JPMorgan Chase & Co. had ties to Jeffrey Epstein that ran deeper than the bank has acknowledged and extended years beyond when it decided to close the convicted sex offender's accounts. Mary Erdoes, a top lieutenant to Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, made two trips to Epstein's townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in 2011 and 2013, when Epstein still was a client of the bank, said the people familiar with the matter. She exchanged dozens of emails with him and discussed sharing with him fees related to a charitable fund the bank was considering launching. John Duffy, who ran JPMorgan's U.S. private bank for the ultrarich, went to Epstein's townhouse for a meeting in April 2013, the people said. One month later, the private bank renewed an authorization allowing Epstein to borrow money against his accounts despite repeated warnings from compliance staffers about his unusual banking practices. Justin Nelson, one of Epstein's bankers at JPMorgan, had about a half-dozen meetings at Epstein's townhouse between 2014 and 2017. He also traveled to Epstein's ranch in New Mexico in 2016. Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008 and forced to register as a sex offender. The new details show that JPMorgan was treating Epstein like a star client after his first conviction and despite repeated warnings from its own employees. And after JPMorgan closed Epstein's accounts, bankers kept meeting with him for years.

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Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December 2019. Another researcher, still in training, was also in the room to watch and learn. This particular experiment involved exposing the animals to a highly controversial lab-engineered strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus. Scientists had taken an avian influenza virus that was mostly dangerous to birds and manipulated it in ways that potentially increased its threat to humans. The research was supported [by] Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. On that December day, two experienced researchers from Kawaoka's team were helping train a colleague as they collected samples from ferrets. One of their most important pieces of personal protective equipment was the air-purifying respirator that each wore. As one of the senior researchers prepared to start collecting samples from the next round of ferrets, the trainee realized there was a problem with their respirator. The powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) hose had somehow disconnected from the unit. The detached hose dangled loose in the lab's potentially contaminated air. In the end, the trainee apparently didn't become infected. But how the university and the lab oversight system handled the incident should be cause for concern.

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A landmark Covid-19 vaccine injury class action lawsuit has been filed against the Australian government and the medicines regulator. The nation-wide suit, which reportedly has 500 members including three named applicants, seeks redress for those allegedly left injured or bereaved by the Covid-19 vaccines. One of the applicants who suffered a severe heart condition after getting the Pfizer jab is even claiming there was 'cover-up' during the vaccine rollout which hid the potential risks. The federal government, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Department of Health - in addition to a number of senior public servants - are all named as parties to the class action, which was filed in the New South Wales Federal Court. The named parties are accused of negligence in their approval and monitoring of Covid-19 vaccines, breach of statutory duty and misfeasance in public office. Instructing solicitor Natalie Strijland, of Brisbane law firm NR Barbi, said the action would argue the TGA caused considerable harm and damage by failing to regulate the COVID-19 vaccinations properly. The class action names three applicants, one of whom is 41-year old father-of-two Gareth O'Gradie. Mr O'Gradie, a teacher from Melbourne, was left with a 20-centimetre scar down his chest after developing severe pericarditis inflammation of the lining around the heart following his first Pfizer vaccination in July 2021. In February 2022 doctors performed open heart surgery to remove his the pericardial sac lining his heart.

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Of more than 8,000 people who filed claims with the federal government alleging injuries from COVID-19 vaccines, three have now received cash payouts, new government data shows. Their combined compensation? Less than $5,000. One person who had an anaphylactic reaction to the shot received $2,020 from the government's Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, or CICP. Another who got myocarditis an inflammation of the heart muscle from the jab received $1,583, while a second myocarditis sufferer got $1,033, according to the data, which was released last week. A third myocarditis patient's claim was approved but the person was denied compensation due to lack of eligible expenses. The CICP has doled out just three small awards confirms [that] the government program is ill-suited to adjudicate these cases. The no-fault tribunal run by the Health Resources and Services Administration is stymied by statute in the relief it can offer, with compensation limited to unreimbursed medical expenses and up to $50,000 a year in lost wages. A death benefit of up to $422,035 may also be available. There's no allowance for pain and suffering, no punitive damages, no attorneys' fees, no public hearings or opinions, no right to judicial appeal. But it's the only legal recourse available for the unlucky few who have experienced serious adverse effects from the vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccine makers are indemnified by the government and are not party to CICP proceedings.

Note: This article attributes vaccine injuries to the "unlucky few." However, an increasing amount of evidence makes it clear that vaccine injuries are more common than what we're told, as revealed in countless anecdotal stories of those significantly harmed from the vaccine and Pfizer's very own disclosed documents. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on coronavirus vaccines from reliable major media sources.

The centibillionaire clubthose with over $100 billion in wealthlikely will be welcoming a new member soon. Forbes now estimates Michael Bloomberg's wealth at $94.5 billion, making him the sixth richest American. If his wealth continues to grow at the rate it's grown since 2013, Michael Bloomberg will join the centibillionaire club by the end of the year. At that point, he will be the 10th American to have reached that wealth level. Forty years ago, the mere billionaire club had just 13 members, and Daniel Ludwig, the richest American at the time, had a total wealth (adjusted for inflation) of $6.15 billion. Today, $1 billion of wealth in one person's hands often means far too much political power, but that astounding amount of money is now considered a rounding error in the context of America's largest fortunes. America's 20 richest billionaires spent more than the entire Biden campaign on the 2020 elections. According to political scientists Jeffrey Winters and Benjamin Page, the political influence of each of the 400 richest Americans is 22,000 times that of the average member of the bottom 90%. What all Americans whose wealth has passed the $100 billion threshold have in common ... is tax avoidance. Between 2013 and 2018, none made federal income tax payments greater than 11% of their wealth growthand all but two paid less than 5%. Even Ronald Reagan recognized that it's "crazy" for a society to tax a bus driver at a higher rate than a millionaire.

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The original coronavirus lockdowns had 'little to no' effect on pandemic death tolls in the US, UK and Europe, a controversial report suggests. Economists who carried out a meta-analysis found draconian restrictions imposed in spring 2020 including stay-at-home orders, compulsory masks and social distancing only reduced Covid mortality by 0.2 per cent. They warned that lockdowns caused 'enormous economic and social costs' and concluded they were 'ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument' going forward. The review, led by a Johns Hopkins University professor, argued that border closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality, reducing deaths by just 0.1 per cent. There has been a growing consensus that draconian restrictions have led to a rise in non-Covid deaths, thought to be people whose conditions worsened during the pandemic when they could not access healthcare. In the latest report, the researchers admit their review does not answer 'why' lockdowns didn't achieve their ultimate goal in saving lives but they float a number of explanations. They claimed the best explanation for differing Covid death rates in countries was 'differences in population age and health' and the 'quality of the health sector. But they could not rule out 'less obvious factors, such as culture, communication, and coincidences'. Covid deaths are also skewed by the volume of testing each country carries out, which many scientists have highlighted as the driving factor behind Britain's large toll.  

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When the COVID outbreak began in early 2020, a number of studies predicted that government-imposed lockdowns would prove highly effective in preventing deaths. A widely cited epidemiological paper by researchers at Imperial College London predicted that such measures as bans on travel and shelter-in-place mandates would reduce mortality from the virus by 98%. But now, a new analysis by three prominent economists that surveys all empirical data from the academic literature measuring the relationship between death and lockdowns finds that forced restrictions didn't work. Their conclusion: Lockdowns reduced mortalities by a minuscule 0.2%. The study defines lockdowns as "compulsory non-pharmaceutical interventions," or what's commonly known as NPIs. They include restrictions on travel, school closures, bans on international travel, restrictions on movement within a country's borders, and mask mandates. The authors note that lockdowns were virtually universal. Of the 186 nations followed by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, all but one - the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros - imposed at least one NPI by the end of March 2020. The U.S. paid a huge price in lost jobs, businesses that never reopened, and kids deprived of going to school - not to mention the deep malaise that caused a pandemic of suicides. The world's citizens left to their own devices would have handled the pandemic better, and ... fewer lives would perhaps have been lost with no lockdowns at all.

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More than half of the world's population will be overweight or obese by 2035 unless governments take decisive action to curb the growing epidemic of excess weight, a report has warned. About 2.6 billion people globally 38% of the world population are already overweight or obese. But on current trends that is expected to rise to more than 4 billion people (51%) in 12 years' time, according to research by the World Obesity Federation. Obesity among children and young people is on course to increase faster than among adults. By 2035 it is expected to be at least double the rate seen in 2020, according to the federation's latest annual World Obesity Atlas report. It is expected to rise by 100% among boys under 18, leaving 208 million affected, but go up even more sharply by 125% among girls the same age, which would see 175 million of them affected. The federation is an alliance of health, scientific, research and campaign groups, and works closely on obesity with various global agencies. It wants governments to use tax systems; restrictions on the marketing of foods that are high in fat, salt or sugar; front-of-pack labels; and provision of healthy food in schools to address rising obesity. The federation's report also highlights that many of the world's poorest countries are facing the sharpest increases in obesity yet are the least well prepared to confront the disease. Nine of the 10 countries set to experience the biggest rises in coming years are low- or middle-income nations in Africa and Asia.

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The average U.S. taxpayer in 2022 spent over four times as much on Pentagon contractors than on primary and secondary education, according to the annual Tax Day analysis published in recent days by the Institute for Policy Studies' National Priorities Project. NPP found that, on average, American taxpayers contributed $1,087 to Pentagon contractors, compared with $270 for K-12 education. The top military contractor Lockheed Martin received $106 from the average taxpayer, while just $6 went to funding renewable energy. According to the analysis, the average 2022 U.S. taxpayer: Paid $74 for nuclear weapons, and just $43 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Spent $70 on deportations and border control, versus just $19 for refugee assistance; Contributed $20 for federal prisons, and just $11 for anti-homelessness programs; and Gave $298 to the top five military contractors, and just $19 for mental health and substance abuse. "The main message? Our government is continuing to invest too much in the military, and in militarized law enforcement, and not nearly enough on prevention, people, and our communities," NPP said. NPP's analysis comes just over a month after the White House released President Joe Biden's $1.6 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2024. More than half of that amount$886 billion would go to the military.

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China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to broker a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine. "What China is after, if we view it from China's perspective, is what was also said: true multilateralism. And what that means, or true multipolarity, another term that they use, and that means they don't want a U.S.-led world, they want a multipolar world," [said Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia University]. "And while the United States sometimes talks about a rule-based order, the fact of the matter is that ... the grand strategists of the U.S. state see our grand strategy in the United States as being dominance. Well, China doesn't want the United States to be the preeminent power. It wants to live alongside the United States. But what's very important and interesting to understand, and we've seen it clearly in the dynamics involving the Ukraine war, most of the world also does not want the U.S. as the global preeminent power. Most of the world wants a multipolar world, and is, therefore, not lined up behind the United States' sanctions on Russia and so forth. In fact, the United States is withdrawing ... our politicians are withdrawing from the world financial and monetary scene and opening up the space for a completely different kind of international finance."

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Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteriacommonly called blue-green algaeto continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six months. The system, which uses inexpensive and largely recyclable materials, contains a type of non-toxic photosynthetic algae called Synechocystis, per a statement. The research was published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science. "We were impressed by how consistently the system worked over a long period of timewe thought it might stop after a few weeks but it just kept going," says Paolo Bombelli, a researcher from the University of Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry and lead author of the paper. The scientists created an enclosure out of aluminum and clear plastic and put the bacteria inside it. The device, which is about the size of a AA battery, was placed on a windowsill in Bombelli's home during Covid-19 lockdown in 2021 and remained there from February to August. The bacteria powered an Arm Cortex M0+ processora microprocessor widely used in the network of appliances connected to the internet, also called the Internet of Things (IoT). The cyanobacteria produced energy even without light, perhaps because they process some of their food in the dark, which generates an electrical current. Several billion IoT devices already exist, and that number is expected to rise to one trillion by 2035. Powering all those devices would require 109,000 tons of lithium, which is three times more than what the world produced in 2017.

