[Federalist] On his first day in office, President Trump did the country a great service by issuing an executive order rejecting birthright citizenship as a requirement of the 14th Amendment.
Whether Trump’s order will withstand the legal challenges remains to be seen (a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the order on Thursday). But the challenges themselves will force a reckoning on this issue, perhaps even at the Supreme Court.
Such a reckoning is overdue. For far too long we have accepted without question the outlandish idea that every single person born on U.S. soil automatically becomes an American citizen, and that the 14th Amendment somehow mandates this suicidal policy.
I’m not going to do a deep dive into the legal arguments for why the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause doesn’t grant automatic citizenship to everyone born on U.S. soil (for that, see here, here, here, here, here, and here). Suffice to say, it wasn’t until about the middle of the 20th century, amid massive upheavals in American life, that the notion of "birthright citizenship" was adopted — over and against how we had understood the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause since it was adopted in 1868.
Briefly, the legal argument is this: to acquire citizenship, the 14th Amendment requires a person to be born in the United States and be "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," which means you owe your total allegiance to the United States alone and not some foreign power. In other words, the children of illegal immigrants, or those here on a temporary basis, were not American citizens. That’s what the drafters of the 14th Amendment said at the time and that’s how the Supreme Court understood it when ruling on 14th Amendment-related cases in the decades following ratification.
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"the 14th Amendment requires a person to be born in the United States and be "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," which means you owe your total allegiance to the United States alone and not some foreign power."
Nop it doesn't mean that. If this were so the framers wouldn't have to specifically mention diplomats and their families in the category of aliens who'd be excluded. All aliens would be included, and status of "illegal immigrant" did not exist back then.
And yes, my daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, just sent me this: This interpretation would also exclude ALL (lawful) aliens in the U.S. It would even excluse U.S. citizens with double nationality (which she has), as there's some allegiance to foreign nations involved.
It would even exclude naturalized American citizens who come from countries that don't allow you to renounce citizenship (i.e. Argentina).
My daughter has read up on the framing of the 14th Amendment and she would give you an earful if you were to discuss this with her. If you want I can give you details.
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She sounds like a delight to parent, European Conservative, and a benefit to whichever of her countries she ends up settling in when she’s grown.
All this argument is healthy mental exercise while we await the result of President Trump’s executive order — and probably a subsequent law passed by Congress after the Supreme Court rules against the EO as being an inadequate tool for the purpose.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the end it will indeed require amending the 14th Amendment to get the Supreme Court to agree, and possibly it will take years to accomplish, to be finally consummated sometime in President JD Vance’s second term, or President Barron Trump’s. ;-)
If so, at least the process is being started, because this is as important to resolve as Roe v. Wade, which also went untouched for generations until President Trump got the ball rolling.
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We lived, worked and employed people in the U.S. for quite some years. Legally, of course.
"subject to the jurisdiction thereof," which means you owe your total allegiance to the United States alone and not some foreign power.
From what I've read about the history of the 14A, that was a dissenting view. I'll have more on that subject later (my daughter sent me some sckientific research on this), starting with the Virginia citizenship statute of 1783 that said that "all free persons born within the territory of this Commonwealth shall be deemed citizens of this Commonwealth."
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We lived, worked and employed people in the U.S. for quite some years. Legally, of course.
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We seriously considered to stay and already had a path to citizenship. Then a business opportunity came up in Germany which was to good to ignore, and here we are.
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The EO will be struck down. Although there can be much debate about the intentions of the folks who enacted the 14th Amendment, there shouldn’t be much debate about the fact that the framers knew that situations would change and the Constitution should have an amendment process. In the current situation we have poor pregnant illegals invading our countries to birth citizens that immediately go on welfare. We also have rich pregnant foreigners visiting our country temporarily for the purposes of creating dual citizens that not or may not share American values. How many Soros’s and Bin Ladin’s qualify for US citizenship?
Unfortunately, Congress is broken so the Amendment will have have to go to the states. More than likely, Trump already has one drafted. I expect to see it on ballots this fall.
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"The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention.
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There are enough Trump supporters in every state to get it on the ballot for the fall. It will be ratified by at those 31 immediately which starts the clock. Don’t assume that states like New Hampshire and Virginia won’t vote for it as well. If there is a Hamas style attack in the US in the meantime, it will pass unanimously. Also, only motivated people vote in off year elections. MAGA folks are highly motivated by immigration issues.
