Thousands of Porsches, Audis, and Lamborghinis were marooned on an unmanned burning cargo ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Thursday.
Crew members of the 650-feet-long Felicity Ace were evacuated from the transport ship to a hotel in the Azores Islands, as the ship was adrift 100 miles away from the Portuguese archipelago, according to the country’s military. None of the 22 sailors were harmed.
The ship was still burning and billowing out clouds of white smoke as a Portugal navy ship inspected whether it was in danger of sinking, officials said.
Felicity Ace was likely too large to be towed to a port in the archipelago, which is more than 900 miles from the European mainland. The ship had been en route to Rhode Island from Germany.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A raccoon fell through the ceiling into a packed dining hall at Louisiana State University as students screamed and a cook tried to catch it in a basket.
Freshman Danielle Gipson told The Reveille student newspaper that everyone was standing up and looking around for a raccoon when she went into the 459 Dining Hall for dinner Wednesday.
"I went and still got my food because I thought that it was fake," she said. "The raccoon then ran underneath my table and I immediately got on top of the chair."
One video posted with the article showed the raccoon running between tables, then climbing onto a chair and looking around. Another shows people chasing it with a broom and a stick or perhaps two brooms. Screams are all that can be heard on either.
Gipson says she lost her appetite when friends told her the raccoon had been on top of her bag while she was gone.
"I am just scared that my bag has a disease," she said. "Right now it’s funny to look back at, but at the moment, I was traumatized. My appetite is definitely gone."
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"I am just scared that my bag has a disease," she said. "Right now it’s funny to look back at, but at the moment, I was traumatized. My appetite is definitely gone."
It will likely stop being 'funny' soon. Wen it begins to swell and turn blue, head on over to sick call.
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"I'll touch you with my Death Bag!" Killer Bob from Twin Peaks.
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A dog sized coon is running around the neighborhood right now. Doesn't look rabid, but its behavior is outside the profile. My neighbor is trying to trap it. I have the Ruger Mk. IV ready...
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a cook tried to catch it in a basket
Cajun Raccoon Étouffée?
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Rocket J. Squirrel : Bullwinkle, those are girls!...
Rocket J. Squirrel : Bullwinkle, this is terrible!
Bullwinkle J. Moose : It is?
Rocket J. Squirrel : What kind of game can you play with girls?
Bullwinkle J. Moose : Boy, this really is a children's show, isn't it?
[Bullwinkle looks into the camera]
Bullwinkle J. Moose : Parcheesi, of course.
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Boris, to Natasha: "First, we must get moose and squirrel..."
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I like the idea of RJ Squirrel pistol whipping Mr. Fauxi with a Radom 35.
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I had a friend who tried to drive away from a traffic stop once. He made it to his driveway and parked his car. He told the cop "I'm not driving now." The cop said, "This isn't Parcheesi, son..."
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[Guardian] Alice and Fabio have been nomadic shepherds for almost 10 years, taking their sheep every year from pastures high in the Dolomites to and from the Po valley, a large expanse of agricultural landscape in northern Italy.
Between June and September, they move around various pastures in the Dolomites, but when the weather starts to get cold, they take their flock of about 1,000 to the lowlands.
From the winter months until May they live in a caravan, travelling around the countryside in the provinces of Venezia, Padova and Treviso, looking for harvest leftovers in unused fields.
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I enjoy smoking meat. I even like making guns from scratch. I'm really glad I don't have to run livestock or plant my own crops. Total self-sufficiency is to be respected, of course, but I'm glad we have enough specialization in modern society that I have leisure time to read books. My efforts may be better spent making sure other people are free to do the things I don't want to do.
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Hattip 3dc. NPR’s original headline was Steve Dickson, Trump-appointed FAA head, to resign ..., referring his nomination in 2019. One wonders how much mutual annoyance he and his boss, the famous Buttigieg (or however it’s spelt) experienced from one another before he decided to walk away.
I doubt BootyGig is the problem. He rarely shows up for work
[NPR] The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, who took over the agency as it was reeling from allegations of lax oversight in the aftermath of two Boeing 737 MAX airplane crashes, is stepping down.
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson is a former Air Force and Delta Air Lines pilot who worked his way up to be Delta's senior vice president of flight operations.
He came out of retirement from Delta to head up the FAA, which at the time was under intense scrutiny for certifying Boeing's 737 MAX jetliner, when two of the planes crashed and killed a total of 346 people.
