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Posted on August 28, 2023 by Ken
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her.

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A friend and colleague of mine just sent me a NY Times article by Robert Reich in which the latter contends that the Republicans are acting “unconstitutionally” by refusing hearings to any of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees. I replied—admittedly, a bit too abruptly—that the Democrats feign concern about abiding by the Constitution only when it suits their purposes.
I stand by this position. But I know that the same can be said for Republicans.
Brion McClanahan’s latest book underscores in spades this bipartisan disregard of the Constitution. His 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (Regnery: 2016) is a tailor-made book for the lover of American political history. Moreover, though a piece of scholarship of the first order, it is, refreshingly, written in prose that is accessible to any remotely curious reader.

Another welcoming feature of McClanahan’s analysis is its indisputably non-partisan tone. Unlike Robert Reich, McClanahan’s repulsion from unconstitutional governance is not selectively determined by ideological prejudice and political gain. It is principled. That this is so becomes obvious as soon as one begins thumbing one’s way through 9 Presidents.
McClanahan notes that the concerns of the anti-Federalists began to materialize as early on as George Washington’s tenure in office.

While “Washington’s first administration was a model for the constitutional exercise of
the presidential powers,” his second administration was not. For starters, though he was constitutionally required to seek the “advice and consent” of Congress when it came to issues of war and treaties.
In 1793, in the wake of the bloody French Revolution, Washington acted unilaterally
by essentially breaking America’s treaty with France by issuing his “Proclamation of Neutrality.” James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were among those who viewed this move as the stuff of, not presidents of Constitutional Republics, but monarchs.
 
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America is well on her way to becoming a banana republic. With presidents signing patently unconstitutional legislation, refusing to enforce laws they don’t like, and even making appointments without the advice and consent of the Senate, it’s clear that the federal Republic our Constitution established is hanging by a thread. And yet the chances that a president who has flouted our founding document and the very rule of law will be impeached are slim to none.
Americans seem to have resigned themselves to the exact form of government that the framers and ratifiers of our Constitution feared most: the tyranny of an elected monarch. The executive branch of the U.S. federal government has grown so far beyond the bounds set for it in our
Constitution that Americans can no longer claim to govern ourselves. We only get the chance to pick the man who will spend four years legislating unilaterally with his pen, waging undeclared wars, and usurping still more powers that the people and the states never delegated to the federal government in the first place.
But how did we get here?
Step by unconstitutional step, as historian Brion McClanahan reveals in Nine Presidents Who Screwed Up America—And Four Who Tried to Save Her. McClanahan’s ranking of the presidents is surprising—because he judges them on the only true standard: whether or not they kept their oath of office to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”  

In Praise of 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and 4 Who Saved Her
“Every once in a while, American historians will be polled regarding the men they consider the greatest presidents. Without fail, they choose those people most dedicated to the expansion of government. In this outstanding book, Brion McClanahan blasts these historians to smithereens, and reveals the true history of the dangerous men who are known as our great presidents. It’s about time someone did!”
–Tom Woods, author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century and The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to American History. “This book
is both a fascinating read by a master historian and a necessary guide for any voter.”
–Kevin R. C. Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America
and The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Constitution
“Congratulations to Brion McClanahan. As a true American historian, he tells the truth about the rogues’ gallery of US presidents, who have stolen our freedoms, and killed millions in the process. And what great prose!”
–Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., founding chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Mr. McClanahan has a hit on his hands, or should. He lays out a case, in plain English, how each of nine presidents “Screwed up” our country. It is a fascinating and factual accounting of presidential usurpation of power…This book is entertaining and educational – a feat which is all too difficult to achieve. I must say, I am smarter for reading it.”
–Brent Smith, The Daily Caller
“Brion McClanahan presents a masterful and superbly-scholarly discussion of how
nine presidents, beginning with George Washington himself, effectively destroyed
the constitutional government.”
–Thomas DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com

Part I The Nine Who Screwed Up America.
1 Andrew Jackson and the Antecedents of the Imperial Presidency 3.
2 Abraham Lincoln 25. 3 Theodore Roosevelt 35. 4 Woodrow Wilson 55.
5 Franklin D. Roosevelt 75. 6 Harry S. Truman 99. 7 Lyndon B. Johnson 119.
8 Richard Nixon 9 Barack Obama …

A friend and colleague of mine just sent me a NY Times article by Robert Reich in which the latter contends that the Republicans are acting “unconstitutionally” by refusing hearings to any of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees. I replied—admittedly, a bit too abruptly—that the Democrats feign concern about abiding by the Constitution only when it suits their purposes.

I stand by this position. But I know that the same can be said for Republicans.

Brion McClanahan’s latest book underscores in spades this bipartisan disregard of the Constitution. His 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save
Her (Regnery: 2016) is a tailor-made book for the lover of American political history. Moreover, though a piece of scholarship of the first order, it is, refreshingly, written in prose that is accessible to any remotely curious reader.

Another welcoming feature of McClanahan’s analysis is its indisputably non-partisan tone. Unlike Robert Reich, McClanahan’s repulsion from unconstitutional governance is not selectively determined by ideological prejudice and political gain. It is principled. That this is so becomes obvious as soon as one begins thumbing one’s way through 9 Presidents.

McClanahan notes that the concerns of the anti-Federalists began to materialize as early on as George Washington’s tenure in office. While “Washington’s first administration was a model for the constitutional exercise of the presidential powers,” his second administration was not.
For starters, though he was constitutionally required to seek the “advice and consent” of Congress when it came to issues of war and treaties, in 1793, in the wake of the bloody French Revolution, Washington acted unilaterally by essentially breaking America’s treaty with France by issuing his “Proclamation of Neutrality.” James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were among those who viewed this move as the stuff of, not presidents of Constitutional Republics, but monarchs.

Washington also crushed the so-called “Whiskey Rebellion,”
a move that was unconstitutional on multiple grounds.

Yet Washington is not among the cast of characters that McClanahan charges with having “screwed up America,” of having grossly, routinely undermined the Constitution. This ignominious distinction the author endows upon such worthies as Andrew Jackson; Abraham Lincoln; Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon; and Barack Obama.

It would be a mistake, however, to think that McClanahan treats this list as exhaustive. Like Washington, there are several presidents—George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush are three notable examples—who don’t have chapters reserved for them, but whose flagrant abuses of the Constitution the author meticulously documents.

McClanahan knows that by including Lincoln in his list of presidents who “screwed up America,” he will shock the contemporary sensibilities of many readers. Yet he also makes a compelling case that any such list that omitted “Honest Abe” would be downright dishonest, for Lincoln, “more than any president who came before him, created the blueprint for the modern presidency.”

If ever there was a “fundamentally transformative” president, it was Lincoln, the man who presided over the transformation of the American political system from “a federal republic to a consolidated nation.”

Through a chain of the most cogent reasoning, McClanahan reveals how and why the Southern states that formed the Confederacy were indeed justified, constitutionally speaking, in seceding from the Union. Lincoln, thus, acted unconstitutionally in treating secession as a “rebellion.” Yet even conceding, for argument’s sake, that Lincoln was right about this matter, he was, from the standpoint of the Constitution, terribly wrong in how he proceeded to address it.

“Lincoln,” McClanahan explains, “violated the Constitution and his oath by unilaterally calling up the ‘militia’ to subdue ‘combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law.” The problem, here, is that the Constitution authorizes Congress—not the Executive branch—to do such things.

However, McClanahan remarks,
“these violations of the Constitution were only the beginning.” The 16th president, he continues, “presided over the most oppressive and lawless general government in American history to that point, one that has only been surpassed by the imperial presidencies of the twentieth century.” Lincoln’s “unilateral suspension of habeas corpus was ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney”—and yet “Lincoln ignored the ruling [.]” His administration “arrested over ten thousand Northern Americans for their opposition to the war, mostly newspaper editors and politically well-connected citizens” (emphases original) [.]

There are many more violations of the Constitution of which Lincoln was guilty, but space constraints preclude enumeration of them here. “Progressive” Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, given “his belief that…the Constitution was an outdated piece of parchment subject to elastic interpretation and the will of the executive,” was the first of the 20th century imperial presidents. Even some of his fellow Republicans in Congress objected to his blatant subversion of the Constitution in executing his “Square Deal” agenda.

While Roosevelt was the first of the last century’s imperial presidents, he was far from
the last. Woodrow Wilson, who “lamented that the founding generation did not have the foresight to call for a closer link between the executive and legislative branches” and who, to remedy this alleged weakness, regarded the Constitution as “organic,” “was a…pioneer in unconstitutional executive authority.”

Then, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ratcheted things up considerably by ramming his “New Deal” “through Congress with a personal zeal unmatched by anyone who had held the office before him.” Yet FDR’s successor, Harry Truman, “had become the most progressive president in American history” by the time his nearly eight years in office had come to a close.

The four presidents who tried to “save” America by exercising admirable, if imperfect, constitutional constraints are Thomas Jefferson, John Tyler, Grover Cleveland, and Calvin Coolidge. Not unsurprisingly, though, and with the exception of that of Jefferson’s, the presidencies of these last three are ordinarily regarded by historians as either unremarkable or even failed. This, however, reveals more about the extent to which these same historians subscribe to the model of the imperial—to repeat, the unconstitutional—presidency than it speaks to these forgotten presidents themselves.

By the measure of the Constitution-as-ratified, Tyler, Cleveland, and Coolidge join Jefferson as among the best presidents in American history.
Brion McClanahan’s Nine Presidents Who Screwed Up America and the Four Who Tried to Save Her is must reading for everyone who is more interested in preserving the Constitution than in preserving their respective parties.

During this heated election season, it is also timelier than ever.

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During an appearance on MSNBC, former Watergate attorney Jill Wine-Banks warned Donald Trump he could end up in pre-trial detention if he doesn’t tone down his rhetoric about his criminal indictments.
In a segment with host Ayman Mohyeldin on the former president’s attacks on prosecutors, including Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special counsel Jack Smith, Wine-Banks suggested sanctioning Trump financially would be ineffective since he would just pay the fines with his supporter’s donations. As the expert explained, Trump is putting the judges in a tough spot if they decide to jail the former president, but that he may leave them no choice.

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“I think that she can handle it, but she is in a very difficult position because putting him in custody has to be a last resort,” she explained. “He may push her to do that, but he will see it as a political advantage, and so she has to be careful not to give him that advantage. But there is a limit to what she can do to enforce his compliance with what her reasonable requirements for his release are.”

“She can penalize him with a monetary fine but his supporters are paying his legal bills already so it doesn’t hurt him and he doesn’t care about them and their money,” she added. “And so I don’t know how much benefit in terms of his compliance it would be to fine him if he doesn’t obey the fine. She said she would move the trial date up but she can only move it up so far without denying him due process and the adequate time to prepare, and he knows that and she knows that.”
“So there’s a very limited amount of things that she can do other than incarceration, and I think that that may have to be if he — you know [political consultant] Stuart Stevens is right: he can’t control himself,” she elaborated. “And so if he goes way beyond the bounds and is clear in his threats and provoking his supporters to create violence in response to these threats, I think that he will have to be shut up by being incarcerated, and we have an example of Eugene Debs who ran for president from jail and so it is possible that he can continue his campaign from jail.”

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DASH diet vs. Mediterranean diet:

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Ken
Woman holds a plate of seafood on the coast of Italy. © Getty Images
Seafood is part of both the Mediterranean and DASH diets.
 
DASH diet vs. Mediterranean diet: 
Story by skenny@insider.com (Serafina Kenny) 
The similarities and differences between what experts
say are the healthiest ways to eat.

The diets are similar and focus on whole foods.
There are key differences in their approach to alcohol and potential effect on blood pressure. The Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet are considered among the
healthiest ways to eat by experts — so what’s the difference between the two?

The Mediterranean diet is based on the food that people traditionally ate in places around the southern European sea that gives it its name, including Greece, Italy, and Spain, and so prioritizes whole foods such as vegetables, fruits, legumes, olive oil, beans, nuts, and seafood. The amount of processed foods and added sugar in the diet is kept to a minimum, and it includes far less meat than is eaten on average in the US. It has been named the healthiest way to eat for six years in a row by the US World News and Report, with DASH coming joint second this year. A doctor who wrote a book on the Mediterranean diet shares his 3 favorite lunch recipes.

The Mediterranean diet is recognized as the gold standard for healthy eating.
Try pasta salad with tuna and beans or rye bread with guacamole or hummus.
Dr. Simon Poole, an expert in the diet shared three lunch ideas with Insider.

If you’re looking to eat more Mediterranean diet–
style meals but are stuck on what to have for lunch, Dr. Simon Poole has you covered.
Poole, an expert on the diet based in Cambridge, UK, told Insider that the Mediterranean diet is the gold standard for healthy eating. It centres around vegetables, legumes, seafood, and olive oil, while processed and fried foods, red meat, refined grains, sugar, and saturated fat should be limited. 
Poole adopted the diet himself about 20 years ago and, as a family medical practitioner, began suggesting it to his patients too.
“They came back to me with better blood pressures, better cholesterol, better weight, and were really actually enjoying the diet and finding it much more sustainable than other diets that they’d been told to follow in the past,” he said.
There has been a “very considerable amount of really good, high quality scientific research to show that it reduces the risks of really so many chronic diseases, from heart disease and stroke through to many cancers and even Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.

Dr. Poole shared three of his favorite lunches with Insider. 
The DASH diet similarly focuses on fruits, vegetables, and legumes, as well as other whole foods such as whole grains, low-fat dairy products, nuts, and skinless fish and poultry. It also includes low amounts of processed foods and added sugars, but focuses on reducing salt and saturated fats. It was ranked top in a list of heart-healthy diets by the American Heart Association earlier this year.

Dr. Amit Khera, who has helped to formulate AHA diet guidelines and is a professor of medicine and the director of the preventive cardiology program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, told the AHA in 2019 that the DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet are more alike than they are different.
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The Mediterranean diet is less strict about alcohol
The biggest difference between what the Mediterranean and DASH diets allow you to consume is alcohol.
Typically, if you’re following the Mediterranean diet, you can drink a moderate amount of alcohol, usually wine, with meals — no more than one glass of wine a day for women or two for men, according to The Mayo Clinic said.
It’s important to note that the World Health Organization says that there is no safe amount of alcohol that does not affect health.
The DASH diet, however, is very low in alcohol. Dietitian Danielle Smith told Insider that she tells her clients who follow the DASH diet to only have one drink on one or two nights a week, because it is inflammatory and because it lowers inhibition, which can lead to unhealthy food choices. 

