Going to America is not nearly as rewarding as anticipated.
[FoxNews] NYC has struggled with influx of migrants, which has put strain on social services.
New York City is buying tickets for thousands of migrants to travel to Texas via bus or plane, from where many of them originally traveled to the sanctuary city in the first place, amid an ongoing battle between officials over how to handle the migrant crisis.
New York City, which has been overwhelmed by more than 200,000 migrant arrivals since 2022, has been providing settlement options to migrants since that time. Last year, it opened a reticketing center to offer one-way plane tickets to migrants.
Fox News confirms that 4,500 migrants have been sent to Texas using bus or plane tickets bought by the city. The figure was first reported by Bloomberg News.
Golly — that’s 2 1/4% of them returned to sender. Do you suppose Texas will notice the increase, dear Reader?
According to Mayor Eric Adams’
…who is suddenly climbing a very steep learning curve…
office, the top five destinations for migrants leaving the Big Apple are Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York State and Colorado.
In total, they have issued more than 4,700 tickets and the majority, roughly 4,500, have gone to Texas. It was not clear how many of those migrants had come from buses sent to NYC from Texas.
Between February and July there were 2,297 tickets purchased to Texas, with the top three cities being Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Fox is told that spending through to July 2024 on reticketing has been $13.8 million.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants to New York City and other sanctuary cities in 2022 in what he said was an effort to relieve pressure on the overwhelmed border communities. He chose sanctuary cities – cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement – because he said they encouraged the crisis. An NYC spokesperson told Fox that the influx was exacerbated by Abbott and that resources have been exhausted in part due to his efforts.
When asked how the program works, the mayor’s office said, "Whenever they have a desire where they want to go back to somewhere else, we buy their tickets. It is mostly planes, but we also buy bus tickets."
Abbott’s office slammed the handling of the crisis by the Biden administration and accused Adams of hypocrisy.
"Border Czar Kamala Harris and the federal government continues to refuse to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do their jobs to secure the border, allowing record-high levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and weapons to surge into our state and country," spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News in a statement.
"Hypocritical Mayor Adams said busing migrants is ‘morally bankrupt,’ while Harris called transporting migrants ‘political theater’ and they’re doing the same thing themselves. Until Border Czar Harris steps up and does her job to secure the border, Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the Biden-Harris border crisis," he said.
New York City has struggled with the influx of migrants, which has put a strain on social services and led to scenes of migrants lining up outside the Roosevelt Hotel.
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Darth... it turns out that the country with the highest percentage of their population in America as illegals is Nicaragua. Over %6.3 of their population has entered since Biden took over.
[TennesseeConservativeNews] The Nashville Predators hosted a Pride Music Heritage Night on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena. Finally sunk in after the third read: a hockey team... Presented by Amazon, the “theme night” was one of a four-part series meant to showcase entertainment from “diverse communities in Nashville.”
A pregame Plaza Party featured a toast from Nashville Predators CEO Sean Henry commemorating the Preds celebration of Pride Night for a decade, Drag Queens, a glitter bar and hair tinsel, and sponsorship from Tennessee whiskey maker Jack Daniels, Regions Bank, and Margaritaville. Sunk in with the very first read: pedos.
A custom logo, reminiscent of a disco ball, was designed for the Pride Music Heritage Night. The logo artists collaborated with the Nashville Predators and the final design was featured on player-signed jerseys, t-shirts and around the arena the night of the game. The design was also featured on 10,000 mini vinyl record coasters given out to the first fans to arrive. Faaaaabulous!
LGBTQ organizations involved with the event during the game included official “towel waver” the Tennessee Pride Chamber, Middle Tennessee Transgender Alliance, Nashville Pride, LGBT Outdoors, and Found Sound Media.
An auction where Preds fans placed bids on jerseys, hats and other merch with the Pride logo benefited GUIDER, a Preds initiative whose goal is the diminishing of “the prevalence of social injustice in any form.” GUIDER is an acronym for Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Representation.
Two more Music Heritage Nights are planned for later in the hockey league’s season, in early 2025. These are API (Asian and Pacific Islander) Music Heritage Night on January 29th, and Black Music Heritage Night on February 8th.
I assume Black heritage music is supposed to be blues and jazz, but not bluegrass and Americana, which for some reason are assumed to to be “white heritage” music. And then there is gay heritage music, which is expected to be musicals, which goes to show.
The Pride Music Heritage Night is one of two annual Pride events hosted by the Predators. A separate Pride Night was held in April at the arena.
After controversy following some NHL players outside of Nashville choosing not to wear a Pride themed jersey during warmups in 2023, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that themed warmup jerseys of any kind would no longer be allowed in the league.
