Democrat New Orleans Mayor Says There Isn’t Enough Time to Evacuate the City Before Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall

Another day, another corrupt and incompetent Democrat.

Democrat New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday said there is not enough time to evacuate the city before Hurricane Ida makes landfall.

“We are not calling for a mandatory evacuation because the time simply is not on our side. We do not want to have people on the road, and therefore in greater danger,” Cantrell said.

“The situation is much more serious than it was six hours ago,” said Cantrell.

Nola.com reported:

Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday said that with little time left before Hurricane Ida reaches Louisiana, residents should get ready to hunker down and ride out the storm.

In a press conference Friday afternoon, Cantrell said that there wasn’t enough time to establish the contraflow procedures necessary to move all of the city’s residents out of the city before the storm’s expected landfall.

She reiterated that New Orleanians inside the city’s levee protection system are safe, but said that residents outside of the levees were under a mandatory evacuation order and should get out as soon as possible.

Hurricane Ida has the potential to make landfall as a Category 4 storm.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/democrat-new-orleans-mayor-says-isnt-enough-time-evacuate-city-hurricane-ida-makes-landfall-video/

==Media mogul Robert Maxwell asked

Thatcher govt for $20bn to save Soviet

Union==

A Labour MP and media mogul, the late Robert Maxwell, attempted to secure a $20

billion loan from the British government to prop up the collapsing USSR, documents

show.

A letter released by prime minister of the day Margaret Thatcher's private secretary, Charles

Powell, revealed that Maxwell claimed to be acting on behalf of Mikhail Gorbachev's closest

advisers when he visited the 'Iron Lady' at 10 Downing Street in March 1990.

In that meeting, the owner of Daily Mirror allegedly asked Thatcher to provide a massive

state loan to the Soviet government to ensure that perestroika reforms would continue.

"It was quite clear that perestroika was in far worse trouble than even we had

imagined," Powell's letter read.

"The most urgent need was for short and medium-term credit of up to US $20 billion for the

purchase of food, consumer goods, equipment and supplies.

"Without this, there was no way that Mr. Gorbachev could get through."

In return, Maxwell said, the USSR was willing to supply coal, chemicals and fertilizers

as well as the wide-bodied jets to the UK.

Maxwell also discussed the sale of the Soviet civilian aircraft with Lord King of Wartnaby, the

head of British Airways and a Tory peer.

Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley, however, rejected the offer, as revealed by his personal

secretary Martin Stanley.

"Neither we nor the FCO [Foreign & Commonwealth Office] have evidence to suggest the

USSR is desperately short of food or that it lacks the wherewithal to pay for it if it becomes

so.

"Mr. Maxwell mentions sales of chemicals, fertilizers and coal, but the USSR also has

reserves of gold, platinum and diamonds."

Robert Maxwell, who was born in Czechoslovakia and fought in the British Army

during the Second World War, was linked to both the UK's Secret Intelligence Service

(MI6) and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence .

Comment: …a veritable international man of mystery.

The new revelations of his meeting with Thatcher may further fuel allegations that the British

media tycoon acted as an emissary of the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, to the British

government.

FBI documents released in 2013 show that his global media empire was under investigation

during the Cold War for alleged ties with Soviet spies.

The FCO published its investigation into Maxwell's Pergamon Press 2003, stating that there

was no evidence of him acting as an agent for the USSR.

In early November 1991, Maxwell was found dead after allegedly falling from his yacht

and drowning in the Atlantic Ocean.

An FCO memo issued by British vice-consul for the Canary Islands, Campbell Livingstone,

stated that his widow, Elisabeth, insisted the cause of death was an accident and pushed for

a quick and covert airlift of the body to Israel.

The USSR collapsed in late December 1991, just over a year-and-a-half after Maxwell's

meeting with Thatcher.

https://www.sott.net/article/356902-Media-mogul-Robert-Maxwell-asked-Thatcher-govt

-for-20bn-to-save-Soviet-Union

NSW and Queensland governments discussing moving the border south

https://www.9news.com.au/national/chaos-continues-along-the-queensland-nsw-border/25576be4-92f4-4f95-9acd-3895e75b293e

Bali suitcase killer Heather Mack to get early release from prison

She butchered her own mum on holiday in Bali but Heather Mack will soon walk free. Her ex-boyfriend isn’t so lucky though.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/bali-suitcase-killer-heather-mack-to-get-early-release-from-prison/news-story/7a3133e8081a6fe84e44045a59fc1cd3

Albany County Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Michael Kurtz, age 57, of Albany, pled guilty today to charges of distribution and possession of child pornography. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

In pleading guilty before United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino, Kurtz admitted that between September 29, 2018 and at least January 12, 2019, he used a peer-to-peer file sharing software program installed on his computer to distribute approximately 28 videos of child pornography from his home in Albany. Kurtz also admitted to possessing over 200 images of child pornography on his home computer at the time of his arrest on March 18, 2019.

Kurtz faces at least 5 years and up to 20 years in prison, as well as a term of supervised release of between 5 years and life. His sentencing is scheduled for December 28, 2021 in Albany. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors. Upon his release from prison, Kurtz will also be required to register as a sex offender in any state where he lives, is employed, or is a student.

This case was investigated by the FBI and its Child Exploitation Task Force, including investigators from the New York State Police Computer Crimes Unit, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ashlyn Miranda and Rachel Williams.

This case is prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood. Launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, Project Safe Childhood is led by United States Attorney’s offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/albany-county-man-pleads-guilty-distribution-and-possession-child-pornography

Gloversville Man Sentenced to 180 Months for Child Pornography Crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/gloversville-man-sentenced-180-months-child-pornography-crimes

Netflix AND Snapchat go down with outages across Australia while 16million people are in lockdown

The streaming service and photo-sharing application were experiencing issues

Users began having problems shortly after 10am on Saturday morning

Both Netflix and Snapchat are experiencing service outages across Australia on Saturday morning.

Users on both the streaming service and photo-sharing application indicated they were finding it difficult to access either program before 11am.

At the time of publication Netflix had 253 reports of problems and Snapchat had 307.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9934809/Netflix-Snapchat-experiencing-outages-Australia.html