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Hundreds of cops flee California to Texas blaming Golden State's 'soft-on-crime' policies that made their jobs feel 'pointless'

Miles Dilworth
Daily Mail
Sun, 12 May 2024 08:29 UTC
Ray Bottenfield
Ray Bottenfield, a former Santa Monica College Police Captain who retired to Hewitt, Texas, says it has become increasingly difficult to retain or recruit officers in California due to lack of support from the state. Pictured here receiving the Medal of Valor from Barack Obama in 2016
Hundreds of California cops are fleeing to Texas to escape 'soft-on-crime' policies they say have made their jobs 'pointless', DailyMail.com can reveal.

Rank-and-file officers up to department chiefs have hit out at state legislators, claiming a succession of 'anti-law enforcement' policies have made their work impossible.

Overworked and unsupported, they have instead taken up jobs in Texas and other states that are seen as tough on crime.

Evan Leona, 38, who ditched his job as a detective in a multi-agency gang unit in Fresno, California, to work for Denton Police in Texas, in 2022, said he had met 'more than a hundred officers' in the Dallas / Fort Worth area who had fled California.

'There are five officers who have come from various agencies in California on my shift alone in Denton,' he told DailyMail.com. 'The justice system just works a lot better here.'
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Briefcase

UK: Mother loses High Court battle with ex over whether 16-year-old daughter should be allowed 'gender-changing' drugs

Sanchez Manning
The Daily Mail
Sat, 11 May 2024 21:18 UTC
HIgh Court
© David Castor/Wikimedia CommonsThe High Court at the Royal Courts of Justice
A mother has lost a High Court battle with her ex-husband over whether their daughter should be allowed to receive medication from private clinics to change gender under the age of 18.

The woman disagreed with her former partner that their 16-year-old, who identifies as male, should be allowed to be prescribed cross-sex hormones by private doctors. She rejected the idea that 16-year-olds had the mental capacity to decide to take hormones that could leave them infertile.

But this week, after a two-year legal fight, Mrs Justice Judd ruled she could not 'override' the 16-year-old's consent to be given gender treatment by regulated doctors in the UK.

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Bad Guys

West enabling repression of the Russian Orthodox Church, arrest of priests in Ukraine

Sonja van den Ende
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 10 May 2024 20:47 UTC
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Russian Orthodox believers
The restriction of religious freedom and the arrest of Russian clergy is another crime against its own people by the Ukrainian regime.

For centuries, the Russian Orthodox Church has strengthened Moscow's rule by exercising ecclesiastical authority over the Ukrainian churches.

Since the beginning of 2019, Ukraine has had a self-governing Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The churches of Ukraine and Russia have been virtually the same in faith and practice for centuries. Russia's Special Military Operation has given Ukraine, which is supported by the West in its war against Russia, an extra push to get rid of the rites and beliefs of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Recently, a German sociologist called the transfer of churches in Ukraine illegal and conducted in a violent manner. At a theological conference in Berlin, Germany, historian and sociologist Nikolai Mitrokhin described the transfer of religious communities in Ukraine from one so-called belief and faith, to another, which also, involved the illegal and violent seizure of church property, illegal and criminal.

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Bullseye

Teen sues NC high school after being suspended for using (completely accurate) term 'illegal aliens'

Megan Palin
New York Post
Fri, 10 May 2024 21:22 UTC
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© Google MapsA 16-year-old North Carolina student sued his high school for suspending him after he used the term “illegal aliens” in a question about an assignment.
A 16-year-old North Carolina student has sued his high school for suspending him after he used the term "illegal aliens" in a question about an assignment.

Christian McGhee, who received a three-day suspension for using the phrase last month at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, has accused the school of violating his First Amendment rights in the lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday.

"Aside from the obvious fact that his words had nothing to do with race, his speech was protected under the First Amendment: he asked his teacher a question that was factual and nonthreatening, and officials could not have reasonably forecast that his question would cause substantial School disruption," the suit said.
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Family

Massive 100k-strong Trump beach rally in deep-blue NJ draws stark contrast to Biden's beach weekend: 'Biden could never'

Emma Colton
Fox News
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:38 UTC
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Critics of President Biden are lambasting his beach vacation in Delaware while contrasting the Mother's Day weekend getaway to former President Trump's massive rally in the historically blue state of New Jersey on Saturday.

"Supporters camped out overnight at the beach for a Trump rally that starts at 5PM today in Wildwood. Joe Biden can't fill up a broom closet without staff, media, and angry protesters (sic)," one X user under the name "Bad Hombre" posted Saturday.

Trump held a beachside rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday evening as at least 80,000, and up to 100,000 supporters, joined the 45th president in the historically deep-blue state. Simultaneously, 24 miles across Deleware Bay, Biden arrived at his home in Rehoboth Beach for Mother's Day.
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Red Flag

San Francisco slammed for $5M a year program to give free alcohol to the homeless: 'This isn't working'

Angela Barbuti
NY Post
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:23 UTC
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© Anadolu via Getty Images
A program that offers free booze to the homeless alcoholics that roam San Francisco caught flak this week when a tech CEO questioned the logic of feeding the addictions of the city's street dwellers.

