top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

Worthless article, offers nothing of any use, which sadly has become a standard in our society.


Ever find you can’t stop shivering? This is why you always feel cold, no matter what the weather outside.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/w...=pocket-newtab

 

[St. Phatty]

if the storm out of the northwest hits like they are afraid of, there might not be any flights in or out of lots of places...

Right now in the Pac Northwest, they are predicting a few weeks of Dry Spell.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Right now in the Pac Northwest, they are predicting a few weeks of Dry Spell.

seeing conflicting weather reports, lol. nothing out of the ordinary about that. USA, NBC, CNN, Yahoo, and NY Post say travel could be affected across much of midwest & northeast US. Washington Post , as usual, says otherwise. nobody said that the weather would affect the northwest... moisture from west, cold from northwest. my post RE storm WAS unintentionally misleading, the way i worded it. apologies...

 

[Gry]

seeing conflicting weather reports, lol. nothing out of the ordinary about that. USA, NBC, CNN, Yahoo, and NY Post say travel could be affected across much of midwest & northeast US. Washington Post , as usual, says otherwise. nobody said that the weather would affect the northwest... moisture from west, cold from northwest. my post RE storm WAS unintentionally misleading, the way i worded it. apologies...

We were told we should expect to see more frequent excursions to the extremes.
Which is what is being experienced right now in British Columbia with terrible flooding that has been described as a 500 year event.
I frankly do not think anything was misstated, and that what was described is being is seen more frequently everywhere...
That our media caters to industries which are actively involved with climate denial does make things difficult for
weather people stuck reading a script telling us every new extreme is normal.

 

[flylowgethigh]

This is 2021. Agenda 21 is in play. They got Trump out of the way, and are about to attack Russia to get them pushed aside.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/82SkhN9kS16J/

 

[Gry]

This is 2021. Agenda 21 is in play. They got Trump out of the way, and are about to attack Russia to get them pushed aside.

l]/video/8https://www.bitchute.com2SkhN9kS16J/[/

The link you posted connects to a bitchute fund-raising page. They would like to thank you for helping them achieve 78 % of the monthly goal.
When we first met, you were kind to me. I remember that and do appreciate it. It is because I do recall that, that I shall not taunt and ridicule your agenda 21 post.
I will note, that when I did run the above link though a popular search engine, this is the return:

BitChute - Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BitChute

BitChute is a video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It is known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, ...
Missing: com2SkhN9kS16J ‎QUOTE]

BitChute: A Hotbed of Hate | Anti-Defamation League - ADL

https://www.adl.org › blog › bitchute-a-hotbed-of-hate

Aug 31, 2020 — Video-hosting service BitChute has become a hotbed for violent, conspiratorial and hate-filled video propaganda.
Missing: com2SkhN9kS16J ‎QUOTE]

BitChute welcomes the dangerous hate speech that YouTube rejects
Dec 14, 2020 — Hate speech. Neo-Nazi propaganda. Anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy theories. Even terrorism. It's all there. And the platform keeps growing. Home ...

 

[flylowgethigh]

Deflection, right back at the messenger. This plan is in action, and only a fool can't see that.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Deflection, right back at the messenger. This plan is in action, and only a fool can't see that.

only fools believe it.

 

[armedoldhippy]

We once had that.
Was bothersome to the business community.
They were more interested in turning out good
consumers rather than active participants in
democracy. Out the window went the civics
classes.

civics was a "must take, must pass" class when i was in school. pretty obvious it is no longer required.

 

[Gry]

Quit Lying to Yourself

Real happiness starts with telling yourself the truth, even when it hurts.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/...onesty-lying/620739/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

The 5 Most Common Regrets of the Dying—and What We Can Learn From Them


Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse and bestselling author, shares the five most common regrets of the dying—and her advice on how to live a life full of happiness and joy.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-can-learn-from-them?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Cannavore]

hmmm must be another one of those coincidences

 

[Gry]

hmmm must be another one of those coincidences

Some things never seem to change while others do get worse.

 

[Gry]

IBS: “I Finally Managed My Gut Health—and It Did Not Involve a Restricted Diet”


For years, fitness trainer Tally Rye thought she was doing all the right things to help her IBS, but her restrictive diet was causing its own problems. Here’s how she finally learned to manage her gut health.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...ve-a-restricted-diet?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Could One Shot Kill the Flu?



A “universal” flu vaccine could bring one of the world’s longest pandemics to an end.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/a...ne-shot-kill-the-flu?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Three Berries]

We are finding out that many diseases are from parasites or mimic parasites. The reason Big Pharma squelched the ivermectin talk. Cancer too!

