Donald Trump's new 'star wars'

 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/02/28/donald-trump-s-new-star-wars_6738674_4.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-iron-dome-for-america-plan-for-next-generation-shield-2025-1

The Gene Hackman mystery

 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gene-hackman-death-latest-updates-wife-santa-fe-b2705677.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/entertainment/what-we-know-gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-hnk/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-what-we-know-rcna194139

 Death of Hackman and wife 'suspicious enough' for investigation https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman

Britain’s reported demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to users’ cloud data

 https://apnews.com/article/apple-britain-encryption-backdoor-gabbard-cloud-rights-a4a4a5e1f0b58852f358eaab4cc43845

There is an agenda to remove as much digital privacy as possible.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvn90pl5no

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/14/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-removing-end-to-end-cloud-encryption-feature-uk-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-02-21/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g288yldko

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/apple-drops-encryption-feature-uk-users-after-government-119046304

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Public-cloud-Data-sovereignty-and-data-security-in-the-UK

Gene Hackman and wife found dead in their Santa Fe home

https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/entertainment/gene-hackman-and-wife-betsy-found-dead-in-new-mexico-home-police/

 https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/sheriff-gene-hackman-wife-found-dead-in-santa-fe-home-no-foul-play-suspected/article_2ea8855a-f4b8-11ef-b501-73232a2b5213.html

https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/entertainment/gene-hackmans-daughter-hadnt-talked-to-him-in-months-before-death/

GH was in The_Conversation and Enemy_of_the_State, with suspicious death as being part of the storyline. Now GH might be part of a suspicious death investigation.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman

History of the US missile shield concept

 https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-us-missile-shield-is-reagans-star-wars-dream-coming-true/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-06/trump-s-iron-dome-needs-to-succeed-where-reagan-s-star-wars-failed

flying car vs. drone car

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-alef-flying-car/

 https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/1/5/24023892/flying-cars-china-j-storrs-hall-technology-innovation-helicopter

https://faircompanies.com/articles/flying-car-or-big-drone-evtols-are-electric-compact-silent/

New 'Mickey 17' Clip Shows Robert Pattinson's Confrontation With His Clone

 https://www.filmibeat.com/hollywood/news/2025/new-mickey-17-clip-shows-robert-pattinsons-confrontation-with-his-clone-more-details-445759.html

Mickey_17 is another Sci-Fi, cloning adventure movie.  

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-pattinson-tries-kill-clone-221130629.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/15/mickey-17-review-robert-pattinson-proves-expendable-in-bong-joon-hos-eerily-cheery-cloning-drama

World’s first flying car hops over vehicle in public test

 https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-range-b2703554.html

With a good propulsion system and GPS working at an optimum level, this is possible.

https://www.flyingmag.com/flying-car-lifts-off-over-the-streets-of-california/

https://globetrender.com/2025/02/25/alef-aeronautics-debuts-flying-car/

https://www.iotworldtoday.com/flying-vehicles/flying-vehicle-company-gets-30m-funding

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o

https://www.jalopnik.com/1798307/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-california-miserable/

https://alef.aero/

https://www.aeromobil.com/

You can be sure that Tesla, Inc. will want to get in on the whole flying+car wave. 

Southwest flight narrowly avoids collision at Chicago's Midway Airport

 https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/02/southwest-flight-narrowly-avoids-collision-at-chicago-airport.html

https://abc7chicago.com/post/southwest-flight-2504-omaha-ne-chicago-lands-safely-go-around-close-call-midway-airport-airline-says/15954269/

https://people.com/southwest-plane-nearly-collides-with-private-jet-at-chicago-airport-aborts-landing-to-avoid-crash-11686225

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_International_Airport#Accidents_and_incidents

The Battle of Los Angeles in 1942

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-iis-bizarre-battle-of-los-angeles

The Alien Threat Behind the Battle of LA | History's Greatest Mysteries (S5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbBCIrorYY

How a UFO Caused the Battle of Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAH59Wh-Ymo

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-1942-battle-la-20170221-story.html

More Billionaire Wealth, Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers

 https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-pandemic

While another covid shutdown would dramatically increase the wealth of the billionaires, things would be very rough for the general public. The world could go into a total financial depression. So many small businesses and smaller businesses would get gobbled up or simply fold.

https://telegrafi.com/en/how-jeff-bezo%27s-wealth-increased-by-72-billion-dollars-during-the-pandemic/

https://www.thestar.com/business/they-ve-outdone-even-their-wildest-dreams-canadian-billionaires-saw-wealth-jump-51-during-pandemic/article_d2811926-af0a-5ec8-ac3f-0ce522bd9e0e.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/27/why-do-the-rich-get-richer-even-during-global

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/19/ten-billionaires-reap-400bn-boost-to-wealth-during-pandemic

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fortunes-of-10-richest-men-rose-by-540bn-since-coronavirus-struck-march-2020

Fortunately, the world economy hasn't been shutdown for the past 5 years and the global lockdown wound down years ago.

https://news.uchicago.edu/tag/covid-2025

However, given the potential to have another huge financial boost for the billionaires, could it happen again?

