The Elk Trail

Nature 3 Minutes

The steep mountains and deep valleys of Elk and Cameron Counties make up “Elk Country,” where you can see Pennsylvania’s wild elk herd, now numbering nearly 1,400 majestic creatures. In spring, you can see calves frolicking in wildflower-filled meadows, while in the summer, elks spend their days relaxing in the shade, giving visitors the best viewing opportunities at dawn and dusk. In autumn, you can experience bulls battling for breeding rights during “the rut.” When the snow flies, elk gather in impressive herds, which easily stand out against winter’s backdrop and make for spectacular photos and unforgettable memories.

Elk once freely roamed all over Pennsylvania but the rapid settlement and exploitation by early immigrants threatened the herds. By 1867 there were no more elk in Pennsylvania. Unregulated hunting and habitat loss were the biggest factors of their demise.  In 1913 the Pennsylvania Game Commission began reintroducing elk in Pennsylvania. The elk herd we know today originated from 177 elk that were trapped and transferred to northern areas of Pennsylvania.  The reintroduction of elk took place from 1913 through 1926. The releases in north-central Pennsylvania were successful and the herd now numbers more than 1,400.

Visitors can easily see the majestic elk in areas of Elk and Cameron counties. Considered to be the heart of Pennsylvania elk country, the town of Benezette is located along State Route 555 in Elk County. To reach the public viewing area, start at the Benezette Hotel and travel north along Winslow Hill Road 3.5 miles. Follow the signs to the viewing area. Elk can also be seen along the roadways in the free-roaming herd range located in Elk and Cameron counties. The Moore Hill area in Cameron County is a favored viewing spot of local elk enthusiasts.

Cow elk normally give birth to a single calf in late May or early June. The calves are speckled with spots to complete their natural camouflage. Twins are a rare occurrence and happen less than one percent of the time. Normal gestation period is approximately 8 ½ months. After a short amount of time the cows and their new calves rejoin their family units comprised of cows, their calves and immature yearlings. Most yearling bulls will only grow spike antlers.

The mature bull’s antlers are fully grown by August and they now spend much of their time thrashing trees and shrubs with their antlers. Normal antler growth is up to 6 tines per side. A “royal” bull is one with a total of 12 points. An “imperial” bull has 14 points. September and October mark the mating season for the elk. While the beginning of the rut may vary somewhat from year to year, the unmistakable invitation or bugle of a bull elk can be heard echoing throughout the range. Bugling can be heard primarily during the rut or mating season. It starts as a low bellow and continues as a squealing or whistle. This is followed by several grunts.

The elk form harems of 15 to 20 cows, which are controlled by a mature bull.  The bull has earned his status to lead his harem by fighting off lesser bulls for the opportunity to breed with these cows.  Lesser bulls often mate also, the large bull will contain the group and be the prime breeder.  These harems remain together for the duration of the breeding season.  Cow elk are receptive to breeding for only about an 18-hour period.  If they are not bred successfully, they will have two or three breeding cycles at 21-day intervals.

The elk remain in large groups throughout the winter months.  They must dig through the snow to find grass, twigs and buds.  They will eat the bark off trees and drink from the streams to sustain for the winter.  The bulls shed their antlers around March.  New antlers begin growing almost immediately in early April and full grown by mid-August.

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  1. Morning All!
    a couple of weeks ago, a friend emailed us articles from their local paper that three elk were seen in their town. There were pictures of 2 bulls and a cow hanging out in the car lot and the local restaurant. Hubby wanted to take a drive, so off we went. We drove through the town but saw nothing–but it was a great ride anyway.

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    1. Good morning Pat! I have to wait until Nov. 8th to get my hunting license here. Have to be a resident for 60 days. We have elk too, just as in TN, but they are scarce. Higher bag limits on deer though…we have a lot. We can get oir fishing licenses anytime however. Lots of native trout and catfish too.

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      1. Morning CM!
        so happy to hear from you!
        hope all is going well!
        bow hunting starts here soon–or has already started. the deer are getting a little skittish now.
        last year someone shot the big cinnamon bear that was in our pond–over 500 pounds!
        but we saw cinnamon cubs–so hopefully we’ll see some more soon!

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    2. We have elk in western NE with a number of elk ranches. A few years ago, I took P to visit the Elk Ranch not far from here. Their site now says there won’t be any more covered wagon tours – glad we got to go when we did! They sell elk-related items, including velvet antler capsules.

      “Nestled down in the rolling hills along the scenic Niobrara River Valley near Niobrara, Nebraska is one of the most beautiful picturesque views you’ll see. Here is the home to Kreycik Elk & Buffalo Ranch covered wagon tours owned by Chris and the late Kenard Kreycik, Steve & Allison Kreycik.

      We invite you to travel along with us in our unique tractor pulled covered wagons as we share with you how we raise our elk and buffalo. As we ride thru the hilly pastures the elk and buffalo are invited to come and get their ear corn treats that you will be hand feeding them from inside the covered wagons! But watch out for Boomer, our long-horn steer who lives with the buffalo, as he happily gallops right to the front of the line of the buffalo not wanting to take a chance on missing out on any treats. In the spring see the bull elk in their velvet stage and in the fall come listen for their awesome bugle mating sounds.”

      http://nebraskaelktours.com/

      “And then there is the heartland Elk Guest Ranch: “We are a working elk ranch with four modern private cabins. We are located near the national scenic Niobrara River. We provide river outfitting services with canoe, kayak and tube rentals. Additional activities we provide include hiking, fishing, tether ball, volleyball, pedal karts, children’s play area and learning activities, wildlife viewing and more! Corporate, school and church retreats are welcome with team building experiences available. Open year around.”

      https://visitnebraska.com/valentine/heartland-elk-guest-ranch

      From 2017:

      EXCERPT: “Would you believe this is the hunter’s first-ever elk taken by bow?

      John Rickard was hunting near Chadron, Nebraska, when the stars aligned and he was able to get a shot at the elk of a lifetime. After everything was over, it took six full-grown men and two hours to get the elk out of the woods. Currently, the rack’s green score firmly puts this elk at number two all-time in the state for a bull taken with a bow. However, after the drying period, it very well could take the top spot.

      Nebraska Game and Parks Commission posted this video to break it all down.

      FB pics aren’t showing any more but the video from FB plays: https://www.wideopenspaces.com/a-massive-possible-record-elk-shot-in-nebraska/

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  7. from tcth…ray epps

    Feisty Hayseed
    September 30, 2022 1:12 am

    Why Ray Epps Matters

    For those who do not know who Ray Epps is and why he matters—and this includes most Democrats and many journalists—U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) served up a handy reference guide last week. Gosar did this in the form of a resolution of inquiry (ROI) directing Attorney General Merrick Garland to hand over all documents relevant to the Epps case within 14 days.

    “Multiple videos show Ray Epps repeatedly urging crowds of people in Washington, D.C. on January 5 and January 6, 2021, to go to the United States Capitol and breach the building,“ Gosar explained. “Epps is the one person seen on video directing people towards the Capitol seconds before violence broke out, yet he has never been arrested or charged with any crime while more than 800 others have and countless more remained jailed.”

    During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday of last week, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) went into more detail, showing numerous video clips and citing Epps’ own admission, captured on video, “I’ll probably go to jail for this. I’ll probably be arrested.”

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/28/why-ray-epps-matters/

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  10. jordan points out the new “tech bill” will provide more $$ for unaccountable officials…so growing a BIGGER gov’t
    FTA
    Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan spoke out on Thursday against a bipartisan bill that would allow agencies to charge more money to companies seeking federal clearances for mergers.

    The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, introduced by Democratic Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse, passed the House 242-184. Two hundred three Democrats and 39 Republicans supported the bill, while 168 Republicans and 16 Democrats opposed it. The legislation would increase the fees companies pay to the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, raising those agencies $1.4 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

    “The package before us today does nothing but empower the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Why would we support more funding for unaccountable officials in the Biden administration, particularly these two agencies, Department of Justice, in light what have we’ve seen from them over the past several months?” Jordan asked in a floor speech.

    snip

    “This is the kind of Washington budget gimmick that the swamp uses to grow government all the time. In the majority’s own committee report on the bill they acknowledge, quote, ‘the updated fee structure would provide the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission with additional resources to review mergers and enforce the antitrust laws,’” Jordan continued. “More money for Merrick Garland and the DOJ to harass the American people. Even proponents of the bill are talking about how this would get resources to the agencies while saying it doesn’t include an appropriation. This logic is laughable.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/29/funding-unaccountable-officials-rep-jim-jordan-speaks-out-against-big-tech-antitrust-bill/

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  12. so a bill banning stock trading has to be examined before voted on…but a bill of thousands of pages spending trillions of dollars should be passed so we can see what’s in it…???
    tcth

    Winston
    Winston
    September 30, 2022 8:59 am

    Surprise! Democrats Stall Bill Banning Congressional Stock-Trading
    SEP 29, 2022

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/surprise-bill-banning-congressional-stock-trading-held

    With the House in session just two more days before lawmakers leave for the usual midterm panderings, a (repeated) promise by Democrat leaders to vote on a congressional stock-trading ban this month appears not to be in the cards – despite a scorching analysis from the NYT which revealed thousands of stock trades by 97 current lawmakers which posed potential conflicts of interest.

    As Punchbowl News reports, House Democrats aren’t likely to vote on the Cognressional stock-trading ban “anytime soon.”

    When the outlet asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer about its passage, he replied: “Well, it was just introduced. … I gotta look at it and see what it is.”

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            1. one year for hubby’s birthday, the kids and I gave him a glider ride from the local airport. a plane towed them up and then let them loose…the ride looked sooo cool, but when he got on the ground he was GREEN…ooops
              now i would do it and love it…planes, helicopters, I’d even sky dive…but not alone and hubby likes to be grounded

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  15. “No!!!! It was Russia!!!”

    “I’m a guy but, hey, I still like flowers, too!”

    “Follow me for gardening tips….”

    “The new Democrat Party!”

    “Where’s that shotgun Brandon was babbling about???”

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  17. EXCERPT: “The Federal Reserve has taken a major step in the direction of facilitating an ESG compliant monetary network that effectively acts as a parallel system to that of the Chinese Communist Party’s infamous social credit scoring system.

    The Fed said in a statement Thursday:

    “Six of the nation’s largest banks will participate in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise designed to enhance the ability of supervisors and firms to measure and manage climate-related financial risks. Scenario analysis—in which the resilience of financial institutions is assessed under different hypothetical climate scenarios—is an emerging tool to assess climate-related financial risks, and there will be no capital or supervisory implications from the pilot.”

    In other words, The Fed is working with the big banks to monitor their ability to comply with the ruling class’s preferred enviro statist technocratic tyranny. The unaccountable people behind the American money printer claim that this exercise is “exploratory in nature and does not have capital consequences.”

    The statement adds that the “scenario analysis can assist firms and supervisors in understanding how climate-related financial risks may manifest and differ from historical experience.”

    What exactly does this mean?

    The Fed is clearly leaning in to the climate hoax narrative, or the pseudoscientific idea that humans are catastrophically impacting the climate, but not because they somehow care about the environment. The climate narrative is the chief rhetorical facilitator for the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) movement.

    ESG acts as a trojan horse for the continuing centralization of the American financial system. ESG finance, popularized by hyper political asset management behemoths like BlackRock and Vanguard, acts to prevent outsiders from challenging the regime-connected insiders on Wall Street and in Washington, under the guise of acting to manifest a healthier planet. In other words, pro-ESG institutions are committed to attacking free market principles by means of deception, preferring the CCP-style “stakeholder capitalism” that allows for a small group of technocratic elites to make broad determinations about society.”

    https://dossier.substack.com/p/federal-reserve-announces-major-pilot

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    1. “The banks involved in this pilot program are Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.

      Of course, it’s just a scenario, until it’s not. The Fed pilot program is set to launch in early 2023.”

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              2. there’s a lot of places that cash is just easier–how do you give a handout to a person in need?
                my mom has a neighbor get her groceries if she’s going to the store–how does she repay her? yard sales and flea markets?
                it’s way tooo intrusive…

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  18. Entire Article @ The Federalist: “Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a longtime conservative activist married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, decisively closed the door on unsubstantiated claims of improper influence over her husband’s work Thursday in voluntary testimony before the House Select Committee on Jan. 6.

    “Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with him at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event. I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way,” Thomas said at the beginning of her testimony earlier today.

    In March, Thomas was thrust into the spotlight of the committee’s investigation after staff leaked messages between her and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. According to texts published by liberal media outlets such as CNN and The Washington Post, Thomas, a private citizen, urged Meadows to stand firm after the November election as President Donald Trump contested the results.

    “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” Thomas wrote to Meadows when news organizations began to call the race for former Vice President Joe Biden. “You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”

    The texts ignited a firestorm of hysteria over Thomas’s political activism, with some Democrats suggesting conservative spouses of federal judges lose their rights to petition government or otherwise engage in politics. Several members of Congress demanded Justice Thomas be forced to recuse himself from cases relevant to the 2020 election, resign, or even be impeached. Never mind that out of the 29 of more than 2,300 text messages recovered from Meadows’ trove of data handed over to the committee, not one, according to The Washington Post, included a direct reference to the sitting justice.

    “The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump’s inner circle to promote and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the election results,” the Post opined.

    Marriage to a politically active spouse, meanwhile, does not itself fit the criteria for case recusal. On Thursday morning, the conservative activist who routinely approaches lawmakers as part of her work, made clear in her voluntary sit-down with the House panel that she and her husband refrain from detailed discussions involving their work.

    “I can guarantee that my husband has never spoken with me about pending cases at the Court,” Thomas told the committee in her opening statement. “It’s an iron clad rule in our home.”

    “Additionally, [Justice Thomas] is uninterested in politics, and I generally do not discuss with him my day-to-day work in politics, the topics I am working on, who I am calling, emailing, texting, or meeting,” Thomas said in her testimony obtained by The Federalist.

    “It is laughable for anyone who knows my husband to think I could influence his jurisprudence – the man is independent and stubborn, with strong character traits of independence and integrity,” Thomas said.

    Thomas’s attorney, Mark Paoletta, said his client “was happy to cooperate with the Committee to clear up the misconceptions about her activities surrounding the 2020 elections.” He said she answered all questions that were asked of her during the hours-long sit-down with the committee.

    “As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election,” Paoletta said in a statement. “As she told the Committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated. Beyond that, she played no role in any events after the 2020 election results.”

    This article has been updated since publication.”

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  19. Excerpt @ Fox: “Authorities in Minnesota said officers seized what could be the largest fentanyl pills bust in the Midwest when they confiscated 108,943 tablets from a suspected dealer. Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said the bust stemmed from an Aug. 31 call to investigate a report of financial fraud.

    “Through some very, very good police work, they ended up getting – this more than likely the largest fentanyl pill seizure in the Midwest,” he told reporters. “This is enough fentanyl to kill a fifth of the entire state’s population.”

    He said the doses were pressed M-30 pills and intended to appear as oxycodone doses. All in all, police say the total weight of the fentanyl is 24 pounds, Fox Minneapolis reported.”


    The Bloomington Police Department in Minnesota said the seizure of thousands of fentanyl pills may be the largest bust in the Midwest. (Bloomington Police Department)

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    1. This is from the 23rd in CT – parents REALLY need to watch closely this Halloween:

      “Two Maryland men were charged with trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills into Connecticut, the Justice Department said Friday. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut and the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment Thursday charging 34-year-old Oscar Flores of Mount Rainier, and 25-year-old Severo Alelar of Hyattsville with fentanyl trafficking offenses.

      Court documents and statements made in court Sept. 8 alleged Flores, Alelar and others arrived in an SUV at a meeting location in Wethersfield to sell approximately 15,000 fentanyl pills to an undercover DEA agent.

      After Flores showed the undercover agent a sample of the pills, the agent said he needed to travel to another location to pick up the money. The two men and others followed the agent’s vehicle as they traveled south into Rocky Hill. When a Rocky Hill police officer attempted to stop the vehicle for a traffic violation, it ran over a roadside curb onto a grass area where law enforcement vehicles boxed in the suspect vehicle.

      Upon search of the vehicle, investigators found numerous Nerds candy boxes and Skittles candy bags containing thousands of fentanyl pills. Flores and Alelar are charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and with possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.”

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        1. IKR? You know me – I’m kind of a live and let live kind of person as to what one chooses to imbibe – I’ll just stay away from you. But THIS??!!?? Oh, no, this is a WHOLE different scale of evil, making it look like candy!!!

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  20. “Revolver’s Dr. Darren J. Beattie delivered quite an interesting speech at the recent National Conservative conference in Miami.

