[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The leader of a group of Oregonians who are determined to leave the state has revealed why they want to escape its liberal policies by joining Idaho.
Matt McCaw is the executive director of the movement to shift the border of Oregon 200 miles to the left, which is called The Greater Idaho Movement.
The proposal seeks to move the Oregon border so that 14 counties and several partial counties would fall under Idaho state lines.
McCaw said the movement was created to bridge the growing 'tug of war' in the Pacific Northwestern state.
'The state of Oregon is divided geographically by the Cascade Mountain Range and that geographic divide is also a huge cultural divide,' McCaw told Fox News.
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I am not saying it’s right; I just don’t think the law supports defections between states. The West Virginia deal was backed up by law. It would be legal if Congress did something, but currently most legislation is drafted by lobbyists so grassroots stuff is unlikely to get anywhere unless a bunch of bad people see a way to get paid.
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^This. But it's like an independence movement in a European country. There never really going to let Catalonia leave Spain. But if you meme it hard enough, you can get concessions out of them.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … her own $1bn charity.
Melinda Gates has written a scorching essay explaining her reasons for stepping down from the Bill Gates Foundation to start her own charity.
The philanthropist, 59, announced her departure from the Bill Gates Foundation earlier this month, revealing she would get $12.5 billion as part of the deal with her Microsoft founder ex-husband.
In a New York Times opinion piece, Melinda said that she's leaving the foundation she co-founded in order to focus on her own agenda, which has gender equality as a top priority.
'In nearly 20 years as an advocate for women and girls, I have learned that there will always be people who say it’s not the right time to talk about gender equality,' she wrote.
'Not if you want to be relevant. Not if you want to be effective with world leaders (most of them men). The second the global agenda gets crowded, women and girls fall off.
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'In nearly 20 years as an advocate for women and girls, I have learned that there will always be people who say it’s not the right time to talk about gender equality,' she wrote.
Tell me what rights men have that women don't in this country?
Do this why explaining why XYs can directly compete against XXs in women's sports.
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Exactly what was 'scorching' about this supposed op-ed? Rich lefty ex-wife of a billionaire takes some of that fortune to fund lefty initiatives under the guise / umbrella of 'gender equality'? It's so predictable it's boring.
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[REGNUM] There is such a historical character - Pastor Martin Niemoller. The same one for whom there was no one to stand up when the Gestapo came for him. Today's Ukraine is just such a place where someone comes for someone all the time. And then comes the “Niemoeller moment” - when they come for those who professionally closed their eyes to what was happening. If anyone has forgotten, the phrase with which the pastor went down in history sounds something like this:
“When the Nazis captured the communists, I was silent: I was not a communist. When they imprisoned the Social Democrats, I was silent: I was not a Social Democrat. When they grabbed the union members, I was silent: I was not a union member. When they came for me, there was no one to stand up for me.”
So here it is. There is such a publication in Ukraine - “Ukrainian Truth” (UP). One of the first online media in Ukraine.
Old-timers remember that it was created by journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose mysterious murder was used to attempt to overthrow President Leonid Kuchma. Since then, the UP has become the banner of “progressive forces” and the mouthpiece of foreign agents - grant eaters, Soros, their name is legion.
Brave anti-Kuchmists and denouncers of Viktor Yanukovych’s golden toilets. Since its creation, it has been in a special account (and funding) with the US Embassy in Ukraine.
In a word, a lump! The pillar and affirmation of Ukrainian truth.
This electronic newspaper became not only the main collective agitator, but also a collective organizer during the first Maidan in 2004 and one of the key ones during the second in 2014. And of course, since 2014 they have been at the forefront of information in the war with Russia, to which Russia finally showed up in 2022.
And then the news spread that the chief editor of the economic editorial office of Ukrainskaya Pravda, Dmitry Denkov, was caught by the military commissars. And they didn’t just catch him, but kept him for a whole day without contact somewhere in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region. Apparently they were preparing for a counter-offensive.
Gloating in such a situation is, of course, not good. Especially if the author himself systematically uses various simple ways to avoid meeting with the man-catchers from the TCC.
But it’s impossible not to note that Niemöller’s moment happened here. At least in the Ukrainian version.
None of the “investigative journalists” in the UP asked any uncomfortable questions when, in the spring of 2015, it somehow became very popular among prominent representatives of the Party of Regions to take their own lives. None of this liberal-Euro-Maidan-grant-eating fraternity remembered freedom of religion when the state persecuted the UOC in 2019. None of them remembered freedom of speech and corporate solidarity when in 2021 Zelensky closed television channels and imposed sanctions on Media and journalists list.
And of course, “Ukrainian Pravda” was silent (silent at best!) when the SBU grabbed all the unreliable people, everyone they managed to catch. There is still no news about many who were taken in the spring of 2022.
And now UP journalists have decided to raise their voice: it turns out that mobilization in Ukraine is being carried out with violations!
It turns out that the phones of those being mobilized are confiscated by force (so that relatives cannot quickly contact lawyers, bring the necessary documents, certificates, etc.) Because it is still possible to gnaw out a person from the TCC, but from the Armed Forces of Ukraine it is almost impossible.
Only if all of Ukraine has known about this at least since the beginning of 2023 (and in the last six months, Telegram channels have been flooded with videos of “voluntary” mobilization), then the UP has only now opened the door to this Narnia.
Obviously, the point is that for some reason UP journalists are out of favor with Zelensky’s entourage.
Let's say, the male part of the propaganda telethon has nothing to fear. Just like the editorial offices of the state news agencies UNIAN, Ukrinform, the editorial office of BBC-Ukraine, the representative office of Deutsche Welle* and a number of other media (mainly TV channels).
The rest of the Ukrainian journalists can either remain silent or hope for publicity (read: that the US Embassy will read the news and give the Bank a command not to escalate the situation and to release the editor-in-chief).
This is how the UP turned out to have a “Niemoeller moment.”
But not entirely: by the evening, the editor-in-chief finally got in touch and said that he had found a common language with the TCC and would soon join “... the unit that he wanted to join even before this incident.” Having clarified that “... this is the best option for me.” At the same time, the journalist confirmed the “voluntary-forced” nature of the mobilization.
However, I have a version about why they suddenly decided to shave the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the location of capture is key here.
The Odessa region, or rather, the Odessa-Reni highway, is widely known in narrow circles as a convenient place to escape from Ukraine - on the transit section of this route (8 km of the route passes through the territory of Moldova). It is enough to leave the car right on the side of the road and walk a couple of kilometers to the nearest Moldovan village.
Naturally, the Ukrainian authorities are taking special measures to ensure that the entire male population liable for military service does not flow into this “hole in the fence.” To move along the transit section, special reasons are needed.
But, as always in such cases in Ukraine, there is an opportunity to “agree.” Prices for such services are growing all the time and currently amount to plus or minus 10 thousand dollars, depending on the negotiability of border guards.
If you believe the statement of the press service of the Odessa Regional TCC, the journalist “... was detained by representatives of the State Border Service of Ukraine in the Odessa region. The reasons indicated by the citizen for moving through a transit section with regime restrictions were not supported by documents...”
Simply put, the editor-in-chief of the capital’s media could have exactly two reasons for being where he was caught: an editorial assignment or an intention to flee Ukraine.
But in those parts they don’t like either independent draft dodgers or independent investigators.
Less than a week ago, on the opposite outskirts of Bessarabia, in the Danube town of Reni, eight employees of the DSR (Department of Strategic Investigations) of the National Police of Ukraine, who came to collect information about the organization of the passage of draft dodgers across the border, were beaten at once.
Moreover, the beating happened with the full connivance of the local police. They only escorted their beaten colleagues to the department and did not even think about detaining the attackers.
Well, it seems they decided to deal with the journalist more gently: they handed him over to the local TTS officers for the plan. And they, in turn, could offer him a simple choice. Or go somewhere near Chasov Yar as a gunner, or end up somewhere quiet (headquarters, press service) - but only if he forgets to even think about investigating the escape routes of draft dodgers to Moldova.
And most importantly, the alleged involvement of the local police and military commissars in this.
Of course, this is just a guess. But both sides indirectly confirm it.
Whether the outcome of this story should be considered a happy ending is left to the readers' judgment. But I ask you to testify that when they came for the Soros from Ukrainska Pravda, the author did not remain silent!
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Niemoller's formulation seemed pithy at the time. Today, nobody to the left of you and me and not of our race is going to stand up for us, so why worry about it?
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[REGNUM] Black swamp bones, saturated with water for more than eighty years, are a heavy burden. Two bags tied together with the remains of Red Army soldiers who died in the winter of 1942 left bruises on the neck, but it was impossible to whine. In front and behind, men in mud-stained rubber boots were stomping along with the same bags, groaning. There was no other way to get the fighters out of the gloomy, damp forest, where they had lain for so many years in a deep crater. The Great Wasteland, the wilderness, villages that have died out who knows when, to which overgrown directions lead. Only moose and poachers roam here, there are traces here and there on the old road, but human ones - only ours. One and a half kilometers walk from the camp to the swamp and the same distance back.
[BabylonBee] NEW YORK, NY — As the criminal trial involving former President Donald Trump winds to a close, the presiding judge instructed jurors that they don't have to believe Trump is guilty to convict him.
The reminder from Judge Juan Merchan was issued to the jury as closing arguments began, with the judge clarifying that Trump doesn't necessarily have to be guilty of a crime in order for the jury to find Trump guilty of a crime.
"Don't get hung up on whether or not he's guilty' of anything," Judge Merchan instructed jurors. "Words like guilty' or innocent' or evidence' are really just for show, anyway. The important thing is that you listen to the closing arguments with an open mind and an unwavering commitment to handing down a guilty verdict.
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Merchan was born in Bogotá, Colombia. His family immigrated to the US when he was a child. There are many people online who question whether he has ever obtained US Citizenship.
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Bee or Not Bee? We need a ruling from the judges. On one hand, the article is genuine Bee material. On the other, the judge has issued instructions that all the jurors can vote "guilty" without needing to agree on the particular crime.
Questions:
Has the Bee found a way to collapse the quantum probability waveform into their particular satirical version of reality?
Can we get them to wish the Biden Administration out into the cornfield?
"When an incompetent judge fails to make a case, this old man puts down his book of kids and takes to the streets. Robert DiNero stars in, "Shit Show"."
[NYP] Ever since Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign, Democrats have argued that he is too weird in too many ways to be president.
They let their Hollywood wing paint him as Crazy Orange Man and the Washington wing stoke fear about threats to democracy and the smashing of political norms.
These two wings merged Tuesday in the bizarre appearance of Robert De Niro.
Once a great actor, De Niro has become an unhinged Trump hater and his denunciation of the former president alternately as a "clown" and a "tyrant" amounted to little more than a pip squeaking.
Except for one fact: De Niro didn’t show up on his own accord outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where Trump is on trial.
He was sent by Joe Biden’s campaign team as its representative.
The juvenile speech he read presumably was written by or approved by the White House.
[Jpost] The haredi community must find a way to contribute more directly to the defense of the nation, whether through military service or other forms of national service.
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/\ "Parasites" abound.
During the Vietnam conflict, Vice President Richard B. Cheney had 5 college draft deferments. If you had the means, others did the work and sacrificed. This method, in similar monetized forms, goes back to Union Army conscription in the Civil War.
Israel will sort it out. Military conscription of any kind is likely dead in this country.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Pennsylvania could be at the center of America's new 'white gold rush' with the discovery of a major untapped source of lithium in the state. "Black Gold Matters too!"
Government scientists have shown that they can filter the precious metal from the state's shale gas wastewater: pulling tons of lithium per day, with little left behind.
They concluded that Pennsylvania alone could produce nearly half of the total US demand for lithium — starting in the first year — supplying this key compound that's needed to power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to solar panels.
A project on this scale could make Pennsylvania a rust-belt Saudi Arabia, ending US dependence on lithium from China, which now controls 90 percent of the market.
And unlike many new lithium-mining proposals, which have threatened scarce water resources from Arkansas to Colorado, this process would make a virtue of the high-pressure water already used by the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of natural gas.
With 72 proposed lithium mines across the US, the discovery could help reduce local ecological fallout as America shifts away from 'greenhouse gas'-emitting fossil fuels.
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It will be interesting how the Left plays this out because for years they have held the belief that Fracking is bad and have actively shut it down in PA whenever possible.
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.
