One of these days they are going to kill us all.

https://anh-usa.org/frankensoil-why-we-m...-microbes/

Quote:The genetic engineering (GE) of soil microbes is the new frontier of industrial agriculture, but it represents a massive threat to human and planetary health. We need to put pressure on regulators to stop the devastating consequences of this practice before it’s too late. [b]Action Alert!

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In the 1990s, the EPA was weeks away from releasing a GE soil bacteria that [b]could have ended all life on Earth[/b].
Scientists had [b]developed a GE bacterium[/b] that could convert plant matter into alcohol. The plan was for farmers to take their leftover crop residues, put them in barrels, add the GE bacteria, and produce alcohol to run their tractors. The nutrient-rich sludge left at the bottom of the barrels could then be spread on their fields as fertilizer. The EPA had approved a field test of the bacteria…until a graduate student at Oregon State University ran an experiment showing that plants grown in soil mixed with the GE bacterium died within weeks. Previous field tests by the EPA had shown that GE bacteria could spread geographically at a breathtaking pace, eventually across the entire globe. If the Oregon State graduate student had not done the test and sounded the alarm, a GE bacterium that destroys most plants it meets could have been released and infiltrated soils across the planet, causing an ecological cataclysm and, potentially, even ending life as we know it here on Earth.


[b]An ”Unprecedented, Open-Air Experiment”[/b]

These are the stakes when we tinker with Nature, yet these lessons are routinely disregarded by the agrichemical industry. Companies like Bayer, Syngenta (ChemChina), Corteva (Dow-Dupont) and BASF are investing heavily in the development of GE microbes for soil application, with at least two GE soil microbes currently being used. Genetic engineering of microbes was long the preserve of scientists looking for ways to decontaminate polluted soils – but now the technology has spilled over into agriculture, supposedly to enhance yields – but at what price? While these products are referred to by industry as “biologicals” in an effort to cast them similarly to natural soil microbes, they are more correctly “engineered biologicals” given their profound changes that follow human tampering with their genetic code.
Unlike synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides, these engineered biologicals are derived from naturally occurring microbes typically found in soil or plants. Then follows their all-important genetic engineering. As a [b]new report[/b] from Friends of the Earth puts it, the use of GE microbes “represents an unprecedented open-air experiment that may have irreversible consequences.” Even scarier is the complete lack of transparency and federal oversight for these products, the release of which could have monumental consequences for human and planetary health.


[b]Throwing a (GE) Wrench in the Works[/b]
Just as human health relies on our gut microbiota, a plant’s health also relies on a microbiome, one made up of the innumerable microbes (notably bacteria and fungi) that occupy the soil around the plant’s roots. The plants microbiome is referred to as the rhizosphere, and a healthy, living soil contains more life per unit area than anywhere else on the planet. The rhizosphere represents an incredibly dense, intricate ecosystem that plays profound roles in supporting life on this planet, such as making nutrients in the soil available to crops and regulating global [b]carbon and nitrogen cycles[/b]. What’s more, a living soil represents a huge interconnected network that allows plants to communicate with one another, triggering defenses and sharing nutrients in ways that benefit the wider ecosystem, [b]even within an agroecosystem[/b]. A network that can be thrown into disarray when herbicides, fungicides and other pesticides are thrown into the mix – let along new-to-nature GE bacteria. This technology meddles hugely with the unknown: of the billions of species of microbe in our soils, we’ve only scientifically characterized a few hundred thousand—probably less than 1 percent.


The truth is that Big Ag and Biotech are tinkering with profound forces about which we (and they) know very little. Releasing GE microbes into the soil is a terrible idea, plain and simple, because we just can’t be sure how or where the modified genetic material will end up or how it might be altered. Soil bacteria are specialists at moving genetic material around – in fact it was [b]this understanding that spurned the GE revolution[/b] in the 1970s and ‘80s.  Yet with little or no proper oversight, GE microbes are being applied to US soils as we speak, and companies are racing to develop more and more GE biologicals. As of now, the two traits Big Ag are working with are about enhancing their ability to kill pests or generate nutrients like nitrogen (as in [b]Pivot Bio PROVEN[/b] product, one of the GE biologicals currently in use).


