Sunday, July 31, 2022
Billionaire-funded eco group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural America Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen tells Fox News Digital the group's plans are 'flatly illegal'
The American Prairie (AP), a conservation project in Montana, has quietly scooped up more than 450,000 acres of land with the help of its billionaire donors and the federal government.
The little-known project aims to create the largest "fully functioning ecosystem" in the continental U.S. by stitching together about 3.2 million acres of private and public lands, according to the American Prairie Foundation, which founded the reserve more than 20 years ago. The group has recorded 34 transactions spanning roughly 453,188 acres of land throughout central Montana — much of which were once used for farming and grazing — since 2004 and continues to aggressively expand.
"Our mission is to assemble the largest complex of public and private lands devoted to wildlife in the lower 48," Pete Geddes, AP's vice president and chief external relations officer, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "For comparison, about 25% larger than Yellowstone."
"We're not asking the federal government to create anything, we're not asking the federal government for any money," he added. "Instead, we're engaged in private philanthropy and voluntary exchange by buying ranches from people who would like to sell that to us."
The American Prairie Foundation has raised tens of millions of dollars in recent years, according to recent tax filings, thanks in large part to its donors, which include well-known Wall Street and Silicon Valley magnates. Hansjoerg Wyss, a Swiss financier and mega-donor of liberal causes, deceased German retail mogul Erivan Haub, John Mars, the heir to the Mars candy fortune, and Susan Packard Orr, daughter of the Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder, have all donated to AP, Bloomberg previously reported.
The AP said about 3% of its contributions have come from international...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1096
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.
If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1796
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Democrats’ high-spending ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will do just the opposite
Let’s also remember the Democrats’ deflection on inflation last year — claiming it was “transitory” and “no serious economist” is “suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way” and so on — was all part of a concerted political effort to ignore the problem long enough to cram through a $5.5 trillion iteration of their agenda. And when inflation suddenly became non-transitory and politically problematic, the Biden administration argued that more spending would relieve inflation. It doesn’t care about the economy, as long as dependency is being expanded.
The bill is far more likely to spike consumer prices than not. You can hate corporations with the heat of a thousand suns and grouse about the lack of fairness in the world, but it won’t change the fact that businesses don’t pay taxes, they collect them. The Dems claim their bill raises $313 billion with a minimum 15% corporate tax rate. They seem to be under the impression corporations that pay less than 15% are evading taxes rather than using completely legal tools like accelerated depreciation or taking advantage of tax credits. Whatever the case, raising corporate taxes means fewer jobs or higher prices. Maybe both. What it won’t do is lower inflation.
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| Republicans have been arguing that big government spending will only drive consumer prices even higher.Spencer Platt/Getty Images |
The same establishment media suddenly unsure how to define a recession are going to falsely claim the bill has a “deficit-reduction package,” even though anyone who’s spent five minutes in DC knows the bill features a bunch of accounting gimmicks that will allow Manchin to go back to West Virginia and claim his concerns about spending are allayed. The deficit-reduction number — which relies not only on raising taxes on consumers but creating a more powerful IRS (and IRS public-sector union) — is plucked from the ether. We have no clue how much new taxes and audits will raise. What we do know is that any spending program instituted today will exist in perpetuity.
The bill also dumps another $369 billion into green boondoggles, a slush fund for Democrats. Now, even if you’ve convinced yourself that slight variations in temperature are an existential threat to humanity, there’s never been an instance of energy becoming more affordable due to pumping money into green economies. A bill with “investments” that will “encourage” a “transition,” as political journalists would say, is really just force-feeding inefficient and expensive alternatives that elbow out reliable, affordable gas and oil and push prices higher. Manchin claims the bill specifically brings down energy prices. Yet unless West Virginians are clamoring to buy already heavily...
The bill also dumps another $369 billion into green boondoggles, a slush fund for Democrats. Now, even if you’ve convinced yourself that slight variations in temperature are an existential threat to humanity, there’s never been an instance of energy becoming more affordable due to pumping money into green economies. A bill with “investments” that will “encourage” a “transition,” as political journalists would say, is really just force-feeding inefficient and expensive alternatives that elbow out reliable, affordable gas and oil and push prices higher. Manchin claims the bill specifically brings down energy prices. Yet unless West Virginians are clamoring to buy already heavily...
