‘I know you’: Biden aims to connect
with police through personal tragedy
Posted By: Ribicon, 10/17/2021 1:15:47 PM
President Biden paid his respects to the families of fallen police officers Saturday, invoking his personal experience of losing two children. Mr. Biden made his remarks in front of the U.S. Capitol at the 40th annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, which honored 491 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The president zeroed in on his personal tragedies of dealing with the death of his infant daughter, Naomi, in 1972 and his oldest son, Beau, in 2015 who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. “No parent should have to bury their child,” Mr. Biden said.(Snip)“Being a cop today is one hell of
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Edmonds, Wash.—Approximately 200 employees of Washington State Ferries (WSF) remain unvaccinated Monday, the deadline for state workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs. "I'm fired," said ferry deck crew member Christopher Anderson. "It's really too bad. I wish they'd have a change of heart." Chief engineer Craig Henriksen has notched 23 years with the state ferry system. It's a career he planned to retire from but instead it's being cut short. "It's surreal," he said. "I feel like I'm in shock." Henriksen has a wife and five children. He was granted a religious exemption for the mandate, but he said the ferry system refused
She starred opposite Peter Capaldi as the Doctor's first openly gay companion in the tenth season. And Pearl Mackie revealed that now the sci-fi show has had its first female Doctor with Jodie Whittaker, it is time for the time traveller to be a non-binary actor. The actor, 34, said there is 'so much room for change' as the Doctor's regenerations 'allow the show to move with the times'. Pearl—who came out as bisexual last year—added she would also like to see 'both a female and non-white' actor playing the Doctor. Jo Martin recently became the first Black actor to play the Doctor,
The spectres of compulsory face masks, vaccine passports and working from home were raised yesterday as increased Covid hospital cases sparked a Downing Street warning. Officials said Britons should prepare for a 'challenging few months' after 49,156 infections were recorded yesterday–the highest figure in three months. Experts are concerned the booster programme was moving too slowly and Sage members yesterday warned 'other measures' may be needed to relieve pressure on the NHS. Last night Boris Johnson's spokesman said there were 'currently' no plans to reintroduce restrictions but that they were keeping 'a very close watch on the latest statistics'. Britain led the world in the initial vaccine rollout, but
Philadelphia—A man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening, authorities said. The police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at a news conference Monday that more than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman. Police do not believe a single witness on the train dialed 911. They are investigating whether some bystanders filmed the assault. Officers responded within about three minutes of a 911 call from a transportation authority employee
Five people killed in Norway last week were all stabbed to death and not shot with arrows as initially suspected, police have announced.
Four women and one man, aged between 52 and 78, were killed on Wednesday in the attack in Kongsberg, a town about 45 miles (70km) west of the capital, Oslo. The attacker was armed with a bow and arrow, which he shot at several people, wounding at least one, but on Monday the police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told reporters none of the deaths was caused by the weapon.(Snip)“Some were killed inside their own homes, others out in public,” Omholt said. Three other people were injured
For decades Phil Collins has been accumulating a huge collection of memorabilia from the legendary siege of the Alamo. Now the 70-year-old Genesis frontman's hoard of weapons, clothing, letters and other artefacts are at the centre of another battle—a very modern one about race. Critics argue the collection helps perpetuate a narrative that focuses only on the battle's white leaders and ignores Latinos, Native Americans and black figures.(Snip)In 2014, Collins gave the 430-piece collection–worth up to £10million–to Texas. His only proviso was that, by 2021, the state create a museum at the Alamo–a 300-year-old fortified mission in San Antonio
Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter. Last week, The Post saw two planes land at the Westchester County Airport, where most of the passengers who got off appeared to be children and teens, with a small portion appearing to be men in their 20s. Westchester County cops stood by as the passengers—whose flights arrived
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The US economy is careening into another recession, two noted economists warn, as worries about the labor market and the coronavirus have worsened dramatically over the past two months.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1million and $5million worth of stock options that he owned just before the stock market tanked last year because the government failed to pass a stimulus measure, it has been reported. Powell’s stock sale was reported just weeks after two top officials with the central bank resigned and a third came under fire for making multi-million dollar stock trades during the COVID-19 pandemic.(Snip)Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren announced their retirements last month as they faced a backlash for cashing out while having knowledge of the central bank’s plans to bolster financial markets
New York—A statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from the New York City Council’s chambers at City Hall, a commission voted on Monday. During an hours-long hearing, the New York City Public Design Commission acknowledged the statue needs to be removed before the end of the year, however, a new location has yet to be determined.(Snip)The City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian caucus has long objected to its presence because Jefferson wasn’t just a U.S. president or a founding father, he was also a lifelong slave owner. Assemblymember Charles Barron and his wife, City Councilmember Inez Barron, led the fight to remove the statue.
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Breaking: Colin Powell Has Died
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Colin Powell, 84, died from complications due to Covid-19, his family said Monday.
"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.
“He was fully vaccinated,” they added. “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell was a distinguished and trailblazing professional soldier whose career took him from combat duty in Vietnam
The TSA should use its canine teams to keep airport security lines moving if there is a worker shortage amid the federal COVID-19 vaccination mandate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.President Biden’s vaccination order for federal workers takes effect three days before Thanksgiving — the busiest time of the year for air travel.“If TSA lags in jabs, send in the dogs,” Schumer said during a press conference in Manhattan, citing recent revelations from the TSA that 40 percent of its employees remain unvaccinated.
A student at an $80,000-a-year ultra-liberal Oberlin College in Ohio claimed in an op-ed that he was left ‘angry, scared, and confused’ because ‘cisgender men’ installed a radiator in his ‘safe space’ dormitory.Peter Fray-Witzer, a student enrolled at Oberlin College, posted an article in Friday's edition of The Oberlin Review in which he takes school administrators to task for giving him short notice about the installation.Fray-Witzer writes that he asked a campus official if he could be exempt from having a radiator installed in his room
Colin Powell, the first black Secretary of State who formulated foreign policy under several presidents, died Monday morning at the age of 84 of complications from COVID. The Pentagon powerhouse who served as a soldier in Vietnam and went on to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was fully vaccinated and battling blood cancer and Parkinson's when he passed away at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland, according to his family. Retired Four-Star General Powell, who was also suffering from Parkinson's, is survived by his wife of 59 years,
Chicago is restricting cops from taking time off as the city prepares to ax up to half of its 13,000 officers who are yet to declare their Covid-19 vaccination status. In a memo issued by the city's police department a day after officers were required to disclose their vaccine status, officers were informed elective time off will be restricted, according to WLS.(Snip)City employees in Chicago were required to report their vaccination status by the end of Friday, with those who are not vaccinated to be subject to two tests per week. A second memo issued on Sunday, also obtained by the news network, threatened to fire officers
Forget Freedom Of Speech – Canadian
Government Bans Employees From Saying
“Let’s Go Brandon”(Photo) 26 replies
Government Bans Employees From Saying
“Let’s Go Brandon”(Photo) 26 replies
An anti-President Biden rap song inspired by the viral “Let’s go Brandon!” trend is now sitting at the top of the iTunes hip-hop chart.
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Walgreens announced Tuesday it would be closing five of its San Francisco locations due to "organized retail crime," but police department data, local officials, and policy experts are casting doubt on that reasoning, according to a report published by the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday. While the report said the chain has experienced retail theft, other factors like the COVID-19 pandemic and oversaturation of stores were cited as potential factors behind the decision to close the stores. Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said retail theft across its San Francisco locations has increased in the past few months to five times the
Buttigieg: The Weak Link In The Supply Chain
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When asked on CNBC why the administration waited so long to take action, Buttigieg responded that “we’ve been working this issue from day one”.
Well, not exactly.
As Politico reported, Buttigieg was “mostly offline” starting in mid-August, and only went on a media blitz after Politico disclosed the fact that he’d been on an unannounced leave.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo is reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be planning to step down.
During a segment on “Sunday Morning Features,” Bartiromo said that sources had told her that Pelosi is stepping down after Democrats pass Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
“First, this morning is exclusive, sources tell Sunday Morning Futures there is speculation swirling in Washington that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may step down after getting the massive spending package through,” she said.
“So all those Democrat members who had their arms twisted to vote on the multitrillion-dollar package and put their own reelection in jeopardy may be fuming
California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters is in hot water after it was revealed that she paid her daughter more than $80,000 in campaign funds during the last fiscal year, which ended on September 30.According to financial disclosure records reviewed by DailyMail.com, the House Financial Services Committee chairwoman paid her daughter, Karen Waters, $81,650 in campaign funds.The total was paid in 12 installments from October 23, 2020 through June 17, 2021.More than $212,600 in payments were broken down into 26 entries, such as 'slate mailer management' fees, and 'GOTV' - the acronym for a campaign's 'get out the vote' efforts.
Here Are All The Green New Deal Handouts
Democrats Wedged Into Their $3.5 Trillion Budget 19 replies
Democrats Wedged Into Their $3.5 Trillion Budget 19 replies
Democrats have inserted numerous provisions and subsidy programs into their $3.5 trillion budget that would benefit green energy companies and speed the transition to renewables.The Build Back Better Act would invest an estimated $295 billion of taxpayer money into a variety of clean energy programs in what would amount to the most sweeping climate effort passed by Congress, according to a House Committee on Energy and Commerce report. That price tag doesn’t factor in the other costly measures approved by the House Ways and Means, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Oversight and Transportation committees last month.“This bill is crammed with green welfare subsidies, specifically for corporations and the wealthy,”
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A man who never worked an honest day in his life, and who is part of a cabal that demonizes the police and the USA generally, says, "I feel your pain."