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  Peyo, The Therapists
Posted by: Encia22 - 10-05-2024, 08:51 PM - Forum: Chit Chat - Replies (2)

I'm so moved by Peyo, I can't find words to describe and even if I could, I'm too choked up to convey them.

Just that... why can't we all learn from the animals and live in peace, harmony and love?



<3

Thinking of you, @Maxmars and everyone in love and in pain; past and present...

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  Sauerkraut came out awesome!
Posted by: FlyingClayDisk - 10-05-2024, 04:17 PM - Forum: Food & Cooking - No Replies

Put up some sauerkraut a couple weeks back and tried it today.  Wow!  Delicious! 

Had a friend give us a couple giant cabbages, like basketball sized.  Contemplated doing to corned beef and cabbage but opted instead for a big batch of sauerkraut.  The cabbage was just too good to use it up on a single dish.  Sauerkraut is the easiest thing in the world to make.  Just cabbage and salt (and some spices).  Hardest part is just tamping it down daily to keep all the leaves below the brine. 

Today was about day #9 so we decided to give it a taste...fantastic!  (and I love sauerkraut)

For those interested, recipe as follows:

2 lb Cabbage, grated
1 Tbsp Canning salt
1/2 tsp Caraway seed

(note - You can scale this recipe accordingly.  We did about 3x this much).

Mix salt into shredded cabbage and place in a glass bowl covered with a towel for 6-8 hours.  The salt will draw the moisture out of the cabbage to give you a brine.  Once you have a good amount of brine, transfer to canning cars (or a sauerkraut crock if you have one) and cover with the outer leaves of the cabbage.  Mash it down really good so everything is below the level of the brine (and repeat this daily) and put those bad boys in a cool dark storage area to age.  Age for however long you like to taste.  The longer you age it, the more it ferments and becomes 'sauer'.  You can eat it as soon as 3 days if you like it really mild, or let it age for weeks or even months for more robust flavors. 

Note - Some people get all weird about putting vapor locks on their sauerkraut but we don't mess with that.  We just use a canning lid lightly placed on the jar and the ring threaded on very loosely (so it can vent).  We then set the sauerkraut jars in a aluminum tray to catch the overflow juices as it bubbles and ferments.  The lids keep out critters and foreign debris like dust.

Enjoy!

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  Trump returns to Butler Pa crowd is huge
Posted by: putnam6 - 10-05-2024, 01:45 PM - Forum: Decision 2024 - Replies (3)

Trump returns to Butler Pa The crowd is supposed to pretty large and security is a tab bit tighter than last time. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/9K8G0Eg8pmU...arK5G_-2YW
 USA TODAY 
7.24M subscribers

Quote:President Donald Trump's return to Butler, the site where a gunman attempted to assassinate him in July, will feature an extensive list of guests, including the family of the volunteer firefighter killed at the July 13 rally, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and singer Lee Greenwood. Trump will also appear with his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, several family members, members of Congress and county sheriffs. The rally begins at 5 p.m. Saturday, at the Butler Farm Show, 625 Evans City Road, Butler. Doors open at 10 a.m.
 
Quote: 
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R A W S A L E R T S

@rawsalerts

#BREAKING: An estimated 60,000 people possibly more are expected at Trump’s rally this evening, as Elon Musk has just announced that he will be also speaking #Butler | #Pennsylvania Currently, thousands of people are gathering and waiting in long lines, having traveled from across the country for the highly anticipated history rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Former President Donald Trump is expected to make his first appearance in the area since the tragic event on July 13th, with many attendees eager to hear his thoughts on recent political developments and future plans. Reports suggest that the crowd could surpass 60,000, and just moments ago, Elon Musk announced that he, too, is en route to address the audience, adding even more excitement to the already charged atmosphere. Security measures are extraordinarily tight, with reports of snipers positioned on rooftops, counter-drones patrolling the skies, and numerous roads and public areas cordoned off

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  Facts about Katrina, FEMA seeing same questions from Helene
Posted by: putnam6 - 10-05-2024, 12:53 PM - Forum: Social Issues & Civil Unrest - No Replies

For the record disaster responses ALWAYS get blistered by those affected and whichever party isn't responsible for the cleanup and recovery.  It's the nature of the beast... and  remember the song lyrics "You left me just when I needed you the most"

I believe Barrack Obama's assessment was correct in 2007 (as he looked towards the 2008 Presidential Election) two years after Katerina.  In a 2007 videotape being publicized last night, then-Sen. Barack Obama ripped into the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. The government and FEMA should be able to do better.

19 years later FEMA seems to be struggling...

I guess we will see...

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/1...nse-081957
 

Quote:By KEVIN ROBILLARD
10/03/2012 12:03 PM EDT
 In a 2007 videotape being publicized last night, then-Sen. Barack Obama ripped into the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Here are 10 facts about what Washington did and didn’t do to help New Orleans.


 
1. Within four days of Katrina’s landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, then-President George W. Bush signed a $10.4 billion aid package and ordered 7,200 National Guard troops to the region. A few days later, he requested — and Congress approved — an additional $51.8 billion in aid. Better than HELENE
 
2. Hundreds of firefighters from other cities who volunteered to help in the response were rerouted to Atlanta, where they sat through two days of presentations on sexual harassment and the history of FEMA before being sent to New Orleans. HOPEFULLY worse than Helene
 

3. FEMA Director Michael Brown, who resigned over his handling of the response, later told a group of students that the White House only wanted to federalize the response in Louisiana, where the governor was a Democrat, and not in Republican-led Mississippi in order to embarrass Louisiana officials. Brown said the White House believed they had a chance to “rub [Kathleen Blanco’s] nose in it.” The Bush administration denied political considerations played a role in the response.  Sounds like both Katrina and Helene were and are being politicize, especially with the election so close
 
4. The federal government didn’t waive the Stafford Act, which requires localities to contribute 10 percent of the cost of reconstruction and clean-up projects, until May. It was quickly waived after both Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew. Definitely sounds political that remains to be seen with Helene but there are certainly signs
 
5. An investigation by Congressional Republicans, while placing most of the blame on the Bush administration, singled out New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for not ordering an evacuation of the city until less than 24 hours before Katrina’s landfall. Nearby Plaquemines Parish had ordered an evacuation a day earlier.6. Then-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered 200 members of his state’s national guard to help Louisiana the day the Katrina hit, but a letter from Washington authorizing the move didn’t arrive until five days laterHelene is different wereas it was obvious NewOrleans was going to take a huge hit

 7. On Tuesday, Aug. 30, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff flew to Atlanta for a briefing on the avian flu, and President George W. Bush later said he thought New Orleans had dodged a bullet. In fact, the White House had been informed the night before that levees in New Orleans had broken and the city was flooding. Much like Helene it ain't just the wind it's the rain totals 
 
8. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office called a Mississippi electricity cooperative and ordered repair crews to restore power to a pipeline sending oil and gas to the northeast, delaying the restoration of power to two rural hospitals. Sounds like something a Dick Cheney would do, hmmm doesn't he have a daughter... not much differnt than Officials turning way help becaue its not from required vendors thet want cash so they can buy from the authorized disaster relief vendors
 
9. Before the storm hit, Amtrak ran equipment out of the city. With rooms for several hundred evacuees, they offered the spots to the city. Officials declined, so the train left with no passengers. Too early to hear about these types of fiascos but they happened, One plant in Tennessee lost 5 people cause they waited too long to evacuate.

 
10. Five days after the storm hit, then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was allowed through the military checkpoints and given a national guard escort in order to visit his house. Jefferson said he was on tour of his flooded district and trying to examine the damage.

We are just now seeing politicians being let in, the situation on the ground is still fluid and these places can be hard to reach

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  San Fran Now Overrun with Invasive 20 Pound Rodent Infestation
Posted by: FlyersFan - 10-05-2024, 12:18 PM - Forum: Social Issues & Civil Unrest - Replies (10)

I had no idea where to put this.
And at first I thought it was a joke article, but turns out it's real.

20 pound rats called nutria rats, measuring 2.5 feet long, invasive from South America, have invaded San Francisco.  They mess up the water systems and each female can have up to 200 offspring each year.   How on earth did this happen?  How did this South American rat take old in North America?  How'd it get here?  San Francisco is a sanctuary city .. did the illegals bring them in as pets and them let them go?  This is wild.

Reminds me of the Prince Bride movie.   ROUS ... Rodents Of Unusual Size.  

Full Societal Collapse - San Fran Now Overrun with Invasive 20 Pound Rodent Infestation

Quote:Nearly a thousand nutria have been hunted in the Bay Area this year, but sightings show the invasive 2.5-foot-long rodents have now spread to Contra Costa County, threatening a key watershed, according to a new report from SF Gate. Wildlife officials are urging the public to report any sightings.
 
Krysten Kellum, spokesperson for California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Matthew Slattengren, Contra Costa County agriculture commissioner, confirmed the discovery in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
 
The rodents pose a serious threat as they burrow through wetland habitats, damage crops, and can weaken levees, risking failure in a region that supplies water to cities and farms statewide.

The SF Gate report says that nutria can produce up to 200 offspring annually and consume up to 25% of their body weight daily, but destroy up to 10 times more, threatening endangered species and native plants. They also carry diseases like tuberculosis, septicemia, and parasites that can infect humans, pets, and livestock.

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  Not One Girl Could Be Shown To Her Parents - Horrors of Oct 7 2023
Posted by: FlyersFan - 10-05-2024, 11:32 AM - Forum: The Middle East - Replies (5)

We are two days from the first anniversary of this attack.  Read the article.  Remind yourself of the horrors of that day and why there is war going on.   Remind yourself why there can't be peace with Hamas and those who support it.

First hand eyewitness accounts from those who helped clean up the dead, and what condition those dead were in.   Mass rape.   Mutilation of everyone.   Sexual mutilation as well as all the faces of the dead purposely destroyed.   

These are DEMONS that Israel is dealing with.  They aren't human anymore. 

Scroll down to ‘There were hundreds of bodies – the smell was incomprehensible"Not One Girl Could Be Shown To Her Parents - Horrors of Oct 7 2023

Quote:The team did their best to take off the jewellery. “Sometimes, it was very difficult. These young women had nose rings, and their faces were completely smashed up. And me who’s squeamish is working with a dentist trying to take off a nose ring and there’s nothing left of the face but the nose.”
 
The women were shot many times in the head. “Why? Why? We saw that these women were shot to be killed, maybe in the heart, in the head, but then they were shot many times in the face, and it looked like systematic mutilation because it seemed like they wanted to ruin these women’s faces. A lot of them were young soldier women, and a lot of them had been very beautiful. The first few we saw weren’t too bad because they might have been caught in their sleep and Hamas just shot them. But, after a while, we got women who had clearly been awake when they were murdered and these women came in and their mouths, their teeth were in grimaces and their hands were clenched, if they had hands.
 
“We got notified that a woman’s coming in and she has no legs, so the terrorist cut off her legs. There was clearly immense sadistic violence.” A lot of the women had bloody, stained underwear, Shari says, some had no underwear at all. “People were shot in the breast, they were shot in the crotch, and that was not done to kill them.” She is a calm, thoughtful person, but her voice is stiff with anger now.
 
One body Shari dealt with personally still had a knife stuck through her mouth. “There was so much violence and it was totally sexual.”

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  Caturday Business Idea
Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd - 10-05-2024, 10:50 AM - Forum: Pets - Replies (3)

I picked three mice corpses off the patio this morning. My female cats are the hunters, and are always out all night. If I fixed small video cameras to one or more cats, filmed and edited their hunts, and posted to a monetized YouTube channel, would that make significant money?  Keep in mind that they kill big rats and gophers as well.

