What an honor, a blessing, and a privilege. I never want to take these moments for granted. In a week where my faith was tried, my peace wavered, and the weight of the world began to descend, God was beyond gracious. sydneymclaughlin
It’s always hard preparing for one moment you may or may not get back. In my mind what kept repeating were the words “Trust in Jesus”. I didn’t know what the outcome would be, but I did know He was who I wanted to lead me through the journey. What an amazing journey it was!
It never ceases to amaze me how powerful He is to help those who trust in Him overcome the battles within. His word is sufficient, His promises hold true, and all the glory belongs to Him. At the end of the day it is FAR beyond gold.
Once again, I am immensely grateful to have had the opportunity to represent
my country on the world’s biggest stage. What a blessing.
“Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!” – Psalm 115:1
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone regularly writes about her Christian faith on Instagram, sharing insights from Bible studies and gratitude for God.
After she won her second Olympic gold medal this week in the women’s 400-meter hurdles event, the U.S. track and field superstar continued this tradition, thanking God for his support during her latest Olympic journey.
“What an honor, a blessing, and a privilege. I never want to take these moments for granted,” McLaughlin-Levrone wrote about winning gold and breaking her own world record. “In a week where my faith was tried, my peace wavered, and the weight of the world began to descend, God was beyond gracious.”
She pointed readers to a Bible verse, Psalm 115:1, about trusting and celebrating the Lord.
“Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!” McLaughlin-Levrone wrote.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at the Olympics
McLaughlin-Levrone’s Instagram post about her time at the Olympics went up early Saturday morning (Paris time), just over a day after her big race.
McLaughlin-Levrone completed the 400-meter hurdles in 50.37 seconds during Thursday’s final, beating the second place finisher by 1.5 seconds.
Team Great Britain brought a heartwarming moment to the 2024 Summer Olympics.
A supportive crowd at Paris’ Stade de France national stadium rallied around Britain’s Megan Keith as she crossed the finish line for the women’s 10,000m final Aug. 9 by herself.
Keith, who was traveling behind the rest of her competitors after reportedly suffering an ankle injury, was met at the finish by teammate Eilish McColgan. The two embraced in an emotional exchange that was caught on camera and shared across the social media.
One person shared on X, “Best bit of the Olympics so far, Megan Keith finishing the 10,000m Never give up. What a flippin amazing thing to get to run in an Olympic final. In the time I can do it, she can get around twice.”
“Love how Eilish McColgan waited over two minutes on the line for team-mate Megan Keith to finish the 10,000m on her Olympics debut,” another posted on X.
Another wrote, “There’s no failure when you push yourself to the limit and it doesn’t work out. Megan Keith from Inverness is only 22 and, hopefully, has another two or three Olympics in front of her. I’m convinced Eilish McColgan told her that. I have absolute respect for both!”
“All the medals are great, but honestly this race by Megan Keith is one of the most inspirational things I’ve seen at the Olympics,” one person wrote. “She was so far behind, but she never gave up. She went to race and she finished her race, and the crowd were right behind her as she did.”
“What a hero, love that she did this. Keep going lady, be so proud. You had injuries, got lapped and nothing was stopping you from saying you finished!!” another commented on TikTok.
Team Great Britain called the runners’ finishes a “valiant effort,” adding that McColgan wound up in 15th position with a time of 31 minutes and 20 seconds. Meanwhile, Keith finished 23rd in 33 minutes and 19 seconds.
Ultimately, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet earned the gold with a time of 30:23:25, followed by Italy’s Nadia Battocletti, who took home silver with a time of 30:43.35, and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands who won bronze with a time of 30:44.12.
Why Olympic Marathon Alternate Jess McClain Suddenly Flew to Paris
Story by Sarah Lorge Butler
Often, we get wrapped up in the gold medalist and forget about the love of the sport. And forget about those that just really enjoyed getting here. Maybe not the whole last eight years – it’s been a road and a journey – but the last year or two of running has been so fun. I know it’s been a whole thing that I don’t have a coach, don’t have an agent, don’t have a sponsor. But I literally have just been running because I love it.
It’s been so freeing and there’s been no pressure.
I think I needed to step away from that infrastructure and that approach to the sport for a little bit. And it’s just been so fun. I think enjoying the process, not having that pressure coming into the trials – I had nothing to lose. I knew I had to be smart, that it could go sideways if I wasn’t. Getting here healthy was 100% the focus and enjoying every moment of training.” Jess McClain (née Tonn) stunned America on Saturday when she finished fourth at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
She ran 2:25:46 for a personal best by nearly four minutes. She is unsponsored. She has a full-time job as the executive director of the Love Up Foundation. She also works as a marketing consultant. Before all of that, many in the track and field community remember her as Jess Tonn – the former Brooks Beast 5000m specialist and an All-American at Stanford. We didn’t have her on our pre-race predictions or our radar at all but now we will.
In this episode, we re-introduce you to Jess as one of America’s newest marathoning stars. She takes us through the past few years and how running may have always been part of her life but didn’t define her after leaving the professional ranks. She ran her first marathon in February 2022 with a 2:33 at the Mesa Marathon. She ran 2:29:25 at Grandma’s Marathon in June 2023. And then the stunner at the Trials. Even though she was seconds away from making an Olympic team, she is all smiles and calls this her favorite running memory of all-time.
Meet Jessica McClain, Your Olympic Marathon Alternate
Then early this week she got a phone call from a Team USA official, telling her she might have the opportunity to race. Few details were given. It wasn’t clear to McClain which athlete—Fiona O’Keeffe, Emily Sisson, or Dakotah Lindwurm—was in question, or what the problem was, injury or illness.
It was McClain’s decision about whether she should travel to Paris. There was no guarantee she would line up. McClain didn’t hesitate. She hopped on a plane to Paris and after a 10-hour flight, arrived on the morning of August 7. She went straight from the airport to run the hilly 9-mile section of the marathon course.
But since she arrived, McClain has learned she likely won’t be needed.
It’s been a roller coaster. And McClain’s primary concern is for whomever is scheduled to run who is uncertain.
“I have had a pit in my stomach for four days,” she said.
“I can’t imagine. It sucks. It’s a crappy situation. I feel so bad for whoever it is.”
BONUS: The 1984 Olympics Marathon was insane… Bing Videos
She did say she has been training all summer. She’s fit, ready to go, strong in the heat and on hills. If given the opportunity, she is confident she could do well. Being in limbo has made for a mix of emotions. McClain said she’s trying to embrace the opportunity of being in the environment of the Olympics, and she’s trying to soak it all in.
“It’s a cool sign that I’m so stoked at the possibility of being able to race,” she said.
McClain was fourth at the Trials, and then she was fourth at the Olympic Trials on the track in the 10,000 meters. This year she’s resurrected her pro career, since stepping away from elite running during the pandemic. She signed a contract with Brooks.
Garrett Heath, the Brooks sports marketing representative, said the company is so proud of McClain. “She’s a gamer,” he said.
“She puts herself in position to take advantage of situations. I think there is something to that consistency of just continuing to show up. And maybe she won’t run the Olympic Marathon this weekend, but she’s not going anywhere and she’s only building momentum from here.”
McClain was still trying to decide where to cheer for the Team USA runners on Sunday morning if she wasn’t needed herself. She’ll be out on the course drinking beer. Assuming she doesn’t run, McClain is trying to get a bib number for the people’s marathon tomorrow night in Paris, starting at 9 p.m. and going over the same course the elites will run. “I need to get a long run in,” she quipped.
Top 4 in the country x2.
Jessica McClain is Reclaiming Fourth Place
After narrowly missing the U.S. Olympic team in the marathon and 10,000 meters, the 32-year-old is using her double Team USA alternate designation as a springboard for what’s next
Some have commended me for doing this alone—with no sponsor up until March, no coach, agent, etc. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
I have learned so much from my amazing teammates who have been marathoning for way longer than I have for sound training advice and motivation to get out of bed for our early morning runs and track sessions.
@set4go_llc is a kick ass and innovative massage therapist in AZ who has made this 32-year old body feel stronger than it did at 25 (which has in turn made my stronger). George helped with a lot of strategy and confidence building going into both Trials experiences. Was so lucky to have him in Eugene this weekend—felt so strong and stacked out there!
@brooksrunning showed they believed in me again and now I feel like I have a whole army behind me. Our section coming down the home stretch was out of this world and us 10k athletes were lucky to run by it 25 times.
@xendurance made sure I got here with all of the nutritional & field support I needed to stay healthy and I am soo grateful.
And last but certainly not least, thank you to my family & friends who went from cheering for 2.5 hours through the streets of Orlando or from home to watching me run 25 laps around Hayward Field this past weekend. They’ve been supporting me on my running journey for 20 years now and have picked me up more times than they have probably celebrated with me.
The highs and moments like this are certainly what makes sticking with it worth it, but finding the people that piece you back together, encourage you along the way, and help you enjoy the day-to-day are what gives you that last gear when you’re pushing to the finish line.
Like millions of Americans in the 1970s … I also tuned in weekly to ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.” The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat – The opening sequence showed one skier gracefully racing down a mountain, and then another spectacularly wiping out while the narrator promised viewers “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” Something tragic and true was contained in this message. The possibility of calamity makes moments of triumph precious and worth pursuing.