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One of the world's most isolated aquatic mammals, Arctocephalus philippii, can tolerate high levels of cadmium, as well as other metallic pollutants, without suffering ill effects. A. philippii is the second smallest species of fur seal and lives only on the Juan Fernndez archipelago and one or two nearby islands in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile. By the 19th century, the species had disappeared and was believed to be extinct until, in the 1960s, a small colony was found in a cave on the island. Since then, the Juan Fernndez seal, which has become a protected species, has slowly recovered and has a population of around 80,000. "We collected samples of their faeces and found they contained extremely high levels of cadmium and other elements such as mercury," said Constanza Toro-Valdivieso of Cambridge University's conservation research institute. "The discovery was very surprising," she said. "Cadmium is poisonous to mammals but somehow these seals were processing it and passing it through their digestive systems and seem to be suffering little harm in the process." High levels were found not only in its faeces but in the bones of seals that had died of natural causes. The researchers also found high levels of silicon in their bones, which may be offsetting the impact of cadmium, they suggest. "The discovery that these animals appear to tolerate high levels of cadmium in their bodies has important medical implications," said Toro-Valdivieso. "These animals have a lot to tell us."

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Stefano Mancuso is a pioneer in the plant neurobiology movement, which seeks to understand "how plants perceive their circumstances and respond to environmental input in an integrated fashion". Mancuso teaches at the University of Florence, his alma mater, where he runs the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology. He has written five bestselling books on plants. "Communication means you are able to emit a message and there is something able to receive it, and in this sense plants are great communicators. If you are unable to move, if you are rooted, it's of paramount importance for you to communicate a lot," [said Mancuso]. "Plants are obliged to communicate a lot, and they use different systems. The most important is through volatiles, or chemicals that are emitted in the atmosphere and received by other plants. It's an extremely sophisticated form of communication, a kind of vocabulary. Every single molecule means something, and they mix very different molecules to send a specific message. My approach to studying consciousness in plants ... started by seeing if they were sensitive to anaesthetics and found that you can anaesthetise all plants by using the same anaesthetics that work in humans. This is extremely fascinating. We were thinking that consciousness was something related to the brain, but I think that both consciousness and intelligence are more embodied, relating to the entire body."

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The last time a trove of leaked documents exposed U.S. spying operations around the world, the reaction from allied governments was swift and severe. In Berlin, thousands of people protested in the streets, the C.I.A. station chief was expelled, and the German chancellor told the American president that "spying on friends is not acceptable." In Paris, the American ambassador was summoned for a dressing-down. That was a decade ago, after an enormous leak of classified documents detailing American surveillance programs by ... Edward Snowden. The latest leak of classified documents that appeared online this year, the motive behind which remains unknown, has again illustrated the broad reach of U.S. spy agencies, including into the capitals of friendly countries such as Egypt, South Korea, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates. Though the documents mainly focus on the war in Ukraine, they include C.I.A. intelligence briefs describing conversations and plans at senior levels of government in those countries, in several cases attributed to "signals intelligence," or electronic eavesdropping. Unlike in 2013, however, U.S. allies appear to be mostly shrugging off the latest examples of apparent spying. So far, the only evident political fallout from the latest leaks has occurred in South Korea, where one classified U.S. document described a debate among senior national security officials about whether to send artillery shells abroad that might wind up in Ukraine, potentially angering Russia.

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The story of Bruno Brguet, one the most enigmatic figures of the shadowy battle between western security services and international violent extremists during the so-called "golden age of terrorism" in the 1970s and 1980s, has been given a new twist. A new book has revealed that in his later years Brguet served not only the infamous Illich Ramrez Snchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, but the US government too. Brguet's spying for the CIA earned him tens of thousands of dollars, and contributed to the capture of his erstwhile boss by French secret services in 1994. The news that the CIA was prepared to hire as an agent a man like Brguet, who had been twice convicted by Israel and France for his terrorist activities and is believed to have bombed a pro-democracy radio station in Munich funded by the US government, underlines the moral and ethical questions facing intelligence services when it comes to recruiting such individuals. If anyone in the CIA balked at employing Brguet as an agent, there is no record of their concerns. For the next four years, Brguet appears to have supplied information to the CIA, possibly indirectly contributing key elements to the French intelligence operation that successfully grabbed Carlos from a clinic in Khartoum in 1994. Breguet's final mystery remains unresolved however. In 1995, the veteran extremist turned CIA agent disappeared definitively after boarding a ferry from a Greece to Italy. Was he murdered? Or did he commence a new life under a false identity?

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After flying under the radar for years, the case of Genaro Garca Luna is finally raising alarms in Congress, with one of the Senate's top Republicans demanding answers about how Mexico's highest-ranking cop was able to partner with DEA and FBI, "at the time that he funneled roughly 103,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States" for the Sinaloa Cartel. Garca Luna became the most senior Mexican law enforcement official ever convicted of narco-corruption when a Brooklyn federal jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict on a five-count indictment that charged him with taking massive bribes to enable cartel drug smuggling, kidnappings, and murders while he was in office from 2001 to 2012. Garca Luna's position involved close collaboration with U.S. anti-narcotics agencies that operate in Mexico, and it gave him discretion over the spending of hundreds of millions in American tax dollars delivered as security aid. That money was supposed to go toward fighting the cartels, but his trial showed he was leaking sensitive intelligence, protecting drug shipments, and disrupting efforts to capture ... cartel leaders. On Feb. 22, a day after the guilty verdict, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the heads of the DEA and FBI asking what the agencies knew about Garca Luna and when, and demanding evidence ... that could shed new light on the relationship. In short, Grassley wants to know if American tax dollars were being sent to Mexico while the DEA and FBI were tolerating Garca Luna's corruption.

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We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover's animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King. It's time to ... recognize the power structure that supported the F.B.I.'s campaign. Many Americans starting with the president thought movement activists like King posed threats to the established order and needed to be watched and controlled. Members of the press could have exposed the bureau's campaign. And many government officials who could have stopped, curtailed or exposed the F.B.I.'s attack on King instead enabled or encouraged it. F.B.I. records declassified in the past several years and documents from the Johnson archives released in 2022 force us to reconsider the nature of Johnson's involvement in the F.B.I.'s campaign against King. White House documents ... suggest that Johnson, from the beginning of his presidency in 1963 to King's assassination in 1968, was apprised almost weekly by Hoover himself on the F.B.I.'s surveillance of King. Johnson did nothing to stop or rein in the F.B.I., even after at least one top administration official expressed concern. In addition to the president and the media, other officials at the F.B.I. ... worked to ruin King. Scores of ranking officials and agents at the F.B.I., dozens of elected officials and several informants embedded in King's inner circles knew what was going on, and none, as far as the public records indicate, blew a whistle on the campaign.

Note: Few people know about the 1999 King Family civil trial in Memphis, where it took a jury only one hour to find the U.S. government guilty for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the erosion of civil liberties from reliable major media sources.

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Ethereum layer-2 protocols continue to attract the biggest players in the decentralized finance sector, with liquidity protocol Aave deploying on scaling network Metis.

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While the Bitcoin and crypto markets are deep in the red, one altcoin stands out today, posting a double-digit price increase: Stacks (STX). Along with the Lightning Network, the project is considered the most promising layer-2 technology for Bitcoin at the moment and is currently benefiting from the network congestion dilemma.

There are currently over 425,000 unconfirmed transactions in the meme pool. Before being added to the Bitcoin blockchain, transactions are sent to the networks meme pool, where they wait to be selected by a Bitcoin miner and inserted into the next Bitcoin block. At medium priority, a transaction currently costs an average of $19.04.

The Case For Stacks

The congestion is causing a heated debate: While one side calls it a DDoS attack on Bitcoin, the opposing side is calling the reason for the high fees, Bitcoin ordinals and BRC 20 tokens, a revolution. But no matter which side one takes, one thing becomes obvious. Layer-2 technologies are absolutely necessary and could emerge as a big winner.

Revolution or DDoS?

Market cap of BRC20 based #Bitcoin tokens reaches $1 billion.

Sh*tcoins are extremely congesting the network. There are still 425,000 unprocessed transactions piled up in the meme pool.

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However, if the BTC price alone is to be the leading indicator, the current dilemma surrounding BRC20 tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain is not really doing the network any good. Binance hasnt really done the market any favors either with the multiple withdrawal halts.

But in the long run, higher fees are needed for the BTC network to replace the falling block reward. Co-inventor of Stacks, Muneeb Ali, therefore wrote today on Twitter that high fees are not an attack on Bitcoin, as they will be the norm when Bitcoin grows to a billion people. Rather, Ali says they are a wake-up call to developers to improve and grow Bitcoin L2s.

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An Oklahoma hospital, Saint Francis Health System, provides top-notch healthcare for hundreds of thousands of patients a year. Its the 12th largest hospital in the nation and employs 11 THOUSAND Oklahomans. But it has one downfall when it comes to Bidens federal government: Its religious mission. And, therefore, it recently was targeted by the government for a living flame in the hospital chapel, which has been SAFELY burning for 15 years. So whats the issue? And is the federal government specifically targeting Catholics? In this clip, Glenn is joined by Senior Counsel Lori Windham, who explains the governments claims against the hospital. Plus, Windham shares an update in the case that represents a HUGE WIN for Saint Francis and for freedom-lovers everywhere

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The FBI began targeting Mike Glover, a former Green Beret who also worked for the CIA, after he founded a company that taught people how to be self-reliant. To Mike, the message was clear: The U.S. government will destroy anyone it cannot control. Why else would officials target a veteran who served 10 tours of duty, with five rotations in Iraq conducting elite operations? But Mike tells Glenn that this is happening all across the country: The system is flawed, and only a reset will fix it. He offers insight into the elite operations we are never told about, lifting the veil on the inner workings of the CIA and FBI, which he believes are acting like the enemy of the people. As a former Green Beret who worked closely with the CIA, he has personally seen how government bloat and corruption make situations like the 2012 Benghazi attack even worse. Plus, he explains why he is 100% certain that Jeffrey Epstein was working with the intelligence community. But despite all hes seen and all the attacks against him, hes not backing down. As owner and CEO of Fieldcraft Survival, he teaches people how to be their own first responders and even survive a total disaster. His upcoming book, Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios, is a practical guide for resilience in the face of the apocalypse, which very well could happen sooner than later.

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America is dealing with a border crisis, an economic crisis, and a constitutional crisis all at the same time. On todays Friday Exclusive, as the southern border prepares for a massive influx of illegal immigrants due to the upcoming expiration of Title 42, Glenn paints a horrific future for Texas if the border isnt secured. Plus, he shows footage from El Paso that proves border cities are beyond overwhelmed. But first, with the economy crumbling and banks crashing, you may be worrying about your bank account. Glenn puts SOME of those fears to rest while addressing the economic turmoil heading our way. Lastly, as Glenn lays out all the problems our country is facing, he tells us that those in charge of fixing the issues dont give him much hope. But we can always trust that Kamala Harris can handle artificial intelligence, right?

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An Oklahoma hospital, Saint Francis Health System, provides top-notch healthcare for hundreds of thousands of patients a year. Its the 12th largest hospital in the nation and employs 11 THOUSAND Oklahomans. But it has one downfall when it comes to Bidens federal government: Its religious mission. And, therefore, it recently was targeted by the government for a living flame in the hospital chapel, which has been SAFELY burning for 15 years. So whats the issue? And is the federal government specifically targeting Catholics? In this clip, Glenn is joined by Senior Counsel Lori Windham, who explains the governments claims against the hospital. Plus, Windham shares an update in the case that represents a HUGE WIN for Saint Francis and for freedom-lovers everywhere

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The FBI began targeting Mike Glover, a former Green Beret who also worked for the CIA, after he founded a company that taught people how to be self-reliant. To Mike, the message was clear: The U.S. government will destroy anyone it cannot control. Why else would officials target a veteran who served 10 tours of duty, with five rotations in Iraq conducting elite operations? But Mike tells Glenn that this is happening all across the country: The system is flawed, and only a reset will fix it. He offers insight into the elite operations we are never told about, lifting the veil on the inner workings of the CIA and FBI, which he believes are acting like the enemy of the people. As a former Green Beret who worked closely with the CIA, he has personally seen how government bloat and corruption make situations like the 2012 Benghazi attack even worse. Plus, he explains why he is 100% certain that Jeffrey Epstein was working with the intelligence community. But despite all hes seen and all the attacks against him, hes not backing down. As owner and CEO of Fieldcraft Survival, he teaches people how to be their own first responders and even survive a total disaster. His upcoming book, Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios, is a practical guide for resilience in the face of the apocalypse, which very well could happen sooner than later.

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Shiba Inu [SHIB] is facing a significant price drop despite trillions of the meme coins being purchased. However, this amount of purchase cant seem to stop its price crash. What could be causing this downward trend, and will it continue in the coming months?

Despite the large number of Shiba Inu tokens purchased, the cryptocurrency market remains highly speculative, and prices can be affected by a multitude of factors.

Could it be that investors are losing faith in Shiba Inus long-term potential, or is this simply a temporary setback in a highly volatile market?

As the Shiba Inu price continues to decline, many investors are left wondering whether they should hold on or cut their losses.

Shiba Inu Token Volume Surges But Price Continues To Decline

A recent report from cryptocurrency intelligence agency, IntoTheBlock, indicates that large buyers purchased over 10.25 trillion SHIB tokens in the past week, exceeding sales by 250 billion SHIB.

Despite this volume surge, the price of SHIB has continued its downward trend for the third week in a row. 

Interestingly, the week saw a spike in bullish sentiment, as large buyers seemed to dominate the market. However, this paradoxically did not translate to a rise in the tokens value.

Although SHIB demonstrated growth from Monday to Wednesday, this trend was short-lived, and the tokens value fell during the next three days.

This trend is in line with the recent bearish trend of the cryptocurrency market, which has been characterized by significant volatility and price declines. 

Shiba Inus value on CoinGecko currently stands at a mere $0.00000899, having undergone a 4.2% slump in the past 24 hours and an 10.6% decline over the past seven days, leaving investors in a state of uncertainty about its future trajectory.

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While speaking at Berkshires annual general meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, said he expects earnings at the majority of the conglomerates operations to fall this year as the coming economic downturn slows corporate activity further. During the last six months or so, the incredible period for the United States economy has been coming to an end, he said.

The majority of our businesses will report lower earnings this year than last year, Buffett said, before crowds of thousands at the event on Saturday according to Bloomberg.

Buffetts long-time business partner Charlie Munger, who joined him on stage commented that people in the U.S. should get used to making less.

Buffett made his pessimistic comments even as Berkshire posted an almost 13% gain in operating earnings to $8.07 billion for the first quarter, up from $7.04 billion a year ago.

As Bloomberg notes, Berkshire is often viewed as a proxy for economic health owing to the expansive nature of its businesses ranging from railroad to electric utilities and retail. Buffett himself has said Berkshire owes its success to the incredible growth of the US economy over the decades, but his prediction for a slowdown at his firms comes as upheaval at regional banks threatens to curtail lending as inflation and higher rates continue to bite.

According to a report by ZeroHedge, one of Berkshires best-known businesses, Brooks Running Cos, Chief Executive Officer Jim Weber was skeptical of a massive consumer downturn. With unemployment being so low, its hard to be believing were going to fall off a cliff into a recession at the consumer level, Weber said in an interview on Friday ahead of the meeting. I wonder if this is going to be an asset-value recession.

Robert Kennedy Jr. Warns Of Larger Economic Crisis: Its Not Just The Banks

Buffett added that he couldnt see how Washington would allow the U.S. ruling class to default on its debt, an outcome that would tip the financial system into turmoil. Investors and politicians are zeroing in on whether or not the U.S. government can avoid crashing into its statutory debt ceiling and a potential...

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<p><p>World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared during a May 5th news conference held at the global health bodys headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, that the COVID-19 scamdemic is now over. However, most people know that the damage that the three-year emergency has done is already done.</p> <p>For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and the pressure on health systems easing, Ghebreyesus told reporters. This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before COVID-19. Its therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-07-who-declares-end-covid-public-health-emergency.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">According to a report by <em>Natural News,</em></a> during the press conference, Tedros remarked that COVID-19 has been so much more than [a] health crisis and proceeded to enumerate the extent of the damage it inflicted on the world. He is claiming the virus caused all the damage without blaming the real problem: the worlds ruling classes and their control over people.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-path-to-freedom-abolishing-slavery" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Path To Freedom & Abolishing Slavery

It has caused severe economic upheaval erasing trillions from [gross domestic product], disrupting travel and trade, shuttering businesses, and plunging millions into poverty, he said. It has [also] caused severe social upheaval with borders closed, movement restricted, schools shut and millions of people experiencing loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and depression.</p> <p>Even though the rulers have declared the public no longer needs to be afraid of getting a cold, the tyranny rolled out is going to stay. The public at large allowed themselves to fall much further into slavery with every scamdemic declaration. Ghebreyesus even said this:</p> <p>[COVID-19] has left and continues to leave deep scars on our world. Those scars must serve as a permanent reminder of the potential for new viruses to emerge, with devastating consequences. As a global community, the suffering we have endured, the painful lessons we have learned, the investments we have made and the capacities we have built must not go to waste, he said.</p> <p>[The] virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and its still changing. The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that COVID-19 is nothing to worry about.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-biggest-obstacle-to-real-freedom-is-the-belief-...

A wildlife photographer in Africa captured a photo that powerfully illustrates "a mother's desperation" in protecting her offspring from harm.

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This Cool-Looking Incense Burner Looks Like a Waterfall Coming Out of a Dragons Mouth

Incense can truly transform the vibe of a room. Whether you use it for aromatherapy, meditation, or simply because you love the smell, incense can elevate a regular space into a relaxing environment. But did you know that incense can also add to the aesthetic of the place it is burning in? While there are plenty of incense holders and burners in the market, there's a particular design that looks like its straight out of a folk tale.

The Dragon Waterfall Incense Burner takes the smoke emanating from the incense cone and, instead of letting it evaporate into the room, transforms it into a waterfall that comes out of a dragon's mouth. The mythical creature seems to be posed around the teardrop-shaped burner, as if guarding it. The consistency of the smoke allows it to fall from one pit into the other throughout the vessel, creating a steady flow.

The charm of this incense burner was shared in a video posted to Reddit, where it earned over 54,000 upvotes. Seconds after the cone is placed atop the incense holder, the smoke starts to pour out of the dragon, creating a hypnotic scene. If watching it unfold on a screen is enthralling, imagine adding the intense aromas of incense to that vision. It's sure to encourage a sense of calm and help you unwind at the end of the day.

To ensure this incense burner works as depicted in the video, it's important to take into account the external factors needed. The effect of the smoke flow won't run in a drafty room or one with a fan on; on the other hand, a room with very s...

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin exchange whale ratio has spiked recently, something that could lead to further downside in the assets value.

Bitcoin Exchange Whale Ratio Has Sharply Surged Recently

As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the exchange whale ratio is currently at its highest level since September 2019. The exchange whale ratio is an indicator that measures the ratio between the sum of the top 10 inflows to exchanges and the total exchange inflows.

An exchange inflow is any movement of Bitcoin towards the wallets of centralized exchanges from addresses outside such platforms (like self-custodial wallets).

The top 10 inflows here refer to the 10 largest inflow transactions going towards these platforms. Generally, these largest transfers are coming from the whales, so the exchange whale ratio can tell us how the inflow activity of the whales currently compares with that of the entire market (the total inflows).

When this indicator has a high value, it means these humongous holders are making up a large part of the total inflows currently. As one of the main reasons why investors move their coins to exchanges is for selling-related purposes, this kind of trend can be a sign that whales are selling right now.

On the other hand, low values of the metric imply this cohort isnt making too many inflows relative to the rest of the market. Such a trend can be either neutral or bullish for the cryptocurrencys price, depending on some other market conditions.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin exchange whale ratio over the last few years:

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin exchange whale ratio has observed a pretty large spike recently. This suggests that whales are making up a rather large part of the total exchange inflows currently.

The metric has crossed the value of 0.8 in this spike, implying that more than 80% of the inflows are coming from these humongous investors right now. This level of ratio hasnt been seen in the market since way back in 2019.

This previous spike of similar scale occurred as the price was winding down from the...

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Webb Protocol raises $7 million for privacy-focused cross-chain bridge (Pixabay)

The interview process for Web3 positions will typically involve questions aimed at assessing a candidates knowledge of decentralized technologies, blockchain and smart contracts.

Happy Days star Scott Baio announces hes leaving California due to homeless crisis, crime
Even Chachi has had it. He could move here to Washington State but its sort of like California as well. I call it The Former Evergreen State. Yuck!

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Litecoin is shedding its gains in the market today as the bears take control of its price. At press time, its trading volume is down by over 15%, with a price decrease of 2.80% in the last 24 hours. Such a decline comes after major crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum took a blow and entered bearish territory.

After its decline from $101.85 to $90.44 on April 19, 2023, the bears mounted more pressure pushing its price down to $81.11. 

What Next For Litecoin?

LTC is in a downtrend today, forming a bearish engulfing pattern on the daily charts as it descends to lower lows. 

It has dropped below its 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) and is trading below its 200-day SMA, with bearish sentiment in the short and long term. 

Related Reading: Shiba Inu: Whales Accumulate Yet Price Drops Whats Going On?

Also, its Relative Strength Index (RSI) is at 34.74 and rapidly descending to the oversold region of 30. It implies that the bears are in control as more traders take short positions in the market. And the decreased trading activity is aiding the current price drop.

LTCs Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) is below its signal line and displays a negative value. This is a bearish sentiment for the asset.

LTC Support And Resistance Levels 

LTC has dropped below $83.30, leading to speculations of further price decline. The bears at the $88.26 resistance level have resisted a potential break to the upside for the asset. Other critical resistance levels are $90.99, approximately the psychological resistance of $100, and $100.20.

LTC will likely rest on the $80.87 support in the coming days and might decline further to the next support of $78.85. The indicators are all bearish and point to a decline. However, LTC can rally again if the $80.87 support becomes a price pivot for an uptrend. 

Litecoin Halving Boost Hope For A Future Rally In 2023

Litecoin is a cryptocurrency from the original Bitcoin protocol. Litecoin halving is similar to that of Bitcoin which is an event where miners rewards are reduced significantly as a price control measure to increase scarcity and boost its value.

100 Days till the Litecoin Halving!

Litecoin (@litecoin) April 24, 2023

Since its creation, LTC has held two halving events in 2015 and 2019. The block rewards were reduced from 50 LTC to 25 LTC in 2015 and 25 LTC to 12.5 LTC in 2019. 

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Bitcoin price is down today as Binance, record high fees and a full mempool render on-chain transacting slow and expensive.

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Matis Meker has said the new law will professionalize the crypto sector. (Estonian FIU)

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. By Ian Penman. New York: Semiotext(e), 2023. 200 pages. PICTURE THIS: Camera slowly panning across shelves littered with dog-eared paperbacks, soiled scripts,

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Amidst his signature verdant backdrops, Kehinde Wiley (previously) situates his subjects in the center of the composition, chins tilted up with regal gazes, enveloped in the grandeur of colorful patterns. The artist is known for monumental portraits in oil that reframe European painting traditions, especially referencing court portraiture in which royal or noble familiesalmost exclusively whitewere portrayed in extravagant dress symbolizing wealth and power. Wiley flips the narrative by positioning historically marginalized Black and Brown figures front and center.

Wileys latest body of work titled HAVANA, on view now at Sean Kelly in New York, continues the artists interest in the cultures and traditions of the African diaspora. He draws on two separate visits to Cuba, first in 2015 and again in 2022, exploring the carnivalesque phenomenon in Western culture, which manifests in numerous colorful, celebratory events around the world, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Wearing layers of vivid fabric and carrying juggling sticks or instruments, Wiley captures the individuality and creative focus of each person. He says:

The performers are each differenttheres so many different points of view, so many d...