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Don’t assume that states like New Hampshire and Virginia won’t vote for it as well.
Voters, unlike politicians, rely on common sense.
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So are the Latinos who work above the table and Blacks who may not necessarily be Go Trump! but understand that this massive illegal influx directly negatively impacts their financial prospects. Basically, the Turnstile Jumpers. It is the same grocery aisle of those who hire out handicapped people to get the fast track at amusement parks with the connection I pay for it.
According to The Law, if I want to buy a new pair of shoes for my children it is considered optional, but if I don't pay my taxes which pays for Anchor Babies, I get my door kicked down. That is immoral.
[TCW] ONE of the most infuriating things in politics is when leaders accuse voters of ’misinformation’ while simultaneously hiding information from them.
You see it all the time. On mass immigration. On crime. And, as we’ve recently been reminded, on the rape-gangs scandal.
Such is the disdain and contempt with which politicians and civil servants treat ordinary people that rather than be transparent, open, and honest about the information they have, they either conceal it or refuse to collect it.
Some days ago, for example, the Home Office refused to publish information about the number of utterly depraved rape-gang members who have been deported, a policy that was first advocated here.
At the same time, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government have refused to hold a national inquiry into the shocking rape gangs which would yield crucial new information about what is a truly national scandal, especially in areas that have so far escaped scrutiny, no doubt because Labour MPs are terrified about what such an inquiry might find has been going on (is still going on?) in many Labour-held areas.
What all this reflects is a concerted attempt by the elite class, by the British state, to conceal information and data which might challenge or completely undermine what we might call the ’Officially Approved Narrative’. The narrative which tells you mass immigration is only ever positive, multiculturalism is working just fine, and the people who are imposing these things on everybody else know exactly what they’re doing.
But do they? Do they really? No, suggests a damning new study, the first major investigation of immigration and crime which has tracked down crucial information.
Based on freedom-of-information requests submitted to dozens of police authorities, many of which were sitting on lots of information but refusing to release it, the findings, compiled by the Centre for Migration Control, make grim reading.
Look away now if you are of the ’diversity is our strength’ mindset. Here are the key findings which underline what is really happening on Britain’s streets:
Foreign nationals in Britain are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens;
9,055 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual offences in the first ten months of last year across England and Wales;
This works out at a rate of 164.6 per 100,000 of the population, compared with 48 per 100,000 for British people, in other words three and a half times more;
In London, foreign nationals account for two-thirds(67 per cent) of all sex offence arrests.
For all crimes, foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rateof Brits;
Overall, more than 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in the first ten months of last year;
While foreigners make up 9 per cent of the population, they account for 16.1 per cent of the total number of arrests;
Albanians were the most likely to be arrested, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalians. There were 48 nationalities with a higher arrest rate per 1,000 of their populations than British suspects;
Weighted for their respective populations, Albanians had the highest arrest rate at 209.8 arrests per 1,000 of their population followed by Afghans (106.9), Iraqis (92.9), Algerians (72.7), Moroccans (70) and Somalis (64.6). The rate for British suspects was just 12.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Trump is talking nonsense about hypersonic weapons.
- The Russians have hypersonic weapons, we don't.
- Because under Obama they stole... Russia stole the designs...
- From us?
- From us. One very bad person (Editor's note: a radish)
Radish? What does that mean in this context?
Forget it, TW. It's Russia. Who knows what it means other than calling an individual a radish is a bad thing?
gave them the designs. And they were ours! I gave the order to create hypersonic weapons and now we are even creating turbo-hypersonic weapons, which are even more advanced. And soon we will have them.
True, Russia has already created it and has it. Because they stole it during the Obama administration. Not under Biden, but specifically under Obama. Under Biden, they most likely stole various things as well, but we will find out about that. And so... having stolen our hypersonic technology, they created hypersonic missiles!
That is why the US has still not been able to put hypersonic missiles into service. Because they stole all the designs. The Russians stole them. That is why it has taken so long.
Because of Petrov and Boshirov.
In fact, Russian scientists simply creatively improved on the Soviet backlog of developments and were able to bring Russia to first place in the world in hypersonics, and we have long been talking not about prototypes, but about fully tested and put into service hypersonic systems. Unlike the United States, which is still stuck at the testing stage. Petrov and Boshirov is a reference to the two Russian nationals, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom Russians say were wrongly accused in the Skripal poisoning. It must be understood that China also stole the designs. And Iran. And the DPRK. And the Houthis.
It isn't a true hypersonic. It is a ballistic missile fired horizontally. The forming definition is the missile is hypersonic when it hits and can maneuver. The Russian ones cannot do either.
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A lot of the treasonous scam that handed over to the Russians how to do hypersonic weapons happened in the tail end of the Clinton administration. There’s been a 25 year conspiracy of silence about that. I don’t know if Obama had a venture in this area but he had others. ( Hence the 2014 in Fauci’s pardon).
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Kaddish for a Radish, or, Through the Cooking Class
"Putin's new hypersonics!"
"Don't shoot!"
"Like a coconut, only a root,"
Says Obama, who'd know,
"Was my spook, long ago,
That took all the old Communist loot!"
[Unz] The future of humanity is being decided as we speak. And it is not being decided on a battlefield in Eastern Europe, or the Middle East or the Taiwan Strait, but in the data centers and research facilities where technology experts create "the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of Artificial Intelligence." This is a full-blown, scorched-earth free-for-all that has already racked up a number of casualties though you wouldn’t know it from reading the headlines which typically ignore recent ’cataclysmic’ developments. But when President Trump announced the launching of a $500 billion AI infrastructure project (Stargate) on Tuesday just hours after China had released its DeepSeek R1—which "outperforms its rivals in advanced coding, math, and general knowledge capabilities"—it became painfully obvious that the battle for the future ’is on’ in a big way. And this is not a battle that either side can afford to lose. Here’s how technology expert Adam Button summed it up:
Imagine we’re back in 2017 and the iPhone X was just released. It was selling $999 and Apple was crushing sales and building a wide moat around its ecosystem.
Now imagine, just days later, another company introduced a phone and platform that was equal in every way if not better and the price was just $30.
That’s what unfolded in the AI space today. China’s DeepSeek released an opensource model that works on par with OpenAI’s latest models but costs a tiny fraction to operate. Moreover, you can even download it and run it free (or the cost of your electricity) for yourself.
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I don’t do TikTok because I’m not keen to let CCP programmers root around my devices and information at the behest of their CCP masters. I wouldn’t play with a CCP artificial intelligence for the same reason. Since I’m not clever enough to harden my stuff against them, I prefer just to stay away. I avoid Android devices for similar reasons, which may be shutting the barn door after the horse escape, but it I’m at least not giving up without a fight.
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[REGNUM] According to the findings of sociologists studying public opinion, one of the most Russophobic countries is, oddly enough, Sweden. It is the Swedes who are the most bloodthirsty towards Russians, demanding that the war continue until the last Ukrainian. In Russia, such information can cause confusion.
Most of us know Sweden only a few stereotypes: wealthy comfort, fat "social life", Carlson and Pippi Longstocking, wall bars, Swedish tables
...I think that might mean a smorgasbord…
and the Swedish family. However, Swedish Russophobia did not arise out of nowhere. It has a long tradition and is based on a long-standing historical trauma.
Simply put, Sweden cannot forgive Russia for the fact that several centuries ago the Russians decisively and ruthlessly broke up the Swedish Empire.
BLOODTHIRSTY MOODS
In January 2025, a survey was conducted on behalf of the Swedish TV channel TV4 news service, in which over a thousand people took part; they tried to form a sample taking into account all the main strata of Swedish society.
The question was simple: should the fighting in Ukraine be stopped through immediate negotiations?
75% of respondents spoke out against negotiations and expressed a desire to see “Ukraine’s victory.” For this, they are ready to wait – even if the conflict continues for a long time.
The most bloodthirsty of all (85%) are young Swedish women: the strongest support for the Kyiv regime is observed among women aged 18 to 34. This is a well-known phenomenon - always and everywhere the most militant are those who personally do not face the fate of ending up in the trenches under any circumstances.
The TV channel published the words of some of the women interviewed.
"I can only hope that they can continue to fight. I would like this to be the end of the terrible Putin. He is working to destroy the world," says Heather Persson.
However, a number of Swedish women did speak out in favor of peace. “I think the most important thing is to save as many lives as possible, and then to achieve that you have to make some compromises,” said Charlene Smith.
But overall, only 25% of the total number of Swedes surveyed expressed a desire to see peace talks in the near future. Where does such belligerence come from?
"THE CHOICE OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE"
The origins of Swedish Russophobia – in the original sense of the word, that is, fear of Russians – can be traced very well.
