#Agency Assistance

[remindertoclick]

Your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

And/or donate directly to the UNRWA if you have the means!

[synergyconsult]

The standard billing and payment practices of home health/hospice billing services can be overwhelming for most payers. But now, you can work with a reliable partner to assist your agency in collections.

[mariacallous]

Just got an email asking me to pick a time and date for a job interview!

[onlytiktoks]

[inezrable]

Rotating lieutenant michael assistent around in my brain again

[clonerightsagenda]

I was wondering why Holly Munro would stick it out working for a bunch of ridiculous teenagers but it occurred to me, her creep of a boss probably blacklisted her in the industry, didn't he? I wonder if that contributed to her rapid hiring process.

[ghostbeam]

I agree with Vic let’s have hawks night

[fatehbaz]

[D]omesticated attack dogs [...] hunted those who defied the profitable Caribbean sugar regimes and North America’s later Cotton Kingdom, [...] enforced plantation regimens [...], and closed off fugitive landscapes with acute adaptability to the varied [...] terrains of sugar, cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations that they patrolled. [...] [I]n the Age of Revolutions the Cuban bloodhound spread across imperial boundaries to protect white power and suppress black ambitions in Haiti and Jamaica. [...] [Then] dog violence in the Caribbean spurred planters in the American South to import and breed slave dogs [...].

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Spanish landowners often used dogs to execute indigenous labourers simply for disobedience. [...] Bartolomé de las Casas [...] documented attacks against Taino populations, telling of Spaniards who ‘hunted them with their hounds [...]. These dogs shed much human blood’. Many later abolitionists made comparisons with these brutal [Spanish] precedents to criticize canine violence against slaves on these same Caribbean islands. [...] Spanish officials in Santo Domingo were licensing packs of dogs to comb the forests for [...] fugitives [...]. Dogs in Panama, for instance, tracked, attacked, captured and publicly executed maroons. [...] In the 1650s [...] [o]ne [English] observer noted, ‘There is nothing in [Barbados] so useful as … Liam Hounds, to find out these Thieves’. The term ‘liam’ likely came from the French limier, meaning ‘bloodhound’. [...] In 1659 English planters in Jamaica ‘procured some blood-hounds, and hunted these blacks like wild-beasts’ [...]. By the mid eighteenth century, French planters in Martinique were also relying upon dogs to hunt fugitive slaves. [...] In French Saint-Domingue [Haiti] dogs were used against the maroon Macandal [...] and he was burned alive in 1758. [...]

Although slave hounds existed throughout the Caribbean, it was common knowledge that Cuba bred and trained the best attack dogs, and when insurrections began to challenge plantocratic interests across the Americas, two rival empires, Britain and France, begged Spain to sell these notorious Cuban bloodhounds to suppress black ambitions and protect shared white power. [...] [I]n the 1790s and early 1800s [...] [i]n the Age of Revolutions a new canine breed gained widespread popularity in suppressing black populations across the Caribbean and eventually North America. Slave hounds were usually descended from more typical mastiffs or bloodhounds [...].

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Spanish and Cuban slave hunters not only bred the Cuban bloodhound, but were midwives to an era of international anti-black co-ordination as the breed’s reputation spread rapidly among enslavers during the seven decades between the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. [...]

Despite the legends of Spanish cruelty, British officials bought Cuban bloodhounds when unrest erupted in Jamaica in 1795 after learning that Spanish officials in Cuba had recently sent dogs to hunt runaways and the indigenous Miskitos in Central America. [...] The island’s governor, Balcarres, later wrote that ‘Soon after the maroon rebellion broke out’ he had sent representatives ‘to Cuba in order to procure a number of large dogs of the bloodhound breed which are used to hunt down runaway negroes’ [...]. In 1803, during the final independence struggle of the Haitian Revolution, Cuban breeders again sold hundreds of hounds to the French to aid their fight against the black revolutionaries. [...] In 1819 Henri Christophe, a later leader of Haiti, told Tsar Alexander that hounds were a hallmark of French cruelty. [...]

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The most extensively documented deployment of slave hounds [...] occurred in the antebellum American South and built upon Caribbean foundations. [...] The use of dogs increased during that decade [1830s], especially with the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42). The first recorded sale of Cuban dogs into the United States came with this conflict, when the US military apparently purchased three such dogs for $151.72 each [...]. [F]ierce bloodhounds reputed to be from Cuba appeared in the Mississippi valley as early as 1841 [...].

