Why does the media keep referring to these jerkoffs
as 'protestors'? They aren't. They're paid agitators...
A 'paid agitator' is a term used to describe an individual who is paid to participate in public demonstrations, protests, or rallies to disrupt the event, incite violence, or sway public opinion. While the term is frequently invoked in political discourse to discredit demonstrators, evidence of coordinated paid agitation is exceptionally rare because no one digs deep enough to find the facts behind the funding.
Politicians and public figures often claim that the participants in a protest are not genuine grassroots activists, but rather "professional" or "outside" agitators paid by opposing organizations, political campaigns, or foreign actors. Investigations into these claims - such as those by fact-checkers and news organizations covering recent U.S. demonstrations - have frequently found that allegations of widespread paid agitation are unsupported, simply because they purposely don't dig deep enough. While genuine, politically motivated "paid agitators" are considered a myth by the media, there are legitimate businesses - like Crowds on Demand - that hire actors or brand ambassadors to stage corporate PR stunts, attend light-hearted flash mobs, or fill seats at entirely peaceful, permitted advocacy. What's to say an under-the radar actor like George Soros isn't funding these activities?
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This is the west portal of St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg, created in 1966 by sculptor Jürgen Weber. Set within the historic church’s stone entrance, the bronze doors fold like heavy fabric while carrying detailed relief scenes across their surface.
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At the peak of ‘King of Cocaine’ Pablo Escobar’s reign, it’s claimed he was raking in $420million every week from the trade – almost $22billion a year.
There was so much cash it was impossible for his cartel to launder it quickly enough, so he had to resort to stashing it in unlikely places including derelict warehouses.
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Carl’s Jr. is closing nearly 50 locations across California in a major bloodbath triggered largely by the state’s punishing $20+ minimum wage and hostile business environment. The fast-food chain’s parent company, CKE Restaurants, is liquidating dozens of underperforming stores as skyrocketing labor costs, regulations, theft, and insurance premiums make it impossible to stay profitable.
California’s aggressive wage hikes, passed under Gavin Newsom, have forced chains to cut hours, raise prices, and close locations — with Carl’s Jr. now joining the growing list of brands pulling back from the state.
Insiders say many of these stores simply could no longer turn a profit after repeated wage increases and other progressive policies that punish success and reward dysfunction. This latest round of closures will leave thousands of Californians without jobs and many communities with fewer affordable dining options.
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Daily Variety reports that Christopher Nolan's upcoming blockbuster movie Odyssey cast a black actress as Helen of Troy and a trans-gender as Achilles. It never ends.
Neil Armstrong planting the Confederate flag on the Moon.
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In 1964, Walt Disney didn't buy land. He stole it through silence. Using more than 30 shell companies with names like "Reedy Creek Ranch" and "Latin American Development," Disney's agents fanned out across Central Florida and quietly purchased over 27,000 acres of swamp, scrubland, and family farms - without ever revealing who the real buyer was.
Farmers sold for as little as $80 to $200 per acre. They had no idea they were negotiating with the most powerful entertainment company in the world. By the time the secret leaked in October 1965, it was over. The land was gone. The price had already been set.
One family, the Demetree brothers, unknowingly sold a parcel that would become the heart of Walt Disney World. They got a fair price for swampland. Disney got a kingdom.
The state of Florida then handed Disney something no private company had ever received: its own government. The Reedy Creek Improvement District gave Disney the power of a county - to build roads, issue bonds, and govern 25,000 acres without a single public vote.
Did they teach you about what a nice guy Uncle Walt was in school?
Yeah, me neither...
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Did you ever notice that in some cultures and some religions,
pallbearers lift the casket up on to their shoulders?
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It was against this backdrop that Playboy Club Bunnies in Chicago walked off the job in June 1975. On a Wednesday, the club Bunnies went on strike for more fair working conditions and equality in the clubs. Their demands were simple: they were pushing back on unfair policies that banned them from using their full names on the job, dating club members, and from having a key to the club (the term for the cards club members carried to gain entry). As part of their cause, the women on strike wrote a letter to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner outlining their concern: “We love being Playboy Bunnies and most of the time we love you, but there are times when we think you are a Male Chauvinist Rabbit,” the letter read, according to an article about the 1975 strike by Patty Farmer in Playboy‘s November 2017 issue.
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When he was just 24 years old, Michelangelo carved the statue that made him famous: His Pietà debuted in St. Peter’s in Rome for the Holy Year of 1500. Thousands of pilgrims filed by and were amazed by what appeared to be a miraculous event carved out of marble yet unfolding before their eyes.
The word pietà means “pity,” and is the name of any work showing Mary tenderly mourning her dead son, Jesus.
Michelangelo, with his total mastery of the real world, captures the sadness of the moment. Mary gazes down on her crucified son. Christ’s lifeless right arm droops down, letting us know how heavy his corpse is. As Mary supports the body with her right hand, she turns her left hand upward, asking, “How could they do this to you?”
Michelangelo didn’t think of sculpting as creating a figure, but as simply freeing the God-made figure already in the marble. He’d launch himself into a project like this with an inspired passion, chipping away to find what God had put inside.
As realistic as this work is, its true power lies in the subtle “unreal” features. Life-size Christ looks childlike compared with larger-than-life Mary. Unnoticed at first, this makes a subliminal impression of Mary enfolding Jesus in her maternal love. Mary - the mother of a 33-year-old man - looks like a teenager. Christ’s body tilts diagonally down to the right, and Mary’s hem flows with it. Subconsciously, we feel the weight of this dead Savior sliding from her lap to the ground.
To appreciate the full impact of this scene, Michelangelo hoped you’d view his Pietà from close up, looking up at Mary’s face. Sadly, on May 21, 1972, a madman with a hammer entered St. Peter’s and began hacking away at the Pietà. The damage was repaired, but how people interact with this object of beauty was forever changed. It now sits behind a shield of bulletproof glass and is viewable only from a distance.
This is Michelangelo’s only signed work. The story goes that he overheard some pilgrims praising his Pietà, but saying it was done by a second-rate sculptor from a lesser city. Michelangelo was so enraged he grabbed his chisel and chipped an inscription in the ribbon running down Mary’s chest. It said, “This was made by Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence.”
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That's so cute; DOCTOR Jill thinks people still give a rats's ass what she thinks... about anything.
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