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KGW8 aired a report yesterday about families in North Portland who have had enough of the city’s homeless camps and rising crime. Some of them are seriously thinking about leaving but some have already sold their homes and are moving further out into the suburbs, away from the problems associated with the city.“It makes you not feel that great about living here,” said Greg Dilkes, who has lived in North Portland for 30 years. “It makes living in the neighborhood harder, not as congenial as it could be.”Dilkes said the homeless camps along the Peninsula Crossing Trail near his home...

Taiwan’s TSMC is the world’s leading manufacturer of silicon chips. It controls more than 90% of the world market for high-end chips. That’s obviously one reason China would love to see a “peaceful reunification” with the mainland happen, since it would effectively put China in charge of the pinnacle of the tech industry overnight. But as appealing as that might be, the reality is that TSMC isn’t dependent on China in the same way Germany is currently dependent on Russian energy.Pelosi’s itinerary included a visit with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest and most critical chip manufacturer. Its products...

In this episode of The Left’s Insidious Crusade to Destroy America as We Know It…All versions of the Bible and an illustrated version of Anne Frank’s diary have been pulled from shelves by a school district in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. As reported by the Dallas Morning News, the Keller Independent School District emailed principals on Tuesday morning ordering the removal of the books.Jennifer Price, the district’s curriculum director, sent principals a set of instructions, along with a spreadsheet of all books about which families or members of the community have complained.By the end of today, I need all books...

Arizona recently started building its own wall to fill the gaps along the Yuma sector of the southern border, and it is a truly innovative solution to mitigate the ongoing crisis.The state is using stacked storage containers welded together to barricade the open areas in an efficient manner. Work began almost immediately on the project after Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced it, and the progress made within days was visually stunning.🆕We issued an Executive Order directing the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to immediately fill the gaps in the Yuma border wall. pic.twitter.com/ZElkH0x39X— Doug Ducey (@DougDucey) August 12,...

In the early hours of Feb. 1, one of the spinning blades on a turbine at Portland General Electric’s Biglow Canyon wind farm in Sherman County launched into the night. The 135-foot piece of fiberglass, wood and metal weighs more than seven tons. It flew the full length of a football field. An investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive has found that the seemingly isolated incident, which has not been publicly reported until now, is part of a pattern of maintenance problems that have undercut production at PGE’s flagship wind farm, shortchanged ratepayers and landowners, and put those who cultivate wheat under...

A Christian litigation nonprofit announced Friday that it settled the “first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate” in the United States. The settlement awards those workers more than $10.3 million. Liberty Counsel brought the lawsuit against NorthShore University HealthSystem, located in the suburbs of Chicago, on behalf of more than 500 current and former workers who objected to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds. These employees refused the vaccination due to its association with aborted fetal cells, according to Liberty Counsel. The settlement was filed in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois, where...

Ayanna Pressley purchased new rental property months after she proposed creating a 'landlord relief fund...

The young woman allegedly gets her hair done and just as the appointment is about to finish, she asks the hairdresser to quickly dip out to pay her parking meter, leaving the establishments in the cape and hair clips to make it believable. Her latest scam hit Base Salon in the West Loop, which is owned by Rojas, on Friday. The young woman reportedly had a five-hour appointment to get her hair colored, tallying a bill upward of $1,200. CBS Chicago were able to track the woman down - but she said she was unable to comment on the advice...

Alex Jones shows just how pervasive the fraud was in his first Sandy Hook show trial. Segment...

Insects contain high fat, protein, vitamin, fibre, and mineral content, and can facilitate the shift towards healthy and sustainable diets. The environmental benefits of rearing insects for food are founded on: ✅ high feed conversion efficiency of insects ✅ less greenhouse gas emissions ✅ less use of water and arable lands ✅ use of insect-based bioconversion for reducing food waste It is up to you to decide whether you want to eat them or not! Let’s give it a try?

The world is shocked by a dog-like robot that armed with an RPG on its back. Actually this is nothing new, last year a robot dog that armed with a sniper rifle was unveiled.

SKELETAL REMAINS FOUND AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA BOULDER CITY, Nev. – National Park Service rangers responded to a report of the discovery of human skeletal remains in the Swim Beach area of Lake Mead National Recreation Area at approximately 8:00 p.m. PST on Monday, Aug. 15. Park rangers have set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team. The Clark County Medical Examiner has also been contacted. The investigation is ongoing. No further information will be provided at this time.

A subscriber asked me to write a post about my thoughts on Novavax because she “really trusts my judgement.” Flattered, I felt like I should share what they are. So here goes.Before any medical intervention, but especially in the case of a novel or barely tested one, a long standing practice of medical ethics is that informed consent must be obtained. The emphasis should be on the informed part and not the consent part. Note that informed consent has been one of the foundations of medical ethics, essentially an inviolable standard, or at least it used to be before this...

Argentina Street Protests Mass protests on the streets of downtown Buenos Aires today. Thousands demanding higher wages and lower prices... Former New York Mayor and lawyer for President Trump Rudy Giuliani testifying in Atlanta before a Democrat grand jury trying to criminalize Mr. Trump's efforts to uncover voter fraud in connection with the 2020 election... Wall Street going downwards today... The Reserve Bank in New Zealand hiking the prime lending rate .50 percent to 3.0 percent today... An update on the economic turmoil in the Central American nation of Panama... In Australia an increasing shortage of medicines with doctors and...

Pennsylvania Democrat senate candidate John Fetterman said he “did the right thing” pulling a gun on an innocent unarmed black jogger in 2013. On Wednesday, a video of a 2013 local report went viral on social media that featured Fetterman defending his misdeed on camera. At the time, Fetterman had been serving as mayor for the city of Braddock.

Eurowanker governments waiting around for Ukraine to die ======================================== "Translation: MOSCOW, August 16 – RIA Novosti. Western curators have practically written off the Kyiv regime and are already planning the partition of Ukraine, Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman Colonel-General Volodymyr Matveev said at the Moscow Conference on International Security. “Obviously, the West is not concerned about the fate of the Kyiv regime. As can be seen from the information received by the SVR, Western curators have almost written it off and are in full swing developing plans for the division and occupation of at least part of the Ukrainian lands,” he...

Text messages. Mailers. Cold calls. Over the past two years, homeowners have been bombarded with inquiries from investors who want to know one thing: Are they open to selling their property? Since the onset of the Pandemic Housing Boom, investors have flooded the U.S. housing market. There are small players like mom-and-pop landlords and Airbnb hosts who are adding to their property portfolios. Home flippers returned with vengeance. There’s also the Wall Street types like Blackstone and iBuyer players like Opendoor Technologies that are gobbling up homes. The combination of low mortgage rates, easy access to capital, and record home...

A California appeals court says a church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large religious services won’t have to pay about $200,000 in finesSAN J0SE, Calif. -- A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large religious services won't have to pay about $200,000 in fines, a state appeals court ruled. Calvary Chapel San Jose and its pastors were held in contempt of court and fined in 2020 and 2021 for violating state and county limits on indoor public gatherings. The rules were aimed at preventing the spread through close contract...

Former President Donald Trump injected himself into the House Democratic primary races in New York — making eyebrow-raising endorsements of his one-time impeachment tormentor Dan Goldman and Carolyn Maloney in their respective races. “Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, NY-10, and it is my great honor to Strongly Endorse him. I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the Impeachment Committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent,” Trump said in a statement released Wednesday on his Truth Social platform. “While it was my honor to beat him, and beat him...

At least 16 individuals, including some nuns of the Rural Missionaries of Philippines, have been charged with the alleged crime of financing the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been leading an insurgency against the state for decades. The court could issue an arrest warrant. Rural missionaries actually defend the environment and the rights of local indigenous people.Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The Philippine Department of Justice has charged at least 16 people, including several nuns linked to the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, with sending funds to the New People's Army, the...