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We had out local bridge across the Mississippi also hit by a barge last week.

So....are all these bridge collapses truly accidental??  Seems quite coincidental that bridges are collapsing all within weeks of each other.

Being the skeptic that I am, I can't help but wonder what is truly going on??
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Politics/Government / Re: (Videos) Kamala Speaks .......
« Last post by berdie on Today at 07:55:31 pm »




 :rolling: :rolling: And, sadly, I can hear her saying this.
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We had out local bridge across the Mississippi also hit by a barge last week.
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Every governmental agency is just as corrupt and lying as their leader Biden. 


Don't ever expect otherwise. It is the nature of government.
Conservative 101.
Redneck 101.
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Texas / Galveston bridge collapse: Pelican Island Bridge hit by barge
« Last post by Gefn on Today at 07:41:20 pm »
PELICAN ISLAND, Texas - One lane of the Pelican Island Bridge is now open after a barge struck it on Wednesday morning.

The bridge connects Pelican Island to Galveston, and Pelican Island was inaccessible by vehicle.

Galveston County Judge Mark Henry says the people stranded on the island will be removed by boat.

Galveston officials say there were no reports of injuries in the collision that occurred around 10 a.m. However, Judge Henry says two crew members did go overboard but were recovered from the water.


Judge Henry says the collision resulted in a spill of vacuum gas oil. The barge reportedly has a 30,000-gallon capacity, but the county judge says it's not known at this time how much oil was on board.



This is a developing story. Check back for updates.


https://www.fox7austin.com/news/pelican-island-bridge-hit-by-barge-power-knocked-out
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His obligation as per the oath he swore is to limit illegal migration to 0 per day.

Anything more is dereliction of his oath of office to uphold the law
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / The Trouble With World Government
« Last post by Fishrrman on Today at 07:34:45 pm »
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-trouble-with-world-government-5649684

The Trouble With World Government

By Jeffrey A. Tucker
May 14, 2024

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Well, at least that’s one setback for world government.

A court in Australia has told the government’s own eSafety Commission that Elon Musk is correct: One country cannot impose censorship on the world. The company X, formerly known as Twitter, must obey national law but not global law.

Mr. Musk seems to have won a very similar fight in Brazil, where a judge demanded not just a national but global takedown. X refused and won. For now.

This really does raise a serious issue: How big of a threat are these global government institutions?

Dreamy, dopey, and often scary intellectuals have dreamed of global government for centuries. If you are rich enough and smart enough, the idea seems to be the perennial temptation. The list of advocates includes people who otherwise have made notable contributions: Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Walter Cronkite, Buckminster Fuller, and many others.
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In 1919, H.G. Wells, inspired by the League, became so excited about the idea that he wrote a sweeping reinterpretation of world history that extended from the ninth century B.C. until that present moment. It was called “The Outline of History.”
The goal of the book was to turn on its head the popular Whig theory from the previous century, which saw history as the story of ever more freedom for individuals and away from powerful states. Wells told a story of tribes turning to nations and then to regions, with ever less power to the people and ever more to dictators and planners. His purpose was to chronicle and defend exactly this.

It was a huge bestseller at a time when the appetite for books was voracious because they were becoming affordable and there was a burning passion in the population for universal education. The thesis of his book, however valuable in some historical respects, was genuinely bizarre. He imagined a future world state ruled by a tiny elite of the smartest people who would plan all economies, information flows, migration patterns, and governance systems while crushing national ambitions, free enterprise, traditions, and constitutions.

It was crazy stuff and didn’t really happen. But the efforts never stopped among a certain class of intellectuals. Following World War II, we saw similar efforts, the U.N. being only one. In the agreement hammered out at Bretton Woods in 1944, we had forged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which were seen as the basis of a global planning apparatus, together with a new world monetary system.
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No question that a nascent world government is in operation today. It is hugely influential over media, technology, and the operation of the internet. It is managing global money flows and asset prices. It aims to reduce national sovereignty to mere brand names of the same thing and make it impossible for the will of the voters to prevail in any policy outcomes. It consists of large and well-funded elites that swim between the public and private sectors and operate through foundations and nongovernmental organizations. It is utterly detached from democratic processes.

“Nothing more disastrous could happen in the field of international economic relations than the realization of such plans,” Ludwig von Mises wrote in 1944. “It would divide the nations into two groups—the exploiting and the exploited; those restricting output and charging monopoly prices, and those forced to pay monopoly prices. It would engender insoluble conflicts of interests and inevitably result in new wars.”

In other words, like all government actions, the results of a world government would end in the opposite of the promise: not peace but war, not prosperity but poverty, not health but sickness, not a better environment but a worse one. It would be a prison for the world and utterly unworkable. People of the world need to be on the lookout for what is happening and reject it whenever the opportunity presents itself to do so.

For this reason, we should cheer anytime global government impositions such as censorship experience a setback. Government in one country causes enough trouble. A unitary government ruling all countries would doom what’s left of civilization.

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