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  Gonna' try my hand at putting up some Salsa today
Posted by: FlyingClayDisk - 10-05-2024, 05:44 AM - Forum: Food & Cooking - Replies (11)

So the wife and I have been getting more into canning stuff.  We've done water bath canning for a long time, and I had a pressure cooker for pressure canning, but it wasn't one of the fancy ones so I never really trusted it.  Well, I finally broke down and bought the gold standard for canning, an American pressure canner.  My future plans are to get into canning things like meats and fish and other low acid things which require pressure canning (water bath doesn't get hot enough).  This weekend though, I'm just going to do some Salsa.  I didn't realize it, but Salsa is actually pretty tricky to can because it's right on the borderline of 4.6 PH which is the decision point between water bath and pressure canning.  Above 4.6 PH must be pressure canned, and below 4.6 PH can be safely water bath canned.  Add altitude into the mix and things get even more complicated.  We're at about 6,500 ft ASL, so I can't ignore altitude.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to putting up some decent Salsa.  The Hatch chilies are in season right now, and those things ROCK, so I've got a bunch of super hot ones roasted up and ready to go.  I'm looking forward to it!  This way, I can have some delicious homemade Salsa this winter.

On a side note, about 10 years ago I canned some steak.  It was the very first time I'd ever done it.  I was downstairs the other day cleaning out some of our long expired store bought canned goods and came across my canned meat.  I figured for sure it would be a death sentence to eat it, but on a lark I decided to check the seals and they were still all good.  Soooo, I popped the lid on one to give it the smell test.  Surprisingly, it smelled like I'd just taken it off the stove fresh.  I was still too much of a skeerdy-cat to actually taste it due to it being so old, but I guess I did it right (amazingly).  Gave me a little more confidence.  Now, with the new canning setup, I can hopefully put up some beef and other stuff like spaghetti sauce with meat and some of my Rocky Mountain Madness competition chili.  I can get (18) pint jars or (8) quart jars in the canner at a time, so I should be able to put up a decent amount of "vittles" for winter.  Plus, we're looking at possibly retiring to Alaska, so I need to get my shit together when it comes to canning.  All sorts of awesome stuff to can up there!  I didn't know this, but you can actually can King Crab and Dungenous crab too.

Anyway, wish me luck.  Maybe I can keep from blowin' the joint up!

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  Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response
Posted by: putnam6 - 10-05-2024, 12:37 AM - Forum: Social Issues & Civil Unrest - Replies (54)

I know many people directly affected by Hurricane Helene, most of the people in these areas are good hard hard-working people salt of the earth, loyal, and upstanding, and like one of them said in a post on X about the Federal government helping, if you are going to bog us down with regulations and guidelines as our neighbors suffer get out of our way, we can take care of our own. 

Hopefully, this thread will become a collection of all the information coming out of Western Carolina, and from all the states affected. Seeing this below was the impetus for posting, among other heartbreaking stories of missing people, neighborhoods, and towns. 750 FEMA bucks for the American taxpayer while... For those noncitizen visitors FEMA spent 960 million in the last 2 years also get disaster assistance.

I'd like to also mention to those concerned this was because of climate change, that Ashville and Chimney Rock were hit with major tropical storm flooding in 1916. Chimney Rock was wiped out then too, and Ashville wasn't even metro and the area had 5 times fewer people. So quit blaming it on the damn combustible engine. 

This is what happens when excessive tropical rain hits the mountains, Helene was so big these areas got rain for 2-3 days it's gonna flow downstream 

https://www.citizen-times.com/picture-ga...395505007/

The Biden and Harris Administration's response has been so weak supposedly James Carville is losing his shit over it, in NSFW comments Carville blistered The White House and Harris's weak and ineffectual responses the past week.

as one commenter said

Carville is right. I'm now seeing dems disputing any and all posts from NC that FEMA is making things worse or not helping. They are more worried about the election, not about the people in WNC.

https://x.com/joma_gc/status/18422326048...68/video/1

[Image: Screenshot-2024-10-05-01-10-20-682.jpg]

FEMA Announces Non-Citizen Aliens Will be Granted Disaster Assistance
If you’re Cuban or Haitian you qualify for assistance.
Congratulations.