[b]Risks and Unintended Consequences[/b]
There are catastrophes in recent history that show us the problems that can arise with the outdoor release of GE organisms. In Brazil, for instance, [b]GE mosquitoes were released[/b] with the goal of reducing the mosquito population, but they may have unintentionally changed the gene pool of the local populations and created stronger mosquitoes.
This risk is much greater with GE microbes, which can exchange genetic material with other microbes through [b]horizontal gene transfer[/b] (the same process that causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics). What happens when GE microbes are released into soil and exchange genetic information with wild species? What if GE microbes travel to unintended locations, crowd out native microbial communities, and reduce the diversity of life in the soil? Given the complexity of the soil microbiome and the huge gaps in our knowledge about it, releasing GE microbes is an extremely risky and dangerous enterprise. It’s like jumping into a well when it’s too dark to see what’s down there.
The genetic manipulation of microbes is itself a risky process. As we’ve argued before: despite what optimists say, gene-editing is not a precise science and can produce [b]unpredictable and unintended consequences[/b]. A [b]recent study[/b] involving human embryos found that when CRISPR was used to repair a mutation that can cause hereditary blindness, it [b]appeared to[/b] “wreak genetic havoc in about half the specimens that the researchers examined.”


[b]Regen Ag Now![/b]
The industrial approach to agriculture has put us on this path. Monoculture (the cultivation of large areas with a single crop), especially when coupled with intensive use of agrochemicals, that try to counter the low intrinsic resistance of the crop, and synthetic fertilizers, that try to boost yield, depletes the soil of nutrients, microbial life and makes crops vulnerable to pests and diseases. This generates the fertilizer and pesticide “treadmill” that farmers struggle to get off: a new chemical is developed to kill weeds, weeds become resistant to that chemical, soils become sterile, so a new, more potent chemical is developed, more fertilizer is applied, and so on and so on. Companies are now turning to biologicals as the agrichemical era looks ever less promising, and genetic engineering, in its many forms, is now the new frontier. GE in agriculture parallels the similar growth in interest in genetic vaccines in the healthcare space, a trend that became clear with the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.  
GE ag is far from our only option. The alternative is to look to nature and adopt the [b]principles[/b] of [b]regenerative agriculture[/b].


In a follow-up to this article, we will delve into the way government agencies are, or are not, regulating GE microbes — and we’ll look at what can be done to avert a potential environmental catastrophe.
[b]Action Alert! [/b]Write to Congress and the EPA telling them that we cannot allow Big Ag to risk human and planetary health with GM soil microbes! [b]Please send your message immediately.[/b]

Some history all the way back to the founding fathers and the political intrigues all the way to the now and present times. Entertaining and informative IMO. There is a transcript of the video at youtube

Roberts glanced over to the left side of his desk, seeking a particular folder.

"Ah", he thought, "there it is" as he reached to grab it.

Just then, the voice of Adrienne, his admin assistant, came through over the intercom:

Mister Roberts, Line Five. The Past Is Calling.

Reacting automatically, he picked up the handset and punched the fifth button in the row along the bottom of the telephone ...

For a moment, he did not know where he was. It was cold and darkness was closing. Snow all over the place and an uncomfortable sensation of long-forgotten weighty items. Ahead of him, a guttural voice spoke in a commanding tone. Instinctively, he dove into a snowbank just as a loud ripping noise rent the air above, with smacking sounds in the earthen bank behind him. Machine gun! Fear seized him and he curled into a fetal position as a vehicle with a loud motor and squeaking tracks approached his location. More voices in that other language. He realized he was tightly clutching a rifle, but couldn't shake his fear enough to point it to his front ...

A strange high-frequency noise steadily increased in volume and the entire area was suddenly illuminated as if a huge spotlight had been turned on. Roberts looked up as a loud pulsing sound accompanied what looked like elongated blobs of ... light ... energy ... shot over his position and impacted to his front.

Loud explosions and then screams ... and then silence.

But the illumination was still there and increasing in intensity. Finally it seemed centered over Roberts himself, bathing him in brilliant light. Shaking in terror, Roberts stared at the source of the illumination, amazed at how large it was. Putting his rifle down, he forced himself to speak.

"Are ... are you God?"

The "light" suddenly vanished and Roberts closed his eyes and felt as if he was falling.

After a moment, the familiar sound of the office air conditioning system filled his ears. Startled, he opened his eyes and stared at the telephone handset he was fiercely grasping. The line was dead, and he carefully replaced the handset on the receiver.

It took him a moment to stand; he felt shakey. Staggering to the door, he opened it and walked into the reception area. Glancing apprehensively at Adrienne, he mumbled, "I'm taking a short stroll, I'll be back."

Adrienne simply side-eyed him with a mysterious little smile.

-END-

If Americans won't vote for Democrats (and they can't cheat enough) then hell, we need to import new Americans that will.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...n-gap.html

Costa Rica declares state of emergency over migrant crisis after record quarter of a MILLION people crossed through treacherous jungle to reach US this year

• President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency  on Tuesday 
  
• 386,000 migrants have passed through Costa Rica on their way to the US
  
• The asylum seekers enter the country through its southern Border with Panama after having crossed the dangerous Darien Gap 
  

Quote:Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency as it struggles to deal with an influx of migrants passing through the tropical paradise, with more than a quarter million asylum seekers crossing through the treacherous Darien Gap this year to get to the US.

President Rodrigo Chaves said on Tuesday he has ordered officials to declare a state of emergency as the number of migrants passing through the small Central American nation after crossing from South to Central America through the jungle jumped sharply, reaching 386,000 in 2023 alone.

'The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically... I have instructed the security ministry to take a firm stance with anyone who takes Costa Rica's kindness for weakness,' Chaves said at a press conference, referencing recent riots by migrants crossing the country.


While the migrants are only passing through Costa Rica, they often stay in transit countries like the tourist haven for weeks or months while they make money to continue their journey. These migrants have filled refugee camps in the country, as well as in others such as Panama and Mexico. 

Chaves said he will allow the migrants to get to the north of the country, and transport them via buses, but 'disrespect' towards authorities will not be allowed,' as reported by The Tico Times. 

The migrant presence in Costa Rica has increased as a record number of asylum seekers cross the dangerous 575,000-hectare jungle called the Darien Gap, which connects Colombia and Panama and serves as a route to the US for desperate migrants.

The dangerous jungle crossing has been reduced from over a week to as little as two days for the strongest walkers, by a network of guides, established camps and rudimentary trail markers that start in the Necocli, on Colombia’s side of the gap. 

Venezuelan migrants in Huehuetoca said the Darien operation appears to be dominated by Colombian paramilitary groups, which funnel part of their proceeds to Panama’s autonomous Indigenous groups.

Pastor Joe Fox (Mongo / Viking Preparedness) message to the community.

Worth the time to watch in my opinion. Enlightening for many I am sure.

https://wltreport.com/2023/09/17/clif-hi...-incoming/

The whole thing is incredibly fascinating and scary, but the main topic is both Clif with his system and Dick Allgire with his Remote Viewers are both seeing a major event coming soon.
Likely October.
Perhaps related to the Emergency Broadcasting System test they are running on October 4 (which I have also heard may be delayed at any point up to October 14)?


didn't watch but the gist seems to be that a bunch of psychics and such are seeing a catastrophic event real soon, probly by October.
options:

1) random chance cherry-picked for publicity.
2) genuine event coming and some people are psychically attuned in such a way as to detect.

debate?
I have doubts.  there's always some disaster around the corner.

Without going into specifics, come Jan 13th, I'll be unemployed.  A contract was not renewed.

So that leaves me to either retire early (which the wife wants) or to take another job as an administrator in another place, another state.


Lexington KY to be exact.

Decisions, decisions.

I'm old enough to retire, even getting my VA rating renewed for disability.

But I'm not sure I want to quit working yet.  Is that weird?  My wife would take over, being a skilled nurse for 30+ years, she makes bank.

With both of us working, we'd make even more.

Though I want to take the time to write my book.

Just rambling thoughts of an old man, fading into his sunset years.

So, I got this right after my notification that Keystone Beef went up 3 bucks per can.

Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

Quote:Thank you for your recent order with Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc. Due to the overwhelming demand for our products over the last week and a half, I would like to reach out to you personally in order to let you know that there will be a bit of a delay in fulfilling your order.

That is probably telling you something that you already know if you have been patiently waiting for a couple of days now for word on the shipping of an order (or orders) that you placed, but I felt as though I at least owe you an explanation as to why it is taking us a little extra time to ship your order.

I have spoken to hundreds of customers personally over the last couple of days as I worked through close to 10,000 emails that I have received since last week - so if I already spoke to you about this, then please forgive me for bugging you on the same subject again.

It took me a few days to go through the backlog of orders to make sure that I knew exactly where we sat.

Please rest assured that your order will ship soon. For some people “soon” will mean hours or a day or two. And for others, “soon” could mean a delay of up to a week or a little more. It just depends on when you placed your order.

It is hard for me to tell anyone/everyone exactly how long the wait is going to be because we are moving as fast as we can without sacrificing accuracy.

Quite honestly, If I had to stop what we are doing to try and give you exact dates, not only would that be nothing more than a guess, but the time to go though orders one by one to come up with that guess would mean that I would be adding up to several more days onto the time it is already taking us to ship your order.

But, just know that we are shipping all orders out in the order that we receive them. You have me word on that!

Part of the difficulty of giving you an accurate ETA for the shipping of your order is that because the order sizes are so varied. Not only are there are still several thousand orders in the system that we are working on - but some of them are for a handful of items, and some of them are for hundreds of items.

And because we chose to accept back-orders on some items that we’re selling faster than we could replenish stock on them, we will be doing partial shipments on many orders, to ensure you do not have to wait longer than necessary.

That means that we may need to ship you two (2) orders to complete your purchase, and obviously it takes twice the time to ship two orders as it would take to ship one order.

However, I can tell you that we have all of the product in-house to fill every single order that we received, so you are guaranteed to receive your order with every single item that you purchased.

Once your order has shipped, you will receive an email with tracking information from my shipping folks so that you will know with certainty that it is on the way to you. If we did have to ship your order in more than one shipment, it will be indicated on your shipping confirmation email, and the remainder of your order will ship automatically, so you do not have to worry about doing anything on your end.

If you are willing to bear with us and wait for a little bit (and I hope that you will), you do not need to do anything. Just know that we are working on shipping orders literally around the clock 7 days a week.

However, if this delay is unacceptable to you, I honestly will understand and it will not stop us from hopefully offering you products that no one else is able to produce. Just let me know if you would rather not wait and I will cancel your order and issue a full refund to you right away.

If you have already received notification from us that your order has shipped, then please disregard this email as I may have gotten my wires crossed. Because of the huge volume of orders, I am relying on my shopping cart software to tell me who has placed and order and who is still waiting for us to ship it. So if your order has shipped annd you are receiving this email in error, that is why and I apologize for worrying you.=!

Again, if your order has anlready shipped, then I sent this message to you in error annd I am sorry about that. I just want to make sure that I get word to everyone who has been patiently waiting.

I would like to offer my sincere apology for any inconvenience that this delay may cause you. We do our best to fulfill orders without incident, but occasionally delays like this are simply unavoidable. I can count the amount of times that we have had to suspend our same-day shipping promise on one hand and still have 2 fingers left over;-).

I promise you that this delay will be temporary and we will get back to shipping orders the same day that they were received just as quickly as we can.

If you have additional questions and/or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me personally by responding to this email. I give you my word that you will receive a personal response from me - not from someone on my staff pretending to me - although I probably should add the disclaimer that it could take me a day or two to respond if I get overwhelmed, as I am actually already dealing with a volume of emails that I have never seen in the 21 years that we have been in business.

So if you don’t get a quick reply from me - please don’t send your message again. I promise you I have received it and I will reply to you personally as quick as possible.

Thanks to everyone for the understanding if you have been patiently waiting for your order or for a response from me. I am humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent information that many of you have seen on YouTube. I promise to never take the kind words, trust and loyalty for granted, as I know that you have choices out there.

On behalf of everyone at Freeze Dry Wholesalers - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason why we do what we do, and we all consider ourselves to be blessed to be a part of your lives!

Warmest Regards,

-Steve

Steven L. Cyros, President
Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc.

PS; As you will have seen if you have visited our website recently, we are sold out of a lot of products. In addition to our focus on shipping your order quickly, my buyers and my production folks are working on getting those products back in stock as quickly as we can.

Items that I have in my fridges and freezers will continue to be available for backorder. You can purchase those items and we will ship them to you as soon as they are available.

Items that I don’t physically have in my possession cannot be purchase, as I am just not comfortable taking your heard-earned money for them and then having to rely on a vendor to ship them to me. The state of the supply chain these days is questionable at best.

If you sign up on our website to be notified when an out of stock product is available, you will receive a real-time email the second we put it back in stock, so that is the best way to be alerted to our ever-changing inventory right now.

No, nothing wrong here. This is normal behavior. Possibly family friendly..... come out of her my people indeed.


He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.

https://thepostmillennial.com/california...ddie-pools

Quote:"It’s fun, it’s (relatively) safe, and it’s wonderfully shocking to the muggles," the group said.

On Sunday, the infamous Folsom Street Fair took place in San Francisco, with the kink festival celebrating its 40th year.

Folsom Street describes itself as "committed to cultivating a safe, open, and inclusive environment for the kink, leather, and alternative sexuality communities while centering equity for BIPOC and LGBTQA2I+ people in our work. We are rooted historically in the fight against gentrification and displacement both here in San Francisco, on unceded Ohlone land, and worldwide."

Photos and videos of the event circulating on social media show men dressed in fetish attire openly participating in sexual acts on the public street.

One photo shows two men sitting in a kiddie pool while another standing along the side pees into it.

The pool was set up by the Yellow and Black Group, a group for people who participate in "water sports (piss play)."

On their website, the group said their booth, set up at the street event, would have a sign that read along the lines of: "Anyone can climb in, dressed any way they want. Climbing in = consent to be pissed on. Photo-shy?  Loaner hoods are available. Pee-shy? Take your time; piss pigs are very patient. Not used to standing up?  Ask for a disposable 'female urination device.' Keep the piss in the pool and off the street. We discourage body contact during piss play (i.e. no 'sex', please). No sh*t. Have fun!"

"It’s fun, it’s (relatively) safe, and it’s wonderfully shocking to the muggles," the group added.

The event featured multiple community stages set up along the event space, which closes down Folsom Street as well as the intersecting streets of 12th, 11th 10th, Dore, and 9th.

One stage, titled "BDSM Demos Hosted by Society of Janus," is described as "Exhibitionists and voyeurs reach perfect harmony. Come watch the hottest scenes on the street, and maybe walk away with a new kink!"

Another, titled "STUD x Oaklash Drag Stage," is described as "The famous STUD Collective collides with Oaklash to curate a weird and wonderful, delightfully dirty and pervy show for the streets of Folsom Street Fair!"

The event featured a number of booths for vendors and groups, including Cute Little F*ckers, which is described as a "gender-inclusive" sex toy company, as well as the Satanic Temple.

Another vendor present at the fair was Tykables, a company specializing in disposable diapers and onsies, with designs that resemble those for infants and toddlers, made for adults with diaper fetishes.

A variety of booths featured companies selling fetish gear, including leather bondage attire, whips, and "puppy play" fetish masks.

I say that what is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see. The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages. So I must ask you, are you making your life or is life making you? Some people can not overcome their programming and evolve past the level of an NPC. Others can become a fully awakened intelligence. They must understand that this body that we identify with is not us, but a vehicle, like a video games character model, for us to interact in this world. This shall be the truth that will outlast the universe.