News Of The Week: December 7th, 2019 - Politicians Are Gonna Politic!
Posted by Eric Renderking Fisk | December 8th, 2019 | Direct Soundcloud Link!
Kamala Harris’s campaign ended faster than your holiday turkey, but with no leftovers. Jeffery Epstein’s plastic surgeon’s death caused by the wrong fuel in his airplane’s tank? (Is that a question or an indignant statement?)
Incredible prehistoric organisms with an appetite for meteors! If your aquarium is big enough, can your pet octopus overthrow your dog as man’s best friend? Famous flying saucer photographs up for sale at an exclusive auction house, and more controversy surrounding how the largest corporations treat their laborers.
And Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk round out the show about the beginning of the winter holiday season and their new perspectives on Thanksgiving and Christmas from the perspectives of freshly minted grumpy old men. And did we mention laughs?
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Show Notes and Links
The Slate: Kamala Harris Aide Resigns With Scathing Letter: Staff Treated “Poorly,” No “Real Plan to Win” By DANIEL POLITI | November 30, 2019
New York Times: Kelly Mehlenbacher Resignation Letter
KFLA: Wrong fuel caused plane crash that killed Tampa surgeon, NTSB says.
Quartz: A controversial study has a new spin on the otherworldliness of the octopus By Ephrat LivniMay 19, 2018
Vice: Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' Extremophiles are models for early life on Earth, and we just discovered that one in particular thrives on material from off-world. By Maddie Bender Dec 5 2019, 3:18pm
Nature: "Exploring the microbial biotransformation of extraterrestrial material on nanometer scale."
Quartz: "A controversial study has a new spin on the otherworldliness of the octopus," By Ephrat LivniMay 19, 2018
BBC: "The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images," | December 3rd, 2019
Billy Meier is a Swiss national who in the 1970s claimed he had been in contact with aliens from the Pleiades star cluster - and had photographs to prove it. Published in a 1979 book by former United States Air Force pilot Wendelle C Stevens, they later appeared in publicity material for US science-fiction programme The X-Files. Now, they are up for auction at Sotheby's in the US, as part of a sale dedicated to space photography.
Knowledge Time: "Updates On The 12,000-year-old Massive Ancient Tunnels From Scotland To Turkey,"
A 12,000-year-old underground tunnel network linking Turkey to Scotland has been discovered by German archaeologist Heinrich Kush. Later on, Kush wrote a book in relation to this discovery entitled The Secrets of the Underground to an Ancient World.
According to experts, these tunnels were used as refuge areas. Most of these tunnels lead to vast and open underground galleries that have existed in some historical monuments such as churches, cemeteries and even in the middle of the forests.
The Breakaway - Dr. Heinrich Kush
Fox 29 - "Walmart facing backlash for offering employees discount instead of holiday pay," By Gabrielle Moreira | November 29, 2019.
LOS ANGELES - Many people on social media expressed outrage and urged others to boycott Walmart because the retail giant reportedly does not pay its employees overtime for working the holidays and instead offers them a small in-store discount. The Guardian reported on Wednesday that Walmart offered its employees a 10 percent and 15 percent in-store discount for working the holidays. The 15 percent discount is only available for employees during two days in December, according to a flyer the publication obtained.
