Harold F. Cobin

Multimedia reporter/still-video photographer. Contributor to "Nancy On Norwalk." Former newspaper reporter.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” — Kash Patel (2023)

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Every "UFO video" is grainy for a reason: the moment the footage is clear, the mystery vanishes and it's obviously just a drone, balloon, or plane.

​Statistically, I believe life exists outside Earth. I just don't believe any of these videos show it.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — July 10, 1933

Time Magazine put Joseph Goebbels on its cover — and praised the Nazis.

Just months after Hitler seized power, the American magazine featured the Nazi propaganda minister and described Adolf Hitler as a “vegetarian superman.” The article lauded how Nazi rule had “lifted the spirit of the German people” and openly noted that one of the regime’s most effective tactics was “explaining away all Germany’s defeats and trials in terms of the Jew.”

Goebbels’ own line — “The Jews are to blame!” — actually appeared on the front cover.

This was mainstream American media treating the rising Nazi regime with a mix of fascination and reluctant admiration — while the machinery of antisemitic propaganda was already in full gear.

By the time the world woke up, it was too late for millions.

Some warnings were printed in plain sight.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

The US must not become more dependent on China for medicine.

We are already dependent on China for antibiotics. Let's not make the problem worse. The Chinese government is currently withholding rare earths from Japan, in a pressure campaign. They will do the same with medicine

[Harold F. Cobin @hcobin]

@CoreyWriting Is this somebody?

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: The DOJ is charging eight men in the alleged UFC terror plot, saying they conspired to get firearms, explosives, and other resources for the attack, in addition to planning to kill several high-ranking government officials.

The first count carries a potential sentence of up to 15 years in prison, while the the second is punishable by up to a lifetime in prison.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. 

He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.

Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

[PCMag @PCMag]

The ban covers more than 1,240 courts in New York and includes smart glasses with prescription lenses or any eyewear or headwear capable of capturing audio or video. https://t.co/WnZEqkhcPW

[Harold F. Cobin @hcobin]

@Telegraph Babylon Bee material: Suspicions FIFA Lacks Integrity

[PBS News @NewsHour]

U.S. star Christian Pulisic fractured his right leg during the Americans' World Cup loss to Belgium and will be sidelined for several weeks, a person familiar with the injury said Thursday. https://t.co/oqEiGKvJZr

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

On this date in 1936, 55.6% of the U.S. was ≥90°F and nearly a quarter of the country was ≥100°F. At least one location in each state except for Oregon reached the 90° mark, while 40 states reached the triple digits.

• 100° in LA, MA, NC, and UT
• 101° in AL, SC, TX, and VT
• 102° in DE and GA
• 103° in CT and TN
• 104° in AZ, AR, MS, and MT
• 105° in CA, MD, OK, and WI
• 106° in NY and WY
• 107° in CO, IA, KS, MI, and VA
• 108° in IL, KY, and MO
• 109° in NE, NV, NJ, and OH
• 110° in IN, MN, and WV
• 111° in PA
• 115° in ND and SD

This, of course, was just weather.

But if this event occurred today, climate “experts” would conduct an “attribution study” claiming that it was “virtually impossible” without man’s carbon sins.

[Inside Investigator @ct_investigator]

A survey released on July 7 by the University of New Hampshire found that 84% of CT residents surveyed found the state to be either “not very” or “not at all” affordable. https://t.co/PAFn6CGxti

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

People are feeling a deep sense of grief — a loss of faith in a world obsessed with money and power. (1 of 2)

Western governments no longer ask us what works in the real world. Society has abandoned decisions grounded in engineering, historical data and public needs. Instead, it chases predictive climate models and economic dogma.

This is when a mature, self-reliant species begins to unravel. In less than a generation, this shift from traditional values has inflicted immense structural damage. No one voted for the climate experiment. We were force-fed dogma by unelected technocrats: 'Global Boiling' or 'Code Red for Humanity'. Neither claim is remotely true.

Not one predicted climate crisis has arrived on schedule.

