Aquamarines

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Aquamarine is the birthstone for March and I found an article discussing interesting facts—most I did not know!

Interesting Aquamarine Facts

By Iskra Banović

April 6th, 2018

Whether you’re attracted to the tranquil blue shades or the crystal clear facets, aquamarine has a way of capturing its audience. It’s no surprise then that aquamarine is arguably the most popular colored gemstone on the market. Not only that, its ancient history makes it one of the oldest. Discover some of the most interesting aquamarine facts and begin to understand the intricacies behind the mesmerizing March birthstone.

Aquamarine Means Sea Water

Aquamarine has such an enchanting name. It reminds me of a mermaid with long turquoise hair and piercing blue eyes. Though, the name is based on the old Latin term aqua marīna which roughly translates as water of the sea. Seawater can either depict a dirty, undesirable gulp of saltwater or a crystal clear beach in paradise. I think the latter is a better fit.

Aquamarine is the Official Birthstone of March

Aquamarine has been the official birthstone of March since 1912. It is also linked to the 19th wedding anniversary and the zodiac sign Scorpio among others.

Sailors Love Aquamarine

Since the days of myths and chariots, aquamarine has been linked to the sea. Sailors would take fancy carved aquamarine pendants and tokens with them on long sea voyages in the hopes that the stone would protect them from seasickness and uncertain death. I know there have been many treasures and jewels uncovered at the bottom of the ocean, but how many of them happen to be aquamarine? If the legend is true, I would guess not too many.

Anxiety? Wearing Aquamarine Could Relax You

Not only does aquamarine dispel seasickness and act as a protector on the high seas, but it also is a calming stone used in meditation. The stone is thought to relax the senses and aid in calming the nerves.

The Largest Gem-Quality Aquamarine Weighs 244 Pounds

There are a lot of unique famous aquamarine gemstones, and many of them are big and colorful. The largest stone on record weighs 244 pounds and was mined in Brazil in 1910.

Aquamarine is Heat Treated

Unfortunately, a lot of aquamarine on the market today is heat-treated. Some stones, like blue topaz, are virtually colorless before they undergo treatment to transform completely into a deep and different color. Aquamarine isn’t like that. The stone comes out of the ground with a particular tone and hue. The stone’s hue doesn’t become deeper or change when it goes through heat treatment. All that happens is that, if successful, all green undertones are removed.

Sky Blue is the Most Desirable Shade of Aquamarine

Over the course of aquamarine’s history, the desired shade has varied from turquoise green to sky blue. Right now it seems like the jewelry industry and consumers favor a pure sky blue aquamarine color. Because of this, heat treatment to remove green undertones is so common that it even happens right on-site at the mine before the rough is even cut.

Some Aquamarine Loses Its Color in Sunlight

There is a variety of beryl on the market that goes by the name of maxixe aquamarine. This stone comes in a very deep, beautiful blue tone. There’s a catch, though. When this stone is exposed to sunlight, the color slowly fades to light yellowish green. Buyer beware!

There are A LOT of Fakes

Even though there are no synthetic aquamarine gemstones on the market, there are a lot of simulated ones. Many of these are marketed as a fancied name aquamarine.

Learn more about simulated aquamarines in our aquamarine buying guide.

Aquamarine is Durable Enough for Engagement Rings

Ranking between 7.5-8 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness puts aquamarine in the “everyday wear” range. Careful, though. Aquamarine can still scratch on its surface, especially by other harder gemstones like sapphire and diamond.

Source: https://www.blufashion.com/apparel/jewelry/gemstones/interesting-aquamarine-facts/

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  1. LOL…Mike 3.0!

    Larry
    March 22, 2023 11:35 am

    Ron DeSantis is simply Mike 3.0. You have Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo as 1.0 & 2.0.

    If you put a Mike in front of Ron, he sounds just like the other two guys.

    … Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was…

    And I ask myself…

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  3. “Why This Detransitioner Is Suing The Canadian Government — “I thought that if I changed how I was perceived socially and how I was treated socially, then that was going to improve everything else in my life.”
    14 min ago

    (Michelle Zacchigna is one of a growing number of women who are suing their medical providers for giving them a misdiagnosis of gender dysphoria and then mistreating them. Zacchigna had her uterus and breasts removed, rendering her infertile. She is 35 years old and lives north of Toronto.)

    EXCERPT: “Michael Shellenberger: You are the first known detransitioner in Canada to sue their health care providers. Can you describe your lawsuit?

    Michelle Zacchigna: I believe there’s a growing trend of recklessness in so-called “gender-affirming care,” and I think my experience with it exemplifies that trend. I have filed my suit against eight healthcare professionals, including doctors, psychologists, and therapists to have that belief tested by the justice system. Distress related to my gender was treated to the exclusion of other serious mental health issues which went undiagnosed for years. Blind affirmation of my stated identity closed the door to alternative treatment options.

    What happened to me should never happen again. I was prescribed testosterone hormone therapy in 2010 after three appointments. My doctors did not do a fulsome screening of me for other mental health diagnoses or developmental disabilities. In 2012, with my doctor’s recommendation, I paid to have my breasts removed.

    But the drugs and surgeries didn’t address my mental health needs; the parts of my life that I expected to change never did; and I stopped taking testosterone in 2016. I continued to identify as transgender until the end of 2020.”

    https://public.substack.com/p/why-this-detransitioner-is-suing

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  4. this is long, but i think valuable. it explains what costello was doing and why
    entire article
    An attorney who advised disgraced Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen provided Manhattan prosecutors with voluminous documentation, including contemporaneous emails and memos, purporting to show that in 2018 Cohen wanted Donald Trump to help cover his legal bills and repeatedly claimed he had no evidence incriminating the former president in a hush money deal with porn actress Stormy Daniels.

    “Cohen said he had no information against Trump,” one memo summarizing attorney Robert Costello’s interactions with Cohen stated. That memo, dated April 2019, recounted Costello’s interview with federal prosecutors about conversations he and colleagues had with Cohen a year earlier.

    Costello, a former federal prosecutor who has represented famous clients like George Steinbrenner, Leona Hemsley, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, told Just the News on Tuesday he provided Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office with more than 300 pages of emails, memos and texts chronicling his dealings with Cohen.

    He said his documents showed Cohen took out a bank loan known as a HELOC — on his own — during the 2016 presidential election to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 under a nondisclosure agreement so she would remain quiet about her alleged relationship with Trump. Cohen bragged he kept the situation quiet so that Melania Trump and Cohen’s own wife wouldn’t learn about it, Costello said in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, recounting what he said Cohen told him back in 2018.

    “He said,” Costello recalled, “‘I didn’t believe the information, but I knew that this was a situation that would cause embarrassment. So I negotiated with this lawyer, and we worked out a an NDA … for the payment of $130,000.’

    “And I said, ‘Did you get that money from Donald Trump?’ ‘No.’ ‘Did you get it from any Trump Organization?’ ‘No.’

    “I said, ‘Did you take that money out of your own savings or checking?’ ‘No.’

    “I said, ‘Well, how’d you get the money?’ He said, ‘I took out a HELOC loan.’ ‘Why would you take out a HELOC loan to cover something like this?’ He said ‘because I wanted to keep it secret. If I took money from my account, my wife would know about it. I didn’t want my wife to know about it. I didn’t want Melania Trump to know about it.’ He said, ‘That’s why I did it that way.'”

    “Now, if you’re gonna do it that way, that means you’re keeping it from Donald Trump and Melania Trump,” Costello added, summarizing the story he offered grand jurors and Manhattan prosecutors.

    In a 2019 summary of Costello’s interview with the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Costello alleged that in 2018 Cohen wanted to talk to Giuliani, then a lawyer for the 45th president, about getting Trump or his insurance company to pay Cohen’s legal bills.

    “Yes, during the long conversation on June 23, 2018, Cohen asked me to talk to Giuliani and ultimately to Trump about Cohen applying to Aeon Insurance, under the D&O policy, to pay the legal fees, and Cohen did not want ‘the big guy’ to oppose Cohen’s request,” Costello said, according to the summary of the interview with federal prosecutors.

    Costello also provided a contemporaneous email with a colleague from June 2018 in which he recounted his conversations with Cohen about Giuliani and payment of legal bills.

    “He asked me to communicate with Rudy and have him tell the President that all of these stories about cooperating are bullshit,” Costello wrote. “To tell him that he is not talking to reporters. He is not talking and friends (cq). These stories from sources are fiction.”

    “I believe the issue for Cohen is money,” Costello explained in the email. “Who is going to pay for these lawyers.”

    Cohen did not respond to requests by email or text from Just the News for comment. His lawyer Lanny Davis declined to answer questions, instead offering an attack on one of the reporters in this story.

    “I decline to comment to Mr. Solomon who, sadly, in my opinion since I was once a great admirer of his, no longer practices fact-based journalism,” Davis said.

    In interviews with MSNBC, Cohen acknowledged having contacts with Costello, but suggested the former federal prosecutor was “‘making up stories” to the grand jury and carrying out “a typical Trump play.”

    In those interviews, Cohen also claimed he did not believe he had waived his attorney-client privilege from his conversations with Costello. “I don’t recall waiving anything,” he said. “But, again this is, I don’t know what he’s talking about.”

    But one of the documents that Costello provided to Just the News shows that Cohen signed a declaration in 2019 for federal prosecutors waiving any claim of privilege from his interactions with Costello.

    “Although I do not believe that any of my communications with Costello or other lawyers at DHC are subject to attorney-client privilege, I hereby waive whatever attorney-client or other privilege that might be argued have attached to such communications,” the February 2019 declaration from Cohen stated.

    The back and forth between Costello and Cohen is just one of many signs, experts said, that Bragg’s office will face challenges if it brings an indictment on state charges against Trump based on the testimony of his former lawyer, who pled guilty to making false statements to Congress and other crimes and served time in prison.

    “Using Cohen as a witness would be the greatest gift to Trump,” Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Just the News. “If they’re smart, they will try to work around Cohen, try to pick some of the other witnesses, maybe some tapes … I don’t think they’re gonna put Cohen on the witness stand.”

    Costello testified Monday to a grand jury in Manhattan helping Bragg’s office investigate a hush money payment to Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Costello said he volunteered to testify to the grand jury because he believed he had information that would impeach the story Cohen has given on television about what he told the grand jury.

    “He’s making some of this stuff up,” Costello told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday. “He’s embellishing.”

    Costello said he told grand jurors that Cohen appeared distraught when they first met in spring 2018 in a hotel, and that he even talked of committing suicide. He said he repeatedly asked Cohen if he had incriminating evidence on Trump that could be used to get Cohen a plea deal and that Cohen repeatedly said he did not.

    “Even a serial liar tells the truth, once in a while,” Costello said. “And when a person like Michael Cohen is in extremis, he’s ready to kill himself, that’s the one time that he’s going to give up Donald Trump if he had something at that point in time. But he didn’t.”

    Costello’s account in the interview Tuesday matches what he told Congress during the Russia collusion investigation against Trump, according to a summary of that interview he turned over to prosecutors.

    In that 2019 testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Costello said he had asked Cohen if he had any useful information to offer up to prosecutors regarding Trump, but Cohen replied that he had none.

    “We said, let’s talk about your options, do you have any info on Trump, a get out of jail free card, but he said he didn’t have anything on him, nothing,” Costello testified.

    After mentioning potential financial wrongdoing within the Trump Inaugural Committee, Cohen admitted once again “he didn’t have — or at least would not admit — that he had anything of value to trade,” Costello told the congressional investigators.

    In a separate memo summarizing his interview with federal prosectors, Costello said Cohen never mentioned any conversations about Trump directing a payment to Stormy Daniels and that the payment he arranged was simply viewed as “a cost of doing business.”

    “First I don’t t think Cohen believed it (the unprotected sex with a porn actress), or that Trump did it,” Costello is quoted in the memo as telling the federal prosecutors back in 2019.

    The contemporaneous emails also show that Cohen discussed the idea of getting a pardon but that Costello dismissed those as “premature” in 2018 since no charges had been filed yet and other options like a grant of immunity from prosecutors were also possible.

    “I think I have come up with a possible solution to Mike Cohen’s fear of a state or locaI prosecution should he receive a pardon,” Costello wrote in an April 2018 email to a colleague after they met Cohen at a hotel. “First immunity would put him technically in the same position. It is immunity from federal prosecution and it does not cover state prosecutions.”

    The emails and memos also showed how Costello tried to convey that Trump held no animus for Cohen and was not worried what his former lawyer might tell prosecutors while trying to avoid the appearance of tampering with a potential prosecution witness.

    “Our issue is to get Cohen on the right page without giving him the appearance that we are following instructions from Giuliani or the President,” Costello wrote in a May 2018 email to a colleague. “In my opinion this is the clear, correct strategy.”

    Costello’s testimony and media interviews were part of a larger offensive by Trump defenders against Cohen as Manhattan prosecutors near the end of their grand jury probe in Manhattan and decide whether to charge the former president.

    On Monday, the GOP-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Bragg, demanding he testify about Trump’s potential indictment.

    The letter was sent by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who was joined by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil.

    “The only potential speculated crime that could be alleged here would be a violation of campaign finance law, according to one scholar, a charge that the Justice Department has already declined to bring,” Jordan wrote.

    The Ohio Republican added that the statute of limitations for any alleged crimes related to the former president is set to expire, which would explain Bragg’s “rush” to push for this unprecedented indictment.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/wcohen-wanted-trump-pay-legal-bills-had-no-incriminating-evidence

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    1. It’s beginning to sound like Cohen was the one involved with Daniels and wanted to use Trump money to pay her off and keep it secret from his own wife and the Trumps as well.

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  6. BAIL OUT MODERNA? ARE THEY KIDDING?
    FTA
    Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel is set to testify before the Senate’s top healthcare committee Wednesday as the federal government generously offers to bail his company out of a patent infringement lawsuit.

    The purpose of Wednesday’s Health, Labor, Education and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing is to question Bancel about drug prices after Moderna proposed quadrupling the price of its COVID-19 shot. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, HELP’s chair, and Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the committee’s ranking member, have long advocated for lower drug prices.

    The Biden administration’s entanglement with ongoing litigation related to patent infringement has received less attention than issue of vaccine pricing. Moderna is currently fighting off a lawsuit from Arbutus Biopharma and Genevant Sciences, a pair of small biotechnology firms that allege Moderna stole their technology to develop its COVID-19 vaccine.

    Moderna reported $18.4 billion in revenue in 2021 and $19.2 billion in 2022, with the lucrative vaccine contract driving a huge increase from the roughly $800 million the company made in 2020. Bancel was compensated handsomely, raking in more than $400 million between salary, stock sales and other forms of payment.

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/21/moderna-lawsuit-patent-infringement-vaccine-doj-arbutus-genevant/

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  8. this relates to the NARA case but I’m not sure how

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      1. yeah, I don’t have enough facts about what the binder is…but the writer is adamant that the timing is crucial. sigh
        gotta wait for more on THIS attack to come out i guess.

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  11. clarion
    clarion
    March 22, 2023 1:12 pm

    THREAD
    The “Arrest Trump” news cycle is a psy op brought to you by the people truly responsible for wrecking the country.

    The “Arrest Trump” news cycle is a psy op brought to you by the people truly responsible for wrecking the country.

    Look at what we’re NOT talking about this week:

    — Collapsing Banks
    — Collapsing petrodollar
    — Biden/China payments
    — China/Russia new world order
    — Ukraine losing

    — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 22, 2023

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  12. someone needs to teach basic economics to these idiots

    Winston
    March 22, 2023 1:22 pm

    Bongino: “It must be GREAT being a dumb ass liberal. It must be terrific to live in the fanasy land of STUPID every day.”

    He’s referring to the move for a $20 minimum wage to address the impacts of inflation on the cost of living… thereby causing more of it.

    LMAO. “Fantasy land of STUPID.” I’m stealing that.

    https://rumble.com/v2eacxs-is-trump-in-danger-ep.-1974-03222023.html

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  13. VERY interesting article that tells the truth about the Civil War!!!

    “The Decade We All Became Slaves: 1910 – 1919”
    Erik Carlson
    50 min ago

    EXCERPT: “I think it’s safe to say all Americans have been taught a war occurred in the 1860’s to free the slaves, and most still believe this to be true. Some have done a little research and have discovered the vast majority of the North—the side said to be fighting to free the slaves—were in fact Republicans, and the vast majority of the South that were said to be fighting to keep the slaves in bondage, were in fact Democrats.

    This is true, but the Civil War wasn’t fought to free the slaves. Like every other war, it was fought over money. The South was an agricultural juggernaut with no real competition, and the North was an industrial area with stiff competition from Europe. The South could afford to leave the United States and start their own country, but the North couldn’t afford to lose the South. The North had more people, and the South had more money. The North was able to vote in laws that inevitably required the South to pay 90% of the country’s taxes.

    As I said, this wasn’t a war over slavery—it was fought over money. We are led to believe that when slavery was abolished, the lives of the former slaves of the South became enriched, opportunities arose, and life was great. The truth is that for most former slaves in the South, life became harder—even more cruel.

    With legalized slavery, it was in the best interest of slave owners that their slaves remained healthy enough to work the fields. Slaves were an investment to them. Owning a slave required a sizable upfront fee to purchase. A slave was considered the property of the slave owner for life. The slave needed to be sheltered and fed, and when a slave was no longer able to work due to injury or age, they were to be taken care of by the slave owner until they died. Whether this happened or not, it was the slave owner’s responsibility.

    With the ending of legalized slavery came sharecropping. Sharecropping is when a landowner hires people to work their land and as payment for their work; they allow the workers to keep the yield of a small portion of what the land produces. This new business arrangement meant the former slave owners no longer needed to pay a hefty upfront fee to own the slaves. They were no longer responsible for the slaves, or rather to protect their investment. If the sharecroppers died in the field, so bit it—they would hire someone else to replace them. This was a win-win situation for the former slave owners.

    I’m not saying all landowners in the South were evil, but this created an opportunity for them to reap the rewards without any of the responsibilities in a time when the country was decimated by a civil war. It also opened the door to enslave even more of the country. Two-thirds of the sharecroppers at this time were actually White.

    The 1910’s is a decade you don’t really hear much about—maybe you hear a little bit about the first World War and more recently, the Spanish Flu. The Twenties was known as the Roaring Twenties and the Thirties was the depression decade. The Forties was the decade America saved the world from the evil Axis powers. The Fifties was the decade America thrived and became a cultural and economic powerhouse. The Sixties was the decade of change, and so on.

    The 1910’s could be called the decade we all became slaves. The 1910’s was a time when systems were put in place and technology was being developed to control and enslave the whole nation, if not the world. With a plan in place, taking complete control of the country required a national police force to be established, and on 07/26/1908, the FBI was formed. They needed some time to get up and running for the massive control campaign that would soon get underway.

    The FBI was known as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and later changed their name to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The BOI started with 34 employees and has grown to 35,000 with an annual budget of $10 billion today. ($10 billion is what we see, who knows the real number.) In its infancy, the BOI’s first task was to surveil houses of prostitution to prepare for the enforcement of the Mann Act, otherwise known as the “white slave traffic act”. It’s laughable to me that with so few employees, they were singularly focused on ending sex slavery, and today with 35,000, not so much. Instead, we have 80 agents assigned to look for mean tweets.

    With a national police force in place to keep the people inline, it was now time to create a propaganda system, Hollywood.

    The first movies were made in Europe in the 1890’s, and it didn’t take long to realize movies had the potential to greatly influence the general public. In October of 1911, the first Hollywood movie studio was opened on Sunset Boulevard, and within a year, 15 other movie studios had followed suit. The reason for the massive inflow of movie makers into this Southern California region was said to be the weather. The weather allowed them to film all year round, and the area could mimic many locations throughout the world. By 1924, movies had become the 7th largest industry in America, and the number one propaganda tool.
    ———–
    In 1912, Sigmund Freud’s American nephew Edward Bernays graduated from Cornell University and chose Journalism as a career. He began to use his uncle’s techniques and understanding of the unconscious mind to become the father of Public Relations. He could also be considered the father of modern advertising. In 1928, Bernays wrote the book Propaganda in which he states propaganda isn’t just beneficial, but necessary in governing a nation.

    The 1910’s was the decade Americans began to be altered, affected and controlled on an unconscious level. Brainwashed. 1914 gave us the first World War and a war-like system that still dominates today. Wars are used to take control of civilizations while enriching the financial backers of the wars.”

    Much more: https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-decade-we-all-became-slaves

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  14. advice from a “real estate attorney” (?) on squatters
    kalifornia

    first of all, as the owner, she can turn off all utilities and water. Secondly, she can wait till that pos fothermucker leaves the house, then break a window and climb back into her house, move all of his shit (or burn it) to the curb and change the locks back and there is nothing he can do about it. he may may have squatters rights while inside the house, but without any written documents, he cant come back inside if she’s inside. if he did, that becomes breaking and entering. as a real estate attorney, i know that’s the law.

    like so many homeowners who fall for this scam, they wait on the courts to decide and thats the flaw in their plan. they need to take matters into their own hands.

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          1. one of the replies to the article i was reading said, something like this happened to his uncle in Alabama…he brought in his own enforcement officers to help. Colt and Deere.

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  15. “Number Of True Crime Podcasts Surpasses Number Of Murders”
    LIFESTYLE · Mar 21, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “U.S. — Results of a new study have confirmed that the number of “true crime” podcasts produced has officially surpassed the number of actual murders in the world, per capita.

    “We had our suspicions that this particular genre had gotten out of hand,” said Dr. Steve Williams of The Concerned Husbands Institute, the organization that conducted the study. “The number of true crime podcasts being consumed by housewives has skyrocketed. There are now roughly 78 different true crime podcasts per actual murder committed in the world. Staggering numbers!”

    The true crime genre of podcasts exploded in popularity in recent years, along with NBC’s Dateline news magazine program that regularly features stories about murder. Men around the world have understandably experienced increased levels of fear and suspicion due to their wives’ enjoyment of such programming. “Yeah, I’m pretty sure my wife’s going to kill me soon,” said Zach Lewis, engineer and future murder victim. “I think she’s learned just about everything she needs to know to commit the act and get away with it. I’ve just kinda resigned myself to my fate at this point.”

    At this rate, analysts predict that thousands of new murders will need to be committed simply to keep up with the demand for new podcasts about murders. “It’s unsustainable unless we start offing more people,” Dr. Williams said. “This means husbands around the world will either be much safer or in significantly more danger.”

    At publishing time, a weekend crime spree in Chicago had pumped up murder numbers enough to surpass the number of podcasts once again.”

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    1. LOL
      hubby liked dateline i think…or whatever it was called. then i asked him (meaning to be funny) are you watching these shows to gather info on technique or cover up?
      his face turned white.
      “I’m starting to get worried…maybe i should i let the kids know in case something weird happens to me,” I said.
      he stopped watching them.
      did I strike a nerve?

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        1. there is just so dang much crime and crap in the news every day, I would rather watch comedies when we finally sit at night.
          the murder and cover up crap was getting to me…lol

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  16. “FBI, CIA Relieved They No Longer Have To Travel Abroad To Turn Countries Into Banana Republics”
    U.S. · Mar 21, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “WASHINGTON, D.C. — Morale at the FBI has reportedly never been higher because agents no longer have to travel abroad to turn countries into banana republics.

    FBI Director Christopher Wray restructured the bureau to fit a new objective that allows employees to spend more time at home with their families. “In the bureau, we always say family is first, but we haven’t really been living that ideal,” Wray said in a statement. “We have been working closely with the CIA to topple regimes and cripple economies, but we lost sight of what this is really all about — toppling regimes and crippling economies right here on our own soil!”

    “How did we miss this for so long?”

    Agents are grateful for the extra time they get to spend with their families while focusing the bureau’s energy on important matters like prosecuting traditional extremist Catholics and former presidents with the last name of “Trump.”

    “I’ll miss the frequent flier miles. It was a great job perk,” admitted Special Agent Dana Barr, “but I’m excited to hunt down parents who attend school board meetings and totally demolish their life savings. And to get Trump. That’s why I got into this line of work!”

    One agent, who only spoke with us from the shadows while cigarette smoke swirled around him ominously said, “Really, we have a lot to do here. We’ve been so worried about other countries that we forgot about destroying our own. America first!”

    “Between burning up food processing plants, derailing trains, and sabotaging the banking world — we’re swamped!” he added. “And we still have to get that next Trump rally.”

    The agencies reported they are closing in on former President Trump and will be perp-walking him for the cameras any day now.”

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    1. I don’t watch videos so i really can’t say I know the look you see–it sounds hilarious! i only see pics and then it’s the practiced face–you know, the I’m full of myself look.

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  19. SING IT!

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  20. “Brain-computer Interface Systems — The future is here”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS
    25 min ago
    EXCERPT: “As many know, I have written and spoken extensively about the dangers of transhumanism, also rebranded by the military as human augmentation or human enhancement. One of my more recent essays was titled Physicals, Virtuals, Machines and Overlords: Is the dark vision of a new caste system for the fourth revolution inevitable?

    The constraints on this research currently lie solely with the informed consent and normal bioethics regulations needed on any clinical trial. In fact, the SIENNA report was commissioned to study the ethical guidelines of such research, and the report essentially falls back on the same regulatory processes currently in place, which can be found in my essay “Ethical Parameters for Human Enhancement?”.

    The fact is that despite the current clinical trial processes already in place, these rapidly developing technologies fall under that old saying, “Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should do something.”

    We do not need more guidelines or regulations that can be broken in times of duress or “public health emergencies” to decide whether these technologies are for the good of society or not. Such “process oriented” procedures miss the point.

    What we need are politicians and/or governments to sit down, commission studies without conflict of interest from biotech and the military to determine if mankind will benefit from these inventions, or whether mankind is more likely to be harmed. We need a nationalized and globalized response, even a treaty, regarding the ever increasing emphasis on the evolution of human augmentation in our military and civilian life which is now an accepted reality. As a world, we can just say no. The world has rejected many technologies as too dangerous or morally wrong. Humankind has a choice to make. Let’s make that choice, let’s ban human augmentation or, at the very least, put restrictions on these technologies. True guidelines that assess benefit and risk to humankind. My bet is that a true assessment would shut down much of this research in its tracks.

    Just think about all the decisions that the world has made because something is ethical. We don’t reuse the bodies of our dead for food or even fertilizer. We don’t generally allow incest. We don’t allow murder or human sacrifice or allow people to be used as unwilling organ transplants. The list goes on and on.

    Even technologies have been banned because they have been determined to be morally or environmentally detrimental. In the USA, we almost never allow new dams on major rivers for hydro electric power. We don’t allow mustard gas to be used in war. Offensive biowarfare is not allowed. We have nuclear treaties. Human civilizations have shown that they can say no.

    Likewise, many technologies have been determined to be too dangerous. At least for now, we do not allow our cars to be powered by nuclear fission. After the Hindenburg accident of 1937, the idea of hydrogen vessels for air travel was abandoned. Human society can and has said enough when technologies are not safe.

    So, why is there so little push-back to the idea that altering humans for either individual, military or societal benefit is ok? Even though ethicists have been warning about the abuse and potential catastrophic consequences of these technologies for generations. Dystopian visions of the future abound with what the horrific consequences of these technologies could do to mankind. Yet still “we” persist.

    As I have been tracking the evolution of these technologies, I was recently directed to news story in Science Daily quoted below.”

    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/brain-computer-interface-systems

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    1. so bad i had to say it twice…LOL

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  25. From blog owner where I get memes: “I would never tell you who to vote for, but if you (or even someone you know) did vote for Joe Biden… I have a very simple message for you and them…

    You willingly fucked our country up and you should be ashamed of yourself. If the only reason you voted for Biden was your dislike of Trump’s personality, you are a moron who honestly doesn’t know what’s best for you and your country. Politics is not and never should be about personality. It’s about policies and belief systems. How could you ever vote against someone who’s stated goal was to make America the great country it is (and should always be)?

    The former President believed, as Ronald Reagan did, that a nation without borders is not a nation. He started building a wall and re-enforcing our customs agents and procedures to prevent the wholesale influx of criminals into this country. And yes, they are criminals – fuck all that ‘non-documented’ bullshit.

    If the very first thing you do when entering the country is come in in a manner contrary to existing laws, you are a criminal. Your first act coming in to this country is a crime. There is no way around it.

    Well in excess of 6,000,000 people have come into this country illegally in just the past two years.
    There is no excuse for that except for the fact that you voted for an addle-brained old man who is took weak and too stupid to see what so many uninvited and unwanted people coming in here and living off the fat of our generosity and stupidity drains on our economy and is a tragic occurrence. Shame on you for making ME pay for all of this shit.

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  31. this is convoluted–but that’s the point, i guess. make it difficult to suss out the rabid details

    j x
    March 22, 2023 2:48 pm

    “Hold up just a sec. Ukraine Privat Bank goes bankrupt despite billions of dollars sent by US and IMF; went thru restructuring and the husband of the NYC DA ofc prosecuting Trump had the contract to restructure it and make it into a Gov bank?

    “Keep in mind oligarchs Ihor Kolomoiskyi owned it. It was nationalized in 2016. He now lives in Israel&was involved in Russiagate”

    https://truthsocial.com/@ColonelWatkins/posts/110063871187640819
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    j x
    March 22, 2023 3:01 pm
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    The claim checks out.

    Freakley is the CEO at Alix Partners

    https://www.alixpartners.com/our-professionals/sfreakley/

    which did restructure Privat Bank

    https://www.alixpartners.com/insights-impact/client-stories/when-economic-disruption-exposes-weakness-in-the-banking-sector/

    Freakley is married to Meg Reiss

    https://www.standard.co.uk/business/the-suave-restructuring-whiz-putting-out-corporate-fires-and-picking-up-millions-a3480966.html

    Reiss is Alvin Braggs Chief Assistant District Attorney

    https://www.manhattanda.org/manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-announces-leadership-team-to-deliver-safety-and-justice-for-all/

    .

    Why does everything keep coming back to Ukraine? Why does the world revolve around Ukraine?

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  32. “NYC schools using tax dollars to host LGBTQ writers promoting books on gender identity”
    Libs of TikTok
    15 min ago

    EXCERPT: “A is for apple, B is for… bi? That’s essentially what the New York City Department of Education is teaching young children.

    In 2015, the NYC Department of Education partnered with Lambda Literary, an LGBTQ literary organization, to implement their LGBTQ Writers in School program in the NYC public school system. The program arranges for LGBTQ writers to visit K-12 classrooms to discuss LGBTQ literature and provide “safe spaces for students to talk about great books, queer life, and how to thrive as an LGBTQ person.” Books are chosen by the teachers from a suggested book list, and the students are required to read the books prior to the visit.

    (Tweet from Lambda Literary, promoting a drag queen children’s book)

    (LGBTQ Writers in Schools program in NYC children’s classroom)

    The organizers of this program deny that their goal is to “groom students with made up gender ideologies” or focus the curriculum on “sex and sexual activities,” yet the content of the books tell a very different story. Children as young as 3 years old are encouraged to read books that focus on gender identities and sexual orientations. One recommended book, ABC of Gender Identity, lists 26 different genders in alphabetical order. When Aidan Became a Brother, also on the reading list, details how young Aidan realized he was a trans boy and “fixed the parts of life that didn’t fit anymore.”

    ( Excerpt from When Aidan Became a Brother)

    https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/nyc-schools-using-tax-dollars-to

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    1. Sorry!
      one of the “camp” neighbors came up to the house and asked if we’ve heard any strange noises….he has damage to his property. we followed him there and he thinks he knows what kind of truck was on his property from the tire treads (?) and asked if we’ve seen it. hubby offered to put our trail cam at the bottom of the driveway (hidden) to see if we can catch a license plate…

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  37. Hmmm….either you fell asleep or lost internet….I hope….picked up a couple of pieces of cheesecake to eat and some banana cream pudding cups, as well as the Benadryl for congestion. My nose is drip, drip, dripping almost constantly – sure hope this helps – the end of my nose is sore and I’ve been trying to keep vaseline on it. But at least my sinuses aren’t throbbing today like yesterday. Sorry for the complaining….

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