has this asymmetric impact been more evident than in the price of Asian-basin grades such as Dubai and Oman, which hit a record $170 on Thursday before retracing modestly to $160, while at the same time Europe-heavy Brent has been trading around $110, and WTI crude which primarily feeds the US is trading just below $100.

As a result, it's hardly a surprise that while ideologically they may support Iran, Asia's largest Gulf clients are suddenly finding themselves facing crashing stock markets and a brutal stagflation.

It's also why while the world's attention has been focused on the escalating daily attacks in the Gulf, which last week crippled global LNG supplies for years - in the process once again hammering Asian supply chains far more than the US which for years has been swimming in natural gas - there has been a furious backchanneling operation to allow passage for tankers belong to said Asian countries.

To wit, late on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the nation was prepared to facilitate passage for Japanese vessels through the Strait of Hormuz after consultations between the countries’ officials, according to Kyodo News.

"We have not closed the strait. It is open," Araghchi said in a telephone interview with Kyodo News on Friday. He also stressed that Iran, which was attacked by the United States and Israel in late February, is seeking "not a cease-fire, but a complete, comprehensive and lasting end to the war."

Araghchi said Iran has not closed the strategic waterway but has imposed restrictions on vessels belonging to countries involved in attacks against Iran, while offering assistance to others amid heightened security concerns. He added that Iran is prepared to ensure safe passage for countries such as Japan if they coordinate with Tehran.

Japan relies on the Middle East for over 90 percent of its crude oil imports, most of which travel through the strait.

Araghchi made the comments in an interview with the Japanese news agency on Friday, Kyodo said. Japan relies heavily on the Middle East for its oil-import needs. The war in Iran prompted the Asian nation to release oil from its reserves this month.

Araghchi, a former ambassador to Japan, has held phone talks with Motegi twice since the attacks on Iran were launched on Feb. 28. The top Iranian diplomat said he had discussed the passage of Japanese ships through the strait with Motegi.

In their most recent conversation earlier in the week, Motegi urged Iran to ensure the safety of all vessels in the strait.

In Tokyo, a Foreign Ministry official said Japan will carefully assess Araghchi's remarks, adding even if Japanese vessels are able to sail through, the surge in energy prices will remain.

A Japanese government official said that "directly negotiating with the Iranian side" is the "most effective way" to lift the blockade of the strait, while noting the need to avoid provoking the United States.

The potential de-escalation comes as Japan has also been under pressure from US President Donald Trump to help secure the strait. At an in-person meeting with the president earlier this week in Washington, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi explained to him the legal limits to Japan’s involvement in such efforts. At the same time, she highlighted areas of agreement, including a pledge to import more oil from the US and to cooperate on missile development.

But it's not just Japan. In recent days, vessels from countries such as India, Pakistan and Turkey have also passed through the strait.As a reminder, all ships that fly Chinese national flags are free to pass the Strait of Hormuz as Beijing remains Tehran's only financial lifeline.

In another indication that Iran's stance on the Hormuz blockade is softening, the Iranian Navy guided an Indian liquefied petroleum gas tanker through the Strait of Hormuz last week, allowing the ship to pass on a pre-approved route following diplomatic engagement by New Delhi, according to a senior officer onboard the vessel.

As Bloomberg reports, the officer asked for anonymity, as the crew of his vessel — one of two Indian ships that made the crossing — were not permitted to talk to the media. His account appears to confirm analysts’ views that Tehran is trying to impose a traffic control system through the strait, permitting safe passage for friendly vessels while leaving others fearful of attack.

Over the past week, several ships have transited via a narrow gap between the Iranian islands of Larak and Qeshm, and tracked close to the Iranian coast.

They include two bulk carriers that had called at Iranian ports, and a Pakistani-flagged vessel, the Karachi.

The officer on the Indian LPG ship declined to give specific details of their route. They traveled with their automatic identification system, or AIS, system switched off, according to the officer and AIS data analyzed by Bloomberg, turning it back on after they were safely out into the Gulf of Oman. The officer said the ship was also unable to use GPS, which has been subject to widespread interference since the beginning of the conflict. That meant the crossing took hours longer than usual.

During the crossing, the officer’s ship was in contact with the Iranian navy by radio, he said. The Iranians took details of the ship’s flag, name, origin and destination ports, and the nationality of the crew members - all of whom were Indian - and guided them on an agreed course.