The Agony of Defeat (Joshua 7:1-26)
After such a tremendous victory at Jericho, Joshua chapter 7 is surprising to say the least. Suddenly we are presented with a series of failures that stand in striking contrast to the wonderful victories of the past six chapters. How instructive this is if we only have the ears to listen to the message of this chapter. The thrill of victory was so quickly replaced by the agony of defeat. This is the story of life, and something we each must learn to deal with in our daily walk. One minute we can be living in victory and next in defeat.
The distance between a great victory and a terrible defeat is one step, and often only a short one at that. A fact of reality is that in a fallen world we can be riding high on the cloud of some great spiritual success, and the very next moment find ourselves in the valley of spiritual failure and despair. One moment we can be like Elijah standing victoriously on Mt. Carmel, and the next hiding out in a cave, fearing for his life, and complaining to God (1 Kings 19:10).
Chapter 7 opens with a small but ominous word, the word “but,” which contrasts this chapter with the preceding one, particularly verse 27. First, there was the thrill of victory, but now the agony of defeat. This little conjunction of contrast is designed to drive home an important truth, the reality of the ever present threat and contrasts of life—victory is always followed by the threat of defeat.
Never is the believer in greater danger of a fall than after a victory. We are so prone to drop our guard and begin to trust in ourselves or in our past victories rather than the Lord. One victory never ensures the next. Only as it builds our confidence in the Lord and develops our wisdom in appropriating God’s Word do our victories aid us for the next battle, but the basis of victory is always the Lord Himself and our faith/dependence on Him. A New Testament chapter that deserves consideration here is 1 Corinthians 10 and especially verse 12, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.”
21. Harris supports an Electric Vehicle mandate “Her plan proposed that new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets must be zero-emission by 2030, with all vehicles mandated to be 100 percent zero-emission by 2035.”
After much public backlash, the Biden admin retracted their ban plan only for the DOE to impose new strict efficiency standards for gas stoves weeks later. Kamala shared a photo with her husband on Christmas that showed her standing over her gas stove. Hypocrisy?
26. Kamala Harris is a communist and her word choices give it away. “Equitable distribution” “equity”. It’s a repackaged version of Karl Marx’ popularized slogan “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” meaning a redistribution of wealth.
27. In working closely with President Biden as VP, Kamala knew more than anyone about Joe’s cognitive decline. Not only did she say nothing she also helped lead a campaign to gaslight and mislead the country.
28. They have been quoted saying she is extremely difficult to work for and would often berate them citing a very toxic workplace. “As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General,’” he added, mentioning how “Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”
Border Czar Harris lied: Since Biden took office > 10 million illegals have crossed the southern border into the US. This doesn’t include “gotaways”. Illegal crossings cost the US taxpayer upwards of 150 billion annually.
– Kamala roundly criticized the nation’s police after the Blake shooting, reversing the Rule of Law and agitating for more violence by praising BLM thugs as “peaceful” and their victim Kyle Rittenhouse as violent:
“The shameless hypocrisy of the Biden administration is on display through mouthpiece Kamala Harris, who has condemned widespread public criticism of the recent FBI invasion of President Donald Trump’s home.
In the upside-down Biden world, all that is evil is hailed as good, and what is good is derided as evil. Since Kamala has so consistently taken the wrong position in battles concerning public safety, her current histrionics serve as a predictive indicator that the FBI acted improperly – the opposite of her doublespeak.
“In an ironic if comical (Harris’s trademark) hearing America’s Vice President intone against justifiable public calls for scrutiny of the political motivations of the FBI:
“I will say, as a former prosecutor, but as a citizen of our nation, any attacks on law enforcement are completely unacceptable,” Harris told reporters aboard Air Force Two on Friday. “And any so-called leader who engages in rhetoric that in any way suggests that law enforcement should be exposed to that kind of danger is irresponsible and can result in dangerous activities.”
“This hypocrisy reflects a Harris pattern: turn law and order, and the rule of law itself, into a joke. The bumbling Vice President alleged a conflict of interest against William Barr, her proof being “I think the American public has seen quite well that you are biased in this situation and you’ve not been objective, and that would arguably be the conflict of interest.” Perhaps Americans have noticed her own biased lack of objectivity….
“Kamala habitually bombs the wrong targets, and as a so-called leader engages in rhetoric that reliably gets the facts and law inverted every time. Here is a partial list of her plunging her inept partisan zeppelin into the wrong targets in the public fray:. . .”
Republican JD Vance is alleging Democrat Tim Walz is guilty of “stolen valor” — an explosive allegation that supporters of Walz say goes too far. The allegation also has legal implications. It’s against federal law to lie about military service to try to defraud people.
Homelessness is the most stark example of wealth inequality in the country. It’s been suggested that some Californians are just tired of seeing it. They have “encampment fatigue.” Well, no one has more fatigue than the people living in encampments.
The solution is obvious — stay focused on getting more housing built, bought or leased. This work of housing homeless people is expensive, and it doesn’t happen overnight. Moving people inside can sometimes take weeks of outreach. But it works.
Another thing that has worked: Medi-Cal providers funding homeless services. The County Homeless Initiative has received $114 million in funding from L.A. Care and Health Net to support the county’s master leasing program that provides apartments to homeless people. Medi-Cal healthcare providers are also venturing into low-income and homeless housing projects — and we hope this support continues.
Derek Anthony Redmond (born 4 September 1965) is a retired British sprinter has been reliving the iconic Olympic moment he described as “the one thing people remember me for”. Derek Redmond, who lives in Northampton, was helped over the line by his father in 1992 after tearing his hamstring at the beginning of the 400m semi-final.
Redmond said he is still frustrated about not getting an Olympic medal.
He said: “It’s the one thing people remember me for.
“It doesn’t matter that I’ve won all the other major titles.”
He added that the most annoying thing was the incident that happened at the greatest sporting competition of them all: “If you’re in an Olympic sport and you’ve got the opportunity to compete at an Olympic games, that’s the one you want to win.
“That’s the real frustration – that I didn’t get an Olympic medal.”
Despite his own Olympic disappointment, he is excited about the medal prospects for today’s Team GB stars. He predicts that Matthew Hudson-Smith Paris 2024 will bring home a medal in his old distance of 400m. He said: “I think he’ll win it, I think he will break his own British record. “He’s run 43.74 at the moment – I think it will take a bit quicker than that.”
He is also expecting great things from 24-year-old Charlie Dobson, who has posted the second-fastest time of any British competitor.
He said: “It’s really looking good for this Olympics and the next Olympics.”
Redmond, 58, was born in Bletchley in Buckinghamshire and educated at Roade School in Northampton. Like so many athletes, he dreamed of an Olympic medal and finally made it to the 1988 games in Seoul, but injury forced him to pull out before his heat.The year before the Barcelona games, he was part of a British quartet that had snatched a surprise gold from the US favourites in the 4x400m relay.
He was confidently expecting to take another two golds away from Barcelona.
He won his quarter-final but tore his hamstring 250m (273 yards) from the end of the semi-final race. He was determined to finish but was in great pain and his father decided to come on to the track to help him get to the line. Derek Redmond seemed to be in good form heading into the Olympics in Barcelona. He posted the fastest time of the first round, and went on to win his quarter-final.
In the semi-final, Redmond started well, but in the back straight about 250 metres from the finish, his hamstring snapped. He hobbled to a halt, and then fell to the ground in pain. Stretcher bearers made their way over to him, but Redmond decided he wanted to finish the race. He began to hobble along the track, with pain etched upon his face.
He was soon joined on the track by his father, Jim Redmond, who barged past security and onto the track to get to his son. Jim and Derek completed the lap of the track together, with Derek leaning on his father’s shoulder for support. As they crossed the finish line, the crowd of 65,000 spectators rose to give Derek a standing ovation. However as his father had helped him finish, Derek was officially disqualified and Olympic records state that he “Did Not Finish” the race. But in the public’s perception, he had finished and done so heroically.
Redmond’s struggle in the 1992 semi-final later became the subject of one of the International Olympic Committee’s ‘Celebrate Humanity’ videos.
God is like that… When we are hurt and struggling, He comes and helps us finish the race… May God bless you… We were not born to give up… Such a powerful story in so many ways… Long live Christ the King.!
An epic inspirational story for millions forever,
You could put a gun to my head and I would not be able to remember who won this race, but I’ll always remember The unforgettable story of Great Britain’s 400m runner Derek Redmond and his father Jim, wearing the cap saying ‘just do it’ ….no matter that he knew he would be disqualified, it’s about the principle of the sport. Not winning or losing
Derek’s hamstring snapped during his event but was determined to finish the race at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. It was wonderful how the 65 thousand Catalans who were present in the stadium applauded Jim and his father non-stop….simply unforgettable Derek Anthony Redmond didn’t win a medal at the Barcelona Olympics.
In fact, the British 400m runner didn’t even make it past the semi-final stage. But it was his determination to finish that will live forever in the minds of millions. Injury forced the Briton to withdraw from the 1988 Seoul Games just ten minutes before the start of his 400m heat, so Redmond felt he had everything to prove in Barcelona four years later.
Not to his peers, that is but, as he later admitted, to himself. Redmond wanted a medal whatever the color and he started well, qualifying for the semi-finals by clocking the fastest time in his heat.
As the gun signaled the start of his semi-final, Redmond charged out of the blocks, making good speed over his first 250m. At about 3:49, you can hear a popping sound. That sound is probably Derek Redmond’s directly in line with the field mic at the side of the track.
I’d suggest it’s the sudden heavy steps associated with stopping that are being picked up by the mic, not a muscular tear. At that point his right hamstring snapped. The one-time British 400m record holder pulled sharply up as the rest of his field ran away from him, leaving Redmond on his knees and crippled, his Olympic dream over. What followed, however, is one of the most memorable moments in Olympic history.
Redmond got back to his feet and tried to finish the race. In an act of true courage against adversity, Redmond could only hop on one leg towards the finish line. Pain etched on his face as each step became more painful than the last, Redmond would not give up. He had promised himself and his father that he would finish the race ‘no matter what,’ and he would keep that promise.
Halfway to the finish line on one leg and crying with desperation, Derek was joined by his father Jim. The moment Redmond crossed the finish line brought sixty-five thousand spectators to their feet in a standing ovation, many also in tears. Few can remember that Steve Lewis of the USA won the semi-final in a time of 44.50. But no one who saw it will ever forget Derek Redmond’s courage on the day he defined the essence of the human and Olympic spirit.
Let’s take a look back at the semi-final of the Men’s 400 metres sprint where Derek Redmond tore his hamstring and still finished the race limping while the crowd in the stadium gave him a standing ovation. Although Great Britain’s Redmond was disqualified and listed as “Did Not Finish” due to the outside assistance of his father finishing the race, this very inspirational race has become a well-remembered and inspirational moment in Olympic history – Enjoy watching!
I remember screaming at the TV “Don’t touch him! Don’t touch him!” He actually was doing pretty good considering the torn hamstring. As much as you wouldn’t want to be disqualified, he’s also putting all of that weight on one leg which isn’t good.. besides, a DQ wouldn’t take away his accomplishments, not on global television and his father stepping in to help him.. is just everything man..
This is simultaneously the most heartbreaking and heartwarming video of all time.
That walk with his dad is worth more than all the gold medals in the world.
A standing ovation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>gold medal
It’s not how you start, not how you finish. What is most important is not to win but to take part.
I admire Derek and Jim for their courage to finish the race together
This has to be the greatest moment in Olympic sporting history…An example of guts personified! Proof that the human spirit is very difficult to defeat. ️. had every emotion, a true father who was there for his son..and Derek won a standing ovation of 65000 peoples & it is the most beautiful moment. I adore the lack of commentary. There are no words, just a fathers love for his son ️
At this moment, he didn’t see Derek as an Olympic world class athlete, he saw his little boy. And who better to come and pick him up and dust him off than his father. This is the ultimate father; he didn’t let his son give up, he helped him cross that finish line no matter what so that he’d go until the very end.
His Dad passed away 05/10/22 at 81 years. Jim, you were an absolute hero and the sort of person that the world needs more of. Rest in peace, Jim Redmond, and thank-you for reminding us that there are kind, beautiful people in the world. Finally, a clip of this race without any voice overs or music:
World’s luckiest audience *ever*
I finally found a video of them going past the finish line and off field.
Three parts of this clip that get me EVERY time…1. When Derek Redmond Collapses into his Father’s arms 2. When dad (Jim Redmond) puts his arms around Derek’s shoulders and 3. When Jim Redmond tells the official, “Leave Him Alone, I’m His FATHER!!!”
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Please show one of the most exciting women’s soccer matches ever played in the Olympics between USA and Canada in the 2012 London Olympics semi-final match. Several of the matches of women’s soccer from 2012 are already posted on the Olympic channel, but this match has not been posted. It was an intense, back-and-forth nail biter, truly a classic match in women’s football history. This match took place on 06/08/12 at the Old Trafford, Manchester. USA booked a spot in the Gold Medal Match with a 4 to 3 Extra Time win over Canada.
The one with the long count, the dodgy referee and Christine Sinclair’s hat trick. She basically let the feeling of a nation out after the game. I met Christine at a clinic she ran for my daughter’s team. She let my daughter wear her medal for a photo and is truly one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. I also went to a Canada US friendly at BMO field in Toronto. Every time the US goalie touched the ball, 20,000 people chanted 1 2 3 4 5…… CAN v USA – Women’s Semifinal – Football | London 2012 Replays (olympics.com)
Literally THE MATCH, best one in soccer history; nail biter from beginning to end.
I believe there are more than one that come into our lives, each bringing lessons if we are open to them. Not all soulmates are meant to stay forever, but I believe there is one special soulmate who stays longer than the rest. They may appear in our lives in unexpected ways and leave just as quickly, but they are there for a reason. Some stay longer and can push buttons we didn’t even know we had, and some may leave and return, bringing new insights when the time is right.
In 1990, I met such a woman, and she challenged me almost daily for about a year. She was 40 years older than me and very wise. It got to the point where I’d try avoiding her. She wasn’t unkind, just “always right,” and it felt like I was always on the hot seat.
Oddly enough, a part of me wanted to be on that hot seat because I knew deep down ~
That I needed to hear what she had to say. For the rest of my life, I am grateful for the lessons I learned from her, which proved valuable in my life. The lessons were not forced on me; I chose to accept them. It was like a mission to step outside my comfort zone. You don’t always realize the value of someone right from the beginning; sometimes, it is long after they are gone that you remember the lessons.
Every time I felt rattled by something this woman showed me about myself, I grew uncomfortable, feeling vulnerable and exposed. I didn’t like looking at my mistakes; I wanted to hide. Wouldn’t it be simpler? It’s silly, really—if your life isn’t working, think of it as a disease, like cancer. I had cancer, so I can relate. If I have cancer and refuse to let the doctor see the size or location of the tumors, staying in denial won’t help. I need to identify what’s wrong so I can do the work to heal my body.
There will always be people who come into our lives to help us do our soul work. We all have work to do, so none of us should walk around thinking we’re better than another. We all have room to grow. I felt my soul waking up, and I welcomed the change, no matter how uncomfortable it was to confront things I needed to work on. This was more than just a challenge—it was a deeply personal decision to grow spiritually, to strengthen my relationship with God.
I realized that our souls are the substance of who we are, the realness that defines us beneath all the outer layers. Our souls are where God meets us, where He speaks to our hearts and guides us on our path. It’s through our souls that we connect with God, and through His grace, we learn to embrace the lessons He sends our way.
Our souls hold our deepest truths, our most authentic selves. It’s our soul that connects us to God, to each other, and to the lessons that life brings. When we do the work of the soul, we are engaging with the very essence of our being, touching the core of what makes us truly human. And it is in this sacred space that God becomes more significant, leading us to the growth He knows we need.
It takes courage to allow someone to be open with you about what opportunities for growth you have. What changes do they see that need to be made for your life to improve? Are you stuck in old habits, addictions, or procrastination? Will you allow someone to point that out to you? It takes trust. So make sure this is someone trustworthy—check out their life, success, integrity, value system, and moral compass. I had the courage to let down the walls. I knew that if I chose to defend myself against the things she brought to my attention, I would sabotage any chance of change that could greatly benefit me. I would miss out on a beautiful opportunity that could positively impact the rest of my life. I chose to be uncomfortable and saw everything she showed me as a gift rather than judgment or criticism, and I changed what needed changing.
She was a soulmate and a friend.
She showed me the possibilities of change, just like holding up a mirror to show me a smudge of dirt on my face. She did it with love and kindness. But ego gets in the way sometimes and refuses to let you even look in the mirror. Pride and ego are like buddies, building walls that love can’t penetrate. They divert your attention from the message your soulmate is trying to convey. They complicate and confuse, making the lesson harder to comprehend. It’s a cunning game where there is no winner.
Pride and ego will use every means to push your soulmate away, making them feel they have done something wrong and creating an unsafe environment for growth. You shouldn’t push if this happens. Never be aggressive or force anything on someone; just let go. This is their journey, and whatever they choose isn’t right or wrong—it’s simply their choice. You can walk away kindly.
The result is that you end up walking around with that smudge of dirt on your face all day. A true soulmate is brought into our lives for a reason, and love is always connected to their actions. Harsh criticism is never used when you are trying to show someone you love what you see in them. Love is the only way to deliver the observation, and even then, people may react defensively rather than being open to learning and growing.
Sometimes we find a soulmate to live with forever, and sometimes it’s only for a time. It can be too painful, and the soulmate’s message may be rejected because it’s not ready to be heard. It may be reintroduced later by another soulmate, and then the message makes sense. It’s like a light bulb goes off, and you finally understand what a previous soulmate was trying to say. Don’t beat yourself up for not being ready at that time—now is as good a time as ever.
Soulmates are a blessing, even if they make us feel exposed and uncomfortable. Someday, it may all make sense, or perhaps it won’t. Just because someone makes you feel a little off-kilter or out of your comfort zone doesn’t mean it’s bad. Change is uncomfortable. Remember the first time you rode a bike, danced, started a new job, or went on a first date?
Change is inevitable. Get used to it and welcome the lessons. You will recognize truth because your heart and mind have an innate way of knowing. And through this process, your connection with God deepens, becoming more meaningful with every step you take toward spiritual growth, as you engage with the true essence of your soul, where God dwells and guides you.
And my God-given intuition said this was where I needed to go.
Shannon has been cancer free since August 2011, and her inspiring story has given hope to individuals fighting cancer. She has appeared in media through, documentary, radio, book, film, magazine and speaking platforms over the last four years.
It is well known that the adrenergic receptors stimulation by catecholamines significantly increase the TNF-α production, but also increase the concentration of cytokines and interleukins such as IL-6, IL1β, IL10, IL4, IFNγ and C-reactive protein (CRP), that accelerate the progression of inflammatory diseases [23]. Moreover, the sustained release of catecholamines, including norepinephrine, promotes the upregulation and activation of cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB), Phospholipase C, Protein Kinase Cα, Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), the prolactin hormone and the prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis, all known to promote proliferation, migration, angiogenesis and apoptosis evasion in several cancers [2–5, 23–25].
New scientific evidence has also shown that cancer cells release neurotrophic factors (Nerve Growth Factor, NGF and Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor, BDNF) in response to catecholamines that, contributing to cancer innervation, improve tumorigenesis enriching the tumor microenvironment of catecholamines freed from the newly formed nerve endings [26].
Furthermore, norepinephrine released from nerve terminals through the adrenergic receptors is able to interact with immune cells. Recently, Ambree et al. (2018) showed that this property correlates with an altered cell-mediated immunity in a mouse model of lymphoma. Indeed, catecholamines and glucocorticoids have been reported to damage the antigen presentation process, affect T cell proliferation, and attenuate humoral and cell-mediated immunity. It has been shown that noradrenaline, although is able to increase dendritic cell migration in CD8+ T cell-mediated response, greatly reduces their overall ability to efficiently present antigens. Furthermore, the adrenergic stimulation of dendritic cells enhances Th2-associated inflammation and Th17 differentiation, suppressing at the same time the antitumor activity of NK cells and stimulating tumor-associated macrophages to produce pro-inflammatory and pro-angiogenic factors such as the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and metalloproteinases [27].
German New Medicine (GNM), developed by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, explores the connection between emotional experiences and physical health. The GNM Emotion Chart is a tool used to understand how specific emotional conflicts can trigger biological responses in the body, potentially leading to illness.
The German New Medicine (GNM) is a revolutionary concept in holistic healing that challenges conventional medical paradigms. Developed by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, GNM proposes a deep connection between our emotional experiences, biological responses, and the manifestation of illness in the body. Unlike traditional medicine that focuses solely on physical symptoms, GNM considers the intricate interplay between the mind, body, and environment.
The Origins of GNM
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer’s journey into discovering German New Medicine (GNM) began with a series of deeply impactful events that reshaped his understanding of health and illness. Tragically, Dr. Hamer’s son fell victim to a fatal gunshot, a profound loss that shattered their family. This traumatic experience marked a turning point in Dr. Hamer’s life and ultimately influenced the development of GNM.
Following his son’s death, Dr. Hamer experienced his own battle with cancer. He was diagnosed with testicular cancer, a disease that would later become instrumental in his research and discoveries. Driven by his personal struggles and the desire to uncover the deeper meanings behind illness, Dr. Hamer delved into the complexities of cancer and its emotional connections.
Dr. Hamer’s insights were not confined to his own experience but extended to his observations in other cancer units. He noticed patterns among cancer patients—specifically, the correlation between emotional shocks and the onset of cancer. This led him to question traditional medical explanations and delve deeper into the mind-body connection in disease development.
His research and observations culminated in the foundational principles of German New Medicine. Dr. Hamer proposed that diseases, including cancer, have biological purposes and are often triggered by unresolved emotional conflicts or shocks. This revolutionary concept challenged established medical norms and emphasized the importance of addressing emotional factors in healing.
Through his personal journey, from the tragic loss of his son to his own battle with cancer and subsequent research in cancer units, Dr. Hamer forged a new path in understanding health and disease. His legacy lives on in German New Medicine, offering a holistic approach that integrates emotional well-being with physical health.
@GovTimWalz? Let’s take a quick look: • Fueled BLM Riots in 2020 … due to “defund the police” stance • Rioters looted and wrecked Minneapolis • Change MN state flag to resemble Somalia’s • K*lled old people with Cov*d nursing home scandal • made MN a ‘gr**mer friendly’ LGBTQIA+ “sanctuary” state … in an attempt to normalize pedophilia • Pushes youth trans surgery, ‘hormone therapy’ agenda … even though the “science” is against it and results in more su*cides in their 20s & 30s • Soldiers accused Walz of embellishing and selectively omitting facts about his military career … just like
@SenBlumenthal embellished his • Fellow soldiers accused him of “quitting” on them … another
@JohnKerry wannabe • Got DUI in 1995 doing 96mph in a 55 speed zone … for which
@Google is already cleansing its search engines of pictures and true information about • Praises socialism, yet hides under the banner of Democrat like a coward Kamalatoe’s “perfect” running mate?
He’s governing Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Cases of Fraud. Food distribution fraud, daycare fraud, Medicaid fraud, medical transportation fraud, welfare fraud, food stamp fraud, unemployment payment fraud, to name a few.Tax and spend- it’s only paper we will print more- democratic policies without any checks and balances, Report says Minnesota issued $428 million in unemployment overpayments across three years. GOP leader Lisa Demuth condemned the “pattern of fraud and waste presided over by Minnesota Democrats.”
Defunding the Police was the position of the City Council and the Mayor, not Governor Waltz. Kept his buddy’s candy store open while forcing other small businesses to close during covid, in the vein of Gavin Newsome at the French Laundry, or Nancy Pelosi forcing a hair salon, which was otherwise shut down, to do her hair. Walz is just slimy.
·New report: Over 250 illegal aliens on the TERROR WATCH list were encountered at the southern border between 2021 and 2023. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released at least 99 of those illegal aliens into American communities.
The Islamo-fascist ticket Why isn’t Kamala taking questions? #WheresKamala
Because she has no policy and no credibility….
look at the southern border or in fact any border!!!
Create the theme, and continue to create, until it can no longer be ignored by the media. Say it day in and day out until she’s forced to face the public and fill Americans in on her policy positions since she disavowed all her previous ones. Kamala Harris made the single worst choice for VP in the history of the country.
She chose Bernie Sanders for Governors. He is a new green deal leftist/socialist like Harris. The single most radical extreme and dangerous ticket to ever run for president/VP. They will do the state run media mobs job and vet Walz in detail today on radio and TV. It will take the full 4 hours. Buckle up as Mr Walz is the definition of extreme and weird.
Fits right in with the rest of her decision making!!!
The DNC couldn’t pick Shapiro who’s currently under a State investigation for covering up a murder as prosecutor. Kelly couldn’t be picked because of his ties to China and his wife is divorcing him. Tiananmen Tim needs to explain what he was doing in China for a year moonlighting as a “teacher”
Look into the $6m warehouse he bought during Covid to use as a morgue. Sat empty/ fear mongered
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Gov. Tim Walz told the people of Minnesota he was so afraid of dead bodies piling up outside funeral homes that he purchased an abandoned fruit warehouse for $6.9 million to use as a morgue. With Minnesotans looking to him for leadership and guidance, Walz used the morgue purchase to create a statewide panic that forced people to retreat into their homes for months. It wasn’t the pandemic that caused the fear. It was the overreaction to it by “leaders” like Tim Walz.
Driving Walz’s morbid predictions of dead bodies overwhelming funeral home capacity was his stubborn reliance on “models” that predicted first 74,000 COVID deaths, then 50,000 deaths, then 22,000 deaths. The models proved to be criminally wrong, and our incurious press eventually stopped asking about them last fall.
Needless to say, Walz’s morgue sat empty.
It did make news by winning American Experiment’s inaugural Golden Turkey Award for outrageous spending.
She picked her platform. Socialism vs capitalism. MAGA v/s Marxism The battle begins.
This pick is to satisfy the far left in the party, this allows her to change her narrative and appear moderate. The GOP needs to get their act together now and start exposing the extremism of this ticket. If the media won’t ask questions or Harris and Walz we need to use their own words against them with their past on record statements. Yet we are supposed to “believe” she has also changed her position on EVERYTHING she has ever stood for? Let America decide. 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
Walz lets it burn and She bails out the arsonist. Consider this:
Why would they pick such a radical ticket?
They have apparatus to deliver 90 M votes.
Now’s time to go full on liberal and cement their agenda.
Elections are no longer about convincing people to vote as much as it is how many votes you can manufacturer for your agenda.
Look in to his and MPLS Mayor allowing Antifa & BLM to burn down a police precinct – SEDITION
He can join Hubert Humphrey and Fritz Mondale as the other Minnesota losers.
Hubert Humphrey and Walter “Fritz” Mondale were both prominent politicians from Minnesota who served as Vice Presidents of the United States and later ran for the presidency. Fortunately, both were unsuccessful in their presidential bids.
From AOC to Manchin: How Walz is uniting unexpected lawmakers | Watch (msn.com) Lawmakers are reacting to Vice President Harris choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin has the latest reporting from Capitol Hill and former Rep. Joe Crowley shares his reaction, saying Walz is “very smart” and “very dedicated”.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS….
NOW ITS REPUBLICANS vs Communist SOCIALISTS…
Tampon Tim kept back the National Guard He helped bail out the violent criminals.
AS He told the police to take a knee…. He is radical Tim Walz 🤪
Wake up, America communism is around the corner!!!
🫸 Don’t they mean Burdenonomics cause we have all been burdened by them period 🫷 Leftists create the problems then create the government based “solutions” to deal with their created problems.
All Democrats do is lie about everything. WeThePeople know how much our bills are, and we’re sick of the Democrats and media/press telling us that everything is okay … WHEN IT’S NOT! Kamala & Joe repeatedly lied to the American People about our economy. “Bidenomics is working.” “Today, we have the strongest economy in the world.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee discusses the 2024 election as Harris picks Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and weighs in on the economy following the global selloff.
What’s in the Marxist tool belt?
Lies, hypocrisy, defamation, slander, ad hominem attacks, deceits, projection, intimidation, bits of truth laced with lies, rambling pseudo-intellectual jargon salad, word redefinitions, censorship, revision of history, secrets, more lies, hiding behind facades of innocence, screaming and ultimately violence.
Saul Alinsky’s “13 Rules for Radicals.” are a set of principles outlined in his book Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. These rules are designed to guide community organizers and activists in their efforts to bring about social change.
Here are the 13 rules:
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Never go outside the expertise of your people.
Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Keep the pressure on. Never let up.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Is there a specific rule or aspect of Alinsky’s work that you’re particularly interested in?
Our country, children and grandchildren need Trump back.
The Democrats have been trying to brainwash us that the economy is fine but they continue to forget Americans are strong and cannot be brainwashed. I’m boring, not edgy. Detest hypocrisy & groupthink.
People run in packs because they don’t feel safe alone. I run alone because I don’t feel safe in packs.
Life’s Precious…be kind to babies, the elderly and animals! PATRIOT 🇺🇲 PLEASE 🇺🇲
·My daughter missed a year and a half, don’t let him lie 💩
They’re just two years behind in reading, writing, mathematics, and virtually every other subject, Yes, they did!
Children are still behind, attitudes have changed about the importance of education. Now, parents take their students out of school for any reason, 2 – 3-week vacations, went to lunch with my child, didn’t feel like it, we just wanted a break; parents are to blame.
Ah, the age-old battle between light and darkness, the ethereal clash of unseen forces. 🌟✨ While I don’t possess any mystical powers myself, I can appreciate the metaphorical struggle you’re describing.
In many belief systems and mythologies, spirits and principalities represent opposing cosmic forces—good versus evil, chaos versus order, or perhaps even enlightenment versus ignorance. Whether you’re speaking metaphorically or literally, this concept has fascinated humanity for centuries.
Remember, though, that our greatest battles often occur within ourselves. The choices we make, the thoughts we entertain, and the actions we take—these shape our personal destinies. So, as you navigate these spiritual realms, may you find strength, wisdom, and compassion to guide you. 🌿🌌
We either vote for President Trump to preserve our country and our Constitution, or we vote for Kamala and Walz, and usher in more illegals crossing the border, higher inflation, more homeless, more drug addictions, more evil.
The independent people in the middle don’t want this radical agenda! So much for the leftist theory that she would pick someone in the middle of the road so they could take Trump voters! 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
Kamala Harris arrived in Philadelphia for her first appearance with her running mate Tim Walz. It’s been 16 days since Harris was illegally installed as the Democrat presidential candidate.
She hasn’t done an interview and her website lists no policies.
She’s letting everyone else do the talking for her and has NO CLUE what she’s going to “do” until she’s told what to do by her bosses at the WEF, the UN and the guy that owns the big house in Martha’s vineyard.
The concept of a “New Earth Paradigm” that encompasses wealth, health, abundance, and prosperity for all is intriguing! While there are various interpretations and approaches to achieving this vision, here are a few perspectives:
Spiritual Laws of Wealth and Abundance:
Lori Spagna discusses the energetic aspect of money and prosperity. She emphasizes that true prosperity is a state of energy, vibration, and consciousness. By understanding and aligning with the spiritual laws related to wealth, we can attract abundance. This involves unlearning old beliefs and embracing new perspectives on money1.
Remember that these concepts are diverse, and different people interpret them in various ways. Exploring further and finding what resonates with you personally can lead to a deeper understanding of wealth, health, and abundance.
But a top Democrat for the Obama era literally just said on Fox that the stock market has never been better under the Biden Administration! delusional liars! I was watching it on the stock market channel this morning …. They were saying not to be nervous and panic .. just them having to say that makes me nervous.
Dumpster fire rolling downhill taking all financial markets with it…ours has to go sooner or later…how else would we switch over from fiat currency? dismantling the totally controlled corrupt system. Dollar bills are money made out of thin air with no true value. Kill that fiat dollar for gold back and silver back only.
Andrea Kaye no it’s totally satanic and evil and has nothing to do with goodness for the average human being. It is all enslavement for a future hellhole that they want to control. But I stay positive because I know God is in charge and the people that are doing this will be judged.When Will It Be 289 Days From Today?Answer: 289 Days From Today Would BeThursday, May 22, 2025Add, May 22, 2025 to your Google Calendar (Today is August 5, 2024) (Source: https://calculat.io/en/date/count/289–days–from–today)
Every date represents a certain numerology energy.
The energy is interpreted for meaning.
If a date is personally significant, the energy can affect the person whenever the date is dwelled on.
The calculator, further below, determines the date number and presents an interpretation for the energy represented by that date.
The information for any date can be obtained. Each date is calculated to a single-digit number, the date number. Because all date numbers are single digit, 1 through 9, there are only nine different interpretations.
Use the calculator to determine the one for your special date.
Not consistently, but in general, the lower that the date number is, the more the energy it represents is focused on a specific resonance. Thus, 1- and 2-energy dates are the sharpest. The energy represented by the larger numbers have more fuzzy edges, so to speak, and are more adept at resonating with, rather than against, conflicting energy.
The date number energy interpretations provided by the calculator talk about potential resonance and dissonance with the energy of personal numerology chart numbers.
To read more about date numbers and meanings in general, see the date meaning article.
We are moving into the New Earth. We are here at this time to bring heaven back to earth. All our old systems are collapsing…. we have 289 days left… God‘s hand of restraint over sin was lifted a long time ago. Evil is everywhere and the idea that something is getting better is I believe to be a foolish idea. It may sound good, may be positive, but it’s never gonna happen with this depraved world.
We are not building back. There’s not a great reset.
That’s going to be good and if they do somehow succeed in their reset, it will be a complete socialist society where human beings have no rights and will be controlled for the rest of their life that’s what they’ve been building for the past hundred years and I was preview to this when I was overseas 17 years ago. I am just a pilgrim and a sojourner in a strange and evil land.
Start towards one world currency, If the dollar crashes, we’re looking at a total collapse that most folks aren’t even remotely prepared for. Wonder if this is a good time for me to get into the market
there’s always dips! It always goes back up. HOOOOOLD!!!
40 small banks in China collapsed at the end of June. Large banks are insolvent in Japan and in the USA and have been for years. if you aren’t part of the solution you are part of the problem. This time has been prophesied and promised for millennia. It might get worse before it gets better but it is getting better! It starts with YOU and me. Christ is within us and we must realize it and take our power back!
In the end it is not a time for believers to live in fear but for us to watch it all unfold… but as I’ve been telling you for the past few years, Christ isn’t an idea within me. Christ is eternal God, and he is the judge of the universe in the end will come and most people alive today will face judgment that is just a fact.
Most people will spend eternity in the lake of fire, that is terrifying to me and I’ve been trying to wake people up for the past 31 years. Most of my family and loved ones are probably included in this judgment and that breaks my heart.
I have no fear because I know my mission and purpose is to bring love and light back to humanity.
Wow, imagine that. A loving God that controls people through fear fear is an illusion!
You won 🥇 ! I watch you race !!! You made me cry !! Watching you pulling to the front with this powerful strength with your bike 🚴 !! Was amazing!!!!!! ❤️🙌 !!!
According to The Athletic, Faulkner was not originally supposed to race for the U.S. in the road race. However, after Taylor Knibb – Search (bing.com) resigned from her position to focus on the time trial and triathlon events, Faulkner was named as her replacement for the race.
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women’s Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. She is the current USA National Road Race Champion,[5] and won the gold medal in the women’s cycling road race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska.
She grew up in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings, Katie, Andrew, William, and Nicholas. Kristen Faulkner graduated from Harvard in 2016 with a B.A in computer science, where she competed in varsity rowing.[9] She holds the university’s record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women.
Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, rower and venture capitalist before turning her sight to bicycling and within Four hours and 158 kilometers later, the move paid off with a historic gold medal for Faulkner Team USA.
Kristen Faulkner ended a 40-year drought for the U.S. in the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday. The 31-year-old became the first U.S. woman to win gold in the road race since Connie Carpenter did so in 1984 in Los Angeles.
Faulkner won the race on the 158-kilometer course with a time of 3:59:23. Faulkner pulled away late from the competition, including the Netherlands’ Marianne Vos, who took silver with a time of 4:00:21. Here’s what you need to know about Faulkner, including how she got into the race and where she is from:
The Alaska native was a Harvard-Radcliffe varsity rower for two years (2015-2016). In 2016, Faulkner was part of the first varsity boat for the entire season. She sat five seat in the 1V at the IRA National Championship where she helped the team earn a bronze. The Black and White also came in second place at Eastern Sprints earlier that year.
Faulkner is a 2016 graduate of Harvard, where she competed as a varsity rower. She holds the program record for the fastest 2-kilometer indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Prior to attending Harvard, she went to high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Faulkner began competitive cycling in New York City in 2017 while she was working as an investment associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. During her first year cycling professionally, she worked full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
Last year, she was struck by a car while on a training ride in California and fractured her shin bone — an injury she feared would end her cycling career, she told the Wall Street Journal. She took a break from riding for about three months.