Pride Nights are part of NHL’s “Hockey is for Everyone” initiative. As part of their effort to be inclusive, the league works to make the sport a positive environment for people of “every race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and for those with disabilities.”
[Epoch Times] McDonald’s announced Sunday that Quarter Pounders will again be on its menu at hundreds of its restaurants after testing ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to the popular burgers that killed one person and sickened at least 75 others across 13 states.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to believe that slivered onions from a single supplier are the likely source of contamination, McDonald’s said in a statement. It said it will resume selling the Quarter Pounder at affected restaurants—without slivered onions—in the coming week.
McDonald’s has confirmed that Taylor Farms, a California-based produce company, was the supplier of the fresh onions used in the restaurants involved in the outbreak, and that they had come from a facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Does McDonald's have 2 sets of Onions?
1 for the 1/4 pounders, and another for other meal items?
Yes, the 1/4 Lb's use raw onions. The others are cooked, killing E. Coli
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The 1950's are calling with a simple solution: hi-intensity Cobalt-60 source and Presto no E.Coli!! They built several facilities with bays big enough to zap trailer loads at one time but the FDA has super slow rolled approval except for some dried spices.
#4
First familiar format McD's opening in San Bernardino, CA in 1953. This simplified menu, and food preparation using assembly line principles, allowed them to sell hamburgers for 15 cents, or about half as much as at a sit-down restaurant. The restaurant was very successful, and the brothers started to franchise the concept...
#5
...that's when we used silver coins. That 15 cents would be about $3.73 today. It's not that its more expensive as much as our money has been made worthless with spend, spend, spend by the central government.
#6
"In response to an E. coli outbreak in certain states, McDonald’s temporarily stopped sourcing onions from Taylor Farms’ Colorado Springs facility in October 2024 and has since indefinitely ceased sourcing onions from that facility."
#7
too bad about Taylor Farms onion shredding operation in Colorado
in my experience it is a fine company and they have steadily improved the quality of their produce over the past decade or so
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It's known how E. Coli gets in the fields: Quit shitting there and wash your hands with soap
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Also add in a food handling labor source from the 3rd world who may not be able to understand completely the instructions and grew up wiping with a hand.
It likely didn't cost a $1M to cut, clear and build. And yes it does not look pretty either. But its a functional, desperately needed Emergency access route into a disaster area.
HATS OFF TO:
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A group of coal miners from West Virginia have finished building a road from Big Chimney in under a week.
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God bless the good old boys and their diesel toys.
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Fully expect embarrassed gov’t wimps to press any number of violations on these guys; no environmental impact statement, no building permit, illegal cutting of trees, etc.
‘No good deed goes unpunished.’
#3
A lesson for the Trump Team on government inefficiency. You see this, Elon?
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One group was told if they didn't stop their equipment would be confiscated and they would be charges. They didn't have the proper permits.
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Listened to a good rant about an obviously catastrophic oil rig fire (Piper Alpha) where the people who went along with The Plan, died. The employees which said da hell with this bailed and lived.
[Epoch Times] On Oct. 23, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with six former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who had refused to get the vaccine for religious purposes. BART was ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with each individual receiving between $1.2 million and $1.5 million, the Pacific Justice Institute, which represented the transit workers in the trial, said in a statement on Oct. 24.
According to the law firm, the jury also agreed with the figures that the plaintiffs had provided for lost wages that they had suffered after losing their jobs. The jury then added $1 million each to those figures.
"The rail employees chose to lose their livelihood rather than deny their faith. That in itself shows the sincerity and depth of their convictions," lead trial attorney, said. "After nearly three years of struggle, these essential workers feel they were heard and understood by the jury and are overjoyed and relieved by the verdict."
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If you ever take the BART wear noise canceling headphones. The noise is like nothing else ever and very painful.
[SydneyMorningHerald] Extremist US provocateur Candace Owens’
…Ms Owens — Mrs. George Farmer since her marriage in 2019 to the conservative head of Parler and Turning Point UK, son of businessman, Conservative politician, philosemite, and life peer Baron Michael Farmer — has expressed opinions all over the map on many subjects. Whether it is fair to say that her opinions change to please or shock her listeners at the moment, I couldn’t say.
Australian visa has been cancelled, as the Labor government warns that her attacks on Jewish, Muslim and trans people have the capacity to incite discord.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke confirmed that the Donald Trump-aligned influencer – who has claimed that Israel was founded by a “cult” and that “secret Jewish gangs” operate in Hollywood – would not be allowed in Australia as federal Labor attempts to lower the temperature on domestic protests about the war in the Middle East.
“From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [German SS officer Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” he said.
“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.”
