The Gorgeous Bee-Eater

Nature 3 Minutes

Bee-eaters birds are in the family Meropidae.

There are 27 species bee-eaters.

They are found from Europe to Australia. The center of diversity of the family is Africa, although a number of species also occur in Asia. Single species occur in each of Europe, (the European bee-eater), Australia (the rainbow bee-eater) and Madagascar (the olive bee-eater, also found on mainland Africa).

They inhabit a variety of habitats depending on what regional environments including forest, savanna, shrubland, grassland, and agricultural areas.

The average lifespan is 5 to 6 years in the wild.

Bee-eaters range in length from 6 to 14 inches.

They are characterized by richly colored plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers.

Brilliant plumage is characteristic; green predominates, but many species are partially colored with red, yellow, blue, or purple.

Male and female plumages are usually similar.

Bee-eater’s bill is moderately long, slightly down curved, and sharply pointed.

Bee-eaters have one of the most complex social systems of any bird species. Many species (but not all) are monogamous, cooperative breeders living in large colonies of over 100 birds, but can reach 200 birds if conditions are favorable.

Each bird lives in an extended family with members of four overlapping generations. They appear to recognize parents, siblings, offspring, friends, and nesting neighbors, likely from voice recognition. This cooperative behavior vastly improves survival of chicks. Females leave their natal group to join her mate’s family.

Many bee-eater names reflect their flashy feathers if not the lack of imagination of the namers: red-throated, blue-headed, black-headed, red-bearded, purple-bearded, blue-cheeked, and cinnamon-chested, white-fronted, rosy, and little green bee-eaters.

They form colonies, nesting in burrows tunneled into vertical sandy banks, often at the side of a river or in flat ground. As they mostly live in colonies, large numbers of nest holes may be seen together. The eggs are white, with typically five to the clutch.

All bee-eaters are earth-hole nesters, digging their tunnels with an oval chamber at the end for eggs. They lay a single clutch annually.

As their name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught in the air by flights from an open perch. The stinger is removed by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect, thereby extracting most of the venom.

One white egg is laid each day until the typical clutch of about five eggs is complete. Incubation starts soon after the first egg is laid, with both parents sharing this duty in the day, but only the female at night. The eggs hatch in about 20 days, and the newly hatched young are blind, pink and naked. For most species, the eggs do not all hatch at the same time, so if food is in short supply only the older chicks survive. The chicks are in the nest for about 30 days.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assesses species vulnerability in terms of total population and the rate of any population decline. None of the bee-eaters meet the IUCN vulnerability criteria, and all are therefore evaluated as “Least-concern species”.

Bee-eaters were mentioned by ancient writers such as Aristotle and Virgil, who both advised beekeepers to kill the birds.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that bee-eaters had medical properties, prescribing the application of bee-eater fat to deter biting flies, and treating the eyes with the smoke from charred bee-eater legs to cure an unspecified female complaint.

In Hinduism, the shape of the bird in flight was thought to resemble a bow, with the long bill as an arrow. This led to a Sanskrit name meaning “Vishnu’s bow” and an association with archer gods.

Bee-eaters may be killed by raptors; their nests are raided by rodents and snakes, and they can carry various parasites.

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  8. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    February 7, 2023 12:25 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    This is disgraceful conduct by Pomerantz, especially since, as always, I’ve done nothing wrong!

    According to David LaBahn, President and CEO of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys:

    “The most likely implication for any lawyer disclosing publicly any materials derived from a grand jury proceeding without a written court order, including witness testimony, is a formal felony criminal charge for violating grand jury secrecy…”

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    “…The letter goes on to say that such a work could improperly influence future prospective jurors or future judges, upend the presumption of innocence, and even lead to the dismissal of a case if the taint caused by the dissemination of such information is so pervasive that an impartial venue cannot be found.”

    https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2023/02/03/mark-pomerantz-could-get-disbarred-over-trump-book-association-of-prosecuting-attorneys/

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    1. Citizen 817
      Citizen 817
      February 7, 2023 12:26 am

      @realDonaldTrump

      4h
      Sounds like Hillary’s Lawyer Pomerantz wanted to make money with a Book, but has put himself in great legal jeopardy. I have done nothing wrong!

