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Republicans say Biden FAA nominee is 'not qualified' for the job

Victor Nava
New York Post
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:33 UTC
Washington
© Getty ImagesBiden nominee Phillip Washington
Senate Republicans on Wednesday bashed President Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, accusing him of not being qualified to head the agency.

In his first confirmation hearing since Biden, 80, nominated him for the post nearly eight months ago, Phil Washington was grilled by Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, who called out his lack of experience in the aviation industry.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said:
"He does not have any experience in aviation safety. This quite simply is a position he is not qualified for. I'm disappointed that the administration has chosen to treat a critical safety position as a patronage job."
Washington, the current CEO of Denver International Airport, led the Biden-Harris transition team for the Department of Transportation. He has also held leadership roles at municipal transit organizations in Denver and Los Angeles and served in the military for 24 years.
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Go woke, go broke: Walmart to close ALL Portland, Oregon stores in March

Jarryd Jaeger
The Post Millennial
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:46 UTC
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Customers, on the other hand, questioned if the decision came about as the result of rampant shoplifting.

Residents of Portland, Oregon will soon have to travel further to stock up at Walmart as the company announced it will be closing both of the city's locations by the end of March.

The stores at opposite ends of the city on Hayden Meadows Drive and SE 82nd Avenue, respectively, have become a staple in the retail habits of so many, however, Walmart claimed the decision to shut them down was made due to a lack of profits. Some have questioned, however, if the decision came about as the result of rampant shoplifting.

"Walmart has long been harshly criticized by the city's left-wing politicians & residents," The Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngo said, suggesting that, "this shutdown follows the consequences of the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots that normalized urban criminality."

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Judge issues arrest warrant for Tacoma woman with TB refusing treatment

Theresa Robinson
KIRO 7 News
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:07 UTC
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A judge has issued a civil arrest warrant for a woman with tuberculosis, allowing law enforcement to arrest her as soon as Friday after she refused to isolate or take life-saving medication for over a year.

After her arrest, she would be taken to a facility equipped for isolation, testing, and treatment.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department says this is only the third time in 20 years that it has had to seek a court order to detain a potentially contagious person who refused treatment for TB.

Comment: It's one thing to resist taking an experimental vaccine being forced on one with no proof of its efficacy. It's entirely another for a person with a confirmed diagnosis of a highly communicable disease to deliberately avoid getting treatment AND continue to expose the local community to it. It speaks to some sort of character disorder.

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Twitter received 'state sponsored blacklists' from US - Matt Taibbi


RT
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:56 UTC
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© AFP / Nicholas KammThe US State Department in Washington, DC, November 29, 2010.
A State Department-funded entity pushed the social media platform to ban users for spreading "disinformation."

The US State Department, both directly and through third-party organizations, pressed Twitter to censor American users for their non-existent connections to Russia, China, and Hindu nationalism, according to internal documents.

Published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Thursday, the latest 'Twitter Files' reveal that Twitter's former trust and safety chief, Yoel Roth, was approached in 2021 and given a list of 40,000 accounts suspected of engaging in "inauthentic behavior" in support of India's Bharatiya Janata Party.

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#BoycottHersheys trends after chocolate maker uses biological male to celebrate International Women's Day

Mia Ashton
The Post Millennial
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:01 UTC
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In honor of International Women's Day, Hershey Canada has launched five limited edition HER for SHE chocolate bars which are supposed to feature young, inspirational Canadian women who are building a positive future, but the company is facing backlash after deciding to include a biological male in their line-up.

Fae Johnstone, a trans-identified male who has spoken publicly about wanting women with differing political views to be "so vilified" that they don't dare speak, announced the exciting news on Twitter Wednesday, and not long after, the hashtag #BoycottHershey started to trend as women all over the world expressed their resentment about yet another biological male being honored on a day that is supposed to celebrate women.

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NBC reporter goes to Crimea, shocks viewers by telling the truth

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:12 UTC
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Mainstream media correspondents for major US networks rarely, if ever, report from inside Crimea and certainly are nowhere near Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine. However, this week NBC News chief international correspondent Keir Simmons went to Sevastopol, surrounded by a significant Russian military presence given it is home to the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, and in a live segment admitted that it's not at all realistic Zelensky and Ukrainian forces can ever hope to take Crimea.

This is especially as the "the people there... view themselves as Russian." Simmons noted that "This is the closest that any US news crew has got to the Russian Black Sea Fleet in many many years." He explained that "Vladimir Putin will be determined to defend that port - to not have it take it away from him - he may well do pretty much anything to try to achieve that."


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10 myths told by COVID experts — and now debunked

Marty Makary
New York Post
Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:50 UTC
vaccination vaccine poke
© AP/Nathan PapesPublic health officials downplayed concerns about vaccine-induced myocarditis — or inflammation of the heart muscle.
In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during COVID:

Much of the time, they were wrong.

To be clear, public health officials were not wrong for making recommendations based on what was known at the time.

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'Dictatorship': 160,000 protest against judicial changes by Netanyahu government in Israel, police use stun guns & water cannons in crackdown

Sami Sockol
France24
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:24 UTC
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© Oded Balilty/AP4 Photos
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel's hard-line national security minister urged a tough response to what he said were "anarchists."


Comment: 160,000 anarchists?


The violence came as thousands across the country launched a "national disruption day" against the government's plan to overhaul Israel's judicial system.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's allies say the program is meant to reduce the influence of unelected judges. But critics, including influential business leaders and former military figures, say Netanyahu is pushing the country toward authoritarian rule and has a clear conflict of interest in targeting judges as he stands trial on corruption charges.

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About 160,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv Saturday night against the Israeli government's plans to weaken the country's judicial system, crowd expert Ofer Grinboim Liron told CNN. That would make it one of the biggest single demonstrations yet against the legislation.

Grinboim Liron, the CEO of Crowd Solutions, which specializes in crowd dynamics at events and venues, based his estimate on drone photos at 8 p.m. local time (1 p.m. ET).

Organizers of the protests said an additional 130,000 people protested in other demonstrations across the country Saturday night. Numbers from organizers have been higher than estimates from independent experts such as Grinboim Liron.

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About two out of three (66%) Israelis believe the Supreme Court should have the power to strike down laws incompatible with Israel's Basic Laws, and about the same proportion (63%) say they support the current system of nominating judges, a poll for the Israel Democracy Institute found last week.

People who say they voted for opposition parties were far more likely than voters for the parties in the coalition to oppose the changes. Nearly nine out of 10 (87%) people who voted for the opposition said the Supreme Court should have the power to strike down laws incompatible with Basic Laws, while only 44% of coalition voters said it should. The percentage was slightly higher among people who voted for Netanyahu's Likud party, with nearly half (47%) saying the Supreme Court should have that power.

Israel does not have a written constitution, but a set of what are called Basic Laws.

The survey, which was released February 21, found that about half (53%) of Israelis believed that removing the political independence of the judiciary would harm Israel's economy - as Israeli economists and businesspeople have been warning. About a third (35%) do not believe the changes would harm the economy.

The online and telephone survey of 756 adults in Israel was carried out between February 9 to 13, 2023, and has a margin of error of 3.56 points.


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Major power outage hits 20 million people in Argentina, gov't blames SABOTAGE fire near nuclear power plant


France24
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:28 UTC
Argentina blackout
© Lautaro Rojo, ReutersPeople wait in a long queue outside the Constitucion subway station due to a power blackout in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1, 2023.
A major power outage crippled several of Argentina's provinces on Wednesday, including parts of Buenos Aires, plunging millions of people into darkness for at least two hours as summer temperatures soared, officials said.

In the capital, the lights flickered back on at about 6:00 pm (2100 GMT) in the metro system, and public services were gradually restored.

Reports of the first outages came in from 4:00-5:00 pm, with traffic lights out of order and Buenos Aires metro stations in total darkness.

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A blaze that left nearly half of Argentina without power was probably sabotage, the government said.

More than 20 million people in the South American nation of 46 million had no electricity for hours on Wednesday evening after a high-tension transmission line outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area caught fire, shutting off swaths of the grid.

Burn patterns at the scene imply saboteurs set fire to land right beneath the power line, according to a top government official.

"It's not the type of fire line you see when pastures get burned," Ricardo Casal, legal secretary to the Economy Ministry, told local news outlets. "Instead, there are precise focal points that, curiously, are under the transmission line."

The government has asked a judge to investigate.

Electricity was fully restored on Wednesday night, the Energy Secretariat said. A live state tracker of power generation and on-grid demand showed both were back to normal levels on Thursday, though nuclear power plants remained offline.

The fire came amid a heat wave and drought in Argentina, with Buenos Aires enduring its hottest summer in more than a century of record-keeping and the country's key soybean crop wilting across the Pampas farm belt.

In the US, grids have seen an unusual uptick of attacks in recent months. As of December, law enforcement agencies were investigating at least eight recent incidents in four states.
One recalls the blackouts from 2019 in Argentina, Uruguay, and Venezuela, that were also suspected sabotage: Entire cities in darkness after massive, first-of-its-kind blackout sweeps Argentina and Uruguay

Other suspect power outages and plant shutdowns in just the last year or so:

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Huge fire engulfs Hong Kong skyscraper in busy shopping district

David Averre
Daily Mail
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:10 UTC
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A fire breaks out in an office building in Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong on early March 3, 2023
A towering skyscraper in Hong Kong has been engulfed in an out-of-control blaze which saw flaming chunks of debris tumble hundreds of feet through the air to rain down on terrified civilians below.

Officials said the fire broke out around 11:10pm local time on Thursday night (15:10 GMT on Friday) in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping and tourist district on the city's harbourfront.

Flames were first spotted near scaffolding at the top of the highrise still under construction, with the blaze clearly visible from miles away across the harbour.

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