The Secretary Bird

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Its preferred habitat is open savannas or grasslands in sub-Saharan areas. It hunts in these open areas, using its long legs to strike prey and stomp them to death. It is famous for eating snakes, but it also hunts insects and small mammals. They mate for life and one pair inhabits and defends a territory of up to 50km. Pairs lay eggs in a nest of their own making at the top of Acacia trees. They live 10-15 years in the wild and up to 19 in captivity. They are classed as endangered, with their numbers rapidly decreasing due to habitat loss.

Interesting Secretary Bird Facts

No one is quite sure where it got its name.

There are a few different theories, including that it was named by Dutch Settlers because of its resemblance to 19th Century Lawyers’ Secretaries. Another theory suggests that the name is a corruption of an originally Arabic word, meaning “hunter bird”.

Its scientific name means “the archer of snakes”.

This is because secretary birds love to hunt snakes. They use their large wingspan to distract the snake, while their scaley legs prevent snake bites.

They rarely fly.

They move around on foot most of the time, only taking to the air to reach their nests or for courtship displays.

They have a wingspan of 2m.

This is huge! They use their wings while hunting to distract their prey, and also during mating rituals.

They are one of just two birds of prey that hunt on the ground.

The only other birds that hunt on the ground are caracaras.

Secretary birds have one of the strongest (and fastest) kicks in the animal kingdom.

They can kick with a force 5-6 times their body weight. It happens fast too, in 15 milliseconds the foot can go from still to making contact.

They have been seen hunting juvenile big cat.

They’ve been spotted using their stomping hunting technique to kill juvenile cheetahs, and also baby gazelles.

They hunt in pair.

Monogamous pairs, and sometimes familiar groups, will hunt together.

Secretary birds mate for life.

Once paired up, they will stay together for life. They even use the same nest year after year.

They have elaborate mating display.

Even though they mate for life, they still perform their elaborate mating displays. They will perform “pendulum flights”, swooping up and down again. And on the ground, they dance together.

Secretary birds have large territories.

Pairs of secretary birds will inhabit, and defend, areas of up to 50 km2. However, many can be spotted together around important resources, such as watering holes.

They make their nests on the top of thorny trees.

This is almost always in an acacia tree. The nests are large, platform-like and often softened with grass and dung.

They lay 2-3 blue-green eggs.

These eggs are a few inches long and hatch after 45 days of incubation.

Sadly, the secretary bird is endangered.

This is because their grassland habitats are cleared and used for cattle.

SOURCE: FACT ANIMAL

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  1. Morning All!
    we slept downstairs last evening. and we got hubby some cough syrup yesterday afternoon. we had cold medicine stuff that treats (also) a cough–but it seems that other stuff for symptoms he didn’t really have, was drying out his sinuses and making things worse. so this was just for coughs. he slept from about 8:30 till 4:30 this morning. his breathing was still a little rough, and he coughed two or three times during the night–but they were nothing like he was doing. the other caveat is that he was sitting up most of the night–but still sleeping soundly.
    AND the goldenseal that jam recommended arrived a day early…so he’s trying that as well.
    sigh
    fingers crossed

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    1. That’s a little better at least. I have an issue with my sinuses drip, drip, dripping while the inside of my nose is dry, dry, dry. I keep a small jar of Mentholatum close at hand to use in my nose. Mom and I have both used it for many years – it’s not as strong as Vicks.

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  2. Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit
    @drawandstrike
    Let me explain what this means for those of you in Rio Linda:

    The United States Attorney General does not actually have the authority to pick a private citizen from civilian life and instantly grant them the massive federal law enforcement and investigatory powers reserved for Special Counsels, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, faster than a speeding locomotive, etc. etc.

    Able to overcome all state and international boundaries.

    Remember, before he was granted Special Counsel status, David Weiss was already a federal prosecutor, the US Attorney for the entire state of Delaware.

    Same with Robert Hur and John Durham, two other Special Counsels of recent import. Both were already federal prosecutors in the federal system.

    Jack Smith?

    As far as federal statutes go, Jack Smith was a private citizen livin’ the la vida loca life in Europe when Merrick Garland tapped him to come back to the US to be the new Special Counsel to investigate Donald J. Trump and put his ass in prison.

    He was not a US federal prosecutor and hadn’t been for years, since 2008.

    Imagine that.

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  8. Collin Rugg
    @CollinRugg
    JUST IN: Only 3 names will remain sealed out of the 150 names of associates connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell set to be released in the new year.

    13 people fought to keep their names sealed however were unsuccessful.

    The three names that will remain sealed were “classic outsiders peripheral to the events at issue” and weren’t associated with Epstein. One of the three sealed names was wrongly identified in a photo.

    “This latest release will apparently have limited redactions — and thus possibly fill in some of the lingering questions about who helped Epstein,” reported the Miami Herald.

    The following video was a deposition on January 25, 2012. Epstein refused to answer almost every question.

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  9. Mike Davis 🇺🇸
    @mrddmia
    It was President Biden who had his Deputy White House Counsel, Jonathan Su, waive President Trump’s claim of executive privilege that led to the unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home raid on the Office of Former President for presidential records that President Trump was allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.

    It was senior Biden Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo that went from the number three office in the Justice Department to Alvin Bragg’s office in New York to resurrect a zombie case against President Trump under a bogus legal theory.

    This is lawfare driven by President Biden, and this is very destructive to our country.

    Thanks to @IngrahamAngle
    for having me on.

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  10. Debbie Dooley
    @Crimsontider
    🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
    ******BREAKING NEWS******
    In Curling v. Raffensperger Judge Totenberg held a conference with both the Plaintiffs and the Defendents in preparation for the upcoming hearing on January 9th. Documents at link below.

    Raffensperger’s attorneys requested that the Judge
    rule that the plaintiffs could not call Raffensperger to testify. Judge Totenberg denied their request.

    It is likely that Raffensperger’s lawyer will file an appeal because Raffensperger doesn’t want to testify under oath.

    Rattensperger likely doesn’t want to testify about one of the SoS election laptops in Fulton that was assessed remotely, and files erased in October of 2020. The SoS was notified of this breach and the tech company contracted by the SoS was given the ticket to work on and instructed Fulton Election Board workers to call them to work on the issue because phone calls aren’t discoverable like emails are and the SoS has a NDA with the tech company.

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  11. woke is not working out for WH. gay staffer tried bringing other country’s male staffer to his room while overseas…endangering the First Family
    FTA
    Asked about the incident, LaRosa, who is openly gay, told DailyMail.com that he had only tried to bring one person up to his room, a male staffer from another country’s delegation he said he met at the conference. He also insisted that he left the White House on good terms to take a job in the private sector.

    When he left, White House officials publicly feted him for his 18 months of service in the East Wing. But privately, sources tell DailyMail.com, colleagues were anxious to see him gone with no fuss.

    ‘There was a long line of chaotic behavior, outbursts, unreliability, unpredictability, and lack of judgment that went into his last six months before his departure,’ one official said.

    Colleagues bit their tongues for over a year, until LaRosa recently started criticizing the White House on cable news programs and social media.

    Presenting himself as a former high-level staffer with deep knowledge of the inner workings of the Biden administration, he now makes regular appearances as a political commentator on MSNBC and CNN. And he hasn’t been shy about sticking his finger in the eyes of some of his old colleague as he dissects news of the day.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12886133/Jill-Biden-press-secretary-Michael-Larosa-dates-hotel-NATO.html

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    1. Ummmm…..”LaRosa, pictured here with Jill Biden at his farewell drinks, now works for Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm whose founder was a top fundraiser for Donald Trump”

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  17. this is disgusting and a hate crime!
    “teenagers” at a school in vegas carved a swastika into the back on a Jewish autistic teenager in a bathroom. this was in MARCH–which predates all the hamas stuff. clearly a hate crime. the mother should sue not only the school, but the kids and THEIR parents for this. the teenager no longer feels safe using that bathroom at school.

    https://nypost.com/2023/12/21/news/family-of-autistic-jewish-teen-who-had-swastika-carved-on-his-back-sues-school/

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  18. how come laws do not pertain to illegals? isn’t this somehow a violation of the equal protection clause?

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  19. In case you haven’t seen this, Pat…

    Hello, everybody—
    Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and prayers. The surgery takes place either late this morning or early this afternoon. If all goes well I can be discharged to home tomorrow. Please continue to pray for me…surgery always has risks. I’ve made it clear that if something happens to me during the operation that all possible means are to be used to keep me alive.
    Blessings on you all.

    (PAVACA here)

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  20. Wow! This is very interesting…..not being a “science” person, most of it pretty much goes over my head but it is certainly a fascinating concept…

    “The Miraculous Nature of Water: The structure of water is transformed by human thought”

    GREG REESE
    DEC 22, 2023
    (Video)
    EXCERPT: “The stated mission of modern science is to dominate and control nature. It was born of the philosophies of Francis Bacon who suggested we could learn “to command nature in action”, and of René Descartes who wrote that mankind could become “the masters and possessors of nature.” This was science flipped on its head because the previous scientific philosophy saw nature as a perfect creation of god to be observed and understood. Take for instance, water. Without water, we would not exist. And so the true value is in understanding the nature of water so that we can flow with it, not control it.

    For over 20 years, Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, studied the groundbreaking science of how the molecular structure in water transforms when exposed to human words, thoughts, and sounds. Dr. Emoto would simply label a sample of water with different written words such as “love and gratitude” or “I hate you.” He would then freeze the water samples and capture them as they crystallized with high-speed microscopic photography. The results were astonishing. The crystals formed from water exposed to the words, “love and gratitude” were clear, attractive, and symmetrical. And the crystals formed from “I hate you” were distorted, asymmetrical, and opaque.

    Over and over again, water samples exposed to positive intention formed the hexagonal snowflake-like patterns indicative of structured water found in nature, and samples exposed to negative intention would lose its structure and mutate, which was also found to be true with samples of polluted water.

    Decades of repeated experiments have clearly shown that water is transformed when exposed to human word, thought, and sound. Dr. Emoto theorized that this is because water has consciousness. Russian studies have shown that water is imprinted by the energy of its environment, and it retains memory from everything it comes in contact with, even when separated.

    During the discovery of the genome, Dr. Bruce Lipton was studying cellular behavior at Stanford University and discovered that our genes switch on or off based on their environment. Human beings are made of about 50 trillion cells and each cell is its own little creature that eats, digests, reproduces, and forms communities. Each individual cell is constantly reading the quality of its environment through it’s outer membrane skin. This includes stressful emotions sensed via chemicals in the bloodstream.

    And when we are stressed, negative, or fearful, then our cells will switch into their own version of fight or flight mode. They will stop the process of self-healing and begin the process of self-defense. And conversely, when we are feeling positive emotions, our cells will be switched into self-healing. And the body will thrive. Dr. Lipton’s discoveries were ignored by modern science, who opted for drugs and surgery over love and happiness….
    —————–
    To thrive, this natural propulsion system requires a connection to the Earth, sunlight, positive human connection, and peace of mind. Our body is made up of over fifty trillion cells and each one’s health is dependent upon our own. Our happiness, or lack thereof, not only affects our health, it affects the health of everyone who enters our environment. So if you’d like to make the world a better place, then learn how to be happy.”

    https://gregreese.substack.com/p/the-miraculous-nature-of-water

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    2. this is intriguing.
      but certainly understandable in regards to how environments shape us. contrast the nature and outlook of a child raised with positive reinforcement versus one raised in a negative one.

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          1. Well, that’s one thing I’ve never done…animals, yes, but not plants. LOL – I guess my constant tending is one form of communication….maybe they pick up my enjoyment in growing things?

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  22. NF: Been there, done that! Happened the very first time I got on FB after I moved back here and someone I wanted nothing to do with in VA sent me a friend request! I promptly quit using FB – didn’t get back on again until 2015!!!


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  25. Sorry, Pat….bright sun today, up to 40 already….they’re talking possibly 60 on Xmas day but a LOT of rain, may turn to some snow that night. But it plunges after that with highs in the low 30’s/high 20’s. I put Wheezer’s food out when I got up @ 5 am- at some point, he came and ate – I looked over and could tell some was gone. When I got up, I saw he was still there so I went out and sat with him for a few minutes. Put him on my lap and rubbed and rubbed…he was just purring to beat the band! I can hear fluid in his ears as well as his chest but I’m not far enough along with him that I can apply the ear mite medicine yet. If I could just get a towel wrapped tightly around him, I could clean them out and apply it but we’re not at that stage yet. He wanted to come inside again but I can’t chance him sneezing and leaving germs inside for Jake to pick up. He is shut in the bedroom since he was being a PITA bugging me to watch him eat – when he does that and I know he has food/water (just filled both yesterday), he gets the door shut on him!

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    1. LOL
      about Jake
      i hope you can eventually earn Wheezer’s compliance!
      I am sooooo jealous of your temps!
      we had snow and a little bit of a warm up–enough to melt the snow off the banks and run right into the driveway at the top where it promptly froze! now it’s an ice skating ring right outside the garage. hubby drove yesterday afternoon…nothing past the top of the driveway, but damn the top is slippery

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    1. “This is so on target. Is there now one set of rules of one class of people and a different set of rules for others. This is not the American way. We profess to treat everyone equally. If one class of people is allowed to plagarize on dissertations and peer reviewed publications, it implies that they are unable to do the work without cheating. That they are unequal for the position based on their own qualifications. Just think about the implications of that…”

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      1. I don’t think they think enough about the unequal treatment–if they did, they would be furious because as it’s written above–it implies they cannot compete on a level playing field. so instead, they choose the easy way.

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  29. ultra maggot pardons all Americans for marijuana use–not selling or transporting though–just those convicted of federal charges for use. time to buy votes!
    FTA
    President Joe Biden took major action ahead of the holiday and pardoned all Americans arrested, prosecuted, or convicted on federal charges for marijuana use, following through on his 2020 campaign promise to expunge cannabis use offenses.

    Biden signed a proclamation Friday that forgives U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents caught by law enforcement for possessing the drug and charged, going far beyond the sweeping actions he took last year for thousands of people convicted of possession.

    The new action includes “additional offenses of simple possession and use of marijuana under federal and D.C. law,” the White House said in a statement issued Friday morning.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-pardons-americans-federal-marijuan-use-charges

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    1. IMO, this is the right thing to do – they shouldn’t be charged for simply using it. A bad law is a bad law, especially one established for purely selfish purposes!

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  31. WVcoalman
    December 22, 2023 12:41 pm

    Don’t know if this is being reported widely, however, Thursday, Federal Judge, Irene Berger, of the Southern District of West Virginia, has DISMISSED the lawsuit filed by John Anthony Castro to keep President Trump off the West Virginia ballot in 2024.

    The judge found that Castro could not demonstrate “standing”. Castro had described himself as a candidate for president and said Trump’s presence on the ballot would harm his chances. U.S. District Judge Irene Berger found that the evidence submitted removes “any doubt that Mr. Castro’s purported ‘campaign’ exists as a vehicle for pursuing litigation, not votes.”

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      1. Thank you! I wish I knew how to copy it from M’s to your blog instead of having to upload everything again. Maybe I’ll do a little research and find out if there is a way. It should be easy/peasy since both are WP blogs.

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              1. I write mine in OpenOffice, the free Word-like program, then copy/paste. I can’t do that once it’s on the blog. Rather, I could but it’s a complicated process.

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      3. OK, they are scheduled. Sheesh, what a PITA! Trying to get the time/date set right – I have to schedule at M’s for the night before and every time I specify a time, once I’ve scheduled it, the time has flipped by 1 hour (time difference). Your blog isn’t a problem since I just schedule it for the am on that date.

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  34. woo hoo!

    TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Online
    Wolf
    December 22, 2023 14:52

    🎉🥳🎊
    Supreme Court rejects Jack Smith’s request for justices to quickly hear Trump immunity dispute
    (Citizen Free Press linked to CNN. They were probably first to get the story out.)

    The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by special counsel Jack Smith to fast-track arguments on whether Donald Trump has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office – a move that will likely delay his trial.

    The court did not explain its reasoning and there were no noted dissents.

    The court’s decision is a major blow to Smith, who made an extraordinary gamble when he asked the justices to take the rare step of skipping a federal appeals court and quickly deciding a fundamental issue in his election subversion criminal case against Trump.

    Both sides will still have the option of appealing an eventual ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals up to the high court, but the court’s move is a major victory for Trump, whose strategy of delay in the criminal case included mounting a protracted fight over the immunity question, which must be settled before his case goes to trial.

    An expedited review of the issue is already underway at the DC Circuit, which has scheduled oral arguments for January 9. The election subversion trial is currently set to begin in March…

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  35. now half of Ford dealers say they won’t sell evs
    FTA
    Ford said on Thursday that half of all 1,550 Ford dealers chose to sell electric vehicles in 2024—down from two-thirds that said this time last year that they would opt in to sell EVs for 2023.

    The other half of Ford dealers will sell—and service—ICE and hybrid models. “EV adoption rates vary across the country, and we believe our dealers know their market best,” Ford spokesman Martin Günsberg told the Detroit Free Press.

    The slack buy-in from Ford dealerships comes even after Ford relaxed its requirements for dealers in the EV dealer program last January that mandated fewer L2 chargers and extended installation deadlines. Certified Ford EV dealers were once required to spend $500,000 for a single public DC fast charger, or $1 million if they wanted to be in the Elite tier of EV dealers. The extra $500,000 was for another fast charger and demo units, among other things. But the high price tag caused Ford dealers to balk.

    https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Only-Half-of-All-Ford-Dealers-Agree-to-Sell-EVs-Next-Year.html

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  39. “Normally, polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are confined inside the Arctic Circle. Only above the poles can the stratosphere become cold enough to create these rare clouds. However, during this week’s outbreak of PSCs, the clouds have spilled out of the Arctic to places they are seldom seen. Last night, Vincent Phillips witnessed their aurora-like colors near Liverpool, UK:”

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  40. 12/22/23 • BIG TECH › NEWS
    “‘Normalizing Surveillance From a Young Age’: More Schools Using Facial Recognition, AI Technologies to Monitor Kids: Parents and students are concerned about the growing use of artificial intelligence technologies in the classroom, according to a survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology. Privacy experts warn the technologies are about “manipulating and controlling behavior by instilling fear” in children.”
    By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

    EXCERPT: “Parents and students are increasingly concerned about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the classroom, especially facial recognition technology, according to a survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). The CDT report, released Dec. 12, found that more than half of parents and students surveyed were concerned about the use of facial recognition and other AI technologies, including location tracking systems, in schools.

    Teachers, who also were surveyed, showed a higher degree of acceptance of the technologies. According to the report, a growing number of schools have implemented such tools. Proponents of the technologies argue they can help protect school environments from violent threats, such as school shooters. Privacy advocates argue the technologies that pose a risk to the privacy and personal data of students, have not been proven to increase school safety.

    ‘Deep disconnect between schools, parents, and students’ — According to CDT, “experimental, potentially harmful safety tools are being used regardless of student, parent concerns” — including technologies “we previously thought ‘too outlandish.’”

    These include predictive analytics, remote proctoring, facial recognition, law enforcement data sharing, weapon detection systems and student location tracking….”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/surveillance-kids-school-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition/

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  41. EXCERPT: “….The results of a recent academic study are startling and controversial, to say the least.

    The precarious Israeli stock market activity observed in the days leading up to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 suggests that a specific, nameless entity possessed knowledge of the impending assault and exploited the ensuing hysteria for personal gain.

    The paper, authored by Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Joshua Mitts of New York University School of Law, concludes that unidentified individuals were cognizant of the impending operation and intended to illicitly profit, as evidenced by a “significant spike” in short selling of listed Israeli companies. (By short selling, or shorting, investors wager that a particular stock will underperform and profit if their prediction is accurate.)

    Contrary to conventional trading, shorting is an exceedingly uncommon practice, and justifiably so. Numerous investment advisors caution against the practice under all circumstances, as breaches of projected poor performance can result in enormous losses.

    Remarkably, the researchers discovered that the volume of short selling on Israeli companies in the days leading up to October 7 “far exceeded short selling that occurred during numerous other periods of crisis, including the recession following the financial crisis, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, and the COVID-19 pandemic.”

    Now, Israeli authorities are investigating the allegations made by the U.S. researchers:

    Research by law professors Robert Jackson Jr from New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University found significant short-selling of shares leading up to the attacks, which triggered a war nearly two months old.

    “Days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come,” they wrote, citing short interest in the MSCI Israel Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that “suddenly, and significantly, spiked” on Oct. 2 based on data from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). “And just before the attack, short selling of Israeli securities on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) increased dramatically,” they wrote in their 66-page report.

    The TASE subsequently directed Reuters to the Israel Securities Authority, which issued the following statement: “The matter is known to the authority and is under investigation by all the relevant parties.” The securities regulator’s spokesperson refrained from providing further details, and the Israeli police did not respond promptly either.

    They wrote that Leumi (LUMI.TA), the largest bank in Israel, generated profits of $3.2 billion shekels ($862 million) from the additional short-selling of 4.43 million new shares sold short between September 14 and October 5.”…..

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/did-israel-possess-foreknowledge

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  43. “Daily Wire Movie A Hit With Daily Wire Movie Critics, Reports Daily Wire On Daily Wire”
    ENTERTAINMENT · Dec 22, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    NASHVILLE, TN – The hot new Daily Wire movie is the biggest movie of the year and it’s only available at Daily Wire, reports Daily Wire.

    “This movie is a timeless masterpiece, a triumph of storytelling, and a groundbreaking cinematic achievement,” declared Producer, Director, Writer, Lead Actor, and Key Grip Jeremy Boreing. “This film will change cinema forever.”

    Other Daily Wire critics agreed in pieces they wrote on the new Daily Wire Movie on Daily Wire. “This is easily the best movie I’ve ever seen,” wrote Daily Wire film critic Christian Toto. “It is nearly indistinguishable from a real movie. You can tell the production crew worked hard using actual cameras to film actors saying words. My favorite part was Jeremy Boreing.”

    Daily Wire critics commend the film for its edgy use of conservative values that uphold traditional Judeo-Christian views on life, liberty, and Birch Gold. To increase its legitimacy among actual movies, the film reportedly features a real script, a film score, and closing credits. “Look, it’s a real movie!” said Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro.

    “If you see one movie this year, you should see this movie!” reported Daily Wire in an exclusive report on Daily Wire film projects.

    According to Daily Wire, the film is just the first of many more projects to come, including an upcoming film entitled Jeremy Boreing Makes Out With Many Hot Women, Starring Jeremy Boreing. The film, according to Daily Wire sources, is the most anticipated film of 2025.

    At publishing time, Daily Wire’s new film received an award for Best Picture at the Annual Daily Wire Awards.”

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  47. “Federal judge blocks California gun control law against firearms in public places. The judge called the legislation “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked a California law that would have banned the carrying of firearms in many public places, calling the legislation “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”

    According to Fox News, US District Judge Cormac Carney granted a preliminary injunction blocking the law, adding that it removes people’s ability to defend themselves and their families.

    The law was signed into law in September by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and was scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1. The legislation banned people from carrying concealed firearms in places such as public parks, playgrounds, and religious institutions, regardless if they have a concealed weapon carry permit or not.

    Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, which sued to block the law, said in a statement, “California progressive politicians refuse to accept the Supreme Court’s mandate from the Bruen case and are trying every creative ploy they can imagine to get around it. The Court saw through the State’s gambit.”

    He added that if that law had gone into effect, permit holders “wouldn’t be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.”

    Michel noted that Wednesday’s ruling makes Californian residents safer because it is a deterrent to criminals when law-abiding citizens can defend themselves.”

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  50. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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