• Results from a new study show that mothers of children with autism had more pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and bleeding per vaginum (BPV) during the antenatal period. Specifically, the analysis indicated 6.3 times higher odds of having a history of PIH and 7.7 times higher odds of having BPV among mothers of children with autism. Additionally, there were increased odds of having birth asphyxia, cardiorespiratory problems, metabolic abnormalities (hypoglycemia/hypocalcemia), and neonatal sepsis for children with autism compared to controls. 
• The Child Mind Institute recently featured an article examining several pressing issues surrounding Profound Autism. The report explored the idea of making profound autism a new and distinct category under the ...

Vacations are awesome, especially when you can take them with family you love. Theyre also expensive, and these days, more and more people find themselves more than a little bit strapped.

OPs family is scheduling a resort vacation thats going to work out to around $2k per person, and though most of the family can afford it (if barely), his younger sister called asking for the money to cover her portion.

My (32m) family is planning a vacation for this summer. Both my parents, my older brother and my SIL, my younger sister Camila (22f) and my husband, my 2 kids (10f and 8m) and I are all planing to go.

We are planning to stay in a resort for 2 weeks. This will obviously be a bit expensive (at least 2k USD per person and that is an enormous amount of money in my currency). Camila is in her last semester of university and will start a full time job on August. Right now shes not working and lives with my parents (not passing judgment on her for being unemployed because my brother and I went through the same at her age).

Camila called me last week to ask if we could pay for her ticket and accomodation (my parents would pay for food and activities).

OP and his husband discussed it and agreed they could pay her way IF she would be willing to do some (very minimal) babysitting for them over the next couple of months.

Basically, they could not afford the extra $2k if they still had to pay for a babysitter.

My husband and I can comfortably afford our family, but adding Camila would put financial pressure on us. I told her that I would discuss it with my husband and then I would call her.

So my husband and I agreed that we would be willing to pay for her if she would babysit our children on certain occasions. Of course, not every day and without notice, but at least twice a week for...

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Healthy Gut Bacteria Capsule Is a Less Invasive Alternative to Other Fecal Transplants

Fecal transplantations are becoming more common in the United States for treating C. difficile infections (C. diff). The procedure restores healthy lower intestine bacteria to assist in keeping gut infections from returning. Fecal transplants are typically performed by collecting feces from a healthy donor and introducing it into a patients gastrointestinal tract via colonoscopy. Now, there could be an easier way to carry out this procedure. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved the first fecal transplant pills for adults 18 and older with recurrent gastrointestinal infections. Seres Therapeutics is marketing its new product, Vowst, as a less invasive option to traditional fecal transplants. Vowst is taken four times daily for three consecutive days to treat infections. The drug relies upon the same techniques and equipment used to purify blood products and other biologic therapies. To produce Vowst, stool is provided by a small group of donors that have been screened for various health risks and conditions. Their stool is tested for dozens of potential viruses, infections, and parasites. The samples are then processed to remove waste, isolate the healthy bacteria, and destroy other lingering organisms. Once this process occurs, contents are inserted into pill form. The FDA warns that the drug may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents and may contain food allergens. Vowst could greatly benefit the autism community, as fecal transplants have already been proven to relieve gastrointestinal and autism symptoms and provide long-term gut microbiota benefits for those on the spectrum. Swallowing a pill at home instead of enduring a colonoscopy at a medical facility is a far better option for many individuals with autism, especially those that suffer from anxiety and sensory issues. 

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Prime Minister Daniel Risch of Liechtenstein told local papers that Bitcoin is set to play a growing role in government services payments.

Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT, attracted attention from the crypto industry in 2021 by reviving a token founded in 2013, World Coin. The project has been progressing slowly, but today will launch a new tool designed for the AI Age.

Per a press release shared with Bitcoinist, the team behind World Coin launched a new crypto wallet called World App, a financial and identity manager. Previously in a testing phase running on Polygon, the crypto wallet is now open to the public and free to download.

ChatGPT, Not The Only Tool That Will Change The World?

With a simplified interface, the wallet will natively support the World Coin and Ethereum ecosystems. The app has been designed to remove the friction from onboarding new users to crypto.

In that sense, the app was created to fulfill three core objectives: provide people with a decentralized alternative to manage their data and identity, access finance, and increase crypto adoption.

According to the release, World App was intentionally designed to protect peoples privacy. The crypto wallet will provide users with access to rewards for learning about crypto and even World Coin Grants to help the project evolve into a toolkit to empower individuals in the Age of AI, built on top of the largest network of real humans.

The World App is available in over 80 countries. During its beta phase, the World App onboarded over 1.5 million users with 500,000 active monthly users and 60,000 transactions. Tiago Sada, Head of Product at Tools for Humanity, told Bitcoinist the following regarding their newest product:

The intentionally simple design of World App aims to accelerate adoption of decentralized financial and identity systems. World App manages to abstract away a lot of complexity while preserving critical properties like self-custody and privacy. It is uniquely enabled by World IDs Proof of Personhood to offer features such as gasless transactions, learn to earn courses, and 24/7 chat support to increase accessibility.

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According to Accenture, 40% of working hours across different industries could be lost to AI as tools like ChatGPT continue to improve.

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Increased Risk Tied to Mothers Who Developed RA Before Delivery, Not After

A prospective population-based cohort study from Sweden found an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring whose mothers developed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before pregnancy or delivery. This effect was even more pronounced for mothers with seronegative RA, where rheumatoid factor or antibodies are not circulating in the blood. The authors also discovered a higher risk of ASD for post-term births (a pregnancy lasting more than 42 weeks) and offspring of underweight or overweight mothers. This research found no association between maternal RA and offspring ASD when RA was diagnosed after delivery, for paternal RA, or maternal-sister RA. Previous research has suggested that the association between maternal RA and ASD is due to exposure to auto-antibodies and inflammatory mediators/cytokines in the womb, which could alter fetal brain development. The authors of this study challenged this hypothesis by using a control group of women with arthralgia (joint pain due to injury, infection, or overuse). Interestingly, they found a similar ASD risk in offspring for both conditions. The authors concluded from this finding that other risk pathways than inflammation/autoimmunity could underlie the RA-ASD association. They propose that the associat...

The wallet relies on World ID, a protocol that verifies humanness through zero-knowledge proofs.

Theres an interesting historical anecdote that comes from the 1787 Philadelphia Convention that resulted in the Constitution for the United States. The story involves Benjamin Franklins contemplations upon the sun engraved in the back of the chair (pictured above) used by George Washington as he presided over the Convention. Franklin stated that he: often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun. It is interesting to note Franklins reflections on what the sun might have portended at that time for the fledgling United States. While Franklins interpretation of the engraved suns symbolism might have been correct in 1787, I do not harbor the same enthusiasm in 2023. If I am being honest, I must state that the sun seems to be setting. With each passing minute, the light of the republic seems to fade, leaving darkness to fill the void. [1] One of the greatest examples of this encroaching darkness is the current moral state of our military. I want to write about a topic that I think is of the utmost importance right now for our Armed Forces and the country. It's an issue that continues to cause untold woe within our military. By extension, it's causing the same impacts on our whole country. This issue is known as moral injury. Before I go further, it may be useful for readers to understand some of what I have previously stated in terms of my thoughts on those who have participated without resistance in the covid-19 operation. I have explained here extensively why I believe the Department of Defenses role has been so nefarious. Additionally, here is a reference that provides a quick summary as to why so many people (myself included) mention that the covid-19 injection mandate was based on fraud and that therefore the implementation of the mandate was unlawful. Moral Injury Before I desc...

After suspending Bitcoin withdrawals multiple times in the past 24 hours, the worlds largest crypto exchange announced plans to create a lasting solution.

The firm now plans to include the Bitcoin lightning network for BTC transactions. The only downside is that the alternative comes with a higher fee. But the exchange revealed plans to cushion it.

Binance Plans To Enable BTC Lightning Network Withdrawals

According to a recent report, the exchange is working toward enabling Bitcoin lightning network withdrawals. This move will help clear all backlogs on BTC transactions over the past few days.

Notably, Binance suspended Bitcoin transactions twice within the past 24 hours. On May 7, the exchange halted BTC transactions, stating that network congestion was the reason for its action. It later reported the resumption of the transactions.

Later the firm announced the temporary suspension of Bitcoin transactions again today, May 8. According to its statement, theres a high backlog of pending  BTC transactions. So, it plans to clear up the backlog by introducing the Bitcoin lightning network withdrawals with higher transaction fees.

There is a large volume of withdrawal transactions from Binance still pending as our set fees did not anticipate the recent surge in $BTC network gas fees.

Our team is working to accelerate the confirmation of all pending transactions.

We'll provide updates here.

Binance (@binance) May 8, 2023

Increasing Demands In The Bitcoin Network

The growing hype around the BRC-20 tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain surged demands on the network. Galaxy Research said BRC-20 tokens contributed 50% of the total Bitcoin transactions on May 2. Subsequently, BTC fees hit a new multi-year high.

Binance explained that thered been an increase in the BTC network gas fees recently. However, its fee didnt account for such a surge. Hence, the exchange would readjust its operational charges to include the sudden fee surge.

Further, the exchange stated that it would monitor on-chain activity to initiate timely adjustments once needed. The team is already making moves to enable BTC Lightning Network withdrawals for the present situation.

Notably, Binance witnessed more outflows due to the spike in BTC network demands. According to CryptoQuant, Binance recorded over 162,000 BTC outflow...

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. 

We all live on a giant rock that is flying through space, and the truth is that this giant rock is not very stable.  There are dozens of significant earthquakes around the world each day, and as I write this article volcanoes are erupting all over the planet.

In addition, scientists are starting to detect a lot of very unusual activity on the floors of our oceans.  Hydrothermal vents can heat water to temperatures greater than 600 degrees Fahrenheit, and a team of researchers recently discovered a sprawling field of such vents in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

On March 12, a team of scientists gathered in the control room of the RV Falkor (too), an oceanographic research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. They watched the monitor of a camera-wielding underwater drone, or ROV, as it explored the deep sea 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) below the ship. When the screen showed a plume of black smoke, the scientists cheered.

The video showed a sprawling field of hydrothermal vents fissures in the seabed where seawater mixes with magma on the Puy des Folles Volcano on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Some of the vents, known as black smokers, had formed tall chimneys of iron sulfide deposits that gushed out dark, sulfurous plumes with temperatures up to about 340 Celsius (644 Fahrenheit), hot enough to melt lead.

There is much more going on under the water than we realize.

According to Newsweek, over 19,000 new underwater volcanoes have been discovered, and we are being told that thousands more could still be found because most of our ocean floors have not been mapped yet.

Could all of this seismic activity be the reason why ocean temperatures have been rising so rapidly?

Scientists are alarmed as sea surface temperatures stubbornly maintain record-breaking highs for more than a month, pushing the state of Earths oceans into uncharted territory.

Starting in mid-March, data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) leaps dramatically from earlier recordings, following l...

Everledger was quietly placed into insolvency after it didnt manage to materialize its planned funding round from an undisclosed investor.

As dog owners, weve all witnessed the classic guilty look on our pets faces after theyve done something they shouldnt have. We may think that their behavior indicates guilt, but in reality, our dogs are expressing a simpler emotion: fear.

This revelation comes from a 2009 study conducted by dog cognition scientist Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, who has authored books such as Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know and Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell. The study reveals that humans tend to misattribute dog emotions based on our own emotions, and the guilty look is a prime example.

According to Dr. Horowitz, the guilty look cowering, showing the whites of their eyes, and pinning ears back is more indicative of fear in response to owner cues (such as scolding) rather than actual guilt. Dogs may not have the same executive function as humans, which means theyre unlikely to reflect on their past actions and decide theyve done something wrong.

