Prob to kidnap people.
LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson is going viral for this clip
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1878996193977762173
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
FUN FACT
In 2014 California voters passed Prop 1 which directed billions of dollars for infrastructure to build water storage and reservoirs.
Over 10 years later and not a single reservoir has been completed yet.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877416024506552585
India’s fencing along border ‘unauthorised’
Dhaka has told New Delhi that the construction of barbed wire fences by the Indian Border Security Force along the Bangladesh-India border "without proper authorisation" undermines the spirit of cooperation and friendly relations between the two nations.
Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin has made this communication to Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma, who was summoned to the foreign ministry yesterday amid tensions touched off by the recent BSF activities along the border.
"Such activities, particularly the unauthorised attempts to construct barbed wire fencing and the related operational actions by BSF, have caused tensions and disturbances along the border," Jashim Uddin said in a media statement yesterday.
Also, Dhaka will push for the cancellation of any "unequal agreements" related to Bangladesh-India borders at a director general-level meeting of the border forces of the two countries scheduled for February.
Speaking at a press conference at the Secretariat yesterday, Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retired) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that due to the BSF's recent fencing activities, tensions arose in five border areas, including Chapainawabganj, Naogaon, Lalmonirhat, and the Tin Bigha Corridor.
"Thanks to the strong position of the BGB and locals, India has been forced to halt its activities. I extend my gratitude to them for their role in this matter."
He added that various issues have risen along the border due to some "unequal agreements" signed during the previous government's tenure.
Jahangir Alam said four border-related Memorandums of Understanding have been signed between the two countries since Bangladesh's independence.
Asked at a separate press briefing in the foreign service academy, Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said those four agreements are the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement for the disposal of enclaves and disputed lands; the Joint Indo-Bangladesh Guidelines for Border Authorities 1975; the Land Boundary Agreement Protocol 2011; and the Coordinated Border Management Plan 2011.
The home adviser said that, of those agreements, the 1975 MoU specifies that no defence development activities can take place within 150 yards of the zero line.
"Another MoU states that any development activities cannot occur within the 150 yards of the zero line without mutual consent. Any such work will require prior agreement between the two nations."
He said India has already fenced 3,271km of the 4,156km-long border with Bangladesh, leaving approximately 885km unfenced.
Jahangir Alam accused the previous Awami League government, which was in power between 2009 and 2024, of granting India unequal opportunities through MoUs, which have now led to the disputes over barbed wire fencing at 160 locations.
He stressed that these challenges stemmed from written permissions granted by the previous government. "These permissions should not have been issued."
He also said, "A major problem arises from the written assurances that allowed India to carry out certain activities. One of the significant issues pertains to the Tin Bigha Corridor."
Under the 1974 agreement, he said, Bangladesh handed over Berubari to India after parliamentary ratification. In return, India was supposed to provide Bangladesh with access to the Tin Bigha Corridor, but it failed to fulfil this commitment.
"They would open the corridor for an hour and then close it for another hour. Later, in 2010, a new agreement was signed to keep the corridor open for 24 hours. However, this [2010] agreement also allowed India to construct a border fence on the zero line at Angarpota.
"Now we face challenges in opposing this construction as Bangladesh signed this agreement."
At the meeting with Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma, Foreign Secretary Jashim Uddin expressed serious concerns over BSF's recent activities along the border.
He called upon the Indian government to advise all authorities concerned there to refrain from any provocative activities that could stoke tensions along the shared border.
He hoped the matter would be discussed at length in the upcoming BGB-BSF DG-level talks.
After the meeting, Pranay Verma told journalists they discussed New Delhi's commitment to ensuring a crime-free border, effectively addressing the challenges of smuggling, movements of criminals and trafficking.
"We have an understanding with regard to fencing the border for security, the two border forces BSF and BGB have been in communication.
"We expect that the understanding will be implemented and there would be a cooperative approach to combatting crimes along the border."
At the meeting, Jashim Uddin also referred to the recent killing of a Bangladesh citizen by BSF in Sunamganj and expressed concern and disappointment over such persistent border killings despite repeated commitments from the Indian authorities to pursue a non-lethal strategy to stop killings.
He strongly called for urgent action by India to stop recurrence of such incidents; conduct enquiries into all the border killings; and take action against those responsible.
Jashim Uddin added that Bangladesh believes such issues should be resolved through constructive dialogues, in accordance with existing bilateral agreements, and in a way that upholds peace and tranquility along the border.
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/indias-fencing-along-border-unauthorised-3797831
China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option
(Bloomberg) – Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according to people familiar with the matter.
Beijing officials strongly prefer that TikTok remains under the ownership of parent ByteDance Ltd., the people say, and the company is contesting the impending ban with an appeal to the US Supreme Court. But the justices signaled during arguments on Jan. 10 that they are likely to uphold the law. Senior Chinese officials had already begun to debate contingency plans for TikTok as part of an expansive discussion on how to work with Donald Trump’s administration, one of which involves Musk, said the people, asking not to be identified revealing confidential discussions.
A potential high-profile deal with one of Trump’s closest allies holds some appeal for the Chinese government, which is expected to have some say over whether TikTok is ultimately sold, said the people. Musk spent more than $250 million supporting Trump’s re-election, and has been tapped for a prominent role in improving government efficiency after the Republican takes office.
Under one scenario that’s been discussed by the Chinese government, Musk’s X — the former Twitter — would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together, the people said. With more than 170 million users in the US, TikTok could bolster X’s efforts to attract advertisers. Musk also founded a separate artificial intelligence company, xAI, that could benefit from the huge amounts of data generated from TikTok.
Chinese officials have yet to reach any firm consensus about how to proceed and their deliberations are still preliminary, the people said. It’s not clear how much ByteDance knows about the Chinese government discussions or whether TikTok and Musk have been involved. It’s also unclear whether Musk, TikTok and ByteDance have held any talks about the terms of any possible deal.
Musk and his representatives did not respond to a request for comment. Musk posted in April that he thinks TikTok should remain available in the US. “In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform,” he wrote on X. “Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for.”
ByteDance and TikTok representatives didn’t respond to messages seeking comment. The Cyberspace Administration of China and China’s Ministry of Commerce, government agencies that could be involved in decisions about TikTok’s future, also didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The talks in Beijing suggest that TikTok’s fate may no longer be in ByteDance’s sole control, said the people. Chinese officials recognize they will face tough negotiations with the Trump administration over tariffs, export controls and other issues, and they see the TikTok negotiations as a potential area for reconciliation, they said.
The Chinese government holds a so-called golden share in a ByteDance affiliate that gives it influence over the company’s strategy and operations. TikTok maintains that the control only applies to the China-based subsidiary Douyin Information Service Co., and has no bearing on ByteDance operations outside China. Still, Beijing’s export rules prevent Chinese companies from selling their software algorithms, like the one integral to TikTok. Because the Chinese government would have to approve of a sale that includes TikTok’s valuable recommendation engine, it has a significant voice in any possible deal.
TikTok’s US operations could be valued at around $40 billion to $50 billion, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Damian Reimertz estimated last year. That’s a substantial sum even for the world’s richest person. It’s not clear how Musk could pull off such a transaction, whether it would require the sale of other holdings, or whether the US government would approve. He paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022, and is still paying off sizable loans.
Musk has a positive reputation among many ByteDance employees in China, according to a person familiar with the matter. He is seen as a very successful entrepreneur, who has experience engaging with the Chinese government through his Tesla Inc. business, the person added.
ByteDance’s leaders have repeatedly said their priority is to fight US legislation that requires the Beijing-based company sell or shut down the US operations because of national security concerns. TikTok’s lawyers have argued the legislation violates free speech laws under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
A majority of the Supreme Court justices suggested the security concerns take priority over free speech, although they have yet to issue a formal decision. President-elect Trump, who takes office Jan. 20, has sought to delay the TikTok ban — which takes effect Jan. 19 — so he can work on the negotiations. He has said he wants to “save” the app and there’s been speculation he could take last-minute action to sidestep the ban.
On a practical level, spinning off TikTok’s US business would be highly complex, affecting shareholders in China as well as the US. Lawyers for TikTok argued before the Supreme Court that separating the US portions of the product would be “extraordinarily difficult.”
It’s unclear if US TikTok would be sold off in a competitive process, or if a sale would be arranged by the government. Billionaire Frank McCourt and “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary are part of a bid through Project Liberty to acquire TikTok, which O’Leary has said he discussed with Trump. In the past, Microsoft Corp. had sought to acquire the business, and Oracle Corp. has a deep technology partnership with the company.
One alternative for TikTok would be to move its existing US customers over to a similar app — with different branding — to potentially sidestep the ban, one of the people said. It’s not clear how effective such a move would be.
One person close to the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the strategy, said before the Supreme Court hearing that the legal battle is still the focus of top executives and they would prefer to keep fighting in the US rather than sell TikTok US and cede control for good.
Musk is in a position to influence the China-US relationship as the world’s richest person with businesses that straddle the world’s two largest economies. Tesla, where Musk is chief executive officer, erected a sprawling factory in Shanghai in 2019 and has since expanded the facility into the company’s largest production base. The effort helped Tesla expand its market share in China despite tough local competition, and build goodwill with government officials.
While Trump is staffing his incoming administration with China hawks like Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, Musk has spoken out against some recent China trade policies, including the Biden administration’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/titan-cement-us-unit-files-224517877.html
The Washington Post’s traffic tanks
Washington Post subscribers quit the paper en masse following owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to withhold its endorsement of outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris. But the Post’s audience problems extend beyond angry former subscribers.
Over the last four years, web traffic has cratered. According to internal data shared with Semafor in recent weeks, the Post’s regular daily traffic last year sunk to less than a quarter of what it was at its peak in January 2021. That month, the Post briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily active users following the attack. But by the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered around 2.5-3 million daily users.
Last year, Washington City Paper noted that the Post had stopped publicly disclosing its traffic numbers in press releases, after a 60% decline in monthly traffic. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Post’s revenue fell from $190 million in 2023 to $174 million last year.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/12/2025/the-washington-posts-traffic-tanks
Illegal Alien charged with kidnapping and rape of 13 year old girl in Florida
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1878802911289028626
Another terrible Biden legacy — releasing more Gitmo prisoners who will terrorize the world
https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/opinion/another-terrible-biden-legacy-releasing-more-gitmo-prisoners-who-will-terrorize-world/
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls a special session to enforce Trump’s deportation policies statewide
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1878826147318026689
Newsom Suspends State Environmental Rules for Rebuilding After Fires
California is one of America’s most difficult and costly places to build — a driving factor behind the state’s longstanding affordable housing shortage.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a broad executive order that aims to make it easier to rebuild after the fires by suspending California’s costly and time-consuming environmental review process for homeowners and businesses whose property was damaged or destroyed.
The order is likely to be the first of several permit streamlining measures issued by state, county and city agencies in the wake of the devastating fires across greater Los Angeles.
Mr. Newsom's three-page order, signed Sunday, covers all of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and directs state agencies to coordinate with local governments to remove or expedite permitting and approval processes during rebuilding. The most significant piece is a waiver on permitting requirements under the California Environmental Quality Act — a landmark environmental law known colloquially as C.E.Q.A. or “See Qua.”
The governor also announced that he had suspended all permitting requirements under the California State Coastal Act for properties rebuilding after the fires.
California is one of America’s most difficult and costly places to build — a driving factor behind the state’s longstanding affordable housing shortage. Between state agencies and local land use commissions, the process of developing buildings, from office complexes to subsidized rental complexes, is longer and more expensive than in almost every other state.
Of all the hurdles a project can be subjected to, few are more difficult and time-consuming than C.E.Q.A. The law often requires developers to fund in-depth environmental studies on a project’s potential impact on everything from local wildlife to noise, views and traffic. Groups who oppose a particular development often use C.E.Q.A. lawsuits to try to stop them. This can add years even to small projects.
While the state’s powerful environmental groups are fiercely protective of any attempts to amend C.E.Q.A. or the Coastal Act, the laws are routinely suspended in emergencies and for large projects such as sports stadiums.
Still, Mr. Newsom’s order was unusually extensive. For instance, after other disasters C.E.Q.A. suspensions have typically required rebuilding property owners to show they tried to comply with the law, even if they weren’t subjected to it. The order announced Sunday is a full waiver: For anyone rebuilding after the fires, C.E.Q.A. is effectively gone.
https://archive.is/ATJAH#selection-4643.0-4679.353
Gavin Newsom on meet the press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekEMq5dVZb0
AfD endorses controversial ‘remigration’ as German election race tightens
The co-leader of Germany’s AfD has endorsed the policy of “remigration”, pledging to carry out mass deportations of immigrants if it enters government next month.
Announcing her party’s election manifesto, Alice Weidel said Germany would witness “repatriations on a large scale” and a “total closing of Germany’s borders” in the party’s first 100 days in power if elected.
The AfD’s candidate for chancellor used the controversial term “remigration” to describe the policy during a speech to supporters in Riesa, a small town in eastern Germany that has seen a series of anti-AfD protests in recent days.
The phrase refers to the return of migrants to their place of origin – regardless of their citizenship status.
“If this must be called ‘remigration’, then let it be called ‘remigration’,” she said as the crowd cheered in response, while protesters jeered outside the town hall.
“Remigration” has been a controversial and much-debated term in German politics over the past year, with critics saying the policy is akin to ethnic cleansing.
Last week, investigative journalists published allegations of a secret meeting near Potsdam involving far-Right groups, including senior AfD figures, to discuss the “remigration” of millions of people – including “non-assimilated” people with German citizenship.
The commitment to “remigration” has put the AfD at odds even with other European far-Right groups, including France’s National Rally, headed by Marine Le Pen, which expelled AfD from its European Parliament group in May.
However, the AfD – which has been labelled a suspected extremist group by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency – has been climbing in the polls ahead of the vote, which Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to lose, on Feb 23.
Recent polls show the party in second place, with an average of 20 per cent. One poll showed only an eight-point difference between the AfD and the front-running centre-Right Christian Democrats (CDU) on just over 30 per cent.
However, a long-standing arrangement among Germany’s other parties against working with the AfD means it is unlikely to enter government.
That realistically leaves the CDU to work with one of the country’s two main Left-wing parties to form a government, at a time when many Germans want a tougher line on immigration and asylum.
The two parties are Mr Scholz’s Social Democrats and the Greens, which are fighting it out for third place. Polls put support for the parties at 15 and 14 per cent respectively.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/afd-endorses-controversial-remigration-german-170000031.html
Noice Qdelta alignment.
Don't forget to charge the other battery in a Tesla in case the other battery fucks up the working of the other other battery.