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A Swedish company launched an app which allows users to earn money by reporting wrongly parked cars. The residents of Sweden, Uppsala, can now receive 100 kroner (€8,50) for reporting each unlawfully parked car. After uploading a photo of the wrongly parked car, the Scout Park app notifies the user that a parking attendant is on their way; each car correctly reported will be issued a fine as a consequence, with the reporting receiving a benefit. The developer, Erik Englund, explained the application: “Scout Park is a so-called gig economy app that allows anyone over the age of 16 with...

It has been clear for quite some time that the Biden regime, despite its show of support for Israel, is really on the side of Hamas. Now the regime is in serious talks to respond to Hamas’ brutal and inhuman murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023 by giving it the biggest reward of all: a Palestinian state.If you are skeptical that Old Joe and his henchmen are really on Hamas’ side, consider the fact that, in November, they enabled the release of ten billion dollars in frozen funds to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas’ primary financier. That...

Is there a Margaret Thatcher in the house who can help stiffen Joe Biden’s spine? The late British prime minister, in a 1990 phone call during the early days of the first Gulf war, famously told a hesitant President George H. W. Bush that it “was no time to go wobbly.” As Thatcher recounts in her first memoir, “The Downing Street Years,” Bush appeared reluctant to act decisively following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Although the United Nations Security Council approved a trade embargo of Iraq, it was left largely to the US and UK to enforce it.

President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday, the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two. "What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!" Trump tweeted. In the audio aired first on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time," Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how...

The Western media have ignored the fate of the Kurds, the people who defeated ISIS for us. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted, "Turkey is right to want to keep its borders secure". The West gave the Turks a green light to massacre the Kurds. The Kurds today, like the Czechs in 1938, were sacrificed in vain. The West has betrayed the Kurds three times in the last three years. They were our ideal allies. They opened their cities, such as Erbil, to tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians expelled by ISIS from Mosul. Iraqi Kurdistan is today the...

"Israel has still not learned the lessons from the Holocaust. Had it taken the meaning to heart, it would stop the ongoing atrocities in Syria." We've been inundated with such messages every since the Syrian bloodbath commenced in 2011. While these vacuous statements are heard constantly, they reach a fever constantly pitch when Yom Hashoah season rolls around. According to this view, Israel is betraying its Jewish heritage by letting Assad butcher his people unopposed. I've always hated hearing people say this because it's the worst kind of virtue signaling. Imagine you were handed the keys: What would you do?...

Top spokespeople for US President Barack Obama's administration on Monday night echoed warnings that a release of classified information on Iran talks would be a "betrayal," after an unnamed official was quoted saying Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will detail the deal being formed with Iran in his US Congress address Tuesday. Earlier on Monday an Israeli official said Israel is familiar with the emerging agreement with Iran and that Netanyahu will elaborate on it in his congressional address, sparking US Secretary of State John Kerry to warn against revealing details - despite his having claimed a week ago that Israel...

“The United States administration is planning to throw Israel under the bus,” Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday night, responding to harsh words against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which were attributed to senior officials in the Obama administration. “Israel is stronger than all those who curse it,” said Bennett, after Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic quoted officials in Washington as having described Netanyahu as “chickens**t”, among other things. “The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole. Serious curses such as these against the Israeli...

There’s a lot about the White House’s account that doesn’t quite add up. I’m not just talking about the changing story that led spokesman Jay Carney to admit: “Even I’m getting confused”. The erroneous details that Osama bin Laden was armed (he wasn’t), that his wife was used as a human shield (she wasn’t), that his wife was killed (she wasn’t) can be put down to over-egging the pudding or, if you’re feeling generous, the fog of war. What I’m talking about is the bigger picture of how bin Laden was discovered and who was killed in that compound. Don’t...

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 Spy Wednesday Today is Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, as we draw closer to the end of Lent and the beginning of the commemoration of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. Today the Mass readings again show Judas Iscariot making the preparations to betray Our Lord. And, today, he is given 30 pieces of silver to turn over Our Lord and bring about His death and horrible suffering. Lent officially ends tomorrow night at the moment the Mass of the Lord's Supper begins. Wednesday’s Gospel reading preludes the betrayal of Judas. How appropriate...

Sen. John McCain is urging senior citizens to cut up their AARP membership cards and mail the pieces back to the organization, claiming AARP has betrayed them. Sen. John McCain is urging senior citizens to cut up their AARP membership cards and mail the pieces back to the organization, claiming AARP has betrayed them. Citing AARP's past opposition to proposed cuts in Medicare, McCain expressed dismay Thursday that the senior group has suddenly changed its position to support $460 billion in cuts to the program proposed by Democrats to help pay for health care legislation. "Shame on AARP," McCain, R-Ariz.,...

MATTHEWS: Draw us a picture of what happened in Haditha. MURTHA: Well I'll tell you exactly what happened. One Marine was killed and the Marines just said we're gonna take care...we don't know who the enemy is, the pressure was too much on them, so they went into houses and actually killed civilians and...I... MATTHEWS: Was this My Lai? When you say cold blood Congressman, a lot of people think you're basically saying you've got some civilians sitting in a room or out in a field and they're executed on purpose... MURTHA: That's exactly what happened. MATTHEWS: ...not because any...

John Kerry... still hopelessly stuck in the past (it's 1971 all over again...)    (click here to see it reeeeeeeally large)  

Manuel Rosales, the governor of the State of Zulia, Monday will enact a decree on layout and planning of idle lands in this region and will announce the creation of the Zulia's Agrarian Commission. Rosales added that the land decree would be drafted by common consent of all sectors in this state. "The land decree will be worked out and drafted according to the Constitution, the laws of the Republic and the decree enacted by President Chávez. The point is to negotiate, have a dialogue and an agreement so that we can make headway in the two subjects that, as...

All will have to agree, it was close run thing. However, I will never understand how John Kerry could have confused so many people across America on his Vietnam record. Many of us who served in Vietnam remembered what John Kerry did in Vietnam when he bugged out on his shipmates after only four months in a combat zone and especially what he did when he came home and his tirades against those who served honorably. Over 2.7 million American Armed Forces men and women served in Vietnam. This does not include the thousands of Foreign Service and volunteer agency...

Was Gore right in saying who stooped to betraying?· I'm Gore, who believes I'm behooved by speeches I'm giving to prove the anger of Dean is wimpy and lean compared to the hate I exude. Attacking George Dubya, I say: "'Twas not just from wisdom he strayed. I'm raising my voice alleging his choice was he would our country betray." Hey, Al, as the Joe who was nearer to you when your thinking was clearer, I sadly must say to see who betrays just look at yourself in the mirror.

Republican Senator Bill Finkbeiner; Raising Taxes and Eroding Property Rights "Governor’s Sustainable Washington Advisory Panel BIOS's". "(As of September 9, 2002)" http://sustainableseattle.org/sustpanel/bios.doc Senator Bill Finkbeiner, Washington State Senate, (R) 45th Legislative District Representative Fred Jarrett, Washington State House of Representatives (R) 41st Legislative District, et al A New Path Forward. Action Plan for a Sustainable Washington: Achieving Long- term Economic, Social, and Environmental Vitality"; was Submitted to Governor Gary Locke on February, 2003 by the "Governor’s Sustainable Washington Advisory Panel." Governor Gary Locke issued Executive Order 02-03, Sustainable Practices By State Agencies and legislation is under consideration to pave the...

The head of nazi propaganda once said, "Repeat a lie loudly enough and often enough and people will begin to believe it." Here is a great example of how the liberal media applies that nazi propaganda trick: the lie that Bush Senior is to blame for the Iraq mess. I fell into that trap, myself. I owe the Bush Senior Team a big apology. I woke up at midnight, unable to go back to sleep, thinking of how I had wronged them, it hit me so hard. Many other conservatives owe the Bush Senior team an apology as well. Their...