Sun Valley Community Church In Arizona Announces Sale Of Property
Sun Valley Community Church In Arizona Announces Sale Of Property https://digitalarizonanews.com/sun-valley-community-church-in-arizona-announces-sale-of-property/
, /PRNewswire/ — Sun Valley Community Church in Gilbert, AZ, has agreed to sell its 16-acre property at 6106 S. River Dr. in Tempe to Valley Christian Schools (VCS) of Chandler, AZ.
Sun Valley Tempe Campus
Sun Valley Community Church has been partnering with the VCS Elementary campus adjacent to its church since 2019, sharing its parking area and worship buildings with the expanding school. Valley Christian has been searching for 18 months to try and find a permanent home for their K-8 campus, and this Tempe site will now serve as its permanent home, effective for the 2023-24 school year.
Sun Valley congregants will continue to meet at the existing campus in a leaseback agreement with the school. The church has purchased land near the corner of McClintock and Chandler Boulevard in Chandler, where it will build the future home of its campus. The new location will be the most driven-by of all its campuses and be modeled after its latest building in south Gilbert.
The acquisition was celebrated by both Christian organizations for the spirit of collaboration in which it was made. “We’re very excited that through both organizations, more people will meet, know and follow Jesus,” said Chad Moore, Lead Pastor at Sun Valley. “We believe in Valley Christian Schools’s mission to raise leaders who will positively impact their communities. We are also excited for the relocation of our Tempe campus and its future growth and what God has in store for the next few years here at Sun Valley.”
About Sun Valley Community Church
Headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona,
Sun Valley Community Church
was opened in 1990 and meets in multiple locations each weekend and online. The church exists to help people meet, know and follow Jesus; and believes that no matter who you are, what you’ve done, or what’s been done to you, God loves you and has a purpose for your life.
About Valley Christian Schools
Established in 1982, VCS provides 1,000+ Kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school students a distinctly Christian education with excellent academics, championship athletics, award-winning fine arts, cutting-edge STEM programs, and a supporting community. Engaged in their education and faith, students are equipped for the future and empowered to make a difference. Valley Christian is ranked as one of the Top 50 Christian high schools in the U.S., the #1 Christian high school in Arizona, and as one of the Top 125 Places to Work in Arizona.
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Sen. Liz Cheney Will Quit GOP If Trump Is The 2024 Presidential Nominee
Sen. Liz Cheney Will Quit GOP If Trump Is The 2024 Presidential Nominee https://digitalarizonanews.com/sen-liz-cheney-will-quit-gop-if-trump-is-the-2024-presidential-nominee/
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming says she “won’t be a Republican” if former President Donald Trump is the GOP nominee for president in 2024 and would consider stumping for Democrats in some cases.
Ms. Cheney was defeated handily in her GOP primary earlier this year, so she is pivoting toward warnings about what Mr. Trump could mean for the party’s future.
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” she told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith at the publication’s festival over the weekend.
Ms. Cheney is one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and voted to impeach Mr. Trump, causing friction with party leadership and stoking the ire of Mr. Trump and his allies.
The congresswoman said she will try to thwart Republican nominee Kari Lake, who has questioned the 2020 election results, from becoming governor in Arizona.
“I am going to do everything I can to make sure that Kari Lake is not elected,” Ms. Cheney said, adding she would be willing to campaign for Democrats.
Ms. Lake shrugged off the comments, saying Ms. Cheney they could fuel her to victory.
“That might be the biggest, best gift I have ever received,” Ms. Lake told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “The Republican Party, the new Republican Party, is the party of we, the people. It is no longer the party of warmongers.”
“Liz Cheney probably should change her voter registration,” Ms. Lake said. “Turns out she really is a Democrat after all.”
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What Does Being A Sanctuary City Mean? What Does Cape Cod Offer? Here
What Does Being A Sanctuary City Mean? What Does Cape Cod Offer? Here https://digitalarizonanews.com/what-does-being-a-sanctuary-city-mean-what-does-cape-cod-offer-here/
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took credit for flying 50 migrants, mostly Venezuelan, from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14, the Republican presidential hopeful suggested it would be better for individuals to find a home in a liberal state.
“It’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you, to be able to go to greener pastures,” DeSantis told reporters.
DeSantis’ claim is wrong.
While the Bay State has several policies that protect migrants, the state has not adopted a sanctuary resolution or ordinance.
“(DeSantis) is leveraging disinformation to create widespread fear,” said Lloyd Barba, assistant professor of Latin American studies at Amherst College. “He is tapping at the culture wars, and ready made one-liners, which he preferred over accurate and truthful information.”
Six Cape Cod towns designated “safe communities” by town meeting votes
Since 2017, six out of 15 Cape Cod towns have become designated “safe communities,” offering some protection to undocumented migrants, said activist Mark Gabriele.
But the word sanctuary, he said, can often be misunderstood.
“There is no protection for any criminal prosecution, or protection from ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) performing its functions,” said Gabriele, of the Cape Cod Coalition for Safe Communities. “It’s a matter of the local police participating or not participating in ICE initiatives. That’s the heart of it.”
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Towns with safe community designations on the Cape include Provincetown, Truro, Eastham, Wellfleet, Brewster, and Dennis. Designations were largely established in 2017, as the result of coordinated citizen petitions sponsored during May and April town meetings.
A petition was also submitted to the Orleans Board of Selectman, and was introduced during May 2017 town meeting as Article 46. But the matter was indefinitely postponed and did not pass.
Michael Hager, a member of the coalition, led Eastham’s efforts for safe community designation.
Town meetings approve disconnecting federal immigration authorities from local law enforcement
Each town’s petition contained similar language, and asked the town Select Board to tell town officials to refrain from using town money and other resources to enforce federal immigration law, unless presented with a criminal warrant or other evidence of probable cause.
The petitions also asked Select Boards to protect the civil liberties and human rights of all town residents regardless of age, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual and gender identity, marital or economic status, national origin, or citizenship and immigrant status.
“What it meant was that there would be a disconnect between federal authorities and local law enforcement,” Hager said.
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With safe communities, local officials agree to refrain from going after people based on immigration status
To Gabriele’s point, Hager said, the designation only works if local law enforcement embrace protection measures. Federal immigration authorities can still enter a sanctuary town. It’s the local officials who agreed to refrain from going after people based on their immigration status.
In Eastham, Edward Kulhawik was police chief at the time, and spoke in favor of the designation during May 2017 town meeting. Kulhawik was hopeful it could help promote public safety throughout the community, said Hager.
“He understood that having a safe community was consistent with community policing values. He respected all people — he didn’t want to scare people,” he said. “He wanted everyone — whether they were documented or not — to come to the police when they needed them.”
In February 2020, Adam Bohannon became the Eastham chief of police. Bohannon did not immediately return emailed questions from the Times regarding his outlook on the town’s safe community designation.
Designations stem from Trump 2017 executive orders
Coordinated efforts to bring safe community designations to the Cape, said Hager, were in response to President Donald Trump’s January 2017 executive order, banning foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries — an act that became known to many as the “Muslim ban.”
More: Migrants leave Martha’s Vineyard with an emotional goodbye on the way their way Cape Cod
Coalition members, said Hager, were fearful that undocumented immigrants, Muslims, and other minority groups would be harassed, or deported because of those measures.
In that same year, the Trump administration also intensified immigration enforcement surrounding Central and South American migrants at the southern border, and others living within the United States, said Hager.
The Trump administration also made a real effort to motivate local authorities, particularly sheriffs, to be helpful to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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“They wanted local law enforcement to allow ICE to interview people and hold them beyond their release date, which the Massachusetts Supreme Court said was illegal,” Hager said.
In December 2017, Barnstable County Sheriff James Cummings entered into a 287(g) agreement with ICE, which allows local deputies to serve as federal immigration agents and enforce federal civil immigration law. In its first year, the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office referred 79 inmates to ICE. Barnstable County is the last remaining sheriff’s office in the state to have an active 287(g) agreement.
There are eight Sanctuary City designations within the Commonwealth
As Cape towns were voting on safe community designations, sanctuary city and sanctuary state designations were popping up across the United States, said Hager.
In Massachusetts, Amherst, Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Concord, Newton, Northampton and Somerville were established as sanctuary cities shortly after Trump was elected into office.
More: Rep. Dylan Fernandes speaks about migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard from Florida
The term “sanctuary” quickly became an explosive term, said Hager, with Trump threatening to withhold federal funding from cities established as sanctuary cities. That’s why the Cape coalition opted for the term “safe communities” instead.
Amherst College’s Barba said some towns and states refused to enact sanctuary designations, for fear of losing financial aid.
“A little town in California called Arvin is about 95% Hispanic,” he said. “The city council is Hispanic and they still chose not to become a sanctuary city because they were afraid Trump would withhold federal funding.”
Barba went on to say there’s no one definition of a sanctuary city. But, according to each city’s public record and ordinance, local law enforcement should be limiting information they share with federal immigration officers.
“Local police officers are not supposed to allow immigration officers to come into local jails, interrogate immigrants on their immigration status,” he said.