The importation of these dogs changed the business of slave catching in the region, as their deployment and reputation grew rapidly throughout the 1840s and, as in Cuba, specialized dog handlers became professionalized. Newspapers advertised slave hunters who claimed to possess the ‘Finest dogs for catching negroes’ [...]. [S]lave hunting intensified [from the 1840s until the Civil War] [...]. Indeed, tactics in the American South closely mirrored those of their Cuban predecessors as local slave catchers became suppliers of biopower indispensable to slavery’s profitability. [...] [P]rice [...] was left largely to the discretion of slave hunters, who, ‘Charging by the day and mile [...] could earn what was for them a sizeable amount - ten to fifty dollars [...]'. William Craft added that the ‘business’ of slave catching was ‘openly carried on, assisted by advertisements’. [...] The Louisiana slave owner [B.B.] portrayed his own pursuits as if he were hunting wild game [...]. The relationship between trackers and slaves became intricately systematized [...]. The short-lived republic of Texas (1836–46) even enacted specific compensation and laws for slave trackers, provisions that persisted after annexation by the United States.

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All text above by: Tyler D. Parry and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas". Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, pages 69-108. Published February 2020. At: doi dot org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020. February 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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Your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

And/or donate directly to the UNRWA if you have the means!

[clockworkcheetah]

do you think if todd ended up in the backstage of reality again he wouldve met friedkin and friedkin wouldve been like 'hey youre the guy i almost shot in the head that one time' and todds like 'when in the fuck was this i dont even know you???'

[frank-olivier]

Geller’s Psychic Odyssey: From Israel to the International Stage

Uri Geller’s life is a fascinating amalgamation of the paranormal, science, and clandestine espionage, challenging the boundaries of human understanding. His narrative, replete with unexplained events and alleged psychic phenomena, has garnered both awe and skepticism. From a near-death experience at the age of one, which Geller posits may have triggered his mental abilities, to an enigmatic encounter with a sphere of light at five, the foundations of his extraordinary claims are laid.

As Geller’s self-proclaimed telekinetic and telepathic abilities surfaced, he leveraged them in various contexts, transitioning from personal exploits in card games to more altruistic applications, such as navigating through caves. However, it was his involvement with the Mossad, Israel’s secret service, at the remarkably young age of 12, that marked a pivotal turn in his life. The precision of the information he provided, beyond the Mossad’s comprehension, prompted a collaborative effort with the CIA, culminating in a series of experiments at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

These experiments, overseen by scientists with direct CIA links, aimed to quantify and understand Geller’s alleged paranormal abilities, yielding some astounding results. The accurate duplication of sealed drawings, the levitation of a weight under stringent conditions, and the influencing of computer systems all contributed to a compelling, albeit controversial, body of evidence. Notably, the CIA’s interest in Geller’s abilities underscores the agency’s exploration of unconventional methods for military and espionage applications, raising profound questions about the ethics of harnessing such powers.

A particularly disturbing experiment, in which Geller was tasked with stopping a pig’s heart using his mind, highlights the darker aspects of these investigations. His refusal to engage with such “dark missions” serves as a moral counterpoint, emphasizing the need for ethical scrutiny in the pursuit of paranormal research. The scientific community’s response to Geller’s claims has been predictably divided, with explanations ranging from genuine paranormal activity to trickery and experimental flaws.

Despite the skepticism, Geller’s story persists as a thought-provoking case study, encouraging a nuanced exploration of the human experience. It challenges the rigid boundaries between the paranormal and the scientific, inviting a reconsideration of what is deemed possible. Ultimately, Geller’s narrative serves as a poignant reminder of the complexities of human perception, underscoring the enduring fascination with the uncharted potential of the human mind. By examining the intersections of Geller’s life and the worlds of science and espionage, we are compelled to confront the unknown, our understanding of reality subtly yet irreversibly altered.

Uri Geller’s Legacy of Paranormal Experiences: Bend a Spoon, Bend Your Mind (UAMN TV, February 2025)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

[seiwas]

always thinking about shouto with an independent but also introverted and kind of shy reader

[inezrable]

(Prepares to abandon all my WIPs in favour of expanding this tag)

[thelocaldetective]

Yagami Detective Agency and their sidekicks 🤣

Yagami & Amasawa:

Kaito & Jun: