Reagan's New York strategy was genius. Trump is on track to make lightning strike again
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FoxNews ^
| 06/07/2024 | Craig Shirley
According to a recent poll conducted by Emerson College, President Joe Biden has only a seven-point lead over rival and former President Donald Trump in the blue state of New York. Biden is also well under a 50 percent approval rating. Combined
with the candidacy of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this potentially makes the state ripe for picking by Trump in this fall’s election. The Empire State has changed over the years since Ronald Reagan won it in 1980 and again in 1984, but not so much that it is a slam dunk for Biden. He will have to...
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Donald Trump attends the Coca-Cola 600 after former US President flew his private plane OVER the track in North Carolina
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Daily Mail ^
| 5/26/24 | Oliver Salt
Donald Trump is in town for the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 after sending fans wild by flying his private plane over the track in North Carolina. The annual 600-mile NASCAR Cup Series points race is taking place on Sunday evening, with Charlotte Motor Speedway hosting the showpiece as usual on Memorial Day weekend.
And before it got underway at 6pm ET, Trump's private plane was seen flying over the course as he made his grand arrival. Fans went crazy when the former US President's aircraft - known as 'Trump Force One' - jetted over ahead of Sunday's event.
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Far-left Portland DA Mike Schmidt on track for defeat to tough-on-crime former Republican
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NY Post ^
| 05/22/2024 | Ryan King
Voters in Oregon were on the brink Wednesday of ousting progressive Portland DA Mike Schmidt and replacing him with one of his deputies who was once a Republican and has vowed to crack down on rampant crime and drug abuse. As
of Wednesday morning, with about 63% of the vote counted, Schmidt was trailing Nathan Vasquez by 11.9 percentage points — a difference of more than 117,000 votes, according to the latest tally. “I am committed to fulfilling those campaign promises. I’m committed to ending the open-air drug use, to ending the open-air drug dealing that we have suffered from...
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An alleged scammer funnelled Jo O'Brien's life savings offshore. She threatened to track down his family in Pakistan
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ABC (Australia) ^
| 5/20 | Michael Atkin
Jo O'Brien feels like she has nothing left to lose. After
her life savings were stolen, desperation led her in an unusual direction. She's been texting the man who admitted being involved in the elaborate plot that ripped her off. Many people would hesitate before pressing send, but Ms O'Brien is not one of them. "Why would people think it's unusual? "Why wouldn't you just ask, 'Where's my money?'" she asked. And that's exactly what she's been doing. On the receiving end is the Pakistan-born director of a tiny Melbourne company facing serious allegations. He is 29-year-old Muhammad Ali Waheed.
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NZ on Track for Worse Than Predicted Deficit Despite Slashing Government Spending . ( New Zealand )
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Epoch Times ^
| 5/7/2024 | Rex Widerstrom
The reduction in expenditure isn’t enough to balance a sharp fall in the tax take from an economy officially in recession.. Although it has slashed public service numbers and ended some programmes, New Zealand’s coalition government is heading towards its first budget with forecasts of a higher-than-expected deficit. The
National-NZ First-ACT government took office with an ambitious agenda centred on major cuts to public servant numbers. To date, over 4,000 people have lost their jobs as a result, with more expected. ACT Leader and Minister for Regulation David Seymour has previously indicated the total could reach 7,500. But the reduction...
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Transgender track runner wins 2 women's events in which race times would've been last place among men
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Fox News ^
| 05/05/2024 | Ryan Morik
Transgender college runner Sadie Schreiner won three women's events at the Liberty League championship meet (Division III) on Saturday.Schreiner of the Rochester Institute of Technology won the 400 meters with a time of 55.07 and the 200 meters at 24.14.Both times would have been last in the men's races at the meet,
but they were school records in the women's category, according to the site that lists the results of the meet.The 200-meter time is now a Liberty League conference women's record (beating Schreiner's own previous record of 24.50 set earlier this season). Schreiner was also the anchor leg of...
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Trump Changes Track, Signaling He May Not Testify at Trial
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The Epoch Times ^
| 5/2/2024 Updated: 5/2/2024 | Catherine Yang
Former President Donald Trump gave a substantially different answer when asked on May 2 whether he would testify in his own defense at trial. “Well
I’m not allowed to testify, I’m under a gag order,” he told reporters before leaving court on Thursday afternoon. On several previous occasions, President Trump’s response was an emphatic “yes” when asked the same question. This change came the same day New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan held a second hearing over whether President Trump violated his gag order. “We’re going to be appealing the gag order. I'd love to answer that question, it’s...
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Breaking down David Bowie's "Heroes" - track by track
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BBC ^
| 27 January 2016 | Tony Visconti (and Erin)
Producer Tony Visconti uses the original master tapes from sessions at Hansa Studio in Berlin to get to the heart of one of David Bowie’s best-loved songs, the title track from "Heroes". We hear the song built up by individual contributions, including those from guitarist Robert Fripp, Brian Eno's 'synthesiser in a
briefcase' and of course David Bowie's powerful, harshly emotional vocal. This film with Tony Visconti is an extended version of that on the BBC Four programme Music Moguls: Melody Makers. It closes with the iconic music video for Heroes, directed in 1977 by Stanley Dorfman. Release date: 27...
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EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Girls 'Step-Out' Of Track & Field Meet To Protest Transgender Competitor
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https :// www . outkick . com / sports / west - virginia - girls - protest - transgender - biological - male - track - field ^
| April 18, 2024 | Dan Zaksheske
On Tuesday, a United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia law that bars biological boys from competing on girls' sports teams cannot be enforced with regard to a 13-year-old who competes on the girls' track and field team at the athlete's middle school. "The
defendants cannot expect that [this athlete] will countermand her social transition, her medical treatment, and all the work she has done with her schools, teachers, and coaches for nearly half her life by introducing herself to teammates, coaches, and even opponents as a boy," Judge Toby Heytens wrote in his decision, according...
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Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose
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Business Insider ^
| April 17, 2024 | Tom Porter and Mia Jankowicz
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's president, is warning with increasing urgency that his country could lose the war if it doesn't get $60 billion in US aid that Republicans in Congress are refusing to release. "Can
we hold our ground? No," Zelenskyy recently told PBS of Ukraine's prospects should it not get the funding. On the front line in east and south Ukraine, reports say the situation is increasingly desperate, with Russia outfiring Ukraine at a rate of three to one. Parts of the front line are also dangerously close to collapse.
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Audit: San Jose Failed to Adequately Track $300 Million in Homelessness Spending
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San Jose Mercury News ^
| April 15, 2024 | Ethan Varian
City urged to work harder to assess cost, impactOver the past three years, San Jose has failed to consistently track the more than $300 million spent to fight homelessness and cannot adequately ensure that the money is helping to alleviate the crisis, according to a much-anticipated state audit. The
financial audit, released this week by the California State Auditor, also found that San Jose lacks clear goals for its homelessness programs and has no cohesive plan for building the affordable housing needed for its estimated 6,340 homeless residents. “The biggest conclusion that the auditors came back with is that there’s...
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Audit: California Lost Track of $24 Billion Spent to Combat Homelessness
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Breitbart ^
| 04/12/2024 | OLIVIA RONDEAU
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) administration lost track of the $24 billion in taxpayer funds it spent over the past five years in an attempt to curb the state’s homelessness crisis, an audit has found. The
California State Auditor’s report, released on April 9, detailed multiple “gaps” in accountability in regards to how the money was allocated during the 2018-2023 fiscal years. Lead auditor Grant Parks said the state “has not collected sufficient data” to prove that the billions of dollars improved the situation.
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Bridgewater’s Bob Prince says Fed rate-cutting hopes are ‘off track’
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Financial Times ^
| April 09, 2024 | Kate Duguid
Influential investor says US inflation and growth are not at levels where interest rates can fall Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying
articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/680c17d1-0d55 Persistent inflation and hot US growth have left the Federal Reserve’s rate-cutting hopes “off track”, Bridgewater’s Bob Prince said on Tuesday, adding...
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California fails to track effectiveness of billions spent on homelessness, audit finds
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Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^
| April 9, 2024 | Mackenzie Mays
California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit released Tuesday A new report from the California State Auditor's Office found that a state council created to oversee the implementation of homelessness programs has not consistently tracked spending or the outcomes
of those programs. California has spent $20 billion over the past five years dedicated to the state's homelessness crisis, including funneling money toward supporting shelters and subsidizing rent. Still, homelessness grew 6% in 2023 from the year prior, to more than 180,000 people, according to federal "point in...
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How effective are California’s homelessness programs? Audit finds state hasn’t kept track well
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KSBW ^
| Apr 9, 2024
California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, according to state audit released Tuesday. With makeshift tents lining the streets and disrupting businesses in cities and towns throughout California, homelessness has become one
of the most frustrating and seemingly intractable issues in the country’s most populous state. An estimated 171,000 people are homeless in California, which amounts to roughly 30% of all of the homeless people in the U.S. Despite the roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during...
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Italian firm tests energy-saving maglev technology on railway track
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Reuters ^
| 3/12/24 | Giselda Vagnoni
ROME, March 12 (Reuters) - An Italian company has conducted what it says is the first test of magnetic levitation (maglev) transport on an existing railway track, a technology that has the potential to reduce costs and energy use as the industry seeks more efficient systems. IronLev,
a high-tech firm headquartered in the northern Italian town of Treviso, showcased a video of the test at the LetExpo2024 trade fair in the Veneto region on Tuesday
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Container ships easy to hack, track, send off course and even sink, security experts say
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the Security Ledger ^
| July 5, 2018 | Elizabeth Montalbano
Modern container ships already face a number of serious perils at sea. Now
new research from Pen Test Partners shows just how vulnerable these ships are to new dangers from hacking–including being steered off course and sunk–thanks to their use of always-on satellite communications and general lax security practices on board.
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MV Dali Hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore - Track and Video Analysis
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YouTube ‘What’s Goin On With Shipping’ channel ^
| March 26, 2024 | Sal Mercogliano
What's Going on With Shipping? March 26, 2024 In this episode on the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb🍺, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Somali Basin, and Strait of Hormuz, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the allision between MV Dali and the Baltimore Key
Bridge.
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California not on track to meet 2030 emissions goals: Report
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The Hill ^
| 03/15/2024 | SHARON UDASIN
California would need to triple the rate of emissions cuts that the state has undertaken since 2010 in order to meet its climate goals for 2030, a new report has found. The
Golden State’s aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990’s levels by 2030 may be unachievable, according to this year’s California Green Innovation Index, released Thursday by the San Francisco-based nonprofit Next 10. After California’s emissions plunged during the pandemic, they jumped 3.4 percent, per the report, prepared by Beacon Economics and citing information from the California Air Resources Board (CARB). “The increase in emissions...
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Google Timeline can track your Android Device in detail linked to your account
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timeline.google.com ^
| 12 March 2024 | Big Brother
This is very scary. Anywhere I stopped for more than a couple of minutes in the last few years is shown as a red dot on a world map. The
level of detail is very creepy when you zoom in. I didn't recall being in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles or Seattle . . . but zoom in and I'm at the airport.
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