>DOUGH
not a witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Were_Never_Really_Here
we all have a cross to bear
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68626816
World War Two 'Ghost Army' troops receive Congressional Gold Medal
Nearly 80 years after World War Two, members of secretive US units have been honoured for the clever ruses they used to save tens of thousands of lives.
Known as the "Ghost Army", the group used inflatable vehicles and Hollywood-level special effects to fool the Germans about Allied war plans.
President Joe Biden signed a bill to award Congress' highest honour to the Ghost Army in 2022.
Three ageing veterans were honoured at an event in Congress on Thursday.
Seymour Nussenbaum,100, John Christman, 99, and Bernard Bluestein, 100, attended the ceremony on Capitol Hill. Four other members are still alive, but were unable to join the others.
Speaking from his wheelchair, Mr Bluestein told the audience of lawmakers: "I am very proud and happy to be here."
Like many of the group's members, Mr Nussenbaum came from art school. Others were drawn from advertising and public relations firms.
His job included putting fake numbers on jeeps to confuse the enemy and dressing people up to impersonate US generals and have them walk around in order to be seen by spies.
"Our job was to make whatever was necessary to deceive the enemy," he told BBC News.
"Our mission was to fool the enemy," he told AP News. "To put on a big act."
The Ghost Army included about 1,100 soldiers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit, which operated in Western Europe, and another 200 soldiers from the 3133rd Signal Company Special in Italy.
Over the course of more than 20 deception campaigns, the Ghost Army used costumes and props as well as a massive fleet of inflatable tanks, trucks and aircraft to confuse the German army about the size and location of Allied troops, luring them to redeploy forces to other parts of the front line.
In one 1945 mission, dubbed Operation Viersen, members of the Ghost Army successfully tricked the Germans into believing that two divisions - 40,000 men - were set to cross the Rhine 10 miles (16km) from the actual crossing point.
To do so, the unit set up hundreds of inflatable trucks and tanks, blasted the sounds of troop movements from loudspeakers and simulated military radio traffic.
Additionally, some members posed as military commanders in areas they knew German spies would detect their presence. Ultimately, the real Rhine crossing met minimal resistance.
"I guess we were successful, because the Germans fired upon us," Mr Bluestein told the Washington Post. "We convinced them we were the real thing."
Similar operations using inflatable decoys were used before Allied forces landed in North Africa in 1941 and 1942, in Italy in 1943 and just before the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944.
After the war, the US Army credited the Ghost Army with saving the lives of between 15,000 and 30,000 soldiers from May 1944 to the end of the war a year later. Its mission, however, remained classified until 1996.
Mr Nussenbaum says he rarely ever talks about his experience during the war, telling the BBC: "I don't like to beat my own drum."
Mr Bluestein says he always would tell his family he did "camouflage work" during the war.
"The dangerous part I didn't tell them about. They wouldn't have liked it," he said with a chuckle.
Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster, who helped lead the effort to honour the unit, said during the ceremony that many of America's WW2 veterans - like her father pilot who was shot down during the war - did not say much about their time in the service.
"One of my favourite lines was one gentleman who would only tell his family, 'I blew up tanks,' without saying they were inflatable," she said of the Ghost Army troops.
A lobbying effort led by author and film producer Rick Beyer ultimately culminated in President Biden signing legislation to award the units with the Congressional Gold Medal - Congress' highest award - in 2022.
"I just wanted to make sure it's not forgotten," Mr Beyer told the AP. "I think it's a great use of ingenuity, creativity on the battlefield."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Greenberg
pollster supremo
explain like I'm Paul Pelosi
Hamas prisoners held in Israeli jails are denied access to visits from the Red Cross
The French Senate’s latest report, led by Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, strikes a nerve, and it strikes hard. Tagging the rush towards gender transition procedures for minors as “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine,” this document is not just a wake-up call; it's a scathing critique of a culture that has lost its moral compass. “Trans-affirmative” ideology, the report charges, has commandeered the healthcare system, steered not by the seasoned hands of medical ethics but by the forceful currents of social media campaigns and activist pressures. The result? An environment where children are ushered towards life-altering decisions with the zeal of a zealot, leaving little room for doubt, debate, or the simple acknowledgment of biological reality.
The Senate’s investigation cuts through the cacophony with precision, exposing a healthcare narrative that’s been hijacked by a movement more concerned with social validation than the nuanced, often painful realities of those it claims to represent. “Indoctrinated by a trans-affirmative ideology and subject to the influence of trans activist organizations,” the report lambasts a professional environment that’s traded its Hippocratic Oath for hashtags, pushing puberty blockers and surgeries as panaceas to complex identity questions.
