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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Avon chamando, 30millon acres of US farmland owned by foreigners, MLK far from saint, Hungary to remain Hungarian, Wichos – ground grasshopper protein snacks, and more interesting stuff for May 30, 2019


Nearly 30 Million Acres Of US Farmland Now Owned By Foreigners
Whoa! What the hell are we doing to our country when we turn over the most important land we have to foreign entities?
All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches of that “heartland” is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans have no idea that this is happening. These days, a lot of people are warning about the “globalization” of the world economy, but in reality our own soil is rapidly being “globalized”. When farms are locally owned, the revenue that those farms take in tends to stay in local communities. But with foreign-owned farms there is no guarantee that will happen. And while there is plenty of food to go around this is not a major concern, but what happens when a food crisis erupts and these foreign-owned farms just keep sending their produce out of the country? There are some very serious national security concerns here, and they really aren’t being addressed. Instead, the amount of farmland owned by foreigners just continues to increase with each passing year.
And China is the biggest owner.
Farm bankruptcies are already at the highest level that we have seen since the last recession, and do we really want foreigners gobbling up even more of our farmland from farmers that are incredibly desperate to sell?
Our founders never intended for America to be for sale to the highest bidder, and hopefully more states will start passing laws that will make sure that U.S. farms stay in the hands of U.S. farmers.

Untaxed: Foreign-born workers send $150 billion a year 'home'
Remittances make up 10% or more of total GDP in 35 countries
They keep reporting this but nobody’s doing anything about it!
“The nation’s generous and lax immigration policies have led billions of dollars to flow out of our economy untaxed, which is a disservice to Americans,” Mr. Stein said. “At a time when our country urgently needs tax revenue to improve physical and societal infrastructure programs, it’s imperative to address this drain on our resources immediately.”
It’s money not spent in retail stores or outlets. Money not used to create jobs.
So, they come here claiming asylum when their real purpose is to make money to send back home to their families. Maybe taking away that opportunity will put a quick end to their invasion of this country.

Purdue Pharmaceuticals Manipulated Opioid Policies Internationally
This is really strange. I just got through watching the season finale of NCIS which was all about a young girl getting hooked on opioids. And almost dying from bad stuff coming over the border from Canada.
It’s not easy to succumb to the relief from pain they provide. I know first hand. I have some in my medicine cabinet and struggle every day to use Tylenol instead. It’s doesn’t provide the same relief, but I keeps me from being an addict.
But back to this article.
Arstechnica) OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma used front organizations and sponsored research to deceive the World Health Organization and corrupt global public health policies with the goal of boosting international opioid sales and profits, according to a Congressional report(PDF) released Thursday, May 22.
The investigation identified two WHO guidance documents that appear to parrot some of Purdue’s misleading and outright false marketing claims about the safety and efficacy of their highly addictive opioids.
The findings, released by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), land as the country is still grappling with an epidemic of opioid abuse and overdoses. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid overdoses kill an average of 130 Americans every day.

Brazilian company buys Avon
Does that mean the Avon Lady won’t be knocking at your door any time soon?
And who knew that Avon was based in London?
The transaction values Avon at an enterprise value of 3.7 billion dollars and the combined group would have an enterprise value of approximately 11 billion dollars, according to the statement.
The merged company will have more than 6.3 million consultants and representatives, as well as 3,200 stores, with a presence in 100 countries, Natura said.
The purchase of 133-year-old Avon will thus expand the global reach of Natura, which is best known in Latin America. The Brazilian giant acquired the Body Shop in 2017.
Founded in the United States, Avon was a pioneer of the door-to-door cosmetics sales model, but has struggled recently.
Shareholders of both companies still need to approve the deal.

Wichos. Yum yum high-protein snacks.
Healthy, good quality, tasty, and nourishing.
Lime and chili-flavored churritos made out of finely ground grasshoppers fit the bill.
Sold under the brand name Wichos, the chapulin churritos also contain amaranth – a staple food of the Aztecs – sesame seeds and linseed. In addition to a high protein and fiber content, the snacks contain iron, magnesium and vitamins A, B and C.
“By portion, which is a 50-gram bag, the protein content is 10 grams. That’s quite high in comparison with other products on the market,” Díaz said.

