DISCOURAGING: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet

Thursday, March 7, 2024

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/03/02/life-expectancy-continues-to-plummet.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20240302_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1537831&rid=2059733501

Shocking Finding: Life Expectancy Continues to Plummet
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 02, 2024

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Story at-a-glance

  •     Provisional estimates and finalized reports reveal a significant decline in American life expectancy with young adults bearing the brunt of excess deaths
  •     The gender life expectancy gap in the U.S. has reached its widest point since 1996, primarily driven by COVID-19 and the opioid crisis, highlighting systemic issues in health care and societal structures
  •     Contrary to historical trends, the burden of death now falls disproportionately on young and working-aged Americans, prompting concerns about the underlying causes and the absence of a public health response
  •     Amidst censorship and controversy, there’s a growing call for a thorough investigation into pandemic management, including lockdowns, treatment protocols and vaccine deployment, to understand the root causes of excess deaths
  •     The need for a new approach to global health is underscored by the current crisis, with emphasis on addressing health disparities and reconnecting with consciousness, as advocated in my forthcoming book, “The Power of Choice”

As it turns out, one of the biggest news stories of 2023 never made the headlines, which is understandable considering its implications. The world is now grappling with the aftermath of a global crisis that, thanks to the sophisticated and meticulously engineered brainwashing strategies deployed by government and mass media, are unbeknownst to the masses.

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I wonder if the Life Insurance Industry has noticed and adjusted their tables?

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FUN: Lawyers’ ads that don’t take themselves too seriously

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-attorney-ads-for-dogs-kensingtoncampbell/

 

Funny Personal Injury Ads For Dogs (11 Pics)

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Very funny. And, shows a fun side of advertising.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need a new form of id for children traveling?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13106377/southwest-flight-accuses-mom-child-trafficking-son.html

Wild moment Florida mom is accused of CHILD TRAFFICKING at Ohio airport after traveling with her four-year-old son on Southwest flight

By Ruth Bashinsky For Dailymail.Com

Published: 07:24 EST, 2 March 2024 | Updated: 11:24 EST, 2 March 2024

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A ‘traumatized’ single mom has claimed Southwest Airlines accused her of child trafficking while she was traveling with her four-year-old son from Florida to Ohio.

Video footage shows the moment Mary Bridgetta Tomarchio, 45, was confronted by two armed police officers at at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on February 17 after receiving a suspicious report from ‘a pilot’. 

Tomarchio told DailyMail.com she thought the officers were joking at first but quickly became terrified as they questioned her and asked for proof she was his mother.  

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While “child trafficking” is a terrible problem, there must be a better way of checking?

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Striped marlin chage their stripe’s shades

Monday, March 4, 2024

https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/colour-change-group-hunting?utm_placement=newsletter

> Researchers find striped marlin communicate with each other by changing the shade of their stripes during high-speed hunting; discovery sheds light on the evolution of predatory group behaviors in fish (More)

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Who knew?

Imagine if humans had that ability.  No more hand signals in a military ambush.  No more need to “remember” to use your turn signals when driving.  

Or, you can tell when a woman is going to get enraged at you.  But you can kinda know that already.  It would be nice to have a warning.

Laugh!

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GUNS: The Unintended Consequences of creating “protected species” of the two and four legged kind

Sunday, March 3, 2024

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/wolves-in-northern-wisconsin-a-reminder-to-stay-armed/#axzz8SqoCkVVb

Home » Conservation
Wolves in Northern Wisconsin a Reminder to Stay Armed
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 22, 2024 by Dean Weingarten

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Wolves that hold their ground when confronted with a human and wolves that do not retreat when yelled at or bluff charged are a problem, as explained by Dr. Valerius Geist, the eminent biologist, and expert on wildlife management. The myth of the harmless wolf developed because people in North America were commonly armed and capable of dealing with wolf packs. The introduction of modern firearms, steel traps, snares, and poison made humans the uncontested apex predator. Wolves learned to avoid humans to survive. The myth of the harmless wolf was born.

