Author: Blazingcatfur
The Titan implosion will be investigated by an international group of agencies
An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused the Titan submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, and U.S. maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide.
Investigators from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident, which happened in an “unforgiving and difficult-to-access region” of the North Atlantic, said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.
California State Senator Urges Families to Flee the State
His warning comes as the California house passes a bill that strips rights from parents.
The attack on children continues as California state Sen. Scott Wiener sponsored two bills in the state Legislature that endanger minors and strip rights away from parents, handing them over to the state.
AB 665 and 957 each concern the rights of parents in relation to children, especially children questioning their sexual identity. AB 665 is waiting to pass the senate. AB 957 has already been signed into law.
Attorney Erin Friday calls AB 665 “state-sanctioned kidnapping” and says that under Ab 957 parents could be guilty of “child abuse” for refusing to affirm the child’s gender identity.
Wagner mutiny: Prigozhin’s soldiers rage while others cry conspiracy
Yevgeny Prigozhin may have boasted he had the loyalty of all 25,000 members of his mercenary army, but it seems that may have shifted as quickly as the Wagner Group’s rebellion petered out.
In online messages analysed by BBC Verify, Wagner troops and their relatives raged against Prigozhin’s decision to halt his dramatic march on Moscow and withdraw from the captured city of Rostov. “The bald waste of space destroyed Wagner PMC with his own hands. And screwed everyone he could,” fumed one online poster claiming to be a Wagner fighter on a Telegram channel with 200,000 followers.
Biden’s Endless Gifts to China
The gifts the Biden Administration has already given the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in just two years have been nothing short of exorbitant — and often to the detriment of the US.
Meghan Markle is ‘not a great’ talent, UTA CEO says after Spotify podcast goes bust
The CEO of United Talent Agency blasted Meghan Markle as untalented after Spotify put the kibosh on the Duchess of Sussex’s podcast.
“Turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent,” Jeremy Zimmer told Semafor at the 2023 Cannes Lions advertising festival last week.
More Evidence Against Hunter Biden Is Coming
During a recent interview on NewsmaxTV, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, disclosed that he possesses further evidence concerning Hunter Biden, which will be made public soon. This revelation comes after whistleblower allegations against the Biden family broke last week.
California school district is sued after administrator said he wanted to bring voices that oppose DEI measure ‘to the slaughterhouse’ and another called America a ‘f*****g piece of s*** nation’
A California school administrator who was named in a lawsuit brought by a faculty member said he wanted to bring voices who opposed diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ‘to the slaughterhouse.’
Professor Daymon Johnson filed a suit against Bakersfield College after claiming he was targeted for being outspoken about his political beliefs.
It was filed after Johnson replied to a post from another faculty member who had called America a ‘f***ing piece of s**** nation.’
Shopify CEO calls CRA request for Canadian stores’ records ‘overreach’
The CEO of Shopify is vowing to fight a request from the Canada Revenue Agency asking the e-commerce company to provide it with six years’ worth of merchant records.
“I don’t particularly want a fight with the CRA (Canada’s tax authority)- but we got asked to backchannel them six years of records for all Canadian Shopify stores,” Tobi Lutke wrote on Twitter late Friday.
Bud Light Will Permanently Lose Nearly a Fourth of Its Business: Analysts
Some of Bud Light’s problems could be permanent, according to an analyst in a new note about the beleaguered brand in the wake of a boycott over its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.
“We believe recent underperformance implies a permanent reduction in ABI’s U.S. business,” Deutsche Bank analyst Mitch Collett wrote for Barron’s, referring to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent company of Bud Light. “Our proprietary survey data suggests these headwinds are likely to fade even if we do not expect the U.S. business ever to fully recover from its current challenges.”
Non-Binary Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison, victim says ‘devil awaits’ defendant
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub in 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder and other charges in the attack.
The sentencing of Anderson Lee Aldrich comes just seven months after the shooting and spares victims’ families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial.
Aldrich declined to address the court prior to sentencing.
Aldrich was charged with more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. The U.S. Justice Department is considering pursuing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case.
Two-Thirds of Americans ‘Concerned’ About Biden’s Mental, Physical Fitness for Office: New Poll
A new poll out Sunday suggests that more than two-thirds of Americans are concerned that President Biden lacks the necessary mental and physical health to be president — and more than half of them describe those concerns as “major.”
A Toronto-area middle school is in crisis. Administrators pin the blame on teachers
At Tomken Road Middle School in Mississauga, Ont., in the suburbs west of Toronto, the last day of school on Friday cannot come soon enough.
The school of 900 or so students in grades 6, 7 and 8 (aged 11 to 14) is in crisis, not only because of uncorrected misbehaviour by students that puts safety at risk and undermines every student’s education, but also because of bitter acrimony between teachers and board administration about how to respond.
Deal off? Charges against Wagner warlord haven’t been dropped, Russian media reports
Russia’s criminal case against Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin remains open, in spite of an agreement found with the Kremlin which would allow the renegade warlord to avoid prosecution for leading a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s regime, according to media reports.
“The criminal case against Prigozhin has not been terminated,” Russian state-owned newswire Ria Novosti reported Monday, quoting a “source in the Prosecutor General’s Office,” and confirming previous Russian media reports, including from the other major Russian state-owned newswire, TASS.
‘I’ve never seen the country in a darker, more divided mood than we find it today’
Economic uncertainty, affordability challenges, and rising polarization is making it difficult for any federal party to shift their voter base far beyond their respective 2021 election results, according to some pollsters.
Frank Graves, president of EKOS Research, said polling results should be placed in the context of long-term pessimism about economic conditions, rising distrust of institutions, and disinformation.
“I’ve never seen the country in a darker, more divided mood than we find it today,” he said.