Trump’s Message to Immigrant Sponsors: You Want ‘Em? You Pay for ‘Em!
“The immigration laws currently require that, when an alien receives certain forms of means-tested public benefits, the government or non-government entity providing the public benefit must request reimbursement from the alien’s financial sponsor,” the memo read.
“These laws also require that, when an alien applies for certain means-tested public benefits, the financial resources of the alien’s sponsor must be counted as part of the alien’s financial resources in determining both eligibility for the benefits and the amount of benefits that may be awarded. Financial sponsors who pledge to financially support the sponsored alien in the event the alien applies for or receives public benefits will be expected to fulfill their commitment under law.”
This all goes along with Secretary Carson’s edict to remove illegals from public housing. Doesn’t seem like much at first glance, but the Trump administration appears to be tightening the screws on illegals and those taking them in.

Another peaceful election. This time in Indonesia
Not.
8 DEAD, 737 Wounded in Violent Post-Election Riots After Jihadis’ Candidate Loses Presidential Race, ISIS Arrests
What else can be expected from a heavily Muslim country?
The violent street demonstrations that destroyed various parts of Central and West Jakarta ended only on the night between May 22 and 23. The authorities have arrested over 450 suspected rioters. Many of these are from outside Jakarta (Bekasi, Sumatra and the provinces of Banten, Central and West Java). The police found envelopes containing money on some of the searched people. National Police spokesman, the insp. General Muhamad said two days ago that “the incidents were premeditated and the protesters received money to create chaos”.
Anies Baswedan, governor of Jakarta, said last night that in the two days of violence “at least eight people died; a further 737 received medical care in hospitals ”. Among the wounded, 79 are in serious condition.

Ex-CIA Officials Fume About Declassification Order,
They demand to see the unredacted Mueller report and don’t bother to actually go to read it.
Ignoring Previous Leaks Of Secret Sources And Methods
Now, when the president tears away the shroud of secrecy, they’re whining about sources being outed.
Do they ever make up their minds?
Former intelligence community officials, including former CIA director John Brennan, have expressed concern over President Donald Trump’s declassification order due the potential release of CIA sources and methods.
“The concern is that very, very precious source and methods of the United States intelligence community as well as our partners and allies abroad — those who share this sensitive information with us,” Brennan said on MSNBC on Friday.
Comey Has Temper Tantrum Over Trump Declassifying Documents @ https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/comey-temper-tantrum-trump-declassifying-documents
FBI Lawyer Squeals Like A Pig: Implicates Comey, McCabe, And Yates For Mishandling Of FISA Warrant @ https://www.teaparty.org/fbi-lawyer-squeals-like-a-pig-implicates-comey-mccabe-and-yates-for-mishandling-of-fisa-warrant-364033/

Eggplant Bombs
Solanum melongena ruptio
They’re not very explosive. No shrapnel, either. They’re just eggplants that have been treated with Vita-Rays to well beyond the Royal Biological Artifice Society’s recommended guidelines for enhanced vegetables. To activate an Eggplant Bomb, simply press the pre-installed button to inject vinegar to the Bomb’s insides, smack the Bomb smartly to start the chemical reaction inside, and throw very, very hard.
For real? Or a good morning’s joshing?
What they do not get used for, however, is cuisine. Eggplant Bombs taste horrible. The legend that a slice of one will explode in your stomach is just that — a legend — but they are simply awful for one’s digestion.

Utah Judge suspended without pay for 6 months because he trashed President Trump
It was okay for Justice Ginsberg to spout off. But, this guy made enough comments about the president that the Utah Supreme Court put him in the dugout for six months.
Kwan, who has served as a justice court judge in Taylorsville for 20 years, was cited for “improper use of judicial authority and his inappropriate political commentary,” the latter often involving President Trump.
We can only hope it will happen to other judges across the country who’re unable to maintain their impartiality.