While the ordinances are important, Barba said sanctuary designations don’t guarantee that police won’t cooperate with ICE officials.
More: Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard sue DeSantis in federal court. What the lawsuit says
“It’s kind of their (local police) call,” he said. “If they are investigating a violent crime, in that case they could. It doesn’t work how one would assume.”
Migrants are not safe from deportation in areas designated as sanctuaries, according to one scholar
The misconception, Barba said, is that people think migrants are safe from deportation in areas designated as sanctuaries.
“That’s a classic piece of misinformation,” he said.
Los Angeles, Barba said, is a sanctuary city, within a sanctuary county, within a sanctuary state. But during Trump’s time in office, large numbers of immigrants were deported.
“Los Angeles had three layers of a sanctuary protection, but again, huge (deportation) rates still happened,” he said. “People were being rounded up at factories, parking lots, and their day jobs.”
In New York City, which has a sanctuary designation, ICE worked harder for deportations because local law enforcement wouldn’t cooperate.
“It’s fair to say that sanctuary cities make ICE’s job harder — because of the commitment to be more fair to immigrants,” Barba said. “But there are unintended consequences of becoming a sanctuary city also.”
Sanctuary-designated churches, hospitals and schools provide true protection, according to Amherst pastor
Ironclad protections for migrants come into play only in sanctuary-designated houses of worship, hospitals, and schools, said Vicki Kemper, pastor at First Congregational Church of Amherst.
The concept surrounding sanctuary city and safe community designations comes from the Old Testament, said Kemper. Hebrew scriptures under Moses describe a system of sanctuary towns and villages set up for people who accidentally killed someone, so they wouldn’t be subject to vigilante justice.
More: Immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard staying at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
“They could go to these designated places and be safe there. A sanctuary town is the same kind of idea,” she said.
In 2017, First Church’s congregation considered becoming a sanctuary church and also advocated for the town of Amherst to become a sanctuary town.
“If somebody is looking for a safe place because of their immigration status, a house of worship is one of their best options,” Kemper said.
More: Rooms where migrants are staying at Joint Base Cape Cod are set up like dorms
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Post Politics Now: Amid Inflation Challenges Biden To Hold Event Focused On Saving Money
Post Politics Now: Amid Inflation Challenges, Biden To Hold Event Focused On Saving Money https://digitalarizonanews.com/post-politics-now-amid-inflation-challenges-biden-to-hold-event-focused-on-saving-money/
Today, with inflation remaining a challenge for his party as the midterm elections loom, President Biden is convening senior administration officials at the White House to talk about “new actions that will save families money and lower costs,” according to an advisory. Among the moves will be a new rule to require airlines and travel sites to be more transparent about additional fees, CNN is reporting.
Congress returns to Washington this week with a deadline of Friday to pass a short-term funding bill to keep the government open. Also on tap this week: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection will hold a public hearing on Wednesday. A witness list has yet to be announced but expect a heavy focus on former president Donald Trump.
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4:15 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts a meeting of the White House Competition Council.
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The latest: Harris discusses China’s ‘irresponsible provocations’ with Japanese prime minister
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Vice President Harris, who is leading the U.S. delegation to Tuesday’s funeral of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, met Monday with the country’s current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo.
According to a White House readout, topics included China’s “aggressive and irresponsible provocations in the Taiwan Strait” that followed a visit to Taiwan by a congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Harris and Kishida also condemned a recent ballistic missile launch by North Korea and “pledged to work together to address the threats posed by [North Korea’s] nuclear and ballistic weapons program,” the White House said.
On our radar: Biden welcoming Atlanta Braves to the White House
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With this year’s Major League Baseball playoffs just around the corner, President Biden plans to welcome last year’s World Series champions, the Atlanta Braves, to the White House on Monday.
Biden is scheduled to host the Braves late Monday morning in keeping with a long tradition of presidents celebrating championship teams in major U.S. sports.
The Braves were previously scheduled to be in town for a series with the Washington Nationals.
The Braves have secured a playoff spot again this year. With less than two weeks remaining in the regular season, the team is trying to overtake the New York Mets to win the National League East division. If the Braves fall short, the team will still make the playoffs as a wild card team.
Noted: Ex-staffer’s unauthorized book about Jan. 6 committee rankles members
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News that a former adviser to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is publishing a book billed as a “behind-the-scenes” look at the committee’s work came as a shock to most lawmakers and committee staff when it was announced last week.
The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany and Josh Dawsey report that Denver Riggleman, a former Republican congressman, is set to publish “The Breach” on Tuesday, just one day before a public hearing of the Jan. 6 panel, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent unauthorized leaks, as well as keep its sources and methods of investigation under wraps.
On our radar: The Biden-Trump rematch, in many ways, has already begun
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President Biden was at a Democratic reception in Maryland a few weeks ago when his rhetoric turned toward an increasingly frequent topic — “what Trump is doing and the Trumpers are doing.” An audience member called out, “Lock him up!” Biden went on to cite “the new polls showing me beating Trump by six or eight points.”
A few days earlier, former president Donald Trump was at a rally in Pennsylvania when he, too, turned toward a frequent topic: “We’re leading Biden … by record numbers in the polls.” He said three times, with growing enthusiasm, “So I may just have to do it again!”
Take a look: On Sunday shows, Sullivan warns Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, warning that there would be “catastrophic consequences” for Russia if it uses nuclear weapons in its war on Ukraine. Sullivan said that message has been conveyed to Russian officials at the highest levels.
The Post’s Blair Guild pulled together what Sullivan had to say during appearances on multiple shows.
Noted: Blinken says conversation about supplying weapons to Ukraine ‘ongoing’
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a conversation with Ukraine over the supply of U.S. weapons to aid the country’s war effort is “ongoing,” notably regarding a request from Kyiv for Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, as the surface-to-surface missiles are commonly known.
The Post’s Rachel Pannett has details:
“Whatever they put on the table is something we’re going to look at, to consider, and we’re going to give them our best judgment about what can be effective for them,” Blinken said in an interview with “60 Minutes.”
The United States so far has made 20 transfers of defense equipment valued at billions of dollars, Blinken said, including antitank and antiaircraft weapons that helped repel Russian forces during their attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
“At every step of the way, we have worked to make sure that the Ukrainians had in their hands what they needed to defend themselves,” Blinken said. He described it as an “ongoing conversation” about what Ukraine needs at any given moment, adding: “We adjust as we go along.”
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Liberty Star Announces Changes To The Board Of Directors
Liberty Star Announces Changes To The Board Of Directors https://digitalarizonanews.com/liberty-star-announces-changes-to-the-board-of-directors/
TUCSON, AZ, Sept. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Liberty Star Minerals (“Liberty Star” or the “Company”) (OTC Markets: LBSR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicholas Hemmerly to the Company’s Board of Directors effective today. The Company also announces current Board Members, Bradley Munroe and Gene Streety will transition to Emeritus Advisors for the Company.
Nicholas H. Hemmerly is a Partner and Head of Investment Banking for affiliate organization, Bridgeway Capital Partners LLC. Bridgeway Capital Partners together with its affiliates provides independent investment banking, strategic capital, and advisory services to lower and middle market companies globally. Prior to joining Bridgeway Mr. Hemmerly was at PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance LLC (PwC CF) focusing on M&A and capital raising.
Prior to PwC CF, Mr. Hemmerly worked at Jefferies LLC with a focus on executing M&A and financing transactions within the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Prior experience includes investment banking roles in JPMorgan’s Healthcare Group as well as JMP Securities Healthcare Group. Mr. Hemmerly began his investment banking career as an analyst with Wachovia Securities.
“On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Bradley and Gene for their tireless service and dedication to our shareholders,” said CEO Brett Gross. “Their steady guidance has provided stability to our governance over the past few years. They are both long term shareholders and I’m looking forward to continuing their counsel as Emeritus Advisors.”
“I would also like thank Bradley and Gene for their commitment to our shareholders and we are excited to welcome Nick to the Board of Directors,” commented Pete O’Heeron, Chairman of the Board. “Nick brings over twenty years of experience at the highest levels of investment banking and he will play an integral part of our financing strategy going forward.”
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About Liberty Star Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (LBSR: OTCQB), d/b/a Liberty Star Minerals, is an Arizona-based mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Arizona and the southwest USA. Currently the company controls properties which are located over what management considers some of North America’s richest mineralized regions for copper, gold, silver, molybdenum (moly), and associated metals. The Company’s premiere property is the Hay Mountain Project (exploration stage) for porphyry copper, gold, moly and other commercially important minerals. Specific targets have been selected to explore for near surface and deep-seated ore bodies, of which there are numerous analogs nearby. Contiguous with the primary Hay Mountain porphyry exploration target, and part of the overall Hay Mountain Project, is an increasingly attractive area of exploration stage gold mineralization denominated Red Rock Canyon. Red Rock Canyon exhibits what we believe are extensive, promising hydrothermal associated gold-bearing structures that are documented in historical public and Company records (see associated press and social media releases for more information). The Hay Mountain Project is in Cochise County (southeast) Arizona, USA.
