Something must've been going very wrong with their crypto investments.
"Signature Bank is a New York state-chartered commercial bank and is FDIC-insured, with total assets of approximately $110.36 billion and total deposits of approximately $88.59 billion as of December 31, 2022," Harris' statement said. "DFS is close contact with all regulated entities in light of market events, monitoring market trends, and collaborating closely with other state and federal regulators to protect consumers, ensure the health of the entities we regulate, and preserve the stability of the global financial system."
#GretaThunberg La líder de los activistas "contra el cambio climático de origen humano" borra un tuit del 2018 que decía: "uno de los científicos del clima más importantes avisa de que el cambio climático extinguirá a los humanos de la faz de la tierra si no dejamos de usar combustibles fósiles en los próximos cinco años". Estamos en 2023 y su predicción de 2018 constata que no hay ciencia detrás de sus afirmaciones sino política del pánico. /// #GretaThunberg The leader of the "human-induced climate change" activists deletes a 2018 tweet that said: "one of the most important climate scientists warns that climate change will extinguish humans from the face of the earth if we won't stop using fossil fuels in the next five years." We are in 2023 and his prediction for 2018 confirms that there is no science behind his claims but rather the politics of panic.
Countries will realize that World War III has begun when missiles start raining down on their homeland 12 Mar 2023 - 17:57
But by then it will be too late!
Since Joe Biden entered the White House, relations with both Russia and China have been steadily swirling and it looks like the military could soon be forced to fight both at the same time.
In Russia, regular television programs were interrupted by a message telling viewers to take their antiradiation pills and head for the nearest bomb shelters.
Russians were warned yesterday to take their anti-radioactive pills and rush to their nearest nuclear bomb shelters after hackers hacked into state television servers to broadcast chilling messages.
Was it hackers or a surprise drill? It was certainly an exercise before the reality of the nukes.
TV and radio programs in Moscow and the Sverdlovsk region, including the city of Ekaterinburg, were interrupted with an alarming message telling citizens that a missile attack had taken place on Russian soil.
The population was urged to take potassium iodide pills, wear gas masks to protect themselves and seek shelter.
But the truth is that we will all need anti-radiation pills if this madness does not end.
Both sides just keep escalating things. On Thursday, the Russians hit Ukrainian cities with their biggest missile attack in weeks.
Ukraine's armed forces chief said Russia fired 81 missiles into Ukrainian territory Thursday morning, including six supersonic "kinzhal" missiles that its air force cannot intercept.
Kiev's mayor Vitaly Klitschko said the capital experienced a series of explosions that damaged energy infrastructure and injured several civilians. In his most recent Telegram post, Klitschko said that due to extraordinary power cuts following the missile attack, 40 percent of the capital's consumers are now without heating.
Russia had not used Kinzhal supersonic missiles since the early weeks of the war.
These missiles are absolutely devastating because they can fly at speeds that are absolutely breathtaking.
The Kinzhal, unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin five years ago, can accelerate to Mach 4 - four times the speed of sound - and can reach speeds of up to Mach 10, with a range of about 1,250 miles. The missile is also believed to be nuclear powered.
An even more sophisticated weapon, the Russian Avangard supersonic glide vehicle, can fly at speeds of up to 27 Mach, according to the Kremlin. Another supersonic, the Zircon anti-ship missile, has also been deployed, but there are no reports of Zircon or Avangard being used in combat.
The US has poured nearly $200 billion into this conflict so far, but the Russians continue to gain more ground.
Even with all the help we've given them, the Ukrainians are simply outmatched, and at this point even Ukrainian news sources openly acknowledge the reality of what has happened in places like Bahmut.
The Kyiv Independent recently interviewed soldiers on the front line and issued a surprisingly blunt assessment (given that it's obviously a news source on the Ukrainian side) that Ukrainian soldiers are largely " unprepared, poorly trained battalions thrown into the front-line meat grinder to survive as best they could with minimal support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical intelligence."
If politicians on both sides and their families really had to fight these wars, they would end the war very quickly.
I think things could soon go to a whole new level.
Once they lose Bahmut, the Ukrainians will become very desperate and may end up doing something really stupid.
Speaking for the foolish, highly respected journalist Seymour Hersh says the Biden administration's approach to Ukraine is "very scary and very foolish."
Do they really want to get NATO into a war? No doubt we've increased the number of U.S. troops in Poland, secretly, and they're deploying a lot more weapons in that region. I suppose they may push NATO to make a physical presence.
An increasing presence of Russian submarines off the coast of the US.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine continues to rage, U.S. commanders and military observers are sounding the alarm about Russian submarine fleet activity thousands of miles away off the U.S. coast.
Throughout the war, which began when Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, there has been a buildup of Russian naval forces in the Black Sea. There has also been a growing presence of Russian submarines off the U.S. coast and in the Mediterranean, according to officials.
Meanwhile, one of the Chinese military's top officers publicly said it is time to "concentrate our efforts on preparations for war."
Stressing the urgency of Beijing on Sunday, one of China's two most senior military officers, Zhang Youxia, called on the People's Liberation Army to "concentrate its efforts on preparations for war."
If the Chinese did not intend to invade Taiwan, they would have no reason to prepare for war.
But the truth is that they know they are going to invade, and they also know that it will mean war with the United States.
Of course, the US military is quickly preparing for such a conflict. The following comes from a very interesting article in The Economist about US preparations for a war with the Chinese.
The Marines are training for a war with China, probably precipitated by an invasion of Taiwan.
Their base in Okinawa, at the southern tip of the Japanese archipelago, is just 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Taiwan. The two islands are part of what U.S. military planners call the "first island chain": a series of archipelagos and islands, large and small, stretching from Japan to Malaysia, blocking naval passage from China to the Pacific.
Whether carrying Chinese ships at a distance or - far less likely - deploying to Taiwan to help repel a Chinese invasion, the Marines will be involved early in any conflict.
Before I end this article, I want to make sure no one forgets the Middle East.
War is coming there too, and it will be absolutely terrible.
Things are so tense in the region right now, and we have just witnessed horrible statements that portend catastrophic war.
Corporations such as "Cargill", "DuPont" and "Monsanto" (which is formally a German-Australian company, but essentially an American one) are among the most prominent owners of Ukrainian arable land. In addition, corporations like "Vanguard", "Blackrock" and "Blackstone" are among the largest shareholders in the aforementioned agricultural giants, owning trillions in assets. For instance, "Blackrock" is a fund that manages assets worth over $10 trillion, with "Vanguard" controlling at least six and "Blackstone" managing up to $1 trillion. Together, the three massive US multinational corporations ("Cargill", "DuPont" and "Monsanto") own over 17 million hectares of Ukraine's arable land.
In comparison, the whole of Italy has 16.7 million hectares of agricultural land. In short, the three American corporations own more usable agricultural land in Ukraine than what the whole country of Italy has. The entire area of Ukraine is approximately 600,000 square km. Out of that land area, 170,000 square km have been acquired by foreign corporations, the vast majority Western, particularly those based in or financed by the US. Since the new law on the sale of agricultural land passed by the Kiev regime entered into full force approximately one year ago, to this day, the three large multinational consortia financed with US capital have acquired well over a quarter of Ukrainian arable land. A report by the Australian National Review states that the three US corporations managed to acquire 17 out of the 62 million hectares of agricultural land in less than a year. This made it possible for them to control 28% of the total arable land in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian people have not only been quite literally robbed of the lands their ancestors gave their lives for, but now they're effectively dying in battle to make sure this theft continues unabated.
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One of the great ironies that nobody wants to acknowledge is that even American globalists would have to concede that Georgia, the nation, has a better chance of retaining its identity and culture if it is incorporated politically into Russia..!
To be left on the outside would almost certainly damn it to being fully sucked into the NATO-sphere and thus becoming a rainbow colony of the West.
Liberals ultimately, though, do not have any concern about this: they view the destruction of the past as a necessary act to liberate the individual.
But we all know one thing... Only Christ can liberate a man - to enter further into sin will condemn him.
Years ago I remember this coming up and someone saying "Wellll they're gonna drive anyways..!"
As if absolutely nothing at all can be done about the fact that we have illegals in our communities and the only rational course of action is to just normalize their presence as much as possible.
Also absolutely had no idea that there might be 77k illegals in Minnesota. This isn't exactly a high population state by any stretch of the imagination.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has signed a Democrat-approved bill into law that will give driver’s licenses to potentially 77,000 eligible illegal aliens.
LOL, the clarification here does not make me feel better:
The image being circulated includes links to a report in Newsweek, which discusses findings from a Russian NGO, and an article in the Times newspaper.
The two figures from the two sources are not directly comparable.
The report discussed by Newsweek – authored by Agora, a Russian human rights group – found that 411 criminal cases were brought against internet users in Russia in 2017. The article does not give a figure for arrests.
In 2017 The Times made a Freedom of Information request which found 3,395 arrests had been made by 29 UK police forces for “section 127” offences, which is used for cases of online abuse. According to the article, 1,696 people were subsequently charged. Section 127 offences cover harassment that takes place via an “electronic communications network”, and is not limited to social media posts – harassment via email or other forms of online communication can also fall under this definition.
The Bishop who christened Meghan and Harry's daughter Princess Lilibet is a former newspaper editor and the chief of staff for disgraced former US president Richard Nixon.
The Right Reverend John Harvey Taylor - the Bishop of Los Angeles - baptized the Sussex's 21-month-old at their Montecito home in California on Friday.
The christening of Lilibet saw her royal title of 'Princess' used formally for the first time, giving the first indication that the Sussexes will use the titles for their children.
The small ceremony - conducted by the man described as one of Nixon's closest confidantes, and who Nixon himself described as 'our House liberal' - was attended by between 20 and 30 friends at their Montecito mansion.
You don't expect that kind of a background for an Anglican Bishop.
The Right Reverend John Harvey Taylor, the Bishop of Los Angeles, worked for Nixon between 1984 and 1990. He baptized the Sussex's 21-month-old at their Montecito home in California on Friday.
We possibly have a serial rapist/killer among NHS staff in Blackpool:
Valerie Kneale, 75, had been sitting up and talking when relatives visited her at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Her grown-up children wanted to stay the night with her but medics said there was no need.
However, then she suffered a devastating second stroke and never regained consciousness.
After a post-mortem examination, it was discovered that she had bled to death due to being assaulted, possibly sexually.
Despite detectives interviewing thousands – including ward staff, patients and visitors – no one has been charged with the murder. Now a £20,000 reward has been offered to catch her killer.
Detective Chief Inspector Jill Johnston, of Lancashire Police, said: 'This may be at the hands of somebody who is a predator and who may have committed previous attacks of this nature and may continue to do so.'
...
She died on November 16. But in a routine post-mortem test, a pathologist found she suffered a horrific internal injury and told the police. An inquest heard the pathologist 'felt' that Mrs Kneale's injury 'was caused by a forcible sexual assault after she was admitted to hospital'.
It's hard to imagine this happening to your loved one.
Shocking footage shows over a dozen masked youths on a rampage through Fish Village restaurant in Queens shortly after 8.15pm in an attack which lasted less than a minute.
A message scrawled on the walls of a Pennsylvania high school claimed five white teachers would die if more black staff were not hired.
The graffiti was found in a girl's bathroom at Upper Darby High School just outside of Philadelphia last month, alarming local parents who claim they were not informed.
'Y'all better start hiring some more black teachers or 5 white ones will die,' the message written on the wall of a girl's bathroom read.
The suspected teenage culprit will not be charged because they are developmentally challenged and there is a lack of evidence, police said.
I am not entirely against cutting some slack in these situations... But what do they even mean by developmentally challenged..? And to what extent is this kid getting the attention they need?
스스로를 지난해 합계 출산율이 '인구 쇼크' 수준인 0.59명(전국은 0.78명)까지 떨어진 서울 2030 세대의 자화상이라 여기는 나씨는 '1000만원 정도 일시금을 주는 미봉책으로는 한계가 있다. 자녀의 삶에 대해 ‘매우 행복할 것’이라 예상한 이들의 출산 의향은 압도적으로 높았지만(89.6%) ‘전혀 행복하지 않을 것’이라고 답한 사람 중엔 ‘출산 의향이 있다’고 답한 사람이 26.0%에 불과했다.
It's amazing to think that little things like this contributed greatly to the Greek train catastrophe:
He reportedly applied for sick leave for a month and produced a formal note to this end signed by two doctors at the Volos General Hospital, without, however, having been seen by either or having undergone any kind of medical examination.
Two doctors have been suspended from duty pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to a key Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) supervisor just hours after the deadly train collision at the nearby Vale …
They removed the 69-year-old from her apartment, where they found her living in abhorrent conditions among piles of garbage, and took her down, undressed, to the garage where they hosed her down before placing her in the ambulance.
There absolutely needs to be accountability for these things.
The mayor of the East Attica town of Oropos has expressed regret over an incident concerning the treatment of a troubled 69-year-old resident by the crew of a private ambulance service working for the municipality, describing the incident “like somet…
Nearly 30 schoolgirls have been hospitalized with anxiety attacks after allegedly playing with Ouija boards at their school in Colombia.
“There were 28 possible cases of anxiety in school students,” said Hugo Torres, head of the Galeras Educational Institution in Galeras, where the incident took place, per Jam Press.
According to the outlet, alarm bells went off after the girls reportedly suffered signs of fainting, anxiety and other symptoms at school. They were subsequently admitted to a municipal hospital accompanied by parents and school faculty.
Apparently they are using ouija boards in the school itself.
I can remember as a kid playing with one of these and the planchette jumped out from both of our fingers at high velocity. Put the board away, we were done at that point and never used one since.
Very much agreed -I did it once, and I also did the stuff with cards and witch-girl saence stuff... It was frankly a bit unnerving both times in spite of nothing that odd happening.
Later I became entirely convinced that spiritual phenomenon is real, though, and so, yes, I am not in a hurry to do anything with this sort of stuff.
@J. Løvstuhagen My own view is that everything, the entire visible universe and all that is not visible, is "God thought", there is no real physicality to anything and thus physical laws are entirely mutable as God sees fit, but when God thinks something into existence such as ourselves, that something is not independent but is in fact part of God's mind, when God wants us to cease to exist he simply (and I use 'he' here not to infer a sexuality but simply as a pronoun of convenience for personhood), he simply forgets about us.
You may ask if everything is God thought then why does God allow evil, well first because Love still can only come of free will, and God wants love even if it's just a part of himself, so allows free will. If you give free will some are going to make good choices and some not so good. The latter is more likely for those unaware of their relationship to God and each other.
What I still wonder about is that when God thought (and I really think "Spoke" is misrepresentative of what God actually did since speech can only exist where there is atmosphere and before the Earth when God "spoke" it all into existence there was none so I think thought is actually what happened, what I wonder about sometimes is does he make the rules up as he goes along (physical not moral rules), or was everything set in stone when brought everything into existence. A lot that I have observed change in my lifetime has me believing the former, which is both terrifying and exciting at once since the possibilities of such a universe, for better or worse, are unbounded.
So as a consequence, I believe we are all connected, made of the same primeval stuff and we will return to that, but in the meantime we are all connected with everything, the edge that separates us from everything else is just an illusion and this is why all these freaky "spiritual" stuff exists.
And please understand this is just my personal theory of life the universe and everything, yours might be entirely different, and that is entirely okay, it may will be like Doug Adams says just "42". By the way if the meaning of that 42 eludes you, just represent '4' on one hands fingers as binary and '2' on the other and it should be come clear, if not do so in front of a mirror.
Married to a man in nearby Boya village in 2012, Lamay was anything but ‘sane’ to her in-laws. “I had not recovered from my illness. I would cry almost all the time and not eat. It didn’t take them too long to accuse me of practicing witchcraft and labelling me crazy.”
The horrific account of her marital life entails multiple visits to an ojha (shaman), a sorcerer and a good witch capable of faith healing and ridding one’s body of ‘possessions’ and ‘spirits’.
Lamay recounts the torture she was subjected to during her treatment by the ojha. “He would hit me repeatedly with a chaabuk (whip) until my body bled. I would keep screaming in pain and agony but he wouldn’t let go of me saying that he was not hurting me but was beating the evil spirits out of me,” recalls Lamay.
In other places I've done my best to follow the Sri Lankan economic crisis, particularly since it could be more geopolitically relevant than people realize as it simultaneously flushes out the roles of regional powers like China and India.
... and here we are with China taking the lead on restructuring the absolutely massive Sri Lankan debt:
The IMF bailout process made slow progress due to the need to restructure Sri Lanka’s nearly 50 billion dollar external debt.
A previous Chinese letter giving a two-year moratorium on debt repayment had been deemed inadequate by the IMF. Wickremesinghe said the IMF programme which will be there for over the next four years would be different from all of the previous 16 programmes with the Washington-based global lender. He said the government has to take many hard economic decisions in order to stabilise the economy and work towards growth. The government measures to order tax hikes, raise utility tariffs and end fuel subsidies had triggered political protests. “I would like to apologise to the people for the hardships”, he said. The IMF in September last year approved Sri Lanka a 2.9 billion dollar bailout package over 4 years pending Sri Lanka's ability to restructure its debt with creditors -- both bilateral and sovereign bondholders.
China owns about 20% of the Sri Lankan debt, so them having a big stay in how it is restructured makes sense.
China will be able to have Sri Lanka by the horns for the indefinite future, and maybe it is even the case that the Sri Lankans will get loans next time from the Chinese (and it'll be in Yuan!).
This is how you grow an empire.
India missed out on an opportunity to exercise more control over a nation traditionally in her sphere of influence - why they did that, I do not know.
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I don't know much or even anything about this current case of fraudulent financial statements being levied against the Trump empire, but I have heard some analysis that Ivanka is embarrassed by the rest of the Trumps, and she has no desire to be part of their next political campaign just like she has no stomach for the lawsuit.
That's fine by me.
Jared Kushner is not an interesting or skillful politician. I think there was even a conspiracy briefly in 2017-2018 where they wanted to portray Kushner as the brains behind the operation because it backed up the Jewish stereotype of goyim like Trump being incapable of holding their own without Jewish minders.
The further the couple gets away from Trump, the more appealing it would be to me.
Ivanka Trump says she was not involved in preparing fraudulent financial statements that form the core of the $250m fraud suit against her father’s company
The Army is bringing back one of its most successful ad campaigns with the 1980s and 1990s-era slogan – "Be All You Can Be" – as it looks to appeal to Gen Z.
On Monday, the branch rolled out a new ad touting the slogan amid a slump in recruiting, as it recently came up 15,000 soldiers short of its goal of 60,000, Military.com reported.
We all know the reason is because many formerly excited red staters can think for themselves and just don't believe in serving the broken bureaucrats and devious deep state in Washington DC.
The Russian front lines could collapse, warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on his Telegram channel on Sunday, accusing the Russian Defense Ministry of cutting off his penal brigades from resupply. "For now, we are trying to figure out the reason: is it just ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal," said Prigozhin.
That is certainly concerning when Pirghozin talks about the potential for the entire frontline to collapse.
But we do see some dubious analysis coming later on:
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian defenders “are continuing to inflict high casualties against the advancing mixed Russian forces,” according to the latest analysis from the Institute for the Study of War, which added that the Ukrainians are “likely setting robust conditions for a future Ukrainian counteroffensive.”
“The Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut remains strategically sound as it continues to consume Russian manpower and equipment as long as Ukrainian forces do not suffer excessive casualties,” the ISW said. “Ukrainian forces are unlikely to withdraw from Bakhmut all at once and may pursue a gradual fighting withdrawal to exhaust Russian forces through continued urban warfare.”
... Again, imagine thinking that you are really able to keep up with the Russians as Ukraine in a game of attrition when it is already clear that senior brass have wanted you to wihdraw.
The Institute for the Study of War shows itself again as not a very serious study group, but a mouthpiece for the US State Department.
BACK ON DEFENSE FOR NOW: Just days after crowing that the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was on the verge of falling, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has appeared on a social media video complaining that a lack of ammunition has stalle…
The new Israeli strike comes as the international airport in Aleppo is one of the main portals of entry for foreign airplanes carrying humanitarian aid to the victims of the country’s recent devastating earthquake.
The Israeli act of aggression followed another strike earlier in February when the regime's aircraft hit the Syrian capital and areas around it, especially a number of residential buildings in Kafr Sousa neighborhood in central Damascus. Tal al-Masih near the city of Shahba, north of al-Suwayda in southwestern Syria was another target of that attack.
Syria's Health Ministry said five people were killed in the strike, including one soldier, while fifteen others were wounded, some of whom critically.
During their brief visits to the nearby town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
“We don’t get any support,” says a soldier named Serhiy, who has been fighting on the front lines in Bakhmut.
They say that Russian artillery, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers are often allowed to strike Ukrainian positions for hours or days without being shut down by Ukrainian heavy weapons. Some complained of poor coordination and situational awareness, allowing this to happen or making it even worse.
Mortarmen spoke of extreme ammunition scarcity and having to use weapons dating back to World War II. Drones that are supposed to provide critical reconnaissance information are also scarce and are being lost at very high rates in some parts of the battlefield.
All this leads to terrifying casualties of both dead and wounded. "The battalion came in in the middle of December… between all the different platoons, there were 500 of us," says Borys, a combat medic from Odesa Oblast fighting around Bakhmut. "A month ago, there were literally 150 of us."
“When you go out to the position, it’s not even a 50/50 chance that you’ll come out of there (alive),” says the older Serhiy. “It’s more like 30/70.”
Some more analysis of the battlefield:
Multiple soldiers say that they are under massive assault from both Wagner Group mercenaries and regular Russian forces.
“There’s Wagner and there’s two brigades of airborne assault,” says Oleksandr, an infantryman from Sumy, who is part of a Ukrainian assault battalion in Bakhmut. “It’s rough. Constant waves, nonstop.”
Some have characterized the Russian attacks as huge waves of cannon fodder, while others say that the invaders’ tactics have evolved to keep up with the battlefield.
The older Serhiy says that the enemy likes to send a team of three or four expendable foot soldiers to attack and make the Ukrainians expose themselves by shooting at them. At that point, the more elite forces zero in on the defenders’ position.
Once they begin exchanging fire, the Ukrainians are struck with heavier weapons like Russian mortars and rockets from Grad multiple launch rocket systems or BMP infantry fighting vehicles and BTR armored personnel carriers with machine guns.
“They get the positions where we are, establish the coordinates, then they hit us from seven to nine kilometers out with mortars,” as well as from closer by with grenade launchers, says the older Serhiy. “They wait for the house to fall so we have to jump out. The building catches fire and then they try to finish us off.”
“Their birds come out and they chase us with fire,” adds the younger Serhiy, referring to Russian UAVs, like quadcopters and Orlan-10 fixed wing drones that spot distant heavy weapons. “They hit accurately.”
As Russians destroy more and more buildings, Ukrainians keep losing more places where they can reliably take cover. Borys the medic says people have been lost when their entrenched positions collapsed from heavy Russian fire, suffocating them.
“I’ll put it like this, we should get our people out because if we don’t take off, then in the next few weeks, it’s going to be bad,” says Oleksandr. A mortarman named Illia agrees that Bakhmut is “practically encircled.”
Iran has been plagued by a string of mysterious “mild” poisonings since last November, with the apparent attacks occurring at more than 50 schools across the country. More than 1,000 schoolgirls have been affected by the poisonings, triggering protests by parents and prompting some to take their children out of school altogether.
Naturally, the Supreme Leader has condemned it.
Last week, President Ebrahim Raisi suggested the poisonings might have been carried out by the country’s enemies conspiring “to create fear and despair in the people” and urged the interior ministry and intelligence groups to ramp up efforts in apprehending those responsible.
Earlier, the Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi suggested hardline religious groups who oppose women’s education, might have had a hand in the affair. “It was found that some people wanted schools, especially girls’ schools, to be closed,” he commented without elaborating.
They really let you know who calls the shots in Atlanta in terms of security:
However, a spokesperson for the same office later said that the YFN trial had been pushed back due to security issues. District Attorney Fani Willis stated last year that the war between the two street gangs resulted in at least 50 shootings and multiple murders; according to the spokesperson, the prospect of both street gangs in the same courthouse at the same time drove the decision to delay.
Other law-enforcement sources make similar claims. “Providing security for the YSL trial is a priority that requires the deployment of resources from various Fulton County Sheriff’s Office units,” a sheriff’s office spokesman said in a statement to RS. “Because some of the defendants are housed in other counties, the security protocol also involves daily coordination with other agencies regarding transportation and courthouse security. Due to the unprecedented nature of this trial, we are constantly assessing security and making the necessary adjustments to ensure the safety of those involved and the courthouse complex as a whole.”
The city has a massive crime problem but doesn't have the budget to provide comprehensive security at its own courthouse.
... Moreover:
Fulton County’s jail is overcrowded, with inmates sleeping in common areas in plastic boats, sheriff Pat Labat told county officials last year. Stabbings occur daily, he said. Fifteen people died in the sheriff’s custody in 2022, according to the Fulton County medical examiner’s office, compared to two or three in pre-pandemic years. The Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU issued a scathing report last year describing rampant malnourishment and neglect on the jail’s mental-health floor, where every single inmate was afflicted with lice, scabies, or both.
Attorneys in Atlanta describe widespread delays and disruptions to other cases as the prosecution of Young Thug moves slowly onward, with months still to go
I understand that the free market based theories accurately describes the circumstances by which business flows and the market booms, but it does not describe a world in which I want to live.
I also believe it is entirely possible to make the market subject to the desires of the people as opposed to making the people subject to the market.
I realize some people prefer starvation. I'd be okay if I could be excluded from their crowd, but like the Bolshevik revolution showed, that's never a choice.
@J. Løvstuhagen What you don't want is a situation where a substantial portion of people are dependent upon government, because being dependent means the government has the power and you have no freedom. And government in general doesn't do a good job of managing supply and demand. Problems come when you have businesses influencing government in a big way or you have monopolies. We have legislation on the books that, if it were actually enforced, would prevent both, but it isn't.
Right, that is not what I think anyone wants - I do not want people dependent on the government for handouts, but I also do not want corporations acting tyrannically and establishing monopolies.
The government should protect us from others and that includes the predatory practices of industry.
@J. Løvstuhagen As I stated there are laws on the books and if they are enforced address such things, the Sherman Antitrust Act being chief among them when it comes to monopolies.
When we looked at the happiness trend for unhappy people in the 2021 data, we found exactly the same pattern as was found in 2010; happiness rises relatively steeply with income and then plateaus.
The answer to this, though, is to just personally attempt to transcend this reality.
The version of monism most pertinent to the present discussion originated with Ernst Haeckel, a romantic-minded German zoologist who spent a large portion of his career ardently promoting the work of Charles Darwin. “Rooted in pre-Darwinian romanticism,” writes Daniel Gasman in Haeckel’s Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, “Haeckelian Monism [draws] upon the one of the oldest if not the oldest tradition in philosophy—the belief that all different phenomena are bound into unity by one common ‘sacred’ force.”
For Haeckel, the goal of life is to get back in touch with a “wholly other” substance found in the world. Achievement of this goal demands the rejection of several intertwined legacies: the Judeo-Christian tradition of transcendence (or dualism, as Haeckel would say); that tradition’s claim on the West’s many cultural and intellectual achievements; faith in human equality; and, for good measure, the movements stemming from that faith. (Examples of such movements include, most notably, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.) In place of this tradition, men must embrace the monist secular faith that nature provides the basis for all social laws, which science will uncover sooner or later. Science, as a reflection of the laws of nature, ought to provide the foundation for all sociological, religious, political, and philosophical thought.
You could say that the bodybuilder fascism has within it some element that is inherently contrary to Christian civilization if it is going towards this end... Unless, of course, this monism is reinterpretable, where the "mon" that unites all can be thought of as a reflection of the Holy Spirit. I am not so sure how elegant that is, but it might work.
The movement certainly sounds fascinating, though, and it isn't hard to see the parallels with the modern body fascists:
In practice, monism manifested as an “intense feeling of responsibility” toward elevating humankind through “unceasing endeavor toward refinement and perfection.” (Here we find a clear instance of Haeckel’s obsession with Darwinism.) Despite encompassing the whole of human striving, however, monism pursued refinement and perfection chiefly through the body. Haeckel thus partnered in 1906 with Wilhelm Ostwald, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Together the two men founded the German Monist League. Dedicated to investigations into monist thought, as well as dispensing advice on health, hygiene, and similar matters, the league advised its members to “regulate” their lives so that the “prosperity of the community and of mankind is assured.” This was to be done through “keeping the individual in a healthy and vigorous condition.” The goal was to reveal the world as a “vast, living, striving, conscious organism,” as the league put it, of which humans are an integral part and through which they can realize the “kingdom of heaven” during their life on earth.
Here is also where the rubber meets the road for Christians:
Haeckel saw himself as leader of a scientific movement that aimed to free science from the bonds of metaphysics, irrationality, and a “dualistic” Christianity.
Also very fascinating to see its diverse influences:
Haeckelian monism found its way into politics, too. It was championed by Marxists and fascists alike, the groups giving it their signature twist. It was an integral part of the “revolutionary method” of the Italian scientific socialists, who saw the struggles of the working class as reflective of the natural evolutionary struggles of all life, and inspired the murky mysticism of German National Socialists, who sought to destroy the cultural and religious underpinnings of Western civilization and replace them with a fantastic and perverse interpretation of natural law.
I was a bit surprised to see not one but two intersections:
The US citizens were driving through Matamoros in Tamaulipas state in a white minivan when a group of unidentified gunmen shot at them.
They were then placed in a vehicle and taken away, the US government said.
The US has not confirmed Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's statement saying that the Americans had crossed the border to buy medication.
The missing Americans, who were kidnapped on 3 March, have not been identified.
"There was a confrontation between groups and they were kidnapped," Mr López Obrador said Monday.
The incident also resulted in the death of an innocent Mexican citizen, US ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said in a statement.
"We have no higher priority than the safety of our citizens," the ambassador said.
"Officials from various US law enforcement agencies are working with Mexican authorities at all levels of government to achieve the safe return of our compatriots", he continued.
Not only is there the angle of Mexican criminals victimizing American tourists, which will have huge ramifications for tourism, but there is also the part where Americans are abroad to purchase cheap medicine.
Oddly enough, while politicians might want to utilize this for elections, it would seemingly become a poor juxtaposition when you consider the sore spot that is illegal immigration.
Trans weightlifter JayCee Cooper began sending demanding letters and suing the sport starting in 2019 after the sports authority denied his bid to compete as a woman. Ultimately, Cooper filed a lawsuit in state court in 2021 and won against the organization based on a Minnesota state anti-discrimination law that maintains he can compete under his “chosen gender.”
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“By denying Cooper the right to participate in the female category, the category consistent with her self-identification, USAPL denied her the full and equal enjoyment of the services, support, and facilities USAPL offered its members,” Diamond wrote in his ruling. “It separated Cooper and segregated her and, in doing so, failed to fully perform the contractual obligations it agreed to when it accepted Cooper’s money and issued Cooper a membership card.”
Women's sports are going to be completeley ruined - and ironically by the policies designed for equality that they themselves campaigned for.
“They’re very effective online. Like, for example, there was a whole night where they were changing my Wikipedia page from ‘Winston Marshall is a banjo player’ to ‘Winston Marshall is a fascist,’” he said. “They just swarm you like hornets and everything they do to try and destroy you.”
The fact that major websites like Wikipedia allow this sort of vandalism tells you everything you need to know about the mainstream internet.
Former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall has detailed how Antifa tried to “destroy” him after he endorsed a book by journalist Andy Ngo exposing the inner workings of the violent left-wing group.
This is absolutely par for the course, apparently, because China practices a sort of national capitalism in which the government carefully regulates the economy for the people's benefit.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday the state will not be doing business with Walgreens Boots Alliance over its decision not to dispense an abortion pill.
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In a tweet, Newsom criticized the decision, writing, "California won't be doing business with Walgreens or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk. We're done."
Abortionists are into scorched earth politics - you push back even in the slightest way against their agenda just by not actively participating and you become persona non grata. Conservatives need to behave in the same way or they cede the battlefield.
The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus "opens up doors and makes room at the table." But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, "We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God's creation in all its varied and beautiful forms."
According to the school, that update prompted donors to stop contributing, many of them citing their interpretation of Christianity as the reason. Now, UCA has announced it will close at the end of the school year due to the loss of financial support.
Kalie Callaway-George, UCA’s executive director and co-founder, said this new language "is kind of what started the backlash from our donor base, which we anticipated. It was just that we anticipated a 50% loss in funding and made adjustments for that. We had an 80% loss in funding and that was too much to overcome."
This trend has been seen elsewhere -- everywhere that the Christians try to bow down to progress, they got golf claps from all the non-Christians and hte actual Christians stop showing up.
Some national-security and Pentagon officials have compared ship-to-shore cranes made by the China-based manufacturer, ZPMC, to a Trojan horse. While comparably well-made and inexpensive, they contain sophisticated sensors that can register and track the provenance and destination of containers, prompting concerns that China could capture information about materiel being shipped in or out of the country to support U.S. military operations around the world.
It makes perfect sense - a well located cargo crane can track vital military movements, whether it's our aid to the Ukraine or anything else.
Pentagon sees giant Chinese-made cranes operating at American ports across the country, several used by the military, could give Beijing a possible spying tool hiding in plain sight
Pentagon Sees Giant Cargo Cranes as Possible Chinese Spying Tools
Equipment at U.S. ports could pose risk of surveillance or sabotage, officials say; China says concerns are ‘paranoia-driven’...
Already, New Yorkers have been forced to spend some $650 million on newly arrived border crossers and the total figure is expected to exceed $4 billion by next year. Much of that cost is being spent on migrants whom Adams has placed in multiple luxury hotels, for free, which is transferring millions from local taxpayers to wealthy landlords.
... How much are these guys going to be adding to the American tax base..?
I did not watch the video because I try to avoid seeing these things whenever I can.
Nonetheless, it's a sad thing to see.
I do understand the occasional necessity of meting out the ultimate punishment on the front lines of war, but there certainly is something sad about giving a man his final smoke and then recording yourself gunning him down.
Not entirely positive as to why Zelenskyy felt bold enough to lie about the consensus of his continued commitment to Bakhmut:
"The command unanimously supported this position. There were no other positions. I told the commander in chief to find the appropriate forces to help our guys in Bakhmut."
The comments followed a report by the German newspaper Bild quoting Ukrainian government sources that armed forces commander Valery Zaluzhny had disagreed with Mr Zelensky about the operation several weeks ago, recommending a retreat from the city.
Most defenders shared Gen Zaluzhny's view, the paper added.
Anyone following this closely understands that they are paying a steep price defending this place and that, in the long-term, they do not have any advantage in a war of attrition.
It seems less like the Russians are desperate for a victory and more like the Ukrainians are desperate to avoid the appearance of defeat.
It is estimated that around 10% of the Seychellois population is hooked on heroin. So much so that foreign workers are having to be brought in to do the work that drug-dependent locals cannot.
In the jail, Tanzanian guards are rotated onto the staff in an attempt to stem corruption and the flow of heroin into the cells - but it is not working.
At the health centre where she had gone for treatment, she says she overheard one doctor saying to a colleague: "When will these girls learn to keep their legs closed?"
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She was eventually given a pill to end her pregnancy, but she says the nurses were reluctant to treat her and wanted to make her feel guilty: "After I expelled the pregnancy tissue, I could see the foetus."
"The nurses put it in a jar to make sure I saw it and they told me, 'This could have been your child.'"
Based.
Argentina relaxed its law on abortion in 2020, allowing a woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy in the first 14 weeks, Previously, it was only allowed in the case of rape or if the woman's life or health was at risk.
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The new law allows health workers in Argentina to abstain from performing abortions.
"As soon as the law was passed, I declared myself a conscientious objector," says Dr Carlos Franco, a paediatrician from the same area as María, who estimates that 90% of health workers in the province's main public hospital have done the same.
He says his years studying embryology left him with the belief that life begins at fertilisation.
"My duty, as a doctor, is to take care and protect the human life from the embryonic stage," he adds.
This helps explain why women like María are having so much trouble accessing legal abortions.
Poor Maria - religious people don't want to be forced to commit murder and it has become your problem.
Doctors who do agree to perform abortions have been targeted with spurious legal complaints.
In September 2021, one doctor in Salta was briefly detained following an accusation by the aunt of a 21-year-old patient that she had performed an "illegal abortion".
The accusation was untrue, but it took a year for a court to dismiss the case.
Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.
The last part is especially funny - a spike in accounts following "wrongthink" profiles.
It's basically an admission that they're mad that a billion dollar mega-corporation isn't running interference for the managerial democracy of Western oligarchs.
Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times.
There's a block button.
If Musk could prevent assassination attempts via the block button, I'm sure he'd just do that instead of hiring bodyguards.
She later resigned. Internal research by Twitter suggests those safety measures reduced trolling by 60%.
They banned & muted people who got snippy with protected minorities instead of allowing fair & round criticism from both sides. It's not exactly some magical set of fair policies that were done away with.
How does the Left like to phrase it...
>Equality feels like oppression to those who are used to privilege
I've been more skeptical of DeSantis since I've heard him essentially aim to limit the scope of criticism of Israel in Florida, and you can just see more now how he is probably a politician riding on the coattail's of Trump's populism to some degree.
This isn't completely bad... In fact, the more opportunists trying to capitalize off of Trump through imitation, the better. But why choose someone who is willing to abandon these principles when it is inconvenient when you can go with the originator?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis once strongly supported arming Ukraine to fight Russia, urging then-President Barack Obama to do so as a deterrent to Russian aggression in Eastern Europe – a position at odds with his statements this week questioning the United States’ involvement in the conflict.
As a conservative congressman, DeSantis, now a potential presidential hopeful, urged sending “defensive and offensive” weapons to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 and even voted to refuse to fund a new missile defense treaty with Russia until they withdrew from Ukraine, according to a review of DeSantis’ past comments by CNN’s KFile.
Once an advocate of a hardline, hawkish approach to Russia by supporting Ukraine, the Florida governor shifted course this week in anticipation of a potential presidential run in a changed, more isolationist Republican party, questioning whether it was in the United States’ interest to be involved in what he called, “things like the borderlands or over Crimea.” He added that Russia was not “the same threat to our country, even though they’re hostile” and downplayed the threats that Russia could invade NATO countries.
This was all very much in line with what you would have expected from regular Republican geopolitics back in the day.
It's understandable to be skeptical of politicians who change their positions on important issues for political expediency. It's concerning when politicians prioritize their own political ambitions over their principles. tunnel rush
While noting the most murderous cities in the world, American cities are covered by Alan Wall over on vdare:
But major American cities don’t come across well, either. The United States had seven of the world’s most murderous cities.
No. 1 was New Orleans, which at No. 8 on the list fell in with the other nine Mexican cities. Its murder rate is 70.56 per 100,000, a higher murder rate than any city in Mexico with the exception of the top 7.
Our most murderous cities:
8. New Orleans 17. Baltimore 23. Detroit 25. Memphis 27. Cleveland 39. Milwaukee 46. Philadelphia
The top four are majority black, while the bottom three are plurality black, so the rankings are obviously the result of systemic racism.
Excellent article from Vdare which points out that the Republican outreach to the Latino community ultimately results in a fifth column among the Republicans.
That is not to say that I think that Latinos should not be voted for - it is a case by case basis - but merely that we need a very clear idea onw here they stand on these issues when many of them have become advocates for policies fundamentally against what American conservatives want.
Azerbaijan will continue to try to fight Armenia and be a thorn in the side of Christians in the Middle East.
They are, of course, bad faith actors, and it's an undemocratic regime with an even worse trajectory.
Naturally, they are willing to cooperate with the Israelis, and to undermine the Iranians if it allows them to continue to wage their conflict with Armenia & build their military assets:
Israel has had a strategic alliance with Azerbaijan for the past two decades, and Israel sells the…country weapons worth billions of dollars – and in return, Azerbaijan, per sources, supplies Israel with oil and access to Iran.
According to foreign media reports, Azerbaijan has allowed the Mossad to set up a forward branch to monitor what is happening in Iran, Azerbaijan’s neighbor to the south, and has even prepared an airfield intended to aid Israel in case it decides to attack Iranian nuclear sites. Reports from two years ago stated that the Mossad agents who stole the Iranian nuclear archive smuggled it to Israel via Azerbaijan. According to official reports from Azerbaijan, over the years Israel has sold it the most advanced weapons systems, including ballistic missiles, air defense and electronic warfare systems, kamikaze drones and more.
You also got to love this:
These Silk Way aircraft (and others) have landed at Ovda almost 100 times since the permit was issued. The data expose an increasing pace of flights to Baku especially in the middle of 2016, in late 2020 and at the end of 2021 – which coincide with periods of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh….
In the midst of fighting in Armenia, the Israelis are more active, as they are all about the money.
This effectively means that the United States is undermining the Armenians to empower the Azerbaijanis.
Although there is no concrete evidence of Azerbaijani employment supplying Israel with oil, there have been rumors contexto and news regarding the employment of these two countries having an economic relationship in the field energy. This could help Israel deal with Iran's economic sanctions.
My advice to the US and all countries involved in the JCPOA negotiations is to separate talks from all other issues. This was already well understood by all parties, although both Iran and the US continue to try to press items unrelated to the JCPOA talks. This is foolish and unnecessary – if the deal is truly a priority for both parties, they should and must make actions meet rhetoric and policy objectives in a strategic fashion. Instead, we are witnessing both sides offer reactionary responses that only hinder talks.
There will just never be any progress on the nuclear situation with Iran until they are willing to look at it only in terms of what is the likely outcome.
Because the Americans are unwilling to do so, you can actually expect the issues to persist indefinitely.
It's also important for both sides to approach the negotiations in a strategic and pragmatic manner, rather than responding reactively to each other's actions. By doing so, progress can be made towards achieving the policy objectives of both parties. tunnel rush
Yep it's all us Americans fault, as if the same people behind what is going on here aren't behind what is going on in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, etc, etc, etc. Klaus and his buddies "Penetrate the cabinets" and this shithole world is what results.
Imagine California actually throwing out this amount...
California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount floated as the highest possibility last year.
Hard to see how it would not negatively impact real estate and other markets. Hard to see how it would also not get wasted in notorious ways by some recipients.
I am not entirely against the idea of trying to uplift through handouts - I am not an extreme capitalist - but I think they should really be thinking twice before doing anything like this.
California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount floated as the highest possibility last year.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick had a meteoric rise through the ranks under Trump - this guy is just fearmongering. It's the only way a future DoD lifer is capable of thinking.
Whatever public statements intel guys make are not about reality - they are about manipulation.
"How many Chinese and Russian sabotage teams are in the United States? I wish we had an undistracted agency that was truly focused on this threat." ~ Ezra A Cohen twitter.com/EzraACohen/status/…
The Secret Answer to Japan’s Baby Shortage Lies in a Tiny Remote Town Visiting delegations trying to increase birth rates pay fees starting at $73 to get advice.
NAGI, Japan—Mayor Masachika Oku is worried about the children in this remote town getting tired. “They’re being chased by visitors with cameras every day,” he said. The visitors, including Japan’s leader, are making the trek in search of a valuable secret that may lurk here: how to make more babies.
Women in Nagi, a town of about 5,700 people, on average bear more than two children. That figure makes it a standout in a country where the average is closer to one than two.
Fewer than 800,000 children were born in Japan last year, the lowest number since comparable records were first kept in 1899. It was about half the nearly 1.6 million deaths recorded.
Over three decades, the government has tried an Angel Plan, a New Angel Plan, a Child and Child-Rearing Cheering Plan and more, without much discernible difference. Some frustrated officials have concluded that the only step left is to go on a pilgrimage to Nagi, the town on which the gods of fertility have smiled.
Here they meet people like Yuri Takatori, 35, who is raising four boys. “It’s quite common here to see a family with three or four children,” said Ms. Takatori, while holding her youngest, 7-month-old Kippei, on her lap.
She said her husband works long hours at a factory making industrial refrigerators, earning around $1,800 to $2,200 a month.
Despite a tight budget and lack of help at home, Ms. Takatori said she felt child-rearing was manageable. She credited aid from the town such as free medical care for all children as well as support from other moms and elderly women who help look after children.
At a park stocked with play equipment, Ai Todaka, 35, watched her 6-year-old daughter, Riko, holding her younger brother Aoi, 3, as they slid down a long winding slide together.
“The elder one begged for a baby because she envied her friends with many siblings,” said Ms. Todaka. “That’s why I had another one.”
Until a few years ago, Nagi’s claim to fame was serving as the model for the mystical “hidden leaf village” of ninjas depicted in the manga series “Naruto” by Masashi Kishimoto, who hails from the town. It also has a museum devoted to an extinct snail. Then local media noticed the town’s birthrate. In 2019, it hit 2.95—the average number of babies a woman would bear if conditions that year lasted permanently. The number slipped a bit the next two years but still was 2.68 in 2021, the latest year for which data are available. Japan overall stands at about 1.3, while the figure in South Korea was just 0.78 last year.
