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When Fukushima exploded, foreign embassies told everyone to FLEE. Commercial planes turned around. Ships steered away as fast as they could. An invisible radiation cloud was drifting across the ocean. And where was the USS Ronald Reagan? STEERING DIRECTLY INTO IT. AT MAXIMUM SPEED. The radiation alarms were screaming on the bridge. Every textbook said: "Turn back. Save yourselves." The Captain and his crew said: "There are Japanese families shivering on rooftops out there. WE DON'T TURN BACK." 24 hours a day, in freezing sleet, they ran their desalination plants to the brink of failure. Sailors gave up their OWN fresh water. They stopped taking hot showers. They ate cold rations. Why? To produce tens of thousands of gallons of pure, uncontaminated drinking water for Japanese babies. Mechanics with radiation badges worked through the night on snow-covered decks so helicopters could fly non-stop rescue sorties. While the world backed away in terror, American sailors ran through the fire for us. Never tell me true heroes don't wear dog tags. 🇺🇸🔥🇯🇵
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🚨 BREAKING: The US House has just PASSED a bill that FORCES states -- including Minnesota and California -- to hand over ANY AND ALL information demanded by the Attorney General to investigate FRAUD against federal programs Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, unemployment insurance, various COVID-era funds, broadband grants, disaster assistance, and more are ALL included. Newsom is NOT going to be happy 🤣 Expose it ALL, @AGToddBlanche! 🔥
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🚨 OMG. 100% of the fraudsters charged today in California for "ghost daycares" stealing $10M are MIDDLE EASTERN FOREIGNERS Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan NOT ONE NATIVE-BORN AMERICAN NAME IN THE ENTIRE LIST!! DOJ dropped the full list of 12: Fosiya Mohamoud, Somalia Abdulrahman Alawad, Syria Zetun Abdi, Somalia Ikramullah Mohmmand, Afghanistan Khetam Haouash, Syria Khatera Hashimi, Afghanistan Mariam Khamis, Sudan Mohamad Alawad, Syria Mazin Alawad, Syria Turkiya Alawad, Syria Zaryab Daudzai, Afghanistan Cezar Yaqoob, Iraq Charges include wire fraud and money laundering. Basically all of them engaged in the same scheme of operating a childcare in Gavin Newsom's CA to take taxpayer funds They submitted FAKE attendance records to take the money! Sounds exactly like the kind of theft exposed by @nickshirleyy. DEPORT THE PIRATES!
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🚨 Welcome to the $15 billion California High Speed Rail to nowhere: Since 2008 California has spent $15 billion and has not connected a single city or laid a single track. It is now projected to cost more than $200 billion to finish despite being proved nearly impossible to complete. In 2008 China also announced a high-speed rail and has now connected the entire country with over 30,000 miles while California has connected 0 miles. Over $500 million has gone to contractors who could not work, homes are currently being built on the alignment, and farmers will lose their farms. In this video I go down the alignment of the high speed rail exposing the failures and confront the legislators in charge of this absolute disaster of a project. A prime example of fraud, waste and abuse of the taxpayer dollar.
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BREAKING: Costco is now rationing motor oil for due to the Iranian war, limiting members to one transaction and a maximum of two units every seven days.