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

A relative was denied new heart because she is unvaccinated

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14414581/jd-vance-adaline-deal-heart-transplant-covid-vaccine.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1076004339/heart-transplant-patient-unvaccinated

https://nationalpost.com/news/sheila-annette-lewis-alberta-covid-organ-transplant

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/unvaccinated-medical-care-hospitals-omicron/621299/

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/can-physicians-decline-unvaccinated-patients

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/new-virus-in-china-hku5-cov-2-what-is-hku5-cov-2-the-new-bat-coronavirus-in-china-that-could-trigger-another-covid-19-pandemic/articleshow/118470495.cms?from=mdr

https://telegrafi.com/en/billionaires-who-are-making-money-from-tests-and-drugs-to-fight-covid-19%2C-their-wealth-increased-by-several-billion-dollars/

HKU5-CoV-2, the new bat coronavirus in China sparks global concern

 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/hku5-cov-2-the-new-bat-coronavirus-in-china-sparks-global-concern-know-its-symptoms-and-how-does-it-spread/articleshow/118527801.cms?from=mdr

https://telegrafi.com/en/billionaires-who-are-making-money-from-tests-and-drugs-to-fight-covid-19%2C-their-wealth-increased-by-several-billion-dollars/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as COVID-19

 https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2025/02/501_392740.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2025/02/22/what-is-hku5-cov-2-scientists-find-bat-virus-similar-to-covid-19

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in same Chinese lab accused of leaking deadly 2020 outbreak

 https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/covid-like-bat-virus-discovered-by-researchers-in-wuhan-lab-study/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421599/coronavirus-potential-cause-pandemic-discovered-china.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chinese-researchers-find-bat-virus-enters-human-cells-via-same-pathway-covid-2025-02-21/

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3299491/chinese-team-finds-new-bat-coronavirus-could-infect-humans-same-route-covid

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421799/yale-scientists-covid-vaccine-study-message-victims.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

China scientists discover new bat coronavirus that poses risk of animal-to-human transmission

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/another-pandemic-china-scientists-discover-new-bat-coronavirus-hku5-cov-2-that-poses-risk-of-animal-to-human-transmission/articleshow/118453245.cms?from=mdr

Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425001448

Delta Connection Flight 4819, crash in Toronto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Connection_Flight_4819 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1sHnkF-088

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Connection+Flight+4819

YouTube at 20

 https://theconversation.com/youtube-at-20-how-it-transformed-viewing-in-eight-steps-250083

Toronto Pearson Airport plane crash

https://globalnews.ca/news/11022300/pearson-airport-crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Connection_Flight_4819#Crash

A plane crash is bad anywhere, especially in freezing Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/delta-airlines-plane-crashes-at-toronto-pearson-peel-police-responding/article_3f6bf1e8-ed69-11ef-a888-43d587f41274.html

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/multiple-people-injured-in-delta-airlines-plane-crash-at-toronto-pearson-paramedics-say/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/02/17/delta-regional-flight-crashes-toronto-airport/78983808007/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plane-reportedly-crashes-while-arriving-202716109.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_aviation

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/how-many-plane-crashes-2025-5366808/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-u-plane-crashes-2025-195045679.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG2bv96ZYS0yO6YeYDj5PivaCth82jRJHNiwkZcvLtMcY9tEONz_uBrkAgB4OqVDehnAt56m0usKk78bubopfgWxjb83R-Pkaclhc94vShIlU7_VmUpG8jjA4Od3OzdALAnofaHACbC753JuNilSzWff61QvDF4UJfBRFzxHyQLV

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Connection+Flight+4819

20 years of YouTube

 https://tribune.com.pk/story/2528806/20-years-of-youtube

Flying the U-2 Spy Plane 70,000 Feet to the Edge of Space

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcKKAhhGiw

Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird of Prey) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEWdRPRf3I

YouTube turns 20 years old today

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296900/youtube-20th-anniversary

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7zx4x0k1eo

The History of YouTube

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

https://www.britannica.com/topic/YouTube

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Logo_of_YouTube_%282005-2006%29.svg

https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/history-of-youtube/

Where's The Fair Use? - Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI

YouTube at 20: How the Viral Video Site Forever Changed TV

 https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/emmy-magazine/articles/youtube-20th-anniversary

The Paris AI summit

 https://observers.france24.com/en/france/20250212-macron-modi-ai-summit-paris-fact-check

Of course after most of the world was introduced to a COVID lockdown in 2020, some people might like the idea of smart-cities becoming something like an Alphaville total control zone.

