Have You Ever Wondered…

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why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

why don’t you see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?

why abbreviated is such a long word?

why doctors call what they do they “practice”?

why you have to click on start to close Windows?

why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor but dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?

why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?

why the time of day with the slowest traffic is called “rush hour”?

why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

when dog food is labeled “new and improved”, who tasted it?

why Noah didn’t just swat those 2 mosquitos?

why they sterilize the needle for lethal injection?

why the whole plane isn’t made of the black box material?

why don’t sheep shrink in the rain?

why are they called apartments, when they’re all stuck together?

if con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

if flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

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    1. Morning! you’re up with the chickens this morning!!!
      this was from an email my sister sent me 20 odd years ago!!
      I kept all these funny things she sent me in a binder–which i just found again looking for something else…LOL

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  4. EXCERPTS: “IN THE FALL of 2010, the District of Columbia was preparing to do something bold: allow overseas voters to cast their ballots online. A few weeks ahead of the November general election, it conducted a mock internet election and invited the public to try and hack the system. Within a few days, computer scientists at the University of Michigan had gained near complete control of the election server.

    The team took control of webcams mounted inside the server room that housed the pilot, used login information to match specific ballots to specific voters, and changed not just votes that had been cast, but also ones that would be. “There is little hope for protecting future ballots from this level of compromise, since the code that processes the ballots is itself suspect,” the team wrote in a follow-up paper.

    Afterward, D.C. officials confirmed that they had failed to see the attacks in their intrusion detection system logs, didn’t detect their presence in the network equipment, and only realized what had happened after seeing the group’s calling card: the University of Michigan fight song playing on the “Thank You” page that appeared after voting.
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    The year of the D.C. meltdown, Brooke Pinto wasn’t yet living in the District. But after becoming the youngest-ever D.C. councilmember in 2020, she began working on one of the most expansive mobile voting bills in the country.

    Allowing any eligible voter to cast a ballot using an internet-connected device, Pinto has claimed, would make voting more accessible, especially for voters of color, those with disabilities, and older adults. It could also raise the chronically low turnout rates in the District: 28 percent for the 2020 primary and around 67 percent for that year’s general, a little lower than the national average.

    Pinto had no formal experience in voting or technology, but she said constituents had talked about it during her campaign. According to emails obtained through a public records request, in July 2021 her brother introduced her to Bradley Tusk, a venture capitalist who made millions from stock and options received from his work at Uber.

    Tusk has poured money into a nonprofit and lobbying apparatus dedicated to pushing internet voting nationwide. His organization, Mobile Voting, has already conducted 21 internet voting pilots in seven states, and Tusk Philanthropies, which also works to combat food insecurity, has registered lobbyists in at least 12 states and Washington, D.C. Last year, Tusk Philanthropies announced a $10 million grant program to fund the development of a new internet-based voting system, according to NPR, in the hopes that every American will have the option to vote electronically by 2028.

    His crusade could not come at a more perilous time for American democracy. Trust in the system is historically low, disinformation around voting technology is especially rampant, and many lawmakers are already suspicious of private companies providing any kind of assistance to election offices, which continue to be chronically underfunded.
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    MOBILE VOTING DECLINED to grant interviews for this story, and much of the information about its programs is available only through open records requests (or is not public at all). And Tusk’s philanthropic and venture capital arms did not respond to a request for comment.
    ——————-
    Described by Fast Company as “Silicon Valley’s political savior,” Tusk served as communications director for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., from 2000 to 2002; was deputy governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2006; and managed Michael Bloomberg’s 2009 campaign for a third term as mayor of New York City.

    In 2011, he became Uber’s first political adviser and worked until 2015 to expand ride-hailing in major cities across the country. When he left the company, he owned what some reports estimated as $100 million in stock. Over the past 15 years, he’s personally donated at least $359,000 to Democratic candidates (and at least $25,000 to Republican ones), according to FollowTheMoney.org.”

    Very long article: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/04/election-online-mobile-voting-bradley-tusk/

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  6. OK, this is exactly the kind of shit I despise! Shame on this man, Schmitt – talk about “stolen valor!!!” I do not GAS whether you are Republican or Democrat – this is wrong!!! Having said that, one needs to keep in mind that The Intercept is decidedly left-leaning.

    EXCERPT: “IN THE RACE for New York’s 18th Congressional District, the only shared element in the political biographies of Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Colin Schmitt may be their military service. Both men have worn the uniform and touted their veteran status, with Schmitt tweeting last year on Veterans Day: “Thankful for all the wonderful fellow veterans I have the privilege to serve with.”

    Schmitt received an August 1 endorsement from the mayor of Poughkeepsie, who said, “Assemblyman Colin Schmitt is a veteran and leader in the Hudson Valley who will continue to fight for public safety and a more prosperous economy.” Schmitt then tweeted that endorsement out and included the quote prominently in a mailer sent out this past week. Schmitt was also included in Crain’s New York’s 2021 Notable Veteran Executives.

    But the way their experience informs their candidacies could not be more different — and only one of them qualifies as a veteran under the standards of the National Guard and the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services, which state a person must serve at least “180 days of continuous active duty” on federal orders outside of training.

    Orders obtained by The Intercept, which detail the time Schmitt was federally activated for non-training missions, show that he was activated from the National Guard once from late March 2020 until July 2020, helping deliver pandemic-related supplies stateside.”

    https://theintercept.com/2022/11/04/ny-pat-ryan-colin-schmitt-veteran/

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  7. EXCERPT: “Steffen has taken issue with “federal government agencies making all our decisions for us.” He contended that public health puts “the greater good over the individual” rights. He got that right. “Are you comfortable with the concept that individuals have to be sacrificed for the well-being of society?” he said. “Like pushing vaccines so hard. You knew people were going to be injured, you knew people were being injured, and yet we didn’t hear anything about that.”

    https://joelshirschhorn.substack.com/p/kansas-pulls-covid-vaccine-ads-from

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  8. ahhhhhhhhhhh…watching the dance begin!!!
    there’s 2 bucks getting antsy to begin the rut, but the doe are not interested yet…LOL

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  9. EXCERPTS: “Pfuck Pfizer”

    It seems that injecting babies isn’t bad enough. Now they want to inject pregnant women in order to “protect” their Pfetuses from Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Never Pforget!

    So, maybe you thought that you had seen it all and that it couldn’t get any crazier. Pfizer is planning to request FDA approval of yet another injectable product before the end of 2022. This time, they are injecting pregnant women in the belief that it will pass along immunity to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to the unborn fetuses in their womb. This is NOT safe. This is NOT effective. THIS IS EVIL.”


    —————-
    PFIZER PFACTS:

    Pfizer only released preliminary data regarding the PHASE III clinical trial on November 1, 2022. At this point, to my knowledge, they have not released anything other than propaganda. See below for details regarding the results of the PHASE II clinical trial.”
    —————-

    The truth is hidden in plain sight.
    The information below is taken from the PHASE II clinical study.

    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT04032093

    https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/pfuck-pfizer

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  10. she needs to go toooooooo

    from tcth

    Cactus
    Cactus
    November 7, 2022 4:43 am
    Reply to Sedanka

    “I don’t believe in DeSantis”

    You are just following the facts.

    MAGA was here before De-XX and will be here after him.

    Be proud you are MAGA and vote for the Republican ticket.
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    Citizen817
    Citizen817
    November 7, 2022 12:56 am

    Controlled Opposition: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Says Republicans Will Work with Joe Biden if They Take Control of Congress… WTH?

    Why is Ronna McDaniel still RNC Chair?

    Why did she not step down after Democrats and their basement candidate stole a landslide election back in 2020?

    Why is she speaking out now after ignoring the brutal Marxists destroying our country for two years?

    America has never been weaker since the Civil War. We need strong leadership to defeat the enemy destroying our country from the inside.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/controlled-opposition-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-says-republicans-need-work-joe-biden-take-control-congress-destruction-united-states/

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  11. EXCERPT: “No doubt, as president, one of Donald Trump’s more bold steps that thoroughly outraged the medical industrial complex was to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). One of Trump’s reasons was due to his disgust with the WHO’s lack of competence in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The intention to remove itself from the WHO was filed in July 2020; however WHO rules require a year for a nation’s withdrawal to become effective. Sadly, under Joe Biden, the US remains party to and a leader funder of the undemocratically elected global organization.

    Earlier in 2022, the proposal for a WHO international Pandemic Treaty has raised alarms over the organization’s usurping the individual sovereignty of nations. The Treaty, which is scheduled to be finalized by May 2024, is largely a result of the WHO’s numerous inconsistencies, inadequacies and failures during the Covid-19 pandemic. If we call a spade a spade, the WHO has proven itself inept in handling any pandemic. Therefore, for the hardened globalists such Bill Gates and the leaders of the US and EU who wholly support the WHO, it makes perfect sense that the bumbling bureaucracy should be given more authority and control over global health.

    The Pandemic Treaty would authorize the WHO complete control over both governments’ and civil societies’ internal preparedness over actions and policies to tackle future pandemics. During the Ukraine crisis, we frequently hear Western leaders speak about a “rules based order” in international relations. However, such rules are defined by and primarily serve the interests of those nations at the top of the food chain (i.e. the US, UK and EU). What the Treaty offers is a new rules based order completely determined by an international organization with a horrible track record of conflicts of interests with the pharmaceutical industry and hegemonic governments and billionaires.

    The Treaty would hold every WHO member nation accountable for following the organization’s dictates. On a global scale, all power over dictating the rules for pandemic preparedness would be centralized in the organization. If a nation fails to do so, it can face potential sanctions. The WHO would also be the final arbiter and judge over medical related misinformation that it solely believes undermines public health. As we have witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO was repeatedly wrong about the benefits of face masks and lockdowns, the benefit-risk ratio of the mRNA vaccines — which are now causing more injuries and deaths than the virus — and safe and effective treatments.”

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/hell-no-who-pandemic-treaty/5798100

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  12. this is just a joke, right???

    Charlotte99
    November 7, 2022 3:08 am

    OH BOY!!!
    Desperate Democrats put Meghan Markle as top choice for 2024 White House run against Trump

    There has been ongoing speculation that the former Suits actress could be eyeing up a move into the political arena.

    Trumps gonna have fun with this trollip

    She has already bought domain names for President Markle 2024/8/ etc

    A while ago

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1692950/meghan-markle-us-president-donald-trump-democrats-republicans-joe-biden-dxus

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  14. I deleted my desktop Telegram so I can’t open these any more….however….

    “The Brazilian Ministry of Defense has declared the 2022 election fraudulent.
    Military arrest warrants are now being issued for the Supreme Federal Court, the Supreme Electoral Court, and the National Congress.
    The Brazilian civilian government has been SUSPENDED until the Emergency situation has resolved.”

    https://t.me/killJAB/9188?single

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      2. Found this on their version of FB:

        Silvia Margone
        today at 2:47 am
        The Brazilian Ministry of Defense has declared the 2022 election fraudulent.
        Military arrest warrants are now being issued for the Supreme Federal Court, the Supreme Electoral Court, and the National Congress.
        The Brazilian civilian government has been SUSPENDED until the Emergency situation has resolved.

        👉 SGAnon

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  19. Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary, and Department of Justice (DOJ) are fighting a subpoena requiring her to testify in the lawsuit filed by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general – alleging that the Biden administration colluded with social media platforms to censor certain viewpoints on the pandemic.

    The motion to quash the subpoena was filed in a federal court in Virginia. It argues that the deposition would be “extremely burdensome” for Psaki, who is preparing to be the host of a new show on MSNBC. We obtained a copy of the motion for you here.

    “Among other things, I understand that I would need to devote several days preparing for the deposition, as well as attending the deposition itself, and that would be highly disruptive to both my work and my family,” Psaki wrote in the request.

    Psaki has in the past admitted that the Biden administration was flagging people’s speech to social media platforms. The DOJ argued that Psaki’s deposition would result in a debate over executive privilege considering she was a top adviser to President Joe Biden.

    The DOJ lawyer said: “If permitted to proceed, the deposition of Ms. Psaki would inevitably set the Executive and Judicial Branches ‘on a collision course’ through adjudications of executive privilege, thrusting the court into ‘the awkward position of evaluating the Executive’s claims of confidentiality and autonomy,’ and ‘difficult questions of separation of powers and checks and balances’ would quickly be pushed to the fore.”

