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A great white shark that washed up on a beach in Australia appeared to be half-eaten. Scientists said the shark was likely attacked by an orca that just wanted to eat its liver. Advertisement A great white shark that appeared half-eaten when it washed up on an Australian beach had probably been attacked by a killer whale that just wanted its liver, wildlife scientists said. Portland Bait and Tackle in Victoria, Australia, posted photos of the white shark carcass to their Facebook page on Tuesday, calling it "equal parts cool and terrifying." The bait shop manager, Ben Johnstone, told Insider...

The Real Winner This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m freestyle swim at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio last weekend. Let’s promote her win. Let’s promote fairness. UPenn Cheats is trending… If I were the Director of Athletics at an Ivy League university like @AlannaShanahan is, I'd be ashamed to have thousands of people all saying #PennCheats like this about my sports teams.But Shanahan & the rest of @pennathletics don't seem to mind being famous for cheating. pic.twitter.com/8vPzLiPvY3— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich (@fem_mb) December 11, 2021 This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m...

A few months old, a bit long, but entirely worth it: Retired Teacher Pays for Stranger’s Groceries Before Making a Shocking Discovery About His True Identity It's no secret that the world can turn around even with the smallest gestures. It only takes one moment to change your life and the lives of everyone around you. And the world's desperately in need of kindness and positivity. One particular woman chose to do a small act of kindness, having no idea who the recipient was of her good deed. What she thought was a simple act of kindness turned out to...

ransomnote: Below, I posted my response to one of countless posts to me stating that I post Covid content without merit in order to push 'an agenda'. The name of the freeper this time is irrelevant because other have said the same thing. Freeper: This is a tour d’force of maybes, ifs and allegations that uses one theoretical allegation to build on the next.You and others on FR working to keep the Plandemic alive rely on inuendo and allegations. To support the 'narrative', your content supports an entire fabric of lies.* You imply 'Covid' is far more deadly than it...

Obviously in an ideal world, the "base" would assert control over the Republican Party and flush out the swamp creatures who seem to form the majority of its executive and prominent elected representatives. But assuming that movement never takes off or gains any traction, what third party options exist and what are their chances for electoral success by 2024? The range of possibilities would seem to include these: (a) Declare the existence of an alternative GOP, calling it something very similar to the Republican Party (with the word Republican in the name, such as Conservative-Republican, Constitutional-Republican, Free Republican? hmm) ......

This is a Kissinger-Rockefeller neocon globalist Wall St./City of London feudalist financier oligarch operation top to bottom. The 5 day delay between coronavirus infection and symptoms means that this is a weapons grade bio-warfare agent. China had nothing to do with this other than being the patsy and their economy knocked to the mat for being a threat to the banker-controlled 3rd World loan sharking mafia extortion business. The Democratic Party USA is a clueless witless stooge to the neocon GOP "Never Trump" globalist psychopaths. Trouble is, Hillary, the catalyst to the last stage in their fascist police state 1984...

Wuhan Coronavirus: Propylene Glycol as Possible Therapy for Eradication of RTI and Prevention of Complications It was quite some time ago when I came across a paper about study of the use of propylene glycol which I interpolated could be used for respiratory tract infections (RTI), including influenza. Reading about the severe cases for people who are immune compromised and/or with underlying health conditions dying from complications of Wuhan Coronavirus (the majority of deaths) prompted me to revisit the paper (for good reason). I was dismissive of the research at the time due to its use to defend the vaping...

Voters and other plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland filed suits challenging their States’ congressional districting maps as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina plaintiffs claimed that the State’s districting plan discriminated against Democrats, while the Maryland plaintiffs claimed that their State’s plan discriminated against Republicans. The plaintiffs alleged violations of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Elections Clause, and Article I, §2. The District Courts in both cases ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed directly to this Court. Held: Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of...

Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ "textualist" and "originalist" methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, and first appeared in America almost a half-century after the Constitution's ratification. The Framers contemplated law enforcement as the duty of mostly private citizens, along with a few constables and sheriffs who could be called upon when necessary. This article marshals extensive historical and legal evidence to show that modern policing is in many ways inconsistent with the original intent of America's founding documents. The author argues that the...

Here are 36 reasons why I would not be surprised if Obama wanted Iran to destroy Israel I have a crazy conspiracy, for which I have no proof, and for which I could be completely wrong: Obama’s #1, long term, biggest goal as President, which supersedes anything else, is that he wants to help Iran get enough uranium to build enough nuclear bombs to destroy Israel. Here are 36 reasons why I would not be surprised if it turned out that Obama really did want Iran to use nuclear bombs to destroy Israel:1) When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Obama...

Oxytocin-enforced norm compliance reduces xenophobic outgroup rejection Nina Marsh, Dirk Scheele, Justin S. Feinstein, Holger Gerhardt, Sabrina Strang, Wolfgang Maier and René Hurlemann PNAS 2017 August, 114 (35) 9314-9319. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705853114 Edited by Bruce S. McEwen, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, and approved July 10, 2017 (received for review April 7, 2017) Article Figures & SI Authors & Info PDF Significance In the midst of rapid globalization, the peaceful coexistence of cultures requires a deeper understanding of the forces that compel prosocial behavior and thwart xenophobia. Yet, the conditions promoting such outgroup-directed altruism have not been determined. Here we report...

I wanted to design a table-top war-game for the current fight against the NFL. But alas, I could not make it work in the interface that FR offers. It will not work without a collaboration chat applet and the ability to choose teams. More importantly, FR doesn’t operationally own the ground troops and capability. Without that….there is no game. I tried writing it with FR heavily influencing events, but that is just a bridge too far. But to hasten the destruction of the NFL, I didn’t want to NOT post the war-game (like my double negative?). Some of the readers...

That's how some of the greatest fairytales of all time started.  From this line generally unwinds a tale of fantasy, too foreboding to be true.  At the same time they're just a little too close to possible, for us not to get chills from the reading. This is not a fairytale.  It will read like one, due to the absurdities you will recognize, but this is the hard unlikely truth.  As you read it, you will recognize it for what it is. You will recognize it as being just a little too foreboding to be true, but also far too possible...

The worst thing about the ridiculous strawman stereotypes that your political opponents make up and shove down your throat at every opportunity is that in a world as big, beautiful and diverse as ours is, they’ll eventually find someone out of the seven-billion-and-change human beings on Earth who fits that stereotype for real. I’ll be the first to admit this cuts in all directions, and that as much fun as my Facebook feed has with “idiot conservative of the day” stories, the majority of Republican voters can in fact spell the word “moron,” understand that Medicare is in fact a...

Mark Felt Hinted at Exotic Antigravity Project? Thien Vehl, jeudi, 09/06/2005 - 19:26 Fil de presse | Politique A few years ago while in San Francisco, Bob Woodward made an intriguing remark. He told the San Francisco Chronicle he wouldn’t expose Deep Throat until the man died but that when he died people would begin to research the case and one thing would lead to another. Woodward said it would all lead to a “fantastic” discovery. Now that we know that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt, former #2 man at the FBI and the architect of J. Edgar Hoover’s...