The DASH diet is thought to be better at lowering blood pressure

The AHA ranked the DASH diet above the Mediterranean diet for heart health because the latter doesn’t focus on reducing the amount of salt in your diet, whereas the DASH diet does.
The DASH diet was formulated to prevent or reduce hypertension, or high blood pressure, through reducing the amount of salt and maximizing nutrients linked to lowering blood pressure.

Salt makes your body retain water.
Eating too much salt increases the amount of water in the blood, putting pressure on blood vessels and leading to higher blood pressure. Reducing your salt intake, for example through following the DASH diet, can lower blood — potentially within a few weeks — according to the charity Blood Pressure UK.
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Registered dietitian Danielle Smith told Insider what to avoid doing
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The DASH diet is even healthier than the Mediterranean diet, experts say.

A dietitian shares 5 mistakes people make when starting it.
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The DASH diet is the healthiest way to eat, according to the American Heart Association.

The diet includes low amounts of salt and saturated fats, and focuses on whole foods.

Danielle Smith is a dietitian specializing in the DASH diet, which includes lots of fruit and vegetables.

The Mediterranean diet may have been voted the healthiest way to eat six times in a row, but what’s known as the DASH diet could be even better, according to experts.
The DASH diet, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, aims to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It’s usually prescribed to people with hypertension, or high blood pressure, but can also be followed as a general healthy diet.
The diet is low in salt, saturated or trans fats, added sugars, fatty meats, and alcohol, instead prioritizing vegetables, fruit, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, skinless fish and poultry, nuts and legumes, and non-tropical vegetable oils according to the American Heart Association.
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The Mediterranean diet is widely considered one of the healthiest ways to eat.
A balanced salad contains protein, carbs, and fats as well as fruits and vegetables.
Dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine shared five Mediterranean-inspired salad recipes.

⁣Whether or not you follow the Mediterranean diet, knowing a few healthy salad recipes can be super handy, especially in the warmer months.

The Mediterranean diet is widely considered to be one of the healthiest ways to eat, thanks to its links with heart health and a lower risk of various diseases including Parkinson’s and diabetes.

It focuses on vegetables, legumes, seafood, and olive oil, wine in moderation, and minimal amounts of processed and fried foods, red meat, refined grains, added sugars, and saturated fats.

When it comes to building a satiating salad, you need more than just a few lettuce leaves and chopped tomatoes. Dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine, – Bing video who aims to eat a Mediterranean-style diet, told Insider a balanced salad should contain the following components:

Carbohydrates

These are our body’s main source of fuel, Ludlam-Raine said. She recommended choosing higher fiber and wholegrain options where possible, such as quinoa, wholegrain rice, wholewheat pasta, or wholemeal pitta. ⁣

“I personally like the mixed grains in the microwavable bags for my salads,” she said.

Vegetables, salad, and fruit
Ludlam-Raine recommended aiming for two handfuls of produce, for example a handful of salad leaves, crudités, roasted vegetables, or pomegranate seeds.

“The greater variety of plant-based foods in your diet, the better your gut microbes will be, which means better physical and mental health,” she said.

Protein
“Whether it’s animal or plant-based, protein is digested slowly and helps to keep us fuller for longer,” Ludlam-Raine said.

Good sources in salads include chickpeas, feta cheese, mixed beans, hummus, chicken, edamame beans, and salmon, she said.

Good Fat
“Fats provide some of the essential fatty acids our body can’t make itself and help to absorb fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K,” Ludlam-Raine said.

To get a source in your salad, try adding a handful of olives, mixed seeds, flaked almonds, a dollop of pesto, or a drizzle of grapeseed or olive oil, she said.

Earlier this year, the AHA rated the DASH diet higher than the hugely popular Mediterranean diet for heart health, because, although similar, the Mediterranean diet does not address added salt and allows alcohol in moderation.

Insider spoke to Danielle Smith, a registered dietitian working with dietitian network Top Nutrition Coaching, about the biggest mistakes she sees people making when they start the DASH diet, and what to do instead.  

Starting the diet without a plan
Going all in without a plan is the biggest mistake you can make when starting the DASH diet, Smith said. It’s best to gradually build to following the diet fully by incorporating some DASH diet recipes that sound appetizing into your weekly meals, rather than just throwing away all your high-sodium and processed foods with no plan.
It’s also important to be gracious with yourself when you slip up, which you will do because you’re human, she said.
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Believing the marketing on ‘heart healthy’ foods
Some products are marketed as “heart healthy” because they contain oats or are rich in whole grains, such as certain breakfast cereals or granola bars, Smith said. However, these products might not be very nutrient dense and can contain a lot of sugar. She said: “don’t be lured in by what is marketed to you, because it’s not always healthy.”

Instead, be sure to check that the product actually contains things that are nutritionally helpful, like fiber or protein, using the information on food labels. A dietitian previously explained to Insider how to read nutrition labels.

Drinking too much coffee
Coffee contains antioxidants which are thought to be anti-inflammatory, but Smith said you shouldn’t rely on it for energy throughout the day, especially if you add lots of creamer and sugar to your coffee.
She also said that drinking too much coffee isn’t good if you’re following the diet because you already have hypertension. Insider previously reported on a study that found people with very high blood pressure who drank two or more cups of coffee a day were twice as likely to die from heart problems. However, research suggests people with normal blood pressure can safely drink up to five cups a day without harming their heart, or affecting their cholesterol levels or heart rhythm, according to the UK charity British Heart Foundation.

Not making lifestyle changes alongside the diet
As well as changing your diet, Smith recommended finding ways to move your body throughout the day, because moving more is an easy way to lower blood pressure. This can be as simple as going for walks or standing for parts of the day if going to the gym feels daunting, she said.
She also said that “aiming for half your body weight in ounces of water a day is ideal” to stay hydrated.

Not listening to your body
If you don’t feel well after consuming a certain food, or you just don’t like something,
don’t force yourself to eat it and focus on other nutrient dense foods instead, Smith said.
The diet is supposed to be maintainable long term, so it has to work for you and your body — “listen to your body and see how it responds,” she said.

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We Live in a Holographic Reality

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Ken
How Mathematical Illusion Plays into Holographic Theory – Bing video

Although much of holographic theory is just theoretical at this point, physicists
use mathematical games and speculation to attempt to prove this idea of reality. 
However, because so much of the math used to determine the reality of the universe
is based in conjecture, at the moment it cannot be considered anything more than mathematical illusion. 
As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left
to grapple with the questions, it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an illusion, a product of quantum machinations happening in a lower-dimensional setting—in other words, a hologram.

But do these latest theoretical insights offer revelations into reality, itself, or merely
serve as mathematical tools to help us solve thorny problems? When it comes to the
most cutting-edge physical theories, what is a product of our imaginations, and also
what is a product of the universe?

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Many argue that every idea, either theoretical or math-based,
is just our way of attempting to understand the universe we live in. 
The truth is that whatever our human brains can contrive and understand may end up being just works of fiction. Maybe we’ll never fully understand the reality we’re living in. 
Reality As We Know It Could Be An Illusion and Our Universe Might Be Holographic – Bing video

There is no shortage of theories as to what is the true fundamental nature of reality.
Some physicists argue our universe and reality as we know it could just be a hologram. 
The theory is based on the idea that the universe is a product of quantum machinations happening in another dimension, making it a complete illusion. 

Understanding Holographic Theory – Bing video
The main concept to grasp for understanding holographic theory is that there are different dimensions in the universe. According to the theory, we are living in a holograph created by a different dimension of reality. 
The second aspect of the theory is that this universe we live in is actually two-dimensional, not three-dimensional.
The universe is a hologram and other mind-blowing theories in theoretical physics
by Lawrence Goodman, Brandeis University

What if there is a deeper reality out there?

What if we are living in a hologram?

What if our universe is an illusion?

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Or, alternatively, ask associate professor of physics Matthew Headrick about his research. Headrick works on one of the most cutting-edge theories in theoretical physics—and the holographic principle. It holds that the universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface, much like a hologram emerges from a sheet of photographic film.
“In my view, the discovery of holographic entanglement and its generalizations has been one of the most exciting developments in theoretical physics in this century so far,” Headrick said. “What other new concepts are waiting to be discovered, and what other unexpected connections? We can’t wait to find out.”

Since 2016, Headrick has served as deputy director of the “It from Qubit: Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information” project, an international effort by 18 scientists and their labs to determine whether the holographic principle is correct. It is also funded by a four-year,
$10-million grant from the New York-based Simons Foundation.
If Headrick and his colleagues can prove the holographic principle,
they will have taken a major step toward achieving the holy grail in theoretical physics,
a grand unified theory that can explain all the laws and principles governing reality.
“We’re not there yet,” Headrick said, “but we’re making progress.”

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Let’s break down the holographic principle step-by-step:

We’ll start small, very small.
It’s long been thought that the universe at its most fundamental level is made up of subatomic particles like electrons or quarks. But now physicists believe those particles
are made up of something even smaller information.
When physicists talk about information, they mean the data that describe physical phenomena. The mass of an object, the direction of the spin of an electron,
and E = mc² are all units of information.
If you gathered all the information that’s out there, you would have the complete instruction booklet for building everything in our universe.

Qubits
The tiniest levels of the universe are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.
Here things start to get very weird and counterintuitive.
Units of information in the realm of quantum mechanics are called qubits.
Headrick studies the quantum entanglement of qubits, a very strange phenomenon
unique to the realm of quantum mechanics.
Suppose you have two qubits whose values can be either 1 or 0. When the qubits are entangled, their values become correlated. When you measure the first qubit, its value might turn out to be 0. Check the other qubit, its value might be 0, too.
But what if the first qubit has a value of 1? The second qubit’s value could also change to 1.
It’s as if the qubits communicate with each other, with the first telling the second, “Hey, this physicist over here just found out I’m a 1. You better be a 1, too.” Amazingly and bizarrely, this communication can happen over vast distances with messages seemingly relayed faster than the speed of light.

Qubits are flat
In most cases, when you drop an object into a jar—we’ll use a jelly bean—it will fall inside and take up space. Put in another jelly bean, the amount of unfilled space shrinks and the volume of the jelly beans increases.
It doesn’t work this way with qubits. Qubits won’t fall into the jar but instead spread out on a surface. Add a qubit, it will adhere to the side of the jar. Add another qubit, it will do the same. Increasing the number of qubits doesn’t increase the volume.
Instead, it increases the surface area the qubits take up.
More and more qubits spread out across a flat surface—this is how you get the two-dimensional plane described by the holographic principle.

So how do you get three dimensions?
Once you move beyond the realm of the teeny-tiny, the laws of quantum mechanics no longer work. Strange as it sounds, on the macrocosmic level, you need a different set of laws of physics to explain what’s going on.
Enter Einstein’s theory of relativity. To calculate cosmic events like the path followed by light or the orbit of Mercury around the sun, you need the theory of relativity.
The building blocks of relativity are also units of information.
Now though, they’re called bits. And bits behave in a way that’s much more familiar to us.
They exist in three dimensions. So how do you get a hologram? – Search (bing.com)

Let’s go back to that two-dimensional surface covered with entangled qubits. Since the value of a qubit changes depending on the value of its entangled pair, there’s a degree of indeterminacy built into the system. If you haven’t yet measured the first qubit, you can’t be sure about the second. The amount of uncertainty in any given system is called its entropy.
As qubits become entangled and disentangled, the level of entropy rises and falls.
You wind up with fields of entropy in a constantly changing state.
The holographic principle holds that our three-dimensional world is a representation or projection of all this activity taking place on a two-dimensional surface full of qubits.

Putting it all together
It’s always bothered physicists that there is one set of rules for the microcosmic, quantum mechanics, and another for the macrocosmic, the theory of relativity. It doesn’t make sense that there should be two different and incompatible groups of mathematical formulas at work in our universe. Physicists assume there must be some way to bring them into harmony.
So therein lies the central question for Headrick and his colleagues: Starting in the two-dimensional realm of qubits and quantum mechanics and then scaling up in size, how precisely do we wind up with bits and relativity? It’s a matter of constructing a single mathematical model that explains the transformation.
Figure it out and you’ll have solved one of the biggest mysteries in theoretical physics. From the tiniest to the largest phenomenon, we’ll have a unified theory of reality.
Right now the holographic principle remains an unproven theory. Where it will lead next is an open question. Odds are though, it’ll be stranger than anything yet imagined in science fiction.

The Role Black Holes Play in Understanding the Universe
Physicists are using their very basic understanding of black holes to attempt to
understand and explain them. Essentially, black holes allow information and particles
to enter, but never come out. 
That information, as it is known in theory, is related to its two-dimensional surface without full-dimensional volume—just like holographic theory claims our universe is. 
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Members of the DC Swamp

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Ken
Time to time, the American people elect a champion to take on the Washington swamp.

Historian Larry Schweikart joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his book 
Amazon.com: Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp: 9781637581889: Schweikart, Larry: Books

The six presidents Schweikart profiles are Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump.
They came from different backgrounds and different political parties, but all had
their own unique tussles with the swamp during their time in office.

The presidential historian lays out the almost cyclical nature of Americans electing swamp fighters. “I think also we see a pattern where these guys kind of knock the swamp back a little bit, and then it crawls back to life, like some horrible monster and 10, 15, 20 years later, somebody else has to step up and fight it again,” Schweikart says.

Schweikart is a historian of American political history and has written numerous books, including the best-selling “A Patriot’s History of the United States.”

We also cover these stories:

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Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript: 
Historian Explains How 6 Presidents Fought Washington Swamp –
The Daily Signal Podcast | Acast

Fred Lucas: We are very lucky to have with us today Larry Schweikart,
who is a noted historian and author of the brand new book “Dragonslayers:
Six Presidents and Their War With the Swamp.” Thanks for joining us.

Larry Schweikart: My pleasure.

Lucas: So, I guess, one question, you look at six presidents here. A lot of people might
look at these six guys and think that they’re very different in a lot of ways, but they have this very common thread—four Republicans, two Democrats. Tell us why you looked at these four presidents in terms of their mission and take on the Washington swamp.

Schweikart: Well, when I started this, I thought I had six different topics all related to
six different swamps. So I was looking at [Abraham] Lincoln with a slave swamp, Grover Cleveland with the spoils swamp, Teddy Roosevelt with a trust swamp, [John F. Kennedy] with a CIA swamp, [Ronald] Reagan with a bureaucracy swamp, and of course, [Donald] Trump with the deep state swamp.

But as I got into the research, the more I looked at it, the more intertwined the six were. And I could have possibly added James Garfield, who was killed for his attack on the swamp, and Chester Arthur, who could only serve one term because of his disease.
They clearly were also swamp fighters.

These guys represented six people who were making an effort to not just reform,
a word I hate, reform things in Washington, but actually make a fundamental change
in American life. And of course, Lincoln was killed.

And Teddy Roosevelt had an assassination attempt on his life. JFK was killed.
Reagan had an assassination attempt on his life. And I don’t know if you recall this,
but a guy scaled the stage in Ohio to attack Trump. And so you could argue that five
of the six were either killed or attacked for their attempts to overturn the swamp.

Jarrett Stepman: Larry, this is Jarrett Stepman. I think it’s really interesting, especially highlighting these presidents. It almost seems like they come in regular intervals, as far as presidents that have to step in and drain the swamp. Is there something to that? Is there something to the fact that every once in a while things get calcified in Washington, D.C., as a part of our system, that it’s really necessary to have a president who’s willing to take that on? Is this just a symptom of having a republican system?

Schweikart: Yeah, I think there is a great deal to that, but you’ve got to also remember that Lincoln’s war against the slaves swamp really involved the spoils swamp, only he needed the spoils system, he needed his people in office to help deal with the slave swamp. And later we see that JFK needed the CIA to affect his activities in both Cuba and Laos and Vietnam.

So while there is some of that, I think also we see a pattern where these guys kind of knock the swamp back a little bit, and then it crawls back to life like some horrible monster and 10, 15, 20 years later, somebody else has to step up and find it again.

Lucas: Larry, this is Fred. I did want to ask you about Lincoln and taking on the slave power conspiracy. And I want to preface this by saying, nothing quite reaches the immoral level of slavery, but at the same time, much of that was about expanding the number of seats in Congress and so forth, adding states and so forth. And today we’re seeing efforts by Democrats to change the districting system, adding states, trying to expand their majorities. Do you think there’s some similarities to what the motives were then and now?

Schweikart: Oh yeah, sure. And again, I want to reiterate this point that the spoils swamp was created by Martin Van Buren long before Lincoln. It was created about 30 years before Lincoln, for one purpose and one purpose only. I talked about this in another of my books, “7 Events That Made America ~America.” – Bing video

And people need to remember the Democratic Party was founded for one reason, to protect, preserve, and expand slavery. And so, yeah, there’s a lot of those efforts today going on, they’re kind of typical political efforts to expand your base. And if you want to get into modern politics, I think that they’re dramatically and horribly overreaching and they’re going to pay a serious price for it.

Stepman: Yeah. I think one thing I’ve noticed, too, is with a lot of the successful efforts
to kind of contain the swamp, a lot of times the swamp fights back. And as you said,
it sometimes grows and sometimes, in some cases, it’s actually necessary.

You talk about JFK’s fight against the CIA. It seems like today in America, there’s maybe an additional problem, especially with a lot of intelligence agencies that have maybe gone off their original mission, which is what they were originally created for, they’ve kind of gone beyond that.

Can you talk about that, especially in relation to President Donald Trump,
who I think did have some issues with the intelligence services?

Schweikart: Sure, absolutely. Let me clarify this, after Kennedy or during [Lyndon B.] Johnson and [Richard] Nixon, the swamp made a significant change, and that was that Congress more or less abdicated any authority over the swamp, or what Steve Bannon
likes to call the administrative state, all these bureaucracies.

… The presidents had long since lost control after Kennedy, but after Congress gave up control, it fell to the courts to control these agencies. And the courts tended to say, “Well, they’re established, Congress established them, therefore they get to kind of define their own mission and scope.” Which, of course, is outrageous.

So we fast forward to Donald Trump and the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI and all these groups and nobody wants to take these guys on.

I was speaking with a very high-ranking House member and I said, “Do you think that the whole FBI is corrupt?” And he said, “Absolutely.” He said, “But before we can take it out, we’ve got to figure out a way to replace it because there are functions that need to be done by a federal cop agency.” But he says, “The whole thing is corrupt right now.”

And this is not somebody you normally think of as a flamethrower. So the next guy who comes in better come in with a flamethrower at these agencies, because if we don’t stop now, we’ll never get control of them.

Stepman: That’s a very good point. And maybe to follow up on that, I think what’s interesting, especially highlighting these presidents, is what role will Congress
have in that as well?

I mean, it seems like a lot of the effective swamp fighters were able to work with Congress to push their agenda. How does the interplay with these presidents, especially the six you mentioned here, how did they effectively get Congress essentially to get on board with what they were doing? Or did they not get that going? 

Or was it something that they did more independently?

Schweikart: No, you’re right. Look at Lincoln. Lincoln never had a majority of abolitionists, but he did have a majority of Republicans and they were able to pull along enough of what we would today call moderates to get anti-slavery legislation, the 13th Amendment, and other things passed.

When you look at Grover Cleveland, he was able to work with Congress to get the Pendleton Civil Service Act passed, which was very important because it limited the number of direct appointees a president had. Let me quickly explain this.

Prior to Pendleton, a president appointed virtually all of the federal appointees. And this meant that Lincoln, while he’s in the middle of fighting a war, had lines of job-seekers down the street, literally coming inside the White House, bugging him for jobs. And of course, you know that Garfield was killed by one of these people who didn’t get a job. So they had to fix this.

The Pendleton Act took about 10% of those appointees out of the hands of the president, put them in the hands of a civil service exam.

So I look at Cleveland as being partially successful in his battle with the swamp, but not entirely because what happened after you got the Pendleton Civil Service Act that took all of the appointment powers out of the hands of a president was that instead of appointing just a few people to get elected—by few I mean a few thousand—now presidents had to campaign to lobbying groups and special-interest groups in terms of tens and then hundreds of thousands of members. And in our day, millions of members when you’re talking about unions.

So, the victories over the swamp, except for slavery, the victories over the swamp are not really long-lived. As I say, it keeps changing and evolving into different beasts that have to be put down at different times.

Lucas: Swamp creature keeps on morphing into something else. Yeah, I’m glad you had actually addressed that because I was going to bring up the spoils system versus the civil service system, which in some ways was an improvement, but in some ways led to this massive beast of an administrative state that we have now.

Schweikart: Yes.

Lucas: One question I did want to ask about Reagan, who was an enormously successful president in terms of winning the Cold War and bringing economic prosperity, but of course, he could win the Cold War, defeat the Soviet Union, but he couldn’t really beat the bureaucracy. Could you talk about that a little bit?

Schweikart: Yeah. I mean, that’s exactly right. I had a previous book about two years ago called “Reagan: The American President.” And I spent an extraordinary amount of time in the Reagan archives and the Reagan papers.

And one of the things I found was correspondence from his Cabinet level and from the bureaucracy. And basically what happened was even people who were put into “control” government, to reduce the size of government, even those people found themselves captives of it within a year.

For example, I saw a memo from one department head, David Stockman, said, “What’s going on? Why aren’t you reducing your department?” And he said, “Well, we’ve already spent this year’s budget and part of next year’s.”

So you made a really good point that Reagan came in with three main goals: to defeat the Soviet Union, to rebuild the American economy, and to control the government. And what he found was that there’s only so much time and so much political capital that any president has and achieving two of those was monumental. There just wasn’t enough time, energy, or political capital to cut down the government when that was over.

Stepman: Yeah. That seems like a big part of this, is that simply to reduce the swamp,
it takes almost multiple presidents.

Schweikart: Right. And Steve Bannon has a very good suggestion.

I think there are two really good ways to cut down the swamp. The first is what Trump started to do while he was in office. And that was to move offices out of Washington, D.C., put them in Nebraska, put them in New Mexico, put them in Idaho, get them out of D.C. So you eliminate that swamp mentality of the cocktail circuit, you start working on it from that angle.

The second thing, which was Bannon’s suggestion, is you buy these people out. You begin to start an early retirement system. It’ll cost some money, but pay these people to retire, then eliminate the job once the people are gone. And Bannon’s reasoning is very good. It’s incredibly hard to eliminate positions when people are still in them, but it’s not too hard to get rid of a position that nobody’s holding at the time. So, I think that’s going to be a good start.

The third thing that has to happen is what Trump began to do, which is to put in place judges who will begin to control the administrative. And I was told that this in fact was the rationale behind [Justices Neil] Gorsuch, [Brett] Kavanaugh, & Amy Coney Barrett. It was not necessarily that they were social liberals.
It was based, especially, on their take on the Exxon case that it was thought these three would really work to control the size of the bureaucracy. And we’ve yet to see cases come before them in that vein. But that was the feeling behind why those were chosen.

Stepman: Yeah. Very interesting. It seems like there’s a lot of work ahead. It’s a president’s legacy that goes beyond his presidency itself. I mean, I think that’s really interesting and especially laying down those judgeships and how much that’s going to change our system, not just now, but many, many years from now. I think that’s an important aspect of this.

One thing I’d like to ask, especially because you highlighted six, I think, very different men and very different presidents, is there a personality type? Is there a kind of person who is liable to want to take on the swamp in Washington? Is this a character type? Is this just simply different men seeing a problem as it was? How do you explain these men who came from different parties, different backgrounds, and different eras and their kind of role in how they took on the swamp in their own time?

Schweikart: Yeah, that’s a very good question. I think you’re right. I think these guys are much more activists. They’re much more, if you want to say male. They aren’t bureaucrats. They aren’t managers.

They see themselves as leaders, not somebody, for example, it’s why I didn’t include
Calvin Coolidge, who’s one of my favorite presidents, but he very much was more of an administrator. The shift’s going in the right direction, “I’m just going to keep my hands
off the wheel” kind of guy.

Whereas you look at T.R. … and why I disagree with many of his policy positions,
he was a very activist guy. Just as a man he was somebody who favored action over
just management.

And one important point I wanted to make about T.R.—and it showed you how you
can think you’re making inroads against the swamp in one area, and you’re ignoring something else—T.R. and his antitrust work saw the corporations not as inherently evil, but he saw them as in a position where they were fostering such discontent, especially
with the media, especially the newspapers of the day.

Roosevelt himself said on many occasions, in essence, I’m not quoting, I’m paraphrasing, he said on many occasions, “I’ve got to control these corporations or there will be a grassroots rebellion across the country that will get rid of all businesses, all capitalism.”

And he saw himself, ironically, as kind of a champion of capitalism, kind of the way [Franklin D. Roosevelt] did in terms of saving it from itself. And what T.R. missed was that the one industry that he left out of this was journalism. This is one of the big swamp creatures we have to deal with today.

Lucas: Well, that’s probably a decent point. Yeah.
I’m probably going to stir up maybe a little trouble here. Jarrett’s a big fan of Andrew Jackson, one guy who’s not mentioned in this. He is often blamed for the spoils system,
of course.

But when you think of the presidency, he was probably the first president in terms of sheer personality that said, “I’m going to take on this Washington machine,” when he first ran in 1824 and then again in 1828. The corruption all around Washington. Which is sort of the sense of a lot of people comparing Trump to Andrew Jackson. I wanted to ask you why he wasn’t part of what you included here.

Schweikart: OK. A, I’m not a Jackson fan. If you’ve read “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” you’ll know that. We see Jackson, first of all, his mentor and the guy who put him in the presidency was Martin Van Buren, who created the swamp. He creates the spoils system under which Jackson acts.

Second of all, Jackson did not do a single thing to cut the size of government. If you look at either employment of the government, employment per population, it doesn’t grow, but it certainly doesn’t shrink under Jackson. People point to the war on the Bank of the United States, well, folks, the Bank of the United States … four-fifths private.

And most bankers in the country—this was the focus of my doctoral dissertation, all of my early work was on Jacksonian banking and pre-Civil War banking—the bankers around the country, the little banks, the guys who didn’t have much money, they all loved the Bank of the United States.

And so Jackson, if anything, grew the size of the presidency, if by no other means than
the fact that he flexed the presidency’s muscles all over the place, even in a negative way.
And you know if you work out, negative reps are just as important as positive reps.

So no, I’m not a Jackson fan and I don’t think in any way he really attacked the swamp. The only swamp he attacked was a private sector bank, that he then in a very Biden-esque way turned around and handed all that money off to the pet banks.

Stepman: Kind of bringing things a little bit back to the modern day, to a certain extent, especially, I thought it was interesting you mentioned T.R. Roosevelt’s kind of war on big business, so to speak. That he wasn’t doing so out of a hatred of business, but more of a, first of all, worry that maybe things like socialism would become common to this country and that business itself had moved into an improper place in America.

It does make me think of some of the battles, especially on the right. You talk about
the rise of Big Tech in America that has grown to an enormous amount of power in this country, when you look at not just the social media, Facebook and Twitter, but just across the board, especially how they warred with President Donald Trump. And then after his presidency, literally almost uniformly, basically disappeared him from their platforms.

It does seem like we’re kind of having this same kind of battle and debate. And I think similar fault lines. I mean, there are many on the right who think that no, it’s not good to regulate Big Tech. And there are many [who] say, “No, we need to do that.”

Do you see some similarities between Trump and T.R. took on Big Tech
and maybe some future battles that are looming in that regard?

Schweikart: Yeah, sure. Let me point out with T.R. and one reason I give him
a little bit of slack in some of his antitrust work is of all the things T.R. did.

Remember, this is a guy who made himself into a physical presence. He did something almost nobody in Washington would do today. When a war started, he left a cushy job in Washington as assistant secretary of the Navy and formed a combat regiment of cavalry. Nobody would do that today.

But his one weakness was that in his entire life he never actually ran a business. People say, “Well, his cattle ranch.” T.R. did not run that ranch. He handed it off to a manager.
He never met a payroll. He never had to worry about employees or about government regulations. He just went off and hunted and fished, right?

So I think had he ever filled in that one hole in his resume and actually run a business, which he would’ve done very well, I think his approach to antitrust would’ve been a little bit different.

Now, I’m not against antitrust, but the very purpose of antitrust is to allow competition
to take place. And so from that perspective, you have to say that today antitrust is failing monstrously because there is no competition whatsoever with some of the big techs, with Google, with Yahoo, with Twitter, with Facebook, any of these things. They’ve all got 70%, 80% market share, which, under normal circumstances, if you were doing that with gasoline or food or anything else, you’d face antitrust suits.

Lucas: I thought it was interesting, when you think about establishment Washington, it was, in some ways, surprising that JFK is part of this list because … his father was part of the Roosevelt administration and so forth. I guess if you could talk a little bit more about him and why, in a lot of ways, it seemed like maybe his problem with the intelligence agencies was closest to what Trump had.

Schweikart: Right. And that is an interesting point, isn’t he an insider? In some ways, yes. In some ways, no. He’s a Catholic, so he’s not blending in with a lot of established Washington. His dad was something of a rogue and a renegade who, although he was in Roosevelt’s administration, still had a lot of that kind of old, corrupt Boston taint around him.

JFK’s problem was that when he came into office, he was already, through [Dwight D.] Eisenhower, committed to destabilizing Cuba, and then he took it further. And we have plenty of records of him and Bobby basically telling the CIA, “Get rid of [Fidel] Castro,
kill him, do whatever you need to do.”

And later, of course, they pay $85,000 to the CIA to give to these generals to eliminate [Ngo Dinh] Diem in Vietnam. So when you had the CIA doing work like that, it’s hard to turn around and say, “Man, these guys are crap. We need to get rid of them.”

Stepman: Yeah. It does seem a particular challenge when dealing with the intelligent services in particular, because of course, they do provide a significant function to the country, to the republic, especially in foreign policy, but at the same time, where does
their role kind of end?

In the case, I think more recently, that they actually stepped into American electoral politics, I think it has become very much concerning for the American people, especially agencies, where, look, I think by their very nature there isn’t a lot of public accountability.

Is this why it takes a president who’s very hands-on with these agencies? Is that kind
of the way this is dealt with? Or is there some other manner in which presidents can actually keep them on their job as it’s supposed to be and not into other things?

Schweikart: No, it’s going to fall to a president to be uber-hands-on, and he’s going
to have to appoint an FBI director and a CIA director who aren’t afraid to clean the house.

There is a story out today of this guy, John Seifer, who was bragging.
He said he was extremely proud of his work in keeping the Hunter Biden laptop
out of the public debate in the election and that he helped swing the election.

I mean, stuff like this should have people behind bars, but you’ve got this smarmy guy, [Christopher] Wray, in charge of the FBI. I mean, every time I see that guy, I just want to slap him, sort of like a Will Smith episode on this guy. And you’ve got people in charge of the CIA who have no intention whatsoever of controlling these agencies.

And like I said before, when you’ve got major congressional figures saying, “No, the whole FBI is corrupt. The whole FBI.” It’s not one or two guys. … It’s not just [James] Comey. It’s not just [Andrew] McCabe, or McCabre, as I call them. It’s not just these guys. It’s all the way down the line or somebody as a whistleblower would’ve stepped up a long time ago and said, “This is wrong. Here’s what’s going on here, folk.” Not a peep out of these guys.

In fact, my congressional source is that when they are talking with just kind of run-of-the-mill lower-level FBI officers, that their attitude is one of sheer arrogance, that they don’t need to report to Congress, they don’t need to give any account of themselves.

And so I think that actually draining the swamp, to use that term—and by the way, let me say this. Trump did not mean going after the CIA and FBI when he used the term “drain the swamp” in 2015 and early ’16, he meant get rid of K Street and the lobbyists. But later it came to his attention that the swamp was really much deeper and much worse than just a bunch of lobbyists.

So it is going to take a dedicated president with a cadre, maybe 30 or 40 key people, who have this one goal of reducing the size and influence of government on our elections and on our daily lives.

Lucas: If I could throw in there, Jarrett had an excellent piece on the Hunter Biden situation just a couple days ago on The Daily Signal.

Stepman: Yeah. Thanks Fred.

Lucas: If I could follow up on what you just said, though, is this going to take sort of a modern-day Pendleton Act that would address all the shortcomings of the other Civil Service Act in the past? I mean, basically a civil service reform that’s really going to address the bureaucracy, the unaccountability, and the bureaucracy?

Schweikart: Well, you know as well as I do every time we “reform” something in Washington, it gets worse. So I would say to stay away from more acts and let’s just get people in who will enforce the laws we have.

I mean, Reagan was always fond of saying, “We don’t need more laws. We just need to enforce the laws we have.” And I think that’s very much the case here. It can be done by dedicated and patriotic people, but I think we’re really short of that in D.C. today.

Stepman: And that seems to be part of the problem that we have, is that there’s a kind of class that’s been built up, a kind of managerial class that exists in not just Washington, but through the elites in American society that have one purpose, one goal, and it’s very different from the American people.

I think that seems to be the case, that a lot of these men that you’ve highlighted understood the problems that existed in Washington, D.C., especially if there was an elite class that was calcified, but understood really the heart of the American people and really kind of brought that in their efforts to contain this, as you call it, the swamp that never quite goes away, but it changes forms every once in a while.

But it’s something that we’re always going to have to deal with and always have to have presidents, patriotic presidents, willing to step in a breach on behalf of the American people.

Schweikart: Well, it’s funny that just prior to the Pendleton Act, one of the authors
I read said, a contemporary, somebody from the 1870s said, “This is the time when an administration changes from one party to another.” And he would say, “You would see all the hotels empty out and all these people would go back home. The trains would be full and the incoming trains would be full of different people coming in to take over the administration.”

Stepman: That’s a great story. Well, Larry, thank you so much for joining on the show. We really appreciate this and we absolutely encourage the listeners to pick up the book, which is called “Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War With the Swamp.” Excellent stuff. Thank you, Larry.

If you are going to drain the Swamp you must know how it works!

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The Swamp is a 2020 American documentary film about the fundraising and political culture on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Released in August 2020 on HBO, it chronicles the activities of three Republican congressmen. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ken Buck of Colorado are portrayed as outsiders to the dominant party patronage system. The film takes place largely in 2019 and chronicles their reactions to the biggest political stories of that year along with commentary on the political climate of Washington D.C.

Synopsis
The film details how heavily the Republican and Democratic parties rely on lobbyists for financial support. It describes a system where those members of Congress who are most effective at fundraising for their party are rewarded with committee assignments.[1] The film uses interview clips and narration from Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School to provide background information. Lessig primarily faults former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich for the political climate of Capitol Hill, alleging he shifted Congress’s priorities from legislating to fundraising in the 1990s and deprioritized   bipartisanship.[1] The Swamp proves critical of the Trump administration, despite the film’s three main characters being staunch defenders of it, with the administration’s ties to various lobbyists portrayed negatively.[2]
Of the three congressmen profiled, Matt Gaetz receives the most attention. His upbringing, unsuccessful attempt to amend the National Defense Authorization Act with Democrat Ro Khanna of California and interactions with supporters and detractors are featured.[1][3] In The Swamp, Gaetz is contrasted with the film’s critiques of Gingrich and the Trump administration, with his refusal to accept PAC money and work with California Democrats Khanna and Katie Hill, who had resigned from Congress due to a scandal which Gaetz defends her from, providing examples of bipartisanship and “draining the swamp” of Washington, D.C.[1][2]

Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Swamp holds an approval rating of 67% based on 15 reviews with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10. The site’s critical consensus reads: “Interesting but unfocused, The Swamp’s multi-subject approach opens the floor for a lot of questions – and answers very few.”[4]
Hank Stuever of The Washington Post was complimentary of the documentary for its willingness to utilize Matt Gaetz‘s perspective, writing: “This candid glimpse into Gaetz’s world may come as something of an unctuous surprise to HBO’s typical documentary viewer, who is used to being served agreeable agenda items from the left side of the menu.”[5] Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic gave the film a 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing: “It turns out to be all talk for the most part, but it is an interesting conversation, and an intriguing, if sometimes flawed, film.”[2]

Bernie Sanders scolds Dems for losing working class, minority voters to GOP:
‘Frankly it is absurd’ (msn.com)

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In fact, not only did Biden omics fail to reduce prices, the Democrat administration 
has made inflation worse.  Biden omics Failed America (msn.com)

Whose all in our government swamp – Bing video

The DC swamp is back — and it’s swampier than ever.
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump famously campaigned on
“draining the swamp.” As president, he failed — though he may have stirred it up a bit.
But with Biden and Democrats pushing to hand out trillions of taxpayer dollars, pass dozens of new taxes and impose who knows how many new regulations, the swamp is back, baby. 

The swamp was exposed. 
Trump wasn’t the first to use the drain-the-swamp mantra.
 President Reagan invoked it in the 1980s, referring to the need to reduce the size of the government bureaucracy. While the term’s meaning can shift over time, Trump initially used it to describe his plan to counter the “corruption” practiced by highly-paid lobbyists, entrenched bureaucrats and liberal elites — i.e., powerful, big-money interests who many believe make Washington work for them to the detriment of average Americans.
That message resonated with much of the public then — and still does.

But the Democrats’ agenda is making the swamp bigger than ever.
As the old saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. Since Democrats want to hand out record amounts of cash, lots of companies and organizations are willing to spend big bucks to snag a slice of that multi-trillion-dollar pie. 
According to a recent Washington Post story, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of lobbying found that nearly 2,000 companies and organizations spent nearly $426 million lobbying Congress and the Biden administration — and that’s just the first half of the year and primarily focused on the infrastructure bill. Even more money is flowing now as Democrats try to decide what to include in their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. 

How the swamp works. When Washington wants to ladle out money or impose new taxes or regulations, lots of companies, organizations and individuals rush to lobbyists and their trade associations for help.
The lobbyists may recommend making sizable donations to the relevant politicians.
And millions of dollars in unaccountable “dark money” – which Democrats say they hate –
will begin to flow throughout the political system. 
The lobbyists, organizations and trade associations will try to set up meetings or expensive dinners with elected officials or their staffs, or with people who know them (especially former members of Congress or staff now working for lobbying firms) so the supplicants can plead their case. 
The supplicants may or may not come away encouraged. But either way, they will likely conclude they need to keep their messaging, and their money, flowing for a while.

Big stakes mean big bucks. The bigger the stakes, the more time and money interested parties are willing to spend. And the stakes have never been bigger. Yet we have only a vague idea how much money is actually being spent, who is spending it, where it’s going and who it’s helping — or hurting.
Some companies and organizations want to be in on the take, others try to keep from being taken. And some take a third approach: lobbying Congress and bureaucrats to impose more taxes and regulations on their more successful competitors. 
We saw this with Trump-imposed tariffs. Thousands of U.S. companies hurt by Trump’s tariffs (which are a tax) lobbied the Commerce Department to end the tariffs or exempt the company. And some companies exempt from the tariffs lobbied the Commerce Department to keep those tariffs on their competitors.

What we’re seeing is the essence of “crony capitalism,” defined as “an economic system
in which individuals and businesses with political connections and influence are favored
(as through tax breaks, grants and other forms of government assistance) in ways seen
as suppressing open competition in a free market.”

Both Republicans and Democrats have practiced crony capitalism at times, even as everyone denounces it. But the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget has raised crony capitalism to a new level.
The hypocrisy is that Democrats regularly decry the negative influence of big money in politics. But it’s their efforts to grow a big government that leads to big money being spent.

Lobbying is a constitutional right but is often abused. To be clear, there is nothing inherently wrong with lobbying. Citizens of a representative democracy need that ability. And the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
But the term “lobbying,” as well as the practice, has assumed a negative connotation because so many have abused it to feather their caps or line their pockets. 
In short, companies and organizations are willing to spend millions of dollars on lobbying to ensure they benefit financially from the Democrats’ spending spree — or to ensure that Congress doesn’t tax or regulate them out of business. 
The solution to this problem is simple to understand, though difficult to implement:
If you want to drain the swamp, first drain big government. 
The Swamp: a revealing look into Washington corruption | Documentary | The Guardian

Merrill Matthews is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @MerrillMatthews.
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The Swamp (2020): Official Trailer | HBO – YouTube

The Swamp provides a look behind the curtain of Washington politics by following
three Republican Congressmen over the course of a pivotal year in politics as they
champion the President’s call to “drain the swamp.”
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Biden and His Handlers

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Ken
Life Is Worth Losing – Dumb Americans – George Carlin – YouTube

 Joe Biden Has No Class (msn.com)
Biden Did It AGAIN! – Bizarre On-Air Antics Raise Questions, 
Delving Deeper Into the Live TV Walkout Controversy (msn.com)
Bernie Sanders urges Biden to lean into progressive message to win 2024 (msn.com)
Biden’s Grand Gaffe: Mistakes Grand Canyon for World’s ‘Ninth Wonder’ in Hilarious Slip-Up!
“Just Leave Him at the Canyon, He Can Chat to His Echo for the Next Few Months” (msn.com)
They have No Class with nothing to lose. They’ll be burning in Hell 🔥 in a few years.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Ly’in BY-dən; born November 20, 1942)

Charles Ellis Schumer (/ˈʃuːmər/ SHOO-mər; born November 23, 1950)

Nancy Patricia Pelosi née D’Alesandro; born March 26, 1940)

Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938)

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941)

Dumbocrats are ‘very concerned’ for Biden impeachment inquiry: Kevin McCarthy.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins ‘Fox News Sunday’ to discuss the GOP’s ongoing investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, and former President Trump’s arrest. He’s got it right. Tax is theft, interest is theft, insurance is theft, walk away from
the grid and crooked nuts. Everything TRUMP said back then STILL holds true today.
We haven’t learned anything as things have even gotten worse. 

 America’s China Hysteria Has Gone Too Far | Watch (msn.com) 
Importing crap from China for pennies on the dollar and selling it for ten dollars is a joke when their products last 6 months to a year. Things made in America did last a lifetime!

