Paul

[Danielle Carter-Walters @Dannic44]

I had a great time celebrating Juneteenth with the citizens of Chicago yesterday.

I enjoyed introducing myself, speaking with citizens, and listening to their concerns. It was a meaningful and beautiful day of community engagement.

Chicago citizens first, always.
DanielleCarter-WaltersforMayor-2027
https://t.co/FRBcC9YivY

#daniellecarterwaltersformayor2027
#commonsensecarter
#justicecarter

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Sad that he decided not to continue.

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 20, 1969: George Lazenby wraps his final day of filming for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" at Pinewood Studios. This likely consisted of pickups and reshoots instead of pivotal scenes, but nonetheless marked the end of his brief but memorable tenure as 007.

[Danielle Carter-Walters @Dannic44]

Thank you @NEWSMAX .Anyone who's mad at me or saying I'm lying.

Maybe you should start coming to City Hall and talking to the homeowners who have been fighting these issues for years. Go speak with the citizens who have been showing up meeting after meeting, trying to protect their homes, neighborhoods, and communities.

I've been fighting on their behalf, especially as property taxes have skyrocketed and, in many cases, nearly tripled. I don't just make things up or repeat talking points. I spend time talking to the people affected, attending meetings, and listening to citizens who are living through these problems every day.

I'm REALLY about the Chicago citizens. I will always stand with the people and fight for the homeowners, taxpayers, small businesses, and families who call Chicago home.

As Mayor, my Chicagoans First platform will focus on,
Freezing property taxes and providing relief for homeowners.

Conducting forensic audits to identify waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

Cutting red tape and unnecessary fees so small businesses can grow and create jobs.

Revitalizing vacant commercial corridors and blighted neighborhoods.

Improving public safety so families and businesses can thrive.

Supporting local hiring, apprenticeship programs, and trade education.

Protecting longtime citizens from being displaced from their communities.

Ensuring every neighborhood gets a seat at the table and receives the attention and investment it deserves.

I don't work for the MACHINE. I work for the people. My mission is simple, put Chicago citizens first, rebuild our neighborhoods, protect homeowners, support small businesses, and make sure every community has the opportunity to thrive.

Danielle Carter-Walters for Mayor 2027
https://t.co/FRBcC9YQlw

Chicagoans First. Always.

#daniellecarterwaltersformayor2027
#commonsensecarter
#justicecarter

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ukraine sits on some of the most fertile soil on earth, the deep black earth that made it the breadbasket of Europe. In 1932 and 1933, on that very soil, close to four million of its people were starved to death. The soil was as rich as ever. The famine was a decision.

The decision was collectivisation. Stalin set out to abolish the independent farmer altogether, to end private land and private animals and drive every peasant onto a state-run collective farm. The man who owned a little, a few cattle, a horse, a plot worked by his own family, was branded a kulak, an enemy of the people, and marked for destruction. Stalin's instruction was to liquidate them as a class.

The peasants saw what was coming, and many made a terrible choice. Rather than surrender their animals to the state, they killed them. Across the Soviet Union the herds simply collapsed. Around half the cattle, gone. Nearly half the horses that pulled the ploughs. Two-thirds of the sheep and goats. Tens of millions of animals slaughtered in a few seasons, a loss so total that the country did not rebuild its livestock to the old levels until the 1980s. A people who had fed themselves for a thousand years destroyed their own herds rather than hand them over, and the state called it sabotage.

Then came the grain. The quotas were set impossibly high, and when the villages could not meet them, brigades went from house to house and took everything. The harvest. The seed saved for next spring. The last food in the pantry. And when the countryside had been stripped bare, the people were forbidden to leave in search of bread, sealed inside their own dying villages.

So it was that in one of the richest farming regions on the planet, the men and women who actually grew the food lay down in the lanes and died of hunger, in their millions. Some, at the very end, ate things no human being should ever have to eat.

Here is the lesson, and it is worth carving somewhere it cannot be forgotten. A man who owns his land and his animals can feed his family whoever sits in the palace. A man who depends on the state for his bread can be starved the day he steps out of line. That is why the independent farmer is always the first enemy of absolute power. Take his herds, take his fields, and you have taken the one thing that let him stand on his own.

A population that cannot feed itself will, in the end, do as it is told.

Destroy the farmer, and you hold the whole nation by the throat.

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Nice

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 20, 1915: British director & screenwriter Stewart "Terence" Herbert Young is born in Shanghai International Settlement, China. He helped Sean Connery perfect his portrayal of Bond & directed "Dr. No" (1962), "From Russia With Love" (1963) & "Thunderball" (1965).

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Almost waited to long. The rest is history!

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 20, 1961: On his 2nd wedding anniversary & with only a few short weeks left before Eon's options on Fleming's novels were set to expire, Albert Brocolli & his partner Harry Saltzman seal a 6 film deal with U/A starting with $1m in funding for their first film "Dr. No" (1962)

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Indeed it is❤️

[Paul @gingri20852]

@Riflemanscreed2 Nice!

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Always enjoyed his roles

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 19, 1988 : Actor Teru Shimada dies at 82 in Los Angeles, CA. Among his many film & TV credits he played a
Japanese sub commander in
"Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958),
a Japanese delegate in "Batman: The Movie" (1966) & SPECTRE agent Mr. Osato in "You Only Live Twice" (1967).

[Paul @gingri20852]

@DoubleODispatch Yet another talented guy

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 19, 1916: Actor Jiří "George" Pravda is born in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He appeared in many films & TV series including "Dr Who" & "Inspector Clouseau" (1968) & he also played SPECTRE henchman-turned-ally Ladislav Kutze in "Thunderball" (1965).

[The Double-O Dispatches @DoubleODispatch]

June 19, 1921: Actor Louis Robert Gendre aka Louis Jourdan is born in Marseille, France. He was sent to a Nazi labor camp after refusing to make propaganda films, joined the French Resistance, married his childhood sweetheart & later played Kamal Khan in "Octopussy" (1983).

[Paul @gingri20852]

@wilsonhlthcoach 👏👏👏👏❤️

[Paul @gingri20852]

@Riflemanscreed2 🙏🙏❤️