Electoral Fraud in Venezuela Kept Maduro in Power
Carlos Quintero, was the second in command at Venezuela’s electoral headquarter, the National Electoral Council (CNE). “A call from Cilia or Diosdado would be enough to alter the results at our convenience,” he allegedly said in 2017 to Carvajal.
Carvajal, who is currently imprisoned in Spain on drug trafficking charges, addressed the letter to the National Assembly of Venezuela and the international community, accusing Carlos Quintero Cuevas, as one of the main architects of electoral theft.
Quintero was an associate of Carvajal in the Directorate of Military Intelligence where he worked as head of Computing at the Communications Directorate; later he was sent to the National Electoral Council (CNE) to perpetrate the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Venezuela.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
“The Cuban regime tells Maduro this is all a bluff, that it’s all a lie. They have him believing that nothing will happen, that there won’t be any firm or clear action to save Venezuela. They offer him Cuba as an example, which has been devastated for 60 years and yet nothing has happened and they have total impunity. … [You] have to understand that the legal system, the armed forces, the media, the sectors of production, and all Venezuelan society have been co-opted by a mafia-like and criminal regime.”

FBI tapes prove MLK was far from being a saint
For those of us who were around back then, none of this comes as a surprise. He was a man of his time, his place, and his position. There were plenty of reports about these “allegations” and one only had to look at his wife’s face at public appearances to know things weren’t what they appeared to be.
Secret FBI tapes that accuse Martin Luther King Jr of having extramarital affairs with '40 to 45 women' and even claim he 'looked on and laughed' as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed.
The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the 'International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters' on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow - a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK.
Writing in British magazine Standpoint, Garrow says that the shocking files could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the man who is celebrated across the world for his campaign against racial injustice.
Along with many US civil rights figures, King was subject to an FBI campaign of surveillance ordered by Director J Edgar Hoover in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party.

The Babylon Bee
New Evidence Suggests Cain Killed Abel After Five-Hour Game Of Monopoly @ https://babylonbee.com/news/new-evidence-suggests-cain-killed-abel-after-five-hour-game-of-monopoly
Sociologists Believe Shrieking Left-Winger Who Is Throwing Things May Be Expressing Disagreement @ https://babylonbee.com/news/shrieking-left-winger-who-is-throwing-things-seems-to-be-expressing-disagreement
Ocasio-Cortez Disappointed To Learn The 'Free Market' Isn't A Grocery Store Where You Don't Have To Pay For Anything @ https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-disappointed-to-learn-free-markets-arent-grocery-stores-where-you-dont-have-to-pay-for-anything
Report: Long-Running Political Lecture Show 'Saturday Night Live' Will Shift To Comedy Next Season @ https://babylonbee.com/news/report-political-lecture-show-saturday-night-live-will-shift-to-comedy-next-season

Ocasio-Cortez And Omar Vow To Remove Senior’s ‘Entitlements’, Social Security/Medicare
This is the future of the Dimocrap party?
You won’t believe this.
“America is for the young. It is the youth of this country that work to make it great. They are productive and tax paying. They contribute…..unlike our senior citizens who only take. Retirees are dead weight.”
That was Omar
“In socialism, we work for the good of the collective. The whole matters more than the individual. People make sacrifices.
Social Security and Medicare cost America tens of billions of dollars every year. And for what? Fora bunch of deadbeats with nothing left to give. That money would be far better spent on low income housing and welfare for the young people of America who just need a leg up.”
And that was Ocasio-Cortez.
Decide for yourselves what this means.

Private Donations Building Border Wall
They got more than $20 million in donations on GoFundMe and are building the wall on private property. The actual construction is being kept under wraps because some “powerful people “want to stop our progress, so to not tip anyone off we are radio silent!"
We Build the Wall, a group founded by a triple amputee Air Force veteran, said in a series of social media posts on Monday that it had started construction on private property in New Mexico. The announcement comes months after the group began its GoFundMe campaign to raise private donations for a border wall, and days after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from tapping into billions in Defense Department funds for his administration's wall construction efforts.
Saw pictures of it 5/28 on FoxNews.
And just saw a report on Univision with a lot of whining about it
And local mayor is doing everything possible to stop it.

Media Pushes Back Against Poll that Found Nation is Getting Less Racist Under Trump
Of course the media can’t accept this.
“Racial prejudice has declined as a reaction to Trump’s presidency,” a new study suggests,” reads the headline on Isaac Stanley-Becker’s piece Friday in the Post.
“Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency by branding Mexicans as ‘rapists,’” wrote Stanley-Becker in his lead. “He initially declined to denounce David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. One week after his 2017 inauguration, the president temporarily banned people from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States. That summer, he said there were ‘very fine people’ among torch-wielding white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville.”
Take words out of context. Ignore economic and political facts. Show their Anti-Trump bias at every turn. No wonder they’re in deep financial woes.

How I Knew Trump Would Win in 2016 and Will Win Again
Is this hindsight or did this guy really know? He makes an interesting case for his claim.
First off, his pedigree. He’s a Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia with an impressive résumé. He says:
Trump received a rich boy’s education, first at a traditional (probably English-Anglican) prep school and then military school. I know these institutions and the kind of classical education and sense of order they breed. They are, since Ancient Greece, the schools that train rulers. I recall during the campaign hearing Trump describing a New Hampshire village suffering from widespread heroin addiction as “bucolic.” I’m not sure I had heard that quaint term used by Shakespeare professors, much less a politician!
He goes on to explain how Trump drew people of all ages, races, and economic status to support him.
All politics are local and all local politics rely on the pocketbook – something I read somewhere.
NYT columnists send up the alarm: Trump is almost certain to win next year @ https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/28/nyt-columnists-send-alarm-trump-almost-certain-win-next-year/

Hungary to remain Hungarian
So claims the prime minister.
Shall we hear the screams of racism, Islamophobia, Nazism, and so on?
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose party won a record 52 per cent of the vote, said that the government would do everything it could to represent the will of the Hungarian people, who he said had trusted Fidesz to “bring change to Brussels” and to support a Europe of nations rather than a bureaucrat-run EU superstate, local media reports.
In an interview with conservative news portal 888.hu on Monday, foreign minister Péter Szijjártó commented that the “record high support” seen for Fidesz at the polls will “strengthen the government in its task of preserving Hungary as a Hungarian country and the EU as a union of Europeans”.

Illinois Pushes New 'Wealth Tax' As High Earners Flee The State In Droves
You would think they’ve learned after seeing what happened to New York. Political greed knows no bounds. And Chicago had 42 shootings over the Memorial Day weekend.
And while the new taxes might make up for some of this shortfall, at least in the short term, once the new taxes start to bite, those wealthy residents saddled with the new tax will almost inevitably start looking for greener pastures - and sun-belt states like Arizona and Florida offer several advantages over chilly Illinois.


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Saturday, May 25, 2019

America less racist under President Trump, Canadian permafrost melting, Mega gangs now ruling Venezuela, Kamala wants to enforce equal pay, and much more for Mar 25, 2019


America Is A Less Racist Country Under President Trump
I can hear the Lefties screaming now. They will never, ever accept a finding like this.
In “The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Prejudice?” sociologists Daniel Hopkins and Samantha Washington found that since the 2016 campaign and election, “white Americans’ expressed anti-Black and anti-Hispanic prejudice declined.”
According to the Spectator, the researchers expected to find what organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center had seemingly endlessly reported: that Trump’s election resulted in an explosion of hate.
“Yet the study found exactly the opposite,” as the 2,500 Americans which the researchers had been following since 2008 indicated a “sharp dive” in racist attitudes that was “statistically significant.”
If Trump is so racist, why have his policies increased jobs for all minorities? Black and Hispanic unemployment are at an all-time low.


Comedian Inaugurated as Ukraine's New President Immediately Disbands Parliament
He won by 78% of the vote.
Instead of the traditional motorcade to his inauguration, he walked to parliament through a park packed with people giving high fives and taking selfies.
“I’m ready to do everything so that our heroes don’t die there,” he said. “I’m ready to lose my popularly and, if necessary, I’m ready to lose my post so that we have peace.”
And he ended it with:
“Throughout all of my life, I tried to do everything to make Ukrainians laugh,” he said with a smile. “In the next five years I will do everything so that Ukrainians don’t cry.”

