OSS Agent Julia Child

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“The answer to the threat of man-eating sharks, the scavengers which infest all tropical waters of the world, was announced here today…” (quote from draft OSS/ERE Press Release on the development of a shark repellent; April 13, 1943)

It was the height of World War II and reports of shark attacks consumed the media. At least twenty US Naval officers had been attacked by sharks since the start of the war, raising alarm amongst sailors and airmen who increasingly found themselves conducting dangerous missions over shark-infested waters. To boost morale, the Joint Chiefs of Staff requested the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, CIA’s predecessor) to lead the hunt to find a shark repellent.

Julia McWilliams (better known by her married name, Julia Child) joined the newly-created OSS in 1942 in search of adventure. This was years before she became the culinary icon of French cuisine that she is known for today. In fact, at this time, Julia was self-admittedly a disaster in the kitchen. Perhaps all the more fitting that she soon found herself helping to develop a recipe that even a shark would refuse to eat.

Searching for Shark Repellent:

The search for a shark repellent began in July 1942, just a month after the OSS was formed. The Emergency Rescue Equipment (ERE) coordinating committee was created to keep the Armed Services and various government agencies from duplicating efforts when developing equipment to help rescue military members from dangerous situations.

Housed within the OSS until late 1943, the ERE Special Projects division was headed by Captain Harold J. Coolidge, a scientist from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Dr. Henry Field, Curator of the Field Museum of Natural History. Both men were avid explorers, having led expeditions into arctic, desert, and tropical regions. Coolidge had previously organized and accompanied the well-known Kelly-Roosevelt expedition to Indo-China and had a strong working-knowledge about the necessary equipment for survival in the arctic, while Field had led several anthropological expeditions into the deserts of the Middle East.

Coolidge and Field sent a memo to OSS Director General “Wild Bill” Donovan and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposing a plan for “unifying and coordinating the work of different agencies in the field of rescue.” Thus the ERE was born, and one of its several projects was the development of shark repellent.

Julia Child worked for Coolidge for a year in 1943 as an Executive Assistant.

“I must say we had lots of fun,” Julia told fellow OSS Officer, Betty McIntosh, during an interview for Betty’s book on OSS women, Sisterhood of Spies. “We designed rescue kits and other agent paraphernalia. I understand the shark repellent we developed is being used today for downed space equipment—strapped around it so the sharks won’t attack when it lands in the ocean.”

Shark Repellent Found:

After trying over 100 different substances—including common poisons—the researchers found several promising possibilities: extracts from decayed shark meat, organic acids, and several copper salts, including copper sulphate and copper acetate. After a year of field tests, the most effective repellent was copper acetate.

According to several memos from mid-to-late 1943, bait tests showed copper acetate to be over 60% effective in deterring shark bites. Other field tests showed even more promising results. Unfortunately, the copper acetate was deemed completely ineffective in deterring attacks from the other carnivorous fish of concern to the Armed Forces: barracudas and piranhas.

To create the repellent, copper acetate was mixed with black dye, which was then formed into a little disk-shaped “cake” that smelled like a dead shark when released into the water. These cakes could be stored in small 3-inch boxes with metal screens that allowed the repellent to be spread either manually or automatically when submerged in water. The box could be attached to a life jacket or belt, or strapped to a person’s leg or arm, and was said to keep sharks away for 6 to 7 hours.

Skepticism, Shark Chaser, and Shark-toons:

Despite the promising results of initial field tests, the Navy remained skeptical. In December 1943, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics Edward Howell sent a memo to the Navy Research Department stating that although “slight repellence was shown in bait tests” with small sharks, it was the Bureau’s opinion “that it is illogical to expect that such effect as was shown in normal feeding behavior would give any promise of affecting the voracious behavior of the few species known to have attacked man.” Even Coolidge himself noted in personal correspondence to one of the lead investigators/ scientists on the project, Douglas Burden, in May 1943 that “…none of us expected that the chemical would really function when the animals were stirred up in a mob behavior pattern.”

