Dragonflies

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The earliest dinosaur fossils date back 240 million years. But can you believe that dragonfly fossils have been found to be even older than that? Paleontologists place the earliest known dragonflies more than 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth. The dragonflies of the prehistoric era weren’t only old — they were enormous! Some dragonfly fossils have a 30-inch wingspan, which is about as big as a modern crow.

Today, the largest dragonflies (Petalura ingentissima) have a 6.3-inch wingspan and are found in Australia. Dragonflies don’t really look like dragons, so how did they get their name? The answer comes from Romanian folklore and the story of St. George. In the myth, the Devil turned St. George’s horse into a huge insect. That earned dragonflies the Romanian name for “Devil’s Horse.” Since the Romanian word drac means both “Devil” and “dragon,” the insect soon became “dragonfly.”

Despite their place in the order Odonata, which means “toothed,” dragonflies don’t have teeth. Like other insects, they have sharp mandibles on their jaw used for tearing and eating prey. Their bite isn’t dangerous for humans, but it can definitely pinch! Dragonflies have two giant eyes that contain nearly 30,000 lenses called ommatidia. Their eyes are so big that they cover the dragonfly’s entire head, allowing it to see 360 degrees around — perfect for a creature that tends to be both predator and prey. Dragonflies are the fastest flying insect in the world. Some large species of dragonflies can reach speeds of 35 miles per hour, which is even faster than the average hummingbird!

While dragonflies are the fastest fliers, they don’t get that way by beating their wings more quickly than other insects. Dragonflies beat their wings around 30 times per second. That sounds very fast until you compare that rate to bees (200 times per second) or mosquitoes (800 times per second). Because dragonflies have a unique two-wing design, they are incredibly aerodynamic. Dragonflies can fly in any direction that a helicopter can fly, including 360 degree turns, hovering in one place and even backward.

Dragonflies aren’t born to fly. In fact, they’re born to swim! Dragonflies lay their eggs in still water. The eggs hatch shortly after, and dragonfly larvae (known as nymphs) emerge as aquatic creatures. These nymphs may spend up to four years in the water before the next stage of their life cycle. As nymphs, dragonflies learn to be prolific hunters. Nymphs eat any aquatic creatures they can handle, which include mosquito larvae, worms and tadpoles. As they get bigger, small fish can even become part of their diet.

During the course of their nymph stage, dragonflies molt up to 12 times as they grow. Their final molt takes place out of the water. Unlike butterflies and moths, who use this time to transition to the pupal stage, dragonflies progress straight from larva to fully grown adults. The nymph’s skin splits open and the adult dragonfly body emerges. After a short rest, it’s ready to fly!

Dragonflies typically hunt and eat in midair. They can catch any insect (they’re not picky about the type) by creating a snare with their legs or by simply plucking it out of the air with their jaws. They eat their prey quickly and move on to the next hunt. Larger dragonflies can even eat their own body weight in a day. If you’re seeing fewer mosquitoes around than you normally do, thank a dragonfly! Dragonflies can eat up to 100 mosquitoes a day, which helps freshwater ecosystems flourish. It also keeps mosquitoes from spreading dangerous diseases to humans.

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  8. Good Morning!

    Dragonflies! Beautiful Open Pat … learned something new.

    The two of you bring the bestest opens on the internet!

    Early bird I am … looking forward to a terrific Tuesday (fingers crossed!)

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    2. Good morning, PR! I did a little searching for info on pruning my peach tree – these peaches are soooo yummy, I really want to keep it going, if I can. They all say to prune it in early spring “before the sap starts running.” I wish someone would tell me how I’m supposed to know when the sap is going to start running! LOL – ah, well – this is all an experiment anyway!

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      1. Does your County have a University extension for agriculture? I bet it does? Or, is there a County Garden Club? I bet so. Our County has “Clemson Extension” with a sub site for gardening etc. And the we have a grouping of garden clubs which produces an annual calendar for when to do what …

        You’re so resourceful, I’m sure you will find info on when to prune.

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  10. Well, that was interesting! I knew they deposited their larvae in the water but I had no idea it could take up to 4 years for them to mature!

    When they make these claims that they “date back 300 million years,” I can’t help but think…..what if the carbon-dating process they use is not accurate? What if, somewhere along the timeline of developing that theory, assumptions were made? Inaccurate assumptions. I have always been somewhat skeptical about that but after this whole clusterfuck with COVID and “science,” I don’t trust ANYTHING “science” says any more!!!!

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  14. so ultra maggot LIED AGAIN…claiming he had no knowledge of the raid…bullshit! in talks with the national archives he REFUSED TO HONOR REALPOTUS’s assertion of executive privilege and opened the door to the fib gaining access to ALL documents and permitting the raid. How is that even LEGAL? how can one president negate another president’s ex privilege?
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    Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump’s estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president’s claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.

    The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home.

    By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor’s claims to executive privilege, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.

    The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump’s Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.

    The most complete summary was contained in a lengthy letter dated May 10 that acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent Trump’s lawyers summarizing the White House’s involvement.

    “On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes,” Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.

    That letter revealed Biden empowered the National Archives and Records Administration to waive any claims to executive privilege that Trump might assert to block DOJ from gaining access to the documents.

    “The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,'” Wall wrote. “… I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.”

    The memos provide the most definitive evidence to date of the current White House’s effort to facilitate a criminal probe of the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election and may face again as a challenger in 2024. That involvement included eliminating one of the legal defenses Trump might use to fight the FBI over access to his documents.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/biden-white-house-facilitated-dojs-criminal-probe-against-trump

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    1. gosh, the precedents being set: the next president can revoke executive privilege for previous presidents–watch out obummer!!! the nat’l archive director can go after previous presidents’ records–EVEN personal ones–again WATCH OUT obummer!!!
      nothing is sacred anymore–and THAT might have worked FOR you this time, but it will work AGAINST you in the future asswipes!

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      1. Personally, I do not like the idea of “executive privilege” and I despise their classification system. They classify WAY too much just to keep it from the public and cover their asses.

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  15. we’re spending a half million clams to put a wall around a beach house that’s gonna be in the ocean soon? you’d think ultra maggot would have talked about this with his good friend obummer who could’ve told him about the rising oceans and built…oh wait…obummer has 2 properties on the water. my bad.

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  16. My lawn isn’t quite as brown and things are looking decidedly messy so I’ve got to mow today, since I’ll be gone most of the day tomorrow, when there is also a chance of rain. I need to hit the courthouse when they open tomorrow to finally get my PPT paid – for the LAST time ever – and get my tags renewed, then onto shopping and Mom’s to make ice cream.

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    1. yeah–they are trying to profit off the maverick movie doing well at the box office…
      sorry…this is getting my side eye…
      i think he’s a good governor. but i think this is the GOPe splitter strategy rearing it’s ugly head…
      happy to be wrong though.

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  21. Love Trump or not, the fact remains…..this is true, in spite of the possibility that he could be just a shill for DeSantis.

    EXCERPT: “It is not late 2020, the final months of a shell-shocked year when anyone – including the Orange Man – could be forgiven for not fully getting what was happening. It is plausible that he meant well because how could he know that that “vaccines” were no such thing – and were other things, besides? Perhaps he was doing all he could – as he saw it, at the time, to deal with a “crisis” that seemed real – and was, in terms of the choreography of the thing.

    But it is now late 2022 – and we know. It is no longer a matter of “hesitancy,” the condescending term of abuse leveled at those who practiced due diligence by wanting to know more about these drugs before considering taking them. It is a matter of fact that the “vaccines” are no such things, as the “vaccinated” continue to get the sickness they were told they would not have to worry about getting. And spreading it, too.

    The revised claim about these “vaccines” is that they reduce the severity of the symptoms of the sickness they do not prevent people from getting – or giving. But that is not a vaccine. It is a palliative, like the aspirin one takes after one develops a headache. Aspirin does not prevent headaches. And aspirin is safe and effective.

    Trump has to know the “vaccines” are neither. If he does not, then he is obtuse – a notch below ignorant because by now it is difficult to imagine how anyone not entirely blinded to external reality could be unaware of facts as the serially “vaccinated” continuing to get – and spread – the sickness they were told they could no longer get (and spread) as well as the alarming number of cases of healthy young people developing sicknesses that young people used to rarely – almost never get. Such as myocarditis and pericarditis.

    Or he is complicit. He may also be something else. That being a person afflicted by a narcissism so extreme that he is incapable of humbling himself by admitting he was wrong – and that he was duped – and that he is deeply, profoundly sorry for the harms that he helped to cause. Were he to express such contrition, it would be cause to forgive him and even consider supporting him, once again. It would tell us he might not be a bad man.

    But – so far – all indications are that he is just the Orange Man. Not only hasn’t he apologized for fronting for the drug pushers – for taking personal credit for pushing their drugs – he continues to push them, without apology. This is unforgivable.

    As Alex said, it’s a crucible moment. There is still time for Orange Man to give us some indication he isn’t the person his actions thus far strongly suggest he is (and these transcend his actions regarding “vaccines,” a subject for another column). But time – and patience – is running out.

    If he will not repudiate his actions and apologize for them, the time has come for a better man to replace the Orange Man. That man could be Ron DeSantis, a man who has repudiated the “vaccines” and the totality of this evil business. Who didn’t give in to the evil business at the height of this evil business. He has little, if anything, to apologize for. Unlike the Orange Man.”

    https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2022/08/22/orange-apologia/

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    1. splitting hairs–desantis was against mandates–but only recently came out against the actual vaxxes themselves…it’s easy to jump on board now

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  22. EXCERPTS: “On Monday afternoon, reports of an active mass shooting in Atlanta made headlines and America braced for the worst. After all, the media had wall-to-wall coverage of a white hillbilly who shot up an Atlanta Asian massage parlor in 2021, an incident that launched long articles on the scourge of white supremacy and the need for gun control.

    I imagine we won’t see the same level of coverage after police caught the newest suspect in this new mass shooting:

    The suspect, Raissa Kengne, is a black female professional who worked as an information security auditor for a major accounting firm in downtown Atlanta. She describes herself on LinkedIn as having “over ten years of combined experience in Information Technology (IT) auditing, financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions, IT due diligence, restructuring, financing, real estate transactions, estate tax planning for high net worth individuals, private companies and public companies across several industries.”

    She allegedly shot three people, two of whom have died. The deceased, Michael Shinners, 60, and Wesley Freeman, 41, were both former colleagues listed as defendants on a legal complaint that was filed in May by Kengne.

    She alleged that both men, and her former employer at large, had broken into her apartment to steal files and hack her computer after she filed a whistleblower report of the company with the SEC to detail criminal violations.

    Here are some of her posts on LinkedIn:
    ——————-
    The rabbit hole is deep on this one.

    There is no way at this time to confirm if Kengne’s former employer was actually a corrupt firm that burgled her home to stop investigations into their shenanigans, or if she was a scorned woman with paranoia who went full scorched earth. These types of things are much easier to figure out when you are watching a movie.

    But here’s the thing: This case is intriguing as heck. It should dominate the news cycle far more than the redneck who shot up an illicit massage parlor because he was angry about his sex addiction.

    But because the alleged shooter in this new case is black, and because our media only cares about skin color and not truth, I don’t think we’ll hear much about this riveting and horrific tale in the months to come.”

    https://notthebee.com/article/heres-the-suspect-who-was-arrested-after-the-mass-shooting-in-atlanta-yesterday/

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  24. The Bee:

    EL PASO, TX — Discarded U-Haul trucks abandoned by Californians immigrating to Texas have been repurposed as over 600 miles of new border wall along the America/Mexico border. Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the wall is already cutting down on illegal immigration and California immigration since they’ve refused to send trucks back to California.

    “The state has been inundated with an influx of U-Hauls because of all the Californians leaving their state,” said Henry Gugelface, lead engineer of the Texas border wall project. “We were hesitant to send the trucks back to California because we are so tired of Californians. Utilizing the excess U-Haul trucks for the border wall killed two birds with one stone!”

    The new stretch of border wall fills in gaps east of El Paso where migrants have been traveling into the country by the thousands. Now, though Hispanics have been braving an unforgiving desert landscape and river water to reach America, they are finding themselves stopped cold by a pile of U-Haul trucks haphazardly thrown together.

    “Nothing can penetrate our great wall,” Gov Abbott told members of the press. “It’s been so successful that we’re considering building a wall around the entire state just to keep other Americans out. Yeah, boy! Yee haw!”

    At publishing time, shares of Budget Truck Rental’s stock have surged as Californians resort to U-Haul alternatives in a desperate attempt to leave their state behind.

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    1. “CNN has pushed out Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter, marking the launch of a complete rebrand for the network as they reposition themselves to report actual news and earn the trust of their viewers.

      Here are ten other drastic — and dare we say promising — steps CNN is taking to turn around the network:

      1. Cut back to showing Jan 6th footage just 19 hours a day: That leaves 5 whole hours for other interesting stuff!

      2. Display the party affiliation and voting record of every anchor on screen: Hey — that’s actually a good idea!

      3. Limit sexual assaults to non-work hours and weekends: CNN will no longer pay its talent to molest people. Progress!

      4. Hire Alex Jones for the 8 pm slot: More accurate than Brian Stelter! And followed by Joe Rogan at 9!

      5. All anchors will have to deliver the news while competing in a soap suds-covered Wipeout course: NOW, we’re talkin’! Also, Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper will be forced to wear those giant inflatable sumo wrestler suits. Must-see TV!

      6. Move Wolf Blitzer’s show into… SPAAAAACE!!!!: We look forward to seeing Wolf’s weird holograms again.

      7. Win over the Jr. High demo by renaming the network to PEE-NN: HA! And Anderson Cooper’s name is now Anderson POOPER! BURN!

      8. All shows will feature voiceover commentary from Mystery Science Theater 3000: It’s way more engaging this way.

      9. A new vaccination reality show where you keep giving the anchors a bunch of vaccinations to see how many vaccinations you can get before something weird happens: Informative and suspenseful!

      10. Report the real news for a change: Or at least take an extra 60 seconds before publication to check whether the story is completely made up or not. Just a thought.”

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    2. WASHINGTON, D.C. — CDC Director Rochelle Walensky spoke at a press briefing Monday in which she acknowledged an apparent link between those who believe in high-level government shadow conspiracies and not having myocarditis. According to the CDC’s findings, “total nutjobs” appear to be immune to the little-known heart condition, leaving experts puzzled.

      “When the pandemic first hit we knew absolutely everything about the virus and immediately imposed common sense health guidelines that were not completely made up,” said Walensky. “However, these new findings seem to suggest that not taking everything government authorities say as gospel truth may save your life.”

      “Strange,” she muttered to herself.

      According to sources, health experts have been unable to determine why such a correlation between conspiracy theory and low myocarditis rates exist. Early speculation that it’s because “whackos” who believe in bigfoot are the same ones not taking experimental vaccines was dismissed because that would suggest there was something wrong with the vaccines and the government would never lie about them being safe and effective.

      Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has blasted the CDC’s report, suggesting that it was itself a government conspiracy.

      “Let’s look at the facts,” said Dr. Fauci. “Conspiracy theorists think the moon landing was faked and that JFK was shot by a turtle in a hamster suit. Therefore, the vaccines are safe and effective. They literally annihilate the virus within your body and keep it from spreading to anyone.”

      At publishing time, Dr. Anthony Fauci was diagnosed with COVID-19 again and decided to retire.

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  26. One more from The Bee:

    WASHINGTON — In a landmark decision announced this week, the Supreme Court ruled that a Pennsylvania public restroom installer had acted with criminal intent against males who want to relieve themselves with adequate protection from chatty, curious neighbors. While the 6-3 decision solidified several guidelines for public restrooms, the nation’s highest court earned the most accolades for declaring urinals without dividers to be unconstitutional.

    “This judicial body finds the use of adjacent urinals without dividers of at least 15 inches to be in violation of the constitution’s right to private privacy.” Justice Clarence Thomas gave the majority opinion. “Public restrooms are already public enough as it is – the constitution protects an inviolable right. Men should be able to keep their privates…private.”

    Brett Kavanaugh wrote the concurring opinion, demonstrating that “the use of non-divided urinals flagrantly violates a man’s God-given right to not be ogled by neighboring urinators” and noting that “the testimony of all human civilization stands in solidarity with this sacred right, along with the printed word of the body of the constitution, the bill of rights, and the subsequent amendments.”

