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The trans school shooter at Tumbler Ridge laid out an elaborate plan to commit mass murder to ChatGPT. A dozen employees saw the plans and wanted to alert police but were turned down by company leadership. Why?
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We now are learning that suspected Chinese Spy Fang Fang & her family donated over $4 Million dollars to Swalwell, Ro Khanna, Kamala Harris & Gavin Newsom. Fang Fang’s Brother is a Senior Advisor for Khanna.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume its expanded voter citizenship verification program, which lets states use Social Security records to check voters' citizenship. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.
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By popular demand, I present to you.. my magnum opus.
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This is BS. I’ve seen countless H1Bs put on PIP. They are not better as a group in any meaningful way. My favorite H1B story is the Time Square bomber being a mediocre junior college student, who got H1B for a bookkeeping job. A job he did poorly at.
No, it's also because the issue of hiring foreign workers is often more complex than merely laying off Americans to replace them with "cheap foreign labor." Scarce skills, recruiting from U.S. universities, access to a larger talent pool, firm-specific expertise, and other reasons play into it. It's far more complicated than Vance describes. Relying on the simplicity of "cheap foreign labor" is an emotional tug, not one that is bound by economics. Naturally, scapegoating immigrants (and corporations) is a classic distraction, especially when your administration's garbage economic policies and ill-advised, poorly planned war have thrown the economy into chaos.
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Most invertebrate parents have minimal parental involvement, they usually lay eggs and go. But many species of velvet worms give birth to live young and tolerate them riding on top. Some species are social and hunt in packs of 15 led by a large matriarch who feeds first.
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Social velvet worms have a strict hierarchy with the largest matriarch on top. She feeds first, then the less dominant females, then the males, then the infant worms. The social hierarchy is strict. They assess status by size, feeling with their antenna along the length of the other worm to establish dominance.
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Wierd little guy of the Day: Velvet worms. These aren’t worms but an ancient order of Panarthropoda. It is a nocturnal predator that snares prey with two slime canons. The slime hardens into a glue, allowing it to inject digestive enzymes into its prey before sucking out the goo.
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السعودية عاشت للتو أفضل أسبوع لها في هذه الحرب إيران ضربت خط أنابيب شرق-غرب بالمسيّرات. السعودية أعادت تشغيله. ثم باعت قرابة 100 مليون برميل لآسيا في 7 أيام، عبر هرمز والبحر الأحمر معًا. ثم أطلق الحوثيون 6 صواريخ باليستية على ينبع والطائف. الستة أُسقطت كلها. والآن فرنسا ترسل جنودًا ورادارات ودفاعات جوية لحماية ينبع. وبريطانيا ترسل معدات دفاع جوي وتزوّد الطائرات السعودية بالوقود جوًا. إيران أرادت أن تمحو النفط السعودي من الخريطة. فجاءت أوروبا لتحميه. تابعني للمزيد.
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Hate Xi Jinping but have to admit this quote goes extremely hard. I relate to it after the CCP tried to violently attack me in Australia in 2022. “People who have little experience with power, those who have been far away from it, tend to regard these things as mysterious and novel. But I look past the superficial things: the power and the flowers and the glory and the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level.”
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Amazing news. Tom Homan stated that he and the federal government found 157,000 unaccompanied minors. Former shelter employees claimed that some of these unaccompanied minors were allegedly being trafficked out of taxpayer-funded shelters here in NYC. I released an investigative story on this issue, which I’ll attach below this post.
NEW: @RealTomHoman says he came out of retirement twice because of the Angel mom and dads and, “because the last administration smuggled a half a million children into this country and we lost track of 300,000 of them…” Homan announced today that the administration has now located 157,000 unaccompanied minors who essentially went unaccounted for under the previous administration—The border czar pledged to find the remaining children.
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France is winning brownie points in the Middle East: 1) TotalEnergies is helping several countries (notably Iraq) to ship crude oil throughout the Strait of Hormuz (sure, this is a private company, but I doubt TTE has not consulted the French government about it). 2) Paris is sending soldiers and kit to Yanbu to help the Saudis against missile attacks from the Houthis 3) France deployed Rafale fighter jets over the United Arab Emirates early in the conflict, ostensibly to protect the little-known navy base it operates in Abu Dhabi
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This is a remarkable story that most Christians will never hear. How an Iraqi Dominican friar saved thousands of ancient Aramaic manuscripts from ISIS. "Since the arrival of ISIS to Mosul, I felt there was a threat to culture." The Assyro-Chaldean man, Najeeb Michaeel, had a hunch that ISIS was coming to Mosul. Years before in 2007, he received threatening letters arrived at his monastery which each contained a broken cross and a bullet. On the night of August 6, Fr Najeeb loaded cars & trucks with thousands of manuscripts and fled for Erbil. "I felt that providence & heaven were with us... It was like Noah's ark." Because of checkpoint & road closures, he had to ask strangers to help him smuggle the documents on foot. "There was a swarm of Daesh cars with black flags hanging around. We didn't know where to go." Thank you Fr Najeeb.
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Very little changes, even in three quarters of a century. In WW2, Britain sent three top Rolls-Royce engineers to America to assist Packard in setting up production of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in the USA. The work was impossibly stressful, Colonel Barrington was dead within 18months, the 2nd was sent back to Britain and hospitalised in 1944, he died at just 57, the third retired soon after his last colleage died. Colonel Barrington, formerly Chief Designer at Rolls-Royce, who had been moved to the USA, began talking with his Packard contacts with whom he reguarly talked. Many of these were "simple" test technicians, Barrington (Chief designer of the most important Allied aviation powerplant firm in Europe), who was struggling to just make basic ends meet in the USA, one day casually asked one of the American test technicians how much he earned, as he was puzzled as to how, if HE, a former Chief Designer was struggling - was it even concievable that a test technician survived ? Barrington was staggered to discover that he was paid LESS than a fairly menial test technician in America. Packard, were no less stunned, and immediately offered Barrington money, "we will pay whatever the difference is" they told the Briton. Barrington, sensing that perhaps he ought to seek approval, wrote to the Ministry of Aircraft Production, who were acting as the defacto employer as they had "seconded" these British engineers to America, and so were effectively now state employees and not Rolls-Royce personell anymore. The Ministry scorned his request, and considered that his salary was commeasurate with other Ministry personell, they made Barrington refuse the offer of Packards money as they were embarrased to be shown up by the Americans. A year of wrangling followed, after the letter requesting the pay rise was sent. A year later, Barrington was stone-dead, literally killed by the pure stress of his position. To this day, Britain`s attitudes to monetary reward for "grubby" people like engineers remains relatively unchanged as a whole. But these men did not flinch, quit, or hesitate - they still carried on despite their own nation not rewarding them toward the end of destroying Fascism - and died, sprawled over their drawing boards. In Britain at home it was the same, at Bristol Aeroplanes, Roy Feddens military aero engine designers were dying, his closes parter since WW1, in 1941 at Paddington Rail station, simply collapsed and died. We need a memorial to the Forgotten Engineer, who, without any fuss, worked so hard that one day, he simply died, and his drawing board fell silent, without a shot being fired. Many such men drove themselves to death in WW2 by simply concentrating and working so hard their hearts stopped.
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Foreign Males Caught With Kidnapped Teen After Wrong Turn Onto Canadian Border Bridge Two men are facing kidnapping charges after they were caught at the Canadian border with an abducted child, authorities say. The disturbing bust unfolded on Saturday near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) stopped a vehicle after the driver mistakenly turned onto the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge and then attempted to re-enter Ontario, SooLeader reports. Authorities found a 15-year-old girl inside the car who had been reported missing, along with two adult males. “An investigation revealed the two accused had picked up the youth earlier that day and would not allow them to leave the vehicle,” CBSA explained in a press release. Officers learned the men had been planning to bring the victim to a hotel before they made the wrong turn. Sahan Alam, 40, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Hasan Al-Mamun, 29 of Sudbury, Ontario, were arrested and each charged with kidnapping. The victim was reunited with her mother. “As this matter remains before the courts and involves a youth victim, no further details about the circumstances leading up to the incident will be released," CBSA stated. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) just revealed that a similar incident unfolded last month at another international bridge connecting Michigan and Canada. On Aug. 29, an Afghan national with U.S. permanent residency was caught transporting an underage girl at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan. The child was rescued and the suspect was taken into custody by the Kalamazoo Police Department.
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Carney right now.
Canadian PM Carney reportedly prepared for the ‘risk’ that President Trump might order a U.S.-led invasion of Canada.
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Neo-Babylonian court proceedings dated 542 BC regarding a property dispute record the consultation of a deed written in 649 BC under Neo-Assyrian rule. This shows a fairly stable regime of property rights in which deeds written more than 100 years prior under a different empire were still respected by the law.
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“What is it?” “It’s an orb, Your Holiness. You ponder it.”
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Democrat officeholders are testifying, under oath, that they have created a two-tier justice system where foreign criminals are punished less for the same crime, specifically to make sure they keep DACA status and aren't deported. Of course, when DACA was created, the Obama admin touted it as a program for "law-abiding" citizens. But it was a lie -- as soon as "law-abiding" became an accepted excuse to keep illegal foreigners here, the left started changing our laws and our enforcement policies to make sure illegals are "law-abiding" no matter what.
Arlington’s Commonwealth’s Attorney testified that her office has a DUI policy specifically for DACA recipients. In a small number of cases, prosecutors have considered changing a DUI to a different first-degree misdemeanor so the defendant can renew DACA status. (We don’t have first-degree misdemeanors - they are called Class 1 misdemeanors - surprised an elected prosecutor doesn’t know that). She says the defendant is still held accountable and the original DUI charge remains visible. But DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke. Should immigration status affect which crime appears on a defendant’s record? Source: Dehghani-Tafti deposition, p. 89, lines 6–22.
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If you can jump 60 meters per second other animals will think you teleported.
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