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Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing
By: Bob Nelson • Travel, Geography and Foreign Cultures • 3 Comments • 6 minutes ago
“When you're done donating your tax dollars to subsidize the lifestyles of self-identified ruralites, consider making a charitable contribution that...”
Mirror, mirror, on the wall....
Child Identity Theft Is a Huge Problem. The Solutions Are Simple.
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • an hour ago
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS just need to do their jobs.”
Now the criminals are preying on children. Identity fraud, mostly by foreigners, really is threatening the foundation of our credit dependent economy.
Criminals selling fake identity documents to migrants in Colorado desperate to find work, CBS News Colorado Investigation finds - CBS Colorado
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • an hour ago
“Criminals are printing and selling fake identification documents - like social security and permanent resident cards - to migrants who are...”
The documents may be fake but the identity may be real. Even selecting random numbers for a fake Social Security card will likely steal someone's real identity. What happens when an illegal immigrant commits tax fraud using a stolen Social Security number? Or defaults on a loan? Or commits a...
Trump Walks Back Vow to Bring Grocery Prices Down in Time Interview
Via: Devangelical • The Reality Show • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 hours ago
“Donald Trump didn't seem so sure that he could bring grocery prices down in an interview with Time for his "Man of the Year" cover story.”
POS/POTUS elect can probably count the number of times he's been in grocery store on one hand ...
Biden admin quietly clears away border wall parts for auction before Trump takes office
Via: Jeremy in NC • Today's America • 39 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 hours ago
“The Biden administration is reportedly spending their final weeks quietly clearing away unused border wall materials at the southern border to put...”
How the Ford government in Ontario plans to escalate trade war with the U.S.
Via: Buzz of the Orient • Confucius • 20 Comments • 2 Likes • 43 minutes ago
BUZZ NOTE: There are two videos in this article, at least one of which will be a news broadcast concerning this topic, that I'm unable to open, but can be accessed by you by clicking on the "SEEDED CONTENT" link just below this message, which will open the source article on Canada's Global News.
Immigrants
By: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 60 Comments • 4 Likes • 17 minutes ago
“What do they contribute to the nation? What harm do they do to the nation?”
A few days ago, I was very upset with NewsTalkers. The Powers That Be had just trashed a couple of my seeds themselves, and then stood by impassively while the Usual Suspects trashed another. I was not happy, and decided that from the on I would post but not seed. That resolution lasted as...
NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 23 hours ago
“"It is time to shift to a wartime mindset," Mark Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels.”
NATO has pushed up against Russia's borders. So, where is NATO going to expand now? Here in the US, we understand that NATO has been a gravy train for Europe. The US taxpayer has provided the money for almost everything. The US provided the military and nuclear umbrella to cover Europe's...
The Army is too top-heavy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 3 Comments • 3 Likes • 23 hours ago
“Surplus generals, swollen staffs, and excess headquarters drain headcount and resources from warfighting units.”
Modern military planning expends a lot of time covering it's brass. The amount of deadwood has proliferated across all uniformed branches of service except, possibly, the Coast Guard.
These 10 Items Got Hit the Hardest by Inflation in 2024
Via: Robert in Ohio • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 1 Like • 4 hours ago
““We think the Fed will deliver a cut at next week’s December meeting, with market expectations giving them ‘permission’ to do so,” Elyse...”
We heard a lot about inflation in the campaigning leading to the election of President Trump - pro and con. Experts seem to think that while things have improved in some areas that other critical expense to the American people were hit hard by inflation in 2024 and the end is not clearly in...
IG finds Justice Department spied on Patel and other congressional staffer without telling courts
Via: Jeremy in NC • Today's America • 14 Comments • 4 Likes • yesterday
“As a result of the probe, the department obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staff members, including President-elect Donald...”
Dealing corpses from a Las Vegas strip mall: A look inside the shadowy U.S. body trade
Via: Perrie Halpern • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 4 Likes • yesterday
“Obteen Nassiri lost his chiropractor license and started dealing bodies. His company, Med Ed Labs, faced scandals, including complaints that he...”
Schumer torpedoed by Manchin and Sinema on crucial NLRB vote
Via: Robert in Ohio • News & Politics • 32 Comments • 1 Like • 20 hours ago
“"Her confirmation would give a lame-duck president control of an independent board well into his successor's term," McConnell added.”
Sen Schumer tried to sneak on in at the last minute but failed to deliver. Looks like the NLRB will have a Trump appointee and a Republican majority beginning in 2025
The brewing battle over water fluoridation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 2 days ago
“The HHS makes recommendations about fluoride, but that's all”
A local story (Austin, TX) that will become national as RFK Jr. appointment the head HHS nears. Yes, fluoridating water has been the practice since 1945. But in 1945 other products weren't being adulterated with fluoride compounds and there weren't concerns with PFAS contamination from...