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/us-uk-decline-to-sign-onto-macrons-ai-summit-communique

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/vance-speech-paris-ai-summit.html

https://onu.delegfrance.org/ai-action-summit-10-and-11-february-2025

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/paris-ai-summit-draws-world-leaders-ceos-eager-technology-wave-2025-02-10/

The Abraham Lincoln Bridge

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Memorial_Bridge

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln

The Abraham Lincoln Synchronicity with JFK

Of course Abraham_Lincoln was a different person from a different era. Yet, there are some striking peculiarities. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend

https://ecampus.matc.edu/mulvennk/pdf/coincidences_involving__lincoln_kennedy.pdf

https://halliwell-lhs.co.uk/articles/strange-coincidences/

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-odd-parallels-between-kennedy-and-lincoln

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/the-lincoln-chair and https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/kennedy-limo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towers_(Ohio_State) Twin towers.

 "The Towers were dedicated on November 11, 1965..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towers_(Ohio_State)#History 11-11 synchronicity. 

President Kennedy & Presidential Secretary Evelyn Lincoln https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkwhp-1961-11-14-e#?image_identifier=JFKWHP-KN-19439

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)

Produced by	Steven Spielberg &  Kathleen Kennedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)#Production

https://13thdimension.com/the-twilight-zone-dig-these-13-great-time-travel-episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_There 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_There#Plot 

https://gamerant.com/twilight-zone-best-time-travel-episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tall_Target 1951 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tall_Target#Plot

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a60553384/covid-simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln

In The Room With Robby Krieger and John Densmore of The Doors

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0Dssqs44Q , https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato/videos

Ray Manzarek on the death of Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf68Y5G2Po8

Final Days of Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24qzyCQalU

Jim Morrison: The Final 24 Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsR298DD5aw

Jim Morrison - Bird of Prey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSncHZG3y34

https://thedoors.com

Reporter banned from Oval Office event over editorial decision not to use 'Gulf of America,' AP says

The Associated Press said last month it would continue to use 'Gulf of Mexico'

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gulf-of-mexico-ap-reporter-banned-gulf-of-america-1.7456618

This so stupid, call it, GULF OF THE AMERICAS. Not just Mexico & not just the USA, but the Americas. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Americas

https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/everything-to-know-about-the-americas-nbc-tom-hanks-narrator

https://www.britannica.com/place/Americas

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas

https://www.economist.com/the-americas

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Action_Summit

Where are the guarantees that AI won't be used to turn smart-cities into something like Alphaville?

 https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia

https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia/programme

https://francedigitale.org/agenda/business-day-2025

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pm-modi-ai-action-summit-paris-9829918/

Alphaville (1965)

Alphaville depicts a dystopian Smart_City scenario.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UitB6c8QP80&t=387s 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alphaville

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/alphaville-film-review-2023

https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2024/alphaville

https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/alphaville

https://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville?srsltid=AfmBOooIV1FYO9ttt7fPDHG7MKf2BmNH3Uv__gZ3UtaylN7NeSa9dKEO

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=1382&c=572

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Gamma_60#Legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Motivations

Flying Car vs. eVTOL: Which Is the Best New Kind of Aircraft?

 https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/evtol-flying-car-comparison-1236192206/

How Does Age Verification Work Online?

 https://hyperverge.co/blog/how-does-age-verification-works-online/

https://lauren.vortex.com/2024/12/24/terminology-bypassing-face-age-verification

https://www.pcmag.com/news/experts-heres-why-age-verification-rules-for-social-media-wont-work

https://www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/age-verification-the-complicated-effort-to-protect-youth-online/challenges-with-age-verification/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/online-age-verification-laws-privacy/

What if you just keep zooming in on physical reality?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bMVbx1dzM

The Matrix Casting Will Smith vs. Keanu Reeves

 https://screenrant.com/matrix-will-smith-neo-cast-morpheus-val-kilmer-change-factoid/

For some reason Will Smith didn't want to be in a movie in which he would be up against Agent_Smith.

https://movieweb.com/will-smith-matrix-video-proves-he-was-wrong-neo/

https://deadline.com/2025/01/will-smith-matrix-instagram-1236249483/

Groundhogs and Woodchucks

 https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/groundhogs-facts/

Hardly like cute little mice, these are big animals that really like to GNAW.

https://www.britannica.com/animal/groundhog

https://www.hww.ca/wildlife/mammals/woodchuck/

https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/mammals/medium/woodchuck.html

https://tetherow.com/blog/rockchucks-at-tetherow/

Supersized AI TVs

 https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/features/sizing-up-your-next-tv-heres-where-big-screens-are-taking-us

Unlike in the 1990s, people can have their own big Zoo_TV or TV matrix zoo set up at home. The Zoo_TV_Tour was all part of the big entertainment theatrics that you could never get a home. However, by the 2020s, big Tvs & big computer screens have made ones home theater & home office experience much more interchangeable, if they wish. Of course there is a dark side to technology.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208133/orwell-knew-we-willingly-buy-the-screens-that-are-used-against-us

The AI Telescreen has been the stuff of Sci-Fi for several decades. However, as AI becomes more pervasive the Telescreen becomes more science than fiction. Today the Telescreen is in any 2-way device such as a smartwatch, smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_CCTV#Criticism

https://www.ipl.org/essay/Instill-Paranoia-In-George-Orwells-1984-PJCED9HGZV

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/does-the-technology

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug Of The Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI