[10News] Followup to our previous story. Our wounded nation can have closure
An arrest was made in the murder of Migos rapper Takeoff, whose legal name is Kirshnik Khari Ball.
Houston's police chief said Friday that officers arrested 33-year-old Patrick Xavier Clark. Police would not provide details about what led them to Clark.
Takeoff was killed on Nov. 1 outside of a bowling alley.
Chief Police Chief Troy Finner said a lucrative game of dice was going on inside a private party and there was an argument outside the venue.
Finner said he doesn't believe Takeoff was involved in the dice game or the argument, calling him an "innocent bystander."
Police said more than 30 people were at the party and took off without providing statements. Officials scolded them for not coming forward.
"We need people to step up. Do your part as a citizen. If you see something, say something," Finney said.
The death of Takeoff was a shock to the music industry as he was not known as a person who would get into trouble.
Migos have won several major awards, including a 2018 BET Award for Best Duo/Group. The group has released four studio albums, including two that were platinum and topped the charts.
[NY Post] and the Journalistic quality of the NYT will actually improve
More than 1,000 union employees at the New York Times have pledged to walk out if the news publisher does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Thursday, according to a tweet by the union on Friday.
The NYT NewsGuild has sought wages that "keep up with inflation" as well as to preserve and enhance health insurance and retirement benefits that were promised during hiring, according to a letter signed by 1,036 members.
"We will walk out and stop work for 24 hours, on Thursday, Dec. 8, if we do not have a deal for a complete and equitable contract by then," the letter read.
The members of the union are also asking for remote work flexibility among other demands.
A NYT spokesperson said "while we are disappointed that the NewsGuild is threatening to strike, we are prepared to ensure The Times continues to serve our readers without disruption," adding that the company’s current wage proposal offered "significant increases."
Earlier in March, a group of nearly 600 tech employees at the New York Times voted to unionize as the company faced claims it unlawfully interfered with labor organizing.
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It's apparent they don't read the new, about major 'news' outlets downsizing.
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I would say that the last guy out the door be sure to turn the lights off, but it sounds as if they are producing a bad paper through remote workers. Have Siri turn out the lights.
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So they want to stay at home where they can watch Twitter without shame and auto-generate stories and replies.
"But who will create our famous cross-word puzzles?"
This is one of the ways those riding the manic side of bipolar disorder go off the deep end.
[IsraelTimes] Rapper makes bizarre appearance alongside Holocaust denier Fuentes on show hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, accuses Netanyahu of trying to steal his family.
[TheGuardian] Rightwing provocateur says he helped arrange for white supremacist to attend dinner with Trump and Kanye West
As fallout from Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s meeting with the white supremacist Nick Fuentes continues, a far-right activist muppet has claimed the meeting was a set-up, meant to "make Trump’s life miserable".
NBC News reported that in an attempt to "send a message" to the former president, Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur and former Breitbart editor, helped arrange for Fuentes to travel to Mar-a-Lago in Florida for a dinner between Trump and the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
Trump dined with Fuentes and Ye at his resort on 22 November. Since the meeting, Trump has been criticized by senior Republicans and by conservative Jewish leaders.
Trump said Ye was invited to dinner and "unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends ... whom I knew nothing about". He has not condemned Fuentes and his views. Fuentes has been described by the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League as "among the most prominent and unapologetic antisemites in the country".
Speaking to NBC, Yiannopoulos said he came up with a plan for Fuentes to travel with Ye and hopefully gain access to the former president.
"I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with," Yiannopoulos said.
"I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end."
Yiannopoulos was once a leading figure in the alt-right movement but he has been banned by most major social media networks and lost a book deal in 2017 after appearing to endorse paedophilia.
He told NBC he also arranged the meeting "just to make Trump’s life miserable", because he was aware news of the dinner would leak.
Trump has engaged with racists in the past, including claiming there were "very fine people on both sides" of a white supremacist rally in Virginia which resulted in the death of a counter-protester.
Criticism for hosting Fuentes has come from senior Republicans including his former vice-president, Mike Pence, and the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
On Tuesday, Fuentes disputed Yiannapoulos’s suggestion the dinner was an attempt to make Trump’s life miserable.
"This is just not true at all," Fuentes said on the messaging app Telegram, below a screenshot from the NBC article. "My intention was not to hurt Trump by attending the dinner, that is fake news. I love Donald Trump."
Ye, who like Trump is running for president in 2024, said he used the dinner to ask Trump to be his vice-president, only for Trump to insult his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
"Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose," Ye said in a video since deleted from social media but transcribed by Newsweek. "I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ’Woah, woah hold on hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’"
Ye also said Trump was "really impressed" by Fuentes.
A source close to Trump told NBC the former president was left furious by the meeting.
"He’s crazy. He can’t beat me," Trump said of Ye, according to the source, who also said "Trump was totally blindsided" by Fuentes’s presence, adding: "It was a set-up."
On Wednesday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Trump’s campaign was "putting new protocols in place to ensure that those who meet with him are approved and fully vetted". Among those protocols, the AP said, citing unnamed sources, is a requirement that Trump is accompanied by a bigwig at all times.
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This happens over and over when conservatives embrace a "celebrity."
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This entire incident has put neo-nazis into a position like the Suess plain-bellied Sneeches. In all the confusion they have lost control of their brand. Dave Chapell needs to get a lawsuit going against Ye for stealing his Clayton Biggsby character.
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If you want to be king, and keep your kingdom, surround yourself with people wiser than you. This is not a simple task. It is one of the duties of a king. To seek, promote and collect wisdom and bravery and surround himself with it. - Ancient Indian self-help thingy (circa the 3rd century)
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Interesting how things come around. Remembering it was the Antifa riots at UC Berkeley over Milo and then David Horowitz speaking that led directly to the 3 Battles of Berkeley. Now, we have Milo/Kanye taking up the Antifa cause. One of these things is not like the other.
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There was a time when I disagreed with Milo, but I supported his right to be an uncanceled idiot that annoyed the left. I can’t think of anyone left that would stick up for him. Currently his owns the social status of a socket-bopper at a garage sale. You could punch him, but you might miss out on a quality deal on some Ninja Turtle paraphernalia.
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An interesting article from March 2021, when we were paying attention to other things:
[MyNeatStuff] The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958. Their hallmark was physical farce and slapstick. Six stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time): Moe Howard and Larry Fine were mainstays throughout the ensemble's nearly fifty-year run and the pivotal "third stooge" was played by (in order of appearance) Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard again, Joe Besser and "Curly" Joe DeRita.
My guess?
Trump's presidency.
[Daily Skeptic] It’s a mystery. Why has Arctic sea ice cover roared back so quickly over the last few years? Nobody knows – not one scientist on the planet can tell you, writes Willis Eschenbach in a short essay on the climate site Watts Up With That? It might be noted, of course, that there was no shortage of explanations when there was a cyclical downturn, mostly to do with humans having something to do with it. Ice melting at the Poles is still one of the crucial supports for the entire command-and-control Net Zero political agenda. Maybe God just doesn't like Greta or AlGore?
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When your "explanation" must fit "the narrative," some phenomena must be ignored rather than explained.
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I am organizing fellow Ohioans for class action suit against all the clowns that promised us Florida like weather conditions and have failed to deliver. They are a bunch of rat bastards. We didn’t get flying cars either.
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"How dare the Arctic sea ice not melt!"
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[OutlookIndia] A woman in Afghanistan was seen being brutally flogged in public for allegedly flouting the Taliban ...Arabic for students... 's conservative rule that prohibits women from going to shops without a male guardian.
In an almost two-minute video clip, posted on Twitter by a user named Shabnam Nasimi, reportedly from the Takhar province, the woman can be seen being whipped.
"The women of Afghanistan are experiencing hell on earth under Taliban regime. We mustn't turn a blind eye," Shabnam Nasimi wrote along with the video.
Last week, three women and 11 men were flogged following the orders of an Afghan court after they were found guilty of theft and "moral crimes", it was reported.
Those being punished received between 21 and 39 lashes each, after being convicted in a local court of theft and adultery, reports said adding that hundreds of people attended the lashings and a ban was imposed on taking photos and video.
The resumption of the practice underscored the Taliban's intention of sticking to their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia. Supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada also ordered judges last month to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions and floggings.
The Taliban carried out punishments in public during their first rule that ended in late 2001.
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"rule that prohibits women from going to shops without a male guardian."
I know a few men here who think that's not such a bad idea at all ;-)
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There is at least one Energy Official who is evaluating the potential of witnessing a public flogging and considering be asked for a transfer to the State Department. He may be banned from airline travel, though so it may be impossible to work out the logistics.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] ANigerian politician, Senator Biodun Olujimi, sponsor of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in the Senate, has alleged that wives of male politicians opposed the proposition of 18 years as the minimum age for marriage.
She said the wives of her male colleagues also rejected the gender bill before their husbands thrashed it in the Senate.
Senator Olujimi made the allegation while speaking at a one-day Policy Dialogue on the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in Nigeria, organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies with the support of the UN Women and Canadian Government.
ThisDay reports that Senator Olujimi explained that she and other female senators decided to engage the wives of her male colleagues in the upper legislative chamber so that they could influence their spouses to support the gender bill.
Unfortunately, the engagement with the senators, according to her, was a disaster as the majority of them rejected the bill based on their religious sentiments and beliefs.
"The issue of the GEO Bill is important to me not only because I am a woman but because it is just and proper to do the right thing. About 51.2 percent of Nigeria's population are women.
"That portion of the society must be taken care of. The bill has suffered in three different assemblies and the reason is very simple. It is because it is based on gender. If it were to be a general issue, it would have passed.
"I brought it up in the last Senate because I discovered that there was no law governing the affairs of women generally and I felt that it was not good enough.
"The rejection of the bill in the 9th Assembly was not the fault of men. It was based on the nuances of the women.
"What happened was that we, female senators, gathered all the wives of our male colleagues for a meeting where we pleaded with them to help us talk to their husbands to support the bill.
"We were very surprised when the majority of the senators’ spouses responded that they would not do such things because their religious conviction has taken care of such issues already.
"We tried everything possible to convince them but they did not change their minds. For instance, they were not in support of making 18 years, as the age of marriage. They also said Islam had taken care of the issue of women regarding inheritance.
"So, the first issue we had against the bill was with women. That of the men came later. It was because the men said they were not conversant with the word ’equality’ because the husband is not supposed to have equal rights at home with the wife," Senator Olujimi said.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the female politician said she had met with religious organizations, civil society groups and international agencies to discuss the frustrations the bill had encountered.
According to her, the outcome of the series of meetings she has had so far led to the reintroduction of another bill captioned "Gender and Equitable Opportunities Bill, 2022."
She expressed optimism that the new bill, which has passed its first reading in the Senate, would be passed before the end of the 9th Assembly, as she pointed out that the contentious issues that bordered on religion had been removed from the new bill.
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I thought this was going to be a bunch of Cindy McCain types running amok in the USA.
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^ Exactly what I expected too.
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^Because that's the frame they wished to impose. Do not assume the arguments of those who you oppose based on a single issue. They WILL stab you in the back at the 1st opportunity. It's their jorb.
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[HotAir] The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical socialist fashion, they weren’t content with simply encouraging people to switch to EVs. Many European countries almost immediately started making plans to ban gas-powered cars and trucks and make EVs mandatory. Lots of Europeans wanted to get out ahead of the curve and began snapping the newer models up. But then came the start of the war in Ukraine, cutting energy supplies just as Europe was trying to wean itself off of fossil fuels. Now, in a rather embarrassing reversal, Switzerland is considering legislation that would ban people from driving electric vehicles except in urgent conditions over the winter because there simply might not be enough juice on the grid to recharge them.
So much the same as we saw in California earlier this year, the government pushed everyone to switch over to electric vehicles to save the planet. But now they’re warning them that they won’t be able to recharge their vehicles except for “urgent travel requirements.” The crazy part of all of this is that the major energy corporations have been warning everyone about this for several years. The power grid doesn’t produce endless electricity by magic. You have to produce enough energy to power it or it fails. But nobody wanted to listen.
To put this story in context, consider the fact that in June of this year, the EU proposed a ban on new gas-powered cars by 2035
From 2035, newly registered cars and light goods vehicles will no longer be allowed to emit greenhouse gases. The decision was approved on June 29 by the 27-member group. The ban on internal combustion engines voted by the European Parliament – which the EU member States still have to approve – effectively marks the end of petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles, as well as hybrids, which are currently experiencing a boom. In future, only new electric or hydrogen-powered models will be able to be sold.
2035 is only a little more than a decade away. If this proposal passes, Europe won’t even allow hybrids to be sold. Only fully electric vehicles or hydrogen-powered ones. Good luck finding a hydrogen recharging station, by the way. And unless they get their energy grid back under control, there’s no guarantee you’ll be able to drive your car anywhere.
According to reports, newer 2019 --> EV's Energy average demands are closer to 2 times the amount of an average household annual consumption. Not the once kicked around 10x's, as it was calculated in earlier years.
Either way, unless you are charging your EV at a free shopping center EV charging station.
The average U.S. household spends about $122 per month of average for household electricity.
Owning an EV would add about $2,928 a year, for less than the 300 miles received on a full charge.
Your electrical bill with a EV would be 3x's its previous amount.