The FAA had approved the new jetliner while knowing little about an automated flight control system that crash Sherlocks blame for playing a significant role in the crashes.
Dickson refused to approve the 737 MAX to fly passengers again until he flew the plane himself, which he did in September of 2020.
Dickson told FAA employees in a letter that he was proud of his tenure, saying, "The agency is in a better place than it was two years ago, and we are positioned for great success."
He said his decision comes with "mixed emotions and a heavy heart."
"Nevertheless, after sometimes long and unavoidable periods of separation from my loved ones during the pandemic, it is time to devote my full time and attention to them. As I wrote in my letter to President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....... , it is time to go home," he told employees.
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It seems that the rumbles under the table are that Biden will not approve or want the EPA or FAA or various other gov. agencies to approve SpaceX's StarShip or Boca Chica launches until Tesla agrees to be unionized.
[PEOPLE Magazine] Now 91, Rabbi Philip Lazowski recalls the lifesaving decision he made as Jews were being sent to their deaths, and how fate reunited him with the woman who saved his life.
Tuesday night's death was the ninth involving Florida's privately owned passenger railroad since it resumed operations in November
It's the 57th since Brightline began test runs in 2017, giving it the worst per-mile fatality rate in the nation
Investigators found none of the deaths were the railroad's fault, determining that many were suicides or drivers or pedestrians trying to beat the trains
The trains travel up to 79mph through densely populated urban and suburban areas along about 70 miles of track between Miami and West Palm Beach
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Two major freight rail crossing near where I live. I routinely see people stopped on the tracks waiting for a traffic light change. I have had people blow their horn at me for not pulling into the crossing while traffic was stopped. I always invite them to go around me. I'm quite willing to watch the show.
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...as long as the one in front of you is not a fuel tanker.
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The guys driving the fuel tankers know how to behave at a rail crossing. Except maybe some of the recently imported low wage ones that don't speak or read much English.
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Brightline is not the problem; stupid and/or entitled people are.
If you review the many well-shot videos by Roaming Railfan you can see how Brightline is taking train/others separation seriously.
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The issue might be that Brightline is a (gasp) PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, thus denying government entities from their progressive Light-Rail dreams.
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Think that's a funny sign?
That's painted on Clematis Blvd in West Palm Beach, FL.
I think 3 have been burst into red mist and parts while looking down checking their Facebook and crossing the tracks.
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$Millions to be made with a Top-of-the-Forehead cam linking to the PED, so when the person enters into The Land of Nod, there is live camera on their screen showing what is up ahead.
BLUF: When the Tigrayan forces charged beyond regional borders toward Adis Ababa, they also overran the pastorial semi-desert of Afar. And though Abiy Ahmed succeeded in driving the TPLF army back, there is no force in Afar to do the same; so Tigrayan troops continue running amok there, and nobody cares how they suffer.
[AlAhram] The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir. His slim body quickly became engulfed in flames.
She grabbed Tahir and another son before fleeing on foot to safety, dodging an artillery assault allegedly carried out by Tigrayan rebels on her village in northern Æthiopia's Afar region.
They managed to escape, but Aicha's six other children remain unaccounted for. She worries she has lost them forever to what has quietly emerged as the most active front in Æthiopia's grinding war.
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[Free Beacon] Invoking a speech former prime minister Margaret Thatcher gave at the Heritage Foundation 25 years ago, the chairman of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party warned that a united Western alliance will be necessary to confront the Chinese Communist Party.
Oliver Dowden, who assumed the party leadership role last year, said at a speech for the Heritage Foundation on Monday that conservatives across the globe "must find the confidence to mount a vigorous defense of the values of a free society" in the face of growing threats from China. He rooted his argument in the success found by former president Ronald Reagan when he collaborated with Thatcher in the 1980s, helping bring about the end of the Cold War.
"The enemies of the West are finding fresh confidence in their eternal battle against liberty," Dowden said. "So conservatives themselves must find the confidence to mount a vigorous defense of the values of a free society."
Dowden warned of a "tendency of democracies to relax when the worst appears to be over" and said this appears to be happening with the rise of China.
"The idea that Beijing's partial embrace of free markets would automatically lead to greater social and personal political freedoms has proved to be breathtakingly naïve," Dowden said.
To solve the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Dowden pointed to battles his colleagues have already won. Under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership, the United Kingdom has "taken a tough stance on China’s assault on democracy in Hong Kong and its outrageous abuses in Xinjiang province." Dowden touted his work as digital secretary to ban Huawei—a Chinese telecommunications giant sanctioned by the United States—from Britain’s 5G networks.
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[Korrespondent] Separatist shells hit four houses and damaged two gas pipelines. The fire broke out in one building.
Rescuers of the State Emergency Service on Thursday evening, February 17, checked a number of reports of fires in Stanytsia Luhanska, which arose as a result of shelling. The press service of the department announced the results of the check .
So, as of 23:00 on Magistralnaya Street in one residential building, as a result of shelling, the ceilings of the building were destroyed, glass was broken in eight windows. There were no casualties.
In another house on this street, ceilings and coatings were destroyed, the pediment of the building was partially destroyed, glass was broken in eight windows. Also here, as a result of a projectile hitting the gas pipeline , the roof caught fire on an area of 4 sq.m. There were no casualties.
On Buzkova Street, near a non-residential building, a gas pipeline was interrupted, there is a gas leak (without combustion). Opposite this house in the building, the facade was damaged and the glass in three windows was broken. Also, no one was hurt.
At the same time, information about a fire in another house on Magistralnaya Street and a house on Vatutina Street was not confirmed.
As the commander of the Joint Forces, Lieutenant-General Oleksandr Pavlyuk, said earlier, the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska by the separatists continues, although the intensity has decreased. Lugansk separatists say it was Ukrainian artillery firing shorts
[LugInfo] The analysis of photographic materials with the results of the shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska suggests that the fire on the institution was fired from Ukrainian positions. This was stated by the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko.
He noted that the headquarters of the so-called joint forces operation "has made a fabricated accusation against the People's Militia of the LPR in allegedly shelling a kindergarten in the village of Stanitsa Luganskaya." Filiponenko added that the photographs presented to the public with the results of the shelling "became indisputable evidence of the involvement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this crime."
“Our experts studied the photographic materials in detail and carried out their thorough analysis. The location of the kindergarten building, the angle at which the wall was hit, made it possible to calculate the exact trajectory of the projectile, from which the fire was fired, is located on the territory controlled by the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," a representative of the People's Militia said.
He added that "any sane person will determine that there can be no People's Militia units in that direction by definition."
"All this proves that the farce with the destruction of the kindergarten is a provocation by Kiev in order to destabilize the situation in the Donbass," Filiponenko stressed.
He noted that this "news" was picked up by the Ukrainian propaganda media and "used to divert public attention from the regular violations of the Minsk agreements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the destruction of civilian facilities in the Luhansk Republic."
The head of the People's Militia Department of the LPR, Yan Leshchenko , said that the Ukrainian side publishes staged materials to justify the criminal actions of the Kiev security forces in the zone of the so-called joint forces operation.
Earlier, the Luhansk People's Republic representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had violated the "silence mode" 10 times since the beginning of the day. The areas of Zolote-5, the villages of Sokolniki, Veselenkoe, Nizhne Lozovoye, Lozovoye , Raevka and the urban-type settlement of Donetsk were subjected to shelling . The village of Mykolaivka was fired from 122 mm caliber artillery guns by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which the gas pipeline was damaged , about 500 subscribers were left without power supply .
Later, the JCCC informed that the Kiev security forces violated the "silence regime" 10 times this afternoon in the area of responsibility of the LPR.
Recall that since the fall of 2014, the participants of the Contact Group for the settlement of the conflict in Donbass have announced more than 20 times that they have reached agreements on observing the “silence regime” in the region. The Kiev security forces repeatedly violated the terms of the truce, including by opening fire from large-caliber guns, mortars and tank guns, which were supposed to be withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements.
The Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the Donbass in April 2014. The settlement of the conflict is based on the Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, signed on February 12, 2015 in the Belarusian capital by the participants of the Contact Group and agreed with the heads of the countries participating in the Normandy Four (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine). The document, in particular, provides for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact.
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[RIA Novosti] Moscow conveyed to US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan the reaction to the US response on security guarantees, the Foreign Ministry said.