Nevertheless, the existence of the repellent was soon picked up by the media, and word spread among the various branches of the Armed Forces. Requests for the repellent came pouring in from the Army and Coast Guard. Even if the repellent wasn’t guaranteed to drive sharks away, it would at least provide possible deterrence against bites and have a huge effect on seamen and pilot morale.

The Navy did end up issuing the shark repellent based on the original OSS recipe—also known as “Shark Chaser”—until the 1970s, and it was rumored, as Julia told Betty, that the repellent was even used to protect NASA space equipment when it landed in the ocean. This part of the story, however, is difficult to confirm with documentary evidence.

NASA Version

The Navy didn’t stop with shark repellent. Shark attacks, although extremely frightening, were relatively rare occurrences. To help dispel the myths surrounding shark attacks, the Naval Aviation Training Division in March 1944 issued a training guide based on the ERE research into sharks. Called, “Shark Sense,” the guide was filled with facts about sharks, advice on how to handle yourself when stranded in shark infested waters, and of course, cartoons.

* The entire collection of records related to the OSS and ERE shark repellent program, as well as Julia Child’s OSS service, are available at the US National Archives and Records Administration.

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        1. Well, that got me wondering…..

          EXCERPT: “The image of a quaint red barn against green grass is as American as apple pie, but where does the tradition come from? Although there are many myths about their rusty hue, early-day barns were painted red out of convenience and frugality.

          One belief is that barns are red so a farmer’s cows can find their way home, but if so, that’s a failed strategy cattle are colorblind to the colors red and green .

          Others believe the popularity of red barns came from copying Scandinavian farmers, who painted their properties in rusty hues so that they would appear to be made of brick, a material they considered to be a sign of wealth.

          But barns weren’t originally red in fact, they weren’t painted at all. The early farmers that settled in New England didn’t have much extra money to spend on paint , so most of their barns remained unpainted. By the late 1700s, farmers looking to shield their barns’ wood from the elements began experimenting with ways to make their own protective paint.

          A recipe consisting of skimmed milk, lime and red iron oxide created a rusty-colored mixture that became popular among farmers because it was cheap to make and lasted for years. Farmers were able to easily obtain iron oxide the compound that lends natural red clay its coppery color from soil. Linseed oil derived from flax plants was also used to seal bare wood against rotting, and it stained the wood a dark coral hue.

          Farmers also noticed that painting their barns with the homemade paint kept the buildings warmer during the wintertime, since the darker color absorbs the sun’s rays more than plain, tan wood. So red paint spread in popularity due to its functionality and convenience, becoming an American tradition that continues to this day.

          Original article on Live Science.”

          https://www.livescience.com/33195-barns-traditionally-painted-red.html

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    2. Oooh, that takes me back to my solitary trail ride in Estes Park, CO way back in the ’70’s. Got to the top of the mountain and the rain let loose. We headed back down the slippery rock trail and I just gave the horse his head – he knew what he was doing, and he got me back down safely. Man, that was fun!

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  15. hope johnson gets some answers and not another delay, and song and dance…
    entire article
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) is pressing the Pentagon, Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for answers after multiple whistleblowers raised concerns about the provenance of a Comirnaty-labeled COVID-19 vaccine shipped to military bases.

    On Monday, nine military officers from across all the branches sent a whistleblower report to Congress regarding a COVID vaccine appearing at Coast Guard medical clinics.

    Although labeled as Pfizer’s fully-FDA approved Comirnaty vaccine, the vaccine does not appear to have been manufactured in Belgium as is legally required per its FDA approval letter, according to the whistleblowers, and may actually be the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine that’s under emergency use authorization.

    The military can only legally force service members to receive vaccines that are fully approved by the FDA, not those under FDA emergency use authorization. However, service members who have been denied religious exemptions from the military’s vaccine mandate are being forced out of the military, despite only emergency use authorization vaccines being made available.

    Thus far, federal judges in various court cases have granted preliminary injunctions against the vaccine mandates in the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps for service members seeking religious exemptions.

    According to one of the whistleblowers, a Coast Guard officer who was denied his request for a religious exemption, the service gave him five days to comply with the vaccine mandate after Comirnaty was delivered to his base’s medical clinic.

    On Thursday, Johnson wrote a letter to the DOD, FDA, and CDC regarding the whistleblower complaints, asking about:

    the manufacturing location of the vaccine lot delivered to military medical clinics;
    why the Comirnaty-labeled vaccine, which is supposed to have full FDA approval, is listed on a CDC database as a vaccine under emergency use authorization;
    why the vaccine is labeled as Comirnaty if it was created under emergency use authorization;
    identifying all vaccine lot numbers with Comirnaty-labeled vaccines that have been sent to U.S. military bases and are in the CDC database.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/sen-ron-johnson-sends-letter-pentagon-fda-cdc-inquiring-about-comirnaty

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    1. Oh, boy, do I ever remember that shyte!!!! I would also occasionally get cold sores on my lips – my grandma used to put something on them that burned like crazy! She used to have to chase me down to catch me! IDR now what it was…..maybe hydrogen peroxide, which supposedly can burn cold sores.

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  22. i honestly don’t know the answer and if someone does, I owuld appreciate knowing…why are TAXPAYERS on the hook for this improvement to his personal residence????
    copied from tcth

    nwtex
    August 20, 2022 9:22 am

    Biden is spending nearly half a million dollars in American taxpayer money to build a security fence around his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. https://t.co/8wrCScWWkb

    — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 20, 2022

    19 Aug 2022
    -snipped-

    President Joe Biden is spending nearly half a million dollars in American taxpayer money to build a security fence around his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

    In September 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a federal contract to a Delaware construction company to construct the fence around Biden’s multi-million dollar beach house. The initial contract planned to spend more than $456,000 on the project.

    Now, the project has been increased to cost taxpayers nearly $500,000 and is expected to be finished by June 2023.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/19/joe-biden-spending-nearly-500k-to-build-wall-around-his-vacation-home/

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    1. EXCERPTS: “The Secret Service is required to protect the president wherever he goes. But Congress has, in the past, been sensitive to the costs of that protection, especially when it involves the president’s private property. How much should be spent? Is there a limit? In the 1970s, in fact, after reports of “excesses and abuses” of public money spent at President Nixon’s private residences, Congress went so far as to pass a law that aimed to limit public spending on securing a president’s private property.

      The main restriction? Presidents are supposed to pick just one private property for the Secret Service to secure.

      Richard M. Nixon bought his house in Key Biscayne, Florida, not long before winning the 1968 election. The house was on the waterfront of the small island, looking across the bay to Miami, and it had a private beach—it was a nice place to escape the strains of running the country.

      Months later, President Nixon bought a second new property, a more extensive oceanfront estate in San Clemente, California, about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. It was on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and the Secret Service soon built a wall around its six acres. The press named the estate “the Western White House.”

      Reporters were intensely curious about both properties. They wanted to know how the president financed their purchase and what the government was spending on securing them. By 1973, Congress had the General Accounting Office (later renamed the Government Accountability Office) investigating expenditures at the president’s properties and the history of spending public money on private land.

      There were few historical records to go on: the costs of presidential security were rarely itemized. When President Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Hyde Park, for instance, protection came mostly from the Secret Service and, during World War II, military personnel, who would guard inner and outer perimeters. The military also installed “a simple anti-intrusion alarm system” on the property. At President Truman’s home in Independence, Missouri, the Secret Service turned part of the garage into a command post, had a wrought-iron fence built around the property, and installed a simple alarm system. President Eisenhower had a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with similar security: “A milk house was remodeled to serve as the command post and the guardhouses were merely telephone booths obtained, apparently without charge, from a telephone company,” the GAO found.

