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Flashback The 'fastest growing development' in the US is a magnet for illegal immigrants

Spencer Lindquist
The Daily Wire
Sat, 16 Sep 2023 21:04 UTC
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© Mark Felix for The Texas TribuneAn overhead view of the Colony Ridge development on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in New Caney, Texas.
Experts say growing community of illegal immigrants in Texas development invites cartel activity, is a national security issue

A Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for cartels.

Located in Liberty County, Texas near the small town of Plum Grove, the Colony Ridge development is a sprawling community that, based on an analysis of publicly available information, is now over 60 square miles and nearly the size of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Its population is estimated to be anywhere between 50,000 to 75,000, and it is growing rapidly thanks to a marketing plan targeted at Texas' hispanic population.

The Daily Wire surveyed the development by helicopter to assess the true extent of its growth. The flight began in the wealthy Woodlands neighborhood, but it was only minutes before the designer homes and pools gave way to half-built homes, dilapidated trailers, and heaps of trash.

Comment: Daily Wire follows up with current reports of ICE raids in the area:
The Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have conducted a series of operations in Colony Ridge, the sprawling Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens.

ICE officials have conducted an unknown number of raids in Colony Ridge, which is located just north of Houston and spans approximately 60 square miles. Among those arrested is believed to be an El Salvadorean illegal alien wanted for murder, Liberty Sheriff Bobby Rader said.

"It is my understanding that ICE has a list of people in the area that have active felony warrants," Rader explained. "I was told that one of those arrested was wanted for murder in El Salvador." ICE did not immediately respond to a media inquiry asking how many individuals had been apprehended in the enforcement operation.

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DW also digs into Texas politicians who allowed the project to flourish:

Colony Ridge Developer Was Biggest Donor To Sheriff Who Let Him Out Of Jail Early

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Pills

Pfizer to cough up nearly $60M over kickbacks for migraine drug once promoted by Lady Gaga

Michael Dorgan
Fox News
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:53 UTC
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© Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress
Biohaven, a company Pfizer bought, paid for speaker honoraria and meals so physicians would prescribe Nurtec ODT more often

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will pay nearly $60 million to resolve charges that a company it acquired paid kickbacks so that physicians would prescribe a specific migraine drug to patients, thereby defrauding Medicare and other federal health care programs.

The Justice Department announced Friday that Biohaven paid improper remuneration, including in the form of speaker honoraria and meals at high-end restaurants, to healthcare professionals to induce them to prescribe the migraine medication Nurtec ODT more often in violation of the anti-kickback statute.

The scheme took place from March 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2022. Pfizer bought Biohaven in October 2022.
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FAA fights lawsuit alleging it turned away 1,000 applicants based on race

Emily Crane
New York Post
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:35 UTC
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© U.S. Coast Guard HeadquartersAn American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter-century.
DEI policies are said to have contributed to staffing woes

The Federal Aviation Administration is fighting a class-action lawsuit alleging it denied 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets — as it was revealed that staffing levels were "not normal" at the time of this week's deadly midair collision.

Complaints about the FAA's hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, killing 67 people in the country's deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter-century.

Details of the litigation re-emerged, too, as Andrew Brigida, the lead plaintiff in the suit filed in 2015, suggested the federal aviation agency's obsession with diversity hiring and inclusion had only ensured that an accident was likely to happen.

Comment: Matt Walsh called it over a year ago:



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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies

Hayden Field
CNBC
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:58 UTC
Sam Altman, OpenAI, Masayoshi Son, SoftBank
© Carlos Barria | ReutersOpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks next to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son after U.S. President Donald Trump delivered remarks on AI infrastructure at the Roosevelt Room in the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025.
OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.

The Microsoft-backed company bills the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise as far as security. It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed "non-public, sensitive information" into OpenAI's models while operating within their own secure hosting environments, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil told reporters during a briefing Monday.

Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the tech to translate and summarize documents, write and draft policy memos, generate code, and build applications.

The user interface for ChatGPT Gov looks like ChatGPT Enterprise. The main difference is that government agencies will use ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, or Azure Government community cloud, so they can "manage their own security, privacy and compliance requirements," Felipe Millon, who leads federal sales and go-to-market for OpenAI, said on the call with reporters.

Comment: Giving the government a tool to be even more efficient at controlling people, great idea! No way this can get abused. On the plus side, this stuff is likely to get hacked at some point and we'll be able to prove all the ways in which we're being abused.

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Israeli atrocities in Lebanon


Craig Murray
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
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Yesterday, not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, Israel also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition).

This included a 12 year old boy wounded in the neck in Kfarkela, standing right next to my local producer Mahmood. I was twenty yards away and on my way to them. Four were killed in Kfarkela and overnight the Israeli army demolished numerous homes there in "punishment".

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New Zealand requires Israelis to disclose IDF service details as condition for entry

Tani Goldstein
The Times of Israel
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:14 UTC
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© IDF photoTroops of the Kfir Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip
Israelis applying for a tourist visa are being asked about the dates of their service, the locations of their bases, and whether they have 'been involved in war crimes'. New Zealand's government immigration authority has begun to require Israelis applying for a visa to report details of their military service as a condition for entry, and at least one person has been denied admission after doing so, The Times of Israel has learned.

Israelis of reserve service age who applied for tourist visas to New Zealand have been asked to report whether they had served in the Israel Defense Forces — as almost all Israeli citizens are required to do — and whether they are active reservists. Those who answered affirmatively were required to complete detailed questionnaires about their military service.

In the first questionnaire, visa applicants were asked about the dates of their military service, the location of their bases, the corps and units in which they served, the military camps where they were stationed, their rank, details of their roles, and their military ID number.

In the second questionnaire, they were asked:
  • "Have you been associated with any intelligence service or group, or law enforcement agency?"
  • "Have you been associated with any group or organization that has used or promoted violence or human rights abuses to further their aims?"
  • "Have you committed or been involved in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or human rights abuses?"
Those who can't disclose details of their military service due to security concerns are not exempt from filling out the questionnaire; as a result, they are unable to complete it and obtain a visa.
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Mexican cartels open fire on US Border Patrol


RT
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:05 UTC
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© X/GregAbbott_TXTexas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers conduct mass migration readiness exercises
US Border Patrol agents have reportedly come under fire from suspected Mexican cartel members in southern Texas during an attempted illegal border crossing. The incident in south Texas comes amid ramped-up deportations.

US President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico last week and deployed the military to several crossings, while seeking to deport potentially millions of people inside the country illegally.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported on Monday afternoon, citing multiple law enforcement sources:
"Border Patrol agents near Fronton, [Texas] were fired upon from [Mexico] by suspected cartel gunmen as a group of illegal aliens were being brought across the river. I'm told [Border Patrol] returned fire, nobody hit on either side, and that the illegal aliens did not make it across."
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Dollars

Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m for suspending accounts over Capitol riots

Dara Kerr
The Guardian
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:18 UTC
Meta, Donald Trump
© Dominika Zarzycka/Sopa Images/Rex/ShutterstockNot too long ago, Zuckerberg also scrapped fact-checking from Meta’s platforms.
Meta has agreed to pay $25m to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump. The suit originated in 2021 when Trump sued the social media company for suspending his accounts after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The settlement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been confirmed by a Meta spokesperson.

The majority of the settlement, $22m, will go toward a fund to pay for Trump's presidential library, according to the Wall Street Journal. The remainder will pay for legal fees and go to other plaintiffs listed in the case. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump's lawsuit against Facebook, which is now under parent company Meta, was one of several he brought against social media companies in the wake of January 6. He also sued YouTube, Twitter (now renamed X) and those companies' executives. A federal judge dismissed the suit against Twitter. The Google suit was closed in 2023, but has the option to be reopened.

Comment: Thanks for the library, Zuck!

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Deranged leftists use "cute winter boots" code to bypass TikTok algorithm in organizing 'project mayhem'


Zerohedge
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:40 UTC
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Reports are circulating on social media suggesting that the phrase "cute winter boots," used by some radical leftists on the Chinese-owned platform TikTok, is code for advocating violence against "cis" people and supporters of President Donald Trump.

"Thousands of radical Leftists are currently organizing on TikTok to disguise themselves, protest, and k*ll Trump, Republicans, CEOs, and "cis" people Users are obfuscating bans with phrases such as "cute winter boots" Videos reference Luigi Mangione's "Deny. Defend. Depose," X user Ashley St. Clair said.

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Since 2018, over 75,000 Canadians died waiting for health care

Mike Shedlock
Mish Talk
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:30 UTC
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© Unknown
If you think Canada has such a great nationalized health care system, you need to reconsider.

Death By Delay

15,474 Canadians Died Waiting for Health Care in 2023-24 SecondStreet reports:
Today, SecondStreet.org released government data showing an additional 15,474 patients in Canada died in 2023-24 before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. However, that number is incomplete, as several governments provide either partial data, or simply do not track the problem.

SecondStreet.org collected the data by filing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests across Canada. When the data collected is extrapolated across jurisdictions which did not provide data, the number actually nearly doubles, to around 28,077. These figures cover everything from cancer treatment and heart operations to cataract surgery and MRI scans.

"Canadians pay really high taxes and yet our health care system is failing when compared to better-performing universal systems in Europe," said Harrison Fleming, Legislative and Policy Director at SecondStreet.org. "Thousands of Canadians across the country find themselves on waitlists — in some cases for several years - — with too many tragically dying before ever getting treated, or even diagnosed."
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