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The visitors learn that parents pay no more than $420 a month for daycare for their first child, half that price for their second child and no charge for a third. Parents get the equivalent of $1,000 a year for each child in high school. Caregivers also get help from elderly women who look after children for a nominal sum.
It's impressive to see how the town has been able to maintain a high birthrate despite the declining trend in Japan overall. It will be interesting to see if other towns and cities will adopt similar policies and initiatives to encourage families to have more children. rankdle
In the latest from the Niccolo substack, we have an excellent excerpt from Thomas Fazi. Niccolo is so wonderful because he draws on a wide array of thinkers, including this writer with a Marxist background that is analyzing the COVID "crisis" and suggesting that they have capitalized off of it to try to create a 'bio-security complex.'
"In such a regime, “crisis” is the norm, the default starting point for all politics. Far from being a rational response to an objective reality, this narrative of permanent crisis or emergency should be understood as a way of shaping reality, and more specifically as one of the main tools through which Western ruling elites have attempted to overcome neoliberalism’s intrinsic tendencies toward stagnation and polarization, and its inability to generate societal consensus or hegemony in either material or ideological terms."
The Biosecurity Complex, Social Media Annihilating Teen Girls' Mental Health, No "Absolute Victory" for Ukraine, "The Dissident Fringe", "Fargo" Meets Montreal Mafia
It’s clear that this complex had been preparing for an event such as the Covid-19 pandemic for quite some time, at least a decade, and was ready to lead the response once it happened. It’s also clear that its members understood very well that such an event was likely to lead to a rollback of democracy and civil liberties, and a restructuring of societies along more authoritarian lines—and openly called for this kind of response. Finally, it is clear that there were converging economic and political interests that stood to benefit greatly from an external shock of this kind, as the events of the past few three years have borne out.
Many parents I speak to say that their children are not as socialized as they were at that age. A friend of mine from Canada who I saw last summer here in Split, Croatia explained to me that COVID-19 lockdowns did a real number on her children, and that her 15 year old daughter has not matured socially from when she was 12.
I really agree with you on this - I think it's a bit much that they've made this content so public, perhaps to shame her and negatively impact her job.
This is normally something you shoudl just be laughing at.
@J. Løvstuhagen Agree, I feel sorry for her, I'm sure she was embarrassed to be in that situation and I know these people are really pressured to deliver X units a day and if they take breaks they simply can't meet their commitments.
I think the implications are a lot worse than having to pee in the street or in someone's driveway, someone driving with a high level of discomfort is likely to be distracted, and Amazon vehicles are often very large vans, not the kind of vehicle you want to be distracted while driving, so this could result in someone's severe injury or death, which in my view is a much larger issue than the potential embarrassment of public urination.
You might be surprised to hear that the department of defense is basically woke, but this is par for the course.
Any government institution can become subject to the social policy experimentation of the ruling party. It's where the first commissar are deployed.
And what has Biden done?
Deployed his commissar, Kelsi Wing, who is trying her hardest to control the minds of the children of servicemen:
The DEI chief’s “woke” books in DODEA schools saw a whopping 1200% increase since the investigation into her racist and divisive statements, with over 600 copies of her radical writings featured in 49 DODEA schools, according to a new report.
In a Thursday statement, Stefanik expressed outrage over the current administration’s passivity over the matter.
“Far-left radical Kelisa Wing is under investigation for her racist and divisive statements, but Biden’s Department of Defense is allowing her to continue to infiltrate the classrooms and minds of our servicemembers’ children,” she said.
“Even though Biden’s Department of Defense has already admitted this is a problem, they have allowed the number of the radical books Wing authored to increase in DoDEA schools during their investigation,” she added.
Following a report revealing a shocking rise in “woke” materials featured within the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Education Activity schools, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik slammed the DOD over its “stonewalling” in the face of inv…
Just on February 24, PJM, a consortium of power companies from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest, supplying 65 million customers, issued a report finding that new Biden environmental rules would force the “retirement” of coal and natural gas plants between now and 2030. (You know, the way Blade Runners “retired” Replicants in the 1982 Harrison Ford movie.) As PJM put it, “Retirements are at risk of outpacing the construction of new resources.” Other close observers make the same finding; as Brian Gitt says, “Expect soaring electricity prices & more frequent power blackouts.”
With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the war mongers. They are people that don’t get it, although in some cases they get it, they get it for their wallets, but we can’t do that. We can’t let that happen. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communisits. We will throw off the political class that hates our country. They actually hate our country.
No walls, no borders. Bad elections, no voter ID. We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media, we will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House and we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.
Former President Donald Trump boldly proclaimed that the Republican Party is “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush” during his Saturday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
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홍콩 사회를 발칵 뒤집은 모델 겸 인플루언서 애비 초이(28) 살인사건의 전말이 드러났다. 현지 경찰은 전 남편이 초이가 죽으면 그녀의 재산이 본인 사이의 자녀 2명에게 돌아갈 것을 염두에 두고 살인을 저지른 것으로 보고 있다.앞서 지난달 24일 초이는 한 주택 냉장고에서 시신이 훼손된 상태로 발견됐다.
The Delaware Supreme Court lowered the passing score on the state's bar exam amid other changes in an attempt to increase the racial diversity of the state's lawyers.
Reduxx has learned that a website endorsed by the Norwegian Government which promotes the medical transitioning of children is owned by a twice-convicted pimp. Transhjelpen provides resources related to the ‘transitioning’ of children and teens.
A London cabaret company which caters to infants is sparking backlash after disturbing video clips from their supposedly child-friendly events began circulating social media.
Honestly I side with the democrats and endorse as much decentralization as possible. Of course, this is not a standing principle of theirs by any stretch. It's just the best criticism that they can raise in this case... Nonetheless, they're right...
And anytime democrats are infighting I do laugh a little.
The White House struggled to defend President Joe Biden’s decision to support a bill blocking Washington D.C. from overhauling its criminal code and voting rights laws. Biden announced Thursday that he would sign a Republican bill blocking D.C.
At least 13 mayors were arrested on child sex-related crimes since 2021, ranging from child pornography to sexual assault, a new Fox News Digital analysis has found.
Back in my day, artillery was referred to as the king of n battle... It's the category of weapon that has killed the most people since its inception, and to dominate in terms of artillery is to have control over the battlefield.
Everywhere the Ukrainians gather, they are ultimately under a sort of siege. They become targets that have no choice but to move quickly or break ranks. They can't actually sit in positions and hold them for the long term without taking immense casualties.
It's foolish to fight in these conditions. It's a waste of lives.
Get to the negotiating table and stop making poor Ukrainians go die pointless deaths.
Kyiv urgently requires ammunition as the Kremlin seeks a breakthrough on the eastern front, where Moscow is sending waves of infantry to deplete the defenders’ stocks of heavy shells
@J. Løvstuhagen Ah the straight behind profile is misleading. It looked to me like it was pointed straight up, but now I can see that is just the funky angle they chose to photograph it from.
I'm always skeptical of conservatism, Inc., but if this gets off the ground... If they really are building alternatives... I'll take the w and I'll buy their product.
Nonetheless, I want to give my loyalty to the most authentic options in the parallel economy.
In just the first day since announcing the release of “Jeremy’s Chocolate,” The Daily Wire has already sold more than 100,000 of the non-woke chocolate bars.
I remember hearing about this for the first time several years ago.
The prospects of an energy weapon being employed to produce devastating results like this was quite interesting, but it appears that that is not the case.
What struck me was the claim that Trump actually said that when Russia initially put troops on the border, they were looking to negotiate.
That doesn't seem irrational at all. They would have likely looked for a deal that would liberate the DPR and LPR, maybe even just calling for an election.