    The Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling in “Bob’s Discount Toilets N’ Stalls v. The People Of The State Of Pennsylvania,” which has become more commonly known as the “Do you mind?!” case. Critics have noted that the court set new precedent, and public restroom installers may now also face criminal charges for unresponsive hand soap automatic dispensers, sopping wet toilet seats, and gaps between stall doors of over 1.3 inches.

    The Supreme Court also announced it would consider adding amendments to enshrine the right to private privacy into law, but current White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced that the Federal government stands against the “right to private privacy” as it would interfere with their planned rollout of mandatory gender-reassignment surgery for small children who accidentally pick up toys of the “wrong gender.”

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  27. EXCERPT: “What I Learned At The Summit Of Truth (Part 1) – Get your county’s Cast Vote Records before they get erased on September 3rd!

    This one-hour section from the Summit of Truth is well worth your time — if you care about our elections. It’s called “The Trial of the Machines.” It explains what are called “Cast Vote Records” and why these records are the clearest indicators of machine-based election fraud.

    Mike Lindell interviewed cyber experts Jeff O’Donnell and Walter Daugherity to discuss these records. (Click on the image to view.)
    ——————
    You learn that a Pima County (AZ) whistleblower attended a meeting of Democrats in September 2021 where each of them was promised an extra 35,000 votes. The whistleblower sent an email explaining this cheating to the FBI.

    You learn that Utah — which does all mail-in voting — refuses to turn over any of its Cast Vote Records. You learn that Texas refused to turn over any of its Cast Vote Records — until AG Ken Paxton forced them to do so. You learn that Edison Research — the company that reports the vote counts for American elections to the media — reported impossible and absurd numbers in the 2020 election!
    ——————-
    How To Get Your County’s Cast Vote Records

    The Cast Vote Records are the clearest indicators of whether or not there is machine-based election fraud. On September 3, 2022, federal protections for these records under Title 52 Section 20701 comes to an end allowing the legal destruction of these records.

    Don’t let these records disappear from the public conscience. Here’s how you can request your county’s records.

    Much more: https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-at-the-summit-of-truth

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  28. EXCERPT: “TikTok just unveiled an “Elections Center” that will put detailed voter profiles in the hands of a company based in Beijing, stocked with party members and state employees, subject to laws that allow the Chinese government data access. Given the Chinese Communist Party’s influence over ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, China could exercise enormous control over the midterm elections with this data. What’s worse is that American institutions are actively encouraging TikTok to do this.

    By law, ByteDance is required to give China access to its data upon request. TikTok claims such requests would be rejected, but there is no way to know whether that’s true. We do, however, know that members of the CCP actually work for ByteDance. We also know TikTok’s data has been accessed in China, despite the company’s claims. Finally, we know TikTok is currently the most popular social network in America.

    Last week, TikTok boasted in a press release about the creation of its new Elections Center. The center will influence American elections on two fronts: by providing voter information and countering “misinformation.” The first front means TikTok will have voting profiles on all American users who click through the Elections Center, and the second front means a Chinese company will be policing our political discourse on the single most popular social network.

    According to TikTok, the center will “connect people who engage with election content to authoritative information and sources in more than 45 languages.” That may sound lovely, but it means when users select their state and click “register to vote,” TikTok can now cross-reference their location and interest in voting with their age, political leanings, and other attributes that can be gleaned from its vast trove of data.

    Why does that matter? Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology and “The Social Dilemma” joined “The Federalist Radio Hour” last week to outline the threats posed by TikTok. With the app’s data, Harris explained, China “can look at all the voting districts in the swing states and … can basically look at people’s sentiments with an AI that calculates what people’s opinions are in all the key voting areas.

    Then, added Harris, China “can strategically up-regulate everybody who starts to say, you know, China’s really not so bad.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/23/tiktoks-new-elections-center-is-a-massive-threat-to-national-security/

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  29. Entire Article @ DC: “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a letter in The Wall Street Journal Sunday disputing claims that it had promoted cross-sex medical interventions for children who identify as transgender following a wave of public blowback.

    The letter, written by AAP President Moira Szilagyi, claimed the “gender-affirming” approach the organization has promoted doesn’t actually push minors toward surgeries or other medical treatments and suggested the model actually discourages it. But the AAP endorsed the gender-affirming approach in a 2018 paper which promoted the integration of medical and mental health services for transgender youths and referred to any efforts to dissuade children from identifying as transgender as “conversion therapy,” noting efforts to make it illegal in various states.

    “Gender-affirming care” is often used as a euphemism for sex changes, and can include treatments ranging from social transition (using a new name and preferred pronouns to reflect one’s gender identity) to biomedical interventions to help someone present as the opposite sex. (RELATED: Yes, Doctors Are Performing Sex Change Surgeries On Kids)

    “Gender-affirming care can be lifesaving. It doesn’t push medical treatments or surgery; for the vast majority of children, it recommends the opposite,” Szilagyi wrote. “This care is nonjudgmental, includes families and allows questions and concerns to be raised in a supportive environment. This is what it means to ‘affirm’ a child or teen; it means destigmatizing gender variance and promoting a child’s self-worth.”

    Szilagyi claimed the AAP used an evidence-based approach and condemned state-level legislation restricting “gender-affirming” treatments for minors. She did not clarify what procedures the AAP does and does not support for minors or when those would be appropriate.

    “In its recommendations for caring for transgender and gender-diverse young people, the AAP advises pediatricians to offer developmentally appropriate care that is oriented toward understanding and appreciating the youth’s gender experience,” she wrote.

    The letter was a response to a Wednesday article in the WSJ criticizing the AAP for silencing discussion on transgender treatments and for promoting flawed studies which claim to find medical interventions improve transgender youths’ mental health in Pediatrics, the medical journal run by the AAP. The journal has given a platform to researcher Jack Turban, an outspoken advocate for transgender medical interventions whose research is plagued with methodological issues and consistently promotes medical interventions, multiple Daily Caller News Foundation investigations have found.