She won the Women’s road time trial at the 2023 Pan American Games. In October 2023, it was announced that Faulker would join the UCI Women’s Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale for the 2024 season. According to her USA Cycling profile, Faulkner got into cycling while living in New York in 2016 and began racing for the TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank team in San Francisco after moving to the area in 2018.
On May 19, 2024, Faulkner won the national road racing title, 55 seconds ahead of former champion Ruth Edwards in West Virginia. Kristen Faulkner emphasized how surrounding herself with people who make her feel good has led directly to her athletic success.
Being the Underdog is an understatement for Kristen Faulkner.
The American cyclist who didn’t even qualify for the Olympics but is now going home with a gold medal after a shocking race through Paris on Sunday. It was the last 3 kilometers of the race when Faulkner managed to break free from the pack and surge far ahead in a spectacular display of vigor.
While Faulkner’s push was incredible on its own, it’s the story she carried with her that made the win so exciting. It was an exciting moment for the woman who had only begun cycling in 2017 on hobby rides through Central Park in New York City.
She grew up hiking and rowing in Homer, Alaska, and eventually joined the women’s crew team at Harvard University. It wasn’t until she moved to New York to work as a venture capitalist that she tried cycling.
I still needed that outdoors fix that was such a big part of my life,” she told NBC News in an interview that aired the night before her race. She eventually realized her failure to clip in was a result of incompatible gear.But once she figured it out, Faulkner said she frequently turned to her bike as an outlet.
She eventually quit her full-time job to race professionally after winning her first pro race in 2020. She described her journey to the Olympics as one of resilience, overcoming injury and accidents to get to the world’s top race. “It’s never a matter of if I’ll keep going, it’s just a matter of how,” Faulkner said.
She told Olympics.com that she wanted to earn a spot on that podium before she even made the team.“I want to win a medal at the Olympics,” she said. “I want to win a world championship in the time trial. And I would like to win a stage at the Tour de France.
Now, in her Olympic debut, Faulkner is walking away with a gold medal.
Faulkner had a strong start to the 2024 season with her new team. She won the Omloop van het Hageland and Stage 4 of La Vuelta Feminina. In May, she won the Road Race and finished 2nd in the Time Trial at the United States National Road Race Championships. She was then selected to join Chloé Dygert in the road race and team pursuit at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Faulkner, despite being a replacement for the 2024 Olympic team, was the first American to win gold in cycling in 40 years when she took first in the women’s road race. Faulkner finished the 158-kilometer race 58 seconds clear of Lotte Kopecky.
Kristen Faulkner, the American cyclist, achieved a remarkable feat at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She won the gold medal in the women’s road race, becoming the first U.S. rider to do so in 40 years! 🥇🚴♀️
On Sunday, Aug. 4, Faulkner, As she rounded the corner for the final stretch across the Seine, the crowd began to cheer as she crossed the finish line first in the road race, “She is the genuine article,” a CNBC announcer praised. “And Kristen Faulkner, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, with a landmark US gold medal in the women’s road race.”
Again, Kristen historic and surprising win for the ages, makes her the first American woman to clinch the gold in the event, also since its debut event at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games. Connie Carpenter-Phinney (usopm.org) placed first that year. Faulkner spoke to NBC News about taking a chance and leaving her venture capitalist job in New York to pursue cycling.
“I still needed that outdoor fix that was such a big part of my life,” she explained.
But, she didn’t think about leaving her job behind until she won her first race in 2020.
Speaking about her journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics, she added, “It’s never a matter of if I’ll keep going, it’s just a matter of how.”
First-, second- and third-place finishers win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Kristen Faulkner (USA): 3:59:23
Marianne Vos (Netherlands): 4:00:21
Lotte Kopecky (Belgium): 4:00:21
Blanka Vas (Hungary): 4:00:21
Pfeiffer Georgi (Great Britain): 4:00:21
After
years:
Cyclist Kristen Faulkner is the latest member of Team USA to bring home a gold medal — and her victory might be one of the most unexpected yet. Faulkner, 31, initially wasn’t expected to compete in the women’s road cycling race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
As NBC Olympics reported on July 9, the cyclist found out less than a month before the Summer Games were set to begin that she would participate in the event despite failing to qualify. She was announced as the replacement for fellow Team USA cyclist Taylor Knibb, who decided to focus on other events like the women’s triathlon.
The news that Faulkner would represent Team USA in the event came just three years after she decided to resign from her job as a venture capitalist and solely focus on her career in cycling as she looked to the sky and won the Gold Medal!!!
In a great example of “be careful what you wish for,” Harris is as progressive as Republicans portrayed Biden to be. That is great for leftists, but awful for conservatives. And it will really test the beliefs of moderates. I admit that I did not see Harris’ candidacy and potential presidency coming. A lot of conservatives didn’t. I realize now how stupid and shortsighted that sounds.
Let me explain: Democrats have savagely ripped Donald Trump for eight years and the Republican Party for decades. That’s a long time to catch flak. When Biden took a turn for the worse, he became an obvious target for criticism. Not the 81-year-old commander in chief himself exactly, but the Democratic leadership who denied reality while backing a leader who clearly wasn’t fit to serve another four years.
It was an egregious error that needed to be pointed out.
Were they gaslighting Americans? The questions were important. And a bit of relief from the constant flogging Republicans have taken in the media for years.
Finally, there’s a new target.
And it’s not us.
I didn’t think the Democratic Party would pivot and choose Harris. I also didn’t think Harris would be a compelling candidate. Who would vote for a candidate who is so progressive and who ascended to the top of the ticket without winning a primary? But I’m certainly not her target audience.
I didn’t see that the Democratic Party would do what it did: Kick Biden to the curb only months before the election. What did conservatives think we would achieve by forcing Democrats to finally scrutinize Biden? I think some of us thought that focus would lead all the way to victory. But our “gotcha” moment was short-lived.
Many Republicans, including me, did not think the Democratic Party would dump Biden and choose Harris because the GOP did not let Trump go when it could have. MAGA populists outnumber anti-Trump conservatives like me. So it wasn’t even really a question. But if it had been possible, it’s not something the Republican Party would do.
Republicans are often not as strategic or shrewd as progressives.
One reason the Democratic Party is successful is because they have chutzpah where Republicans do not. They are ruthless where Republicans are loyal and forgiving. They are focused when Republicans hem and haw. They want victory now, not “legacy” later.
Victories lead to legacies, after all.
You know what might not lead to victory? Pitting an older, white male who is a convicted felon against a younger, energetic, progressive Black and South Asian female. Republicans called Biden a far-left liberal. Harris actually is.
Conservatives have made Biden out to be a far-left progressive who was too old and weak to serve effectively. Some of that is true, but he really isn’t a far-left liberal. Conservatives slammed his tax policies, his college loan forgiveness program and his “Build Back Better” program as utter failures. But compared with Harris, Biden’s policies will look moderate.
Harris appeals to Democrats who favor leftist rhetoric regarding inclusion and equality and progressive policies such as eliminating private health insurance, imposing mandatory gun buyback programs, banning hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, and opposing the hiring of more police officers.
For conservatives, her sudden candidacy provides a chance to take a deep dive into her record, her ideas and her policies. It’s with her own ideas that we can show moderates and independents that a Harris presidency would decrease the quality of life for most Americans.
Harris stands in stark contrast to conservative ideas and values. And her candidacy forces us to ask what a Harris presidency would mean for the future of our nation. Harris versus Trump provides a clarifying moment for America: Which direction do we really want to go?
I complained about Biden, but I can tell you now, a Kamala Harris presidency would make the past four years look like a Republican has been in charge.
WASHINGTON — A Kamala Harris presidency could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. healthcare system, from abortion rights to insurance coverage to drug pricing, according to policy experts and former advisers to the vice president.
“She will attack them repeatedly and mercilessly on reproductive rights,” said Drew Altman, the president and CEO of KFF, a nonpartisan research group. “I think it’s been a winning card for her so far, and I would expect to see her dial that up tremendously.”
Andy Slavitt, a top healthcare official in the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations who has informally advised Harris, said she has an advantage on abortion, an issue that resonates with voters.
As vice president, Harris’s goal has been to advance and promote Biden’s agenda. But if she secures the Democratic presidential nomination — as she’s currently favored to — Harris would be free to cast her own vision to remake the health care system. And her record and 2020 presidential campaign provide some clues about how she would govern.
Her campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment as the Harris campaign is in its early stages. But her record and 2020 presidential campaign provide some clues about how she would govern.
“We can expect her to try to build on the Biden legacy of expanding coverage,” Sabrina Corlette, a health policy expert and professor at Georgetown University. “And she’s going to have to do something to bring down costs.”
Corlette predicted Harris would look to protect the Affordable Care Act and extend the enhanced subsidies designed to lower costs, which are currently set to expire at the end of 2025. She’d also likely work with Congress to try and extend Medicaid coverage in the 10 states that haven’t expanded it under the Affordable Care Act.
And she could carry on Biden’s attempts to expand Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing benefits for seniors. It’s still early for even close allies to know how Harris will seek to balance embracing Biden’s approach with carving out her own. “I have no idea,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., a powerful figure within the party, though he added that the Obama-Biden health care legacy would be in good hands with her. “She’s a part of it,” Clyburn said.
Beyond that, Harris showed more liberal instincts on health care in her 2020 campaign than Biden did, which could be a factor. “She may be more willing to take on some of the sacred cows in health care than the Biden administration was,” Corlette said. “She obviously signed onto Medicare for All. She also supported public option proposals in the Senate.
You could see more backing of a government-supported plan option for people, which could have the power to bring down the costs of insurance.” Harris signed onto the Medicare For All Act of 2019, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a few months into her presidential bid.
The bill sought to expand Medicare to cover all Americans and effectively end private insurance. It divided the Democratic Party — progressives embraced it, but moderates, including Biden, feared it went too far by effectively eliminating private coverage. The issue tripped up Harris when she was quizzed on the bill’s impact on the private insurance most Americans have.
She later offered her own health care bill that leaned on Medicare Advantage to preserve a role for private coverage. At the time, the episode raised questions among Democratic elites and voters about where she stood ideologically. Harris ended her campaign later that year and by the time Biden chose her to be vice president, she embraced his proposals.
“I don’t think she’s a disrupter. I don’t think she’s going to be pushing for some big, radical change,” Slavitt said. “People will talk about how she signed on to Bernie’s bill. A lot of people signed on to Bernie’s bill for a variety of reasons. Some say the ideal is universal coverage. … Some because they believe in it literally. … I read her as being more pragmatic.”
Altman added that in this campaign, Democrats are highly unlikely to revive Medicare for All “because of their fear of Trump.” Republicans are combing through Harris’ past statements on health care and looking for material to use against her.
A GOP strategist noted that in a June 2019 debate, Harris was among 10 Democratic candidates who raised their hand when asked if the U.S. should insure undocumented immigrants. Harris didn’t discuss it, but others on stage argued that it was humane and fiscally wise to ensure broad coverage so people are less reliant on expensive emergency care when they get sick.
On the campaign trail, Altman expects that Harris will continue to promote existing initiatives from the Biden administration, particularly the ongoing rollout of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Among the provisions is a $35 per month cap on the out-of-pocket cost of insulin for seniors on Medicare, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Starting next year, the law will also impose a $2,000 out-of-pocket spending cap on prescription drugs for people on Medicare. It also allows the federal government — for the first time — to negotiate prices for drugs that Medicare spends the most money on, a long sought-after goal by Democrats and some Republicans.
A KFF poll published in May found that more independent voters trusted Biden over Trump when it came to many areas of health care, including health care costs. Harris will be seeking to carry that years-long Democratic advantage.
Altman said he expects Harris to lean into protecting Medicare and Medicaid, while highlighting GOP proposals that would partially privatize or cut those health care programs for elderly and lower-income Americans, respectively, a tactic Democrats have used against Republicans for years.
Those GOP proposals include some recommendations in “Project 2025,” a sweeping collection of right-wing ideas to transform the U.S. government. Though it was written by former Trump officials in anticipation of a second term, Trump has said he knows “nothing” about it.
“I also suspect she will be the first to bring Medicaid into the picture,” he said, “arguing that the various Republican groups from [Project] 2025 to the Republican Study Committee are proposing to eviscerate the Medicaid program by capping and cutting it.”
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
VP Harris is pushing forward with progressive economic policies, but the new jobs report could cast a shadow over her campaign’s goals. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld joins The Weekend to break down what could be in store for a future Harris economy.
What Harris’s career has made clear is that she’s more likely to pursue incremental progress than big, ambitious ideas. That’s why if elected, it’s likely that her administration would simply be an extension of the current one rather than a disruption.
On the campaign trail this week, several priorities have come into focus, with the economy and affordability still at the top of the list. Harris continues to talk about prioritizing the middle class, just as Biden did: “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency,” Harris said at her first major campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
“When our middle class is strong, America is strong.”
To support that swath of Americans, improving the care economy — those services that focus on children and the elderly — could be one of the major policy areas she may come to prioritize.
She would zero in on a straightforward policy agenda, said Carmel Martin, who served as the vice president’s domestic policy adviser from 2022 to 2023: a focus on “economic progress while bringing down inflation, expanding access to services that people need — health care being at the front of the line — and protecting reproductive rights.”
Harris has already shown signs of this focus, saying in a campaign address on Monday that she believes “in a future where no child has to grow up in poverty; where every person can buy a home, start a family, and build wealth; and where every person has access to paid family leave and affordable child care.” All of these stances are essentially what Biden has pitched before.
The fact that Harris has shown she’s not a hardened ideologue means that she can be swayed by political headwinds, giving social movements an opportunity to push various agendas.
Some of the country’s most transformational legislation, for example, didn’t come directly from presidents who were ideological hardliners, but rather from presidents who were willing to listen to social movements and public sentiment — as was the case during the Civil Rights Era.
Will Harris help or hurt the Democrats’ chances in November?
Usually, by the time a presidential candidate makes it to the general election after a grueling primary campaign, their policy priorities and ideology are relatively clear. Barack Obama, for example, offered a vision for a post-George W. Bush America — promising to end the US “forever” wars, address economic inequality, and unite the country around the common desire for hope and change.
In 2020, Biden was largely viewed as a centrist who campaigned on defending democracy and a return to normalcy after the rise of Trumpism and the devastating effects of a pandemic, specifically touting his vested interest in pursuing bipartisanship.
Harris, however, is starting a campaign essentially from scratch, without having gone through a primary process. As a result, voters haven’t been properly introduced to her as a candidate for the presidency.
Her lack of a clearly defined ideological position up to this point in her career might now prove an asset: She has a unique opportunity to reintroduce herself to the country and offer a new vision for the future.
What Harris does over the next few weeks will help to shape voters’ opinions of her. That doesn’t mean she can entirely evade her past — her record as a prosecutor will likely keep coming up — or that she won’t be haunted by past policy positions. For now, though, she’s likely to focus on Trump’s baggage and the danger he poses to democracy. READ MORE: What would a Kamala Harris presidency look like? – Vox
But the Republican platform steers clear of the term ‘climate change.’
Instead, the Republicans’ platform states: “We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL and we will become Energy Independent, and even Dominant again. The United States has more liquid gold under our feet than any other Nation, and it’s not even close. The Republican Party will harness that potential to power our future.”
Meanwhile, the results of a recent Climate Insights survey of public opinion conducted by researchers at Stanford University and Resources for the Future (RFF) are, to put it mildly, worrisome. 1,000 American adults were interviewed for the survey, which was conducted by the firm ReconMR for RFF and Stanford University. The latest data was collected between October 16, 2023, and February 23, 2024.
Stressful Statistics
In addition, it states:
According to the survey, the number of climate skeptics has dropped by 6% since 2020. 75% of Americans believe Earth has warmed up during the last century – a drop of 8% since 2020. 21% consider climate change as crucial – no substantial change. Americans who support solar power dropped by 8% during the past decade. Support for wind-powered electricity is 14% less than 10 years ago. 67% trust climate scientists – a decrease of 8% since 2020.
These descending statistics in the RFF/Stanford survey mirror the ones of a Pew Research Center survey showing a weakening in the “breadth of support for wind and solar power.” As per the Pew poll, Republican support is 20% less for solar and 19% less for wind since Biden became President.
The Associate Research Director of Pew, Alec Tyson, refers to this as a “significant change,” saying that: “It’s a new level of polarization on energy issues that we had not previously seen.” Now, the Republican nominee for vice president, JD Vance, with his close ties to the fossil fuels industry and his criticism of electric vehicles (shared by presidential nominee Donald Trump), is seen as a threat to Americans and the planet, according to environmental advocates.
Before running for political office, Vance voiced concern about the climate crisis. Now, he’s voting to end environmental protections in addition to canceling landmark climate legislation supporting renewables and electric vehicles.
What Crisis?
Cassidy DiPaola, spokesperson for Fossil Free Media’s Make Polluters Pay campaign, says: “The selection of JD Vance as a potential vice-president is a dangerous step backward for climate action in the United States.” DiPaola added: “Senator Vance’s record shows a clear pattern of prioritizing fossil fuel interests over the urgent need to address the climate crisis.”
Should Republicans win the White House, flip the Senate, and maintain their House majority in November’s election, they will have various ways of shifting US climate policy. This scenario has become more and more likely in recent weeks after certain events, including Biden’s catastrophic debate performance, and an attempted assassination on Trump which has revitalized his base.
Although this can’t be 100% assured yet, Republicans are optimistic about their chances.
On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, told The Washington Post that “there’s obviously going to be a big down ballot effect” from recent events. While this has unnerved certain leading liberal climate groups, it has fired up fresh support for Trump.
No Threat?
William Perry Pendley served as acting director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management during the Trump administration. According to him, “To say climate change is the biggest threat to humanity is absolutely insane.”
“The remedy that President Biden has is, ‘Let’s spend a ton of money solving a problem that doesn’t exist and turning over your lifestyles.’ That’s certainly not the position of the Republican Party.”
2025’s Blueprint
A possible playbook for the Republican party is Project 2025, a proposal for the next conservative administration. While Trump has said he knows “nothing about Project 2025,” several of its authors were part of the Trump administration or could enjoy prominent positions if he wins a second term.
Additionally, Trump has also praised the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that organized Project 2025. Among Project 2025’s many controversial proposals is a recommendation to revoke Biden’s signature 2022 climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
In addition to the emphasis on individual autonomy and limited government intervention, here are some other key libertarian beliefs:
Free Markets: Libertarians advocate for free-market capitalism, where supply and demand determine prices, and competition drives innovation. They believe that minimal government regulation allows markets to function efficiently.
Civil Liberties: Libertarians champion civil liberties, including freedom of speech, religion, and privacy. They oppose government surveillance and censorship.
Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy: Libertarians generally favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs. They believe in avoiding unnecessary wars and military involvement abroad.
Legalization of Drugs: Many libertarians support drug legalization, arguing that individuals should have the right to make their own choices regarding substance use.
Individual Responsibility: Libertarians stress personal responsibility and self-reliance. They believe that individuals should be accountable for their actions without relying on government assistance.
Remember, these beliefs can vary among libertarians, but these points capture some common themes. In essence, libertarians believe that individuals should have the freedom to make their own choices without undue interference from external authorities. 😊
This law has already invested billions into pushing green technologies, including wind turbines and electric vehicles. The majority of the new investments are in red states and congressional districts.
If Trump wants to fully repeal these green technologies’ tax credits, he would need Republican lawmakers to pass new legislation. However, he could also sidestep Congress and direct the Treasury Department to substantially restrict which companies could claim the credits.
Predicting how these and other decisions could impact the level of carbon emissions in Earth’s atmosphere, the main driver of global warming, is tricky. However, Carbon Brief, a United Kingdom-based climate policy and science publication, found that a second Trump administration could lead to an extra 4 billion metric tons of carbon emissions by 2030.
This would be equal to the collective annual emissions of the European Union and Japan!
According to Simon Evans, deputy editor and senior policy editor at Carbon Brief, “A Republican sweep in November’s election would avoid congressional roadblocks to Trump rolling back all of Biden’s climate legacy.” Trump Always States, “The United States Can Stand Alone When It Comes to the Environment.”
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 the Indian subcontinent 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]
The Asian brown cloud is created by a range of airborne particles and pollutants from combustion (e.g., woodfires, 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]
A Frightening Forecast
“Under those conditions, Trump could push the U.S. towards the extra 4 billion tons of CO2 emissions by 2030 that we modeled — and potentially beyond.”
Dr John Clauser lecture on climate and misinformation – Bing video At a lecture at Quantum Korea 2023 Seoul on June 26, 2023, esteemed Nobel Prize winner and physicist Dr. John Clauser – Search (bing.com) told the audience and the world, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis.” And his comment has provoked a wide range of responses from the public, as well as from his colleagues and peers in the field.
Dr. Clauser went on to say, “The world we live in today is filled with misinformation. It is up to each of you to serve as judges, distinguishing truth from falsehood based on accurate observations of phenomena.” Global warming and climate change have been hot-button topics for some time now, and although the world is widely divided on its validity, most scientists have agreed that climate change is a very real problem.
So when such an educated and respected physicist like Dr. John Clauser publicly denounces the problem, it certainly makes headlines. But he’s not the only one to do so; Meteorologist and founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, has also spoken out, stating that there is “no significant man-made global warming. Climate change is not happening. There is no significant man-made global warming now, there hasn’t been any in the past, and there’s no reason to expect any in the future.” Now, it’s not just on social media that Dr. Clauser is being so-called “canceled.” He is also facing challenges in his career because of the comments at the Seol forum. In fact, exactly one month after giving his speech on June 26, 2023, Dr. Clauser was set to present a detailed seminar on the climate to the International Monetary Fund, but directly after hearing his comments, his lecture was immediately canceled.
While technically, Clauser received an email from the Director of the IMF, Pablo Moreno, postponing the talk, it seems clear to everyone that Dr. Clauser is no longer welcome to share his opinions with the organization.
Climate change is a widely divided issue the global community is facing, but those who do not believe in the problem are often known as “deniers” and have been subject to censorship in the mainstream media. However, more and more data is being collected that may eventually turn the tide.
For example, in 2022, a study by The European Physical Journal Plus reported that there have actually been many unconfirmed claims about the apparently apocalyptic climate crisis in the media which have no scientific support.
Dr. John Clauser finished his thoughts on the climate issue with these important words: “In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.” We will have to wait and see if Dr. John Clauser continues to be removed from important events for his comments, but for now, it seems that the world will certainly be watching to see what he says next.
Look around you. Appreciate what you have. Nothing will be the same in a year.
Weather Control The “Artificial Clouds Generation System” is a machine Located in Mississippi owned by NASA that’s responsible for the rain & artificial clouds we see in the southern states. The government has been engineering the weather for decades creating “geo storms” and artificial weather using HAARP. It stands for “High frequency Active Auroral Research Project” ; it was a joint project by the U.S. Navy & Air Force.
There are a total of 20 HAARP stations in the world. It’s used for affecting weather systems creating a very large radio frequency transmitter which can transmit an electromagnetic beam into the upper atmosphere or ionosphere. It can create a column-shaped hole that rises a couple of hundred kilometers through the atmosphere. The lower atmosphere then moves up the column to fill in that space, and it changes pressure systems below. This radio frequency energy is broadcasted at 3.6 million watts through a field of 48 antennas which are 72 feet tall, and they have a cross dipoles across the top.
NOAA-19 WXtoIMG NooElec NESDR Orbitron Double Cross Dipole – Bing video Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto Earth. Normally, radio frequency energy dissipates with distance, but by firing them in a unique way, the energy is focused, and a cyclotron resonance effect occurs. you put energy into the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere, in the ULF range (ultra-low frequency range). You can create a catalyst which causes natural energy to be released causing Natural Disasters Known as “Geo Storms” which they turned into a movie with the exact same name showing you the entire process. #Geostorm#NASA#weather control#HAARP#WeatherManipulation#TheGovernment#government
Earth has always evolved and CO2 Levels Change Constantly. Increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone increase the absorption and emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere, causing the observed rise in average global temperature and ocean acidification. Another direct effect is the CO2 fertilization effect. These changes cause a range of indirect effects of climate change on the physical environment, ecosystems and human societies. Carbon dioxide exerts a larger overall warming influence than all of the other greenhouse gases combined.[5] It has an atmospheric lifetime that increases with the cumulative amount of fossil carbon extracted and burned, due to the imbalance that this activity has imposed on Earth’s fast carbon cycle.[11]
This means that some fraction (a projected 20–35%) of the fossil carbon transferred thus far will persist in the atmosphere as elevated CO2 levels for many thousands of years after these carbon transfer activities begin to subside.[12][13][14]
The carbon cycle is a biogeochemical cycle in which carbon is exchanged between the Earth’s oceans, soil, rocks and the biosphere. Plants and other photoautotrophs use solar energy to produce carbohydrates from atmospheric carbon dioxide and water by photosynthesis. Almost all other organisms depend on carbohydrates derived from photosynthesis as their primary source of energy and carbon compounds.
The present atmospheric concentration of CO2 is the highest for 14 million years.[15] Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were as high as 4,000 ppm during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago, and as low as 180 ppm during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years.[4] Reconstructed temperature records for the last 420 million years indicate that atmospheric CO2 concentrations peaked at approximately 2,000 ppm during the Devonian (400 Ma) period, and again in the Triassic (220–200 Ma) period and was four times current levels during the Jurassic period (201–145 Ma).[16][17] Source: Carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere – Wikipedia.
Today, businesses are trapped in the green box of sustainable development. Academics, government leaders, public opinion, and 1000s of laws and regulations demand the adoption of sustainability. In response, companies spend billions on renewable energy, carbon credits, biofuels, and other green policies in an effort to counter the coming environmental apocalypse.
But a look at data and trends shows that the ideology of environmentally sustainable development is based on false concepts. Population growth is slowing, nations continue to reduce air and water pollution, climate change is dominated by natural factors with negligible effects from human greenhouse emissions, and societal access to resources continues to grow.
Society and business should adopt a policy that is sensibly green. We should continue to reduce air and water pollution, but avoid other policies aimed at stopping global warming and halting hydrocarbon use. These other policies actually do little for Earth’s environment.
Outside the Green Box is a well-illustrated and amusing look at society’s quest to be sustainable, and the resulting misguided policies that provide little benefit for the environment. Learn what “your green consultant didn’t tell you.”
Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and researcher on environmental issues and a former engineer and business executive. He is an independent columnist and an invited guest on radio and television, including Fox Business Channel, the 700 Club, Jim Bohannon, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Lars Larson, and Janet Parshall. He’s the Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America a non-political association of scientists, engineers, and citizens dedicated to informing about the realities of climate science and energy economics.
Steve’s full-time efforts are devoted to correcting misconceptions about energy, resources, climate change, and the environment, including resultant negative impacts on business, industry, agriculture, and public policy. He wrote this book to bring the facts about sustainable development to business and to change commonly-held, but mistaken, beliefs about the environment.
Steve holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has more than 30 years of experience at Fortune 100 and private companies in engineering and executive roles. He is husband and father of three and resides in Illinois in the United States of America.
America’s Spiritual Revolution: Turning Away from Christianity to Embrace Alternatives
As church attendance declines, Americans are exploring diverse spiritual paths, from stargazing druids to unconventional deities like Wi-Fi gods and extraterrestrials. Explore the quirky and sometimes controversial new religions capturing attention as people seek meaning beyond traditional Christianity. America’s Spiritual Revolution: Turning Away from Christianity to Embrace Alternatives
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fear is an illusion!
Look around you. Appreciate what you have. Nothing will be the same in a year. 