That opportunity for us to assent to that and avoid a war passed when the bungling Biden administration took control.
Police took 46-year-old Christian conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko into custody on 23 February to begin serving his one-year jail term for refusing the call-up to the military at a time of war...
"On 22 February, an influential U.S. non-governmental organisation held a conference on the events in Ukraine. Within the event, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan made the statement, ‘...Russian troops plan to use chemical weapons in the special military operation area...’.
"Russia regards this information as the intention of the United States itself and its accomplices to carry out a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals."\
"Upwards of 84 percent of Venezuelans oppose the legalization of abortion and nearly 73 percent oppose same-sex marriage, a poll by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis revealed this week, a strikingly conservative stance for a nation that has been officially socialist for over two decades."
Also always interesting to see this:
"Asked if they support Maduro and chavismo generally, 71.1 percent of respondents said they did not. Another 85.1 percent answered affirmatively to the statement, “socialism is synonymous with poor quality of life, migration and family separation, and poverty for all Venezuelans.”"
Upwards of 84 percent of Venezuelans oppose the legalization of abortion and nearly 73 percent oppose same-sex marriage, a poll by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis revealed this week, a strikingly conservative stance for a nation that has been officia…
Breaking the Cycle: Part 1In 1976, men across India were drastically changing their behavior. Some were abandoning the beds inside their homes to sleep in fields; others were skipping major festivals...
It just seems like some slow pitched battle to us but it's an absolute grind:
>"It's been pretty bad on the ground. A lot of casualties. The life expectancy is around four hours on the front line," Troy Offenbecker, formerly of the United States Marine Corps, told ABC News.
It is the miserable story of the collapse of the white psyche. The white man’s mind and soul are divided between these two things: innocence and lust, the Spirit and Sensuality. Sensuality always carries a stigma, and is therefore more deeply desired, or lusted after. But spirituality alone gives the sense of uplift, exaltation, and “winged life”: with the inevitable reaction into sin and spite. So the white man is divided against himself. He plays off one side of himself against the other side, till it is really a tale told by an idiot, and nauseating.
Against this, one is forced to admire the stark, enduring figure of Deerslayer. He is neither spiritual nor sensual. He is a moraliser, but he always tries to moralize from actual experience, not from theory. He says: “Hurt nothing unless you’re forced to.” Yet he gets his deepest thrill of gratification, perhaps, when he puts a bullet through the heart of a beautiful buck, as it stoops to drink at the lake. Or when he brings the invisible bird fluttering down in death, out of the high blue. “Hurt nothing unless you’re forced to.” And yet he lives by death, by killing the wild things of the air and earth.
It’s not good enough.
But you have there the myth of the essential white American. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
Great stuff: ---- Congressional Republicans erupted on Twitter Sunday afternoon after the U.S. Energy Department reportedly assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China.
The Energy Department, which was previously undecided on the origin of the pandemic, now joins the FBI’s stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The lab leak theory, or the theory that the virus came from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, was widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory and "misinformation" by Democrats, major news outlets, scientists and social media companies in the early stages of the pandemic.
Now, Republicans are calling for accountability from the Chinese Communist Party as evidence mounts that it is to blame for the pandemic.
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Both the Washington Post and the New York Times had accused Cotton of repeating a "fringe theory" when he mentioned the lab leak possibility back in February 2020. The Post issued a correction to one of its stories more than a year after calling the theory "debunked."
The Times came under fire last month after a group of 43 national security experts signed a letter accusing the Times, Time magazine, Lancet and Nature Medicine of stifling debate on the origins of the virus. ---------
Absolutely love how the press themselves are stifling debate on the origins - the free press is totally just an extension of the power of the oligarchs.
Republicans are demanding answers after the U.S. Energy Department assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, according to a new report.
A lot is actually going on with this idea of "as they define it." McConnell even brings it up: ... DeBar made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after McConnell (R-Ky.) said that US aid to Ukraine is a “direct investment” in the country’s interests and against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war machine” on the first anniversary of Russia’s war with Ukraine.
He said that US national security is tied to stability and security in Europe and preventing Russian forces from advancing in the continent.
“As my fellow leading Republicans and I have explained, it is not an act of charity for the United States and our NATO allies to help supply the Ukrainian people’s self-defense,” he said. “It is a direct investment in our own core national interests.”
McConnell pointed out that the United States has largely been sending older weapons from its stockpile to Ukraine.
“If Putin were given a green light to destabilize Europe, invading and killing at will, the long-term cost to the United States in both dollars and security risks would be astronomically higher than the miniscule fraction of our GDP that we have invested in Ukraine’s defense thus far,” he said.
He urged the Biden administration to act more resolutely in ensuring that its military assistance to Ukraine and investments happen at the “speed of relevance.”
“The road to peace lies in speedily surging Ukraine the tools they need to achieve victory as they define it,” said the Kentucky Republican. ...
It may be the case that McConnell is providing hard rhetoric while still couching it in "how they define victory." but it seems likely that he really wants a forever war.
After all, he's a republican.
As was stated in a previously posted article, the republican base is actually rejecting a lot of the war talk at this point. McConnell is likely attempting to rally them.
Mitch McConnell should be removed from office as “a threat to peace” and the survival of humanity by pushing the US towards war with Russia, an American journalist has said.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that while the United States won’t determine what a win looks like to Ukraine and they have to …
War fatigue is real... Even when you're not fighting it.
There's only so many emotions that we can go through... There's only so much support we can give when we have our own problems.
Eventually, enough messaging goes out there that also breaks up the narrative they push.
We just aren't interested in your forever war no matter how emotional the appeals may be:
“If they do not change their opinion, if they do not understand us, if they do not support Ukraine, they will lose NATO, they will lose the clout of the United States, they will lose the leadership position that they enjoy in the world,” Zelesnky warned.
“They will also lose the support of [Ukraine] with 40 million people, with millions of children. Are American children any different than ours?” he demanded.
According to a Gallup poll earlier this month, nearly half of Republican respondents (47 per cent) believe that the Biden administration is doing too much to support Ukraine. In contrast, 41 per cent of Democrats said that they think the United States is not doing enough, while independents are currently evenly split, with 35 per cent coming down on each side of the issue.
"The mother of Julia Faustyna, 21, won’t hand over a genetic sample but insists she has documents proving Faustyna is her birth daughter, a private detective told the UK Sun."
The mother of Julia Faustyna, 21, won’t hand over a genetic sample but insists she has documents proving Faustyna is her birth daughter, a private detective representing Faustyna said.
Back in the scary but innocent days of March 2020 the Government and NHS sought to maximise hospital capacity. This was surely the right thing to do, given the uncertainty of the pandemic, but many of its efforts backfired badly.
First, NHS Hospitals decanted bed-blockers without testing them for SARS-CoV-2. Some were infected, igniting lethal nursing-home outbreaks. Secondly, the Government commissioned Nightingale Hospitals to great fanfare. Unfortunately, as it should have perceived beforehand and soon discovered, there weren’t enough doctors and nurses to staff these facilities. The Nightingales quietly closed over the subsequent months, having treated derisory numbers of patients. Some treated no one at all. Half a billion of taxpayers’ money went pop. Third, the Government spent £2 billion to buy-up capacity at private hospitals, which did have staff, beds and expertise. The BMJ, whose article is worth reading in full, has managed – after multiple FOI requests – to analyse how this turned out, and it isn’t pretty.
He expected to fully get away with this stuff - probably because he would have never, ever been charged hadn't FTX collapsed and all of the embezzlement came to the surface.
""Bankman-Fried's use of straw donors allowed him to evade contribution limits on individual donations to candidates to whom he had already donated," reads the indictment, which adds that the "fraudulent conduct" impaired the FEC's functioning."
