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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Clearwater man who was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence had a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal limit, according to deputies. According to an affidavit, deputies got a number of 911 calls about Michael Sewell, 42, driving a Nissan erratically in the area of East Lake Road and Eagle Cove Boulevard around 9:50 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10. The deputy who pulled over Sewell noted his breath smelled like alcohol, he was unsteady on his feet and he had glassy and bloodshot eyes. He was unable to perform a field...

MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. Kiev will not receive any "security guarantees", in particular, because its draft is essentially a "prologue" to World War III, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes. "The Kiev camarilla has given birth to a project of 'security guarantees', which are essentially a prologue to a third world war. Of course, no one will provide any 'guarantees' to the Ukrainian Nazis," he wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. He believes that the agreement proposed by Kiev is tantamount to "applying Article 5 of the North Atlantic Pact to Ukraine." This article refers...

President Joe Biden ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff to remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday. She was 96. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine also ordered flags lowered. "In accordance with the orders issued by the President of the United States of America and in remembrance of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Governor DeWine has ordered that the flags of the United States and the State of Ohio be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds throughout the State of Ohio until sunset on the day of interment," a statement from the governor's...

Can you say Midterms.

What does it take to steal a US Election? Some say ballot stuffers (Mules) earn $10 per ballot with instructions to drop no more than 10 ballots at a time in dropboxes located in special districts. Working 10 hours, 5 dropboxes per hour, 10 ballots per dropbox, yields $5,000. That's incentivising, especially to persons recently released from jail. EXAMPLE: PENNSYLVANIA To overcome a 700,000+ vote lead held on Nov 3, 2020 by President Trump in PA, 140 Mules working 10 days, every day before election day, could earn $50,000 each. Payout for 140 such Mules would total $7 million. Only...

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Tuesday slammed President Biden for throwing an “inflation reduction” celebration at the White House, even though annual inflation remains highly elevated at 8.3%. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) chastised Biden ahead of the lawn party after the release of data from August showed a drop in gasoline prices offset by continued 12-month jumps in the cost of food (13.5%), electricity (15.8%), rent (6.8%) and health insurance (24.3%). “You can’t make it up: Hours after this terrible inflation report, the White House is hosting an ‘inflation reduction’ celebration,” McConnell tweeted. “Democrats have spent our economy into...

While we were sleeping (again), Brandon's minions have been preparing to steal the Midterms by Executive Order. EO 14019 was signed on March 7, 2021, less than two months after inaugerating a fraud into the White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting A sample of the order: Sec. 9. Ensuring Access to Voter Registration for Eligible Individuals in Federal Custody. (c) The Attorney General shall establish procedures, consistent with applicable law, for coordinating with the Probation and Pretrial Services Office of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to provide educational materials related to voter registration and voting to all eligible individuals under...

The consumer price index dropped to 8.3% in August, the second straight month the annual figure declined It is relief from the four-decade high of 9.1% recorded in June, but still well above normal target levels Falling gas prices helped offset soaring food prices, with groceries rising a blistering 13.5% from a year ago August's inflation rate was hotter than expected, and stocks fell sharply at Tuesday's opening bell ************************************************************* Inflation in the US dipped again in August to an 8.3 percent annual rate, thanks largely to falling gas prices, but remained near a four-decade high even as President Joe...

A new poll shows Gov. Kathy Hochul with a big lead over Republican rival Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk) despite a plurality of New York voters saying they have an unfavorable view of the Democratic incumbent ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Just 36% of respondents had a positive opinion of Hochul, compared to 41% unfavorable – but she had a 54% to 39% lead over Zeldin, according to data compiled by Public Policy Polling on behalf of her political allies. Zeldin, her conservative challenger, has come within single digits in two GOP-friendly surveys in recent weeks, with others showing her lead...

Some may remember my story of my elderly neighbor who fell in the bath and laid there for nearly 4 days before being rescued by EMS. Long story but my wife and I nursed him back and nearly 3 years later his recovery was surprising. Or so it seemed, I only had a short chats with him from time to time recently, I didn't sense the mental decline. He got picked up by the sheriff for driving erratically in a part of town he wouldn't seem to have any business in. Couldn't say where he was going, when he had...

Two economic figures meant to capture underlying pricing pressures rose sharply in August, indicating that the economy is still experiencing a very high inflation. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland calculates both median inflation and “16 percent trimmed mean” inflation, measures that exclude outlier moves in prices that counted in the Consumer Price Index to reveal underlying inflationary pressures. Both showed that inflation accelerated in August. The median Consumer Price Index, which reflects only measures in the center of CPI’s prices changes, rose 0.7 percent compared with the prior month, an acceleration from the 0.5 percent increase recorded in June....

A man accused of shoplifting from a Queens bodega sucker-punched a 69-year-old worker at the store in a shocking incident caught on camera. Surveillance video released by police Monday shows the man walk into the Long Island City bodega at the corner of 21st Street and 40th Avenue shortly before noon on Aug. 8 and allegedly stuff food items into his pocket. The bodega employee watches as the man attempts to walk out of the store without paying and intercepts him, the video shows. He grabs the suspect and recovers the items, but as he turns to walk away, the...

It's been a number of years since I last posted this and recently decided to start doing this again. As you know, I regard most Freepers to be very well-read individuals. I like to know what people are currently reading. it can be anything - a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a magazine you picked up at the grocery store, etc. Please do not ruin this thread by posting "I'm reading This Thread". It's not that funny. Seriously. I'll start... I'm reading "Gettysburg: the Second Day" by harry W Pfanz. It's a deep book covering in extensive detail -...

The quarter shekel coin, dated to 69 AD, is one of only four of its kind known to exist It took nearly 20 years of dogged detective work and a trail which crossed continents before the case of the missing $1m relic could be closed. "A cherished piece of history [is] finally going home," said a US official at a ceremony marking the occasion. That piece of history is a small silver coin rich in symbolism, minted during a Jewish revolt nearly 2,000 years ago. Looted in Israel in 2002, it was eventually tracked down, seized and is being returned...

UndeadFOIA @ryanm58699717 · 47m October 2020 is obviously well after the IG report. Its after Hmm outed him publicly. He was also engaged AFTER the January 2017 interview where he told the FBI the dossier was garbage. Wtf is going on?

The White House on Tuesday characterized advances by Ukrainian forces against Russia as a “shift in momentum,” but cautioned that the ongoing war in Ukraine remains unpredictable. “I think what you’re seeing is certainly a shift in momentum by the Ukrainian armed forces,” John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, told reporters at a briefing.

An unexpected inflation jump in August set stocks plunging Tuesday as Wall Street braced for steeper Federal Reserve rate hikes and a potential economic slowdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.8 percent shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, a decline of more than 900 points, after the Labor Department released a surprisingly hot consumer price index (CPI) report earlier in the day. The S&P 500 was down 3.1 percent and the Nasdaq composite was down 3.9 percent on the day. Markets began selling off after the Labor Department reported a 0.1 percent increase in the consumer price index (CPI),...

The Ukraine war is now essentially a stalemate. Yes, Ukrainian forces have had some recent success near Kharkiv, but at a high price. The brutal reality is that Russia has approximately 150M people, Ukraine has 40M. Ukraine is a border region of the Russian Federation, and very important to the Kremlin. Now that he has committed forces, Putin cannot let control of the Donbass region go, no matter the casualties. If he allowed that to happen, he would lose power. So, he will follow the old Russian tactic of throwing bodies at the conflict in a long war of attrition....

Astrophysicist and meteorologist weather expert Piers Corbyn was recently interviewed by a reporter in RT.com’s Moscow studio about the unusually hot weather seen in many parts of the world this year, with the reporter stating the standard corporate media line that this is a clear example of “climate change.” But Piers Corbyn replied: Well climate has always been changing, but this has nothing to do with man. Corbyn is the founder of “Weather Action” and he began to explain that they predicted that there would be extreme heat in Eastern Europe in Russia this summer before it even happened, and...

A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY The New York Times reported that the Justice Department issued about 40 subpoenas for communications of former President Donald J. Trump advisers over the past week. They are seeking information about their actions related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, “attack on the Capitol.” It was not an attack on the Capitol. There was a riot. Most people harassed and jailed by the DOJ were just walking around inside the Capitol without permission. The people at the Capitol came unarmed. It couldn’t compare with the years of Antifa and Black Lives Matter violence...