The study showed:

• Trials varied the opportunity for dogs to disobey an owners command to not eat a desirable treat while the owner was out of the room, and varied the owners knowledge of what their dogs did in their absence.
• The results revealed no difference in behaviors associated with the guilty look. By contrast, more such behaviors were seen in trials when owners scolded their dogs. The effect of scolding was more pronounced when the dogs were obedient, not disobedient.
• These results indicate that a better description of the so-called guilty look is that it is a response to owner cues, rather than that it shows an appreciation of a misdeed.

To put that a bit more succinctly, the study found that dogs demonstrating a guilty look were actually demonstrating fear of scolding (owner cues) rather than guilt (an appreciation of a misdeed).

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The world of cryptocurrency is constantly evolving, and the latest craze to take the market by storm is the rise of meme coins. These coins are based on popular memes or internet culture, and they have gained a massive following in recent months.

Few have been as popular as Pepe, the popular frog king of the memes. However, another one of the newest meme coins to hit the market is Larry named after the famous Twitter bird. And lets be real: birds can fly high when they get their wings.

Learn about the next meme coin with wings: $LARRY

Larry crypto is a unique meme token that embodies the spirit of the beloved Twitter bird. This new cryptocurrency has been designed to revolutionize the way we think about money and entertainment. It is a community-driven project that values humor, rebellion, and the power of social media. Larry is the ultimate meme guardian, keeping a watchful eye on the cryptocurrency space, waiting for the perfect moment to spread its wings and take flight, the website reads.

Like other booming meme tokens, Larry boasts a 0% tax policy. Birds dont pay taxes, and neither does Larry. This is a refreshing change from other cryptocurrencies that often have high fees and transaction costs. Additionally, Larry will undergo thorough third-party audits, ensuring that the smart contract is secure and unruggable.

Once upon a time in the vast digital landscape of social media, there lived a legendary bird named $LARRY He was a majestic blue bird, the very symbol of #Twitter, the platform that connected billions of people worldwide. pic.twitter.com/pwlv1KPXhB

$LARRY (LAUNCHING SOON!) (@Larry_ether) May 6, 2023

Another aspect of Larry that sets it apart from other meme coins is its liquidity. The coins liquidity is locked for 44 years, providing investors with peace of mind that their investment is secure for the long term. Furthermore, 52.9% of the token supply is in the pre-sale to provide liquidity, and 32.9% is provided in liquidity to the DEX. Additionally, 6.9% of the supply is held in a multi-sig wallet for future centralized exchange listings, bridges, liquidity pools, etc.

Larry is easily accessible, with 4.2% of the...

Michigan (Boodle) is free on this website for one week only. Its an excerpt from Math You Can Play Combo: Number Games for Young Learners, available as an ebook at my bookstore (Thank you for cutting out the middleman!) and in ebook or paperback through many online retailers. Read more about my playful math books here.

Many parents remember struggling to learn math. We hope to provide a better experience for our children.

And one of the best ways for children to enjoy learning is through hands-on play.

This game reinforces numerical order and helps children get acquainted with a standard deck of playing cards. But mostly, its just plain family fun!

Michigan (Boodle)

Math Concepts: numerical order, sorting by attribute (card suits), standard rank of playing cards (aces high), thinking ahead.

Players: three or more, up to as many as fit around your table.

Equipment: one complete deck of cards (including face cards), plus four boodle cards from a second deck; small prizes to go on the boodle cards. Provide a card holder for young children.

Set-Up

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Pepe the Frog meme. (Pepe coin's Twitter account)

This is a post where some of you will say, "What does THAT have to do with autism?" Everything has to do with autism, because our children, tots to teens to adults are members of an ever declining society. I am NOT saying I think the shooters are autistic. But clearly there is something very wrong happening in our society. 

Many years ago, when neurodiversity was growing at an alarming clip, I started to think, "It's as if we are intentionally creating autistic males." I didn't mean the actual epidemic. I meant the cleaving to the idea of self-diagnosis for troubled males.  This weekend was another bloodbath of violence, with a 33 year old male shooting innocent people at an Outlet Mall in Texas.  He is 33  years old.  Which brings me to the video below. Please watch this 10 minutes on the radical shift that have affected males. I know it seemsoff topic for AofA. Id value the thoughts of our smart readers.

I listen to Michael Smerconish on Sirius POTUS (Politics Of the United States) channel daily. I started listening to him more than 25 years ago when I lived in his hometown of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  He's straight down the middle. He talks about our nation from all points of view.  He also has a show on CNN on Saturday. He's been talking about the epidemic of loneliness in America. And how social media is proving to be devastating to our mental health. Recent focus has been on teen girls, whose body and face image have been forever crushed by filters, influencers and cosmetic surgery on demand. Smerconish has also been talking about males - and the demographic and social changes that have decimated a generation's formerly instinctive patterns.

I don't think we can talk about gun violence without also talking about changes at the deepest levels of humanity brought on by pharmaceutical use, drug use, social media, school changes, every warp and weave in the fabric of society today. Can we ever find safety again? 

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Its that time of year when we celebrate some of the best people in our lives. Thats rightour mothers! With all the love and encouragement they give us, moms deserve something extra special for Mothers Day on May 14 (in the U.S.). To rejoice in the awesomeness of moms, we are having a sale at My Modern Met Store. From May 8 to May 14, 11:59 PM PDT, you can save 15% on all of our creative products by using the code ILOVEYOUMOM at checkout. This includes our items already on sale.

Sometimes, it can feel like your mom already has everything; this makes shopping even more of a challenge. But, dont worryour store has a variety of gifts that are perfect for creative-minded moms, and the products are quirky enough that you wont find them in just any shop. If you need a place to start, check out our best-selling Vintage-Inspired Bird Scarf by Shovava. It features a detailed illustration of glorious feathers that will give your mom wingsliterally! With its generous size and availability in cotton or silk-cashmere, its sure to be a great fit for the greatest woman in your orbit.

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Show your mom just how much you care with a gift from My Modern Met Store. From May 8 through May 14...

Hannah Villiger: Amaze Me is part exhibition, part fleshed-out topography. On the ground floor, Skuptural, 198485, presents twelve enlarged snaps of the artists armpit hair. Here as elsewhere in

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A Hope in Hell is the third and final book in the Heirs of Cataclysm trilogy and the direct sequel to Pandoras Box. All you really need to know is that our hero is part of a band of adventures who do work in the wastelands on the edge of civilised society, and they discovered - too late - that their mission to steal a dangerous weapon from the pre-apocalypse world has made them targets, hunted by everyone including Greyshade, the most powerful sorcerer in the post...

A Hope in Hell (Heirs of Cataclysm III - Finale)

People needing to ensure they have a good work-life balance has been a hot topic of conversation as of late. Americans, it seems, have a terrible take/handle on it in particular.

OP does not, however. They developed a very specific skillset that has allowed them to not only have options and a great salary, but the opportunity to negotiate contracts that allow them to work the when and where they want, as well.

She does her work and then goes home, and doesnt think about it again until the following morning.

I(29F) started working at a new company 8 months ago.

I was head hunted specifically for the role I have, which gave me enough power to negotiate my contract like I wanted. One of the things I managed to get was a clause that prohibited my employer from contacting me outside work hours.

If it is a true emergency, then they can send me an email. Otherwise they cant even send me a text.

Furthermore, I have a separate work phone that I shut down at 5 on the dot, then turn on at 9am.

Another thing is that I dont work OT. I am very efficient, so my work is done by 3pm, 5pm if we have an emergency. I also take my whole lunch break outside the office, and my coffee breaks away from my desk.

I am not planning to climb the corporate ladder. All I want is a job that pays enough to live a comfortable middle class life. I invested in a bit of a niche/rare skillset, and it paid me back with a 6 figure salary and being very sought after.

All I have to do is to maintain my skillset and keep up with the times, and I will be golden. I have had offers from all around my state, and a few more.

Her co-workers are more social during the day and so often work later than she does, or someti...

Sexual dysfunction is a common and debilitating adverse effect of SSRI drugs, with up to 73% of antidepressant users experiencing it. Researchers have linked sexual dysfunction to the drugs numbing effect on emotions and proposed a biological pathway that may cause it.

In many cases, this problem resolves once people stop taking antidepressants. However, in some cases, people are left with long-term sexual dysfunction even after stopping the drug. This has been termed post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) and can be permanent.

Because the risk of PSSD has only been recognized more recently, researchers are still attempting to discover how commonly this harmful effect of the drug appears. In a new study in the Annals of General Psychiatry, researchers attempted to quantify the risk.

However, they were only able to estimate the risk for one very specific part of the PSSD communitymales¹ experiencing erectile dysfunction (ED). And they could only estimate this based on prescriptions for phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors. Thus, their study did not include PSSD occurring in women, erectile dysfunction for which men didnt receive a prescription drug, and all other PSSD, including reduced libido, arousal, and lubrication; genital numbness; inability to orgasm; and more.

The researchers found that 1 out of every 216 males prescribed an SSRI (from an extremely healthy subset, as described below) filled a prescription for phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors within 12 months of stopping SSRI use (0.46%). The prevalence of ED in males in the general population was 0.0043%, so the males taking the drug were about 100 times more likely to have ED.

After adjusting for age, socioeconomic status, BMI, depression, and anxiety, those who took an antidepressant were still more than three times as likely to develop ED than the general population (odds ratio 3.2).

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The Negumak are a powerful insectoid species that are the ancient enemies of the Draconian Reptilian Empire that have long interfered in human affairs. Reclusive and mysterious, the Negumak have long been courted by the Galactic Federation of Worlds to join their growing alliance against the Draconians and the latters Orion Gray (Nebu) allies in []

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A 2021 article that found journals from the open-access publisher MDPI had characteristics of predatory journals has been about the company. MDPI is still not satisfied, however. 

The article, Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), was published in Research Evaluation. It has been cited 20 times, according to Clarivates Web of Science. 

Mara de los ngeles Oviedo Garca, a professor of business administration and marketing at the University of Seville in Spain, and the papers sole author, analyzed 53 MDPI journals that were included in Clarivates 2018 Journal Citation Reports. 

Oviedo Garca assessed each journal by eight criteria associated with predatory publications, including self-citation. She also compared the MDPI journals to the journals with the highest impact factor in their subject category. The original abstract described her findings like this: 

The formal criteria together with the analysis of the citation patterns of the 53 journals under analysis all singled them out as predatory journals. 

Soon after the paper was published in July 2021, MDPI issued a comment about the article that responded to Oviedo Garcas analysis point by point. The comment called out the misrepresentation of MDPI, as well as concerns around the accuracy of the data and validity of the research methodology.

In September 2021, Research Evaluation published an expression of concern about the article that stated: 

The journal and publisher have been alerted to concerns about this article, and an in...

Summers lease may have all too short a date, but every year, its time enough for dozens, nay, hundreds of free Shakespeare productions to pop up in the parks and parking lots.

We owe these pleasures in part to the First Folio, a fat collection of Shakespeares plays, compiled in 1623, seven years after his death.

As Elizabeth James, senior librarian at the National Art Library in London, and Harriet Reed, contemporary performance curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum point out in the show-and-tell above, 18 previously-unpublished plays would have sunk into oblivion had they not been truffled up and preserved here by John Heminge and Henry Condell, listed in the Folio as among the Principall Actors of his work.

 

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In A Making of Ghosts, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami plays with scale and perspective to collapse emotional states. In Murikishi (all works 2023), one image of a sleeping man appears superimposed over another;

On March 2nd, 2012, an EF4 tornado struck the town of Henryville in southern Indiana, virtually wiping it off the map. A second, less severe EF1 tornado followed the same path about an hour later, compounding the destruction. The storm damaged the infrastructure in the region, causing a complete disconnection from the outside world. Utility ... Read more...

Its a rare young Star Trek fan indeed who doesnt fantasize about sitting on the bridge of the starship Enterprise. That has gone for every generation of fan, every Star Trek series, and every Enterprise, whose bridges you can see in the new video above from the Roddenberry Archive. It begins, naturally, with the original Star Trek, the show with which creator Gene Roddenberry started it all and for which art director Matt Jefferies designed a bridge that would become a model not just for all subsequent Enterprises, but real-life command centers as well. As the narrator says, Jefferies bridge made such an impression that engineers from NASA, the U.S. Navy, and private industry have studied it as a model for an advanced, efficient control room.

