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Rush explained he’s already received a second opinion on his diagnosis, thought about keeping his treatment secret, but will need to miss some days behind the microphone while he is being treated.
The reaction across social media was instant, with Levin and Beck openly weeping. The left celebrated as is typical of the left. Yet, nothing can burnish Rush’s star.
At one time or another, all of us have been inspired by Rush. When and where did you first hear him? Did he stop and make you think? Did he make you ask questions? Did he motivate you?
God Speed to the Limbaugh family as Rush undergoes treatment. We want to hear from him behind a microphone as soon as possible.
We’re still here. It’s still ShaMMMpeachment. The never-ending-Groundhog Day–of-a-swirl-of-crap from the Dems. The country has moved on but the Dems are still stuck. Republicans are forced into a cleanup on isle 12 for the perpetually offended.
We know the Dems will never stop. There will be another faux scandal after “Muh Russia” and “Muh Ukraine”, I wonder if we will move onto another Soviet Bloc country? Do we know anyone in Latvia? Estonia? Just sayin’……………
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1,671 Caucuses will be held this evening in Iowa. There will also be a “caucus” in Paris, France, Scotland, and the Republic of Georgia, for Iowans who live out of country. All are run by volunteers. It’s what makes Iowa special in the Presidential Election process and a system the citizens of Iowa take quite seriously.
A candidate must get to a 15% threshold to obtain delegates. There’s a LOT of persuasion involved.
In 1972, the state of Iowa reformed their election process to the current intricate caucus system. One candidate who paid attention was Jimmy Carter, polling a 2%. His campaign bet big on Iowa. Carter started working the Iowa caucuses in 1974, and the press notoriety he gained vaulted him to the Presidency. Subsequent candidates assumed, if it worked for Governor Peanut, it might work for them, and the focus on Iowa began. Same with Freshman Senator Obama in 2008, who gained Oprah’s endorsement before the Iowa Caucus.
Throughout the day and this evening, as we track results, commentators will refer to various counties. Thought this map might help to get us oriented.
The map below is a district map for State Senators and will give you a better idea of population distribution, with obviously smaller districts in larger metro areas.
Historically, the biggest thing to effect the Iowa Caucus is the weather. Today looks pretty good in Iowa. “More clouds than sun. Some drizzle or freezing drizzle possible. High 36F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph.”, according to Weather.com
The Republicans will also caucus this evening. Since President Trump is mostly unopposed, we could see 1671 precinct mini-rallies for the President. The Trump campaign has dispatched 80 higher level campaign officials to speak at various caucuses including Don Jr, Eric, Lara, Admin members, all kinds of Trump Supporters will be on the ground this evening in Iowa.
Of course, Trump Supporters may take time out to troll a few Dem rallies today, very Trumpian.
Tonight, within those town halls, it will be all about persuasion and convincing the minority candidate members to JOIN another candidate. Let’s see what happens.
Because of the ShaMMMpeachment in DC, Presidential candidates who are also Senators have been stuck in DC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Klobuchar. Much has been made of how much their absence will affect their chances to win Iowa. Pundits thought it might help Biden, Bloomberg, and Pete Boot-Edge-Edge, but it appears, Biden is sinking in the polls….. We’re not sure about the polling because the Des Moines Register refused to release their last poll under a cloud of suspicion.
Found a pic of Candidate Trump and Melania on the night of the Iowa Caucus in 2016. Check it out.
Of course, the best candidate with the best policies for Iowa is President Trump. Our side cannot rest comfortably and a contentious Dem primary stirs up activity on the side of the opposition. We need to be just as determined, come out and support our man, Trump, to win the state of Iowa in November!!
Where will YOU be in November?
Most of us have known of FLEP for years and admired his poll-tracking and diligence. FLEP has perfectly summed up the Dem Primary focus and how it relates to the Presidential election. Read his words from the News Roundup carefully. So good, I thought it was worth repeating here:
I truly believe that we are in the mist of watching the Democrat Party collapse right in front of our eyes. The 2020 Democrat Primaries are exposing that fact for us. The Democrats will have two parties coming out of the 2020 election. The Establishment Democrats and the Progressive/Socialist/Communist Democrats.
The problem for the Establishment Democrats and MSM is that they represent the old guard. The Progressive Democrats represent the new guard. By having the Progressive Democrats win the nominee will guarantee TRUMPISM reigning for the next 50+ years. There is no way that either party can beat the Trump Republican Party.
Bernie Sanders guarantees not only our President getting re-elected but he will win with over 350+ electoral votes and he will win the popular vote as well. He is a pure communist. Yes 30% of Americans love him and will vote for him. 55% of Americans LOVE our President and will vote for him.
The remaining 15% is what I consider the Establishment Democrats. Many will vote for our President or will sit out the election. Our President will not only win every state that he won in 2016, he will also win Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico and New Hampshire. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he wins Nevada, Colorado and my long shot, Oregon.
Our man, FLEP, Good News RoundUp, February 3, 2020
Note #2: Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan are in Iowa right now, indicative of where the importance is in politics. Impeachment is overwith and we’ve moved on.
Note #3: Kiss of death, from Politico. Even left leaning media outlets are conceding the State of Iowa, implying whoever wins the Dem Primary, they won’t be back to the state, …… cuz Trump will win it.
Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the will of the Lord that will be carried out.
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The Sovereignty of God
‘I Will Accomplish All My Purpose’
In Isaiah 46:9, God says “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.” God is unique among all the beings of the universe. He is in a class by himself. No one is like him. When something is happening, or something is being said or thought, and God responds, “I am God!” , he is saying: You’re acting like you don’t know what it means for me to be God.
What It Means to Be God
So he tells them what it means to be the one and only God. He tells them what’s at the heart of his God-ness. Verse 10: What it means for me to be God is that “I declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done.” Two statements:
I declare how things turn out long before they ever happen.
I declare not just natural events but human events — doings, things that are not yet done.
Verse 10: “I declare from ancient times things not yet done.” I know what these doings will be long before they are done.
Now at this point you might say, “What we have here is God’s foreknowledge, not his sovereignty.” And that is right, so far. But in the next half of the verse, God tells us how he foreknows the end and how he foreknows the things not yet done. Verse 10b: “I declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’” When he “declares” ahead of time what will be, here’s how he “declares” it, or “says” it: “saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’”
In other words, the way he declares his foreknowledge is by declaring his fore-counsel and his fore-purposing. When God declares the end long before it happens, what he says is, “My counsel shall stand.” And when God declares things not yet done long before they are done, what he says is, “I will accomplish all my purpose.”
Which means that the reason God knows the future is because he plans the future and accomplishes it. The future is the counsel of God being established. The future is the purpose of God being accomplished by God. Then, the next verse, verse 11b, gives a clear confirmation that this is what he means: “I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.” In other words, the reason my predictions come true is because they are my purposes, and because I myself perform them.
God Purposes All Things
God knows what’s coming because he plans what’s coming, and he performs what he plans. Verse 10b: ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’ He does not form purposes and wonder if someone else will take responsibility to make them happen. “I will accomplish all my purpose.”
So, based on this text: God has the rightful authority, the freedom, the wisdom, and the power to bring about everything that he intends to happen. And therefore, everything he intends to come about does come about. Which means, God plans and governs all things.
When he says, “I will accomplish all my purpose,” he means, “Nothing happens except what is my purpose.” What God means in Isaiah 46:10 is that nothing has ever happened, or will ever happen, that God did not purpose to happen. Or to put it positively: Everything that happened or will happen is purposed by God to happen.
Facing a Crucial Question
Will we turn from our objections and praise his power and grace, and bow with glad submission to the absolute sovereignty of God? Or, will we stiffen our neck and resist him? Will we see in the sovereignty of God our only hope for life in our deadness, our only hope for answers to our prayers, our only hope for success in our evangelism, our only hope for meaning in our suffering? Or, will we insist that there is a better hope, or no hope?
However, nothing contradicts the real moral responsibility that humans, and angels, and demons have to do what God commands. God has given us a will. How we use it makes our eternal difference.
God’s Sovereignty Over Nature
God is sovereign over what appears the most random acts in the world. Proverbs 16:33 says, “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.” There are no events so small that he does not rule for his purposes. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?” Jesus said, “And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10:29–30).
From worms in the ground to stars in the galaxies, God governs the natural world. In the book of Jonah, God commands a fish to swallow (1:17), God commands a plant to grow (4:6), and commands a worm to kill it (4:7). And far above the life of worms, the stars take their place and hold their place at God’s command. Isaiah 40:26 says, “Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.”
How much more, then, the natural events of this world — from weather, to disasters, to disease, to disability, to death.
Psalm 147:15–18 says, “He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.” Job 37:11–13 says, “He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.”
God Could Have Stilled the Winds
So snow and rain, and cold, and heat, and wind are all the work of God. When Jesus finds himself in the middle of a raging storm, he merely speaks, “Peace! Be still!” And as the text says, “the wind ceased, and there was a great calm” (Mark 4:39). There is no wind, no storm, no hurricane, no cyclone, no typhoon, no monsoon, no tornado over which Jesus can say “Be still,” and it will not obey. Which means, that if it blows, he intends for it to blow. “Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?” (Amos 3:6). All Jesus had to do with Hurricane Sandy was say, “Be still,” and there would have been no damage and no loss of life.
And what about the other sufferings of this life? “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?’” (Exodus 4:11). And Peter said to the suffering saints in Asia Minor, “Let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good” (1 Peter 4:19). “It is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil” (1 Peter 3:17).
Whether we suffer from disability, or from the evil of others, God is the one who ultimately decides — and whether we live or die. Deuteronomy 32:39 says, “There is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.” Or consider James 4:13–15: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’” Or, as Job says, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21).
God’s Sovereignty in Human Actions
And when we turn from the natural world to the world of human actions and human choice, God’s sovereignty is just as extensive. “He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; . . . the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will” (Daniel 2:21; 4:17).
And whoever the president is, he is not sovereign. We should pray for him that he would know this: “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will” (Proverbs 21:1). And when he engages in foreign affairs he will not be decisive. God will. “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:10–11).
When nations came to do their absolute worst, namely the murder of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, they had not slipped out of God’s control, but were doing his sweetest bidding at their worst moment: “Truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place” (Acts 4:27–28). The worst sin that ever happened was in God’s plan, and by that sin, sin died.
Boasting Is Excluded
And so our salvation was secured on Calvary under the sovereign hand of God. And, if you are a believer in Jesus, if you love him, you are a walking miracle. God granted you repentance (2 Timothy 2:24–25). God drew you to Christ (John 6:44). God revealed himself to you (Matthew 11:27). God gave you the gift of faith. “By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). The sovereignty of God in our salvation excludes boasting.
There may have been a hundred horrible things in your life. But if today you are moved to treasure Christ as your Lord and Savior, you can write over every one of those horrors the words of Genesis 50:20: Satan, “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”
I conclude with the words of Paul in Ephesians 1:11, “God works all things according to the counsel of his will.” All things — from the roll of the dice, to the circuits of stars, to the rise of presidents, to the death of Jesus, to the gift of repentance and faith.
Why God’s Sovereignty Matters
What then does this mean for us? Why is this precious to us?
Let us stand in awe of the sovereign authority and freedom and wisdom and power of God.
Let us never trifle with life as though it were a small or light affair.
Let us marvel at our own salvation — that God bought it, and wrought it, with sovereign power, and we are not our own.
Let us groan over the God-belittling, man-centeredness of our culture and much of the church.
Let us be bold at the throne of grace knowing that our prayers for the most difficult things can be answered. Nothing is too hard for God.
Let us rejoice that our evangelism will not be in vain because there is no sinner so hard that the sovereign grace of God cannot break through.
Let us be thrilled and calm in these days of great upheaval because victory belongs to God, and no purposes that he wills to accomplish can be stopped.
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To a crowded Trump Rally in Des Moines, Iowa, President Donald Trump literally told the people of a proud American agricultural state: “They wanna kill our cows! That means you’re next!”
“The socialist Democrats want to shut down American energy, They support Representative Occasion Cortez – that’s a real beauty . . . that’s a beauty I can’t even believe it but I don’t want to knock it. Because the Green New Deal which would crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. I love cows! They want to kill our cows! You know why right? . . . You know why – don’t say . . . They want to kill our cows! That means you’re next!“
Don’t Panic! The VSG totally has this. He’s already defeated these people at their game.
So Much Winning . . .
Warning: This article is rated EXTRA SPICY. Consume responsibly.
“They wanna kill our cows! That means you’re next!”
Yes, he really went there.
In Iowa.
Talking to a crowded rally of farmers.
In one of America’s greatest agriculture states.
And during one of America’s most important political primaries.
Today’s story starts with the Coronavirus. Wait, actually it goes back much further. Well let’s start with Coronavirus.
Daughn posted a Coronavirus thread because, well, I’m a slacker:
I want/don’t want to put up a “PANIC! Coronavirus Pandemic!” post to collect all the articles and theories everyone’s posted…
Main reason I don’t want to: “It will all work out well.” 😉
If it were a REAL threat, POTUS would have said more now. Nothing catches him by surprise.
And it’s true, our President has this under control:
China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
Before this year’s very real coronavirus pandemic that started in China and is now sweeping the globe, a “fictional” simulation of such an event was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year.
Event 201, which was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took place in October 2018 and featured a simulation in which a novel zoonotic coronavirus spread throughout the world and caused 65 million deaths worldwide. In the preparedness scenario, the coronavirus started in Brazil rather than China.
“Once you’re in the midst of a severe pandemic, your options are very limited,” said Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. “The greatest good can happen with pre-planning.”
The event was hosted in New York City and attended by some of the most influential business leaders, government officials, and health officials. Attendees claimed that it really helped them rethink how they would handle disaster preparedness if such a situation were to arise.
“It really does shake up assumptions and change thinking about how we can prepare for a global pandemic,” says Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security.
Some of the highlights from the conference can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/AoLw-Q8X174
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and globalist World Economic Forum helped to put on the event. The coronavirus was described in the training as being similar to SARS “but slightly more transmissible, like the flu, and slightly more lethal.”
“We don’t have a vaccine for SARS, or MERS, or various avian flu viruses that have come up in the past decade,” Toner said, noting how the situation described in Event 201 could easily take place. “That’s because vaccine development is slow and difficult if there isn’t an immediate market for it.”
Widespread allegations have also emerged that patents were issued for the coronavirus, perhaps in anticipation for its release upon the masses:
“In the case of biological threats, that sense of urgency is lacking,” he said. “The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.”
Perhaps Gates just showed incredible foresight in choosing the coronavirus mass death simulation just months before the real thing would show itself, or maybe this is just another case of predictive programming from a globalist cabal capable of unfathomable evil.
According to a storypublished on CBC news on July 14, 2019, a researcher connected to China was escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg during an RCMP investigation into what was described as a possible “policy breach.”
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng, and an undisclosed number of her students from China were removed from Canada’s only level-4 lab on July 5, according to a CBC News report.
A Level 4 virology facility is a lab with the equipment to work with the most threatening human and animal diseases. This made the Arlington Street lab one of the very few labs in North America that is able to handle pathogens demanding the highest level of containment, such as Ebola.
According to sources who worked at the lab and did not want to be identified, the couple and the Chinese students had their security access revoked
Sources claim that this came several months after NML IT specialists entered Qiu’s office after-hours and replaced her computer. Qiu’s frequent trips to China were also being denied.
During meetings on July 8, NML staff were informed that the researchers were on leave for an indefinite period of time. They were instructed not to communicate with them.
Qiu is a medical doctor hailing from Tianjin, China. She migrated Canada for graduate studies in 1996. She was still connected to the university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with her work.
She was leading the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies section in the Special Pathogens Program at the lab. Qiu’s main research field is immunology and she mostly focused on vaccine development, post-exposure therapeutics, and quick diagnostics of viruses like Ebola.
“Based on information received to date, the RCMP has assessed that there is no threat to public safety at this time,” Robert Cyrenne informed CBC News in an email.
PHAC described it as a policy breach and “administrative matter” and said the department took steps to “resolve it expeditiously,” Eric Morrissette, the health agency’s chief of media relations, said.
“We can assure Canadians that there is absolutely no risk to the Canadian public and that the work of the NML continues in support of the health and safety of all Canadians,” communications director Mathieu Filion communication in an email.
No one from the Chinese Embassy commented on the situation
Many experts speculated that this could have been a case of intellectual property theft or technology leakage to China.
“The National Microbiology Laboratory would have some pretty sensitive biological research material that … could be shared either with or without authorization with foreign countries,” claimed Gordon Houlden, director of the University of Alberta’s China Institute.
“All of this is unproven, but even microbiology, sometimes especially microbiology, can have issues that involve national security.”
No matter the country, China uses its geopolitical leverage to advance its own interests.
Not just America, but the rest of the West should reconsider how it handles diplomatic and economic relations with China.
After this ‘Trial Run of the UN-OIE Stamping-Out/De-population protocol’, it was adopted here in the USA. PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A VACCINE so the killing of uneffected cattle WAS NOT NECESSARY! Also the meat can be eaten by humans with no ill effect.
CRITICAL!!!
…In the case of FMD, they did not even know how the disease was carried. It could be on the wind, on the wheels of vehicles or the soles of boots, in the throats of human beings or any combination of these and others.
