[Breitbart] The Texas Legislative Budget Board announced the authorization of nearly $875 million for public safety initiatives including school security and additional funding for Operation Lone Star. Also included is $100 million for COVID-19 response expenses.
Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Speaker Dade Phelan, Senate Finance Committee Chair Joan Huffman, and House Appropriations Chair Dr. Greg Bonnen announced the State of Texas will commit $874.6 million for public safety and recovery issues, according to a statement from Governor Abbott’s office.
“The State of Texas is working around the clock to support critical public safety efforts, including protecting communities across the state from the increasing threats pouring across our southern border, as well as enhancing the security of Texas schools,” Governor Abbott stated. “Texas continues providing support to the Uvalde community in the aftermath of tragedy as they rebuild.”
The plan announced on Thursday by the Texas Legislative Budget Board provides for the following:
$400 million to assist school districts in replacing or upgrading doors, windows, fencing, communications, and other safety measures;
$15 million to assist in the construction of a new elementary school in Uvalde;
$339 million to the Texas Military Department for continued border security activities related to Operation Lone Star;
$20.6 million to support other state agencies under Operation Lone Star to continue responding to the border crisis; and,
$100 million to the Texas Division of Emergency Management for COVID-19 response expenses.
The additional funding for school security comes as investigations into the Robb Elementary School shooting revealed a lack of attention by school officials to school security policies and maintenance issues that could have prevented the tragedy.
“These funds will continue to support the community of Uvalde in the wake of such a devastating tragedy earlier this year and will help bolster the safety of Texans,” Speaker Phelan explained. “School security will be a priority for the Texas House during the 88th Legislature, and this additional funding is a meaningful step we can take in the meantime.”
The need for additional funding for border security operations including Operation Lone Star comes as the Biden administration recently reported back-to-back record years in illegal border crossing apprehensions. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2.2 million migrants during the recently ended FY22. This is up by 33 percent over the previous record-setting year in FY21.
Of the 2.2 million migrants apprehended crossing the southwest border last year, nearly 1.4 million entered through the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.
“As the crisis at our border continues, it is critical that the legislature continues to fund Operation Lone Star as the flow of illegal immigrants, weapons, and drugs has hit unprecedented levels,” said Senator Huffman, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee. “Because the federal government has completely neglected this emergency, imagine how unsafe communities across the country would be had Texas not stepped up to provide its full support. It is also our duty to continue to support the Uvalde community, and a major state contribution toward a new school facility is part of that responsibility.”
The announcement by the budget board includes $110 million for the Texas Division of Emergency Management for COVID-19 response expenses, the governor’s office stated.
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Looks like this has shot a big hole in Beto’s claims that Abbott has done nothing to protect the children
Of course we all know if the police had put on their big boy pants many of the dead in Uvalde would be alive. Not much a Governor can do about sissies posing as law enforcement
[AA.TR] Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday kicked off a "long march" to the capital Islamabad in an attempt to press the government for snap elections.
Thousands of Khan's supporters massed in Lahore, the capital of northeastern Punjab, which is governed by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and an ally political party, to join the march amid stringent security.
Khan donned in white shalwar-kameez (loose trousers and shirt) and a black waistcoat, standing on a specially designed truck with other party leaders, waving to the charged crowds who chanted anti-government slogans repeatedly.
As the march kicked off, marchers chanted in unison, "Imported government unacceptable."
"This (march) is not politics. This is aimed at saving the country from loot and corruption of this government," Khan said while addressing his supporters.
He asked his supporters to remain peaceful despite "provocations by the government."
According to the schedule released by the party, the march will be joined by rallies from several districts on its way to the capital. The march will take six days to reach the capital, where it will be joined by party supporters from northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which is also governed by the PTI.
Although it is unclear how long the marchers will remain in the capital, Khan has asserted that the march will be "totally peaceful."
The marchers are unlikely to face any obstacles until they reach the borders of Islamabad, thanks to the PTI governments not only in the two bordering provinces of Punjab and KP, but also in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.
The real showdown is expected in Islamabad, which has literally been turned into a fortress. Hundreds of empty containers have been placed along main and feeder roads to block marchers from entering the capital, particularly the "red zone," which houses the offices of the president and prime minister, parliament, the Supreme Court, and other important government buildings.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah stated that the government has deployed three layers of security, including army troops, to maintain law and order.
Over 1,300 police and paramilitary troops have been deployed in and around the capital, with an additional police force dispatched from southern Sindh province, which is ruled by Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP), the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) second-largest coalition partner.
The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has repeatedly refused to cave in to the demand for early elections, which are otherwise slated to be held in October next year.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah hailed the maritime deal with the Israeli occupation regime as "a great victory to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ", stressing that deal is neither an international accord, nor a Lebanese recognition of the Zionist entity.
In a televised address via al-Manar during the inauguration of "Ardi" (My Land) Exhibition for Lebanese tradition food, Sayyid Nasrallah said that the resistance’s mission to defend Lebanon’s rights has been accomplished, declaring that the exceptional mobilization carried out by the Lebanese resistance groups for months is now over.
During his speech, he denounced the terrorist attack on a shrine in the Iranian city of Shiraz, stressing that those who ordered the latest riots across the Islamic Theocratic Republic and those who recruited Shiraz shooting perpetrators belong to the same side.
The leader of the Lebanese resistance movement then denounced the terrorist attack by ISIS on a shrine in Iran’s Shiraz city, offering condolences to Supreme Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... and the Iranian nation.
"The horrible massacre perpetrated by ISIS terrorist group indicates the reality of this criminal and savage ideology along with who stands behind such groups and utilizes them to serve its interests, and I mean here the United States."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that those who directed the latest riots across Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... are themselves who are behind Shiraz attack.
"The operator is one and the scheme is being plotted in one black room run by the US."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Sayyid Nasrallah praised the Paleostinian resistance in the West Bank, al-Quds and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , lauding that the latest acts of resistance especially in Nablus, Jenin and Shuafat.
He also saluted Nablus’ Lions’ Den and Jenin Battalion resistance groups, stressing that all resistance acts carried out by these heroes "undermine the Zionist entity."
"What’s happening is promising and paves the way to impose new equations ahead of the final victory in Paleostine."
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[Breitbart] The Texas Legislative Budget Board announced the authorization of nearly $875 million for public safety initiatives including school security and additional funding for Operation Lone Star. Also included is $100 million for COVID-19 response expenses.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
