[FoxNews] The girlfriend's lawyer said firearm surrender and domestic violence laws were useless if they were not being enforced
A Texas man accused of beating his girlfriend to the point where their unborn child died, will serve no jail time after taking a plea deal with the Travis County District Attorney's office Monday, according to reports.
Would that be Soros-backed Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza?
Johnny Charles Ebbs V’s plea deal comes with eight years of deferred adjudication on a third-degree continuous family violence assault charge, meaning that he has not been found guilty at the time of sentencing and will have his offense dismissed if he doesn’t violate his probation.
Police said Ebbs beat and hospitalized his pregnant girlfriend, LaShonda Lemons, in Austin in 2019. Three days later, the unborn child died due to blunt force trauma.
Lemons’ attorney, Kelsey McKay, said in court that Ebbs’ bond and an agreed-upon protective order mandated that he was to forfeit his guns – a move he has yet to make, KXAN reported.
McKay called firearm surrender laws and domestic violence laws "relatively useless" if they’re not being enforced. She said Ebbs' plea deal means he will be required to wear a GPS monitor for six months and will not serve any jail time.
The Travis County District Attorney's office prosecuted this case. Fox News Digital has reached out to that office for comment. It has not responded.
Look at that smug shit. Any doubts he'll re-offend?
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No doubt whatsoever. That's baked in to the system now.
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That's The People's Republic of Travis County to those unfamiliar.
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Yeah, like downtown Houston, it's not really considered to be part of Texas right now. Just outside my work near the county line is a big billboard from Montgomery County that warns criminals it's not like Harris county.
[BehindTheBlack] R.I.P. Jim McDivitt, who was the commander of both the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions in the 1960s, passed away on October 13, 2022 at the age of 93.
He first flew in space as commander of the Gemini IV mission in June 1965. McDivitt was joined by fellow Air Force pilot Ed White on the program’s most ambitious flight to date. During Gemini IV, White would become the first American to venture outside his spacecraft for what officially is known as an extravehicular activity (EVA) or as the world has come to know it, a spacewalk. ... The mission’s four-day duration nearly doubled NASA astronauts’ previous time in space to that point, with the longest American spaceflight previously being Gordon Cooper’s 34-hour Mercury 9 mission.
McDivitt’s second spaceflight as the commander of Apollo 9 played a critical role in landing the first humans on the Moon. This was the first flight of the complete set of Apollo hardware and was the first flight of the Lunar Module. The mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 3, 1969, with Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Russell Schweickart. After launch, Apollo 9 entered Earth orbit and the crew performed an engineering test of the first crewed lunar module, nicknamed "Spider," from beginning to end. They simulated the maneuvers that would be performed during actual lunar missions. During the mission, the astronauts performed a series of flight tasks with the command and service module and the lunar module. The top priority was rendezvous and docking of the lunar module with the command and service module. The crew also configured the lunar module to support a spacewalk by McDivitt and Schweickart. On Flight Day 10, March 13, 1969, the Apollo 9 capsule re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, within three miles and in full view of the recovery ship, the USS Guadalcanal, about 341 miles north of Puerto Rico.
To me, McDivitt’s most important discovery occurred early in his Gemini mission. After launch he was tasked with an attempt to approach and rendezvous with the upper stage, shortly after deployment. He was surprised to find that his intuition about doing so was utterly wrong. Whenever he tried to close the distance by applying thrust in the direction implied by his earthbound instincts, the distance actually increased.
McDivitt’s experience showed that rendezvous and docking in orbit was not going to be simple. In fact, it took almost the entire Gemini program in 1965 and 1966 to figure it out.
McDivitt never went to the Moon, but he was like all the first generation of American astronauts, professional, careful, dedicated, and remarkably good at what he did. May he rest in peace.
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...The Apollo 9 crew gets lost in the shuffle - 8's flight around the Moon, 10's magnificent performance proving that it all worked when and where it where it was supposed to, and 11 pulling it off.
But Jim McDivitt and his team proved you could get all the components into the air, make them work, and then finished the mission with a textbook landing. The Right Stuff indeed.
[MSN] Attorney General Ken Paxton says Texas is joining a multi-state investigation of the biggest names in banking over whether the financial institutions agreed to block credit to companies involved in fossil fuel-related activities.
The attorney general said Wednesday that he believes the banks — Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup — each pledged that their lending practices would reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
That agreement under the Net Zero Banking Alliance could violate consumer protection laws because it would "starve" certain companies of credit on national and international markets, Paxton said.
"The radical climate change movement has been waging an all-out war against American energy for years, and the last thing Americans need right now are corporate activists helping the left bankrupt our fossil fuel industry," Paxton said in a statement.
None of the six banks nor the attorney general’s office responded to a request for comment.
Texas is the top state in the U.S. for energy production, with oil and gas companies employing some 290,000 workers.
But the banks targeted by Paxton also are among the state’s largest employers. Texas is the second biggest employment base outside New York for both Bank of America and JPMorgan. Also, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs recently announced North Texas projects involving thousands of workers.
Courtesy of DarthVader, PJ Media adds the following, plus a good deal more:
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that his office and 18 other attorneys general served six major American banks with civil investigative demands. These demands act as a subpoena and seek documents relating to the banks’ involvement with the United Nations Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which is part of a trend toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. Missouri, Arizona, Kentucky, and Texas are leading the investigation,
"The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is a massive worldwide agreement by major banking institutions, overseen by the U.N., to starve companies engaged in fossil fuel-related activities of credit on national and international markets. Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other businesses that are vital to Missouri’s and America’s economy will be unable to get a loan because of this alliance," said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. "We are leading a coalition investigating banks for ceding authority to the U.N., which will only result in the killing of American companies that don’t subscribe to the woke, climate agenda. These banks are accountable to American laws — we don’t let international bodies set the standards for our businesses."
Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia have joined the investigation into the six banks. Five additional states can’t be named due to state laws or regulations regarding confidentiality.
[FoxNews] Gender dysphoric patients without such treatment might commit suicide, Georgetown students were told.
True. But longitudinal research show that the rate of suicide and suicide attempts is just the same for patients who do not get the treatments, and their bodies are not left destroyed by it.
Journalist Amber Athey of The Spectator World told Tucker Carlson her recent reporting exposing how transgender ideology has seeped into Georgetown University’s School of Medicine is evidence of "deep demonic influences" in American culture.
First-year medical students at Georgetown University's School of Medicine were required to take a class last year teaching that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgery are the preferred treatments for gender dysphoria.
In a requisite 2021 pre-clinical course about human sexuality and the reproductive system, medical students at the oldest Roman Catholic medical school in the U.S. were instructed that such interventions are the "only way to help" many transgender people "‘fix’ their bodies," according to material from the class obtained by The Spectator World.
In a guest lecture about "transgender health care" delivered by Dr. David S. Reitman, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics who is also a pediatrician at Georgetown University Hospital, students were told that patients experiencing gender dysphoria are likely to attempt suicide if they are not provided such pharmaceutical and surgical treatments, according to images of his lecture slides published by the outlet.
Reitman's lecture also devoted significant attention to gender dysphoria among children, claiming symptoms could manifest "as early as infancy" and that a young child's potential transgender identity could be discerned based on clothing, toy and hairstyle preferences.
Reitman presented puberty-blocking drugs as a clinically acceptable treatment for children experiencing gender dysphoria, which he claimed will prevent them from "unwanted secondary gender/sex characteristics." The pediatrician, who also heads the student health center at American University, claimed that blocking the development of such characteristics could prevent the need for future surgical interventions.
Reitman's lecture, while noting a lack of long-term studies on such drugs, did mention adverse effects such as decreased bone density, but maintained that such treatments are "fully" and "completely reversible."
Regarding cross-sex hormone treatment, which Reitman described as "gender-affirming," the slides from his lecture acknowledged their adverse effects, such as liver dysfunction and pancreatitis from female hormones in biological males, and pelvic pain from male hormones in biological females, but still affirmed such treatment as "medically necessary."
Reitman's lecture slides concluded with graphic images of surgical interventions for adults and pointed out how such patients might need to freeze their eggs or sperm if they wish to have children post-op.
A phone call from Fox News Digital to Reitman's office went unanswered. Georgetown University did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment by time of publication.
Multiple Catholic ethicists who spoke to The Spectator World slammed Georgetown University for allowing such a lecture at a Catholic institution, with one accusing the school of violating Catholic ethical standards and "[causing] enormous damage by its blatant hypocrisy."
In May, several medical professionals told Fox News Digital they have seen rates of gender dysphoria soar among their young patients in recent years, but that many of their colleagues are reluctant to speak publicly against transgender ideology for fear of both professional and personal retaliation.
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I'm a longitudinal researcher,
and part-time vivisectionist.
One day dividing subjects lengthwise,
another stopping at the wrist.
All jaunty jolly, my work,
'human studies'... with a twist.
[FoxNews] The U.S. Department of State has awarded more than $20,000 for a cultural center in Ecuador to host "drag theater performances" in the name of diversity and inclusion.
The State Department awarded a $20,600 grant on Sept. 23 to the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano (CEN), a non-profit organization supported by the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Ecuador, to "promote diversity and inclusion" in the region.
The project at CEN, which started Sept. 30 and runs until Aug. 31, 2023, will include "3 workshops," "12 drag theater performances," and a "2-minute documentary," according to the State Department’s grant listed on the USASpending.gov website.
The grant to CEN is part of the State Department’s public diplomacy program, which seeks to "support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics and by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people and government of the United States and citizens of the rest of the world," the website states.
The State Department has awarded hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to the CEN over the years, but the September grant appears to be the first of its kind funding drag performances.
In 2016, the State Department awarded a $50,000 grant to the CEN to promote the College Horizons program, which teaches English to young people of color. In 2015, it awarded $234,000 to the CEN for the building of a new auditorium.
The State Department did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
A trip to the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA. This beautiful 80,000 square foot facility is associated with the Smithsonian Institute and contains a very respectable collection of "Western Art" from most of the more notable artists in the genre. The majority of the works shown here are oil on canvas paintings. This slideshow represents a small portion of the exhibit focusing on some of the works depicting the Civil War.
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...I have no doubt that - once the opportunities become clear - NYC will appropriate large sums of money to refit and rehab the shelters, and not one of them will be ready to protect a single citizen.
After all - if nothing happens, nobody's going to know. And if anything does happen, nobody's going to know.
[TheExpose.uk] The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia-like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel coronavirus disease Covid-19.
So with this being the official truth, why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a contract on the 12th November 2019 to Labyrinth Global Health INC. for ’COVID-19 Research’, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19?
The shocking findings, however, do not end there. The contract awarded in November 2019 for ’COVID-19 Research’ was not only instructed to take place in Ukraine, it was in fact part of a much larger contract for a ’Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
Perhaps explaining why Labyrinth Global Health has been collaborating with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and Ernest Wolfe’s Metabiota since its formation in 2017....
All of this requires much further research to fit all of the pieces of the puzzle together, but here’s what we definitely know so far —
A novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan in December 2019.
The world did not get to hear about this novel coronavirus until early January 2020.
The world did not know this novel coronavirus was called Covid-19 until February 2020, when the World Health Organization officially named it so.
The US Department of Defense awarded a contract for Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services to Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp’, which is allegedly "a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company specialising in infrastructure development".
That contract involved a Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine.
As part of this larger contract, another contract was awarded to Labyrinth Global Health for ’COVID-19 Research’ on 12th November 2019.
This was awarded at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19.
Labyrinth Global Health works alongside the ’Eco Health Alliance’, and ’Metabiota’, and participated in the USAID PREDICT program. All of these people and organisations have been working for at least the past decade studying coronaviruses and helping to set up Biolabs in Ukraine. All using US Department of Defense funds to do so.
Information found here points to Eco Health Alliance having a hand in creating the Covid-19 virus.
Information found here points to Moderna having a hand in creating the Covid-19 virus.
’Moderna’, alongside the ’National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) agreed to tranfer ’mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates’ developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna, to recipients ’The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’ on the 12th December 2019.
International Headquarters - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)........
Working in close coordination with INRB’s General Director, Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Labyrinth’s DRC office and laboratory offers access to expert consultants and equipped facilities to support basic and applied research, as well as clinical testing and evaluation.
[FoxNews] The United States Capitol Police arrested a Georgia man who had weapons in his vehicle parked outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Officials say that USCP officers noticed a small white van illegally parked outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday at about 3:45 p.m. along the 100 block of East Capitol Street.
The driver of the van told officers that he "had guns in the van," according to a statement from the USCP. When officers entered the van, they found two handguns and a shotgun, police said.
While police searched the van, the driver, a woman, and another man were detained. Tony H. Payne of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, 80, was arrested and charged with unregistered firearm, unregistered ammunition, and carrying a pistol without a license.
According to police, the individuals said that they were "here to deliver documents to the U.S. Supreme Court."
The other two people who were detained weren't arrested.
"Weapons are banned from Capitol Grounds, yet dozens of people are arrested each year for violating the law," a USCP press release states.
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What if they had uncovered a conspiracy, there's several of those going on now, and were trying to get evidence to the SCoTUS, and they were armed because thugs were after them? And in the end the thugs did catch them.
Tony Payne of Tunnel Hill,who is he? What's his problem? Will we ever know? All we know is 'capitol police' heroically defended the Capitol. Again.
[FoxNews] Pile of old uniforms known as 'Mount Exodus' has grown at police department as cops resign.
Resignations have continued piling up at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department this year, setting off concerns from top law enforcement leaders.
"We’re reaching critical mass," St. Louis Police Officers Association President Jay Schroeder said this month of staffing issues on the city’s force.
About 819 officers have left the department since 2017, according to the St. Louis Police Pension Board. The department lost an average of 119 officers each year between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, 129 officers left the force, with an additional 174 leaving in 2021, according to the pension data.
St. Louis, which often ranks as one of the least safe cities in the country, joins a growing list of police departments across the country that are bleeding officers in recent years, most notably after calls to defund the police echoed across the nation in 2020.
Data provided to Fox News Digital by the St. Louis Police Department shows that, as of Tuesday, the force has 1,035 commissioned employees.
Police department data shows the number of authorized employees has fallen each year since 2020. There were a total of 1,205 commissioned employees at the start of 2020, 1,198 in January 2021, and 1,128 in January of this year.
Interim Police Chief Michael Sack sent an email to staff this month detailing the department has 811 police officers and detectives as of Oct. 3, down from the 905 police officers and detectives the force had at the beginning of October 2021.
"This puts a burden on us to perform our duties with fewer officers," he wrote, KSDK reported earlier this month. "We must pay attention to staffing in the line platoons and on squads. No squad should have fewer than five officers with the optimum number being seven officers. I wish I could give you more, but this is the reality."
At police headquarters, a pile of discarded uniforms known as "Mount Exodus" has also grown, KSDK reported. Outgoing cops have been putting their old uniforms on a pile that has grown higher than seven feet tall and 10 feet wide, and even blocks some surrounding doorways, the outlet reported.
There have been about 71 new hires in 2022, according to the outlet.
Despite concerns from law enforcement leadership in the area, Mayor Tishaura Jones said staffing levels at the department are sufficient, according to KSDK. She cited a 2020 study showing the city has more officers per capita compared to similar sized-cities, the outlet reported.
Jones, who was sworn in as mayor last year, campaigned on a safety policy of "putting the public back in public safety." Her campaign website states that "defunding the police does not mean abolishing the police," instead it means "restructuring the department and reallocating the budget to programs and resources that actually prevent crime."
Fox News Digital reached out to the mayor’s office for comment on the staffing levels but did not immediately receive a reply.
St. Louis is far from alone in reporting staffing shortages and an increase in resignations — cities across the country have reported more of the same.
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Please note the degree of insubordination represented by letting the pile exist on public property. In a 'happy organization' this should have been dealt with the janitorial staff long ago. This is one step away from Mutiny™.
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This is an absolute shame. We used to live in the suburbs of St. Louis and loved them and the city. But now...we left in 1992 and will never move back. Better to have memories of the St. Louis that used to be rather than face the ugly reality of what it has become.
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All they really need is enough police to go stand at the bodies before the EMT's collect them and to guard the 'important' people. There's always enough suck ups for that level of staffing.
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My understanding is that New Zealand signed onto to the Great Green Scam™ because they thought that the combination of only having minor light industry footprint and lots of hydropower would make them $Rich$ from Industrial Powers climate danegeld. *Surprise* They discovered that they were "too pigment deficient" as the various UN organizations defined "Sheep farts" as industrial CO2 -- 'Too Bad, No Green Bucks™ For You!'.
[FoxNews] Crocodile attacked fishing vessel near Horizontal Falls in Kimberly region of Western Australia.
Both men were flown to Broome Hospital for evaluation and treatment. Their current conditions were not immediately known.
Following the attack, wildlife officials warned the public of a saltwater crocodile that was following and launching itself at small vessels near the Cyclone Creek area in Talbot Bay, the report said.
More at link. Just when you thought you couldn't get more pissed off...
[Fox4News] The application is available at studentaid.gov/debt-relief/application.
The application only requires giving some basic personal information to the Department of Education and shouldn’t take longer than a minute or two to fill out. It’s been touted as a "simple, straightforward" application by the Biden administration.
You’ll have to enter your name, social security number, birthdate, phone number, and email address.
And lastly, you’ll have to check a box certifying under penalty of perjury that the information about your income eligibility is correct. (More on that below.)
Once you hit submit, you’ll receive an email confirming your application was submitted.
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Ed in Texas: Me too. Unfortunately I paid mine off 40+ years ago.
I wonder if I could take out a loan, and then immediately apply for forgiveness. I could use a "free" 10K right now.
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I can't wait for the class action lawsuit where the spoiled chilluns argue they did not get what they voted for.
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Hopefully the courts will put a stop to this before the applications begin to be processed. Our only hope is the basic inertia and incompetence of bureaucracy, including the bureaucracy charged with implementing this illegal scheme.
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[HotAir] Not everyone needs to get an annual Covid booster, according to the head of pharma giant Moderna who also likened the virus to seasonal flu.
Stéphane Bancel said his company’s shots should mainly be targeted at over-50s and people with underlying health conditions. OTOH : https://beckernews.com/breaking-cdc-panel-unanimously-votes-to-add-covid-19-shots-to-childhood-vaccines-schedule-47528/
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The tidal wave of investigations that is coming about big pharma and the greatest looting of the public treasury in world history will hit Pfizer a moment before Moderna, but only just!
Omar Z.M. Albelbaisy Raeda, 31, was kidnapped by a group of people who allegedly wanted to obtain information about a software used to hack mobile phones.
[BenarNews] Malaysian authorities are investigating whether Israel’s spy agency was involved in the kidnapping of a Paleostinian in Kuala Lumpur in late September, a senior police official said Wednesday. Eleven Malaysians were charged in court last week over the abduction after police raided a chalet and rescued the computer programmer, whose captors allegedly beat and interrogated him for 24 hours.
On Wednesday, police questioned the editor of the New Straits Times newspaper, which had exclusively reported the alleged connection to Mossad a day earlier, leading officials in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... to publicly thank Malaysian authorities.
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Jakarta is one of the world's sinking cities (losing 50-200 cm the past decade) due to de-watering the underground, management of the dozen rivers that flow through it and various other things.
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Allan couldn't hold it up. Or wouldn't. Or maybe there's no Allan (my take, anywaw)
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[An Nahar] After losing four relatives to respiratory illness, Zeina Matar fled her hometown north of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's capital where she says a decaying power plant generates little electricity but very deadly pollution.
Thick black smoke sometimes billows from its red-and-white chimneys, leaving a grey haze in the air above the Zouk Mikael industrial district where the toxins remain trapped by a nearby mountain chain.
Zeina, aged 40, says she lost her younger sister and a cousin to pulmonary fibrosis and that two of her uncles died of lung cancer years earlier.
They all lived near the plant where, experts and residents believe, air pollution means people are more likely to develop cancer and respiratory disease than anywhere else in the crisis-torn country.
"We could die tomorrow," said Zeina, who has relocated to Lebanon's south to escape the plant's emissions.
A Greenpeace study found that the surrounding Jounieh area ranked fifth in the Arab world and 23rd globally for cities most contaminated by nitrogen dioxide, a dangerous pollutant released when fuel is burnt.
The environmental group's 2018 study singled out the Zouk plant, built in the 1940s, as well as cars on a busy motorway and privately owned electricity generators as the main causes of pollution.
The walls of Zeina's balconies in her old Zouk Mikael home are blackened by the smoke, and laundry she used to hang outside would be damaged by toxic chemicals emanating from the plant, she said.
"Whenever they refill the station with fuel oil, we would close the windows," Zeina said. "The smell is unbearable."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[MSN] Attorney General 
[TheExpose.uk] The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia-like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel coronavirus disease Covid-19.
[FoxNews] Pile of old uniforms known as 'Mount Exodus' has grown at police department as cops resign.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