Adam Nathan, founder and CEO of the small business AI marketing tool Blaze and the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco Metro Advisory Board, posted a thread on X slamming the program after watching a string of unhoused drunks line up for their shots, stating it "just doesn't feel right."

"Did you know San Francisco spends $2 million a year on a "Managed Alcohol Program?" It provides free Alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are mostly homeless," Nathan wrote on the social media site.
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Birthday Cake

SOTT Focus: Let Them Eat Cake - The 2024 Met Gala

Elaine Wilson
Sott.net
Mon, 13 May 2024 12:14 UTC
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© John Shearer/WireImageActress and singer Zendaya at the Met Gala/ Palestinian child.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the theme of this year's Met Gala event (purportedly the world's most prestigious fashion show) in Manhattan was "Fashion from the Capitol of Panem," with celebrities on the red carpet looking like they had stepped straight out of The Hunger Games. This year's display of wealth was livestreamed across many social media platforms, TikTok included, and I took some time to watch some of the show and see the outfits.

The theme of 2024 was 'The Garden of Time', which is inspired by the J.G. Ballard short story of the same name. For those interested the story is about a 15-minute read and can be found here.

Interestingly, the story is about a rich couple living in a lavish mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens with crystal flowers growing inside. When one of these flowers is picked, it turns back time for a period. A huge angry mob is seen advancing over the horizon running towards the villa, and in the evening the man picks a flower to turn back time and have the army retreat back, buying them a day or two. The number of flowers dwindles and the army gets closer and closer, until the last day when the couple spends their time cleaning and securing their material possessions. When there are no flowers left, the mob breaches the walls of the villa and time catches up on them. The villa is transported into an abandoned state, ruined and ravaged by time, and the couple are turned to stone, immortalized as statues beneath the balcony.
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Cult

Germany 'considers conscripting all 18-year-olds', leaked military docs reveal

Natasha Anderson
Daily Mail
Mon, 13 May 2024 11:46 UTC
Scholz
Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz (pictured May 8) said on Saturday that Ukrainians with a residence permit and work in Germany can stay even as Ukraine seeks to recruit nationals living abroad to serve in the war against Russia
Germany could bring back conscription for all 18-year-olds amid fears of an all-out NATO war with Russia, leaked military plans reveal.

Military planners are discussing three potential plans, two of which involve a compulsory military year for all men once they turn 18.

It is understood that officials are in the final stages of discussions with German defence minister Boris Pistorius expected to go public with official plans next month, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

Mr Pistorius, during a trip to Washington last week, said he was 'convinced' that Germany 'needs a form of military conscription'.

Comment: Germany seems to have forgotten 'never again' and is instead enthusiastically reviving old, bad, habits:

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Sherlock

Fire completely destroys one of Poland's largest shopping malls


Reuters
Mon, 13 May 2024 11:33 UTC
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A massive fire that broke out on Saturday night in a shopping centre in Warsaw almost completely destroyed the place, authorities said. Nobody was hurt during the fire.

The Marywilska 44 with almost 1,400 commercial units - including many kiosks - was among the biggest shopping centres in Warsaw. It was owned and managed by Mirbud (MRB.WA)

"Almost 100% of it was burned. The fire is being extinguished and this will take many hours, perhaps several hours," Mariusz Feltynowski, commander-in-chief of the State Fire Service told a news conference on Sunday.

He added that almost 200 firefighters were taking part in extinguishing the fire.

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What with the number of fires and explosions in recent years, there's good reason to conclude that some are intended to sabotage state operations, some are to disrupt energy and food supply chains, however there have also been other fires, similar to the above, and one wonders whether, what with economies rapidly deteriorating, if they're not basic arson, perhaps they could be insurance claims?

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Black Cat 2

NPR CEO Katherine Maher hiding from Congress

Eli Lake
The Free Press
Wed, 08 May 2024 18:20 UTC
NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher
© Getty ImagesNPR President and CEO Katherine Maher
Rather than answer questions in person about bias at the network, Katherine Maher submitted written remarks that sound 'like a pledge drive.'

Where the heck is Katherine Maher?

The NPR CEO has not made a single public appearance since April 9, when The Free Press published a bombshell exposé by Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran at the network, alleging ideological bias at the institution.

Even today, when Maher was summoned by Congress to give testimony about whether NPR's news reporting was "fair and objective," she was a no-show.

Her excuse? The night before the hearing, she announced she could not attend because of. . . a previously scheduled board meeting.

Instead, Maher submitted written testimony drafted in the prose style of brand management consultants. According to Maher, NPR is "bringing trusted, reliable, independent news and information of the highest editorial standards" to tens of millions of listeners.

Comment: Given NPR's lunatic swing to the lefti-est of the Left, Maher is the personification of that stance:

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