Before they entered the strait last week, sailors onboard the LPG tanker prepared their life rafts, the officer said. They had been anchored in the Persian Gulf for around 10 days when they were told on the morning of Friday March 13 that they had been granted permission to make the transit that night. On the far side of the strait, Indian Navy ships were waiting to escort them, with the national flag flying higher than usual, the officer said. The vessel has since sailed on to India.

Anil Trigunayat, a former Indian ambassador in Jordan and Libya, said that the fact India was able to secure safe passage shows that diplomacy is possible. “Iran also would not want to burn bridges with everyone at this juncture,” he said. “India, if needed, can also play the role of an interlocutor. These factors have collectively led to India getting this window.”

On Saturday, the WSJ reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he reiterated the importance of keeping international shipping lanes open during a call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Modi said in a social-media post on Saturday that he condemned attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, which he said threaten stability and disrupt global supply chains. He also “reiterated the importance of safeguarding freedom of navigation and ensuring that shipping lanes remain open and secure,” said the post.

While two India-flagged tankers passed through the Strait about a week ago, India is now negotiating for more ships to be able to cross, Indian maritime government officials have told The Wall Street Journal, and indeed overnight we received reports that two additional LPG tankers had crossed the strait with Indian navy protection.

Iran’s threats to ships passing through the strait give the government in Tehran leverage over global energy markets, pushing up prices and creating fears of shortages of oil, natural gas, cooking fuel and fertilizer. Around a fifth of the world’s oil normally passes through the channel. Since the beginning of the war in late February, several ships have been struck by missiles or drones in the strait, at least two seafarers have died, and insurance costs have soared. There have been reports that Iran has mined the waterway.

“It seems that Iran is allowing select vessels to transit Hormuz after verification which takes place during the ships’ transit inside Iranian waters,” said Martin Kelly, head of advisory at EOS Risk Group. “While ships are being allowed to transit, it is mostly only to the benefit of Iran.”

Which is to be expected until some sort of ceasefire deal is reach, or the Iran government capitulates. But even if passage remains limited, recall again that the primary shippers through the Strait are already nations that are viewed as either openly friendly to Iran, such as China, or quasi friendly, such as India and now, Japan. Which means that a significant percentage of the ships that would otherwise be blocked by Iran, can pass through, and the actual limitation to oil and LNG passage is much less than the mainstream media reports.

New Study Finds 90% Of Sea Level Research Relies On Models, Not Real Measurements

I live by the Salish Sea which is a protected sea geographically.  I came here is 1972 and the seawall was close to been complete.  It had been worked on since the 1930s.  It is now 2026 and there is no change at all in visible sea level.

All the empirical evidence worldwide tells us nothing is happening.

In fact, we should mention that if all the sea ice melted, still nothing would happen.  It is only when a glacier melts that sometging happens.  most of our glaciers are still stuck on land inside the 15 degree latitude and are hardly galloping to the sea.

The empirical evidence tells us that nothing will happen.  this implies all model output beyond zero is garbage.  Do you see the tyrend?

New Study Finds 90% Of Sea Level Research Relies On Models, Not Real Measurements

By Admin

March 18, 2026

8:53 pm

https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/03/18/new-study-finds-90-of-sea-level-research-relies-on-models-not-real-measurements/

Media warn sea levels are worse than thought, but a review finds most studies rely on models.

by Climate Discussion Nexus

This just in: a CNN headline reads, “Scientists find sea levels are already much higher than we thought. That could spell trouble for the future”. How the Dickens, you might reasonably cry, could they be higher than we thought? [some emphasis, links added]

As in “more than 3 feet in some regions”? How could you be wrong about whether the water was up to your ankles or your chest?

The New York Times likewise insists that “Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows—Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.”

So why didn’t they notice? And the answer turns out to be worse than the question. See, the vast majority of studies of sea levels were based not on measurements but on wildly inaccurate models.

Leading to the conclusion, CNN would have us believe, that the science is settled, and worse than we thought, “raising alarms that the world is underestimating the extent of the threat and how quickly coastlines could disappear,” but this time they’ve got it right, for sure.

If you had just discovered that something you had firmly believed to be fact was pretty much just made up, surely the appropriate response would be a pause for reflection on all manner of topics, including, painfully, your own gullibility and dogmatism. But no. Rather, the piece immediately shrills:“Sea level rise is one of the most visible and alarming impacts of the human-driven climate crisis, threatening hundreds of millions of people who live along global coastlines. Scientists estimate we’re already locked into around 6 inches of global sea level rise by 2050.”

