CHOCOLATE!!

Food 6 Minutes

Today is International Chocolate Day!  Now everyone has their favorite, go-to flavor, but, how much do you actually know about the different kinds of chocolate? Do you know what differentiates semisweet from bittersweet? Or why white chocolate is softer than milk chocolate? It all comes down to how the chocolate is made and what ingredients are used to make it. Read on to learn about the varying flavors, compositions, and characteristics of each kind of chocolate.

Chocolate Liquor

Chocolate liquor, sometimes referred to as unsweetened chocolate, is the base of all types of chocolate. This thick, dark brown paste is created from cacao nibs, the inside of the cocoa bean. The nibs are finely ground to a smooth texture. When heated, this paste turns to a liquid that can be formed into bars or chips. Chocolate liquor is 100% cocoa, with no added ingredients. Under high pressure, this paste separates into cocoa butter and cocoa powder (also called cocoa solids). Despite the name, chocolate liquor does not actually contain alcohol.

White Chocolate

White chocolate is easy to identify because of its cream or ivory color. It is made by combining sugar, cocoa butter, milk, vanilla, and lecithin (an emulsifier that helps the ingredients blend together). These ingredients give white chocolate its sweet vanilla aroma. White chocolate often has a flavor profile that can be described as predominately sweet, with bold notes of sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. Good quality white chocolate will have a rich, soft, and creamy texture — a characteristic that comes from its cocoa butter base and high sugar and milk content.

White chocolate is unique because it does not contain any cocoa solids. The cocoa solids are what give chocolate it’s dark brown color and chocolatey taste that we all know and love. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sets standards of classification for each kind of chocolate. According to their definition, in order for something to be considered white chocolate it must contain at least 20% cocoa butter and 14% milk, and no more than 55% sugar.

Many ask, “Is white chocolate, chocolate?” The answer is yes because it contains ingredients from the cacao bean. Not to be confused with the white-flavored or vanilla-flavored coating that is often found in sub-par products. Cocoa butter is expensive because it is in high demand by the cosmetics industry, for use in lotions and other beauty products. Therefore, companies often create a compound that substitutes other vegetable fats in place of the cocoa butter. These white chocolate-like substitutes can’t be officially called white chocolate because they often don’t meet the 20% cocoa butter requirement set by the FDA definition.

White chocolate, when stored properly, has a shelf life of about four months. While it is delicious to eat, white chocolate is also great for cooking, baking, and decorating. The dairy-forward flavor profile adds subtle richness to any dish, while still letting other flavors shine through. White chocolate’s color lends itself well to decorating cookies, cakes, and confections.

Milk Chocolate

Milk chocolate is a classic that we all know and love from childhood. With its light brown color, creamy texture, and sweet flavor, milk chocolate is widely regarded as the most popular type of chocolate. It is made by combining chocolate liquor (cocoa solids and cocoa butter) with sugar, and milk. Sometimes an emulsifier, such as soy lecithin, is added to enhance its smoothness. According to the FDA definition, milk chocolate must contain at least 10% chocolate liquor and 12% milk.

Break off a piece of milk chocolate and let the aroma fill the air. Enjoy the smell of caramelized sugar, vanilla, chocolate, and dairy. Then take a bite and let the flavor fill your mouth. Milk chocolate often has a flavor profile that can be described as sweet and chocolatey, with notes of cooked milk and caramelized sugar and a vanilla aftertaste.

Milk chocolate is considered to be a good middle of the road chocolate.  It is characteristically sweeter, with a softer texture than dark chocolate, but not quite as sweet and soft as white chocolate. When properly stored, milk chocolate has a self-life of about 16 months. Milk chocolate is a great choice for when you want a chocolate treat or gift everyone will enjoy.

Dark Chocolate

Dark chocolate, with its notable deep brown color, is the second most popular type of chocolate. It is sometimes referred to as black or semisweet chocolate and is noticeably less sweet than milk chocolate. In recent years, dark chocolate has surged in popularity thanks to a number of articles being published about the health benefits.

Dark chocolate is fairly simple in composition. It is typically made from two ingredients — chocolate liquor and sugar. Sometimes small amounts of vanilla and soy lecithin (an emulsifier) are added. According to the FDA definition, dark chocolate must contain at least 15% chocolate liquor but usually contains closer to about 50%. Most high-quality, dark chocolate does not contain added dairy and can be a great vegan-friendly chocolate. The lack of dairy and less sugar gives dark chocolate firmer texture than milk chocolate or white chocolate.  This is why a well-tempered piece of dark chocolate will have a nice snap when broken in half.

