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originally posted by: SuperStudChuck
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: SuperStudChuck
Is this really a coded message that NATO/EU is moving in on Traditional French Values?
Why does a stone boarder matter in these days of GPS and modern maps?
The story seemed weird. Some of my questions:
Like, how big is this stone that they can’t just move it back?
Usually about 4' long and roughly rectangular in shape. They can reset it, but it's a complicated process.
How do they know a farmer moved it but not who moved it?
I assume they know exactly which farmer moved it since his property will border up against the corner he plowed up and they're threatening legal action.
Was the stone clearly marked “border, do not move”?
The stone likely also served as one of his property corners and no, they're not always clearly marked. Most people generally know where their property corners are though.
Do historians randomly walk border lines on other people’s property?
Land surveyors do. But not randomly.
Why did this historian make such a big deal about this... and who is he/she?
Wars are fought over border disputes.
Why is this any drama at all?
Wars are fought over border disputes.
Certain stories read like “a message is being sent” to me, and this was one of them...
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: SuperStudChuck
That border moving thing happens way more often than you would think and Governments, or even states here in the US, take it very seriously. Texas and New Mexico basically almost went to war one time because they disagreed on a section of the border. It was one mile off one way or the other. Also, just "moving the stone back" isn't as easy as it sounds. Land surveying is a pretty complicated science. In order to reestablish a point on the border, you have to resurvey the entire border (or at least one side of it at a minimum and it can be much more complicated than that). Wars are fought over stuff like this. From the Government level right on down to the individual land owners fighting with their neighbors over a difference of 100 square feet (I've seen it and they were both pretty pissed. The law got involved.)
1. You're now moving into a new level of awareness as a collective. Some of you will be seeing a new version of your fish bowl that will be much smaller even yet than the one you've grown accustomed to.
2. Others will see a world so far larger than your tiny reality with such greater freedoms it would defy your comprehension. This transition is immanent. It will be up to you to choose which one you're going to see.
3. And one thing I can assure you of right now, is if you continue to think that every post like this is deluded insanity and nothing so fantastic could ever really exist, your next reality will be that very tiny fish bowl I've told you about here. That's a guarantee.
4. Open your mind to better, greater, more advanced and you will see better, greater and more advanced.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: crankyoldman
I can't believe Liz Cheney was ever even elected to begin with. How does that even happen? After the clusterfudge that was the Bush administration and the begining of the never-ending wars, I figured pretty much everyone hated Dick "The Penguin" Cheney. I can't believe people would willingly elect one of his kids to office.
No one "elected" her. Voting is too important to be left up to the masses.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
originally posted by: SuperStudChuck
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: SuperStudChuck
Is this really a coded message that NATO/EU is moving in on Traditional French Values?
Why does a stone boarder matter in these days of GPS and modern maps?
The story seemed weird. Some of my questions:
Like, how big is this stone that they can’t just move it back?
Usually about 4' long and roughly rectangular in shape. They can reset it, but it's a complicated process.
How do they know a farmer moved it but not who moved it?
I assume they know exactly which farmer moved it since his property will border up against the corner he plowed up and they're threatening legal action.
Was the stone clearly marked “border, do not move”?
The stone likely also served as one of his property corners and no, they're not always clearly marked. Most people generally know where their property corners are though.
Do historians randomly walk border lines on other people’s property?
Land surveyors do. But not randomly.
Why did this historian make such a big deal about this... and who is he/she?
Wars are fought over border disputes.
Why is this any drama at all?
Wars are fought over border disputes.
Certain stories read like “a message is being sent” to me, and this was one of them...
Avowed socialist and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has announced the creation of a global fund meant to address the coronavirus pandemic. He is asking for all nations to contribute the equivalent of 10 percent of all global GDP to fund a gigantic “human-centered, innovative and coordinated stimulus package,” which would be administered by a global authority, presumably the UN itself.
The plan [PDF] — entitled Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 — would entrust the UN (or another globalist entity yet to be named) with approximately $8.7 trillion, which it would supposedly use to fight and eradicate the coronavirus and address other problems that have resulted from the virus.
The UN’s current budget is approximately $3 billion. The $8.7 trillion would be 2,900 times greater than its current budget.
“Listen, every client call I’m on including the one I just finished ... is talking about overheating,” the chief investment officer of global fixed income at the world’s largest money manager said on “Halftime Report.”
“Everybody is talking about overheating,” added Rieder, who oversees more than $2 trillion of BlackRock’s $9 trillion in assets under management.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: FlyingFox
Sometimes I get the weird feeling I've been reactivated for military service.
Source:
Elise Stefanik entered the political arena eight years ago out of admiration for Paul D. Ryan, the conservative darling who had just returned to the House after his stint as Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Upon her first House election in 2014, Elise Stefanik, then aged 30, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time. A strong supporter of Donald Trump, she prominently defended him during his 2019 impeachment in the Trump-Ukraine scandal. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, she supported a lawsuit that attempted to overturn Trump's electoral defeat in the 2020 election, made false claims of fraud, and hours after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, she voted to object to Pennsylvania's electoral college votes.