Ukraine's Zelensky picks TV colleagues for presidential staff
This guy’s really ticking off a lot of professional pols. He called for ending the conflict with Russia over the taking over of the Crimea and even appointed a new commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
In one of his first interviews after the appointment, Mr Bohdan said the administration was considering putting any potential peace deal with Russia to a public referendum as well as a vote in parliament.
Ukraine has been in conflict with Russian-backed separatists for the past five years, since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and the rebels seized control of parts of the east.
When he was sworn in on Monday, President Zelensky, 41, said his first task was securing a ceasefire in the east. "We didn't start this war but it is up to us to end it," he said.
And groups area already attacking him, including some backed by George Soros
West-backed think tanks threaten new Ukrainian president with disturbing list of ‘RED LINES’ @ https://www.rt.com/news/460210-ukraine-ngos-zelensky-red-lines/

Why Opinion Polls Can No Longer Be Trusted
I think we all know they’re skewed. So, why does the media continue to shove them down our throats? Could it be that they are so closely connected to the polling companies?
WNU Editor: In the case of Australia, 54 polls in a row said the Labor party was in the lead , even in the exit polls .... (Guido Fawkes). I live in Canada, and I can say the same thing here. Last month there was a provincial election where the pollsters were saying a week before the election that there was a 7% spread between the ruling Socialist government and the United Conservative Party of Alberta. The conservatives won with a 23% spread. One reason that I believe explains why the polls are off is that people are no longer willing to freely give information to others anymore. We now live in a politically correct world, and one wrong tweet here, or a comment and or opinion voiced over there, all of this can bring severe consequences. What also does not help is the role that the media is playing .... disparaging and ridiculing one point of view while promoting another. As a result we have become conditioned to keep our own counsel, especially to strangers.
Update: Here is another interesting poll result .... Australian Labor Won 54 Polls In A Row, Including Exit Poll, Lost Actual election (Scott Rasmussen).


Mega gangs now ruling Venezuela?
Even with Russian, Cuban, and a little Chinese help. Maduro and his henchmen may be losing control of the country. Not to Juan Guaidó, the properly elected leader, but to bug gangs gaining footholds across the country. They attack military and police with impunity, know they face little if any organized responses.
The military in Venezuela is strongly involved in criminal activities, with these efforts being grouped under what has become known as the "Cartel of the Suns." This makes the attack in Aragua all the more striking given that it has a strong military presence, known to act in conjunction with mega-gangs.


The 5 Laws Of Human Stupidity
I don’t know if this was for real or tongue-in-cheek. Here they go:
Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
This was created for financial investing but makes a whole lot of sense in a wide range of things. Human life for one and certainly politics. Especially the last one as we seem to have an endless number of them in offices across the country.


This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do
Is fish oil really just snake oil?
This is a great question. It seems that someone is always touting some special dietary regimen to make us super healthy. But most of it is hype to see some super-secret breakthrough.
This article is well-worth the time it takes to read it.
What exactly is fish oil?
Does fish oil help with heart health?
Can fish oil help your mental and neural health?
Does fish oil help with eye health?
Does fish oil help your skin?
Does fish oil help or prevent cancer?
Does fish oil help with weight loss?
If there's so much uncertainty around the benefits of fish oil, why do people still use it?
So if I decide to try it, how much Omega-3 fatty acid do I need?
Are there any risks associated with taking fish oil supplements?
So do I really need to take fish oil supplements?


Need Extra $$$$$?
Side Hustles and Ways to Make Money at Home
Some of these look quite promising. The question is whether they’re for real or just hustles where YOU get stuck for the tab. [I tried some of them and wasn’t the least bit impressed.]
Get some voice work.
Buy and sell used books.
Participate in research studies
License your pics.
Dabble in podcasting.
Get crafty.
Design a tee.
Rent out your spare room.
Or rent out your car.
Cash in on Instagram.
Start a blog.
Take care of kids.
If you don’t like kids, take care of pets?
If you don’t like kids or pets, work with seniors.
Teach an online class.
Tutor.
Freelance in special services
Become a virtual assistant.
Take surveys for actual money.
Become a website critic.
Make calls as a mystery shopper.
Sell your stuff.


These Are the Highest Paying Jobs for the Class of 2019
Entry-level job Base Salary
Data scientist $95k
Software engineer $90k
Product manager $89k
Investment Banking analyst $85k
Product designer $85k
UX designer $73k
Implementation consultant $72k
Java developer $72k
Systems engineer $70k
Software developer $68k
Businesses from fashion giants to hedge funds to venture capital firms are building teams focused on figuring out how to turn the information they capture into valuable insights.
“There’s such a high demand across industries for people with data-science skills,” said Amanda Stansell, senior research analyst at Glassdoor.
Recruitment for this profession will continue as more companies accumulate data and figure out what to to do with it, Stansell added.


