The United States just launched another new and novel bio-weapon against China

I was expecting it to happen. And then, there it is!

There are precious few people documenting the bio-weapon assaults against China. Myself, obviously, Veterans Today, Ron at UNZ, Jeff Brown, Catlin Johnstone, and a precious handful of others. It’s an erased issue. It’s damn difficult to find information elsewhere that has NOT been co-opted or hijacked by the CIA and then squeeze an “accepted” narrative overlay.

At latest count, it’s eight (x8) engineered viruses against livestock to induce famine (2017 – 2019), and…

… when famine didn’t appear…

…(now) four bio-weapons (all new and novel) against people.

• (2019 – Coronavirus),
• The tick virus, and human version of swine flu (2020)
• …and now, that there is a war between the USA and China, of course an opening salvo of the latest nasty-nasty…

Doctors in China have sounded the alarm over a newly detected virus.

“Langya” virus has infected 35 people so far in two provinces in eastern China, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said.

This was reported by the bio-weapons research centers in Taiwan. You know the ones… the ones set up by President Obama when he set up others in Ukraine. Like the ones that Russia captured, and the Canadian general trapped surrounded by the nefarious bio-weapon lab-ware, and the bio-weapons centers (under the control of the CDC… don’t you know… burning the papers and documents.)

Imagine that!

What a coincidence!

The virus – officially named Langya henipavirus (LayV) – is entirely novel, meaning it has not infected humans before.

It is in the Henipavirus family, of which two species have been identified before – the Hendra virus and Nipah virus. These are very rare, and highly unusual viruses.

These viruses often produce severe and fatal illnesses in people.

Because it is new and novel, there are no vaccines or treatments for it.

Henipavirus is classified as biosafety Level 4. Very dangerous.

It has case fatality rates between 40 and 75%, according to the data from World Health Organization (WHO).

Here’s my video on this…

(It’s a) good thing that China is still at DEFCON… eh?

DEFCON

China has a zero virus policy. That’s what all these “unreasonable” lock-downs are all about. Now, I have to ask you, don’t you think that perhaps China knows something that you might be aware of. Hum?

If this goes pandemic…

…how well do you think the United States will handle new mRNA injections, and wearing mask mandates?

As I see it, America is screwed seven days from Sunday (that’s an idiom, by the way).

Heaven’s Gate

It was legit crazy. They mass suicided together.

They all had suitcases with them too. The plan was that by suiciding they would be able to link up with some master spaceship.

39 people committed suicide together.

They all had the exact same outfits on too. The same black Nike shoes. They all drank this poison Kool-Aid. Many of the men had voluntarily castrated themselves years prior too as part of the cult membership.

Everyone had a special “Heaven’s Gate Away Team” patch along with $5.75 in their right pocket. This was their leader:

Marshall Applewhite. He was a man with a troubled past and could be thanked for brainwashing all of these people into this crazy scheme to meet up with extraterrestrials.

It was the largest mass suicide in American history.

Russia Suspends On-Site Inspections of Nuclear Weapons under START Treaty with USA

GEICO, one of the largest insurance companies in the United States, reportedly closed all 38 of it’s California offices on Monday, resulting in hundreds of workers being laid off.

According to the company, GEICO would not be leaving outright, and will still be offering policies directly online, with all insurance functions continuing as normal. Buying directly through agents by phone, however, will not be possible.

“We continue to write policies in California, and we remain available through our direct channels for the more than 2.18 million California customers presently insured with us,” said GEICO in a statement on Monday.

With recession fears mounting — and inflation, the war in Ukraine and the lingering pandemic taking a toll — many tech companies are rethinking their staffing needs, with some of them instituting hiring freezes, rescinding offers and making rounds of layoffs.

Amazon.com Inc. was one of the latest companies to discuss its belt-tightening efforts this week. During its quarterly earnings call Thursday, the e-commerce giant said it’s been adding jobs at the slowest rate since 2019. After relying on attrition to winnow its staff, Amazon now has about 100,000 fewer employees than in the previous quarter.

Within hours of the latest GDP report on Thursday, which raised fears that the United States could be entering a recession, online search volume for “sell my home fast” spiked a whopping 2,750%.

Shortly after the Commerce Department released the report on July 28, revealing that the economy showed negative growth for a second straight quarter — shrinking by an annual pace of 0.9% — home sellers hoping for higher housing prices to continue are now concerned.

AP Moller-Maersk on Wednesday predicted a slowdown in global shipping container demand this year amid weakening consumer confidence and supply chain congestion.

The Danish shipping and logistics company — one of the world’s largest and a broad barometer for global trade — said it loaded 7.4% fewer containers onto ships in the second quarter when compared to the same period in 2021, prompting it to revise the full-year outlook for its container business.

Germany’s presidential palace in Berlin is no longer lit at night, the city of Hanover is turning off warm water in the showers of its pools and gyms, and municipalities across the country are preparing heating havens to keep people safe from the cold. And that’s just the beginning of a crisis that will ripple across Europe.

It might still be the height of summer, but Germany has little time to lose to avert an energy shortage this winter that would be unprecedented for a developed nation. Much of Europe is feeling the strain from Russia’s squeeze on natural gas deliveries, yet no other country is as exposed as the region’s biggest economy, where nearly half the homes rely on the fuel for heating.

Responding to Europe’s energy crisis, Spain has controversially banned air conditioning from dropping below 27°C (80.6°F) in the summer.

The new government decree, which applies to a whole host of public buildings as well as shops, hotels and other venues, will also stop heating from being raised above 19°C during the winter.

“The rules will be mandatory in all public and commercial buildings, including bars, cinemas, theatres, airports and train stations,” reports EuroNews.

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Over the past few months, the United States has suffered an ALLEGED “shortage” of Baby Formula, with stores being told that plant shut downs were the cause.   Turns out, the “shortage” was deliberately and artificially created by the intentional destruction of baby formula!

The video below, from a truck driver, shows pallets full of Baby Formula being deliberately destroyed.\

Who ordered this and why was it done?

Deliberately destroying baby food?

Keep being you…

“I have no idea who you are but today I sat and watched you for about 15 minutes help a homeless man. 

I watched you give him your sneakers which looked brand new and then you took off your socks and stood there barefoot while you took his socks off him which had a huge hole and then you wipes his foot with a baby wipe you had in your car. 

You put the socks and sneakers on him. 

You helped him take off his shirt and you put a shirt on him that you had in your car and then gave him a pair of shorts you had along with bottles of water and money. 

All the while people walked right past you staring. 

You had no idea anyone was watching, you weren’t videoing it like everyone else does and then posting it online for recognition. 

You did it out of the goodness of your heart. 

I hope that somehow, someway this post finds you so you know that my daughter and I think you are one amazing, good hearted selfless person. You are what a man should be. 

No good deed goes unnoticed."

‘Civil War’ trending on Twitter after FBI raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago

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FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. on Monday night. Among the wide ranging reactions from the public, “Civil War” began trending on Twitter.

By about 9:30 p.m. EST – approximately three hours after Trump announced the FBI raid on his social media platform, Truth Social – “Civil War” had been tweeted more than 35,000 times and became trending in the Political figures and Politics categories.

Some posts, such as one from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, likened the FBI’s raid on Trump’s home as “the type of things that happen in countries during civil war.” She added, “The political persecution MUST STOP!!!”

Other users said the FBI’s actions were akin to waging civil war. Some who supported the raid accused Trump supporters of using the raid as an excuse to start civil war.

“National Divorce” was another trending keyword.

Other trending keywords included “Hillary” referring to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with nearly 80,000 tweets, “Wray” referring to FBI director Christopher Wray with 35,000 tweets, “Garland” referring to Attorney General Merrick Garland with more than 81,000 tweets.

Trump also linked the FBI raid to deliberate political persecution ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and his possible reelection bid in 2024.

“It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections,” Trump said.

CNN reported Trump was not in Florida at the time of the FBI raid. The FBI raid reportedly focused on Trump’s living quarters and office spaces.

The FBI told the Hal Turner Radio Show, “We don’t have any comment.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released a statement warning Attorney General Merrick Garland that an investigation would be underway.

“I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned,” McCarthy said. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also released a statement condemning the raid as a political move.

“The raid of [Mar-A-Lago] is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic,” DeSantis said.

HAL TURNER EDITORIAL OPINION

It only took the US Department of Justice from June, 2009, to August 2022 to go from a big violation of the Constitution, imprisoning me for writing and Editorial they didn’t like, saying the First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press “did not apply” to the Editorial I wrote, to raiding the private home of a former US President over allegedly Classified Documents that a President was allowed to see!

It seems to me the US Department of Justice has become destructive of the rights and liberties of Americans at all levels of our society.  With this raid against former President Trump, now, no one is safe.

Our Founding Fathers spoke about the issue of when a government “becomes destructive” in the Declaration of Independence.   They wrote:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 

In that same document, our Founding Fathers went further.  They then said:

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. 

I added the emphasis seen above.  Readers should pause a moment here to consider carefully that the Founding Fathers said “throw off such government” and did NOT say “vote in elections to change that government,”  or “file suit to fight that government” or even “take to the streets to protest that government.”   No.   They said “throw off.”   I take their words to mean exactly, precisely, what they say.

You should too.

The weaponization of criminal law, applied to Constitutionally protected activities like my June, 2009 Editorial, and to President Trump’s lawful possession of Presidential documents – if he even still had them — and countless other examples too numerous to cite,  has reduced the United States of America to a Banana Republic.

What’s next, Stalinist Death Squads?   Gulags?

No, the people presently exercising government power have finally gone too far.

This raid against President Trump comes years after Hillary Clinton intentionally obstructed justice, by Bleaching about 33,000 emails from a computer server AFTER those emails had been Subpoenaed!   The Justice Department did NOTHING about that obstruction of justice, or her possession of classified materials.

It also comes after Hunter Biden’s laptop computer showed bribes, kickbacks, and/or payoffs to Joe Biden from foreign sources both while Biden was Vice President under Obama, and perhaps to this very day while Biden is (illegitimate) President!   The Justice department is nowhere to be found with that laptop evidence.

The fact that “Civil War” is now trending on social media, shows how “too far” they’ve actually gone with this Trump raid.

It’s time for some type of citizen intervention in the ongoing activities of this former government, which has clearly morphed into Tyranny.

What’s going on inside the US Department of Justice, it seems to me, is now clearly defined Tyranny.

When you factor-into the reality that it is the same US Justice Department that holds all the “dirt” on sitting federal Judges, to force them into doing what the Justice Department wants in tough or controversial cases, – you see the tyranny for what it actually is.

When you also factor-in the reality that after the stolen election in November 2020, the Justice Department not only failed to investigate or prosecute the rampant, brazen, election fraud, they also made sure any lawsuits brought before the federal courts were quickly dismissed without even evidentiary hearings!

I mean, think about what actually took place on Election night, 2020: People actually shut down six key swing state urban centers, each of which had Trump up by 60,000 or more votes…and then counted the mail in ballots in secret with no republicans watching.

They were sticking cardboard on the windows of Cobo Hall.   It’s on video.   Here, look. . . .

They faked a water main break in Atlanta to kick out republicans.

In the morning they said Trump lost in all six key towns by a few thousand votes.

Since then its been proven mail in ballots were produced and handled in illegal fashions in at least 4 states.

The rejection rate for Mail in Ballots is historically 3-5%. In these elections, they massively increased the number of mail-in ballots, and the rejection rate dropped to 0.3%.

If you do what they did, BRAZENLY AND OPENLY STEALING THE ELECTION….you didn’t do it because you plan on giving it back.

Since then, they have thrown innocent people who did nothing more than trespass, in jail indefinitely with no bail for two years to use them as political capitol to pretend their illegit regime was threatened by racist White People.

-They have spied on Americans who went to school board meetings to complain about homosexuals infiltrating the schools to promote homosexuality.

-We have a Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman who told the Chinese, don’t worry, I’m not obeying this President.

– The FBI has tried to entrap innocent people into plots the FBI was running to fake-kidnap a Governor in Michigan.

So anybody who tells you the raid on Mar Largo was somehow not ‘going over the line’  is oblivious to what has already actually been going on. You are not living in a democracy, you are living in a rogue state run by an illegitimate coup installed behind a military barrier. AND THEY KNOW IT…quit pretending they don’t.

They are not playing games. They are ruthless and evil. And in the next two years this raid on Mar Largo will look like nothing.

It must be nice to have all those “dirt” files to hold over Judges heads, to get them to rubber-stamp illegal government actions as if they are somehow good.

Thanks to the Justice department, we in the United States are forced to suffer an illegitimate President and Vice President, who got into office through shameless election fraud, we cannot successfully petition the courts to redress grievances about that fraud because the flamboyantly corrupt federal judges throw the cases out before any evidence review,  and now we see the legitimate President, Trump, targeted by Search Warrant.

The politicization of criminal law enforcement is precisely what third world despots do in Banana republics.   THAT is where the US Justice Department has brought us all.

It’s long overdue that the American people step up and put a stop to this, by whatever means are necessary.

However the American people choose to accomplish that, is of no matter to me.  In my view, whatever the American people choose to do . . . . the government has brought upon itself.

I should be careful citing the Founding Fathers; the storm troopers in the Justice Department may try to make this Editorial a crime, too, even though the First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press covers all speech, uttered everywhere.  It does, after all, say “Congress shall make NO LAW . . . .”

None.  Not even laws they think are for valid reasons.

The power to outlaw speech is absolutely forbidden to the federal government.  Of course, as I found out personally in June, 2009, they clearly don’t care about that, and go off and do what they do anyway.  And they get dufus federal judges to rubber-stamp it as somehow “ok.”

It’s time to reign-in — or replace — this federal government.

I think people who say they thought that this country still had hope of all these troubles being settled peacefully are now were forced to wake up to the fact this will either be oppression, or secession/rebellion, no other choices.

Something definitely snapped with the raid against President Trump. You can feel it in the air.

For those of us awake for awhile this wasn’t unexpected, but for those who still believed at least some of this nation still existed, it was a wakeup call.

The Monday morning flag ceremony in Indonesian Schools.

Nice story.

This reminded me when I was still in high school. I had a friend, she was a top grader and a critical person. She used to asked questions to teachers. One day we had a history lesson and our teacher in the class talked about the wartime period in Indonesia. Suddenly she rose her hand and asked a question like this

She : Sir, as you explained, I could conclude that Monday morning flag ceremony is a Japanese military tradition when they colonized our country. I say we should end that tradition. Also in develop countries, schools don’t have flag raising ceremony. If we keep the tradition, it means we undermine the patriotism values.

Teacher : Yes your analysis is good. But for one reason, I believe schools in Indonesia should keep that flag raising ceremony despite we all know it is a old tradition of Japanese military when they occupied our country. Just for a simple reason.

She : Why sir ?

Teacher : When you stand in the flag raising ceremony every Monday morning then you salute the flag, remember the Indonesians who died in the wartime just to raise the flag. The flag is the symbol of freedom to our people after being oppressed for more than 350 years by the Dutch and nearly four years by brutal Japanese invaders. You can go to school like today and have a good time living like now is because of the services of Indonesians who fought against the bloody invaders in our country. So Is it too much for you to stand just for a while to show respect to your countrymen who died fighting for the freedom of all of us ?

All students in the class went silent, nobody talked. She didn’t speak anything afterwards. The last lines spoken by our history teacher gave me the chills.

Some advice from a police cop

Things I learned being a Cop that I would have never known. I apologise in advance for the wonky numbering. There was a glitch and the numbers would start over after every photo was entered. 🙂

1. Everyone knows holding a roll of nickels in their fist and punching someone increases the punching power of a person by an incredible amount. Most don’t know even using something smaller and lighter is devastating. Punching someone with a roll of chapstick or a Bic lighter in your fist will turn your punch from a so so to knocking someone out cold. The extra weight helps but isn’t the main thing. It’s the solid material that stops your hand from giving way upon contact. Makes your punch much more damaging because it is much more compact. A lot of guys that fight a lot/live in wild neighborhoods know this little trick. I would be breaking up fights and everyone involved has chapstick on them? I thought perhaps soft lips were a priority there in the 18th Street Insane Gangster Bloods? I forget who but someone eventually clued me in on how these young thundercats were using them.
2. In terms of running away or catching someone in a vehicle pursuit having a vehicle that accelerates quickly will beat a vehicle with a much higher top speed. In a car chase acceleration is king, not top speed. This is why a car can never catch a motorcycle. It’s not because they’re faster. It’s not because motorcycles can go places cars can’t. It just 97% raw acceleration and 3% being able to cut through places a car can’t like between cars stopped in traffic. If you want to be a bad guy or catch them think about acceleration before overall speed…or just be smart and always use a motorcycle to commit crimes? Side benefit the licence plate is impossible to see from more than 3 feet away and you can cover your body head to toe so your sex and race can’t even be determined and not raise any suspicions.
3. As Marine, EMT-Paramedic, Firefighter and Cop I have seen …like…whew… a whole lot of people die. I’m not counting the bijillion dead bodies I have seen, carried, rolled and had to touch, examine or whatever but people actually dying right in my presence. By far there are two most common things people say as their last words before dying (in this order). 1. I had the right of way…” 2. “Mom….” .
4. Fireman and Police are the exact same type of people as far as personality types, sick but hilarious humor and discussions. Goals. Politics. I could detect no difference whatsoever in the kind of people that do either job. They also go through the exact same stages in their careers from excited and annoying to proficient to expert to burned out utterly and counting the seconds to retirement. Both are equally intrested in helping people and equally disgusted with humanity at the same time. They’re exactly the same people right down to every 3rd one named “Mike”. The funny thing is Police and Fire in every town I worked in that was large the two hated each other. Many a city and Church festival in St Louis City has been disrupted by fist fights between the two breaking out. It was actually quite common for Policemen and Firemen to fight at bars and beerhall events etc in the City. Ironicly I was involved in fistacuffs for both sides. Our City actually had a Police vs Fire boxing match that fills the Blues Hockey Arena every year. It’s called “Guns and Hoses”. No joke. Spoiler alert we always beat the shit out of those Firefighters, it’s a fun night and it all goes to charity. I’m not joking when I say that if you fight in Guns and Hoses and win by a knock out you will be instantly famous in the 2000 member department and in line for promotions very soon.
5. About 75% of peoples houses have very “weird” smells. Not always necessarily bad like cat piss (which is pretty common) but more like they cook regularly with some weird ass spices. Now that I know that I ALWAYS ask people who will tell without bullshitting if my house smells weird when they first come over. You could be living in a very very weird smelling house and have no idea.
6. Most really big guys can’t fight for shit. They have gotten by on being big since age 13 and never had to actually fight at all. They didn’t have to fist fight like me to and from school 5 days a week in Detroit because I was tall and skinny and looked easy to beat up (which I totally was for many many years until one day I wasn’t). Big guys who can’t fight will ALWAYS try to grab on to you and take you down to the floor to wrestle. Just throw jabs and move and they will be so worn out in less than a minute or two they will start dropping their hands, mouth breathing. Then you go in on them dirty with some throat punches and face shots (a good number can take hits to the body but not the jaw).. Don’t underestimate smaller guys, especially if they’re wiry.
7. Cars never blow up. Honestly. Never. They catch on fire and the fire can spread very quickly but they don’t blow up with a big fireball like every car on every movie or TV show forever. If you drop a car off a cliff it will not explode. If you stuff a rag on fire down the fuel port it wont explode. If all the gas leaks out underneath it it wont explode. There is actually only one part of a car that actually does explode is the tires. You call it a blowout or flat tire but most of the time it’s actually an explosion of compressed air finding a weakness. It’s one of the most common causes of trucks in particular but any vehicles to crash. However once they crash from a tire explosion the car still doesn’t explode. I have put out at least 500 car fires personally with a 1″3/4 preconnect attack hose or a fire extinguisher. Many of them were fully involved with fire from bumper to bumper. Never once did I ever see or hear of a car exploding. Also side fact. When you see an explosion the more fireball and flame you see the weaker the blast was. Big ass explosions that kill you…military grade explosions like artillery, grenades, mines, rockets etc have almost no “fireball” or color to the explosion. All the energy is directed to the blast. A fireball is wasted, weak energy being bled off. So when you see a movie with a massive fireball explosion it is actually a very weak event despite it’s powerful cinemagraphic look.
8. Nobody ever says cool shit after something crazy like a shooting or some life and death event. Even the coolest, doesn’t look at explosions, eats a meatball sub over a mangled dead body with as much comfort as a at a nice table downtown STILL says “OMG DUDE DID YOU SEE THAT?????…..I JUST SHIT A KITTEN?” as they pat themselves all over looking for holes they didn’t start the day with. It’s always really scary too but you leave that part out when you’re dining out on that story for the next decade. There have been times as a firefighter I was either in a building fully involved with raging fire dragging my forehead on the ground because the heat just 2 inches higher from the floor was unbearably painful….or as Police about to go do an entry knowing 100% a guy with a gun was behind the door…..just taking a beat to question my vocational choices….being alternately totally scared and pretty sure you’re going to die now yet weirdly filled with endorphins that must be like what Heroin feels like and super into it all of it. The times I will experience anxiety is the waiting, anticipation of the fight. Once you go into “action” all of that leaves you.
9. People put a lot of crazy things in their butts and need medical intervention to remove them and sometimes to save their lives (like the guy that put one of those twisty shaped light bulbs up there…not the regular round normal light bulbs…the energy efficient big ones that are a twisty tube if that makes sense). Yea that broke up there and literally tore himself a new asshole. To add to his indignity I made him ride in the Ambulance with his butt up in the air and his face down in the pillow area because it was the only way to keep the wound above his heart. The ER Surgeon told me that and not applying anymore pressure (moving the glass around in the process) which was counterintuitive …combined, probably kept him alive long enough to save. His BP was something like 20/10 with a thready pulse and circling the drain.
10. I found that despite my pride the best thing I could do as a Medic was just get them to the ER as fast as possible many times. “Load and Go” over “Stay and Play” as Paramedics say in their slang. The average Ambulance in America takes 8 minutes to arrive but in many many places its more like 15 or 20. If your loved ones life is on the line do the mental math. Can you get them to the ER before an Ambulance can get here? If someone I know is dying they’re getting thrown in a vehicle and driven to the closest ER turning corners on two tires in almost every conceivable circumstance. This is what Cops do when other Cops get hit. I have never seen or heard of a shot/stabbed St Louis City Cop arriving at the Trauma Center in an Ambulance. The nearest Cop throws you in the back seat and then does some of the scariest driving you will ever see or hear tell of to get you to the ER. If Grandpa suddenly has chest pain and trouble breathing…don’t walk him to the bedroom…walk him to the front seat of the car. You will be halfway to getting him to the ER by the time you could have finished describing what is going on and where to 911, let alone waiting for them to be notified, get to the rig and drive to you (then talk a lot and finally drive him to where?….the ER you could have been at 10 minutes after the event started instead of 45 minutes with EMS). Plus this way you get to do a dramatic Emergency Room entrance as you burst through the sliding glass doors and loudly proclaim “I NEED A DOCTOR!”
11. If you ever see a person with a messed up looking ear (like shown below) what we call “Cauliflower Ear” and are considering fighting them, reconsider fighting with them if possible or call for backup before you get into it if you’re Police. Bottom line if you don’t have ears like this too…. then you will most likely need more people to win that fight without getting hurt.

