International Cheetah Day

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The Cheetah is a large, slender cat that live in sub-Saharan Africa, and in eastern and southern African parks. Cheetahs can also be found in small numbers in southern Algeria, northern Niger and Iran.  The Cheetah is the fastest land animal on the planet. They are members of the family Felidae, which includes the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard, and other big cats.

Cheetahs are found in open and dry grasslands in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa, although they were once widespread throughout Africa and Asia. The majority of Cheetahs today inhabit natural reserves or parks. Cheetahs in the wild typically live between 10 – 15 years in the wild. Some can reach 20 years of age while in captivity.

The Cheetah has a slender body with long legs and is clearly designed for speed. They are tan in color with a massive covering of black spots all over the body. The unique patterns of the spots are as distinctive as fingerprints are on humans.

Cheetahs areeasy to distinguish from other large cats as they are smaller in size, have a smaller head and ears than most other cats, have a spotted coat – and carry what are known as tear stripes that run from the corner of each eye to the side of their nose.

These meat eaters typically hunt and feedon impalas, wildebeest calves, gazelles and other smaller hoofed animals. They are diurnal, which means they hunt during the day and rely on tall grasses to hide when on the hunt. Cheetahs mostly hunt in either the late morning or early evening. A typical chase can last between 20 and 60-seconds with only half of them being successful. They have large non-retractable claws that are used to prevent skidding when cornering quickly, and to pull down an animal.

Interesting Cheetah Facts

Cheetahs are the fastest land animal in the world.

These cats are fast. They can typically reach speeds of up to 61 miles per hour, and can go from 0 to 60 Mph in just 3-seconds, which is faster than most super-cars. Their stride length becomes as long as 23ft at full pace, which means the cheetah spends more than half the time airborne.

Cheetahs don’t simply rely on their speed, they anticipate the escape tactics of different prey when hunting.

A team or researchers found that Cheetahs hunting tactics were specific to characteristics of their prey, and are far more sophisticated than thought. Research suggests that cheetah chases comprise two phases – the first phase involves rapid acceleration to catch up with prey. The second phase involves slowing down five to eight seconds before the end of the chase, where the cheetah will predict and match movements of the prey, as the distance between them closes.

The Cheetah tail helps them steer at high speed.

It may look large and cumbersome, but when on the chase, the tail of the Cheetah plays an important role. It actually helps to steer the cheetah as it runs, like a rudder on a boat.

It’s not a cheetah’s speed that’s their greatest attribute when hunting, it’s this agility — their skill at jumping sideways, changing directions quickly and slowing down almost instantly.

Cheetahs tire quickly.

Due to the energy required to run at such speed, cheetahs can only maintain a chase for a short time. If a hunt isn’t successful after 1 min, they usually stop to rest.

Fossils have revealed that Cheetahs date way, way back.

Carbon dating has estimated the age of some cheetah fossils as being between one and two million years old.

Cheetah can’t roar.

Unlike big cats like the lion, cheetahs are unable to roar. They are closer to your domestic house cat in that they can purr, both inhaling and exhaling.

Female adult cheetahs often live alone.

Known to be typically solitary animals, females raise their cubs alone for about a year before they leave. Male cheetahs sometimes will live in a small group of brothers from the same litter.

Cheetahs abandon around 10% of kills to larger predators.

In order to prevent losing their kill to another big and nasty carnivore (lions, hyenas or even vultures), Cheetahs will move their prey to a secluded spot, and eat quickly.

They will also hunt during the day when predators are generally asleep, and only end up abandoning a relatively small number of kills.

The cheetah’s spots act as camouflage.

The cheetah can have between 2,000 and 3,000 spots, to help it blend into surroundings when hunting or hiding from predators.

Cheetahs can mate any time of the year with gestation lasting just three months. A litter can range between 2 and 4 cubs.

Cheetah cubs have a very different coat to that of adults.

The cubs have a smoky colored, long, wooly coat called a mantle. It runs down their backs and acts as a form of camouflage. It helps to conceal the cubs and their mothers assist in this by constantly seeking places to ‘hide’ them to protect the cubs from predators until they are old enough to take care of themselves.

Female cheetahs will move their cubs to different hiding places every few days. Once the cubs reach 5 or 6 weeks of age, they will follow their mothers and even start eating from their kills. By the time the cubs reach one year of age, they are hunting on their own. At 15 months, they will move away from their mother and either find a mate or sometimes live in a small group.