      What Mark Pomerantz did, according to the highly respected J. Anthony Jordan, President of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York:

      “By writing and releasing a book in the midst of an ongoing case, the author is upending the norms and ethics of prosecutorial conduct and is potentially in violation of New York criminal law.”

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      1. Morning GA!
        how are you??
        yeah, you’re right about that…but maybe a few will show some guts…lead the others?
        I am a hopeless optimist sometimes…LOL

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  13. Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    February 7, 2023 12:33 am

    Garret Lewis
    @GarretLewis

    HUGE!
    @AbrahamHamadeh
    just told me on my show that he and his team have counted provisional ballots that weren’t counted in the election (Hobbs withheld them) and there are enough uncounted votes to give him the win over AG Kris Mayes. He is asking a judge for a new trial.

    10:37 AM · Feb 6, 2023·

    HUGE! @AbrahamHamadeh just told me on my show that he and his team have counted provisional ballots that weren’t counted in the election (Hobbs withheld them) and there are enough uncounted votes to give him the win over AG Kris Mayes. He is asking a judge for a new trial.

    — Garret Lewis (@GarretLewis) February 6, 2023

    *******

    Abe Hamadeh
    @AbrahamHamadeh

    🚨BREAKING🚨

    We just filed our reply in our motion for new trial. You can read it in full here ⬇️
    https://white-dyan-71.tiiny.site/
    Cont…

    🚨BREAKING🚨

    We just filed our reply in our motion for new trial. You can read it in full here ⬇️https://t.co/iNRXiBzLvY pic.twitter.com/cGY5fu0SY3

    — Abe Hamadeh (@AbrahamHamadeh) February 7, 2023

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  14. where do they find these judges?????

    Troublemaker10
    February 7, 2023 12:41 am

    Ridiculous.

    *******

    Federal judge suggests Constitution may still protect abortion, demands lawyers file briefs

    Excerpt:

    U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly informed lawyers on Monday that they must file briefs addressing any potential right to abortion that the Constitution might convey in its 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-suggests-constitution-may-still-protect-abortion-demands?utm_source=sf&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twjs

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  15. this WOULD BE hilarious!!!

    Bessie2003
    February 7, 2023 12:47 am

    This would be fun to see:

    tweet “Remember when all the Democrats wore white at one of President Trump’s SOTU speeches? republicans should all bring balloons tomorrow”

    remember when all the democrats wore white to one of Trump’s SOTU speeches? republicans should all bring balloons tomorrow.

    — Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) February 6, 2023

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  19. Now this is scary – Wonder if the reverse is true?

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    1. GEES!
      think about the long term complications. the diabolical ones. this will not only wipe out a lot of the population, but it can wipe out particular races depending on whether or not they took the jab.

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  20. Sliding down before reading back (otherwise, I’ll forget what I want to say! LOL) – what bee-eater fat???? Imagine how many birds were killed for enough cooked legs??? I can’t possibly imagine putting in the immeasurable number of hours watching these birds to gather all of that intel. They certainly are gorgeous, tho!

    I’ve caved and am providing the squirrels with their own feeding station – they appear to be the same team of 3…..sigh….they will now have oiled black sunflower seeds AND corn; they also now have meal worms. If that doesn’t satisfy them….I actually looked for a cheap feeder I could use for the sunflower seeds and found one that would work marked at $11.99 at Menards. One corner of the base was broken but not in any way that would interfere with it working – besides, the squirrels will probably tear it up anyway. I asked at CS if I could get it for a discount and she said not if there were more unbroken ones back there. There were but they were way back on the shelf. She said she would go back with me and get one for me – that just irritated me so I told her to forget it, “I’ll go to WM!” LOL – but they didn’t have any cheap ones that would work.

    So, I’m using the big open feeder they keep getting into on the garden bed – I’ll simply hang it from one of the plant hangers under the tree. I still have the small open feeder for the big birds and no doubt they will also eat the squirrels’ sunflower seeds – turnabout IS fair play, after all!!! And more corn, of course!

