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No more drunk driving? US automakers forced to adopt life-saving tech by 2024

US auto-safety regulators announced Tuesday that they had begun the process that would eventually force carmakers to adopt new technology to prevent intoxicated drivers from starting vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking” to start gathering information and public comments on how to develop, legally require and deploy technology to prevent impaired people from firing up their vehicles.

“Please bring your best ideas, your research – let’s join together to advance as quickly as we can the next technology in impaired driving prevention,” said the deputy transportation secretary, Polly Trottenberg.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Iran Sponsored the October 7 Massacre. America Paid for It.

A chronicle of the Biden administration’s increasingly absurd attempts to hide its complicity in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust

It may strike some observers as curious, and others as unimaginably evil, that only weeks after Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, the Biden administration awarded sanctions waivers worth $10 billion to Iran, the primary external sponsor of those attacks. The waiver, which allows Iran to collect money from the sale of electricity to Iraq, an arrangement that further deepens Iranian control of that country, came with an added bonus: Iran would be allowed to convert the funds into euros which it could spend immediately, without the usual requirement that the money remain in escrow inside Iraq. The prospect that Iran might immediately spend the money it receives on continuing to target U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria doesn’t appear to have disrupted the deal, either.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

The ‘Biden Border Crisis’ Comes to the Big Apple

You could not blame Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams, or anyone else, if — as they remember the economic boom and global calm of the pre-Covid America of President Donald Trump — they were to cast their secret ballot in November for more of the “Trump Boom.”

US President Joe Biden’s disastrous Open Border policy has turned “sanctuary cities” into unrecognizable migrant camps, and New York City is at ground zero of this crisis. More than 110,000 migrants have been left off on Manhattan streets, more than twice as many as cities such as Los Angeles and Houston.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Get Out Your Gunboats? War Clouds Scud Over Venezuela and Guyana

Around the globe, Washington juggles three crises: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war with Hamas, and Chinese belligerence over January’s presidential election in Taiwan. Now, Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, is adding a new one, on South America’s northern coast.

Thursday, Venezuela’s dictator meets with President Irfaan Ali, the democratically-elected leader of Guyana, Venezuela’s sparsely populated neighbor to the east. The goal is to head off South America’s first war since Argentina and Britain fought over the Falkland Islands in 1982.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Is America Becoming France of 1940?

Decades of emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion over combat readiness have taken their toll.

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany’s crushing victory over Poland and several other powers considered to be second rate by most military observers. The disastrous rout of the French army along with its British allies came as a devastating surprise to the free world. Although there is no consensus about a single factor underlying the French failure, most historians seem to agree that there were several contributing causes. Unfortunately, all of them seem to be present in American society and its military today. As Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Michael Cohen Predicts Donald Trump Would Invade Canada

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, warned on Saturday that the former president would invade U.S. allies Mexico and Canada if he’s reelected to the White House in 2024.

Cohen has been a staunch critic of his former boss in light of Trump’s plethora of legal troubles. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, and was sentenced to three years in jail. Cohen’s charges were in connection to hush-money payments made in 2016 on behalf of Trump—who faces 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations that he falsified business records to cover the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels who alleged she had an affair with Trump. The former president has denied the affair and maintains his innocence in the case.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Biden is Preparing to Blame Republicans for Ukraine Loss

Politics is not so much about getting things done, as it is about whom to blame when those things go wrong.

The Biden administration chose to tether a limited Israel military resupply package to a huge one for Ukraine. The goal here was to put Republicans on the wrong side of the Israel debate and then, in the wake of the bad news from Ukraine’s offensive, to blame them for the loss of the war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA

Fight for Gaza’s Khan Younis Puts Israel, U.S. on Collision Course

TEL AVIV—The southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis is a critical target for Israel’s military—strategically and symbolically. The centuries-old market town is the suspected hiding place of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the militant group’s most significant remaining military stronghold.

But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

Disinformation starts at the top — with America’s elites

The Javelin missiles making mincemeat out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks in Ukraine work differently from old-fashioned antitank weapons.

Instead of flying straight at the tank and having to defeat the thick armor on the front and sides, they pop up into the air and come down from above, attacking the comparatively defenseless top, where the armor is much thinner.

That works well for tanks, whose defenses haven’t caught up with the new realities yet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", USA

FBI says U.S. is facing highest risk of attack in YEARS: There are ‘blinking lights everywhere’ and warns terrorists will ‘exploit’ the southern border

FBI director Christopher Wray has warned that the United States is facing the highest risk of a terrorist attack in years in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas atrocity in Israel.

Wray warned the Senate Judiciary Committee that there are ‘blinking red lights everywhere’ when asked to assess the ‘threat matrix’ faced by the U.S.

‘The threat level has gone to a whole ‘other level since October 7,’ Wray said.

Not sure whether he means Catholics or Mohammedans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA