[Breitbart] An attacker in Houston, Texas, set fire to residences shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday morning, then shot and killed three people as they fled the flames.
The attack occurred “at a multiroom rental facility near 8020 Dunlap St,” CNN reported.
Houston police chief Troy Finner said Houston Fire Department arrived on scene before police officers, but had to take cover after hearing gunshots being fired.
An officer who arrived on scene found the attacker, a black male in his 40s, across the street and exchanged gunfire with him, killing the suspect.
Finner praised the officer who took down the attacker, saying, “I’m very proud of him. Who knows, that suspect probably would have tried to shoot somebody else.”
Three innocents were killed in the attack and two others were injured.
The attacker “was a longtime tenant of the building and had recently been notified he was being evicted,” Forbes reported. He was armed with a shotgun.
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This Police Chief's interview is worth watching.
Having not heard a Police Chief, in ages prior to him, mention GOD and Prayer for the victims with such sincerity.
[Free Beacon] The State Department is standing by its decision to spend $10,000 in taxpayer funds on a film festival that featured movies with incest and pedophilia, according to communications with Congress obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The State Department is defending a $10,000 grant awarded to Queer Lisboa, an international queer film festival held in Portugal, saying that it has no problem awarding taxpayer funds to a film festival that displayed controversial movies featuring drag queens, acts of incest, and pedophilia.
"The United States strongly supports protecting and promoting the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons," the State Department wrote to Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), who raised concerns about the grant during a July hearing. "We support freedom of expression and do not censor our grantee’s content or products."
The State Department’s comments are fueling accusations that it is abandoning its traditional diplomatic responsibilities to drive a radical social agenda that damages the United States abroad. With threats increasing from hostile countries such as China, Russia, and Iran, the State Department is abusing taxpayer funds to push a radical woke agenda, critics like Rubio say.
"Instead of focusing on combating rogue regimes like the Chinese Communist Party, the Kremlin, or the Mullahs in Tehran, the Biden administration is using our diplomats to advance a radical, Marxist social agenda at home and abroad," Rubio told the Free Beacon.
Rubio grilled the State Department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, about the grant in July, asking: "How would promoting a drag queen film festival in Portugal advance our national interest?" Abercrombie-Winstanley said she didn’t know.
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Rubio grilled the State Department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, about the grant in July, asking: "How would promoting a drag queen film festival in Portugal advance our national interest?" Abercrombie-Winstanley said she didn’t know
Then she should be fired
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Isn't it time to rectify simplify that increasingly embarrassing mess of public sausage-making? Isn't it time for... Forever Letters [sparkle] that reflect the actual order of precedence? FLAG: Freak, les6ian, and gay! Yay!
[FoxNews] 'It’s all pretty bad,' one researcher says of depression, anxiety and emotional exhaustion among elementary school teachers.
Some will no doubt benefit themselves and their students by taking this as a sign to change their careers.
School districts across the country are rolling out initiatives to help alleviate stress among educators that was exacerbated during government-ordered pandemic lockdowns and has continued to this year as districts struggle with staffing issues and students who have fallen behind socially and academically since the lockdowns.
"The demands on all of us were really high and we were trying to make up for lost time for the couple of years that they fell back on their curriculum. But we forgot that they haven’t been in school for a couple of years so they missed that social-emotional piece. We are dealing with that in the classroom," a New Hampshire fifth grade teacher, Karen Bowden-Gurley, told the Associated Press.
One researcher at the University of Delaware School of Education found that levels of depression, anxiety and emotional exhaustion among elementary school teachers are 100% to 400% higher than before the pandemic
"It’s all pretty bad," said Leigh McLean, the primary investigator at the Teacher Emotions, Characteristics, and Health Lab at the University of Delaware School of Education.
As the new school year kicks off, districts across the country are suffering with staffing shortages that began plaguing school districts nationwide during the pandemic. Teachers had sounded off about burnout stemming from the uncertainty during lockdowns, including switching to remote learning, moving to hybrid learning, and eventually transitioning back to in-class instruction in 2020 and 2021. Teachers unions often supported remote learning, even as late as 2022 in cities such as Chicago.
