Bang A Drum

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Today is Jon Bon Jovi’s birthday and I wanted to share my most favorite Bon Jovi song.  It’s from the movie Young Guns II (about Billy the Kid and cohorts).  The song is Bang a Drum and it’s been called rock gospel by many.

“Bang A Drum”

I went to see the preacher to teach me how to pray
He looked at me and smiled
Then that preacher turned away
He said if you want to tell him something
You ain’t gotta fold your hands
Say it with your heart, your soul and believe it
And I’d say amen

Bang a drum for the sinners
Bang a drum for the sins
Bang a drum for the losers
And those who win
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for yourself son
And a drum for me
Ooh, let me hear you say yeah (yeah), hallelujah, amen

I called upon my brother just the other day
He said: John I’m gonna die if I don’t start to live again
I work each day and night like clockwork
Just trying to make ends meet
I could kick this bad world’s ass
If I could just get on my feet

I’d bang a drum for the dying
Bang a drum for the truth
Bang a drum for the innocence lost in our youth
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for you brother
And a drum for me

I don’t know where all the rivers run
I don’t know how far, I don’t know how come
Well I’m gonna die believin’ each step that I take
Ain’t worth the ground that I walk on
If we don’t walk it our way

[Guitar solo] (ooh…)

No I don’t claim to be a wiseman, a poet or a saint
I’m just another man who’s searching for a better way
But my heart beats loud as thunder
For the things that I believe
Sometimes I wanna run for cover
Sometimes I want to scream

Bang a drum for tomorrow
Bang a drum for the past
Bang a drum for the heroes that won’t come back
Bang a drum for the promise
Bang a drum for the lies
Bang a drum for the lovers and the tears they’ve cried
Bang a drum, bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
But as long as my heart keeps on bangin’
I got a reason to believe (I got a reason to believe)

(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, hallelujah, amen)
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
Come on now (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
All right girls (yeah) brother (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen

Happy Birthday Jon!

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    1. Morning GA!
      he does a lot of rock, but this has a gospel feel at the end that moves me. In fact, as I just listened to it, I was on my feet, singing along and it just fills me up–lifts me up.

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    1. Morning Filly!
      he does a lot of good stuff…living on a prayer was a big one.
      but this whole young guns things has a feel to it–that just moves me…i dunno

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  6. “Vaccine-Induced AIDS” – Military Records 500% Increase in HIV after COVID-19 Vax
    HAL TURNER
    01 MARCH 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The Armed Forces of the United States recorded a five hundred percent (500%) increase in AIDS after administering the COVID-19 Vaccine to US Troops. The COVID-19 Vaccine is implicated.

    White Blood Cells (WBC) fight-off infection in the human body. NORMALLY, the level of White cells in blood is usually about 5,000 cells per milliliter. During an infection, that level jumps – perhaps as high as twenty-thousand (20,000) — until the body kills the invading bacteria or virus. Once the invader is dead, the WBC count returns to the normal range of about 5,000.

    After getting the COVID-19 “vaccine” many (very many) people started noticing they were becoming sick more often, and taking far longer to fight-off whatever bug they caught. Moreover, people with Cancer that had been in remission, suddenly found the cancer was not only back, but had metastasized and spread everywhere.

    Doctors performing routine tests on people began noticing the level of WBC was lower than usual. Instead of having 5,000 WBC as a baseline, Doctors began seeing patients with 4,000, or 3,000, and some as low as 2,000 WBC. At those levels, the human body does not have enough of its front-line troops to fight-off infection very well.

    When the level drops below 1,000, a person gets sick from their own natural gut bacteria, which gets out into the blood stream and they become Septic. This leads to death. Now, US military Doctors are seeing AIDS-like levels of WBC in our troops. They cannot fight off infections. Doctors are calling this “Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome “VAIDS.” It turns out that the COVID-19 “vaccine” contains three proteins found in the HIV virus!

    So it now appears that those who got the COVID-19 “vaccines” gave themselves AIDS and will die from it. The British Boradcasting Corporation (BBC) did a special TV show in the United Kingdom last year about this. In that show, they revealed that a segment of HIV *** WAS *** used to manufacture the vaccine! Here is that segment:
    (Video)
    So they knew. They actually KNEW they were giving a part of the HIV virus to everyone who got their “vaccine.” Oh, and the people who developed this “vaccine” and others who pushed it off on the public as “safe and effective” . . . they’re all still out walking free on our streets. Where are the arrests?