Forward Looking Statements Certain information contained in public release may contain “forward-looking statements,” as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended. All statements contained herein that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and other factors which are unforeseeable and beyond the Company’s or management’s control, that could cause actual results, developments and business decisions to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements may include but not be limited to the business strategies for the Company, assumptions of management, pending or future transactions, future estimated mineral resources or grades, investments, asset valuations, anticipated permits and approvals and other information that may be based on forecasts of future exploration, operational or financial results or estimates of matters not yet determinable. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance using words or phrases like the following may be forward-looking statements: : “estimate”, “intend”, “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “potential,” “continue” “may”, “might”, “could”, “would” or similar words or expressions. Important factors that could differ materially from the expectations of the Company and management include, among other things, risks related to unsuccessful exploration results, metals prices, fluctuations in currency prices, international markets, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined as well as changes in the availability of funding for mineral exploration and development and general economic conditions.
Additional information about these factors, risks and uncertainties on which forward-looking statements are based is discussed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2022, as updated from time to time in Company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is not responsible for updating the information contained in this public release beyond the presentation date or published date, or for changes made to this document by wire services or Internet services. Risk factors for the company are set out in the 10-K and other periodic filings made with the SEC on EDGAR (ref. Liberty Star Uranium & Metals, Corp.).
Regulation S-K 1300 Matters On October 31, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K (“Regulation SK-1300”) to modernize the property disclosure requirements for mining registrants, and related guidance, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All registrants are required to comply with Regulation SK-1300 for fiscal years ending after January 1, 2021. Accordingly, the Company must comply with Regulation SK-1300 for its fiscal year ending January 31, 2022. Regulation SK-1300 uses the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (“CRIRSCO”) based classification scheme for mineral resources and mineral reserves, that includes definitions for inferred, indicated, and measured mineral resources. Liberty Star is an “Exploration Stage Issuer” as defined in Subpart 1300. It currently has no exploration results, mineral resources or mineral reserves to report, accordingly, no information, opinions or data included in the website or in any public releases includes any information or disclosures regarding exploration results, mineral resources or mineral reserves as defined in Regulation SK-1300. As a result, the Company is not required, at this time, to obtain or provide a Technical Report Summary as defined in Regulation SK-1300. U.S. Investors are cautioned not to rely upon or assume for any purpose that any part of the mineralized real property of the Company in these categories will ever be converted into inferred, indicated, and measured mineral resources or probable or proven mineral reserves within the meaning of Regulation S-K 1300.
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NYC Libraries Vs. Red State Book Bans https://digitalarizonanews.com/nyc-libraries-vs-red-state-book-bans/
Here in New York, our libraries are among our least controversial public institutions, subject to the occasional funding battle but universally beloved by politicians for photo ops. But the Brooklyn Public Library is ruffling some political feathers — not here, but in the red states that have banned books from school libraries.
As our Madina Touré reports, New York libraries have waded into America’s culture wars by directly lending 25,000 books to non-residents since spring, including thousands of students living under the bans. The Brooklyn library has been particularly proactive with its “Books Unbanned” program, giving access to its eBook collection to young people between 13 and 21 anywhere in the country in response to the book-banning trend.
In Oklahoma, a QR code linking to the library site has become “a symbol of resistance” against the state’s ban on materials in schools that might cause anyone to feel guilt or discomfort tied to their race or gender. An Oklahoma high school teacher resigned after suffering backlash for introducing students to the program, and faces the possibility of losing her teaching license. In protest, other teachers and students are wearing shirts and making lawn signs promoting the program with the barcode.
Oklahoma’s ban is one of the most far-reaching, but similar legislation has led to hundreds of books being yanked from the shelves at nearly 3,000 schools across 26 states.
In response, thelibrary opened up its catalogue to teens across the country. The library was deluged with more than 5,100 inquiries from teens nationwide. It has also proved popular in Texas, which has nixed more texts this year than any other state.
“This is what libraries do. We provide access to these materials,” said Brooklyn Public Library president Linda Johnson. “Literature is such a powerful thing and it’s something which allows you to get to know yourself better, your world, it allows you to see new things and we don’t think anyone should be shut out of that regardless of where they live.”
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WHERE’S KATHY? In Erie County and New York City.
WHERE’S ERIC? Meeting with senators from the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo, visiting La Romana to distribute medical supplies and other materials and traveling back to New York.
“Judge strikes down New York City’s vaccination mandate for NYPD officers,” by Newsday’s Nicole Fuller and Anthony M. DeStefano: “A Manhattan judge Friday struck down New York City’s vaccination mandate for NYPD officers and ordered the city to reinstate officers who were fired or suspended for refusing the coronavirus vaccine in a decision that will be immediately appealed. The decision from Supreme Court Justice Lyle E. Frank said the city cannot unilaterally impose a new employment condition, such as a vaccine mandate, without negotiating with the labor union representing police officers. The ruling represented a major victory for the NYPD’s largest labor union. The New York City Police Benevolent Association, with some 24,000 members, filed suit against the city in 2021 after then-Mayor Bill de Blasio mandated officers get vaccinated against COVID-19. The city has fired more than 1,400 city employees, including 36 police officers and about two dozen firefighters, as of earlier this year for refusing to get vaccinated.”
— The city quickly filed an appeal of the ruling.
City Hall made an 11th-hour push to torpedo planned Council lines, by POLITICO’s Joe Anuta: On Wednesday, a top City Hall aide contacted several appointees of the local redistricting commission with a message: New York City Mayor Eric Adams opposed a revised draft map of new City Council boundaries set for a vote the following morning. The commissioners, appointed by the Democratic politician, were therefore urged to give the plan a thumbs down. The outreach was conducted by Adams’ deputy chief of staff, Menashe Shapiro, via phone and text message, according to six people familiar with the overtures, including one who said the call came after hours Wednesday evening. And the following afternoon, the New York City Districting Commission narrowly voted to reject the set of proposed lines in a surprise decision led by mayoral appointees and those from the Republican Party, who together constitute a majority in the body.
“NYPD security detail racks up speed camera tickets,” by New York Post’s Rich Calder: “Mayor Eric Adams vowed to make city streets safer, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting chauffeured around the Big Apple by lead-footed cops. Two of the city-issued SUVs used by Adams’ NYPD security detail have been nabbed on camera three times in the past five months speeding in school safety zones at least 11 mph above legal limits — racking up $225.30 in fines and late fees yet to be paid, a review of city records shows.”
“Ex-NYC election lawyer accused of sexually harassing subordinates is paid Brooklyn Democratic Party consultant,” by New York Daily News’ Chris Sommerfeldt: “An attorney who recently pleaded guilty to abusing his office by sexually harassing two subordinates serves as a paid election consultant for the Brooklyn Democratic Party — and even spoke on behalf of party leaders during their botched organizational meeting this week, the Daily News has learned. Steve Richman, who resigned as the city Board of Elections’ top lawyer last year while under investigation over the harassment accusations, can be seen in a photo obtained by The News at the party’s bi-annual committee meeting in Coney Island on Wednesday night.”
“Mayor Adams’ pledge to build bike and bus lanes falling short,” by WNYC’s Stephen Nessen: “Just nine months after being sworn in, Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign pledge to be the ‘bike mayor’ who installs 300 miles of protected bike lanes and 150 miles of bus lanes in four years is already falling short. Adams’ administration isn’t close to hitting average yearly milestones for those targets, according to the Mayor’s Management Report released last week, which provides an update on all city agencies’ work. The report shows there were 32 protected miles installed in fiscal year 2022. But the Department of Transportation won’t say how many of those miles were built during former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term, just that it’s on track to complete 30 this year. That puts Adams far short of 75 miles of protected bike lanes this year, which is the pace needed to reach his campaign pledge by the end of his term.”
ADAMS IN PUERTO RICO: Mayor Eric Adams traveled to Puerto Rico over the weekend to help with recovery efforts following Hurricane Fiona. He met with local officials, including Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero, calling the island the “sixth borough of New York City.” “Where I am standing right now, this was 10, 12 feet of water, it may seem like it dried out now but the results of it is that people have lost everything that they own,” he said in a video taken while surveying the damage from the storm. “We’re going to continue to move throughout the island and look at other areas and identify exactly what’s needed,” he said in a different video recorded with Romero and other New York officials who joined him on the trip. A team from the city’s emergency management department came down to the island earlier to assist with recovery efforts, Adams said. — Janaki Chadha
“More than 1,600 corporal punishment cases substantiated in New York public schools in recent years,” by Times Union’s Emilie Munson, Joshua Solomon and Matt Rocheleau: “In 2021, a substitute teacher grabbed a student by the throat and forced him against a wall at Watertown City Central School District near the Canadian border, according to records from the state Education Department. Two years prior, investigators determined a teaching assistant for Syracuse City Schools on multiple occasions had spanked a non-verbal student and slapped her on the hand. And in Brooklyn in 2018, a teacher at Achievement First Brownsville Charter School forced a student to hold books as a disciplinary consequence. In recent years, the state Education Department has documented nearly 18,000 complaints of corporal punishment in public and charter schools across New York, although corporal punishment is generally banned. Investigators and school officials substantiated more than 1,600 of those complaints from 2016 through 2021, according to a Times Union review of state Education Department records.”
