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Border agents charge that 'you keep releasing criminal aliens into the country'U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz got into a tense back and forth with agents in Laredo, Texas, Friday, as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas paid a visit.In video shared with Fox News by a Border Patrol source, Ortiz confirmed that "morale is at an all-time low.""I do think that we’re losing too many agents," Ortiz said. "As an organization, we gotta start taking care of each other."

ransomnote: I am preparing to post a DailyExpose article about the test swabs which links to this video. I transcribed the video in case YOUTUBE decides to delete it and will post it as a standalone thread, which I will then link to The Expose article: Prof. Werner Bergholz: Dangerous Chemicals and Nanotubes Found In Covid Test Swabs – The Expose (dailyexpose.uk) The video is 3.5 minutes long and presented in German, with English subtitles which I have transcribed below.Here's the introductory text posted beneath the video on YOUTUBE:OVALmedia in English Werner Bergholz, former professor of electronic engineering and consultant...

San Francisco updated its COVID-19 Health Order Thursday to exempt boosted individuals from its indoor mask mandate. Office workers, gym members and individuals in other “stable cohorts” will not be required to wear masks indoors if they are “up to date” on their COVID-19 vaccinations, according to a rule that will be officially adopted Feb. 1.

The supply chain for electric-vehicle batteries is uncomfortably dependent on China—for now, at least Competing with a much better-established Chinese industry isn’t an obvious proposition for investors, even with subsidies thrown in. That leaves U.S. car makers tentatively leading even the upstream supply-chain push, in alliance with the Energy Department. The future of EVs is often assumed to depend on solving consumer problems such as slow charging infrastructure and range anxiety. Instead, they could be slowed down more by the conundrum of building the foundations of a battery industry.

3,000 people live there-middle of nowhere-expensive to maintain. The last war over the place cost the Limeys $500k per person to save. They're keeping it just to prove a point. Think Guantanamo without credible threats to change. Now the Brits have cut down their military where another rescue mission would be impossible. All this based on principle. At this point any 'solution' to this dilemma will not happen without the bigger issue of 'saving face'. There is a way out and it will have to involve the US.

New York’s Fifth Avenue was a “sea of blue” Friday as police gathered to honor fallen New York Police Officer Jason Rivera. Rivera was one of two NYPD officers shot during a response to a domestic disturbance call on January 21, 2022. Twenty-two-year-old Rivera was killed by the suspect’s gunfire, and a second officer, 27-year-old Wilbert Mora, was left in critical condition and died on Tuesday. Officers showed up on Fifth Avenue by the thousands to honor Rivera, whose funeral was held at New York City’s historic St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Rivera and Mora were ambushed while walking down a hall...

New Hampshire Senate president Chuck Morse didn't let a powerful winter storm get in the way of his formal U.S. Senate campaign launch. The longtime business owner and Republican state lawmaker declared his candidacy at an outdoor kickoff event in front of his florist, nursery and garden center in southern New Hampshire on Saturday morning, just a major nor'easter was smashing into New England.

Washington, D.C. – D.C. locals are ready for another winter spent in masks telling Fox News they believe extending the indoor mask mandate is a good idea despite potential harms to local business. Days before the indoor mask mandate was set to expire, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser extended the order through February 28. The Mayor noted in her address that despite COVID-19 cases falling in the district, hospitals remain under duress.

Here are some of my thoughts on the billing of electricity with respect to homeowners with solar panel installations. The topic is complex. My suggestions are intended to be possible improvements and not perfections. There are a number of components that could go into the computation of a solar panel homeowner's bill: the capital cost of the related non-solar backup capacity, the cost of the utility lines dedicated to the customer, the cost to collect payment, the fuel cost of the electricity and credit for the electricity supplied to the grid by the customer. A CUSTOMER'S USAGE-BASED SHARE of the...

The misery index is traditionally inflation rate plus U-3 unemployment rate. The RENTER misery index is the Zillow Rent Index YoY + U-3 unemployment rate to demonstrate the hardship of renters because of soaring home prices. Notice that because of rising home prices, the Renter misery index has overwhelmed the improvement in unemployment. As I typically do, I will now include The Fed’s balance sheet (as a proxy for Fed stimulus and supporting Federal government expenditures). Yes, you can see that The Fed and Federal government are responsible for our modern day “Grapes of Wrath.” If we look at the...

Actress and singer Bette Midler minced no words in telling West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) what she thought of his governing in the state, saying in a fiery tweet on Friday, “I’d say his dog’s a– would make a better Governor than him!” The Grammy Award-winning singer tweeted a photo of West Virginia's rankings in areas such as health care, the economy and infrastructure, showing the state's overall rank in the country at 47th place. The screenshot of the rankings was apparently sourced from U.S. News & World Report.

The University of Pennsylvania is considering a lawsuit if Lia Thomas is barred from competing in the upcoming NCAA women’s swimming championship, according to a report. A swimmer on the Penn women’s team, speaking on the condition of anonymity, claimed to Fox News that administrators were considering legal action if Thomas is prohibited from participating in the championship. “I have a feeling that if USA Swimming changes their rules, they will be filing a lawsuit for Lia to swim, but they wouldn’t do that for us,” she said. “That’s just really upsetting.” The swimmer said she had “heard that from...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump owed his testimony to the House Select Committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Raskin said, “Well, first of all, the public record as you’ve just shown it with the tweets, with his statements makes very clear what Donald Trump was up to. The whole name of the game was to put coercive pressure on Pence to ‘do the right thing’ by which Trump meant step outside of his constitutional role and declare unilateral unconstitutional powers to reject the electoral...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said late Saturday she is self-isolating after coming into close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus. The exposure came on a flight from the town of Kerikeri to the largest city of Auckland. New Zealand’s Governor-General Cindy Kiro was also on the Jan. 22 flight and has also gone into isolation.

Lyrics: Where have all the rebels gone? Hiding behind computer screens Where’s the spirit, where’s the soul? Where have all the rebels gone? Why don’t they come out of the woodwork now? One for the money, two for the show It’s not very rock and roll Where have all the rebels gone? Where have all the rebels gone? Waiting for someone else to make a move Why are they sitting on the fence? Well, it’s some kind of pretence They’re not saying much at all Where have all the rebels gone? Where they really all that tough? Or was it...

Washington Post did its usual bang-up job of caterwauling and keening loudly and sanctimoniously into its echo chamber by calling the truckers fascists and invoking the racial element, mainly because the legacy media could not report on a disc golf tournament without racializing it. Race is hot sauce to the MSM — everything tastes better with a little racism sprinkled on it. ... The convoy, which is reported to be some 70 km long (that’s around 43 miles for you and me) is one result of Canadians’ exasperation with the interminable government restrictions imposed on them to prevent the spread...

Charlotte Bellis, a broadcast journalist, said she has repeatedly tried to return to New Zealand since she learned she was pregnant in September. She has submitted 59 documents to New Zealand officials in Afghanistan in an attempt to secure an emergency return home, but her bid was turned down and led her to turn to the Taliban, one of the world's most oppressive regimes, for sympathy. It's a particularly cruel twist of fate for the woman who was revered worldwide for her fearless questioning of the jihadist group's previous record on women's rights. To add insult to injury, Ms Bellis...

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In Organic Disaster I wrote: Sri Lanka’s President abruptly banned chemical fertilizers earlier this year in a bid to become 100% organic. The ban has resulted in reduced production and soaring prices that, together with declining tourism and the pandemic, have created an economic crisis. Here is the latest update: Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation. …The government will pay 40,000 million rupees ($200m) to farmers whose harvests were affected by the chemical fertiliser ban, agriculture minister Mahindananda...

From Our Special Correspondent. HATTERAS INLET, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1862. The Burnside Expedition, which has occupied so large a share of public attention, which has cost so much in time ad in means, and which has deservedly encouraged the hopes of the patriotic of the country for what it was to accomplish for the cause of the Union, has reached this historically stormy part of the coast, and here, and in this vicinity, is to be the theatre of its operations, and may we hope -- of its triumphs. The large majority of the vessels composing the expedition, consisting...