[Gateway] Charges were dropped for 2 of the 3 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents caught on surveillance video stealing from passengers at Miami International Airport.
In early July Josue Gonzalez, 20, Elizabeth Fuster, 22, and Labarrius Williams, 33 were arrested and charged for stealing money from passengers’ luggage at MIA.
In August, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office dropped the charges against Elizabeth Fuster. The case is now closed.
Gonzalez and Williams were facing grand theft in the third degree after prosecutors reduced their charges.
However, according to The Daily Mail, Gonzalez was accepted into a state program and if he completes it, the charges against him will also be dropped.
"He has been ordered to pay $700 to the two victims, do 25 hours of community service and give up his airport security credentials," The Daily Mail reported.
Williams’s case is heading to trial after he was denied entry into the state program.
[SD U-T] A federal judge has declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children
A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen
... United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Appointed by President George W. Bush. He has been presiding over DACA cases since 2013...
agreed with Texas and eight other states suing to stop the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. The judge’s ruling was ultimately expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, sending the program’s fate before the high court for a third time.
Hanen barred the government from approving any new applications, but left the program intact for existing recipients during the expected appeals process. Hanen said his order does not require the federal government to take any actions against DACA recipients.
The states have argued the Obama administration didn’t have the authority to first create the program in 2012 because it circumvented Congress.
In 2021, Hanen had declared the program illegal, ruling it had not been subject to public notice and comment periods required under the federal Administrative Procedures Act.
The Biden administration tried to satisfy Hanen’s concerns with a new version of DACA that took effect in October 2022 and was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process.
But Hanen, who was appointed by then-President George W. Bush in 2002, ruled the updated version of DACA was still illegal. He had previously said DACA was unconstitutional and it would be up to Congress to enact legislation shielding people under the program, often known as "Dreamers."
Hanen also had previously ruled the states had standing to file their lawsuit because they had been harmed by the program.
The states have claimed they incur hundreds of millions of dollars in health care, education and other costs when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. The states that sued are Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas and Mississippi.
Those defending the program — the federal government, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the state of New Jersey — had argued the states failed to present evidence that any of the costs they allege they have incurred have been tied to DACA recipients. They also argued Congress has given the Department of Homeland Security the legal authority to set immigration enforcement policies.
Despite previously declaring the DACA program illegal, Hanen had left the Obama-era program intact for those already benefiting from it. But he had ruled there could be no new applicants while appeals were pending.
There were 578,680 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The program has faced a roller coaster of court challenges over the years.
In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 over an expanded DACA and a version of the program for parents of DACA recipients. In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA, allowing it to stay in place.
In 2022, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld Hanen’s earlier ruling declaring DACA illegal, but sent the case back to him to review changes made to the program by the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden and advocacy groups have called on Congress to pass permanent protections for " dreamers." Congress has failed multiple times to pass proposals called the DREAM Act to protect DACA recipients.
[NYPOST] Transgender influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... said it would be "epic" to one day star in a beer advertisement at the Super Bowl — just months after her disastrous partnership with Bud Light sparked widespread backlash.
Mulvaney, 26, fantasized about her future as she confessed in a wide-ranging interview with The Cut that the fallout from the Bud Light saga had been a "huge wake-up call" for her.
"Maybe it’d be epic ... if in like 10 years I got to do a beer commercial for a Super Bowl," she said in the interview published Wednesday.
The influencer, who rose to social media stardom documenting her transition on TikTok, said she now realizes in the wake of the Bud Light fallout that she was naïve about the realities of being a trans woman in the public eye.
"I think that some trans elders probably looked at me this last year and were like, ’B—h. You have so far to go.’ I think they probably saw what has happened to me these last few months coming," Mulvaney said.
"This was a good wake-up call for me. Now I’m a more realistic person."
The controversy engulfing Mulvaney erupted back in April when Anheuser-Busch sent her a Bud Light beer can with her face on it to celebrate her 365th day of girlhood — the popular TikTok series she started about her transition.
After she broadcast the Bud Light can to her social media followers, outraged conservatives immediately waged a war against Mulvaney and called for a boycott of the brand — sending its sales plummeting.
Mulvaney went dark on social media for several weeks as she was blasted by an "extreme amount of transphobia and hate." She has since resurfaced and talked publicly about what she went through.
"I think hopefully years from now we’ll look back on this time period and be like, ’What the f—k was that?’" Mulvaney told the magazine, adding that she believes she could eventually charm some of her haters into liking her.
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Maybe Mr DeMille is ready for Dylan’s closeup.
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We are going to feel the same way in 10 years. Now fuck off and die attention whore.
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OK, and what product would you like to destroy now?
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(S)he would be a perfect Disney princess. It even fits their current culture model. I'm sure it would lift their cratering profits.
Oh noooo!! Honestly, who would expect to encounter hurricanes during the annual hurricane season?
[NYPOST] A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Bermuda as powerful Hurricane Lee continues to churn in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the once Category 5 hurricane ...... starts to make a turn to the north, millions of people in New England will need to begin to prepare for potential impacts including possible tropical-storm-force winds, dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents.
A US landfall from Hurricane Lee is not expected as of the latest National Hurricane Center (NHC) advisory, and instead, the forecast calls for Lee to hit Canada.
But on Monday, land was included in Lee’s forecast cone for the first time in the storm’s history.
Forecasters expect Hurricane Lee to continue weakening as it moves closer to New England and become extratropical, so for those living in New England the potential impacts will be more like a nor’easter during the winter rather than a land-falling hurricane.
There is also the potential for those areas to see tropical-storm-force winds of 40 mph or greater.
Large waves, too, will be slamming up against the shore, bringing the risk of beach erosion and coastal flooding.
WHERE IS HURRICANE LEE? As of the latest NHC advisory, Hurricane Lee is located about 400 miles south-southwest of Bermuda and is moving to the northwest at 7 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, making it a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Slow weakening is forecast to begin over the next two days, but Lee is still expected to remain a large and powerful hurricane, according to the NHC.
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[WSJ] Mild price pressures excluding energy keep Fed on track to pause rate increases next week
U.S. inflation accelerated 0.6% in August, which remains mild enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to hold interest rates steady. Prices overall were up 3.7% in August versus 3.2% in July.
...according to the cute little video at the link.
Consumer prices rose in August at the fastest pace in more than a year due to a jump in energy costs, illustrating the potential obstacles to wringing inflation out of the economy without a sharper slowdown.
The rest of the article is behind the subscription wall.
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I certainly hope we're not rerunning 1975, when we thought we had inflation under control and so resumed our irresponsible ways...only to learn the very hard way in 1979-82 that we had not.
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[SlayNews] A major food processing plant in Illinois has been shut down after a massive explosion ripped through the facility.
At least eight people have been reported injured at the processing plant in Decatur.
As of early Tuesday morning, five of the injured people remain hospitalized.
The explosion and resulting fire occurred at an Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) processing complex.
The sudden explosion was reported just after 7 p.m. Central time on Monday.
“ADM immediately contacted the Decatur Fire Department, which remains on the scene,” an ADM spokesperson said in a statement.
“Several employees were injured and transported to the local hospital for treatment.
“Our thoughts are with our colleagues.
“We do not have a confirmed cause at this time.”
The incident impacted the section of the plant where corn and soy are processed, according to ADM.
ADM said corn and soy processing is now down and it is unclear when the plant can resume operations.
“A plant that crushes soybeans into soybean oil and white flake for soy protein production was down on Monday, ADM said,” according to Reuters.
“An adjacent corn processing plant was also ‘temporarily down until we can safely resume operations,’ the company said.”
The explosion has severely damaged crop processing operations, the company and the local fire department said.
Several structures were severely damaged in the blast, including a 10-story building and adjacent buildings, the fire department said.
The prolonged outage at the massive processing facility in the heart of the U.S. Corn Belt is expected to put downward pressure on crop prices.
The incident has come just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest their corn and soybeans.
U.S. farmers are already battling falling crop prices, especially for corn, as export demand has slumped.
The Decatur site, ADM’s North American headquarters and its largest facility globally, houses soybean crushing facilities and one of the largest corn wet mills in the world.
It has the capacity to produce 375 million gallons of ethanol biofuel annually, making it the largest in the country, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
“Coming into harvest, if it is down for a week or more, that would really cripple the cash basis,” said Mike Zuzolo, president of Global Commodity Analytics.
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Wow! So far in the 3 years since this LSD Administration seize power.
We have had Chicken, Pork, and Cattle processing facilities mysteriously destroyed. Oil processing refineries explode, pipelines burst, and Electrical grid brownouts. Oil drilling banned, Demands to use "State Approved" items and bans or restrictions on others. Food Processing facilities burn down or close up. Gas Prices jumping 63.92% ($2.19 to $3.59) Food has disappeared off the shelves, only to reappeared in smaller sizes and we still had 19% to 41% price increases. Hell a 50 cent Snickers Bar is now smaller and has gone up over 100% in price to $1.38+.
So who can afford Halloween this year?
But looking back on this.
We all seen this many times in recent history.
It all mimics a typical Socialist Coup/Junta economic upheaval.
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So let me get this right:
War in Ukraine limits grain shippments causing people to starve,
U.S. corn/soy bean processing is hampered by fire in plant;
U.S. farmers concerned that lower prices for corn means less $$$ for them. Lower prices usualy means lower demand. Can't believe Economics 101 is dead on arrival.
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The prolonged outage at the massive processing facility in the heart of the U.S. Corn Belt is expected to put downward pressure on crop prices.
and the foods and fuels prices will increase.
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How much of this is a system wide results of the 'bean counters' cancelling preventive maintenance budgets as 'too expensive for the bottom line' because of inflation?
As a plant mechanic told me 'As far as the accountants are concerned any preventative maintenance is considered a pure loss(bad!), but fixing a totally shut down machine is an operating expense so its okay !?!" So run it until the magic blue smoke comes out is the plan.
So have we forced out all the veteran workers who know how the plant works and when there are dangers in exchange for cheaper, more diverse new labor, the ones of whom received a US education complain to HR about male and female connectors?
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@#6: The Plant Manager may have been on some type of internal incentive program, but all allowed expenses, including those for preventive maintenance, are tax deductible.
There are also capitalization rules. Here is an informative link.
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ADM said corn and soy processing is now down and it is unclear when the plant can resume operations.
So corn prices are depressed because of a 'sudden' glut and cattle, already depressed, become the turn to protein provider with soy gone. Wonder if Bill Gates has started supplementing his herd feed with corn.
[Gateway] The State of Illinois is providing taxpayer funded incentives, of more than half a billion dollars, to lure a Communist China tied company, Gotion, to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in the state. Gotion will receive additional federal tax incentives.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Gotion’s recent failed attempt to build a similar factory in a small farming community in Green Twp, Michigan.
But Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced on Friday that Illinois is more than ready to hand over tax dollars to the CCP tied company.
The plant’s location in Manteno, Illinois lies approximately 30 miles from one of the largest inland ports in the United States.
Pritzker said in a statement announcing the deal, "In partnership with the business community and the General Assembly, two years ago we set out to make Illinois a destination for electric vehicle and clean energy companies from across the globe."
[GEO.TV] Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) is on the verge of collapse as a top official of the national flag carrier has warned that flight operations are feared to be suspended by September 15 if emergency funds are not provided, Geo News has learnt.
Speaking to Geo News on Wednesday, a senior director of the national flag carrier said the number of operational planes had been reduced to 16 from 23 which led to the cancellation of several flights.
The official said aircraft manufacturers — Boeing and Airbus — have also suspended spare parts supplies to the PIA over non-payment and the national airline was incurring losses worth millions of rupees daily due to limited flight operations.
The official also revealed that a PIA plane was stopped at Dammam airport while another four at Dubai airport over failure to pay for fuel.
"Mo didn't have to pay for jet fuel!" The planes were allowed to leave on written assurance of the PIA, the official said, adding that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) restored PIA services after an emergency payment of $3.5 million was made.
The official warned that flight operations may be suspended by September 15 if Rs23 billion were not provided in emergency funds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... a PIA spokesperson said in a statement that all-out efforts were being made to save the flight operations from suspension.
A day earlier, sources told Geo News the PIA flight operations were severely affected due to a shortage of funds with a number of domestic and international flights being cancelled.
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"reduced to 16 from 23 which led to the cancellation of several flights"
One would hope so. Otherwise the remaining planes would look like a 'jingle' truck, with people hanging all over it. (This could yet happen.)
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Channeling Wimpy:” I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a fillup today.’
[WileyOnlineLibrary] Paraphrased: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines is "broken down within a few days after vaccination and doesn't last long in the body". An official CDC position it has adhered to since the pandemic's beginning.
However, yet another Professional Research Study shows mRNA fragments were still found in 50% of the biological samples analyzed 6+ months later. DETECTION OF RECOMBINANT SPIKE PROTEIN IN THE BLOOD OF INDIVIDUALS VACCINATED AGAINST SARS-COV-2: POSSIBLE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS
ABSTRACT
Purpose
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic prompted the development and use of next-generation vaccines. Among these, mRNA-based vaccines consist of injectable solutions of mRNA encoding for a recombinant Spike, which is distinguishable from the wild-type protein due to specific amino acid variations introduced to maintain the protein in a prefused state. This work presents a proteomic approach to reveal the presence of recombinant Spike protein in vaccinated subjects regardless of antibody titer.
Experimental design
Mass spectrometry examination of biological samples was used to detect the presence of specific fragments of recombinant Spike protein in subjects who received mRNA-based vaccines.
Results
The specific PP-Spike fragment was found in 50% of the biological samples analyzed, and its presence was independent of the SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody titer. The minimum and maximum time at which PP-Spike was detected after vaccination was 69 and 187 days, respectively.
Conclusions and clinical relevance
The presented method allows to evaluate the half-life of the Spike protein molecule “PP” and to consider the risks or benefits in continuing to administer additional booster doses of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. This approach is of valuable support to complement antibody level monitoring and represents the first proteomic detection of recombinant Spike in vaccinated subjects.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the transexual 
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verge of collapse as a top official of the national flag carrier has warned that flight operations are feared to be suspended by September 15 if emergency funds are not provided, Geo News has learnt.