The flavor profile of dark chocolate can vary widely based on the cocoa content of the chocolate. It is often slightly-sweet and chocolatey, with notes of baked brownie, red fruit, and brown spice (think cinnamon or allspice). Due to its chocolate-forward flavor profile, dark chocolate is great for baking when your recipe needs a rich, chocolatey flavor. Dark chocolate’s widely-acclaimed health benefits make it a favorite snack among health-conscious consumers. When properly stored, it has a shelf-life of about 20 months.

Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet chocolate has gained a lot of traction recently as people started to learn more about cacao and cocoa percentages. This kind of chocolate, sometimes referred to as extra-dark chocolate, rose to popularity when people began claiming that you should eat dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 70% or more, in order to get the most health benefits. The recent rise in bean-to-bar chocolate makers and craft chocolate has also lead to an increase in awareness and popularity of higher cocoa content dark chocolate.

Semisweet and bittersweet chocolate share the same FDA definition, and must contain more than 35% chocolate liquor, although they generally contain at least 50% cocoa liquor. Bittersweet chocolate is typically 66% cocoa content or higher (the added sugar usually less than one-third of the total content).

Like its name indicates, bittersweet chocolate is often a little more bitter than semisweet dark chocolate. The chocolate’s flavor profile can vary greatly, depending on where the cacao is grown – some can be fruit-forward or have a deep earthy flavor, while others can have flavor notes of baked brownies. Bittersweet and semisweet are interchangeable when baking, depending on the recipe and personal taste preferences. Substituting bittersweet chocolate will give your recipe a deeper, less sweet chocolate flavor. Extra-dark chocolate, when properly stored, has a shelf-life of about 20 months.

Cocoa Powder

Cocoa powder is created when chocolate liquor is separated under high pressure, and the resulting cocoa solids are crushed into a powder. Unsweetened cocoa powder is essentially 100% cocoa.

There are two types of cocoa powder, natural cocoa and dutch-processed cocoa. Natural cocoa is lighter brown in color and has a strong chocolate flavor that is often acidic. Dutch cocoa is natural cocoa that has been alkalized to neutralize the acidity. The dutch-process gives the cocoa powder a deep, warm color and slightly milder flavor.

Unsweetened cocoa, especially dutch cocoa is great for baking. Unsweetened cocoa can be added to spice rubs and moles to give the dish a richer, more complex flavor. Dutch-processed cocoa is often used when making hot chocolate, because the extra process allows the powder to easily blend with liquids. When stored properly, unsweetened cocoa can have a shelf-life of about 18 months.

Ruby Chocolate

In 2017, ruby chocolate was discovered by Belgian chocolate maker, Barry Callebaut.  With its red-pink hue, this distinctive chocolate is noticeably different than its other chocolate counterparts.  It is not colored white chocolate, but rather a color derived from a specific type of cacao — the ruby cocoa bean (a bean typically grown in Ecuador, Brazil, and the Ivory Coast.) Because this is a relatively new discovery (and the exact cacao making process developed by Barry Callebaut is proprietary), there is no standard FDA definition.

Made from 47.5% cacao content and 26.3% milk, ruby cacao has flavors of intense fruitiness and fresh sour notes. This trendy new type of cacao is great for creating bold, fruit-forward chocolate treats and colorful Instagram-worthy chocolate confections. When stored properly, ruby cacao can have a shelf-life of about 12 months.

PLEASE NOTE:  Chocolate Bloom is a harmless gray coating on chocolate caused by rapid changes in humidity or temperature.  It doesn’t affect flavor or melting properties.  I personally never had chocolate long enough to see it bloom…lol.

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    1. Good morning Pat! We had a nice cool 52° morning yesterday, but is warmer today. Going back to 90 s by the end of the week. We are on satelite internet right now, so I have to be careful of the data as Ms. Mama works online remotely. We have signed up for Starlink, but we won’t have it available until 2023.

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        1. That’s what we have as well. We are getting there. Our house is on the market, just waiting for someone to buy it. We are staying with family while their second home on the property is worked on. We will most likely stay here and just buy a place in town to use as a rental. My job is gardening with my aunt and doing all the work necessary to turn the place into a mini farm for now. I also will work with the contractors as the work is done on the other house here. I’m a “kept man” for the time being! 😎 That was the plan while we get the farm going, then I will do side jobs to supplement our income. Most of my work will be here however.

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          1. farming and working with the soil is very rewarding for the most part. my son in law farms and rents many fields in addition to the family farm. and thank goodness for that…several locations did not receive enough rain this season and the crops are gone…but others are thriving! he is wise enough to purchase crop insurance–so not a total loss–but still…sigh.
            but he accepts it–taking the good with the bad–and is making plans for next year

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        1. Good morning! Your open was interesting – I always wondered about the differences. Interesting about the lecithin – agreed pretty much world wide that it is “generally safe” but the mass inclusion of soy in our foods concerns me. Making men less manly!

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              1. it’s from a different variety of cocoa bean and from a small area. and apparently the guy who discovered it, has kept his process proprietary still…??? the fda hasn’t got their hands on it yet…

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  11. brought from wolf’s

    TheseTruthsOffline
    Coyote
    September 13, 2022 01:56

    GWP: Whistleblowers Reveal FBI Agents Violated Their Own Rules – Smuggled Phones into Secure Rooms – While Raiding President Trump’s Home on Baseless Security Allegations
    To be clear, phones were not smuggled into SCIF rooms at MAL. It happened on the infamous 7th Floor as described below.

    Whistleblowers stepped forward recently and revealed that top FBI brass smuggled cellphones into secure rooms, called SCIFs, in violation of bureau rules.

    From The Washington Times:

    More FBI whistleblowers have stepped forward to Congress and accused high-ranking bureau officials of bringing unauthorized smartphones into top-secret facilities, a security breach that can expose classified materials.

    This time, the FBI said it is investigating the complaints and “takes all security matters seriously.”

    The alleged security violations occurred in a sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF set up for the executive offices on the 7th floor of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, according to the whistleblower.

    The new complaint follows The Washington Times’ exclusive report last week detailing an FBI agent disclosing to Congress that FBI Deputy Director Paul Abatte, among other top agents, broke security rules and jeopardized classified material by using a smartphone inside of SCIFs.

    The FBI denied the whistleblowers’ accusations about Mr. Abatte but said the bureau was looking into the new allegations…

    …“During the exam, I observed dozens of strong Bluetooth signals. As I began looking for possible sources, I observed several phones on desks and in use inside the SCIF,” the former FBI employee said in the disclosure to lawmakers. “I had just begun looking for them when the Chief Security Officer responsible for the area shut me down. He specifically directed me not to pursue it or take any action.”

    “Cell phones are not permitted inside. Based on the readings I observed, I believe every employee there was violating the cell phone policy,” he said in the whistleblower disclosure.

    Lawless and out of control. I thought those rules were in place for national security.

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  13. remember those pipe bombs? still no answers, but plenty of questions.
    FTA
    About an hour before Karlin found the pipe bomb, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris traveled to the DNC to use its recording studio to tape messages to send to political supporters. Prior to her arrival, the Secret Service conducted a security sweep and did not find a bomb. Had they done so, Harris never would have been brought to the DNC and word of the explosive device would have been made public.

    The Capitol Police counter-surveillance team showed up at the DNC, which would have had a perimeter defense set up by the Secret Service. The counter-surveillance team would have had to have explain why they were there and what their business was.

    Imagine the astonishment of Secret Service agents when they learned the CSU had traveled to the DNC to search the grounds for a possible pipe bomb.

    Knowing the DNC grounds were clean, the Secret Service gave a green light to the SCU to search for an explosive device. Just minutes after they began to investigate at 1:07 pm, lo and behold, the SCU “found” a pipe bomb that was in plain sight at the base of a bench, alongside the building. At 1:14 pm, Vice President-elect Harris was evacuated from the DNC.

    How could this have happened? It’s inexplicable the Secret Service would have failed to find the pipe bomb during its security sweep.

    One possible explanation is that the pipe bomb never was planted at the DNC the night of January 5. The device was placed near the bench sometime after the security sweep.

    When the CSU “found” a pipe bomb, the Secret Service agents must have been thunderstruck.

    Or maybe not.

    That the Secret Service had conducted a comprehensive security sweep of the DNC and failed to find a readily visible bomb should have sent alarm bells ringing. But the agency said nothing.

