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  • Stop Your Car From Spying on You

    03/26/2024 7:19:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 27 replies
    Reason ^ | March 25, 2024 | J.D. Tuccille
    Being proved right isn't always fun. Just weeks after my warning in the March issue that our modern high-tech cars are tracking us and sharing data with manufacturers, cops, and parties unknown, came a report of soaring auto insurance premiums because of snitching vehicles. The consequences get worse from there. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your snoopy ride from contacting the mothership. Your Driving History May Be Transmitted and Stored "Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry," Kashmir Hill reported this month for The New York Times. "Sometimes this is happening...
  • Dreamstar's SF-LA night train signs 'collaboration' with Union Pacific

    03/25/2024 9:14:17 PM PDT · by thecodont · 21 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | March 25, 2024 | By Bill Buchanan
    The California company working to start a deluxe overnight passenger train between San Francisco and Los Angeles says it has signed a “landmark memorandum” with Union Pacific Railroad. It’s not a final contract, but Dreamstar Lines of Newport Beach said the memorandum of understanding “formaliz[es] the parties’ negotiations toward a comprehensive final agreement” and “identifies the fundamental terms for Dreamstar to operate its trains” on UP’s Coast Line via Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and San Jose. Dreamstar wants to start the service in summer 2025. Union Pacific owns most of the 470-mile route. To complete the link between San...
  • Emergency landing at LAX for United Airlines flight on Friday was the fourth this week

    03/10/2024 7:33:04 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 37 replies
    Just the News ^ | March 9, 2024 | Staff
    A United Airlines plane flying from San Francisco to Mexico City made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Friday after a hydraulics issue was reported by the crew. The plane, an Airbus A320 jetliner, safely landed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) around 4:30 p.m. local time Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). *** This was the fourth emergency landing of a United Airlines flight this week and will be investigated by the FAA. ***
  • Anyone know what's causing airline cancellations today? (Vanity)

    03/09/2024 6:15:32 PM PST · by HartleyMBaldwin · 52 replies
    Does anyone know why so many flights have been cancelled? My wife was going to fly from Phoenix to Miami this evening, but the flight was cancelled, and there seems to be nothing else available on any airline. At first the airline said it was due to weather, but later somebody said it was something to do with air traffic control problems. There seems to be nothing on the news about this.
  • Possible Flood Waters in California - Be Prepared- "Go Bag" and contents

    03/03/2024 8:18:13 AM PST · by Tilted Irish Kilt · 18 replies
    3/3/2024 | vanity
    metmom :""Warning to Freepers in flood prone areas of Kalifornia to make preparations in the event of such a scenario. Get your important papers and items together, pack a bag, prep several days of food - all in a ‘grab and go’ level of preparation.Review potential escape routes to high ground and make preliminary plans on where to stay. If with friends/family, make sure you call them and touch base so they aren’t taken by surprise when you show up at the door. Hopefully, the spring will be relatively tame and the snow melt not triggering massive floods. But you...
  • What’s in your wallet? A lot less if Dick Durbin gets his way

    03/02/2024 3:19:10 PM PST · by AbolishCSEU · 9 replies
    Thehill.com ^ | 10/13/23 | Gerard Scimeca
    For over 20 years, Americans have been questioned by a credit card catchphrase asking, “What’s in your wallet?” The more relevant question today is who is in your wallet, given the activist lawmakers in Washington eager to regulate nearly every aspect of our financial lives. And once again, we open our wallets to find Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) settling in and making himself comfortable. Aside from earning a spot on the Mt. Rushmore of Senate tax raisers over his career, Durbin has gone above and beyond, raiding Americans’ wallets – specifically their debit cards – with vigor in 2010 through...
  • United flight from San Francisco to Boston diverted due to damage to one of its wings

    02/20/2024 8:22:35 PM PST · by libh8er · 45 replies
    Seattle Times ^ | 2.20.2024 | Beatrice Dupuy
    NEW YORK (AP) — A United Airlines cross-country flight was cut short and the jetliner landed in Denver after one of its wings was damaged. A passenger on the San Francisco-to-Boston flight Monday said he had just put in earbuds and started to doze off when he felt the plane shaking. “All of a sudden I heard this violent vibration like I had never heard before,” Kevin Clarke said in an interview Tuesday. Clarke said one of the pilots walked down the aisle of the main cabin, then returned to the cockpit and announced that the plane had minor damage...
  • Facial Recognition: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You Biometrics are transforming the way we travel. The technology,... is becoming more common at airports in the United States.

    02/19/2024 2:13:22 PM PST · by daniel1212 · 53 replies
    New York Times ^ | 2/18/24, | Christine Chung
    Biometrics are transforming the way we travel. The technology, which identifies travelers using unique physical traits like fingerprints and faces, is becoming more common at airports in the United States. As a result, time-consuming rituals that once required repeated ID checks — such as bag dropping, security screening and boarding — are getting easier and faster. Some experts believe that this will be the year that biometric use, primarily facial recognition, becomes standard at many airports. The technology offers several advantages: enhanced security, quicker processing of passengers and a more convenient airport experience. It also raises concerns about privacy, ethics...
  • Left lane driving bill passes West Virginia Senate

    02/09/2024 11:04:39 PM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 50 replies
    DC News Now ^ | Feb 9, 2024 | Jessica Patterson
    CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – The West Virginia State Senate has passed a bill designed to keep slow drivers out of the fast lane. Senate Bill 441 was introduced to the State Senate in January with a goal of restricting slow drivers from driving in the left lane, or the fast lane, of multi-lane roads. It would require drivers to remain in the right lane, except in circumstances such as passing a vehicle, preparing to exit to the left or if the right side of the road is in need of repair or otherwise unsafe to drive on, among other exceptions....
  • Husband, 63, dies beside his wife when 'litres of blood' shoot out of his nose and mouth all over the interior of the plane in front of screaming passengers flying from Bangkok to Germany

    02/09/2024 8:50:34 AM PST · by algore · 92 replies
    Horrified air passengers screamed and were left 'traumatised' yesterday when a German husband started coughing up 'litres of blood' in front of his wife before collapsing and dying mid-flight. The man - who was travelling with his Filipina wife - had got on with 'cold sweats' and was 'breathing much too quickly' before passengers rushed to help him, offering chamomile tea and taking his pulse. But as the plane took off, his health went quickly downhill. The man was said to have been spitting into a bag when a 'gush of blood' came out of his mouth and nose, splattering...
  • 2 Kentucky moms say they were drugged and raped by Bahamas resort staffers, weren’t told about travel warning until after horrific assault

    02/08/2024 5:24:15 AM PST · by george76 · 73 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 8, 2024, | Allie Griffin
    Two moms from Kentucky are speaking out after they were drugged and raped in the Bahamas after the US issued a travel warning for the vacation hotspot. Longtime friends Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson said their first kid-free vacation ended with a traumatic, broad-daylight assault when they decided to go to the beach after the Carnival cruise ship they were on docked at the island country. Now they’re warning other women. The moms were relaxing on a Grand Bahama beach when a resort staffer offered them a two-for-one drink deal ... they soon felt like the drinks were much stronger...
  • Trump's top prosecutor in Georgia admits dating DA Fani Willis, but says they always went halfsies on travel

    02/02/2024 4:29:57 PM PST · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Business Insider via MSN ^ | 2/02/24 | Natalie Musumeci
    Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney prosecuting former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies over 2020 election interference, admitted to having a relationship with the man she appointed to special prosecutor in the case. In a new court filing on Friday, attorneys for Willis hit back at demands to disqualify her over allegations that she had an "improper" romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The highly-anticipated court filing was in response to a January 8 motion that was filed by a lawyer for one of the co-defendants in the racketeering case, former Trump campaign staffer...
  • Americans Urged to Reconsider Travel to Jamaica (and Bahamas) Amid Spate of Murders

    01/31/2024 9:22:26 AM PST · by nuconvert · 23 replies
    Yahoo ^ | Jan. 31, 2024
    The U.S. government has raised its travel alert level for Jamaica amid a spate of murders in the Caribbean nation, urging Americans to reconsider visiting the island "due to crime and [unreliable] medical services." The State Department announced the change, to its Level 3 travel advisory, for Jamaica just a few days after it issued a warning about the Bahamas, which remained at a Level 2 advisory, urging Americans to "exercise increased caution," despite a series of murders there.
  • New Lithium Discoveries Can Secure America’s Clean Energy Future

    01/29/2024 4:45:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    nationalinterest.org ^ | January 24, 2024 | by Joseph Bouchard
    This development is a goldmine opportunity to reduce America’s economic and energy dependence on foreign states and to create thousands of clean, good-paying middle-class jobs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ n November 28, 2023, the Department of Energy confirmed its discovery of a 3,400-kiloton reserve of lithium in California’s Salton Sea, making it one of the largest exploitable lithium deposits in the world. In August, American volcanologists and geologists found a large lithium deposit in Nevada’s ancient McDermitt Caldera volcano, which could produce between 20,000 and 40,000 kilotons. If fully exploited, both deposits would be sufficient to fulfill the world’s lithium needs many times...
  • Bahamas travel warning issued in wake of 18 murders so far this year

    01/27/2024 8:49:32 PM PST · by george76 · 16 replies
    New York Post ^ | Jan. 26, 2024 | Alex Mitchell
    Think twice about a tropical getaway to the Caribbean this winter. The U.S. embassy in the Bahamas has released a security warning and travel advisory that the island nation is currently unsafe for tourists amidst 18 murders — “primarily” motivated by gang violence — in January alone. Safety concerns have reached a point of severity where U.S. officials say people shouldn’t even try to “physically resist” being robbed. “Murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets,” the embassy wrote in a release, also recommending the use of “extreme caution” on the eastern side of the...
  • Bahamas deputy prime minister calls 2023 'a banner year for tourism' only ONE day after US Embassy issues urgent travel warning over soaring violent crime - as January murder toll jumps AGAIN to 18

    01/28/2024 4:47:57 AM PST · by Libloather · 3 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/24 | Kamal Sultan
    The deputy prime minister of The Bahamas has praised 2023 as a 'banner year for tourism' after the US embassy advised Americans visiting the country to be cautious. Chester Cooper spoke at an event in Tallahassee, Florida organized by the Florida Federation of Alpha Chapters in which he promoted The Bahamas to the fraternity group. 'The year 2023 was a banner year in tourism that brought us an unprecedented 8 million plus in visitor arrivals,' he proudly stated on Thursday. It came just a day after the US Embassy in Nassau issued a security and advisory warning to tourists about...
  • Are Intact Airplanes Too Much For The Shrinking Middle Class To Ask For?

    01/25/2024 8:25:52 PM PST · by bitt · 30 replies
    thefederalist.com ^ | 1/12/2024 | PEACHY KEENAN
    Things we once enjoyed have suddenly gotten so much worse. Not just a little worse, but way worse. You pay more, you get less, and it sucks. Social media was on fire this week in the wake of the Claudine Gay incompetence scandal at Harvard, the 737 IKEA MAX airplane scandal at Boeing, and the ongoing scandal of fanatic, destructive DEI hiring rules at airlines, air traffic control towers, colleges, corporate America, and everywhere else that matters. Things got so wild that Elon Musk replied positively to one of my anti-DEI screeds, and Matt Walsh credited me for some of...
  • Rob Schneider: Fire United Airlines CEO for Putting Woke DEI Over Safety

    01/24/2024 7:16:02 PM PST · by george76 · 19 replies
    News Busters ^ | January 22nd, 2024 | Tom Olohan
    Actor Rob Schneider put a wokeism-obsessed United Airlines CEO on notice after a dangerous incident occurred on his watch. Schneider called for United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby to be fired in a Jan. 21 X (formerly Twitter) post after a flight nearly crashed into the ocean. Schneider verbally mauled Kirby, writing: “I cannot tell you how many United Airlines employees have personally thanked me for my valid criticism of your careless and life-threatening leadership. I look forward to your swift dismissal by UA’s board of directors before your inane actions cause the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children.”...
  • Disgruntled passenger is removed for FARTING excessively on American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Austin

    01/23/2024 10:45:47 PM PST · by Libloather · 70 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/23/24 | Dolores Chang
    A disgruntled passenger was removed for farting excessively on an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Austin last week, it has been claimed. The early evening flight from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas was forced to return to its gate and delayed by 15 to 30 minutes, according to a passenger who was on the flight said. The Texas-based traveler wrote on Reddit: 'I was on a direct American flight from Phoenix to Austin and I was seated near the row where this situation occurred.' The Reddit poster described the...
  • Gov. Kathy Hochul declares war against NYC congestion toll beaters with ‘fraud’ proposal in new budget

    01/22/2024 8:03:57 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/21/2024 | Carl Campanile
    Drivers who evade the controversial $15 congestion pricing toll to enter Midtown Manhattan will be treated like criminals under legislation introduced by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul included a “toll fraud” proposal in her $233 billion state budget plan. The measure would allow cops to charge drivers with Class A misdemeanor toll theft — defined as fraudulently attempting to obtain a credit, discount or exemption from tolls. Scammers who evade paying tolls valued at more than $1,000 could get slapped with a Class E felony and a Class D felony for pocketing tolls valued at more than $3,000.