"We state that the American side did not give a constructive response to the basic elements of the draft treaty with the United States prepared by the Russian side on security guarantees," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It is clarified that we are talking about the rejection of further NATO expansion, the withdrawal of the "Bucharest formula" that "Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO", and the rejection of the creation of military bases on the territory of states that were previously part of the USSR and are not members alliance, including the use of their infrastructure for conducting any military activity, as well as the return of military capabilities, including strike, and NATO infrastructure to the state of 1997, when the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed.
"In the absence of the readiness of the American side to agree on firm, legally binding guarantees to ensure our security from the United States and its allies, Russia will be forced to respond, including through the implementation of measures of a military-technical nature," the text follows.
The document emphasizes that there is no "invasion of Ukraine" and is not planned.
"Allegations of 'Russia's responsibility for the escalation' cannot be regarded otherwise than as an attempt to put pressure on and devalue Russia's proposals for security guarantees," the ministry said.
The Foreign Ministry noted that Russian obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum had nothing to do with the intra-Ukrainian conflict, and also recalled that the loss of territorial integrity by the state occurred as a result of internal processes. The text of the document notes that in order to resolve the situation, it is necessary that Kiev comply with the Minsk agreements, and the West should stop pumping weapons into the country and withdraw all its instructors from there.
"The growing military activity of the United States and NATO directly at Russian borders is alarming, while our" red lines "and core security interests, as well as Russia's sovereign right to protect them, are still being ignored," the ministry said.
The document emphasizes that demands to withdraw troops from certain regions on Russian territory are unacceptable and undermine the prospects for reaching real agreements.
Later, the US State Department confirmed to RIA Novosti that they had received a letter from Russia as part of a bilateral security dialogue.
The entire published text of the Russian Foreign Ministry response can be seen here
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Russia has also announced it's expelling Bartle Gorman, the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Moscow, per RIA Novosti, which says the US has vowed to respond.
[The Hill] A senior Biden administration official said Wednesday that Russia has added as many as 7,000 troops at the border with Ukraine, characterizing claims by Moscow that it was withdrawing forces as "false."
"We have now confirmed that in the last several days, Russia has increased its troop presence along the Ukrainian border by as many as 7,000 troops, with some arriving as recently as today," the official told reporters on a call Wednesday evening.
"Every indication we have now is they mean only to publicly offer to talk and make claims about de-escalation while privately mobilizing for war," the official said, adding that the U.S. is receiving indications that Russia could launch a false pretext to justify an invasion of Ukraine "at any moment."
The official said that a false pretext could take multiple forms, including a provocation in the Donbas region of Ukraine, a claim about NATO military activity, or an incursion into Russia’s own territory.
The comments directly challenged Russian statements about pulling back some forces and being willing to engage in diplomacy over the past 24 hours.
[IsraelTimes] Commercial satellite company’s high-resolution images show Russian troops’ staging grounds, airfields, artillery positions on Ukrainian borders, but can’t provide a full picture
[Aljazeera] United States stocks slid on Thursday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily percentage drop in two weeks, as investors shifted to defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold while geopolitical tensions between Washington and Russia over Ukraine flared.
After Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine, US President Joe Biden said there was every indication Russia was planning to invade in the next few days and was preparing a pretext to justify it.
That’s nice. Who, exactly, is going to bell the cat, and is it really necessary?
[The Hill] British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her counterparts in Poland and Ukraine issued a joint statement on Thursday saying that the three nations would be developing a "trilateral memorandum of co-operation" to support Ukraine and combat Russian aggression amid rising tensions between the two eastern European nations.
"This will demonstrate our commitment to further strengthening the strategic cooperation and engagement between our 3 nations on the highest priority issues in support of Ukraine," the three said.
"We will work together to advance our cooperation, which includes but not limited to co-ordinating support to the International Crimea Platform, increasing our collaboration on cyber security, energy security, and boosting strategic communications to counter disinformation," they added.
The three said that the United Kingdom and Poland stood in solidarity with Ukraine in helping the former Soviet Union defend its independence and sovereignty and would provide Ukraine with support.
The joint statement also offered a thinly veiled rebuke at Russia, without naming the country specifically, for its efforts at trying to dictate whether Ukraine should be a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
"We reiterate that each European State is free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, and no State can consider any part of Europe as its sphere of influence," the three said.
The prime ministers of Poland and Ukraine signaled earlier this month that a trilateral cooperation was in the works.
[National Pulse] Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray has admitted that the scale of Chinese espionage in the United States "blew [him] away," citing the communist regime as the largest "threat to our ideas, innovation, and economic security."
The news will serve to vindicate "China hawks" who have been warning about Beijing’s malign influence in the West for years, all the while pilloried as "conspiracy theorists" by the corporate media.
Wray — who has served as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director since 2017 — revealed the agency opens a new China-related counter-intelligence case every 12 hours, with over 2,000 such investigations underway.
"This one blew me away. And I’m not the kind of guy that uses words like ’blown away’ easily," he remarked.
"There is no country that presents a broader, more severe threat to our innovation, our ideas, and our economic security than China does," Wray added during the NBC interview. "The scale of their hacking program, and the amount of personal and corporate data that their hackers have stolen, is greater than every other country combined."
The interview follows high-profile cases of Chinese Communist Party spies targeting American politicians and the Department of Justice under the Trump administration launching the "China Initiative," which sought to combat this infiltration. The Biden White House has signaled it may terminate the program, dropping one of its most infamous indictments against Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Gang Chen.
"China may be the first country to combine that kind of authoritarian ambition with cutting-edge technical capability. It’s like the surveillance nightmare of East Germany combined with the tech of Silicon Valley," Wray said. Many American social media companies — including Twitter and Facebook — have cozied up to the Chinese Communist Party in recent years, sending executives to conferences in China hosted by foreign influence groups and placing party-linked individuals into advisory roles.
"Fact-checkers" hired by these platforms also received funding from Chinese Communist Party-linked companies.
"There’s just no other country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, innovation, and economic security than China," he reiterated.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray has admitted that the scale of Chinese espionage in the United States "blew [him] away,
Caught totally unawares was he? Forgiver me, but somehow I simply cannot believe that naive and stupid are the cornerstones of the senior FBI leadeship team.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Trudeau Government Officials Confirm Donors to Crowdfunding Platforms Are Specifically “Designated Targets” for DeBanking, Social Media Posts To Be Used as Evidence
NOTE: before getting to the heart of the biggest headline, I just want to note that when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks in French, she says things she never repeats in English. The French language Canadian audience hear a much stronger declaration in the framework of government action, including language that says, "The Canadian government, and the heart of Canadian democracy is directly being attacked by foreign groups." Freeland does not say this in English, only in her French delivery. And I thought our pols were scum.
During her prepared remarks today, a very happy Canadian Finance Minister declared that federal law enforcement (RCMP) has begun working with financial institutions to de-bank Canadian citizens, cancel insurance policies, remove access to credit cards, cancel mortgages and freeze the assets of Canadian citizens. When you watch the segment highlighted below, keep in mind the RCMP is the Canadian equivalent of the FBI.
When asked specifically about Canadian citizens who donated to crowdfunding platforms GiveSendGo and GoFundMe, and whether those people will be targeted under the Emergency Act, Minister Freeland giddily affirmed those people are the actual targets, and the de-banking of those individuals is underway. This includes the seizure of digital currency and crypto-wallets.
In the earlier part of her remarks, Freeland noted that social media posts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) are being used as evidence against the targeted names identified within the donor lists. Tech platforms have provided people to work with Canadian federal officials, as they identify and cross-reference the donor files to their social media identities. WATCH:
[BBC] Police in Ottawa have detained two leaders of the trucker convoy in the Canadian capital as they move to break up the last stronghold of the protests against the nation's Covid rules.
Tamara Lich was arrested on Thursday evening after Chris Barber was held, with both expected to be charged criminally, according to CBC News.
Authorities have already cleared other protests located at border crossings.
It comes days after Canada invoked an emergency law for the first time.
However, officers were not yet moving in force on the remaining demonstrators on Thursday night - although interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell warned earlier that if "they do not peacefully leave, we have plans".
The Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday imposes bans on public assembly in some areas, among other measures.
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When a Canada wide trucker's strike strips grocery shelves, Lich and Barber will be quickly released. I suspect Trudeau tenure will soon be found in the dustbin of history. His popularity is slipping nearly as rapidly as Brandon's.
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Canada, 2026: "I was a police officer. A respected person. Now, I can be beaten in the street if I have money in my pocket or am caught driving a car. This is totally unfair. I was just following orders. Doing my job. I didn't reliably vote for Treudeau to be treated like this..."
