Thanks to Health Ranger Store customers who participated in the store’s “buy one / gift one” offer which ended Monday at midnight, the Health Ranger Store raised slightly over $558,000 in food aid donations that are being physically shipped by tractor trailer to storm- and flood-impacted areas in North Carolina and Florida. Article by Mike Adams, republished with permission from Naturalnews.com Over a year ago, I told our production crew to over-produce Ranger Buckets, Mega Buckets and other storable food items, anticipating a large-scale disaster that would need food aid to help those in need. And just in the last two weeks, our new church, the Church of Natural Abundance (Abundance.church) came online, ready to process donations and organize logistics for food aid. (The primary “social good” mission of the church is to provide emergency food aid to those in need.) As a result, when Hurricane Helene hit, we were sitting on at least 100 pallets of extra inventory of certified organic, lab-tested storable food in the form of “Ranger Buckets” and “Mega Buckets.” These are compressed, vacuum-sealed food “bricks” consisting of a variety of easy-to-cook items such as quinoa, lentils, black beans, oats, wheat berries and more, along with ready-to-eat items that can be consumed raw, including flax seeds and oats. Several of the items in the buckets can also be sprouted. The durable packaging using PE buckets and thick, commercial-grade vacuum sealing and shaping of the food “bricks” makes the products extremely durable, waterproof and nearly rodent-proof. This makes them perfect for distribution into disaster zones, as they are practically unbreakable and contain no cardboard or any materials that can be ruined with high humidity or rain. Distribution logistics and progress $558,000 in organic, lab-tested food in our Ranger Buckets or Mega Buckets format (vacuum-packed, formed, sealed) stacks up to around $10K worth of food per pallet. The pallets are stacked four buckets high (see video below), but I don’t have a total count off hand of how many buckets total are on each pallet. This means we are preparing to ship around 56 pallets of emergency food to flood victims. So far, we have shipped 10 pallets to an airfield in North Carolina (Foothills Regional Airport in Morganton, NC). Those pallets have been in the process of distribution for 2 days now, via helicopter and ground distribution. Photos and videos of that distribution effort are incoming. We have a second truck load initiating now, headed for another destination in North Carolina (I am withholding the city until the load arrives, due to FEMA interference and FEMA hijacking of supplies). We are also coordinating with SRP24.com and their efforts in Florida, as they are setting up a staging area to handle Hurricane Milton food aid needs. Once the storm passes, we will be sending pallets that direction to help those in need across Central Florida and the Tampa area who are impacted by Milton. Will keep you posted on the progress of food aid distribution, with photos and / or videos from the distribution points. We will be distributing roughly 56 pallets of emergency organic food into the hands of people who need it. Notably, I think we are the only organization in the country that’s providing organic lab-tested “clean” foods (pesticide-free, heavy metals tested) to those in need. That’s our specialty: Clean food that’s lab tested. Plus clean supplements, personal care products, etc. To help support our efforts, shop at HealthRangerStore.com. Our church, the Church of Natural Abundance, teaches nutrition, superfoods, natural medicine and “God’s molecules” found in healing foods and plants. So far, I’ve posted 74 sermons on these topics — plus covering Revelation and End Times events — at Abundance.church The Church of Natural Abundance is not yet set up to accept donations, but we will have a mechanism soon for those who wish to donate. Currently, the church is largely funded by our commercial operations at Health Ranger Store. Thank you all for your support to help us bring food aid to Americans in need. We are doing exactly what God wants us to do, which is to help heal the world with clean food and help feed the world with nutritious food. More updates as I can bring them to you. 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Former Sen. Tim Johnson, who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota, has passed away. He was 77. Johnson served in the United States Senate from 1997 to 2015. He was first elected to Congress in 1986. The former Democrat lawmaker died Tuesday night of complications from a recent stroke. “Tim always quipped that neither the left, nor the right, had a monopoly on all of the good ideas, but that working together, we can find common ground for the good of our country,” Johnson’s family said in a news release, according to the Associated Press. “In his work and life, Tim showed us never to give up,” they added. Steve Hildebrand shared a message from Drey Samuelson, Tim Johnson’s former chief of staff, with the news that the former Democratic U.S. Senator and Congressman from South Dakota has died at age 77. pic.twitter.com/JU6tIui9RZ — Stu Whitney (@stuwhitney) October 9, 2024 The passing of former South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson is top news in the Mount Rushmore state this morning. He retired in 2015 after serving 5 terms in the House & 3 terms in the Senate including Banking chair. He died Tuesday at 77 following complications from a stroke. pic.twitter.com/Vm37BQnUSE — Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) October 10, 2024 From the Associated Press: That resilience was tested in 2006. Just a month after Democrats reclaimed the Senate by a one-vote margin, Johnson became disoriented during a media conference call and underwent emergency brain surgery. He’d suffered a life-threatening brain hemorrhage, sparking what many called an unseemly round of speculation in Washington about which party would control the next Senate. But he returned to Washington nine months later, physically weaker yet mentally sharp. He later joked by opening his first post-surgery media conference call with: “As I was saying… .” A fourth-generation South Dakotan, Johnson was known for his steady manner, his unpredictable votes and his ability to secure federal funding for his state, including money that helped pay for the University of South Dakota medical science complex. Democrats never could take his votes for granted. Johnson bucked his party by backing bans on abortions later in pregnancies and flag desecration. He also voted to confirm U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush. Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home during his nearly three decades in Washington, has died. He was 77.https://t.co/xrgfeFY6Fv — Brookings Register (@brkgsregister) October 9, 2024 Black Hills Pioneer reports: Johnson served a combined 36 years in the state Legislature, U.S. House and U.S. Senate, a fact made more remarkable by his status as a Democrat in a Republican-leaning state. Since Johnson’s retirement in 2014, no Democrat has held a statewide office in South Dakota. “It’s hard to imagine someone living a life more meaningful and impactful than Tim’s — and, in the end, impact and meaning are the best that any of us can hope to achieve,” Samuelson wrote on Facebook. “Tim succeeded in reaching those goals way beyond what I’m sure were his wildest dreams when he was a young man.” ‘He always won’ Jon Schaff, a professor of government at Northern State University in Aberdeen, said Johnson showed strong political acumen by picking favorable Democratic election cycles to chase electoral opportunities. Johnson also worked hard to moderate his politics and to help his constituents with project funding and other requests. “There was an enormous amount of goodwill toward Tim Johnson that allowed him to overcome the partisan makeup of the state,” Schaff said. “He was able to get people to vote for the person instead of the policy or party, and as a person he was extraordinarily well-liked. That’s a testament to his character.” Steve Jarding, who worked for Johnson as a staffer and campaign manager, described Johnson as a humble and hardworking public servant — “a hard man not to respect” — whose humility sometimes caused him to be overlooked and underestimated.

A manhunt is underway after a fatal road rage shooting left one man dead and another wounded, closing the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles for five hours. 

Private independent reporter Michael Tracey told Glenn Greenwald of System Update what he had discovered at her Univision town hall. It’s unbelievable how fake Harris and her campaign are. To start, Harris name-dropped former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez as endorsing her. He resigned in disgrace after two years. The event was billed as undecided voters. […] The post Fake! Unbelievably Fake Harris Town Hall! She Still Failed appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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PolitiFact is at it again. For the second day in a row, the website has condemned Senate Republicans’ Senate Leadership Fund for an attack ad against Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. On Thursday, they twisted themselves into a rhetorical pretzel as they rated the PAC “false” for claiming Brown supports men being able to compete in women’s sports, and on Friday they did it again, claiming it is “mostly false” to say Brown supports puberty blockers and sex changes for children. Once again, Seth Richardson was assigned the task of trying to debunk the ad. He writes, “The Senate Leadership Fund supplied a closed-caption transcript of the news segment, in which a reporter asked Brown about legislation from Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, that aimed to ban gender-affirming care for minors.” After explaining that the bill would have made it a felony to “provide surgery or prescribe puberty blockers to anyone younger than 18," Richardson provides a quote from Brown, ‘“A child's health care decisions are between them, their parents, their families and their doctors,’ Brown said, according to an archived snippet of the interview. ‘Not politicians. I will never agree with anyone that wants to bring politics into the family situation with health care. Period.’” Vance’s bill was never brought up for a vote, but Richardson proceeds to cite Brown spokesman Matt Keyes, “Sherrod cares about the health and well-being of all children. He does not believe the government has any role in a family's personal healthcare decisions." So far, everything Richardson has written would justify a true rating, but things were about to get even stranger: The Senate Leadership Fund also pointed us to a March 31, 2023, letter Brown and eight other Democratic senators signed that asked the Biden administration to use executive action on several policies to ensure LGBTQ+ people’s access to health care. The letter noted that several states had enacted legislation ‘to restrict access to gender affirming care for minors’ and asked President Joe Biden to allow Medicaid to cover expenses for patients traveling or moving to obtain gender-affirming care.  Richardson finally got around to attempting to debunk the claim, although it wasn’t very convincing, “Gender-affirming care is an individualized health care model that prioritizes encouraging and supporting a person’s gender identity — it  is more than puberty blockers and surgery.” That’s too cute. The aforementioned letter talks specifically about “health care,” not simply “using the name and pronouns that align with a child’s gender identity.” Media discourse on “gender affirming care” also revolves around hormone treatment, so Richardson is punishing Republicans for using the same definition that the liberal media uses just because they reject the premise that such “treatments” are good. Richardson wraps up by trying to downplay the whole controversy, “Gender-affirming surgery is very rare among minors in the United States.” In this case, “rare” means 5,747 times, including 224 in Ohio, from 2019 through 2023.

