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It's a nice graphic but I'd sure like more details. No doubt PDs in problem areas don't want to look bad and the choice to participate or not in UCR reporting is probably made by political hacks in many of those areas. Still, it would be interesting to see numbers and names of places.
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We are further and further from Joe Friday saying "Just the facts, ma'am..."
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Policing is down as well. Lots of complaints of calling the police and getting no action. And in other news, just like the economy, the Leftists do not understand why Americans feel so unsafe in their own communities while crime metrics are way down!?!?
[Breitbart] The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a middle school student who wore a T-shirt displaying the message, “There are only two genders.”
As Breitbart News reported last year, middle schooler Liam Morrison of Nichols Middle School in Middleborough was asked to remove his “There are only two genders” shirt.
The incident first occurred on March 5 when Liam Morrison was pulled from gym class and asked to remove his shirt because other students were allegedly complaining and did not feel safe, as first reported by WPDE. The seventh grader was told by a staff member that his shirt was “targeting a protected class.” Morrison said he would not change his shirt, and the school called his father to pick him up.
During a Middleborough Public Schools board meeting on April 13, Morrison shared his experience with the intention that the school district should show more support for students’ First Amendment rights. The video was picked up by Libs of TikTok and received more than 127,000 likes on Twitter.
Morrison’s parents filed a lawsuit, arguing that the school violated his First Amendment rights. Earlier this year, a district court ruled against the parents, which the appeals court affirmed this week, according to Fox News.
“This case isn’t about T-shirts; it’s about a public school telling a middle-schooler that he isn’t allowed to express a view that differs from their own,” David Cortman, Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel and vice president of U.S. Litigation, said in a statement following the federal court’s decision.
Cortman said the legal system is “built on the truth that the government cannot silence any speaker just because it disapproves of what they say.”
“The school actively promotes its view about gender through posters and ‘Pride’ events, and it encourages students to wear clothing with messages on the same topic — so long as that clothing expresses the school’s preferred views on the subject,” Cortman emphasized.
The Morrison family will be reviewing further legal options going forward.
Morrison told Fox News earlier this year that he did not wear the shirt to offend members of the LGBTQ community.
“I’m just voicing my opinion about a statement that I believe to be true,” he said at the time. “And I feel like some people may think that I’m imposing hate speech, even though it’s not directed towards anyone.”
The case is Morrison v. Middleborough, No. 23-1535, in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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SCOTUS has already ruled on it. The appeal judges know that. Then again, I believe confirmation hearings have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding of the Constitution by Biden nominees.
The thing about Third World problems is that even high-end resorts have them there.
[NYP] An American tourist died and his wife was badly injured while lounging in a hot tub at a private Mexican resort Tuesday — and authorities believe they were likely electrocuted by the malfunctioning device.
The 43-year-old man, whom authorities only identified as Jorge G., of El Paso, Texas, was killed and Lizette Z. suffered life-threatening injuries around 10 p.m. at the Sonoran Sea Resort in Puerto Penasco, the General Prosecutor’s Office for the State of Sonora said, according to KTSM.
Lizette Z. was taken to the US and is in critical condition, the station reported.
The wife had burns that appeared to indicate she suffered electric shock that might have been caused by faulty wiring, the General Prosecutor’s Office reportedly said.
A witness who knew the couple said she saw the pair in the outdoor hot tub, but neither was moving, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office.
There are lots of ways to die in hot tubs. Early in his career, while enjoying several adult beverages in one at a nice hotel on the far side of the world, Mr. Wife discovered he was in the process of drowning when a passing gentleman pulled him out by his hair. I am grateful he was given the chance to learn from the experience…
I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion, dear Seeking Cure, but I love men in all your infinite variety. To the cultivated mind y’all are just as interesting as women. ;-)
[Bearing Arms] We're still waiting to see what the Supreme Court does in Rahimi and Cargill, but gun owners did get some very good news from the federal courts on Thursday. A U.S. District Judge in Texas has vacated the ATF's rule treating pistols equipped with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles; granting relief not only for the named plaintiffs involved in the litigation, but for every gun owner across the country who owns a brace.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the ATF's rule treating most pistol braces as accessories that turn pistols into SBRs violated the Administrative Procedures Act in a number of ways.
For close to a decade, the ATF concluded that "attaching the brace to a firearm does not alter the classification of the firearm or subject the firearm to NFA control." The ATF changed course on this position for the first time in 2023, when it issued the Final Rule reversing the agency’s otherwise long-standing policy. "When an agency changes course, as [the ATF] did here, it must ’be cognizant that longstanding policies may have engendered serious reliance interests that must be taken into account.’" Dep’t of Homeland Sec. v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., 591 U.S. 1, 30 (2020) (quoting Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, 579 U. S. 211, 222 (2016)). "It would be arbitrary and capricious to ignore such matters" Id. But this is exactly what Defendants did when they inexplicably and fundamentally switched their position on stabilizing braces without providing sufficient explanations and notice.
Under the Final Rule, the ATF estimated about 99% of pistols with stabilizing braces would be reclassified as NFA rifles. The ATF contemporaneously issued approximately sixty adjudications pursuant to the Final Rule that reclassified different configurations of firearms with stabilizing braces as NFA rifles. The ATF provided no explanations for how the agency came to these classifications and there is no "meaningful clarity about what constitutes an impermissible stabilizing brace." Mock, 75 F.4th at 585 (5th Cir. 2023). In fact, the Fifth Circuit "[could not] find a single given example of a pistol with a stabilizing brace that would constitute an NFA exempt braced pistol." Id. at 575. Such "’unexplained’ and ’inconsistent’ positions" are arbitrary and capricious. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. v. FDA, 65 F.4th 182, 191 (5th Cir. 2023) (quoting Encino Motorcars, 579 U.S. at 222).
The Defendants’ disregard for the principles of fair notice and consideration of reliance interests is further exacerbated by its failure to follow the APA’s procedural requirements for public notice and comment. As discussed above, Defendants failed to follow proper notice-and comment procedures because the Proposed Rule and the Final Rule differed in immense ways.
O'Connor also held that the ATF's final rule on stabilizing braces was "impermissibly vague", noting that while the ATF developed a worksheet that ostensibly allows gun owners to see if their brace-equipped pistol falls under the rule, the ATF itself still has "complete discretion to use a subjective balancing test to weigh six opaque factors on an invisible scale" to determine the legality of a brace-equipped pistol.
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So a fed judge OKs pistol braces, the Supreme court OK'd bump stocks. Its not about the guns folks. Its about the ATF deciding the law. Typical govt agency over reach of the laws to fit some political end. If Congress, that will scream and yell dragging the sandy hook kids from their graves saying that gun owners are criminals and the courts are in the NRA's pocket need to understand one fact. If the congress critter dont like it, pass a law. The ATF are supposed to enforce the laws, not make them up, like they think they can. The courts are doing nothing more that making sure the ATF has not over reached the law, as they did in both cases. Congress has no issue passing laws that feed their pork projects and enrich their friends. Yet they refuse to pass any laws that mean anything...
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The courts have been trying to tell congress to stop using unelected bureaucrats to take the measures our "elected officials" don't want the blowback of passing themselves.
Now if we could get judges to stop legislating, we'd be getting somewhere.
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Dire Straits, kinda: And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises Judges?
He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee
Oh, that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothing, get your chicks for free
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[Washington Examiner] Most of the great filmmakers in American cinema will candidly admit some of the most enduring and memorable moments in their films were scenes or lines that were never in the script.
"Here’s looking at you, kid," was never in the "Casablanca" script, it was a Humphrey Bogart ad-lib. "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli," from Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather" was a riff from the actor. On a lighter note, the iconic scene in "Pretty Woman" when Richard Gere snaps a jewelry box on Julia Roberts’s fingers was originally a practical joke.