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She never called her family to say goodbye. Instead, Sara Low used her final 30 minutes to make sure the FBI knew who attacked America. Trapped at 30,000 feet with no weapon, 28-year-old flight attendant Sara Low held the only tool that could expose the 9/11 hijackers to the world: 14 numbers memorized in her head. When terrorists stormed the cockpit of American Airlines Flight 11, chaos erupted in the cabin. Flight attendant Amy Sweeney scrambled to grab an onboard airphone to alert the ground team, but hit a devastating wall - she didn't have a calling card to bypass the system lock. Without her wallet on hand, Sara stepped forward. She didn't have plastic, but she had clarity. She had memorized her family’s AT&T calling card digits. Sara handed those numbers to Amy, unlocking a lifeline to the ground. For the next 20 minutes, Amy stayed on the line with American Airlines flight services in Boston. Because of Sara's calling card, the FBI received its very first concrete intelligence of the day: exact seat numbers of the hijackers, physical descriptions, and their movements in the cabin. While Amy relayed the critical data, Sara spent her final half-hour moving terrified passengers toward the rear of the plane, shielding them from danger. Sara had the means to use that airphone. She could have called her parents. She could have said a final goodbye to her sister. She didn't. She chose to make sure the world would know the truth instead. True heroism isn't defined by muscle or weapons. It’s defined by presence of mind in the face of impossible terror - and the selfless decision of who that mind chooses to serve. #archaeohistories
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BREAKING: Chinese billionaire Xu Bo is revealed to have fathered 100–300 children through American surrogates, granting them U.S. citizenship at birth.
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On September 11, a fire chief climbed 37 floors of the South Tower with 50 pounds of gear on his back and reached the exact floor where the plane had hit. He got on the radio. His voice was out of breath, and completely calm. He said the fire was manageable. Two hoses. They could knock it down. One minute later, the tower fell. His name was Orio Palmer. Battalion Chief, Battalion 7, FDNY. Forty-five years old. A wife named Debbie and three kids, Dana, Keith, and Alyssa, in Valley Stream, Long Island. Before he was a firefighter he was an electrical engineer who specialized in elevator repair. That detail is why this story exists. When Palmer arrived at the South Tower after the second plane hit, every elevator in the building was dead. The impact was on the 78th floor. Hundreds of people were trapped above and around it. And the only way up was stairs. Seventy-eight flights, in gear, in smoke. Palmer found a stalled elevator, got into the mechanism, and fixed it. He rode it to the 41st floor. Then he started climbing. He was a marathon runner. He had run the New York City Marathon and dedicated his first one, in 1989, to his daughter Dana's first birthday. He had won the fire department's physical fitness award five times. He was the fittest man in the department, and he was climbing 37 floors in bunker gear with an air tank on his back. His radio transmissions were recorded. You can follow him up the building. 9:32. The 55th floor. 9:45. The 74th floor. He reports damage to the stairwell walls. No serious smoke yet. He tells the men coming up behind him to be careful. Somewhere around the 75th floor he meets Fire Marshal Ron Bucca, who has climbed every step from the ground. Also a marathon runner. They go up together. 9:52. The 78th floor. The sky lobby. The impact zone. The place where roughly 200 people had been waiting for elevators when a Boeing 767 came through the wall. Almost nobody had been able to get that high that morning. Palmer and Bucca and a few men of Ladder 15 behind them were the only firefighters who reached the point of impact in either tower. Palmer keyed his radio. Out of breath. Steady. "Battalion Seven. Ladder 15. We've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines." Then he reported what he was standing in. Numerous 10-45s, Code One. That is fire department language. Code One means dead. He was telling command that there were many dead civilians around him, and then, in the same breath, telling them where to send the water. He called for more companies. More hose. More men. At 9:58, he and the others freed a group of civilians who were trapped in an elevator on that floor. At 9:59, the South Tower collapsed. Orio Palmer, Ron Bucca, and everyone with them died in it. The tapes of the radio traffic were kept sealed for months. When the Fire Department finally played them for the families, Palmer's widow Debbie went in afraid of what she would hear. She came out and said the only thing she had heard in her husband's voice was that he was working. No fear. No panic. Just a man on the 78th floor with two fires in front of him and a plan for putting them out. At home they called him the Music Man. He played guitar. He made up silly songs. He invented fairy dances for his little girls. He took the neighborhood kids fishing. Debbie died in 2021. His children have seven kids of their own now, on Long Island. They are the grandchildren of a man who fixed an elevator in a burning building so he could get closer to the fire. Here is what that recording is. It is the sound of how far up hope physically climbed that morning. An electrician who could not stand to see a broken elevator. A runner who could not stand to stop. A chief who could not stand to leave people up there. Seventy-eight floors. He got there. He reported in. He called for water. And the last thing anyone ever heard from him was a man who thought he could still win. 🇺🇸
