CURRENT EVENTS - May 1 - May 7

[Healing]

The corruption is staggering.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Has this person ever been on a farm before? As someone posted in the replies - “I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it."

 

[Zoo_View]

I knew a woman in Freeport, ME who had a “herd” of 20 cows. It was a rare breed. She contracted for sperm from bulls of the same breed. She had no bulls on her farm. She sold off the new calves as soon as they were ready.

She sold raw milk and raw milk yogurt. Her farm was spotless. Her barn was spotless. She washed each cow thoroughly prior to milking. She washed each cow thoroughly after milking.

Her farm wasn’t organic. If a cow got sick, she called in the vet and followed the vet’s treatment advice. She was trying to preserve a rare breed, not be organic.

People paid a premium for raw milk and raw milk yogurt. But, she didn’t make squat. She was trying to figure out how to make and wholesale raw milk cheese (that’s where I fit in - she could sell me raw milk cheese - not wholesale milk or yogurt). If she could have wholesaled raw milk cheese, she’d never again have to deal with people coming to her farm to buy milk or yogurt. People coming to her farm wasted time and contaminated shit.

Raw milk cheese that’s aged 60+ days is pretty damn safe - it has a shitload of salt in it.

Raw milk and raw milk yogurt from this woman’s farm likely was safe. But, to buy it you had to go to her farm AND pay a lot for it.

It was a crunchy-granola wealthy person’s milk and obsession.

 

[dcphx]

“… Since the Republican began his second term in January, seven migrants have died while in the custody of immigration police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Blaise and two other migrants died in Florida, while one died in Arizona, another in Missouri, one in Texas, and one more in Puerto Rico. The individuals ranged in age from 27 to 55, and came from different corners of the globe: Haiti, Honduras, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Ethiopia.

… Last year, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) investigation found that between 2017 and 2021, during the first Trump administration and part of the Biden administration, 95% of deaths at ICE-operated facilities could have been prevented “if appropriate medical care had been provided.” …”

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The article does not address whether this rate of deaths in ICE Custody is consistent or a spike from prior years …

Doge will probably list them as saving the cost of the deportation flight.

 

[dcphx]

US has $21T underground city for rich to hide in a ‘near-extinction event’: official

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.

www.independent.co.uk

The U.S. has built a secret underground “city” costing $21 trillion where the ultra-wealthy can hide out druing a “near-extinction event,” a former government official has claimed.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under president George H.W. Bush, made the shocking allegation on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, according to Realtor.com.

A stunning $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” occurred in the department between 1998-2015, according to a 2017 report released by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore.


Skidmore’s report had been prompted by Fitts referring “to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”

“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.

While on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Fitts said she spent years investigating where the $21 trillion had gone – and discovered there were 170 secret underground bases across the U.S.

An underground city where the US President lives after a doomsday event is literally the general premise of a Hulu show called Paradise that started in January. At least be a little bit creative instead of just ripping off a show that is already being broadcast.

 

[hedge]

Learning how to write isn't only about the words you put on a page. It's how you organize them in your head. I always say, "if you can't explain it well, you don't understand it well.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression...