nivek
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Human trafficking? At least 50 children found cleaning Midwest slaughterhouses.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7haUShzBsrc
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7haUShzBsrc
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They are now openly discussing “Human Engineering” to solve the alleged climate change crisis.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-eaF1iD14
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-eaF1iD14
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Not good at all, I knew things were getting financially harder for a lot of people, I also think things are going to get worse this year, the damage is done, nothing can stop the hardships that are coming...
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The most troubling information in the GDP report is the precipitous drop in real disposable income, which fell over $1 trillion in 2022. For context, this is the second-largest percentage drop in real disposable income ever, behind only 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression.
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GDP report reveals ominous Great Depression warning sign not seen since 1932
(Excerpt)The most troubling information in the GDP report is the precipitous drop in real disposable income, which fell over $1 trillion in 2022. For context, this is the second-largest percentage drop in real disposable income ever, behind only 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression.
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nivek
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Footage of the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband will be released to the public after a judge on denied prosecutors' request to keep it secret.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPo3z4CzgiA
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPo3z4CzgiA
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pigfarmer
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Not a link or an article, just a comment.
Tyre Nichols.
Certain professions attract certain personality types, to the point where a pedophile priest has become a cliche. Boy Scouts of America has been painted with the same brush while I'm thinking about it. For a while there it was the postal workers we were worried about - going postal - before we had other mass shootings to worry about. Meaning, it seemed to be a job that somehow had the right mix to make that happening a statically more likely occurrence. And that's the point - some vocation that has qualities that make certain things more likely than is the norm because if the people attracted to it.
When it comes to the military and police the same applies. In those cases we tend to see the uniform not the person wearing it, and yet as we know they are composed of the same flesh and blood as we are and prone to the same weaknesses.
So here we have this sickening crime committed by police officers. What I find almost as sickening is the media treatment. You listen to a complete fraud like Al Sharpton and I am not even slightly surprised at what he says - he's a one trick pony. Without going into a much longer discourse what I am saying is that rather than look at it strictly as a racial issue, which in fairness that is a valid point, it's a police problem. Here we have people who voluntarily serve to do things the rest of us could not or would not do. Clearly this attracts certain personality types the same as other vocations I mentioned. Yet there are those who can only look at this through the lens of racism despite being all involved being black. that's not helping, it's just fueling the fire.
If that were truly the case shouldn't these police officers have voluntarily held themselves to a higher standard ?
Didn't someone once say we should be judged not on the color of our skin but the content of our character?
Tyre Nichols.
Certain professions attract certain personality types, to the point where a pedophile priest has become a cliche. Boy Scouts of America has been painted with the same brush while I'm thinking about it. For a while there it was the postal workers we were worried about - going postal - before we had other mass shootings to worry about. Meaning, it seemed to be a job that somehow had the right mix to make that happening a statically more likely occurrence. And that's the point - some vocation that has qualities that make certain things more likely than is the norm because if the people attracted to it.
When it comes to the military and police the same applies. In those cases we tend to see the uniform not the person wearing it, and yet as we know they are composed of the same flesh and blood as we are and prone to the same weaknesses.
So here we have this sickening crime committed by police officers. What I find almost as sickening is the media treatment. You listen to a complete fraud like Al Sharpton and I am not even slightly surprised at what he says - he's a one trick pony. Without going into a much longer discourse what I am saying is that rather than look at it strictly as a racial issue, which in fairness that is a valid point, it's a police problem. Here we have people who voluntarily serve to do things the rest of us could not or would not do. Clearly this attracts certain personality types the same as other vocations I mentioned. Yet there are those who can only look at this through the lens of racism despite being all involved being black. that's not helping, it's just fueling the fire.
If that were truly the case shouldn't these police officers have voluntarily held themselves to a higher standard ?
Didn't someone once say we should be judged not on the color of our skin but the content of our character?
nivek
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It could be that the vetting systems in place to hire on new police officers needs to be tweaked or reformed, some bad apples are getting through...However there could be another element to this...I don't know how long those 5 police officers have been on the job as police officers, maybe the job itself in large cities is having a toll on some policemen...Perhaps there should be systems in place to review the psychological health of policemen after so many years of service...I don't know...
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pigfarmer
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Am I wrong or does it always seems to be in an urban environment? What the hell was their 'Scorpion' unit anyway ? The name alone suggests anything other than community service and it wasn't just those five murderers; a 50 man unit that had to have had the sanction of the department and city officials. Like Uvalde the problem goes way up the chain.
I'd like to hear what someone actually qualified to speak on this might have to say. I'm not a cop. The one name that pops to mind is Massad Ayoob. I've read some of his stuff and he is quite literally a subject matter expert, he's testified on behalf of many officers involved in use of deadly force cases.
Massad Ayoob - Wikipedia
nivek
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'Why is the city doing this to us?' Frightened New Yorkers carry PEPPER-SPRAY as 'disruptive' migrants kicked out of Manhattan hotel set up tents on sidewalk after refusing to move to shelter at Brooklyn ferry terminal because it is 'like a jail'
The Big Apple's migrant woes worsened on Monday, as more than a hundred asylum seekers that had been put up at a Midtown hotel set up an encampment outside rather than move to an impromptu shelter set up by Mayor Eric Adams.The encampment sprouted up outside The Watson Hotel seemingly overnight and serves as the latest development in the city's ongoing struggle to house an abnormal outflow of asylum seekers seen in recent months.
Residents are already complaining about the procession, with one single mom telling DailyMail.com she's been forced to carry pepper spray just to make it through the rowdy mass to her home across the street.
Already lined with tents, the encampment surfaced sometime early this morning, as male migrants booted from the $450-a-night hotel have taken issue with a shelter offered by Adams last week as an alternative, citing its bare-bones amenities.
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nivek
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WTF...California cops shoot dead double amputee, 36, as he tries to run away on his stumps: Police department says officers feared father-of-two was going to 'throw his knife at them'
The three cops from Huntington Park Policed Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two. Lowe Jr. had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to the police department, and was trying to run away from two officers. Video of the incident shows him standing in front of two officers next to his wheelchair, which he had leaped from.
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nivek
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California cops shoot dead double amputee, 36, as he tries to run away on his stumps: Police department says officers feared father-of-two was going to 'throw his knife at them'
The three cops from Huntington Park Policed Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two. Lowe Jr. had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to the police department, and was trying to run away from two officers. Video of the incident shows him standing in front of two officers next to his wheelchair, which he had leaped from.
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UK police can deal with people wielding knifes without someone dying...These cops are making it difficult to support them, surely they didn't think the guy could outrun them?...
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nivek
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These people are insane...
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California reparations panel calls for ten prisons to be CLOSED, prisoners to be paid 'fair wage' and given the right to vote
California's controversial reparations panel is pushing for the state's legislature to close ten prisons, in addition to ensuring current inmates also receive compensation and be eligible to vote. It was earlier reported that the panel was seeking to pass laws creating a wealth tax, mansion tax and/or a property tax in order to fund the billion dollar reparations. At their meeting in San Diego this weekend, the panel preliminary approved recommending that ten prisons be shuddered while debating what should be done with the sites. California state prisons house some of the most notorious prisoners in the country, including serial killers and lifelong gang members..
nivek
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'I'm spending $2K a month to see this': New Yorkers become fed up with paying high rent next to tent city as cops are called to move migrants refusing to leave Manhattan sidewalk
Migrants have remained camping outside The Watson Hotel (left) in Hell's Kitchen, refusing to relocate to a New York City housing shelter in Brooklyn. Residents expressed outrage at the sight of migrants sleeping (bottom right) on the street in sleeping bags and openly smoking (inset) cigarettes and marijuana. The city has urged the migrants to board busses (top right) bound from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, but the asylum seekers and advocates claim the current shelter is ill-equipped to accommodate their basic needs. 'I am paying $2,000 a month to witness this,' said a local man, who identified himself as Steven. 'I have kids in school. This is ridiculous.' The migrants are among 43,000 asylum seekers who have flooded the Big Apple since last spring, leading the city to set up emergency shelters at hotels while constructing mass emergency housing.
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pigfarmer
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hello President Newsom
nivek
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America 'unrecognizable' and on the brink of collapse, experts warn: 'Turning on our own legacy'
(Excerpt)"The America of the 1980s has pretty much vanished," Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo said. "We're now entering a new period of unprecedented economic, social and cultural change."
"We're in a very bizarre and unprecedented situation in our civilization today, which is – we are turning on our own legacy and declaring it evil, oppressive, without any redeeming characteristics…" Manhattan Institute senior fellow Heather MacDonald said in the special.
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nivek
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Rancher, 73, is charged with murder on his Arizona land after shooting dead Mexican, 48, who had history of illegal crossings and multiple deportations: Judge refuses to reduce $1M bail despite plea his wife is alone
George Alan Kelly, 73, was arrested following the January 30 fatal shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, 48, on his ranch in Kino Springs, just a mile and a half north of the US-Mexico border. Authorities are still investigating the fatal shooting, with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's chief deputy saying it does not appear that Kelly knew Cuen-Butimea ahead of the shooting. But federal court records show that Cuen-Butimea has had a history of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, and was deported back to the country multiple times - most recently in 2016. And hours before the fatal shooting, Nogales International reports, US Border Patrol agents informed the county sheriff's department of a 'possible active shooter' at the scene with a man identifying himself as Allen saying he was not sure if he was getting shot. Santa Cruz County Sheriff's officials have said they discovered Cuen-Butimea's body just about 100 to 150 yards from Kelly's home on January 30. The victim appeared to have suffered from one gunshot wound. The Nogales, Mexico resident's identity was later confirmed because of a Mexican voter registration card he carried.
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nivek
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@spacecase0
Frank Hooberbeets predicted a Turkey earthquake Feb 1 on Twitter. 5 days later it hit. He made his prediction based on planetary geometry.
The YouTube channel SuspiciousObservers is saying our sun is entering an alignment with our galaxy that happens once every 12,000 years and causes an apocalypse.
Twitter of the guy
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Suspicious Observers Youtube
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Frank Hooberbeets predicted a Turkey earthquake Feb 1 on Twitter. 5 days later it hit. He made his prediction based on planetary geometry.
The YouTube channel SuspiciousObservers is saying our sun is entering an alignment with our galaxy that happens once every 12,000 years and causes an apocalypse.
Twitter of the guy
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Suspicious Observers Youtube
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pigfarmer
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/unidentified-object-shot-down-alaska.html
Pentagon Downed Object Over Alaska, Official Says
The incident comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic.
A U.S. fighter jet, similar to this one seen in January, took down the object in American airspace over Alaska. The action comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the United States.Credit...Joseph Campbell/Reuters
By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Edward Wong
Feb. 10, 2023Updated 2:53 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon downed an unidentified object over Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, according to U.S. officials.
John Kirby, a White House spokesman, confirmed the incident at a news conference on Friday.
U.S. officials said it was not confirmed if the object was a balloon, but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft.
Mr. Biden ordered the unidentified object downed “out of an abundance of caution,” Mr. Kirby said. He said the object was shot down over waters off the coast of Alaska.
Mr. Kirby said the object was traveling at 40,000 feet. He said officials were describing it as an object because that was the best description they had of it.
“President Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did,” Mr. Kirby said. He added later that a fighter jet took down the object.
A U.S. official said there were “no affirmative indications of military threat” to people on the ground from the object. Officials said they could not confirm whether there was any surveillance equipment on the object that was shot down.
A recovery effort on the debris will be made, Mr. Kirby said. He said the object was “roughly the size of a small car” — much smaller than the spy balloon that had a payload the size of multiple buses.
The action comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the United States, according to three American officials.
The latest breach, officials said, took place over Alaska. One official described it as a “fast-moving” situation that was still developing. It is not clear if the object was from an adversarial power, or a commercial or research operation that had gone astray, the official said.
