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Seattle, Washington gridlocked over chronic homelessness

Matt Day and Noah Buhayar
Bloomberg
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 06:00 UTC

The wine was flowing as a group of Seattle's business elite gathered at Bar Cotto, an Italian restaurant in the city's trendy Capitol Hill neighborhood, where the menu features an expansive selection of salami and pizzas topped with truffle oil or Calabrian chili. The topic up for discussion: how to solve the region's intractable homelessness crisis.

The usual ideas came up. Donations to charities. Tax-code tweaks.

Then Dilip Wagle started talking. The senior partner at McKinsey & Co. had written a report saying the city needed to double its spending to provide the roughly 14,000 additional homes needed for people who couldn't keep a roof over their heads. Philanthropy wasn't enough, he said, according to attendees of the November function. A lot more money was needed.

The exchange underscored an impasse that's persisted in Seattle a year after Amazon.com Inc. and other companies beat back a city effort to raise money for homeless services through a tax on large employers. The lobbying win has left the campaign to help one of the country's biggest homeless populations in limbo, with a patchwork of philanthropic offerings rather than a comprehensive effort to address the issue.

Why should we care about Kim Dotcom's possible extradition to the US?

RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:03 UTC

Kim Dotcom

The founder of file-sharing service Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has entered the final appeal battle to try and challenge his extradition to the US, where he faces decades behind bars for copyright infringement charges.

The appeal hearings kicked off in New Zealand's Supreme Court on Monday. If the appeal fails, it will be up to the country's interior minister to decide whether to actually greenlight the extradition.

Dotcom has resided in New Zealand since 2010 and the US case against the Megaupload founder has resulted in a lengthy extradition battle. While it was greenlighted in 2015, it has been repeatedly appealed in various courts since then, ultimately getting to the top judiciary.

Comment: One might wonder if the war against Kim Dotcom has more to do with his political views, especially in support of Julian Assange, as any purported copyright infringement or wire fraud. As the one tweeter expressed it, if Megaupload loses its case, Google and Youtube should be up for much the same charges.

Helicopter crashes into New York City's Hudson River - pilot survives

Graham Rapier
Business Insider
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:17 UTC

A helicopter has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, the New York City Fire Department confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the FDNY confirmed the crash and said the pilot, the only person on board, was safely removed from the water with no injuries. The department's verified Twitter account said there were two other non-life-threatening injuries.

Video taken by an onlooker shows the helicopter spinning and flying erratically before crashing into the river.

New York Waterway, a company that operates ferries between Manhattan and New Jersey, said in a press release that one of its boats rescued the pilot of the helicopter. The company also assisted with rescue efforts when a US Airways plane famously landed in the Hudson River in 2009.

Comment: Additional footage was recorded by another bystander and reported by ABC News:

The great American economic growth myth is the ground for socialism's rise

Lance Roberts
Real Investment Advice
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:56 UTC

There is little denying the rise of "socialistic" ideas in the U.S. today. You can try and cover the stench by calling it "social democracy" but in the end, it's still socialism.

Since 1775, millions of Americans have given their lives in defense of the American "idea." The tyranny and oppression which arise from communism, socialism, and dictatorships have been a threat worthy of such sacrifice. I am sure those patriots who died to ensure the "American way of life" would be disheartened by the willingness of the up and coming generations adopt such ideals.

But such shouldn't be a surprise. It is the cycle of all economic civilizations over time as we "forget our history" and become doomed to repeat. it.

Yeah nah, mate! New Zealanders ignore nationwide gun confiscation program

Leesa K. Donner
Liberty Nation
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:22 UTC

New Zealand politicians who rushed to enact nationwide gun confiscation following the Christchurch mosque massacres are befuddled by the lack of enthusiasm from citizens who have yet to comply with the new law. The so-called "gun reform" was expected to rid the vast New Zealand countryside of most semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a specified limit, and shotguns.

Two months ago, Reuters breathlessly reported, "New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered by a guns buy-back scheme." Law enforcement authorities averred that "it could be more." Pregnant with the expectation that gun owners would trade their firearms for cash, the political class is nonplussed by the results.

Only 530 guns have thus far been turned in to the authorities.

The campaign to let kids, inmates vote just another sign the Left has completely lost it

Karol Markowicz
New York Post
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:36 UTC

What happens when Democrats lose an election they were sure they were going to win? Time to rearrange the entirety of the American electoral system! Democrats are seeking to expand voting rights to, well, just about everyone - until they get their desired result.

The new hotness is lowering the voting age to 16 years old - as proposed in the House bill HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019.

I've written in these pages about the arbitrary points of adulthood in America: 18 to join the military, 21 to drink, but if you get accused of a crime, you can be tried as an adult at 13. We shouldn't add another layer of arbitrariness by giving 16-year-olds the right to vote.

Comment:

Disputed Da Vinci painting shows up on Saudi crown prince's superyacht

RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:07 UTC

A Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, bought for a cool $450 million in 2017, allegedly on behalf of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has turned up on a massive yacht owned by the prince himself.

The mysterious auction was conducted by telephone and Christie's didn't confirm the buyer's identity - but later, the 'Salvator Mundi' was "whisked away in the middle of the night on MBS' plane" and relocated to his yacht, the Serene, two unnamed sources told the website Artnet.com.

The sources also said that the painting had been paid for, despite rumors circulating in the art world that the bill had only been partially settled.

Comment: It's unlikely the owner knows or cares about any potential historical value of the painting and, like many things to the elite, it's merely an asset to be flaunted.

For more on Da Vinci, check out:

Refugee sets himself ablaze at Australian-run detention center

SBS News
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC

A refugee on Manus Island has set himself on fire, marking the latest in a rapidly rising number of suicide and self-harm attempts at the former site of the Australian-run detention centre.

The Somalian man, aged about 30, set himself on fire while in the East Lorengau camp on Monday, sources on Manus Island say.

The blaze was quickly extinguished.

Images posted to social media by another refugee show the "highly depressed" man, with burns to his upper body, lying on the floor coated in white fire-fighting chemical powder.

Morrissey hasn't turned right: He only highlights how our establishment has turned insane

Charlie Nash
The Spectator
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 19:57 UTC

Did the former Smiths frontman ever stop being a provocateur?

On Thursday, May 30, Morrissey was 'canceled'. According to the Guardian, a British newspaper fond of such decrees, fans now feel 'betrayed' by the singer's recent controversial and provocative statements, which have included support for Anne Marie Waters's nationalist For Britain party.

'Morissey [sic], what happened?' the Guardian agonized on Twitter. But maybe they already know the answer. In just a decade, political correctness has obtained a stranglehold on Western culture. The provocateurs and counter-cultural icons of the late 20th century have been replaced by commercially compromised 'influencers', and artists who are carefully selected by social censors.

If William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, or Anton LaVey were still alive, the current public would be under orders to despise them too.

Comment: Morrissey isn't afraid to speak out about any situation:

British singer Morrissey sexually assaulted by TSA agent at San Francisco airport

Helicopter crash-lands on roof of Manhattan building - one dead

RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:45 UTC

One person has died after a helicopter crash-landed onto the roof of a midtown Manhattan building and caught fire, New York Fire Department officials have confirmed.

The helicopter crashed into a 54-story office building on New York's 7th avenue, north of the Theater District and Times Square, just before 2pm.

Comment: Footage of the helicopter nosediving was filmed and posted on

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Society's Child

Seattle, Washington gridlocked over chronic homelessness

Why should we care about Kim Dotcom's possible extradition to the US?

Helicopter crashes into New York City's Hudson River - pilot survives

The great American economic growth myth is the ground for socialism's rise

Yeah nah, mate! New Zealanders ignore nationwide gun confiscation program

The campaign to let kids, inmates vote just another sign the Left has completely lost it

Disputed Da Vinci painting shows up on Saudi crown prince's superyacht

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