How brands get their names
I’ve often wondered where they come up with the names for the various vehicles on the road. I drive a Nissan Titan but the next smaller model is a Frontier. How do the 2 match up?
I didn’t see an answer to something I’ve wondered about; who designs are those different plastic bottles drinks come in?

60 years of socialism in Cuba
The leadership, of course, lives in unbelievable luxury.
Will President Trump’s re-imposing sanctions turn things around?
Lining up to buy chickens in Havana


Downtown Los Angeles
What’s happened to my hometown? It almost makes me cry.
All that garbage attracts rats, which “pose a public health risk,” an infectious disease specialist told the outlet, because the rodents can lead to the spread of salmonella and bubonic plague -- not to mention fleas that have been infected with typhus.
At least nine people were reported ill with typhus in downtown Los Angeles between July and September, with officials pointing to refuse and stray animals as potential catalysts, according to reports from October.
Typhus is a disease caused by bacteria found in infected fleas that can come from cats, rats, opossums and other stray animals. Accumulation of trash or overcrowding and poor hygiene is typically associated with the spread of the disease.
LA Didn’t Learn Lesson After Record 2018 Outbreak, Faces Another Dark Ages Plague @ https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/la-didnt-learn-lesson-record-2018-outbreak-faces-another-dark-ages-plague/


California, with the most active duty military personnel, is too expensive for them to retire in.
I’m surprised to learn that California has more military services members than any other state.
California has several of the military's largest bases, including the Marines' Camp Pendleton and the complex of Navy ports and air bases in and around San Diego.
About 280,000 military service members and other Defense Department employees are stationed in California, according to the Defense Department. Virginia, with 250,000 troops and Defense Department employees, has the second highest number of military employees among all states.
And that’s after Fort Ord and Fort Hunter Liggett were deactivated. I guess Fort Irwin is still there along with a number of USAF bases. I wonder if they’re included in the 280k figure.
California — home to the largest number of active-duty troops in the nation — fares poorly in the survey when it comes to affordable housing, homelessness and the proportion of of businesses in the state that are owned by veterans.
The study broke down all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., in terms of economic environment (including tax friendliness and job opportunities), quality of life (including share of veterans and number of homeless vets), and health care (including the number of VA hospitals).
Though California rated middle of the pack (No. 21) for overall treatment of retired military, it ranked among the worst for economic conditions (No. 46).
The survey found that while California has one of the smallest veteran populations per capita (No. 48), the Golden State is tied with several others for the highest percentage of homeless veterans.


300 Containers of Gabon’s kevasingo wood missing
What kind of wood?
Kevazingo, which is better known as bubinga or guibourtia, is a reddish type of wood found in West Africa.
Still doesn’t tell me much.
Some trees in Gabon are more than 500 years old and they can be considered sacred by local people.
But timber from kevazingo is highly valued in parts of Asia, where it is used to make high-end furniture and music instruments.
The government banned the export of kevazingo in 2018 in an effort to protect the country's resources.


Kamala wants to enforce equal pay
Oops. Seems someone found out some embarrassing stuff.
Surprise, surprise: Washington Free Beacon’s analysis found that the median salary was higher for men both in her Senate office and her campaign.
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Specifically, the median salary dismemberment for men came in at $34,999 and women fell behind at $32,999. That means women working for Harris make .94 cents on the dollar compared to men. Nearly identical figures held true for an analysis for a previous six-month period.
So, it’s not a one-off situation — it’s a pattern. How embarrassing for her: A champion of equal pay for women is not providing her own female staffers equal pay.
No hypocrisy here.


When the Government Tries To Fix a Problem, But Only Makes It Worse
It’s called “The Rat Effect.”
Seems good-hearted government agents don’t always think of the results of their actions. This story provides some amusing, if not also depressing, examples.
It starts telling about the French modernizing Hanoi by installing sewers.
Unfortunately for Dourmer, the dark and cool sewers eventually attracted pests. With difficult access and a labyrinth of tunnels most predators wouldn’t venture into, the subterranean maze quickly became a rat highway. The rodent population soon exploded.
Got so bad they started by paying 1 cent per tail so people would kill the rats.
Problem was, people would cut off the tails and release the rats back into the sewers to breed more.
Also tells of Mao’s order to kill sparrows and Moocelle Obama’s healthy lunch initiative.


42% of federal crimes committed by illegals
Hell, it should be 100%. Every single one of them has broken immigration laws which are federal.
“For 2017, data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows non-citizens comprise about 7 percent of the country’s population, but the 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics shows they committed more than 40 percent of all federal crimes,” The American Mirror noted.
And the article doesn’t deal with LOCAL crimes committed by illegals.
Illegal Immigrant Is Charged in Deaths of 12 Elderly Women @ https://www.lifezette.com/2019/05/illegal-immigrant-charged-deaths-12-elderly-women/


The 15 Most Popular Tourist Destinations in US
It’s no surprise that Uncle Walt’s dream is still so popular all these years later than he opened his dream where orange groves once stood.
Rolling mountains, expansive coastlines and vibrant cities with towering skyscrapers – it’s little wonder that America, with all its diversity, is home to some of the top tourist destinations in the world. Each state has something unique to offer but which of these attractions do visitors love the most?
The Active Times set out to establish the most popular American tourist destinations by comparing data from government agencies with existing rankings. We look at 15 of those most popular tourist attractions in the U.S:
I’m certain these aren’t in the order of their visitor numbers:
1. 9/11 Memorial
2. Acadia National Park
3. Alcatraz Island
4. Balboa Park
5. Brooklyn Bridge
6. Canyonlands National Park
7. Central Park
8. Disney World
9. Everglades National Park
10. Fisherman’s Wharf
11. Gateway Arch
12. Graceland
13. Hollywood Walk of Fame
14. Joshua Tree National Park
15. Pike Place Market
Seems to me there are a lot of places left off this list with explanations @ https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tourist-destinations-america/2019/05/23/id/917346/


Mass Exodus at Ag Dept. Ahead of Relocation
This comes from discussion back in late 2017 as a Trump administration effort to drain the swamp by relocating government agencies outside of the Beltway. It started with the then Secretary of the Interior wanting to move agencies closer to where their areas of responsibility are. That can be found @ https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-spread-the-swamp-20171207-story.html
This story stems from a proposed move of two DofA offices, the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. It will affect 400 to 500 civil servants. The IG is looking into it and the House has introduced a bill to stop it.
"Morale is pretty poor,” an unnamed ERS economist told the Post, estimating the resignation rates have doubled since October.
Is the same thing going on in other executive branch agencies? I have a hunch we will see a lot of similar stories before the year is out.


Burying the Story Lead on Illegal Alien Crime
Crime reports that lead with generic descriptions like a “Dallas man” or an “Oklahoma mother” can mislead casual readers and listeners as to the actual identity of perpetrators. Peruse this small sampling of news items from the past two weeks:
I don’t need to read the samples because I know what they say. Our news sources go to great lengths to avoid terms like “black,” “Muslim,” “Illegal,” in their effort to be “fair and balanced.”
Hooey!
We also notice the prolific word “alleged” in every single crime report.
Open-borders advocates are in on the downplay. The left-leaning Marshall Project resorted to weasel words and meaningless qualifiers recently when it opined: “Most types of crime had an almost flat trend line, indicating that changes in undocumented populations had little or no effect on crime in the various metro areas under survey. Murder was the only type of crime that appeared to show a rise, but again, the difference was small and uncertain (effectively zero).”


Saw the new ‘Picard’ trailer a few times.
It didn’t stir me in the least to bother with CBS All Access.


Canadian Permafrost Melting
Here come the cries of Global Warming! Our northern hemisphere is falling apart.
There’s an interesting article in Wikipedia @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost
The melting permafrost is also uncovering carcasses of animals extinct for tens of thousands of years and, as has been reported, scientists are going nuts about the possibility of bringing some of them back.
One side note, there are indications that melting permafrost is releasing lots of methane into the atmosphere. Cows are no longer the major threat to our planet.

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