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Mat Helm retweeted
Here’s what going down in Poland.
Basically a judge never having been swarm in has removed the President and Vice President from office.
The President was on a plane to Africa and has since turned the plane around to deal wth Tusks attempt to overthrow the government.
Poland is about to get weird.
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED IN WARSAW IN THE LAST FEW HOURS — IN ORDER:
→ Riot police in helmets and shields move onto the grounds of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, the court that checks laws against the Constitution
→ The court's website says its president and vice-president are suspended for one month — not by parliament, by one judge President Nawrocki refused to swear in, who now takes over
→ Nawrocki, over Spain on his way to Senegal, turns his plane AROUND and heads back to Warsaw
→ The court's own X account answers — the website was unlawfully taken over, that judge "is not a judge" and everyone involved is committing a COUP
→ The justice minister asks to lift both men's immunity — and sends 50 volumes of case files to that same judge
Nawrocki's reason, in his own words: "At such a moment, the President must be in Poland."
Not a scheduled return. Not a technical stop.
Nawrocki heard what was happening at one court — and the whole Senegal trip waited.
That's the sequence.
And the list of people in that fight tells you everything about what this night is actually about:
→ A suspended vice-president shut outside a gate locked from inside, saying "a coup is happening"
→ An opposition that says police stormed the building and closed every entrance on Prime Minister Tusk's orders — "from today Poland becomes a police state"
→ A prime minister who calls it restoring the rule of law: "There is no other way"
Police answer: no officer is inside the building, only on the outer grounds.
They say that same judge warned of "threats" to judges and staff, objects were thrown at officers and 3 people were detained for jumping the fence.
The fight underneath: parliament elected new judges, Nawrocki refused to swear in some of them and the court's president kept them off the bench.
The government says it is securing the site during that fight. Its justice minister: "the state must protect the judges."
This isn't just a court dispute.
It's a constitutional crisis on wings — and it turned a presidential plane around over Spain because Nawrocki wasn't done fighting.
One court. Two people claiming to run it. One month on the suspension order.
Tag the friend who swears a court fight like this could never happen inside the EU.
Mat Helm retweeted
In 1928 a Chicago paediatrician let babies choose their own dinner from 34 foods, and for six years not one of them chose the way the pamphlet says.
Clara Davis took fifteen infants just weaned, and put a tray in front of them at every meal.
Beef, lamb, chicken, liver, kidney, brains, bone marrow, fish, eggs, milk, bananas, oats, carrots, peas, cabbage, salt. Nothing processed. No sugar.
Nobody steered. The nurse held the spoon, the baby pointed.
One boy ate seven eggs a day for a stretch. Another lived on bananas for a fortnight and then would not look at one.
They chewed bone marrow. They drank the beef juice. They pushed the greens round the tray.
One baby arrived with rickets. She put cod liver oil on the tray and left it there. He drank it, unprompted, until the rickets healed, and then never touched it again.
Six years. Not one case of stomach trouble. Not one deficiency. Visitors said they had never seen healthier children.
The doctors who examined them wrote it up as the wisdom of the body.
Nobody had taught these children that the yolk was bad or the marrow was rich or the cabbage was the healthy part.
Left alone with the food, a one-year-old built itself a diet heavy in the animal and ate the plants as a side when the mood took it.
The experiment is almost a century old. The pamphlet is still telling his mother to start with the carrot.
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A Houston homeowner tested his water meter with a bucket after questioning his bills. The reading showed a major discrepancy. #enough #enoughhouston
Read the full story at the link in the comments.
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UPDATE: There’s no clean national census of nurses and doctors using fake degrees, but we have spent two months investigating this, and the documented cases cluster into two very different magnitudes.
Nurses: roughly 7,600 fraudulent diplomas and transcripts, with about 2,274 people confirmed to have used them to sit and pass the NCLEX, then get licensed and hired. That’s a rock-solid number.
Physicians: upwards of 10,000 people in hospitals and private practice hold fraudulent foreign medical degrees.
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This is actually true—
Duke Energy guaranteed a $10 million line of credit so the Democrats could hold their 2012 convention in Charlotte.
The host committee never paid it back. Duke simply wrote it off. Shareholders (and ultimately ratepayers) ate roughly $6 million of the cost after taxes.
Jim Rogers, Duke’s CEO at the time and a co-chair of the host committee, shrugged it off as a contribution “for the greater good.”
Years later Lynn Good collected $20–21 million packages—mostly stock and incentives—while North Carolina families watched electricity prices climb and the company sought rate hikes.
A regulated monopoly underwriting one party’s convention, absorbing the loss, then handing its top executives eight-figure pay.
That’s the arrangement.
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Stunning admission by California during yesterday’s Ninth Circuit hearing.
California admitted they do nothing to check the citizenship status of voters and will count the illegal ballots of noncitizens who vote. This is why we’re seeking an emergency order. We cannot allow California to dilute legal votes in the upcoming election.
Judge: You agree that if a non-citizen votes and we don’t stop it now, that vote will be counted, correct?
California: That’s absolutely correct.
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HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
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Let’s Talk About Servers, Cheating, and Controller-Only Matches
In the original SOCOM II setup, one player hosted the match. With Legacy, our server runs the match simulation, and every player connects to it.
Your computer phone or ipad handles your controls and displays the game, but the server checks the gameplay actions your device requests. For example, if someone tries to move farther than they could legitimately travel or fire faster than their weapon allows, the server can refuse that action.
Every refusal is logged with a video of the player’s name, why the action was rejected, and exactly when it happened, down to the millisecond. That gives us a detailed record to investigate. Someone repeatedly requesting impossible movements using a mouse or invalid shots would leave suspicious patterns in those logs.
That’s the advantage of playing on browser: modifying your own game doesn’t automatically change what the server allows. The match simulation still checks those requests against its rules.
Our recent playtests are helping us fine-tune those checks using real gameplay. We also account for connection delays, because a lag spike shouldn’t automatically be treated as cheating. The goal is to reject invalid actions while keeping legitimate movement and gunplay feeling right.
#Socom #Socom2 #Socom2Legacy