Quote:As Americans suffer through the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and communities in North Carolina continue to search for over 200 missing loved ones lost in flooding, there is a glimmer of hope for non-citizens.
If you are one of the millions of non-citizens that the Biden-Harris regime granted asylum to, you may qualify for FEMA aid.
FEMA will grant illegals assistance including:
* Permanent Residents
* Non-citizens granted asylum
* Certain non-citizens of their spouses or kids
 
Quote:A: A qualified non-citizen national includes:
  • Legal Permanent Residents (“Green Card” holders).
  • Non-citizens granted asylum.
  • Refugees.
  • Non-citizens whose deportation status is being withheld for at least one year.
  • Non-citizens paroled into the U.S. for at least one year for urgent humanitarian purposes or significant public benefit.
  • Cuban/Haitian entrants.
  • Certain battered non-citizens or their spouses or children.
  • Certain victims of a severe form of human trafficking, including persons with a “T” or “U” visa.
For the rest of you – Kamala is rewarding you with $750 in assistance. That ought to cover your groceries for a week or two.

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  The Tyranny of the Left
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 10-04-2024, 10:25 PM - Forum: Psychology, Philosophy & Metaphysics - Replies (13)

...of the left-brain, that is.

In recent years, I have been amazed at the resurgence of what I thought was an outdated psychological theory, that of left-brain vs right-brain.  The idea being that the left-brain is rigid, analytical, logical, and the right-brain is artsy, imaginative, flighty.  It seems like over-simplified 1970s pop-psychology.

Well, modern functional MRI technology and neuroscience is revealing some startling truth to this model.  It turns out, we are far more 'split in two' that is commonly accepted.  The idea of a single, unified personality within an individual human doesn't actually seem to be supported by modern science.

I'm basing most of this on research done by Scottish neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, documented in his recent epic book "The Matter With Things". Really, the thing is literally epic -- two volumes, 1500 pages, almost 200 pages of which are bibliography. Thousands of citations to exacting neuroscience research. In it, he makes the case that the left-brain and the right-brain each operate mostly independently, seeing the world in vastly different ways. One reviewer summarized:

Quote:The Two Hemispheres of the Brain.

The prism through which McGilchrist explains his ideas is that of the difference between the two sides of the brain. As in his previous and widely acclaimed book, The Master and his Emissary,[2] he demonstrates how the two halves perform in distinct though complementary ways. For example, ‘from the left hemisphere’s point of view, imagination […] is a species of lying, from the right hemisphere’s point of view, it is […] necessary for access to the truth’ (p. 767).

McGilchrist’s thesis is that the left hemisphere has come to dominate in our society; he maintains for instance that ‘the left hemisphere [is] being used largely for paying narrow-beam, sharply focussed attention to the world, for the purpose of manipulation’ (p. 21). It is also the hemisphere ‘devoted to re-presentation’ (p. 105), hence our attachment to maps and models of reality. The right hemisphere, by contrast, is characterised by ‘paying open, sustained, vigilant attention to the world, in order to understand and relate to the bigger picture’ (p. 21). It is, therefore, he argues, ‘a more important guide and a more reliable one to the nature of reality’ (p.134).
https://besharamagazine.org/newsandviews...gs-review/

Wikipedia gives this generally-accepted map:

[Image: McGilchrist-2-Hemispsheres.jpg]

The book looks extensively at the (rather gruesome) cases of full-hemisphere debilitating strokes and psychiatric hemispherectomy -- where an entire half of the brain is removed, presumably to "treat" a stubborn condition (thankfully something that is no longer widely practiced). One would think that such a radical change in the brain would completely disrupt consciousness, leaving only a vegetable, and it certainly causes great changes, but what is so surprising is that often an entire functional personality remains. The way that person views and interacts with the world changes in measurable ways.

This implies that we are all "of two minds", the left and the right brains embodying them, and that they "see the world" in fundamentally different ways. And functional MRI tests indicate that, rather than our overall personalities emerging as a cooperative synthesis of the two hemispheres, they in fact act to inhibit each other far more they act in unified accord. I think we've all seen people who's instinct is to ruthlessly suppress "the illogical", or those "pie in the sky" types who seem to disregard anything that can be measured. Well, there's science supporting the idea that, to some extent, that's all of us.