That narrator happens to be John de Lancie, whom viewers of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series will know as the all-powerful extra-dimensional being Q. Hes not the only familiar performer to participate in this retrospective project: in the video above appears a certain William Shatner, who as James Tiberius Kirk occupied the captains chair of the very first Enterprise.

I have pulled this one out of the archives, once again because it is truly simple with great results, and right about NOW would be the time to make one, or a few! Call it a quilled paper campfire, or...

ROBBINSDALE, Minn. Recovering Morrissey apologist David Franklin tragically relapsed and once again defended the artists music and politics after watching 500 Days of Summer, helpless friends and family have reported.

Ive been going through a rough patch lately and needed a depressing indie movie to cheer me up. Was I expecting The Smiths to perfectly accentuate the films themes of self-deprecation, longing, and loneliness to a degree few other soundtracks can achieve? Obviously not, said Franklin. Yes, hes said some pretty reprehensible things about minorities and is a miserable prick in real life. But I identified with Joseph Gordon-Levitts character so much the next thing I knew, I was giving Mozs thinly veiled criticism of black musicians a free pass. I think Ive even blacked out a few times while defending him recently. God, I need help.

Franklins friends were dismayed that he had fallen off the wagon again, after all the hard work he put into distancing himself from the controversial singer.

David isnt a bad guy, and we were proud of him when he cut the Moz grandstanding out of his life completely. It just goes to show how fragile his sobriety truly is if an offbeat rom-com can knock him off the wagon. The only thing worse than him blaring Hatful of Hollow on repeat is listening to him defend Brexit on Morrisseys behalf, said Carlos Arrez. Its like trying to deprogram someone whos been in a cult for 20 years. Ive tried weaning him off with other 80s alt-rock bands like Echo & the Bunnymen, but it might be quicker to just beat the crap out of him.

Self-help group Moz Anon has helped thousands of people like Franklin on the road to denouncing the outspoken British singer.

MA isnt about denying the quality of his work, but rather the fact that hes devolved into an indefensible asshole with comically bad takes on politics and race. But there are no fair weather Morrissey fans, and Ive unfortunately seen people with three-year chips relapse after accidentally resonating with his music, said organization president Millie Stoffer. Weve identified 500 Days of Summer as indie-guy bait and can be a big trigger, but we tell everyone that comes through here that in the real world, Zooey Deschanels character would absolutely hate the Smiths and so should you.

As of press time, Franklins friends were relieved to see him on the road to recovery after his scathing review of Morrisseys novel List of the Lost on Goodreads.

The post Recovering Morrissey Apologist Relapses After Watching 500 Days of Summer appeared first on The Hard Times.

The Clash redefined the art of being a pretentious dick wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt who starts every conversation with um, actually before launching into a prepared Marxist diatribe. The band also did some pretty rad stuff with music too, which kinda makes up for that first bit of bullshit I mentioned. Heres our definitive ranking of every one of The Clashs albums.

6. Cut the Crap (1985)

When I sat down to start these rankings I was going to say something about how isnt it a shame that the Clash had to ruin an otherwise phenomenal discography with this absolute bloated fart of an album, but Im going to revise my perspective here. Not of the record itself, which is entirely awful, but that I am glad they released one collection of work that proves they are fallible. Otherwise, The Clash may have proved to be entirely too powerful.

Play it again: This Is England has its moments
Skip it: Also This Is England because, kinda, fuck that song

5. Sandinista! (1980)

The Clash were never afraid to experiment with their sound, which is good but judging by the length of this record, they also never employed a producer who said to them hey, guys, maybe lets trim the fat a bit here. The inflated track list is the main detractor here as otherwise great songs simply get shuffled away and lost in the mix, and its likely why this album never achieved a much higher status than being a second favorite of super hardcore fans. Sandinista! is the vinyl embodiment of the old axiom too much of a good thing.

Play it again: The Call Up
Skip it: Rebel Waltz

4. Combat Rock (1982)

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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT There has been a huge sigh of relief from the security team in charge of our Prime Minister today, after finally locating the big fella a short time ago. That relief has spread throughout the government, with ministers being warned that Albanese had disappeared on the eve of their first proper budget in []

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I write stuff for a music site. People like to read rankings of stuff, and Radiohead is popular and stuff, so we decided to rank the Radiohead songs. I think I was excited at the time. I cant remember. I cant really remember what excitement used to feel like.

Im more beanie hat and plain t-shirt than man now, detached and melancholy. These are not actually ranked in any particular order, because I think ranking, lists, and concepts like better or worse are meaningless now, same as everything else. I dont even know if any of this is real. Am I even here right now?

Im gonna go listen to Weird Al Yankovic until I remember how to smile again or die trying. Here are some Radiohead songs.

Reckoner In Rainbows
Whether youre staring at the ocean, out a window, or just at a stain on the carpet, Reckoner delivers. I can think of no greater way of connecting to absolute truth than listening to this track on a loop and embarrassing the fact that our lives are futile but sometimes drums do interesting stuff, so we trudge on.

Exit Music (For A Film) OK Computer
Theres defeat and then theres whatever this song is making me feel. Throw on some noise-canceling headphones, queue up this song, and ask yourself, Have I ever really connected to anyone in my entire life?

Pyramid Song Amnesiac
Im standing alone in my room. I cant quite decide if I want to sit down or not. I go to the refrigerator, look around, and nothing Im looking at seems to register onto my brain in any way. The compressor clicks on, so I close it and go back to my room, standing again. Maybe I should call my mom, but what would I even say? 5 stars.

Sail To The Moon Hail To the Thief
Do we even deserve the sun? I dont think that we do. I think we should all just apologize to god and go to bed.
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MINNEAPOLIS British comedy fan Gary Snell is in shock after his date failed to pick up on his reference to the 1980 sitcom Has the Shopkeep Been Round with the Twice-Cooked Biscuits, Then? completely ruining their otherwise enchanting, romantic evening, frustrated sources confirmed.

Our date was going smoothly. Amanda already agreed to split the bill and was cool about me playing Farmville while we waited for the blooming onion, said Snell. She asked for the check before we even finished eating, so I could tell she was eager to get back to her place for dessert. I tried to seal the deal by dropping a hilarious HSKBRTCBT reference in which Felix passes out after smelling the stinky Portuguese man on the lift. She looked at me like I was crazy. And to think, I almost let her take my v card.

Amanda Campos had a very different interpretation of the nights events.

To be clear, at no point during our date was he even within sniffing distance of sealing the deal. Did he really say that? What an asshole, said Campos. I told him I never heard of some sitcom that aired in another country two decades before I was born and that never aired in America, and that you can only watch on imported VHS tapes. So he spent the next 20 minutes shaming me for liking normie shit like Parks and Recreation. Then he forced me to watch an entire episode of the show on his phone. I told him I couldnt hear because the bar was noisy but instead of stopping he just screamed all the dialogue into my ear.

Dating expert Corrine Ibarra has unfortunately seen many situations like the one endured by Campos.

Whether it be a grotesque obsession with a particular MMORPG or an unnatural love of yacht rock, men and women who hope to find love need to learn to hide their true selves from their partners, said Ibarra. Remember, if youve spent the past five years crafting a film-accurate Kit Fisto costume, its best to wait until at least the honeymoon to reveal it. I suppose my ultimate dating advice is this ladies, Scrubs is not a substitute for a personality. And men, for the love of god, never, ever mention Wonder Showzen under any circumstances.

At press time, Snell and some online friends in an HSKBRTCBT forum have spent the past twelve hours doxing Campos for having the audacity to not know a show that they like.

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Back in the day, I used to refer to something I dubbed "misinformed refusal," a term that refers to how antivaxxers had weaponized "informed consent" by inverting it to frighten parents against vaccinated. In the age of the pandemic, ProtocolKills.com generalizes misinformed refusal to all COVID-19 treatments with the help of "hospital hostage negotiator" Laura Bartlett, who views COVID-19 treatments in hospitals as "holding patients hostage" and provides an "informed consent template" that refuses remdesivir, intubation, and other COVID-19 interventions.

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Are you looking to make career moves this year? Whether you want to launch your career, advance in your current one, or switch jobs entirely, theres a program on Coursera that can help you get there. While you can invest in your professional goals and subscribe to Coursera Plus at any time, were thrilled to have the opportunity to give up to five learners free access to Coursera as a thank-you for being part of our community!

You could win a year of free access to Coursera that means access to over 7,000 world-class courses, hands-on projects, and job-ready certificate programs taught by 275+ leading universities and companies. 

How? All you have to do to enter this contest is:

• Login to your TikTok account. 
• Stitch our contest video on TikTok and share your career goals and aspirations. 
• In the video, mention which courses or programs youre most interested in taking on Coursera to help you achieve those career goals. You can explore our catalog on your own or check out some of our top courses and programs to help you get started:
  • Job-ready Professional Certificates
  • Degree courses from top universities 
• The video must be at least 30 seconds in length. 
• Be sure to tag @Coursera and use the hashtag #CourseraContest and #Coursera in your TikTok video. 
• Make sure your profile is set to public so we can see your video. 

Well be selecting up to five winners. The contest starts May 8, 2023 and ends on May 22, 2023.

How will videos be judged?

An internal panel of judges is looking forward to reviewing your video! They will select winners based on the following criterion: 

• Creativity feel free to use fun backdrops, creative editing techni...

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Each issue we ask four cartoonists a question. For our COLOR issue, we wanted to hear about personal palette aversions from fashion- conscious cartoonists.

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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Barnaby Joyce fears the decision to omit him from the Australian Boomers FIBA World Cup Squad may be politically motivated as the Armidale Lions shooting guard put many teams to the sword during this years New England Basketball season. Coming off a triple-double performance against the Ben Lomond Frisbees []

The post Armidale Lions Shooting Guard Barnaby Joyce Disappointed To Miss Out On Boomers World Cup Squad appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

By Alice Giordano,

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian pharmacists have suddenly gone quiet again, after momentarily forming the loudest and most militant trade union in our nations history, for a short-lived campaign against government cost-of-living measures. This tumultuous news cycle began two weeks ago, when the Federal Government announced that GPs would be granted the option of writing double-length []

The post Pharmacists No Longer Crying Poor Over 60-Day Dispensing After Being Put In Charge Of Vape Cartel appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT A South Brisbane man has voluntarily placed himself in the head bin this morning after concussing himself with dangerous amounts of Rugby League. Flat on the couch in his home in Beenleigh, Darren Horsburgh (34) reportedly spent his entire weekend overdosing on NRL by watching all eight games of Magic Round, []

The post Brisbane Bloke That Sat Through 640 Minutes Of Magic Round Puts Self On 11 Day Stand Down appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

Divorce, like marriage, is a very personal topic. The reasons for it are often only understood by the two people involved, and honestly, Im not sure anyone really loves talking about it if theyre not initiating the conversation.

OP has let his sister move in during her divorce, which she says came as a result of a mismatch of s*x drive in her marriage. She was the one who wanted more intimacy and eventually pushed her husband away with her in his mind constant need for it.

My sister has been staying with my husband and I (men in our late 20s) for the last week and some change. She and her husband have initiated the divorce process and she said she doesnt want to stay alone right now, which I completely understand. It would be very hard to go from living with a partner to a completely silent house.

I opened our home to her before I found out why her marriage didnt work out. Now that the two of us have had multiple conversations about it, Im a little uncomfortable.

There was no infidelity. There was no big scandal. What she told me is that her husband wasnt having s*x with her enough.

OP has grown uncomfortable listening to her talk as he doesnt agree with her take on that being the only/best form of intimacy and believes he would be more understanding or find other ways to stay close with his husband if such a thing happened in his own marriage.

The things she has been saying have floored me. She says without s*x, the two of them were basically just like roommates. She said she had been pushing for him to get a hormone imbalance test done because while they were still having s*x, it wasnt enough.

She said he had begun resisting even normal touches from her because from his perspective, all she thought about was s*x which apparently isnt true...

Two deathbed confessions have emerged, proving that the U.S. moon landing was a hoax! The stunning video shows Stanley Kubrick admitting in an interview that he helped NASA fake the landings. In the interview, Kubrick confesses that he filmed the fake moon landing and that the U.S. government and NASA perpetrated a huge fraud on the American public. Filmmaker T. Patrick Murray conducted the interview three days before Kubrick's death in March 1999, and he was forced to sign an NDA to keep the interview's contents secret for 15 years.

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact Though it really shouldnt have taken her so long, local woman Daisy Simmons [32] has finally figured out how to have the perfect weekend, which balances both her need for hedonism and inability to function on a hangover anymore get shitfaced on a Friday, recover on a Saturday, and run errands/ have []

The post Woo Girl Nails Life Balance For First Time Ever With Piss Up Friday, Recovery Saturday, Errands Sunday appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

BY MICHAEL MAHARREY, On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to conduct business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserves monopoly on money, and possibly create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Rep. Mark Dorazio (R) introduced HB4903 on March 10 and it has since garnered a bipartisan coalition of 42 cosponsors. The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish and provide for the issuance of gold and silver specie and also establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver, and 100% redeemable in cash, gold, or silver. Specie is defined as a precious metal stamped into coins of uniform shape, size, design, content, and purity, suitable for or customarily used as currency, as a medium of exchange, or as the medium for purchase, sale, storage, transfer, or delivery of precious metals in retail or wholesale transactions. In establishing gold and silver specie, the comptroller would be required to authorize the Texas Bullion Depository as issuer and ensure that the holder of the specie may use the specie as legal tender in payment of debt and readily transfer the specie to another person. The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism to use 100% backed gold and silver digital currencies in everyday transactions.

In establishing the digital currency under Subsection (a)(2), the comptroller shall provide a means to ensure that a person who holds the digital currency may: 1. Use the digital currency as legal tender in payment of debt; and 2. By electronic means readily transfer or...

People are getting more and more protective of their personal space, and honestly, the way the world is, it doesnt seem as if thats going to be walking back anytime soon.

Utility workers might need access to our homes for one reason or another, but if youre uncomfortable with strangers (especially if youre home alone), how much space are you required to give them?

Though your house is your property, the local utility company owns the power and gas lies going into your home, as well as the meters used to track your consumption.

Because of this, they usually have an easement, which gives them the legal right to access their property (in or on your property) even without permission or prior notice.

This coul...

The cards pictured are from the Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck.

The High Priestess and Three of Disks

Our first card this week is the High Priestess. She comes second in the Major Arcana cards, also known as the Fools Journey. And though the journey has just started, she is already calling us to stop and pause because she knows the importance of rest and reflection.

The Priestess gives us clues on how to care for ourselves during this time. We are encouraged to tap into our intuition and spiritual abilities to see through the fog and find the answers we need.

She asks us to call upon our angels, ancestors, and messengers, as they are always supporting us. She wants us to use our gifts to draw out the light surrounding the dark.

If you create moments of stillness, the energy of the Priestess will be able to enter your world. She will give you insights into the wisdom of your future. She will send you messages of peace.

To channel this energy, spend time in meditation or reflection. Take out a journal and write in stream-of-consciousness, tap into your creativity through something artistic, move your body intuitively, set intentions before you sleep, and record your dreams.

Allow the High Priestess to support you this week. She reminds us of the importance of disconnecting from the world around us and connecting to our spirit. From that space, we can access so much intelligence, power, and healing.

With the High Priestess, we are looking within, and with the Three of Disks, we are looking toward the future. We are thinking about what we want to manifest and what we can make happen.

The Three of Disks is all about concentrated and deliberate effort. It is about focus and the ability to work hard for what we want. It gives us the power to be aware of our desires and not swerve from our path.

Currently, we may be feeling scattered and pulled in different directions. But this week we will narrow in on what we want. We will let go of those voices that leave us feeling doubtful and confused.

Inspiration will be our friend as we start to create a clearer picture of what the future will look like. This card usually indicates a high level of professional ambition. So use this time to focus on your career and make concrete goals for the rest of 2023.

If your career is an area that holds insecurity for you, use the energy of the Three of Disk to push through that this week. You will need to work on those feelings in order to manifest the abundance that is waiting for you.

This card also points to the support of our community to get the work done. So dont be afraid to lean on others or ask for a hand to get things accomplished. People want to help! And we are always more powerful when we work together.

Let the motivating and focused energy of the Three...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One of our towns leading financiers has criticised the move by the Albanese Government to raise the JobSeeker Allowance by $3.70 per day, telling The Advocate that doing so would be a waste the tax dollars he pays. Former banker Wally Greenslade, who owns and controls vast swathes of []

The post Raising JobKeeper Is A Waste Of My Tax Dollars! Says Bloke With Discretionary Trust, Maltese Passport And Offshore Bank Account appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a sure sign that the British Empire is in the midst of a rapid decline, the Coronation Of King Charles appears to have been a 3rd page news story in Australia. In fact, it would seem that every media organisation in Australia has given this one a wide berth except []

The post Australian Monarchists Enraged That 8 Games Of NRL In One City Got More Attention Than A Billionaires Promotion appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

WASHINGTON In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country last week.

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact A Betoota Heights woman who used to see her doctor for even the tiniest of ailments has been forced to curb her hypochondriac tendencies, after she was informed that her local clinic would no longer be doing bulk billing. Maeve Plunkett [27] says the Betoota CBD Doctors was just one of many inner []

The post Woman Whose Doctor Scrapped Bulk Billing Now Waiting For Illnesses To Overlap To Get Moneys Worth appeared first on The Betoota Advocate.

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Less than half way through the 2023 NRL Premiership season, it looks like the race is pretty much over. After talking an early lead last week, the Wests Tigers have kicked on with a statement 18-16 win over Premiership heavyweights the St George-Illawarra Dragons. In the game of the round, the Wests Tigers []

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People seem to be pretty divided on if they like mushrooms solely based on how they taste, but theres no denying that those fungi can be used in ways that a lot of folks dont realize, including acting as a substitute for all kinds of materials. And one company that is leading the charge in this field is Ecovative Design.

The New York-based company has been around since 2007 and the folks there are determined to make the planet a better place by using mycelium, basically a network of fungal threads, as an alternative to all kinds of harmful materials.

The company produces over one million pounds each year of its mushroom-based product that can be used as an alternative to Styrofoam.

 

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Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published June 28, 2018.

Historically, conventional science views depression as a side effect of a chemical imbalance in the brain. Most pharmaceutical-oriented solutions for depression still to this day revolve around this theory, even though the serotonin-hypothesis has been largely debunked.¹ As noted in a 2014 paper on antidepressants:²

"Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin in the brain But analyses of the published data and the unpublished data that were hidden by drug companies reveals that most (if not all) of the benefits are due to the placebo effect

Analyzing the data we were not surprised to find a substantial placebo effect on depression. What surprised us was how small the drug effect was.

Seventy-five percent of the improvement in the drug group also occurred when people were given dummy pills with no active ingredient in them. The serotonin theory is as close as any theory in the history of science to having been proved wrong. Instead of curing depression, popular antidepressants may induce a biological vulnerability making people more likely to become depressed in the future."

Placebo Accounts for Most of the Benefits of Antidepressants

The author of that 2014 study, Irving Kirsch, is a psychotherapist who has performed a number of analyses on antidepressants. In 2002, his team filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking for the trial data provided by drug companies as part of the drug approval process.

The FDA requires drug companies to provide data on all clinical trials they've sponsored, including unpublished trials. It turned out nearly half of all clinical trials on antidepressants remained unpublished. When both published and unpublished trials were included, 57% showed the drug had no clinical benefit over placebo. What's more, the placebo response accounted for 82% of the beneficial response to antidepressants.

These results were reproduced in a 2008 study³ using another, even larger set of FDA trial data. Indeed, we now know that depression is far more complicated than previously assumed. "Fixing" depression is not as easy as tweaking the levels of chemicals in your brain with an antidepressant drug. Depression can stem from a wide variety of biological, psychological and environmental factors including other medications.

Hundreds of Commonly Used Drugs Can Cause Depres...

Fats which are water-insoluble biological molecules also known as lipids¹ are the primary building block of your cell membranes. This is one of the reasons why eating the right types of fat is so important for your health and longevity.

What distinguishes one fat from another is the specific combination of fatty acids it's composed of, and the properties of fats and fatty acids depend on their hydrogen saturation and the length of their molecules, also referred to as "chain length."

Fatty Acid Basics

There are two basic types of fatty acids, based on how many of their carbon bonds are paired with hydrogen:²

The loss of hydrogen results in molecules that kink or bend at each double bond. The more hydrogen pairs that are missing, the more bent the molecules, which causes the molecules to occupy more space. This is what makes the fat a liquid oil at room temperature.

In addition to varying levels of hydrogen saturation, fats also vary in the length of their carbon chains, leading to another classification scheme based on their number of carbon atoms:³

• Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) Two to four carbon atoms
• Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) Six to 10 carbon atoms
• Long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) 12 to 26 carbon atoms
• Very-long-chain fatty acids⁴ (VLCFAs) 26 to 30 carbon atoms

The chain length and hydrogen saturation level control a fat's melting point. As chain length increases, melting point increases. Likewise, fats that are solid at room temperature (butter, coconut oil) have longer chain lengths than fats that are liquid at room temperature...

Disclaimer: Some of what I will write here will likely raise strong disagreements with some of you. I am completely fine if you disagree with this piece, particularly since it is not my field of expertise, and I likely made some unintentional errors in writing this.

I grew up reading alternative literature which included every "conspiracy theory" under the sun. I have also directly known people who had been in black ops overseas and had the misfortune of being present when a village was executed in cold blood by mercenaries because a U.S. investor wanted their land. Beyond being profoundly concerned about the state of the world, all of this led me to wonder, at the end of the day, "What was actually true?"

Since childhood, I've heard stories of highly effective technologies that meet the essential needs of human beings (e.g., transportation, food production, water production, education) being buried to protect business interests.

This led me to formulate the hypothesis that anytime a party wants to "take over society," they will move to monopolize each life-essential resource, as in addition to it being highly lucrative, it makes it impossible for the population which depends upon that resource to rebel against the system which provides it.

For instance, a classic example of this principle is that each time a communist regime takes power, one of its first moves is to eliminate the independent farmers so that food can only be obtained from the state. Sometimes the process of doing this requires carnage on a massive scale, best shown by Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine (and to a lesser extent by Mao's Great Leap Forward).

The two areas of suppressed life-essential technologies I've always been the most drawn to are Energy and Medicine. One of the key things which eventually motivated me to become a doctor was that I felt it would give me a way to see firsthand if all the "conspiracy theories" I had read about suppressed medical innovations* were true (since I could try them on patients and see if they worked), whereas this would be much more difficult to do with energy.

Before discussing those topics, I'd like to briefly detour into another predatory industry that paints valuable context for what we see in the energy and medical sectors.

*At this point, I feel some of those forgotten medical technologies are incredible, many others are junk, and many more were effective in earlier eras where the body's vitality had not been decimated by our modern environment, but now only are marginally effective.

The Military-Industrial Complex

When I looked at everything that had happened in the energy sector, it became immediately apparent that the same playbook was being reused. Over and...

Now I'm just the tech and message / poster here .
The 2 Ladies who run the farm / ranch know more that I .
I built the incubator from old fridge and brooder .
Later this week the ducks will hatch , then the chicken eggs go in . I'll keep updating this thread.
Automatic controls , top 37.C is temp freezer section ,78.3 is humidity ,34.8 is lower temp of the fridge and its on warming up .
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Coalition MP Stuart Robert says it is time to devote 100% of his time to his family businesses, after only being able to devote 90% of his time to them during his time in Canberra.

An emotional Robert paid tribute to his family businesses, and those of his friends, saying theyd always been a motivation to him.

Its been tough on them. Ive missed some of their most important milestones. In some cases it led to divorce under section 44 of the Constitution so they could later win government contracts. In some cases I had to get my father to look after them.

But theyve always been central to my thoughts, and its been hard being away from them for such long stretches, Robert explained.

Robert confirmed that, from next month, he would not be representing the interests of his electorate. So no change there, he said.

The post Stuart Robert Retires to Spend More Time With His Family Businesses appeared first on The Shovel.

When a close relative came of marriageable age, his parents enrolled him on a matrimonial phone application to arrange a suitable match (read: same caste), using technology to follow an ancient Indian tradition of arranged marriages to maintain endogamy. Indian society has experienced a plethora of different kinds of matchmakers from marriage bureaus set up by certain castes, to neighborhood aunties who match families before matching the partners. 

In India, matrimonial mobile applications are tailored to appeal to certain communities, regions, religions, educational qualifications, incomes, and castes. In many instances, the bride and groom would often see each other on the wedding day. Family compatibility can become more important than partner compatibility.

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There subsists an idealized conception of suburban middle America that is utterly familiar: a blanched-white picket fence circumscribes a neatly manicured lawn. Children, usually three, play house. The father, donned in his weekend Gingham, customizes his sports car (it is often cherry-red and surely American a Chevy or Ford). The mother watches her husband and children from a kitchen window, toiling at baked goods with a smile from lips as red as the hood of her husbands car. These are the perennial images made popular by films, television shows, and politicians who harken back to a bygone America. These pastoral images are anchored in the time period before and after the Great Depression (1929-1939), fitted with narratives including first kisses, first drives, and picnics. This is precisely the American ideal that Carriage Trades excellent group show, Model Home (New York), After Wisconsin Death Trip disputes.

The exhibition is an evolving archive of American calamity over the last 150 years. It surveys images and narratives of localized crises in various locations,...

With brooding blues and radiant reds, Alfredo Arregun fused the tools of classical oil painting with Mexican folk traditions, compressing fine art and ancient craft into stretched canvases that often stood taller than he did. For those of us who knew him, the news of his death on April 24 came as a jolt, as something that didnt quite register, even though Arregun was 88 and had cancer. A flame we thought was indistinguishable had gone out. 

For 60 years he painted with few pauses, channeling explosive energy into methodically composed canvases that sampled motifs from the jungles of his Mexican childhood and the lush landscapes of his adult life in the Pacific Northwest. His signature glow-in-the-dark aesthetic is thanks to the buildup of thousands of small brush strokes in dazzling, painstaking patterns.

As his health worsened, he suffered a fall that seemed to break his spirit. All of a sudden I lost my inspiration to paint, he wrote in a message to friends on Facebook. Three weeks later, he was gone. 

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BUENOS AIRES Argentina is one of the most liberal countries in Latin America and the world, where abortion and same-sex marriage are legal and nonbinary identities recognized. These battles have been won thanks to years of activism from different militant groups. Yet, despite these progressive policies, structural racism and colorism persist. 

Wari Alfaro, an artist and photographer, has been a member of Identidad Marrn Collective, a group of artists, educators, and activists who identify as marrones or marronxs since it began in 2006. The word marrn...

(Women's Clothing Brand Anthropologie Features Male Model, Disables Comments After Getting Slammed by Customers (breitbart.com))



The site shut down comments as they went from nasty to really angry.

The erasing of women continues in the...

And you thought the Bud Light ad was crap? Check this out -

When asked why humans should care about light pollution, Stephen Loring, co-curator of the new exhibition Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, quoted Dune author Frank Herbert. He wrote ecology is an awareness of consequences, Loring told Hyperallergic.

Technological advances in lighting and the worldwide expansion of the electrical grid have made artificial lighting ever more available, Loring continued. But as we light up our world, it is becoming apparent that it also creates serious impediments to the life cycles of diverse fauna including birds, insects, and sea life.

Spring is upon us and although it was 36 degrees this morning it has warmed to a blistering 45 and I find myself dreaming about Summer. The pantry is full, I have beers to brew, I want to get busy canning some beef and chicken, making pickles, and hopefully growing some fresh veggies in the garden.

Family will be visiting and there will be a trip South this Spring if we are healthy. Things to look forward to..

What are your expectations of the upcoming months before old man Winter grips...

TOTM April 2023

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The annual coming of the cold season known as winter has once again caught Australias population completely off guard, causing mass confusion over whether to rug up or dress in layers.

But were sun loving Aussies who revel in a beach culture peppered with endless backyard barbies, its not supposed to get cold here, moaned Connells Point stockbroker Norman Struth. This has forced me to go digging around in the back of the garage and drag out that dusty radiator that I stashed there at the end of last September, thinking Id never need it again.

I thought only England and that place where Santa Claus lives ever had a winter, said West Pymble accountant Rosemary Sprig. Im currently undergoing great anguish over whether or not its worth the trouble of putting the flannelette sheets on the bed, because being Australia Im assuming the next heatwave is just around the corner.

The only person not stressed about how to dress for the cold is that ice addict looking guy on the train with the thousand-yard stare, who is getting around in his usual uniform of blue jeans and no shirt.

Peter Green
http://www.twitter.com/Greeny_Peter

You can follow The (un)Australian on twitter @TheUnO...

SianLuc Heart returns to The Wild Hunt with an investigation into food taboos in ancient pagan cultures.

Continue reading Religious diets and food taboos of ancient pagans at The Wild Hunt.

The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.

Alternative medicine pushers love to claim that vitamin C prevents or cures cancer. Science does not support this myth.

Skeptical Raptor

This Troubled Land

 

Stepping on toes each and every day

Has to do with the things I say

Too many fools let the truth get away

Im just trying to hold the liars at bay,

 

All I wanted was just to love you

But you saw love as glue

Losing romance in a sea of blue

It was all about the attention you drew,

 

Now everything has changed

My life is now rearranged

So common for spouses to be estranged

How hard it is now for love to be exchanged,

 

In this surreal electronic world of illusion

We live in mass confusion

Dont speak your mind you could get a contusion

Why would God even strengthen their delusion?

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The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.

Vaccine legal expert, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, reviews the anonymously -authored anti-vaccine book, "Turtles All the Way Down."

Skeptical Raptor

OK according to me Uncle Wilco Head Sheddie and founder of Shed of the year, so yep its my own view (so Im biased!), but we have them all from workshops, Bars, Railway sheds, Writing sheds to the very first winner in 2007 The Roman Temple and a lot of British eccentricity []

The post The ten best sheds in the world ever! appeared first on ShedBlog #shedoftheyear.

After talking with a former US Air Force coastal anti-aircraft battery officer who served during Vietnam and making note of a strange incident in 2012 I put the two together for an explanation. I attended 3 of the 5 scheduled UFO Crash Retrieval Conferences in Las Vegas. Each time I was surprised at the number of retired and reserve intelligence officers who took interest in the convention. One officer told me of an incident in 1967 where his anti-aircraft battery located on the Florida coast had picked up a Bogey on their radar. At the time he claimed they had the most powerful targeting radar available. During this period tensions were high as the Vietnam War was in full swing, SAC (Strategic Air Command) was on alert, and with Cuba, China, and the Soviet Union on the move advanced warning systems were alerted everywhere.

Incoming threat

As they tracked the incoming UFO confidence was high that it was not civilian or conventional. Just as the radar guided anti-aircraft artillery was about to fire the coast battery installation was hit by a powerful burst of energy that completely knocked out their targeting radar. They were electronically blinded by an unidentified aerial vessel that had been approaching the US coastline. At the time they were at a loss to explain who had done this, where they came from, and what kind of instrumentality was involved.

Demonstration of force?

Fast forward to 2012. A US Naval missile cruiser is on patrol in the Baltic Sea. Due to the Obama Administrations lax attitude toward Russian provocations on the high seas US Naval Captains and commanders are instructed to stand down even when Russian fighters or bombers are making high speed passes at their ships. Though the class of missile cruiser this ship was is not revealed, we dont know if it was an Arleigh Burke Class or some other missile capable warship, but we do know the events that transpired. The Russians have been known to ram US Naval Warships on routine patrol. They have been known to make aggressive moves on US military aircraft such as fighter jets. The Russians also regularly infringe upon US air space with their TU-95 long range bomber requiring interception by US fighters.

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The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.

Anti-vaccine organization misuses the v-safe vaccine database to mislead the public about COVID-19 vaccines.

Skeptical Raptor

There always seems to be some kind of beef (pun intended) when it comes to who has the best burger out there.

Is it McDonalds? Five Guys? In-N-Out Burger? Wendys?

What about Burger King?

BK is definitely in the running and, thanks to a viral video on TikTok, folks can see how their famous flame-broiled system works.

The TikTok video has millions of views and a TikTok user named Nick was nice enough to take viewers into the kitchen to show us the process.

Ran across this today:

Black Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilization
real clickbait to be sure.
(Black Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilization American Greatness (amgreatness.com))

This seems to be a "New Conservative" website - and is certainly new to me. The article is def not 'mainstream narrative' gaslighting.

Posted for your...

Backlash on subway killing of Black man - not what you think

fuck yeah

A touchingly human reminder of our capacity for ecstasy and transcendence.

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Imagine what life would be like if lived, in May Sartons lovely phrase, with joy instead of will. That is what Beethoven imagined, and invited humanity to imagine, two centuries ago in the choral finale of his ninth and final symphony, known as Ode to Joy an epochal hymn of the possible, half a lifetime in the making.

In the spring of 2012, the Spanish city of Sabadell set out to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its founding with a most unusual, electrifying, and touchingly human rendition of Beethovens masterpiece, performed by a flashmob of 100 musicians from the Valls Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de lpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs. Watching the townspeople children with kites, elders with walkers, couples holding hands gather to savor the unbidden music in a succession of confusion, delight, and ecstasy is the stuff of goosebumps: living proof that music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.

Couple with the remarkable story of the making of Ode to Joy, then revisit the neurophysiology of enchantment and how music casts its spell on us.

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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear station has become potentially dangerous as Russian officials began evacuating people from nearby areas. United Nations officials have also commented that the situation is becoming increasingly unpredictable.

The head of the UNs nuclear power watchdog called for measures to ensure the safe operation of Europes largest nuclear plant as evacuations were underway in the nearby town of Enerhodar, according to a report by Yahoo News.  Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on the agencys website: The general situation in the area near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

Im extremely concerned about the very real nuclear safety and security risks facing the plant. We must act now to prevent the threat of a severe nuclear accident and its associated consequences for the population and the environment, Grossi added.

The IAEA has issued warnings previously about safety at the plant which Russia captured in the opening days of its invasion last year after shelling caused temporary power cuts. In March the IAEA warned the plant was running on diesel generators to keep vital cooling systems going, after damage to power lines.

Ukraine Is Storing Western-Supplied Weapons At Nuclear Power Plants

Russian-installed governor of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraines Zaporizhzhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said on Friday that he had ordered the evacuation of villages close to the front line as shelling had intensified in the area in recent days. Balitsky said: In the past few days, the enemy has stepped up shelling of settlements close to the front line. I have therefore made a decision to evacuate first of all children and parents, elderly people, disabled people, and hospital patients, he wrote on social media.

According to The BBC, Russia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyivs anticipated offensive. The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said there were five-hour waits as thousands of cars left.

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Do you remember those $2 bills that were floating around a decade or so ago? They were never common, sometimes people gave them as gifts, and honestly, you were never sure whether or not they were real enough to spend when you had one.

Well, if youve hung onto those as collectors items, it just might start to pay off.

The $2 bill was first released in the late 19th century but was so odd and rare that they never really took off, and production ceased in the 1920s.

In 1976, the Department of the Treasury revived the bill but put a vignette inspired by a John Trumbull painting on the back.

But is the $2 bill your grandparents gave you for your 8th grade graduation worth anything more than, well, $2?

Counter Height Garden Box by Janet Fox

 

I was inspired to make this project because I love to garden but have neuropathy in my extremities making it very difficult to get off the ground once there. I have made myself 6 of these and am so pleased that I thought I'd share the pattern. Perfect cuts are unnecessary as long as you are within 1/4 inch you will be okay.