Computer modelling has a number of attractions for academics. It does not need the resources that experimental science demands; nor does it need the long hours of careful attention required for research by measurement. In just a few hours you can create a model, just a computer program, which is so complex that no outsider can hope to unravel it. You can build in many assumptions that might well be unjustifiable under independent examination. Furthermore, the human unconscious is a mischievous influence that can produce the desired results, even for those who are not deliberately cheating. In the same few hours you can produce beautiful graphs and tables, the like of which would take months in experimental science, but which are so convincing to laymen and particularly politicians and bureaucrats. This is a point so important that it is worth an interlude of its own….
The article does not mention the suicides or the EU and UN role. Use Depopulation and you can begin exporting MUCH SOONER than if you use vaccination.
…In Europe the acknowledged expert was a Dutch vet, Dr Simon Barteling, who had been responsible for handling over 20 outbreaks of the disease in different parts of the world. Both these experts had worked with the most modern vaccines and had expressed their conviction that vaccination provided the key to rapid control of the disease without the need to resort to mass slaughter. Indeed, when an outbreak occurred in Albania and Macedonia in 1996, the EU, fearing a spread across its own borders, had quickly set up a vaccination programme. The outbreak was totally suppressed within a few weeks. Thus, it was not just theoretical knowledge, but practical experience with convincing results, that pointed to vaccination as being the only reasonable and effective way to tackle the disease: but the British establishment had its mind set on slaughter….
Nearly eight million animals, one eighth of all those in Britain and most of them healthy, had been slain. Mass bankruptcies occurred throughout the rural economy. Industries ranging from hotel chains to hot air balloon manufacturers were devastated. The total cost to the British economy was in the range 10 to 20 billion pounds. Promises of Government aid faded away in the miasma of bureaucratic manoeuvring and EU regulation…..
Why do these people hate cows so much??
Moving on with our story . . .
FAKE MEAT is IMPOSSIBLE!
As a bit of background, I’m sure you’ve seen the advertising online and at restaurants promoting the new vegetarian option, the “Impossible Burger” or “Impossible Meat”.
Impossible Foods, the manufacturers of the new meat-ish concoction that is meant to take our breath away, is of course one of Bill Gates’ projects as part of his Utopian vision for the future of the world. Folks, more digging is needed on this, but for now let’s just say that our spidey senses are tingling.
So what is this “Impossible Burger” anyway?
So these "impossible" burgers are actually SOY BOMBS with enough estrogen to….. WELL THAT FIGURES.https://t.co/VyZnzHilna
From the article: “The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen,” wrote Stangle. “That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper.” So it will give you boobs. Don’t ask what happens if a pregnant woman has that burger every day and exposes her unborn child to all that estrogen. Nor do I think we really want to know what it will do to fertility and viability of fetuses.
The impossible whopper is being advertised by Burger King as a plant based alternative to the whopper. When food manufacturers started talking about making artificial meat, I, too, thought it would be impossible to make a hamburger cheaply enough to make it competitive. You see, I assumed that they would have to buy the individual amino acids (the building blocks for protein) and chemically string them together in the proper order, then remove the reagents (chemicals needed to cause the chain reactions) and then add something to give it the right textures.
The impossible whopper (made by Impossible Foods) bypassed all of those steps. Let’s compare the two. The impossible whopper patty is made from 24 ingredients. The most important ingredient is soy protein. The whopper patty has just one ingredient. That would be beef.
. . . The impossible whopper has 25 grams of protein. The whopper has 28 grams. Seems pretty equal, only 11% less protein in the impossible whopper. However, not all proteins are created equal. There are 20 amino acids. Nine of which are essential, meaning your body cannot make them so they are required in the diet. Each of those essential amino acids must meet a certain level to make a complete protein profile. If any essential amino acid does not hit the required amount, it is said to be rate limiting. As an analogy, picture nine chains connected in a line. All of the chains need to lift 100 pounds to carry the load. If one chain can only support 50 pounds, it doesn’t matter how much the others can support. The 50 pound chain is the rate limiting chain.
. . . Now, let’s compare the estrogen hormone in an impossible whopper to the whopper made from hormone implanted beef. The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill.
I enjoy me some Amazing Polly from up North. She has a youtube channel and covers some interesting topics and has a pleasant delivery…she really seems like a good egg.
Yesterday she did a piece on the Impossible Meat Company and their genetically lab-grown burgers…pretty disturbing stuff…all I could think of was Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pies (for those of you who have seen Sweeney Todd). Of course these fake meat companies are a direct result of the environmenalist/global warming agenda and have all sorts of connections to the usual suspects. Meat is bad, dontcha’ know? Well, Impossible Meats denies that they use stem cells in their fake meat product like other fake meat companies do and I guess that’s fair enough…
…until Amazing Polly Google-Mapped the Impossible Meat facility in Silicon Valley (of course) and there, smack dab in the middle of an industrial park was the fake meat facility…and guess what was directly across the street…in the middle of an industrial park of all places? That’s right…that would be Planned Parenthood. yeah, that Planned Parenthood…the one that peddles in baby parts. Of course this doesn’t prove anything, as Polly points out, but what on Earth is a Planned Parenthood doing in a industrial park…next to a fake meat factory? This is too disturbing to consider…but then again…
Looks like it’s best for men to AVOID SOY WHEN YOUNG, but then go for it hard after their child-bearing years, because it’s so good at preventing and surviving prostate cancer.
Meanwhile, we learned yesterday (coming from a Canadian globalist rag, no less):
Starbuck’s to ban dairy. Impossible burgers to replace beef. Clearly, they’re preparing for our cattle to be gone. If Pirbright tries anything, VSGPOTUSDJT and Sonny Perdue will make sure they RUE THE DAY….
Note that The Chronicle Herald issued a “correction”:
Correction: An earlier headline and story said Starbucks will go dairy free. The company says that it intends to encourage more plant-based options, but did not announce it will eliminate dairy entirely.
Dairy, for all intents and purposes, is now on its way out at Starbucks. Dairy alternatives will be the standard in Starbucks stores. Whipped cream, cream, milk, all will be gone soon. While dairy is typically cheaper, Starbucks believes this will change. Starbucks is banking on its buying power and the volume it represents to gain access to lower-priced alternative dairy products. To entice dairy alternative providers to scale up, demand will need to be ramped up by other major players.
The reason for the move? Environmental “science,” of course . . .
The dairy industry will probably have some issues with Starbucks’ move away from dairy, but the science is compelling. Based on a study published by Science Magazine in 2018, milk production requires more land, more water, and will emit more carbon than any other alternatives to milk.
Plant-based alternatives to dairy have been around at Starbucks for a while now, but this announcement makes it official. Dairy is as healthy as any other option, but that doesn’t seem to matter to Starbucks. It’s about the planet.
And in case Starbuck’s didn’t get the message, this chilling warning was tacked on by the Globalist rag:
Starbucks did promise it would be serving a quarter of its beverages in reusable containers by 2015. That promise was made in 2008. By 2016, only two per cent of all beverages were served in reusable containers. The public won’t be as forgiving this time, and will not hesitate to consider any half-hearted gas emission-reducing initiatives as greenwashing.
Wow, way to make sure they get the memo: Get with the environmental times or go out of business.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, don’t miss this:
Starbucks probably would not be what it is today without William H. Gates Sr., a lawyer and father of the Bill Gates who co-founded Microsoft. The attorney was instrumental in helping former CEO Howard Schultz buy the coffee company in 1987.
Schultz first joined Starbucks in 1982, a year after he stepped foot in the original store in Seattle. “I met the founders and over the course of a year, I persuaded them to hire me,” he tells Guy Raz on an episode of NPR’s podcast, “How I Built This.”
Starbuck’s to ban dairy. Impossible burgers to replace beef. Clearly, they’re preparing for our cattle to be gone. If Pirbright tries anything, VSGPOTUSDJT and Sonny Perdue will make sure they RUE THE DAY….
Before that nikkichico7”found this on the Qanon.pub for today, January 28, 2020”
Before that nikkichico7”found this on the Qanon.pub for today, January 28, 2020”
BACKGROUND
PIRBRIGHT Labs (UK) ALSO leaked the Foot & Mouth Disease.
SEE: Lest we forget! ”This is chapter 15 of the Epidemiologists: Have they got scares for you. It leans heavily on Not the foot and mouth report: everything Tony Blair did not want you to know about the biggest blunder in his premiership (Private Eye special report November 2001).” PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A VACCINE so the killing of uneffected cattle WAS NOT NECESSARY! Also the meat can be eaten by humans with no ill effect. CRITICAL!!!
…In the case of FMD, they did not even know how the disease was carried. It could be on the wind, on the wheels of vehicles or the soles of boots, in the throats of human beings or any combination of these and others.
Computer modelling has a number of attractions for academics. It does not need the resources that experimental science demands; nor does it need the long hours of careful attention required for research by measurement. In just a few hours you can create a model, just a computer program, which is so complex that no outsider can hope to unravel it. You can build in many assumptions that might well be unjustifiable under independent examination. Furthermore, the human unconscious is a mischievous influence that can produce the desired results, even for those who are not deliberately cheating. In the same few hours you can produce beautiful graphs and tables, the like of which would take months in experimental science, but which are so convincing to laymen and particularly politicians and bureaucrats. This is a point so important that it is worth an interlude of its own….
The article does not mention the suicides or the EU and UN role. Use Depopulation and you can begin exporting MUCH SOONER than if you use vaccination.
blockquote>…In Europe the acknowledged expert was a Dutch vet, Dr Simon Barteling, who had been responsible for handling over 20 outbreaks of the disease in different parts of the world. Both these experts had worked with the most modern vaccines and had expressed their conviction that vaccination provided the key to rapid control of the disease without the need to resort to mass slaughter. Indeed, when an outbreak occurred in Albania and Macedonia in 1996, the EU, fearing a spread across its own borders, had quickly set up a vaccination programme. The outbreak was totally suppressed within a few weeks. Thus, it was not just theoretical knowledge, but practical experience with convincing results, that pointed to vaccination as being the only reasonable and effective way to tackle the disease: but the British establishment had its mind set on slaughter…. Nearly eight million animals, one eighth of all those in Britain and most of them healthy, had been slain. Mass bankruptcies occurred throughout the rural economy. Industries ranging from hotel chains to hot air balloon manufacturers were devastated. The total cost to the British economy was in the range 10 to 20 billion pounds. Promises of Government aid faded away in the miasma of bureaucratic manoeuvring and EU regulation…..
After this ‘Trial Run of the UN-OIE Stamping-Out/De-population protocol’, it was adopted here in the USA.
I can no longer find my notes or anything on the internet. So from memory….
*ALL Suseptible animals in a 10 kilometer radius (AND your dogs and cats) are killed. * ANY unsealed/washable buildings (think wood) are burned to the ground. * Area is quarantined to travel by humans. …..
So AFTER the analysis of the UK Foot & Mouth disease fiasco what does the Democrat Congress and Obama do?
Some federal lawmakers want to stop the sale of New York’s Plum Island, home to the only national government laboratory studying diseases harmful to livestock and other animals. Congress voted in 2009 to close the aging lab and move operations to Kansas State University. President Barack Obama’s latest budget includes $714 million for the project, and Kansas officials are selling bonds to pay for the new lab. But lawmakers from New York and Connecticut plan to introduce legislation Tuesday to stop the sale, saying it is unnecessary and uneconomical, and the island lab is worth preserving…. https://news.yahoo.com/seek-halt-sale-nys-plum-island-lab-064555342.html
Yeah, you read that correctly, CLOSE the lab on an isolated island and MOVE operations to Kansas State University IN THE MIDDLE OF COW COUNTRY
A computer model (Har Har) showed if Foot and mouth escaped it would wipe out ALL of the USA cattle, sheep, goats & pigs…
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Kansas State University Student Body:
Asian………….181 men …216 women *https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/155399/kansas-state-university/enrollment/#gender-block
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GEE, Do you think Starbuck KNOWS something we don’t? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh, I forgot the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). That committee came up with the recommendation that America Should Adopt a ‘Plant-Based’ Diet, recommends taxes on dessert, trained obesity “interventionists” at schools and worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television or computer. The new Food Safety Modernization Act and Obummercare will be used as the weapons to ‘transform’ American dietary habits. to a more sustainable pattern of eating. SEE: *http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-america-should-adopt-plant-based-diet/
What you buy at the grocery store, where you live, and even your membership status at the local gym are all subject to a new data collection scheme by the American medical system. Reports indicate that hospitals and doctors’ offices all across the country are now collecting this and other personal information in order to target individuals deemed to have “unhealthy” lifestyle habits that put them at high risk of disease.
Bloomberg reports that hospital systems in both North and South Carolina as well as Pennsylvania have already begun tracking people’s food-purchasing habits by spying on them through public records and credit card transactions. Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), which operates some 900 care centers throughout the Carolinas, has teamed up with a data-mining company to compile and track this information for the later purpose of calling “high-risk” folks and urging them to make a change.
“What we are looking to find are people before they end up in trouble,” stated Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes at CHS, to Bloomberg. “The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out.”….
Extrapolate this out to chicken and Avian flu and pigs and Swine flu and….
Without sources of nutrition from animal flesh and milk, humans will devolve. There’s no getting around it. Without B12, children in the womb are born at a disadvantage. It is now believed one of my nephews is effected by this. (Personally, if his parents were more organized, it might not be such an issue, if that’s really what the deal is. I mean, that child is WAY too smart and manipulative to fit the diagnosis.) Due to the number of women giving birth after gastric bypass surgery, there are now studies on the topic. And one of the results is reduced intelligence.
And that’s just lack of B12.
IIRC, in anthropological research, prior to moving to plant based diets, humans were 5’9″ on average, and had larger jaws, etc. After the change, humans were on average something like 5’3″ or 5’4″ with smaller jaws and disease began to pop up.
The NWO sees the future for the peasants as the past.
In the paleo community, there are a lot of people who are former vegans and vegetarians. They just couldn’t stay healthy.
I should mention that B12 sources are all animal based. Chicken breast, eggs, organ meats, etc.
Riffing on the “Green New Deal”
“The socialist Democrats want to shut down American energy, They support Representative Occasion Cortez – that’s a real beauty . . . that’s a beauty I can’t even believe it but I don’t want to knock it. Because the Green New Deal which would crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. I love cows! They want to kill our cows! You know why right? . . . You know why – don’t say . . . They want to kill our cows! That means you’re next!”
We’ve talked about the “Green New Deal” extensively before.
You know, the Alexandria Ocasio Cortez policy creation that blamed Global Warming on bovine flatulence – “cow farts” as they were actually quoted saying.
We were told that we need to stop eating beef because the cattle are causing global warming!
Man, to think that all those giant herds of American Bison on the Great Plains in the 1800s didn’t release methane and cause global warming – obviously it’s the cows’ fault. Because “science”. Or something.
There were so many problems with the Green New Deal that the original documents were highly embarrassing. They were taken offline and a fake cover story made that some Republicans actually hacked their server(!) and uploaded faked documents to their website. Folks, we can’t make this up – leftists aren’t the sharpest crayons in the box.
Fortunately, the original documents from the February 8, 2019 “Green New Deal” announcement have been nicely archived online for posterity and our future review (as discussed at this link):
Daughn is the News Now! Thanks to her remarkable Deep Dive on the Justice Democrats – easily one of the best pieces of investigate research on the QTree, we know the rest of the story. The Justice Democrats, the organization behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and led by Saikat Chakrabarti, drafted the Green New Deal.
BTW, what is it with these Justice Democrats anyway? Man these people are like CRABGRASS. We’ll come back to Zack Exley and what the heck he has to do with the SBC again in some other post.
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts.
“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” Chakrabarti added.
Radical Veganism
“. . . Make it Fifty Billion . . .”
VSGPOTUSDJT already has this gamed out. He knows exactly how to solve this problem:
Incentivize Beef Production to expand the cattle stock so large that it is totally resilient and can fully withstand anything that is thrown at it.
Trump was comically flippant: “Oh they’ll find a way.”
The United States cannot in the near term produce enough corn and soybeans to support $50B USD in exports. For China to meet its Phase 1 import requirements, there will have to be a lot more exports than merely corn and soybeans. There will have to be other agriculture products added to the mix, including wheat, lots of pork bellies, chicken, and of course, American beef. No one single agriculture product can meet the requirements – China will be required to import a range of products to step up to the $50B USD commitment.
We are going to sell so much beef to Japan and so much dairy to Canada that Bill Gates is lose his freakin’ mind!
Texas BEEF and Texas OIL are going to conquer the WORLD!!!
Yeah don’t you wonder if Bill talked to Howard and convinced him this was a good idea?
If Bill pushes Pirbright to try anything, VSGPOTUSDJT and Sonny Perdue will make sure they RUE THE DAY 😉
And BTW . . . Don’t mess with Texas!
Public Service Announcement: This ad campaign was the brainchild of the Democrat Governor Ann Richards mis-administration of the State of Texas. Please mock this slogan at every possible opportunity.
Food Security is National Security
A lot of emphasis on Agriculture – the cynic will think that this is just about winning the Iowa vote.
OK You remember all those elitist leftists bleating on about “food security” for all those years? Like Wendell Berry?
This is very Trumpian.
FOOD SECURITY = NATIONAL SECURITY!
AGRICULTURAL SECURITY = NATIONAL SECURITY!
If the U.S. is a NET EXPORTER of agricultural products, it means that in a real threat to our security, we have overcapacity of agricultural product!
Which means: We can weather whatever threat without widespread food shortages.
Total Genius!
And to top it off, he also declared war on the Cult of Moloch by being the first President to attend the March for Life, which made some of the SBC elites angry – go figure.
Buh bye elitists! We will have more corn, soybeans, cattle, chicken and pork than America knows what to do with!!!
“Curse you Villain!”
“Umm, excuse me, but the pandemic was supposed to be timed to draw attention away from the President’s impeachment defense . . .”
POTUS is in Command
(. . . snickers like Muttley . . .)
This post has received the BRAND of the Wolf BARR Moon Ranch. Enjoy as you would a nice medium rare steak. Accompanied with the beverage of your choice.
Well? What do you guys think? Where are we? Do we have enough votes to shut down this charade? Mittens and Collins are voting to have witnesses. Lamar Alexander is a “no”. Gosh, we learned last night Lamar Alexander and Mitch McConnell have been friends since they both served Senators as interns together in the 60s. Queen Lisa Murkowski has not indicated how she will vote as yet. Closing arguments are today. Then, a vote for acquittal which could come as early as today or tomorrow. Let’s see what happens.
Proud of our team:
It’s been a privilege “to serve” with you all. Thank you for your contributions.
Happy #BrexitEve Liv. It’s a carnival atmosphere on Twitter today. Everyone is just really happy 😃 its a joy to watch. Let’s get the party started 🥳🎈🎉😎👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/KRoWAAG5V6
And there are those who are trying, in vain, to bring the country together once more.
So it’s #BrexitEve tomorrow the democratic vote of 2016 finally gets implemented. It validates the leave vote and the vote of remainers, like me, who accepted defeat. To the remoaners who give everyone a bad name……. pic.twitter.com/TrTvwDCeR8
The EC/EU was set up to end perpetual war in Western Europe. This led to the most successful free trade alliance in the history of the world. We forget the lessons of history at our peril. I’m a lifelong europhile and the thought of tomorrow really saddens me.#BrexitEvepic.twitter.com/aRlZR4uAnp
Then, there are the wimpy boys, who are afraid to celebrate, lest someone from the cancel culture calls them out. What happened to British men?
"I will celebrate. I will allow myself a smile, I’ll allow myself that glass of champagne, I will enjoy myself. But I’ll celebrate discreetly, and I will celebrate in a way which is respectful of the genuine sorrow that others are feeling at the same time" #BrexitEvepic.twitter.com/E0yAr7dtct
Whatever you do tomorrow, take a few moments to check in on social media. The memes are hilarious, clever, and sickly funny. It’s a riot in the UK right now. Too much fun.
Welcome to the Friday OPEN THREAD at the QTree! What a week it has been. Thank you for the Thursday hand-off TrumpIsMine. What would we do without FLEP’s News Roundup to keep up? Thank you, Flep. Hat tip and a hearty thank you to all contributors and the lurkers!
The President and FLOTUS Melania outside of Ford’s Theater just before Christmas.
We don’t believe in political correctness at QTree. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. Important Guidelines are outlined here in the January 1st open thread, with an addendum on 20191110. In other words, please keep it SOMEWHAT civil. We have a new board – actually a new SITE – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation. NOT HERE. This board will remain a REFUGE for those who need civility, either some or all of the time. That’s life at QTreehouse as we glide into the weekend.
What a week we’ve had. We started with the Bolton Blow-Up and have been living with ShaMMMpeachment all week long, but our team has been terrific. We’ve fallen in love with Patrick Philbin and are ready to nominate him to the Supreme Court.
We’ve learned all about the Coronovirus this week but can’t decide how bad the virus really is. Let’s say, we’re not going a cruise ship around China South Seas, anytime soon.
The President signed USMCA, creating the largest trading bloc in the world between Mexico, USA, Canada. The deal was long overdue.
USMCA – United States Mexico Canada Agreement.
Along the way, in his spare time, the President decided to release the Middle East Peace Plan. No way anyone could have watched the ceremony without shedding a tear.
We’ve traveled to a raccous rally in South Jersey! What a wonderful time. So many people reserved tickets, the entire summer beach town of WildWood reopened. Every restaurant, hotel, and bar was full. What a rally!
The President also made a stop in Michigan, to spread the cheer about USMCA, and had a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, where we got to stopped to visit with a few friendly people.
Today is the LONG-awaited BREXIT and we all wish we were in a pub with our buddy, ChurchMouse, sharing a pint.
We’ll follow the Super Bowl over the weekend. Monday is the Iowa Caucus and get ready for Tuesday, The State of the Union!!!!!! Hard to believe that Davos was was only 8 days ago…..
Are you tired of winning? Are you tired of trying to keep up with our President? Rest up, because we’re definitely on that Wolfie Rollercoaster.
SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT!, “I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!“ He needs our prayers and help more than ever before!
And remember….. it is time to drain the swamp in DC and LOCALLY. Please make a commitment in the new year to attend a LOCAL board meeting for your town or municipality or school board. Get involved and make your presence known. Put your local officials phone numbers in your cell phone and call them once a week (or more often).
“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People.” Candidate Donald J Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Since most of us arrived here because we were “banned”. How about this Grand Funk Railroad classic as our new theme song? After all, we’re pretty much the American Banned, right?
Please consider this our Daily Thread for the ShaMMMpeachment. It’s question day #2 in the Senate and at least the questions are more interesting. Thank you to all contributors.
We’re headed to Des MOINES, Iowa, after the Mardi Gras-like-atmosphere-blowout-of-a-rally in Livewood, NJ. Don’t even think about groaning or turning up you nose at the prospect of a road trip to Des Moines……. We have a few surprises for you all. First of all, fellow QTreeper, Huskerheart and her husband, are going to the Rally and they have VIP PASSES! It’s a two day trip for them, thus we are “covering” the rally for the full two days. They will be “reporting” and checking in with us, here. Yeah baby, from Davos to Des Moines, QTreepers span the globe to cover the action!