The book goes further, theorizing that this fundamental insight in neuroscience has ramifications that affect sociology. The LA Review of Books summarizes:

Quote:McGilchrist’s chief argument is that, over the last three and a half centuries, we have developed a worldview that draws almost entirely on the propensities of the LH side of the brain, ignoring for the most part the contribution of the RH side. This means that our apprehension of the world focuses largely on the particular, with a view to controlling and manipulating it. It is driven by a search for certainty, which is achieved by a kind of “divide and rule” strategy, favoring the fragmentary and all that can be measured and analyzed, while ignoring or deeming “subjective” all that which cannot be subjected to this regime.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/beyo...th-things/

There's evolutionary foundation for this. A hunter gatherer, potential prey, needs to be able to respond directly and immediately. It needs a useful model of how to act and respond, that can be applied instantly. There's not time to speculate or imagine. The left-brain excels at this kind of thinking, to the point where its models are its reality. If it cannot be measured and used, in some way, it doesn't exist. This is contrasted with the right hemisphere, which is constantly making models, discarding them, and moving outside their bounds. The right hemisphere has a very different sense of time, where everything is flow and change. The concept of a 'snapshot' is a left-hemisphere construct.

Really, this is very difficult to summarize, as McGilchrist spends chapters going into detail. I found Book 1 to be a almost comprehensive review of modern neuroscience, bridging the 30-year gap from when I last studied it in detail in the 90s.

So, the results of this viewpoint are astounding. Once familiar with the paradigm, it become quite apparent when you see those who insist "there is no truth beyond science", or "the universe is immeasurable", exactly what parts of the apparatus of cognition they're giving dominance to. And I think McGilchrist is right -- society is suffering a disease of the tyranny of the left-brain:

Quote:McGilchrist concludes The Matter with Things with an epilogue which is nothing less than a cri de coeur. ‘We have unmade the world’, he writes, ‘This is entirely new in the history of humanity and it is impossible to exaggerate its significance’ (p. 1310). He continues:

We would appear to be engaged in committing suicide, intellectual and moral – if not indeed literal; excluding whole aspects of reality, resulting in a version of the world that ‘computes’ as far as the left hemisphere is concerned, but is grossly impoverished and lacking in meaning. One that is, in sum, more fit for a computer than a human being. (pp. 1314–5)

Thoughts? Ideas? Thank you.

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

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  17000 deaths from hydroxychloroquine
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 10-04-2024, 04:35 PM - Forum: Diseases & Pandemics - Replies (3)

So today's unreliable science update, for those keeping score at home, the study that was used to angrily claim that prescribing hydroxychloroquine caused 17,000 deaths during the pandemic has... wait for it... been retracted!

Retraction Notice (Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Volume 179, October 2024)

Something about the data and techniques being faulty. Totally not deliberate though.

Let's see if any of these articles get updated:


Or perhaps we'll get follow-up articles, apologizing? Just kidding! Anyway, probably not surprising to anyone here, but I thought I should mention it.

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  Seeds of Profit
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 10-04-2024, 01:27 PM - Forum: Fragile Earth - Replies (2)

Hi I found this documentary from France it won't show with the video button but hopefully this link works
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/seeds-profit/

Its called "Seeds of Profit" and its about how many vitamins and minerals the vegetables have and how they've changed and the food today is horrible!  Tomotoes more than half!

I know people here probably know most of this because noone likes big food and always complain about the supermarket yep its poison! But it really stood out to me because I usually get the fancy tomoatoes in the store the heirloom and sungold organic and they were really good but not so much this year! In fact in the back yard I have some tomotoes growing little cherry ones and wow they're sooo much tastier than even the fancy store ones! So its not just dont buy the cheap ones that are chemical grown but you cant even get any that are any good any more!

Now I dont really believe in nutrition but its clear that theres something really wrong with how the food is espectially in the usa!  Earlier in the year I drove through Kansas which is in the middle and is mostly farmland and I kept off the main roads and drove mostly the county roads through the farmland and oh my gaod the land was dead dead dead! No life at all horrible and I think you cant grow life giving food in stuff like that! So they make zombie vegetables with chemicals and whatnot and it looks like food but no life in it!

N respect for the american famer anymore they let this happen!  Sell outs maybe!

And I've heard a lot of the local famers markets in the usa are now lots of fake stands that look like local but are really just the same stuff you get in the stupidmarket!

Anyway I'm kind of sick of it all being "funny food" -- what's funny about it?  "it kills you -- hahahah!!"

What do you people here do to get healthy food, it's hard to trust anymore.

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  Elon Musk says FEMA blocking, confiscating aid then claim it is their aid
Posted by: pianopraze - 10-04-2024, 12:46 PM - Forum: Social Issues & Civil Unrest - Replies (26)

Distressing confirmation of rumors I’ve been hearing:

Quote:Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina.
@FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help! “Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives. The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”
Elon’s post on X

Heads need to Roll.




update:

Here is a second tweet.

stopped Starlink and Ivanka Trump on handing out Starlink.

shutting Down airspace throttling their helicopters.

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  What are the gods that humans worship?
Posted by: FlyersFan - 10-04-2024, 10:02 AM - Forum: Paranormal Studies - Replies (17)

Not sure if this metaphysics or paranormal.
I did a thread like this at ATS a decade or so ago.
Thought it would be a good discussion here.

What are the gods that people really worshipped throughout human history?

Just imagination?   Demons getting attention?   Tulpa thought forms created by our worship energy?  Space aliens?   A combination of all that?   Something else?

I think that many are demons that are getting energy (their food) and attention from humans.   They were created as good by 'The God' and turned evil.   But I also do think that MAYBE  our energy from worship and our intent creates tulpa thought forms that are sentient and independent.   I don't  know if they just live briefly, as long as the worship energy lasts, or if they are created and live on for some time.   I have no proof of this, but it's a thought running through my head.  And yes, I know that goes against Christian theology.  

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa]Are the gods really Tulpa (thought forms?)

Quote:In Tibetan Buddhism and later traditions of mysticism and the paranormal, a tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human form, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend which practitioners consider to be sentient and relatively independent.

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  Goodbye ats, hello you guya
Posted by: NID8648 - 10-04-2024, 09:36 AM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (7)

Hey all I'm new here, I was on at until they did whatever weird stuff is goin on there

I'd like to vent some things I believe, and welcome replies

I believe this years election is more like a stage show. It just seems fake like each party is scripted. Plus I've never ever received so much propaganda I get in the mail. It's like they are trying to shove Kamala down our throats.

I believe in aliens, I've seen way too much evidence not to.i also believe they made us homosapiens. When I look an elderly person, I see the left from the right side look completely different. Maybe from DNA not being able to hold fused together anymore? We might even be able to expand our lifespans one day if that's the case.

I believe in ghosts I live in a haunted house so I'll be gathering some evidence and posting.
As for God for the Christian believers
I believe there was a creator...but the gods we know on earth are from our own creations....God,Odin,Zeus..,.I think they were the giants or aliens that were here that the people worshipped as a God.
I really do think the old testament tho.....I'm not so keen on the new testament though, too big of a storyline and it seems like they have left certain aspects out.

All replies are welcome
Bad or good

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  There was an attempt to shoot down the helicopter of the President of Belarus
Posted by: RussianTroll - 10-04-2024, 08:59 AM - Forum: War In Ukraine - Replies (32)

Hello DI!

Russian and Belarusian media are full of reports about an attempt to shoot down the helicopter of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Lukashenko called the attack on the presidential helicopter a pretext for starting a war. The words of the head of the republic are reported by the BelTA agency.

According to Lukashenko, on the morning of October 4, he began to receive reports about two drones approaching his helicopter. The President of Belarus was supposed to fly to one of the regions of the republic. Because of this, the flight had to be postponed by one hour. Social networks are filled with a video in which the sounds of a UAV are first heard at night, followed by a bright flash and a strong explosion.

"Of course, they [drone operators] see the helicopter. It is big, it is not a drone. (...) Therefore, I am not particularly worried about this, as people say. And then, you know: shooting down the president’s helicopter is a war that Ukrainians don’t need,” Lukashenko shared.

Assassinations and attempted assassinations of heads of state who are unpopular with the West are, unfortunately, already becoming a tradition.

Thank you.

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  X-7 and X-9 Solar flares incoming
Posted by: 727Sky - 10-03-2024, 10:54 PM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (4)

Looks like the X-7 will impact on Friday Oct. 4th and the X-9 on Oct. 5th ... There might be a problem with the spacing of these events as far as some electrical grids ?

