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Adam Carolla calls it: 75 days after CA wildfires, FOUR building permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades

Mike LaChance
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:38 UTC
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Comedian Adam Carolla commented on the probable aftermath of the January 2025 wildfires in California.
Two months ago in January, comedian Adam Carolla predicted that the rebuilding process after the California wildfires would be a nightmare because of the progressive policies in the state. He said it would be near to impossible to get a building permit.

It has now been 75 days since the fires. How many building permits have been issued for Pacific Palisades? FOUR. Not 400, not 40. FOUR.

It looks like Adam Carolla pretty much called this one, doesn't it?
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Flashback What happened when I walked into the USAID office in Egypt

Larry Taunton
The Federalist
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:09 UTC
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© Larry TauntonThe author Larry Taunton being held up by security at Egypt's USAID office.
The destruction of this rogue agency cannot come soon enough.

For some years now, I have been tracking globalist initiatives at both ends: at the point where the ideological rounds are chambered and downrange where they affect the lives of millions as public policies. This has taken me from places like Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum meets annually, to cartel towns in Colombia where illegal aliens board Zodiacs bound for the Darién Gap and thousands of them simply disappear.

I've also been tracking how USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, via a series of NGOs, has been running what amounts to a massive human trafficking operation across South America, through Central America, and straight up through our borders. President Trump is working to hold accountable those responsible, but there is so much more to the global workings of this clandestine government agency.
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One-third of D.C. district judges were not born in the United States, had no prior judicial experience when appointed

Beth Brelje
The Federalist
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:51 UTC
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© Highsmith, Carol M.The historic E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse which houses the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Of all the judges in the U.S. all five foreign-born judges of the D.C. court managed to get their fingerprints on controversial Trump cases.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump's authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States.

While country of origin doesn't come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration.

The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S.
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Star of David

Best of the Web: Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal attacked by Israeli settlers then arrested by IDF

Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:47 UTC
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© Mike Coppola / Getty ImagesFrom left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscar awards for best documentary for the film No Other Land in the press room at the 97th Academy Awards
Director of No Other Land attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house.

According to five Jewish American activists who witnessed the attack, Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the the film that documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank, was surrounded and attacked by a group of about 15 armed settlers in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.

"They started throwing stones towards Palestinians and destroyed a water tank near Hamdan's house," said Joseph, of the activists from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, who asked not to use his full name for security reasons.

Comment: Ballal has since been released, no doubt due to public outcry.

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© Basel Adra/InstagramHamdan Ballal receiving treatment in a hospital in Hebron after being released.
How many thousands of Palestinians, including children languish in Israeli prisons because they are not prominent public figures?

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Taser

Concert hall terrorist attack masterminded by 'unfriendly country' - Moscow


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:58 UTC
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© Alexey Maishev/SputnikPeople gather near a memorial by the Crocus City Hall for victims of a deadly terrorist attack on the concert venue.
The aim of the assault on Crocus City Hall was to destabilize Russia, the Investigative Committee has said.

The deadly terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow was masterminded by the intelligence services of an "unfriendly country," Russia's Investigative Committee has claimed on the anniversary of the massacre.
Four gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall ahead of a rock concert on March 22, 2024, shooting everyone in sight before setting the building on fire. A terrorist organization known as Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for the assault, which took 145 lives and left over 550 injured.
The suspected perpetrators - all citizens of the Central Asian country of Tajikistan - were detained shortly after the attack while fleeing in a car towards the Ukrainian border. More than a dozen of their accomplices have been arrested since then.

Comment: It would seem Russia is playing the long game in not revealing what it knows.
See also:

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Pistol

South Africa's 'femicide' emergency deepens


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:50 UTC
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© cyano66/Getty ImagesFemicide
According to data cited by a University of Cape Town professor, three women have been killed by an intimate partner per day since 2009

Inadequate resources and the poor implementation of laws that are supposed to protect women are hampering the efforts against the scourge of femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV).

IPV has been thrust into focus again this week as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that the attempted murder case against Edwin Sodi has been struck from the Randburg Magistrate's Court's roll.

This also comes days after Cape Town convicted murderer, Wayne Lawrence, was sentenced to a cumulative 71 years behind bars for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Angela, and the attempted murder of their daughter, who was shot in the foot during a domestic dispute. Lawrence was a licensed firearm holder who, at the time of the incident, owned two firearms.
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Bad Guys

'My husband was killed in front of my eyes': Survivors recall crimes of Ukrainian occupation in Kursk Region

Pyotr Svetov
RT
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:49 UTC
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© Sputnik / Sergey BobylevCivilians being evacuated in Kazachya Loknya, Kursk Region, Russia.
Russian forces recently liberated around 30 settlements in Kursk Region, where Ukrainian forces had looted stores, stolen vehicles, and, according to witnesses who spoke to RT, killed civilians. Residents from Kazachya Loknya have recounted their experiences following several months under occupation by the Ukrainian army.

One local woman told RT that her husband had been murdered in cold blood by Ukrainian troops. Another was forced to abandon her home.

Both still find it difficult to comprehend how they survived the brutal occupation.
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Ambulance

Best of the Web: Jessica Aber, ex-US Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia — who stepped down in Jan. — found dead at 43

Shane Galvin
NY Post
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:36 UTC
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The former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was found dead Saturday morning by police who are now investigating the shocking demise of the high-profile lawyer, according to reports.

The body of Jessica Aber, 43, a Biden appointee who resigned her position in January as President Trump took office, was discovered at her home by Alexandria Police Department officers just before 9:20 a.m. Saturday morning, according to Fox News.

The circumstances of the death remain under investigation, according to the APD, NBC Washington reported. An official cause of death will be determined by the Virginia medical examiner's office.
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Attention

23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale

Kevin Collier
NBC News
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:42 UTC
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With genetic testing company 23andMe filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and courting bidders, the DNA data of millions of users is up for sale.

A Silicon Valley stalwart since 2006, 23andMe has steadily amassed a database of people's fundamental genetic information under the promise of helping them understand their disposition to diseases and potentially connecting with relatives.

But the company's bankruptcy filing Sunday means information is set to be sold, causing massive worry among privacy experts and advocates.

"Folks have absolutely no say in where their data is going to go," said Tazin Khan, CEO of the nonprofit Cyber Collective, which advocates for privacy rights and cybersecurity for marginalized people. "How can we be so sure that the downstream impact of whoever purchases this data will not be catastrophic?" she said.
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Air New Zealand employees take airline to court over Covid-19 vaccination mandate

Catrin Owen
Stuff.co.nz
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:02 UTC
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© stuff.co.nzAn Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will fly over Invercargill on Saturday afternoon.
An Air New Zealand Captain and engineer have told an employment court about the impact they felt after refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in 2021, and being forced to take annual leave and leave without pay.

The duo are part of 33 Air New Zealand employees who are challenging the company's Covid-19 vaccination policy in the Employment Court.

Charlotte Parkhill, who is the lawyer representing the 33, said in opening her case that there are two questions the judge needs to determine - whether any employer can lawfully adopt a vaccination policy, and was it lawful and reasonable for the airline to have adopted the policy in the circumstances that existed at the time.

Parkhill said these questions weren't just important questions of law, but of fundamental importance.

"They involve the intersection between basic human rights, health and safety and employment law."

Parkhill said the 33 had a "torrid time" during the pandemic and had been marginalised.

"They have been labelled 'anti-vaxxers' and lumped in with people who have other views which may not align with the mainstream. However, all of our clients are intelligent, professional individuals who researched the vaccine and made a decision based on the best information that they had before them at the time regarding their own health."
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