On Wednesday's The ReidOut on MSNBC, fill-in host Jason Johnson gave environmental alarmist Michael Mann a forum to tie fossil fuels to the intensity of Hurricane Milton as the category 3 storm targeted Florida. The MSNBC host began by asking his liberal guest to put into context whether Hurricane Milton really is the "storm of the century" as storms are sometimes described.  The University of Pennsylvania climate researcher began by declaring that the intensity is "the consequence of our ongoing burning of fossil fuels and the warming of the oceans." After explaining that the storm will be more destructive because it spent time as a category 5 for a while before making landfall, Mann reiterated: "So this is a tragedy that is unfolding, and it's a tragedy that was, you know, created in part by our continued burning of fossil fuels and the warming of the planet that's caused." Johnson then brought up the issue of environmental activists evolving from using the term "global warming" decades ago to "climate change" in the present: I'm old enough to remember when, you know, we talked about global warming when I was a kid, and then it turned into "climate change," and I think a lot of people didn't understand that climate change didn't mean that things were automatically going to get hotter. It also meant more extreme weather. Talk a little bit about what the consequences are of the increased frequency of these kinds of storms because the fact that we are two weeks away from Helene -- the fact that there were over 100 tornadoes reported in one day in one particular state. If this becomes the norm, what kind of world are we looking at in vast swaths of land in the United States? Even though there have been other periods of similar hurricane activity, Mann claimed that there is a "new normal" for hurricanes as he argued that it may not be tolerable for much longer unless the burning of fossil fuels is curtailed. He explained: We're stuck with this new normal. That's the best case scenario. That's a scenario where we stop burning fossil fuels -- we stop warming of the planet further. Then, we're sort of -- we're stuck with this level extreme weather events that we've seen summer after summer. These devastating, stronger, more flood-producing hurricanes -- we're sort of stuck with this, but we can still, you know, we're still within our adaptive, you know, capacity. We can adapt to the changes that we've just witnessed thus far. It's going to take, you know, quite a bit of investment, and there's going to be suffering and harm is done, and we're already seeing that play out. This is a level warmer we can probably adapt to, but if we continue to warm up the planet even more, then pretty soon we're going to exceed our, you know, our level of resilience.  And so that's really the problem. He then added: These extreme weather events become more extreme. These hurricanes become stronger, the flooding becomes worse. Helene produced 50 percent more rainfall than we would have if we hadn't warmed up the planet. There was a study that came out just last week that demonstrated that. And we know hundreds of people died from that interior flooding -- flooding in very states in the southeastern U.S. That means people are dying because of the warming of the planet that has exacerbated these events. We're already seeing the catastrophic consequences. But there is nothing unprecedented about the frequency of hurricanes hitting the United States. According to NOAA's list of hurricanes that have made landfall in the U.S. since 1850, in the 25 calendar years from 1999 through 2023, there were 16 hurricanes of at least category 3 strength that made landfall in the United States, compared to 18 between 1945 and 1969. Additionally, between 1999 and 2023, there were seven hurricanes that were at least a category 4 while, between 1945 and 1969, there were 11. Transcript follows: The ReidOut 7:14 p.m. Eastern JASON JOHNSON, FILL-IN HOST: What are we looking at in context right now? You know, the term "storm of the century" gets thrown out from time to time. Is that what we're looking at? Are we looking at something that we have not seen before and could have consequences to lives -- to infrastructure to the environment that we've never seen or haven't seen in the lifetimes of those people watching? PROFESSOR MICHAEL MANN, UNIVERSITY STATE UNIVERSITY: Yeah, hi, Jason. It's good to be with you. And what we're witnessing is tragic, and it is the consequence of our ongoing burning of fossil fuels and the warming of the oceans. That extra heat in the oceans means that there's more energy available to intensify these storms. The peak wind speeds increase by about 12 percent for each degree Celsius -- that's like nearly two degrees Fahrenheit. Each two degrees Fahrenheit of warming, you get a roughly 12 percent increase in those maximum wind speeds, and the destructive potential of the storm actually scales as the third power of the wind speed, which means that about 12 percent increase in wind speed corresponds to like a 40 percent increase in the destructive potential -- the power that is dissipated by the storm damage that's done. And so there's the intensity of this storm, the size of the storm, the fact that it was a cat 5 storm out there for several days has built up a very large storm surge. So don't be fooled by the fact that it has weakened a bit over the past 25 hours or so. That storm surge that threatens the West coast of Florida was built up over several days. And we're going to see the nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, maybe 14-foot storm surge in some locations along the West Coast between Tampa and Sarasota. So this is a tragedy that's unfolding, and it's a tragedy that was, you know, created in part by our continued burning of fossil fuels and the warming of the planet that's caused. JASON JOHNSON, FILL-IN HOST: You know, Professor Mann, I'm old enough to remember when, you know, we talked about global warming when I was a kid, and then it turned into "climate change," and I think a lot of people didn't understand that climate change didn't mean that things were automatically going to get hotter. It also meant more extreme weather. Talk a little bit about what the consequences are of the increased frequency of these kinds of storms because the fact that we are two weeks away from Helene -- the fact that there were over 100 tornadoes reported in one day in one particular state. If this becomes the norm, what kind of world are we looking at in vast swaths of land in the United States? MANN: Yeah, and I'll tell you, you know, what we're witnessing now, we're sort of stuck with. We're stuck with this new normal. That's the best case scenario. That's a scenario where we stop burning fossil fuels -- we stop warming of the planet further. Then, we're sort of -- we're stuck with this level of extreme weather events that we've seen summer after summer. These devastating, stronger, more flood-producing hurricanes -- we're sort of stuck with this, but we can still, you know, we're still within our adaptive, you know, capacity. We can adapt to the changes that we've just witnessed thus far. It's going to take, you know, quite a bit of investment, and there's going to be suffering and harm is done, and we're already seeing that play out. This is a level warmer we can probably adapt to, but if we continue to warm up the planet even more, then pretty soon we're going to exceed our, you know, our level of resilience. And so that's really the problem. These extreme weather events become more extreme. These hurricanes become stronger, the flooding becomes worse. Helene produced 50 percent more rainfall than we would have if we hadn't warmed up the planet. There was a study that came out just last week that demonstrated that. And we know hundreds of people died from that interior flooding -- flooding in very states in the southeastern U.S. That means people are dying because of the warming of the planet that has exacerbated these events. We're already seeing the catastrophic consequences. JOHNSON: Michael Mann, thank you for that sobering but very important message about what we're facing as a planet.

The "Joker" movies were always a trap for the left’s untouchable castes. When I saw trailers for the first film back in 2019, I was immediately turned off. While so many were hyping its praises, I was still burnt out from "The Last Jedi." By that point, I was spiraling away from the mainstream, and nowadays, I only go to the movie theater when my family wants to go on an outing.But I have to wonder whether the romanticization of these villains is a product of cultural rot. Why don’t we have an unabashed love of heroes and a hatred of our villains?Now, I didn’t ignore "Joker" to make a stand or whatnot — I think I was still in high school at the time. I just didn’t like the idea of exploring the Joker as a loser with mental illness. Joker's wildFor me, the character was never just some rando who had a bad day and decided to put on clown makeup. Although he would do everything to assure you otherwise, I always saw that as an illusion, even if the writers believed in it.When regular people snap, they don’t become criminal masterminds who can rob banks with impunity and contend with billionaire detectives. No, the Joker I knew was a whirlwind, a catastrophic force of nature that appeared from nowhere and wrecked utter bedlam. He was a demon, literal or not, summoned by the excesses of a corrupt culture. His claim of being an ordinary man was only to mess the characters’ heads, to break them. But the face of evil isn’t so readily understood. He was always more than that, an almost supernatural presence that our materialist culture could only explain away with a vat of weird chemicals.To see him on-screen as a regular, beaten-down guy instead of a trickster devil was enough to dissuade me from watching entirely.Stop me if you've heard thisBut that turned out to be a good thing, because that meant I wasn’t invested for when "Joker: Folie à Deux" came around.The backlash to this movie is part of a fomenting undercurrent that I’ve noticed for some time. First, we all knew since its announcement that it was an intentionally bad movie. The idea to make it a musical was alone a dead giveaway that the creators were not making this for the fans. It’s a film downright hostile to its audience. But that’s not what I’m interested in.Die a villainTell me, what does it matter if the Joker gets raped or humiliated? Tell me honestly. The man’s a psychopath, and furthermore, why is anyone invested in a character study about a villain? Are there any heroic qualities to him that would make you want to relate to him, understand him? People don’t get this attached to genuine dissections of evil. And looking beyond that, I’m certain I can find plenty of worse things that have happened to him in the comics. I think at one point he got his face flayed off or something. Why is this any different?But we all know it’s different. Everyone knows instinctively that this is an attack on fans, and more importantly, everyone on the right who thought they saw something in the character. After all, this particular incarnation was supposed to be the most relatable. And I think it was meant to tap into this fascination Western culture has with psychopaths — especially psychopaths with a “code.”Why are people so fascinated with these villains? You would think they would inspire a visceral sense of disgust, or at least dislike. They are thoroughly immoral people who do horrendous things, and yet, we can’t get enough of them. We can’t get enough of villains who have a point, who deep down have a critique of the West that lands true.Cultural rotThe Joker is fascinating in part because he makes you question what a good person truly is. Patrick Bateman is trying to find something that’s real underneath the shallowness of his life. Anton Chigurh is a bit more tricky, but there’s a component of him bringing savagery and primal violence back into a tamed West. And we can go on and on. This is not an uncommon trope in the slightest.But I have to wonder whether the romanticization of these villains is a product of cultural rot. Why don’t we have an unabashed love of heroes and a hatred of our villains? Why is the bad guy so often more charismatic, more primal than our protagonist? Why has the good become associated with the lame and the bad associated with vitality?I would wager that the right tends to attach itself to these figures because we intuitively sense that something has gone awfully wrong. The heroes in mainstream stories are not actual heroes, and while the villains are horrendous, they at least point to something that’s truer. Deep down, the Joker is absolutely right that people aren’t the moral paragons they like to think themselves, and they have no foundation to prevent utter chaos when their hypocrisy is brought to the surface. So ought we take the frame of the Joker? Was he the right-wing paragon all along? Is he the man we should get behind?Absolutely not.'How about a magic trick?'One of the left’s favorite tricks is to invest psychopaths and demented crazy people with right-wing ideas and aesthetics. If the right concedes that the character has a point, they also associate themselves with that character's evil. This prevents a noble vision of the right from ever fully manifesting, distracting people in digital clown games. No matter what the Joker has to tell us about the plight of incels or the corruption of society or whatever, his flaws outweigh any message. It’s not just his mental instability. He’s a pathetic loser with no moral compass, and his solution to decline is to accelerate it.In other words, he’s a villain. He’s an actual bad guy.And should the ironic take prevail, should the mainstream ever receive a different message from what the writers intended, they have one final trump card they can play. Controlled opThe Joker is entirely fictional. That means they can do whatever they want to him, and more importantly, make him do anything they want. He’s controlled opposition, and leftists will happily lose hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure he stays that way.The left does not play for money. It plays for the message. And that message is:You’re the bad guy. And also, lol, you got gang raped.The lesson to take away is to never invest yourself in modern media. Memes and edgy takes are one thing, but they are nothing to attach yourself to.The left will never make a true right-wing hero, only right-wing villains. Never embrace imagery unless it’s genuinely worthy of emulation. And most importantly, never attach yourself to a caricature your enemies control.Again, I’m not saying don’t engage in meme wars or ironic takes. Just don’t get attached to them insofar as the left can turn them into a weapon against you. The proper response is to just shrug and let it go. The culture is completely hostile to you, and your ability to remain indifferent is the ultimate weapon against people who slovenly desire your outrage.