    In the densely packed, 13-minute speech, Beattie posed a fundamental question to America’s conservatives of a populist and/or nationalist bent: how does one be a patriot and American nationalist when America is the locus of the woke, globalist empire currently bestriding the globe. Does one “buy American” from a woke company that hates conservatives and patriots, like, say, Goodyear, or buy from a foreign competitor that is at least politically neutral to our interests?

    Don’t miss the full speech. Watch here:”

    https://www.revolver.news/2022/09/darren-beattie-national-conservative-speech-miami-globalist-american-empire-nationalism/

    Darren Beattie | Can One Be an American Nationalist? | NatCon 3 Miami

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  21. EXCERPT: “In other words, “competitive” and “safe Republican” congressional seats are favoring Republican candidates by nearly the same margin.

    Here in Pennsylvania, that translates to portions of the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suburbs voting like they just returned from John Dutton’s Yellowstone Ranch. These “generic ballot” numbers are stunning.

    In fact, they may be unprecedented. One would have to go back to 1994 or 2010 to find anything similar. This suburban-exurban trend is manifesting itself in another more tangible way that is both historic and underreported.

    In the Philadelphia suburbs, Democratic and Independent registered voters are changing their party to Republican in numbers not seen since these statistics were first tracked by the state government.

    In the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County, voters are changing their party affiliation to Republican at a 2:1 margin over Democrats. Change-of-party trends continue to favor Republicans in the remaining three Philadelphia suburban counties. In the City of Philadelphia, Republicans are leading party-switchers by a 10-point margin over Democrats.

    The trend is more pronounced in western Pennsylvania’s suburbs. Voters are switching parties to Republican at a greater than 2:1 margin in Butler County, outside of Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, the trend is 60/40 Republican.

    Democrats contend that they lead with new registrants and that the U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision blunted the change-of-party trend. As a byproduct of motor voters laws, new voter registrations are generally a lagging indicator. Since the summer, the stunting of the change-of-party trend appears to be fleeting.

    With suburban and exurban voters forecasting a GOP electoral landslide unlike any other, the Pennsylvania statewide races continue to remain close. This is a function of candidates and campaigns.”

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/29/underreported_data_suggests_victory_for_gop_in_pa_suburbs__148257.html

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    1. since the primaries are over, this really doesn’t mean much, does it?
      I can vote for whomever i want in november…
      fetterman is promising to legalize marijuana and be softer on criminals…that’s why he’s leading in the liberal areas

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          1. From what I recall, there are a lot of houses in FL that don’t have basements but that’s just a vague memory. Yep – I was right:

            “Generally, homes in Florida do not have basements. Occasionally, they can be found in the hills of Northern and Central Florida, but it is rare. It is not recommended to build or purchase a house with a basement in Florida.”

            https://homebyfour.com/florida/do-homes-in-florida-have-basements/

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            2. The way to do it is the way Disney did it.

              Whenever you’re shlepping around Disney World at “ground level”, you’re actually walking on the second floor. The real “ground level” is a network of utility corridors that do not directly access the outside. This was pioneered in the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland (which is otherwise more conventional) and in the combined submarine/autopia/peoplemover/monorail area (the submarine track is flat).

              If you want a Florida basement, start with a bunch of buildings slab-on-grade (and convince your neighbors), then put all the entrances/exits/windows on or above the second floor.

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  23. EXCERPT: “Two-time Emmy winner Bruce Willis can still appear in movies after selling his image rights to Deepcake, a Delaware-based company founded by Ukrainian-born CEO Maria Chmir, last year before his aphasia diagnosis. Engineers at the AI-powered content optimization web platform created a ultra-realistic ‘digital twin’ of the actor, 67, by putting images of his face into their network.

    In March the Die Hard veteran’s family shared news he was retiring from acting due to the condition, which is a neuro-cognitive disorder that effects the sufferers ability to speak and understand language.

    In August 2021, Bruce’s twin made his debut by having his face ‘grafted’ on to understudy Konstantin Solovyov for a commercial for Russian telecoms giant MegaFon. It now only takes engineers ‘three to five days’ to recreate Willis in projects, but his estate has the final sign-off on what’s created.

    ‘I liked the precision with which my character turned out. It’s a mini-movie in my usual action-comedy genre,’ the star said in a statement on their website. ‘For me, it is a great opportunity to go back in time. With the advent of modern technology, even when I was on another continent, I was able to communicate, work and participate in the filming. It’s a very new and interesting experience, and I thank our entire team.’

    Star Wars producers use deepfake technology for all of their cast members and celebs like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, and Michelle Pfeiffer reportedly have digital copies.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11262131/Bruce-Willis-sells-rights-allow-deepfake-digital-twin-created.html

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  24. GEES LOUISE!
    no good deed goes unpunished…isn’t that the saying?
    hubby had to actually go in to work today to attend some meetings, so i thought i would make him one of his favorite desserts…pineapple upside down cake. It went well, till i started to clean up the kitchen. I keep my brown sugar in a rubbermaid container and usually when i’m done with it, i put the lid on, seal it tightly and give it a good shake to keep the brown sugar from clumping.
    guess which step in that process I forgot to do????
    sigh…brown sugar EVERYWHERE in my kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I had to remove everything from the counters–yup it even got behind the breadbox–remove everything from the windowsills–because of course it got there–and then wash the dang floors–which i did…yesterday.

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          1. we have some year round for the carpenter ants…we haven’t seen any in years–but they’re attracted to wet wood and it’s been really dry for months…
            but yeah, gonna get some new ones, just in case

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  25. Entire Article @ Mediarightnews: “After 27 years of marriage, U.S. House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA)husband has filed for divorce citing the marriage is “irretrievably broken”.

    According to court documents, the pair has previously separated and is asking the court to split their assets as well as debts equally. The pair has three children together over the age of 18. The pair married in 1995 while Marjorie was attending the University of Georgia.

    Marjorie and her husband both gave statements to TMZ. Marjorie shared, “Marriage is a wonderful thing and I’m a firm believer in it. Our society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect. Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom. I’ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children.”

    Perry told TMZ, “Marjorie has been my best friend for the last 29 years and she has been an amazing mom! Our family is our most important thing we have done. As we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship.”

    From their statements given to TMZ, it appears that the divorce is amicable. Perry petitioned the court to have the documents of their divorce sealed.

    “The petitioner shows that he expects there will be certain pleadings, affidavits, and other documents filed in this case such that the record will contain sensitive personal and financial information, the public disclosure of which would negatively impact the parties’ privacy interests,” according to the motion to seal.”

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  26. dang it!
    a few years ago i made easy draft stoppers for all the windows in the house–basically long thick fabric tubes stuffed with lentil beans. the one in the kitchen has brown sugar on it…so i have to open the seam, remove the beans and wash it…the fun just keeps on coming…

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  27. maybe i am misunderstanding this, but it seems dearie wanted President Trump’s team to certify the inventory list BEFORE the review? until they see al the documents how they certify that was all that was taken or whether or not the fib inserted documents? cannon overruled that anyway
    FTA
    U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Thursday overruled an order by Special Master Raymond Dearie that said former President Donald Trump needed to provide any “final” objections or disputes regarding the items seized by the FBI during its unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago last month.

    Last week, Dearie asked the Trump team that by no later than Sept. 30 to provide a declaration of affidavit that includes a list of any specific items in the property inventory that they assert were not seized from the premises; a list of items that were seized but to which the description of the contents or the location of the item was incorrect; and a list and description of any item that Trump’s legal team asserts was seized but is not listed in the property receipt.

    “This submission shall be plaintiff’s final opportunity to raise any factual dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the Detailed property inventory,” Dearie wrote in the filing last week.

    Cannon, who appointed Dearie as special master, reviewed his order and on Thursday said there “shall be no separate requirement” for Trump “at this stage, prior to the review of the Seized Materials, to lodge ex ante final objections to the accuracy of Defendant’s Inventory, its descriptions, or its contents.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-overrules-special-master-order-trump-give-final-objections-fbi-search-inventory

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  28. finally!
    repubs start calling for mental acuity test from ultra maggot…
    FTA
    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said: “Joe Biden’s diminished capacity is so blatantly obvious that even the White House Press corps couldn’t hide their concern.

    “That’s how you know it’s bad.”

    Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as former President Barack Obama’s White House physician, said: “In yet another pathetic display of incompetence, Joe Biden not only thought my departed colleague was alive, but he also had his puppet-master, Karine Jean-Pierre, deny he was confused.

    “It doesn’t take a neurologist to realize he’s in serious cognitive decline.

    “The American people know what’s going on here, and they don’t think the Commander-in-Chief is capable of doing his job.

    “It’s past time for White House staff and the liberal media to stop shielding him from questions about his mental acuity and demand he answer my call for a cognitive test.”

    Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), a practicing surgeon, said:

    “The American people can see that Mr. Biden’s mental acuity is certainly in question.

    “What’s more disturbing to me, however, is the way in which this White House continues to deceive and misdirect the American people on a daily basis.

    “It appears there is nothing the White House won’t do to cover up for a failed president and a failed administration,” the North Carolina Republican said.

    “The American people clearly deserve better.”

    https://slaynews.com/news/gop-makes-move-demand-joe-biden-take-cognitive-test-after-calling-out-for-dead-republican-congresswoman/

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  30. The Bee:

    U.S. — A fascinating new study has revealed that the vast majority of people, when presented with a blind taste test, can’t tell the difference between candy corn and a dusty, old orange crayon we found in a junk drawer.

    According to researchers, people who were fed candy corn and people who were fed the old orange crayon that had been stowed away in a drawer for the last 17 years had the same reaction: “This tastes like a waxy blob of nothing, and my life is much worse for having placed this repulsive object in my mouth.”

    “We had theorized that at least 20% of those surveyed would be able to detect some kind of flavor in the candy corn,” said head of research Dr. Gorbo Linfield. “So we were shocked to find that over 95% of people had the same instant negative reaction to eating candy corn that they did to chewing on the old, dusty crayon.”

    “The science is settled: candy corn is just as tasty as a crayon forgotten in a cabinet for decades.” Further research showed that over 90% of people couldn’t tell the difference between marshmallow Peeps and a piece of cotton pulled from an ibuprofen bottle, Spangler Circus Peanuts and an eraser from one of those giant novelty pencils, or Dots and stale gum that has been stuck on the underside of a table at Flo’s #2 Family Restaurant in Chino, California for the last 9 years.

    At publishing time, sources had confirmed that the remaining 5% of people actually thought the orange crayon tasted better than the candy corn.
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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the nick of time, Congress has passed a bipartisan $12 billion funding bill, narrowly avoiding a Ukrainian government shutdown.

    “As elected representatives chosen by the people, it is our solemn duty, as outlined in the Constitution, to fully fund the Ukrainian government at all times,” said Senator Chuck Schumer. “We humbly accept this sacred responsibility to send billions to Ukraine, who will send it to Raytheon, who will send it to super PACs, who will help us get elected. It’s the right thing to do.”

    President Zelensky took a few moments in between magazine glamour shoots to thank America for her generosity. “We promise we will put this vast, vast wealth to good use,” he said while checking the time on his new Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light Tourbillon wristwatch. “We know that Americans get up and go to work every day hoping that some of their money is used to kill Russians. I’m proud to be making their dreams come true.”

    Congress estimates the stopgap bill will keep Ukraine funded for at least two weeks, or until their super PACs run out of money.
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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In preparation for Halloween, White House staffers have spent days adorning the premises with frightening decorations. One prop stands out above the rest: a spooky, lifelike old zombie that wanders the halls, drooling and moaning.

    When asked how much work went into creating the animatronic zombie decoration with a realistic, putrid urine smell, staffers responded, “Huh?”

    Critics suggest the White House may have gone too far with the gruesome zombie, citing reports of traumatized young girls on White House tours being chased through corridors as the old thing repeatedly asked for “just a little taste of delicious hair.”

    “We have listened to reports about our, um, Halloween decorations,” said Press Secretary Jean-Pierre, “No visitors are allowed in the White House until our engineers have properly adjusted or replaced the zombie.”

    At publishing time, Congress reportedly decorated their offices to look like a spooky wax museum with old, disfigured creatures hoarding piles of gold.

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  31. three times! apparently the “filter” team the doj has employed to make sure privileged client/attorney communications are not shown to doj/fib is a complete failure…yet again another document gets thru the leaky filter
    FTA
    In the new filing, Trump’s lawyers said they want the names of all government officials who were exposed to the potentially privileged materials.

    “The unilaterally imposed filter team, which made no effort to contact Plaintiff’s counsel throughout its review process, has admitted to three breaches so far,” the lawyers said. “All this before review by the Special Master and the Plaintiff. By way of this filing, Plaintiff is asking the Special Master to order disclosure of the names of each attorney and Special Agent who was exposed to materials eventually provided to the Privilege Review Team.”

    The filing came as the government sought a delay in the deadline to provide Trump with the approximately 11,242 non-classified materials that agents seized from his estate in Palm Beach on Aug. 8. That tranche doesn’t include materials sifted out by the Privilege Review Team, nor does it include materials with classified markings that Dearie and Trump attorneys both are being blocked from reviewing.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-agents-improperly-saw-privileged-trump-communications-lawyers_4763495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily&src_src=partner&src_cmp=TheLibertyDaily

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  36. EXCERPT: “There is now no question whatsoever that Hurricane Ian was deliberately geoengineered into a superstorm and aimed with premeditation at the southwest Florida coastline.

    *Whether Tropical Storm Ian originated naturally or was geoengineered from its inception is not discussed in this report. This paper is only concerned with the development of this superstorm once it passed over Cuba and headed toward the Peninsula of Florida.

    The following video captured the satellite imagery of Hurricane Ian as it was purposefully stalled off the southwest coast of Florida and greatly intensified into a borderline Cat 5 superstorm. The NWO geoengineers carried out this act of intentional geoterrorism by utilizing a “weather wheel”, the massive spraying of metalized chemtrail aerosols, Nexrad transmission stations as well as a HAARP-level ionospheric heater.
    —————-
    Only time will tell what the globalist plans to do with this highly choreographed false flag attack on the Florida peninsula (false flag because these Frankenstorms are falsely blamed on Mother Nature when the NWO geoengineers are truly responsible).

    Nevertheless, it’s for certain that the geoengineers will use this opportunity to further perfect their chemical engineering and HAARP frequency generators, as well as integrate the NEXRAD Doppler radar transmitters and massive moisture-producing power plants into the technological mix.

    Now see the video link below to view the exact location of the various Nexrad transmitting stations in and around Florida which were used to carry out this patently geoterrorist OPERATION HURRICANE IAN.
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    The video that follows was posted under the title: “It looks like the geoengineers are both stalling and intensifying Hurricane Ian off Florida’s west coast to maximize storm surge“. It was first published on Wednesday morning as the SOTN Investigation Team watched the superstorm being obviously pumped full of energy as it inexplicably sat off the coast of Florida.”

    http://stateofthenation.co/?p=136857

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  38. from tcth

    Patience
    Patience
    September 30, 2022 1:20 pm

    Congressman Paul Gosar

    @DrPaulGosar
    15h
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    Back home, Americans have lost everything due to Hurricane Ian, the border is open, fentanyl is killing hundreds of thousands and inflation is raging. Yet the left and the establishment right just voted to send another 12 billion to Ukraine?

    This is more America Last policy.

    I will vote NO on sending any money to Ukraine. I REFUSE to support more war, more interventionism, and more global alliances that hurt our country. ENOUGH sponsoring death and destruction. We should be peace making.

    We need a Total Foreign Aid Moratorium. Yes, that includes ALL Foreign Aid.

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  39. gees that sounds RACIST! piglosi puts her foot in her mouth again.
    FTA
    Enter Nancy Pelosi, who has been doing her best over the last year to give Joe Biden a run for his money when it comes to mental incapacitation. Is she just drunk often or is old age catching up to her? Who knows, but it’s certainly not making for good governance.

    That leads me to Pelosi’s latest geriatric rant, where she supposes that Florida shouldn’t ship illegal aliens to sanctuary jurisdictions because they are needed to “pick the crops down here.”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/09/30/nancy-pelosis-latest-drunk-rant-sure-sounds-racist-n635451

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      1. awesome!
        can you change your times? from my point of view (time difference?) they publish at 6:30 and 6:44 so if I’m up at 6:15, I got nothing new to read…lol.
        I don’t wanna touch them…
        and how to do feel about doing one for Pearl Harbor Day Dec 7th?

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        1. The time thing is always off for me – it posts 1 hr off from the time I select – very weird but I figure it has something to do with the time difference. So if I put in 4:30, 5:30 is the time it is scheduled. I’ll change it and will plan one for PHD.

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  40. EXCERPT: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) this month said it will invest $200 million in digital ID projects, encompassing “digital public infrastructure, including civil registry databases and digital ID” to help meet the 2030 target date for reaching the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    The $200 million in new funding — part of an overall $1.27 billion commitment by the BMGF in support of “global health and development projects,” is closely tied to Goal 16.9 of the SDGs, for which “digital identity programs are supposedly needed,” Reclaim the Net reported.

    The funding adds to several existing BMFG-supported global digital ID initiatives, even as such initiatives come under fire for violating people’s right to privacy.

    Michael Rectenwald, author of “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom,” said that far from promoting an improved digital infrastructure or “global health and development,” digital identity will have more onerous applications.

    Rectenwald told The Defender: “Of all the other means of identifying and tracking subjects, digital identity poses perhaps the gravest technological threat to individual liberty yet conceived. It has the potential to trace, track and surveil subjects and to compile a complete record of all activity, from cradle to grave.”

    Rectenwald said these more onerous applications of digital identity are what the BMGF and other similar entities find appealing:”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-investments-global-digital-id-system/

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  41. EXCERPT: “Introduction

    “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” is one of the most influential scientific articles in history.

    In February 2020 — about a month before a pandemic had been declared — five top virologists huddled to examine aspects of a rapidly emerging coronavirus that seemed primed to infect human cells. (The furin cleavage site kept one virologist up all night.) A few days later, they concluded the virus had not been engineered. In March, their conclusions were published in Nature Medicine.

    “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” the article read. The article assured much of the media, Washington and the broader infectious disease community that there was no need to scrutinize the labs at the pandemic’s epicenter in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is well known for research on SARS-like coronaviruses, including gain-of-function research. Though a “correspondence” and not a formal paper, the article has been cited in the press 2,127 times.

    It took 15 months and a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to reveal that each of the five authors had expressed private concerns about engineering or the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s store of novel coronaviruses. Also troubling: A confidential teleconference organized by Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar had framed early drafts of the article. But several scientists on the call had undisclosed conflicts of interest.

    Two authors were later found to have collaborated with the Wuhan lab or its American partner, EcoHealth Alliance. The name of another virologist on the call but not publicly credited is synonymous with controversial viral engineering.

    Also present on the call for “advice and leadership” but not publicly credited: director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins and director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Anthony Fauci. NIAID had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology — a fact Fauci had been alerted to by late January.

    The scientists’ familiarity with the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s work on novel coronaviruses calls into question a central premise of the paper — that SARS-CoV-2 could not have been engineered because it appeared to be novel. Farrar said that “proximal origin” was motivated by the absence of an investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, emails show that Farrar simultaneously shepherded along the article and appealed to the WHO.

    This timeline compiles several sources in an effort to flesh out the backstory of the enormously influential article. The timeline is likely to grow as more information emerges. All times have been approximated to Eastern Time.

    The authors of the “proximal origin” article are Scripps Research virologist Kristian Andersen, University of Sydney virologist Edward Holmes, Tulane School of Medicine virologist Robert Garry, University of Edinburgh virologist Andrew Rambaut and Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin.

    “Just a few of us — Eddie, Kristian, Tony and I — were now privy to sensitive information that, if proved to be true, might set off a whole series of events that would be far bigger than any of us.

    It felt as if a storm was gathering,” Farrar wrote of the period leading up the publication of “proximal origin.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-lab-origin-story-scientific-article-rtk/

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  42. Holy cow! Rob is disc’ing the back 2 acres – you should see the dust and dirt flying!!!! Thankfully, it’s from the SE so most of it is missing my house but I had to close my patio doors. Not sure if he is going to re-plant winter wheat or plant alfalfa again.

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  43. EXCERPT: “Amazon’s ‘ambient intelligence’ is a cozy way to say home surveillance…..Can’t even sleep without Bezos and co. trying to harvest data from me.

    Back in my day, you turned devices off when you didn’t need to use them. But in the age of Amazon, your “smart” home and its ecosystem of gadgets will ideally always be turned on. That vision even has a cool-sounding name: ambient intelligence. It’s A.I. with a new spin and the promise of a (corporate) bear hug.

    While I’m not anywhere near old enough to have truly earned my rose-tinted, geezer mindset, I am wrinkled just enough to remember a time before every device was connected to the internet; before the internet of things. So when I look at the direction Amazon is taking its ever-expanding hardware business and the welcoming, futuristic-sounding spin it’s using to sell this to consumers, well, I just can’t kick this dire feeling in my gut.

    At a device announcement event on Wednesday, Amazon laid out its vision for “ambient intelligence” (an obvious play on artificial intelligence), a term the company has used since at least 2021. Here’s what Amazon meant by that at the time.

    “In the ambient-intelligence vision, an AI service such as Alexa makes sense of the state of your environment, including devices, sensors, objects, people, and activity around you, to help you in every situation where you need assistance — either reactively (customer initiated) or proactively (AI initiated).”

    Amazon cut through all that tech jargon at its event with a bunch of practical examples of how ambient intelligence will play out. It added a new bedside sleep tracker called Halo Rise (which is kind of a Google Nest ripoff) and an always-on TV to a long list of devices in the company’s roster of things you’re supposed to plug in, turn on, and… stop thinking about. While no one would deny the usefulness of products like a Ring video doorbell or an Echo smart speaker, Amazon’s marketing speak for “ambient intelligence” sounds a whole lot like giving away the entire infrastructure of your life to one megacorporation with a long history of privacy issues.”

    https://mashable.com/article/amazon-alexa-ambient-intelligence-surveillance

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    2. If the internet in your home runs through a device you fully control, you can allow silly, harmless things while choking-off excess data extraction.

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      1. it sounds good–but to be honest, when i read some of your posts at wolf’s–it sounds greek to me. you have abilities I don’t. if it’s something simple maybe i could follow…??

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  44. EXCERPT: “A year ago, before Facebook had turned Meta, the social media company was sporting a market cap of $1 trillion, putting it in rarefied territory with a handful of U.S. technology giants.