Now this passage is tosh. First, because the scientists who estimate say no such thing. NOAA, for instance, makes the possibly overheated claim that:

“The rate of global sea level rise is accelerating: it has more than doubled from 0.06 inches (1.4 millimeters) per year throughout most of the twentieth century to 0.14 inches (3.6 millimeters) per year from 2006-2015.”

But even so, 0.14 inches per year is only 1.4 inches per decade. And since we have less than 2.5 decades between now and 2050, we get less than … uh, can anyone in the newsroom do math even with a computer? Yup, it’d be 1.4 times 2.5, which is… hang on… 3.5 inches. Not six. Dang.

Oh well. Math is hard. But what makes that statement really insolent rubbish is that it’s exactly what journalists have been saying scientists were saying for decades now.

And what’s the point of a dramatic new finding if it changes nothing, not even the verbiage?

OK, what also makes it insolent rubbish is the insinuation that anyone might plausibly be off by three feet about the water level in their local harbour, beach, etc., until some expert comes along and informs them that secretly their dock is underwater.

But there’s more.

Where the story gets interesting, while remaining insolent rubbish, is that in paragraph six it explains that:

“The report authors analyzed 385 peer-reviewed studies published over the past 15 years on sea level rise and the hazards it poses to coastlines. They found 90% relied only on assumptions from models rather than real, measured observations.”

What? You mean the whole field is conducted inside a computer in brazen disregard of actual measurements? Surely that’s the lead, that’s the headline.

That’s a staggering thing to discover and, as noted above, an even more staggering thing to discover and go right on believing everything else you believed about the climate crisis, including its sea-level-rise aspect.

And it’s always-worse-than-we-thought aspect, since the article goes on immediately that:

“It’s a ‘methodological blind spot’ that has resulted in widespread underestimations of coastal sea levels and people’s exposure to their related hazards, [study co-author Philip] Minderhoud said.”

So, isn’t it serious that the people who’ve been doing all this stuff and fueling the panic for a decade and a half had this “methodological blind spot” of not caring about facts?

Yes, but only in the usual way:

“The findings suggest that if sea level rises by around 3 feet, it would put 37% more land underwater than currently assumed, affecting up to 132 million people across the world.”

No no no no no no no, we cry. Stop. Just stop. The only way that claim can be true is if a bunch more land is already underwater than people believed just by looking at it.

Researchers try to disprove Western claims about ‘low IQs in Africa’ and get BAD news…

It is plausible that easurable IQ is a function of the language base itself.  Imagine math without zero. Yet that held until several centuries ago. Our languages are deeply complex because our societies are deeply complex.  Not so much in Africa dependent on basic natural intelligence with minimal complexity.

My take home is that we are all a combination of that basic natural intelligence and a body of recieved inputs.  In our world that means english and its million words.  contemplating zero changes everything.

These tests need to be done on the basis of english fuency and all that.  by the way our own society does not work hard to test the bottom third who can not ptoperly graduate.  Proper sampling may surprise us.

Researchers try to disprove Western claims about ‘low IQs in Africa’ and get BAD news…

March 20, 2026 (a day ago)

This is one heck of an explosive viral story.

It starts with claims about low-IQ Africans and just takes off from there.

It all started when an Africa-based research team decided to challenge and prove wrong a very long-standing claim in Western circles about low IQ levels in African countries. Instead of continuing to argue about it, they decided to put these claims to the test. They conducted a large-scale IQ assessment in Lagos, Nigeria, with a mixed bag of participants over the age of 16.

The results were not what they wanted and are what’s going viral.

As it turns out, those “Western circles” were right all along.

According to the data they shared, the average score came in around 73, with a median just under 70. More than half of participants actually scored below 70. These are numbers that are way below the average.

BREAKING – An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7. pic.twitter.com/fBlDwIBiNV

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 19, 2026

Those researchers are probably wishing they never took on this challenge.

But, in all fairness, the people who took the test aren’t living in the same conditions as someone growing up in a highly developed, tech-heavy environment. Access to education, quality of schooling, and nutrition likely play a role in how someone performs on something like this and in life.

However, that doesn’t erase the very low results, and it does point to real problems in parts of Africa.

Aside from the education issues and poor nutrition, some of this may come down to language. That’s what an American philosophy teacher who spent over a decade teaching at African universities says.