    At WM, cat food aisle was 90% empty….again…dog food aisle wasn’t much better. I picked up 18 extra-large eggs for $7.86 – could have been worse. When I picked up a carton, a nearby older Hispanic man pointed out the increase in price to me and I pointed out that it was 18 eggs, which he hadn’t realized. He was pleased that I told him and turned to his wife and started chattering to her in Spanish. LOL – it’s funny when you keep running into the same people as you move thru the store. That happened to me at Menards, where I had a convo with an older couple about smoking cigs, and again at WM, where I talked to 4 or 5 people. I talk to people in stores all the time…tee-hee.

    Glen just returned from CO – man, his driveway was a half-frozen, muddy mess. Thankfully, it starts off on a higher point so you can get up some headway – I hit the 4 WD and gunned it. Made it with a minimum of slippage. Two of the Calicos came to greet me this time. Good heavens, they’re fat! Could be preggers, I suppose – I didn’t look closely.

    So, I’ve finally discovered who my bank was sold to – I think it’s BMO – gotta look that up – but, supposedly, I now DO have access to other ATM’s with no fee! Hurrah!!!! OK – just looked it up. I did NOT know that the company that owned my bank was French! Now, it’s a Canadian bank! I really need to talk to my local bank…..hell, even if I go with THE biggest local area bank, Elkhorn Valley, it’s better than a foreign bank, and especially fricking Canada, with what’s going on there these days!!!

    “Bank of Montreal (BMO) has agreed to buy San Francisco-based Bank of the West, the U.S. retail presence of French lender BNP Paribas, for $16.3 billion, the banks said Monday. The deal, expected to close by the end of 2022, would merge Bank of the West into BMO’s existing U.S. retail footprint, Chicago-based BMO Harris, the Canadian bank said in a press release. Bank of the West would add $105 billion in assets to BMO Harris’s $166 billion, creating the U.S.’s 13th-largest bank, according to Federal Reserve figures.”

    Weather is set to be almost balmy – possibly up to 50! At least 1/3 of the snow has melted, if not more. Next 10 days mostly from mid-20’s at night and a couple of days, mid-to-high 30’s/low 40’s during the day. As I said – Indian Summer…..I hope. We don’t need another too-early spring!

    Been reading/book marking for a couple of hours now so I’ll read back and then start my daily routine.

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  21. As I mentioned, I’ve been reading….

    EXCERPT: ““[Pfizer] did not defraud the government. We delivered the fraud that the government ordered.” Sasha Latypova used these words to describe the basis on which Pfizer has requested the dismissal of a False Claims Act case brought against them for their covid “vaccines.”

    The US Department of Defence ordered “demonstrations” from pharmaceutical companies using the same secretive framework they use to order weapons. While telling us they were pharmaceutical products, for legal reasons they described them as emergency use authorised “countermeasures.” No pharmaceutical regulation applies to countermeasures.

    “They were claiming that they’re producing pharmaceutical products to the good manufacturing standards when they perfectly well knew, I assure you, they were all aware of this. They perfectly well knew that no pharmaceutical regulations apply to these things, countermeasures … They’re just lying to you that these are pharmaceuticals. They’re actually not,” Latypova explained.
    ———–
    The international conference ‘Pandemic Strategies: Lessons and Consequences’ held at the Stockholm Waterfront on 21-22 January 2023 gathered 15 leading doctors, researchers and lawyers from the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, Ukraine and Norway, along with 7 Swedes.

    Presentations and panel discussions are being released in the order that they appeared on the program at a rate of 3 per day.

    Alexandra “Sasha” Latypova was one of those who gave a presentation. She holds an MBA degree and is a former Pharmaceutical R&D Executive. Latypova has spent approximately 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry and has owned and managed several contract research organisations – conducting clinical trials for over 60 pharmaceutical clients worldwide. She became concerned about the irregularities, cover-up and apparent fraud relating to the extremely high number of deaths and injuries associated with the covid injection rollout.

    Alexandra “Sasha” Latypova was one of those who gave a presentation. She holds an MBA degree and is a former Pharmaceutical R&D Executive. Latypova has spent approximately 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry and has owned and managed several contract research organisations – conducting clinical trials for over 60 pharmaceutical clients worldwide. She became concerned about the irregularities, cover-up and apparent fraud relating to the extremely high number of deaths and injuries associated with the covid injection rollout.
    ———–
    In the first few months of her investigation, Latypova found evidence of “very bad manufacturing practices” in relation to the mRNA injections. “When I looked at the [ ] graph [of serious adverse events and deaths recorded in VAERS] for mRNA injections for the US, I found [the below]”
    ———–
    Latypova has been collaborating with legal researcher Katherine Watt, who publishes articles on a Substack page titled ‘Bailiwick News’, to reveal the legal structure – or rather the pseudo-legal structure as it’s not lawful – of this government, pharma, military criminal cartel. “It actually is operating all over the world,” Latypova said.

    In the 1960s a contracting framework was put into place for NASA called ‘Other Transaction Authority’. “Now eleven federal agencies use it. [The] Department of Defence is a particularly huge user of this contracting method because it allows them to contract without following any federal procurement rules and regulations with a lot of secrecy,” Latypova said. “They typically use this framework to order weapons from defence contractors, but now they’re using the same framework to order what they tell us is a pharmaceutical product.”

    In addition to this, there is a US code, which Latypova highlights in her presentation, which says that the use of emergency use authorised “countermeasures” is not a clinical investigation under a public health emergency. The significance of this, Latypova explained, is that if a countermeasure cannot be a clinical investigational product, then no pharmaceutical regulation applies to these products.”

    https://expose-news.com/2023/02/06/us-dod-is-running-the-vaccine-fraud/

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  24. “Brain Insulin Resistance and the Epidemics of Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease. Clinical trial on Intranasal Insulin Showed Mixed Results — Review of the evidence of a common link – and news of results of a clinical trial of intranasal insulin (MemAID).”

    James Lyons-Weiler
    1 hr ago

    EXCERPT: “Having type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Properly managing T2DM can help reduce the risk of developing ADRD.

    Scientists are trying to figure out how brain insulin resistance works in three different situations. The first is when someone has type-2 diabetes, and it affects their thinking. The second is when type-2 diabetes might cause a person to have a neurodegenerative disease, like dementia. The third is when someone has dementia but doesn’t have type-2 diabetes. We do not yet fully understand how brain and systemic insulin resistance, thinking, Alzheimer’s disease, and related dementias are connected. Here’s an introduction to the problem, more fully explored in this review.

    Insulin is a hormone made up of 51 amino acids and is produced by the pancreas. It helps to keep blood sugar levels in the body at a healthy level. It does this by helping the body use glucose from food for energy and by stopping the liver from making too much glucose. Insulin also helps with other processes in the body, like storing energy and helping cells grow. Diabetes mellitus is a condition where there isn’t enough insulin or it doesn’t work properly. Type 1 diabetes mellitus is usually caused by the body’s immune system attacking the cells that make insulin, while type-2 diabetes (T2DM) happens when the pancreas fails to make enough insulin to overcome resistance in the body, which can be caused by things like being overweight, not exercising enough, or getting older.

    T2DM is very common and should be taken seriously as a public health issue. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and ADRDs are two of the most common health issues today. Over 8.5 million Americans have T2DM. In the video below, John Campbell breaks down the data; 11.3% of Americans have T2DM, and 96 million are pre-diabetic.

    Scientists have found that there are many similarities between T2DM and ADRDs, such as risk factors, comorbidities, and how they affect the body. Most importantly, insulin resistance is a major factor in both T2DM and ADRDs.

    Researchers are studying how insulin works in the brain to better understand these conditions and develop treatments for them. In fact, research exists on the effects of intranasal insulin (INI). A small and short-term small, randomized control trial of intranasal insulin in humans (MemAID) published in 2020 found evidence for the positive effects of intranasal insulin on cognition and gait in patients who received the treatment. INI-treated T2DM participants walked faster and had increased cerebral blood flow and decreased plasma insulin. Controls, who received saline, had improved executive functioning and verbal memory.

    The control group (saline) had better executive functioning, but this is likely due to the negative effects of the release of aluminum caused by the breakdown of amyloid aggregates. In my view, patients in the MemAID trial should have been given aid in detoxification with a week-long administration of glutathione-enhancing organic chlorella and spirulina and instructed to not take acetaminophen during the trial period for headaches. Citations and videos are below.”

    https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/brain-insulin-resistance-and-the

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  25. “Denialism: A Woke Way to Stifle Dissent”
    BY THOMAS BUCKLEY FEBRUARY 5, 2023 PHILOSOPHY

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As with misinformation, labeling someone who disagrees with the current standardthink as a “denier” has become, pardon the term, endemic amongst the woke. Covid denier, climate denier, election denier, science denier – are all bandied about to immediately end debate, tar any difference of opinion as literally insane, and depict anyone who ever disagrees with you as stupid and evil. This epithet is now even being used pre-emptively to makes sure that no matter what anyone who now or ever questions the move to ban gas stoves will not be doing so based on facts or logic but because of their “gas stove denialism.”

    Like so much woke terminology, the initial meaning of the term is far removed from its current usage, though it has the distinct advantage of being generally familiar, allowing it to be “Trojan Horsed” (admittedly, some arise sui generis) into public discourse. Common usage of the term “in denial” (besides the joke about the river in Egypt) seemed to come to the fore mostly in regards to an inability to face up to an obvious, almost always, personal truth.

    In denial about your drinking, in denial about the fact that your kids are actually monsters, in denial about your sexuality (nothing to do with today’s genderpalooza) and on and on. But, like in almost every case in which the woke have stolen a term from the self-help/therapy movements the term has been utterly bastardized. For example, trigger and safe space are now used in the opposite way of their initial intent – see here. All of these terms started as ways to focus on personal responsibilities and actions and not in any way, shape, or form carried societal baggage and/or implications.

    And then, in the 1980s, there was a shift, though a rather understandable one. There are those who, sadly and stupidly, deny that the Holocaust happened, that Hitler didn’t kill millions of Jews and Gypsies and homosexuals and the disabled and political opponents and, well, it’s a very long and terrible list. Hence the term “Holocaust denier,” an accurate and correct description of someone who, despite the overwhelming physical evidence of the event, denies its occurrence, almost always because of their personal political ideology.

    It is crucial to emphasize that denying the Holocaust happened is extremely different from the current crop of dissent-crushing “denials.” The former involves a very specific proven fact; the latter – climate, election, etc. – all involve differences of opinions and reasonable and appropriate debates over whether something did, or is going to, happen. But the appropriately fetid stench attached to “Holocaust denier” intentionally and destructively is made to come along with all of the current “denials.” In other words, if you are an election denier or climate denier you are just as terrible as a Holocaust denier even though nothing could be further from the truth.

    If used in its initial meaning, a climate denier would be one who claims the climate doesn’t exist, an election denier would a person who said the 2020 election never happened. And no – that’s not what is being claimed.

    The debate over climate change is one that should be taken seriously and done impartially; the discussion around the glaring voting security issues that appeared in 2020 should be considered similarly. The science denier epithet attached to anyone who wondered about the risk and efficacy of the COVID vaccines is especially egregious because “science” cannot, by definition, be believed or denied – while technically a noun it is in fact a verb, it is a process and one cannot “follow the science,” just as one cannot follow a car one is driving.

    Climate denier/denialism implies ostrich-like stupidity – how can a person possibly disagree with the fact that we’re all either going to drown or burn or freeze or dehydrate or starve or flood or desert or disease or war ourselves to death in the next few decades unless we do something NOW? Never mind that doing most of the things proposed NOW are unnecessary, contradictory, contra-indicated, and could end modern civilization as we know it and that, considering the utterly scientifically shoddy if not outright fraudulent actions many in the climate brigade have taken, should not even be included in any rational discussion of the topic.

