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    The annual mortification of the canines.
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    HELLO VIETNAM!
    First Impressions of the Country

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    "Exploring Da Nang, Vietnam on my first day in the country."

    Published on Feb 21, 2019

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    And he was called Charmin ...


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    IMO ... this should be a U.S. federal law ...


    NJ Bill Would Ban Trump From 2020 Ballot Unless He Releases Tax Returns

    "A bill introduced by New Jersey Democrats would keep President Trump's name off the state's 2020 ballot
    unless he releases his tax returns, according to NorthJersey.com." ...


    "The new legislation, approved Thursday by the state Senate, was passed once before in 2017 only to be vetoed by then-Gov. Chris Christie. It would keep any candidate from appearing on the state ballot unless they make their tax returns public. Of note, New Jersey's current governor, Phil Murphy, is a Democrat.

    Similar legislation has been introduced in at least 28 states but has never been enacted, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, meaning New Jersey would be the first to impose such a disclosure requirement if its measure is also approved by the Assembly and signed by Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat. -NorthJersey.com
    New Jersey's bill comes in response to President Trump's longstanding refusal to release his tax returns - which he says he would gladly do if he weren't under an ongoing IRS audit. The president's decision not to disclose information about his personal finances has sparked a heated debate over whether such a bill is even constitutional.

    "It is so obvious with this president that had voters known some of what seem to be his business interests, he may not have been elected president," said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D), a sponsor of the bill.

    The measure would likely be struck down in the courts, according to NorthJersey, and could also lead to more disclosures from candidates in the future.

    "Today we require tax returns, but what would be next?" wrote former California Gov. Jerry Brown when he vetoed similar legislation in 2017. "Five years of health records? A certified birth certificate? High school report cards? And will these requirements vary depending on which political party is in power?"

    "“It’s just political pandering," said attorney John Carbone, who specializes in election law at Carbone & Fasse.

    "They can impose no requirements for a candidate for federal office, let alone president," he said. "They’re thinking like Alabama Democrats during the Civil War: What can we do to get Lincoln?"


    Although they are not required to do so by law, presidential candidates in the past have released their tax returns as a matter of transparency so voters could learn about their financial status, business dealings and potential conflicts of interest.

    Democrats who now control the U.S. House of Representatives are reportedly studying a century-old provision in the federal tax code to gain access to Trump’s tax returns and make them public. Separately, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, has introduced legislation to require presidents and presidential candidates to release their 10 most recent federal income tax returns.

    The Democrats who control New Jersey’s Legislature are eyeing a different mechanism to force the disclosure, threatening to keep off the New Jersey ballot any candidate who does not share his or her five most recent tax returns at least 50 days before the 2020 general election. -NorthJersey.com
    "Of course, no Republican presidential candidate has won New Jersey since 1988, so the impact to President Trump, should this law pass, would likely be minimal.

    In March of 2017, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow embarrassed herself and her network when she published leaked partial copies of Trump's 2005 tax returns - revealing that Trump paid a higher tax rate than Mitt Romney in 2011 and Bernie Sanders in 2014, along with Barack Obama at 18.7% in 2015 and Warren Buffet at 17.4%."

    Source: zerohedge.com

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    Wow. First I heard of that, Gio.

    Bush started really pushing the unitary executive, or whatever they called it, where the President has much power, i.e. executive orders.

    Now the states are starting to reassert themselves, as are the people.

    The Congress will get its backbone back and start passing bills and overriding vetos. States will begin to stand up more to the Feds and possibly corporations.

    Should be interesting.

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    Meanwhile...

    It's Called 'Nut Juice'


    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
    Published on Feb 23, 2019


    5:01 minutes


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    Making it up as they go ...
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    From Randy Maugans | OffPlanet Radio

    Shane The Ruiner: Weaponized Sexuality


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    Published on Feb 23, 2019
    This is the first segment of a +2 hour presentation. For full episodes and exclusive features, become a patron for as little as $3/month at:
    https://patreon.com/offplanetmedia

    Rarely, if ever, seriously discussed in alternative media; the subjects of sexual rituals, the LGBTQ movement, transgenderism, and authentic sexuality is not only hot topical matter, but critica, and usually loaded with biases, half-baked opinions, and deep religious dogma. Shane Bales joins us to open up these subjects with Randy and Emily. Each of us speaks from a place of experience, non-bias, and the goal of discussing this without creating divisions and more false narratives.

    Shane's blog on the Illuminati, which sparked huge controversy when it was made public in 2015, is a primer on the order of control from the viewpoint of a kid who was inside it
    https://theruiner777.blogspot.com/
    1:12:41 minutes

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    A new travel adventure ...
    How fast the world can change ...


    What Happened to the Aral Sea? | Travel to Uzbekistan's Worst Disaster

    Vagabrothers

    "What happened to the Aral Sea? Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, it's now nearly gone, leaving shipwrecks in the desert, lives destroyed and poisonous dust clouds spreading across the globe.

    Join Alex the Vagabond and Marko Ayling, the Vagabrothers as they travel to the edge of this disappearing Sea to find out exactly what happened. Buckle your seat belts, this is going to be one strange trip!"


    Published on Feb 23, 2019

    18:00 minutes

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    Unique - LP

    Born March 18, 1981
    Birthplace New York
    Age 37 years old
    Birth Sign Pisces

    About

    Best known for her single "Into the Wild" and known by the stage name LP, she is a pop/rock singer and
    songwriter with a 2014 studio album titled Forever for Now.

    Before Fame - She was featured on the hidden Cracker track "Cinderella" from the band's 1998 album Gentleman's Blues.

    Trivia - A decade before Forever for Now, she released a 2001 album called Heart-Shaped Scar and a 2004 album
    titled Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol.

    Family Life - Her father's name is Richard. She is openly gay.

    Associated With - She has written songs for Rihanna, Cher Lloyd and Christina Aguilera.


    Laura Pergolizzi

    Lost On You

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    Putin's ongoing long plan to seed and interject a right wing/wedge into EU unity is most definitely working well and on course ... Just as it was planned and worked here in the U.S. prior to and since the 2016 elections ...



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    In this Feb. 19, 2019 file photo, a phone box displays a billboard showing Hungarian-American financier George Soros and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker above the caption "You have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do!", in Budapest, Hungary. Battle lines are drawn between anti-EU populist forces and traditional parties at the beginning of a three-month election campaign that could turn into a tipping point in postwar European history. The May 2019 EU elections has already produced unprecedented abrasive campaigning.


    EU Parliament election could upend politics across Europe

    BRUSSELS (AP) — "EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was so stupefied after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attacked his migration policies that he publicly muttered “I cannot believe what I read.” When Orban’s party later targeted him in a virulent election poster campaign, Juncker was again dumbfounded, saying “You can’t really act against lies.”

    Enemies from opposing camps? No, they belong to the same EPP Christian Democrat group, the dominant force in the European Parliament, and should in theory be close allies in May’s European Union election.

    Instead, this political fratricide is front and center in this massive exercise of democracy, which spans 27 nations and involves close to half a billion people. The May 23-26 European Parliament vote could prove to be a tipping point in post-war European politics.

    Some traditional political powerhouses might start to crumble, allowing extremist, populist parties to gain more clout and throw a new wrench into the EU’s political machinery.

    “We’ve never seen something like this in EU elections,” said European politics Professor Hendrik Vos of Ghent University about the abrasive election climate.

    The EU parliamentary election is run as national ballots in 27 member states. National political parties with common ideology then unite in EU-wide groups like the center-right EPP, the center-left S&D Socialists and the liberal, pro-business ALDE.

    Over the years, the major political groups started looking at adding unattached national parties to expand their bases. Even if these newcomers might not be as close to their core values, they still could boost their seat totals in Parliament.

    Some factions, however, have developed sharply contrasting agendas within their groups and can vary as widely as the geographic spread from Finland to Hungary to Portugal. Some could now splinter off — like Orban’s staunchly anti-migrant, right-wing Fidesz party — weaken the center and reinforce the fringes.

    The EPP, for example, welcomed a populist Italian, Silvio Berlusconi, two decades ago. Orban’s Fidesz party followed soon after. Other groups also face similar internal trouble — the ALDE with populist Czech leader Andrej Babis, who has been accused of misusing EU farm subsidies, and the S&D with Romania’s Social Democrats, who critics say are weakening the judiciary’s fight against corruption.

    But nowhere has it produced political fireworks like at the EPP.

    Orban was first embraced for his anti-Communist credentials but over the years turned into an anti-immigration populist calling for an “illiberal” society with autocratic leadership, something that increasingly jarred with EPP values.

    It came to a boil over the past month when Orban fired up his anti-Brussels rhetoric portraying Juncker as conniving to keep nations like Hungary under their thumb and opening EU borders to all migrants. He plastered Budapest with posters showing Juncker as a gloating force of evil.

    “I consider the formulations in the poster campaign in Hungary against Jean-Claude Juncker, which is meeting with incomprehension in large parts of the EPP, unacceptable,” Austrian Chancellor and EPP heavyweight Sebastian Kurz said Friday.

    Now the EPP faces a political dilemma: should it jettison Orban over principles, whatever the consequences, or try to keep him in a chokehold so he won’t unite with other anti-EU populists?

    “In these new dynamics there are new opportunities,” noted Italian political analyst Alberto Alemanno.

    Since the last EU election in 2014, Britain has voted to leave the EU and Italy and Austria have government coalitions that include the far right. Over a dozen EU nations have fragile minority governments and Poland has turned as hostile toward Brussels as Hungary.

    “After the fall of London, Rome, Warsaw, Budapest, or Vienna into the hands of anti-European and/or xenophobic forces, we no longer speak of the ‘enemy at the gate’ but of the ‘enemy inside the gates,’” wrote Jose Ignacio Torreblanca for the European Council on Foreign Relations.

    And all this comes at a time when the European Parliament now has more powers. All too long a posh retirement post for over-the-hill politicians, the parliament is now an effective decision-maker with a real say on everything from Brexit to anti-pollution regulations.

    The first projections for the 705-seat legislature, produced this week by the parliament itself, show the EPP Christian Democrats struggling with 183 seats, the S&D Socialists losing big to land at 135 seats and their grand coalition short of a majority for the first time. Populists would gain more clout during the upcoming five-year session.

    The influential VoteWatch Europe think tank said “right-wing nationalists are set to gain, although they are likely to fall short of getting over 25 percent of seats.”

    But it said a united group of right-wing nationalists could become the second largest group in the legislature.

    So far, populist and extreme parties have added decibels and eyebrow-raising rhetoric to the EU plenary but have had precious little impact on parliament events.

    But with higher numbers and better coordination, the anti-EU forces could start weighing in more on decision-making in Europe and battle back against pro-EU French President Emmanuel Macron’s vision of an ever-closer union.

    That would be music to Orban’s ears and a massive defeat for Juncker.

    Since Juncker is not running for another term as Commission president, the vote in May could be the last round of their fight. That round is not over and Juncker wants to protect his pro-EU legacy.

    “I’m not giving in. I’m not like that. I want to be exactly the opposite of that,” Juncker said."

    Source: apnews.com

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    Non-Player Character - Dr. Shmuel Asher & Randy Maugans

    Freeman Fly

    "How do NPCs exist? Why do they exist? Who creates them and what is their main purpose? If they have no soul, HOW is their biological body animated? Why have all of the Arts been so totally attacked and usurped at the top by Drone entity controllers? Do Drones aid Archon’s to capture all souls in the end. – (Everything has always been about the SOUL!)"


    Published on Feb 24, 2019

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    what ever happened to china on the back side of the moon...
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    Quote Originally posted by NotAPretender View Post
    what ever happened to china on the back side of the moon...

    Apparently ...





    China says it has grown the first plants on the moon on its historic mission to the far side

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