      After the Kennedy assassination, though, protection for the president, as well as the president’s family, became more stringent. While Lyndon B. Johnson was in office the government spent about $120,000 (approximately $825,000 in today’s dollars) on securing his Texas properties. The Secret Service had a lighting system built on the perimeter of the LBJ Ranch and guardhouses installed throughout the property. They also installed lights to enable helicopter landings. At the Haywood Ranch, where LBJ’s famous amphibious car lived, the government paid to renovate a boathouse for use by the Secret Service, too.

      The work done on Nixon’s properties wasn’t so different in kind from protections installed for previous presidents. Both properties were protected by a barrier—a hedge and fence at Key Biscayne, the wall and fence at San Clemente, guard posts, and electronic alarm systems. At Key Biscayne, the house also had bullet-resistant glass windows installed. But while the alarm technology available had dramatically improved since the 1930s, it was also expensive. Some of the largest line items were for state-of-the-art alarm systems.

      In total, the government spent more than $1 million on improving Nixon’s private estates, including $224,000 on landscaping and paving at Nixon’s two properties. (That’s more than $5.4 million, total, in today’s dollars.) Most of the work was for security purposes, although some items, such as the flagpoles requested by a military aide, were not. The GAO did find, though, that some of the spending was excessive. “It appears that the Government did some landscape maintenance at both residences which should have been done at the President’s expense,” the office reported.

      These investigations spurred Congress to put limits on such spending, even after Nixon had been removed from office. In 1976, the legislature had passed a bill meant “to prevent the excessive and questionable capital improvements made to the private property of Secret Service protectees.” It required that Secret Service protectees—who include the president and vice president’s families—designate just one property as their primary private residence. (If protectees lived together, they were still limited to one property.) For any additional property, there was a cap on spending, of $10,000, without additional approval from Congress.

      President Gerald Ford signed the bill into law, over the objections of the Secret Service, which wanted no limit on what it could spend to protect a president. President Carter was the first president to be bound by the new restriction: he selected his home in Plains, Georgia, as his primary residence. President Reagan selected his California ranch; his empty house in Los Angeles was protected by Secret Service agents for months while it was being sold. The Secret Service later told the Associated Press that their costs in California did not exceed the $10,000 threshold, though the AP noted that “the law was unclear about whether salaries are included in the $10,000 limit.”
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      Since the law’s been passed, though, no one has tested its limits as President Trump has. The federal government has agreed to give New York City $7 million to cover the extra costs of helping to secure Trump Tower for the weeks between the election and the inauguration, but the city’s best hope of getting more financial assistance for securing the tower, the cost of which is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, is for Congress to appropriate extra funds for that purpose. Palm Beach County is also looking for help covering the cost of the president’s Mar-a-Lago visits. No matter what, though, the country will spend more on protecting President Trump’s private properties than it has on any other president in history.

      https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cost-protecting-president-private-residence-trump-tower

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  23. we are gonna leave in a little bit. we’re going to take the old tv BACK to best buy–sigh, at the mall in NY–where they will “try” to get us a refund since the tv is still under warranty…
    I think it’s just a scam tbh…they will keep it there, do nothing with it and when the warranty is gone, call us and say we tried, can’t do anything, pay us $30 to recycle it.
    but hubby wants to try…

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  24. G’morning Filly,

    Will read your Open in a bit … trying to get my ducks in a row to run a few errands.

    Hope you are well and your garden is flourishing.

    You are very kind to have watched over Marica’s bin … thank you darlin’ girl…

    Droppin off a little something for the lovers of purple …

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    1. Good morning, PR! I was happy to help out. Love, love, love purple!