    Did the Secret Service knowingly turn a blind eye to the pipe bomb? Did it allow the CSU to search the DNC premises knowing the counter-surveillance team would “find” an explosive device by the bench?

    There’s a simple way to answer these and other questions about suspicious activities at the DNC.

    The DNC has two CCTV cameras that surveil the area where the pipe bomb was planted. Making the recordings public from these cameras on January 5 and 6 would make clear what actually happened.

    Surveillance Recordings Not Made Public

    The FBI could have released video from one of the CCTV cameras at the DNC, showing whether or not the alleged bomber had placed an explosive device by a bench on the night of January 5. But it didn’t.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/january_6_pipe_bombs_get_curiouser_and_curiouser.html

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  14. american thinker article about the non prosecution for a prosecutor who committed sexual assault. I thought the report was off, but this author thinks it’s because the offender is a “protected” it.
    FTA

    Finding of Misconduct by an Assistant United States Attorney for Indecent Exposure, Sexual Assault, and Lack of Candor
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation upon the receipt of information from the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys (EOUSA) alleging that an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) had exposed the AUSA’s genitals while in a public place and had sexually assaulted a civilian while on a date.

    The OIG investigation found that the AUSA’s genitals were exposed in public, and that the AUSA forced the civilian’s hand to touch the AUSA’s genitals, in violation of state law and federal regulations governing off-duty conduct. The OIG also found that the AUSA lacked candor in discussing this incident with the OIG.

    Criminal prosecution of the AUSA was declined. The OIG has completed its investigation and provided its report to EOUSA and the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility for appropriate action.

    snip

    That leaves me wondering whether the OIG’s careful (and successful) efforts to avoid identifying the attorney’s sex arise because the attorney is an “it” person: That is, one who denies his or her biological sex, whether by claiming to be a member of the opposite sex, a person without a biological sex, or a person who’s “gender identity” is something creative, like a frog. Presumably, there aren’t that many frog-identified people in the DOJ. And, despite all the outreach, I’m betting that there still aren’t that many so-called “transgender” or “non-binary” people either.

    And yes, I’m theorizing here, but it’s come to the point at which I make a lot of assumptions about things on the leftist side of the aisle. For example, after I heard about the recent beheading in San Carlos, California, I instantly said, “I bet the killer is here illegally” and I was correct. I had the same correct response last year when another man beheaded his girlfriend.

    There are patterns and when I hear about a federal government employee engaged in illegal sexual behavior, and then I read an incredibly discretely written government document that refuses to identify the person’s sex and, despite acknowledging the criminal conduct, refuses to prosecute…well, I’m deeply suspicious that the government is giving a pass to someone in a protected class.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/the_doj_wont_prosecute_a_prosecutor_who_sexually_assaulted_someone.html

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  15. bringing these comments from a powerline article about fetterman…this is the essence of fetterman
    Prospector • 11 hours ago • edited

    Not sure how accurate this is, but according to Tucker Carlson, Fetterman has never held a job in the private sector and was a professional student for many years, while subsidized by a $50,000/yr allowance from his wealthy father. He entered politics by moving to a very small town (Braddock, PA, pop. <2,000) and ran for mayor and began instituting carbon caps and raising money for art studios where the median income is $14,000/year…. because that's what the community needed to grow and prosper(?!).

    PatriotGal2257 Prospector • 10 hours ago

    It’s accurate. You can find other YouTube videos which say essentially the same thing. Of course Fetterman and his wife and some of the lackeys he befriended speak of how absolutely wonderful he is and how he is helping to turn the town around. Right. When you look at Braddock, PA, take note of the housing, the ones that are still semi-standing, that is. It’s a tiny version of Detroit.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/fetterwoman.php

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  18. EXCERPT: “Without going into all the fine points of what it means to say a trial court order is an interlocutory order, basically it means that the order is not a final one. In this case, it is merely an order covering discovery matters in a trial. As Seth Barrett Tillman tweeted, ”The government has not been forced to return any materials, and no privilege rulings have been made for which to take an appeal.” He also gives an example of such an interlocutory, unappealable action by a trial court: He notes that J. Messitte refused to decide Trump’s motion to dismiss the Emoluments Clauses case and sat on it for three years until after the election when he dismissed it as moot after Trump lost.

    Why is the DoJ so desperate to prevent a Special Master, even one with security clearance, to view those documents the department asserts are classified? (The parties each have offered two candidates for the position, one of Trump’s candidates, in fact, sat on the FISA court. Is he less certain to do this job properly than the National Archivist?) There are several possible explanations for the desperation I can think of — none of which do credit to the attorney general. The first and most common supposition is that the documents which they claim must be kept even from the eyes of the Special Master relate to the FBI and DoJ’s role in fashioning and perpetrating the phony Russian Collusion fairytale. That would be damning indeed, and frankly, I see it as the most likely explanation: It is improper to classify documents simply to prevent embarrassment to persons or agencies. And anyone who does this is subject to sanctions. Obama’s Executive Order 13526 reads in relevant part:

    Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall
    information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail
    to be declassified in order to:

    (1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
    (2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;
    (3) restrain competition; or
    (4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.

    Despite leaking staged photos of the fruits of the search, along with claims that it involved “nuclear” information, in the latest pleading it’s revealed that the searchers seized copious amounts of news clippings, some clothing, passports, personal tax records and material clearly covered by attorney-client privilege. In other words, the agents seem to have viewed this is a general warrant to grab everything, something not permitted. The only “nuclear” thing mentioned is some document about the nuclear capacity of a foreign government — hardly the nuclear code which had been bruited about by some media lackeys.

    I think the delay rankles and disturbs DoJ as much as the likelihood that a Special Master will find the “classified” information was legally declassified by Trump and had been improperly classified in the first instance to protect those who engaged in this wrongful smear of a political candidate.

    This, the second of my suppositions is related to the Hail Mary effort to stay the portion of the order which temporarily enjoins the government (pending completion of the Special Master’s review or further court order) from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes. The warrant was issued before the grand jury in D.C. even received or reviewed the 15 boxes of documents Trump turned over to the government. This suggests the department was eager to use whatever they could hose up at Mar-a-Lago before a further examination of the legality of their actions could be done — and not coincidentally — in time to affect the midterms.

    In the meantime, the department yet again has been engaged in a leak to poison public opinion and any potential jury trial.

    The feds continued to leak like crazy after the order, in a form of lashing out, getting the word out to The Washington Post that some of the documents related to a foreign government’s nuclear program (the leak didn’t say that such documents were classified). For years during Russia Collusion attacks, whenever there was a news cycle that might help Trump in the public eye, the feds leak something to grab back the news cycle; that tactic seems to be renewing itself.”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/the_doj_argues_that_the_intelligence_community_overrides_the_judiciary.html

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  20. Chocolate Bloom ….
    Pat, here in the South chocolate is in danger of melting before you can get it home from the store. I discovered choc bloom when I was very young and put the choc in the ‘fridge hoping to restore it. It comes out of the ‘fridge w/ the gray coating. LOL

    Great Open … I thought everyone liked chocolate… SIL does not!

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  25. selective memory happening at tcth…a poster asked about a bunch of truths REALPOTUS truthed at truth social including one “they weren’t supposed to talk about…”
    which lead to a lot of commenters being “dumb” about what they weren’t allowed to talk about (Q–since sd threw a bunch of us out for doing that)
    anyway…the original poster came back with this comment

    Alex1689
    September 13, 2022 11:36 am
    Reply to vikingmom

    I honestly do not know how to do the technical part of that, and given the sensitivity here about this, I’m not sure SD would want me to.

    I was able to verify directly by just searching President Trump’s Truth Social timeline.

    Short and sweet: 12 hours ago he reTruthed

    @PatriotsInControl meme The Storm is Coming WWG1WGA, with a picture of himself wearing a flag pin on his left lapel, and a certain letter on his right lapel.

    So, he sent a message, or messages .

    Is he validating COG/devolution? .meaning of
    Patriots are in control?

    He just associated himself with a certain psy op. What is he saying about it?

    Is he just trying to get himself arrested?

    Lots of questions.
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    1. Wonder if it’s still up??? Just got back from watering all of my plants – I put some food out for LM when I first got up, and when I got up to go water, he was waiting at the front door. Purring, rubbing, etc., following me around, getting in my way – I was pulling some trumpet vines way out in the yard and I wasn’t paying enough attention so he brought out the teeth and claws again. He got clobbered this time, let me tell you, with a handful of pulled vines! I had to smack him 3 times before he finally got the message! Little shit! Then he found me out back and was getting in my way while I was trying to fill feeders. He wanted on the patio but I’m having none of that any more!

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  28. Free Speech?

    I have to go to the international blogs to find that …

    and even there, the algorithms still operate so while one can speak of The Cabal, one can’t talk about what that is … or comments get deleted.

    Scott at QTree asked an excellent question the other day. “How can we destroy the DS if one can’t identify it?”

    We can’t. And that’s the reason it has controlled for hundreds of years…

    Leaders know who the problem is … but won’t address the elephant in the room.

    Enjoy some chocolate today.

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    1. it’s not just the elephant in the room that’s the problem…it’s the little mice as well…silent mice. and the donkeys–damn jackasses–braying at the world–thus creating noise to disguise the problem.

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  36. ultra maggot signed an new EO????
    FTA
    For years now, many of us have been warning that the covid jabs are a transhumanist nightmare. With discussions about 5G, graphene (which is a part of the foundation of quantum computing) and artificial intelligence all in relation to the jab, we’ve all been labeled wild tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists. It’s just a vaccine, right?

    Wrong.

    Joe Biden signed an Executive Order yesterday titled: Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy.

    There’s a lot in here, and I may spend some time studying and researching this more, breaking it down for you. But there’s one section that I want to highlight right now. When I read this, I literally got chills:

    We need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers…including through computing tools and artificial intelligence…

    It sounds almost like the World Economic Forum’s Yuval Noah Herrari wrote this. You know, the guy who said that humans no longer have free will and that our brains are hackable.

    Do you understand just how serious this is? No longer is this just Big Pharma or the World Economic Forum attempting to usher in transhumanism in the dark. Now they are bringing it out into the open.

    Karen Kingston, the former Pfizer employee who’s been blowing the whistle on what’s really in the jabs and is also my co-host on the Freedom First TV show In The Foxhole on Thursdays at 6pm ET, posted on Telegram her initial thoughts:

    The plan is no longer secret.
    Biden’s Sept 12, 2022 Executive Order declares that Americans must surrender all human rights that stand in the way of transhumanism.
    Clinical trial safety standards and informed consent will be eradicated as they stand in the way of universally unleashing gene editing technologies needed to merge humans with Ai.
    In order to achieve the societal goals of the New World Order, Crimes Against Humanity are not only legal, but mandatory. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/09/12/executive-order-on-advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american-bioeconomy/
    t.me/joinmiFight/599

    https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2022/09/joe-biden-signs-executive-order-that-will-terrify-you-to-your-core

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  37. another PAC steps up to fill void since mcconnel refuses to help out MAGA…
    FTA
    An independent super PAC aligned with Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, is pumping money into the Arizona Senate race amid near-total abandonment by Republican leadership in this highly competitive race amid a currently 50-50 Senate..

    On Monday, the Sentinel Action Fund announced $5 million to support Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters in the form of voter outreach efforts and television ad buys after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) pulled $8 million from the contest.

    “We wanted to be there from a conservative standpoint,” said Jessica Anderson, the president of the Sentinel Action Fund, highlighting the group’s spending in Arizona, and Masters in particular, as a “clarion call for the conservative movement to come and support this candidate.

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/13/heritage-action-steps-up-in-arizona-senate-race-after-mcconnell-pulls-8-million-from-masters/

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  38. not sure an attorney can be made to testify against their clients…???

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    1. HAHA…just reading a twitter whistleblower is testifying in front of congress today…
      looks to bolster musk’s claims and possible withdrawal

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      1. No, I don’t – I’m still standing with PR on that one at this point. I think, as it’s been said, he accomplished what he needed to and the troops are withdrawing. What form that will take? Who can say?

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        1. bright side?
          now ukraine can send all those weapons back, right?
          the war’s just about over…
          and more good news! they won’t need that $5 BILLION A MONTH…they can do it on their own!
          /sarc

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  47. no official cause of death yet…perhaps prison justice?
    article
    A Tucson man serving time in state prison was found dead in his cell this weekend, officials say.

    Maximino Matascranz, 24, died Sunday after staff found him in his cell with a piece of cloth tied around his neck, according to a news release from the Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry.

    Staff at the Eyman prison complex started life-saving efforts, but Matascranz was declared dead later at the hospital.

    Matascranz had been in prison since 2020 after being convicted in Pima County for sexual conduct with a minor, the release said.

    All inmate deaths are investigated in consultation with the county medical examiner’s office, the release said.

    https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/inmate-from-tucson-found-dead-in-prison/article_039a438c-336b-11ed-af1a-eb038f3917f0.html

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