It is spontaneity that Mike Rowe, podcaster, author, television host, and champion of the everyman, says he now understands after finishing his first movie, during which he placed in at the last minute something that becomes one of the most riveting parts of his history-themed documentary "Something to Stand For."
Rowe said his impromptu interview, a conversation really, with Andy Michael, a 91-year-old Korean War Veteran at the World War II Memorial in Washington, was never in the script, and it wasn’t even in the treatment for the film that dives into some of the most extraordinary events that took place behind the scenes in our country — from the American Revolution, Civil War, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement, to today.
The film is full of larger-than-life stories that remind us that greatness begins with the least of us and that patriotism, even in our most flawed moments in history, is worth standing for. These are stories you have likely never heard. They are stories that make you see these men and women who shaped who we are today quite differently.
Rowe said he was standing in the World War II Memorial trying to collect his thoughts for a very specific, scripted stand-up he needed to do for the film when he noticed the veteran.
"The director had very thoughtfully put a nice X on the ground where I could hit my mark perfectly, the light was just so, and I was going to walk in, and I was going to say whatever I say, and we were going to check that box and move on to the next set-up," he said.
[AFRICANEWS] A boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a river near Congo's capital of Kinshasa, leaving more than 80 dead, President Félix Tshisekedi said Wednesday.
It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country where overloading is often blamed, including in February when dozens bit the dust after an overloaded boat sank.
A statement quoting Tshisekedi said the locally made boat capsized late Monday in Maï-Ndombe province along the Kwa River.
The boat was carrying 271 passengers to Kinshasa when it broke down due to an engine failure, according to the U.N.-backed Radio Okapi, citing Ren Maker, the water commissioner in the Mushi district where the accident happened.
Eighty-six of the passengers died while 185 managed to swim ashore, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) near the closest city of Mushie, Maker said.
He said the boat hit the edge of the river bank and broke up.
Congolese officials have often warned against overloading and vowed to punish those violating safety measures for water transportation. But in remote areas where most passengers come from, many are unable to afford public transport for the few available roads.
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[BBC] Argentina's Senate has narrowly approved President Javier Milei's controversial economic reform package, with the vote taking place as violent clashes raged between protesters and riot police outside Congress.
Demonstrators in Buenos Aires - who say the measures will hurt millions of Argentines - threw petrol bombs and stones, setting cars alight.
A number of people were reported injured, with local media describing the scene on Wednesday as a "battlefield".
The reforms, aimed at reviving the country's flagging economy, include declaring a state of economic emergency, cutting pensions and watering down labour rights.
Mr Milei, a right-wing economist, was elected in the midst of a deep economic crisis which he is still struggling to stem after six months in office.
Annual inflation is currently close to 300%, while more than half of Argentines are now living in poverty.
Mr Milei's "shock" measures are opposed by leftist political parties, labour unions and social organisations.
But the motion, which was initially tied 36-36 in the Senate, was preliminarily passed on Wednesday after the head of the chamber, Vice-President Victoria Villarruel, broke the tie.
"For those Argentines who suffer, who wait, who do not want to see their children leave the country... my vote is affirmative," Ms Villaruel said after breaking the tie.
The 328-article bill will now be surveyed point by point before its expected full approval on Thursday.
It will then return to the lower house for the final go-ahead.
Scuffles broke out when protesters tried to make their way towards Congress through fences, with demonstrators throwing rocks at officers who pepper sprayed them. Observers and opposition MPs said dozens of demonstrators and a handful of MPs received medical attention. At least five opposition MPs in the crowd were hospitalised, legislator Cecilia Moreau told AFP news agency.
At least 20 police officers were also injured, officials said. Security forces said they arrested 15 people.
President Milei's office issued a statement thanking the security forces for repressing what it described as "terrorists" attempting to carry out a coup d'état.
