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The “popular” flight attendant failed to show up for the crew’s return flight to London’s Heathrow Airport following 48 hours in SF, according to a report in The Independent. The other crew members on the flight were reportedly too distraught to continue and the flight was canceled. Before the crew member was discovered dead, the pilots left the hotel for San Francisco International Airport. Cabin crew and inflight managers waited for him in the hotel reception, reportedly. When he failed to turn up, they went up to his room and discovered he was deceased. According to The Independent, it’s believed...

Albert Ostman (April 21st 1893 – 1975) was a Canadian prospector who reported that he was abducted by a Sasquatch and held captive for six days. He stated that the event took place near Toba Inlet, British Columbia in 1924. Albert was born in northern Sweden, in Arnäsvall, to Abraham and Albertina Östman (nee Strandberg). He emigrated from Sweden to Canada in 1913. He did not come forward publicly with his story until 1957. ALBERT OSTMAN'S STORY I have always followed logging and construction work. This time I had worked over one year on a construction job, and thought a...

Join our emergency sign waving action to stand up for justice and the rule of law and demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be brought home. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a loving father, husband, son, brother, union construction worker, and a legal resident of the United States. He has been wrongfully disappeared and sent to an El Salvador torture prison, and torn from his family, all due to a shocking administrative error by the U.S. government. President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the guarantees protecting “every person” in the United States under our U.S. Constitution - the...

According to the Migration Policy Institute and ACLU, approximately 75% of deportations under the Obama administration (2009–2017) were nonjudicial removals, meaning they bypassed immigration court hearings and judicial oversight. In FY 2012 alone, 313,000 nonjudicial removals occurred, compared to 1,400 in 1995. These removals often involved "expedited removal" or "administrative removal," where Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents, such as Border Patrol or ICE officers, made decisions without involving an immigration judge. Did you hear one word about this from the media?

America's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan's steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, the US space agency Nasa said. For Pettit - who has now spent a total of 590 days in space - it was his fourth mission. Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit - that...

It’s one thing to be loathed as a politico. Being hated is something that you can work with. It’s a human passion, at least, and so long as it’s not 100 percent universal, it’s workable. It’s far worse to be greeted with general indifference. Which is rather the problem with Kamala Harris According to a poll by Politico and the University of California, Berkeley’s Citrin Center released Tuesday, while Harris has long been considered the front-runner if she decides to run, a group of “policy influencers” chose “indifference” as the overriding emotion they’d have if the 2024 Democratic standard-bearer decided...

Few things better explain how common sense and morality have been subverted than the “boiling frog” analogy. Here is a standard definition: The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.

1977's 'Star Wars' will receive a resurrection screening after being hidden away for decades in favor of tweaked "Special Editions." There is an excellent chance you have never seen Star Wars. Oh, you might think you’ve seen 1977’s Star Wars (now christened Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope). But what you’ve likely actually seen is one of the many altered versions of Star Wars that have been in wide distribution ever since the film’s initial theatrical run. Writer-director George Lucas famously kept making tweaks and changes to his creation through iterations of “Special Editions.” Many of these changes...

Pakistan has deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month, among more than 80,000 who have left ahead of a 30 April deadline, according to the UN. Pakistan has accelerated its drive to expel undocumented Afghans and those who had temporary permission to stay, saying it can no longer cope. Between 700 and 800 families are being deported daily, Taliban officials say, with up to two million people expected to follow in the coming months. Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar flew to Kabul on Saturday for talks with Taliban officials. His counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi expressed "deep concern" about deportations. Some...

During the Chris Plante Radio Show yesterday (Friday, April 18, 2024), out of WMAL in Washington, DC, Chris had on a caller, Sgt. George (since retired), who founded the Prince George's County Police (MD) Gang Unit in the 1980s. He discussed the history, slogans, chronology and idiosyncrasies of MS-13 (La Mara Salvatrucha), one of the most violent gangs in the Western Hemisphere. He also gave an account of what Kilmar Abrego Garcia would have gone through via surveillance, detention/arrest and informant information. It was a brilliant call. LISTEN HERE: Audio linked starts from approximately Minute 20:00 to Minute 33:00: https://megaphone.link/WWO9943614974

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1913390910697513009Apr 18, 2025

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California will soon reopen its e-bike voucher program, offering eligible residents up to $2,000 toward the purchase of an electric bicycle. The state-funded program is designed to help lower- and middle-income Californians replace car trips, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut commuting costs. Incentive funds can be applied as a discount at the time of purchase toward the cost of an eligible e-bike and related accessories. To be eligible, applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a current and valid California driver’s license, AB 60 license, or state ID. Additionally, participants must meet income requirements, with household...

People on social media are outraged over a video reportedly taken at the scene of a fatal mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, on Thursday, April 17. But it's not just over the alleged shooter, identified by Tallahassee police as 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner. It's over video that was seemingly shot by someone walking past a wounded, bleeding woman lying face down on the grass. Rather than stopping to help or even running away from an active shooter, as what sounds like two shots are fired in the background, the person walks by while sipping from a...

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the covid-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans but remains divisive in the intelligence community and opposed by many virologists. The new website, which features an image of President Donald Trump striding between the words “Lab Leak,” appears to draw entirely upon a report overseen by House Republicans last year, which concluded the outbreak began with a lab leak in China. The White House site also echoes the...

Two Minnesota teens survived a head-on crash. The other driver was drunk. A convicted felon. No license. Didn’t speak English. Only had a Guatemalan ID. A judge appointed by Tim Walz let him walk.

A Flawless Four and Half Minute Summary of the Deliberate Subversion and Demolition of the West

Elon was born for this role. That same genius and his team of MIT geniuses who have cracked the government waste and fraud code… Is the perfect team to prove the 2020 election…and multiple Congressional elections before and since…were stolen. If Elon and DOGE can’t prove it, no one can. But there is another important role that Elon was born for… Elon is filthy rich. The richest man on earth. Even with heavy stock losses, Elon is today worth $370 billion. To Elon, $500 million is like me taking a $1 bill out of my wallet. Money makes rats talk....

Comedian Tyler Fischer is persona-non-grata at Fox after being accused of harassing a young female employee at the network's New York studios earlier this year. Fischer, 38, was a frequent guest on Gutfeld!, the network's widely popular late night show that pulls in about five million viewers nightly. But after boldly asking out a young female staffer during a visit to the network's Manhattan HQ in January, his appearances have dried up. Fischer says his only 'crime' was innocently asking the woman out for coffee. He'd been asked to appear on Gutfeld's show on January 30, and was in the...

Half a million weapons obtained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups, sources have told the BBC - with the UN believing that some have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates. The Taliban took control of around one million weapons and pieces of military equipment - which had mostly been funded by the US - when it regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, according to a former Afghan official who spoke to the BBC anonymously. As the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghan soldiers surrendered or fled, abandoning their weapons...