https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/26/falcon-9-starlink-v10-l28-mission-status-center/

05/26/2021 14:46

Stephen Clark Stephen Clark

T-minus 13 minutes. The Falcon 9 rocket stands more than 229 feet tall and measures 12 feet in diameter. At liftoff, its nine Merlin 1D first stage engines will generate about 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

When it is fully fueled for launch, the Falcon 9 will contain more than a million pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, with a total launch mass of around 1.2 million pounds.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/05/26/luzerne-county-pennsylvania-council-unanimously-approves-investigation-into-recent-primary-election-flaws-using-dominion-voting-machines/

Officials in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, have unanimously approved the district attorney to investigate the recent primary election after on-screen ballots mislabeled Republican ballots as Democrat candidates.

(The Times Leader) – […] Dominion Voting Systems Inc., which supplied and programs the devices, said “human error” at the company caused the data entry typographical mistake that put a Democratic header at the top of Republican ballots. The county administration also acknowledged the county did not test the ballots after they were programmed into the machines, relying on the company to do that task.

Griffith’s resolution asks the DA’s office to investigate Dominion’s practices and procedures in programming and set-up of the primary ballot, the county election bureau’s review and testing and the election board’s role in election equipment oversight and security. (read more)

https://www.timesleader.com/news/1493722/luzerne-county-council-votes-to-seek-primary-investigation

It was unanimously approved by all 10 council members present, with Linda McClosky Houck absent.

https://cis.org/Bensman/What-Normalized-Mass-Illegal-Immigration-Looks-and-Feels

In all my years of working on the border, I had never witnessed anything like what I would see at just one of hundreds of openly established raft crossing points along the south Texas border, a reflective microcosm of a mass illegal immigration involving mainly families and children.

All through that night and deep into the morning on the Texas riverbank, I watched what reminded me of a D-Day-like landing of Mexican cartel smugglers paddling blow-up rafts — sometimes two or three abreast in unending succession — brimming with men, women and children — under the indifferent watch of American authorities ordered by the Biden administration to stand down.

Mexican cartel raft pilots displayed little caution about the police all around as they stepped out of their rafts onto the Texas shoreline to unload passengers. They did so just feet away from National Guard soldiers, Border Patrol agents, and Texas Department of Public Safety officers who not very long ago would have pounced on them.

In a most unnatural truce between natural adversaries, all badged American authority figures now work under orders to do nothing that could possibly obstruct the nonstop delivery of foreign families onto the Texas shore and instead to do everything to keep them moving inland to processing stations.

Seeing all this up close, two realizations struck me. One was that America’s current mass illegal immigration crisis has normalized into a streamlined, industrial fixture with conveyor-belt supporting infrastructure expanding on both sides of the border. It has transitioned from a man-bites-dog, newsworthy process to a routine, 7-days-a-week, 365 days-a-year part of the landscape.

China makes the Times and Wash Post look like amatures

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224463.shtml

A diplomatic episode during South Korean President Moon Jae-in's visit to the US last week unmasked the US contempt and hypocrisy toward its allies.

Following the joint press conference by Moon and US Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday US time, Harris was caught on camera "wiping" her hand immediately after shaking hands with Moon. This is a rare scene in formal diplomatic occasions.

Controversies have surfaced on social media and a few US media outlets like Fox News and the New York Post, while most mainstream US pro-establishment media have remained silent, as if they did not notice it at all. It may be just a tidbit, yet the episode mirrors some kind of US mentality toward its allies - an insincere mind-set.

Granted, possible scenarios could be: Harris may have mysophobia (an irrational fear of dirt), it may be a habit without ill intentions, or Harris might not have received proper training on diplomatic protocols. Yet if those are excluded, there would be one explanation left - the US is filled with the sense of superiority, and it simply looks down on, or even disdains, other countries automatically.