    Today the view looks much different. Meta has lost about two-thirds of its value since peaking in September 2021. The stock is trading at its lowest since January 2019 and is about to close out its third straight quarter of double-digit percentage losses. Only four stocks in the S&P 500 are having a worse year.

    Facebook’s business was built on network effects — users brought their friends and family members, who told their colleagues, who invited their buddies. Suddenly everyone was convening in one place. Advertisers followed, and the company’s ensuing profits — and they were plentiful — provided the capital to recruit the best and brightest engineers to keep the cycle going.

    But in 2022, the cycle has reversed. Users are jumping ship and advertisers are reducing their spending, leaving Meta poised to report its second straight drop in quarterly revenue. Businesses are removing Facebook’s once-ubiquitous social login button from their websites. Recruiting is an emerging challenge, especially as founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spends much of his time proselytizing the metaverse, which may be the company’s future but accounts for virtually none of its near-term revenue and is costing billions of dollars a year to build.

    Zuckerberg said he hopes that within the next decade, the metaverse “will reach a billion people” and “host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce.” He told CNBC’s Jim Cramer in June that the “North Star” is to reach those sorts of figures by the end of the decade and create a “massive economy” around digital goods.

    Investors aren’t enthusiastic about it, and the way they’re dumping the stock has some observers questioning if the downward pressure is actually a death spiral from which Meta can’t recover. “I’m not sure there’s a core business that works anymore at Facebook,” said Laura Martin of Needham, the only analyst among the 45 tracked by FactSet with a sell rating on the stock.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

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  46. EXCERPT: “Claiming that four Italian scientists who published a peer-reviewed paper earlier this year finding that there is not yet evidence of any “climate crisis” wrote the study in “bad faith,” climate fanatic scientists are urging that the journal that published the study remove it from public view.

    The study in question comes to the conclusion that the so-called “climate crisis” that the mainstream media say is already upon us is not evident — at least yet — and that it is counterproductive to claim that such a crisis exists.

    The study, done by four Italian scientists — physicist Gianluca Alimonti, professor of agrometeorology Luigi Mariani, atmospheric physicist Franco Prodi, and physicist Renato Angelo Ricci — states that “the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet.”

    Further, the Italian study calls into question the wisdom of leaving such a “crisis” for our children without the necessary tools — fossil fuels, etc. — they will need to adapt to such a crisis should it ever come to bear.

    “Leaving the baton to our children without burdening them with the anxiety of being in a climate emergency would allow them to face the various problems in place (energy, agricultural-food, health, etc.) with a more objective and constructive spirit, with the goal of arriving at a weighted assessment of the actions to be taken without wasting the limited resources at our disposal in costly and ineffective solutions,” the Italian study states.

    The study was first published in January, and has been cited by mainstream media outlets such as Sky News Australia. Only now are other scientists, interviewed by French news service AFP, calling for the paper to be memory-holed.

    “They are writing this article in bad faith,” said Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/scientific-censorship-climate-fanatics-urge-removal-of-study-questioning-evidence-of-a-climate-crisis/

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  47. Ah! Here’s the story about that Tweet I posted….

    EXCERPT: “The first openly “transgender” Army officer and doctor might also be the first man-lady charged with a crime related to espionage.

    Jamie Lee Henry, a 39-year-old major who pretends he is a woman, and his wife Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, face charges of conspiracy and giving medical information to Russia. A federal grand jury indicted the freaky married couple on September 28. The two tried to pass the information to an FBI agent who posed as a Russian spy.

    The indictments are not surprising. A person who actually believes he is a member of the opposite sex is mentally ill, and cannot and should not be trusted in positions of authority, let alone those that involved access to secret information.

    The Indictment

    Henry was a staff internist at Fort Bragg when he passed the medical information to the Russians, the Justice Department noted in its allegations. Why a Special Forces operator would let Henry touch him is a question for another day.
    ——————
    “Gabrielian told the UC [the undercover agent] that she had previously reached out to the Russian embassy by email and phone, offering Russia her and her husband’s assistance,” DOJ alleges:

    ‘Gabrielian told the UC that, although Henry knew of Gabrielian’s interaction with the Russian Embassy, she never mentioned Henry’s name to the Russian Embassy. Gabrielian wanted to make sure Henry could deny any knowledge of her actions. On August 17, 2022, Gabrielian met with the UC at a hotel in Baltimore. During that meeting, Gabrielian told the UC she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail.’

    Later that day, the two met with the FBI agents in his hotel room. Henry actually said he wanted to fight with the Russian Army, which was probably a non-starter given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dim view of sex perverts.

    “During the meeting, Henry explained to the UC he was committed to assisting Russia and had looked into volunteering to join the Russian Army after the conflict in Ukraine began, but Russia wanted people with ‘combat experience’ and he did not have any,” DOJ alleges.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/u-s-army-man-lady-doc-and-wife-nailed-for-espionage/

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  48. ultra maggot’s nominee for NARA fails to make it out of committee
    FTA
    The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday failed to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

    The committee voted 7-7 on party lines on advancing Colleen Shogan to a confirmation vote, the Washington Examiner reported. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will have to discharge Shogan from the committee to move the process forward.

    The confirmation process would not normally engender such controversy, though an ongoing legal battle involving former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents has led Republicans to scrutinize NARA to a greater degree than usual.

    NARA previously sought the return of documents Trump had in his possession. Trump voluntarily cooperated with a grand jury subpoena seeking their return, though the FBI later returned to raid his estate in pursuit of more materials.

    During the committee hearing, Republicans asked Shogan about the alleged politicization of NARA in connection to that dispute, though the nominee denied having been briefed on the issue.

    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/national-archives-nominee-fails-clear-senate-committee-amid-trump-fbi

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