    If this pattern of VAIDS continues, then it would seem the COVID-19 “vaccines” will ultimately wipe out about six billion people on the planet. Death on a scale this planet has never seen before. Why are the people who did this still out walking free? Sounds like Criminally Negligent Homicide to me. Where are the police? Where are the lawyers, suing? Or are they just preparing to die like the rest after taking the “vaccine?” Or maybe THEY didn’t actually take it? Maybe THEY knew all along what this “vaccine” actually was? If so, that’s the crime of premeditated murder.”

    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/vaccine-induced-aids-military-records-500-increase-in-hiv-after-covid-19-vax

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  9. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    March 2, 2023 01:01

    🚨 Breaking: The United States Senate just unanimously passed a bill to declassify all U.S. intelligence on the origins of COVID-19.

    Josh Hawley tells Jesse Watters that it passed unanimously.

    🚨Breaking: The United States Senate just unanimously passed a bill to declassify all U.S. intelligence on the origins of COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/v5CnPgtJ4M

    — Becker News (@NewsBecker) March 2, 2023

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  11. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    March 2, 2023 4:31 am

    J6 BOMBSHELL: DOJ VIDEO Shows Capitol Police Holding Open “Upper West Terrace Doors” On Jan 6… Over 250 Individuals Allowed to Walk Into Capitol by Police Then Later Arrested and Abused

    🔥The single most damning video of #Entrapment on J6 👇

    https://rumble.com/v118evw-the-single-most-damning-video-of-entrapment-on-j6.html

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/j6-bombshell-doj-video-shows-capitol-police-holding-open-upper-west-terrace-doors-on-jan-6-over-250-individuals-allowed-to-walk-into-capitol-by-police-then-later-arrested-and-abused/

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          1. i thought so…but i just wanted to reiterate–bring stuff often…some things are just really important!!
            daily reminders are fine with me…(i had a birthday you know and now i forget things…LOL)

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  12. NF: I’ve been warning about this vaccine since it came out….I also tried to warn SIL – he asked P’s pediatrician about it and, thankfully, she said not to worry about it until P is sexually active. That was a couple of years ago and, knowing him, she’s probably gotten it by now….SMDH.

    “HPV VACCINE HORRORS: Murder and disability by Gardasil, LAWSUIT HAPPENING, and letter from prominent Rabbis saying “Don’t get the shot!” I was shocked when I discovered what’s happening.

    Brucha Weisberger
    Mar 1
    BS”D

    “Updated March 1, 3:00 PM with more evidence of the ineffectiveness of the HPV vaccine in its stated purpose of preventing cervical cancer – see end of article.

    After hearing terrible stories of multiple ongoing tragedies that resulted directly from the Gardasil vaccine in the town of Lakewood, New Jersey, where I have many friends, I feel I must raise particular awareness of the grave dangers of this shot. There are teenagers in the community in Lakewood, whom a friend of mine knows personally, who are, right now, lying in bed, paralyzed and completely disabled, because of this poison HPV shot given to them by their doctor. Other young women have gone into menopause, and don’t even have any follicles left, as a result of Gardasil. (See lawsuit below.)

    G-d have mercy!! Why??? For what purpose were these children given poison? The stated purpose of Gardasil is to prevent an STD which could possibly result in cervical cancer when the children are much older. But there is no true evidence that the vaccine actually works to prevent cancer. It is a sham, and simply causes death and misery.

    Now, a lawsuit is ongoing against the vaccine manufacturer, Merck. The law firm is Miller and Zois. They state that they are reviewing Gardasil vaccine lawsuits in all 50 states. (All for a vaccine that the lying CDC claims there were so few verifiable adverse reports for that they couldn’t establish a correlation!)

