[WSB-TV2] ATLANTA — A U.S. Senate Committee investigation has uncovered that security and safety lapses at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary are so bad, a government assessment called it a security risk for people across the southeast.
Whistleblowers who previously worked behind the walls at that federal prison in Atlanta testified under oath on Capitol Hill to the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations. The committee is chaired by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff.
"It is now a penitentiary in name only," the facility’s former chief psychologist, Erika Ramirez, testified.
Former jail administrator Terri Whitehead testified that Bureau of Prisons employees even had a nickname for the disfunction. They called it "the Atlanta Way."
"The Atlanta way is far from the norm and certainly not the U.S. Bureau of Prisons way," Whitehead said.
The committee’s investigation uncovered thousands of pages of internal records documenting mismanagement and wrongdoing at the facility in Southeast Atlanta dating back nine years.
Among the safety concerns identified, 800 contraband cell phones were confiscated in a 2021 sweep. In 2020, more than half of the surveillance cameras did not work. 142 of 253 cameras were down, and even the ones in operation were three hours off in recording time.
The investigation also uncovered that staff "intentionally damaged" the prison’s drug detection machine. It did not work for a year.
"This was a major ongoing failure that presented a risk not to just inmates and staff but the city of Atlanta, state of Georgia and the whole country," Ossoff told Channel 2 Investigative reporter Justin Gray.
For years, Channel 2 Action News has reported on security lapses at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. In 2018, we learned that some inmates were coming and going through holes in the fences and smuggling in contraband liquor, cigarettes and cellphones. And in 2019, we reported on an inmate even using a contraband cell phone to broadcast a Facebook livestream from his prison cell.
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Ex-inmate who turned his life around speaks about his time in Atlanta's federal pen. They're corrupt, everyone has known about this for decades, the BoP does nothing because they benefit from the situation. But fuck prisoners, amirite?
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This has been happening for decades!
Long before the presidential elections of 2020.
A few Zucker bucks could help straighten out the election.
Look at the result, Joe Biden, as President.
And all that Green New Deal money is going to help prevent us from corrupting the climate!
There is nothing more corrupt than concentrating a lot of "green new deal" money into the hands of a central government.
Some of you might remember a SFOD-D was called in to bail out the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) failure.
The SFOD-D quickly retook the Atlanta Federal Pen.
The FBI’s HRT went home with tails tucked between their legs. Then tried to take some credit, since using Delta & SEAL TEAMS for Hostage Rescues in those days was still hush-hush.
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/\ Perhaps you remember an HRT training exercise involving an airplane takedown in California many years ago. Lots of hoopla and high-speed weapons, communications, videos, camo, helmets, the works.
All went well until the assault team huddled under the aircraft, having suddenly discovered they had not packed their boarding ladders.
SFOD observers standing nearby were silently amused.
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Remember some talk about training some Fed's only to be surprised how far they still needed to go to accomplish basics breeching WITH a successful rescue ratio back in 92. They did not even have a Det-cord cabin door opener with them. Then, the Fed's were calling a 25% loss of hostages a success. But then the ATF at Waco Branch Davitian (sp) even tossed that 1 in 4 out the window.
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The US government massacre at Waco wasn't a mistake. It was the whole plan in the first place. They had been made fools of by the siege, and they intended to show the whole world what happens when anyone defies them. So they killed everyone they could in the building.
And then, in a completely unrelated coincidence, two years later on the anniversary of the mass murders, the federal building where the assault was planned and controlled was blown up. I guess we'll never know why.
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David Koresh could have been arrested at the gas station in Waco or on the highway going either way.
I don't recall the deets, but at the time, a local sheriff or such said he did not understand why the feds went all nutso. If they wanted Koresh, the sheriff could have simply called him to come in. Apparently, there was enough of a community relationship for that to be possible. Much less dramatic, though. Somehow the US Marshals manage to snatch up people without burning down buildings.
Old photos show the couple wearing KGB uniforms, a former Soviet spy agency
Their lawyer said they tried the same jacket on as a 'joke' and posed for photos
'She wants everyone to know she's not a spy,' attorney Kau said about her client
Hawaii, a major military center, is a 'prime target' for espionage, prosecutors say
Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, both in their 60s, allegedly lived for decades under the names Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague - the stolen names of infants who died decades ago - according to federal court records unsealed in Honolulu.