Sweden was once a powerful empire, and the Baltic Sea was effectively a "Swedish lake." The country had been moving toward this for several centuries: the Swedes demonstrated good endurance over the long haul, consistently defeating other contenders for regional dominance - Denmark, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, pre-Petrine Russia (it is worth recalling, for example, the results of the Livonian War and the Time of Troubles).
And everything was going well for Sweden until their regional empire fell into the teeth of the “Russian bear,” the giant renewed by Peter the Great, who slowly crumbled it and reduced the formerly powerful state to the level of a second-rate country.
It is very important in the context of the current situation to remember that the decisive battle between Peter I and the Swedish King Charles XII, who enjoyed a reputation as the best European commander at that time, took place precisely on the territory of Ukraine.
No less important is the fact that the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, having committed an act of treason against Peter, defected to the banner of Charles, presenting himself to him as a full-fledged representative of Ukraine. In fact, only a few thousand people followed Mazepa, but, according to today's propagandists, this means nothing. They write about the "historical choice of the Ukrainian people", about "fighting elbow to elbow with a common enemy" - such narratives are now in great demand both in Sweden and in the territories controlled by the Kiev regime.
As is well known, the outcome of the Northern War was catastrophic for Sweden.
The fighting began with the defeat of Russian troops near Narva, and towards the end of the war, Russian troops landed on Swedish soil in the immediate vicinity of Stockholm.
Faced with disaster, the Swedes agreed to recognize Peter's victory, and on August 30, 1721, a peace treaty was signed in the city of Nystad, ending the 21-year war. This treaty preserved Russia's conquests in the Baltics and today's Leningrad Region. Peter I agreed to return only Finland to the Swedes, which, incidentally, was originally captured as a future "bargaining chip."
ATTEMPTS AT REVENGE
Sweden emerged from the Northern War practically half destroyed.
The Swedes lost a huge number of young men and most of their empire. Sweden was reduced from being a great power to a minor one.
It is not surprising that revanchist sentiments began to grow stronger in Stockholm, especially since after Peter’s death the Russian Empire entered a period of political instability.
The Swedes considered that the right moment for revenge had come in the summer of 1741, when the infant Ivan VI nominally ruled Russia, but his mother, the inexperienced regent Anna Leopoldovna, was in charge. In starting this war, Stockholm aimed to win back everything lost in the Northern War, and also to seize, if possible, the lands between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea.
However, this war also turned into a series of defeats for Sweden - largely due to the efforts of the now half-forgotten Russian Field Marshal Peter Lassi In 1719, he personally participated in the landing on the Swedish coast and was now preparing new landings. But in Stockholm, seeing the hopelessness of the situation, they went for peace. Sweden, which initially intended to profit from Russian lands, itself was forced to give Russia a solid piece of Finland.
The Swedes made another attempt at revenge in 1788 - King Gustav III dreamed of the laurels of Charles XII and the return of what was lost. He believed that victory would be easy, since the main forces of Russia under the command of Grigory Potemkin were distracted by the war with the Ottoman Empire.
Gustav sent Catherine II an ultimatum, demanding that she give up not only the Baltic conquests of Peter the Great, but also return to the Turks the territories that Russia had conquered from them, including Crimea! However, the war again brought the Swedes a series of bitter defeats - the only "consolation pill" for them was the defeat of the Russian rowing fleet at Rochensalm. As a result, in 1790, the parties concluded a peace treaty, according to which they remained with their own.
The last war in Swedish history took place in 1808-09, and as a result, Russia took almost half of the Swedes' then territory, Finland.
One of the culminating moments of that war was the landing in March 1809 of a detachment led by the famous hussar, Major General Yakov Kulnev, who crossed the South Kvarken Strait with his units on the ice to the coast of Sweden. Approaching the shore, Kulnev overthrew the Swedish detachment, which had tried to prevent the Russians from leaving the ice. For the first time since the time of Peter the Great, Russian soldiers came to Sweden again. Less than a hundred miles remained to Stockholm.
As Kulnev's immediate superior, Prince Pyotr Bagration, reported to the command, the rapid arrival of the Russians in Sweden horrified the coastal inhabitants. "The telegraph signal about this terrified the capital of the Vandals." The report paints a "picture of widespread confusion and fear." The sortie turned out to be a shock for the Swedes, a deep psychological shock. They were once again convinced that if the Russian bear wanted to, he could get them at any moment.
