2020’s Most INRIGUING news stories

July 23 we talked about The Possibility of Bull Sharks finding their way up the mississippi  River into the Great Lakes.

And I provided a plausible theory how a Bull Shark can hitch a ride in the ballast tanks of a freighter and make it all the way to the Great lakes.  
“LAST WEEK”   Well a week later I find this story in my Google Alerts!

2 – Shark Sighted

August 14th- the Story broke from the AP?  Associated Press?

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – On August 10, 2020, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson commissioned the Duluth Autonomous Navy to eradicate the bull shark terrorizing Duluth’s beaches. Only four days later, the DAN co-Admirals have announced “mission accomplished.”

The UMD Biology Department issued a press release about the shark, stating, “Lake Superior cannot support a breeding shark population. This was a lonely, hungry, tired shark.”

Richardson took issue with that: “I can assure you, that shark may have been lonely and hungry, but it was not tired.”

Speargun traps are being installed in the Soo Locks to keep sharks out of the lake from now on. A spokesperson for the Army Corps of Engineers confirmed, “Sharks are a Lake Michigan problem, not a Lake Superior problem.”

3 Its a hoax

4 – UFOS ARE OUT!

The Creation of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).
What does the Pentagon’s new UFO task force mean?https://www.space.com/ufo-sightings-pentagon-task-force.html

On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF).  The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF. 

The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.  The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.

5 – Sen Marco Rubio says

“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we are conducting military exercises, and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours, so that’s a legitimate question to ask,” Sen. Marco Rubio told Miami’s WFOR-TV.“Frankly, if it’s something from outside this planet, that might actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some sort of technological leap on behalf of the Chinese or the Russians or some other adversary.

6 – Asteroid to hit earth

About the Asteroid That Will Destroy Earth Right Before Election Day..
“Asteroid 2018VP1 is very small, approx. 6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth!” NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tweeted on August 23. “It currently has a 0.41 [percent] chance of entering our planet’s atmosphere, but if it did, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size.”

But what in the middle of all the chaos we are experiencing in this country with Riots and Plagues and a lot of accusations and finger pointing – this Asteroid might be Gods way of saying, “Settle down – or I will give you something to get worked up about.”

NASA established its Near-Earth Object Observations Program in 1998 and has since discovered around 19,000 near-Earth objects. In 2005, Congress asked the agency to find 90 percent of all near-Earth asteroids approximately 460 feet or larger. These rocky bodies are big enough to, at the very least, cause regional damage to the planet and destabilize the global atmosphere and impact crop production.

What do you think?  Could we get hit by a meteor or a Asteroid?   According to the Near-earth object observation program – They aren’t seeing any threats coming any time soon!

7 – Sylvia Goldsholl

Sylvia Goldsholl at her 108th birthday party last December at the nursing home in New Jersey where she lives.

This is Sylvia Goldsholl – and in December she celebrated her 108th birthday.

That Means she lived thru the Spanish Flu of 1920, 2 World Wars, and the Great Depression. America Idol – shes been thru it all.

Last month, relatives of Sylvia Goldsholl received troubling news from her New Jersey nursing home: She had contracted the coronavirus and was in isolation.

With the virus proving especially deadly for older people, the prognosis seemed dire for Ms. Goldsholl, who turned 108 in December.

Two weeks later, relatives received another call.

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“They told us, ‘She’s fully recovered,’” said Ms. Chazen, whose aunt has become one of the oldest Covid-19 survivors in the world.

Ms. Goldsholl’s case is a rare bright spot in New Jersey, whose current death toll from the virus — 9,946 through Thursday — is second only to New York State’s.

Roughly half of the deaths in New Jersey — 5,168 through Thursday — have come at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

“She’s got a survivor’s mentality,” he said. “Her family supported her through all this and, like she says, love helps you get through things.”

But 108 years old!  And when I come back – lets talk about immortality and aging is

Do you think that the corona Virus is as bad as the media is reporting?
Please let us know in the comments below.