Cheetahs don’t need to drink lots of water.

Having adapted for life in an environment where there is little water, cheetahs can go three to four days without a drop of it. That doesn’t mean that they don’t actually get any liquids at all. As it turns out, cheetahs are able to draw water from the animals they hunt, kill and eat.

Cheetahs start families early.

The male can reproduce at the age of one, while females can begin rearing families at the age of two. The pairing is mostly random as cheetahs will mate with many different cheetahs during their lifetime.

Females end up raising their young alone.

Males do not participate in the rearing of their young. Female cheetah are caring, affectionate and dedicated mothers.

Cheetah cubs have a shockingly high mortality rate.

One study in the 90’s the Serengeti found that 95% of cubs died before reaching adulthood. Many deaths were due to lions, but also other predators and disease.

Cheetahs are capable of turning mid-air.

The Cheetah is the only big cat that is capable of turning in mid-air while sprinting. Studies concluded cheetah are able to use their tails to change body orientation in mid-air, which further aids their incredible agility and hunting prowess.

It’s a myth that cheetahs abandon hunts due to overheating when running.

Two Harvard scientists in 1973 set-up an artificial experiment in a laboratory, that that concluded a cheetah would be forced to stop running when their body temperature reached 40.5 degrees Celsius. However, new research in real world conditions shows that cheetahs body temperatures never rise that high in the wild, and they don’t abandon hunts due to overheating.

Cheetahs were considered sacred.

Sumerians trained cheetahs for hunting back in 3000 BC. The Indian (then Hindustan) ruler Emperor Akbar had 1,000 trained cheetahs he used for hunting while in power from 1556 to 1605. Even King Tut’s tomb (1400 BC) contained various cheetah artifacts. It was because of this that historians believed that the cheetah was a sacred animal to ancient Egyptians.

Cheetahs are slowly disappearing from the planet.

At the turn of the 20th century there were well over 100,000 cheetahs. Today the numbers are considerably less with roughly 7,000 in Africa and a few hundred in Iran. They have been driven out of their historic range by humans, and are now only found in Algeria, Angola, Northern Niger, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, and Mozambique. The species is already almost extinct in Asia, with fewer than 50 individuals remaining in one isolated pocket of Iran.

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  3. “Olivia Troye: The Deep State’s Female Forrest Gump—As America descends into tyranny, one useful idiot always appears to deny reality”
    EMERALD ROBINSON
    DEC 4, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Liberal journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have recently released new allegations from a whistleblower regarding the origins of the censorship-industrial complex in a story they’re calling the CTIL Files. As the journalist Glenn Greenwald has publicly stated: this new story is certainly the biggest online censorship story since the Twitter Files.

    A few days after their new story broke, Taibbi and Shellenberger were invited to testify before Congress. This was their first encounter with the Democrats’ lead witness, a curious character and national security state “shapeshifter” named Olivia Troye who tried to debunk the whistleblower’s story about the U.S. government’s censorship industrial complex.

    The results were hilarious and awful. This play-by-play narrative of Olivia Troye’s stupidity was provided by Shellenberger on Twitter/X: “Another amazing moment came when North Carolina congressman Dan Bishop pressed the Democratic witness, former Mike Pence staffer Olivia Troye, if she was aware of the court rulings in the Missouri v. Biden case affirming that the White House, the FBI, and other agencies likely violated the First Amendment.

    “Now, I feel bad pointing out this moment, because I don’t have anything against Troye and it was obvious she had only been invited so Democrats like Plaskett had the option of taking a knee on any snap and asking ‘Ms. Troye, isn’t it true Donald Trump is the real threat here?’ whenever needed. But this exchange actually happened: “‘BISHOP: Are you aware of [the Missouri v. Biden case] that and does it affect your view that all of this is a figment of our imagination?’

    “‘TROYE: I am aware of the decision. I also want to clarify, I have not actually have never said that this is a conspiracy. You’ve not heard that comment from me.’

    At this moment, Shellenberger, keeping his eyes forward, slid the paper copy of Troye’s opening statement in my direction, and pointed to a line, right there in black and white: “TROYE: ‘Instead of continuing to spread conspiracy theories about government censorship, this Committee should instead focus on the very real and dangerous threat posed by the leading Republican candidate…’

    “Troye said the verbatim quote like eight seconds before denying it. I didn’t laugh, but when I looked over at the impressive deadpan on Shellenberger’s stone face — Michael can be really funny at times — I almost lost it.”

    Both Taibbi and Shellenberger seemed unaware of Olivia Troye’s disgraceful career as a useful idiot for America’s national security state — a female Forrest Gump of the Deep State.

    In fact, the person most responsible for unleashing the Fauci fraud on America is Olivia Troye — when she was VP Mike Pence’s “COVID advisor” during 2019 and 2020 on the infamous COVID Taskforce. The most troubling thing is that Troye had no qualifications to advise anyone during the COVID pandemic. She brought no formal medical expertise and no scientific expertise and no military background to the table.

    It’s hard not to suspect that Olivia Troye was picked as Pence’s “COVID advisor” in order to run the CIA’s plandemic playbook from inside the Trump White House. Luckily, Troye was too stupid to say silent and disappear back into the shadows. In 2021, she was brazen enough to document how her job was to misinform the Trump Administration at every turn in a Bulwark article. In that article, Troye wrote that the lab leak theory was so dangerous a threat to the IC that “ultimately CIA Director Gina Haspel intervened to defend the integrity of the intelligence community and insulate it from political pressure.”

    It’s also interesting that she described herself in that 2021 confession as “a former career intelligence professional.” Which agency did she formerly work for — before joining Pence’s staff? Why was she so hostile to the Wuhan lab leak theory? And why was she so hostile to Pompeo’s lab leak investigation? Is it simply a coincidence that Troye had exactly the same views of the lab leak theory as CIA Director Haspel? How would Troye know that key detail about Haspel’s “intervention” unless she was also working for the CIA?

    In September 2020, Troye was fired by the Trump Administration after someone finally figured out that she was essentially a double agent inside the White House on VP Pence’s staff. Within weeks of that firing, Troye had publicly launched an anti-GOP organization and was doing media appearances to support the Biden 2020 campaign — often with a framed portrait of Dr. Tony Fauci visible on her office wall.

    What’s even more incredible is that, one year later, when the Biden regime whores at 60 Minutes needed someone to discuss the controversial malady known as “Havana Syndrome” on air, there’s only one “national security official” who comes forward to share her symptoms: Olivia Troye. In that 60 Minutes episode, she tells the CIA’s favorite Scott Pelley about the “piercing feeling on the side of my head” that she developed one day. While she whines and whimpers for the cameras, Troye admits to Pelley that she is “a member of the intelligence community.”

    So, dear readers, it was no surprise to me that in 2023 — when America’s “intelligence community” gets caught destroying the First Amendment and gets hauled before Congress — Olivia Troye appears out of nowhere to represent the spooks who have turned our country into a banana republic. Who else could the CIA send out to spew the most inane and ridiculous delusions in front of the American people — in front of Congress — without a trace of embarrassment? There could be only one choice.

    After all, Olivia Troye is the ultimate useful idiot of our current failed state. This is the fetal alcohol syndrome-suffering face of our national security state — this is the person that our spymasters picked for themselves as their spokeswoman after all — and this is the brain which justified lockdowns and mandatory gene-altering drugs and the end of freedom of speech — and so “that piercing feeling you might have on the side of your head” right now is the realization that Olivia Troye has created “Havana’s Syndrome” for every American who still cares about our constitutional republic.”

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  9. “South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for some time has been seen as a favorite to be Trump’s next running mate. She has made clear she would be interested in the job, and she is one of the rare potential picks who Trump has publicly acknowledged would be on his list of possible candidates. “Oh, absolutely,” Noem said on Newsmax in September when asked whether she would consider a slot on the ticket with Trump. “I would in a heartbeat.”

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  14. she is 100% right on this.
    FTA
    Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) warned Sunday that the United States needs to “wake up” and take “aggressive action” against China and prevent it from buying up farmland in the United States.

    Noem’s statement comes a few days after she backed Congressional legislation that would prevent China and other countries, including Russia, North Korea, and Iran, from purchasing farmland on United States soil. The South Dakota governor hopes that the bill becomes a part of the National Defense Authorization Act and warned that China aims to eliminate the U.S. to become “the world-dominating power.”

    “So for 25 years, I’ve worked on food policy, I’ve watched them buy up our fertilizer companies, our chemical companies, they own our processing systems, now they’re purchasing up our land, and America needs to wake up and recognize that aggressive action needs to happen,” Noem said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “We’ve been working to address it in our state, but Congress needs to take action.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/noem-warns-us-take-aggressive-action-china-farmland

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  16. there is NOTHING wrong with buying AMERCIAN at all!
    FTA
    In point of fact, it’s hard to see why any state government would be investing taxpayer dollars overseas at all; “Buy American” used to be an accepted practice in government spending at any level. (Remember when motorcycle cops rode Harley-Davidsons?) Surely, state pension funds and the like can find on-shore investments that will meet their capital growth requirements. Yes, that’s populism, and yes, that’s in part what Donald Trump ran on in 2016. But it’s also good sense to avoid sending money to unfriendly powers that have global ambitions and are willing to do awful things to realize those ambitions.

    But China? That’s even more egregious. China is a country that puts on a happy face but at its heart – that heart being the CCP – it is not a friend of the United States, nor even to its own population. Listing China’s sins of late would take a while, but they include trafficking in fentanyl, intellectual property theft, mass arrests, and incarceration of minority groups (China’s treatment of their Uyghur minority is particularly egregious, although you wouldn’t know it from listening to the United Nations or the legacy media).

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/03/about-time-pennsylvania-considering-divesting-state-funds-from-communist-china-n2167121

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  17. “Federal Agencies Report Breaches by Iranian Hackers, Numerous U.S. States Affected. US and Israeli authorities assure us that this was done by Iran”
    RYAN DELARME
    DEC 4, 2023

    EXCERPT: “According to U.S. and Israeli authorities, numerous organizations in the United States were compromised by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted an Israeli-made industrial control device. A minor water authority in western Pennsylvania was among the many organizations compromised.

    “The victims span multiple U.S. states,” an advisory emailed to The Associated Press late Friday by the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. The number of compromised organizations was not specified, and no other details were provided.

    Federal officials informed Matthew Mottes, chairman of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, which discovered it had been infiltrated on November 25, that the same group also compromised four other utilities and an aquarium, on Thursday.

    Even though there is no evidence linking Iran to the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which instigated the conflict in Gaza, cybersecurity experts anticipate that pro-Palestinian hacktivists and Iranian-backed hackers will intensify cyberattacks against Israel and its allies in the wake of the incident. Indeed, that has occurred…..”

    https://postliberalnews.substack.com/p/federal-agencies-report-breaches

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  18. nichan
    December 4, 2023 2:31 pm

    Risch, Crapo, Hagerty Demanding Answers on Admin’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Mobilization Plans

    WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to President Biden regarding his failure to appropriately respond to concerns about an executive order that requires federal agencies to engage in voter mobilizations and the potential use of taxpayer dollars for these efforts. The Senators are raising alarm over Executive Order 14019 given it potentially violates the Antideficiency Act, which explicitly prohibits agencies from expending federal funds without Congressional authorization.

    “We are concerned by your failure to respond to our previous inquiry on May 10, 2023, regarding Executive Order 14019 on ‘Promoting Access to Voting,’” the Senators wrote. “This policy directive merits congressional oversight both as a general matter and under the Antideficiency Act. Accordingly, we write to reiterate our request for information regarding the implementation of this executive order, including copies of the plans submitted to the White House.”

    “Federal agencies should be focused on their defined missions in a nonpartisan manner, not using taxpayer funds for voter mobilization efforts with potentially partisan impacts,” the Senators continued. “In other words, it’s not the job of the federal government to drive voter turnout.”

    In order to determine the voter mobilization and electioneering activities to which the Biden Administration has devoted taxpayer resources, the Senators once again requested that the Biden Administration provide the American people the following basic information:

    Copies of all federal agency “strategic plans” required under the Order and a list of which agencies have not yet submitted a strategic plan;
    The strategic plan required by the General Services Administration under the Order;
    The recommendations provided by the Office of Personnel Management under the Order; and
    All procedures established by the Attorney General under the Order.

    Co-signers of the letter include Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) along with Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Rodger Wicker (R-Miss.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Bill Casidy (R-La.), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.).

    A copy of the letter can be found here.

    Click to access FINAL-EO-14019-Letter-to-POTUS.pdf

    More :

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/29/biden-admin-called-out-for-its-hidden-voter-turnout-plans-ahead-of-2024-election-n2631781

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