The breach of American airspace was relatively short, according to officials, which is one reason they could not immediately identify what type of object was involved.
The transit of the Chinese spy balloon last week, which ended with it being shot down Saturday off the South Carolina coast by a F-22 fighter jet, transfixed the American public. The White House has been criticized by some Republicans for not immediately shooting the balloon down, but President Biden has said he was acting on the recommendation of military officials, who said to wait until the balloon was over water before destroying it to minimize any risk to people on the ground.
U.S. officials say the spy balloon was part of a fleet directed by the Chinese military that has flown over more than 40 countries on five continents in recent years. The balloons are made by one or more civilian-run companies that officially sell products to the military, officials said, though the Biden administration has not publicly identified the company that made the downed balloon.
Officials say a balloon that was drifting over Latin America last week was also part of the Chinese surveillance program.
Helene Cooper is a Pentagon correspondent. She was previously an editor, diplomatic correspondent and White House correspondent, and was part of the team awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, for its coverage of the Ebola epidemic. @helenecooper
Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes • Facebook
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent who has reported for The Times for more than 22 years, based in New York, Baghdad, Beijing and Washington. He received a Livingston Award and was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists for Iraq War coverage. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton and U.C. Berkeley. @ewong
Pentagon Downed Object Over Alaska, Official Says
The incident comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic.
A U.S. fighter jet, similar to this one seen in January, took down the object in American airspace over Alaska. The action comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the United States.Credit...Joseph Campbell/Reuters
By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Edward Wong
Feb. 10, 2023Updated 2:53 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon downed an unidentified object over Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, according to U.S. officials.
John Kirby, a White House spokesman, confirmed the incident at a news conference on Friday.
U.S. officials said it was not confirmed if the object was a balloon, but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft.
Mr. Biden ordered the unidentified object downed “out of an abundance of caution,” Mr. Kirby said. He said the object was shot down over waters off the coast of Alaska.
Mr. Kirby said the object was traveling at 40,000 feet. He said officials were describing it as an object because that was the best description they had of it.
“President Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did,” Mr. Kirby said. He added later that a fighter jet took down the object.
A U.S. official said there were “no affirmative indications of military threat” to people on the ground from the object. Officials said they could not confirm whether there was any surveillance equipment on the object that was shot down.
A recovery effort on the debris will be made, Mr. Kirby said. He said the object was “roughly the size of a small car” — much smaller than the spy balloon that had a payload the size of multiple buses.
The action comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the United States, according to three American officials.
The latest breach, officials said, took place over Alaska. One official described it as a “fast-moving” situation that was still developing. It is not clear if the object was from an adversarial power, or a commercial or research operation that had gone astray, the official said.
The breach of American airspace was relatively short, according to officials, which is one reason they could not immediately identify what type of object was involved.
The transit of the Chinese spy balloon last week, which ended with it being shot down Saturday off the South Carolina coast by a F-22 fighter jet, transfixed the American public. The White House has been criticized by some Republicans for not immediately shooting the balloon down, but President Biden has said he was acting on the recommendation of military officials, who said to wait until the balloon was over water before destroying it to minimize any risk to people on the ground.
U.S. officials say the spy balloon was part of a fleet directed by the Chinese military that has flown over more than 40 countries on five continents in recent years. The balloons are made by one or more civilian-run companies that officially sell products to the military, officials said, though the Biden administration has not publicly identified the company that made the downed balloon.
Officials say a balloon that was drifting over Latin America last week was also part of the Chinese surveillance program.
Helene Cooper is a Pentagon correspondent. She was previously an editor, diplomatic correspondent and White House correspondent, and was part of the team awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, for its coverage of the Ebola epidemic. @helenecooper
Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes • Facebook
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent who has reported for The Times for more than 22 years, based in New York, Baghdad, Beijing and Washington. He received a Livingston Award and was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists for Iraq War coverage. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton and U.C. Berkeley. @ewong