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Thumbs up for a quick recovery Cindy!

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LOL---I am "handicapped"

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We also would have accepted "thumbicapped". 👍🏻

FWIW, I sat up straight when I read your injury report-- it's another instance of synchronicity.

Over a week ago, maybe while I was struggling to remove ice-bound snow from my front steps and sidewalk, I acquired a couple of small cuts on my right hand.

One was a sort of nick on the tip of my right thumb; it's small, but in a spot that gets a lot of use one normally takes for granted. It doesn't want to heal, probably because apart from pounding on computer keyboard(s), during my evening guitar-playing I squeeze the afflicted area in order to hold the pick. 🎸

Don't you just hate it when a tiny injury has onerous and protracted ripple effects? 😓

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Yes, especially, when ones main job is typing away at a keyboard. The touch pad doesn't work with a bandage on my thumb. LOL---heal well, my dear.

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https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/usaid-is-a-deep-state-trojan-horse?publication_id=725827&post_id=156723382&r=102on&triedRedirect=true

Very good and detailed 20-minute James Corbett report on NGOs (USAID and others). I like the way he puts clear focus on Bolivia. Venezuela. Nicaragua. CUBA. CHINA. All those places that "heroes" Marco and Donald want to "save" from the ravages of the Deep State. Even Maidan; did Trump ever challenge it at the time (if ever)? What clear "controlled opposition," if not just outright deception. But right, the BIG thing is axing DEI programs.......

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Cindy Sheehan

The gold standard.

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I've wanted to see USAID gone ever since I learned about it. I like Maduro and I oppose regime change. What USAID has done to try to unseat Maduro and other world leaders is criminal. In adoition ot hte regime change, USAID is moving internationally trafficked kids from one country to another to hide them I also don't trust Rubio. So, it may just be a shuffle with little changing.

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Share your overall take on the "misdirectioned" focus of the MAGA types in "celebrating" the current developments. Hey, now Little Marco can personally try to overthrow the government of Venezuela. No more BS red tape.

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Little Marco has been jonesing for Vz and Cuba forever.

POS

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Not sure I want to ask what happened to your thumb! ;)

How crooked is/was USAID? Ask any civilian or contractor/sub contractor who worked in country during the American War (what the Vietnamese rightly call it). Probably right around the time the vultures swept in. I don't dislike what is going on- but I don't trust these crazy diamonds and I fear for the safety and security of senior citizens in the US. The idea of Elon Musk and a 13-year old getting ANYWHERE NEAR our funds is, well, like seeing Scooby Doo and Shaggy pounce on a pile of Fritos!

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Hey Bon-Bon----I could say my thumb got cut swashbuckling, but I cut it putting silverware away. The end of it.....it's fine. No stitches, but it seems anything on the hand is very painful, because, our hands are in constant use.

I don't trust anyone, either. But, I did get my Social Security today---four days early? That's NEVER happened before.

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Right! Early? Wowzers. I found that 'cutting off' retired US citizens overseas interesting. My guess is those folks are well off. Who else can afford to MOVE to LIVE overseas (anywhere) and still collect SS? Nice gig.

I realize those folks likely paid into the fund their whole working lives....so not sure what the 'thinking' is, if indeed there is any.

Yep about hand/finger injuries. I have my annual winter dry thumb cracks that feel like I have a giant infected, open wound. Fact is you can barely see it...but man it hurts!

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I’m quite sure your guess is wrong. Our press only covers rich business owners and celebrities living abroad. But there are millions of working class people who moved to America when capitalism was still growing and there were lots of jobs available. They moved back home where living was a lot easier and you could still get along on a small amount of social security.

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Not sure I understand what you are trying to say. It was the government, not the press, that announced SS benefits were being held back for Americans living overseas. I would be surprised to learn there are working class US citizens living abroad collecting Social Security. But then, the world is full of suprises these days.

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There are actually many living in Mexico where Social Security goes ALOT further than it does here....

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Of course, that's always a possibility. And, if true, you would think the USG would continue their benefits unimpeded. After all, isn't part of this gig depopulating the US? Oh, wait...I guess impoverishing is a piece of it too. ;)

Sorry- I'm dense af these days!

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I had really not given your comment enough thought. Blessedthebeasts helped me along! ;)

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As I recall, Obama's MOTHER worked for USAID and was also married to a member of the family that was involved in the coup in Indonesia in 1965.....

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Now that you mention it....she worked for the Ford Foundation, which is just another NGO front for the CIA.

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BEWARE OF REPLACING ONE EVIL WITH SOMETHING WORSE! AI!

USAID is one thing, there are whole nother things just as insidious if not even worse!

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI!

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

If only every country exited the WHO/UN/WEF!

KEEP UP THE STRUGGLE! BE VIGILANT! NO RESTING ON LAURELS!

MERS! MONEYPOX! All those WHO/WEF/UN control freaks, BUGGER OFF AND LEAVE US ALONE!

NO TO YOUR CORRUPT MONEY-MAKING RACKETS!

Hell with the hypochondria germaphobia fear hysteria monkeyshines driving us all ape! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT BEFORE WE ALL GO BANANAS!

SERIOUSLY FOLKS! KEEP FIGHTING! Can't say this often enough! The WHO/UN/WEF are totally criminal entities that must be litigated and dismantled off the face of the earth and its upper level employees tried and jailed. Nothing THE WORLD HELL ORGANIZATION does has any legitimacy.

EQUITY is Orwellian doublespeak for equal ENSLAVEMENT of us proles under the technocratic parasitical malevolent rule by control freak, power-mad psychos. The word EQUITY makes my blood boil whenever I hear it now that I understand its true meaning.

A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.

The world needs a lot more rejections of the UN/WHO's nefarious schemes.

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

Can't say this often enough!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections were/are a huge part of their arsenal!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

The terrible senators, horrifying Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

BURN BACK BETTER!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

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Agreed, and I have to wonder why my supposedly lefty friends have been so quiet, or rather silent, in pointing out the less than altruistic efforts of the USAID...

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Is that a rhetorical question, Jeff, I think you know why

Democraps

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