My name is Brian Morris, and I come from the beautiful island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Back in 2006, a friend of mine who was already working in Canada gave me an incredible opportunity by requesting my name for the farm program. Leaving home all those years ago wasn’t a hard decision for me at all; I wanted to come, and I have been here ever since. I spent my first few seasons at another farm before moving here to Moyer farm in 2010. Back home, I used to work on banana farms, do construction labor, and take on painting jobs, but things have slowed down in recent years, so coming here is very important. When I arrive in Canada each spring, our main focus is pruning the orchards. We carefully clear out the dense “bush leaf” to make proper space for the fruit buds to bloom. It is important work because if you leave the trees completely overgrown, the leaves block the sunlight from reaching the apples. By shaping the trees with a small top and a wide bottom, we make sure they get exactly what they need to grow. My favorite variety to grow and eat is definitely the Golden Delicious. The work we do up here is hard because the kind of weather we have here, we don’t have back home. If I was home in St. Vincent, I would never be wearing heavy layers or rubber boots to farm to stay warm. At home, we grow crops called ground provision (grown directly in the earth) like dasheen, eddoes, or tannia (all tropical root vegetables). We don’t have fruit orchards like this at home, so this program has provided a very good career for me. When we aren’t in the fields, my coworkers and I like to relax at home, walk down the street, or enjoy ourselves at the local Legion. Back home, I love to spend my free time watching sports, especially football. As long as I have my health, life, and strength, I plan to keep coming back to try my best and see this work through. When the day comes that I am back home in St. Vincent and no longer able to travel, those long-term contributions will be recognized with a pension so I can support my family and grandchildren. VIDEO: https://www.morethanamigrantworker.ca/.../meet-brian.../
nifty fucken payasyougo meals for next week (delivers in a few days) the last weeks tofu rice was actually kind of rank way too much soy sauce so really salty but i find if you add honey garlic sauce the sugar balances it all out a bit hahaha I had high hopes for the tofu dish and was like oh wow I put too much soy sauce in the first one cause I added EVEN moar lmao
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There are roughly thirteen hours in Dr. Sneha Anne Philip's life that no one has ever been able to explain. And twenty-five years ago today, the clock started ticking. It was September 10th, 2001. Sneha was a 31-year-old physician living with her husband in Lower Manhattan. That afternoon, she was captured on surveillance shopping inside Century 21. At 7:18 that evening, several purchases were made with her credit card at the store. No one knows where she went after that. And her shopping bags disappeared with her. Sneha's husband came home around midnight to an empty apartment, and by morning, there was still no sign of her. But there may have been one. At 8:43 the following morning, the security camera inside Sneha's apartment building captured a woman entering the lobby. She lingered near the elevators for several minutes before walking back outside. Sneha's husband thought the woman resembled her. But investigators couldn't really see her face enough to make a positive identification. And three minutes later, everything changed, at 8:46 a.m., the first plane struck the World Trade Center. In the confusion that followed, Sneha's family began to believe she may have gone toward the World Trade Center to help. She was a doctor and lived only a few blocks away, so the possibility wasn't difficult to imagine. But no one could actually place her there. And as investigators dug deeper into Sneha's life, they found other reasons to wonder whether her disappearance had begun the night before. She had recently lost a medical residency and was dealing with legal and personal problems. Her husband also told investigators that she sometimes stayed out overnight. Then came another complication. Sneha's brother initially told reporters that he had spoken with her on the morning of September 11th and that she was helping people near the World Trade Center. He later admitted that wasn't true. He had made up the story because he believed connecting Sneha to the events of that morning would keep attention on her disappearance. Years later, another curious piece was added to the story. An anonymous postcard appeared on PostSecret, a website where people mailed in secrets to be published without their names. Written across the front was a single sentence. “Everyone who knew me before 9/11 believes I’m dead.” There has never been anything connecting the postcard to Sneha, and no one knows who sent it. But the timing of her disappearance and the possibility that she could have vanished into the enormous confusion that followed on September 11th have made that little postcard part of the conversation surrounding her case ever since. In 2008, a New York appeals court officially declared that Sneha had lost her life at the World Trade Center on September 11th. Her name now appears at the National September 11 Memorial. But the ruling couldn't account for those thirteen missing hours. Maybe Sneha returned home that morning and the woman caught on camera really was her. Maybe she went toward the towers to help. Or maybe something entirely different happened after she walked out of Century 21 on September 10th, and the events of the following morning obscured her trail forever. Twenty-five years later, we still don't know what happened to Dr. Sneha Anne Philip. More info 👇
BREAKING🚨 ICE agents shot a man 13 times, shattering his spine, then locked him up for eight months. A federal judge just ordered his release. Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, 31, had stopped at a Lowe's for supplies for an electrical job on December 24 when ICE agents in the parking lot spotted his white work van. They ran his tags, followed him into a residential neighborhood and boxed the van in. Agents smashed his window. He tried to drive off down a narrow path between two condo buildings. Three agents opened fire. His federal public defenders wrote that officers shot at him at least 13 times and struck him twice. The bullets damaged his spine and punctured a lung. One is still lodged in his back. His van crashed into a tree. ICE said its officers fired because they feared for their lives. There is no known video of the encounter. The agency also said a passenger in his van suffered whiplash, then changed its account after local police contradicted it: the other injured man, Salomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, had been arrested hours earlier and was sitting inside an ICE vehicle. Two ICE vans took a combined $17,000 in damage. The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Goldaris, at one point likened the whole thing to a "fender bender." In April, Sousa-Martins pleaded guilty to damaging government property, the resisting charge was dropped, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles D. Austin sentenced him to time served, saying the court had "some skepticism about some of what the government has presented." He stayed in immigration detention anyway. His attorneys said he was denied a breathing apparatus his doctors recommended, along with medication and bandage changes for his gunshot wounds. He has a 1-year-old learning to walk and a 4-year-old who was told his father was away on a work trip. CASA and the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights filed the habeas petition that got him out. "Today, I can finally say I am free," Sousa-Martins said. "It was a long and difficult battle, but I'm here to tell you that it is possible. Please, don't ever lose hope. Don't give up."
They never said they were in a world war in the two prior -they waited years after before even calling it that - chances are we have been smack in the middle of WORLD WAR 3 for over 6 months to maybe a year or so as well people are waiting for a big one like China or another one to blow their top like there is 4-7 wars happening simultaneously for fuck sakes wake up before you get drafted
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BREAKING: KUSHNER EXPOSED! Trump ATTACKS a reporter who dared to ask Jared Kushner a brutal question: Why should anyone expect your peace talks to succeed? President Donald Trump jumped to the defense of his amateur negotiator and son-in-law Jared Kushner on Thursday after NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel confronted Kushner about his diplomatic record during a press conference in Kyiv. “A Classic answer by Jared to a hostile, Trump Deranged Reporter,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The question posed by Engel that prompted Trump’s attack was disarmingly direct. “You have been involved in numerous negotiations around the world,” Engel told Kushner and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff. “Why should people have any confidence in your capacity to succeed here?” Engel then broke out receipts, going through the record. “You were involved in the Gaza negotiations, but Gaza remains a wasteland. There’s been really no progress there. Iran, you were involved in those negotiations. The war is still going on.” Then he turned to Ukraine. “You’ve been involved in several rounds of negotiations in this conflict. It’s only getting more intense … So, you’re relaunching negotiations now. What’s the likelihood they will succeed when other negotiations you’ve been involved in have not?” Kushner responded at length, arguing that Engel was measuring him against some of the most difficult conflicts in the world. “These things take time,” Kushner stammered. “These are some of the hardest conflicts …The tone of your question was a little bit like, ‘Why haven’t you done every single impossible thing possible?’” Kushner also suggested that he's not actually calling the shots anyway. He and Witkoff aren't pursuing their own approach – they are pushing Trump’s, whether they agree with it or not. “We’re doing it the way that [Trump] wants to see these things done,” he disclosed. The exchange occurred as Kushner and Witkoff traveled between Moscow and Kyiv in another effort to get the Ukraine war ended somehow. No sort of agreement emerged from those meetings, although Trump said Putin had told him he wanted to make a deal, not that the source is reliable. Instead of addressing the substance of Engel’s question in his Thursday post, Trump attacked Engel as “hostile” and “Trump Deranged” while praising Kushner’s self-justifying response. But Kushner is certainly right about one thing: These negotiations *are* difficult. But difficulty is also why governments traditionally rely on experienced diplomats, regional specialists and professional mediators. International peace is not like a business deal – professional mediation is a specialized tradecraft requiring understanding of conflict history, leverage, process design, sequencing, cultural knowledge, implementation and an understanding of what each side can actually concede. Of which both Kushner nor Witkoff have none. What are they even doing in the negotiating chairs? I f you too would like an answer to that question, like and share this post.
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why 100 years tho? that is just like the UK thing giving him a billion a year for 100 years wtf? bunch of cokeheads just leave it at 10 years I mean its 2126 by the time this agreement ends? that is a long time and people will be different and onto many other things just saying their needs and desires will change
BREAKING: Melania insists “EVERY DETAIL” of White House construction should respect its historic character – as Trump’s gigantic unauthorized ballroom rises behind her! First Lady Melania Trump delivered an unusually pointed lesson in historic preservation last night, telling an audience of historians that changes to the White House must respect its past and preserve its legacy for generations to come. Melania made the remarks from the former Rose Garden, where guests stood on the white stone pavers that replaced the lawn at the center of the garden she herself helped “restore” during Trump’s first term to resemble the patio at Mar-a-Lago. Nearby stood Trump’s desecrated “Presidential Walk of Fame” and a massive granite presidential seal marking his new helipad where the lawn used to be – while cranes from the construction of his sprawling 90,000-square-foot ballroom towered behind the gathering. “Zee Vite Houze stands as an architectural autobiography of America,” Melania told attendees at the White House Historical Association’s Presidential Sites Summit, and that the building embodies the country’s history through its architecture, craftsmanship and contents. She then described how carefully she approached her own addition to the grounds, the White House Tennis Pavilion. Melania noted that the project was developed with the National Park Service and approved by the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. “Every detail was thoughtfully considered to ensure the new structure harmonized with the historic neoclassical character of the White House grounds,” she said. This provides a stark contrast to her husband. As we all know, Trump didn’t bother asking permission before demolishing the East Wing, including Melania’s office, as part of the project, and the Kennedy Rose Garden disappeared with it. Through the inevitable lawsuits, the Supreme Court recently allowed construction to continue while that litigation proceeds. Chief Justice John Roberts, dissenting from the decision, wrote that the construction was “likely unlawful,” while the majority did not decide the ultimate legality of the ballroom itself. Melania never mentioned her husband’s projects or criticized him. But at least one person in the audience noticed the conspicuous omission. “She is staking out her own reputation, and there was not even any attempt to defend her husband,” an attendee told CNN anonymously. “The silence was deafening.” Then Melania closed with a standard for White House stewardship that left remarkably little room for ambiguity about what she believes preservation requires. “As stewards of the places shaped by those before us, we are tasked with making decisions that honor future generations,” she said. “It is our duty to ensure that the choices we make today are worthy of the legacy we pass forward.” It’s obvious how often she even talks to her husband. Sheesh. If you agree that Melania doesn't really believe what someone else wrote for her to say here, please like and share this post.
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