PROPAGANDA PUMPING
Having learned this lesson, the Swedes, after concluding a disastrous peace treaty in 1809, proclaimed a policy of eternal neutrality – which they adhered to, albeit with certain reservations, for more than two hundred years. The fear of a gigantic Russia, which had reduced the former Swedish Empire to the status of a small country, was ingrained in their flesh and blood, holding the Swedes back from new adventures.
This injection of fear proved to be very powerful.
Stockholm even managed to refrain from joining the anti-Russian coalition that Great Britain and France had put together on the eve of the Crimean War.
Recently, as is known, the Swedes joined NATO. Thus, the state was officially removed from its neutral status.
But the psychological trauma received during the numerous Russo-Swedish wars has not gone away - especially since it is carefully fueled by Swedish historians and propagandists.
In order to understand the current mood of Swedish society, it is enough to familiarize yourself with the content of their news sites.
Currently, the following types of headlines predominate: “Convicted spy confesses to collaborating with Russian special services,” “Swedish Koran arsonist accused of links to Wagner PMC,” “Belarusian nuns in Sweden accused of collecting money for the Russian army,” etc.
They constantly write about omnipresent intelligence agents and saboteurs, creating the illusion among the population that Russia is waging a "hybrid war" against Sweden. Even the Orthodox Church has recently been suspected of espionage.
It is characteristic that this did not start recently, but a long time ago.
One of the most popular themes in Swedish popular culture is Soviet and later Russian submarines, which allegedly secretly violate the borders of Swedish waters to carry out some sinister missions.
A typical example: in the autumn of 2014, the Swedish Navy "registered a radio transmission of an unidentified underwater object" from its territorial waters. A large-scale operation to search for the mysterious submarine began - military ships, helicopters and several units of the ground forces were involved.
A "sensation" was thrown out that the strategic nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine Dmitry Donskoy was allegedly in distress off the coast of Sweden, and the Russian authorities, of course, were "concealing" it. Rumors were spread about mysterious objects lying on the seabed, about dents left in the ground by the submarine's hull, about a diver allegedly seen by someone who immediately climbed into the submarine...
The combination of long-standing historical traumas, bitter memories of lost battles, lost territories and Russian landings synergize with a paranoid fear of Russian "spies" and "saboteurs". All together, ordinary Swedes hate Russia, wish for its defeat and disintegration.
So they really got the impression that "Ukraine is fighting for us." Moreover, the Swedes are seriously afraid that if "Ukraine surrenders," then "we will be next."
The seriousness of this fear is demonstrated by the fact that Sweden is already searching for grave sites in which to bury tens of thousands of war victims. Considering the mental state of the average Swede, who is daily fed the poison of hatred towards Russia through the media, his desire to fight to the last Ukrainian should not be surprising.
[AND Substack] New Secret Service Director Sean Curran cleaned house on Friday. Ten senior officials in the agency were told to resign, retire, or face being reassigned. Curran is one of the Secret Service agents who surrounded Trump following the Butler assassination attempt. He is a career Secret Service agent with extensive experience in the Presidential Protective Division.
Curran’s action in making immediate changes to senior leadership in the Secret Service shows decisiveness. It also shows he understands the fundamental challenge that will face all of Trump’s appointees to positions heading law enforcement and intelligence agencies. A leadership change at the top will in and of itself fix nothing. These agencies have to be taken down to the studs and rebuilt.
We have a crisis of competency. The Secret Service demonstrated this to the entire world in Butler. An emotionally disturbed young man with a commonly available rifle and no training of any kind secured an elevated firing position within easy range of the stage on which Trump was speaking — in broad daylight — and nobody did anything about it until after he had come within a hair’s breadth of killing the man who is now President.
Did DEI initiatives play a role in that? Without question. Were there personnel on-site effectively masquerading as Secret Service who had no business being there? Certainly. But the list of failures on the part of the Secret Service on that one day alone is almost endless. A team of randomly selected local men from the surrounding area could have done a better job of protecting Trump than his "protective detail" did.
I suspect a team of middle aged, suburban housewives with the usual exposure to American popular culture (novels, tv shows, movies) could have done a better job.
You don’t get to the point where such catastrophic failures are possible without years of rot. Standards have fallen. People who have no business doing so are serving on details. Training has been so diluted as to be virtually meaningless. During the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life, the Secret Service agent who discovered the would-be shooter fired 6 times from five feet away and could not hit his target. Is there a more basic skill for a member of a protective detail than the use of his firearm?