“The School Shooting Is Fake. Can It Prepare an Officer for a Real One?” by The New York Times’ Grace Ashford: “‘Shots fired,’ the instructor called, urging the officers toward what would in real life be gunfire. ‘What do we gotta do?’ Officers — many of whom have never fired their weapon at another person, let alone been fired upon — must answer that question correctly. Whether a dozen arrive, or just one, training dictates that they must engage, even if they risk death. The school shooting in May in Uvalde, Tex., where 19 children and two adults died as police officers hesitated, demonstrates the price of failure. The State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, N.Y., where the terrors of the future are simulated, studied and, perhaps, prevented is part of a vast infrastructure for tragedy. Since 2017, tens of millions have been spent by the federal government on mass shooter training, and states have spent even more.”
“NY bill would guarantee legal help for locals enmeshed in immigration proceedings,” by WNYC’s Arya Sundaram: “Low-income immigrants in New York who face deportation or detention would be guaranteed legal help under legislation proposed by two state lawmakers. The Access to Representation Act (S81B/A1961) would make...
Protests Erupt In Russia's Dagestan Region Over Putin's Mobilization Orders
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(CNN)Heated protests have broken out in some ethnic minority regions in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s mobilization orders, with activist groups and Ukrainian officials saying these minorities are being disproportionately targeted for conscription in the war.
Several videos posted to social media, which CNN geo-located to the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan, show women in the capital Makhachkala pleading with police outside a theater.
“Why are you taking our children? Who attacked who? It’s Russia that attacked Ukraine,” they can be heard saying in the video. Groups of women then begin chanting “No war,” as the police officer walks away.
In other confrontations in the city, police can be seen pushing back against the protesters, with people being violently detained by police while others flee on foot.
The independent Russian monitoring group OVD-Info reported that several arrests were made, including that of a local journalist who was reporting on the day’s protests.
Makhachkala Mayor Salman Dadayev called for calm Sunday, urging people not to “succumb to the provocations of persons engaged in anti-state activities.”
“I urge you not to commit illegal acts, each of which will be assessed by the law enforcement agencies for legal consequences,” said Dadayev, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
In another video, filmed in the town of Endirei in Dagestan, a police officer is seen shooting his rifle into the air in an apparent attempt to disperse a crowd of protesters.
The protests come after Putin declared last Wednesday that 300,000 reservists would be drafted under an immediate “partial mobilization,” in a bid to reinforce his faltering invasion of Ukraine.
Though Russian authorities have said it would only affect Russians with previous military experience, the decree itself gives much broader terms, sowing fear among Russians of a wider draft in the future — and the implications for ethnic minorities.
“Since mobilization started, we are actually seeing a much greater push to get people from those (ethnic minority) republics to go to war,” said Anton Barbashin, the editorial director at Riddle Russia, an online journal on Russian affairs.
“Mobilization there seems to be in much greater disarray — people are being grabbed from universities,” told CNN. “It’s already starting to make people question the policy, like in Dagestan.”
In Russian-occupied Crimea, the mobilization order has prompted Tatar men — members of an indigenous ethnic group — to flee, said Ukraine’s presidential representative to Crimea.
“On the territory of the occupied Crimea, Russia focuses on the Crimean Tatars during the course of mobilization,” said Representative Tamila Tasheva on Ukraine’s Parliament TV Sunday. “Currently, thousands of Crimean Tatars, including their families, are leaving Crimea through the territory of Russia mostly for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan.”
Former Mongolian President Elbergdorj Tsakhia also urged Putin to end the war on Friday, saying Mongol citizens in Russia were being forced to fight.
“I know, since the start of this bloody war, ethnic minorities who live in Russia suffered the most. The Buryat Mongols, Tuva Mongols and Kalmyk Mongols have suffered a lot,” he said. “They have been used as nothing more than cannon fodder.”
Anti-mobilization protests have spread across the country, with more than 2,350 people arrested since the announcement, according to OVD-Info.
At a protest in the far eastern city of Yakutsk on Sunday, a crowd of women chanted, “Give back our grandfathers!” Some residents in Sakha Republic, where Yakutsk is the capital, have been conscripted “by mistake” despite not being eligible for mobilization, illustrating the chaotic roll-out of Putin’s order.
And Crimea isn’t the only place facing an exodus; military-age men across Russia are choosing to flee rather than risk being conscripted. Video footage shows long lines of traffic at land border crossings into several neighboring countries, and surging airfares and sold out flights in recent days.
Four of the five EU countries bordering Russia have banned entry for Russians on tourist visas, while queues to cross land borders out of Russia to the former Soviet countries Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia were reportedly taking more than 24 hours to cross.
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Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary under Joe Biden, made her debut as a commentator for MSNBC earlier this month as she continued her post-politics career.
Psaki, who left the administration in May and was replaced by Karine Jean-Pierre, appeared on MSNBC’s on Alex Wagner Tonight on September 14, where she discussed how Donald Trump may have a negative influence on GOP candidates in the upcoming midterms.
“Nothing is more of an excitement and driving factor than Donald Trump for Democrats,” Psaki said.
“The more he engages himself in the race, the more he puts himself out there, the more it’s a reminder of what’s at stake to people. Having Trump on the ballot is a hugely energizing factor.”
Psaki’s move from press secretary to media commentator is not unusual, with those who worked in the Trump administration also taking similar steps.
Below, Newsweek takes a look at what Trump’s former press secretaries did after they left their roles between 2017 and 2021.
In this combination image, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (Top left), Arkansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Sanders (Top right), Stephanie Grisham and Sean Spicer (Bottom right) Getty/AP
Sean Spicer
Trump’s first press secretary is arguably best known for spreading falsehoods about the size of the former president’s 2017 inauguration crowd, asserting that it was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”
In a July 2018 interviews with NPR and the BBC‘s Newsnight, Spicer said he regrets the comments, but that he made them as he believed it was what Trump wanted to hear.
“I sort of thought I knew what he wanted and went and did it. And I’ll be honest, if I could have a do-over on that day, I’d take it every day of the week,” Spicer told NPR.
After resigning as press secretary in July 2017, Spicer published a book of memoirs, and appeared as a contestant on season 28 of Dancing with the Stars.
The 51-year-old also presents his own show, Spicer & Co, on the right wing channel Newsmax.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The longtime political adviser and campaign manager became just the third female White House press secretary when she replaced Spicer in 2017.
Sanders was another Trump press secretary who was infamous for making false statements while speaking to reporters.
Special counsel Robert Mueller‘s report into alleged Russian interference at the 2016 Election also revealed that Sanders admitted to falsely claiming that “countless” FBI officials told her they supported Trump’s decision to fire James B. Comey as the agency’s director. Sanders said the remark was a “slip of the tongue” and not true.
After leaving her role as press secretary in June 2019, Sanders returned to state level politics and will be contesting the race for Arkansas governor as the GOP nomination in November’s midterms.
Stephanie Grisham
Grisham took over as White House press secretary in July 2019 having previously worked as first lady Melania Trump‘s press secretary.
She became the first person in the role not to hold a televised press conference, instead choosing to take part in interviews on right-wing news sites.
Grisham left her job as White House press secretary in April 2020 to return as serve as Melania Trump’s chief of staff, a role she later resigned from in the wake of the January 6 attack.
In September 2021, Grisham published her book of memoirs about her time in the White House entitled I’ll Take Your Questions Now.
Kayleigh McEnany
McEnany was appointed Trump’s forth press secretary in April 2020 despite being a vocal critic of him while was running for the GOP presidential nomination in the 2016 election.
She went on to be a staunch defender of Trump, including praising his response to the coronavirus pandemic, and falsely declaring he had won the 2020 Election over Joe Biden while the votes were still being counted.
In March 2021, two months after the Trump administration vacated the White House, McEnany joined Fox News as a regular commentator and later joined Fox News’ Outnumbered as a co-host.
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Liz Cheney: If [Donald Trump] Is The Nominee I Won
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Liz Cheney looks to future after primary loss
Rep. Liz Cheney looks to the future after Wyoming primary loss 07:41
Rep. Liz Cheney — a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump — has signaled that she may leave the GOP, saying, “If [Trump] is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” the Wyoming Republican told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith at the paper’s festival on Saturday.
Cheney also said Saturday that she would be willing to stump for Democrats, the first time she has said so explicitly. The comments were made in response to a question about Wyoming gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, a supporter of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“I am going to do everything I can to make sure that Kari Lake is not elected,” Cheney said, to which Smith asked if that meant potentially campaigning for Democrats.
Cheney’s response: “Yes, it does.”
Cheney has served as the representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district since 2017 — but she was defeated soundly in her August primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
Cheney is the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, one of only two Republicans on the committee. Cheney is also one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Both were positions that appeared to work against her during her campaign for reelection.
Only two of the 10 GOP House members who voted to impeach Trump survived their primary challenges, while three others were defeated and four chose to either retire or not seek reelection. According to NPR, the majority of candidates Trump endorsed in the 2022 midterms have prevailed, and also said that they support the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election.
In her concession speech last month, Cheney said, “We must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what is required to defeat it. I have said since January 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it.”
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gives a concession speech to supporters during a primary night event on August 16, 2022 in Jackson, Wyoming. Alex Wong / Getty Images
Cheney’s term will end on Jan. 3, 2023. Speculation has brewed around a potential presidential bid for Cheney in 2024, but she has not made any definitive public statements one way or the other on the matter. When Smith asked Cheney whether she planned to announce her candidacy, Cheney deflected:
“What are we going to do to make sure that our kids know what it means to have peaceful transfers of power?” she responded. “And what are we going to do to make sure that we don’t contribute to the unraveling of the Republic? … That’s what I’m focused on.”
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Stocks Making The Biggest Moves Premarket: Planet Fitness PG&E Las Vegas Sands And More
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell:
Planet Fitness — Shares of the gym franchise jumped nearly 3% in premarket trading after Raymond James upgraded the stock to strong buy from market perform. The Wall Street firm said the company has a resilient and recession-resistant business with no interest rate risk and very little near-term debt
maturities. Meanwhile, its current valuation is well below its recent historical average, Raymond James noted.
PG&E — The utility stock climbed more than 5% premarket after S&P Dow Jones Indices on Friday said PG&E will replace Citrix Systems in the S&P 500, effective prior to the opening of trading on Monday, October 3. Vista Equity Partners is acquiring Citrix Systems in a transaction expected to be completed this week
Las Vegas Sands — Shares of the casino operator surged more than 7% after Macao announced its plan to allow tour groups from mainland China as soon as November. Shares of MGM Resorts rose more than 2%.
Lyft — Shares of the ride-hailing company fell nearly 4% premarket after UBS downgraded the stock to neutral from buy. The Wall Street firm cited its driver survey that indicates drivers prefer Uber and Lyft is not their main app.
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Who You Calling Fascist? https://digitalarizonanews.com/who-you-calling-fascist/
President Joe Biden has decided that the best way to minimize Democratic losses in looming elections is to shift attention away from inflation, the border, and crime to the “threat to democracy” posed by “semi-fascists” on the other side.
Incumbents who can’t defend their records always try to make an election about their opponents, but Biden’s ploy differs in two interesting respects. First, by using especially inflammatory language to describe those opponents; second, by the decision to depict not just Donald Trump and Republican office-holders who support him in such fashion but also, apparently, the 74 million Americans who preferred Trump at the ballot box last time out.
Amid all of Biden’s fulminations, fist-shaking, and shotgun slanders there is, however, a somewhat predictable lack of specifics.
Does the “threat to democracy” come from the Supreme Court returning the issue of abortion to democratically elected legislatures? Or maybe from Republican support for voter ID laws, which an overwhelming majority of voters also support? Perhaps from Republican opposition to Biden’s embrace of racial preferences under the guise of “equity,” which are likewise opposed by most Americans?
Going further, would strains of Republican fascism be found in their opposition to the lockdowns imposed in authoritarian fashion by Democrats during the pandemic? If not, perhaps in Republican resistance to Biden’s Orwellian “Government Disinformation Board?” Or maybe criticism of Biden’s use of likely illegal executive authority to excuse student loan debt and buy votes two months before an election?
Since Biden and his apologists almost certainly won’t answer such questions, we might be forgiven for believing that terms like “neo-fascism,” at least when used so ambiguously, apply not just to MAGA Republicans (People who voted for Trump once? Or must it have been twice?) but anyone who criticizes in any way any of his administration’s policies, thereby defining the fascist threat in such a capacious fashion as to encompass nearly all of us.
We are thus, given this sweeping indictment, left with the question of whether democracy can be saved from the fascists when the fascists are us, or whether it would even be, given the defining criterion of majority rule, a violation of “democracy” to attempt to do so.
Further confusion arises when considering the question of whether Biden or his ventriloquists have the faintest clue what fascism actually is, or whether they care that they are using the term even close to properly (“semi” in itself is something of a giveaway here, a thoroughly illogical formulation that should have been replaced, to better effect, by the prefix “neo”).
“Fascism” is, of course, a term used by lots of people who don’t have any idea what it means, and don’t really care that they don’t, because they are using it, like Biden, as a pejorative to discredit people who disagree with them. In Biden’s case, it serves as a complement to “insurrectionist” and as a successor to “racist” (which was beginning to lose its utility due to similar elasticity of definition and expedient overuse).
There is also, the question of why, if MAGA Republicans pose such an existential threat to the republic, the national Democratic Party just spent more than $50 million nationwide supporting MAGA Republicans in Republican primaries (answer: because they know that they’re not the threat Biden claims and easier to defeat in November).
Real fascism comes with the identification of political opposition as a “threat to democracy” and the equation of dissent with insurrection. All too often, those who most stridently link their opponents to fascism and depict themselves as combating it are the real fascists, using imaginary or exaggerated threats to silence critics, enforce conformity, and consolidate power.
“Saving democracy” now requires, in Biden’s formulation, “unity,” in itself an eerie concept in a liberal society that cherishes freedom of expression and therefore protects expression of disagreement. But for Biden, unity is defined as acceptance of abortion on demand at taxpayer expense, ever-looser voting procedures, a ban on assault rifles, driving the oil companies out of business, allowing biological males to compete in our daughters’ sports contests, and so on.
This has ceased to be a case of simple political disagreement on particular issues; a refusal to accept the entire Democratic agenda without critical assessment or questioning has become the defining criterion for “extremism,” “insurrectionism,” and now even “neo-fascism.”
Political leaders who demonize their opponents are the real threats to democracy and the rule of law because the logic of “ends justify the means” is inherent in such demonization–if your opponents truly are as threatening and despicable as you claim, then any means can be justified to defeat them, to the point where it becomes irresponsible to not use whatever at hand to save the republic (and the planet itself).
Only one side in American politics, consistent with fascist tactics, is trying to suppress the expression of opinion with which it disagrees, and it isn’t the (“semi-fascist”) Republican one.
Either Biden doesn’t really believe the things he is saying, which would make him merely a demagogue seeking to sow division and instill fear for electoral gain, or he does believe it, which would be worse because it is compelling him to act upon that belief.
Freelance columnist Bradley R. Gitz, who lives and teaches in Batesville, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois.
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From Yale To Jail: Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes' Path
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FILE – Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. Rhodes formally launched the Oath Keepers in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2009, where the first shot in the American Revolution was fired. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
PHOENIX — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate.
He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life story: a stint as an Army paratrooper cut short by a training accident, followed by marriage, college and an Ivy League law degree.
The clerkship was one more rung up from a hardscrabble beginning. But rather than fitting in, Rhodes came across as angry and aggrieved.
He railed to colleagues about how the Patriot Act, which gave the government greater surveillance powers after the Sept. 11 attacks, would erase civil liberties. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney as a fascist for supporting the Bush administration’s use of “enemy combatant” status to indefinitely detain prisoners.
“He saw this titanic struggle between people like him who wanted individual liberty and the government that would try to take away that liberty,” said Matt Parry, who worked with Rhodes as a clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Justice Mike Ryan.
Rhodes alienated his moderate Republican boss and eventually left the steppingstone job. Since then he has ordered his life around a thirst for greatness and deep distrust of government.
He turned to forming a group rooted in anti-government sentiment, and his message resonated. He gained followers as he went down an increasingly extremist path that would lead to armed standoffs, including with federal authorities at Nevada’s Bundy Ranch. It culminated last year, prosecutors say, with Rhodes engineering a plot to violently stop Democrat Joe Biden from becoming president.
Rhodes, 57, will be back in court Tuesday, but not as a lawyer. He and four others tied to the Oath Keepers are being tried on charges of seditious conspiracy, the most serious criminal allegation leveled by the Justice Department in its far-reaching prosecution of rioters who attacked the Capitol.
Rhodes, Jessica Watkins, Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson and Kelly Meggs are the first Jan. 6 defendants to stand trial under a rarely used, Civil War-era law against attempting to overthrow the government or, in this case, block the transfer of presidential power.
The trial will put a spotlight on the secretive group Rhodes founded in 2009 that has grown to include thousands of claimed members and loosely organized chapters across the country, according to Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.
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For Rhodes, it will be a position at odds with the role of greatness that he has long envisioned for himself, said his estranged wife, Tasha Adams.
“He was going to achieve something amazing,” Adams said. “He didn’t know what it was, but he was going to achieve something incredible and earth shattering.”
Rhodes was born in Fresno, California. He shuttled between there and Nevada, sometimes living with his mother and other times with grandparents who were migrant farm workers, part of a multicultural extended family that included Mexican and Filipino relatives. His mother was a minister who had her own radio show in Las Vegas and went by the name Dusty Buckle, Adams said.
Rhodes joined the Army fresh out of high school and served nearly three years before he was honorably discharged in January 1986 after breaking his back in a parachuting accident.
He recovered and was working as a valet in Las Vegas when he met Adams in 1991. He was 25, she was 18.
He had a sense of adventure that was attractive to a young woman brought up in a middle-class, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints family. A few months after the couple started dating, Rhodes accidentally dropped a gun and shot out his eye. He now wears an eye patch.
Adams’ family had set aside money for her to go to college, but after their wedding Rhodes decided he should be the first to attend school. He told her she would need to quit her job teaching ballroom and country dancing and instead support them both by working full time as a stripper so he could focus on doing an excellent job in school, according to Adams. They married, but she found stripping degrading and it clashed with her conservative Mormon upbringing, she said.
“Every night the drive was just so bad. I would just throw up every single night before I went in, it was just so awful,” Adams said. Rhodes would pressure her to go further, increase her exposure or contact with men to make more money, she said. “It was never enough … I felt like I had given up my soul.”
She quit when she got pregnant with their first child, and the couple moved back in with her family. They worried about her but didn’t want to push too far for fear of losing her altogether. By then, Rhodes was the center of her orbit.
Rhodes’ lawyer declined to make him available for an interview and Rhodes declined to answer a list of questions sent by The Associated Press.
After finishing college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Rhodes went to work in Washington as a staffer for Ron Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican congressman, and later attended Yale, with stints in between as an artist and sculptor. Paul did not respond to a request for comment.
Rhodes’ college transcripts earned him entry to several top schools, Adams said. While at Yale, Adams took care of their growing family in a small apartment while he distinguished himself with an award for a paper arguing that the George W. Bush administration’s use of enemy combatant status to hold people suspected of supporting terrorism indefinitely without charge was unconstitutional.
After the Arizona clerkship, the family bounced to Montana and back to Nevada, where he worked on Paul’s presidential campaign in 2008. That’s when Rhodes also began to formulate his idea of starting the Oath Keepers. He put a short video and blog post on Blogspot and “it went viral overnight,” Adams said. Rhodes was interviewed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, but also more mainstream media figures such as Chris Matthews and Bill O’Reilly.
He formally launched the Oath Keepers in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2009, where the first shot in the American Revolution was fired.
“We know that if a day should come in this country when a full-blown dictatorship would come or tyranny, from the left or from the right, we know that it can only happen if those men, our brothers in arms, go along and comply with unconstitutional, unlawful orders,” Rhodes said in his Lexington speech, which didn’t garner any news coverage.
The group’s stated goal was to get past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers to honor the promise they made to defend the Constitution against enemies. The Oath Keepers issued a list of orders that its members wouldn’t obey, such as disarming citizens, carrying out warrantless searches and detaining Americans as enemy combatants in violation of their right to jury trials.
Rhodes was a compelling speaker and especially in the early years framed the group as “just a pro-Constitution group made up of patriots,” said Sam Jackson, author of the book “Oath Keepers” about the group.
With that benign-sounding framing and his political connections, Rhodes harnessed the growing power of social media to fuel the Oath Keepers’ growth during the presidency of Barack Obama. Membership rolls leaked last year included some 38,000 names, though many people on the list have said they are no longer members or were never active participants. One expert last year estimated membership to be a few thousand.
The internal dialogue was much darker and more violent about what members perceived as imminent threats, especially to the Second Amendment, and the idea that members should be prepared to fight back and recruit their neighbors to fight back, too.
“Time and time again, Oath Keepers lays the groundwork for individuals to decide for themselves, violent or otherwise criminal activity is warranted,” said Jackson, an assistant professor at the University at Albany.
A membership fee was a requirement to access the website, where people could join discussion forums, read Rhodes’ writing and hear pitches to join militaristic trainings. Members willing to go armed to a standoff numbered in the low dozens, though, said Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesman for the group.
Showdowns with the government began in 2011 in the small western Arizona desert town of Quartzsite, where local government was in turmoil as officials feuded among themselves, the police chief was accused of misconduct and several police employees had been suspended. A couple years later, Rhodes started calling on members to form “community preparedness teams,” which included military-style training.
The Oath Keepers also showed up at a watershed event in anti-government circles: the standoff with federal agents at Nevada’s Bundy Ranch in 2014. Later that year, members stationed themselves along rooftops in Ferguson, Missouri, armed with AR-15-style weapons, to protect businesses from rioting after a grand jury declined to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The following year Oath Keepers guarded a southern Oregon gold mine whose mining claim owners were in a dispute with the government. Still, Rhodes was never a...
Giorgia Meloni Hails night Of Pride In Italian Elections | First Thing
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Far-right party leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in Italy’s elections and promised to govern for all citizens, after exit polls gave her coalition a clear majority, putting her on course to create the country’s most rightwing government since the end of the second world war.
With the full results due today, the Brothers of Italy leader is expected to become the country’s first female prime minister – and a model for nationalist parties across Europe as she heads one of the EU’s six original member states.
The poll, for the broadcaster Rai, gave her coalition 41-45% against 25.5-29.5% for the leftwing bloc. The populist Five Star Movement was on 13.5-17.5%.
Meloni’s party, which has neo-fascist origins, is also poised to scoop by far the biggest share of the votes within the coalition, which includes the far-right League, led by Matteo Salvini, and Forza Italia, headed by Silvio Berlusconi.
What did Meloni say last night? She said Italian voters had given a clear mandate to the right to form the next government and called for unity to help confront the country’s many problems. “This is a night of pride for Brothers of Italy but it is a starting point, not a finish line,” she told supporters.
Pound hits all-time low against dollar after new UK’s mini-budget rocks markets
The pound has plunged to its lowest value against the US dollar since Britain went decimal in 1971. Photograph: Daniel Sorabji/AFP/Getty Images
The pound has hit an all-time low against the dollar as the tax cuts and spending measures in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget threatens to undermine confidence in the UK.
The pound plunged nearly 5% to $1.0327, its lowest since Britain went decimal in 1971, as belief in the UK’s economic management and assets evaporated. Even after stumbling back to $1.05, the currency was down 7% in two sessions, after the UK chancellor pledged over the weekend to pursue more tax cuts.
City economists suggested the slump in the pound could force the Bank of England into an emergency interest rate rise to support the currency.
Paul Dales, the chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said the decline could prompt “tough talk” from the Bank, supported by a large and immediate increase in interest rates.
Will the pound and dollar reach parity? On Friday afternoon, Bloomberg’s options pricing model showed there was a 26% chance the pound and the dollar hitting parity within the next six months, up from 14% on Thursday.
QAnon follower who chased officer on January 6 convicted of felonies
Trump supporters battle with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
A QAnon conspiracy theorist who led a pack of Donald Trump supporters that chased a solitary police officer around the US Capitol on the day of the January 6 attack has been found guilty of several felonies.
Douglas Jensen – the bearded 43-year-old Iowa man who appeared in several media photos of the attack while wearing a black T-shirt with a large “Q” – could face more than 50 years in prison after a federal jury in Washington DC convicted him on Friday, US justice department prosecutors said.
However, it is rare for convicts in US district court to receive the harshest available punishment, even if they chose to stand trial rather than plead guilty in advance. And the harshest sentence handed out so far to anyone found guilty of having a role in the deadly Capitol attack has been 10 years.
Prosecutors alleged Jensen formed part of the mob of Trump supporters who gathered at the Capitol on the day in early 2021 that Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the previous year’s presidential election.
A bipartisan Senate report linked seven deaths to the Capitol attack and said it had left more than 140 police officers injured. As of this week, more than 870 people had been charged with roles in the insurrection.
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Rihanna will perform the coveted Super Bowl half-time show in February, after declining an invitation for the 2019 Super Bowl out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. The announcement was made on Sunday by the NFL while the singer posted an image on Instagram of an arm holding an NFL football.
The US and its allies will act “decisively” if Russia uses a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said yesterday, reaffirming the White House’s response to concerns that Vladimir Putin’s threats are increasingly in danger of being realized.
Leading members of the US Congress are refusing to drop demands for a proper accounting of the death of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh four months ago, despite the state department seeming keen to avoid questions about what happened.
Trump denied knowing at the time the January 6 attack on the US Capitol started that a mob of his supporters – whom he privately called “fucking crazy” – were rioting, the author of a forthcoming book writes. The former president claimed he did not have the television on most of the day.
Don’t miss this: The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families
Countless Black families have been victims of California’s racist and discriminatory policies, resulting in stolen land, destroyed homes and broken families. Photograph: Billie Rankin-Carter, Marissa Leshnov/the Guardian
Stories of countless Black families who have been victims of racist policies, such as land confiscation and housing discrimination, are rarely told as part of California’s history. But after a reparations taskforce undertook the unprecedented effort to consider redress for Black residents, these stories are finally being heard as a more complicated picture of the past comes to light. It is one that, despite California’s founding in 1850 as a free state, has been marked by “atrocities in nearly every sector” of society over the past 172 years.