    “Plaintiffs have not identified any evidence showing or even suggesting that Ms. Psaki ever communicated with any social-media company in her capacity as Press Secretary about misinformation, much less that she ‘exercised coercive power’ to compel a social-media company to take any action,” the DOJ added.

    Other defendants that have tried to use a similar “burdensome” defense have already been shut down by District Judge Terry Doughty who said, “The Court finds that both the public interest and the interest of the other parties in preserving free speech significantly outweighs the inconvenience the three deponents will have in preparing for and giving their depositions.”

    https://reclaimthenet.org/jen-psaki-motion-to-quash-social-media-censorship-deposition/

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  20. Tom Cotton says no to 2024 presidential run
    from tcth

    Troublemaker10
    November 7, 2022 4:06 am

    Cotton passes on 2024 presidential run after considering campaign

    Excerpt:

    Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has decided that he won’t run for president in 2024 — making him the first big-name Republican to step aside as former President Donald Trump and others make moves toward running.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/06/tom-cotton-passes-on-2024-presidential-run-00065334

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  23. 5 reasons this author thinks ultra maggot steps down after the midterms…don’t know that i buy them, but…
    FTA
    5. Corporate Media Is Turning on Him

    Just in the last two weeks, reliable Democrat shills in corporate media have been shunning Democrats more and more. They aren’t embracing Republicans by any means, but they’ve been far more critical of the White House and their policies than the previous two years combined. Could they be setting themselves up to not look like fools for promoting ideas the American people reject? Could it be worse than that? Could the upper management in these corporate media outlets be aware that Biden is on his way out so they’re planting the seeds now?
    4. Picking a VP Will Be Easier Before Next Session

    Based on the 25th Amendment, Kamala Harris would need majority votes in both chambers to confirm her Vice Presidential nominee. This would be much easier with Nancy Pelosi in charge of the House rather than Kevin McCarthy and a 50+ Republican majority. The Senate will confirm whoever she would nominate whether Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell is in charge, but the House could be an issue. They’d want the path of least resistance and that means getting a new VP before the changing of the guards.
    3. Democrats Need a Scapegoat

    There is no world in which Democrats will readily acknowledge that the American people reject their policies. They blame everything other than their own ideas for their failures. This is standard operating procedure for the left, which is why they’d never admit that policies like Defund the Police have failed. Instead, they chose to pretend like it was the GOP who embraced Defund the Police before changing subjects.

    The easiest way for them to say their policies are good but they still lost is if they can blame someone in particular. Joe Biden is their perfect scapegoat. They will quietly make adjustments to their policies behind the scenes while publicly saying Biden’s failures as president are the reason their agenda didn’t resonate with the voters.
    2. He’s Way Over His Head

    Let’s call it what it is. Joe Biden needs to be cared for in his home as he struggles through dementia and whatever else is ailing him. He doesn’t need to be in the Oval Office or any office for that matter. He knows this. Dr. Jill knows this. Everyone around him knows it. And most Americans know it. Admitting it by stepping down is the right thing to do once his usefulness to the globalist elite cabal has been exhausted.
    1. Protecting Hunter and the Biden Crime Family

    The most important reason Joe Biden will step down is because he does not want a Republican controlled House and/or Senate to start investigating his family. One can argue the predicate for him to run in the first place was to keep Donald Trump from digging deeper into the Biden family’s ties with China, Russia, Ukraine, and wherever else they’ve operated under the Biden family flag.

    Joe’s days in the White House are very likely short. After the election but before Republicans are sworn into their majorities on Capitol Hill, don’t be surprised to see the old man head off into his version of a sunset.

    https://americafirstreport.com/5-reasons-to-believe-joe-biden-will-resign-after-the-midterm-elections/

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    1. I can’t agree…..it will all depend on tomorrow’s results, tho. Stepping down would do no good vis-a-vis investigations IF Republicans take control and I think using the Biden’s as a scapegoat would be very dangerous for a LOT of connected people! And since when does ANYONE in that family “do the right thing?” Not happening, IMO, but, then, I’ve been wrong before so…..

