MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police who were stumped by the theft of a rare pine tree in November from the University of Wisconsin Arboretum said Friday that they have cracked the case.
UW-Madison police said three 19-year-old university students stole the tree as part of a "pledge" activity for the former Chi Phi fraternity, which hasn’t been recognized as an official student organization since 2015.
Police said they acted on a tip, and that the three admitted to purchasing a chainsaw, renting a U-Haul and stealing the 25-foot Algonquin Pillar Swiss Mountain pine. The stolen tree was about 30 yards (30 meters) from a street that runs through the arboretum, which is a popular spot for walkers, joggers, bicyclists and nature lovers.
The tree was planted in 1988 and its theft drew widespread attention.
After learning how rare the tree was, and that police were investigating, the students destroyed it and disposed of it outside of the city, university police said.
Each of the students was cited for removing the tree, which is punishable by a $200 fine.
University spokeswoman Meredith McGlone declined to comment on the students involved, citing federal privacy laws related to student discipline. She said in general students can face campus disciplinary action in addition to criminal sanctions.
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On finding out how rare the tree was .... they turned themselves in?
No! They destroyed the evidence
Telling you everything you need to know about them
[Gateway] Deirdre Hairston is a young Catholic mother. Deirdre, who is pregnant, already has a one-year-old. Recently, Deirdre Hairston was arrested DURING HOLY MASS for not wearing a mask.
Three police officers were waiting for her after she went to Holy Communion at Holy Trinity Church. She was kneeling down and holding her baby when the police officer said she needed to leave the mass.
When Deidre continued to kneel and pray the police officer grabbed her arm and tried to lift her and drag her out of the church. The officer told her she was trespassing — by attending mass!
Deirdre later found out the main pastor ratted her out! The usher was in the background screaming, "Lock her up!"
The police officers then asked her for ID and told her she was going to arrest her.
She was told not to come back to this Catholic Church again.
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I know this place. Its a shit hole parish with a shit hole liberal priest, one of those sorts that tries to bless gay marriages, and believes in "revolutionary theology" back in the day. I may have to visit that Parish, just to have a few direct words with the priest, deacon and ushers, and challenge them under the laws of the church about their behavior (I have citations ready from the Code). And also file a formal complaint with the Diocese.
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^ So, in that parish the Ten Commandments are more like the Ten Suggestions?
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Bishop Jack Sparrow: They're not rules, more like...guidelines
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[Breitbart] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied efforts to require former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her unsecured email setup while she served in the Obama administration.
In an unsigned order issued with no comment, the justices denied an appeal from the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, mainly keeping in place a federal appeals court ruling from last August which stated that Clinton could not be forced to sit for a deposition.
Judicial Watch had wanted to depose Clinton, her aide Cheryl Mills, and other State Department employees over Clinton’s use of an unsecured personal email server — even for classified information — in a case seeking public access to State Department emails.
Clinton’s emails were subject to multiple investigations, including an FBI investigation which declined to charge her with violating federal record-keeping requirements or other crimes, despite clear evidence of violations.
Clinton’s emails were a major political issue in her failed 2016 bid against former President Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued a statement accusing the court of upholding a "double standard" and undermining faith in public institutions.
"Hillary Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the courts and law enforcement," he said. "For countless Americans, this double standard of justice has destroyed confidence in the fair administration of justice."
This case is Judicial Watch Inc. v. Clinton, No. 20-1051 in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Sadly I think it is not long before the American people stop trying the law enforcement approach to dealing elites who break the law and their black suited thugs.
#3
Think Zorro or Robin Hood or William Wallace and apply the concept of Jury. Nullification to construct a strategy to show the power of the people who still embrace the Constitution and ALL its features!
[People] Sharon Stone isn't holding back her thoughts on cancel culture.
On Thursday, the 63-year-old actress appeared on an episode of SiriusXM's Just Jenny radio show where she discussed her feelings on the controversial topic and why she thinks it can be counterproductive.
"I think cancel culture is the stupidest thing I have ever seen happen," she told host Jenny Hutt. "I think when people say things that they feel and mean, and it's offensive to you, it's a brilliant opportunity for everyone to learn and grow and understand each other."
The Basic Instinct star — whose new book, The Beauty of Living Twice, is out March 30 — noted that people should use their different experiences as a way to better learn about one another.
"We all come from different ages, different cultures, different backgrounds, different things, and have had different experiences, different traumas, different upbringings, different parents, different religious backgrounds, different everything," she explained.
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Obviously calls for removal from streaming services and a remake of Basic Instinct with a trans actor so that we all know there is no such thing as cancel culture.
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"All cultures, no matter how nutty,
Are good, be they ever so bloody.
She's Black and--" New song!
"Cancel culture is wrong,"
Sings Ms. Stone, "cuz it's messin' with Woody!"
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This nonsmoking nudnik of Needham
Can't join 'em, nor yet will I beat 'em,
But catching the eye of
Each skulking pariah,
I'll smile: "That's the smell, friend, of freedom."
#11
A Hollywood starlet (no rookie)
Showed herself a formidable (tough) cookie
Of cancel-culture and all things Woke
She made mincemeat - no joke!
Tho' Ms Stone's ever known by her nookie
#12
In Old LaLaLand it was said
'Twas better by far red than dead
But our era's mortality
Has a different reality:
"Stone Sharon!!! Did you HEAR what she said??!"
#13
There is in each human an Instinct
Basic, it's said: such a no-think
As shooting a Beaver.
So did Hollywood receive her:
All hail, Queen of Pink-Money-NoStink!
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The Woke-ists will tell her "shut up boomer". Sharon Stone, welcome to the results of years of leftist indoctrination, and valuing feeling over faccts, indoctrination over education, emotions over reason.
You sided with it, now reap the consequences.
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Of Hollywood's hills, and of Charon,
Of caverns unholy and barren,
Of fountains of stardom
And mountains of... boredom,
Enthrallingly sing, rose of Sharon!
[PJ] The last twelve months have been tough for everybody, but perhaps none more so than the people we’re supposed to trust to give us the facts about COVID-19. It can’t be easy, telling us as much of the truth as they think we can handle. If you’re anything like me — and let’s face it, you are whether you like it or not — you’ve been paying attention to what they’ve told you and you’ve done your best to heed their warnings. So you were probably confused when they told you this virus is less dangerous than the flu, and then a week later they told you it’s much more dangerous than the flu. You might’ve been taken aback when they strictly forbade you from wearing a mask, and then they turned right around and admonished you to wear a mask at all times. Or two masks, or three, or however many masks we’re supposed to wear now. The people who are supposed to know what’s going on clearly have no idea what’s going on, and that must be very stressful for them.
We’re all tired. But now that more and more people are getting vaccinated, you might be feeling some hope. You might think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. But what if it’s a train? Are you sure it’s not a train? Because it could be a train!
But don’t take it from me. Take it from someone who supposedly knows.
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Is it possible to have negative credibility? Sort of like negative interest rates? What did Feynman say? "That's not even wrong."
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'Recurring Feeling. of Impending Doom'
...You and me both, Sister.
Mike
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When you threw out God and made yourselves your own god, it sort of left a big empty that you fill with gloom and doom (not to mention living off of hate).
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Nothing says serious, responsible leadership like this fine representative from the Bidet administration, and I agree with M. Murcek - this woman has instant negative credibility.
You can usually tell in about the first two sentences (or so) when they speak or write.
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Profiles in Courage Pointlessness
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Oh, drug eyes? This is the fruitcake who got a segment on local news this morning, followed by a hysterical montage danger action medical clips including what looked like a MSF clip with 5 people in disposable scrubs and one on top of a patient doing heavy chest compressions.
#9
I've had that same feeling ever since the fraudulent election a few months ago. Welcome to the club!
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Perhaps a competent psychiatrist could help her? Don't be afraid to seek the help you need, Rochelle.