Verses, a gas powered car @ $2.95 a gallon (current 87octane price my area) with a weekly fill up of 15 gallons of gas gets 300 to 350 mpg. Annual cost around $2,301. Which is about $627 less per year than EV power.
Now toss the $4,500 to $7,500 EV battery MTBF issue.
Since a many of battery manufacturers give a warranty on their batteries of around 100,000 kms (+- 62,000 miles).
But as Americans, we drive about 14,263 miles per year, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
That means the battery warranty end around 4.3 years (51+/- months) into ownership.
The typical new-car loan duration for people with Good credit scores is roughly 60 months.
So a EV owner's butt is on the hook for about 14 extra possible months more than most expensive car item lasts.
BTW: Where is the USA Electrical Grid producers going to find additional power generation to supply the estimated 52% of all vehicles being EV by 2030?
Using 52% of the estimated 276 Million cars (2019) now in the US. Would mean they need to add/ build 300% more Power production.
So I ask again.
How is the EV industry going to save the environment and save us $$$$?
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Hopefully, impacted folks have a ride mower they can use for grocery shopping.
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What about decreased EV range during extreme cold?
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California has banned all ic powered outdoor equipment, so that electric rider mower wont do much good. If any ‘Burgers were considering an electric mower, my friend runs a small engine shop and is swamped with electric units needing repairs. Mainly bad batteries and charging systems. Service from the OEMs for parts/tech data is sad.
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^ I have a friend who loves his electric lawn mower because his wife can no longer use the excuse "It won't start" when he sends her out to cut the grass.
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So the ban IC for EV didn't even make it into the first Winter.
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It's all playing out in front of our eyes, and because those of us who would do something are past the age of that, well...
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BTW: Where is the USA Electrical Grid producers going to find additional power generation to supply the estimated 52% of all vehicles being EV by 2030?
Simple - burn more coal! (Wish I could put a /sarc on that).
BTW: Saving the environment was *never* their intention. As you know.
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Not enough rare earth minerals on all of Earth to replace all IC vehicles on the road now. Sort of like taxing rich people at 100%, it would only solve the problem for 6 months and then where are you?
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I believe steam powered cars will make a comeback.
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BTW: Where is the USA Electrical Grid producers going to find additional power generation to supply the estimated 52% of all vehicles being EV by 2030?
[TheDrive] The U.S. Department of Defense has added additional color to the mysterious nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon test China conducted over a year ago, saying that it "likely demonstrated" the People’s Republic of China’s capacity to field this capability.
The test made headlines that year for demonstrating the use of a fractional orbital bombardment (FOB) system capable of flying "around the world," as now-retired Air Force General John Hyten described it, by staying in orbit for as long as the user deems necessary before re-entering the atmosphere with immense kinetic energy and gliding to its target. In official documents released on November 29, the Pentagon detailed what is presently known about China's FOB-capable hypersonic weapon, going so far as to say that the missile traveled approximately 24,854 miles (40,000 kilometers) during the July 2021 test.
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I have installed a masking tape X on the roof of my cars to confuse their drone surveillance guys. I think I have watched Blackhawk Down one too many times.
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Isn't the Avenger a little long on the tooth? MQ-20 US military designation for the Avenger Sea Avenger On 3 May 2010, GA-ASI introduced Sea Avenger, a carrier-based derivative of the Predator C Avenger UAS, intended to fulfill the U.S. Navy's need for an Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike.
[BenarNews] The U.S. government has canceled a trip to Indonesia by its envoy for LGBTQ rights, the American ambassador in Jakarta announced Friday, after the top holy manal body in the world’s largest Moslem-majority country strongly denounced the scheduled visit.
Jessica Stern, Washington’s special envoy to advance the rights of LGBTQI+ persons, was scheduled to visit Indonesia on Dec. 7, after stops in Vietnam and the Philippines, the State Department had said on Nov. 28. LGBTQI+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex persons.
"[A]fter discussions with our counterparts in the Indonesian government, we have decided to cancel Special Envoy Stern’s visit to Indonesia," Ambassador Sung Kim said in a statement Friday.
He did not go into detail about the specific reason for the cancellation.
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I remember a time when we had US Envoys to promote the interests of the United States. This looks like corporate welfare for the Disney Corporation. When Trump is back in office, look for him to offer this position to Lindsey Graham.
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I thought it wasn't so much the trip was cancelled but the envoy refused.
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Lindsey would go. If we make a fake envoy position to represent less than 3% of the population, at least pick someone who has read the job description. Maybe he/she/they/banana/rock expected to be able to visit countries by Zoom call.
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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.
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