Des Moines is located in the lower middle of the state. Iowa is landlocked by Nebraska, MN, WI, IL, MO.
The rumor mill tells me over 80 Trump surrogates have been dispatched to Iowa over the weekend to represent the President at various caucuses throughout the state, including Don Jr., Eric, Lara, Kimberly Guilfoyle, various Admin members, and all-star Trump Supporters. Candidate Trump spent a LOT of time in Iowa and knows the system well. A Republican rally on the eve of the caucus makes sure he will be well represented on the ground, even though he has no real primary opponent.
The city of Des Moines sits at the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers. Because of the water resource, people have accumulated in this spot for thousands of years. Recently, the town was excavating for a new wastewater treatment plant and found a 7,000yr old site nicknamed the “Palace”. Thousands of artifacts were found along with graves.
The city was founded in 1843 and used to be Fort Des Moines. Today, the city is home to several Fortune 500 companies, particularly insurance and data focused. From Wikipedia: Forbes ranked Des Moines as the “Best Place for Business” in both 2010 and 2013.[12] In 2014, NBC ranked Des Moines as the “Wealthiest City in America” according to its criteria.[13] Des Moines has an estimated population of about 210K, with a metro of about 655K people. Iowa as a state is about 310miles x 200 miles, has a population of about 3,155,070, and a median income of $58,570.
Understand, Dad’s side of my family is from Davenport, eastern side of Iowa on the Mississippi. My grandparents were Iowa Hawkeye boosters for 55yrs. Generations of my family have railed about and $hit all over the bureaucracy of Des Moines, so it’s hard for me to speak highly of Des Moines. I do remember a field trip to the capitol as a school kid, however, and the majesty of the building. It’s an unexpected hidden gem, a place where we could wander for days……
The Capitol sits in a 17 acre park, built from 1871-1886, has 5 golden domes, stretching to a height of 280 feet.
It’s gorgeous…….. and contains one of the top 20 most beautiful libraries in the world.
There’s much more than corn to be seen in the heartland of America. Completed in the late 1800’s, the Capitol Law Library of Des Moines is a Renaissance transplant filled with five stories of legal precedent interconnected by spiral iron staircases wending around ash and chestnut wood.
Chestnut glows in the sunlight, unlike pecan or oak.
But that’s just the library, the legislative chamber is breathtaking.
Ceiling dome, in a ‘cool’ picture, without glare.
But the big ceiling dome looks like a big golden candle
Everywhere you turn inside the capitol, the craftsmanship is extraordinary.
The master staircase to legislative chambers.
The artwork which speaks to western expansion = Manifest Destiny
The marble tile work and wood trim is lavish.
BUT – here’s the kicker about the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines:
Gosh, I hesitate to even mention it. We all know Gail Combs as a dedicated researcher with mind-boggling ability to dig into the details….. and this is one of her favorite subjects. It’s like throwing red meat in front of a hungry lion….. but here we go…..
Since 1987, the World Food Prize laureate award ceremony is held annually in October in the House of Representatives chamber of the statehouse (our pretty Capitol Building), but this picture below is the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates. Pretty, eh? Makes us wonder who pays the bill for maintenance and plants the flowers…… Hint: You’re probably paying for it. Did you know? Hmmmmm….. Let’s keep looking.
The ceremony rivals that of the Nobel Prize, drawing over 800 people from more than 75 countries. Each year, world-class performers take the stage to honor the World Food Prize Laureate. Past performers have included Ray Charles, John Denver, and Noa to name a few. Let’s take a further look into the “World Food Prize” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Prize
In the beginning about 30yrs ago, the idea was simple. Senior Management at General Foods Company wanted to spur innovation in all aspects of FOOD, from farm to table. Sounds good, right? A noble cause. Kind of like Boy Scouts, right? From the same wholesome town, Des Moines, which gave us Ann Landers and Glenn Miller, and produces Better Homes and Gardens and Golf Digest. You know, regular Americans. What could go wrong?
BUT, the progressives got involved. The award was then sponsored by a wealthy philanthropists and soon…….. entered Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, the Rockefellers, etc. We have super rice to quadruple yields in China, 480 kinds of hybrid wheat, sterilization of crop pests……….. Ohhh, it’s a wonderland of NGO’s from all over the world. A miasma of government grants to hand out our tax payer dollars to save the world and redistribute our wealth, while liberals pat each other on the back for their “goodness”. It’s a den of progressives and control over the food chain.
Is it “good” or “bad”? Who knows……..? What are the chances the former State Dept’s Director for USAID is on the guest list for dinner? And a speech? Call me cynical…… It’s all the same people from the Aspen Institute, in Iowa.
Imagine my surprise……… Hey, I was just headed to a MAGA Rally in Des Moines and found the cabal’s secret hiding spot…… Des Moines? Gosh, did we ever expect we would discover a way to put “critical micro nutrients in the diets of millions of rural poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America”…. in des Moines? It’s confounding how Progressives want to help everyone else in the world except their fellow Americans. Astonishing. This subject may require a further dig (hint to Gail).
The state of Iowa has made enormous contributions to the USA. People like actor Tom Arnold (groan) and actress Donna Reed (!!!) were from Iowa, but so was Buffalo Bill, Johnny Carson, and the Indian Chief with the great hockey logo, Chief Black Hawk. Iowa has given us great sportsmen, writers, and scientists……… and Chuck Grassley and Steve Smith, but also Joni Earnst and Tom Harkin. Iowa is a mixed bag.
But I love Iowa and spent a great deal of my childhood there. We going to stop off to see the relatives on our road trip……… We might have time to head down to the barn and visit with the horses. Grab a few carrots or an apple, they like a snack.
Roll the windows down on the car, take a deep breath. The sky and the land in Iowa go on forever.
Yes – definitely BAD during the fertility years.
Looks like it’s best for men to AVOID SOY WHEN YOUNG, but then go for it hard after their child-bearing years, because it’s so good at preventing and surviving prostate cancer.