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Perfect match. A mentally ill CDC director is the best example of the Progressives and Democrats. So trembling in fear they are having a near breakdown simply due to statistics. I think her real fear is that she and the other Big Government Med talking heads are being proven wrong by Florida and Texas.
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Pharaohs curse? How primitive. We all know it was white supremacists.
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I'm certainly glad that the archaeologists know how to tell a functional curse from a non-functional one. Comes in handy, I'm sure. (Something to do with chicken entrails...)
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"What's with all these scarabs?"
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The missing link being the clever scientists paid by American grants at the Wuhan lab?
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My SWAG, (i.e. scientific wild ass guess) is that animal was domestic ferry or house cat. Both might have been used as a host experimental animal. Remember viruses can only reproduce in living cells. I don't know how easy it is to make bat cell line cultures. Remember that lions at Bromx zoo caught covid and the out break at mink farms invidious countries that have occured. . Then all iy takes is for a lab worker to decide that that is nice pet and out the door of the lab goes the virus. One of my brother's friends had a "legal beagle" as a pet. He worked at a lab that had a government contract for testing MRE Cole slaw by feeding dogs the stuff. They came from Charles Rivers rather than the pound hence their nickname.
[Foundation for Economic Education] When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living memory. In the year since, states have taken markedly different approaches to pandemic policy. Some, like New York, embraced sweeping government lockdowns and top-down mandates while others like Florida and South Dakota took a more humble, hands-off government approach, trusting individuals to make the best decisions for themselves.
The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments. First, we saw that states with the harshest restrictions didn’t necessarily achieve the best COVID-19 death outcomes. Florida has fared far better than New York and New Jersey, for example, and multiple studies have found no correlation between lockdown stringency and death rates.
Yet lockdowns have come at an enormous economic and human cost. We’ve seen mental health problems and child suicide spikes, an increase in domestic violence, an uptick in drug overdoses, and much, much more. And, of course, the economic toll of shutting down businesses and criminalizing "non-essential" livelihoods has been devastating.
The national unemployment rate was a poor if not disastrous 6.2 percent in February. Yet the just-released state-level unemployment rates for last month show that the devastation hasn’t been equal across the board. New Labor Department data reveal that many free states have returned to nearly their pre-pandemic unemployment rates—while lockdown states dominate the wrong end of the list.
State unemployment data for February 2021 is out! Some parts of the country are at full employment while others are in deep crisis.
Lowest unemployment:
South Dakota 2.9%
Utah 3%
Nebraska 3.1%
Highest unemployment:
Hawaii 9.2%
New York 8.9%
Connecticut 8.5%
Hands-off states such as South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, and New Hampshire top the list with unemployment rates hovering around a stellar 3 percent. States that received enormous flak for eschewing drastic lockdowns like Georgia and Florida both rank in the top 20. Perhaps the only obvious outlier is Texas, which ranks poorly with an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent‐but, then again, Governor Greg Abbott only rolled back the remaining restrictions in the Lone Star state earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the worst 10 states, with unemployment rates from 7 to 9 percent, include lockdown-happy localities like New York, New Jersey, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, D.C., and Rhode Island. Hey! Are any of those governors (D)?
There is a clear trend here. Free states have largely avoided the labor market carnage associated with the COVID pandemic, while lockdown states have wrought higher unemployment levels‐without guaranteeing better pandemic health outcomes. Well, hold on to your hats! Here comes "the fourth wave".
As famed economist Thomas Sowell said, in complex issues of public policy "there are no solutions, there are only tradeoffs." There was never an easy answer to the COVID pandemic, but the economic, health, and social outcomes of free states all suggest that they made the right call in rejecting the authoritarian instinct embraced by too many of their neighbors.
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D are always fare worse than R?
p.s. Could it be not due to quality of any particular governors (look at my favorite Kristi) but the quality of people?
pp.s. Of course, the quality of people is a function of population density, and so are the infection spreading rates.
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Meanwhile, the worst 10 states, with unemployment rates from 7 to 9 percent, include lockdown-happy localities like New York, New Jersey, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, D.C., and Rhode Island.
Hey! Are any of those governors (D)?
Maskachusetts' governor is Charlie Baker, so yeah, that's a D-RINO in official scoring.
[Legal Insurrection]The state’s opening consisted largely of the kind of hyperbole, emotive pleading, and half-truths that we’ve grown to expect from politically motivated prosecutions, and relatively little focus on the facts required to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in order to secure a just conviction.
For example, Blackwell quoted extensively from the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) policy manual, but only quoting the "soft" portions of the manual that refer to treating suspects with respect and not using excessive force.
Blackwell somehow neglected to mention the portions of the MPD policy manual that explicitly permit the use of neck restraints, including knee to neck, when dealing with resistant and non-compliant suspects, as well as the portions calling for full-body restraint of suspects believed to be undergoing potentially deadly excited delirium syndrome.
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...Even if the good people of Minneapolis decide Chauvin isn't guilty, I have no doubt in my former military mind that there will be DOJ agents standing by to arrest him on nebulous 'civil rights' charges. He ain't getting off.
Mike
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BTW__ the author, Andrew (A.F.) Branco, is a lawyer for Law of Self Defense, LLC and a pretty popular cartoonist.
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They can't possibly demonstrate, beyond a reasonable doubt and with proper medical evidence introduced at trial, that Chauvin strangled Floyd. Didn't happen.
This is a show trial, nothing more. A complete joke.
Mr. King, a black man, was beaten by the police after a high-sped chase shortly before 1 A.M. on March 3, 1991. The beating was captured by chance on amateur videotape and led to a nationwide outcry over police brutality and to political turmoil in Los Angeles.
When the four officers were acquitted of assault in the state trial on April 29, 1992, riots that took more than 50 lives and caused $1 billion in damage broke out in the city.
Tried again in Federal court on charges of violating Mr. King's civil rights, Sgt. Koon, who is 42, and Officer Powell, 30, were convicted, and Officer Theodore J. Briseno and former Officer Timothy E. Wind were acquitted.
While saying the two trials did not amount to double jeopardy because one was in state court and the other in Federal court, the judge said, "This second indictment and this second prosecution has the specter of unfairness." 'Shocking, Violent and Painful'
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Again, most frightening and disturbing of all is the blatantly biased and inflammatory coverage of the event by the mainstream media. Without the slightest consideration that the cell phone video might not tell the whole story, TV personalities like CBS's Gayle King showed the video over and over again while screaming about that evil white cop murdering that poor black man. It was all too obvious that she wanted riots and she did all in her power to provoke them. Racism, she claimed, systemic racism and it was all Trump's fault. She got what she wanted.
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Well, I'm not too worried about a not guilty given that I live outside of Houston. If they riot, it won't be like in LA here. Besides, I've got over 1000 rounds of ammo:D
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Anon1: time to get caught up. BLM/Antifa violence is the norm now - and don't you even consider defending yourself against them lest you want to find out what "reimagining policing" looks like. Trust me, you won't like it.
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Judge in the case already stuck it to the Mail for releasing the video when it was classified. Be interesting to see if he takes the on Times over this, too.
[LI] As the COVID-19 vaccine distribution continues across this country, Biden’s administration is steaming ahead with COVID-19 "passports." These aim to reduce travel restrictions ahead of the summer travel season.
Along with private technology and travel companies, the Biden administration is working to develop credentials — referred to as passports, health certificates or travel passes — showing proof of vaccination as individuals and businesses emerge from lockdown, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
Airline and business groups had been lobbying the White House to take the lead in setting standards for health passes. They believe that would avoid a hodgepodge of regional credentials that could cause confusion among travelers and prevent any single health certificate from being widely accepted.
According to the Washington Post, the administration’s efforts are housed in offices of Health and Human Services, with the White House this month taking a "bigger role coordinating government agencies involved in the work, led by coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients"
The policy reverses a position once touted by Biden.
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For the sake of clarity, we could call it what the Soviets did: your internal passport that records residence, vital stats, profession along with
- racial identity
- gender identity
- Party status (CP-USSA member or not)
- vaccination status
- known physical health risks
- known / suspected mental health risks including 'Racist,' 'Supremacist,' 'Gender Triumphalist,' etc
- Loyalty Rating (from 'Woke'/Virtuous at one end to 'Reliable' to 'Known Unreliable' and all the way to Domestic Enemy at the other extreme)
- credit rating
All of the above would be factored into a comprehensive Social Credit Score (SCS).
The digital version of the Internal Passport would automatically adjust its color based on this SCS.
700-800 would get a 'Black' Passport i.e. most reliable and virtuous in the view of the USSA Uniparty.
600-700 would get a 'Green' Passport i.e. Needs Improvement bu generally Reliable
500-600 would get a 'Blue' Passport i.e. Suspect--Intervention Required
Below 500 would get a ''White' Passport i.e. Known Criminal-- Monitor Actively, Alert for Possible Terr0ri$t Activity
[Big Creek Dad] A radio ad from Keller’s Riverside Store located on the beautiful Llano River in the heart of Texas. Whether you agree with Crockett Keller or not at least he gives you the opportunity to understand his position before you take his CWP Class. This was recorded over 10 years ago and he could still use the same ad today.
[BREITBART] A canal service provider says workers have successfully set free a colossal container ship that for nearly a week has been stuck sideways across the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial arteries for trade
Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries.
Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday.
After hauling the fully laden 220,000-ton vessel over the canal bank, the salvage team was pulling the vessel toward the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south end of the canal, where the ship will undergo technical inspection, canal authorities said.
Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com confirmed that the ship was moving away from the shoreline toward the center of the artery.
Video released by the Suez Canal Authority showed the Ever Given being escorted by the tugboats that helped free it, each sounding off their horns in jubilation after nearly a week of chaos.
[AlAhram] Admiral Osama Rabie also asserted that Tuesday's sandstorm was not the only reason behind the grounding of the ship, without providing further details.
Up to 113 ships are set to pass through the Suez Canal in both directions by Tuesday morning, as the Suez Canal Authority seeks to end the traffic jam caused by the stranding of the ship Ever Given within four days.
The announcement was made by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chairman Osama Rabie who said in a briefing on Monday that navigation along the canal was resumed today at 6pm local time (GMT+2), almost an hour-and-a-half after the Ever Given was fully refloated in a mission that concluded successfully without any damage to the ship at 4:30pm.
The 400-metre-long, 59-metre-wide Ever Given, which was on its way from China to the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherland, veered off course and ran aground while it was passing through the international trade route on Tuesday morning.
The gigantic ship, which had been wedged sideways across the waterway for six days, caused around 369 vessels to be queued at the waterway or at anchor awaiting transit through the canal, through which around 12 percent of all world trade passes.
Rabie said that operations at the canal will continue around the clock to clear the traffic jam caused by the mishap, which should be cleared within four days.
He added that priority has been given to ships carrying livestock given their need for supplies; these include five ships carrying over 60,000 heads of cattle.
Chairman Rabie praised the Egyptian agricultural minister, who dispatched veterinary teams to examine the animals and provide them with fodder and water.
Rabie also asserted that Tuesday's sandstorm was not the only reason behind the grounding of the ship, without providing further details.
Rabie added that refloating such a large ship would have taken three months if the incident had happened in any other country, and that the arrival of the Dutch salvage company hired by the ship owner did not alter the SCA’s plan to end the crisis.
He also pointed out that the refloated ship, which has been directed to the bitter lake for technical examinations, will not be allowed to sail until the conclusion of investigations, which will not be carried out by the SCA.
Rabie added that due to the incident, the SCA has incurred losses of $12-14 million a day in revenues.
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You have to wonder about the rules they have when they aloow a ship that's basically the same size as the canal to drive through without a single tugboat.
Afterwards, there were plenty. Before, not a one.
(Just my $.02)
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Here is a silver 1943 Jefferson 'nickel', keep going, Ithink you are on to something here.
[YouTube] Hidden cameras expose Kim Jong-un's clandestine weapon and drugs trade | 60 Minutes Australia
Like a petulant child who doesn’t get its way, North Korea likes to throw tantrums. A few days ago the rogue state reminded the world how troublesome it is by launching several short-range missiles in the first weapons tests since President Joe Biden took office, sending a sharp message to the new US administration. But behind the aggression, dictator Kim Jong-un is in serious trouble as his regime teeters on bankruptcy. Tom Steinfort, one of the few western journalists to have reported from the hermit kingdom on multiple occasions, says North Korea desperately needs cash and is willing to do almost anything to get it, even selling weapons and drugs on the black market. Now though, these long-suspected crimes have been fully exposed by the unlikely combination of an extraordinary hidden-camera sting and a heartbroken family determined to get justice for their son, who travelled to North Korea for an adventure holiday but ended up imprisoned and tortured to death.
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year of pandemic-driven shortages of vital safety goods and medicines - not to mention consumer items like bikes and electronics - has not made Americans more willing to pay extra for U.S.-made goods. Schwinn Bicycle Company, formerly of Chicago, Illinois.
Yet a large majority think the government should do so.
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll found 63% of Americans want U.S. agencies to buy American-made products in general, even if they cost significantly more, and 62% think the government should strictly buy U.S.-made vaccines. That enthusiasm dims a bit when it comes to other types of safety equipment, such as face masks: a majority, 53%, agree it is fine to buy personal protective equipment - or PPE - from foreign sources, while 41% disagreed.
The poll shows a longstanding contradiction: Americans like the idea of buying American goods - but not if it means paying more personally for it.
It also underscores a challenge facing the Biden administration, which has vowed to bolster manufacturers of crucial safety goods and pharmaceuticals as part of its larger push to revive the U.S. factory sector.
One of President Joe Biden’s first acts was an executive order aimed at closing loopholes in existing "Buy American" rules, which cover about a third of the $600 billion in goods and services the federal government buys each year. The U.S. government is the world’s biggest single buyer of goods and services. Past administrations have also sought to shift more government spending toward domestic goods, with mixed results.
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The poll shows a longstanding contradiction: Americans like the idea of buying American goods - but not if it means paying more personally for it.
Translation: Reuters-Ipsos poll finds Americans are hypocrites and the enemies of globalism.
(the fact that American made products have been rendered 'price point' non-competitive or eliminated from the marketplace entirely appears to be irrelevant)
[France24] They are the future of rural France: more and more young graduates are giving up a lucrative career to settle in the small villages of the French countryside. Whether they're grocers, farmers or cheesemakers, these young people are doing their best to favour short food circuits and highlight local produce. We went to meet some of the members of this new generation.
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Across Europe the depopulation of villages and towns has apparently been a growing problem for a century. In northern Italy they were selling abandoned houses for €1 apiece five years ago, in Spain entire hamlets for a few tens of thousands of euros. I have to wonder exactly how many more and more young graduates really is — going from one to two is a 100% increase, after all. Link
[National Interest] F-35 jets attacking from the air, cruise missiles fired from Navy "Desert Ships," armored ground vehicles closing in for attack and long-range precision fire weapons all receiving real-time input from helicopters, drones and artificial intelligence-enabled computer systems . . . Describes the Army plan for its upcoming Project Convergence 2021, an experiment intended to explore a new paradigm for modern war.
Moving beyond the initial Project Convergence 2020 during which an AI-enabled computer system was able to connect targeting input for small, forward operating mini-drones with helicopters, ground vehicles, and attack weapons in seconds, the Army plans to build upon this success and take new steps to incorporate new weapons and multi-domain combat tactics.
"You remember the focus for twenty was just that sensor to shooter look. We will continue to expand upon the sensor to shooter links from an indirect fire and direct fire perspective. This is about technology, but it is just as much about how we use the technology and how we fight and organize for the future. It’s a learning activity more than it is a demonstration," Army Futures Command Commander Gen. John Murray told the National Interest.
"It all comes down to the ability to link databases and share data across the services. It does not matter who the data belongs to," Murray said. I'm sure they have covered the possibility of a blackout. Right?
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Well first of all the idea of Smart Weapons implies that there are Dumb Weapons, by extension the operators are dumb, and is sexist and racist.
What they need are PROUD Weapons.
To think otherwise makes you an enemy of history. Says here last time you ordered thin crust pizza instead of Brooklyn Style, and you failed to introduce yourself with proper pronouns or ask for the proper pronouns from your shipping notification. You are fined 10 Happy Time Points, restricting your Range from Residence to 15 miles. Please be home Thursday for a Pandemic Test to confirm Covid has not affected your cognitive abilities. Your Public Health Safety Officer's pronouns will be cthu/xer/bing.
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They will get hobbled with someone shooting the generators. Data stops flowing, Army takes a knee. When high tech becomes a weapon, it becomes vulnerable.
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Propane lamps, maps with plastic covers for grease pencil symbols, commo wire and runners with carbon message books, and heat tabs for the instant coffee, even the smell of the canvas on the 577s. Remember how it worked before we lost the fieldcraft?
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577 was a great big target, usually surrounded by extra generators because the one up front was deadlined in need of higher echelon maint most of the time, and the gaggle of 5-ton HQ-In-A-Box radio trucks and their antennas and gennies.
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The Army is planning to win the war on Transsexualism and intersectionalism and White Supremacy.
Winning an actual war, one that threatens the existence of this nation? That's not on their agenda.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police who were stumped by the theft of a rare pine tree in November from the University of Wisconsin Arboretum said Friday that they have cracked the case.
[Gateway] Deirdre Hairston is a young Catholic mother. Deirdre, who is pregnant, already has a one-year-old. Recently, Deirdre Hairston was arrested DURING HOLY MASS for not wearing a mask.
[Breitbart] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied efforts to require former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her unsecured email setup while she served in the Obama administration.
[People] Sharon Stone isn't holding back her thoughts on cancel culture.
[PJ] The last twelve months have been tough for everybody, but perhaps none more so than the people we’re supposed to trust to give us the facts about COVID-19. It can’t be easy, telling us as much of the truth as they think we can handle. If you’re anything like me — and let’s face it, you are whether you like it or not — you’ve been paying attention to what they’ve told you and you’ve done your best to heed their warnings. So you were probably confused when they told you this virus is less dangerous than the flu, and then a week later they told you it’s much more dangerous than the flu. You might’ve been taken aback when they strictly forbade you from wearing a mask, and then they turned right around and admonished you to wear a mask at all times. Or two masks, or three, or however many masks we’re supposed to wear now. The people who are supposed to know what’s going on clearly have no idea what’s going on, and that must be very stressful for them.
The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments. First, we saw that states with the harshest restrictions didn’t necessarily achieve the best COVID-19 death outcomes. Florida has fared far better than New York and New Jersey, for example, and multiple studies have found no correlation between lockdown stringency and death rates. 
[Legal Insurrection]The state’s opening consisted largely of the kind of hyperbole, emotive pleading, and half-truths that we’ve grown to expect from politically motivated prosecutions, and relatively little focus on the facts required to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in order to secure a just conviction.
[LI] As the COVID-19 vaccine distribution continues across this country, Biden’s administration is steaming ahead with COVID-19 "passports." These aim to reduce travel restrictions ahead of the summer travel season.
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year of pandemic-driven shortages of vital safety goods and medicines - not to mention consumer items like bikes and electronics - has not made Americans more willing to pay extra for U.S.-made goods.
Moving beyond the initial Project Convergence 2020 during which an AI-enabled computer system was able to connect targeting input for small, forward operating mini-drones with helicopters, ground vehicles, and attack weapons in seconds, the Army plans to build upon this success and take new steps to incorporate new weapons and multi-domain combat tactics.