I am an American who taught philosophy in several African universities from 1976 to 1988, and have lived since that time in South Africa. When I first came to Africa, I knew virtually nothing about the continent or its people, but I began learning quickly. I noticed, for example, that Africans rarely kept promises and saw no need to apologize when they broke them. It was as if they were unaware they had done anything that called for an apology.

It took many years for me to understand why Africans behaved this way but I think I can now explain this and other behavior that characterizes Africa. I believe that morality requires abstract thinking—as does planning for the future—and that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans.

My first inklings about what may be a deficiency in abstract thinking came from what I began to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. “You can’t say that,” they explained. “All you can say is that it is ‘up’.” “How about right at the top?” “Nope; just ‘up’.” In other words, there appeared to be no way to express gradations.

A few years later, in Nairobi, I learned something else about African languages when two women expressed surprise at my English dictionary. “Isn’t English your language?” they asked. “Yes,” I said. “It’s my only language.” “Then why do you need a dictionary?”

They were puzzled that I needed a dictionary, and I was puzzled by their puzzlement. I explained that there are times when you hear a word you’re not sure about and so you look it up. “But if English is your language,” they asked, “how can there be words you don’t know?” “What?” I said. “No one knows all the words of his language.”

I have concluded that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

At the end of the day, facts are facts, no matter how hard the left tries to spin them.

The truth isn’t something to run from or cover up.

And if there’s any real value in this new research, it’s that these low results can help point to areas where improvements are desperately needed, especially when it comes to education and developing critical thinking skills for these folks.

What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show

This whole debate has been ongoing forever, simply to evade the real issue.  It is not basic income or minimum wage as a solution,  It is a base job far every person in society linked to the uderlying cost structure.

This is not an impossible concept and needs to be operated naturally through the natural community and the rule of tweelv for best results.

In the meantime we have ignorance maskerading as meaningful commentary.

What 122 Universal Basic Income Experiments Actually Show

After more than 100 pilots, the evidence shows that universal basic income does little to boost employment and risks unintended economic costs.

Vance Ginn

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March 20, 2026

Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. Recent pieces in Newsweek, the LSE Business Review, and Fortune have all helped push the idea that AI may soon wipe out so many jobs that Washington will need to send everyone a check.

That makes for a catchy headline. It also makes for terrible economics.

The right question is not whether AI will disrupt work. Of course it will. The right question is this: after more than 100 local guaranteed-income experiments, what have we actually learned?

The answer is much less flattering to UBI than its promoters would like.

What 122 UBI-Style Pilots Show

A new AEI working paper by Kevin Corinth and Hannah Mayhew gives the best recent overview of the evidence. Per their study, there were 122 guaranteed basic income pilots across 33 states and the District of Columbia between 2017 and 2025. Those pilots allocated about $481.4 million in transfers to 40,921 recipients, with 61,664 total participants including control groups. The average recipient got about $11,765, the average pilot lasted 18.4 months, and the average monthly payment was $616.

That sounds like a mountain of evidence. It is not.

Of those 122 pilots, only 52 had published outcomes. Only 35 used randomized designs. Only 30 reported employment outcomes. So the case for UBI is not being built on some giant pile of clear, clean evidence. It is being built on a much smaller stack of studies, many of them weak, limited, or badly timed.

And here is the kicker. Among the 30 randomized pilots with published employment results, the average effect was a 0.8 percentage-point increase in employment. UBI fans will rush to wave that around. They should slow down.

AEI shows that the bigger and more credible studies tell a very different story. Among the four pilots with treatment groups of at least 500 participants, which together account for 55 percent of all treatment-group participants, the mean effect on employment was minus 3.2 percentage points. AEI also estimates a mean income elasticity of -0.18, which is consistent with standard labor-supply economics.

In plain English, when people receive more unearned income, work tends to fall at the margin. Shocking, I know. Economics still works.

Credit: American Enterprise Institute

Why the Evidence Is Weaker Than the Hype

The AEI paper is useful not just for what it finds, but for how bluntly it describes the weaknesses in the evidence.

The average treatment group among those 30 studies was just 359 people, and the median was only 151. That is not exactly ironclad evidence for redesigning the American welfare state. Among the 26 pilots for which attrition could be measured, the average attrition rate was 37 percent. That is a giant warning sign. If enough people drop out, the reported results can become badly distorted.