    “The AAP has stifled debate on how best to treat youth in distress over their bodies, shut down efforts by critics to present better scientific approaches at conferences, used technicalities to suppress resolutions to bring it into line with better-informed European countries, and put its thumb on the scale at Pediatrics in favor of a shoddy but politically correct research agenda,” the article read.

    Some have expressed concern that, even as the AAP distances itself from transgender medical interventions, it continues to support an affirmative approach toward children who believe they’re transgender, which could cement what may otherwise be a temporary phase and lead children down a path toward lifelong biomedical interventions and sterilization.

    The AAP did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.”

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  30. EXCERPT: “Groundbreaking information has come to light about the role of graphene, which many believe is contained in or produced by Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines,” in radio frequency electronics.

    A paper published in the journal Nature Communications back in 2014 — entitled, “Graphene radio frequency receiver integrated circuit” — explains how graphene has “superior electrical properties” and has strong potential as “a future channel material in radio frequency electronics.”

    “Fabrication of a graphene integrated circuit without significantly degrading transistor performance has proven to be challenging, posing one of the major bottlenecks to compete with existing technologies,” the study’s abstract reads. “Here we present a fabrication method fully preserving graphene transistor quality, demonstrated with the implementation of a high-performance three-stage graphene integrated circuit.”

    That fabrication method, we now know, involves the use of nearly nanoscale-sized circuit components that are assembled for the purpose of radio signal amplification, filtering, and down-conversation mixing. As the study explains, graphene was successfully used in experiments to “perform practical wireless communication functions, receiving and restoring digital text transmitted on a 4.3-GHz carrier signal.”

    Covid jabs clots aren’t made from blood – they appear more like a self-assembled matrix of conductive structures

    How does this relate to Fauci Flu shots, you might be asking? Firstly, there has been much credible speculation as to the true contents of the shot vials, with some evidence out there that suggests they contain graphene. The Health Ranger also made an incredible discovery recently about covid jab-related clots that are not, in fact, blood clots as many previously believed.

    These non-blood clots, the Health Ranger further found using mass spec laboratory analysis, contain high concentrations of electrically conductive elements such as sodium (Na), aluminum (Al), and tin (Sn). The clots themselves also appear to draw or harvest metal elements from the circulating blood supply to build and expand their structure and size.

    “It is noteworthy that many of these elements are conductive. Aluminum, for example, is the most common alternative to copper for use in electrical wiring,” the Health Ranger writes. “Sodium is an alkali metal that is highly conductive, and tin is used as the primary component in solder alloys used to manufacture or repair circuit boards.”

    The 2014 study mentioned earlier discusses how graphene is used to create tiny circuit boards of microscopic size that enhance the conductivity and use of other metals. Could it be that Fauci Flu shots are self-assembling tiny circuit boards from metals siphoned from the blood, resulting in clots?

    “The clot is almost entirely lacking key marker elements that would be present in human blood (such as iron and potassium) yet shows significantly higher concentrations of elements that are used in electronics and circuitry,” the Health Ranger writes.

    Be sure to watch the following episode of Health Ranger Report at Brighteon.com to hear more from the Health Ranger about this incredible discovery and its implications:”

    https://noqreport.com/2022/08/21/nature-journal-reveals-how-graphene-can-be-used-to-assemble-radio-frequency-electronics-in-biological-systems/

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  32. Entire Article @ RedState: “If there’s one thing that has pleased me in this darker part of our American history, it’s that when a politician manages to screw over the people who hired them, they suddenly find themselves in line at the figurative chopping block.

    Wyoming’s Liz Cheney has already lost her head, but now West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is being led to the gallows. Unlike Cheney, he’s got two years to talk himself out of it, but his betrayal is going to have long-lasting effects.

    As you can see in the clip below, Meet the Press’s Chuck Todd put up a poll that showed just how people are feeling about the two politicians that both party members consider to be traitors. Cheney has an approval rating of only 28 percent, with a disapproval of 35 percent. Meanwhile, Manchin only has an 11 percent approval rating, while his disapproval rating is 34 percent.

    Cheney has made it clear that she has political ambitions beyond her failure to get reelected but it’s unclear how she’ll find herself in office ever again, at least with an R attached to her name. Even Mitt Romney gave her a snowball’s chance, and he’s of the same species she is.

    This is what happens when you literally utilize the power you were given for a purpose that served only the self. The people of Wyoming wanted Cheney to do their business and speak with their voice when she went to Washington. Instead, she went on a crusade to punish Orange Man for a crime he clearly didn’t commit, and the longer her little January 6 committee went on, the more evident it became that Donald Trump was innocent and the more it became clear that this was personal for Cheney.

    Manchin’s sin might have been worse. While Cheney’s betrayal shouldn’t be understated, Manchin’s betrayal blindsided the people of West Virginia and the rest of the country in the process.

    Manchin had acted as a moderate Democrat for a good portion of his career, even to the point where Republicans had a soft spot for him. It had appeared that when it comes to responsible fiscal decisions, Manchin could be relied upon to make them. While he didn’t make too many friends on the Democrat side of the aisle in Washington, he endeared himself to moderate Democrats and Republicans alike with his stances, especially under pressure. In a way, his refusal to follow the radicals of his own party made him the most powerful Democrat in Washington, as every play the Democrats wanted to make came down to whether or not Manchin would go along with it.

    Apparently, all it really took was Democrats giving him a sweetheart deal in order for him to sign on to pass a bill that Democrats claimed to reduce inflation but, in reality, was really just a climate bill in disguise. Manchin knew what it was but signed on anyway, betraying the trust of everyone who liked him and setting the United States on a path to a far larger IRS, more inflation, and not much else.

    At this point, even Manchin can’t defend the bill. It’s pretty easy math. Betray your constituents and you won’t have any anymore. While some politicians who are so embedded in D.C. culture may find a way to be career politicians, most of these seats aren’t permanent positions.

    You can probably stick a fork in Cheney. She’s done. Manchin better find a way to seek forgiveness and soon. Two years are going to pass really quickly.”

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  34. EXCERPTS: “A conservative organization is launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to defeat “the woke ideology of sheltered white liberals,” with its first television spot taking aim at the notion that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.

    “She trains at 6 a.m. every morning,” the ad’s narrator intones over footage of a female athlete preparing to run a race. Another female runner “spent years working to shave off seconds,” while a third is “the captain of her school’s team.”

    The next entrant, however, is undeniably male. “He’s just a mid-pack finisher,” says the narrator. “But not today.” As the race commences, the male athlete quickly takes a commanding lead over all his competitors. “Unfortunately,” the narrator remarks, “this competition was over before it even began.”

    “Woke left-wing politicians are destroying girls’ sports,” he declares. “Tell [President Joe] Biden and his radical allies: no men in girls’ sports.”

    As the ad concludes, “Vote to stop the insanity!” appears on the screen.

    The 30-second spot, titled “Game Over,” is the product of Citizens for Sanity (CFS), a nonprofit with ties to Republican operatives including veteran GOP strategist John Brabender, who produced the ad, and Ian Prior, the organization’s strategic consultant who also serves as executive director of Fight for Schools, the group whose opposition to Critical Race Theory played a major role in the 2021 Virginia governor’s race.

    Despite its connections to a political party that frequently shrinks from battles with the radical Left, CFS isn’t afraid to go on offense — and even to ruffle some feathers in the process.”

    Ad: https://rumble.com/v1g4q2b-game-over.html
    ——————–
    Politico was certainly not amused by CFS’s output. It called the organization “a conservative ‘dark money’ group” and actually had the nerve to complain that the “Game Over” ad “underscores the increasing focus on the right on gender issues” — as if the Left hasn’t been shoving the transgender agenda down Americans’ throats for years now. Indeed, as Politico notes, “Transgender women have been allowed to compete in women’s categories in the Olympics since 2003 and the NCAA since 2010.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/conservative-group-goes-on-offense-with-ad-showing-insanity-of-men-in-womens-sports/

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  35. what an entitled, arrogant ass she is–the “acting archivist”

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  37. EXCERPT: “Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said during an Aug. 21 television appearance that Republican criticisms of the FBI following its unprecedented raid of President Donald Trump’s home are “crazy,” and opined that most Republican voters don’t share this attitude.
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    During an Aug. 22 appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Crenshaw lashed out against denunciations of the FBI, which he called “crazy.” “Oh yes, it’s crazy,” Crenshaw said specifically when asked about the rhetoric on the FBI from within his party.

    Some Republicans, including Crenshaw, have condemned Greene’s calls to defund the FBI as being equivalent to Democrats’ calls following the 2020 death of George Floyd to defund the police, a cry that has been kept alive among some more progressive Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

    “It makes us seem like extremist Democrats, right?” Crenshaw said. “And so Marjorie and AOC can go join the defund the law enforcement club if they want. Ninety-nine percent of Republicans are not on that train.”

    On the other hand, Crenshaw did call for more transparency from the DOJ and FBI on the reasons for the raid, which he said was “automatically political” since it involved a search of a former president’s home.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-crenshaw-defends-fbi-as-other-republicans-denounce-agency-raid-on-trump_4680144.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily
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  38. Ha! Foiled again! Suck on that, beyotch!

    EXCERPT: “For the second time, the Pentagon denied a request on Monday by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser to activate the National Guard to assist with thousands of migrants who have been arriving in the nation’s capital in recent months.

    Bowser first asked for National Guard help last month, but it was rejected by the Pentagon on Aug. 4. She then sent another letter on Aug. 11, requesting that 150 National Guard troops be deployed to “help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation’s capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants.”

    Defense Department executive secretary Kelly Bulliner Holly wrote in a letter to Bowser on Monday that the D.C. National Guard is not trained to assist migrants and activation would lead to “diminished readiness” for the troops.

    “The DCNG has no specific experience in or training for this kind of mission or unique skills for providing facility management, feeding, sanitation or ground support,” Holly wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Fox News.

    “Approval of this request would also result in a substantial readiness impact to the DCNG,” Holly continued. “Devoting the personnel or the facility for such an extended mission would force the cancellation or disruption of military training.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-dc-mayor-bowsers-second-request-national-guard-migrant-crisis-denied-pentagon

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  39. diplomats get away with rape?
    FTA
    Oliha was taken into custody on suspicion of rape but was released a short time later. While held for questioning, he reportedly told detectives from the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit that he was a diplomat, and once investigators confirmed his immunity, he was released without facing any formal charges for the alleged attack on one of his neighbors.

    “We are aware of the incident referenced involving a diplomat accredited to the United Nations,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We take these allegations seriously, and we are working closely with the New York Police Department and the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, as we do in all legal and criminal cases involving foreign diplomats assigned to Permanent Missions and Observer Offices at the UN. We do not comment on the specifics of ongoing investigations.”

    At noon Sunday, at “a location known to the Department in the confines of the 34th Precinct there is a report on file for rape,” an NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital, without responding to additional questions about Oliha’s release or whether he will face legal consequences. “A female victim known to the Department states when she arrived at the location a male suspect opened the front door to the building and then followed her up the steps and pushed his way into her apartment. The suspect then forced the victim to engage in sexual intercourse and fled the location. The investigation remains ongoing.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/united-nations-diplomat-accused-raping-nyc-neighbor-released-without-charges-after-claiming-immunity

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  40. Nadler staffer violates federal law for years
    FTA

    A senior staffer for Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler has violated federal law in the past several years for providing legal services to the congressman’s campaign and leadership PAC, Americans for Public Trust, a watchdog, alleged in an ethics complaint Monday obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
    Senior staff are barred from being paid through a role involving a “fiduciary relationship, including the practice of law,” according to federal law.
    “House ethics rules make this simple prohibition abundantly clear: senior staffers cannot be paid to be campaign attorneys,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the DCNF. “But Nadler’s team has done exactly that.”

    A top staffer for Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler has been violating federal law by providing legal services to the congressman’s campaign and leadership PAC, a watchdog alleged in an ethics complaint Monday obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    Robert Gottheim is the district director for Nadler’s office and between 2019 and 2021 he received hundreds of thousands in pay to qualify as a “senior staffer.” However, the fact that Gottheim has also been paid for legal services by Nadler’s campaign and PAC is illegal since senior staff are barred from being paid through a role involving a “fiduciary relationship, including the practice of law,” Americans for Public Trust, a watchdog group, alleged in a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE).

    “House ethics rules make this simple prohibition abundantly clear: senior staffers cannot be paid to be campaign attorneys,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the DCNF. “But Nadler’s team has done exactly that.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/22/jerry-nadler-staffer-violating-federal-law-robert-gottheim/

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  43. Entire Article @ FB: “As mayor of Braddock, Pa., Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) ordered a police officer to dig up dirt on one of his political rivals, according to a town solicitor whom Fetterman later fired.

    In a heated 2009 mayoral campaign, Braddock solicitor Lawrence Shields accused Fetterman of “abuse of your mayoral authority” for ordering a Braddock cop to obtain a police report from a 2004 domestic incident involving Fetterman’s challenger, Jayme Cox. Braddock city council members called for Fetterman’s arrest for violating state laws regarding the handling of criminal information in cases where charges are dropped.

    Three years later, Fetterman cast the tie-breaking vote—his only vote in 13 years as Braddock mayor—to fire Shields as solicitor, purportedly to save money in the borough’s budget. Fetterman said he was an “enthusiastic yes” in favor of ousting Shields. Shields and Fetterman’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment about whether the earlier criticism of Fetterman was a factor in Shields’s firing.

    The incident is another black mark on Fetterman’s tenure as mayor of the dilapidated steel town, which the progressive candidate has touted on the campaign trail as evidence of his blue collar bona fides. In 2013, Fetterman pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black jogger he wrongly suspected of firing a gun near his house. The jogger, Christopher Miyares, said Fetterman aimed a shotgun at his chest. Fetterman admitted in a television interview that he “may have broken the law,” but he has refused to apologize for the incident.

    Fetterman admitted to asking a police officer for the report on Cox and discussing it with others. But he denied pressuring the officer to dig up the information and said it was necessary to inform voters about Cox, who had charges dropped after taking a domestic abuse class.

    Reached by phone, Cox acknowledged he got in an altercation with his wife in 2004 but said the allegation he hit her “wasn’t true.” The seven-year Navy veteran told the Washington Free Beacon he and his wife reconciled and remained married until she passed away in 2017. He said he still doesn’t know how Fetterman obtained the police report.

    “He’ll stab anybody in the back who gets in his way,” Cox said of Fetterman.

    Fetterman also faced allegations from city officials of failing to perform his duties as mayor. He missed more than one-third of council meetings during his tenure, the Free Beacon reported. Jesse Brown, the president of the city council when Fetterman was in office, said he “should have been at all council meetings” but stopped showing up after multiple confrontations over his official duties.

    In one city council meeting Fetterman did attend, he “began discussing his political views” about Cox, according to meeting records obtained by the Free Beacon. Fetterman’s rant during the May 2009 meeting prompted Brown to ask Braddock’s police chief “to remove [Fetterman] from the meeting after he refused to end the discussion.” Fetterman was allowed to stay in the meeting after calming down.

    As lieutenant governor, Fetterman has proposed rewriting the very same law he was accused of violating in 2009, the Criminal History Record Information Act. He claimed the act “unfairly” disqualified “many Black and Brown Pennsylvanians” from employment. Braddock solicitor Shields said in 2009 that Fetterman’s release of the police report on Cox, who is black, opened Braddock up to a potential lawsuit for violating the act, which bars the release of criminal information three years after an arrest when no conviction occurred. Pennsylvania’s Bucks County was fined $67 million in 2019 for violating the act by publishing protected criminal information.”

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  46. Link to “Selection Code” video: Mike Lindell presents the new historical movie [S]eleciton Code ! Here is your free download of [S]election code. Once you go to the above link or had clicked the click here, you will need to put your computer cursor over the bottom right of the video. You will be shown three (3) dots, click the three dots and you will be given the option to download the movie [S]election Code !

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  47. EXCERPT: “Australia’s former Prime Minister (PM) Scott Morrison has created a political firestorm for having himself sworn in with five additional ministerial portfolios, mostly without the knowledge of the cabinet collectively or the individual minister concerned. The first of these was the health portfolio, done with the knowledge and concurrence of the health minister.

    The justification was the realization that the declaration of a biosecurity emergency had transformed the health minister into a de facto dictator with the power to ignore Parliament and override all existing laws, including human rights protections against state excesses. Yet, the chief problem is the law itself that grants such sweeping power to one person and should thus be repealed or amended. I’m not holding my breath.