… or this: Why plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
McDonald’s has shelved its meat-free burger trial and stock in one of the biggest manufacturers has plunged by nearly 70%. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
At the start of the year, McDonald’s launched a plant-based burger. For a while, it looked like a glimpse of the future. The US test-run of the McPlant burger, however, was quietly shelved last month (it is still available in some markets, including the UK) in one of a series of setbacks for a meatless-meat industry that only a year ago was claiming it could change the American menu for ever. Getting meat eaters in the US to adopt plant-based alternatives has proven a challenge. Beyond Meat has had a rough 12 months, with its stock diving by nearly 70%.
David Malpass, who was appointed by Donald Trump, has lost the confidence of many key diplomats. Photograph: Issei Kato/AP
David Malpass, president of the World Bank, faces an uncertain future this week, after the White House joined a chorus of influential figures in condemning his apparent climate denialism. Malpass remains in post for now but under severe pressure, despite issuing an apology and trying to explain his refusal last week to publicly acknowledge the human role in the climate crisis. The Biden administration stepped into the row on Friday evening and such strong words from the White House come as a significant blow to Malpass.
Last Thing: Cleaners at Amsterdam gallery ordered to let insects run wild in name of art
The exhibition Casa Tomada from artist Rafael Gómezbarros is displayed at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters
No vacuum cleaners and no feather dusters: that’s the order that has gone out to cleaning staff at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As part of an exhibition exploring the changing perceptions of creepy-crawlies, the national museum of the Netherlands has been allowing its crevices and corners to go wild for the past three months after being challenged by an artist to treasure the accumulation of spiderwebs. Those braving the museum will explore how attitudes have changed and asked to reconsider their feelings about bugs of all shapes and sizes.
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At Least 5 Children Among Dead After Attacker Opens Fire At School In Russia's Udmurtia Region | CNN
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At least five children have been killed in a school shooting in the western Russian city of Izhevsk, Russian state media reported Monday.
Nine fatalities have been reported so far, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
It is unclear if that number includes the attacker, who reportedly shot himself, Alexander Brechalovn, the head of the regional government, said.
Brechalovn said the school has since been evacuated.
This is a developing story. More details to come
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European Markets Choppy; Sterling Slumps Against The Dollar
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European stocks were choppy on Monday as investors continued to weigh the deteriorating economic outlook in the region.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.2% by mid-morning, having recouped opening losses of roughly 0.6% before pulling back again. Utilities dropped 1.7% while tech stocks added 1.7%.
Concern for the global growth outlook has been increasing as inflation remains high and central banks resort to aggressive interest rate hikes to try to tame rising prices.
Shares in Asia-Pacific fell sharply on Monday as negative sentiment continues to weigh in on markets.
The British pound plunged to a record low on Monday, following last week’s announcement by the new U.K. government that it would implement tax cuts and investment incentives to boost growth. Britain’s internationally-focused FTSE 100 climbed in early trade on Monday amid the currency’s decline.
Investors in Europe are also watching Italy following a snap election on Sunday. The country is on course to elect its first female prime minister and the first government led by the far-right since the end of World War II.
Brent crude slides below $85 a barrel as dollar surges
Brent crude fell below $85 a barrel Monday, as recession fears mount and the U.S. dollar surged.
Brent futures for November settlement were trading down over 1% around $84.92 at 8 a.m. London time. West Texas Intermediate futures also fell to trade around $77.93.
Central banks around the world — including the U.S. and the U.K. — continue to hike interest rates in an effort to tackle inflation.
You can read the full story on CNBC here.
— Hannah Ward-Glenton
Stocks on the move: Belimo up 7%, K+S down 8%
Shares of Swiss heating and ventilation manufacturer Belimo Holding climbed more than 7% in early trade after Berenberg upgraded the stock to “buy” and increased its price target, citing rising demand for home renovation.
At the bottom of the Stoxx 600, German chemical company K+S fell 8%.
– Elliot Smith
Giorgia Meloni and her far-right Brothers of Italy party top vote in Italian elections, exit poll shows
Giorgia Meloni seen speaking during the campaign. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right nationalist and conservative party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli dItalia, FDI) held the conclusive electoral rally at Arenile, in the left-oriented district of Bagnoli, Naples.
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Italians are on course to elect the country’s first female prime minister and the first government led by the far-right since the end of World War II.
Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party are set to gain 26.4% of the vote, according to an exit poll early Monday morning. The party is in a broad right-wing coalition with Lega, under Matteo Salvini, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and a more minor coalition partner, Noi Moderati.
This alliance is set to win 44.43% of the vote, according to exit polls, enough to gain a parliamentary majority with the center-left bloc on 26.57%. Early projections from the actual election results are due Monday morning.
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Sterling hits record low against the dollar, as Asia-Pacific currencies also weaken
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Morningstar has revealed its pick of global stocks with the highest dividend yields, saying they stand out in an environment where many companies may not be able to maintain their dividends due to “economic strain.”
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Stocks prepare to test their lows in the final week of trading for September
Heading into the final week of trading for September, the Dow and S&P 500 are each down about 6% for the month, while the Nasdaq has lost 8%.
Both the Dow and S&P are now sitting 1.2% and 1.6%, respectively, above their lows from mid-June. The Nasdaq is 2.9% above its low.
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European markets: Here are the opening calls
European stocks are expected to open in negative territory on Wednesday as investors react to the latest U.S. inflation data.
The U.K.’s FTSE index is expected to open 47 points lower at 7,341, Germany’s DAX 86 points lower at 13,106, France’s CAC 40 down 28 points and Italy’s FTSE MIB 132 points lower at 22,010, according to data from IG.
Global markets have pulled back following a higher-than-expected U.S. consumer price index report for August which showed prices rose by 0.1% for the month and 8.3% annually in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, defying economist expectations that headline inflation would fall 0.1% month-on-month.
Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, climbed 0.6% from July and 6.3% from August 2021.
U.K. inflation figures for August are due and euro zone industrial production for July will be published.
— Holly Ellyatt
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Eagles Air Assault Too Much For Badgers In 55-35 Loss Ron Williams | Prescott ENews
Eagles Air Assault Too Much For Badgers In 55-35 Loss – Ron Williams | Prescott ENews https://digitalarizonanews.com/eagles-air-assault-too-much-for-badgers-in-55-35-loss-ron-williams-prescott-enews/
Photo: 7 Alex Vaughan pulls in a 45-yard pass from Jaxon Rice for the first touchdown of the game as 21 Colin Hall tries to defend
There was an air show at Bill Shepard Field Friday night, as American Leadership Academy-Gilbert North quarterback Adam Damante threw for 464 yards and seven touchdown passes to lead the visiting Eagles to a 55-35 win over the Prescott Badgers.
Things started out in the dark, literally, as the visitor side lights of the stadium went off prior to kickoff. The outage delayed the start of the game for nearly 30 minutes. As if the lights out delay wasn’t enough, the game was plagued with penalties, many unsportsmanlike on the Eagles. Officials had their hands full for the 48 minutes of action.
The Badgers came out and jumped on top first when Jaxon Rice hit Alex Vaughan on a sweet 45-yard pass play down the center of the field. Cole Gross added the extra point for a 7-0 lead. The Prescott lead was brief as the kickoff return by McKay Beardall set the Eagles up at the Badgers 22. After an offside penalty, Damante demonstrated his speed for the first time, bolting 17 yards into the end zone.
Prescott failed to move the ball and was forced to punt. The snap went through the outstretched hands of Alex Vaughan, who ran back to cove the ball at the Badger 22, losing 26 yards in the process. Damente showed everyone his arm this time completing a perfect spiral pass to Tyton Slade in stride to take the lead at 14-7 with 5:14 in the first quarter. Damante hit Brandon Phelps to increase the lead to 21-7 as the first quarter came to an end.
Photo: 24 Cody Leopold with the second of his three touchdowns on the night
Cody Leopold crossed the goal line with 10:10 in the second quarter to pull within 21-14 as the Badgers tried to stay within striking distance, but once again Damante came through with his third touchdown pass of the game when he drilled MacKay Beardall on a 25-yard scoring strike, and it was 28-14. Leopold again scored from one yard out to make it 28-21. Once again, the Eagles scored when Slade caught his second TD pass from Damante with 90 seconds left in the half. Prescott failed to move the ball and the Eagles had one final chance to score, but Brandon Phelps failed on his field goal attempt to leave the score 25-21 at the half.
The Eagles received the kickoff to start the second half and were poised to put the game out of reach, but a rare mistake came when Damante fumbled and Cort Lewis came up with the loose ball, giving the home team a much-needed break. Leopold would eventually score on a one yard run to close the gap to 35-28 with 8:09 left in the third quarter.
The game was not without penalties and both teams fell victim to mistakes, but when the Eagles failed to get a first down after a pair of penalties, Prescott once again had a chance to tie the game. After getting a break on a possible fumble, Jaxon Rice made his only mistake overthrowing a pass down the middle of the field, that was picked off by Austin Izydorczyk. The Eagles were determined to score and get some breathing room, did on a 20-yard pass from Damante to Phelps to go ahead 42-28. Another costly mistake by the Badgers came when Maurea Norris fumbled, and the Eagles capitalized on a 25 TD pass from Damante to Slade to go up 49-28 after three quarters.