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A dry run for the coming USSA crackdown.
Social Credit beta testing in Canada next up
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Just pointing out:
Truckers are not dropping dead left & right.
There is not a constant stream of medical emergencies.
These have not become leper colonies.
And there was no concern of this happening. From any side.
Friendly reminder - the freezing of bank accounts isn't targeting the drivers, that is targeting the wife, kids. And this is for the record, backing that plan puts you in favor of starving kids in the cold. Quite Soviet, really.
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I had heard that independent truckers only make up 20% of the trucker population in Canada. Are the non-independent truckers joining in the protests?
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What in the hell is in the water in El Salvador, and where can we get some?
Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, has criticized Western leaders over vaccine mandates and crackdowns on protesters in a number of tweets over recent days. Bukele, 40, also hit back at calls from a group of U.S. Senators to curb his nation’s embrace of Bitcoin. “The real war is not in Ukraine, it’s in Canada, Australia, France, Brussels, England, Germany, Italy,” Bukele said in reference to totalitarian mandates. “They just want you to look the other way.”
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What it says is that these monsters' bully-boy tactics are so obvious, so shameless, that anyone who's not part of the Deep State or the Swamp -- regardless of political persuasion -- can see that we are all of us fvcked if we don't bring this creeping fascism to a halt. Pronto.
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Complete third world sh!thole; South Africa is condemning the actions by the gov’t; that tells you just how f’ed up it is. And the police are warning media to leave or they could also be arrested. Suspect Trudeau has opened a slow-burning an of whip-ass that will end up being dumped in his lap.
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The Canadian Parliament is not in session because the gov't told them it was to dangerous to assemble. According to unreliable sources, when they do reconvene, they plan to rename the national anthem from "O Canada" to "O Canada, WTF?"
If someone can help clarify if wrong, but it was my understanding ratification of emergency measures must be submitted to Parliament.
If so, and they are not, that would make the whole exercise illegal, right? The CBC should be boned for knowingly accepting stolen property. The RCMP - not Mounties, that is reserved for the awe inspiring legends, not gasoline thieves - are kind of following orders currently legal, those two orgs and all else involved could draw a broadside.
The idea of The Trudeau Administration, advisors, and those who went along knowing that there was no intention to ever file for ratification should be on the hook financially, and criminally, sounds right.
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Australia:
We are going to gun down puppy orphans.
Ottawa:
Attention animal owners at demonstration
If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.
[Trending Politics] Chris Barber, a chief organizer of the Freedom Convoy, has been arrested in Ottawa, CBC News reported. He is currently in police custody and is expected to face criminal charges.
"Barber is also one of three protest organizers named in the class action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, 21-year-old public servant Zexi Li," the CBC noted regarding the arrest. "The suit names Barber along with fellow convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Benjamin Dichter."
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Give it time. Cochlear implants have worked well for several years. This will be tried in other countries even when failure here. Money to be made will breathe life into this again and again. A Democrat congress person will invest if money is to be made. Republicans also will not miss out on the gravy train offered. Solar, wind and pharma on and on it goes. Go electric push now as big pharma grows less lucrative.
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Anything you buy that must be supported by an internet back end to keep working is a piece of trash that hasn't reached its EOL just yet.
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It costs money every day to support a product with an internet back end. Shy ongoing subscription revenue, they all die. Gurgle and Crapple can afford such loss leaders but they eventually abandon them too.
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Just bought new hearing aids for about $52 each. They crush the $1500 Starkey I was using before. I'll buy some spares at this price. Who cares if they only last a couple years?
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Inshallah. Or possibly Mossad’s indefatigable spy squirrels
[IsraelTimes] Nine people, six of them women, die in a kaboom triggered by a gas leak in a building located in the southern suburbs of Tehran, according to an Iranian Red Islamic Thingy official.
"An explosion on Wednesday evening in a building in Robat-Karim, south of the capital, left nine dead and nine injured," Iranian Red Islamic Thingy director Shahin Fathi tells state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The three-story building was destroyed in the detonation produced by the gas leak, adds Fathi. He says that the rescue operation ended early this morning after 11 hours of searching for survivors.
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.
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.......
I can almost hear Psaki blaming double digit inflation and $6.50 per gallon gas on 
[National Pulse] Federal Bureau of Investigation Director 
[Trending Politics] Chris Barber, a chief organizer of the 