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Curran’s assignment to Trump’s detail likely meant that he was outside the power structure of the organization. The assignment probably wasn’t a punishment, but I surmise that he wasn’t connected to powerful people like Cheatle was. If he was being punished, he would have been assigned Hillary or Michelle.
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[LA Times] Los Angeles is being investigated, pilloried and derided over the horrific loss of life and property in the 2025 fires. Certainly, Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of Supervisors, and many of their recent predecessors, have not convinced the world that L.A. is a governable city.
Fire preparedness isn’t the only problem. In recent years, Los Angeles has been losing residents right and left. Census data show that its poverty rate is among the highest in the state, and that it’s in the top 10 nationwide. South L.A., roughly the area between the 10 Freeway south to the city boundary, locale of two of the worst riots in U.S. history, is now poorer in relation to the rest of Los Angeles than it was before those upheavals — the Watts riots, in 1965, and the Rodney King unrest in 1992. The city and county of Los Angeles has the second-highest unhoused population in the U.S., behind New York, and yet L.A. builds far less new housing than almost every other large "metro." It has a deepening budget hole.
The news is far better if you look at smaller cities in the county: Downey, Lakewood, South Gate, Cerritos, Bellflower and Paramount. As you drive through downtown neighborhoods toward these southeastern suburbs, you’re likely to encounter broken pavement, battered buildings, empty storefronts and sidewalks crowded with vendors and food stalls reminiscent of the developing world. But just past the city limits, the reality changes.
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...If the Usual Suspects there don't get their heads out muy pronto, the big finish will be the '28 Olympics - billions programmed for it, likely massive scars remaining from the fire (and likely little or NO rebuilding), the Unhoused(TM), and nightmarish crime levels mean people will pretty much stay away...and all of that while GOV Hairgel is fighting for a Presidential nomination.
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The Olympics are just another California money laundering enterprise. They will lose money, but a bunch of favored folks will make bank through the process.
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Too many LA voters get their news from TV or the LA Times, if they get any news at all. Recent indications are that the LA Times owner wants an unbiased approach in his newsroom. We'll see.
I won't argue whether LA can be properly governed or not but it is certainly not being properly governed by Mayor Bass. Rick Caruso is waiting in the wings and a movement to recall Bass is underway. We'll see.
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Just on general observation, I really suspect there is a maximum size population in which you can attain reasonable city government, after which it does become unmanageable.
[FOX] Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world.
Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month.
A day after the astronomers with the Minor Planet Center registered 2018 CN41, it was deleted on Jan. 3 when they revealed that it was in fact Musk’s roadster.
The fear of long-range stealth cruise missile attacks targeting missile site entrances necessitates the construction of robust layers of defense. Here, for instance, 2 Iranian missile sites are equipped with effective passive defense layers. Each entrance is protected by a 1/9 pic.twitter.com/SY4Zz7ARsd
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The fear of long-range stealth cruise missile attacks targeting missile site entrances necessitates the construction of robust layers of defense.
Here, for instance, two Iranian missile sites are equipped with effective passive defense layers. Each entrance is protected by a 5-meter-thick reinforced concrete gate, with an additional 5-meter-thick reinforced concrete barrier in front of it, resulting in a total of 10 meters of reinforced concrete protecting the main entry points.
The additional layer might also serve as a shock obstacle to less accurate but super strong shock waves from bunker buster bombs. Another strategy to defend against such attacks on missile or other underground site entrances can be observed in this sat image.
Here in Iran, long & fortified entrance extensions have been constructed to protect the main entrances, providing an additional layer of security and resilience! Note, that there are further protective measures inside entrances!
The importance of such heavily hardened defense layers becomes clear when examining the performance of American stealth cruise missiles, such as the JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) with penetrating capability. These missiles have demonstrated the ability to penetrate and destroy fortifications & entrances even at angles as steep as 90 degrees.
Among the most significant conventional threats to Iranian ground installations, such stealth cruise missiles pose a particular danger to the entrances of Iranian missile sites.
However, Iranians have implemented measures to rapidly clear and reopen damaged entrances when necessary. Above-ground installations, however, face a great threat, prompting Iran to relocate many critical assets underground.
The stealth capabilities of cruise missiles allow them to operate at high altitudes, maximizing their range without expending energy through low-altitude maneuvers Their warheads, typically weighing at least 450 kilograms, are highly explosive and paired with advanced fusing technology, ensuring devastating effectiveness against targeted structures.
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Iranians have implemented measures to rapidly clear and reopen damaged entrances
What have they done to harden the air exchange systems?
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.