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One month after September 11, workers clearing the rubble at Ground Zero found something alive. A tree. Eight feet of blackened stump. Roots snapped. Every branch broken but one. They could have thrown it away with the rest. Nobody would have noticed. They did not. It was a Callery pear. Nobody had ever paid attention to it. It had been planted in the 1970s in the plaza between Buildings 4 and 5 of the World Trade Center, one of dozens of ornamental trees the Port Authority put in to make the concrete feel less like concrete. Office workers ate lunch under it. Tourists walked past it on their way to the observation deck. On the morning of September 11, a hundred and ten stories fell on it. Twice. In October, on the pile, someone saw a single living branch sticking out of the wreckage. Green. Still trying. A decision was made on the spot. They dug it out. The city's Parks Department took the stump to a nursery in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The horticulturists there looked at it and were not optimistic. The trunk was charred. The root system was mostly gone. Trees in that condition do not usually come back. They went to work anyway. They cleaned the burns. They trimmed the dead wood. They set it in good soil. They watered it. And they waited. That first spring, in 2002, against everything the experts expected, the stump put out blossoms. Small white flowers, on a tree that had been under the World Trade Center six months earlier. It stayed in the Bronx for nine years. Relearning how to be a tree. Growing new branches out of the old scarred wood. Getting taller. Filling out. In 2010, weeks before it was finally scheduled to go home, a storm tore through the nursery and ripped it out of the ground. The people who had been nursing it for nine years came out the next morning and found it on its side, roots exposed again. They stood it back up. They repacked the soil. It survived that too. On December 22, 2010, it was replanted at the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan, a few steps from where the South Tower had stood. Where it had been found. The eight-foot stump is now more than thirty feet tall. Walk up to it and look at the trunk. There is a line on it. Below the line, the bark is dark and gnarled and twisted. That is the wood from 2001. Above the line, the bark is smooth and pale and new. That is everything that grew after. The tree does not hide the line. It does not cover it over. The scar is right there, and the whole rest of the tree grows up and out of it. People tie tags to the railing around it. Prayers. Names. Messages to the dead. Every spring it is the first thing on the entire plaza to bloom. It goes white before the other trees have even leafed. In 2013, the Memorial started a program. They gathered seedlings from the Survivor Tree, and every year they sent them to a community that had just had its own worst day. Newtown, Connecticut, after Sandy Hook. Orlando, after Pulse. Puerto Rico, after Maria. Paris. Manchester. London. A small tree from the rubble of the World Trade Center, planted in the ground of the next place that thought it would never grow anything again. Twenty-five years ago this month, a hundred and ten stories of steel came down on a pear tree and someone on the pile saw one green branch and said, not that one. Not that one. The last living thing pulled out of Ground Zero has children now, growing all over the world. It did not survive by being untouched. It survived by growing out of the wound. 🌸
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After September 11, more than a million tons of the World Trade Center was loaded onto barges and shipped to a garbage dump on Staten Island. Then hundreds of men and women stood at conveyor belts for ten months and picked through every ounce of it by hand. They were looking for people. The place is called Fresh Kills. For fifty years it was the largest landfill in the world. It took its last barge of household trash on March 22, 2001, and shut down for good. New York was finally done with it. Five and a half months later, at two o'clock in the morning on September 12, the landfill's director got a phone call at home. He had just walked in the door. Two trucks were at the gate. They were carrying pieces of the World Trade Center. He drove back. The man who ran the dump would later say, without any drama, that if Fresh Kills had not been closed, this could never have happened. There would have been no room. The garbage would have been in the way. The site was empty. So that is where the towers went. Here is how it worked. At Ground Zero, cranes and grapplers lifted the debris into dump trucks. The trucks drove to a pier on the Hudson. There, the load went onto barges, six hundred tons at a time. The barges were towed down the harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, to Staten Island. More than fifteen hundred barges made the trip. At Fresh Kills, sanitation workers unloaded them onto a hill. And then the sorting began. The debris was mechanically screened into three sizes. Chunks bigger than eight inches. Two to eight inches. A quarter inch to two inches. Anything smaller than a quarter of an inch, the size of a fingernail, fell through the last sieve. Everything above that size went onto a conveyor belt. And along the belts stood the detectives. NYPD. FBI. Port Authority police. Medical examiners. Dressed head to toe in white Tyvek suits, in masks, in gloves, on a hill that stank of jet fuel and pulverized concrete and things nobody wanted to name. Looking down at the belt, hour after hour, as the towers rolled past them a fist-sized chunk at a time. When they saw something, they reached in and took it, and placed it in a white bucket at their feet. A wedding ring. A photo ID. A set of keys. A shoe. A piece of a person. The white buckets went to a tent that served as a morgue. The volume was beyond comprehension. In mid-September the operation was processing 1,750 tons of debris a day. By mid-October, 17,500 tons a day. Ten times more. Round the clock. The 200-acre hill was declared a federal crime scene and stayed one for ten months. A retired NYPD detective later wrote down what a shift looked like, because almost nobody outside knew it existed. You wake at 3 a.m. You get a giant coffee. You drive two hours in the dark from Orange County, through New Jersey, to Staten Island. You park at the bottom of a hill that looks like the end of the world. You put on the white suit. You go to your belt. You stand there. You look. Then you drive two hours home and do it again tomorrow. Sanitation workers pulled sixteen-hour shifts, seven days a week. One of them, a supervisor named Barry Asnes, said afterward what kept him there. We were attacked on our own soil, in the city where I was born. This was personal. The operation did not stop for weather. It did not stop for Christmas. It ran until July 2002. Ten months. By the end, the men and women on that hill had recovered thousands of human remains. Tens of thousands of personal effects. Wallets, badges, wedding bands, photographs, all cleaned and catalogued and returned to families who had nothing else to bury. When they were finished, the remaining material was placed in a 48-acre section of the landfill, a mound two hundred and twenty-five feet high, and covered. It is a park now. Many of the men and women who stood on that hill have lung disease. Asthma. Cancer. PTSD. The air they were breathing, eight and ten and sixteen hours a day, was full of the towers. Some of them have died of it. Almost nobody knows their names. Almost nobody knows the place. Mention Fresh Kills and 9/11 in the same sentence, the retired detective wrote, and most people will have no idea what you are talking about. Here is what you should know. Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were murdered in those towers. Only about six in ten have ever been identified. Every one of those identifications came out of a white bucket. Every wedding ring returned to a widow. Every badge returned to a firehouse. Every fragment of bone matched to a name and buried with a headstone instead of a question mark. Somebody in a white suit, standing at a belt on a garbage dump at four in the morning, reached into the World Trade Center as it rolled past, and picked that person up, and put them in a bucket, and sent them home. They did that for ten months. Nobody applauded on the hill. There was nobody to watch. They did it anyway. 🇺🇸
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🚨 TODD BEAMER, UNITED 93 PHONE CALL: "LET'S ROLL" 🇺🇸 Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked. Lisa: I understand. Can they see you? Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake. Lisa: Your name? Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93. Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor. Lisa: Are you okay? Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again. Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true? Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan. Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call. Lisa: I promise. Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy. Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.) Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol. Todd: I understand. I’ll be back. Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot. Lisa: What are you going to do? Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out. Todd: Would you pray with me? [They pray the Lord’s Prayer.] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Todd: God help me. Jesus help me. Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll. SOURCE: @SterlingMSnow
America's Mayor Live (1015): Remembering September 11th, 2001 x.com/i/broadcasts/1kKzDPEBw…
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Wait a min, something just clicked for me... The female jurors... They thought they were finding whether or not Lindsay was insane. Not if she was 'not guilty due to insanity'... Holy crap that clears it up... They gave NURSES powers to make a medical diagnosis.
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INSANITY. He fires up a Tor browser on a plane, starts chatting about being a pedophile, mentions that he’s flying, the other pedophiles start freaking out someone can see his screen, he blows their concerns off, all the while some dude actually is taking pics of his screen!
‘Wheel of Fortune’ announcer Jim Thornton fired after in-flight pedophilia chatroom incident trib.al/Ly00YDV
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🚨BREAKING — America First Legal just sued the state of California on behalf of @nickshirleyy to BLOCK the enforcement of a new California law known as the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”
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The timeline tells the story ⬇️ @NickShirleyy posts that he has arrived in California on January 31. 2 days later, Gov. Newsom says San Diego feels “under siege.” 18 days later, AG Bonta’s wife introduces the Stop Nick Shirley Act. Now, AFL is suing to block its enforcement.
🚨BREAKING — America First Legal just sued the state of California on behalf of @nickshirleyy to BLOCK the enforcement of a new California law known as the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”
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Let’s call this what it is, the defense attorney in the Lindsay Clancy trial just doxxed the lone member of the jury that led to this mistrial. By publicly pointing out that the single holdout in the 11-1 mistrial was one of only three men on the jury, he put a massive, dangerous target right on that man’s back. Why would a defense lawyer leak specific demographics about a lone holdout? Because it sends a chilling message to every single juror who will ever sit in that courtroom if they have a retrial: “Align with us, or we will expose you to the mob.” We are living in a terrifying time when the press and defense attorneys can weaponize public pressure against a lone citizen doing his civic duty. If the media outs this man, his safety is on their hands. Pray for that juror's safety.
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I'm suing California... California has decided to push for less transparency and create laws that penalize citizens and journalists for looking into potential fraud inside "immigration support services providers." A written demand is all it takes to stop the publishing of a video in California. Enough is enough.
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In 1995, inside a small Massachusetts hospital, a pair of newborn premature twins fought the hardest battle of their tiny lives. Born far too early, Kyrie and Brielle weighed barely enough to fill a nurse’s hands. Both fragile… but one fading faster than anyone expected. Kyrie, the stronger twin, slowly gained strength. But Brielle — so tiny, so exhausted — was slipping away. Her breathing stuttered. Her oxygen levels dipped again and again. Her skin turned a worrying shade of blue. Doctors prepared the family for the unthinkable: she may not make it through the night. And then came a moment of quiet courage. A nurse named Gayle Kasparian, guided not by procedure but by pure human instinct, made a decision that defied the rules of the time. Back then, premature babies were always kept in separate incubators. But she believed something else. She believed that love — even the smallest kind — had power. Gently, she lifted Kyrie and placed her beside her struggling sister in the same incubator. Two tiny hearts, side by side. Two tiny bodies, skin to skin, just like they had been in the womb. What happened next brought the entire neonatal unit to tears. Within minutes, Brielle’s monitors changed. Her oxygen levels rose… higher… higher. Her heartbeat steadied — strong and sure. Her frantic breathing calmed. Color returned to her cheeks. And then, in a moment that seemed almost like a whisper from heaven, Kyrie lifted her tiny arm and wrapped it around Brielle… as if she was holding her sister here on earth. The nurses stood frozen. Doctors rushed in. No one could explain it — but no one could deny it. That single embrace didn’t just save Brielle’s life… It changed medical care forever. Because of these twins — because of one nurse who simply followed her heart — “co-bedding” premature babies is now used in hospitals around the world. All because two sisters reminded us of something simple and profound: Sometimes the greatest medicine is love in its purest form.
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🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥 CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...” Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?” CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...” Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.” CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...” Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?” CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.” Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.” CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...” Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?” CNN: “Você está polarizando.” Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”
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