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Anonymous ID: 1c6808 Jan. 12, 2025, 7:45 p.m. No.22344466   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4593 >>4782 >>4989 >>5021 >>5045

Has Karen Bass become LA's most hated woman? Tears turn to anger as mayor is blasted by her own fire chief for $17m funding cut

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14273495/la-fires-mayor-failed-fire-chief-blasts-karren-bass-funding-cut.html

Anonymous ID: 1c6808 Jan. 12, 2025, 7:54 p.m. No.22344508   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4593 >>4782

Taiwan Coast Guard says ship that allegedly cut cable crewed by Chinese

 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Coast Guard Administration on Tuesday said that the crew of a freighter suspected of cutting a subsea cable was Chinese and the vessel was registered with two names in two countries.

 

The CGA's Ocean Affairs Council said it convened an inter-agency coordination meeting to strengthen monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for undersea cables. The CGA said that at 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 3, it received a report from Chunghwa Telecom that damage had occurred to an undersea international cable northeast of Yehliu.

 

The Coast Guard dispatched the patrol boat PP-10069 and intercepted the Cameroonian-flagged freighter, “Shun Xing 39,” which had passed through the affected area 12.96 km (7 nm) north of Yehliu. The ship was instructed to return to waters off the Port of Keelung for investigation.

 

After the Coast Guard vessel completed broadcasting, photographing, and video-recording procedures on the ship off the coast of Keelung, officers could not board due to rough seas. Considering the ship had been away for nine hours, the CGA did not deem the incident a flagrant violation, and the ship was not detained.

 

Subsequently, Taiwan sought assistance from the ship’s destination port in South Korea (Busan) for evidence collection. The case has been forwarded to the District Prosecutors Office, along with radar and navigational evidence, for further investigation and to pursue the criminal and civil liability of the ship.

 

The CGA found that the ship is registered as both the Shun Xing 39 under the Cameroon flag and the “Xing Shun 39” under the Tanzania flag and uses two different AIS systems for vessel tracking. It said all seven crew members are Chinese nationals and the shipowner is based in Hong Kong.

 

Referring to last year’s incidents of damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, the CGA said, "It is still impossible to confirm the ship's true intentions based on its historical track." However, the Coast Guard said it cannot rule out the possibility that it is a Chinese-operated proxy ship potentially involved in gray zone activities.

 

Given the importance of undersea cables to Taiwan’s security and global communication, the Ocean Affairs Council invited government agencies to convene a meeting. The meeting will comprehensively review and refine procedures for handling such cases involving vessels to protect undersea cables.

 

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6009265

Anonymous ID: 1c6808 Jan. 12, 2025, 8 p.m. No.22344532   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4593 >>4782

Victory for women, girls: Federal court rejects Biden admin redefinition of 'sex' in Title IX across country

 

COVINGTON, Ky. – A federal district court in Kentucky issued a decision Thursday in State of Tennessee v. Cardona that blocks the Biden administration’s unlawful attempt to change the meaning of “sex” in Title IX—a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics—to include “gender identity.” Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent a West Virginia high-school female athlete and Christian Educators Association International in the lawsuit alongside the state of Tennessee. The district court ruling applies nationwide and to every part of the Biden Title IX rule, meaning the rule is completely invalidated, and the U.S. Department of Education is unable to enforce it—anywhere.

 

“This is a colossal win for women and girls across the country,” said ADF CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner. “The Biden administration’s radical attempt to redefine sex not only tossed fairness, safety, and privacy for female students out the window, it also threatened free speech and parental rights. With this ruling, the federal court in Kentucky rejected the entire Biden rule and the administration’s illegal actions. We are thankful for the leadership of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and other state attorneys general who challenged this blatant overreach alongside our courageous clients. This ruling provides enormous relief for students across the country, including our client who has already suffered harassment by a male student in the locker room and on her sports team. The U.S. Supreme Court can further protect girls like our client by granting cases brought by the ACLU against West Virginia and Idaho laws that protect women’s sports.”

 

On April 29, the Biden administration announced it would redefine “sex” in Title IX rules to include “gender identity,” requiring schools to disregard longstanding sex-based protections that respect the biological differences between men and women. ADF attorneys joined several states, women’s groups, athletic associations, and school boards in achieving five injunctions that halt enforcement of the rule change in some jurisdictions as the lawsuits proceed. The district court ruling halts the Biden rule nationwide. Along with ADF, the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, and West Virginia sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, which ruled the Biden administration rule change exceeded authority and was “arbitrary and capricious agency action.”

 

“[W]hen Title IX is viewed in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female,” the court wrote in its opinion. “As this Court and others have explained, expanding the meaning of ‘on the basis of sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ turns Title IX on its head.”

 

“Title IX,” the court continued, allows “males and females to be separated based on the enduring physical differences between the sexes.”

 

The athlete client that ADF represents is a 15-year-old girl in West Virginia who was forced to compete against a male athlete on her middle school track-and-field team. The male displaced her several times, even taking away her spot to compete in a conference championship. The male athlete was also given access to the girls’ locker room, and the ADF client had to endure vulgar, sexual comments that the athlete directed at her. The male athlete finished ahead of nearly 300 female competitors in three years of competition on the girls’ team. That same male athlete is the plaintiff in the West Virginia case, now pending at the Supreme Court, that resulted in a ruling undermining West Virginia’s law protecting women’s sports.

 

https://adfmedia.org/press-release/victory-women-girls-federal-court-rejects-biden-admin-redefinition-sex-title-ix

Anonymous ID: 1c6808 Jan. 12, 2025, 8:01 p.m. No.22344540   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4593 >>4782

Last fiscal year, the Los Angeles city budget included more for the homeless ($1.3 billion) than for the Fire Department ($817 million).

 

This is what happens when you vote for Democrats.

 

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1877384748265333224