Porn in USA is nudity in Europe (video)

What's up with Americans and nudity? | Feli from Germany

(Feli from Germany) June 4, 2023. CINCINNATI Compare news coverage from around the world and across the political spectrum with Ground News: ground.news/feli

▸"Florida principal forced to resign after showing students Michelangelo's 'David' [penis] statue" or "Parents complain about 'pornographic' David statue" 👈 These types of headlines went around the world a couple months ago and left many [European] people in [post-Renaissance] Italy and other [Eurozone] countries utterly confused.

What's wrong with the [full frontal naked] David statue [with his penis showing]? How could anyone ever think this was porn? So let's talk about how nudity is handled in everyday situations in the USA compared to Germany and why it seems to be such a taboo topic in the States.

Let's nerd out on German (U.S. Pennsylvania Dutch," which is Deutsch)

• 0:00 Recent headlines about the David statue
• 1:40 What exactly happened in Florida?
• 6:13 Reactions in Italy & other countries
• 8:20 Nudity Germany vs. USA: #1 Sauna
• 9:22 #2 Nudism/FKK
• 11:57 #3 Communal showers
• 13:45 #4 Doctor's office
• 14:50 #5 Breastfeeding
• 17:08 #6 Media
• 19:41 Nudity = cultural difference
• 20:06 Possible explanations
• 24:25 Sex in American pop culture

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USA: “How to Hide an Empire” (video)

Democracy Now! March 5, 2019; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States is the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation’s overseas "territories" [possessions, protectorates, occupied lands, outposts, corporate slave colonies/"guano islands," 800 overseas military bases] from Puerto Rico to Guam, Hawaii to former territories like the Philippines, and its eight hundred military bases scattered over the planet. Democracy Now! speaks with the book’s author, Prof. Daniel Immerwahr, who writes, “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen.” Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.

U.S. Mars' landing a success! (photos)

SomethingIsHappening; Associated Press (ap.org via mail.com); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

(Gaia/Anonymous) Is something hidden happening on Mars? ● Anonofficial.com ● Facebook

Mars landing looms for NASA; anxiety building a day out

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's InSight spacecraft aimed for a bull's-eye touchdown on Mars [and made it today], zooming in like an arrow with no turning back.

InSight's journey took six months and [allegedly] 300 million miles (482 million km) comes to a precarious grand finale Monday afternoon.

The robotic geologist [shown on right] -- designed to explore Mars' insides, surface to core [but has no capacity whatsoever to detect signs of life, present or ancient] -- must go from 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, scientists hope, lands on three legs.

It is NASA's first attempt to land on Mars in six years, and all those involved are understandably anxious. NASA's top science mission official, Thomas Zurbuchen, confided Sunday that his stomach is already churning.

Secret: Earthling-humans are already present

The hardest thing is sitting on his hands and doing nothing, he said, except hoping and praying everything goes perfectly for InSight.

"Landing on Mars is one of the hardest single jobs that people have to do in planetary exploration," noted InSight's lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt. "It's such a difficult thing, it's such a dangerous thing that there's always a fairly uncomfortably large chance that something could go wrong."

How fake must it be for anyone to notice?

Earth's success rate at Mars is 40 percent, counting every attempted flyby, orbital flight and landing by the U.S., Russia and other countries dating all the way back to 1960. But the U.S. has pulled off seven successful Mars landings in the past four decades. More

NASA spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey

This is more fake than the stuff I'm famous for

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month...journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere. More

The AP story changes

"Flawless": NASA craft lands on Mars after perilous journey

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A NASA spacecraft designed to drill down into Mars' interior landed on the planet Monday after a perilous, supersonic plunge through its red skies, setting off jubilation among scientists who had waited in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation to arrive across 100 million miles of space.

An engineer smiles next to an image of Mars sent from the InSight lander shortly after it landed on Mars in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in Pasadena, California (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, pool).
 

Flight controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, leapt out of their chairs, screaming, dancing, and hugging, upon learning that InSight's had safely arrived on Mars, the graveyard for a multitude of previous missions.

Why Are Our Bees Vanishing? (video)

(VanishingBees.com) Imagine half a million adults skipping town and leaving their children behind. Picture an opened suitcase filled with bundles of cash at a bus stop yet no robber wants to snatch it. The apiary science mystery known as "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD) displays these very symptoms. Not only do our critical crop pollinating honey bees abandon their hives, which they cannot live away from for more than 24 hours, but the queen and the brood as well. Unnatural. Unheard of. Even the predators that usually raid the hive for honey stay away when nothing is protecting it. At first it sounds like an urban legend or an exaggerated tale. Except it's not. The situation is both real and dire. Bees are disappearing all over the planet, and no one knew why. But now the answers are becoming apparent:

• systemic pesticides (not toxins sprayed on to dissipate but taken up into every part of the plant where they weaken bees' immune systems)
• mites and fungal blight brought on by weakened immunity, which would normally be segregated with wax in the sterile environment of the hive but is not because of the incapacitated bees
• cell phone tower radiation, which is disruptive to compromised bees
• mono-cropping (growing a single crop in need of pollination but no other plants on which the bees could survive between harvests)
• stresses in the environment (depleted soil, contaminated fields, genetically manipulated plants by companies like Monsanto)
• like AIDS and mystery flu syndromes and E. coli outbreaks, once the organism is compromised in terms of nutrients and immunity, it is open to opportunistic infections and influences

Vanishing of the Bees - Trailer from Bee The Change on Vimeo.

Cows with Names Make More Milk

Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director

A cow grazes in front of wind turbines on the day of the inauguration of a new $550 million wind farm project in La Ventosa, Mexico, located on the narrow isthmus between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, 1/22/09. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon inaugurated one of the world's largest wind farm projects as the nation looks for alternative energy, in part to compensate for falling oil production (AP Photo/Luis Cruz Hernandez).

Researchers in the UK say cows with names make 3.4 percent more milk in a year than cows that just feel, well, like cows.

There seems to be more than just names involved, however.

The study, involving 516 dairy farmers and published online Tuesday by the journal Anthrozoos, found that "on farms where each cow was called by her name the overall milk yield was higher than on farms where the cattle were herded as a group," write researchers Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University. More>>

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