Friday, January 17, 2025

What does it mean to be a Free Thinker? Question Authority. Question everything. If you don't get a useful or good answer then avoid it whatever it is

 For me, this is the attitude of most people I have met in California. It's not about Churches who brainwash people into one group of ideas or another. It's about thinking your own thoughts and asking your own questions about literally everything. So, for me, for example, God is in my life but so is Buddha. However, I also would say that the basis of my life often is the Scientific Method in regard to literally everything.

If something works for you (of any religion or science or philosophy) then it might be useful to you until you find something that works better for you.

You don't hang onto things solely based upon tradition unless you see the value of them in some way, shape or form.

So, literally anything questionable you tend to keep at a distance including all religious cults (especially after being raised in what might be called a "New Age fundamentalist Mystical Christian Cult" myself.

So, religious cults of all kinds often are dangerous and often fatal to people through suicide or just the insanity of where they get PTSD wise especially after serving in any military on earth in war or battles or skirmishes.

So, becoming a Free thinker you tend to want to help all people without becoming the victim of any person or group or cult or religion.

You think for yourself about everything and don't need anyone telling you how to think who is a politician or even minister of ANY church.

IF you have a relationship with God (and Buddha) like I do you don't need any church or minister to tell you how to talk to God or angels.

Because you can talk to God and Angels yourself already and you don't need a middle man or middle woman between you and God and the Angels.

By God's Grace

Trump's inauguration will be held indoors due to frigid weather forecast

 I looked at the Low Temperature for Monday in Washington DC which is 10 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill that might take it below zero. You don't want to be killing your attendees making them wait through hours with a wind chill potentially below zero from around the world. I think Reagan was the last one to become president in the rotunda after he was shot. In the beginning of his 2nd term after being shot in 1981 he was inaugurated in the Capitol Rotunda too.

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 Trump's inauguration will be held indoors due to frigid weather forecast

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't attend Trump's inauguration

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't attend Trump's inauguration

Washington — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, according to her spokesperson.

Pelosi led House Democrats during the first Trump administration and attended his inauguration in 2017. She became one of Trump's chief antagonists, overseeing both impeachments against him as speaker. 

A spokesperson did not provide a reason for her planned absence from the president-elect's second inauguration. ABC News first reported on her plans. 

Pelosi fell and injured her hip during an overseas trip to Luxembourg in December, and required hip replacement surgery before returning to the U.S. She was seen using a walker in the Capitol when the new Congress convened earlier this month.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks on the House floor on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks on the House floor on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Pelosi, who stepped down from leadership after the 2022 midterm elections, has been vocal about her opposition to Trump as he prepares to return to office. A frequent recipient of Republican ire, Pelosi was among the targets of some of the rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to delay the counting of electoral votes. 

The California Democrat accused Trump earlier this month of stoking continued violence in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, including against her husband.

"He called out to these people to continue their violence, my husband being a victim of all of that," Pelosi said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," noting that her husband still suffers from a head injury after a man broke into their San Francisco home and bludgeoned him with a hammer in October 2022. 

Former first lady Michelle Obama also plans to skip Trump's inauguration, though her husband, former President Barack Obama, is expected to be at the swearing in ceremony.

Trump skipped President Biden's inauguration in 2021, two weeks after the attack on the Capitol.

why I don't usually publish comments

First of all, this is not a site based upon money in any way. So, everything I do here is sort of like the way a non-profit blog works where no money is involved at all. This way I find I am beholding to no one but myself and God in what I share. In this way I can share more truth than most blogs that are financially based can.

However, early on (when Google Translate first started) I would look up what people were saying in other languages that I cannot read because I only can really read English and French because I took two years of French in High School. So, with Google Translate I could finally figure out what some of the comments were worldwide. 

I was sort of horrified by a lot of the comments because they were trying to sell either women or drugs through  comments to my site worldwide. At that point I decided not to publish comments because I don't have enough hours in the day to edit these comments properly for the decency of my readers.

So, unfortunately I realized at that time that publishing comments wasn't useful to this site because that would take 10 or 100 times as much time as what I do here every day now.

So, if you wonder where the comments are this is what I had to decide to do.

I could have either done this or stopped blogging entirely.

I chose to continue blogging and eliminate publishing comments so I could continue to share my highest truths that I could find with my readers worldwide.

And because of this I have received as many as 400,000 visits to my site from worldwide readers in a single month so I believe I made the right choice.

Regarding this article from 2013:

 The following is an article I published in 2013. Since then I have received as many as 400,000 visits in a single month so you can see how far it can go viewership wise if you honor both yourself and your readers with the highest truths you can find in order to help them survive better here on earth and beyond.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

158,008 visits to intuitivefred888

I want to thank my readers worldwide for the 158,008 visits so far to intuitivefred888. I think other bloggers worldwide should create blogs like mine because there appears to be a demand for blogs like this one. However, clarity and sincerity helps so people can trust what you are doing. This blog  site really grew in readership during the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami because I was trying to help people there get radiation detectors and good information to protect themselves from radiation on air, and in the water and in the food and on the ground. My readership exponentially increased starting then including here in the U.S. as I advocated Crowdsourcing with geiger counters to get radiation readings wherever people were to protect themselves and their families. Now this site averages close to 11,000 visits per month. However, the more good articles that people are interested in and want to read at your site there are the more people will tend to visit your site over time. Word of mouth or  by email through friends is the way most of these types of sites gain readership worldwide.

The last president to have an indoor inauguration was Reagan after he was shot too.

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 On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as Reagan was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton hotel.


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New National Park Widens Protection of Legendary ‘Asian Unicorn’ Mountain Home

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New National Park Widens Protection of Legendary ‘Asian Unicorn’ Mountain Home

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A Saola (or Vu quang ox, known as the Asian Unicorn) Pseudoryx nghetinhensis ©David HULSE / WWF

The government of Laos DPR recently turned a vast area of hills and tropical forests over to conservation with the establishment of Xesap National Park (NP).

Aided by Western endowments and nonprofits, the establishment expands an already existing protected area to a total of 202,300 hectares, including the 49,000-hectare Pale area, which is thought to be a significant and relatively undisturbed habitat for key species.

courtesy of Pakham Outhanikone WWF-Laos

Nestled in the Annamite mountain ranges, Xesap NP is a biodiversity hotspot, home to some of Asia’s most endangered species found nowhere else on the continent.

Notably, Xesap NP is also one of the few places in the Annamites where the legendary Saola—known as the ‘Asian Unicorn’—has been sighted, and is thought to have high potential as a site for population recovery.

The Saola was only identified in 1992 by a local ecologist. The first few that made it into captivity have died shortly thereafter, and the species is listed as Critically-Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Lacking a single horn like the mythical creature that kindly lent its moniker to this relative of the oryx, the Saola’s two horns instead grow very close together, such that from a distance or from the side, it may appear to have only one long horn.

“We believe this designation marks a crucial step towards enhancing conservation efforts and ensuring the sustainable management of Xesap’s rich natural treasures. WWF-Laos applauds the Lao government for this significant achievement and remains dedicated to supporting the park’s management through our enduring partnership with the provinces of Salavan and Sekong,” said Loris Palentini, Country Director, WWF-Laos, in a statement.

Roaming in the shadow of the so-called unicorn are fascinating animals like the elusive Roosevelt’s muntjac, vibrant red-shanked douc, the rare Annamite striped rabbit, and the stunning crested argus. New species are discovered in the Annamites at an incredibly high rate, even many large mammal species described for the first time by science in the last century.

Spanning the provinces of Salavan and Sekong, with nearly 35 villages located in and around the park, Xesap NP is now one of seven NPs in Laos DPR. With its forested valleys, limestone karst hills, vertiginous mountains, and extremely rich biodiversity and endemism, Xesap’s redesignation as an NP from a National Protected Area is a well-deserved recognition of its ecological importance in the Greater Mekong, the statement read.

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“This announcement represents a major step forward for conservation in Laos and a significant breakthrough in the global effort to reach the 30×30 target,” said Molly McUsic, President of the Wyss Foundation which supported the work to create the park.

“Xesap National Park is a shining example of the progress we can make toward preserving biodiversity and protecting precious natural resources when we bring together government, philanthropy, and local communities. We applaud the Lao Government, WWF-Laos, Rainforest Trust, and other partners for their collective efforts to permanently protect Xesap.”

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Following the designation of the area as an NP, and given its long history of working in Xesap, WWF-Laos aims to further strengthen its partnership with the Department of Forestry and the Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Offices of Salavan and Sekong provinces, as well as with districts and local communities. Key goals include enhancing park management and biodiversity protection, promoting resilience of local community development, and ensuring long-term conservation success that benefits both people and nature.

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