      Still enjoying watching all the birds – I have a Red-Headed Woodpecker pair now and watched a squirrel and bunny playing together a few days ago. I’ve got a couple of projects going on some flowers. I just discovered last night that one of the Clematis plants I put on the trellis is history – thankfully, I have my back-up that I will plant there next spring…..AFTER I put in a couple of low bushes to shield their roots from the hot afternoon sun.

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        1. Except for fruit trees…..I suck at fruit trees! IDK if you saw my comment but my peaches don’t appear to be developing properly. They are turning color but not getting bigger and are still very hard. I’m giving up on fruit trees – they are way too sensitive. I’ve tried Black Cherry, Mulberry and Peach and I’m done! LOL

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            1. Mulberries and apples….yeah, the altitude here isn’t the best for peaches. There is a woman here in town who gets cases of peaches from CO every year but you have to put your order in ahead of time. I think I’ll order one next year or split a case with my neighbor across the street.

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        1. not at all…the maker of the tv–tcl–are being jerks even tho the tv is still under warranty. and the manager at best buy says there’s nothing they can do. sigh…i intend to post bad reviews at both locations. never buying anything from either of them again.
          I’m carefully considering my options…lol

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  26. https://t.me/s/asbmil/4191

    Russia says that Against the backdrop of military defeats in the Donbass and other regions, “the Zelensky regime authorized terrorist acts using chemical poisons against Russian military personnel and civilians.”

    The report states:

    July 31 this year Russian servicemen who performed tasks in the area of ​​​​the village of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, were taken to a military hospital with signs of severe poisoning. As a result of the survey, a poisonous substance, botulinum toxin type “B”, was found in the body of military personnel.

    In order to establish the causes of poisoning, specialists from the Main Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Defense (St. Petersburg) conducted an additional analysis that unambiguously confirmed the presence of an organic poison of artificial origin – botulinum toxin type “B”.

    Currently, on the fact of chemical terrorism sanctioned by the Zelensky regime, the Russian Federation is preparing supporting documents with the results of all the analyzes carried out.

    Evidence of chemical terrorism of the Kyiv regime will soon be officially sent to the OPCW through the permanent mission of Russia.

    Taking into account the received evidence of state terrorism of the Kyiv regime, an additional investigation is currently being carried out on the poisoning of the head of the provisional administration of the Kherson region V. Saldo with chemical warfare agents.

    Source: @mod_russiaw

    ASB Military News

    Ukraine started employing chemical warfare against Russian troops & officials – Russian Mod claims

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  28. we’re back. totally useless trip all the way around!
    we get to best buy and go in and ask for the clerk who told us they would try to help with the refund..she’s not in today. we talked to a manager–nom they don’t do that he said. unless we wanna pay their $200 A YEAR tech fee thing-y. $200 a year for a $300 tv sounds stupid to me…so we argue for a bit, then i said let’s get out here. you lost our business for good…you can expect to see our review…thanks.
    we head back towards home and stop at pizza hut for lunch. sign on the door? dining room closed. so we leave and head to the garden center to get another salt lick…CLOSED too…WTH????

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      1. I am pissed that we drove over an hour to go back there on the word of the clerk who sold us the new tv…
        but no one in the dining room? gees…
        where are all the teenagers and college kids who used to work these jobs?

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  30. if this is true…NOT COOL

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  32. from tcth
    Citizen817
    Citizen817
    August 20, 2022 2:22 pm

    @realDonaldTrump

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    1h
    I hear the the great Agents and others in the FBI are furious at FBI leadership for what they are doing with respect to political weaponization against a President (me) that always had their backs, and that they like (love!) a lot. They don’t like being “used” by people they do not agree with, or respect. Likewise, they are not exactly thrilled with the leadership at DOJ! Similar to the revolt against Comey when he exonerated Crooked Hillary, but was forced, by them, to withdraw the exoneration!

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  34. Entire Article @ WND: “A federal judge has temporarily halted the discharge of hundreds of Marines who were denied religious exemptions from the military’s requirement that they receive the experimental COVID-19 vaccine shots, which have not prevented infection and the spread of the virus as promised.

    U.S. District Judge Steve Merryday, a George. H.W. Bush appointee, ruled Thursday that the Marines have failed to adhere to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Epoch Times reported. And significantly, he ruled a class action for any Marine affirmed by a chaplain as having a sincere religious objection who filed for an exemption on time and was denied.

    The Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires the federal government to prove it has a compelling interest requires in a certain action and that there are no less restrictive alternatives. Many of the Marines argued that chaplains determined they held sincere religious beliefs and the military did not present compelling reasons for them to get vaccinated.

    None of the exemption denials, the judge said, demonstrated that “accommodating a particular applicant will meaningfully impede the health and readiness of the 95% vaccinated force or meaningfully impede the military’s operations and duties.”

    Only 11 requests for religious accommodation had been approved by Aug. 4 after none had been approved before February.”

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  35. EXCERPT: “Dr. Robert Malone, a leading critic of the COVID-19 vaccines and an inventor of the mRNA technology platform on which they are based, filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post on Friday for accusing him of spreading “dangerous lies” and “leading his followers on a journey to illness, suffering and possible death.”

    In an hour-long video interview Friday with WND (embedded below), Malone explained that many major news outlets, including the New York Times, have cast him in a similar light. But the Post’s report Jan. 24 on his speech at the “Defeat the Mandates” rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial was “particularly egregious,” he said.

    After receiving a cease-and-desist letter from his lawyer, Malone said, the Post “put out another attack article in which they repeated the same defamatory statements.” “So that appears to show malice,” he said. The second piece, Jan. 25, was a Post editorial titled “Vaccine doubters deserve answers, not dangerous lies.”
    ————————
    See the interview: https://rumble.com/v1gmmq9-dr.-robert-malone-sues-washington-post-for-defamation.html
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    The complaint, posted on Malone’s Substack page with his comments, notes that the headline of the Post’s Jan. 24 article stated Malone’s claims had been “discredited” and that his views constituted “misinformation.” Other statements by the Post listed in the lawsuit:

    – “Robert Malone stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before thousands of anti-vaccine and anti-mandate demonstrators Sunday, [and] the medical doctor and infectious-disease researcher repeated the falsehoods that have garnered him legions of followers”;

    – “‘Regarding the genetic covid vaccines, the science is settled,’ [Malone] said in a 15-minute speech that referenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. ‘They are not working.’ The misinformation came two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first studies”;

    – Dr. Malone’s “claims and suggestions have been discredited … as not only wrong, but also dangerous”;

    – “‘There is a huge market for misinformation. … The way he’s framed in the conspiracy-theory world is that he’s a courageous whistleblower rather than someone who is spreading misinformation – and it’s only enhancing his profile'”;

    – “While Malone is a brilliant scientist who has a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge about vaccines, ‘there is reason to be concerned about how his newfound stardom could be a public health risk’;

    – “‘[T]here’s a risk we’re all facing when he’s not accurately representing the information’;

    – “‘You have this individual [Dr. Malone] who has all these credentials and this history in the biomedical world, so that looks impressive. And he’s referencing a study that, on the face of it, may look impressive. But you don’t know that the study is fraudulent’… Malone has ‘weaponized bad research'”;

    – “With his increased profile in recent weeks, some are calling on him to take a step back and reflect on the damage his misinformation is causing”

    https://www.wnd.com/2022/08/defamed-dr-robert-malone-sues-washington-post-watch-exclusive-interview/

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  36. Entire Article @ TruckNews: “The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has effectively shut down 39 trucking businesses in the wake of a crackdown on so-called Freedom Convoy protesters.

    Responding to questions from trucknews.com, the ministry confirmed that 12 suspension and seizure orders were issued to Ontario-based large truck operators involved in the protests, suspending their operating authority throughout Canada, and issuing an order to seize all the plates registered to them. Protesters from outside the province faced sanctions of their own.

    Twenty-seven seizure orders were issued to large truck operators from outside the province, banning them from operating any commercial motor vehicle in Ontario. The names of the sanctioned businesses, as well as the number of affected trucks, were not revealed.

    “In an effort to preserve future police investigations into the illegal occupation in Ottawa, the ministry will not release the names of affected businesses at this time,” a ministry spokesperson said.

    Plates were also suspended for 24 passenger vehicles from Ontario, and 34 passenger vehicles from outside the province. Ottawa Police say 115 vehicles were towed during the protests.”

    https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/mto-grounds-trucking-businesses-involved-in-freedom-convoy-protests/1003157332/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

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  37. Entire Article @ LiveAction: “A man named Alan Nichols died after being hospitalized in Canada, a victim of euthanasia due simply to “hearing loss.” Now, his outraged family is demanding answers, while experts claim this is an increasing problem within the country facing people with disabilities.

    The Associated Press reported that Nichols, 61, was hospitalized in June of 2019 over fears that he might be suicidal. However, he soon texted his brother, pleading with him to “bust him out.”

    However, just one month later, Nichols was dead. He had been euthanized, with the reason on his application listed as “hearing loss.” His family went to police, but they ruled that Nichols’ euthanasia was justified, even though a euthanasia assessment filed by a nurse practitioner noted seizures, frailty, and “a failure to thrive.” Yet that explanation wasn’t good enough for Nichols’ family, who noted that with his history of mental illness, he couldn’t have truly understood the issue, and that he wasn’t suffering.

    “Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said. People with disabilities are at serious risk of being euthanized, a threat made even worse considering they routinely do not have access to basic health care and other needs.

    Catalina Devandas Aguilar, a lawyer from Costa Rica and the United Nation’s first Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, wrote a scathing report on disability rights in Canada. “Persons with disabilities have to initiate very lengthy and onerous legal procedures to get their rights recognized,” she told CTV, adding, “[D]uring my visit I have noticed that discussions about the rights of persons with disabilities are still framed in terms of social assistance, rather than from a human rights-based approach… I have also noted significant disparities in the areas of accessibility and access to education, health, administration of justice, and social protection depending on where a person with disabilities lives in Canada.” She also found numerous cases of people with disabilities pressured into assisted suicide.

    “I have been informed that there is no protocol in place to demonstrate that persons with disabilities have been provided with viable alternatives when eligible for assistive dying,” she said. “I have further received worrisome claims about persons with disabilities in institutions being pressured to seek medical assistance in dying, and practitioners not formally reporting cases involving persons with disabilities.”

    Assisted suicide routinely harms the most vulnerable people in society: the elderly, the disabled, the poor, and other minority groups. These groups routinely plead with lawmakers not to inflict assisted suicide on their communities, and they are consistently ignored. Canada is another example of just that — as people with disabilities are dying needlessly in greater and greater numbers, the country is not moving away from assisted suicide, but instead, looking to expand it even further.”

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    1. OMG…I spit iced tea all over the floor–the cement got me…by the time i got to the last one I was almost choking with laughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      THANK YOU FILLY!!!
      I NEEDED THIS!!!!

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  40. I just ate my first peach – really should have waited one more day, maybe, but it sure tastes good, even if it wasn’t very big! If I’m able to harvest enough of them…..I’ll bet I could at least get a half-gallon of ice cream! That is, if I don’t eat ’em first! Yummy!!!

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      1. I went out last night and managed to get 90% of the peaches. I set up my 6 foot ladder, then used a garden tool (for tilling between garden rows) to reach up and pull the branches down where I could reach the peaches – the top ones, I just pulled off with the tiller and picked them up from the ground. I got 2 HUGE bags of peaches! Most are small but I’ll pick out the biggest ones for Mom to make my ice cream, then just eat the rest. Small but still very tasty!

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  41. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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