Protect wolves from humans with punishing legislation, prevent them from being shot, trapped, snared, or poisoned, and they lose fear and respect for humans. They are subject to the immutable laws of physics. They have developed a healthy fear of cars, which have become their main “predator.”

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There is no way I’d go trapping around the countryside unarmed.  Reports are common about bears, coyotes, and other predators in non-urban areas.  And even some urban ones.

Of course, “protect nature” has led to complacent humans.

And not only do we have to blame the “protect the bears and wolves” people, but also the politicians, bureaucrats, and judges (but I repeat myself) who protect the urban version of “wolves and bears”.

If you can carry a firearm, you are at risk from all sorts af “animals” as well as tyrants who would disarm and shackle you into slavery.  (Figure out your “taxes” and you’ll know how much of a slave you are!)

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”  — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1890–91 https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIs10.html

Gun Rights are the palladium of rights  —  the God given right of self-defense!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.”

Saturday, March 2, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/hamas-hijacks-british-democracy-1199seius-money-grab-and-other-commentary/

Opinion editorial
Hamas hijacks British democracy, 1199SEIU’s money grab and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board 
Published Feb. 25, 2024, 4:24 p.m. ET

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Eye on Albany: 1199SEIU’s Money Grab

A review of health-care union 1199SEIU’s disclosures this last decade reveals that “a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid funds earmarked to improve nursing home care have instead flowed to a pair of benefit funds providing health coverage for 1199 members,” grumbles the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond. And some of that cash was diverted to a union project “sponsoring a multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign in support of higher Medicaid funding for hospitals.” That is: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.” Meanwhile, the union’s National Benefit Fund, which had “a pattern of negative cash flow” from 2018 to 2020, restored “fiscal balance by increasing the contribution rates from its member employers — and by securing continued subsidies from the state.”

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And, that is essentially the problem with Gooferment programs and Gooferment unions.

Of course, the “unions” provide “campaign” contributions and labor, so no conflict of interest there.

Can we say “self-licking ice cream cone”!

Argh!

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JOBSFINDING: Learn from the old brokers — Keep a shadow book

Friday, March 1, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/23/catherine-herridge-shares-union-statement-condemning-cbs-news-seizure-of-her-notes/

Catherine Herridge Shares Union Statement Condemning CBS News’ Seizure of Her Notes
Kristina Wong
23 Feb 2024 5:12

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Veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, whom CBS News laid off last week, shared a statement on Friday that appeared to confirm that the network had seized notes from her office after she had been let go in an unusual and heavy-handed manner that called into question the network’s motives.

Herridge, who reported on the Justice Department and other national security matters, had been reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal for the network and was in the middle of a First Amendment case after refusing to turn over to an Obama-appointed federal judge the name of a source for an investigative piece she wrote for Fox News in 2017.

“Important update via @sagaftra,” Herridge posted on X, along with the union’s statement.

The statement came after an article on Tuesday by The Hill columnist and former CBS News legal analyst Jonathan Turley that said CBS News had seized Herridge’s files — a highly unusual practice when a news employee is laid off. It said:

    SAG-AFTRA strongly condemns CBS News’ decision to seize Catherine Herridge’s reporter notes and research from her office, including confidential source information. This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment.

    It is completely inappropriate for an employer to lay off a reporter and take the very unusual step of retaining and searching the reporter’s files, inclusive of confidential source identification and information. From a First Amendment standpoint, a media corporation with a commitment to journalism calling a reporter’s research and confidential source reporting “proprietary information” is both shocking and absurd.

    The retention of a media professional’s reporting materials by their former employer is a serious break with traditional practices which supports the immediate return of reporting materials. We urge CBS to return this material to Catherine in support of the most basic of First Amendment principles. We are encouraged by recent outreach by CBS News to SAG-AFTRA on this matter, and we are hopeful that it will be resolved shortly.

