Here is a list of News Blogs ordered by Last Commented, posted by members. A Blog is a journal you may enter about your life, thoughts, interesting experiences, or lessons you've learned. Post an opinion, impart words of wisdom, or talk about something interesting in your day. Update your blog on a regular basis, or just whenever you have something to say. Creating a blog is a good way to share something of yourself with others. Reading blogs is a good way to learn more about others. Click here to post a blog.
online today!
Australian journalist John Pilger has passed away
He passed on Dec 30th. John was very well known for his journalism over many decades - in Vietnam as a young reporter, up to the conflicts (and threat of conflicts) we currently face. One could sense that John cared deeply about peace, and never shirked from aiming criticism at whomever he felt was deserving of it (no matter how powerful that person or government may be).
John's final published essay can be read below:
John's final published essay can be read below:
Did they really do that?
There have been some claims in the past year about who took what territory, who ran away, what kind of vehicle was that on the airport tarmac, etc. Many rely only on what various media claim. Reality is sometimes those media lie.
Don't be fooled. Look for yourself. Here is a video introduction to 4 totally free satellite services any person can use from their home computer. Most here already know of Google Earth, but not many knew it has different versions. This video shows you the best one. It also shows you 3 more not owned or affiliated with Google you can use. See for yourself what is real and what is not. If the video doesn't load for your location here, the title of the video on YT is
"OSINT At Home #9 – Top 4 Free Satellite Imagery Sources"
A manual search on YT should bring it up for you if the link here doesn't work.
Don't be fooled. Look for yourself. Here is a video introduction to 4 totally free satellite services any person can use from their home computer. Most here already know of Google Earth, but not many knew it has different versions. This video shows you the best one. It also shows you 3 more not owned or affiliated with Google you can use. See for yourself what is real and what is not. If the video doesn't load for your location here, the title of the video on YT is
"OSINT At Home #9 – Top 4 Free Satellite Imagery Sources"
A manual search on YT should bring it up for you if the link here doesn't work.
The Trumps are fully enjoying lavishly spending our money
In response to:
Melania Trump's Hotel Charges Were $174,000 For A Day Trip To Toronto: Records
Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost 16 hours ago
First lady Melania Trump’s hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto last year added up to an astonishing $174,000, according to federal expense documents reported by Quartz. She did not spend the night.
The startling expenditures dwarfed the $95,000 cost of Trump’s stop at the InterContinental Cairo Semiramis, where she stayed for less than half a day at the end of her tour of Africa last month.
Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham implied in an email to Quartz that the first lady’s “advance team” was responsible for some of the costs. The team ensures “safety measures, medical care, communications, motorcade needs and logistics are all in place,” she wrote. They’re all “legally required for official travel,” she added.
But federal expense documents reported separate, additional costs for the advance team that added up to $18,000, according to Quartz.
The hotels are not identified in the expenses. They’re listed simply as “hotel rooms” under a heading of “miscellaneous foreign awardees” in the federal expense documents. There are six hotel charges ranging from nearly $12,000 to nearly $49,000, but the documents don’t offer details. (Other charges were for $16,000, $19,000, $35,000 and $43,000.)
The first lady was in Toronto to help kick off the Invictus Games, which Britain’s Prince Harry started in 2014 for disabled vet athletes.
A pool press report covering the Sept. 23 trip referred to stops that day at the Sheraton, the Ritz Carlton, a return to the Sheraton, and a get-together in the evening with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to watch the opening ceremony of the games at the Air Canada Center.
The first lady’s hotel stops included a 20-minute meeting with Prince Harry (at the Sheraton), and a reception later with 100 competing U.S. athletes, also at the Sheraton, where she gave a short speech, according to the pool report.
Trump’s visits began just after noon and she returned just after midnight to Andrews Air Force Base.
President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey.
Grisham was infuriated by news reports about the bill from Melania Trump’s Cairo visit earlier this month, slamming “irresponsible” journalism after some initial reports said the first lady had spent the night. Grisham noted that Trump had, in fact, only spent some six hours in the hotel.
The first lady’s trip to Toronto also incurred $21,000 in transportation costs, Quartz reported.
Melania Trump's Hotel Charges Were $174,000 For A Day Trip To Toronto: Records
Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost 16 hours ago
First lady Melania Trump’s hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto last year added up to an astonishing $174,000, according to federal expense documents reported by Quartz. She did not spend the night.
The startling expenditures dwarfed the $95,000 cost of Trump’s stop at the InterContinental Cairo Semiramis, where she stayed for less than half a day at the end of her tour of Africa last month.
Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham implied in an email to Quartz that the first lady’s “advance team” was responsible for some of the costs. The team ensures “safety measures, medical care, communications, motorcade needs and logistics are all in place,” she wrote. They’re all “legally required for official travel,” she added.
But federal expense documents reported separate, additional costs for the advance team that added up to $18,000, according to Quartz.
The hotels are not identified in the expenses. They’re listed simply as “hotel rooms” under a heading of “miscellaneous foreign awardees” in the federal expense documents. There are six hotel charges ranging from nearly $12,000 to nearly $49,000, but the documents don’t offer details. (Other charges were for $16,000, $19,000, $35,000 and $43,000.)
The first lady was in Toronto to help kick off the Invictus Games, which Britain’s Prince Harry started in 2014 for disabled vet athletes.
A pool press report covering the Sept. 23 trip referred to stops that day at the Sheraton, the Ritz Carlton, a return to the Sheraton, and a get-together in the evening with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to watch the opening ceremony of the games at the Air Canada Center.
The first lady’s hotel stops included a 20-minute meeting with Prince Harry (at the Sheraton), and a reception later with 100 competing U.S. athletes, also at the Sheraton, where she gave a short speech, according to the pool report.
Trump’s visits began just after noon and she returned just after midnight to Andrews Air Force Base.
President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey.
Grisham was infuriated by news reports about the bill from Melania Trump’s Cairo visit earlier this month, slamming “irresponsible” journalism after some initial reports said the first lady had spent the night. Grisham noted that Trump had, in fact, only spent some six hours in the hotel.
The first lady’s trip to Toronto also incurred $21,000 in transportation costs, Quartz reported.
As of July 23rd, the Washington Post calculated that Dirty Don spent 110 days of his term up to then - golfing. While we don't know the exact cost of these pleasure trips to New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida, it is clearly in the $ Millions, perhaps over $50 Million.
This is in direct extreme contrast to his campaign promise;
In response to: As a candidate, President Trump was heavily critical of Barack Obama’s golf habit and once told an audience that “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.” So obviously that makes his own golf habit fair game for scrutiny.
From Politifact;
In response to:
Who plays more golf: Donald Trump or Barack Obama?
For years, President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor Barack Obama for playing golf while on the job....
But since taking office, Trump has been a regular visitor at his own golf clubs in Florida and Virginia. In his first year as president, Trump outpaced Obama in the amount of time he spent on the green, our Trump Golf Tracker shows.
We decided to track Trump’s golf course visits because he so routinely criticized his predecessor for the practice.
The numbers suggest something of a flip-flop for Trump: As of May 18, 2018, the score of confirmed golf outings is Trump 56, Obama 37.
Who plays more golf: Donald Trump or Barack Obama?
For years, President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor Barack Obama for playing golf while on the job....
But since taking office, Trump has been a regular visitor at his own golf clubs in Florida and Virginia. In his first year as president, Trump outpaced Obama in the amount of time he spent on the green, our Trump Golf Tracker shows.
We decided to track Trump’s golf course visits because he so routinely criticized his predecessor for the practice.
The numbers suggest something of a flip-flop for Trump: As of May 18, 2018, the score of confirmed golf outings is Trump 56, Obama 37.
Of course, you know who is paying for these trips.
You can now view the Hunter Biden Laptop Emails
Here are 128k emails from the Biden Laptop, which is a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue collar crime under the patina of “the Delaware Way.” Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a number of ancient languages were mere gibberish and hash marks. Similarly, the emails on the Biden Laptop illuminated previously convoluted webs of the people you see leading the charge for global governance; truly, the emails can be considered a translation tool for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering.
Example of one of them:
Eric- Thanks!
David- look forward to meeting you and talking with you =bout Fisker. Are you available for a call this Tuesday at 2pm? =o:p>
Wayne
From: Eric Schwerin
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:06 PM
To: dfife@rosemontseneca.com
Cc: Wayne D. Kimmel; Tony Bifano; hbiden@rosemontseneca.com
Subject: Fisker
David-
I want to introduce you to Wayne Kimmel and Tony =ifano of ETF Venture Funds. I am sure you have heard Hunter mention ETF before, =ut to remind you, Hunter and Wayne are old friends and Hunter has been =nvolved with ETF for the past couple of years now.
ETF is considering making an investment in Fisker =nd Wayne and Tony wanted to talk to you about your due diligence on Fisker as =hey are trying to decide whether to make an investment.
Do you mind talking to them?
Thanks,
Eric
Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
Example of one of them:
Eric- Thanks!
David- look forward to meeting you and talking with you =bout Fisker. Are you available for a call this Tuesday at 2pm? =o:p>
Wayne
From: Eric Schwerin
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:06 PM
To: dfife@rosemontseneca.com
Cc: Wayne D. Kimmel; Tony Bifano; hbiden@rosemontseneca.com
Subject: Fisker
David-
I want to introduce you to Wayne Kimmel and Tony =ifano of ETF Venture Funds. I am sure you have heard Hunter mention ETF before, =ut to remind you, Hunter and Wayne are old friends and Hunter has been =nvolved with ETF for the past couple of years now.
ETF is considering making an investment in Fisker =nd Wayne and Tony wanted to talk to you about your due diligence on Fisker as =hey are trying to decide whether to make an investment.
Do you mind talking to them?
Thanks,
Eric
Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
online today!
One Of These Days
When I master genetic sciences and makes some breakthroughs, the world will be mine 
online now!
Paying the piper...
Top story today: Jury awards $148 million in damages to the 2 election workers over Rudy Giuliani's lies.
Rudy repeatedly pushed a false conspiracy theory that endangered the lives of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman who were 2020 Georgia election workers. They were on video passing something back and forth that Rudy claimed was drugs, when in fact it was a pack of Tic Tac breath mint.
Admitting he had lied, Rudy continued to repeat his baseless allegations about the women in comments to reporters outside the Washington, D.C. courthouse earlier this week.
Rudy repeatedly pushed a false conspiracy theory that endangered the lives of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman who were 2020 Georgia election workers. They were on video passing something back and forth that Rudy claimed was drugs, when in fact it was a pack of Tic Tac breath mint.
Admitting he had lied, Rudy continued to repeat his baseless allegations about the women in comments to reporters outside the Washington, D.C. courthouse earlier this week.
online today!
The Power of MSM
Who exactly controls main stream media?
Let's take Geert Wilders as an example.
23/11/23
Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote early Thursday, in a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance.
The result will send shockwaves through Europe, where far-right ideology is on the rise, and puts Wilders in line to lead talks to form the next governing coalition and possibly become the first far-right prime minister of the Netherlands.
CBS News.
Reading this one clearly can sense that msm definitely does not like this man. In other articles he is said to be 'Europe's Trump'
And if one msm 'bad mouths' the man, be sure that all the other media giants will follow suite, not with the exact wording but very similar.
As far as I can make out its mainly conservative institutions and individuals that are attacked.
Does this norm perhaps indicate to us who is controlling msm?
Ultra left?
Let's take Geert Wilders as an example.
23/11/23
Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote early Thursday, in a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance.
The result will send shockwaves through Europe, where far-right ideology is on the rise, and puts Wilders in line to lead talks to form the next governing coalition and possibly become the first far-right prime minister of the Netherlands.
CBS News.
Reading this one clearly can sense that msm definitely does not like this man. In other articles he is said to be 'Europe's Trump'
And if one msm 'bad mouths' the man, be sure that all the other media giants will follow suite, not with the exact wording but very similar.
As far as I can make out its mainly conservative institutions and individuals that are attacked.
Does this norm perhaps indicate to us who is controlling msm?
Ultra left?
Conor McGregor
Given the season that's quickly approaching ....
All I want for Christmas this year is McGregor to run for office
All I want for Christmas this year is McGregor to run for office
online today!
This has to be the sickest person
A British government-ordered inquiry this week said it found serious failings at hospitals where an electrician who was later convicted of murder had been able to have sex with more than 100 corpses over a 15-year period without being detected.
David Fuller’s necrophilia was uncovered in 2020 when police used DNA to tie him to the 1987 slayings of two women and also discovered millions of images of s*xual abuse in his home. The images included videos of him having sex with the dead bodies of women and girls in the mortuaries at two hospitals where he worked in southeast England.
David Fuller’s necrophilia was uncovered in 2020 when police used DNA to tie him to the 1987 slayings of two women and also discovered millions of images of s*xual abuse in his home. The images included videos of him having sex with the dead bodies of women and girls in the mortuaries at two hospitals where he worked in southeast England.
A Blog is a journal you may enter about your life, your thoughts, interesting experiences, or lessons you have learned. It's your own page on Connecting Singles that you can update on a regular basis, or just whenever you have something to say. You can write about an opinion, impart words of wisdom, or talk about something interesting in your day. Creating a blog is a good way to share something of yourself with Connecting Singles members. Reading blogs is a good way to learn more about members you have met here. Please be sure to read the blog rules before posting.
Would YOU like to post a blog on Connecting Singles? Have you written blogs that you'd like to share with other members? Posting your blogs shows your skill and creativity and helps members get to know you better. Your blog will appear on the Connecting Singles Blogs page and also in a link on your profile page. Click here to post a blog »