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  We need to have a serious conversation
Posted by: Encia22 - 10-03-2024, 10:52 AM - Forum: Chit Chat - Replies (28)

This is a must view! It's about a very serious conversation.

Sorry it's a Youtube short that we can't embed yet. Click on it, trust me!

https://youtube.com/shorts/vorM0953R_w?s...3UwfMnD7Cy

 Beer

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  TJack checking in
Posted by: TravelinJack - 10-03-2024, 09:25 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (5)

Greets. ATS TJack here. I don't participate much, but I do have a claim to fame, I won the writing contest that ended up becoming the "About ATS" description for some time, when that was more of a thing.

ATS has been my online homebase since before "Find The Rings" and I'm sad to see her die like this.

Looking forward to this new chapter though, I hope it becomes as dear to me as ATS is/was, stay frosty everyone!

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  Admiral Tim Gallaudet EXPOSES Shocking UFO Sightings
Posted by: 727Sky - 10-03-2024, 08:16 AM - Forum: Aliens & UFOs - Replies (2)

Quote:Adm. Tim Gallaudet & Shawn Ryan talk about the extensive proof of alien activity in our oceans aswell as actual hot spots, found all around the globe. Tim Gallaudet is a retired Navy Admiral and Oceanographer. Gallaudet's afloat tours included Oceanographic Unit 5 aboard USNS Harkness, USS Peleliu, and USS Kitty Hawk. During these tours, Gallaudet served in Operations Southern Watch, Provide Promise, Sharp Guard, Deny Flight, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He also led management of the nation’s fisheries, coastal resources and waterways, weather satellites, weather services, and environmental research as Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Today, he is the CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, a firm that is enabling public and private entities to explore USOs (unidentified submerged objects) and the ocean at large.

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  Question - Iran Missiles?
Posted by: FlyingClayDisk - 10-03-2024, 07:19 AM - Forum: The Middle East - Replies (1)

Question for the group...

How does Iran fire missiles into Israel without those missiles overflying either Jordan or Saudi Arabia (and Iraq of course)?  Even if they fired them from most places in Syria, they'd still overfly Jordan.  About the only place I can see where Iran could fire missiles on Tel Aviv without crossing Jordan would be extreme western Syria.

Additionally, to fire any missiles from inside the Iranian border is minimally a 600 mile flight.  Your average truck mounted 'rocket' isn't going to be able to accomplish this, instead Iran would need a ballistic missile of some sort.

So where are these missiles and rockets coming from?

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  Withering Heights
Posted by: CCoburn - 10-03-2024, 04:16 AM - Forum: Short Stories - Replies (4)

Housecat Vs Huntsman Spider
@Withering Heights


A big bad spider
clung to a wall
savoring a peaceful
day

When along came a kitty
and sat down beside her
causing Miss Huntsman
to fray

The spider did flee
played dead
but all to no
avail

And when all
was said and done
the spider
could no longer run
and simply withered
away...

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  LØNGLEGS frozen toes
Posted by: LØNGL3GS - 10-03-2024, 02:58 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (8)

Greetings from Sweden.

I am LØNGLEGS. I found a raft made out of tinfoil and left the slowly sinking ship of ATS. After some time dodging political icebergs, hacking sharks and woke tentacles i finally found the island of Deny Ignorance. Standing at this shore, wiggling my frozen toes, i get the feeling that living here looks very promising. With that said i'm looking forward to getting to know you, and i wish you all a wonderful day.

See you by the campfire!

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  Hello.
Posted by: Anna - 10-02-2024, 05:20 AM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (10)

Greetings. I'm twistedpuppy, a refugee from People's Republic of ATS, a socialist paradise on earth. I left because I prefer filthy capitalism.

I'm joking, of course. It's quite sad what's happened. Nice to meet you again.

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  The Iron Dome - 90% Accuracy BS
Posted by: KKLoco - 10-01-2024, 05:59 PM - Forum: War On Terror - Replies (17)

So I came across this video of tons of bombs raining down on Tel Aviv tonight. Why do they say the iron dome is 90% accurate? In this video, it looks like it has about 10% accuracy, as bombs are reaching their targets. Please help this dummy understand. Make sure and watch the entire 4 minute video. It escalates as it progresses.

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