    Here is Miller and Zois’s February 1 lawsuit update, which I found very interesting:

    ‘February 1, 2023: Last week, Merck filed a denial and list of affirmative defenses, which offers a detailed outline of its apparent strategy for defending the Gardasil lawsuits. Merck will argue that the Gardasil claims based on failure to warn are precluded under the National Childhood Vaccine Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. § 300aa-22). Merck also intends to contest the allegations that Gardasil was “defective” in its design and assert the learned intermediary defense, which puts the obligation to warn about the risks of Gardasil on doctors. Gardasil lawyers are optimistic these defenses can be defeated.’

    https://www.millerandzois.com/products-liability/gardasil/

    Here is a study:…..”

    https://truth613.substack.com/p/hpv-vaccine-horrors-murder-and-disability

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  15. “Air in East Palestine IS toxic: Scientists release shock report showing ‘higher than normal’ concentrations of NINE potentially harmful chemicals – despite EPA ruling train derailment danger zone was ‘safe’”

    — The finding is in direct contrast to the EPA’s, who said the air is safe for residents
    — Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon University scientists measured the air quality
    — They found ‘higher than normal’ levels of carcinogenic chemicals

    By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    UPDATED: 21:44 EST, 28 February 2023

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11804545/Air-East-Palestine-toxic-researchers-despite-EPA-ruling.html

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  18. gees, we used to live in the valley…
    FTA
    An explosive device was found in a checked piece of luggage at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport on Monday, according to a criminal complaint.

    The passenger, Mark Muffley of Lansford, Pennsylvania, is now in FBI custody, officials said.

    Muffley, 40, was set to take an Allegiant flight from eastern Pennsylvania to Florida’s Orlando Sanford International Airport.

    The device hidden in the bag’s lining was a circular compound, about 3 inches in diameter, that had two fuses and powder concealed in wax paper and plastic wrap, according to the criminal complaint.

    The “powder is suspected to be a mixture of flash powder and the dark granulars that are used in commercial grade fireworks,” the complaint said. “The black powder and flash powder are susceptible to ignite from heat and friction and posed a significant risk to the aircraft and passengers.”

    https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/explosive-found-in-checked-luggage-at-pennsylvania-airport-man-in-custody

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  19. gwp…
    2 illegals (they call them “honduran nationals” who don’t speak English) shot and killed an eagle in Nebraska and planned to cook it and eat it, get arrested. they don’t have a driver’s license either and I’m guessing that gun wasn’t legally purchased here either…

    entire article
    Two Honduran nationals have been cited for killing an American bald eagle, a protected species, and planning to eat it in Nebraska.

    The Stanton County Sheriff’s office was called to the scene at Wood Duck Recreation Area near Stanton around 4 p.m. on Tuesday over reports of a suspicious vehicle.

    When deputies arrived, they found Ramiro Hernandez-Tziquin and Domingo Zetino-Hernandez, both 20, with the dead bald eagle. An interpreter was needed since neither of the men spoke English.

    “The vehicle was located in a field and while having contact with the two males it was determined that they had a dead American Bald Eagle in their possession,” the Stanton County Sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Further investigation revealed that the two had shot and killed the protected national bird in that area and stated they planned on cooking and eating the bird.”

    The sheriff’s office continued, “Nebraska Game and Parks was contacted and took custody of the eagle and the rifle used to kill the eagle.”

    The two Honduran nationals were cited for unlawful possession of the eagle.

    Hernandez-Tziquin was also cited for not having a driver’s license.

    The Sheriff’s office said that more serious charges are possible as the investigation into the unlawful killing continues.

    “According to the National Audubon Society, the number of bald eagles had been in serious decline — due largely to shootings — during most of the 20th century. However, now they have been seeing a gradual increase since the 1970s,” local station WGNO reports.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/two-honduran-nationals-cited-after-killing-american-bald-eagle-in-nebraska-and-planning-to-eat-it/

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  20. so illegals will be brought to dc for 30 days before an election–paid to vote a certain way–then bused back out???
    article
    Legal U.S. immigrants unloaded their fury on Fox News over the new D.C. law allowing illegal migrants to vote in local elections if they’ve been in the city for 30 days:

    Immigrants Mike Diaz and Alma Ohene-Opare joined “Fox & Friends First” Wednesday to voice their opposition to undocumented immigrants being permitted to vote so long as they have resided in D.C. for at least 30 days.

    “Why are we devaluing American citizenship?,” asked Ohene-Opare, a Ghanaian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen after nearly two decades of living and working in the country.

    “What does it mean to be American anymore? Is there anything that differentiates the American citizen from anybody who just comes into this country?”

    The Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act was passed earlier this week.

    It will make a huge difference since Arizona and Texas have been bussing illegal immigrants to D.C.

    Today ALL 13 Councilmembers sent a letter to Senate leadership opposing the efforts to disapprove properly adopted DC laws. We ask them to stand up against any attempts to undermine the autonomy of the District and the democratic rights of DC residents! #HandsOffDC pic.twitter.com/dI6sXEAKiW

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/legal-u-s-immigrants-blast-d-c-law-allowing-illegal-migrants-to-vote-in-local-elections/

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  25. LOL
    american thinker article…getting rid of the democrat party.

    If you don’t know who “Florida Man” is, allow me to explain. It’s an internet joke, a moniker endowed to peculiar and wild people with carpe diem attitudes, because coincidentally, they almost always reside in Florida. For example: In 2020, Richard Wilbanks took his Spaniel puppy for a walk around the backyard, and out of nowhere and “like a missile,” an alligator jumped from a pond and snatched the dog. Without even losing the cigar in his mouth, 74-year-old Wilbanks jumped in the water, pried open the jaws of the reptile, freed the dog (and subsequently himself), and walked home dripping in blood — Wilbanks is Florida Man. (You can find a list of hilarious and real headlines about “Florida Man” here.)

    WATCH: Richard Wilbanks saved his puppy from the jaws of an alligator in Florida, springing into action when the gator attacked. The 74-year-old and his dog are doing well after the incident. pic.twitter.com/cTrqMznEs9
    — CBS News (@CBSNews) November 24, 2020

    But now another Florida Man has entered the fray, and he’s a Republican legislator from Spring Hill, Florida. Two days ago, Sen. Blaise Ingoglia introduced SB1248, known as “The Ultimate Cancel Act”, which would go into effect July 1st of this year. The proposed law is a brilliant act against utterly obliterate the state’s Democrat party, given the language — from the bill:

    Citing this act as ‘The Ultimate Cancel Act’; requiring the Division of Elections to immediately cancel the filings of a political party if certain conditions exist; requiring the division to follow a certain procedure; requiring the division to provide a specified notice to certain voters; authorizing a canceled political party to reregister with the Department of State; providing procedures for an organization to reregister as a political party, etc.

    “If certain conditions exist”…. So what are they? Also from the bill:

    The division shall immediately cancel the filings of a political party, to include its registration and approved statues as a political party, if the party’s platform has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.

    Ingoglia dropped the mic drop MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs), and it did not disappoint. If you’re anything like me, you’re beyond annoyed dealing with leftists who virture signal on race, as they align with the party of literal slavery.

    As a small news outlet reported:

    The Democratic Party is all but dead in Florida — no Democrat holds a statewide office — and now a state senator who was chairman of the Florida Republican Party is trying to kill it entirely.

    The Democrat party needs to be killed, and this Republican lawmaker just presented Republican legislatures around the nation with the blueprint to begin demolition. If Republicans across the board were all an Ingoglia Florida Man, America would be great again.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/republican_lawmaker_in_florida_offers_an_ingenious_solution_to_stop_the_democrats.html

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  26. so, his chief of staff is co-sponsoring bills in the senator’s name? on his behalf?

    toothpick
    March 2, 2023 8:07 am

    Apparently someone asked the right question

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/fetterman-health-cover-up-chief-of-staff-insta-blocks-reporter-who-asked-how-senator-can-sponsor-bills-while-being-held-incommunicado-for-two-weeks-in-psyche-ward/

    Adam Jentleson, chief of staff for Sen. Joh Fetterman (D-PA), blocked conservative writer Stephen L. Miller, aka redsteeze, for asking how it is that Fetterman is sponsoring legislation while being hospitalized under doctor’s care. Fetterman has been held incommunicado for over two weeks now while allegedly being treated for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

    Jentleson boasts on his Twitter profile he is “Reid mafia for life”, a reference to his serving as deputy chief of staff to late Senator Reid (D-NV). In his bio for a book talk last year about the Senate written between working for Reid and Fetterman, Jentleson boasted he was a “go-to source for reporters.”

    It was announced Wednesday that Fetterman was co-sponsor of a bi-partisan bill targeting railway safety, along with the three other senators whose states, Ohio and Pennsylvania, were affected by the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio a month ago: Bob Casey (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL and Josh Hawley (R-MO).

    Stephen L. Miller asked Adam Jentleson about Fetterman co-sponsoring the bill at 1:46 a.m. EST Thursday. Within two minutes Jentleson blocked him (who blocks people at almost two in the morning for politely asking about their boss?):

    “Adam, who is co-signing and introducing Senate legislation from Senator Fetterman’s office while he himself is currently hospitalized and under current medical observation?”

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  27. hubby just told me, the forecast has changed– yet again, concerning the storm coming tomorrow into the weekend. he says they are uncertain as to the track and we could get anywhere from a dusting to 10 inches! sounds like someone doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground as pop used to say. I mean, that kind of vague warning would be acceptable on a Monday –concerning a storm days away–but on the day BEFORE???

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      1. if they can’t tell me what’s gonna happen in a day or two, how are we supposed to believe they can tell us what “climate change” will be happening in 20-50 years?

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  40. GB Bari
    March 2, 2023 9:40 am

    So according to this source, Big Pharma-Merck is buying India’s Ivermectin production facilities with the intent to halt production.

    ALARMING! Merck is buying companies producing ivermectin in India and shutting down the production.

    Here is the English translations of doctor Nagao’s video. https://t.co/Xyhn5eegsY pic.twitter.com/afQLdWhTrE

    — Ehden (#PfizerLeak/#MonkeyBusiness/#COptiGate) (@eh_den) February 20, 2023

    Now contrast that with Sundance’s report from October 2021:

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/09/report-100-to-200-congressional-reps-and-staff-were-treated-with-ivermectin-protocol-from-front-line-covid-critical-care-doctors/

    Blatant, in-our-faces hypocrisy on a previously unimaginable scale……

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  41. artist from Nebraska trying to find ways to reuse wind turbine blades…
    FTA
    Chris Navarro, a Casper artist, is trying to repurpose blades for public sculptures. He’s currently working with a wind turbine company to get the blades shipped from Sidney, Nebraska.

    “We’re trying to get a bid to get the blades cut to the specifications we want and get them shipped to Casper. That’s my next hurdle,” Navarro told Cowboy State Daily.

    He’s been working on the project for nearly three years. He said it’s a 180-degree turn from what he’s been doing as an artist, from representational monumental bronze sculptures to large, abstract structures made from fiberglass.

    “It got a hold of me and won’t let go, so I’m going to follow it,” Navarro said.

    He currently has a cutting order for about 45 blades, which won’t make much of a dent in the amount of waste the blades will be generating in the coming years. But Navarro said when he saw the photos of the blades being disposed of in the Casper Landfill, he wanted to find a way to help address the problem through his art.

    Navarro said Platte River Trails Trust raised $40,000 to help him build Wind Cathedral at the head of the Platte River trail system.

    https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/01/by-2050-used-wind-turbine-blades-will-exceed-43-million-tons-of-waste-every-year/

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  42. clean up crews in East Palestine getting sick
    FTA
    A U.S. union official alerted the Biden administration to health problems caused by the Norfolk Southern derailment in February, saying that some workers have become sick.

    In a letter obtained by CNBC, union representative Jonathon Long said Wednesday that rail workers have fallen ill at the East Palestine, Ohio, crash site.

    “Many other Employees reported that they continue to experience migraines and nausea, days after the derailment, and they all suspect that they were willingly exposed to these chemicals at the direction of NS [Norfolk Southern],” the letter reads.

    “This lack of concern for the Workers’ safety and well-being is, again, a basic tenet of NS’s cost-cutting business model,” the letter added.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/east-palestine-train-derailment-site-workers-are-getting-sick-union-says

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  43. From The Becker Brief:

    CPAC – The annual event, which began yesterday in National Harbor, has been abandoned by most top GOP elected officials. Here’s a breakdown (via Politico):

    Senate GOP leadership: None attending.
    House GOP leadership: Only ELISE STEFANIK is attending.
    GOP governors: Only Idaho Gov. BRAD LITTLE.
    GOP presidential candidates, declared and undeclared: Trump, NIKKI HALEY, MIKE POMPEO and VIVEK RAMASWAMY.
    ———————
    Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors — Mississippi governor Tate Reeves (R.) signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits sex change procedures for minors, making his state the seventh to restrict such practices.

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  44. R Green
    March 2, 2023 10:24 am

    BREAKING: Speaker McCarthy To Meet With Ashli Babbitt’s Mother Micki Witthoeft

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/change-speaker-mccarthy-to-meet-with-ashli-babbitts-mother/

    Ms. Witthoeft previously stated:

    “I would ask McCarthy to look into Byrd’s record and realize he had prior excessive use of force issues. He also left his loaded weapon in a public bathroom for somebody else to find. And on any other police force he would have been fired for any one of those two things. Look into his record before you open your mouth.”

    “And I just wonder if he’s had balls enough to actually watch my daughter’s public…..execution… or if he just says whatever his handlers tell him to say. So that’s a question I intend to ask him as soon as I’m able to.”

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  47. “Young expats are leaving ‘unsafe’ France and heading for Hungary — Recent surveys show many French nationals no longer feel safe in their country and are seeking greater security in Central and Eastern Europe”

    March 02, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The French government’s insistence on promoting mass immigration into the country has led many French nationals to leave the country in search of improved security and quality of life. Now, many French citizens are finding a safe haven in Central and Eastern Europe, according to French news outlet Boulevard Voltaire.

    The article, titled “To flee immigration, these French choose emigration,” makes reference to an Elabe Institute survey conducted in December last year for the French broadcaster BFMTV, which revealed that 67 percent of French people no longer feel safe in the country. As such, more French citizens are seeking to ease their security concerns by emigrating to countries with more conservative immigration policies, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe.

    The author, Julien Teller, notes how more than 1.6 million French nationals were estimated to be living abroad as of January 2022. However, the country’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs considers the figure to be far higher, and it could be closer to 2.5 million. The ministry explained the figure is likely to be higher than official estimates due to the fluidity of European mobility and the fact that not all expatriates register their movements.

    Teller explained how a significant number of French ex-pats are not moving for economic reasons, a key factor for most migrants arriving in Europe, but because of “identity motivations.” While a higher percentage of older French nationals choose countries such as Portugal to enjoy their retirement, a country where more than 120,000 retired French citizens now reside, the younger generation is choosing Central and Eastern Europe countries such as Hungary and Czechia to relocate.

    Teller spoke particularly of Hungary, which he claims is a preferred destination for young French workers who no longer feel that living in France is in their best interests. He cites a French videographer named Simon Vesperini who has relocated to Hungary and produces digital content for his 11,000 subscribers online inviting other French nationals who wish to “leave the decadence” of France to do the same.

    Teller also references YouTube videos published by another French ex-pat, Frédéric Delavier, who tells his 116,000 subscribers how choosing to leave France for Hungary has changed his life. “For me, the quality of life in Hungary is superior. What I can buy in Hungary, I couldn’t have bought in France at all,” Delavier explains.

    Other testimonies include that from Laetitia, a mother who relocated her family to Hungary during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I lived in Nîmes – a city that has changed a lot in a few years,” she told the Boulevard Voltaire publication. “Now, I no longer worry about my children. Aged 23 and 20, they study in Budapest, a quiet city, where they are safe. It changed my life!”

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said often that Christians would flee from the West to Hungary in the future. “During our lifetime, a great many Christians will come to Hungary from Western Europe,” Orbán said in 2020. “Yes, I think the tendency that many are coming back from Western Europe will continue. Some are buying up smaller settlements wholesale, and we must be prepared for that.”

    Many newcomers may not necessarily be Christian, but view the country as a safe haven in terms of public safety and even freedom of expression. Hungarian officials have repeatedly touted Hungary’s relative safety compared to Western countries like France and Germany. According to the Numbeo Quality of Life index, France ranks 30th overall in the world, while Hungary is ranked 40th; however, this doesn’t tell the whole story.

    Analysis of the safety index sees France awarded just 44.7, the second-lowest score in Europe and better only than Belarus. In contrast, countries such as Czechia (73.4) have one of the highest ratings on the continent, while Poland (70.8), Slovakia (68.6), and Hungary (66.1) also post highly respectable scores.

    As Remix News previously reported, European citizens are much less likely to be robbed in countries like Hungary and Poland compared to Western European countries, and this also applies to other serious crime statistics, such as rape. Czechia and Hungary also record the two best scores in Europe for the ratio of home prices to income ratio, a key factor for young ex-pats wanting to get onto the property ladder.”

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