Today – I bring some facts and more importantly questions we should always ask.

I was concerned about talking about such a serious subject.  The Coronavirus – and I want viewers to know that in no way am I making light of such a dire situation.   But no matter how bad the news about coronavirus sounds.
Reroll 1  “CURRENT NUMBERS”
As of Feb 20 2020  on  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  75 K Coronavirus Cases   2128 Deaths   and 16,447 Recoveries   which is not the first thing you are hearing and I will get to that in a moment.
Reroll 2  “More numbers”
Also keep in mind- we have in the country historically speaking seen MUCH MUCH WORSE  – I will get to that later.   But this outbreak is really highlighting something that I think is that is a big problem for society and will be long after they get the coronavirus taken care of.    Of course, I want to let you know that the fact I will end with will surprise you.

Slide 1 “Ultimate disaster”
First – lets look at the Ultimate disaster. I remember as a kid watching the planet of the Apes – and seeing the Statue of liberty. Which suggested that the human race had been almost completely wiped out.  Back then they didn’t explain how that happened.     But in 2011 they did a REBOOT of  Planet of the Apes and that movie explained it BRILLIANTLY.    I brought the clip because I remember watching it and it really blew me away as to how fast it could feasibly happen.  Let me set the stage,   during the movie a simian flu virus infects one or two people.   One of the first indications of the simian flow is a nose bleed.   The movie end with the revelations of one of those people.
Video A  “Simian Virus”
You can imagine how fast something can spread.    When you are on an airplane and you go to use the bathroom – you probably grab the tops of the seats to keep your balance.    Well guess what – so does everyone else.   You can’t wash your hands enough.   And so a scene like this really highlights no will travel being as easy as it is – a virus can spread much faster.

The Problem comes from Fear and people blinding passing along information instead of questioning.

Has this ever happen to you – that someone SHARES an article with you FORWARDS it to you and it is shocking?
Slide 3 “China seeks for courts approval to kill over 20k patients.”

Do you read that and think, “Well I believe it!  China is a ruthless country and they don’t like to let the truth out.”  And then you pass it along?

Slide 4Or “do you Look it up on Yahoo or Bing?!”   (notice who I didn’t say?)
I looked it up and Snopes says, Nope!   They said that the website was referencing other things that are not true.   Why?   CLICK BAIT.   Because once you click on the story, your browser will get tagged and pixeled and now they can cheaply keep serving you ads.

Slide 5  “Now the next one is truly worrisome.”  
I had a friend tell me that the government was welding the locks shut on apartment doors to keep people with the coronavirus Quarantined.
Video B  “show the video” They have been some pretty credible people reporting this and if you look at the amateur videos posted it looks more like an expose.   Now there are theories that this is NOT THE GOVERNMENT but citizens trying to do something else and it is being spun this way.

I will just say I haven’t found a definitive debunking to the story but I am not convinced that is a real story either.

But Manipulating Reality for making sales isn’t new.   What if you had the new reporting that Aliens from Mars were attacking Earth.    Could it be possible that the audience, hear it and would freak now question it?   Can you imagine that happening?

What I am trying to say is with the media there is so much conjecture and you need to really listen to the context of what people are saying.   Because a lot of it is opinion but it gets reported as news.

You know people in China can’t Trust their media – the top 5 new channels in China or STATE RUN.

Slide 8 “make light of the Coronavirus”
Now I don’t want to make light of the Coronavirus – I pray for everyone safety and or recovery. But while there are 75 k cases of Coronavirus and 21 00 deaths.

In the last year there have been 66,463 deaths from the flu.     One has killed a lot more people and the other has just down a country.

Slide 9 66k sounds like a lot
but in 1918 a flu epidemic broke out and killed 50 MILLION PEOPLE  one fifth of the worlds population.  That’s more than 3 times the people killed in WW1.

Its tragic – but I hope that maybe helps put this crisis into perspective.   There are people trying to fix and resolve the situation – but there are many more that are using this story to SELL CLICKS.
“Challenge what people are trying to sell as reality.”