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I have often blogged about the need to recognize that you are not your job AND your employer is nothing more than cruel heartless soulless monster.  I learned this from being fired four times in my career.  Bit after the first time, I was never again caught unaware.  And in one case, profited from it.

FROM A PAST BLOG POST

On Wall Street, it was “common practice” for brokers (aka “financial consultants”, :”wealth managers”, etc. etc.) to keep a duplicate “shadow book” at home. This would be all their contacts and their information as well as portfolio holdings record. When they were “walked out”, their ”significant others”, who were not covered my NDAs or non-competes, would be on the phone letting “their Customers” know the news. Usually in a day or two, they were hired by a competitor and “their Customers” would be transferring their account to the new firm. Often, before a replacement was found for the departed, the Customer were already gone. That’s called “job security”. Brokerage house were always trying to discourage that “personal relationship” by inserting “assistants” into the process and relationships. But “high net worth” individuals want that “personal high maintenance touch”.  

So you must ALWAYS keep an insurance policy that your “resources” never disappear.  

In the cited story, not only was this reporter’s material seized but even her twitter handle appears to be inexorably linked to her former employer.

Remember the Company laptop, phone, and even your twitter handle is at risk.

Diversify, duplicate, and back up to your own resources.  

For the longest time, personally, I would regularly print ALL emails and, when I got home, scaned them on a high-speed scanner and immediately shredded them.  Never knew what I’d need later in life. And form time to time, they came in handy.  With the advent of better search tools for PDFs, it’s an even better and easier habit to do.

YMMV but just remember what you are dealing with.

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INTERESTING: Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, may dem,onstrate a cheap way to address NYC’s rat proble,

Thursday, February 29, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/flaco-the-owl-who-escaped-central-park-zoo-dead-after-apparent-nyc-building-collision/

Flaco, beloved owl who escaped Central Park Zoo year ago, dead: officials
By  Richard Pollina
Published Feb. 23, 2024
Updated Feb. 24, 2024, 1:14 a.m. ET

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Though the Eurasian Eagle Owl is not native to North America, Flaco had been successfully feasting on the plentiful bounty of rats in Central Park and around the city since his escape.

“He has been very successful at hunting and consuming the abundant prey in the park,” the zoo said last year.

The Eurasian Eagle Owl is one of the larger owl species, with a wingspan of up to 79 inches and weighing three to nine pounds, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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The Eurasian Eagle Owl is not currently on the endangered species list but has been flagged as a “concerned” species given the decline in local populations worldwide. 

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Now I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer but could the Universe have just sent us a “messenger” in the shape of Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, as to how to control rats in NYC?

We know that NYC rats are BIG problem.  Some of them are the size of small pigs.  And they breed prolifically.  

Since NYC residents can’t seem to control them and the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk City are equally helpless, let solve this species’ “concerned” status.

I’m always reluctant to mess with the Universe, but maybe a few breeding pairs of Flaco’s cousins, could bring the rat population under control.  Hell, maybe Eurasian Eagle Owl could replace the other “rat” in the City  — the pigeon. 

A win for all involved at a minimal cost.

Maybe John Oliver could get NYC to make the Eurasian Eagle Owl the City’s official bird?  It worked for the Pūteketeke in New Zealand!

(Hey John Oliver, feel free to steal this idea for a signed picture of you with an Eurasian Eagle Owl.  Otherwise, © 2019 Ferdinand J. Reinke All Rights Reserved. Laugh!)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: US forces fighting in Gaza??????

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-claimed-secret-knowledge-of-us-forces-in-gaza/

US News exclusive

US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: pal

Jack Morphet, Andy Tillett, and Kate Sheehy

Published Feb. 27, 2024, 7:56 p.m. ET

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If this is true then Biden and others should be impeached immediately.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why not pictures on handicap placards?

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Seems like a simple way to avoid abuse.  Just put the pictures on handicap placards of the authorized User.  

Easy way to fix the abuse that’s so obvious.

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