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Even though he was fired for cause, Pete Arredondo, the Texas school district police chief terminated for his actions on the day of a schoolhouse massacre last year, won an appeal to remove a blemish from his discharge file, according to a state think tank that studied his case file. The decision does not enable Arredondo to get his job in Uvalde back, but it clears his record in the event he seeks employment at another agency. "The whole point of this … discharge system is to be a red flag for hiring agencies," said Luis Soberon, a policy adviser...

USDA does not allow animal tumors to enter food chain. But lab-grown meat is made of tumor cells According to Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum, ongoing global warming threatens to destroy humanity. Methane, coming from the belches and farts of cows, is a greenhouse gas (GHG). So, cows are a problem! Fortunately, Bill Gates has a solution for us, explained in this video. We need to stop growing cattle and switch to lab-grown synthetic beef. The World Economic Forum expects we will eat “synthetic meat” in 16 years. (the article below was written 4 years ago) Bill Gates...

A man put to death on Thursday used his last words to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Donald Dillbeck, 59, brutally murdered Faye Vann more than three decades ago, committing the crime after he had escaped from a work-release job while he was already serving a life sentence for murdering Lee County Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. "I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up," Dillbeck reportedly said. "But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse. He's taken a lot from a lot of people. I speak for all...

With return to pre-pandemic office attendance increasingly unlikely, how much distress is the sector facing this year? Since the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold and lockdowns kept American office workers from their on-site desks, observers of the U.S. office real estate sector have been bracing for a surge of distressed properties. Thankfully, while the office sector has been through its share of difficulties in the COVID era, this surge has thus far been averted. But with some of the factors holding back distress activity no longer applying, Yardi Matrix is projecting a pickup in distressed assets this year. For one...

So I’m sharing this Prophetic Warning with you all today. It was received on 22 June 2022. I have spent almost 3 months praying daily over this Word, and The Holy Spirit instructed me to post today. Please weigh and carefully pray over it before just sharing. It’s a weighty Word that requires serious Prayer and Warfare. Journal Entry — 22 June 2022 Urgent Warning: A Threat of Nuclear Weapons, A Snare and a Trap Set for the Bear So, today while busy in my office, I was suddenly alerted by a powerful Vision that stopped me in my tracks....

The downtown office market in major cities continues to struggle after changes brought on by the pandemic, as another major investor has defaulted on loans for a pair of Downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers. According to an SEC filing, Brookfield DTLA Fund Office Trust Investor said that subsidiaries that owned the 52-story Gas Company Tower at 555 W. 5th St were in default on $465 million in loans related to the building. In addition, Brookfield DTLA has defaulted on $319 million in loans related to its 52-story building on S. Figueroa Street, the 777 Tower. In both cases, lenders for both...

In what may be a world-first effort to tackle the climate impact of cars, the government of Wales said Tuesday that it would scrap all its major road building projects, and place tight carbon-related restrictions on future proposals. Wales, a country of 3 million and one of the four nations that make up the U.K., set up a panel in June 2021 to review the environmental cost of 59 planned road projects. Most of the schemes, including new bypasses, highways, and road expansions, were designed to relieve congestion. But the panel concluded that ultimately these projects would encourage more private...

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, researchers Michael Wehner and Alan Rhoades worked with Binod Pokharel, a researcher at Utah State University and Tribhuvan University in Nepal, to help link drought and fire in Nepal to climate change. They also established a model for predicting future fires. According to Pokharel, the project arose from his own interest in the topic, specifically during March 2021 when there was an unprecedented amount of pollution and fire in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. “It was very dry in the nation, that’s for sure,” Pokharel said. “It was also very still. March in Nepal is called...

The US Federal government reminds me of the Peggy Lee song “Is That All There Is?” Since the outbreak of Covid in 2020 and the absurb spending spree by Pelosi and Schumer, the Federal government has increased their debt by 36% to help pay for the Federal spending spree. That amounts to $54.8 TRILLION in additional Federal debt since January 2020. What did the US economy get for all that Federal spending? In Q4 2022, Real GDP rose by … 0.91% YoY. Seriously? Is that all there is from $54.8 TRILLION in additional Federal debt? What do you expect when...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 6Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” 32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. 33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them....

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has issued a set of proposals to crack down on illegal immigration across the state of Florida, blasting President Joe Biden for “reckless … open border policies.” DeSantis detailed the list of legislative proposals during a press conference in Jacksonville on Thursday, urging Florida state legislators to approve the initiatives that would increase criminal penalties for human smugglers, enforce a statewide ban on employers hiring illegal aliens, and prohibit counties from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, among other things. “I think we’re going to be able to do more in the next couple of months...

A group of parents and school police officers from Palm Beach County sent a letter to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis detailing a list of severe and long-standing problems with policing in The School District of Palm Beach County. When the letter was submitted to the DeSantis administration, the group asked for whistleblower status, so I won’t reveal any individuals involved in writing or sending the letter. Still, I’ve spoken to some of them, I know who they are, and I can confirm that it is a “group.” I’ve been told it’s “hundreds and hundreds” of police and parents, but I...

The Russian strongman began his invasion refusing to accept the legitimacy of Ukrainian nationhood and identity. The past year has proven how wrong he was. After a year’s wait and just hours before a speech by President Joe Biden in Poland, Vladimir Putin gave his first “State of the Nation” speech since the invasion of Ukraine. In the nearly two-hour address, the Russian autocrat promised to press on in Ukraine, calling the “existential” conflict a “war” for the first time and asserting that the West had started it. He attacked the leaders of the Ukrainian government as “neo-Nazis,” and addressed...

The proposal is “an attempt for public relations on the part of China,” said Li Mingjiang, a professor and international security expert at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.... In addition to calling for sovereignty to be respected and sanctions against Russia to end, the 12-point paper urges measures to prevent attacks on civilians and civilian facilities, keep nuclear facilities safe, establish humanitarian corridors for civilians and ensure the export of grain after disruptions inflated global food prices. It also called for an end to “Cold War mentality” — China’s standard term for what it regards as U.S. hegemony, and maintenance of...

Poland is to expel the defence attache of Belarus, the Polish Press Agency reported on Thursday, citing a foreign ministry spokesman. Last Friday, Belarus ordered the expulsion of three Polish diplomats, including a border guard liaison officer, in response to Poland’s closure of one of two truck border crossings. Poland has been an important refuge for opponents of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, and is a staunch supporter of Ukraine since Belarus' main ally Russia invaded in February 2022. (snip) Earlier on Thursday, Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak wrote on Twitter that Poland is to place additional defence enforcements, including anti-tank barriers,...

BENGALURU, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Developed nations' failure to deliver on a decade-old commitment to pay $100 billion in annual climate financing to developing nations is a "travesty", Achim Steiner, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, said on Friday. Wealthy nations, who are most responsible for global warming, are yet to deliver on the 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion per year to help developing nations deal with the consequences of rising global temperatures. "A travesty. I say this with all honesty," Steiner told Reuters during an interview on the sidelines of a Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance...

Russia is planning to launch "false flag" attacks to drag Belarus into the Ukraine war and "undermine" the government of Moldova, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). An ISW report published on Thursday, the eve of the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, asserts that Russian President Vladimir Putin's government is "setting conditions" to attack Belarus and make it appear as though the attack was launched by Ukraine. According to the U.S.-based think tank, the false flag operation could force Belarus into the war, while also diverting Ukrainian forces away from the Donetsk region, where...

What we are hearing from the media industrial complex is fear, not concern. Ever since Axios reported that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson unfettered access to surveillance video captured by Capitol security cameras on January 6, 2021, the corporate media has experienced a collective convulsion bordering on a nervous breakdown. Guardians of the fourth estate long ago abandoned their self-proclaimed role as watchdog over those in power in exchange for the role of lapdog. But apparently the last ones to get the joke are reporters, editors, and cable news hosts themselves, who still operate...

@TheInsiderPaper North Korea warned that ‘if the U.S. continues its hostile and provocative actions against North Korea despite our repeated protests and warnings, it can be regarded as a declaration of war"