Clueless Biden Turns up 13 Days Late to Maui Wildfire Disaster, Struggles to Speak,
Then Compares Wildfire to a Small Fire He Had in His Kitchen (msn.com)
Bernie Sanders Calls for ‘Progressive Community’ to Back Joe Biden After ‘Good Friend’ Cornel West Criticizes 2024 Endorsement (msn.com)
“Social Security As We Know It Is Dead” – Dramatic Changes Coming With Both Republican and Democratic Support (msn.com)
“The use of force is justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency,”
a large number of Americans said (msn.com)

Cornel West blasts Bernie Sanders for endorsing Biden. See his response | Watch.
What Happens if Biden and Harris Both Decide Not To Run In 2024? (msn.com)
The Inevitable Nominee? Trump’s Election Momentum Builds (msn.com)
After a summer from hell, will voters embrace climate action? (msn.com)
Warning signs your mental health is exacerbating (msn.com)

TrevytheTruth @TrevytheTruth
I’m a retired derivative (DFI) trader. I’d be more worried about DFIs. DFI liabilities
come from global regulated markets, which are assessed by the Bank for International Settlements to have an open interest of about $38 trillion last March with a further $60 trillion notional exposure in options. Markets in unregulated over-the-counter derivatives are far larger, at an estimated $625 Trillion at 12/22 comprised of foreign exchange contracts ($107.6 T) interest rate contracts ($491 T) equity linked ($7 trillion), commodities ($2.3 T), and credit including default swaps (10T). All derivatives have chains of counterparty risk. We saw how a simple position in US Treasuries undermined Silicon Valley: a failure in the derivative markets will have far wider consequences.

I don’t remember everything in the statement. But the point was.
I remember the 2016 elections. Macys came out with a statement. – Search (bing.com)
Macys didn’t care if citizens that voted for Trump shop there. Something about them being racist voting for Trump.
I haven’t been in a Macys since. Trump supporters are mostly middle hard working-class citizens. The kind that pays their bills. Macys don’t want to be kind in their store.
They wanted WOKE shoppers. So, they have WOKE shoppers.
The kind that wants forgiveness of their debt. Now is the time if any of us still shop Macys and Dicks to boycott these businesses. The WOKE movement believes in kicking us when we are down. Now we the workers can kick these WOKE businesses right into bankruptcy courts. So. they can’t destroy us.

Early Warning Radar—Credit Card Delinquencies Explode….. No sympathy from here.
These corporations signed their esg. and dei (die) agreements, sent big moola to Anti”blm”fa and watched as their cities burned down and did nothing. Anti BLM terrorists are still roaming the streets and corps. are still silent as their customers are shot at daily. The corps. should be sued for not being good community-corporate citizens. They signed the agreements. It’s time they lived up to them and be good corporate citizens since they don’t care about profits anymore. As it is, they have become silence of the lamb’s serial killers targeting their own customers. (edited)

Macy’s sounds the alarm on credit card delinquencies | CNN Business
Macy’s charge card is a total rip off of 38% interest no wonder customers can’t afford to pay their charge card bill and Macy’s demand their associates push customers to get their charge card and push the consumer deeper into debt. They reward their associates for pressuring customers to get their credit card and if they don’t they get talked to and they can be let go if they don’t keep the quota up its insane

Macy’s (and Nordstrom) is a Civic Alliance company. Meaning, they are getting
what they deserve if they’re not doing well. Continue to boycott all member companies of civicalliance.com. I found it shockingly easy and immediately and continually rewarding to completely stop buying from those companies. #dontgivemoneytopeoplewhohurtyou

Macy’s top shareholders are Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street. Any company that has them as their primary shareholders are in financial trouble. Macy’s donated millions of dollars to BLM and are prioritizing DEI in their companies instead of their customers and theft. BLM leaders have even stated that looting Macy’s is part of their “Reparations “.
A Macy’s employee was even brainwashed enough to beg for leniency on a black thug who brutally beat him.

Macy’s is just another prime example of Go Woke Go Broke.
Early Warning Radar—Credit Card Delinquencies Explode….. This is terrible! It’s all Macy’s fault. Macys makes it too easy to charge on their credit cards. Macy’s should be punished! Cut the credit card debt in half for every in-debt card holder. Teach Macy’s a lesson. This has a ring of familiarity to it. Goodbye Macy’s we won’t miss your expensive bullshit.

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12 Laws of Karma That Will Change Your Life | Power of Positivity
Well, whatever you do Macy’s don’t mention Biden’s created inflation crisis.
And yet, they probably hate Trump and voted for Biden. Karma… Macy’s should concentrate on theft or is that OK to let the fucking monkeys rip them off. 
No, no, no, it’s canceled culture, remember? CANCEL ALL DEBT!!!

Macy and Dicks are both woke run businesses. Macys is for forgiveness of college debt. Why shouldn’t Macy’s CEO be for forgiveness of card debt? Dicks another pro Woke pro bail/justice reform business. They should be pro shoplifting. Another sign of a robust economy, right? The debt enslavement dollar Ponzi is in its death throes.

CNN News Top 10 Macy’s Owners – Search (bing.com)
So, is there a mask we can wear to protect ourselves from credit card delinquencies?
I am amazed that all these major corporations are getting caught with their pants down.
As soon as Biden’s so-called election (selection)

I got my butt out of the market. You knew this clown’s regime would be a total fiasco. 
The United States will DEFAULT, and we’re going to have a HUUUUGE stock market crash, come October….😒

Macy’s says consumers are “not as healthy,”
except maybe the wealthier ones | CNN Business

Student loan payments are suspended. 
Millions of student loan borrowers received a welcome reprieve last month when the
POS Biden extended the suspension of payments and interest on federal student loans through September 30. The suspension of payments, known as forbearance, has provided much-needed relief for those torn between staying current on their student loans or paying other bills, Education Department suspends seizure of tax refunds, Social Security for overdue student loans until November Hello Macys. Biden omics, Sharing His 10% through taxpayer programs. Vote For Lunch Box Joe Member of The TWU and Hoffa Union

BIDENOMICS!
Wow so now it must be true because Macy’s said so. This is OLD news.
People are $1T in debt on credit cards. Silly me, Biden omics is working.
(well, it is, exactly how it was planned).

🔴 Americans’ Savings Will Be Depleted By Fall of 2023
According To The Federal Reserve – YouTube 🔴 

This message brought to you by “fuckjoebiden.com”

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The Macy’s delinquency explosion and indictment of innocent Trump supporters are related.
Connect the dots. J6 Defendant Jeremy Brown on The DOJ Refusing to Provide Exonerating Evidence – FrankSpeech

Meet Alvin Bragg, Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Manhattan.
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: What the Father of Kamala Harris Thinks About Marxism
Fulton County DA Fani Willis to Present Trump 2020 Election Case to Grand Jury.
Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist (nypost.com)
Pelosi’s mafia ties explain Democrat opposition to border wall – YouTube
America ‘s Number One Mafia Princess | The Common Sense Show
Joe Biden’s 100 Page Communist Manifesto – Search (bing.com)

Maxine Waters Marxist Background – Search (bing.com)
– Waters has been a longtime supporter of the former Black Panther,
convicted cop-killer, and Marxist icon, Mumia Abu-Jamal. – Search (bing.com)
– In the early to mid-1990s, Waters employed Patrick Lacefield, a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, as her press secretary and speechwriter.

We are living under what Lincoln described as Mob Rule. Signal not noise.
The US has an unconstitutional unelected White House occupant and no Rule of Law.
U.S. States With the Most Mortgage Delinquencies Jonathan Jones March,2023 Amid record-breaking unemployment numbers resulting from COVID-19, millions of Americans are struggling to make their mortgage payments in 2020. In response to the crisis, the CARES Act invoked a moratorium on home foreclosures for all federally backed mortgages that extends until the end of the year.
The Act also placed many federally backed mortgage loans into forbearance, allowing mortgage payments to be temporarily deferred for the nearly 70 percent of all outstanding mortgage holders with federally backed mortgages. When forbearance programs expire and the moratorium on foreclosures is lifted, millions of homeowners could be in serious trouble 2020 delinquencies of 1.9 % # 1 State

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Three Major Economies Are Crashing as the Downturn Deepens
(And Why the U.S. is Soon to Follow) – YouTube

🇺🇲✝️🦅🙏🩸Holistic🦋💉🍊💉🇺🇲 @holistic
·
Aug 24
Three Major Economics Are Crashing as the Downturn Deepens
(And Why the U.S #economy #crash #US #depression #prepping.)

THROW THEM AWAY, SAVE FOR WHAT YOU WANT, YOU WILL REALIZE THAT YA DIDN’T REALLY NEED THAT THING AFTER ALL, ONLY USE CREDIT FOR MAYBE A CAR, BUT SAVE TO PUT 10% DOWN AT LEAST, OR HOW MUCH IT WILL DEPRECIATE WHEN YA DRIVE IF OFF THE LOT, AND MAKE SURE IT KEEPS ITS VALUE, AND OF COURSE A HOME, YA CAN’T REALLY SAVE FOR ANYMORE, BUT THERE ARE MORTGAGES, THAT ARE A LOT LOWER THAN THE GOING RATE, AND DON’T NEED DOWN PAYMENTS. LIKE VA, SOME FHA, AND SOME THAT ARE RATED AS AGRICULTURAL, SOME FIX EM UPPERS, CHECK AROUND, YOU CAN OWN A HOME, IF YA LOOK, MAY NOT BE RIGHT WHERE YA WANT IT, BUT THEY ARE THERE, BEST ADVICE JOIN THE MILITARY, OR AT LEAST THE RESERVES, WON’T HAVE SCHOOL DEBT, AND NO MONEY DOWN LOANS DO IT, YOU WILL GROW UP TOO. MIGHT GET TO DRIVE ONE OF THESE!

Where have I heard this?

Was it peoples’ cars being stolen by car thieves in Chicago and somehow it’s the car manufacturers’ fault? Not the mayors or the political elites and their policy’s fault? Why? Apparently, the car manufacturers make them too easy to steal. With dumbocrats in charge it’s always someone else’s fault never their fault. (edited)

Guess those Credit Card Companies will have to increase the ads for people to get and buy, buy, buy with the credit cards. How about something really useful like, more cash back the more you spend yourself into oblivion. Interestingly, all the card companies want you to live the material life, using their cards, then whine when people do, but can’t pay it back.

So their solution is to tack on all kinds of extra charges for late payments or no payment, ensuring those same people are slaves to the company store. Just think of all the people that get paid to harass those delinquents with phone calls at all times of the day and night, but don’t worry, they will work with you. Question though, why bother with the card?

As of the second quarter of 2023, American consumers have a total credit card balance
of $1.031 trillion, the highest since the Federal Reserve Bank of New York began tracking
in 1999. This is the first-time credit card debt has topped $1 trillion in this country.
In 2022, the total consumer debt balance increased to $16.38 trillion, up from $15.31 trillion in 2021.

The 7% increase was fueled by elevated levels of inflation,
sharp increases in consumer demand, and near-full employment levels that kept already cash-flush consumers spending. The majority of consumer debt was home mortgages, at approximately 10.4 trillion U.S. dollars, and student loan debt was the second largest component, totaling 1.59T U.S. dollars #inflation, #creditcarddebt, #consumer

BRICS is in play. The global Communist Movement to destroy the US currency
is told best on WarRoom. Thank you, Steve. Spend. Spend .. Spend… – then
Borrow, Borrow, Borrow – more than can ever be paid back.

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Early Warning Radar—Credit Card Delinquencies Explode

World Debt Clocks (usdebtclock.org)
They believe that Joe Biden will issue an executive order to cancel the credit card debt.
The mindset of democrats believe that the government will bail out their debts. 
ABSOLUTELY — EVERYONE CHARGED THE HELL OUT OF THOSE CARDS BEFORE THEY SAID — NOPE… can’t pay. They are just following this CLOWN-SHOW play book.
Biden’s $4.8 million from Zelensky for campaign funds – Search (bing.com)

Do you think Biden will come up with a plan to forgive credit card debt just like
student loan debt? More to come. Biden is raiding our banks. He is taking your money.
He cares more about his bank balance than your kids!! He is on vacay while thousands are suffering in Hawaii…OUR state! He cares about Ukraine because #1. He is having an affair with Zelensky or #2. He is doing them favors for money. You decide. Nothing coming YOUR way…I can assure you of that. #maga2024

They locked up the black guy who supports Trump.
He didn’t get bail in Atlanta? Wow. He didn’t get bail in Atlanta?
They didn’t give him any bail and denied him a lawyer. They also never read him
his rights. What country do we live in? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8YerXPm/

These are all Signs of the Democratic times and failed decisions.
Direct result of the infamous Biden omics that Joe is still attempting to spell.

This is caused by one thing only: entitlement.
The “I want something I can’t afford, so I’ll charge it and maybe pay for it later” mindset. You know, the same generation who expects the working blue-collar persons to pay for their medieval armor and jousting college degree. My ex put me into over $20K in debt; my DH helped me pay it off. Then my ex did the same thing to his new wife, and she asked me to testify against him on her behalf; I told her that it would cost her $20K +.

Remember @SpeakerMcCarthy — when you were talking about the “ENDLESS CREDIT CARD” problem in our country??? Do you remember??? Because you were all over the TV — getting your 10 seconds of Fame. Oh that’s right Kevin — Joe Biden’s people have their ARM up your ASS too… It must be a California thing. The White House was stolen so Biden’s CCP/WEF handlers could destroy the US and its economy. I guess they don’t bowl enough to realize what happens when you knock the kingpin down. Meanwhile China’s CCP is collapsing China’s economy and traders will profit from it. But it didn’t help it.

This article does not surprise me. Cards with 22% or 28% interest rate are going to make
it impossible for many people to pay them back. The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum
Kim Zolciak-Biermann is being sued for failing to pay her $482.24 Target credit card balance and $156,080.64 for her SAKS credit card. Kim’s daughter, Brielle Biermann owes $12,870.25 balance on an AmEx card.

“Thomas Bergersen – Empire of Angels”
 https://youtube/ulzLrDZyONA?si=82ps5O2x0njiiGpO

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Spiritual Authority With insight from Watchman Nee – Bing video

Intentional. Collapse the financial system, Judicial system, educational system,
Military system…. one by one. And you really believe we will have another election?
It appears to me that this country will be history before 2024.

-CT @treacy9_ 12h
Replying to @SteveBannon
Why waste your time using your credit card when you can shoplift up to a thousand dollars for free. Couldn’t be caused by the Biden omics that has put us on the Road to bankruptcy and financial Failure.

The wacky liberal Ca Gov In allowing residents to steal up to $950 to make
up the shortfall In your paychecks and in some cases 3 part time jobs and three paychecks.
This looney idiot would Love to move into the WH and Continue as his aunt Nancy Pelosi Did in Congress. In other words, the Elderly female loon is retiring with $45M+ and also arranging the groundWork for her idiot nephew to steal your civil liberties. Gavin Newsom challenged for declaring guns are the ‘#1 killer of kids in America’: ‘It’s abortion’ (msn.com)

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Figure out what a trillion dollar credit card balance is for every adult in America.
Then add to that an average credit card interest rate. Figure in what most people’s purchasing power decline has been over the past approximately three years.

The result of these calculations shows deep doo-doo rolling down Capitol Hill. LOL 
Virtually everybody is worse off than somebody else, if only in one dimension, so those who don’t know how to manage money shouldn’t have a credit card until they can prove they are accountable.

People need to get rid of their credit cards, they are addictive and turn into a massive millstone around your neck. Most people can never repay them and your debts just get bigger and bigger. The only escape from them is to go bankrupt, it’s not the easiest way out, but it’s a way out. It’s hard to get a bank account after doing it and it ruins your credit ratings. It takes years to recover from it, but better than going to jail.

STAND UP against terrorism embedded in our Governments. More damage was imposed on the US by Biden and the Democrat Communist party, than the Terror crusade by Bin Laden. Sept 11th was a criminal act on the US and 3000 lives. However, the irrevocable damages Biden & Communists are executing on our citizens is more destructive than 9/11. 300/day dying from Fentynal due to Biden’s border.

Every 10 days Biden is responsible for the same # of US citizens Bin Laden killed.
This is an irrefutable fact! The economic impact from Bin Laden’s attack was recoverable.
Biden’s damages are not. Trillions debt, high int. rates, charge card expenses@ $1 trillion, save accounts depleted, 401K losses, energy dependent, high rents, food and gas, banking losses. I ask you, Shouldn’t Biden be labeled a terrorist?! Credit card delinquencies explode. Next, we’ll hear Biden say that it’s TRUMP’S fault. FJB.

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Biden’s cronies are understating INFLATION. In my area:
That’s like saying… 4-day old donuts…Are fresh… what the hell. 
Gas: 1.82 ==> 3.40 g Bread 1.80 ==>3.25 Cigarettes: 6.50 ==>8.25
Individually, these items don’t mean much, but some food items have DOUBLED.
Taken as a whole, for the middle-class w/stagnate wages, it’s kicking our ass. 
Biden did that! I wonder how many people are taking out cash advances to buy
Dementia Joe’s INFLATED GROCERIES & GAS to eat & survive?

People are seeing that under demographic “leadership,” in a democracy the mob will rule. We are living in a lawless society where looters are allowed to loot so people have decided to loot stores with a credit card. A safe and peaceful society requires a set of rules to live by and if they are not upheld, you will be living in a jungle, not a society.

The blame for this condition belongs directly on Biden’s head. He has done more stupid things as president than during his whole life. He is killing the economy with plans such
as school loan payoff. His cut in oil drilling and his push for green everything. His open border and thousands of illegals. The Citizens of this country know he is a 1 term pony. That if we can hang on until the next president comes along, we can clean things up.
But if the Dumbocrats get the WH for 4 more years, then why pay our bills because
the DemonRats will screw us anyway.

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THE CREDIT TISUMANI IS HERE

Bidenomics is hard at work bankrupting the country along with its citizens! The average person is maxing their credit cards to meet their living expenses! Thanks, Joe, for your war on America! Thanks, Rinos, for helping him stay in power! Who is supposedly in charge of the government once again?

It’s time to wake the hell up red-blooded A-mer-i-cans.

The uncertainty of the government is killing our stamina
and people are drowning in Biden omics!

It’s not only Macy’s … 😊 … Vote Dem0nRAT & Recession & Sky-high taxes to defund
the Uni-party & the Deep State they represent, clue; “They” do NOT represent US 🇺🇸 ,
THERE HAS been a Recession for more than 18 months, in spite of Lying Dem0nRATS. “redefining “ a Recession, a Massive Depression incoming, inaction, compliance and ignorance enables Tyranny & Corruption!!

Well Joe & his gov. should give a CC bail out; you know like the student loan bailout.
THIS WORTHLESS DEMENTED ILLEGITIMATE CRIMINAL NEEDS TO BE REMOVED & ARRESTED FOR FRAUD & TREASON but the GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP WON’T EVEN ADMIT HIS CRIMINAL TREASONOUS ASS IS ILLEGITIMATE. FUCK ALL OF THEM!

Wow, retailers are surprised at the speed of credit card delinquencies. Bidenomics is forcing people to choose between housing/food or higher minimum credit card payments when spending their devalued dollars & people are choosing housing/food. And the economy is roaring according to Biden. What utter rubbish.

If the American economy didn’t have the $$$ printing respirator attached, it would be pronounced dead. The whole Biden regime is based on smoke and mirrors. It is built on fake economics, fake climate science, fake Covid-19 vaccines, fake women, fake men, fake
ballots, fake news, fake border security, fake history and fake justice.

This happened before. Don’t learn from your past, you will repeat it.
A colossal failure at every level…they are going for another steal in ’24 to finish the job,

….Americans are not taught basic economic principles ….over 30 trillion in debt and we regularly squabble about raising our credit limit. economically illiterate as a child, economically illiterate as a teenager, economically illiterate as an adult, we have no choice, we have our economical dumbasses in government. You cannot lock down the world and imprison workers for two years and not expect catastrophic consequences…we are being governed by fools!

And They have Fools Spreading propaganda:
Jimmy Kimmel Trump in prison – Bing video.

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Credit disappears with no more to tap into for the #voxpopuli
as The Federal Reserve printer runs 24/7.

🇨🇳🇸🇦🇺🇸 What do you think is the US dollar backed by? Saudi oil. That was the birth of Petrodollar in the 1970s. Now, Saudi Arabia trades 3x as much with China as with the US. Thus, BRICS membership paves the way for Petroyuan! Without commodities traded in USD, the global reserve currency status dies. And thus the end of American unipolar hegemony. – S.L. Kanthan

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My parents were Depression era survivors. They scrimped and saved until it hurt.
It’s gonna be painful, but we need another event like that to instill financial discipline
into the population once again. WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET? NOTHING – thanks to BIDEN!!!!! Biden regime inflation is forcing Americans into unmanageable debt and poverty. That’s why President Trump is so strongly supported despite the storm of indictments. TRUMP/LAKE 2024!!

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“Starving Away’ Cancer.”

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Ken
Cancer, Alzheimer’s, ageing: Dr Valter Longo on his fasting-mimicking diet (biznews.com)

Dr Valter Longo Mimicking Diet – Bing video
Dr Valter Longo of USC Longevity Institute   
Fasting Weakens Cancer Cells
Cancer cells susceptible to chemotherapy
Healthy Cell Protected

Please NOTE: I do and intermittent fast between 8PM until 8 AM.
Prolonged fasting reduces IGF-1/PKA to promote hematopoietic-stem-cell-based regeneration and reverse immunosuppression – PubMed (nih.gov)
Goodwill Public Information Officer On WCPO "Let's Ask Cincinnati ...
‘Starving away’ cancer: One of our reporters tried it – YouTube
November 17, 2015, Jay Warren of WCPO diagnosed with Oral Cancer who never chewed, smoked or was a heavy drinker. So, he decided not to eat with the supervision of Dr. Angela Fitch of UC Health. For six days Jay ate only 250 calories per day and checked in with Dr. Fitch and at the end of those 6 days his results were profound. When he started his blood food glucose was 87 mg which is considered normal but after the fast it was
67 mg.
Dr Fitch said one of the most fascinating things was his AGF’1 which is a growth type hormone which dropped by 25% and is a significant drop in those short days. So that would make a significant difference in cancer growth.
Jay said at times he had to run away from dinner because he was so hungry but other times, he had so much energy it was remarkable. Jay said in the future he will make periodic fasting a part of his life moving forward in his battle with cancer. 
Researchers say fasting can rejuvenate your immune system and
weaken cancer cells.

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Jay Warren is still working at WCPO 9 
and you can follow him on Twitter at 
https://twitter.com/jaywarrenwcpo

@galaxianx01 4 years ago
Last October I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer.
I immediately started the water only fast, only eating one meal a day with as few carbs & sugar as possible. Occasionally I did a few full 48 hour fasts. It took 8 weeks for my cancer to be completely eradicated. The power of fasting is simply incredible. You don’t need medical supervision on a standard fast. 3 simple rules. Kick the sugar and processed food. Drink distilled water only, and eat little, fasting for at least 20 hours or so between meals. Not only did the cancer go, so did several other ailments. Fasting is now part of my life.

@marklucas6695 1 year ago
I found it ironic how these reports always have to say before you try this it’s always
good to ask your doctor first. Unfortunately, a lot of times doctors are either skeptical or condescending about any treatment that doesn’t end in prescribing medication or the expense of procedures or surgeries.

@crcurran 1 year ago
 @elsagrace3893 Fasting makes the body go into a recycling mode. Your body when it needs protein, fat and carbs looks for cells that are a bit off and breaks those down first.
So pre-cancerous cells are included in that reaping. Remember that medicine and healing is mostly done by the body. Modern medical and medicine often just assists in the healing. It’s not so hard to believe that the body with an amazing immune system with white blood cells targeting dangerous virus and bacteria would also during a “crisis” of no food intake target cells that are weak or poorly formed relative to healthy cells.

The brain needs glucose which we get from carbohydrates but when you consume no carbohydrates, your body goes through a process called gluconeogenesis. The body creates the glucose by breaking down protein and converting it into glucose for the brain’s needs. The body is more amazing than most people give it credit for. We just assume healing works and will always work. It’s the same way that nature will just rebound from pollution when in fact nature and the human body get to a point of being overwhelmed that they can no longer handle the load. Medicine and medicine help the body over the threshold to then heal itself.

@LisaMaryification 1 year ago
Yes, these stories are wonderful and extremely encouraging. Unfortunately, still some cancer centres do not believe diet can help cancer even though there is a multitude of research readily available that proves otherwise. In my journey, I found that a low sugar diet arrests the cancer growth and, along with, chemotherapy shrinks it. I’ve had scans where, after a very stringent dlow sugar diet, show my tumours decreasing.
However, after the Christmas holidays, my scan showed only a small bit of shrinkage. Since my chemo was the sane but my diet contained more sugar, I concluded it was
my lax diet that was directly related to the lack of tumour shrinkage. I am trying
to better my diet and, hopefully, that will be reflected in my next CT scan.

@ellkir1521 1 year ago
I knew a Research Doctor that has tried to do a study on the same.
He explained Americans are overfed and given GMO foods saturated full of sugars like Corn syrup. According to JAMA 35% of Americans are Obese  or 50% are prediabetic or diabetic. Cancer’s light up when fed sugar water on MRI’s.
He was turned down and threatened by the medical community with his license if he continued reporting on the efficacy of his studies. Turns out Chemo is a billion dollar industry. Ever since that conversation I have tried water fasts for up to 40 days and
cured my diabetes and weight with it.

@tammiehammett5054 1 year ago
 @adamg400  as long as I don’t eat my energy levels are amazing, if I eat, they are crap.
I found this throughout my life, but I also have low blood pressure so eating makes me tired. My mom was the same way, so she didn’t eat much either.
But when I do eat, I try to eat really good quality food.
Fasting is very effective at fixing your blood sugar, but you have to be very careful
if you’re on insulin and talk to your doctor because your blood sugar could go too low,
and you could be in trouble so be very cautious.

@mastax1234 1 year ago
Yep, I have been doing OMAD (one meal a day) for 3 years now. Went down to my normal weight and it stayed there, Went from 280 pounds to 175. Doctor told me for the first time in my life that I am in perfect health, no high blood pressure, no hypoglycemia anymore.

@cantthink884 1 year ago
This is true!!!! The more sugar in your body the more you’re essentially feeding the cancer. My great grandmother went through chemo, and she fasted as much as she could and walked away clean after that. She was 70 years old. A lot of people don’t realize the connection between your liver and dementia too.
Keep that liver as healthy as you possibly can.

@australiamyway 8 months
How do you keep your liver healthy? I thought it processed all toxins – 1Reply

@australiamyway 8 months
Wow. Amazing never knew that about the liver4Reply

@Michael-Archonaeus7 months ago
Yes. There have been many studies at this point that have shown the benefit of fasting during chemotherapy. Fasting protects the healthy cells, so the chemo hits only the cancerous cells, this way the chemo therapy becomes much more effective. God bless.9Reply

@bigguy1302 months ago
What is really disturbing is hearing about doctors who told their cancer patients to eat sugary dessert type foods every day to help maintain their weight. But from what I have read, all that does is cause the cancer to grow faster, sort of like pouring gas on a fire. 9Reply

@RavenMobile1 month ago @bigguy130 
That’s what they recommended to my dad when he was doing chemo for his cancer —
all the highest calorie foods imaginable, mostly high-carb stuff. It literally seemed like
they were writing a list of the worst foods for a human to eat.7Reply

@littlelamb711 11 months ago
Wow. So glad there’s a news channel out there that was willing to report on this!
I believe it saves lives and yet the media hushes this kind of thing. Good for these guys!

@robertruiz3131 1 year ago
 @adamg400  as someone who’s active I find that my meal gets way more important on days I exercise. You also have to give your body time to adjust to meal timing. The human body (usually) seeks baseline so if it’s used to a certain weight and amounts of daily macros any drastic changes trigger cravings. I would try experimenting with one quality meal and using healthy (protein worked for me) snacks to slowly wean yourself down to that one meal.
With time you will find out what your own body’s wants versus needs. With all of that said humans used to spend a majority of energy on survival so extra activities like heavy work might raise your daily caloric needs beyond what would have been possible for a fasting hunter gatherer who didn’t have easy access to meals. Good luck!

How To Fast Without Feeling Hungry – YouTube
Prolonged fasting reduces IGF1 pubmed – Bing video
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Obama’s Ring of Thieves

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Ken
Obama wears a ring with the inscription ‘There is no God Except Allah’
Obama will spend $$$8 trillion USD in this his illegit third term World Debt Clock,

Obama Member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Correct me if I am wrong but that looks like Gold,
which is forbidden to be worn by males in the Muslim Religion.
[http://islamqa.info/en/ref/101549]  A N T I C H R I S T. (bing.com)
So hey, not only is Obama a bad president, but he is also a bad Muslim!!!
Imagine what would have happened if Obama actually became president
for a whole term whilst secretly being an “Olly” worshipper??!???!??
ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE AMERICA. 9/11/2001 – Bing video 🙁
T’would be Armageddon for sure. – Search (bing.com)

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Democrats Have Broken America: Where’s the Outrage?
Opinion by J. Peder Zane•18h

The Democrats Create a Problem Then Make It Bigger By Fixing It!
Democrats’ desire to censor online content should concern all people.
The Democrats have an ace in the hole in their relentless war on the Constitution – conservative America’s reverence for the concept of the rule of the law.

Only their steadfast commitment to this traditional ideal explains why conservatives are allowing   Democrats to flagrantly corrupt our judicial system to destroy their opponents and protect themselves. For all their huffing and puffing, conservatives have effectively taken a let the system play itself out attitude while Democrats nakedly politicize that system through their partisan indictments of former President Trump and their
Potemkin Village probes of the Bidens. These are not statements of opinion. 

 These are facts.
Part of me is glad that so many legal analysts have spilled so much ink exposing these charades. But we degrade our country and ourselves when we treat this unspeakable behavior with anything other than horrified contempt. Every good-faith critique normalizes and legitimizes this profoundly un-American conspiracy.
Viewing the obvious forest rather than the tangled trees, the cases against Trump are a continuation of the deceitful effort by Democrats and their deep state allies, especially in the DOJ, to annihilate their chief political opponent. That effort began even before his election when Hillary Clinton’s campaign manufactured false claims that Trump had conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election.

Barack Obama Created Donald Trump (msn.com)
When that sham was exposed, they almost immediately made Trump only the third president in the country to be impeached for asking Ukraine’s leader to look into the
Biden family’s influence-peddling schemes. They set aside almost every rule and order
of business by rushing to impeach him once again after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
While that was going on, Democrats insistently rained down other bogus concerns – that he was violating the Emoluments Clause because wealthy foreigners continued to stay at his hotels, that his alleged mental instability made him unfit – to remove him from office.

Sir Master Barrack Obama:
Thoughts and Prayers are much better than your puppet Biden Show Them.
Barack Obama Scolds U.S. for Offering Just ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ During Maui Tragedy.
Biden Might Have Finally Stepped on the Ultimate Political Landmine (msn.com)
Lahaina’s Filipino community ‘bracing for the worst’ in wildfire recovery efforts.

Hawaiian business goes viral for sign slamming Biden’s
kitchen fire comments: ‘not always about you’ (msn.com)

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Yes, I think so 84%

Maybe, I’m not sure. 1%

No, I don’t think so. 15%

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Biden mocked for using ‘working out’
as an excuse for not knowing news: ‘Yea, ok Big Guy’ (msn.com)
The hypocrisy is beyond belief: The party that assails Republicans for questioning the integrity of the highly irregular 2020 election spent years and vast government resources to undo the results of 2016.
The charges Trump now faces are part of the ongoing campaign by Democrats to subvert the rule of law to delegitimize what they see as the greatest threat to their power.
Related video: Democrats call Republican presidential candidates ‘extreme’
(WISN Milwaukee) – Search (bing.com)

In the meantime, Democrats are blatantly using the criminal justice system to protect President Biden. It is now beyond dispute that Biden lied to the American people when he said he never discussed foreign business with his son Hunter and when he claimed during his final 2020 debate with Trump that Hunter’s laptop, which contained evidence of those corrupt dealings, was a “Russian plant.” Has a candidate ever peddled more consequential falsehoods?
In fact, the president was not only aware of his son’s influence-peddling schemes, whose sole selling point was the connection to his vast power. He was an active participant through phone calls and meetings with clients. Irony does not capture the deviousness of the Democrats’ decision to impeach Trump for asking Ukraine to look into this corruption.

The cover-up of the Bidens’ conduct is equally disturbing.
The U.S. attorney in Delaware assigned to the case, David C. Weiss, is a former colleague of Biden’s late son Beau. Although the tax avoidance charges involved are straightforward, Weiss spent more than five years allegedly looking into them – allowing the statute of limitations to run out on millions of unreported earnings Hunter generated in 2014 and 2015. Note that even as the president calls on Americans to pay their fair share, neither he nor his allies have demanded that Hunter pay his.
Indeed, we only know about Weiss’ corruption because of two courageous IRS whistleblowers. In response, Weiss quickly struck a deal with Hunter to settle the matter, crafting a sweetheart deal that would have let him off the hook with a slap on the wrist.
All might have been forgiven but for the presiding judge, who rejected the deal last month as “not standard” and potentially unconstitutional.
In response to this scandal, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel to look into the mess. This move is beyond brazen – Weiss is now apparently in charge of probing his own misconduct. The goal is obvious: Protect the president, and let the statute of limitations run out on other alleged crimes while shutting down any questions about the “ongoing investigation.”

The arrogance is jaw-dropping; the lawlessness is in plain sight.
Democrats are not even trying to hide their malfeasance – which is part of their method.
If they can make us accept their authority to twist the system so that it is no longer a means of justice but a tool of their political power, then their possibilities are unlimited.
Imagine if the roles were reversed: What if Republican prosecutors had indicted a former Democratic president, who was also the party’s leading candidate in the next election, in four separate cases on 91 questionable charges while a GOP-controlled Department of Justice simultaneously protected its sitting-president boss, who was seeking reelection,
by slow-walking a probe of his family’s alleged crimes?
The corporate media would be in high dudgeon about this assault on the Constitution and the streets would be filled with left-wing protestors who would make the BLM riots, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and the harassment of Supreme Court justices in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade seem mild.

President Joe Biden Has A Rocky History With Journalists,
And He’ll Go Out Of Is Way To Cut Off A Reporter (msn.com)

Here’s the conundrum.
While no one wants conservatives to start engaging in direct action,
their passivity is allowing Democrats to weaponize the government.
On the one hand, I admire their faith in our system.
Even Trump, for all his barking, has largely submitted to his gross mistreatment.

But our system is shattered.
The rule of law is now more concept than fact. Where’s the outrage?
J. Peder Zane is an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics.

What Depleting The Rainforest Does to the Equator? – Bing video
The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth’s equator, is now being recognized as one of the main causes of climate change.  … Carbon emissions from deforestation … far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories.  Deforestation leading cause of Global Warming –
The Understory – Rainforest Action Network (ran.org)


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How Much Carbon Dioxide Are We Emitting? –
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (nasa.gov)

A Checkup for Carbon

February 11th, 2021 by Adam VoilandEvery year, a group of scientists affiliated with the Global Carbon Project give Earth something like an annual checkup. Among the key questions they address: how much carbon is stored in the atmosphere, the ocean, and the land? And how much of that carbon has moved from one reservoir to another through fossil fuel burning, deforestation, reforestation, and uptake by the ocean each year?


Nasa United States Emission mass – Bing video

All of the latest findings—including the data for 2020, a year like few others—are available here, including links to dozens of interesting charts and a peer-reviewed science paper. Ben Poulter, a NASA scientist and member of the Global Carbon Project team,  summarized the findings this way: “The economic effects of COVID-19 caused fossil fuel emissions to decrease by 7 percent in 2020, but we continued to see atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase, by 2.5 ppm, or about 5.3 PgC.
This means that the remaining carbon budget to avoid 1.5 or 2 degrees warming continues to shrink, and that we need to continue to monitor the land, ocean, and atmosphere to understand where fossil fuel CO2 ends up.”
Below are 10 key findings from the most recent report. (Note: the Global Carbon Project team synthesizes a broad range of data, some of which requires time-consuming processing, quality-control, and analysis. While they do report some 2020 numbers,
the most recent full year of data available for others is 2019.)

NASA now has an instrument orbiting Earth that can see major air pollutants
across North America, tracing them down to an exact neighborhood (msn.com)



Due to COVID-19 economic impacts, global fossil CO2 emissions
declined by approximately 2.4 billion metric tons in 2020, a record drop. 
Fossil CO2 emissions declined by 11 percent in the European Union, by 12 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in India, and 2 percent in China.

The global atmospheric CO2 concentration rose by 2.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2020 to reach 412 ppm averaged over the year. That puts it 48 percent above pre-industrial levels, 16 percent above 1990 levels, and 3 percent above 2015 levels.

The growth rate in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2020 was near the 2019 growth rate, despite slightly lower anthropogenic emissions.

The land and oceans combined to absorb more than half of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere (54 percent in 2020). While this can slow global warming, it leads to ocean acidification.

Total CO2 emissions from human activities (fossil CO2 burning and land-use change) were around 40 billion metric tons in 2020. That compares to 43 billion tons in 2019.

The growth of forests on abandoned farmland removed nearly 11 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2020. However, deforestation caused the equivalent of 16 billion tons of CO2 emissions.

Land-use change emissions rose in 2020, predominantly in tropical regions. These emissions came from several areas, particularly Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Many economic sectors that produce fossil fuel carbon emissions returned to pre-COVID levels by the end of 2020, including the residential and power sectors. One exception was ground transportation, where declines persisted throughout 2020.

Countries have a broad range of per capita emissions reflecting their national circumstances. The United States has the highest per capita emissions.

Five years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, growth in global fossil CO2 emissions have begun to falter. For the decade prior to 2020 (2010-2019), fossil CO2 emissions were decreasing significantly in 24 countries with growing economies.



The Number 1 factor for Carbon Emissions is the depleted rainforest – Bing video

The Global Carbon Budget is produced by more than 80 researchers working from universities and research institutions in 15 countries. Observations from several NASA satellites, sensors, aircraft, and models were among the sources of information used to formulate the 2020 budget. Sources of information supported by NASA included: the MODIS sensors on Aqua and Terra satellites, the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED), the LPJ land surface carbon exchange model, Landsat, the LUHv2 land-cover change model, the CASA land surface carbon exchange model, ODIAC fossil fuel emissions data, the MERRA-2 reanalysis, the Cooperative Global Atmospheric Data Integration Project, and OCO-2.
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One Response to “A Checkup for Carbon”
Barry Nichols says:
March 13, 2021 at 10:42 am
If the Mass reaches the weight of the moon or more, the earth will suffer! Pulling on the earth has a lot of affects to the earth. One is our high and low tide, caused by the moon. The moon is not a very big rock. And I would have to say, the moon also pulls on the earths internal liquid called magma which causes the flow to turn the opposite direction our earth is spinning. This in turn, creates our earth’s magnetic field.
So, if you want more earthquakes and severe storms, keep putting space junk (tonnage) in our orbit to pull on the earth. All countries want in on the action. Hell, build motels, space stations, and all kinds of great things on the moon and make it super heavy. See what happens then! It needs to be cleaned up, and found out what’s wrong with our bees.


That Big Brown Cloud Over China – Search (bing.com)

This article is about the Indian Ocean brown cloud.
For China, see Air pollution in China.
Atmospheric Brown Cloud over China

Big Brown Cloud Storm over Asia
The Indian Ocean brown cloud or Asian brown cloud is a layer of air pollution 
that recurrently covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan.[1][2] 


Viewed from satellite photos,

The cloud appears as a giant brown stain hanging in the air over much of South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between October and February, possibly also during earlier and later months. The term was coined in reports from the UNEP Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX). It was found to originate mostly due to farmers burning stubble
in Punjab and to lesser extent Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
The debilitating air quality in Delhi is also due to the stubble burning in Punjab.[3]
The term atmospheric brown cloud is used for a more generic context not specific to the Asian region.[4]

Causes[edit]
The Asian brown cloud is created by a range of airborne particles and pollutants from combustion (e.g., wood fires, cars, and factories), biomass burning[5] and industrial processes with incomplete burning.[6] The cloud is associated with the winter monsoon  (October/November to February/March) during which there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air.[7]

Observations[edit]
This pollution layer was observed during the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) intensive field observation in 1999 and described in the UNEP impact assessment study published 2002.[3] Scientists in India claimed that the Asian Brown cloud is not something specific to Asia.[8] Subsequently, when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organized a follow-up international project, the subject of study was renamed the Atmospheric Brown Cloud with focus on Asia.

The cloud was also reported by NASA in 2004[9] and 2007.[10]
Although aerosol particles are generally associated with a global cooling effect,
recent studies have shown that they can actually have a warming effect in certain
regions such as the Himalayas.[11]

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Is it time to mask up again? (msn.com)

Lahaina teachers will return to work on MONDAY after devastating Maui blaze 
that killed at least 115 – but students won’t go back to class until further notice (msn.com)
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We Want Obama’s Ring of Thieves Executed for Treason.
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Covid Reinstated

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Ken
Thousands of Defendants Charged in COVID Relief Fraud by DOJ (westernjournal.com)

Biden Administration Announces Massive $5 Billion COVID-19 Funding Called “Project NextGen”. By Brian Lupo Aug. 23, 2023 12:15 pm 716 Comments

This week, InfoWars published insider information that alleges the TSA and US Border Patrol will be moving back to 2020-era COVID-19 mandates and restrictions starting in mid-September through mid-October, to include mask mandates on all flights.
This is in addition to the mask-mandated reinstatement at Morris Brown College 
in Atlanta, GA and Lionsgate Studios in Santa Monica, CA.
That same week, WarRoom’s Natalie Winters uncovered millions of dollars in funding, awarded primarily for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to ramp up testing
and other COVID-19 related.  This was just a week after the NIH appointed Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a staunch advocate for masks, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates, as the replacement for Dr. Fauci.  NIH appointed Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo – Bing video

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To further the suggestion that another lockdown scare is in the forecast, 
Yesterday the US Department of Health and Human Services announced funding of
$1.4 billion to “support the development of a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come” according to a press release: 

 HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Project NextGeneration – Search (bing.com)
The awards announced today follow extensive coordination with industry partners and include support for clinical trials that will enable the rapid development of even more effective and longer-lasting coronavirus vaccines, a new monoclonal antibody, and transformative technologies to streamline manufacturing processes.
“Project NextGen is a key part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to keeping people safe from COVID-19 variants,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
“These awards are a catalyst for the program – kickstarting efforts to more quickly
develop vaccines and continue to ensure availability of effective treatments.”

Project NextGen, a $5 billion initiative led by ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), coordinates across the federal government and the private sector to advance innovative vaccines and therapeutics into clinical trials, regulatory review, and potential commercial availability for the American people. The project builds on a better understanding of COVID-19 – with HHS developing, using, and constantly re-evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of current vaccines and therapeutics for over three years.

Recipients of the awards include:
$1 billion to four BARDA Clinical Trial partners to support vaccine Phase IIb clinical
trial studies: ICON Government and Public Health Solutions, Inc of Hinckley, Ohio; Pharm-Olam, LLC, of Houston, Texas; Technical Resources Intl (TRI), Inc, of Bethesda, Maryland; and Rho Federal Systems, Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
$326 million to Regeneron to support the development of a next-generation monoclonal antibody for COVID-19 prevention.
$100 million to Global Health Investment Corp. (GHIC), the non-profit organization managing the BARDA Ventures investment portfolio to expand investments in new technologies that will accelerate responses in the future. 
$10 million to Johnson & Johnson Innovation (JLABS) for a competition through
Blue Knight, a BARDA-JLABS partnership.

The press release claims that their partnership with Regeneron will help develop a
“novel monoclonal antibody that will protect people who do not respond to or cannot
take existing vaccines,” despite their attempts to limit the distribution in Florida in 2021.
While Hawaiians are struggling to recover from a devastating fire with an utterly botched governmental response from top to bottom, and our border is wide-open with fentanyl deaths surging, our federal government has allocated $5 billion to fight against COVID-19, which practically no one knew was still a “thing”.

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It begs the Question: What the hell are you waiting for?

McCarthy Gets Testy With Reporter Asking About Trump Possibly Not Being Able To Appear On Ballot – YouTube

##Your holding back McCarthy; you are saying the right things in this little clip here,
but you are holding something back.

Don’t you realize that right now, you are the closest thing to a President we have?
Don’t you realize that China is off the coast of Florida, and Russia is off the coast of Alaska loading their guns for us right now?

You are fucking around too long with this, and even still – contemplating another deal with this treasonous administration.
This country is in danger: Steve Bannon on GETTR: 1,000 People Still Missing!!!…Stop the Cover-Up—Where are the Kids! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/hawaii-wildfires-more-than-100…

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No investigation is necessary. 

Maui – Plans for A High Tech Prison Island? (nutritruth.org)
We already know that the Democrats are responsible for the Maui disaster.
The Democrat WEF Hawaii Governor had already been promoting the smart city
plan for Maui months ago.
The Maui police chief/coroner is the same law enforcement officer who covered up
the Las Vegas shooting. 
The Emergency Management Head in Hawaii was an incompetent Democrat.
The head of the water department in Maui is an Asia Pacific Zone Obama Foundation member who shut off the water because he is a radical Obama “Equity” Marxist. 
McCarthy is a uniparty member who will aid and abet in the Democrat coverup. 
Steve Bannon on GETTR: Biden Crashes and Burns in Maui https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/biden-tries-to-commiserate-with-maui-survivors-over-small-house-fire… #Keyiro Fuentes – Search (bing.com)

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In Memoriam: A list of victims killed in Maui fires | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

This just seems like something to take the focus off the fact it was an attack.

On what would’ve been his 15th birthday, a Lahaina boy is mourned by a family left broken (hawaiinewsnow.com)

They absolutely should!
THE ELITE ARE MAKING BILLIONS ON THE USSA GOV CREATED CATASTROPHES – 
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NOW Watch Merrick Garland step in and hire a Special Council!!! 

That keeps any questions from being asked.
And they get away with you know what again!! 
Kevin McCarthy knows this. He saved the day again.
Kevin McCarthy needs to get his priorities straight and IMPEACH BIDEN!
This Congress is great at investigations and does nothing with their findings.

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WATCH: Tucker Asks Trump If He Fears ‘They’ Will Try to Kill Him.
Aug 23rd, 2023, 6:31 pm. By Charlie Nash

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked former President Donald Trump 
if he was worried that his enemies would try to kill him during an interview that
coincided with the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday. 
Trump skipped the Fox News- hosted presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
for a Bedminster sit-down with Carlson, who was ousted from Fox News in April.
Watch The full interview: Tucker Carlson to Donald Trump: “Are you worried that they are going to try to kill you?” – YouTube

In a teaser trailer published ahead of the debate on Wednesday, Carlson could be heard asking such questions as, “Do you think Epstein killed himself?” and “Do you think we’re moving towards civil war?”
Carlson then said, “It started with protests against you and then it moved to impeachment twice, and now indictment. Are you worried that they’re gonna try and kill you?”

Tucker Carlson to Donald Trump: “Are you worried that they are going to try to kill you?”
YouTube 20 views by James Volta Project

“Why wouldn’t they try and kill you? Honestly,” Carlson added.
“They’re savage animals. They are people that are sick,” replied Trump in the trailer, 
though it is currently unclear as to whether this comment came right after Carlson’s question. Asked by Carlson whether it was possible that there could be “open conflict,”
Trump responded, “I can say this. There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen,
there’s a level of hatred that I’ve never seen, and that’s probably a bad combination.”
Several prominent conservative commentators have either predicted or suggested the possibility of a second American civil war.  Podcast host Tim Pool declared a civil war following Trump’s indictment earlier this month.
According to a 2022 YouGov poll, 40% of Americans believe that a civil war between Democrats and Republicans is likely in the future.

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Carl Sagan Eerie 1995 Predictions

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Ken
An astronomer’s 1995 prediction of America is ‘scarily accurate’
Story by Madison Burgess 

 The prediction is full of warnings that some thinks are a little too close to reality.

 Sagan was a pioneer in the study of the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

 It foretells a world of misinformation and the rise in big tech.

Carl Sagan Eerie 1995 Predictions – Bing video
Back in 1995, the Astronomer Carl Sagan made a prediction of what a future version of America would look like – and some people think it’s disturbingly similar to the world today.

From ‘clutching our crystals’ to ‘awesome technological powers’ being ‘in the hands of very few,’ the scientist’s prediction is full of warnings that some thinks are a little too close to reality.

Sagan was an astronomer, planetary scientist, astrophysicist and more – he was well known as a pioneer in the field of exobiology, which is the study of the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

He helped to assemble the first physical messages sent into space as well as being among the first to determine that life could have existed on Mars. The astronomer constantly appealed to NASA to extend its exploration of the Universe.

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As the prediction resurfaces, people are even questioning if Sagan had access to a time machine. The prophecy which describes a dystopian America, came from a passage from his book called, ‘The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark’.

The book explains the scientific method to people
outside of the field and encourages them to learn critical and skeptical thinking. 
It has a focus on distinguishing science from pseudoscience, with mentions of witches, UFOs, extrasensory perception (the sixth sense), and faith healing.
Sagan was known for sharing complex scientific views, in an effort to educate the masses – he wanted to have open minds and active imaginations.

The passage that’s got people talking,
foretells a world of misinformation, the rise in big tech and the influential media.
It reads: ‘Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.
‘I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—
when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all
the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; 
‘when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; 


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‘When the people have lost the ability to set
their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority.
‘When, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true,
we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. 

‘The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
‘The scarily accurate passage is again circulating around social media, with users shocked at its eerie message’. 

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Others added ‘Nailed it, unfortunately’ and ‘So ahead of his time’.

One person said ‘Ever-increasingly convinced Carl Sagan just had a time machine’. 
Someone called the prediction a ‘chillingly accurate description of the path to decline’
and another said he ‘hit the nail on the head’.
Sadly, Sagan was unable to see whether his prophecy came true as he died
aged 62 in December 1996 -he suffered from a rare bone marrow disease called myelodysplasia. Complications from the disease caused the pneumonia
which ended his life.

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Do you think Carl Sagan’s prophecy about the
dumbing down of America has come true or not?

  Yes, I think so. 95%

 No, I don’t think so. 2%

 I’m not sure. 2%

 Other / No opinion. 1%

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Lahaina’s “miracle house”

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Ken
Dora Atwater Millikin and her husband own the red-roofed home that was spared from the fires © Provided by The Independent

Lahaina residents slam Biden’s ‘tone-deaf’ Maui visit: ‘Multi-million dollar photo-op’.
Maui residents Etan Krupnick and Amanda Cassidy joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to
discuss their take on the president’s visit and what the community needs following
the ‘devastating’ wildfire.

  Lahaina survivors weigh in on President Biden’s Maui remarks – YouTube
Maui homeowner reveals property upgrades that left her house the only one spared by wildfires. Story by Ariana Baio

The once-colorful homes along the coast of historic Maui town of Lahaina are now mostly obliterated, leaving a series of ruins covered in a layer of grey soot and ash from the devastating wildfires that ravaged the area.
Except for one.

Aerial photos of destroyed properties show a red-roofed home with a pristine white facade and red roof still standing, seemingly untouched by the blazes.

Scale of Hawaii wildfire scarring on charred Maui land captured in aerial footage

DAY AFTER FIRE FOOTAGE: 4K Drone Lahaina Maui Fire – Longest & Most Detailed Aerial View – YouTube

The once-colourful homes along the coast of historic Maui town of Lahaina are now mostly obliterated, leaving a series of ruins covered in a layer of grey soot and ash from the devastating wildfires that ravaged the area.
.
Except for one.

Aerial photos of destroyed properties show a red-roofed home with a pristine white facade and red roof still standing, seemingly untouched by the blazes. A photo of the scene immediately went viral, with some wondering if it could be Photoshopped or if it was part of a larger conspiracy, like many images that have circulated online in the wake of the disaster.

The simple truth, though, is that the homeowners, Dora Atwater Millikin and her husband, Dudley, made relatively minor adjustments that helped save their property. Part of that included replacing the asphalt roof with a heavy-gauge metal one and cutting down the foliage surrounding the home, Ms Atwater Millikin told The Los Angeles Times.

She went on to say that the couple had no intention of making adjustments that would protect it from fire when they began to renovate it. “It’s a 100 percent wood house so it’s not like we fireproofed it or anything,” she said.

But rather than restoring the 100-year-old home to some of its original features, like changing the roof to either a wooden shake or a thinner tin material, they chose a tough steel roofing. They also placed stones around the home that line up to the drip line of the roof.

Then, she told the Los Angeles Times, they removed foliage around the house because they wanted to take preventative action against termites spreading to the house’s wood frame.

“We love old buildings, so we just wanted to honour the building,” Ms. Atwater Millikin said. The changes, while minor, ended up being critical to keeping the home from catching ablaze.

“When this was all happening, there were pieces of wood — six, 12 inches long — that
were on fire and just almost floating through the air with the wind and everything,” the homeowner said.

“They would hit people’s roofs, and if it was an asphalt roof, it would catch on fire. And otherwise, they would fall off the roof and then ignite the foliage around the house.”

Ms Atwater Millikin said they’ve lost some of their neighbours to the wildfires. “Many people have died,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “So many people have lost everything, and we need to look out for each other and rebuild. Everybody needs to help rebuild.”

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What saved the miracle house in Lahaina? Owner reveals vital factor
behind home’s survival from wildfires

On August 8, a devastating wildfire broke out on the second largest island in the US state of Hawaii called Maui. Currently, most of Maui stands completely destroyed, especially the historic town of Lahaina, where the current death toll is 114, and more than 1300 people remain unaccounted for. The wildfire is reported to have wrecked more than 3000 homes and land properties worth $3.2 billion.

The internet is filled with images and videos of the burned town, with people all over the world grieving Hawaii’s largest and most destructive wildfire in history. In the wake of the catastrophe, a picture has gone viral that shows a house standing tall in the middle of the wreckage, untouched by the blazes. It’s a white house with a red roof and a tiny porch in front.

While the entire area around the house, located in Lahaina’s famous Front Street, has
been scorched to the ground, this two-storied residence is seen standing in its original condition, completely undamaged. In fact, netizens have given it the name of “miracle house.” According to its owners, the house may also have been spared from the flames because of its heavy-gauge metal roof and lack of foliage around it.

Lahaina’s “miracle house” was not intentionally fire-proofed
In Lahaina’s elite residential area Front Street, a house now stands in sharp contrast
to its burned surroundings. As per the images that have gone viral, the white house
with a red roof appears to have been completely saved from the Maui fires.

While the internet believed for a while that the photograph of the property was digitally altered, its owners Dora Atwater Millikin and her husband, Dudley Long Millikin III, divulged the facts to the Los Angeles Times, saying that their home at 271 Front Street, was indeed untouched by the devastating fire.

Mrs. Millikin told the news outlet how they were devastated to have lost neighbors in the calamity and were even full of guilt emotions, but considered herself and her husband lucky that their holy abode survived the flames.

“It’s a 100 percent wood house; so, it’s not like we fireproofed it or anything,”
Mrs. Millikin said. So, how did the $4 million house get saved?

The owners believe it has to do with their recently changed roof.
Previously, their house had an asphalt roof, but only a few months back, with the onset
of summer and the wildfire season, they replaced it with heavy-gauge commercial-grade steel.

The couple explained how a roof is a key factor that contributes to the flammability of a house, as it serves as a huge landing pad for falling embers. The house, which is made from California redwood, is also believed to have natural fire-resistant properties.

Apart from changing the roof, the Millikins also cut down on foliage surrounding their residence to lower the risk of termite attack on the wooden house. They surrounded the house with river stones to further prevent water damage. The duo believes that although none of these alterations were done keeping fireproofing in mind, these factors ultimately saved their house from getting ruined beyond repair.

In fact, there was nothing combustible within five feet of the house (considered an ember ignition zone), as per a recent inspection by Maui County and reported by Honolulu Civil Beat. Mrs. Millikin also added how they keep changing the house’s structure every now and then as a form of maintenance and renovation.

“We love old buildings, so we just wanted to honor the building, and
we didn’t change the building in any way – we just restored it,” she told the LA Times.
The couple, who were visiting their extended family in Massachusetts during the fire, also presumed that the houses with asphalt roofs caught fire when pieces of wood were flying around due to strong winds. Or, they would hit the road and ignite the foliage around the house. Fortunately, none of these happened with their house.

Mr. and Mrs. Millikin have lived in Maui for the last decade but purchased the “miracle house” two years ago during the Covid-19 lockdown. While the man is a retired portfolio manager, his wife is an artist. They first learned that their house was saved when the
Maui County office called them.

Interestingly, the house is originally 100 years old and is known by the name of Pioneer Mill Co. or the Lahaina Ice Co. Bookkeeper’s House. It is believed to have been moved to Lahaina’s Front Street in 1925 from a local plantation.
For years, it was used as a home for management-level employees before the Millkins bought it and engaged in a two-year-long restoration project before moving in. Tourism is still going into Maui Airport – Bing video

Maui fire investigation: Maui’s top emergency officials were on a different island for a disaster training as flames flared and did not join response call until five hours after the deadly wildfires begun (msn.com)

My family has lived in Lāhainā for over a century. The devastating Maui wildfires destroyed everything we had in a few hours. (msn.com)

Joe Biden Comparing Maui Fires to Almost Losing His Corvette Sparks Fury. 🙁

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