    The biggest mistake was to hand over control of the Covid agenda, in the name of The Science™, to federal and (especially) state chief health officers who tend to be bureaucrats more than leading scientists engaged in cutting-edge medical research. In the blink of an eye, they morphed from obscure officials to petty tyrants.

    The former federal chief medical officer Brendan Murphy’s footnote in history might yet be his refusal to define a woman in Senate hearings because “it’s a very contested space.” Timidity ensured he prioritized career ambitions over biological fact. Then again, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) talks of “pregnant people,” so maybe I’m the one who needs to get with the zeitgeist.

    Australian authorities in effect copied New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s doctrine of the health ministry as the “single source of truth” on coronavirus. The unavoidable consequence of this was attempts, with legacy and social media help, to marginalize and silence all dissenting voices. The more the latter’s warnings come true, the greater is the loss of trust in experts, institutions and ministers.

    On August 13 the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society published a wide-ranging letter addressed to all Australian colleges and associations of health, medicine and science. Along with the attached report by Dr Phillip Altman, the letter is an authoritative catalogue of mistakes made in Australia’s pandemic management and the many harms resulting from it, the dubious science behind it, the limitations of vaccines, and the questionable efforts of regulators to come between doctors and patients.

    The Covid report from New South Wales Health for the week of July 10–16 said: “The minority of the overall population who have not been vaccinated are significantly overrepresented among patients in hospitals and ICUs with Covid-19.” Just two pages later, the same report gave the number of unvaccinated people admitted to hospital and ICU as zero.

    The sentence is repeated verbatim in the latest weekly report for August 7–13, with the number of unvaccinated people admitted to hospital just one and to ICU zero. By contrast, of those whose vaccination status was known, 98.7 percent of Covid patients admitted to hospital and 98.2 percent admitted to ICU during the week (and 84.8 percent of the dead) had received two or more vaccine doses.

    Even by the standards of public health authorities across the world gaslighting the people in order to nudge them into docile – and often performative – compliance with official edicts, this level of internal contradiction of narrative with data is breathtaking.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/australias-lockdown-and-vaccine-narrative-has-fallen-apart/

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  48. Paul Piglosi pleads GUILTY to dui–gets 3 years probation and 5 days in jail (getting creidt for time served)
    FTA
    When average Americans is convicted of DUI, chances are strong they’ll serve some time in jail. But Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, is not an average American. He’s among the elites, so he gets a slap on the wrist even after pleading guilty.

    According to The Daily Mail:

    Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , pleaded guilty Tuesday of driving under the influence in Napa County court
    TMZ reported Tuesday that Pelosi pleaded guilty to one count of DUI
    He was sentenced to three years probation and five days of jail time, getting credit for time served

    That’s a sweet deal for someone who has a history of putting people’s lives at risk whenever he drinks, which is apparently all the time. But who can blame him for drinking so much when we look who he married?

    https://thelibertydaily.com/two-tiered-justice-system-drunkard-paul-pelosi-pleads-guilty-to-dui-but-gets-zero-additional-jail-time/

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    1. from tcth…oh it gets better…

      OhNoYouDoNot
      August 23, 2022 2:53 pm

      Drunk Driver Paul Pelosi Sentenced To A Slap On His Pampered Wrist

      Drunk Driver Paul Pelosi Sentenced To A Slap On His Pampered Wrist https://t.co/PTKDyO6OLL

      — RedState (@RedState) August 23, 2022

      The sentence includes a jail term of five days, but not really. The presiding judge gave Pelosi credit for four days. Two of those days were “actual time served”, and two were for “conduct credits”.

      In California, there is an automatic reduction for misdemeanor sentences which cuts them in half. How are the two days calculated? Pelosi was arrested and taken to jail before midnight. Those few minutes are credited as a “day” in custody. Once he was released the next morning, he was credited with another day.

      The “fifth” day will be spent in an 8-hour work program. Meaning – he will likely show up somewhere and read a book. So, other than spending a single night in a cell Pelosi will spend no time in an actual cell for nearly killing someone while he was drunk.

      The rest of his sentence includes engaging in a three-month drunk driving program and one year with an ignition interlock device. He got three years probation and he must pay restitution. Raise your glass, Paul. Sweet deal.

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              3. No, it’s way too hot – 94 on the patio with only a light breeze. I’ll wait until Thursday – it’s supposed to be much cooler, with a predicted high of only 83. There is a chance of rain tomorrow – I hope it’s not too hot since I’ll be doing my run to Pierce, then Norfolk, then to help Mom make my ice cream. I’ll probably stop and see Michael, like I usually do – I want to give him some of the ice cream.

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  49. McAfee’s girlfriend says he faked his death and is living in Texas…
    FTA
    e wild and eerie life of supposedly dead anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee is only becoming more mysterious.

    McAfee was widely reported to have hanged himself inside a Spanish jail in June 2021 while awaiting US extradition on tax evasion charges. But, according to his Belizean ex-girlfriend Samantha Herrera, he faked his own death, moved to Texas and is still alive.

    “I don’t know if I should say, but two weeks ago, after his death, I got a call from Texas: ‘It’s me, John. I paid off people to pretend that I am dead, but I am not dead,’” Herrera claims in the Netflix documentary “Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee,” out Wednesday.

    Herrera says he told her that “there are only three persons in this world that know I’m still alive” and then asked her to run away with him.

    The Post attempted to contact Herrera but was unsuccessful.

    https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/john-mcafee-faked-his-death-ex-girlfriend-claims-in-netflix-doc/

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