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Safe streets require the political will to punish crime

Austin Stone
American Greatness
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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As this crime wave rages, Republicans must ignore the false promise of a soft-on-crime utopia.

"Let's not abandon our streets," Joe Biden lectured in his State of the Union last week. But his weak overtures to law and order in the speech rang hollow, as his administration — and just about every other career politician in Washington — sinks deeper into the quagmire of so-called "criminal justice reform." This soft-on-crime movement is led by activists who don't care about public safety at all.

After years of crime reduction, American cities have become even more dangerous than they were in the 1980s. Murders are up, along with carjackings, robberies, shoplifting, public violence, and vandalism. Some progressives have tried to manipulate statistics and "contextualize" the recent crime surge, but Americans aren't buying it. We know a policy failure when it's staring us in the face.
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China grounds Boeing 737s after deadly crash


RT
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:21 UTC
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The same type of aircraft was involved in this week's accident that killed 132 people

China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries have temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the company's spokesperson Liu Xiaodong said in a press conference on Thursday, according to CNN.

On Monday, China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed in a remote, mountainous region in the south of the country as it flew from Kunming to Guangzhou. The flight had 132 people on board - 123 passengers and nine crew. No survivors had been found after three days of search efforts, Chinese investigators said on Wednesday.

The grounded aircraft are undergoing safety inspection and maintenance to ensure that they are safe to fly, Liu said. The airline launched a sweeping safety overhaul after the accident, the spokesman added.

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Mayor Eric Adams exempts NYC athletes from vaccine mandate — but other city workers aren't so lucky

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Paul Matinka/NBAE/Getty ImagesNYC Mayor Eric Adams • NY Nets star Kyrie Irving
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an exemption on Thursday for city-based athletes and performers from NYC's vaccine mandate following plenty of pressure, most notably the bad optics of NBA star Kyrie Irving being barred from playing in Brooklyn Nets' home games — yet being allowed to enter the Nets' arena as a spectator and sit courtside.

Other city workers are still required to abide by the mandate, however, and leaders of their unions aren't happy, the New York Post reported.

What are the details?

The paper said the exemption for athletes and performers is effective immediately.

"Being healthy is not just about being physically healthy, but being economically healthy," Adams said at Citi Field, according to the Post. The stadium is the home of major league baseball's New York Mets.


Comment: Mayor Adams is trying to score points having already lost the game.

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US volunteers reach the frontline of the war in Ukraine

Julian Borger
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:45 UTC
Volunteers
© UnknownVideo scenes of volunteers fighting in Ukraine.
US volunteers have been seen in video footage from the frontlines in Ukraine, suggesting that the international legion fighting alongside the Ukrainian army is playing an increasingly active role.

Two video clips featuring US fighters appeared on Twitter on Thursday: one showing an American in combat gear posing in front of the burnt remains of what he said was a Russian tank. Off camera, a Ukrainian shouts "Welcome to America!" and the American repeats the phrase.

In the other, narrated by a different soldier with an American accent, shows a detachment of soldiers taking cover by a wall alongside a road, in a village the narrator claims they have recaptured from the Russians.

The first video was posted by James Vasquez, a US army veteran and building contractor from Connecticut, who, according to his Twitter feed, arrived in Poland on 15 March and crossed into Ukraine the next day, bringing with him several surveillance drones. He was sent to the frontlines from Lviv on 18 March.
"I kind of feel like I'm on an awesome very dangerous vacation. When I need to amp myself up for battle, I just think about the most punchable face on the planet ... Tucker Carlson."
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Bad Guys

Biden warns of global food shortages as Russia-Ukraine war upends wheat supplies

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:56 UTC
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© AP Photo/Evan VucciPresident Joe Biden claims global food shortages are “going to be real,” as Russia wages its invasion in Ukraine.
President Biden on Thursday warned of global food shortages as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — predicting that the war would upend global wheat supplies.

Russia and Ukraine jointly supply about a fourth of the world's wheat exports.

"With regard to food shortages, yes we did talk about food shortages. And then it's going to be real," Biden said at a press conference in Belgium after attending meetings of NATO and G7 leaders.

"The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's post upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well," Biden said.

Comment: Food shortages have already been on the horizon for at least five years, due to changing world weather patterns, U.S. ineptitude and Big Agro greed. But 'Russia bad' is a convenient scapegoat for the coming disaster.

Those with eyes to see and ears to hear, will take appropriate action.

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Sanity returning: Arizona passes bills banning transgender athletes in women's sports, gender reassignment surgery for minors

Caroline Downey
National Review
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:07 UTC
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© AP Photo/Matt York, FileThe Arizona House of Representatives gather during a legislative session Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona Legislature voted to ban gender-reassignment surgery for minors and sends bill to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday, March 24, 2022
Arizona passed bills Thursday banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports and minors from undergoing gender transition surgery, adding another member to the growing coalition of Republican states that have passed such measures.

It is uncertain whether Governor Doug Ducey will sign the bills. While he is a Republican, that doesn't necessarily mean he will rubber stamp the bills, given that the Republican governors of Utah and Indiana recently vetoed their versions of the sports legislation.

Prohibiting transgender athletes from female sports has become a major Republican platform issue. Multiple red states have passed bills restricting K-12 and collegiate athletics to biological sex. Idaho was the first do so in 2020, but its law is currently entrenched in litigation, as is West Virginia's.

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Bad Guys

Olympic ice dance icon Tatiana Navka: 'Task of Americans is to destroy Russia'


RT
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:08 UTC
Tatiana Navka
© Daria Isayeva, SETatiana Navka, former Olympic ice dancer
Tatiana Navka made the comments after some US journalists gloated at Russia's absence from the World Figure Skating Championships

Two-time world ice dancing champion Tatiana Navka has reacted to comments from western journalists over Russia's absence at the ongoing World Figure Skating Championships, saying that Americans are tasked with destroying her homeland.

Elite Russian skaters such as Beijing 2022 medalists Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova weren't able to take part in the world showpiece in Montpellier this week due to a ban imposed by the International Skating Union (ISU) as a response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

Comment: The new Cold War has destroyed the Olympics

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Patreon is now banning users for what they say off-platform

Yudi Sherman
America's Frontline Doctors
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:47 UTC
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A social media platform will now ban users for things they say outside of the platform.

Patreon, a site that allows content creators to be paid directly by their patrons, notified popular conservative commentator Sydney Watson that they were removing her account. The reason, according to Patreon, is that Watson's "content propagated what we consider to be negative stereotypes or segregationally content towards a protected community."

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Greek supermarkets restricting flour, sunflower oil purchases as customers start hoarding, similar limits enforced across Europe amidst shortages


Reuters
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 05:31 UTC
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© REUTERS/Constantina Peppa/File PhotoFILE PHOTO: A shopping cart is seen full of goods in a super market in Athens, Greece, March 13, 2020.
Supermarket chains in Greece said on Thursday they are restricting how much flour and sunflower oil customers can buy, saying the step was precautionary after seeing demand rise on worries supplies will be hit due to the war in Ukraine.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a surge in prices and concerns about product shortages across industries in the European Union. Both Russia and Ukraine are key suppliers of sunflower oil and wheat.

Following similar measures in Spain and Italy, four Greek supermarket chains - AB, Sklavenitis, Kritikos and My Market - said they had limited online and in some cases in-store purchases this week of flour and sunflower oil. AB said it has placed a limit of 3 bags of flour and 3 bottles of oil per customer.

Comment: The global food supply has been teetering on the brink for many years, however nearly two-years of government enforced lockdowns and now the West's proxy-war on Russia is likely to push it over the edge: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia, China and the New World Order



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Julian Assange marries Stella Moris in London prison ceremony

Ben Quinn
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:17 UTC
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© Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockStella Moris cuts the wedding cake outside Belmarsh prison after marrying Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks founder granted permission to wed partner, who fought back tears outside the prison, saying 'What we're going through is inhuman.'

Julian Assange and his partner, Stella Moris, got married on Wednesday at Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London.

The WikiLeaks founder, 50, was granted permission last year to marry Moris - with whom he has two children - at the prison where he has been held since 2019 after the US took legal action to extradite him to face trial on espionage charges.

Comment: This just makes the Powers That Be look even more pathetic.

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