This report from the French Senate is not merely an academic exercise; it's a piercing, call to arms against the dogmas of wokeism, a challenge to the sanctimonious narrative that has dominated discussions around gender and identity. By spotlighting the "ethical scandal" unfolding within medicine, the document serves as a potent reminder of the dangers of ideology-run-amok, where the affirmation of identity trumps the safeguarding of childhood innocence and medical prudence. In its unflinching condemnation, the Senate’s findings dare to question the unquestionable, to hold a mirror up to a movement that, in its rush to champion inclusivity, risks the very harm it vows to avert.
yeah what was that about
Do test tube babies have a soul?
>Quasars are different than other supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxy clusters in that they are pulling in more material at a higher rate.
Is there an actual technical difference?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273
From a distance of about 33 light-years, this object would shine in the sky about as brightly as the Sun.
>technical difference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus
Numerous subclasses of AGN have been defined on the basis of their observed characteristics; the most powerful AGN are classified as quasars. A blazar is an AGN with a jet pointed toward the Earth, in which radiation from the jet is enhanced by relativistic beaming.
>squirmy fuck doesn't have the courage to defend his "homeland" himself
https://t.me/TheDissidentNews/275
US Border Breach: A stampede of migrants rams through, crushing Texas guards under a wave of desperation. This isn't a border crisis—it's an outright invasion. Musk calls it as it is, an assault on American soil.
While globalist kingpins play their chess game of open borders, real lives pay the price. A nation's boundary crumbles under the weight of their grand experiment. This is no 'new world order'; it's the old world disorder in full, chaotic swing.
Defiantly, we stand against this erosion of sovereignty. It’s time to slam the gates shut on this orchestrated onslaught and reclaim the sanctity of America’s borders. The globalist agenda stops at the wall of the free and the home of the brave.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/lt-cmdr-whidbey-island-arrested/
Navy Lt. Cmdr arrested for child sexual abuse in Washington
Lt. Cmdr. Lucas Martinez, 61, was arrested after paying a 14-year-old for sex, authorities say.
https://t.me/TheDissidentNews/273
This comedy sketch describes perfectly the role of people like Karine Jean-Pierre, Kamala Harris or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bought and paid mouthpieces to portray a sense of diversity but most important to shut all dissenting voices calling out the Democratic party for what it is, a corrupted, warmongering, pro pharma and anti working class families nest of rats.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/air-force-intel-analyst-accused-of-sharing-classified-documents-with-anti-gov-boogaloo-group/
Air Force intel analyst busted for child porn also accused of sharing classified documents with anti-gov ‘Boogaloo’ group
Pfizer chemical spill prompts no-contact advisory of Kalamazoo River
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13154883/Brazil-serial-killer-blood-heart.html?
Serial killer dubbed 'Vampire of Goiânia' ripped out hearts of three murder victims and drank their blood: Police arrest Brazilian recycling collector, 51, over deaths
Police in Goiânia, Brazil arrested a 51-year-old man linked to three murders that took place between December 2023 and February
The suspect removed his victims' hearts and drank their blood before dumping their bodies across a forest
The man, whose name was not released, confessed to one of the three killings
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/snc-lavalin-obstruction-of-justice
RCMP confirms it dropped investigation of Liberals' SNC-Lavalin affair over lack of evidence
Nearly four years ago Trudeau broke federal ethics laws by pressuring a former justice minister to intervene in the prosecution of a Montreal-based engineering firm
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-martin-the-carbon-tax-coalition-saves-trudeau-from-a-loss-of-confidence-1.6817491
Official Opposition non-confidence motion went down with 204 Liberal, BQ and NDP nays to 116 Conservative yeas.
The NDP report to their Liberal “master,” he snapped, while Bloc Quebecois MPs merely parrot the government line as Quebec-centric Liberals. For "true change, common sense change,” he thundered, voters have only a Conservative choice.
A onetime White House valet for Donald Trump told House investigators that the former president threatened Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, and his way of dealing with documents was to "throw them on the floor," newly released records show.
https://cha.house.gov/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=925A068D-7BC4-437B-A22C-DC8781832480
Chairman Loudermilk Publishes White House Transcript of President Trump’s Valet on January 6, 2021
LAWRENCE - William Castro, the acting police chief in Lawrence, has been suspended as a Massachusetts board looks into several allegations against him.
The state's Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) commission said Castro "engaged in a motor-vehicle pursuit," which violated the department's policies. He was also allegedly "untruthful" in his written report about the pursuit.The commission is also looking into what they said are "credible reports" questioning Castro's hiring and certification practices. He previously served as Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña's chief of staff and before that he worked in the Essex County Sheriff's Department.
Castro's suspension is effective immediately. DePeña placed Castro on paid administrative leave and assigned Lt. Melix Bonilla as the acting police chief until further notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negermusik
bulk popcorn
>The race card only works on the weak minded.
look up good trouble
The kind of trouble you can be proud of, a term used by civil rights icon John Lewis, to mean standing up to authority for what you believe in.
“My philosophy is very simple, when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something, do something, get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble!”