    The same is true with election denier. The 2020 election was quite possibly the most unusual election in the nation’s history. Barriers put in place years ago to try to ensure secure and accurate voting were obliterated, massive numbers of ballot were mailed out practically willy-nilly, the unconscionable practice of ballot harvesting was normalized in many states, counts were stopped and started and dragged on for days and on and on. Just these undisputed facts alone are enough for intelligent reasonable involved citizens to legitimately wonder if the election was truly fair and honest.

    And it should be noted that in all three cases – climate, election, and science – that those who toss the “denier” term about are also those same people who ignore, denigrate, and outright block any attempt to actually figure out what exactly happened. Remember: If you can evade any impartial investigation, you can declare with confidence that no investigation has ever found fault with your claims of the final and definitive and certain truth of your position.

    There are people who benefit from advertising “denialism.” From last week’s private jet and meat and booze and hooker and billionaire-fueled Davos event to legacy media desperate to keeps its subscribers terrified and therefore more likely to continue to subscribe to the tastefully decorated hallways and board rooms of massive financial institutions and international foundations and agencies and organizations to academics desperate to secure grant funding and make a name for themselves to tech giants who wish everyone lived by their algorithms because that would make selling ads so much easier to people who yearn for the psychological comfort of social acceptance and the feeling of being right all the time – these are the people that benefit every time someone outside their circle is called a denier. [NF: Holy crap! Can you say “run-on sentence???” Dude, get a better editor!!!]

    In the end, for the truth to prevail, “denialism” must be denied its power to stifle dissent, obfuscate facts, and intellectually segregate those with other opinions, those with legitimate questions, those who are not in denial of reality.”

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  26. Very good background explanation for the series.


    “Never Again Is Now”
    BY FAYE LEDERMAN FEBRUARY 2, 2023 HISTORY, MEDIA

    EXCERPT: “Throughout the past three years a number of documentary films have sprouted up, which critically dismantle the adoption and enforcement of harsh global covid policies. But first-time director Vera Sharav’s new five-episode docuseries Never Again Is Now Global is the first film to draw parallels between the 1930’s Nazi era, when government took control of medicine in order to deploy discriminatory health measures, and the restrictive global covid policies enacted since March 2020 under the guise of public health.

    This is the first film directed by a Holocaust survivor, Vera Sharav. She partnered with two seasoned producers who have extensive credits in Hollywood documentary production and were introduced to Sharav via a mutual friend in the health freedom world. (The two use aliases in the film’s credits and in this article, appearing as Rose Smith and Robert Blanco, in order to avoid the risk of their high-profile Hollywood projects being defunded.)”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/never-again-is-now/

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  32. gnome1949
    February 7, 2023 11:05 am

    To confirm my earlier posting: “The Department of Defense cannot defend anything.”

    Monday, February 6, 2023, at 11:30 AM local time, an unauthorized intruder breached security at Joint Base Andrews. This is supposed to be the highly secure home of Air Force One, Marine One and other special Air Force aircraft. The individual gained access to a base housing area where he was shot by a resident there.

    This was NOT THE FIRST TIME someone breached security at Andrews. In 2021, a person got onto the base, got through a gate at the flight line and boarded a C-40 (Boeing 737) on the flight line.

    The DOD sucks nearly a trillion dollars a year out of the U.S. economy and can’t prevent access to one of the most sensitive air force bases in the world.

    America pays more than 400 generals and admirals to defend the country. This worthless, overpaid brass supervises an incompetent military failing at the most basic level.

    Cut this massive Pentagon budget and stop promoting officers inside our out-of-control military.
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  33. Whoa! This is cool! This is my cell phone carrier – I’m still getting the discount they promised me for a year. They were soooo inexperienced and made a lot of mistakes but they were just starting out. They follow thru on their promises at least and they are very Christian- and Constitution-oriented. Jaco is the one whose sister was sex trafficked and his foundation rescues children.


    Renewal at the Border – A Humanitarian Event for Hope at the Texas Border
    Posted on February 6, 2023 by Patriot Mobile

    EXCERPT: “January 21, 2022, in Eagle Pass, Texas, Patriot Mobile joined Jaco Booyens Ministries and Mercury One for ‘Renewal at the Border’. Hundreds gathered for prayer, food, fellowship, and worship on a privately owned pecan orchard adjacent to the Rio Grande River. This ministry event was multi-faceted. It was to support the border community devastated by the invasion of illegal migrants, as well as show appreciation to the Border Patrol, National Guard, and other first responders who risk their lives daily. Additionally, it was to continue filming a three-part documentary, ‘Borders to Bridges,’ which will be released later this year.

    ‘Renewal at the Border’ changed lives at the Texas Southern Border — More than 50 people in attendance responded to the Gospel and gave their lives to the Lord that day. The majority were men who were palpably moved by the many pastors that gave messages of truth.

    With a heart for this fatherless generation, Jaco Booyens challenged the men to step up in their God-given identity. “I want you to understand, we are dealing, in our nation, with the battle of identity…it’s about who you are in the eyes of God and what He created you to do,” he said. “Men were created to hunt…you’re supposed to hunt injustice…you hunt it with the Gospel, with truth, with love. You drive Satan out with love, and with the word of God.”

    A local woman came to testify afterward that she had been praying for her husband to come to Jesus for many years and that this event was an answer to prayer. Her husband was one of those that accepted Christ as his personal savior that day. One teenage girl said she was feeling despondent and when she heard the praise and worship music, she quickly gathered her friends, and they spent the rest of the day at the event. She said the day was an answer to her prayers and that it meant a lot to know people outside Eagle Pass cared enough to come to serve the community.

    The worship team from Upper Room Church in Dallas, Texas led the gathering in worship between messages, filling the atmosphere with song and praise that reverberated throughout the field and across the Rio Grande into Mexico. Several residents around the pecan orchard heard the worship music and joined the event.

    Pastor Rafael Cruz, who leads weekly Bible studies at the Patriot Mobile headquarters, brought the Holy Spirit in his message. “Today there is a new time and a new day coming for light to brightly shine in you…God is saying, I’m going to use you to change this nation!”

    At sunset, Pastor Cruz and Jaco Booyens led the group to the Rio Grande River to receive communion, pray and stake the land back for the landowners. They hammered stakes with Bible passages into the ground at the exact points where illegal immigrants come through, making a prophetic declaration that the land rightfully belongs to the landowners.”

    Pastor Rafael Cruz with border patrol

    ‘Renewal at the Border’ volunteers deliver food to border patrol

    Much more with more pics: https://www.patriotmobile.com/renewal-at-the-border/

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  34. oh my!
    I just spent the last 3/4 of an hour pacing and worrying. hubby decided to drive the jeep down the driveway (there’s a part we can park on the bottom half.) then he will walk back up the icy driveway (with his asthma raging) and tomorrow morning i will ride down the driveway hanging on the back of the tractor to get to the jeep if i need to.
    my heart caught in my throat watching him slide down the driveway!!!! dang! whatever little melted yesterday refroze overnight.
    then watching and waiting for him to appear walking up had me worrying as well.
    sigh…

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  36. whoa…links discovered between chicken feed and blackrock

    Betsy jones
    February 7, 2023 1:31 pm

    Well, well…

    A tweet from DC Drain

    “Check this

    Many have found that Purina chicken feed stopped their chickens laying eggs.

    They switched food brands and the eggs came back.

    The parent company of Purina is Land O’Lakes, whose CEO is Beth Ford.

    You know which Board she got voted to serve on in 2021?

    BlackRock.”

    February 7, 2023, 10 am

    And how odd! New Zealand’s largest egg producer just went up in flames…50,000 chickens gone. Just like the recent fire here which wiped out so many chickens. Still no investigation on that one.

    For me, all those random dots are inextricably connected.

    WWIII Part One is here. Just not one being prosecuted the way we’d normally expect.

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  37. ENTIRE ARTICLE @ The View From Lady Lake: “The woman Prince Harry lost his virginity to is speaking out after the Duke of Sussex went into great detail about their tryst in his memoir, Spare. One month after Harry recalled losing his “stallion” virginity to an “older woman” in his controversial pages – where he revealed the once-unknown woman smacked his butt – the person in question finally revealed herself so she could get what Andy Warhol promised her – her 15 minutes of fame. Or is it really shame?

    A woman named Sasha Walpole discussed the intimate experience in a Sunday, February 5, interview with a news outlet, noting that her five-minute sex romp with the Invictus Games founder “wasn’t that glorious. We were drunk and having sex in a field.”

    (And, just for the record, I hate lead-ins like that headline, but it seemed so friggin’ appropriate for this knucklehead…)

    Sasha – who previously worked at the stable at King (then Prince) Charles III’s residence at Highgrove – candidly talked about the impact Harry’s book had on her life after he dissected their time together in 2001, when he had his first sexual experience in a grassy field behind the Vine Tree Inn in Wiltshire, U.K. Now isn’t that better than any ‘Harry and Me-again’ story you’d hear?”

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  44. “Two Beagles rescued from Fauci-funded torture facilities will compete in Puppy Bowl — The two dogs were victims of an NIAID-funded breeding mill.”

    Jordan Schachtel
    22 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Some good news: Two of the Beagles that were saved from a breeding mill in Virginia — which was used as a feeder company for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to conduct inhumane, horrific experiments on puppies — will be featured in this weekend’s Puppy Bowl.

    “Allison and Briscoe were amongst 4,000 beagles removed from Envigo’s breeding facility after investigators found hundreds of unexplained puppy deaths and more than 70 animal welfare violations at the massive lab,” Southern Living reports.

    Tragically, the dogs were bred purely to be used for private and government funded experiments. The NIH and Dr Anthony Fauci’s NIAID were some of the Virginia supplier’s biggest customers, according to PETA. The White Coat Waste project found that Fauci’s NIAID spent upwards of $1.68 million on the horrific Beagle experiments.

    Last year, the Beagle Freedom Project issued a statement to Fauci declaring that what his agency “does to these animals is nothing short of criminal,” adding that “it is time to end it, and now the world is watching.” After lots of private pressure was applied to the Cumberland County, Virginia Beagle breeding facility, they agreed to shut it down.

    Both puppies have already been adopted, according to reports. The Puppy Bowl airs on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 pm. on Animal Planet.”

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  45. 02/07/23 • BIG FOOD

    “Seed Oils: A Dangerous ‘Global Human Experiment Without Informed Consent’ — Most chronic diseases can be linked to the consumption of processed seed oils, according to ophthalmologist Dr. Chris Knobbe, who called consumption of the oils in Western diets so dangerous it is “a global human experiment … without informed consent.”

    By Dr. Joseph Mercola

    “Story at a glance:

    — Ophthalmologist Dr. Chris Knobbe says most chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease and macular degeneration are linked to the consumption of processed seed oils.

    — Knobbe says the large consumption of omega-6 seed oil in everyday Western diets is so dangerous it is “a global human experiment … without informed consent.”

    — Polyunsaturated fatty acids, also called PUFAs, found in vegetable oils, edible oils, seed oils, trans fat and plant oils, owe their existence to “roller mill technology,” which replaced stone mill technology and removed their nutrients.

    — Many people now consume 80 grams of PUFAs a day, which amounts to 720 calories and one-third of their caloric intake.

    — Results from studies of tribal peoples and animals have demonstrated the deleterious effects of PUFAs in the diet.

    What do heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration and other chronic health conditions of modern society have in common? They all have increased by shocking amounts in the last decades. And, they are all linked to the consumption of seed oils.

    In a recent speech at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, titled “Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?,” Dr. Chris Knobbe reveals startling evidence that seed oils, so prevalent in modern diets, are the reason for most of today’s chronic diseases. Knobbe, an ophthalmologist, is the founder of the nonprofit Cure AMD Foundation, dedicated to the prevention of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). He is a former associate clinical professor emeritus of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

    His research indicts the high consumption of omega-6 seed oil in everyday diets as the major unifying driver of the chronic degenerative diseases of modern civilization. He calls the inundation of Western diets with harmful seeds oils “a global human experiment … without informed consent.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/processed-seed-oils-cola/

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