About 300,000 public school teachers and staff have left the field between Feb. 2020 and May 2022, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A February survey from the National Education Association found that 55% of teachers reported that they are thinking about leaving the profession. A whopping 79% of teachers report dissatisfaction with their careers, according to a July American Federation of Teachers survey.
Teachers reported that the fallout from lockdowns is not their only stressor. They also pointed to the threat of school shootings, such as the one in Uvalde, Texas, in May that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Daniels argued that parents speaking out against some curricula taught in school districts, students being socially and academically behind following remote learning, and more violence reported among students at schools have added to the stressors educators feel.
To help retain teachers and prevent burnout, some districts have increased mental health training for staff, hired social and emotional learning coaches for educators, are holding classes on breathing exercises for teachers and students, and one Texas school district even plans to build "calming rooms" for teachers, where they can go and chill out during times they aren’t in the classroom.
[ZeroHedge] A new report from the gun blog website AmmoLand Shooting Sports News claims that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents are paying visits to law-abiding gun owners' houses to confiscate solvent trap components.
AmmoLand's John Crump claims, "multiple law-abiding gun owners have contacted me about visitations by ATF agents attempting to get the individuals to hand over solvent trap components purchased on GunBroker."
Solvent traps are devices that can be used when cleaning firearms to catch the cleaning solution if poured down the barrel. The device helps prevent mess and if in the field, can help prevent harmful chemicals from being dumped into the environment. They can also be used as makeshift silencers.
We pointed out earlier this year that ATF considered solvent traps as suppressors. This comes as some gun owners legally bought the devices and manufactured them into homemade suppressors, then filed a National Firearms Act "Form 1" with the ATF and paid a $200 tax to own them legally.
Crump provides an example of ATF agents showing up at a man's house earlier this month. Agents demanded he turn over solvent trap components:
"On the week of August 14th, a Louisiana man was visited by an ATF agent who demanded he turn over solvent trap components that were acquired through GunBroker Auction seller RifleRemedy2000. The ATF agent produced the Warning Notice pictured below. The man, fearing retribution and unwanted persecution by the rogue agency, agreed to sign a letter stating he had destroyed the items and no longer possessed the items the ATF has now deemed to be suppressors regulated by the NFA."
Checking the internet, I see this reseller on several other gun websites selling parts for weapons.
My 10 min. skim shows mainly parts for typical 80 % lowers being sold, and parts that by association point to specific weapons, like to AR-15 & Glocks.
So could the ATF/_ _ _ / _ _ _ and other agencies being running parts houses to ID those building their firearms?
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Always tell them to 'get a warrant' and demand they show something in writing authorizing their actions. Amazing how often requiring them to put something in writing and sign it halts bureaucratic enthusiasms.
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Shortest warship voyage in history might be Sweden's Vasa; launched in 1628, sailed about 1200 meters, then capsized and sunk in the harbor. Now salvaged and in its own museum in Stockholm. About 98% original. Awesome vessel.
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Large warship design was still in its infancy back in the time of the Vasa and a lot was 'learned' by mistakes. Unlike the US Navy's littoral ships which were designed after centuries of learning ship design and they still don't learn from their mistakes.
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The vendor side of the "procurement" endeavor learned quite a bit...
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Speaking of the Isle of Wight, redundancy to requirements, and all that...
"Arrgh! God Save the Queen!" Cue guitar.
On Her Majesty's late ship of war,
Rechristened the Schmendrick,
A harmless eccentric
Holds court in the VIP bar.
[IsraeltTimes) US Navy notes maneuver is ’routine,’ as Chinese military says it is cautioning vessels throughout their journey, remains ready to ’foil any provocations’
[Breitbart] An Australian bank has decided the future is electric and will stop approving personal loans for new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2025 onwards.
Electric vehicles (EVs) comprised a tiny two per cent of vehicles sold in Australia last year. That is a drop in the ocean compared to 17 per cent in Europe and 13.3 per cent in China, and with high starting prices coming in at $47,000 and a lack of charging stations Down Under, potential buyers still look for any alternatives to those on offer from major EV manufacturers.