The studies also varied widely in payment size, duration, sample composition, and even how outcomes were measured. The mean annualized payment was $7,177, equal to an average income boost of about 39.5 percent relative to baseline household income in the studies. Some pilots relied heavily on self-reported survey data. Some were conducted during or right after the COVID period — when labor markets, safety-net programs, and personal decisions were anything but normal.

AEI’s conclusion is appropriately cautious: these findings may not generalize to a permanent, universal, nationwide UBI under current or future conditions. That alone should cool off a lot of the AI-fueled policy hysteria.

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AI Will Displace Jobs. It Will Also Create Them

None of this means AI will be painless. Some jobs will shrink. Some tasks will disappear. Some workers will need to retrain, relocate, or rethink their careers. That is what happens when productivity rises and technology changes how goods and services are produced. It happened with mechanization, with computers, and with the internet. It will happen with AI.

But displacement is not the same thing as permanent mass unemployment. That leap is where the UBI argument falls apart. Economies are not fixed piles of jobs. They are dynamic systems of discovery, adaptation, and exchange. When costs fall and productivity rises, resources move. Businesses reorganize. Consumer demand changes. New occupations emerge. Old ones evolve. Some disappear. That churn is real, but so is the adaptation.

The answer to technological change is not to pay people for economic resignation. The answer is to make adaptation easier.

UBI Fails the Economics Test

There is a reason Ryan Bourne at Cato has argued that UBI is not the answer if AI comes for your job. It confuses a transition problem with a permanent income problem. Worse, it assumes that writing checks can substitute for the incentives, signals, and institutional conditions that actually create opportunity.

UBI also crashes into the budget constraint. As Max Gulker at The Daily Economy has noted, UBI is often sold through small pilots and vague moral language, but the national arithmetic is ugly. And as Robert Wright in another AIER piece points out, “universal” quickly means sending money to many people who are not poor while piling enormous costs onto taxpayers. (Bear in mind, the national debt is already rapidly approaching $40 trillion.)

That is before getting to the public-choice problem. In theory, UBI supporters sometimes imagine replacing the welfare state with one simple cash transfer. In reality, government programs rarely disappear. Bureaucracies defend themselves. Interest groups protect carveouts. Politicians promise more, not less. So a UBI would likely be stacked on top of much of the current welfare state, not substituted for it. That is not reform. That is fiscal delusion with better branding.

A Better Answer: Remove Barriers to Work

If AI means more labor-market churn, then policy should focus on mobility, flexibility, and self-sufficiency. That means less occupational licensing, lower taxes, lighter regulation, fewer benefit cliffs, less wasteful spending, and more room for entrepreneurship and job creation. The government should stop making it harder for people to pivot.

It also means reforming welfare the right way. My proposal for empowerment accounts is not a UBI. It would be targeted to people already eligible for welfare, not universal. It would include a work requirement for work-capable adults, not detach income from effort. And it would consolidate fragmented programs into a more flexible account that families control directly, reducing bureaucracy and lowering spending over time as more recipients move toward self-sufficiency.

That puts it much closer to the classical liberal insight behind replacing bureaucratic control with direct support, while avoiding the fatal error of turning the entire country into a permanent transfer state. As Art Carden reminds us at The Daily Economy, there is a long intellectual history behind cash-based assistance. But today’s UBI politics are not really about shrinking the state. They are mostly about expanding it because elites fear AI.

Don’t Make Bad Policy Out of Fear

The UBI revival tells us less about AI than it does about politics. New technology arrives, uncertainty rises, and too many policymakers reach for the federal checkbook as if it were a magic wand. It is not.

After 122 local experiments, the case for UBI is still weak. The best evidence does not show a jobs renaissance. The larger studies show employment declines. The broader evidence base is riddled with small sample sizes, high attrition, and limited generalizability. That is a flimsy foundation for a permanent national entitlement.

AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal dependency. It is a freer economy with stronger incentives to work, save, invest, adapt, and prosper.

Three weeks in, Iran war slips beyond Trump’s control as escalation outpaces exit strategy

Right now we are at war with an army of rats packing drones able to cause real damage but otherwise undetectable without boots on the ground.  this can operate without central control.

Obviously not good because cleaning it out demands a local persian based army able to do the nasty work. That takes time to build out and supply and looks like civil war.

The USA can seize Kharg Island and perhaps some production assets to hand but no more.

And just why now?  Is humiliation by Canada that unendurable?  Is this cover for capitulation?

Three weeks in, Iran war slips beyond Trump’s control as escalation outpaces exit strate

 March 21, 2026, 18:30:47 IST

Three weeks into the Iran conflict, President Trump’s exit strategy falters as regional escalations and Israeli strikes push the war beyond US control into a dangerous regional quagmire.

hat began as a targeted US-led military push against Iran has morphed into a volatile regional confrontation within three weeks, raising serious questions about whether Donald Trump’s administration still controls the trajectory of the war.

Early signals from Washington suggested a limited campaign with clearly defined objectives. But as strikes intensify across multiple fronts including reported Israeli operations in Tehran and Beirut, the conflict appears to be expanding faster than US strategy can contain it.

The widening theatre of engagement highlight a familiar dilemma in modern warfare: the gap between political messaging and battlefield realities. While Trump has publicly framed the operation as nearing success, indicating goals such as weakening Iran’s military infrastructure and deterring future aggression but the persistence of retaliatory strikes suggests otherwise.

Iran’s ability to sustain counterattacks, either directly or through regional proxies has complicated the notion of a quick victory.

Analysts warn that the situation now resembles past US entanglements where initial limited objectives gradually gave way to deeper involvement. The concern is no longer just about military outcomes but about whether the conflict is slipping into a cycle of escalation that neither side can easily reverse.

‘Mission accomplished’ vs ground realities

Trump’s recent remarks outlining a potential exit strategy, paired with claims of nearing victory reflect an attempt to regain narrative control. However, developments on the ground paint a far more complex picture. Continued strikes, troop deployments and heightened tensions with Iran-backed groups indicate that the war is far from winding down.

The limits of Trump’s power diplomatically, militarily and politically were thrown into sharp relief over the past week.

He was caught off-guard by the resistance of fellow Nato members and other foreign partners to deploying their navies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, according to a White House official who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.

With the president not wanting to appear isolated, some White House aides have advised Trump to quickly find an ”off-ramp” and set limits on the military operation’s scope, said one person close to the discussions. But it was unclear whether that argument was enough to sway Trump.

Trump now finds himself at a crossroads in Operation Epic Fury with no clear sign of which path he might take, analysts say.

He could go all-in and intensify the U.S. offensive, possibly even seizing Iran’s oil hub on Kharg Island or deploying troops along Iran’s coast to hunt for missile launchers. But that would risk a long-term military commitment that the American public would mostly oppose.

Or, with both sides rejecting negotiations for now, Trump could declare victory and try to walk away, which could alienate Gulf allies who would be left with a wounded, hostile Iran – one that could still pursue a crude nuclear weapon and still exert control over shipping in the Gulf. Iran has denied it is seeking a nuclear weapon.

Risk of a wider regional spill over

Beyond the immediate US-Iran confrontation, the broader West Asia now faces the risk of a cascading crisis. The involvement or potential involvement of multiple actors, including Iran-backed militias across the region, raises the spectre of a multi-front conflict. Shipping routes, energy infrastructure and regional stability all hang in the balance.

Some observers have drawn parallels to past conflicts where incremental escalation led to long-term entanglements. The fear is that without a clearly defined and achievable endgame, the US could find itself drawn deeper into a conflict it initially sought to limit. Trump’s consideration of scaling down operations may reflect an awareness of these risks but executing such a withdrawal without triggering further instability remains a major challenge.

At the same time, Iran’s strategic calculus appears geared toward prolonging the conflict rather than seeking immediate resolution. By avoiding direct large-scale confrontation while sustaining pressure through proxies and targeted strikes, Tehran may be aiming to stretch US resources and political will.

Three weeks into the war, the central question is no longer just about military success, but about control. As escalation continues and objectives blur, the conflict increasingly looks like one that is shaping its own course—beyond the grasp of any single leader.

The high cost of miscalculation

The strategic gamble that Iran would collapse under “maximum pressure” 2.0 has, thus far, yielded a more dangerous result: a desperate and decentralised Iranian defence. West Asian observers note that by pushing the regime to the brink, the US has triggered a “scorched earth” proxy response across Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf shipping lanes.

While the Trump administration remains focused on a list of five war goals, the international community is looking at a sixth: the prevention of a global economic meltdown. With oil markets volatile and the Strait of Hormuz effectively a combat zone, the “victory” Trump nears is looking increasingly pyrrhic. The war has escalated beyond the control of a single leader’s rhetoric, leaving the world to wonder if the “exit strategy” is merely a prelude to an even larger, unmanageable catastrophe.

With inputs from agencies