Thanks Baker
Merry Christmas to those dumb DNC bimbo bitches on Team Hobbs. Even though they hate America, God Bless them. Who knows, maybe they'll wake up.
bite my crank junior. Merry Christmas.
:)
Awww, someone need a nap?
Merry Christmas - all one big dysfunctional mostly happy family of anons. Shoulder to shoulder. No one above another.
It's all good anon. o7 You worked hard and deserve it.
Small plane crashes into storage facility near Livermore Municipal Airport
>Livermore National Labs
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/small-plane-crashes-into-storage-facility-near-livermore-municipal-airport/
California: Small plane crash-lands on Santa Monica beach
>Former City Council / Mayor - CA Power Player
https://news.sky.com/video/california-small-plane-crash-lands-on-santa-monica-beach-12773484
EU Freezes Nearly €22 Billion in Funds Earmarked for Hungary
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European Commission cites Hungary’s failure to protect rights
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Decision raises stakes in Orban’s rule-of-law clash with EU
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/eu-freezes-almost-22-billion-in-hungary-funds-in-blow-to-orban
UN: Burkina Faso had no grounds to expel senior UN official
The United Nations Saturday said that Burkina Faso had no grounds to order senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country because the doctrine of persona non grata does not applied to her, given her position as a UN Designated Security Official. Burkina Faso’s military government instructed Manzi, an Italian diplomat, to leave the West African country with immediate effect. Spokesman for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric stated that the UN has been dedicated to working with the Burkinabe transitional authorities to support development efforts and provide humanitarian assistance in the region. She reiterated that the UN is committed to engaging with authorities in Burkina Faso for the purpose of supporting the country and its people. The statement also clarified that the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to United Nations officials. Under the UN Charter, staff members are appointed by the Secretary-General and are responsible only to the organization. It is an obligation on UN Member States to respect their “exclusively international character.” Under Article 105, Manzi has certain privileges and immunities, which include the right to remain in Burkina Faso to carry out her “functions on behalf of the Organization.” According to Dujarric, only the Secretary-General, as the chief administrative officer of the organization, has the authority to decide to order the withdrawal of any UN official. This news comes in the wake of unrest in the region, including a recent military coup which was televised on national tv in October.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/un-burkina-faso-had-no-grounds-to-expel-senior-un-official/
UK to stop publishing COVID modelling data after nearly three years
Since April 2021, the R number only referred to England rather than the UK as a whole, and since April 2022, it has been updated fortnightly instead of every week.
After almost three years, the UK Health Security Agency will stop publishing COVID modelling data next month. The increasingly sporadic updates on the virus's R number will cease from 6 January, with it deemed "no longer necessary" thanks to vaccines and therapeutics. COVID's reproductive rate, which referred to the number of people an infected person will pass the disease on to, debuted back in May 2020 and was published weekly during the peak of the pandemic. Along with the daily case and death numbers, it helped give the public an idea of how prevalent the virus was. Since April 2021, the R number only referred to England rather than the UK as a whole - and since April 2022, it has been updated fortnightly instead of every week. Dr Nick Watkins, chairman of the health agency's epidemiology modelling review group, said COVID would still be monitored but only similarly to common illnesses like flu. Modelling data may be reintroduced if the situation calls for it, such as if a new variant of concern is identified. COVID data will still be available from the Office for National Statistics.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-stop-publishing-covid-modelling-data-after-nearly-three-years-12774429
China’s Covid protests are not the whole reason for Apple’s move to India
-India’s large young population and growing manufacturing capabilities will ensure it has a place in the global technology supply chain
-Notwithstanding its handling of the pandemic and geopolitical tensions, China’s challenge of an ageing population and economic slowdown remains
Recently, the news of Apple’s plans to move some of its production out of China to India made headlines. Many attribute this move to China’s Covid-19 situation or current geopolitical status.
However, in analysing India’s demographic dividends, fast-growing supply side infrastructure, and booming consumer market, I would argue that India is destined to rise up in the global technology supply chain, regardless of the situation in China. First, let us examine China’s rise in the global technology supply chain. Apple’s growth in China has been a good reflection of China’s growth. Starting in the mid-2000s, Apple gradually moved its manufacturing to China to take advantage of its demographic dividends and maturing manufacturing capability.
China was a highly cost-efficient production base because of the more affordable labour supply, and the efficiency and quality of the workforce. In late 2009, after manufacturing its products in China for a few years, Apple began marketing the iPhone there. Since then, China has not only been a major manufacturing base for Apple, but also a major consumer market. As a result, many Apple products manufactured in China are also sold in China, creating a virtuous circle to drive continuous growth of Apple’s revenue from China. In 2021, Apple generated US$68.3 billion from China, or 18.7 per cent of total revenue, as production sites in China assembled 36 per cent of Apple’s products.
What lessons can be learned from Apple’s success in China? First, demographic dividends ensure the supply of affordable labour for manufacturing. Second, mature supply side infrastructure, as represented by Foxconn in China, ensure manufacturing efficiency and quality. These two factors had attracted Apple to China. In addition, China’s rapidly growing economy created a rapidly growing consumer market for Apple. This third factor encouraged Apple to stay and increase its investment in China. But with China’s ageing population and economic slowdown, this winning formula may no longer work as effectively. China has participated in the global supply chain since entering the World Trade Organization in 2001. At the time, the median age of China’s population was 28.9; now, it is 38.4. In comparison, the current median age of India’s population is 28.4.
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3203544/chinas-covid-protests-are-not-whole-reason-apples-move-india
It was only a matter of time
Report: FBI Involved in UFC betting probe
The FBI is reportedly looking into the Shayilan Nuerdanbieke vs. Darrick Minner fight.
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2022/12/25/23526034/report-fbi-involved-ufc-betting-scandal-probe-jeff-molina-james-krause-darrick-minner-mma-news
FBI raids Fort Worth home and finds 21 victims of human trafficking
The FBI arrested two men in connection with a human smuggling ring.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A house in the 1800 block of Miller Avenue in Fort Worth is at the center of a federal investigation into human trafficking. The FBI’s SWAT team raided the home Wednesday night and found 21 people inside, along with two suspects. The two suspects were identified as Carlos Plata Ibarra, 35, and Gonzalo Ramirez, 33. “They went to the house around 9 p.m. last night and raided the home. There were two coyotes that traffic people,” said Hilda Duarte, of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). "Coyotes" is the nickname for traffickers who smuggle people across the border. Hilda Duarte is a leader with LULAC. The civil rights group was called in to help find a place for the 21 people found in the home, including seven women and a 3-year-old girl. “Their clothes were taken from them. That’s to keep them from escaping and leaving the home,” said Duarte. The group of migrants was released, and LULAC paid for their hotel rooms so they wouldn’t be out in the cold. WFAA spoke to some of them but are not using their names to protect their identities. One woman said her husband, who was a street vendor, was murdered in Honduras by men extorting money from him. Fearing for her own life, she walked for a month to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. "I wanted to come here to give my daughters a better life and for me to be safe," she said. The migrants said they were smuggled in an 18-wheeler packed with people and brought to the house in Fort Worth. "There were so many of us packed in. It was very uncomfortable," one person said. Migrants said when the FBI raided, they didn’t know what was happening. They heard pounding and yelling. "They first thing I thought is they are going to kill us if it was some type of bad guy," one person said. But, the FBI was there to arrest two of the smuggling suspects and rescued the migrants. LULAC has found family in the U.S. for all of them and has found transportation for them. Because they are victims of trafficking they will be allowed to stay in the U.S. and apply for asylum.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fbi-raids-fort-worth-home-finds-21-victims-of-human-trafficking/287-94392cfb-39d6-467c-9d10-f931fef81e69
Putin claims Moscow ready for Ukraine talks as attacks go on
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia is ready for talks to end the war in Ukraine even as the country faced more attacks from Moscow — a clear sign that peace wasn’t imminent. Putin said in a state television interview, excerpts of which were released on Sunday afternoon that Russia is “prepared to negotiate some acceptable outcomes with all the participants of this process.” He said that “it’s not us who refuse talks, it’s them” — something the Kremlin has repeatedly stated in recent months as its 10-month old invasion kept losing momentum. Putin also repeated that Moscow has “no other choice” and said he believed the Kremlin was “acting in the right direction.” “We’re defending our national interests, the interests of our citizens, our people,” he said. Putin’s remarks come as attacks on Ukraine continue. A country-wide air raid alert was announced twice on Sunday alone, and three missiles in the afternoon hit the city of Kramatorsk in the partially occupied Donetsk region, local officials reported. The missiles hit an industrial area of the city, and there weren’t any casualties, according to the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko. Kyrylenko said that the city of Avdiivka was also attacked on Sunday with six rounds of shelling, and a woman was wounded there.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-moscow-f098e37011960a7c4d6dad16182df2e6