In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States, July 19-July 25
Paul Sorvino and three other actors; Charles Johnson and three other football players (& three other athletes, a coach and a sportscaster), a 13-year-old dead from "natural causes," and many more:
Note the use of propaganda in so many of these pieces, to normalize the die-off, and obfuscate the likelihood that “vaccination” was the cause of death. Such trickery includes the claim that Paul Sorvino had had “health issues over the past few years” (his work history says otherwise); the new story of how football player Sam Bruce died (three months after his death); the claims that the departed died of “natural causes”—at 51, or 41, or 13; and so on
UNITED STATES
Shonka Dukureh, ‘Elvis’ actress and blues singer, dead at 44
July 21, 2022
Shonka Dukureh, an actress and blues singer who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” biopic, died on Thursday in Tennessee, police confirmed. She was 44.
The musician was found dead inside her bedroom in the Nashville apartment she shared with her two children, according to a tweet by the Metro Nashville Police Department.
The Tennessean reported that one of Dukureh’s children found her unresponsive before rushing to a neighbor’s home, who then called 911 at approximately 9:30 a.m.
A spokesperson for the MNPD confirmed that the medical examiner is working to determine the cause of death. No foul play is suspected.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/entertainment/shonka-dukureh-obit/index.html
Paul Sorvino Dies: ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Law & Order’ Actor, Father Of Mira Sorvino Was 83
July 25, 2022
Paul Sorvino, who starred in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and early seasons of the NBC series Law & Order, died today of natural causes after suffering health issues[*] over the past few years. He was 83. His death was announced by his publicist Roger Neal on behalf of Sorvino’s wife Dee Dee Sorvino, who was at his side when he passed.
“Our hearts are broken,” said Dee Dee Sorvino in a statement. “There will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage.” Sorvino was the father of Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino.
Paul Anthony Sorvino born April 13, 1939 in Brooklyn and starred in such films as Goodfellas, Nixon, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, For the Love of Money, That Championship Season, Reds, A Touch of Class, Oh, God! among many others. On television he starred on Seasons 2 and 3 of Law & Order and on Broadway in That Championship Season.
https://deadline.com/2022/07/paul-sorvino-dead-goodfellas-actor-obituary-father-of-mira-sorvino-was-83-1235076878/
*Despite those "health issues over the past few years" Sorvino had been working steadily full-time. He had completed one movie (Pursued), had another in post-production (The Ride), was in production of another (My Jurassic Place), and was scheduled to appear in a TV movie (The Chameleon). From 2019-2021, he had also performed in 13 episodes of the TV series "Godfather of Harlem."
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000649/
Bobbie Faye Ferguson Dies: ‘Designing Women’, ‘Dallas’ & ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Actress Was 78
July 23, 2022
Bobbie Faye Ferguson, an actress whose credits include Designing Women, Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard, has died at 78. Multiple news reports said she died June 25 of natural causes in Sherman Oaks, CA.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bobbie-faye-ferguson-dies-designing-010238223.html
Taurean Blacque, 'Hill Street Blues' actor, dead at 82
July 22, 2022
Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor and star of hit '80s show "Hill Street Blues," has died. He was 82.
Blacque died following a brief battle with an undisclosed illness, his family said Thursday.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hill-street-blues-actor-taurean-blacque-dead
YouTube star Kevin Samuels died from hypertension, medical examiner concludes
July 20, 2022
YouTube star Kevin Samuels died of hypertension, a Georgia medical examiner concluded. Samuels, 53, died suddenly May 5 after he complained of chest pain and collapsed, authorities said. He was at his apartment and taken to a hospital but could not be resuscitated, they said.
Chief Medical Examiner Karen E. Sullivan's findings were reported Monday by E! News. "It is my opinion that Kevin Samuels died due to hypertension (high blood pressure), Sullivan wrote in the report dated July 14. The manner of death was ruled natural.
https://tinyurl.com/skrww4f2
‘Naked and Afraid’ contestant dies at 35
July 24,2022
A former contestant on the popular survivalist reality TV show “Naked and Afraid” has died, multiple...
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