Big Pharma only wants to treat not cure.

 

[Gry]

Fresh Wind Down the Silk Road

https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/7413/

 

[Gry]

Huffpost.com
By Paul Blumenthal , Jessica Schulberg
06/19/2017 03:55 pm ET | Updated
WASHINGTON — While serving as a top campaign aide to Donald Trump, former national security adviser Michael Flynn made tens of thousands of dollars on the side advising a company that sold surveillance technology that repressive governments used to monitor activists and journalists.
Flynn, who resigned in February after mischaracterizing his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., has already come under scrutiny for taking money from foreign outfits. Federal investigators began probing Flynn’s lobbying efforts on behalf of a Dutch company led by a businessman with ties to the Turkish government earlier this year. Flynn’s moonlighting wasn’t typical: Most people at the top level of major presidential campaigns do not simultaneously lobby for any entity, especially not foreign governments. It’s also unusual for former U.S. intelligence officials to work with foreign cybersecurity outfits.
Nor was Flynn’s work with foreign entities while he was advising Trump limited to his Ankara deal. He earned nearly $1.5 million last year as a consultant, adviser, board member, or speaker for more than three dozen companies and individuals, according to financial disclosure forms released earlier this year.
Two of those entities are directly linked to NSO Group, a secretive Israeli cyberweapons dealer founded by Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, who are rumored to have served in Unit 8200, the Israeli equivalent of the National Security Agency.
Flynn received $40,280 last year as an advisory board member for OSY Technologies, an NSO Group offshoot based in Luxembourg, a favorite tax haven for major corporations. OSY Technologies is part of a corporate structure that runs from Israel, where NSO Group is located, through Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S.
Flynn also worked as a consultant last year for Francisco Partners, a U.S.-based private equity firm that owns NSO Group, but he did not disclose how much he was paid. At least two Francisco Partners executives have sat on OSY’s board.
Flynn’s financial disclosure forms do not specify the work he did for companies linked to NSO Group, and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment. Former colleagues at Flynn’s consulting firm declined to discuss Flynn’s work with NSO Group. Executives at Francisco Partners who also sit on the OSY Technologies board did not respond to emails. Lavie, the NSO Group co-founder, told HuffPost he is “not interested in speaking to the press” and referred questions to a spokesman, who did not respond to queries.
Many government and military officials have moved through the revolving door between government agencies and private cybersecurity companies. The major players in the cybersecurity contracting world — SAIC, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI Federal and KeyW Corporation — all have former top government officials in leadership roles or on their boards, or have former top executives working in government.
But it’s less common for former U.S. intelligence officials to work with foreign cybersecurity outfits. “There is a lot of opportunity in the U.S. to do this kind of work,” said Ben Johnson, a former NSA employee and the co-founder of Obsidian Security. “It’s a little bit unexpected going overseas, especially when you combine that with the fact that they’re doing things that might end up in hands of enemies of the U.S. government. It does seem questionable.”
What is clear is that during the time Flynn was working for NSO’s Luxembourg affiliate, one of the company’s main products — a spy software sold exclusively to governments and marketed as a tool for law enforcement officials to monitor suspected criminals and terrorists — was being used to surveil political dissidents, reporters, activists, and government officials. The software, called Pegasus, allowed users to remotely break into a target’s cellular phone if the target responded to a text message.
Last year, several people targeted by the spyware contacted Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research team based out of the University of Toronto. With the help of experts at the computer security firm Lookout, Citizen Lab researchers were able to trace the spyware hidden in the texts back to NSO Group spyware. After Citizen Lab publicized its findings, Apple introduced patches to fix the vulnerability. It is not known how many activists in other countries were targeted and failed to report it to experts.
NSO Group told Forbes in a statement last year that it complies with strict export control laws and only sells to authorized government agencies. “The company does NOT operate any of its systems; it is strictly a technology company,” NSO Group told Forbes.
But once a sale is complete, foreign governments are free to do what they like with the technology.
“The government buys [the technology] and can use it however they want,” Bill Marczak, one of the Citizen Lab researchers, told HuffPost. “They’re basically digital arms merchants.”
The month before Flynn joined the advisory board of OSY Technologies, NSO Group opened up a new arm called WestBridge Technologies, Inc., in the D.C. region. (The company was originally registered in Delaware in 2014, but formed in Maryland in April 2016.) Led by NSO Group co-founder Lavie, WestBridge is vying for federal government contracts for NSO Group’s products. Hiring Flynn would provide NSO Group with a well-connected figure in Washington, to help get its foot in the door of the notoriously insular world of secret intelligence budgeting.
“When you’re trying to build up your business, you need someone who has connections, someone who is seen as an authority and a legitimate presence,” Johnson said. Hiring someone with Flynn’s background in intelligence would “open up doors that they wouldn’t have had access to,” Johnson said.
Throughout 2016, Flynn worked for a number of cybersecurity firms personally and through his consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group. In addition to his advisory board seat at OSY Technologies, he sat on the board of Adobe Systems, a large software company with Pentagon contracts, and the boards of the cybersecurity companies GreenZone Systems and HALO Privacy. (Though Flynn described himself as an Adobe advisory board member in his financial disclosure paperwork, the group said in a statement that he provided only “periodic counsel to Adobe’s public sector team.”)
Prominent human rights activists and political dissidents have reported being targeted by NSO’s technology. On August 10, 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally recognized Emirati human rights activist, received a text message prompting him to click a link to read “new secrets” about detainees abused in UAE prisons. He got a similar text the next day. But Mansoor, who had already been repeatedly targeted by hackers, knew better than to click the links. Instead, he forwarded the messages to Citizen Lab.
Citizen Lab soon determined that NSO Group’s malware exploited an undisclosed mobile phone vulnerability, known as a zero-day exploit, that enabled its customers — that is, foreign governments — to surveil a target’s phone after the target clicked the link included in the phishing text message. If Mansoor had clicked that link, his “phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his phone camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps, and tracking his movements,” Citizen Lab wrote in a report.
Across the globe in Mexico, where Coca-Cola and PepsiCo were working to repeal a tax on sodas imposed in 2014, two activists and a government-employed scientist, all of whom supported the soda tax, received a series of suspicious text messages. The texts, which became increasingly aggressive and threatening, came as the scientist and the activists were preparing a public relations campaign in support of raising the soda tax and promoting awareness of the health risks linked to sugary beverages.
Dr. Simón Barquera, researcher at Mexico’s National Institute for Public Health, received a text on July 11, 2016, inviting him to click a link the sender said would lead him to a detailed investigation of his clinic. When Barquera didn’t follow through, the texts escalated. On the 12th, he got a text with a link to a purported court document, which the sender claimed mentioned Barquera by name. On the 13th, yet another text included a link that supposedly contained information about a funeral. The day after that, the sender wrote, “You are an asshole Simon, while you are working I’m fuc king your old lady here is a photo.” The final text Barquera received in August said that his daughter was in “grave condition” after an accident, and included a link that would supposedly tell him where she was being treated.
Alejandro Calvillo, director of the consumer rights nonprofit El Poder del Consumidor, received a text with a link claiming to be from a man who wanted to know if Calvillo could attend the man’s father’s funeral. Another text sent to Calvillo included a link that the sender said was a viral news story that mentioned him. The final target, Luis Encarnación, a coordinator for the obesity prevention group Coalicion ContraPESO, also received a text with a link claiming that he was named in a news article.
The targets quickly got in touch with Citizen Lab and forwarded their text messages to the researchers. In February 2017, Citizen Lab released a new report linking NSO Group’s technology to the phishing attempts targeting the pro-soda tax campaigners.
Citizen Lab researchers have also identified texts sent last summer to Mexican journalist Rafael Cabrera that they believe were an attempt to infect his phone with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Cabrera, who now works for BuzzFeed Mexico, was targeted by hackers after he broke a story revealing a potential conflict of interest with the Mexican first family and a Chinese company.
Citizen Lab believes NSO Group may have also sold its mobile phone spying technology to many governments, including those of Kenya, Mozambique, Yemen, Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary, Nigeria and Bahrain.
Working with repressive regimes is standard practice in the cyberweapons industry. The Italian surveillance malware firm Hacking Team has worked with dozens of countries known to jail dissidents, according to emails uploaded to WikiLeaks. The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency were among the company’s customers, according to the documents.
Despite recent scrutiny over Mansoor’s case, NSO Group’s value has exploded in recent years. Francisco Partners bought the cyberweapons dealer in 2014 for $120 million. It is now reportedly valued at over $1 billion.

 

[Three Berries]

United Nations Is Handing Out $800 Debit Cards to Illegal Migrant Families in Mexico Heading to US

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...s-illegal-migrant-families-mexico-heading-us/

 

[Hammerhead]

LOL, Everyone is dubbed illegal now. Those people aren't even in the USA. That link is to a far right dumbass website.