Monday, March 28, 2022
The Fentanyl Crisis: The Mexico-Texas Connection
The Fentanyl Crisis: The Mexico-Texas Connection
- Between April 2020 and April 2021, a record-breaking 100,000 Americans overdosed and died from illegal drugs.
Nearly two-thirds of those deaths have been linked to synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl.
...Smugglers working for the Mexican drug cartels ferry most of the fentanyl into America across our borders with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
The Biden administration has made no serious effort to halt the cartels’ use of illegal immigrants as smugglers...Read all.
CDC: Due to a 'Coding Error,' We Massively Over-Counted COVID Deaths Among Children
CDC: Due to a 'Coding Error,' We Massively Over-Counted COVID Deaths Among Children
"We'll get to the CDC changes in a moment.
"We'll get to the CDC changes in a moment.
First, we are just beginning to quantify the ongoing damage done by COVID, as well as the harm inflicted by related lockdowns and restrictions.
- Children and students were particularly hard-hit by the latter phenomenon, as they were overwhelmingly safe from severe outcomes from Coronavirus infections – yet had their learning, development and overall wellbeing aggressively stunted by terrible government policies in many parts of the country.
- We also know that drug overdoses surged overall, and youth suicide attempts increased, during this stressful period featuring a great deal of social isolation.
- Another contributing factor to the "excess deaths" phenomenon (the biggest of which was COVID itself) was deaths linked to alcohol abuse...Read all!
Elon Musk hints at new platform to challenge Twitter as public square - TheBlaze
Elon Musk hints at new platform to challenge Twitter as public square - TheBlaze:
Elon Musk ignited a firestorm of speculation and optimism as he teased a potential "new platform" that could challenge Twitter for the title of "de facto public town square."
It all began on Friday when the Tesla CEO posted a poll on Twitter that asked the question: "Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?"
The Inmates Are Running Venezuela's Prisons. They've Created Autonomous Micro-Dictatorships.
The Inmates Are Running Venezuela's Prisons.---Reason Magazine
"The documentary La Causa is a raw look into the self-organized societies — complete with taxes, courts, and a strict "thug code" — within Venezuela’s prisons.
"The documentary La Causa is a raw look into the self-organized societies — complete with taxes, courts, and a strict "thug code" — within Venezuela’s prisons.
It also shines a light on the decline of Venezuelan society and the human rights abuses perpetrated under Chávez and Maduro as their socialist revolution backpedals further from its promise to empower the downtrodden."...Watch all. (from 2020, worse today. The "promises" of socialism!)
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Photojournalist speaks out after 'Today' show accused of editing photos to feminize transgender swimmer Lia Thomas - TheBlaze
Photojournalist speaks out after 'Today' show accused of editing photos to feminize transgender swimmer Lia Thomas - TheBlaze:
"I then went to my original photo, on the sites that they could access to license the photo, and compared it and immediately saw a difference," she explained.
Denhoff said that she had been "following the news to see how my images have been used to tell Lia's story" when she discovered the jarring edit.
Frack-checked=True!-----Senate Hearing Delayed As Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Trouble Locating The Women's Room | The Babylon Bee
Senate Hearing Delayed As Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Trouble Locating The Women's Room | The Babylon Bee
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson experienced a delayed start this morning after Ms. Jackson had trouble locating the women's room.
...Kentanji Jackson was found an hour later staring at two doors with strange misshapen stick figures on them. "I'm not an Egyptologist," she said. "I can't interpret the meaning of these symbols."...Read all!
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson experienced a delayed start this morning after Ms. Jackson had trouble locating the women's room....Kentanji Jackson was found an hour later staring at two doors with strange misshapen stick figures on them. "I'm not an Egyptologist," she said. "I can't interpret the meaning of these symbols."...Read all!
Is There Diesel Shortage? These European Countries Could Run Out of Diesel Soon - Bloomberg
Is There Diesel Shortage? These European Countries Could Run Out of Diesel Soon - Bloomberg
Europe has historically taken about 20% of its imports from Russia.
- These Are the European Countries Most at Risk of Diesel Shortages
Europe has historically taken about 20% of its imports from Russia.
...For a sense of how acute the problem really is, and how quickly there could be stock outs, here’s a look at some underlying numbers.
Source: Bloomberg calculation using data from the International Energy Agency and Eurostat
Note: Stockpiles at the end of December 2021...Read all.
Buying access to FAT government contracts!!!-----How the Beau Biden Foundation spends its cash
How the Beau Biden Foundation spends its cash
...Despite the $2 million-plus windfall, the organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.
The charity spent a total of $932,865 that year, with a large chunk of it going to the six-figure salaries of Biden cronies who held executive jobs at the non-profit...Read all!!
- Beau Biden Foundation rakes in millions, spends fraction on kid programs
...Despite the $2 million-plus windfall, the organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.
The charity spent a total of $932,865 that year, with a large chunk of it going to the six-figure salaries of Biden cronies who held executive jobs at the non-profit...Read all!!
Texas AG blasts possible LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at school district's Pride Week. 'Queer Eye' showings, 'nail painting' parties allegedly offered at HS. - TheBlaze
Texas AG blasts possible LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at school district's Pride Week. 'Queer Eye' showings, 'nail painting' parties allegedly offered at HS. - TheBlaze:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blasted "Pride Week" activities at the Austin Independent School District in a letter posted to Twitter, saying they constitute "human sexuality instruction" allowable only with parents' consent. He also accused the district of participating in LGBTQ "indoctrination."
Allegedly among the "Pride Week" activities are "Queer Eye" showings and "nail painting" parties at a district high school.
We Can't Fund COVID Treatments for the Uninsured Because We Spent Trillions of COVID Aid on Wasteful Garbage
We Can't Fund COVID Treatments for the Uninsured Because We Spent Trillions of COVID Aid on Wasteful Garbage
And now, it turns out, there's no money left to actually help those suffering from COVID-19 who can't afford to pay for treatments...Read all.
- Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.
And now, it turns out, there's no money left to actually help those suffering from COVID-19 who can't afford to pay for treatments...Read all.
History for March 28
History for March 28 - On-This-Day.com
August Busch 1899
- 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
- 1854 - The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.
- 1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
- 1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.
- 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
- 2010 - China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Donald Trump hits Hillary Clinton, DNC, and more with lawsuit over Russian collusion allegations - TheBlaze
Donald Trump hits Hillary Clinton, DNC, and more with lawsuit over Russian collusion allegations - TheBlaze:
A portion of the petition states, "In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty.”
Others named in the suit include former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Clinton campaign head John Podesta, and former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page.
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