Tom Homan takes to conservative media to outline Trump's plan for mass deportations
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 5 Likes • 21 hours ago
“The incoming "border czar" has gone on conservative outlets to pitch Trump's mass deportation plan — and to explain how it might work.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to serve in top jobs in his next administration have generally stayed off the airwaves to avoid any verbal slipups that might jeopardize their chances at getting confirmed by the Senate. Not so with Tom Homan. Homan, who was the acting director of...
Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 days ago
“In 10 years, we’re going to be talking about new fields of science, new classes of objects, new types of discoveries that I can’t even tell you...”
A literal shot in the dark.
Kimberly Guilfoyle chosen by Trump to be the US ambassador to Greece | Salon.com
Via: Devangelical • The Reality Show • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 days ago
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... new term, new relationship for junior. I wonder if her door keys to jr's florida mansion still work ...
Trump mocks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the 'governor' of the 'Great State of Canada'
Via: Trout Giggles • SiNNERs and ButtHeads • 20 Comments • 7 Likes • 19 hours ago
“President-elect Donald Trump mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the "governor" of the "Great State of Canada" after recently joking about the...”
Governor? Great State of Canada?
Small-business owners say their federal Covid loans were wrongly sent to collections
Via: Perrie Halpern • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 2 days ago
“Small-business owners say their Covid disaster loans were wrongly deemed delinquent or in default as a result of errors by the Small Business...”
"Wild idea:" Could zeppelins really be used to air-ship huge wind turbine parts?
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 3 days ago
“Zeppelins could have an advantage over road transport for wind and solar projects. It's an intriguing vision, but it comes with some big unanswered...”
Gotta love enviro-geeks. When it's pointed out that wind farms tend to be windy, the problem is simply dismissed with future tech miracles. Notice the deflection about aerodynamics of wind turbine blades? Apparently the developers haven't heard of packaging. You know, just wrapping a tarp...
Opinion: Photographers, it's time to boycott Adobe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 1 Like • 3 days ago
“The company's AI push shows its naked contempt for the photographers who made it what it is. They won't stop, so we must stop enabling them.”
Has everyone noticed a shift in the language praising the advent of artificial intelligence? Not long ago artificial intelligence was being touted as a tool available to scientists, engineers, and experts to expand human knowledge and usher in a new future. But now the big tech companies have...
More Data Needed to Understand Contrails, their Climate Effect & Develop Mitigation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 days ago
“IATA called for urgent action to deepen the understanding on the formation and climate impact of aviation contrails to develop effective mitigation...”
For those who have derided, ridiculed, mocked, and otherwise poked fun at the grassroots 'chemtrails' warnings from the common folks in flyover country. This is their 'we told ya so' moment. Now sweep aviation under the rug again and tell us how gas kitchen ranges are the culprits for climate...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Dreamers from accessing Obamacare | Just The News
Via: Jeremy in NC • Today's America • 32 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 days ago
“President Joe Biden allowed illegal immigrants who were enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to qualify for...”
After Daniel Penny not-guilty verdict, calls mount for DA Alvin Bragg to 'resign in shame'
Via: Jeremy in NC • We the People • 9 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 days ago
“Calls for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to be booted intensified Monday after the controversial prosecutor's decision to take Daniel Penny to trial in...”
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges - Ars Technica
Via: John Russell • NEWSMucks • 46 Comments • 7 Likes • 3 days ago
“For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.”
This article is from 2023, but keep your eye on this as the motive for the killing of the CEO gets unearthed. The suspect is described as an AI expert.
Anti-cop activist begs cops for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco
Via: Jeremy in NC • Today's America • 15 Comments • 6 Likes • 3 days ago
“When thieves made off with Darcie Bell's rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X, then blasted the cops for not...”
Bill Clinton Blames ' Media' For Hillary's 2016 Loss
Via: Just Jim NC TttH • Today's America • 26 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 days ago
“Bill Clinton blamed the "mainstream media" for Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election to Trump over its focus on her use of a private email...”
OMG let it go...............
The Warning
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 days ago
“History has shown that wherever there’s a potential for financial or strategic advantage — on land, in the air or at sea — it’s accompanied by the...”
Here is a bit of entertaining Red Scare propaganda. It's really worth clicking the seed link to experience the graphics (which can't be captured here). As with most well produced propaganda, the entertainment value is used to highlight desired points and gloss over some inconvenient realities....
Black Harris staffers say they were mistreated on the campaign, blames leadership for taking base for granted | Fox News
Via: George • Over moderated • 10 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 days ago
“Black Harris staffers have accused the campaign of "outright racial discrimination" and mistreatment, according to an article by the New York Times.”
Syrian prime minister says government is still functioning but foreign and domestic challenges loom
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 9 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 days ago
“We are working so that the transitional period is quick and smooth”
Just like that, refugee status for Syrians disappeared. Syrians don't need to hide from anything now. When do we send them back? Assad is gone. Russia has left Syria. Iran is out. This is the result Pres. Obama, VP Biden, and Sec. State Clinton wanted when they went all in for Arab Spring...
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