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Voter fraud, Minn. @ iron range
Apparently Trump is aware of investigations on vote harvesting by that omar bitch ......and some note reminded me of this......
back when I was around ten y/o my folks planned a summer run to the Mesabi iron range.....met up with my cousin/his folks in Cleveland....and went west from there around the lake and head north along the shoreline....and passed under this YEUGGE RR trestle, leading out over the lake so far it disappeared WAY the hell up in the air and into the mist about 3 miles out there....we all stared and WTF was THAT about.....eventually the road took a left and we followed that track, having passed under it again, on the right side of the road this row of trees, we thought forest.....RONG, just through the trees was that RR track, and we going uphill for a good LONG way....stopped at a gas station on the left of the road.....we filling the gas, and the ground starts shaking.....then a HELL of a ROAR, the car starts rocking.....WTF?? we freak out and say earthquake, the attendant comes out of the station house and starts laughing....saying it was the IRON ORE TRAIN!!!!! that thing ROAR past us we could see it through the trees, VERY freaky, it's just FLYING easy 100 mph or so, real short cars, filled with IRON ORE, it took several minits for it to pass, it was about 3 miles long..... it goes out on that long bridge/trestle to nowhere using the elevation to slow the damn thing down due to the great weight just too much at that speed coming down the side of the iron range mountain side......normal train brakes just useless, apparently.....so it goes up in the air and ships pass under it and they dump the ore into ships/barges to head to Chicago/Indy steel mills..... We continue up the road to a vantage point overlooking the mining ditch...several miles across and an easy mile deep.....had a car and some trucks down there, and a man walking around, got on the scopes they had mounted and the shovel on that crane was about ten times that guys' height....forget the rest of that crane, it was many stories tall and made the trucks that picked up a bucket at a time, look small, they would run up the side of the ditch/hole on roads cut out so to meet up with the iron ore train..... I wonder if any of that exists today.....or did the iron ore run out...... I go do a search on that......funny how I can remember something like that from childhood..... |
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Video of the ballot fraud Gene is mentioning:
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/...pts-elections/ More video of cash-for-ballots happening: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/...h-for-general/ But no worries, it's not just in MN, it's happening right here in Houston, too: https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/28/b...harris-county/ Players here include Biden's Texas campaign guy, Sheila Jackson Lee, and a guy people who are not local wouldn't recognize, Borris Miles, legislator, insurance agent, and erstwhile gangsta. |
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Gene, you were probably looking at the Hull-Rust Mine. The largest open pit mine in the world. At it's peak this mine alone was providing 25% of the county's iron ore. The thing is so big it's hard to believe.
Iron ore reserves were tapped out and Taconite, which at the time was considered waste or an unwanted byproduct of iron ore mining came into the picture. Some smart MoFo figured out you could crush the shit, run a YUGE magnet over the dust and extract all the iron ore. Unfortunately they -Reserve Mining Co- dumped the taconite tailings into Lake Superior which kicked off a even YUGER lawsuit. I was a colossal mess. Literally and figuratively. |
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And what kind of summer vacation is the Iron Range? Good lord man.
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I won't hold my breath on any of those crooks going to prison. Damn, our country is busted...
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Great Great GMA had a farm outside of Hibbing, sold or lost to the “Company”. Opened a boarding house for miners then. Was burnt down, rebuilt and burnt again....at 92 she fell off roof and had to move to Chicago. Her one husband founded the process for Taconite but WGAF |
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My Dad was an engineer on those trains. Looks like the Gails of November in this pic. |
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Yeh, that last pix there is very similar to what I found doing a search on the topic, and just about exactly what I remember seeing....so long ago....I very surprised any of that stuff is still around, being as it's been over 60 years......
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