Latest Twitter Files shows CIA, FBI have spent years meddling in content moderation
The CIA has been meddling in Twitter’s internal content moderation for years, according to the latest dispatches from Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” — which also revealed “mountains of insistent moderation demands” from the Democratic National Committee, but not from the GOP. Two separate threads in the ongoing Elon Musk-sponsored deep dive into the social media’s internal documents were released Saturday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, documenting how the platform has frequently bowed to government and political pressure. On June 29. 2020, Taibbi shows, the FBI’s Elvis Chan — who has played a starring role in past Twitter Files releases — asked company executives to “invite an OGA” to an upcoming conference. “OGA, or ‘Other Government Organization,’ can be a euphemism for CIA, according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors,” Taibbi explains. One week later, Stacia Cardille, a senior Twitter legal executive, made the link explicit. “I invited the FBI and the CIA virtually will attend too,” Cardille wrote to her colleague — and former FBI chief counsel — James Baker on July 8, 2020. “No need for you to attend.”
Baker, one of dozens of ex-FBI agents and executives in Twitter’s ranks at the time, was fired this month for interfering in Musk’s effort to reveal the company’s past transgressions.From that point, Taibbi writes that “regular meeting[s] of the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)” — attended by Twitter and “virtually every major tech firm [including] Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others” — had “FBI personnel, and – nearly always – one or two attendees marked ‘OGA’.” “Meeting agendas virtually always included, at or near the beginning, an ‘OGA briefing,’ usually about foreign matters,” Taibbi writes. Through the FITF, US intelligence tasked Twitter analysts with laborious investigations into domestic Twitter accounts alleged to have nefarious foreign connections, the documents reveal — ramping up as the 2020 presidential election approached, but continuing through 2022. Twitter content monitors analyzed users’ IP data, phone numbers and even weighed whether user names were “Russian-sounding” to confirm the government’s accusations – but often failed to do so. Taibbi shows how a succession of intelligence reports in 2022 strove to shape news narratives relating to Ukraine and the Russian invasion. One such report, which lists accounts allegedly tied to “Ukraine ‘neo-Nazi’ Propaganda,’” pushed Twitter to place sites pointing out Hunter Biden’s lucrative role on the board of Busima, the Ukrainian energy company, under a cloud of official suspicion. Other reports, including one from August 2022, comprised “long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos” that US intelligence deemed to be guilty of “anti-Ukraine narratives.”
“Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true,” Taibbi writes. “But so might at least some of the information in them – about neo-Nazis, rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?” Meanwhile, a separate thread from Taibbi documented that “Twitter did have a clear political monoculture” — one favoring Democrats. Democratic Party operatives, and one staffer in particular, barraged Twitter moderators with complaints about Republican memes and spoofs in the run-up to the 2020 election. Musk tapped journalist Taibibi to handle the release of the documents after the Tesla owner took over Twitter. Musk tapped journalist Taibibi to handle the release of the documents after the Tesla owner took over Twitter. In one case, Twitter refused to remove an obviously comical spoof of a “Todos Con Biden” event – in which then-candidate Joe Biden supposedly played a pro-Trump song for a crowd of Hispanic voters. Moderators also refused to label as “deceptive” a video mashup of Biden repeatedly coughing at a campaign event. “Because the video is an unaltered excerpt of the Vice President’s speech, our teams consider it to be out of context, but not deceptive,” Twitter told the complaining DNC staffer, Timothy Durigan. “These rules need revision,” Durigan — the lead analyst of the DNC’s Counter Disinformation Program, according to his LinkedIn account – fumed. In a carefully courteous response, Twitter sent Durgan what Taibbi calls a “bizarre moderation flow chart” that “showed they can still apply labels to non-deceptive material.” “If this kind of mechanized speech control can be used one way today, it can be used in another tomorrow, especially if unseen enforcement officials are pushing on the levers,” Taibbi noted.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/24/latest-batch-of-twitter-files-shows-cia-fbi-involved-in-content-moderation/
Just like not all Jews, not all Freemasons. The top is rotted. Most local Freemasons honorable.
Masonic volunteers distribute fruit baskets to the elderly for the holiday season
https://www.daily-jeff.com/story/news/local/2022/12/25/masons-provide-fruit-baskets-to-widows-and-senior-lodge-members/69746584007/
Members of the Masonic Volunteer Program from four Masonic Lodges, Flushing #298 in Flushing, Friendship #89 in Barnesville, Point Pleasant #360 in Pleasant City and Harrison #219 in Cadiz distributed fruit baskets to widows and senior Lodge members. The Masonic Volunteer Program is part of the community outreach of the Ohio Masonic Home Resource Center and coordinated by DeAnna Kinney by partnering with local Masonic Lodges and Eastern Star Chapters. This year, 96 fruit baskets were packed and distributed. The volunteers can attest to the satisfaction they feel by assembling and delivering the baskets. Many recipients expressed their gratitude for the gesture and welcomed a visit during the holiday season. It was even more meaningful this year, as so many have been forced to stay home and limit contact with others for a third year, due to COVID-19 and the flu. An important tenet of Freemasonry is that widows and orphans are to be cared for. These Masons use the holidays not only to give a gift to these widows, Eastern Star members, and senior Masons but more importantly to reassure them that they are not forgotten and are still cared for. The baskets contained fruit, candy, and other goodies. The project is funded by donations from individuals, lodges and fundraisers. The Scio Sportsman's Club also provides support every year.
Introducing the Forward 125: The American Jews who shaped our world
https://forward.com/culture/529218/forward-125-american-jews-history-headlines-ab-cahan-1897/
Meeting the ancestors: History of Ashkenazi Jews revealed - DNA from a medieval German cemetery opens a window on the history of today’s largest Jewish population
On a Sabbath Saturday in March 1349, the Jewish community of Erfurt was wiped out in a pogrom. The archbishop of Mainz, who had granted Jews the right to live and work in the medieval German city, tried the pogrom’s ringleaders, local merchants and city council members who owed money to Jewish money lenders. One was executed and the rest exiled. The city’s Christian population, meanwhile, was forced to pay restitution. Five years later, a new Jewish community took root in the narrow, winding streets. Beginning in 1354, the city funded new houses and a synagogue, drawing Jews from across Europe to Erfurt. “That must have convinced them it would never happen again,” says Karin Sczech, an archaeologist who works for the city. For 100 years, Erfurt’s Jews flourished. They bathed in a ritual bath, or mikvah, on the banks of the Gera River and buried their dead in a large cemetery just outside the city walls. Then it all came to an end, again. In 1454, the town council revoked the rights of Erfurt’s Jewish population, forcing them to leave town. The city built a granary on top of their cemetery, destroying hundreds of graves and repurposing Jewish tombstones to build its stout stone walls. On a sunny fall day, Sczech points out a 192-square-meter plot she and a team of other archaeologists excavated on the former cemetery’s grounds a decade ago. With a municipal construction project about to start on the site, their goal was to save, study, and rebury any human remains uncovered by the building work. The local Jewish community was closely involved, and “their wish was to do as little excavation as possible,” Sczech says. A meter or two under the ground, in the shadow of the 500-year-old granary, the team found the remains of more than 60 people, almost all of them oriented with their legs pointed east—toward Jerusalem. Their skeletons were well-preserved, along with traces of wooden coffins and nails. Before the remains were reburied last year at a nearby cemetery, they yielded a gift: DNA that is shedding light on the origins of the Ashkenazim, the major Jewish population that emerged in Germany in the Middle Ages and later expanded into central and Eastern Europe. Together with a smaller scale study published in September that looked at DNA from six individuals from the Middle Ages unearthed in Norwich, England, the Erfurt analysis offers clues to where the Ashkenazim came from centuries earlier, and what happened along the way. The studies also confirm other evidence that today’s Ashkenazi Jewish population, which numbers more than 10 million people spread around the world, has roots in a band of no more than a few hundred who survived a population bottleneck in Europe more than 1000 years ago. The Erfurt study, which appears today in Cell, is the first major study of a medieval Jewish population from a genetic perspective. “We just got a really nice angle from genetic resources that we didn’t have before,” says Elisheva Baumgarten, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not involved with the study. “The cumulative evidence can tell us more than history alone—that to me is the really exciting part.” Perhaps equally important, the archaeological effort was made possible by a rabbinical ruling that may establish a precedent for future studies of ancient Jewish remains that yield precious insights without violating religious sensibilities. Article cont…
https://www.science.org/content/article/meeting-ancestors-history-ashkenazi-jews-revealed-medieval-dna
California invested an enormous amount of money into getting EVs on the road, but practically nothing when it comes to dealing with the waste: 'It's totally like the Wild West.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/ev-battery-recycling-lack-policy-2022-12
-California has been a leader in electric vehicle adoption.