Meanwhile, we are sleepwalking into a disposal nightmare for billions of discarded renewable components — the 'Graveyard Hypothesis'. While the media fixates on a theoretical crisis a century away, a very real ecological and economic one is piling up today.

By the late 2020s and early 2030s, the first massive waves of early-generation wind turbines will reach the end of their roughly 20-year lifespans. Their composite fibreglass and carbon-fibre blades cannot be easily recycled. They are already being chopped up and buried in literal graveyards.

Hundreds of millions of solar panels and tens of thousands of turbine blades are entering the waste stream, with billions more to follow. They contain toxic heavy metals like lead and cadmium. Global-scale recycling infrastructure does not exist, creating a vast e-waste logjam.

A toxic battery materials bottleneck is coming too. The sheer volumes of copper, lithium, cobalt and rare earths needed to 'replace' fossil fuels are colliding with geology and geopolitical reality.

Trillions of dollars have been poured into weather-dependent technologies — not to perfect dense, reliable energy, but to heavily subsidise them before fixing their obvious engineering flaws.

This is irreversible damage, inflicted in a geological heartbeat.

IMAGE: Reality of the Graveyard Hypothesis

[Visioner @visionergeo]

‼️‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine is about to shatter Russia’s final illusion of safety with its own homegrown ballistic missile, and the Kremlin is completely defenseless against the devastating retribution coming this autumn.

Ukrainian defense startup Fire Point is on the absolute precipice of a historic military breakthrough that will fundamentally shift the balance of power. Co-founder and designer Denys Shtylerman confirmed that only a single engine test stands between Ukraine and its first operational, domestically produced ballistic missile. Once this final milestone is cleared, flight testing begins immediately, with plans to combat-test the weapon directly inside Russian territory by autumn 2026.

This marks a massive, game-changing victory for Ukrainian innovation and strategic independence. By manufacturing its own ballistic arsenal, Ukraine completely bypasses Western restrictions on long-range strikes, creating an unstoppable deterrent that leaves Russia's deep rear totally exposed and dooms Moscow's critical military infrastructure to an inevitable, unprotected beating.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Chicago sits 50 miles across the water from the Indiana Dunes, and the curve of the Earth should hide the bottom 900 feet of its skyline from there. Photographers capture it anyway, whole. Lake Michigan bends light around the planet.

Run the geometry first. From a 120-foot dune, your horizon sits about 14 miles out. Everything past that drops behind the curve, and at 50 miles the drop reaches roughly 900 feet. The Willis Tower stands 1,451 feet. Pure geometry leaves you the top third of one building poking over the water.

The lake fixes that. Lake Michigan stays cold long after the air above it warms, which stacks a layer of dense chilled air under lighter warm air. Light crossing that gradient refracts downward and follows the curvature instead of shooting straight off into space. Meteorologists call it a superior mirage. The atmosphere becomes a fiber optic cable 50 miles long, piping an image of the city over the horizon to your eyes.

That unstable lens is also why the skyline sometimes appears stretched, inverted, or floating above the water. Conditions peak in spring, when the water runs coldest relative to the air. One photographer, Joshua Nowicki, has shot the skyline from Grand Mere, Michigan, 60 miles out.

The sun in shots like these is running the same trick. At the horizon, refraction lifts the sun's image by roughly its own diameter. By the time you watch the bottom edge touch the water, the actual sun has already dropped fully below it.

Every sunset you have ever watched ended a couple of minutes before you saw it end. The atmosphere just kept replaying it for you.

[Harold F. Cobin @hcobin]

@AaronBMacLean @MajorCBS And Europe does nothing.

[Harold F. Cobin @hcobin]

@Aviation_Intel Any opportunity to move operations to Morocco?

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

One of Spain's biggest annual festivals opened with a shocking message.

At the opening ceremony of the world-famous San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, organizers unveiled a giant banner reading, "Destroy Israel."

Five hundred years after the Inquisition and the expulsion of Spain's Jews, seeing calls for the destruction of the world's only Jewish state is a disgrace.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Something is off

[Harold F. Cobin @hcobin]

@ukraine_map And Europe does nothing.