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We are finding out that some liberal media sources were receiving back door subsidies from USAID and perhaps other taxpayer funded agencies. Democrat voters should be furious at the news sources they had trusted to deliver unbiased facts and information about our nation's affairs.

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Mark Zuckerberg has now publicly admitted that they were heavily pressured by the Biden administration to censor factual information about covid from the American public. My question is, do you think this was the only topic of discussion that they were pressured to censor by the Biden administration?

Hint: this is a rhetorical question. It's probably just the simplest one to admit to. Perhaps because it's the least partisan, although it's quite likely that even censorship of covid discussion was largely along political lines.

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This is the type of insight and research I used to post on Tumblr before I felt that most of my posts were just going to be suppressed so why bother. This one got a total of (3) notes when I posted it 5 or 6 years ago.

Read these paragraphs I clipped from the Wikipedia page on Giant Sequoias and their adaptation to natural wildfires.  And then I’ll explain why it’s relevant to today’s news cycle...

From Wikipedia:

Giant sequoias are in many ways adapted to forest fires. Their bark is unusually fire resistant, and their cones will normally open immediately after a fire.[20] The giant sequoias are having difficulty reproducing in their original habitat (and very rarely reproduce in cultivation) due to the seeds only being able to grow successfully in full sun and in mineral-rich soils, free from competing vegetation. Although the seeds can germinate in moist needle humus in the spring, these seedlings will die as the duff dries in the summer. They therefore require periodic wildfire to clear competing vegetation and soil humus before successful regeneration can occur. Without fire, shade-loving species will crowd out young sequoia seedlings, and sequoia seeds will not germinate. When fully grown, these trees typically require large amounts of water and are therefore often concentrated near streams.[citation needed] Squirrels, chipmunks, finches and sparrows consume the freshly sprouted seedlings, preventing their growth.[21]

Fires also bring hot air high into the canopy via convection, which in turn dries and opens the cones. The subsequent release of large quantities of seeds coincides with the optimal postfire seedbed conditions. Loose ground ash may also act as a cover to protect the fallen seeds from ultraviolet radiation damage. Due to fire suppression efforts and livestock grazing during the early and mid-20th century, low-intensity fires no longer occurred naturally in many groves, and still do not occur in some groves today. The suppression of fires leads to ground fuel build-up and the dense growth of fire-sensitive white fir, which increases the risk of more intense fires that can use the firs as ladders to threaten mature giant sequoia crowns. Natural fires may also be important in keeping carpenter ants in check.[22] In 1970, the National Park Service began controlled burns of its groves to correct these problems. Current policies also allow natural fires to burn. One of these untamed burns severely damaged the second-largest tree in the world, the Washington tree, in September 2003, 45 days after the fire started. This damage made it unable to withstand the snowstorm of January 2005, leading to the collapse of over half the trunk.

Basically, what this says is that the Giant Sequoias benefit from frequent wildfires in many ways, including pine cones being opened from the heat to aid in reproduction.  It says fires also control ground vegetation and dead limb debris so that young sprouts don’t compete with other low plants for sun and nutrients.  And for the record, I believe that there are many species of trees and plants that use fires to reproduce and refresh their populations, but the Sequoias are one example that most everyone is familiar with, and one we consider a national treasure of sorts.

Found elsewhere on the same page, is discussion that Sequoias and Sequoia forests have populated North America at least as far back as the last ice age (I’ll say 15,000 years although the climate change mob wants to re-write all those dates to suit their arguments) but fossil specimens of Giant Sequoia have been found to date back 10′s of millions of years.  

I think a conclusion we can draw from this, is that wild fires have likely been burning and refreshing forests for 10′s of thousands or even 10′s of millions of years.  Those fires would do the ground clearing or ‘forest maintenance’ that we are hearing about in the news today.  When the ground tinder gets burned up every few years, the fires that sweep the area are smaller and may never turn into the raging infernos we see on the news today.  But our society requires that we put out these fires as soon as they ignite, so the ground tinder builds up and waits to fuel the inevitable sweeping inferno that results.  

The real problem however, is that we cannot just let the natural fires take their course because we have build neighborhoods in and around those forests.   Sad but true. 

Link to the wikipedia page —->   (sequoia page)

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This post is from years ago. Still rings true...

The sad truth about the California wildfires.  Those forests have been burned by wildfires for thousands and thousands of years.  What has changed...???  People now live there...

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Holding the news media accountable for their lies and false reporting is the first step in fixing our broken news media.

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Holding the news media accountable for their lies and false reporting is the first step in fixing our broken news media.

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Holding the news media accountable for their lies and false reporting is the first step in fixing our broken news media.

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Tell me again why Republicans and concerned Americans of all parties are concerned about illegal immigration and voter fraud...???

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You’re assuming the Democrats care about what makes most sense.

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This is the case where Trump was accused of sexual abuse and found liable (not guilty because it was a civil suit) and fined millions. The internet has buried this clip, lets bring it back.

Anderson Cooper: “I think most people think of rape, it is a violent assault.”

E. Jean Carrol: “I think most people think of rape as being sexy.  Think of the fantasies”

35 second clip.  Must watch…

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Still a must watch.

Quick clip (1:30) y’all should watch.  Tucker is gonna spill it all, and we need to support him. 

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Here's an older piece, posted about 18 months ago. With my conservative audience of thousands, it should have hundreds of interactions, but as of this reblog, it has 7 notes. So I'll try again and see if the internet can resist it's suppression habit today.

During the Obama administration, many news outlets and administration officials referred to daily migrant crossings above 1,000 as a ‘crisis’.   Bill Melugin of Fox News now tweets numbers upwards of 10,000 per day.  Screen shots and link to his tweet below.

Link to Bill Melugin original tweet: -> ( link to Bill Melugin tweet )

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The so-called 'Tolerant Left' has made politics their all or nothing fight. An ill-informed decision that has divided our society and is causing them to completely ignore and refuse to engage with a dialogue of facts and realities if that dialogue is coming from their politically right leaning counterparts.

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Must watch. You're jaw should drop when you watch this...

Must watch. One minute, forty second video of testimony by former California border patrol officer, tells of massive increases in immigrants, trafficking, daily releases into communities, and $150k daily flights to Texas to reduce local numbers.

Stunning. Must watch, and share/re-blog.

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You either don't understand how it's supposed to work, or you're not actually concerned about Democracy at all...

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As early voting begins in some states around the nation I must ask: How are those ballots being secured? I think there are laws that say they must not be opened until election day, but I don't know that. And even if the law says that, what are the safeguards in place to ensure that happens? How are those ballots being secured? Do election workers have a list of Republican voters? What's to stop them from checking the list with the return address and tossing the Republican ballots in the trash? I really hope state Republicans have that figured out. Sadly, there are many places, most identified in 2020, where election laws are thwarted easily and without consequence.