1. Here is the rant portion: So now I would say this is a thing most people don’t know and it drives me so crazy. If you are in an accident on a road. Stop there if safe, make sure the other person is all right….Then….please pay attention here people….THEN MOVE YOUR CAR OUT OF THE ROADWAY TO SOMEWHERE SAFE LIKE THE PARKING LOT 20 YARDS AWAY IF THE CARS ARE DRIVEABLE. For some reason people like sheep tend to just freeze and not want to move after even the most minor fender bender. Sit right there in traffic hoping they don’t get hit by cars flying by and causing a major hazard cause guess what? People are going to have to be changing lanes to avoid your cars and you standing there in the street on your phone looking at your bumper. Traffic slows and people rubber neck to look. I can’t tell you how many accidents Cops get a call for and there is a 2nd or even 3rd accident at that same spot before we get there. If your car can move, get it and you out of the road to a safe spot to wait for Police. Stop after the accident. Tell the person in the other car….”I’m moving to a safer place, that CVS parking lot over there.” Then go. Call 911, look for your info, check the damage…all in safety. The first thing any competent Cop asks when arriving at an accident in an active roadway with traffic is 1. Is anyone hurt? 2. Are the vehicles able to be moved? If no injuries and drivable cars the Officer will immediately direct you off the roadway to a safe location to sort things out. We can tell from the damage alone and statements exactly what happened and where, move to safety on your own. If everyone did this there would be literally 50% less traffic jams in America minimum.
2. When people get shot they almost never die instantly. In fact the vast majority of people who are shot multiple times live. For example I once got a call for “a man shot”. Got there. 20 year old kid sitting on a stoop. He had been shot 7 times in the chest and stomach with a .45 and 2 more times in his hand/arm. He had run 6 blocks home, called 911 and was sitting there talking to me quite normally when I arrived. I mean shots dead ass center mast and all around the nipples, belly middle, not off to the side shoulder shots or something. He had powder burns we call “stippling” and soot around the entrance wounds, so someone gave him all 10 rounds in the torso at less than 5 feet. He walked to the Ambulance and climbed in when they arrived like 8 minutes later. Saw him around quite a bit after that. He was fine. No permanent problems just a big ass zipper scar from his pubes to his adams apple. My point also is even wounds that are mortal regularly take from 5 minutes to 30 minutes before the person dies and they’re totally functional until then able to shoot and move etc. BTW that kid refused to name his assailant but word quickly got out that Lil Poo from the 18th St Insane Gangster Bloods had shot him (this guy was a Cochran Crip). About a month after this guy gets out of the hospital someone shot Lil Poo coming out of the corner store with a .45 multiple times in the face. No arrest ever made in the case due to lack of witnesses. You know this guy learned his lesson that just shooting someone in the chest might not kill them and just unloaded on this dudes face. His face looked like a Calzone someone threw against a wall.
3. Trust your instincts and intuitions. If you are getting a weird vibe off a situation or a person, learn to pay attention to that. People can often detect micro expressions that a person is a threat and body language people are putting out that mean to do you harm. You often detect this unconsciously long before your conscious mind dials in and realises something is definitely wrong. You may just feel vaguely uncomfortable. Act on and be aware of your intuition. This has saved me a few times.
4. If you’re out and about in a larger town and all the sudden have to take a crap it can be difficult to find a clean bathroom. Your best bet is always to go to a really big Hotel like a Hilton, Adams Mark, etc.

1. ^ The nicer chains have huge lobbies with massive bathrooms done in Marble. Spotless. Some so big you could play half court basketball in there. Even better they’re almost always empty. So if you’re on the road and some high end hotels are nearby that is your best bet.
2. Lasty, if you want to guarantee your McDonalds fry’s are incredibly hot and right out of the fryer ask for “no salt”. Then just keep some salt packets in the car. It’s the only way to get really hot fries 100% of the time. I hate cold fries. Man….now I want fries. It’s 12:34 at night now…I can make it. They don’t close until 2.

Cake Batter Pancakes

Who says you can’t eat cake for breakfast? These birthday cake pancakes take two amazing sweets and turn them into one celebration-worthy treat that you can enjoy any time of the day.

The secret to these soft and pillowy beauties? Combining Bisquick™ mix and Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix together to create an extra-fluffy pancake.

Bright colored sprinkles and a homemade powdered sugar glaze are the icing on these festive cake batter pancakes!

Ingredients

Pancakes

• 1 cup Original Bisquick™ mix
• 1 cup Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix
• 3 tablespoons candy sprinkles
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs

Glaze and Garnish

• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Additional candy sprinkles

Steps

• 1
  Heat griddle or skillet over medium-high heat or electric griddle to 375°F; grease with cooking spray, vegetable oil or shortening. (Surface is ready when a few drops of water sprinkled on it dance and disappear.)

• 2

  In medium bowl, stir together pancake ingredients until blended. Pour by slightly less than 1/4 cupfuls onto hot griddle. Cook until edges are dry. Turn; cook until pancakes are golden brown. Stack on serving plates.

• 3

  In small bowl, beat powdered sugar, milk and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla with whisk until smooth.
• 4
  To serve, top each serving with glaze and additional candy sprinkles.

The flaying alive of a corrupt judge, Sisamnes.

A 16th century painting showing the flaying alive of a corrupt judge, Sisamnes, in the year 500 BC.

Sisamnes was a corrupt royal judge at the time of Cambyses II in Persia. It was discovered that he accepted a bribe in court and passed an unfair trial.

As a consequence, the king ordered that he be imprisoned for his corruption and ordered that he be flayed alive.

Before judging, the king asked Sisamnes whom he wished to name as his successor. Sisamnes, in his greed, chose his son, Otanes.

The king agreed and appointed Otanes to replace his father. He later tried and ordered Sisamnes to remove the skin to be used to upholster the seat the new judge would sit on in the courtroom to remind him of the possible consequences of corruption.

Otanes, in his deliberations, was obliged to always remember that he was always sitting on the skin of his executed father.

This helped to ensure fairness and equity in all of its hearings, deliberations and sentencing.

Why Does The United States Just Keep Getting Hit By One Historic Nightmare After Another?

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Have you become numb to all the bad news yet?  Almost every single day, something really horrible seems to happen in the United States.  It is just one thing after another and it has been that way for months.  It is as if we are in the midst of some sort of a “perfect storm” that never seems to end.  In all my years of writing, I have never seen anything like this.  There is so much bad news happening right now that it is literally impossible to keep up with it all.  Events are starting to accelerate at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking, and I am extremely concerned about what the remainder of 2022 will look like.

For months, I have been writing extensively about the endless drought in the western half of the nation.  We are being told that it is the worst multi-year megadrought that the region has experienced in 1,200 years, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Meanwhile, we are witnessing absolutely unprecedented flooding in the eastern half of the United States.  For example, some parts of Kentucky were just pummeled by more than 10 inches of rain in a 24 hour period…

Heavy rain poured down across eastern Kentucky late Wednesday into Thursday, triggering flash flooding that caused mudslides, washed away homes and roadways and promoted a flash flood emergency. The deluge produced more than 10 inches over a 24-hour period in the hardest-hit areas and came only days after another disastrous flood inundated the St. Louis area.

In some areas, it literally looks like a tsunami has just come through.  One local meteorologist admitted that he does not “have the words” to describe the incredible devastation that has taken place…

Chris Bailey, WKYT’s chief meteorologist said: ‘I don’t have the words to describe the amount of devastation daylight will uncover across eastern Kentucky.

‘This is likely to go down as one of the worst flash flood events to ever hit the state.’

Governor Andy Beshear is telling us that this was “one of the worst and most devastating events in Kentucky’s history”, and he isn’t sure why such bad things keep happening to his state…

Beshear described this as “one of the worst and most devastating events in Kentucky’s history” during the press conference. Beshear said the state was in the middle of an ongoing natural disaster and warned of the possibility for more rain to fall through Thursday night. Damage assessment and restoration were likely to continue for several days, but the dangerous flooding was hindering first responders’ ability to rescue residents, as well as allow utility workers to get power restored.

“I wish I could tell you why we keep getting hit here in Kentucky,” Beshear said. “I wish I could tell you why areas, where people may not have that much, continue to get hit and lose everything. I can’t give you the why, but I know what we do in response to it. And the answer is everything we can. These are our people. Let’s make sure we help them out.”

Of course this disaster in Kentucky came just one day after one of the worst flooding events in the history of the state of Missouri.

We are being told that we just witnessed “the wettest day ever for St. Louis”, and in some areas of the city the water actually got more than 8 feet deep…

One person died when a car in St. Louis was found covered in more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) of water. Several puppies drowned when a building became flooded at Stray Paws Adoptables, a stray dog rescue operation in St. Peters, a St. Louis suburb. Firefighters in boats rescued other dogs from the building.

Damage across the region was widespread after a massive downpour dropped more than 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain in parts of St. Charles County and up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) elsewhere in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Most of the rain fell in a few hours shortly after midnight.

I really wish that we could take all of that water and give it to ranchers and farmers in the western half of the country, because the endless drought is absolutely crushing them.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is now dealing with two major simultaneous pandemics for the first time in my entire life.

Despite everything that health officials have tried, the first pandemic is still raging, and now another frightening disease is spreading like wildfire.

This current monkeypox outbreak began in Europe, but this week the U.S. officially became the world leader in confirmed cases…

With more than 18,000 cases worldwide, the monkeypox outbreak is now a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared this week. And the U.S. has recorded more monkeypox cases since the beginning of the year than any other country, according to the most recent statistics.

The number of confirmed cases continues to rise at an exponential rate, and this is one disease that you definitely do not want to get.

Many victims have described experiencing absolutely excruciating pain once skin sores start developing, and one man that has had both COVID and monkeypox is telling us that monkeypox is “100 times worse”.

On top of everything that I have already discussed, we just got confirmation that the U.S. economy has plunged into a recession…

The U.S. economy contracted for the second straight quarter from April to June, hitting a widely accepted rule of thumb for a recession, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday.

Gross domestic product fell 0.9% at an annualized pace for the period, according to the advance estimate. That follows a 1.6% decline in the first quarter and was worse than the Dow Jones estimate for a gain of 0.3%.

Of course Joe Biden will never admit that a recession has now started.

According to him, everything is just great…

Biden noted that ‘both Chairman Powell and many of the significant banking personnel and economists say we’re not in a recession.’

‘Businesses are investing in American in record rates,’ Biden boasted.

But everyone can see what is happening to the economy, and we are being warned that we must endure some “short-term pain” in order to get inflation under control…

“We have to endure the short-term pain in the economy in order to get inflation back under control,” said Tara Sinclair, a senior fellow at the Indeed Hiring Lab. She compared the Fed hiking interest rates and tightening monetary policy to a medical treatment that might require patients to undergo something painful in order to have longer-term health. “Then, going forward, we can have a much more stable environment where we know prices are going to be growing about 2 percent per year, we have more certainty about that, we have a better sense of demand and supply coming together. That’s a better working environment for the economy as a whole, and businesses want that kind of certainty.”

Without a doubt, we desperately need to do something about inflation because it is absolutely eviscerating those at the bottom of the economic food chain.

For example, just consider the plight of one woman that was recently interviewed by CNN…

For 17 years, Ana Duran worked full time as a travel counselor. Late last year she lost that job, shortly before seeing the price of eggs rise to $7.99 a dozen and the price of a single avocado rise to $2.99 at her local store. In June, it cost her $94 to fill up her gas tank, instead of the $50 it cost her last year.

Duran has been receiving unemployment benefits and working part-time as a caregiver for a resident at a senior center. To make ends meet, she’s also been selling her own gold jewelry and crushing aluminum cans to recycle for extra cash.

Unfortunately, what the Fed is trying to do isn’t going to work.  The inflation rate will likely stabilize, but we aren’t going back to a low inflation environment.

However, dramatically raising interest rates will definitely crash the housing market.

Ultimately, we are going to get to enjoy 1970s-style inflation and a repeat of the housing crash of 2008 all at the same time.

Won’t that be fun?

A historic economic meltdown of epic proportions has begun, and it is going to get a whole lot worse.

We seem to be in the midst of some sort of a “perfect storm” with no end in sight.

So why is this happening to us?

Why does the United States just keep getting hit by one historic nightmare after another?

We appear to have entered an ominous new chapter in our history, and I believe that events will accelerate even more during the difficult months that are ahead of us.

This Is What Will Happen To The U.S. Economy When We Go To War With China

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Nancy Pelosi knows exactly what she is doing.  She knows that going to Taiwan without China’s permission will create a major international incident, but she is doing it anyway.

It is being reported that Pelosi will arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday, spend the night in downtown Taipei on Tuesday night, and then potentially meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday.  If she does meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, that will infuriate the Chinese even more.

Pelosi is directly challenging China’s sovereignty over the island, and that is something that the Chinese will simply not tolerate.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is on the verge of a third term in office, and so he cannot afford to show any weakness right now.  The following comes from Bloomberg…

Her travels come before China’s leadership usually heads to the seaside town of Beidaihe for an annual summer gathering. President Xi Jinping is just months away from a twice-a-decade Communist Party leadership reshuffle where he’s expected to secure a third term in office, increasing the political stakes.

The timing means Xi can’t afford to look weak in response to what Beijing views as foreign interference in its affairs. China held live-fire military drills over the weekend off the coast of Fujian province, which is opposite Taiwan.

In recent days Chinese authorities have been warning us over and over again that China will respond very strongly if Pelosi goes ahead with her visit.

On Monday, yet another very ominous warning was issued…

“We would like to tell the US once again that China is standing by, and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never sit idly by. China will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters, when asked about the fallout from Pelosi leading a congressional delegation to Taipei.

“As for what measures, if she dares to go, then let’s wait and see,” Zhao added.

This is a threat that isn’t veiled at all.

The Chinese are openly telling us that the People’s Liberation Army will take action if Pelosi goes through with her visit.

And a video was just released on social media which definitely appears to have been intended to send a message…

A video by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, which showed scenes of military exercises and preparations and was posted on state media sites on Monday evening, urged troops to “stand by in battle formation, be ready to fight upon command, bury all incoming enemies.”

If you have not seen it yet, you can find the video right here.  If you have an understanding of Chinese culture, then you know that things like this are never done lightly.

Here in the United States, we are being told to disregard such “propaganda” and the “empty threats” that the Chinese are supposedly making.

But are they really “empty threats”?

What if they aren’t?  What if the Chinese really mean what they say?

I think that something that Caitlin Johnstone tweeted sums things up quite well…

Russia: Don’t cross our red lines in Ukraine or we’ll take action.

US politicians: They’re bluffing. Cross those red lines.

*Russia invades.*


China: Don’t cross our red lines in Taiwan or we’ll take action.

US politicians: They’re bluffing. Cross those red lines.

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Ultimately, the Chinese were probably planning to invade Taiwan fairly soon anyway, but Pelosi’s visit certainly has the potential to greatly accelerate matters.

And even though Taiwanese officials are welcoming Pelosi’s visit, they are also preparing for war at the same time…

Taiwanese defense officials have canceled the leave of some soldiers and officers “to immediately prepare” for the chance of war in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Asia this week, according to local reports.

Sadly, war with China is coming.

It is just a matter of time.

So what would such a conflict do to the U.S. economy?

Well, for one thing it would absolutely devastate the pharmaceutical industry…

Consider that Chinese firms are said to supply more than 90 percent of US antibiotics, 70 percent of acetaminophen (that’s Tylenol), and almost half of the anti-coagulant heparin. “Are said to” because we struggle even to gather information on this because of the opacity of the Chinese market and state-dominated record keeping. Some studies suggest up to 80 percent of the basic ingredients in US drugs come from the PRC. China is also the second largest exporter of biologics and the prime source of medical devices per the FDA. In some cases, it appears that India is a prime source of a key import – generics, for example – but that masks the fact that India sources up to 75 percent of its own pharma ingredients from China.

The food industry would also be turned upside down.  In fact, it is being reported that “it is almost impossible to have a diet with foods that were not produced in China”…

According to CNN.com, experts believe that it is almost impossible to have a diet with foods that were not produced in China. 

Products such as chips and garlic are produced in China. 

Spices and herbs such as ginger and garlic are grown in China and exported to foreign markets. 

Chinese factories make vegetarian meat products. 

Many canned foods on market shelves were manufactured in China.

Our ability to produce our own food would also be greatly affected, because China produces so much of our farm machinery…

Farm machinery such as tractors, egg incubators and harvesters are manufactured in China. Chain saws, wood chippers and shredders are also produced in the country. Elevators and bulldozers are also assembled in China.

Are you starting to get the picture?

We should have never become so dependent on Chinese production, because it really is a major national security threat.

Of course the Chinese also produce a lot of our clothes…

Chinese factories manufacture winter coats, gloves, mittens and hats for consumers around the world. These factories also produce maternity clothes and infant clothes as well as wedding dresses and tuxedos. Underwear, T-shirts and slips are among the items exported from China to consumers around the world. Sports caps are also produced in China as are belts and bras.

And it turns out that 70 percent of our shoes come from China too…

The United States sources 99 percent of shoes sold from overseas, with 70 percent of those coming from the PRC. Same with 72 percent of smartphones. The artificial sweeteners in Diet Coke. Toys, furniture, sports equipment … what you buy every time you go to Target.

The moment we go to war with them, the flow of cheap goods from China completely stops.

In addition, once the Chinese invade Taiwan there will be an absolutely excruciating computer chip shortage.

It was recently being projected that chipmakers in Taiwan would have a 66 percent share of the total global market by the end of 2023…

Taiwan’s contract chipmakers will expand their global market share to 66% by revenue this year, cementing the island’s dominant position in the chip supply chain, a new industry forecast shows.

As I have discussed previously, just about every industry in the United States relies on equipment that contains computer chips.

If the flow of chips from Taiwan is eliminated, the entire global economy would come to a crashing halt.

I am not just talking about a recession or a depression.

I am talking about an economic collapse on a scale that most people would not be able to comprehend right now.

This is why I am so horrified by what Nancy Pelosi is doing.

In a book that I published two years ago, I specifically warned that war with China would be coming.

Now Nancy Pelosi has us right on the brink of such a conflict.

I don’t even have the words to describe how reckless our leaders are being.

Let us hope that cooler heads will prevail, because once war with China starts nothing in this country will ever be the same again.

Ten years!

The late king of a certain community had ten wild dogs. He used them to torture and eat any of his servants who made a mistake. One of the servants gave an opinion that was wrong, and the king didn’t like it at all. So he ordered that the servant be thrown to the dogs.

The servant said, “I served you for ten years, and you do this to me? Please give me ten days before throwing me to those dogs!” The king agreed.

In those ten days, the servant went to the guard who looks after the dogs and told him he would like to serve the dogs for the next ten days. The guard was baffled but agreed, and the servant started feeding the dogs, cleaning for them, bathing them, and providing all sorts of comfort for them.

When the ten days were over, the king ordered that the servant be thrown to the dogs for his punishment. When he was thrown in, we were all amazed to see the ravenous dogs only licking the feet of the servant!

The king, baffled at what he was seeing, said,

”What has happened to my dogs?”

The servant replied, “I served the dogs for only ten days, and they didn’t forget my service. Yet I served you for a whole ten years and you forgot all, at my first mistake!”

The king realized his mistake and ordered the servant to be set free.

This is a message to all those who forget the good things a person does for them as soon as the person makes a mistake towards them. Don’t put out the history that is filled with good because of a mistake you don’t like.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit an American ‘provocation’

The leader of La France Insoumise believes in his weekly blog post that "there is only one China" in reference to the mainland and that "Taiwan is a full component of China."

On Thursday, Beijing launched the largest military maneuvers in its historyaround Taiwan in a heavy-handed response to US House leader Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island. The Chinese military also launched a series of missiles that flew over Taiwan before falling for the first time into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Twenty-two Chinese fighter jets briefly entered Taiwan’s air defense zone on Thursday, Taiwan’s defense minister said.

For Beijing, these maneuvers are “a necessary and legitimate measure” after Ms. Pelosi’s visit. There have been an increasing number of trips to Taiwan by foreign officials and politicians in recent years, provoking the ire of Beijing each time.

Severe Economic Desperation Rises Rapidly All Over America As Nearly Half The Nation Cuts Back Spending On Food

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It is starting to look a lot like 2008.  Extremely long lines are forming at food banks all over the country, job losses and layoffs are starting to spike, countless small businesses are right on the brink of going under, a housing crash that could be even worse than what we witnessed in 2008 has begun, and large numbers of Americans are actually moving into sheds in a desperate attempt to save money.  This new economic downturn is still only in the very early stages, and yet the economic suffering that we are already seeing all over the country is truly frightening.  If people are struggling this much now, what will conditions be like six months down the road?

If you find yourself cutting back spending on groceries and gasoline these days, you are definitely not alone.

According to a Suffolk University/USA TODAY survey that was just released, about half the nation is in the same boat…

According to the survey, 45.3 percent of Americans have had to cut back their spending on groceries, and 59.4 percent said they are now going out to eat less often as the result of inflation.

Another 48 percent said they are driving less, and 45.4 percent said they are postponing or canceling vacations/travel plans due to rising costs.

Inflation is absolutely eviscerating our standard of living, and millions upon millions of Americans are deeply hurting right now.

And when people are deeply hurting, they often become quite desperate.

There has been a very alarming rise in shoplifting all over the United States, and food and other essentials have become prime targets.

In New York City, things have gotten so bad that one store has actually decided to start “locking up cases of Spam”…

With robberies up nearly 40 percent in New York City, it’s perhaps no surprise that a local pharmacy has taken the extreme steps of locking up cases of Spam.

Twitter user Willy Staley noticed the tins of $3.99 processed meat sealed in a theft-proof plastic container at the Duane Reade inside the Port Authority bus depot in Midtown Manhattan – known as one of New York’s grimiest areas.

Staley also found a $3.49 tin of Celebrity ham, which retails for a similar price, protected with the same measure.

You can see a photo of spam in a “theft-proof plastic container” right here.

I have a couple of reactions to this.

First of all, who in the world would pay $3.99 for a can of Spam?  It is absolutely disgusting and I wouldn’t eat it under any circumstances even if someone gave it to me for free.

Secondly, why would anyone ever steal a can of Spam when they are so many other options that are actually edible?

I just don’t understand.

Of course it isn’t just Spam that is being locked up these days.  According to CNN, at this point a lot of retailers have been transformed into “fortresses” due to rapidly rising theft…

These days, it feels like many stores are fortresses.

Most of the products on the drug store shelf are behind lock and key, even everyday items such as deodorant, toothpaste, candy, dish detergent, soap and aluminum foil. Manufacturers that supply lock cases and devices to chain stores have seen their businesses boom.

