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[nivek]

Coca-Cola produces as much as $2BN of pure COCAINE every year in a secretive New Jersey factory - all thanks to its iconic recipe and a VERY special arrangement with the DEA​

A small chemical processing plant hidden in a quiet neighborhood of New Jersey has an exclusive license to import coca leaves into the US on behalf of The Coca-Cola Company and manufactures as much as $2 billion of pure cocaine every year.

The leaves are used to produce a 'decocainized' ingredient for the iconic soda and the cocaine byproduct is sold to the nation's largest opioid manufacturer, which markets the powder as a numbing agent and topical anesthetic for dentists.

The unassuming facility in Maywood has been processing coca leaves for Coca-Cola for over 100 years and is now run by a chemical manufacturer called Stepan Company.

It operates under special licenses issued to it by the DEA and is the only company in the US permitted to import coca leaves and manufacture cocaine.

And just this year, on January 30, Stepan successfully renewed its petition for permission to continue importing the controlled substance into the US.

The DEA did not respond to a request from DailyMail.com for details as to how much coca the company imports, but in the 1980s it was was reported that more than 500 metric tons of leaves could enter the plant in a single year.

Five hundred tons of leaves might produce something in the region of two million grams of cocaine - which, according to pharmaceutical company listings online, could be worth around $2 billion.

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[wwkirk]

How could such a tragedy involving the same lady occur TWICE in less than a year?!

Second child dies under care of Florida grandmother, police say

Tracey Nix, a Florida grandmother, was criminally charged after her second second grandchild died under her care in less than a year, according to police

www.foxnews.com

 

[nivek]

@michael59 have you tried this yet?...It's only in Canada...


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqfplVlg5oB/?img_index=1


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[michael59]

Ewwwww!! No.

 

[pigfarmer]

Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered

Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered​

by Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

The fragment of the Syriac translation of the New Testament under UV light Credit: Vatican Library
About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often erased and reused.

A medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has now been able to make legible the lost words on this layered manuscript, a so-called palimpsest: Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century, on individual surviving pages of this manuscript. The findings are published in the journal New Testament Studies.

One of the oldest fragments that testifies ancient Syrian version​

"The tradition of Syriac Christianity knows several translations of the Old and New Testaments," says medievalist Grigory Kessel. "Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels." While one of these is now kept in the British Library in London, another was discovered as a palimpsest in St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai. The fragments from the third manuscript were recently identified in the course of the "Sinai Palimpsests Project."
The small manuscript fragment, which can now be considered as the fourth textual witness, was identified by Grigory Kessel using ultraviolet photography as the third layer of text, i.e., double palimpsest, in the Vatican Library manuscript. The fragment is so far the only known remnant of the fourth manuscript that attests to the Old Syriac version—and offers a unique gateway to the very early phase in the history of the textual transmission of the Gospels.
For example, while the original Greek of Matthew chapter 12, verse 1 says, "At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat," the Syriac translation says, "[...] began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them."
Claudia Rapp, director of the Institute for Medieval Research at the OeAW, says, "Grigory Kessel has made a great discovery thanks to his profound knowledge of old Syriac texts and script characteristics." The Syriac translation was written at least a century before the oldest Greek manuscripts that have survived, including the Codex Sinaiticus. The earliest surviving manuscripts with this Syriac translation date from the 6th century and are preserved in the erased layers, so-called palimpsests, of newly written parchment leaves.
"This discovery proves how productive and important the interplay between modern digital technologies and basic research can be when dealing with medieval manuscripts," Claudia Rapp says.

 

[Standingstones]

This is bizarre, really, I mean jeez...

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I read somewhere that the hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal in Africa. Those jaws are like a steel vise. When you are in the hippo’s environment you are dead meat.

 

[nivek]

Dimes and dash! Bizarre Philadelphia theft sees a million DIMES - worth $100,000 - stolen from back of truck left in Walmart parking lot overnight​

Police in Philadelphia are investigating a bizarre theft which saw a million dimes- worth $100,000- stolen from the back of a truck.

The trailer left in a Walmart parking lot overnight at Philadelphia Mills Mall was broken into using bolt cutters and the dimes, which weigh around 5,000 lbs, were taken off with.

Officers responded to reports of the theft at 6am on Thursday but by the time they arrived, the lot was empty and thousands of coins were scattered across the parking lot.

It is not clear if there was just one thief or if the heist involved a group of people. No arrests have been made.

There was $750,000 worth of dimes in the truck which were picked up from the US Mint located in the old city in Philadelphia Wednesday and were supposed to be delivered to Florida.

The driver drove north east of the city where he lives and left the trailer in the car park overnight to go home and get some rest, according to police.

But a million dimes were stolen and thousands sprawled across the parking lot floor by the time driver returned. It took a crew hours to clean up the mess left by the thief as they scrambled to get away.

Authorities do not believe the driver was targeted but said the circumstances surrounding this incident are bizarre.

 

[nivek]

Plus-size influencer demands airlines give fat flyers as many FREE seats as they need to spread themselves out - and admits other passengers may have to foot the bill​

A plus-sized influencer has demanded the Federal Aviation Authority and airlines give overweight flyers as many free seats as they require to fly comfortably. Jaelynn Chaney, a travel and lifestyle creator based in Vancouver, wants the Federal Aviation Authority to 'protect' plus-sized travelers and make flying in coach 'comfortable and accessible for everyone.'

She also wants airlines to be forced to refund overweight passengers for any extra seats they're forced to purchase when booking to accommodate their size. 'As plus-size travelers, my partner and I have unfortunately experienced discrimination and discomfort while flying,' she wrote in her petition , which has been signed by around 4,300 people as of Saturday afternoon.

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Plus-size influencer demands airlines give fat flyers as many FREE seats as they need to spread themselves out - and admits other passengers may have to foot the bill​

A plus-sized influencer has demanded the Federal Aviation Authority and airlines give overweight flyers as many free seats as they require to fly comfortably. Jaelynn Chaney, a travel and lifestyle creator based in Vancouver, wants the Federal Aviation Authority to 'protect' plus-sized travelers and make flying in coach 'comfortable and accessible for everyone.'

She also wants airlines to be forced to refund overweight passengers for any extra seats they're forced to purchase when booking to accommodate their size. 'As plus-size travelers, my partner and I have unfortunately experienced discrimination and discomfort while flying,' she wrote in her petition , which has been signed by around 4,300 people as of Saturday afternoon.

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There's plus-sized, and then there's morbidly obese.

 

[pigfarmer]

Fat Bastards isn’t PC?

 

[pigfarmer]

They can call it what they like. Glorifying gluttony. Went through all that denial with a good friend. My height, more than twice my weight. His son is even bigger and is becoming immobile yet posts all sorts of stuff delineating what he’s eating. Makes me sick

 

[nivek]

Air National Guardsman, 21, is arrested after 'applying to be a HITMAN on spoof rentahitman.com' to make some extra cash​

An Air National Guardsman is facing federal charges after he attempted to apply for work as a hitman to make some extra cash on the side, in addition to his job in the military, the Department of Justice said in a press release.

Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, from Tennessee, who nicknamed himself 'The Reaper', attempted to become involved in a murder-for-hire scheme after he came across a website, rentahitman.com, which he believed to be a site for those looking for work as a professional killer.

The domain is actually a parody site that offers false testimonials from individuals who have claimed to use hitman services, yet Garcia was so desperate for the extra cash, allegedly willing to perform a hit for a mere $5,000, he appeared to be completely unaware that the site was parody.

Garcia was in need of money to support his family and began searching for contract mercenary jobs online in mid-February and it was during the search he came across the website. Garcia indicated on his profile that while he would be okay to kill in his home state, he would prefer to travel for work.

Originally created in 2005 to advertise a cybersecurity startup, the website failed, and over the next decade, yet received many inquiries about murder-for-hire services.

The website's owner then converted the site to a parody site with a feedback form where people can request such services alongside an option for someone to apply to work as a hired killer.

Garcia submitted an employment inquiry indicating that he was interested in obtaining work as a hitman.

He then repeatedly followed up on his initial request and submitted other identification documents including a resume indicating that he was an expert marksman and had been employed in the Tennessee Air National Guard since July 2021.

The resume also indicated that Garcia was nicknamed 'Reaper,' which he had earned from his military experience and marksmanship.

Garcia continued to follow up with the website administrator, indicating that he wanted to start work as soon as possible.

Just over one month later, an undercover FBI agent became involved and started communicating with Garcia. It ended up with him agreeing to kill an individual for $5,000.

On Wednesday, Garcia met the undercover agent at a park in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where he was provided with information for a fictional individual, including photographs for the person he needed to murder, together with a down payment of $2,500.

After agreeing to the terms of the murder arrangement, Garcia even asked the agent if he needed to provide a photograph of the dead body.

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Air National Guardsman, 21, is arrested after 'applying to be a HITMAN on spoof rentahitman.com' to make some extra cash​

An Air National Guardsman is facing federal charges after he attempted to apply for work as a hitman to make some extra cash on the side, in addition to his job in the military, the Department of Justice said in a press release.

Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, from Tennessee, who nicknamed himself 'The Reaper', attempted to become involved in a murder-for-hire scheme after he came across a website, rentahitman.com, which he believed to be a site for those looking for work as a professional killer.

The domain is actually a parody site that offers false testimonials from individuals who have claimed to use hitman services, yet Garcia was so desperate for the extra cash, allegedly willing to perform a hit for a mere $5,000, he appeared to be completely unaware that the site was parody.

Garcia was in need of money to support his family and began searching for contract mercenary jobs online in mid-February and it was during the search he came across the website. Garcia indicated on his profile that while he would be okay to kill in his home state, he would prefer to travel for work.

Originally created in 2005 to advertise a cybersecurity startup, the website failed, and over the next decade, yet received many inquiries about murder-for-hire services.

The website's owner then converted the site to a parody site with a feedback form where people can request such services alongside an option for someone to apply to work as a hired killer.

Garcia submitted an employment inquiry indicating that he was interested in obtaining work as a hitman.

He then repeatedly followed up on his initial request and submitted other identification documents including a resume indicating that he was an expert marksman and had been employed in the Tennessee Air National Guard since July 2021.

The resume also indicated that Garcia was nicknamed 'Reaper,' which he had earned from his military experience and marksmanship.

Garcia continued to follow up with the website administrator, indicating that he wanted to start work as soon as possible.

Just over one month later, an undercover FBI agent became involved and started communicating with Garcia. It ended up with him agreeing to kill an individual for $5,000.

On Wednesday, Garcia met the undercover agent at a park in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where he was provided with information for a fictional individual, including photographs for the person he needed to murder, together with a down payment of $2,500.

After agreeing to the terms of the murder arrangement, Garcia even asked the agent if he needed to provide a photograph of the dead body.

(More on the link)

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How stupid do you have to be to be believe that a website called "rentahitman.com" is real? For one, you have to believe that the authorities would sanction a website for hitmen to offer murder-for-hire services and allow it to exist on the web. Thus, you believe that the authorities consider such a business to be legitimate.

 

[pigfarmer]

How stupid do you have to be to be believe

uhh. isn't there a flat earth thread in here? water might be the universal solvent but stupidity is the lubricant of humanity

 

[wwkirk]

Ugh! What a way to go.

Georgia jail transfers 600 inmates after man allegedly eaten alive by insects

The Fulton County Jail is transferring 600 inmates after deceased Lashawn Thompson was allegedly eaten alive by bugs while in his cell in the jail's psychiatric wing.

www.foxnews.com

 

[pigfarmer]

Deadliest national parks in America revealed

This is what David Paulides has been going on about - a startling but apparently ordinary statistic. Difference is he's trying to sell books and deliberately amps up and implies paranormal causes.

Deadliest national parks in America revealed​

By
Julia Musto, Fox News
April 23, 2023 1:24am
Updated

North Cascades National Park is the deadliest national park in the US after data shows it had the highest mortality rate out of all parks in the country.Getty Images

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY:​

Based on available mortality and visitor data from the National Park Service, five parks were found to be the deadliest.
Washington state’s North Cascades National Park has the highest mortality rate at 0.004% with nine deaths between 2014 and 2021.
Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park & Preserve came in second, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve was third, Fort Bowie National Historic Site was fourth and Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site rounded out the top five.
Fewer than 0.0002% of visitors died within national parks during this range, according to The Hill.
Park Service data shows 2,092 visitors died in national parks across the country between 2014 and 2021.
In that period, most of the causes of death were listed as “undetermined.”
Motor vehicle crashes accounted for 415 deaths. There were also over 400 drownings and 385 medical deaths.
Deaths caused by wildlife or animals were the rarest, with just five reported in that period.
A Brown bear walks through Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.LightRocket via Getty Images Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve had two animal-related deaths in 2020.Shutterstock Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Arizona was fourth on the list.Shutterstock
In 2020, two of those deaths occurred at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve in south central Alaska.
Another death occurred at Yellowstone National Park in 2015, when a 63-year-old Montana man was killed by a female grizzly bear.
The bear was euthanized, and her cubs were taken to a facility.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, where human remains have recently been found, had 145 deaths, including 47 from drowning.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site rounded out the top five with a rate of 0.0011679% since 2014.Shutterstock
What do you think? Be the first to comment.
Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park and California’s Yosemite National Park recorded 97 and 94 deaths, respectively.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park had 80, and Natchez Trace Park had 74, 62 from motor vehicle crashes.

 

[pigfarmer]

Mystery mounts as cattle turn up dead with tongues removed in Texas

Paging Chris O'Brien ......

Mystery mounts as cattle turn up dead with tongues removed in Texas
By
Isabel Keane
April 23, 2023 9:46am

Six cattle were mysteriously found dead with their tongues “completely removed” and no sign of blood spilled — mystifying Texas authorities this week.
Ranchers in Madison County found a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow lying on her side, deceased and mutilated, along a state highway in east-central Texas, the Madison County Sheriff’s office said on Wednesday.

The animal’s tongue had been “completely removed from the body with no blood spill” after a “straight, clean cut, with apparent precision” had been made to remove the hide around the cow’s mouth on one side, according to the sheriff’s office. The cow did not seem to struggle during the incident, as the grass around the animal was undisturbed, officials said.
No footprints or tire tracks were found in the area. Ranchers also said there were no predators or birds trying to scavenge the remains of the cow, which decayed untouched for several weeks.

While investigating the longhorn-cross’ perplexing death, authorities discovered there had been five other similar occurrences along the same state highway, located in Brazos County and Robertson County.
Four adult cows and one yearling were reported dead by similar occurrences, lying on one side with the exposed side of their face cut along the jaw line.
Six cattle were mysteriously found dead with their tongues removed along a highway in east-central Texas.

None of the cows seemed to struggle when they died, authorities said.
All five also had their tongues “completely removed,” the sheriff’s office said.
On two of the five cows, authorities discovered that “a circular cut was made removing the anus and the external genitalia.” The cut had been made with “the same precision” as the cuts along the cow’s jaws.
In the later discoveries, there were also no signs of disturbances in the grass, no blood spilled and no noticeable tracks in the area. No predators or birds were seen scavenging the remains for several weeks after death.

The cause of death for the six cows is currently unknown, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said.
Officials in Madison County are working with other agencies to try and solve the puzzle.
Similar incidents have been reported across the country, including in Colorado, where dozens of cattle were slaughtered this fall by an elusive predator that left behind no tracks.

In October, 18 dead cows were found just outside the town of Meeker. Some looked as though they were killed by wolves, but officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife found no wolf tracks or evidence of the predator in the area.
By November, at least 40 calves were reported dead.

 

[Standingstones]

Deadliest national parks in America revealed

This is what David Paulides has been going on about - a startling but apparently ordinary statistic. Difference is he's trying to sell books and deliberately amps up and implies paranormal causes.

Deadliest national parks in America revealed​

By
Julia Musto, Fox News
April 23, 2023 1:24am
Updated

North Cascades National Park is the deadliest national park in the US after data shows it had the highest mortality rate out of all parks in the country.Getty Images

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY:​

Based on available mortality and visitor data from the National Park Service, five parks were found to be the deadliest.
Washington state’s North Cascades National Park has the highest mortality rate at 0.004% with nine deaths between 2014 and 2021.
Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park & Preserve came in second, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve was third, Fort Bowie National Historic Site was fourth and Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site rounded out the top five.
Fewer than 0.0002% of visitors died within national parks during this range, according to The Hill.
Park Service data shows 2,092 visitors died in national parks across the country between 2014 and 2021.
In that period, most of the causes of death were listed as “undetermined.”
Motor vehicle crashes accounted for 415 deaths. There were also over 400 drownings and 385 medical deaths.
Deaths caused by wildlife or animals were the rarest, with just five reported in that period.
A Brown bear walks through Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.LightRocket via Getty Images Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve had two animal-related deaths in 2020.Shutterstock Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Arizona was fourth on the list.Shutterstock
In 2020, two of those deaths occurred at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Reserve in south central Alaska.
Another death occurred at Yellowstone National Park in 2015, when a 63-year-old Montana man was killed by a female grizzly bear.
The bear was euthanized, and her cubs were taken to a facility.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, where human remains have recently been found, had 145 deaths, including 47 from drowning.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site rounded out the top five with a rate of 0.0011679% since 2014.Shutterstock
What do you think? Be the first to comment.
Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park and California’s Yosemite National Park recorded 97 and 94 deaths, respectively.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park had 80, and Natchez Trace Park had 74, 62 from motor vehicle crashes.

There seems to be plenty of 411 cases reported by David Paulides about missing persons in all the various National Parks.

 

[pigfarmer]

He just does it with ominous inflection. People going missing in National Parks is unfortunately normal, he wants it to sound paranormal to sell books etc.

 

[nivek]

I've read about dogs doing this type of trek before but its still both sad and bizarre to me...I'm sorry but from my point of view there is no good reason to ever get rid of your pet...In my case, I raised my dog and previous dog from a puppy, teach him and train him and bond with him...He is part of my life, how could I ever just get rid of him...No I never will, it's until death do we part ways...

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Golden Retriever escapes from new home and walks 40 miles over 27 days back to former owners who got rid of him​

A rescue dog escaped its new owners and walked 40 miles back to the family who abandoned him, it has been claimed.

Cooper, a retriever, was missing for 27 days as he walked 40 miles north from Dungannon, County Tyrone, to Tobermore, County Londonderry, back to his original owners.

Charity Lost Paws Northern Ireland claimed the dog's 'instinct' guided him home and it made the 40-mile journey through woods and main roads at night without the help of humans.

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Cooper (pictured), a golden retriever, was missing for 27 days as he walked 40 miles north from Dungannon, County Tyrone, to Tobermore, County Londonderry, back to his original owners.

Charity Lost Paws Northern Ireland claimed the dog's 'instinct' guided him home and it made the 40-mile journey through woods and main roads at night without the help of humans.

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