D-DAY

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Without the brilliant planning and heroic sacrifices of the D-Day invasion, the Allies may have never defeated the Nazi forces in Europe. On June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops stormed 50 miles of Normandy’s fiercely defended beaches in northern France in an operation that proved to be a critical turning point in World War II. Below are key facts on the planning and execution of the epic Allied invasion.

D-Day Meaning: The ‘D’ in D-Day doesn’t actually stand for anything.

Unlike V-E Day (“Victory in Europe”) or V-J Day (“Victory over Japan”), the “D” in D-Day isn’t short for “departure” or “decision.” As early as World War I, the U.S. military used the term D-Day to designate the launch date of a mission. One reason was to keep the actual date out of the hands of spies; another was to serve as a placeholder until an actual date was chosen. They also used H-Hour for the specific time of the launch.

The D-Day invasion took years of planning. 


Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill knew from the start of the war that a massive invasion of mainland Europe would be critical to relieve pressure from the Soviet army fighting the Nazis in the east. Initially, a plan called “Operation Sledgehammer” called for an Allied invasion of ports in northwest France as early as 1943, but Roosevelt and Churchill decided to invade Northern Africa first and attack Europe’s “soft underbelly” through Italy.

D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in military history. 


According to the D-Day Center, the invasion, officially called “Operation Overlord,” combined the forces of 156,115 U.S., British and Canadian troops, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, and 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders that delivered airborne troops.

Allied forces carried out a massive deception campaign in advance of D-Day.


The idea behind the ruse was to trick the Nazis into thinking that the invasion would occur at Pas-de-Calais, the closest French coastline to England. The Allies used fake radio transmissions, double agents, and even a “phantom army,” commanded by American General George Patton, to throw Germany off the scent.

A D-Day dress rehearsal was a fiasco.


Two months before D-Day, Allied forces conducted a disastrous dress rehearsal of the Normandy invasion on an evacuated English beach called Slapton Sands. Known as “Exercise Tiger,” 749 U.S. troops lost their lives after a fleet of German E-boats caught wind of the mock invasion and torpedoed American tank landing ships. Survivors described the Exercise Tiger fiasco as more terrifying than the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach.

Germany had fortified France’s coast.


Anticipating an Allied invasion somewhere along the French coast, Adolf Hitler charged Field Marshal Erwin Rommel with fortifying Nazi defenses in France. In 1943, Rommel completed construction of the “Atlantic Wall,” Germany’s 2,400-mile line of bunkers, landmines and beach and water obstacles. It’s estimated that the Nazis planted 4 million landmines along Normandy’s beaches.

The U.S. shipped tons of supplies to the staging area in England.


Since Operation Overlord was launched from England, the U.S. military had to ship 7 million tons of supplies to the staging area, including 450,000 tons of ammunition.

Bad weather delayed the invasion.


Troops and supplies were in place by May, but bad weather delayed the launch date of the invasion. On June 5, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in charge of Operation Overlord, decided that the invasion would happen the next day, in part because the weather was still rough and Nazi planes were grounded. That same day, 1,000 British bombers dropped 5,000 tons of munitions on Nazi gun batteries along the Normandy coast to cripple Germany’s defenses before the imminent invasion.

D-Day was carried out along five sections of beachfront.


Operation Overlord was divided among sections of beachfront along the Normandy coast code named, from West to East: “Utah,” “Omaha,” “Gold,” “Juno” and “Sword.”

Paratroopers launched the operation before dawn .


The D-Day invasion began in the pre-dawn hours of June 6 with thousands of paratroopers landing inland on the Utah and Sword beaches in an attempt to cut off exits and destroy bridges to slow Nazi reinforcements. American paratroopers suffered high casualties at Utah beach, some drowning under heavy equipment in flooded marshland, others shot out of the sky by Nazi snipers. The British and Canadian paratroopers met less resistance at Sword beach and quickly took two key bridges. 

More than 156,000 Allied ground troops stormed the beaches.
In wave after wave of thousands of landing ships, more than 156,000 Allied infantrymen stormed the five beaches. Facing them were around 50,000 Germans troops. Stormy seas made the landings incredibly difficult, with many regiments coming ashore far from their target destinations. At Omaha Beach, only two of the 29 amphibious tanks even made it to land on their own power (three were later transported to the beach). At Utah Beach, the American troops included 14 Comanche “code-talkers” who relayed critical tactical messages in their Native American tongue

The toughest fighting was on Omaha Beach.


At Omaha Beach, bombing runs had failed to take out heavily fortified Nazi artillery positions. The first waves of American fighters were cut down in droves by German machine gun fire as they scrambled across the mine-riddled beach. But U.S. forces persisted through the day-long slog, pushing forward to a fortified seawall and then up steep bluffs to take out the Nazi artillery posts by nightfall. All told, around 2,400 American troops were killed, wounded or unaccounted for after the fighting at Omaha Beach.

Canadian troops at Juno Beach captured the most territory.


Canadian soldiers also suffered terrible casualties at Juno Beach, battling rough seas before landing on a heavily defended strip of shoreline. Similar to the Americans at Omaha Beach, the first lines of Canadian troops were gunned down en masse by Nazi artillery—estimates put the initial casualty rate at 50 percent—before pushing beyond the beachfront and chasing the Germans inland. In the end, the Canadians at Juno captured more towns and territory than any other battalions in Operation Overlord.

All five beaches were secured by Allied forces by June 11. 


Five days after the D-Day invasion, troops immediately began installing two massive temporary harbors that had taken six months to construct back in England. All told, the Allies unloaded approximately 2,500,000 men, 500,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies at the temporary harbors over the remaining course of the war.

The D-Day invasion marked a turning point in the war.


The total Allied losses at Normandy are estimated to be at least 4,413. Total Allied casualties in the Battle of Normandy, which dragged on until August, topped 226,000. But thanks in part to the massive influx of troops and equipment, D-Day marked a decisive turning point in the war. Less than a year later, on May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender.  

SOURCE: History.com Dave Roos

Updated: June 3, 2022 | Original: March 12, 2019

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    1. AGREED! arrested and perp walked! but who will do it?
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      🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat
      @leslibless
      First, the FBI claimed they couldn’t release the unclassified FD-1023 form from June 2020 to the House Oversight Committee because it involved a secret whistleblower.
      Then, it was because the form involves another FBI investigation against the Biden’s. What a laugh!
      Now, it’s ‘the whistleblower might get killed.” Then protect him!

      This form relates directly to then VP Biden delivering preferred foreign policy positions in exchange for a $5 million payment.
      This is TREASON against the United States!

      This rogue FBI works solely in conjunction w the DOJ to protect the Biden crime family.
      Christopher Wray needs to be arrested & perp-walked!

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        1. All he has to do is not say anything about the jabs at this point. Is that not a simple solution? I get it if it’s not the right time to expose everything but….just shut up about them….that’s all I’m saying.

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  15. kalbokalbs(@kalbokalbs)Online
    Coyote
    June 6, 2023 05:52

    Another indicator MTG is not what I, perhaps some here hoped for.

    How are sitting members of Congress monetizing their podcasts like this? @mtgreenee’s media company solicited me to advertise my business for $12,000 an episode. Where is that money going? Does anyone know? @RaheemKassam @LauraLoomer
    I’m tired of government grifters. pic.twitter.com/N3j2nT3Zl4

    — Alan Jacoby 🇺🇸 (@AJacoby1776) June 6, 2023

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  16. Citizen 817
    June 6, 2023 12:26 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    12h
    HOW CAN DOJ POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT’S WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE FACT THAT HE HAS 1,850 BOXES, MUCH OF IT CLASSIFIED, AND SOME DATING BACK TO HIS SENATE DAY WHEN EVEN DEMOCRAT SENATORS ARE SHOCKED. ALSO, PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD DOCUMENTS, AND WON IN COURT. CROOKED HILLARY DELETED 33,000 EMAILS, MANY CLASSIFIED, AND WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING CHARGED! ONLY TRUMP – THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!

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  17. Citizen 817
    June 6, 2023 12:29 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    10h
    “President Trump had it so right and Biden has gotten it so wrong!” Rep. Pat Fallon

    Post-Title 42 border security is an affront to American sovereignty

    When it comes to our southern border, President Biden has done the bidding of one entity, and it sure isn’t the United States. It’s Mexican drug cartels.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/16/post-title-42-border-security-is-affront-to-americ/

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  18. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    June 6, 2023 12:30 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    Ty Cobb is a disgruntled former Lawyer, who represented me long ago, and knows absolutely nothing about the Boxes Hoax being perpetrated upon me by the DOJ for purposes of interfering with the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election, where I am substantially leading all “comers,” including Republicans and Democrats. His words are angry, nasty, and libelous, only because I did not continue using him (and paying him), and for good reason. He will be held legally responsible for his false statements!

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  19. Citizen 817
    June 6, 2023 12:31 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    2h
    RINO Chris Sununu stated in his Fake Opinion published in The Washington Compost, “I’m not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.” No, he’s not running for President because he’s polling at Zero, and has no chance of winning. The people of New Hampshire have gotten wise to Chris Sununu, and they no longer like or respect him. I never liked him, but always did whatever he asked for the State, because I wanted to help New Hampshire, and I did!

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  20. Kenji
    Kenji
    June 6, 2023 2:12 am
    Reply to Feisty Hayseed

    Let’s start John F. Kerry’s war on agriculture with all Heinz products. Let’s starve and bankrupt Heinz … and see how Kerry likes missing his yacht payments. No diesel for the engines.

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    1. ^^^^THIS above was in response to kerry wanting to put us farmers out of business…
      I LOVE THIS IDEA…boycott heinz!!!

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  22. nimrodman
    nimrodman
    June 6, 2023 12:58 am

    New York Times relents from castigating people for claiming Ukrainian Nazis, now admits Nazis

    Neo-Nazis in Ukraine Might be a Problem After All, Says New York Times

    Glenn Greenwald
    @ggreenwald

    In the US, anyone with a MAGA hat is deemed a Nazi and must be destroyed.

    But liberals see actual, real-deal Nazis in Ukraine and want to fund and arm them.

    Perhaps there may be long-term dangers to flooding Nazi battalions with advanced weaponry?

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  26. hmmmmm….2 grand juries? wth

    Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    June 6, 2023 2:06 am

    Why is there a separate grand jury in Florida about the documents? What is the Florida issue?

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    Federal grand jury in Florida to hear testimony in Trump documents case

    (It’s unclear how the development will affect a separate grand jury that has been investigating in Washington, D.C.)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/florida-grand-jury-hear-testimony-trump-documents-case-rcna87850?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=647eb1ac137e4000012c521a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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  27. NF: Very thorough, in-depth analysis of the take-down of the Kershon dam….

    “BREAKING: Hell Breaks Loose as Kakhovka Dam Completely Destroyed”
    SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
    JUN 5, 2023

    EXCERPT: “Major news broke that the Nova Khakovka dam has been completely destroyed. This is the central, extremely important dam that was critical to the whole Kherson situation last year. It was the sole reason Russia retreated, as the threat of destroying the dam kept their troops on the right/western bank of the Dnieper river highly vulnerable. Footage has just released confirming the catastrophic destruction: (video)
    This photo is a geolocated confirmation:

    Here were some of the previously forecasted consequences of such a break happening. Projected flooding of the river plains in Kherson region:

    (video)
    Now population centers are already being reported as flooding and mass evacuation orders being given.

    ————–
    It’s undecided who benefits and to whom it’s a detriment, as some believe that all Russian defenses on the eastern bank will be wiped away by the flood. However, the expanded river boundaries and elevated water levels would preclude Ukrainian crossing attempts, so it clearly seems to favor Russia there. We’ll have to wait and see how it develops as this is just breaking now, no pun intended.

    One pro-Ukrainian’s sensible take on the situation, which may very well be accurate:

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/breaking-hell-breaks-loose-as-khakovka

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    1. There are other articles at that link, covering the Ukraine/Russia conflict: videos of houses flooding in Kershon, etc., etc. as well as the Ukraine counter-offensive having begun, new mechanized brigade, etc., etc.

      “”……And recall my report from days ago where I described how Russian rotary aviation is what will be the real killer against any Ukrainian armor advance. Those words were proven quite true today as videos from the start of the offensive were published showing Russian Ka-52s absolutely feasting on a conga line of UA light armor:”

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  29. EXCERPT: “The whistleblower, 36-year-old David Charles Grusch, is a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan who went on to work at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Ageny (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) – where he served as the latter’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. Then from late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force, which was established to investigate UFOs – which are now officially called “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. It was launched the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and has since been reorganized into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which includes investigations of objects which operate underwater.

    Grusch, a whistleblower now represented by an attorney who served as the original Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), spoke with journalists Leslie Kean (cousin of GOP Sen. Tom Kean Jr. of NJ) who co-authored a 2017 piece in the NY Times revealing that the DoD spent $22.5 million on a secret program to investigate UFOs, and Ralph Blumenthal, a veteran NY Times reporter.

    Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record. -The Debrief

    According to the The Debrief;

    The recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors. “We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” said Grusch. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

    According to analysis, the objects are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures.”

    UFO “legacy programs” have long been concealed within “multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional secret access programs without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities.” Gorsuch told Congress of the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”

    [M]aterials from objects of non-human origin are in the possession of highly secret black programs (the classified locations, names and other specific data of which were provided to the Inspector General and intel committee staff).

    According to an unclassified version of his whistleblower complaint, Grusch has direct knowledge that UAP-related classified information has been withheld and/or concealed from Congress by “elements” of the intelligence community “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program.”

    “A vast array of our most sophisticated sensors, including space-based platforms, have been utilized by different agencies, typically in triplicate, to observe and accurately identify the out-of-this-world nature, performance, and design of these anomalous machines, which are then determined not to be of earthly origin,” said Jonathan Grey, an intelligence officer specializing in UAP analysis at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.

    NF: Wright-Patterson was where HB was born…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/we-are-not-alone-us-has-retrieved-craft-non-human-origin-says-whistleblower-govt-task

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          1. i agree.
            trying out new “secret weapons” in aircraft capabilities, first strike crap.
            if there were true aliens, they are either laughing their heads off or figure we’ll extinguish each other so it’s not worth their time

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  30. how many are going in the governor’s mansion????

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  34. Jeff Clark
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    Cory Mills @CoryMillsFL
    explains that Reps Comer and Raskin alone being able to see the Biden whistleblower document in a SCIF still leaves Wray in contempt because that’s short of what the Oversight Committee asked for.

    I’d add that letting one member from each side only look at the document and not have it publicly disseminated just sets up a Comey vs Raskin he said vs she said kind of conflict as each then go out to the media and describe their impressions of the document.

    We should be able to see the document and judge for ourselves.

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  35. TimOnPoint
    @TimOnPoint
    Wait, this is happening? wtf?

    1) The FBI can’t protect an informant from being murdered.
    2) The informant has brought evidence of foreign bribery against Biden.
    3) Who’s the threat? Biden associates? Another agency? Chicoms?
    4) Are we actually having this conversation like it’s normal Monday afternoon stuff?
    5) Is the United States this far gone?

    Total compromise.

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  38. Dragon surrounding sun…

    FFS!!! They ARE, indeed, nutso!!!!
    “Kanye and his new wife out for a stroll… I don’t know what’s stranger, Kanye’s stuffed shirt and pained look, or the fact that his wife’s outfit looks like something her doctor prescribed to keep her from licking her stitches.”

    “What the heck is wrong with those ‘stars’?”

    NF: OK, I understand the sentiment but…seriously??? The Taliban???

    “I can’t get over the quotes of him in the article: ‘At least in Afghanistan the Taliban will cut your hand off and people are afraid to commit such a crime,’ Zaid reportedly added. “The politicians need to get a grip on this because it’s worse than Afghanistan or Iraq,” Zaid told Fox News.

    San Francisco is now ‘worse than Afghanistan’ immigrant store owner says after losing $100K to burglars…
    https://local12.com/news/nation-world/san-francisco-is-now-worse-than-afghanistan-immigrant-store-owner-says-after-losing-100k-to-burglars-california-zaid-sfpd

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    1. could he be wearing a vest underneath?
      as for…i guess it’s a her? who the hell knows?
      they do love to attract attention to themselves do they not?

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              1. Oh, hell, no – quite the opposite, actually, except when I want to make a point….and that is easy from behind a keyboard! LOL – in person? Oh, noooooo…..that temper fires up waaay too fast!

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  39. ahhhhhhhh….here might be the answer to a second grand jury in FLA…a flood at Mar-a-lago by an employee—was that an effort to destroy evidence or obstruct the law? even though it didn’t damage
    anything–they think they have the right to hear conversations–more he said/she said bullshit…

    kalbokalbs(@kalbokalbs)Offline
    Coyote
    June 6, 2023 06:50

    More evidence the Feds are unhinged evil…grasping for a manufactured crime that never happened.

    Flooding at Mar-a-Lago Raises Suspicions Among Federal Prosecutors

    CNN reported:

    An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

    At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to one of the sources.

    The incident, which has not been previously reported, came roughly two months after the FBI retrieved hundreds of classified documents from the Florida residence and as prosecutors obtained surveillance footage to track how White House records were moved around the resort. Prosecutors have been examining any effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation after Trump received a subpoena in May 2022 for classified documents.

    Prosecutors have heard testimony that the IT equipment in the room was not damaged in the flood, according to one source.

    Yet the flooded room as well as conversations and actions by Trump’s employees while the criminal investigation bore down on the club has caught the attention of prosecutors. The circumstances may factor into a possible obstruction conspiracy case, multiple sources tell CNN, as investigators try to determine whether the events of last year around Mar-a-Lago indicate that Trump or a small group of people working for him, took steps to try to interfere with the Justice Department’s evidence-gathering.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/flooding-mar-lago-raises-suspicions-among-federal-prosecutors/

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  40. “Scientists Hacked Human Cells to Make Insulin, And It Reversed Diabetes in Mice”
    HEALTH
    03 June 2023
    By DAVID NIELD

    (Insulin-secreting organoids under the microscope. (Xiaofeng Huang)

    EXCERPT: “Scientists have repurposed human stomach cells into tissues that release insulin in response to rising blood sugar levels in a breakthrough that promises an effective way to manage conditions such as type 1 diabetes.

    The experiment, led by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine in the US, revealed transplants of gastric insulin-secreting (GINS) cells reversed diabetes in mice.

    Pancreatic beta cells normally do the job of releasing the hormone insulin in response to elevated sugar levels in the blood. In people with diabetes, these tissues are damaged or die off, compromising their ability to move glucose into cells for fuel.

    While GINS cells aren’t beta cells, they can mimic their function. The gut has plenty of stem cells, which can transform into many other cell types, and they proliferate quickly. The hope is that those with diabetes could have their own gut stem cells transformed into GINS cells, limiting the risk of rejection.”

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-hacked-human-cells-to-make-insulin-and-it-reversed-diabetes-in-mice

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  41. And here they go….down that slippery slope….

    “The world’s first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, will be able to grow 30,000 babies a year. It’s based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research conducted by researchers worldwide…”

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  48. I am very impressed with BestBuy. This is the first time I’ve purchased from them on-line and they have kept me up to date on every stage of the journey, every pick up, one delay, and now on truck for delivery. Very impressed! And free shipping!

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      1. I bought a computer there when mine took a dump in Texas…the Dell laptop that I had to replace a few years ago, only because the teensy-tiny wire connecting the screen broke. Other than that, it still worked perfectly! So I’ve had good experiences, even before that, but it all depends on the local management, I think.

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  50. “These people have truly lost their fucking minds. Big Apple officials unveiled a street vending machine Monday that covers it all when it comes to catering to drug-users, offering free handy paraphernalia such as crack pipes and lip balm – and also Narcan for overdoses.

    The vending machine, one of four set to be placed in some of the city’s most drug-infested neighborhoods, swaps out what would be more typical offerings such as candy bars and potato chips for the drug-related freebies to try to combat the surge in overdoses in the five boroughs, city Health Department bigs said.

    “Every three hours, we’re losing a New Yorker to drugs. And it looks like 2023 is on track to be our highest year ever in overdoses,’’ Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said at a press conference next to the first machine, which is parked near a nonprofit aimed at offering housing and other support for those in need. “We have a rising tide of fentanyl, and now we have other substances entering our drug supply, which is really putting us behind the eight ball,” Vasan said.

    He specifically noted the increasing presence of Xylazine, a veterinary drug known as “Tranq” or the “zombie drug’’ that can leave users in a catatonic state and with conditions that eat their flesh off.”

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