ANNAPOLIS, Md. (DC News Now) — Naval Support Activity (NSA) Annapolis security and local law enforcement responded to threats made against the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday afternoon.
Just after 2:15 p.m., NSA Annapolis said via its X platform that all gates to the U.S. Naval Academy were closed to inbound traffic due to an "emergency situation."
A spokesperson for the U.S. Naval Academy said in an email that they received multiple bomb threats and reports of suspicious packages on the academy’s grounds.
All affected areas were cleared by the City of Annapolis Fire and Explosive Services Unit. As of 3:45 p.m., there was no longer an active threat. All gates were opened and the installation returned to normal operating conditions.
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These types of nuisance attacks are just going to lead to an increase in security and will totally screw things up for midshipmen sneaking out in town to blow off steam. I condemn this thoughtless act.
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#3
Just so long as they stay away from Middleton Tavern. Best Maryland Crab Cakes on the planet since they opened in 1750!
[Reason] From the poll, conducted Wednesday and Thursday of last week:
There is an ideology that white people are oppressors and nonwhite people and people of certain groups have been oppressed and as a result should be favored today at universities and for employment. Do you support or oppose this ideology?
Lots more in the survey, available here. From the description:
This survey was conducted online within the United States from December 13-14 among 2,034 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX. Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, education, political party, and political ideology where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.
The poll was supervised by pollsters:
Mark Penn (Chairman, The Harris Poll)
Dritan Nesho (CEO, HarrisX)
Stephen Ansolabehere (Professor and CAPS Director Emeritus, Harvard University)
It seems likely that, of the 2,034 registered voters, only about 170 or so were age 18-to-24 (12% of the adult population, discounted for lower voter registration numbers), which would yield a margin of error of ±8%; even with that margin of error, the view that whites and Jews are oppressors would get huge majorities among 18-to-24-year-olds.
Poll finds most young Americans back ’ending’ Israel, many find Jewish genocide justified.
Over half of young Americans surveyed on Israel’s conflict with Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... believe the Jewish state should no longer exist, and instead become Paleostinian territory ruled by the Hamas terror group, according to a new online poll.
The monthly Harvard CAPS/Harris poll finds continuing support for Israel in its campaign against Hamas among every age demographic but 18- to 24-year olds.
Overall, the survey finds 81 percent of respondents back Israel. Among the youngest age bracket, though, that support is evenly split between Israel and Hamas.
On several questions, voters in that age group seem to express contradicting or muddled views. For instance, despite 51% wanting to see Israel replaced by a Hamas/Paleostinian entity, 58% of respondents in the group think Hamas should be removed from running Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The survey finds 66% of respondents in the age group think the October 7 attacks constitute genocide. At the same time, 60% think that the attacks were justified by Paleostinian grievances. The upshot: Many young people think genocide is justified.
Many also seem to be okay with hate speech at universities: According to the poll, 53% of young people think students should be free to call for Jewish genocide on campus, though 70% think such calls constitute hate speech.
And while 67% of 18-to 24-year olds think the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn universities went far enough in condemning antisemitism, when faced with comments they made during congressional testimony — that calls for Jewish genocide are only punishable depending on the context — 73% said they should resign.
#5
I love how the only problem here is that Jews are named as oppressors. Hey, when they do it to whites, it's 100% OK and nobody has a problem with it.
BUt change it to Jews and suddenly a hate crime.
: According to the poll, 53% of young people think students should be free to call for Jewish genocide on campus, though 70% think such calls constitute hate speech.
Hate speech is speech I hate. Calling for white genocide is good enough to get you a spot on the editorial board of the NY Times. Do the exact same thing, just swap 'white' for Jew' and suddenly our free speech needs to be censored.
#6
Many today view the Jews as the canaries in the cage. What those asleep or suffering from severe white guilt have ignored for years is laid out clearly and unmistakably as the full assault upon Western Civilization and the foundation of Judaeo-Christianity by hard Left. It's about power. No negotiations are possible. This is a fight in which there can be only one in the end because they've made it so. The barbaric display of 'oppressed' on Oct 7 turned up the stove too fast. It's being noticed and the line is being drawn, here and now.
#9
..you mistake group self identity with pure Leftest hate of Western Civ. The Left has no problem with 'self indentity' as long as its subordinated to the goals and power of the Left.
[Next] A December firearms auction sold Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver for $910,625.
At its Premiere Firearms Auction on Dec. 9-11, Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) auctioned off the gun, as reported by the Daily Caller.
According to the pre-auction estimate, the revolver’s value should fall between $800,000 and $1.4 million based on another Rock Island auction that sold Roosevelt’s Colt Single-Action Army Revolver for the latter price in December 2020.
[AFRICANEWS] Somalia was on Friday formally admitted as the 8th member state of the East African community (EAC), three weeks after being approved at a leaders’ summit in Arusha, Tanzania.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed the Treaty of Accession in the presence South Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... President Salva Kiir, the current chair of the East African Communty and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... at a ceremony held in Entebbe, Uganda.
The EAC is a trade bloc as well as a customs union. But the region's biggest economies - Kenya and Tanzania, have been accused of attempts to stifle free trade.
[AFRICANEWS] The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) announced on Friday that it was maintaining the suspension of Gabon, a sanction imposed following the overthrow of President Ali Bongo Ondimba by the military last August.
ECCAS, which has recognized the "peaceful and inclusive nature" of the Gabonese transition, "has decided to maintain the decision to suspend Gabon's participation in Community activities until constitutional order is restored", it said in a communiqué at the end of a summit in Djibloho, Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Cameroon
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[ET vie Zero] A Canadian journalist who took strong positions in support of COVID-19 vaccines—including calling for vaccine passports and terminating police officers who refused the jab—has died suddenly.
Ian Vandaelle, a 33-year-old business journalist who worked at the Financial Post and earlier at BNN Bloomberg, was declared brain dead and taken off life support earlier this month, his partner, Stephanie Hughes, said in a post on X. He will still have a successful career as a Journolist
"I haven’t been on Twitter for a while because my partner, @IanVandaelle, has been in the hospital since Nov. 18," Ms. Hughes wrote. "It’s with a heavy heart today that I say he was declared neurologically deceased
...I think that means brain dead...
this week and taken off life support this morning."
Mr. Vandaelle's death—the cause of which has not been disclosed—drew an outpouring of condolences among his current and former colleagues, many of whom took to social media to praise him for attributes like being kind and smart.
"Journalism has lost a great reporter, editor, producer, mentor, and all around great guy," Ms. Hughes wrote in a post on X.
But Mr. Vandaelle's death also stirred recollections of his ardent support for the COVID-19 vaccination push.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump was seen arriving at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night ahead of Leon Edwards and Colby Covington's highly-anticipated scrap at UFC 296.
The former US President, who was attending his second UFC event in just over a month, rocked up alongside Dana White and American music legend Kid Rock before self-confessed Trump fan Covington came up short in his bid to dethrone welterweight champion Edwards.
As he made his grand entrance, Kid Rock's 2000 hit 'American Bad A**' could be heard playing to welcome Trump into the arena.
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Commies got to commie. Notice how Lefty governors have no problem issuing 'emergency' decrees and fiats (with no end date) to grant themselves power. You can 'nationalize' the property but you are going to have to compensate at fair market value (which you most likely don't have the money in the state treasury for).
#2
If they use government "imperium" to coercive relocation of the residents/property owners to existing rentals, and don't permit the rebuilding of structures lost to the fire, poof, the "Neronian" solution to creating new open spaces for upscale development after Eminent Domain taking of bare land.! Brilliant, almost as if someone knew what to do in advance?
[Fortune] We need more humans. That’s the message from two of the world’s richest billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
While the two compete in the space business—Bezos owns Blue Origin while Musk has SpaceX—they agree on certain aspect’s of humanity’s future.
"I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded," Bezos said on an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast released this week. He added, "I don't really know Elon very well," but he said that he liked the idea of forming a friendship with him.
Asked what he hoped for humanity’s future in outer space hundreds or thousands of years from now, he replied:
"I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins...Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy."
What companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are doing, he said, is creating the space infrastructure upon which future generations can build greater things.
"When I started Amazon, I didn't have to develop a payment system. It already existed. It was called the credit card," he said. "I didn't have to develop a transportation system to deliver the packages. It already existed. It was called the postal service and Royal Mail and Deutsche Post. And so all this heavy lifting infrastructure was already in place. And I could stand on its shoulders."
He said that he wanted to use his "Amazon winnings" to build heavy infrastructure that will be used by the space entrepreneurs of future generations.
"When you can have a really valuable space company started in a dorm room, then we know that we've built enough infrastructure so that ingenuity and imagination can really be unleashed," he said. "I find that very exciting."
He envisions people living in giant space stations, which have "a lot of advantages over planetary surfaces," including the ability to spin them to create normal gravity. He said most people would want to live near Earth and go there for vacation, "the same way you might go to Yellowstone National Park."
He sees the Earth’s environment being preserved by heavy manufacturing moving into space, taking advantage of resources on the moon and the asteroid belt.
As for Musk, he’s long stressed the need for humanity to become a multi-planet species, and he envisions SpaceX’s Starship rockets transporting people between Earth and Mars, where a permanent human presence will be established.
"We don’t want to be one of those single planet species, we want to be a multi-planet species," he said in 2021 after SpaceX sent astronauts into orbit on a reused rocket.
He’s also warned about an "underpopulation crisis" here on Earth. In the summer of 2022, he said the declining birth rates seen in many nations presented "the biggest danger civilization faces by far."
A few years earlier he had warned, "The biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse."
This weekend, he sounded similar warnings while attending a political festival in Italy staged by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
"It’s important to have children and create the new generation," he told attendees. "As simple as it sounds, if people do not have children there is no new generation."
Earlier this year, after China released figures showing a plummeting birth rate, Musk tweeted: "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming...mark these words."
Transcribed from Yahoo. Fortune article is paywalled.
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A thousand Mozarts and how many Carrot Tops? I want to see a graphic intersection of those lines before I support an optimal population.
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We're already headed to a 'natural' population crash.
The principal cause of this phenomenon is the abrupt decline in the global total fertility rate, from 5.3 in 1963 to 2.4 in 2019, as the world continues to move through the stages of the Demographic Transition .[4] The decline in the total fertility rate has occurred in every region of the world and has brought renewed concern from some for population decline.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
[ET vie Zero] A Canadian journalist who took strong positions in support of COVID-19 vaccines—including calling for vaccine passports and terminating police officers who refused the jab—has died suddenly.
