Electric Inferno: Jaguar I-Pace Car Catches on Fire While Charging, Burns to Bare Metal

An electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicle caught on fire and burned to ash in Florida, but the vehicle wasn’t in a car wreck like many notorious Tesla fires — it was simply charging in the owner’s garage. The electric car is the fourth known I-Pace battery fire that seemingly started on its own — a concerning amount of fires, given that there are so few of these vehicles on the road — according to a report by Electrek.

This undated photo provided by National Transportation Safety Board, The Orange County Fire Authority battles a fire on a burning vehicle inside a garage in Orange County, Calif. When firefighters removed the SUV from the garage to assess the fire , they identified the fuel source as the SUV’s high-voltage battery pack. (Orange County Sheriff’s Department/National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

The Florida-based electric car owner, Gonzalo Salazar, told the outlet that he had purchased a brand new 2019 Jaguar I-Pace in 2020, and was driving the vehicle without issues for a few years, until one day the car caught fire in his garage, after having been charging for the night.

“On June 16, I plugged the car in before going to bed,” Salazar said. “In the morning of June 17, I woke up and unplugged the car. Later that morning, I set out to run some errands. I drove about 12 miles that morning before returning back home and parking the car back in the garage, leaving the garage door open.”

“As I was doing things at home, I heard pops coming from the garage,” he added. “I decided to go see where the sounds were coming from, and upon walking into the garage, I faced a thick wall of smoke. My thought immediately was, ‘When there is smoke there is fire,’ and I need to get the car out of the house garage.”

In an attempt to protect his home and pets, Salazar managed to move his smoking electric car out of his garage, to the street in front of his house.

Salazar explained what happened next: I went back to the house to get my phone and also noticed that all the smoke in the garage now had filled my entire house because the A/C unit is right next to the garage door. While I was trying to ventilate my house from the smoke I called Jaguar roadside assistance to have them come get the car. When I ended the conversation with them there were more pops, but this time it was followed by fire from under the car. I then called 911 to come help with the situation. But this was not a slow burn, once the fire started there were multiple pops, and the car was just engulfed in flames rapidly.

After the fire department extinguished the fire, Jaguar showed up and collected the remains of the vehicle. Salazar was not impressed, as he was left with having to clean up the debris on the street.

“My insurance company sent a forensic specialist, did their investigation, and declared the car a total loss,” he told Electrek. Salazar added that Jaguar “is not being helpful at all,” and that the company claims it needs to “complete their own investigation.”

“But because of the risk of igniting the fire once again, they are unable to find a place where they can lift the car up, therefore their ‘investigation’ is on hold, and they are not taking any responsibility for what happened,” Salazar added.

Jaguar told Electrek that the company “is committed to our customers’ safety, and we are aware of this I-PACE incident in Boynton Beach, FL.”“We have been in contact with and are cooperating with the customer’s insurance company expert regarding a vehicle inspection,” Jaguar added. “JLRNA [Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC] is unable to comment further on your questions until the investigation is completed.”

Salazar’s Jaguar I-Pace is the latest electric vehicle to catch fire due to its battery. Last month, a battery fire caused an electric bus to burst into flames in Hamden, Connecticut. Luckily, no one died in the inferno, although two transit workers and two firefighters were hospitalized as a result of the blaze.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/08/03/electric-inferno-jaguar-i-pace-car-catches-on-fire-while-charging-burns-to-bare-metal/

Report: CNN Profits Plunge Below a Billion, Ratings Tank as Warner Bros. Discovery Plans Drastic Cuts

CNN is reportedly on pace to miss its profitability target by a substantial margin amid a continued crash in ratings just as the network’s new parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is planning to enact drastic cuts across its media properties.

The left-wing CNN’sprofitability is expected to decline to $956.8 million this year, marking the first time since 2016 that the network had dipped below $1 billion in profit, according to a New York Times report that cited three people familiar with its operations.

The amount falls woefully short of the network’s initial 2022 profitability target of $1.1 billion, two people familiar with CNN’s operations told the newspaper.

In addition, CNN’s ratings continue to sink, dropping to 639,000 people in primetime this quarter, which representsa 27 percent decrease from a year ago. The network continues to place a distant third behind MSNBC and Fox News.

The Times reported CNN has spent millions of dollars covering the war in Ukraine, and is still paying some costs related to the now-defunct CNN+, such as the salaries of Chris Wallace and Audie Cornish.

CNN+ was one of the first casualties of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The highly touted but little-watched streaming service lasted a scant month before Discovery executives shut it down in April.

As Breitbart News reported, Warner Bros. Discovery is expected to enact drastic cuts and layoffs across the corporation in the coming weeks asCEO David Zaslav cleans house amid a pledge to find at least $3 billion in savings.

The belt tightening is already being felt at Warner Bros., which recently announced it won’t release its $70 million Batgirl superhero movie. The studio also canceled the TBS show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — a perennial ratings under-performer whose haranguing host was making increasingly unhinged, radical-left pronouncements, such as calling Ivanka Trump a “cunt” and urging her viewers to harass Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

Warner Bros. has also seen a number of high profile executive departures, including movie chief Toby Emmerich.

CNN’s new chief Chris Licht told his employees in May that he didn’t expect Warner Bros. Discovery to enact more layoffs at CNN after the shutdown of CNN+.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/03/report-cnn-profits-plunge-below-a-billion-ratings-tank-as-warner-bros-discovery-plans-drastic-cuts/

Rocker Dee Snider Attacks Kari Lake as ‘Fascist Moron’ over Twisted Sister Song

Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider should be elated to find that someone is still interested in his band’s body of work, but instead, the rocker attacked Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as a “fascist moron” after a pro-Lake Twitter account shared the lyrics to his 1984 song, “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”

Snider responded to a Twitter account describing itself as Lake’s official campaign account, clarifying thatthe song is a pro-abortion anthem that specifically rallies around a woman’s right to kill her unborn child.

“HEY IDIOTS! READ THE 1ST LINE: ‘We’ve got the right to CHOOSE!’ This is a PRO-CHOICE anthem you or co-opting. It was NEVER intended for you fascist morons!” Snider exclaimed on Sunday.

“As the songwriter & singer I DENOUNCE EVERYTHING [Kari Lake] STANDS FOR! Write your own damn song!” he added.

“The subtext in your song is very clear to us, [Dee Snider]. We’ve got the right to choose to vote for [Kari Lake],” Lake’s campaign account wrote in response to the Twisted Sister singer.

After being asked if he will file a copyright lawsuit in response to

Lake’s campaign reportedly playing the song at her rallies, Snider said, “I’ve explained this many times. You don’t have to get permission to play any song at an event. Same as a baseball game.”

“And I won’t try to stop someone (unless they are using it without permission for commercial use – that’s different) who I disagree with. I WILL denounce them,” the singer added.

“While I abhor what this ignoramus [Kari Lake] stands for and the deplorables (yup, Hillary Clinton had it right) she represents, I can NOT legally or morally stop her from using or singing my song,” Snider said in another tweet.

“I wrote it for everyone… cherry picking who uses it is censorship,” he added.

Last year, Snider announced that he didn’t want unvaccinated fans attending his concerts, proclaiming, “Fuck you,” adding that the chance of making him sick with the Chinese coronavirus represents “an invasion of my

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/03/rocker-dee-snider-attacks-kari-lake-as-fascist-moron-over-twisted-sister-song/

(by the looks of him, it seems like Satan opened the doors to hell, he’ll be welcomed back with open arms)

Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Boost Dem Candidate Who Pledged To Fight Dark Money, Records Show

A Democratic Wisconsin Senate candidate who has railed against “dark money” in politics is being supported by a left-wing dark money network, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.

Mandela Barnes, whose top Senate primary opponents dropped out of the race in July, said in February “Dark money has no place in democracy” and pledges on his website “to stand up to the corrupting influence of dark money.” At the same time, Barnes was endorsed Monday by theFamily Friendly Action PAC — which is dumping millions in his race to unseat Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and is largely funded by the dark money groups Sixteen Thirty Fund and America Votes, according to FEC filings.

Nonprofits with 501(c)(4) IRS exempt status are often referred to as “dark money” groups because they are under no legal obligation to disclose donors and can funnel unlimited sums to super PACs, according to OpenSecrets. Super PACs have to disclose their donors but can be “effectively dark money groups when the bulk of their funding cannot be traced back to the original donor,” according to OpenSecrets.

Sixteen Thirty Fund, which according to Politico is the “liberal dark money behemoth,” has donated $585,000 to Family Friendly Action PAC since September 2020, filings show.

America Votes gave the Family Friendly PAC more than $16 million since September 2020, FEC filings show. America Votes, which is a “coordination hub of the progressive community” and has over 400 national and state partners to increase voter turnout, reportedly received millions from left-wing billionaire George Soros in 2016.

“This issue of dark money, of course, is a broad problem across the political spectrum and influences organizations with both right and left leanings,” Laurie Styron, executive director of Charity Watch, a group probing nonprofit ethics, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The dark money donations from America Votes and Sixteen Thirty

Fund were first reported by the Free Beacon. Sixteen Thirty Fund notably granted America Votes almost $129 million in 2020, according to Sixteen Thirty Fund’s federal form 990 filing. Sixteen Thirty Fund spent more than $400 million to unseat former President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election and flip the Senate blue, according to Politico.

“Hopefully we can all agree in principle that the public has a right to know who is funding politics in our country so we have adequate information with which to understand any biases influencing the messaging we collectively consume and any conflicts of interest that may be present,” Styron also said.

Family Friendly Action PAC will spend $5 million on canvassing for the Democratic Senate nominee in Wisconsin, Politico reported. The primary is slated for Aug. 9 and several Democratic candidates viewed as competitive, including Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, have dropped out of the race, clearing the path for Barnes to win the primary, according to The Hill.

Barnes led his primary opponents in a June Marquette Law School poll, receiving the support of 25% of voters.

“Hypocrite Mandela Barnes claims to stand up against the corrupting influence of dark money while pocketing every dark money dime he can get,” a spokesman for Johnson’s campaign told the DCNF.

Barnes’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment, nor did spokespeople for the Family Friendly Action PAC, America Votes or Sixteen Thirty Fund.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/03/mandela-barnes-dark-money-democrats-pac/

Senator Johnson told Hannity these groups have already dumped $40 million into defeating him. We need to pray he stays.

Reminder SC team intentionally wiped, erased, destroyed numerous cell phones before turning them over to IG vs DOD wiping in phones

Members of Mueller’s team ‘wiped’ phones during Trump probe: DOJ

By Yaron Steinbuch September 11, 2020 8:0

More than two dozen cellphones belonging to members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “wiped” clean of their data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could check them, according to a report.

Newly released DOJ records show the phones were wiped of the data because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device and intentional deletion, among other reasons, Fox News reported.

Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman “accidentally wiped” his device twice after he entered the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018, according to the documents cited by Fox News.

Attorney James Quarles’ phone “wiped itself” of the data without his input, say the records, which were released after a lawsuit from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, the network reported.

The documents also show that a phone belonging to then-FBI attorney Lisa Page — who exchanged anti-Trump texts with fellow agent Peter Strzok — was restored to factory settings when the Inspector General’s Office got it, according to Fox News.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/members-of-muellers-team-wiped-phones-during-trump-probe-doj/

DOJ records show members of Mueller’s team ‘wiped’ phones during Trump probe

The documents were released after a lawsuit from Judicial Watch. Newly released records from the Department of Justice show that the cell phones of multiple people on then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team were "wiped" for various reasons during the probe.

The records show at least several dozen phones were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons– and came before the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) could review the devices.

The documents show that Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman "accidentally wiped" his phone twice after entering the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018. Lawyer James Quarles’ phone “wiped itself” without his intervention, the records say.

The records indicate Attorney Greg Andres phone was also wiped due to a forgotten passcode. And they say the phones of both Mueller deputy Kyle Freeny and Rush Atkinson were wiped accidentally after they entered the wrong passcode too many times.

The records say that a phone belonging to FBI lawyer Lisa Page – whose anti-Trump texts with FBI agent Peter Strzok were of interest to investigators – was restored to factory settings when the inspector general’s office received it.

Other officials, whose names are redacted, claim to have unintentionally restored their phone to its factory settings, deleting all records of communication. Next to the name of one redacted person, the record says: “Phone was in airplane mode, no passcode provided, data unable to be recovered so had to be wiped.”…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-records-mueller-team-wiped-phones

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‘Just Astounding’: Defense Department Wiped Jan. 6 Text Messages From Key Officials, Watchdog Finds

The Department of Defense (DOD) wiped messages from devices belonging to Trump administration officials involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, according to court filings.

The American Oversight watchdog group filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Pentagon and Army to obtain records from former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, his former chief of staff Kash Patel and former Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, as well as other key Defense officials, in March 2021. DOD responded in March 2022 that “text messages were not preserved and could not be searched,” possibly erasing information that could provide transparency behind the events of Jan. 6.

The DOD officials whose records were allegedly destroyed would have participated in making the decision to deploy the National Guard after the Jan. 6 riots began. “I did not wipe the phone before I turned it in(or ever that I can recall),” former DOD General Counsel Paul Ney told CNN. “When I turned the phone in, I did not know what was going to be done with that device nor do I know what actually was done with the device.

“If DoD represented in litigation that the device was wiped after I left DoD on Inauguration Day, I believe that is very likely what happened and when it happened, but I do not know why,” Ney added.

DOD said in its response to American Oversight that “when an employee separates from DOD or Army he or she turns in the government issued phone, and the phone is wiped.” It acknowledged that text messages were completely deleted,although copies of some messages could live in other records systems, like email.

Federal records laws require any federal records of informational value to be preserved indefinitely.

(If someone from the SC Mueller team was prosecuted for violating the law, maybe other agencies wouldn't be so free to do it all the time.)

American Oversight initially submitted FOIA requests for DOD communications records on Jan. 12, 2021, less than a week after the Capitol riots and before the Biden administration’s transition. The DOD acknowledged the requests on Jan. 15, CNN reported, but allegedly stonewalled producing a response until September.

However, government attorneys told the organization earlier in 2022 that the DOD had neglected to ensure communications data was transferred from personnel devices to secure storage, according to CNN.

“It’s just astounding to believe that the agency did not understand the importance of preserving its records — particularly [with regards] to the top officials that might have captured: what they were doing, when they were doing it, why they were doing, it on that day,” Heather Sawyer, American Oversight’s executive director, told CNN.

American Oversight petitioned current Attorney General Merrick Garland to initiate an investigation into the DOD’s failure to preserve the text messages Tuesday. The Secret Service acknowledged earlier in July that text messages from Trump administration personnel disappeared during a scheduled data migration on Jan. 27, 2021. The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general failed to reveal that the IG knew about the loss for more than a year after the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 subpoenaed the Secret Service for the apparently deleted records on July 17, CNN reported.

The Justice Department and Pentagon declined to comment. The Army and the Jan. 6 committee did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/03/pentagon-phones-wiped-jan-6-witnesses/