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      1. yeah I don’t think i agree either…
        ultra maggot is an arrogant POS and he thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips…he won’t agree to step down.
        but a scapegoat is the dem MO

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              1. On top of that, around here, horses are considered livestock and treated accordingly, which I have a hard time abiding. I’ve thought about visiting the 2 horses across the street but…..it’s a case of benign neglect and I wouldn’t be able to keep my mouth shut. So…..🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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              4. true, true…
                thought maybe you could handle it like you do with LM…interest, concern, but not direct involvement…
                have you seen him lately btw??

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              5. Nope, sure haven’t. I’ve been checking every day. Saw the big gray/white one out front yesterday. He’s a stray – they have owners. I already got in trouble with another neighbor over exhibiting concern about a Pomeranian I found in my yard – he had a bad skin condition and I pointed it out when I took him home – she got ALL insulted. SMH

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  30. Arizona water is drying up because foreign owned farms are draining it dry and the crops they grow are shipped back to THEIR country…this needs to STOP!!!!! they are raping our land and resources…
    FTA
    According to Gary Saiter, head of the Wenden Water Improvement District, the water being used by Salome and Wenden is being rapidly pumped out of the ground by a well belonging to a United Arab Emirates-based company.

    Aquifer water levels have dropped from about 100 feet in the 1950s to about 540 feet in 2022.

    According to Salome water utility owner Bill Farr, his wells, which supply water to local schools as well as 200 other entities, are “nearing the end of [their] useful life.”

    Al Dahra Agricultural company, based in the UAE’s capital city of Abu Dhabi, and Fondomonte Arizona LLC, a commercial farming business owned by Almarai, a major Saudi dairy producer, “have depleted their [water], that’s why they are here,” La Paz County supervisor Holly Irwin said.

    “That’s what angers people the most. We should be taking care of our own, and we just allow them to come in, purchase property and continue to punch holes in the ground,” she said.

    A 2018 Saudi law prohibiting farms to grow crops like alfalfa and hay which drain the water supply prompted the demand for feedstock from other countries, Eckart Woertz, director of the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, told CNN.

    “They have all their cows there and they need feeding. That feedstock comes from abroad,” Woertz said.

    In a statement to Arab News, Almarai was open about why it acquired the American land.

    The purchase was part of “continuous efforts to improve and secure its supply of the highest quality alfalfa hay from outside the Kingdom to support its dairy business,” the agricultural giant said.

    “It is also in line with the Saudi government direction toward conserving local resources,” Arab News claimed.

    Almarai, operating in the US under its subsidiary, Fondomonte, owns about 10,000 acres of farmland near Salome, according to CNN. The Saudi company also owns almost 3,500 acres in Southern California

    The UAE also imports the vast majority of its food production, with My Bayut, the country’s “most popular real estate and lifestyle blog,” reporting that as much as “80 percent of the food requirements of the country is still being fulfilled through imports.”

    “We are literally exporting our economy overseas,” said Cynthia Campbell, a water resources management adviser for the city of Phoenix, Arizona. “I’m sorry, but there’s no Saudi Arabian milk coming back to Southern California or Arizona. The value of that agricultural output is not coming through in value to the US.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/arizona-water-supply-dries-up-due-to-foreign-owned-farms-hogging-supply

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  31. EXCERPT @ BB: “A New York City apartment fire caused by a lithium-ion battery left 38 people injured, including two critically and five seriously, according to the New York Fire Department (FDNY). The three-alarm fire broke out at around 10:25 a.m. on Saturday at the Rivercourt high-rise apartment building at 429 East 52nd street in Manhattan, which contains 249 units.

    While fighting the blaze, firefighters performed a heroic rescue of a woman whose arm caught on a window guard on the 20th floor of the building. Video footage captured firefighter, Arthur Podgorski, holding the woman while connected to a rope system to an apartment above to help lower her to the floor below, where she was pulled inside by another firefighter:

    ————-
    The cause of the blaze was linked to a lithium-ion battery typically found in e-scooters and e-bikes. At least five bikes were recovered behind the front door of the unit where the fire started, the New York Post reported.”

    Many pictures: https://nypost.com/2022/11/05/fdny-battling-high-rise-blaze-on-nycs-east-52nd-street/

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  32. Anything Soros-related is persona non grata in Hungary!!!!

    EXCERPT: “The Open Society Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Biden administration are funding an “opposition media” organisation setting up an office in Hungary, reports have claimed. Internews, an organisation that aims to support “independent media” in various countries, is said to be setting up a branch in Hungary using funding granted to it by the Biden administration.

    With the group also receiving funding from Geroge Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and a variety of Silicon Valley tech giants, the reported plan for the new Internews office comes amid increasing tensions between Budapest and Washington D.C.

    According to Hungarian outlet PestiSrácok, the “opposition media” organisation is setting up an office in Budapest with the support of the U.S. government. Such a claim appears to be backed up by a number of job postings on Internews websites, which say that the group is now hiring “for a U.S. government-funded project” that is to be based out of the Hungarian capital. In one posting, the project is described as aiming to champion “a strong independent media sector in Armenia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine that is resistant to powerful interests seeking to manipulate, isolate, or control the press”.

    The post notes Internews aimed to have their Hungarian Office set up by October 2022, though it is unclear as to whether or not the office has actually been put in place as of the time of publication. While this most recent project is described as being funded by the U.S. government, Internews receives funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Rockefeller Family & Associates.

    Major Silicon Valley tech firms are also said to be funding the “independent media” organisation, with Google and Facebook both listed as donors to the group.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/06/soros-rockefeller-org-biden-admin-fund-opposition-media-org-launch-in-hungary-reports/

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  41. Dang, it’s hard to get warm! If I could just gain some weight…..aw, hell, I’m always cold anyway! 33 outside and cloudy – we might get some light rain. These vinca’s are really incredible! Two plants have several blooms on them and SIX more buds on each of them!!! The one’s inside the feeder have blooms/buds, too!

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    1. it was 75* yesterday here–can you believe it? so warm last night i had to put the fan on…it’s still around 50*
      and YES YOU DO NEED MORE WEIGHT!

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    2. Just planted my pansies and snapdragons – our N FL Fall-Winter bedding plants – along with petunias! Folks also plant flowering kale and cabbage, along with dusty miller, in their Fall planting beds.

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    1. thank you but I can’t take credit for this. I found a binder of emails my sister sent me 20 some years ago! funny things mostly…there are a couple of “grandma-type cures” ones that I am working on typing into word to use…
      she’s been gone nearly 15 years, but when i read these things, I smile and think of her!

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  44. Do you think my reading habits, starting with Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden – on through the entire repertoire of Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Dick Francis, Tom Clancy and more – could lead to this?

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      1. that’s how most videos show…
        this made me giggle…hubby used to love those dateline things–true crime drama stuff and we watched them Friday nights i think. I turned to him one night and abruptly asked if he was using these to “get ideas”. I was joking–he was insulted. BUT we stopped watching them…coincidence? LOL

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            1. Wow. There were a few murders in our home town… but none got on dateline. One woman was found buried in a box by a farmer plowing his field, years after she disappeared. Her boss and his kinky evil son were the suspects. My best high school friend was related to the victim.

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              1. yikes!
                this man (her father) met a woman on line (her parents were divorced, so definitely not the wife’s plotting). the on line woman’s ex boyfriend lured the father to a tryst where he killed him and tried to implicate the ex girlfriend…really weird stuff.
                but they did unravel it and the daughters got closure

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    3. That’s the way I am with TV! Almost all of the shows on ID are repeats for me; REELZ, Cops, 48 Hours, Primal Instinct, Unusual Suspects, Mysteries of the Unknown and Abandoned, The Unexplained, and on and on and on…..LOL

      Same pretty much for my reading materials, altho I’m looking for something new….something more serious w/o so much fluff and personal detail. That’s what I get from Cornwell/Scarpetta now – just not interested in all of that personal stuff between her family members, etc.

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  45. here’s an opinion that probably hits close to home on what really happened with Pelosi and the intruder…sounds plausible to me–the initial report of a wellness check–not “knowing” who answered the door…why the story disappeared so fast
    FTA
    Well, for starters, NBC accidentally told the truth, and even though they quickly deleted it, the video was saved by many people and the damage was already done. The countless different narratives we had been told about this bizarre story were incorrect. NBC was reporting off the official police report, and now we know for a fact that Paul answered the door (there was no third person) and he was perfectly calm and told officers that nothing was wrong.

    If you ask me, this entire thing was a personal situation between Paul and this man, and Nancy couldn’t reach Paul, so she had the police do a wellness check and Paul’s exploits were exposed and everything we saw and heard after that, was done to concoct a story, including the broken window and the 911 call.

    https://thelibertyloft.com/2022/11/07/former-fox-news-producer-points-out-something-very-curious-about-the-paul-pelosi-story/

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  47. hunter biden and ccp mining chemicals in us for fertilizer sent to china
    fta

    A consulting firm partnered with Hunter Biden aided a Chinese Communist Party-owned company’s efforts to construct a mine in the U.S. to extract a mineral critical for the production of fertilizer, which would ultimately be exported back to China.

    The unearthing of the Biden family’s ties to the fertilizer business comes amidst news of shortages of the resource plaguing the global farming community, especially the United States.

    The Thornton Group, a consulting firm working on behalf of the Chinese state-owned enterprise, describes the company Rosemont Seneca, which was founded by Hunter Biden and Obama-era Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson in 2009, as its “American partner,” in a now-deleted description from its website.

    Additional deleted pages from the Thornton Group’s website dating back to 2010 mention joint meeting with Hunter Biden, even explicitly referring to him as “the second son of current US Vice President Joe Biden.”

    The Thornton Group and Rosemont Seneca Partners were also the sole American organizations comprising BHR Partners, a notorious $1.5 billion investment fund that was underwritten by Chinese Communist Party-run banks and officials. It was birthed less than two weeks after Hunter Biden accompanied his father, the then-Vice President, on a trip to China.

    A now-deleted post to the Thornton Group’s website titled “Thornton Group visits Luxi Chemical,” originally posted on May 10th, 2015, details the consultancy’s work with Luxi Chemical.

    Luxi Chemical is a state-owned enterprise in China manufacturing chemical products, particularly fertilizer.

    The webpage reveals that leaders from the two groups met to plan “cooperation” on a “large-scale high-quality potash mine project in the United States,” allowing the Chinese company to “import a large amount of red potassium from the United States every year”:

    “The two parties had a sincere and friendly conversation on the cooperation of a large-scale high-quality potash mine project in the United States, and happily reached the long-term cooperation intention of Luhua Group to import a large amount of red potassium from the United States every year. Red potassium is the main raw material for the production of compound fertilizers. The stability of raw materials is very important. Luxi Chemical Group has been eager to find a stable source of imported goods. With the cooperation with Thornton Group, it will be more conducive to the stable production of Luxi Chemical.”

    “The two sides agreed that Thornton Group will visit Luxi Chemical Group again in June this year, and the two sides will discuss and sign a specific cooperation agreement at that time,” the post added.

    No archives are available, however, of subsequent meetings.

    The supply of potash, which is the synthetic component of fertilizer supplying potassium, is currently experiencing record-breaking prices and has seen its key suppliers undergo shortages.

    Separate webpages from the Thornton Group reveal Biden’s involvement with the company, including traveling to China for meetings with its executives. On its website, ostensibly used to woo prospective clients, the Thornton Group explicitly wrote “Hunter Biden (the second son of current US Vice President Joe Biden)”:

    “The Thornton Group and its American partner, Rosemont Seneca, Chairman Hunter Biden (the second son of current US Vice President Joe Biden) and other senior executives visited various Chinese financial institutions and fund companies from April 7 to 9.”

    https://warroom.org/2022/11/07/hunter-biden-linked-consulting-firm-helped-chinese-communist-party-run-company/

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  48. WTH????? from wolf’s

    eilertOffline
    November 7, 2022 12:12

    Gregg and Catherine NOT RELEASED BY BIASED JUDGE – Defying Appeals court order.
    Can a judge be impeached – Can the Appeals court order that judge be detained?

    TO56568

    Gregg Phillips / @greggphillips 11/07/2022 11:55:40

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    Truth Social: 109303571431919232

    UPDATE: Appeals court ordered Gregg and Catherine to be released on Sunday. Judge Hoyt has not complied with the order and they are still in jail.

    This cannot be legal.

    @opsec @truethevote @realDonaldTrump @RealPatriotGames

    #PatriotGames

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        pgroup2
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        Reply to Tonawanda
        November 7, 2022 13:32

        ThanQ for the attribution. I also stated (in a separate comment) that the judge was providing a basis for a habeas writ application. Such a writ would be granted and would direct the person having legal and physical custody of the petitioner to release that person from custody. You have correctly stated that the judge would have no say in the matter. This fact I probably should have included in my prior commenting.

        If the attorneys asked for emergency interlocutory review/relief (which it sure looks like they did), then the judge is still involved and more importantly, still has jurisdictional authority. Which means he can ignore the appellate court (risky to his status as a judge – there are disciplinary authorities) or he could modify/amend the original order (which was reviewed) and thus it is a new order and nothing has really changed except the order from the app court is now moot. This is also risky because the appellate court could recall the matter and rule that the trial judge is biased so must be removed from the case. Gregg’s attorneys could make a motion to recall the order and slather inflammatory language all over the pleading.

        A writ of habeas corpus is the only sure way to free Gregg. As a closing thought, the trial judge has clearly demonstrated what I said in another comment – this is a case of contempt of judge, not contempt of court.

        The outcome is that Gregg will be free. The only question is how long that will take (refer to the J6 prisoners for comparison).

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  50. Italy putting on the brakes???

    “Italy allows only the vulnerable to disembark migrant NGO ships, orders captains to leave with adult males still onboard — Italian authorities permitted women and children as well as men in need of medical care to enter the country, but refused access to 250 adult males on board the NGO humanitarian vessels”

    November 07, 2022
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE

    “The Italian government has authorized women, children, and men with medical issues to disembark humanitarian NGO vessels currently docked in Catania, but has refused entry to the country for the remaining adult males on board. A total of 144 people disembarked the Humanity 1 vessel on Sunday — the ship sails under a German flag and is operated by a German crew. A further 357 people on board the Norwegian-run Geo Barents ship.

    However, 250 adult males were refused access to disembark the two vessels by Italian authorities, and Italy’s newly appointed Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said that those who did not qualify as vulnerable must leave Italian waters and be assisted by the “flag state,” in this instance either Germany or Norway. A further two vessels carrying hundreds of migrants each remain anchored off the Italian coast awaiting permission to dock.

    The German captain of Humanity 1, however, is refusing to leave Catania with the remaining men on board, and the charity that funds the boat has commenced legal action against the Italian government. “If I left now, I would violate an endless series of international laws and conventions here in the port of Catania,” said captain Joachim Ebeling to la Repubblica newspaper. “I am not doing anything illegal. I am following the law of the sea,” he added. The German captain accused the Italian authorities of conducting “an inhuman and illegitimate selection of the survivors based on an illegal decree.”

    In a series of tweets on Sunday, the SOS Humanity charity revealed it would be taking legal action “against the decree of the Italian government and the prevention of the disembarkation of 35 rescued people from the Humanity 1! “Italy’s actions violate European law and the Geneva Refugee Convention,” the charity added.

    A diplomatic row ensued over the weekend between Germany and Italy after the new Italian government initially refused access to dock for three NGO ships with more than 1,000 people on board. Both Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi held firm, insisting that Italy would not continue to be a gateway for those wanting to reach the European Union.

    Berlin had pressured the Italian foreign ministry, urging it to accept all migrants on board the German-registered Humanity I, to which Italy’s Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani replied: “If Germany believes that there is a humanitarian problem, it should take care of it; Italy cannot become the refuge of all immigrants.”

    Italy has long borne the brunt of the migration crisis due to its strategic geographic location; it has taken in more than 85,000 migrants since the beginning of the year, according to the UN. Newly elected Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran on an anti-mass migration ticket in the general election held earlier this year. She placed the issue of migration at the heart of her government in her maiden speech to lawmakers at the Italian parliament.

    “We must stop illegal departures and human trafficking,” Meloni said, while clarifying that her government does not intend “to question the right of asylum for those fleeing wars and persecution.”

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    1. totally agree!
      they can call ANYTHING an emergency…but unless a country is at war, it is NOT. and there are immigration laws in every country I believe. Follow them or stay where you are.

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