[WSB-TV2] ATLANTA — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said Friday that the city will soon have to decide if it will "allow or disallow" homeless people to continue to live and build encampments under bridges and overpasses. "Allow or disallow" WTF ? Piedmont Road and I-85 bridge fire in 2017 cost tens of millions of dollars to repair.
This comes just days after fire investigators blamed an out-of-control fire at a homeless encampment for severely damaging a bridge along Cheshire Bridge Road.
But, the Mayor added, such an action cannot come without giving those people alternative places to live. Summer here can be brutal. AMTRAC goes to Washington D.C., NYC, Chicago, what is the problem ?
"Policy decisions are going to be made around whether we allow or disallow anybody to ever go up under a bridge to live and so consider that trespassing," Dickens said. "But we’ve got to have options for people." What about the Salvation Army? Hundreds of bunks and lots of hot chow there.. Oh, no alcohol or drugs. Well, Ok.
To that end, Dickens toured a new concept village under construction in Downtown Atlanta in an old parking lot on Forsyth Street made up of donated converted shipping containers and modular units. The Government can fly homeless migrants in from Africa and China. Why can't the Government fly them out ?
[Yahoo - USAToday] President Joe Biden announced Friday he's issuing a federal pardon to every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted. "Psssst, Dad? Coke! Cocaine, OK?"
The sweeping pardon applies to all U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents in possession of marijuana for their personal use and those convicted of similar federal crimes. It also forgives pot users in the District of Columbia. It does not apply to individuals who have been jailed for selling the drug, which is illegal under federal law, or other marijuana offenses such as driving under the influence of an illegal substance. Read the rest at the link
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Example of the Stupidity of Federal Laws.
The Federal Marijuana Laws were/are so loosely written that a person COULD have be sentenced up to 3 years in jail for 1 joint.
Now say the person received the usual US Federal District Court 1 year probation sentence. Now ATF 4473 Form would disqualify that person from firearm purchases for life.
ATF Form Question ....other crime, for which the judge could have imprisoned you for more than one Year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?
GO FIGURE
But that same ATF disqualified person can hold a TS SCI SAP SBI clearance. And yes, I have seen it actually on several sites.
BUT NOW
They can find Cocaine use in the WH and no serious investigation, arrest or results?
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^ Procopius2k
I have commented I feel the OPEN Borders was for multiple reasons.
Re-Election after Biden controllers have him pardoning them, granting Citizenship and the vote. Then selling they will be removed if TRUMP wins, so vote LSD
To bring in a Culture which counters the once Christian values and morals. Thus create conflicts.
To allow in a 5th Column. Which will cause all types of terrorist issues. Thus allowing the DC Swamp to declare a National Martial Law Emergency situation to go Draconian Law.
[YouTube] Episode 1 : Ignore the Odds gives us a glimpse into what drives retired Navy SEAL and best-selling author Jack Carr to live a life that is elevated in every way. Follow Jack as he talks us through what drives him and shows us a look into the life behind the legend.
Now that rogue waves are proved real, everybody wants one.
[MAIL] An American woman spent a terrifying 20 minutes thinking she was going to die as she hid from flying debris on a cruise ship hit by a massive wave.
MS Maud was sailing some 162 miles off Denmark's west coast and about 217 miles off Britain's east coast when the monster wave shattered its windows on the bridge.
The luxury cruise ship, which was carrying 400 passengers and crew, started a 14-day Northern Lights expedition from Tilbury in the UK on December 9 and was due to return to port on December 23.
Elizabeth Lawrence, who works at Apple in Silicon Valley, was on board the Norwegian cruise ship and told of how close they all came to drowning.
She described the 'terrifying ordeal' on X, saying: 'I'll be honest, there was about 20 minutes yesterday where I thought the ship might capsize, it was rolling so heavily and we didn't have any idea what had happened.
'It really hit home when they started handing out orange survival suits to everyone.'
[FrontPageMagazine] CDC blames racism for record number of cases in border states.
Last month the CDC revealed that the number of babies born with syphilis had increased tenfold. The Centers for Disease Control blamed this on racism and inequity.
But the real issue isn’t racism even though the syphilis epidemic does affect minorities far more than white people. The number of babies born with ’congenital syphilis’ did not rise from 365 in 1986, 529 in 2000 to 2,855 in 2021 because America was more racist in 2021 than in 1986.
In 2022, congenital syphilis shot up further to 3,700 resulting in 51 deaths and 231 stillbirths. Was America ten times more racist in 2022 than it had been in the eighties?
The federal health bureaucracy has put its top people on this medical mystery, dispatching Admiral Rick ’Rachel’ Levine, a man whose claims to really be a woman rewarded him with an admiralship and a top health position in the Biden administration, to Georgia to promote a "sex positive harm reduction framework" and "LGBTQI+ health concerns". What those concerns had to do with babies being born with syphilis to presumably heterosexual mothers was not addressed, but equity, if not the babies, were serviced by the transgender fake admiral.
In the 90s, the CDC unveiled a "National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis from the United States". During the Obama administration the plan was finally abandoned far short of its original goal of reducing "cases to 1,000" and increasing "the number of syphilis-free counties to 90% by 2005."
70% of the population now lives in counties with high syphilis rates. Not only have we not defeated syphilis, but the country is seeing the highest rates in 80 years.
It’s another triumph for the Biden administration which saw syphilis cases rise 26% in its first year. It’s a long way from the 90s when the CDC could optimistically argue that eliminating it was possible because "nationally, it is at the lowest rate ever recorded and it is confined to a very limited number of geographic areas." It’s an accomplishment worse than Bidenomics.
What possible phenomenon could account for a massive increase in such a short time?
The number of syphilis cases doubled in Texas in five years. They’re up by 4,000 in just one year. What possible phenomenon in a border state might have caused such a drastic increase in so few years? Was it a sudden massive rise in racism or a massively open border?
In 2022, Texas reported 950 congenital syphilis cases accounting for nearly half the total in the entire country.
Arizona had the nation’s highest rate where the number of babies born with syphilis shot up from 17 in 2016 to 219 in 2022.
New Mexico had a 660% increase in congenital syphilis, for the second highest rate in the country for both syphilis and congenital syphilis, with 76 cases in 2022.
California is in sixth place where congenital syphilis cases rose 1,500% with 528 cases reported in 2019. "Hispanic babies made up nearly 50% of all cases" and the epicenter of the outbreak is in Fresno.
Who knows why the massive outbreak in congenital syphilis cases was clustered around border states during the same period when a mass migration of illegal aliens was underway.
You don’t have to be a public health expert to solve this one. It actually helps if you’re not.
None of the billions we spend on the CDC, the NIH and all the other acronym public health bureaucracies could explain why congenital syphilis in the Northeast only amounted to 121 cases in 2021, 296 cases in the Midwest, but 939 cases in the West and 1,499 cases in the South.
Why does Alabama have 37 cases while Arizona had 181 cases in 2021? What does Arizona have that Alabama lacks?
Racism, inequity or a border?
The CDC certainly has no idea and no clue how to solve this medical mystery. The experts have concluded that it’s a "socioeconomic problem". Medical surveys have carried out groundbreaking research showing that congenital syphilis cases mostly involve poor minorities with low education levels living in rural areas. And therefore the answer is more social welfare.
"While newborn syphilis cases are increasing overall, babies born to black, Hispanic, or American Indian/Alaska Native mothers were up to 8 times more likely to have newborn syphilis in 2021 than babies born to white mothers," the CDC argued. "Such disparities stem from decades of deeply entrenched social determinants of health that... result in health inequities such as higher rates of syphilis in some communities."
This is the same rhetoric that the CDC has been deploying over the years including in its abandoned national plan to end syphilis. Despite all the funding allocated to testing and community outreach, all of which were supposed to solve "health inequities", congenital syphilis rates tend to reflect overall syphilis rates, and syphilis rates reflect social stability.
Import millions of illegal alien migrants, most of them young men, and syphilis rates will spike.
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[IsraelTimes] The antiquities ministry has exerted control over the 1,200-year-old house of prayer it paid to renovate. Now the tiny community fears it doesn’t respect their ownership of the site.
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There are only a handful of Jews left in Egypt itself, which was once home to more than 100,000 Jews. Under Nasser, his Arabization policies and the sequestration of Jewish property signaled an end to the millenial old Jewish home at Alexandria. Then it was Cairo's turn. Next, of course, is the Cross the Christians have to bear.
[AFRICANEWS] The corpse count from the earth-shattering kaboom and fire at Guinea's main fuel depot rose to 23 on Thursday, according to the government, while in Conakry festivities broke out between security forces and groups of young people protesting against the lack of petrol at service stations.
On Sunday night, the blast and subsequent fire in the port area of Kaloum, Conakry's administrative and business district, caused extensive material damage and brought the economy to a standstill.
The fire caused "23 deaths" and 241 injuries, the government announced in a statement broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Thursday evening.
The previous toll published on Tuesday had been 18 dead and more than 212 injured in the incident.
Of the 241 injured, 167 have returned to their homes and 74 are still in hospital, the government said in the statement.
"A large number of people have been reported missing. Investigations are underway" to clarify the situation, it added.
The head of Guinea's ruling military, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, announced on Wednesday evening a three-day national mourning period starting on Thursday in tribute to the victims.
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[GEO.TV] Prague shooter, David Kozak, 24, reportedly forst bumped off his father and another man and his daughter before going on Czech Republic's deadliest mass shooting rampage at the historic Charles University.
Kozak is described as an excellent student with no criminal record. Disturbing details emerged about Kozak's Telegram diary entries expressing intentions of a school shooting and suicide.
The renowned tourist destination, is in shock following a devastating mass shooting, marking the country's worst-ever such incident.
The lone gunman, identified as 24-year-old David Kozak, opened fire on students, leading to panic and chaos in the city centre.
Videos circulating on social media captured the harrowing scenes of tourists seeking cover and desperate students clinging to a building ledge for safety during the Thursday afternoon attack.
Czech police swiftly responded to the shooting at Jan Palach Square, discovering the grim reality of 13 lives lost before the gunman took his own life.
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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.
[Yahoo - USAToday] President Joe Biden announced Friday he's issuing a federal pardon to every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted.
