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Hurricane Idalia: Tree falls on Florida governor's mansion while Casey DeSantis and children are home

Julia Johnson
Washington Examiner
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 02:00 UTC
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© ctvnews.caHurricane Idalia from the International Space Station
A tree fell on the grounds of the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee, the home of Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL), while his wife, Casey DeSantis, and children were home during Hurricane Idalia.

Casey announced the incident on social media on Wednesday, explaining a 100-year-old oak tree fell at the property in the capital of Florida. "Mason, Madison, Mamie, and I were home at the time, but thankfully no one was injured. Our prayers are with everyone impacted by the storm," she said.
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Green Party candidate Cornel West slams Democratic Party as 'beyond redemption'

Madeleine Hubbard
Just the News
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:53 UTC
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© cbsnews.comCornel West
Green Party candidate Cornel West slammed the Democratic Party as being "beyond redemption" and said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., both progressives associated with democratic socialism, were "window dressing" for the party.

West, who supported Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, was asked Tuesday on The Hill's Rising for his reaction to the senator's comments earlier in the week defending his support for President Joe Biden's reelection bid while saying that progressive community, including West, needs to unite with the mainstream left to stop "authoritarianism."

West responded:
"Brother Bernie's making a plausible argument, but I think deep down in his heart, he knows that the Democratic Party has no fundamental intention of speaking to the needs of poor people and working people."

Comment: Third party opinions have an affect, perhaps seen as more objective.

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Paris issues stay-at-home orders as it fumigates mosquito breeding grounds over dengue fears

Sarah Newey
The Telegraph
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:25 UTC
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© Alexander Spatari/Moment RF/GettyInsecticide is sprayed across potential mosquito-breeding sites over concern that dengue could spread in the city. Two of the city's suburbs were issued with stay-at-home alerts and road closures during the early hours of Thursday and Friday.
Health authorities have fumigated Paris for the first time amid concerns that disease-ridden tiger mosquitoes could spread dengue in the French capital.

Stay-at-home alerts were issued and roads closed during the early hours of Thursday and Friday in two of the city's suburbs, as pest control units sprayed insecticide across potential mosquito-breeding sites - such as trees, green spaces and stagnant water.


Comment: What are the chances this insecticide will kill more than just mosquitoes living in and around those trees...


The operations were launched after two people contracted dengue abroad, raising concerns the Aedes albopictus 'Asian tiger mosquito' could bite an infected person and start a domestic chain of transmission.

Comment: One wonders whether this is an issue that could be otherwise controlled with public infrastructure works or just additional funding for public services, rather than just spraying potentially toxic insecticide everywhere, and which is likely to have negative, unforeseen consequences later on.

Further, following the lockdowns and roll out of the experimental and often harmful Covid mRNA injections, it's not unreasonable for one to distrust the authorities with these kinds of jobs:

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Germany's green energy policies trigger recession warning, earning 'sick man of Europe' label amidst Brexit Britain's growth.

Perkin Amalaraj and Rachael Bunyan
Daily Mail
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 06:45 UTC
German and British GDP in the last six quarters
Germany's economy stagnated in the second quarter from the previous three months, showing no sign of recovery from a winter recession and cementing its position as one of the world's weakest major economies. In contrast, the UK's economy grew by 0.2 per cent
Germany's economy stagnated in second quarter of this year, new figures show. In contrast, Brexit Britain's economy grew by 0.2 per cent in the same period.

Germany is heading for a recession that is being caused by the bureaucracy around its green energy policies, the country's opposition party has warned.

Once one of the world's strongest economies, Germany is now expected to have the worst-performing economy of any leading nation in the world, according to stats from the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Friedrich Merz, the 67-year-old leader of the Christian Democrats opposition party, claims that this slump is a direct result of the government's overly bureaucratised green energy policies, which are being led by The Greens in coalition with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats.

Comment: See also:

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Massive youth brawls hit two California malls - Gunshots ring out during altercations

Cullen Linebarger
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 03:00 UTC
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© slausongirlnewsCalifornia brawl
The Golden State had hundreds of youths beating the tar out of each other on Sunday leaving some local journalists confused.

The Los Angeles Times reported that brawls involving teens broke out at two separate malls. The first fight occurred at the Del Amo Mall in Torrance, a city just west of Los Angeles.

Torrance Police Sgt. Ron Salary said that around 4 P.M Pacific, the police received a call reporting "a large crowd of juveniles fighting among themselves" at the shopping mall. Torrance police said that the number of youths actually brawling was unclear, but that a thousand were watching the scene unfold.

The brawl was so massive that police officers from at least 10 different agencies rushed to the scene to end the mayhem according to KCAL News photojournalist John Schreiber.
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Israel's national airline El Al is an intelligence front for the Shin Bet

Hebh Jamal
Mondoweiss
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:11 UTC
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© Magic Aviation/Wikimedia CommonsEl Al Boeing 747
Israel's national airline, El Al, has a history of egregious racial profiling and invasive security checks for its flights in foreign airports. But a closer look into how El Al operates shows that Israel uses it as an intelligence front.

On July 18, Palestinian American journalist Noor Wazwaz was denied boarding on the Israeli flag carrier, El Al Airlines. Wazwaz documented on social media that she faced serious discrimination and harassment by agents working for El Al and Israel.

Wazwaz was told that she was under suspicion because of her Palestinian heritage, and because she was planning on visiting Ramallah. According to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Wazwaz was forced to undergo extensive and humiliating searching and questioning, unlike other passengers.
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California school district settles with mom for $100K after school 'transitioned' daughter without her consent

Brian Flood
New York Post
Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:34 UTC
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© Fox NewsJessica Konen said her 11-year-old daughter, Alicia, was told by her school in the Spreckels Union School District in Monterey County that she may be upset because she didn’t know who she “truly was inside.”
In what's been called a landmark victory for parental rights, a California school district has settled for $100,000 with a mother who said her daughter was "socially transitioned" to a boy without parental knowledge or consent.

Jessica Konen said her 11-year-old daughter, Alicia, was told by her school in the Spreckels Union School District in Monterey County that she may be upset because she didn't know who she "truly was inside."

From there, the school allowed her to use the boy's bathroom, used male pronouns to refer to her and was "socially transitioned" away from her biological gender.
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Civil servants can use male or female security passes and can change gender daily

Steve Edginton
The Telegraph
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:36 UTC
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© E+The Home Office has introduced dual passes for staff that wish to attend work as more than one gender
Nonbinary staff in the Home Office are given male and female security passes allowing them to change their gender identity day by day.

According to the Home Office's gender reassignment and gender identity policy, nonbinary officials can "present in the gender which matches their identity on a given day".

The guidance, issued in 2010, updated in 2021, and described as "current policy", continues: "This includes practical considerations such as access to premises.

"The department has introduced dual passes for staff that wish to attend work as more than one gender."

Miriam Cates, the Conservative MP, told The Telegraph the nonbinary pass policy poses "serious security and safeguarding risks".
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'The woke left has inherited the Stalinists' hatred of freedom,' warns British columnist

Olivier Bault
Remix
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00 UTC
Mick Hume
Remix sat down with Mick Hume, a journalist and author known in Britain for his focus on issues related to free speech and freedom of the press, at the MCC Feszt in Esztergom, Hungary, at the end of July to talk about what has happened to free speech in the U.K.

According to Wikipedia, you used to be a Marxist, a libertarian Marxist. That's how you are described there, as a libertarian Marxist...

Yes, there was a time when I liked to call myself that because I found that it annoyed all the right people on both sides of the debate. The libertarians hated it, and the left hated it. But I do not have a political label that I can attach to myself these days. I think one of the problems with politics is we're stuck with 20th-century language - left, right, conservative, Marxist... - and politics has changed. We just don't have the right language.

Still, you considered yourself a Marxist then, didn't you?

Yes, most certainly. I was the launch editor of the Living Marxism magazine in the 1980s, when I was in my 20s.

And you were a figure in Britain's Revolutionary Communist Party.

Yes.
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Google's debts in Russia revealed


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:04 UTC
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© SOPA Images/Getty Images
Unpaid vendors want the tech giant's division in Russia to be declared bankrupt...

Alphabet, the owner of Google and of its Russian subsidiary Google LLC, owes millions of dollars to local vendors, who want their sector of the tech giant's global operations to be declared bankrupt, TASS reported on Monday, citing minutes from the first meeting of the company's creditors in Russia.

According to the news agency, the total amount of Google LLC's monetary liabilities as of the end of August topped 20.1 billion rubles ($211 million).

The creditors' meeting was attended by representatives of eight vendors, including Izhevsk Radio Plant and the 2GIS mapping service, as well as agents of Russia's Federal Tax Service. It was decided that these providers will now apply to the Moscow Arbitration Court to demand Google LLC be declared bankrupt. This would give them a chance to recoup some of their losses via the courts.

Google has been under pressure in Russia since the end of 2021 over its failure to delete content Moscow had deemed illegal and for restricting access to some Russian media on YouTube. Over this period, authorities slapped Google LLC with several hefty fines. In April last year, reports emerged that the company had failed to pay up, resulting in the seizure of Google's Russian accounts.

Comment: See also:

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