The couple face charges of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit an offense against the US and false statement in an application for a passport after they were arrested Friday in Kapolei on the island of Oahu.
Prosecutors are seeking to have the couple held without bail, which could indicate the case is about more than fraudulently obtaining drivers' licenses, passports and Defense Department credentials.
Those documents helped Primrose get secret security clearance with the US Coast Guard and as a defense contractor and old photos show the couple wearing uniforms of the KGB, the former Russian spy agency, Assistant US Attorney Thomas Muehleck said in court papers.
Faded Polaroids of each in uniform were included in the motion to have them held.
A 'close associate' said Morrison lived in Romania while it was a Soviet bloc country, Muehleck said.
Morrison's attorney said her client never lived in Romania and that she and Primrose tried the same jacket on as a joke and posed for photos in it.
Prosecutors said there is a high risk the couple would flee if freed. They also suggested that Primrose, who was an avionics electrical technician in the Coast Guard, was highly skilled to communicate secretly if released.
The couple is also believed to have other aliases, Muehleck said.
Primrose and Morrison were born in 1955 and they attended high school together in Port Lavaca, Texas, and then went to Stephen F. Austin University, according to court records. They married in 1980.
There is no indication in court papers why the couple in 1987 assumed the identities of deceased children who would have been more than a decade younger than them.
But an affidavit filed by Special Agent Dennis Thomas of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service noted that the couple lost their home in Nacogdoches, Texas, to foreclosure that year.
They remarried under their assumed names in 1988, Thomas said.
Court records don't provide any information about what happened from the time they assumed their new identities until 1994, when Primrose, then about 39, enlisted in the Coast Guard as Fort, who would have been about 27.
Primrose and Morrison applied for and received multiple passports under their assumed names, according to court records.
But in 1999 Primrose also applied for and was issued a passport under his legal name while also holding a passport in Fort's name.
Primrose was in the service until 2016, when he began work for an unnamed defense contractor at the US Coast Guard Air station at Barbers Point.
'While he held that secret clearance with the US Coast Guard, defendant Primrose was required to report any foreign travel,' prosecutors wrote.
'Investigation has revealed that defendant Primrose did not report several trips to Canada while he did report other foreign travel.'
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...The 'dead baby' identity scam used to be a comparatively simple and easy way to create a new identity.
See, up until 9/11, birth certificates and death certificates were rarely, if ever, cross-indexed, and you needed no ID to get hold of either one. What you did was go to the local cemetery, and find the grave of some poor soul born about the same time as you who didn't make it much past their very early years (The giant cemetery immediately behind my office in Akron had a couple acres horrifyingly named 'Babyland'). You go request the BC for a couple bucks, and you're off. Until IIRC the late 80s, you didn't get a SSAN at birth, so it was more than likely you could get a completely legal SSN with that BC. Once you had the SSN you could get a driver's license, and that was the Holy Trinity needed to start a new identity.
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That was a fun moment, thanks.
"The major media leave the dirty work of debunking to fact-checking sites, most notoriously Snopes.com. In an analysis that has been updated through 2016, Snopes leads with this accusation, “Barack Obama appropriated the Social Security number of a dead man born in 1890 and used it as his own.” In large red letters, Snopes rejects the accusation as “FALSE.”
This approach is classic Snopes. Its editors elaborate this bizarre story about a Frenchman named Jean Paul Ludwig who dies in Hawaii and whose SSN is appropriated by Obama’s grandmother. They then reject this particular story as false — as Daniel and others had already done — and ignore the larger truth. That truth, as Snopes admits in the fine print, is that Obama’s SSN, 042-68-4425, is “something of a curiosity.” "
Daniel believes that the number is more than a curiosity. She believes the number was stolen. When Obama applied, numbers were assigned based on where the applicant received mail. As Daniel notes, and Snopes grudgingly concedes, numbers starting with 042 were for the exclusive use of those applying from Connecticut. Obama’s half-sister Maya, by contrast, has an SSN that starts with 576, as do other Hawaiians her age."
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The new reality show: Homeless Island, to be followed by Homeless Island Naked and Afraid. Cast members made up of Samantha Bee and any other soon to be " showless".
[Gateway] Three physicians at Canada’s Trillium Health Partners-Mississauga Hospital died unexpectedly in the same week. The cause of death for the three doctors has yet to be announced.
The news about the three deceased doctors was first shared by Monique in a post that went viral. According to Monique, a concerned nurse shared with her a copy of the memo that was sent out by the hospital’s management.
According to the nurse, the three doctors died after the hospital started mandating the fourth Covid shot for their employees.
"Three physicians at the Mississauga hospitals have died this week," the nurse told Monique. "1st memo Monday, 2nd Tuesday, 3rd Thursday. [The] cause of death wasn’t shared in the memo, but how many times have 3 doctors died in 1 week, days after the hospital started administering the 4th shot to staff."
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Is there any science showing the original jab and its boosters have any affect on the newer variants?
Other than the wishful thinking, like, 'it will make the disease less severe'?
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/\ Polydrug use, it's all a fiction, a conspiracy theory. No ?
In the e-mail, a scientist named Thomas J. Moore explained he had been stuck by Irving's finding, and he believed there was a way to move this investigation forward-to get to the bottom of what was really going on. Almost all the scientific studies Irving had looked at up to now, the e-mail explained, had a a catch. The vast majority of research into whether drugs work or not is funded by big pharmaceutical companies, and they do this research for a specific reason: they want to be able to market those drugs so they can make a profit.
Johann Hari, "Lost Connections," page 17, Bloomsbury Publishing.
[NYPOST] The notorious squeegee men are back to their bad old ways terrorizing Midtown motorists — and aggressively demanding money for their shoddy, unsolicited services.
The Post witnessed a crew of the wayward washers targeting vehicles at the congested West 40th Street and Ninth Avenue intersection on multiple occasions within the last week.
"Where are the cops? I mean, this is stressful enough, just driving in, that was like a shakedown!" New Jersey woman, who asked not to be named, said Tuesday just moments after a squeegee man suddenly approached her car.
"How is this OK? He just kept saying, ’I know you got some money! I know you got some money!'"
The panhandling window-washers approached several vehicles stopped at red lights — sudsing up windshields without warning and then harassing cash from the drivers.
In one instance, a squeegee man lifted up the wipers on a car with New Jersey plates and quickly sprayed soapy water across the windshield before the female driver even had a chance to say no.
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[USNI News] At least 10 Navy helicopters were damaged in a sudden storm that blew through Norfolk Naval Station, Va., Tuesday afternoon, USNI News has learned. Don't they tie these things down?
According to a Navy initial assessment reviewed by USNI News, the storm resulted in 10 Class A ground mishaps — mishaps that result in more than $2.5 million in damage or the total loss of the aircraft.
"The Navy is continuing to assess the full extent of the damages to each airframe, but there are no impacts to operational forces as a result of this incident," Cmdr. Rob Myers with Naval Air Forces Atlantic told USNI News in a statement.
"Known damages to the aircraft span from broken tail and rotor blades to structural dents and punctures in the airframes. No personnel were injured during the storm."
The helicopters damaged were five MH-60S Knight Hawks, one MH-60R Sea Hawk and four MH-53E Sea Dragon mine countermeasures helicopters, according to the assessment.
The Navy has about 30 of the mine hunting Sea Dragons in its inventory, according to the most recent data from Naval Air Systems Command. The service has delayed retiring aging helicopters as the Navy has been slow to develop a new airborne mine-hunting platform.
At least four of the multi-million-dollar helicopters — one MH-53E and three MH-60s — were blown over by the wind, according to images of the damage circulating on social media.
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The woke morons won't tie their planes down because it's racist to enslave the planes.
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...The birds were on the ramp at Norfolk; they aren't normally tied down while ashore - in fact, I don't think you can tie them down ashore. The idea is that the weather guys give you enough warning that you can get the birds under some kind of cover or fly them out.
Clearly that didn't happen here, and that may unfortunately come under the heading of 'one of those things'.
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Nothing compared to having a tornado rip through an Air Force base.
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My understanding is there was an order given to tie down the aircraft, and the winds started flipping them 12 minutes later. Plus, during an active thunderstorm, they're required to call personell in to avoid lightning hazards.
So the guys with the tie down chains are standing in the hangar videoing the birds flipping. Which is where the pictures came from.
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Embarrassingly, the Atlantic Fleet Weather Center is at the Norfolk Base.
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Lol and this is the navy that wants fight China?
Hope that the USA has a magic secret weapon in his arse..nal
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Hope that the USA has a magic secret weapon in his arse..nal
Yeah - I hear we have a special super-elite battalion which is practicing calling people by improper pronouns even as we speak.
That'll show them!
[Red State] Seems to me that until a better example comes along — shortly, I’m sure — if you look up "irony" in the dictionary, the above headline will be the first example you see. Yep, as Biden’s border crisis continues unabated, with tens of thousands of non-English-speaking illegals streaming across the Southern border daily, residents of Mexico City are ticked off by the influx of English-speaking Americans into Mexico.
As reported by The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday in an article that rivals the best travel brochures, Mexico has long been the top foreign travel destination for Americans, "its bountiful beaches and picturesque pueblos luring tens of millions of U.S. visitors annually." But in recent years, an influx of Californians, along with Americans from across the country, have flooded Mexico City, the nation’s capital, and left "a scent of new-wave imperialism."
And, English? You know, a foreign language in Mexico, where most people don’t speak a lick of it? Locals have become increasingly "fed up" with the growing number of Americans moving to the country, which has contributed to a rise in rent and a shift from Spanish to English in some places, with flyers popping up around the city — in English:
[NEWAGEBD.NET] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... said his country was ’ready to mobilise’ its nuclear deterrent in any future military clash with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday.
Washington and Seoul have repeatedly warned that Pyongyang is preparing to carry out its seventh nuclear test — a move that the United States has warned would provoke a ’swift and forceful’ response.
In Kim’s latest speech to mark the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War — known as ’Victory Day’ in the North — he said the country’s armed forces were ’thoroughly prepared’ for any crisis.
’Our country’s nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilise its absolute power faithfully, accurately and promptly in accordance with its mission,’ Kim said in a speech on Wednesday, according to Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency.
Speaking to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, Kim emphasised the country’s ’thorough readiness’ to ’deal with any military clash with the United States’.
His latest threats come as South Korea and the United States move to ramp up joint military exercises, which have always infuriated the North as Pyongyang considers them rehearsals for invasion.
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[MAIL] The Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco scientist has accepted a job at tobacco giant Philip Morris International, just weeks after he signed off on the company's latest vape product.
Matt Holman, chief of the office of science in the agency's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), announced his departure from the FDA on Tuesday, effective immediately, after having served at the agency for more than 20 years.
His departure adds to ongoing trouble within the FDA's tobacco control division, which is currently under review by agency commissioner Robert Califf.
It also follows the division's loss of Mitch Zeller, who retired in April after serving as CTP director for nearly a decade. Brian King, who announced Holman's resignation in an internal memo, was appointed director earlier this month.
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They do need a law that prevents moving from a gov watch agency directly into the corporate sector they were just watching. Perhaps a year or two in between to shed the worst offenders.
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WHy did the FDA need a 'top tobacco scientist' anyway?
I thought tobacco science was settled? It's bad for you; smoke weed instead!
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Perhaps a year or two in between to shed the worst offenders.
5 year non-hiring for all government agencies to any corporate group that they would have regulatory power over. Violators get a 155% tax fine on all their income.
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Perhaps a year or two in between to shed the worst offenders.
When our organisation broke away from a -large-multinational-corporation- those of us peons were were dragged along were not allowed to seek employment with the parent company for 3 years.(1)
So double that for Government - 6 years. Apply it to trading in the stocks of industries you oversee as well - call it the Pelosi Admendment.
(1) - actually ended up very well - working for a very good private corporation which values it's employees. Not too woke. No vaccine mandates. Best leadership I've seen.
If you thought Yellowstone was TV fiction.
[FoxNews] The American Prairie (AP), a conservation project in Montana, has quietly scooped up more than 450,000 acres of land with the help of its billionaire donors and the federal government.
The little-known project aims to create the largest "fully functioning ecosystem" in the continental U.S. by stitching together about 3.2 million acres of private and public lands, according to the American Prairie Foundation, which founded the reserve more than 20 years ago. The group has recorded 34 transactions spanning roughly 453,188 acres of land throughout central Montana — much of which were once used for farming and grazing — since 2004 and continues to aggressively expand.
"Our mission is to assemble the largest complex of public and private lands devoted to wildlife in the lower 48," Pete Geddes, AP's vice president and chief external relations officer, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "For comparison, about 25% larger than Yellowstone."
"We're not asking the federal government to create anything, we're not asking the federal government for any money," he added. "Instead, we're engaged in private philanthropy and voluntary exchange by buying ranches from people who would like to sell that to us."
The American Prairie Foundation has raised tens of millions of dollars in recent years, according to recent tax filings, thanks in large part to its donors, which include well-known Wall Street and Silicon Valley magnates. Hansjoerg Wyss, a Swiss financier and mega-donor of liberal causes, deceased German retail mogul Erivan Haub, John Mars, the heir to the Mars candy fortune, and Susan Packard Orr, daughter of the Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder, have all donated to AP, Bloomberg previously reported.
The AP said about 3% of its contributions have come from international donors.
"It's an area that doesn't have a lot of people in it and has been depopulating for a long, long time," Geddes said. "So, the thinking was, perhaps there's greater potential for less conflict over conservation in this part of the world."
However, AP's plans have faced increasing pushback from top state officials and local ranchers who argue such a nature reserve would remove key land from production and negatively impact surrounding privately-owned lands. Using its donor funds, the group has purchased about 118,000 acres of private land and leased another 334,000 acres of public land owned primarily by the federal government.
"Those donors are able to write those contributions off as a charitable donation, so they don't have to live with the consequences of what they're doing to these communities," said Chuck Denowh, the policy director at the United Property Owners of Montana (UPOM), a group made up of local ranchers opposed to AP's plans.
"It's really concerning that we have such an amount of foreign money coming into AP to buy up our ag land," he told Fox News Digital. "For the future of food security of this country, we need to take a close look at that."
Denowh said the vast majority of locals throughout the surrounding counties who have looked after and conserved the land for decades are opposed to the AP's plans. The region is almost entirely dependent on the agriculture industry.
Opponents of AP have focused their ire in particular on one of the group's chief proposals to release wild bison onto the property, giving visitors "a chance to witness the majestic species." UPOM has expressed concern that free-roaming bison may infect surrounding livestock with brucellosis, an infectious disease commonly found in bison and elk populations, which could be extremely costly for ranchers if spread to their cattle.
The foundation requested permission from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the federal agency responsible for managing 245 million acres of public lands, to allow bison grazing on portions of the leased property in 2017 and again in 2019. The agency announced Thursday that it had approved the AP's request for bison grazing across 63,500 acres of federal property.
Gov. Greg Gianforte and a series of state agency heads penned letters to BLM late last year urging the agency not to approve the request. Montana Department of Agriculture Director Christy Clark said the plan would remove "large chunks of land from production agriculture," likely decrease agricultural production revenue and harm support industries in the area like machinery sales and ranch laborers.
"It's just flatly illegal," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Fox News Digital in an interview. "This is federal land that is specifically — by the Taylor Grazing Act, by federal law — set aside for livestock grazing. Bison are not livestock, even under federal law."
"That's the part that everyone just seems to be ignoring here," he continued. "AP doesn't want to admit that, certainly the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Interior don't want to admit that. But that's just the fact."
Knudsen slammed AP for what he called its surreptitious plan to create an "American Serengeti" where "liberal coastal elites can come and hang out and look at the pretty animals." The attorney general added that his office is closely reviewing the Biden administration's decision Thursday to determine its next steps to protect ranchers and the state's interests.
The Taylor Grazing Act, which Congress passed in 1934, is designed to prevent overgrazing by allowing local ranchers to lease public land for livestock grazing and raising forage crops. The bill was approved to increase food and livestock production on land that had, for years, been severely mismanaged.
While AP has argued the law allows for bison grazing, the group has also acknowledged its plans are primarily centered on conservation, not production. For example, the group boasts on its website that its land acquisitions have already led to the retirement of 63,777 acres of cattle grazing leases in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, allowing federal authorities to "restore the habitat primarily for wildlife use."
An estimated 800 bison currently roam on some of AP's property, a number the group hopes will swell to "several thousand" as part of its wildlife restoration plan.
AP currently leases out some of the land it oversees to cattle ranchers, who, amid a major regional drought, are desperate for grasslands available for livestock grazing. Geddes said those ranchers have been made well aware of AP's plans to eventually push them off reserve property once bison are allowed to roam on that leased land.
"Let's say in a couple of years, we have 1,200 head of bison. In the seven counties in which we work, there are probably half a million head of cattle," he added. "This critique that we're somehow dropping the neutron bomb and wiping out agriculture in this area — it's just nonsensical."
Montana's $4.72 billion agriculture industry is among the state's largest sectors and supplies the U.S. with a large supply of wheat, hay, lentils, corn and meat, according to the Montana Department of Agriculture. As of January, Montana ranchers operated an inventory of 2.2 million cattle, making it one of the few states with more cattle than people.
Overall, cattle inventories have declined in Montana and across the country over the last several years, a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service showed.
California and New York are the top two spots for Chinese buyers in the US, followed by Indiana and Florida, tied for third
Chinese buyers spent $6.1billion in the US on mainly primary residences (52 percent) and residential rentals (25 percent)
Florida has hit its 14 consecutive year as the number one spot overall for foreign buyers, which Governor Ron DeSantis, 43, called a 'huge problem'
Chinese buyers are being pushed out of other countries, like New Zealand and Australia for driving up housing prices
Many are doing so to avoid paying income taxes in their home country, it has been reported
Like New Zealand and Australia, DeSantis wants to impose foreign taxes on them to deter them from buying on US soil
'I don't think they should be able to do it. I think the problem is these companies have ties to the CCP, and it's not always apparent,' DeSantis said
A total of 6,100 properties in the US are owned by Chinese citizens and they spent an average of $470,600 for it.
More than 65 percent bought detached single-family homes. Ten percent bought condominiums and nine percent bought townhouses.
Overall, Canada was the second largest buyer at $5.5billion, followed by India at $3.6billion, followed by Mexico at $2.9billion, Brazil at $1.6billion, and Colombia at $1billion.
Foreign buyer purchases made up 4% of the $1.7 trillion existing-home sales last year, the NAR report noted.
Chinese investments in U.S. housing reflect in part a flight of capital from China in recent years, said Keys. “A big part of that was about wealthier Chinese citizens moving their money abroad to avoid taxes and to avoid scrutiny,” he added. In fact, China in 2016 experienced “the greatest episode of capital flight in history,” according to a Wall Street Journal report at the time.
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Yeah, China heavily restricts anyone who's not Chinese from buying property in China. They can't have soaring prices because their own people have to buy homes.
Not so in America! The whole world can buy our properties without even setting foot on our soil! Then keep the property empty or with sky-high rent. They don't care if they don't get tenants. The choice is keep it in their country and lose it, or put it in US real estate.
But we need those houses to live in. Good thing the US government hates our guts and considers us an enemy! They won't lift a finger to help us. Billions for Ukraine but not one cent for Americans.
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They have been doing this for years. They escape China for a variety of reasons. Locate where there are few Chinese to compete with. Long term they loose connection to homeland. Children will not go back. Mixed blood not welcomed. Well known in South Korea about aversions to mixed blood. Currently in China foreigners not welcomed. Major housing disaster occurring now. Those with the resources are escaping now as able.
[DW] To move away from relying on Russian energy, the European Union are increasingly turning to Africa for natural gas imports — and Algeria, Niger and Nigeria are looking to cash in.
[NYPOST] The flashy Brooklyn pastor who was robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry during a live-streamed church service was accused of stealing $90,000 from a congregant in a lawsuit filed last year.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead — who is known for flaunting his Gucci suits, diamond-encrusted chains and stable of luxury vehicles — allegedly has a history of grifting and even served time in prison for identity theft and grand larceny.
Pauline Anderson, 56, accused the Rolls-Royce driving clergyman of convincing her to liquidate her life savings and pay him a $90,000 "investment" in November 2020 with the promise that he would buy and renovate a home for her, according to her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
Whitehead also agreed to pay Anderson $100 per month since the savings was her only source of income, says the suit, first reported by The City on Thursday.
Whitehead, 44, allegedly only made one of the $100 payments to Anderson in January 2021, and each time she asked about the status of her home in the following months, he repeatedly told her that he was tied up with his election campaign for Brooklyn Borough President, according to the lawsuit.
Ultimately, instead of helping Anderson find a home, Whitehead used the funds as down payment on the contract to purchase a $4.4 million home for himself in Saddle River, New Jersey, the suit alleges.
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He and his wife had the Robbery planned and staged to run an insurance scam for the stolen items.
Which may or may not have been still the real thing.
[Hot Air] One of the most alarming aspects of the entire ongoing transgender debate, aside from the environment of indoctrination in our public schools, has been the trend of doctors being willing to medically intervene in the normal development of children to support their "transition." These interventions come in multiple forms, all of which can and do carry potential negative consequences for children. They include regular injections of unnatural hormones and even genital mutilation surgery and mastectomies. But perhaps even more alarming is the growing "popularity" of administering so-called "puberty-blocking" drugs to very young children as a way to prevent their natural gender from developing.
Prominent American medical associations that have been infected with wokeness have largely remained silent about this practice. But perhaps that is starting to change. The FDA recently added a warning to the most commonly prescribed puberty-blockers, saying that they can cause "serious risks" for children who take them. (KATV News)
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Let me get this right. You ban children (and even young adults) from getting alcohol and tobacco products because of the harm to their bodies but you provide this stuff? YJCMTSU
It's no longer about tolerance, they are demanding submission to their life styles.
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The Ghey Political power in the demokrat party is enormous, and they have gone from hoping for acceptance and equality for their lifestyle and all its questionable variants in the last century to DEMANDING it be displayed approvingly in every aspect of daily life. But moving to pedophilia and "grooming" is intolerable to any rational person. ENOUGH!
[NEWAGEBD.NET] Two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled Sri Lanka’s president were arrested on Wednesday, police said, as parliament extended tough emergency laws imposed to restore order.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... Singapore has extended a short-stay visa for Lanka’s deposed president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, local media in the city-state reported on Wednesday.
Rajapaksa fled his country on July 13, after his official residence was stormed by thousands of protesters who had demonstrated for months against the island nation’s painful economic crisis.
Rajapaksa’s 14-day visit pass has been extended, allowing him to stay until August 11, the Straits Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
The former president was allowed to enter Singapore on a ’private visit’ and did not seek asylum, authorities said previously.
Rajapaksa was forced to flee when tens of thousands of protesters, incensed by the island nation’s unprecedented economic crisis, stormed his residence in the capital Colombo.
He later flew to Singapore and tendered his resignation while his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency and vowed a tough line against ’trouble-makers’.
Police said in separate Wednesday statements that they had arrested activists Kusal Sandaruwan and Weranga Pushpika on unlawful assembly charges.
After Rajapaksa fled, Sandaruwan was seen in social media footage counting a large cache of banknotes found in the president’s home.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Ref #9: David Koresh could have been arrested at the gas station in Waco or on the highway going either way. 
/\ Or the Social Security number of a dead Frenchman from Connecticut. 
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[Hot Air] One of the most alarming aspects of the entire ongoing transgender debate, aside from the environment of indoctrination in our public schools, has been the trend of doctors being willing to medically intervene in the normal development of children to support their "transition." These interventions come in multiple forms, all of which can and do carry potential negative consequences for children. They include regular injections of unnatural hormones and even genital mutilation surgery and mastectomies. But perhaps even more alarming is the growing "popularity" of administering so-called "puberty-blocking" drugs to very young children as a way to prevent their natural gender from developing. 