The customer-owned Bank Australia wants to change that in its drive to reduce carbon emissions, even as the price of EVs climbs around the world as manufacturers look to profit from government incentives to get drivers to dump their gas models.
"We think that the responsible thing for us to do next, is to ensure that our vehicle lending doesn’t lock our customers in to higher carbon emissions and increasingly expensive running costs in the years ahead," Bank Australia Chief Impact Officer Sasha Courville said in a statement seen by Fox News.
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An Australian Government bank has decided the future is electric and will stop approving personal loans for new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2025 onwards.
One assumes the customers that own the bank agree with this new direction. If not, it’s clearly time to replace the management team with one willing to meet actual customer/owner needs.
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If this credit union-type outfit is truly a customer-owned bank and that's what this bank and its members have decided on, then so be it (but deep down I hope they lose customers left and right).
It's not like some religious bakery refusing to make a cake for a homo wedding. Oh, wait...!
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Call me suspicious ...
But this Anti-Fuel Vehicle Stream Roller political agenda seems to be fueled by more than a bunch of elite deep $$$ pockets playing up to Tree Hugger types?
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It's the "current thing." Ukraine better be careful or it will fall out of the spotlight.
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This entire scheme will fail, as many posters have pointed out, dictates by a financial institution will isolate the business and it will fail; the policy of "switching to Green" is in itself is intellectually/financially flawed (see article on The EV $29,000 battery replacement, which does not even include the cost of charging!) further, the Australian infrastructure for power generation/recharging stations/hazardous waste disposal is not available and Australia's general economy is insufficient to mount the "Green Dream", not to mention its present population buy-in to this "Curved Culture of Socialism".
The maps give the population of Australia and its concentration in urban areas which quickly fall as the center of the country is reached; there are areas in Australia with No Inhabitants. Are the people of Australia going to build "charging stations" in the middle of nowhere?
Australia - Populations
USA - Populations
Compared to the USA, Australia's population today is less than Texas by 3.5 million - Australian GDP Statistics 2022 1. Australia's GDP stood at US$1.63 trillion in 2021. (Statista, Trading Economics) In 2020, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Australia was worth US$1.3 trillion or US$52,847.68 per capita—the second-lowest on record in the past 12 years. That year, the country's GDP value represented 1.8% of the global economy. This scheme is extremely ambitious given the overall lack of national financial resources.
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The '5 year plan" will work just fine with enough proles under the yoke...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Does Australia have a Too Woke To Fail policy toward banks?
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HQ is in a inner city lefty suburb of Melbourne .In 2022, Bank Australia responded to shareholder demands and set a net zero target for 2035. I have interactions with several financial institutions and have never heard of them until this...so full on woke self promotion
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...Watching this right now (0640 EST), and they got issues: a possible structural problem and an engine that doesn't want to cooperate. MC says they're going to slip the 0833 launch time, just not sure when or for how long.
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#8 - seconded
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The Kamala proximity factor did not position the launch for success. Because the complexity is complex.
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I was Sooooo looking forward to an inspiring Kamala speech about space and the power of a tomorrow which when we reach it is a today's power of a space vision of a further tomorrow and how we reach it and....
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[BBC] Temperature, humidity and air pressure all can affect the production and taste of whiskey. Distillers are hoping to harness these elements to make the drink better.
[NPASyria] Four people were killed and others were maimed on Saturday night in a tribal infighting in the eastern countryside of Raqqa, north Syria.
A local source told North Press that the infighting took place in al-Jedidat town, 40 km east of Raqqa, between members of al-Bereij clan, the largest clan in the eastern countryside of Raqqa.
Ahmad al-Nasser, a resident of Raqqa, said, "The fighting broke out as a result of an old dispute between cousins over the right to own a land."
The infighting began with a quarrel between young men. Then, it turned into a tribal infighting that resulted in casualties, according to the source.
The source added that the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) tightened their security procedures in the entrances and roads of the villages and towns of the eastern countryside of Raqqa.
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.
[Free Beacon] The State Department is standing by its decision to spend $10,000 in taxpayer funds on a film festival that featured movies with incest and pedophilia, according to communications with Congress obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
[Breitbart] An Australian bank has decided the future is electric and will stop approving personal loans for new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2025 onwards.