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But the state doesn't have a system to figure out what to do with the hundreds of thousands of battery packs that will be retiring.
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A startup company focused on repurposing and battery diagnostics is buying the state much-needed time.
Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? Turns out it’s political
ONE MORE THING about Christmas. So far, I’ve complained about Black Friday sales, checkout-counter donations, and slow delivery of online orders. Now for something positive. I’m talking about the old Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays debate. I was sure that discussion was a thing of the past but, no, a new Research Co. survey shows “Happy Holidays” is gaining ground on “Merry Christmas.” However, it hasn’t caught up to “Merry Christmas” yet so that’s the good news. But here’s what’s especially interesting about the poll — our preference between the two greetings is split along party lines.If you tend to vote Conservative, you’re likely to favor “Merry Christmas.” If you’re a Liberal or a New Democrat, chances are pretty good you’re a “Happy Holidays” kind of person. No explanation is given by the pollster, but it seems obvious. Those in the middle and left are more likely to get all concerned about being politically correct; those on the right probably figure, “To hell with it, I’ve said ‘Merry Christmas’ my entire life and I’m not gonna change now!” For once, I’m with the Conservatives. You wouldn’t expect Pierre Poilievre to wish someone “Happy Holidays!” Nope, he strikes me as a “Merry Christmas” guy. And Justin Trudeau — surely, he’s strictly “Happy Holidays” all the way. But, wait, Trudeau doesn’t take any chances. In his annual message to Canadians, he always wishes us “Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.” And Poilievre? In Parliament the other day, he did exactly the same thing. As for Jagmeet Singh, nobody’s sure because they’re too busy laughing at his suggestion in the House last week that he could some day be prime minister. Christmas is no place for politics, anyway, and there are more important things to worry about than how we greet each other. Such as, the fact the poll shows that 55 per cent of Canadians enjoy fruit cake, and most like Brussels sprouts.
I’m the Armchair Mayor, wishing Merry Christmas to all. Mel Rothenburger is a former mayor of Kamloops and a retired newspaper editor. He is a regular contributor to CFJC Today, publishes the ArmchairMayor.ca opinion website.
https://cfjctoday.com/2022/12/22/rothenburger-merry-christmas-or-happy-holidays-turns-out-its-political/
Precipice. I'm thinking that's when people will see the side of the cliff.
Basically America will be saved when a vast majority are red pilled anons.
What is real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5b0ZxUWNf0
17,000,000 Jews
minus
500,000 fake bloodthirsty Khazarian Luciferian imposters
equals
16,500,000 Ashkenazi Jews that love God and keep the Sabbath
Anons won't make the 'religion' us vs them con.
Anons will target the correct individuals that use the Jews as a human shield.
kek. Have a nightshift on me anon. Amazing recovery!
>https://www.history.com/news/al-capone-great-depression-soup-kitchen
On Thanksgiving in 1930, Capone’s soup kitchen served holiday helpings to 5,000 Chicagoans. Reportedly, Capone had planned a traditional Thanksgiving meal for the jobless until he had heard of a local heist of 1,000 turkeys. Although “Scarface” had not been responsible for the theft, he feared he would be blamed for the caper and made a last-minute menu change from turkey and cranberry sauce to beef stew.
Re: Discussion
Sometimes knowing who is NOT your enemy helps you to better target who IS your enemy.