Owens rose to fame for her conservative activism. She was a communications director for Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019 and in 2021 joined conservative media company The Daily Wire to host her own political talk show. However, in March this year she was dismissed following a series of antisemitic comments.
She now hosts her own YouTube channel and has 18 million online followers. Owens’ comments have included describing Mengele’s experiments on Auschwitz prisoners as “bizarre propaganda”.
Jewish groups called for Owens’ visa to be cancelled in August as Burke indicated he would block it, telling this masthead: “Tickets to these events are selling for $100. I hope she has a good refunds policy.”
Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan also said in August that Labor should block Owens’ visa to avoid the spread of “hateful messages”.
Owens vowed to push on with her Australian tour in defiance of the calls to reject her visa. Speaking on Sydney radio station 2GB in August, the far-right influencer – who thinks Trump has become too moderate –
Her husband must love her very, very much. One wonders if she really believes the silly things she says, or if it’s just to generate clicks from her 18 million followers.
said she was excited about travelling to Australia for her November tour.
“It’s kind of incredible to think people could be so fearful of just speech and conversation,” she told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
“I was quite surprised to see that: they were like ‘Don’t give her a visa, she’s a bad person’. But I promise you it is not going to harm you to hear different ideas.”
The event website describes Owens’ tour as a delivery of “raw and unfiltered commentary on politics, culture and everyday life” as ticket costs range from $95 to $1500.
Shows are scheduled in November in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Entertainment company Rocksman is listed as the host for Owens’ tour, which describes itself as an organisation that specialises in “helping businesses and individuals develop strong personal and corporate brands”.
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Kind of amusing. The worst racist I ever met ran/owned the biggest trading post in Alice Springs Australia. In the Barbarcian Hotel in London UK he would call the waitresses Jigaboos to their face and joke about tricking the native people in Alice Springs to getting minimal payment for the shiny stones (diamonds) they found.
Oz has a lot of self policing it needs to do before policing others.
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[Regnum] The price of Brent crude oil futures for December delivery fell below $72 per barrel during exchange trading for the first time since October 1. This follows from data from the London ICE exchange on October 28.
According to this information, as of 01:01 Moscow time, a barrel of Brent crude oil was priced at $71.99 (-5.34%).
At the same time, by 07:59 Moscow time, the price of this brand of oil was $72.69 (-4.42%). At the same time, the futures for WTI oil for delivery in December fell to $68.5 per barrel (-4.57%).
As reported by Regnum, on the morning of October 26, the Israeli Air Force struck a number of strategic military facilities in Iran, including missile and UAV factories. According to media reports, Tel Aviv used over 100 aircraft for the attack, including the latest F-35 Adir stealth fighter. As a result, about 20 targets were hit. Iran admitted that some facilities suffered “limited damage.”
Later in the day, Iran's oil ministry said that Iran's oil facilities were not damaged by Israeli airstrikes, noting that the country's oil industry was operating normally.
[RT] The carmaker also plans to shut down at least three factories in Germany in a bid to lower costs, according to its Works Council head
Volkswagen is looking to significantly reduce its workforce in Germany and shut down several factories in the country, amid a major overhaul aimed at lowering costs and increasing return on sales, the head of the carmaker’s Works Council has announced.
Daniela Cavallo explained to employees in Wolfsburg on Monday that Volkswagen management is “absolutely serious” about the plans and that the move is “not saber-rattling in the collective bargaining round,” Reuters reported.
Throughout its almost 90-year history, the carmaker has never closed a plant in its home country. The last time it shut down any of its facilities was in 1988 in the US.
“It is a firm intention to let the locations’ regions bleed dry and the clear intention to send tens of thousands of Volkswagen employees into mass unemployment,” Cavallo said.
Her comments come as the automotive giant has been negotiating for several weeks with unions over plans to overhaul its business in order to remain competitive in light of weaker demand from China and Europe.
She did not specify which of the ten Volkswagen plants operating in Germany would be shut down or exactly how many of its roughly 300,000 workers in the country would be laid off, but noted that all remaining facilities would be affected by the changes and that “none of them are safe.” Cavallo also stated that Volkswagen management is demanding a 10% pay cut and no pay raises for the next two years.
Cavallo stressed, however, that the German government must urgently come up with a plan to ensure that the country’s economy does not “go down the drain.” She noted that Volkswagen and other European companies are in agreement as to the nature of the problems they are facing, such as slower-than-expected electric transition as well as fierce competition from Chinese automotive brands entering Europe.
“We are not far apart when it comes to analyzing the problems. But we are miles apart on the answers to them,” Cavallo said.