“We are going to change Argentina, we are going to make it the most liberal country in the world," Mr Milei told a conference in Buenos Aires.
The highly divisive bill was approved by the lower house in April, after significant amendments were made to it.
Mr Milei came to office in 2023 after vowing to take a chainsaw to public spending. He has since cut the cabinet in half, slashed 50,000 public jobs, suspended new public works contracts and ripped away fuel and transport subsidies.
May President Trump do as well as this, his fervent admirer.
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Paris, Buenos Aires, coming here soon. The Left refuses the peaceful transfer of power. The traitors in government positions will muzzle real police power except to those who return the violence that the Left unleashes.
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Milei has moved expeditiously and has signed agreements that propel fracking and lithium production in Argentina. He wanted to sell off the national airlines that loses money consistently but was rejected by Senate. For the moment Milei is the leader of a small political party, but with economic success (fought tooth and nail by the left) it should grow significantly.
[ZERO] A China-linked cyber campaign that infiltrated a Dutch defense network last year is much larger than previously thought and has infiltrated tens of thousands of government and defense systems in Western nations, according to the Dutch government.
The campaign, dubbed COATHANGER, has been linked to communist China and it exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the FortiGate firewall system used by the Netherlands and other nations on many government networks. Zero-day vulnerabilities exist when a software update is first deployed.
Dutch intelligence’s original report, released in February, said that damage from the breach was limited because of "network segmentation," which separates an affected system from the nation’s wider defense network.
The Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) announced on June 10, however, that the Chinese cyber campaign is far larger than previously thought.
NCSC said that COATHANGER compromised 20,000 systems across dozens of Western governments, international organizations, and a large number of companies within the defense industry.
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NCSC said that COATHANGER compromised 20,000 systems across dozens of Western governments, international organizations, and a large number of companies within the defense industry.
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We pay billions to fund intelligence agencies but have no idea of any cyber counter-attacks against our enemies. We are left to conclude that the CIA, NSA, etc., are feckless tools of an inept Washington polity.
[Breitbart] The state of Utah is suing China’s TikTok, alleging the popular app’s “Live” feature is “a virtual strip club” for minors that lets adults pay children “to strip, pose, and dance provocatively” in exchange for money.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) and Attorney General Sean D. Reyes (R) announced the lawsuit last week, alleging the Chinese app “has consciously allowed young people to be sexually exploited on the TikTok platform in exchange for money.”
The governor and attorney general go on to claim that the app’s feature known as TikTok LIVE “lets adult users give TikTok currency to young users in exchange for sexual solicitation and exploitation while the company takes a cut of each payment.”
This is the second lawsuit Gov. Cox and Attorney General Reyes have filed against China’s popular and controversial TikTok app.
In October 2023, Utah filed a lawsuit against TikTok alleging the Chinese app “illegally baits children into addictive and unhealthy use, blatantly misrepresents the app’s safety, and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its China-based parent company ByteDance.”
As Breitbart News reported, TikTok is the subject of the recently passed sell-or-ban legislation, calling on the app’s parent company ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, to sell TikTok by January or else face a ban in the United States.
ByteDance and TikTok responded to the legislation by filing a court petition against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “for review of constitutionality” of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
TikTok is widely considered a national security threat by U.S. lawmakers in both the Republican and Democrat Party, given that its parent company is controlled by Chinese communists.
Moreover, the Chinese app has already shown itself to be a physical danger to kids and teens, and is facing multiple lawsuits brought by several families who say the social media platform controlled by a hostile foreign country is directly responsible for the deaths of their children.
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No, problem, only allow access to it at schools where they stock books on perversion and have drag queen story times. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[OilPrice] New Zealand’s government is proposing the lifting of a 2018 oil and gas exploration ban as it seeks to halt a decline in domestic natural gas supply, boost energy security, and signal to international investors that it is open for business.
This week, the coalition government said it would introduce a bill in Parliament in the second half of 2024 to remove the ban on petroleum exploration beyond onshore Taranaki as part of a series of proposed amendments to the Crown Minerals Act.
Industry welcomed the government’s announcement as a step in the right direction to ensuring reliable, home-grown energy for all New Zealanders but noted that the return of exploration firms to the country would depend on the nature and extent of legislative changes and the perceived risk.
The removal of the ban is aimed at dealing with the energy security challenges posed by rapidly declining natural gas reserves, Resources Minister Shane Jones said.
[Red State] Last September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Fast Food Restaurant Industry Act, which raised the minimum wage for most fast-food workers to $20 per hour. Moreover, the new law "establishes a Fast Food Council ... to establish an hourly minimum wage for fast food restaurant employees and develop standards, rules, and regulations for the fast food industry."
Unsurprisingly, this steep hike in the minimum wage for fast-food workers has already produced substantial downstream effects. According to the California Business and Industrial Alliance, there have been around 10,000 fast-food job layoffs in the Golden State since the Fast Food Restaurant Industry Act was signed into law.
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Fully expect Gov. Hairgel to ask for legislation requiring fast food companies to hire X number of people, based on area population. Of course this will also be chock full of DEI/ illegal alien quantities.
Commies ignorance of supply and demand is selective. When an election is imminent they sure understand how to maneuver gas prices via draining the strategic reserve. Republicans never call them on this hypocrisy.
[ZERO] Update (1710ET): Confirming what Musk posted on X last night, Bloomberg reports that Tesla investors voted for CEO Elon Musk’s compensation package and moving the company’s state of incorporation to Texas, signaling confidence in his leadership.
"It is not automatically reinstated if the shareholders approve it," said Samantha Crispin, a partner at Texas-based law firm Baker Botts and chair of the corporate department.
"I would imagine it would be influential [and] it certainly would be something that the judge would take into consideration."
As The Verge reports, Tesla is banking on the reapproval aiding in its effort to overturn Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick’s ruling, which means a likely appeal to the state’s Supreme Court.
Still, the outcome is uncertain, with Tesla stating in its proxy statement that it "cannot predict with certainty how a vote to ratify Musk’s compensation would be treated under Delaware law in these novel circumstances."
With today’s vote, Musk’s stake could potentially rise to 20 percent, from about 13 percent today.
Additionally, shareholders voted to reappoint two board members: James Murdoch and Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother.
[Self Reliance.com] We’ve all been told how safe and unhackable the Dominion voting machines are. However, election officials in Puerto Rico are considering canceling their contract with Dominion for their 6,000 voting machines after hundreds of discrepancies were discovered in the recent primary.
A huge issue was the machines giving fake vote totals.
"The concern is that we obviously have elections in November, and we must provide the (island) not only with the assurance that the machine produces a correct result, but also that the result it produces is the same one that is reported," said Election Commission President Jessika Padilla.
To compound the doubts in the machines’ integrity it has come to light that the motherboard (main control of the computer’s processor) was made in China and could be compromised from afar.
Questioning the outcome of election night 2020 brings derision from the left and a massive silencing from the MSM but enough people still wonder about this datapoint intercepted by the US Army prior to the cessation of counting in key counties.
2023 Chinese balloon incident
2023 diplomatic incident involving a Chinese balloon in Canadian and U.S. airspace
From January 28 to February 4, 2023, a high-altitude balloon originating from China flew across North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. On February 4, the U.S. Air Force shot down the balloon over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of South Carolina. Debris from the wreckage was recovered and sent to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. Following a preliminary analysis of the debris in June, U.S. Wikipedia
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Republicans tore into President Biden's 'insane' and 'politically suicidal' opposition to giving junior enlisted members a nearly 20 percent pay boost amid recruitment issues.
In a Tuesday statement about opposition to the House's version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the White House Budget Office said a plan to give low-ranking troops a 19.5% boost in basic pay next year would be too expensive.
'Joe Biden managed to become a multi-millionaire on a public servant salary,' Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told DailyMail.com. 'And he is snatching food out of our junior enlisted people's mouths.'
Van Orden said that while he was an active duty Navy Seal, his wife had to use WIC coupons to keep their children fed.
'It's disgusting and reprehensible. I can't feel more strongly about it. That is bulls**t.'
After bipartisan lawmakers spent months studying quality-of-life issues in the military, the House decided to offer a 4.5 percent across-the-board pay raise and an additional 15 percent bump for junior enlisted in their yearly Pentagon policy bill.
The Senate's version of the bill does not currently include the additional 14.5 percent hike for junior enlisted.
Some early-career enlisted service members can make as little as $24,000, not including their housing allowances and free health care. The House plan would ensure that service members make at least $30,000 per year.
'It's completely insane,' Rep. Mike Garcia, who has led the fight for better military pay, told DailyMail.com of the Biden position. 'I can't understand that the rationale and in what universe it would make sense, either from a policy or from a political perspective.'
'They're actually going out of their way to say no to this and explain why this is a bad idea and it's, it's completely irrational and politically it's actually suicidal.'
Former President Donald Trump brought the issue up in a meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday, according to Garcia, and said he thought it would be a 'front burner issue.'
'[Trump] said ,everyone knows that we're having challenges in our military right now. So why would you not support getting them to the equivalent of a minimum wage which the rest of the universe has in our country?'
'This is a pay raise targeted at the E1 through E4 level,who are currently making literally $12 an hour, right now, which in California is about half of what the fast food workers make at McDonald's.'
The targeted pay raises would cost more than $24 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., called the White House opposition 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard come out of [Biden's] mouth.'
One quarter of the military population experienced food insecurity between 2018 and 2020 , according to the US Department of Agriculture.
More than 22,000 active-duty troops used the food stamp program in 2019, the most recent year with data available, according to the Government Accountability Office.
'You got one out of eight ballistic guys on staff at food and water food banks, particularly in DC, San Diego,' Bacon, a member of the Armed Services Committee and retired Air Force officer, said. ''And we figured we worked hard to figure out would the price need to be to get them above that threshold.'
The U.S. entered this year with one of its smallest defense forces in over 80 years as active-duty troop numbers sunk to less than 1.3 million as the Department of Defense is facing sever recruitment issues.
Recent recruitment targets were missed in the Army, Navy and Air Force, although the Marine Corps and the newly established Space Force reached their goals.
White House officials said the proposal 'would lead to pay compression in some parts of the enlisted military basic pay table' and said it should be delayed until a full review of military compensation rules is completed next year.
[Daily Caller] Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claimed Thursday on Fox News Capitol Hill lawmakers are "hearing" President Joe Biden won’t be the Democratic nominee come this November. The rematch! Go ahead, say it will never happen.
Luna appeared on "Jesse Watters Primetime" to discuss the recent meeting GOP lawmakers had with former President Donald Trump on Thursday morning. Fox host Jesse Watters asked Luna about the policies discussed in the closed door meeting, to which Luna revealed some of Trump’s ideas on foreign affairs.
"I think the number one issue that he has is, especially a concern for what’s happening right now with Russia, obviously." Luna said. "There’s the media really silencing what’s happening with Russia — warships off the coast of Cuba and also Florida. But I think more importantly too he made it sure that the American people would know that what is currently happening in Ukraine and Israel would have never happened under him and he does have a plan and solution moving forward."
"I also want to point out that he understands that world leaders respect him and right now with currently what’s coming out of the White House that, you know, a lot of people realize that Joe Biden is likely not going to be the nominee," she continued. "Which is from what we’re hearing on Capitol Hill, Representative [Kevin] Kiley had reported that Kamala Harris [is] actually eyeing a run for California governor because of it." The media has begun to stomp Biden. You can almost smell it in the air. Something is about to happen.
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The Dems having Hillary run would be like another Bush running. Give it up, DNC. Hillary is a disgusting thing in so many aspects, thinking that eight years later she could be prez is revolting beyond belief.
In yet another troubling sign for the foundering Biden reelection, several reports indicate that Gen Z—those born between 1996-2010—are increasingly unhappy with Joe Biden's performance and are not going to vote for him this November. Some are considering what they thought unthinkable just four years ago—checking the box for Donald Trump.
Even ethically challenged Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz was forced to admit in a piece Thursday that the trend is not in Biden's favor. It seems that a whole bunch of young people are furious that Biden threatened to ban TikTok from America unless China sells it. A group once known as TikTok for Biden and now called Gen-Z for Change is not all in on the president like they were in 2020:
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"Which is from what we’re hearing on Capitol Hill, Representative [Kevin] Kiley had reported that Kamala Harris [is] actually eyeing a run for California governor because of it."
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No State dinners? You've noticed also? Solid foods now a problem. Feeding tubes or ice cream, Dr.Jill decides. Losing airspeed and altitude. He's coming in on final approach.
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Don't know what you all are talking about. News told me he sauntered up to a paratrooper and spoke soldier things in Italian, and got a comrade's nod. Dude is a hoss.
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Well he was an Airborne Lance Sailor on D-Day. Did you see him at the anniversary other day re-enacting his jump from a Beaufighter? Named the craft after his son, don't ya know.
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Indeed. Inspired by watching one of FDR's Fireside Chats, he was a natural fit with his blond leg hairs to infiltrate the lines and make the push all the way to ffrneshnashnapeer, because Helmut Kohl was a bad dude. Absolute Legend.
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Joe is toast. He still polls ahead of all the other clowns. It will probably be Hillary or Michelle. No reason for anyone else to take the inevitable beating. Maybe Elizabeth Warren is stupid enough to agree if you spike her Chardonnay.
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Horrible thought. They are going to false flag wack Joe. They will get a patsy, an obvious one, and 'let' him wack Joe and then blame Republicans. They're laying the ground work already.
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And no, for the NSA/FBI/CIA guys, I don't have any knowledge, proof or anything beyond a sickening feeling that YES, the democrats would go that far.
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Lot of people making big money on the current setup; a dollar store Lorenzo Smythe and the soon to be unemployed Disney FX department may be on the table as good enough, especially with the handle on media.
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To be honest the Dems best bet would be someone with name recognition but no actual political voting record such as Jon Stewart or someone who is a rookie in politics but looks the part like Wes Moore.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Hildebrand was unavailable for comment. [REGNUM] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the protocol for the 25-kilometer cycling race held as part of the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. This was reported on Thursday, June 13, by the organization’s press service. Why, that was only 124 years ago!
The IOC awarded France the British medal at the 1900 Olympic Games.
We are talking about a cycling race in which Louis Hildebrand won the silver medal. Then the medal was awarded to Great Britain.
“Recent research has shown that although Hildebrand was a British citizen, he was born and raised in France and played for a French club before and after the Paris Olympics,” Reuters quoted the statement as saying.
It is noted that now the medal won by Hildebrand has now been awarded to France, whose team became the winner of the 1900 Olympics. After the revision, the French had 27 gold, 39 silver and 37 bronze medals. The British team at the Olympic Games in Paris took third place in the overall standings. Which team did he play for?
As reported by Regnum, the 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11. Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be able to take part in the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony and in the Games themselves as official representatives of their countries, and the medals they won as so-called “neutral athletes” will not be taken into account in any standings. As Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized, the Olympic Games without Russian athletes will be flawed and uninteresting. That's okay. I'm sure that 124 years from now it'll all be rectified.
[BBC] A huge fire has broken out at an oil refinery in Erbil, in northern Iraq.
Video shows plumes of smoke billowing into the air, as the fire engulfs a warehouse building.
Around a dozen firefighters are at the scene trying to control the blaze, which is thought to have started in the refinery's liquid asphalt warehouse.
No fatalities have been reported, however local media report a number of people were injured.
These things do happen from time to time around the Middle East, so possibly it is just the result of inshallah maintenance instead of enemy action. Update from Rudaw at 3:15 p.m. ET:
A massive blaze, which broke out at an asphalt storage facility in Erbil province late Wednesday, has been brought under control after raging for around 20 hours, civil defence spokesperson said.
"In less than 20 hours, we were able to control the fire. At this hour, the fire has been controlled," Shakhawan Saeed told news hounds on Thursday.
The incident took place on Erbil-Gwer road where several oil refineries are also present.
Saeed added that 150 firefighters participated in putting out the blaze.
"The fire was initially controlled up to 80 percent, but due to a rise in temperatures" the firefighters lost control of the blaze which "led to the spread of the fire and another storage catching on fire."
Fourteen workers were maimed and four fire trucks were burned but there were no casualties, according to the spokesperson.
Fires are a perennial concern in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region where safety standards are often lacking. They are especially frequent in the summertime, with the scorching summer heat increasing risks of fires breaking out.
Safety standards are also often ignored in the country, and buildings lack adequate fire extinguishers and emergency facilities such as evacuation routes.
A total of 7,546 fire incidents were recorded across the Kurdistan Region in 2022, according to data from the Region’s Police Directorate.
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[Regnum] Boeing has identified a new problem on its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
According to the publication, hundreds of fasteners were incorrectly tightened on the fuselages of a number of aircraft that had not yet been delivered to the customer. We are talking about improper tightening of more than 900 parts on the side of the aircraft body.
A source at the company said that Boeing has no concerns about the safety of flights on aircraft already in operation. Experts will examine undelivered aircraft to ensure they meet technical standards.
As Regnum reported, on May 7, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began an investigation into the inspection requirements for Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Boeing told regulators in April that it may not have completed all required inspections, the FAA said. We are talking, in particular, about checking the adequacy of connections and grounding at the junction of the wings and the fuselage on some Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
In 2024, a series of incidents involving Boeing aircraft were reported. In particular, in March, the Boeing 777-200 airliner lost a tire while taking off from San Francisco airport to Japan, which is why it made an emergency landing in Los Angeles. On May 2, it became known that the second whistleblower about violations in the production of Boeing aircraft, Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor for the corporation’s supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, had died in the United States. The official cause of death was given as organ failure.
Former Boeing quality engineer John Barnett, who had repeatedly said that the company used substandard components in assembling aircraft, was found dead in a truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina in March 2024. He was 62 years old. Earlier this month, he testified in court against the company where he worked for 32 years. According to him, workers installed non-standard and defective parts on the planes to avoid delays in the production of Dreamliner aircraft.
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A source at the company said that Boeing has no concerns about the safety of flights on aircraft already in operation. Experts will examine undelivered aircraft to ensure they meet technical standards.
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But, but. "Engaging" the Chinese in global trade was going to be stabilizing.
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I’m quite willing to be pleased they discovered this problem before the airplanes were released, rather than once they were in the air. That’s a vast improvement over how they were discovering problems previously.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Bearing Arms] We're still waiting to see what the Supreme Court does in Rahimi and Cargill, but gun owners did get some very good news from the federal courts on Thursday. A U.S. District Judge in Texas has vacated the ATF's rule treating pistols equipped with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles; granting relief not only for the named plaintiffs involved in the litigation, but for every gun owner across the country who owns a brace..JPEG)
[Daily Caller] Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claimed Thursday on Fox News Capitol Hill lawmakers are "hearing" President Joe Biden won’t be the Democratic nominee come this November.
[REGNUM] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the protocol for the 25-kilometer cycling race held as part of the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. This was reported on Thursday, June 13, by the organization’s press service.