The reason why this is happening on such a widespread basis is because “organized retail crime” has become a really big thing here in the United States…

Walgreens and Rite Aid have said that the problem of organized retail crime — rings of criminals that steal products from stores and then often resell them on online marketplaces — is causing them to lock more products up and close some stores.

If this is taking place while the U.S. economy is still at least somewhat relatively stable, what will it be like once we officially plunge into a full-blown economic depression?

Another very troubling sign is the massive lines that we are starting to see at food banks all over the country.

According to Zero Hedge, food banks from coast to coast are reporting “record high demand and record low supply”…

In the past month there has been a steady stream of reports from pantries across the US stating that they are now hitting record high demand and record low supply.  From New York to Wisconsin to Ohio to Missouri to Florida to Arkansas to California and beyond, pantries are running out.  On top of that, it’s the middle of summer – The busiest time for food banks and the Salvation Army is during the winter holidays.

The majority of pantries indicate that they are most in need of cash donations and that these have started to fade out.  When it comes to necessities, most people will not or cannot reduce the frequency of their purchases.  Food, gas, housing, utilities, etc. are fixed income costs, and when these costs rise workers must cut costs elsewhere.  Charities are usually the first to see the chopping block.

The level of demand at our food banks is only going to increase during the months ahead.

At some point there simply will not be enough food for everyone.

I really hope that you are getting prepared for the very difficult times that are coming, because there will be a limit to what charitable organizations are able to do for you.

Some Americans are attempting to radically reduce their expenses by literally moving into a shed.

One woman in Texas that was interviewed by Newsweek really regretted spending all of her money on a shed because the living conditions turned out to not be pleasant at all…

A woman’s account of her life in a $2,000 shed during the Texas heatwave has sparked an anguished debate about affordable housing.

Elizabeth Rishforth, posting on TikTok under the username @a_nobody_goodbye, shared a video of herself red-faced and sweating on June 23. She was living in a shed without electricity or running water in Houston, Texas, she said.

“Me and my boyfriend [used] all the savings we had to get the shed,” Rishforth told Newsweek.

But others have found “shed life” to be quite nice.

A mother of four named Jessica Taylor is actually loving “shed life” even though her family uses a “composting bathroom”…

“One of the things people find really weird about us living in a shed is that we use a composting bathroom rather than a traditional toilet,” Taylor, 30, who now resides in a lofted shed in western Tennessee, told The Post.

“It’s a bucket system,” the former bartender-turned-home-schooler (or shed-schooler) explained of her hut’s outhouse. “And [when] you [urinate or defecate], you cover it with wood chips each time. After two days, whether the bucket is full or not, we dump [the waste] into a composting bin in the woods, and then after a couple of years, [the waste] turns into soil for ornamental plants.“

In recent months, housing has become the most unaffordable that it has ever been in the United States, and so “shed life” has absolutely exploded in popularity.

In fact, the “#ShedLife” hashtag has now been shared on TikTok more than 22 million times…

On TikTok, shed dwellers have stamped videos of their hovels-turned-homes with the hashtag #ShedLife over 22.2 million times.

“More and more people are breaking free from the mindset that you have to have the big expensive, fancy house to feel like they’re making it,” said Taylor of the allure of shed life. “There’s value in living modestly. We’re able to spend more time together gardening and enjoying nature rather than working to afford lavish accommodations.”

What about you?

Would you like to live in a shed?

As the economy continues to deteriorate, more and more Americans will be forced to choose “alternative lifestyles” in the months ahead.

But of course the elite are going to continue to insist that everything is just fine.  If you can believe it, the definition of “recession” on Wikipedia was just changed to reflect the narrative of the Biden administration, and it has been locked to prevent any additional editing.

Do they actually believe that such heavy-handed measures will be effective?

The truth is that most Americans know that we are in a recession, and many have pointed out that even Bill Clinton has publicly acknowledged that a recession happens when GDP is negative for two quarters in a row.

But as I noted earlier, what we have been through so far is just the tip of the iceberg.

This economic downturn is going to get a lot worse, and that means that millions upon millions of Americans will soon become even more desperate.

Nucleus 7

This simple cylindrical object that you can see in the photo is called Nucleus 7 or Witness 7, and it is much more enigmatic than it seems. Why? because it remains a mystery to science.

It was found in Egypt, in 1881, in the excavations of Flinders Petri in the temple of the Valley of Khafre.

It is a granite cylinder with such peculiar characteristics that, even today, we do not know how the ancient Egyptians could carve it with the tools they had. In the granite rocks of the lintel of the doors of the temple there are some rounded indentations that were used as hinges in which the hinge of the door was inserted.

The incredible thing is that, in some of the lintels, there are cylindrical indentations in which you can see striations that reveal that they were made mechanically, with a rotary tool.

From the engravings and drawings found in Egypt, it is known that the Egyptians had metal chisels and saws, and the remains found reveal that this metal was copper. It doesn’t seem like they had harder metals.

Copper can be used to cut wood, limestone or even sandstone, but granite is much harder, it is materially impossible that copper could cut granite. Images of two workmen handling a copper-tipped bow drill have been seen on Egyptian murals.

Using a cylindrical copper drill and with an abrasive such as sand in the groove, the Egyptians could have drilled and removed cylindrical cores from a granite stone, but the striations that would remain on the surface of the core would be very fine and drawn on both sides. rotation directions.

The grooves of Nucleus 7 form a continuous spiral, which always goes in the same direction, so it could not be done with a bow drill, but in any case handled with a lathe that always turned in the same direction, a lathe that was not has shown that they have.

The distance between the grooves reveals that the advance speed of the drill had to be very high, almost one millimeter per rotation, which indicates that it had to be done with a material of great hardness and exerting great pressure.

Could the Egyptians have made a cylindrical drill with the edge of diamond or another material of similar hardness? Or put another way, would they have a technology, which has not yet been discovered, much more advanced than we thought?

It is something recurrent in relation to the ancient world, and inexplicable discoveries continue to be made with the information we have today.

Gypsy

Not an MM story, but I found it cute. -MM

This is Gypsy, my precious little cat:

He was only 5 weeks old when some horrible person threw him out of their car on the highway in Southern Arkansas.

My dad saw him, stopped and picked him up and took him home.

His nail beds were ripped out and as you can maybe see in the picture, his face was all cut up.

I slept on the bathroom floor with him that night and he crawled out of the basket we put him in and curled up on my neck.

I put him back in the basket over and over and he would just cry and meow and climb back out again onto my neck.

Finally I let him sleep there.

The next morning we took him to the vet and the vet fudged his age up a couple weeks so I could buy Gypsy an airline ticket.

Two days later I flew with him back to California where I live.

He is now 11 months old and living very happily up in his new home in the Sierra Nevadas.