Earlier this month, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that the German economy is expected to contract for a second year in a row as it struggles to keep up with soaring energy costs after cutting itself off from Russian gas. Over the past year, the German government has noted a 5.3% drop in the country’s industrial output as orders for domestic-made goods have also plummeted.
Experts at the Berlin-based Forum for a New Economy have warned that Germany’s failures are expected to turn the 2020s into a “lost decade” for the country as it suffers “the worst economic downturn since World War II.”
[UTSD] WTF is going on? The agency did not specify why Capt. James Spitler and Master Chief Petty Officer Michael Dioquino were relieved of duty
With little explanation, the Coast Guard has suspended two of the highest-ranking officers at its base in San Diego, which is among the agency’s largest operations on the West Coast.
Capt. James Spitler and Master Chief Petty Officer Michael Dioquino were temporarily relieved of duty, Rear Adm. Joseph Buzzella said in a statement.
"The Coast Guard cannot accomplish our missions without the respect and trust of each member," Buzzella said. "A safe and professional environment for each member is crucial to the success of our service and we will not tolerate behavior that goes against our core values of honor, respect and devotion to duty."
The announcement was made Friday.
Spitler has been serving as commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector San Diego, and Dioquino has been the command’s senior enlisted officer.
The Coast Guard would typically relieve someone of duty if they were the subject of an investigation.
Sector San Diego is responsible for patrolling 120 miles of coastline and 750 miles of the Colorado River, as well as the U.S.-Mexico southwest maritime border, the agency says.
Each year, the agency says the sector saves about 150 lives, participates in roughly 250 search and rescue cases, apprehends about 1,200 people crossing the border illegally and performs safety inspections on more than 600 domestic vehicles.
The Coast Guard temporarily relieved the commander and top senior enlisted leader at Coast Guard Sector San Diego as it investigates allegations of a toxic work environment in the unit.
Lt. SondraKay Kneen, the district's public affairs officer, said Monday the service had received reports of unfair treatment by Spitler from personnel at the unit and of "actions against staff" that were "unfair and inappropriate" and "interfered with work performance or created an unwelcome work environment."
Dioquino is not being investigated, but he was relieved due to loss of confidence in his ability to fulfill his responsibilities as the command's senior enlisted leader, she said.
The reliefs are the fifth and sixth of high-profile Coast Guard leaders since April. In June, Cmdr. David Ruhlig, Coast Guard Station New York's commanding officer, was relieved for "loss of confidence" after leading the unit for three years.
In April, Navy Capt. Daniel Mode, chaplain of the Coast Guard, was relieved for failing to take action when he became aware of sexual misconduct by another chaplain that had taken place before the other chaplain joined the Navy and served in the Coast Guard.
In May, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Reserve Timothy Beard was relieved for inappropriate conduct.
And in late May, Navy Cmdr. Cristiano DeSousa, a Presbyterian chaplain, was relieved as chaplain of the 7th District for what a Coast Guard official described as "poor judgment and performance constituting a breach of trust with the workforce."
#5
In today's political environment, one must suspect they are being punished for doing their jobs. Either that or somebody got their panties in a wad over pronouns.
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Dial 1-800-Revenge for being un-Woke seems likely if toxic work environment is the issue? Sounds like bruised egos after a "do your f***ing job" interaction!
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[Regnum] On Monday, a cloud of solar plasma reached the Earth, a magnetic storm did not occur, although its occurrence cannot be ruled out. This was announced on October 28 by the Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The second 'promised' plasma cloud reached Earth in the morning. The ejection front was quite sharp, and for this reason the moment of arrival was measured quite accurately - around 07:15 Moscow time," the publication says.
Scientists added that the probability of a magnetic storm is high, since the impact from the plasma cloud is strong.
"There is no storm yet (the Earth's magnetic field is holding up), although the impact is generally strong, despite the fact that the impact is coming from the edge. However, it is unlikely that this "strength" will last the entire day, so we will most likely announce a storm in a while," the laboratory reported.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Earth's magnetosphere may be rocked by the solar wind. The Phobos weather center announced on October 15 that the Earth will pass through a stream of fast solar wind, as a result of which weak disturbances in the geomagnetic field are expected.
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.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to believe that slivered onions from a single supplier are the likely source of contamination, McDonald’s said in a statement. It said it will resume selling the Quarter Pounder at affected restaurants—without slivered onions—in the coming week.
[Epoch Times] On Oct. 23, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with six former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who had refused to get the vaccine for religious purposes. BART was ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with each individual receiving between $1.2 million and $1.5 million, the Pacific Justice Institute, which represented the transit workers in the trial, said in a statement on Oct. 24.
[RT] The carmaker also plans to shut down at least three factories in Germany in a bid to lower costs, according to its Works Council head