Photo: 9 Uriah Tenette weaves his way down the field through Eagle defenders
Uriah Tenette scored on a nifty five yard run to cut the deficit to 49-35 with 11;06 left in the game, but the Eagles would add one more touchdown when Damante hit Slade on a 30-yard touchdown pass to put the game out of reach for good.
Photo: 8 Adam Damante threw for 7 touchdowns, giving him 19 on the season
Adam Damante, heading to play for NAU next season, accounted for all eight TDs, finishing the night throwing for 464 yards and seven touchdowns, completing 26-38, and was the leading rusher with 63 yards on four carries and a TD. Tyton Slade caught nine passes for 168 yards and three touchdowns while the others in the supporting cast, Mackay Beardall 7-147, one TD, and Brandon Phelps 5-89, two TDs.
The Badgers were led by Cody Leopold’s 178 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Jaxon Rice threw for 135 yards, completing 13-26, with one interception. Cian Mckelvey completed his one pass for a touchdown. Alex Vaughan and Uriah Tenette caught one touchdown pass each, while Jake Hilton led with seven receptions for 60 yards. Tenette also led the team with nine tackles. Cody Leopold and Cody Hanna had eight and seven respectively.
ALA coach Randy Ricedorff said, “That is a good football team over there. They tested us with their size and their physical play and their backs just run hard. They didn’t quit and it showed a lot of spirit.” About his QB, Ricedorff added, “He is a special quarterback, and we are pretty good at throwing the ball. We have a lot of weapons for sure.”
Damante said, “It was a team win for sure. Everyone just did their job, and I had to get rid of the ball quick with all the pressure they were bringing. The receivers did the rest.”
Prescott (2-1) travels to Phoenix to face Greenway next Friday at 7 pm. ALA-Gilbert North (3-1) travels to play ALA-Queen Creek.
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY-GILBERT NORTH EAGLES 55, PRESCOTT BADGERS 35
Score by Quarters- 1 2 3 4 – T
ALA-Gilbert North 21 14 14 6 – 55
Prescott 7 14 7 7 – 35
Scoring Summary
P-Vaughan 44-yard pass from Rice (Gross kick)
ALA-Damante 18-yard run (Phelps kick)
ALA-Slade 5-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
ALA-Phelps 15-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
P-Leopold 8-yard run (Gross kick)
ALA-Beardall 25-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
P-Leopold 1 yard run (Gross kick)
ALA-Slade 20-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
P-Leopold 2-yard run (Gross kick)
ALA-Phelps 20-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
ALA-Slade 25-yard pass from Damante (Phelps kick)
P-Tenette 5-yard run (Gross kick)
ALA-Slade 30-yard pass from Damante (Kick failed)
GRAND CANYON REGION STANDINGS
School- W-L W-L
Lee Williams 0-0 3-1
Mingus 0-0 3-1
PRESCOTT 0-0 2-1
Bradshaw Mountain 0-0 1-2
Coconino 0-0 1-2
Flagstaff 0-0 1-2
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SCOREBOARD
Combs 36, Bradshaw Mountain 34
Florence 41, Chino Valley 7
Salome 34, Bagdad 20
Joseph City 47, Mayer 26
Boulder Creek 51, Tolleson 7
Buckeye 56, Lake Havasu 41
Camp Verde 58, St. John Paul II 0
Eastmark 45, Mohave 10
Empire 6, Deer Valley 0
Lee Williams 49, North Canyon 6
Marcos de Niza 55, Amphitheater 7
Moon Valley 24, Carl Hayden 14
Poston Butte 29, Coconino 28
Thunderbird 58, Greenway 27
Thursday Scores
Central 20, North 13
Desert Ridge 34, Williams Field 33
Mingus 48, Washington 0
Badminton
The Badgers have taken over first place in the Division 2, Northwest Standings with a pair of wins this past week. None bigger than their 6-3 win at Chaparral. It was a battle of the unbeatens, and a gritty test for Prescott as they continue to establish themselves as one of the top teams in the state.
Prescott swept North Canyon 9-0 at home earlier in the week, then it was all eyes on Chaparral.
PRESCOTT BADGERS 6, CHAPARRAL FIREBIRDS 3
SINGLES RESULTS
#1 Megan Townsend won 21-19, 21-12 over Chi Chi Bracken
#2 Riley Crockett lost 21-19, 21-13 to Ellie Bucher
#3 Elle Long won 14-21, 21-18, 21-13 over Molly Rich
#4 Lindsay Carter lost 21-15, 15-21, 21-16 to Myra Duncan
#5 Lauren Farley lost 21-9, 21-16 to Emerson Lewis
#6 Calli Naylor won 19-21, 21-19, 21-14 over Hadley Huffman
DOUBLES RESULTS
#1 Crockett/Long won 21-12, 21-17 over Bucher/Bracken
#2 Townsend/Carter won 21-12, 21-16 over Rich/Duncan
#3 Naylor/Lauren Farley won 21-17, 21-14 over Lewis/Huffman
DIVISION II NORTHWEST STANDINGS
School- W-L W-L
PRESCOTT 4-0 9-0
Chaparral 4-1 9-1
Horizon 3-1 8-1
Shadow Mountain 2-2 7-2
Deer Valley 2-1 6-2
Paradise Valley 2-1 5-3
North Canyon 1-4 3-7
Saguaro 0-4 2-7
Barry Goldwater 0-4 2-8
Volleyball
The Badgers fell 3-0 to the Bears in Prescott Valley. The loss drops Prescott to (1-8). Lee Williams comes to town for a match on Tuesday, at 6 pm in the Badger Dome.
BRADSHAW MOUNATIN BEARS 3, PRESCOTT BADGERS 0
Games- 1 2 3
Prescott 15 12 11
Bradshaw Mountain 25 25 25
GRAND CANYON REGION STANDINGS
School- W-L W-L
Bradshaw Mountain 3-0 4-3
Flagstaff 3-0 4-5
Coconino 3-2 4-4
Lee Williams 1-2 3-3
Mingus 1-3 3-5
Mohave 1-3 1-4
PRESCOTT 1-3 1-8
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James M. Gibbons passed away on September 16th in Phoenix, AZ after a short battle with cancer, with family by his side.
He was born in Evergreen Park, Il on Jan 27, 1960 to John (Jack) and Rita Mae Gibbons (nee Petrie). He graduated from Bogan High School in 1978.
After high school, Jim attended the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he graduated as a Non-Destructive Testing Technician. Jim then went on to work at both Rockwell International and Northrop Grumman in California where he worked on testing and certifying various aircrafts for NASA and the military. Some of Jim’s proudest accomplishments during this time was working on the Space Shuttle, B-1B, F-18 and F-20. Jim then went on to work for various contractors throughout the U.S. Jim’s last job was with Consultant Engineering, Inc (CEI) in Phoenix where he worked on various infrastructure jobs throughout the area and most specifically the SkyTram at Sky Harbor (PHX) airport. Jim also worked on and was proud of the following projects: the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, MGM Grand Hotel and the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, SF/Oakland Bay Bridge, 900 N. Michigan building in Chicago and multiple retractable roof sporting stadiums to include Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, Phoenix and Denver.
Jim loved aeronautics & was very proud to work for CEI for the past 13 years. He had a great sense of humor and quick wit and loved telling jokes. Jim was know for his impeccable memory and instant recall of almost any detail no matter how long ago. Jim loved his country immensely along with the men and women of the armed forces and all first responders. Jim himself served for a few years on the Cook County Sheriff’s Department (IL) and was proud of graduating as class president from Class #90-2. Jim loved all Chicago sports teams and was fortunate to witness a World Series victory by his beloved Cubbies unlike many generations before him. Jim loved his large family immensely especially his nieces & nephews.
Jim is preceded in death by his parents John and Rita Mae (Petrie), and brothers Thomas and Michael. James is survived by his brothers Terence (Marilynn), John/Jay (Sheila), Daniel and Joseph and his sister Patricia along with numerous nephews and nieces. There will be a funeral mass at St. Cajetan Catholic Church in Chicago on Oct 8th at 10am. Jim will be interred at the Assumption Catholic Cemetery in Glenwood, Illinois. Contributions to the American Cancer Society in Jims’s name are appreciated.
Published by Legacy Remembers on Sep. 27, 2022.
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Cheney won't Be A Republican If Trump Becomes Presidential Nominee
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US Representative Liz Cheney claims she will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office.
Representative for Wyoming Liz Cheney (Zumapress)
US Representative Liz Cheney stressed that she will do “whatever it takes” to prevent former US President Donald Trump from securing the Republican Party (GOP) nomination for the presidency in 2024.
Cheney, a rare Republican critic of Trump, pointed out said during the Texas Tribune Festival that she will exit the GOP if the former President wins the nomination process.
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn’t anywhere close to the Oval Office,” Cheney told Texas Tribune CEO, Evan Smith.
The Representative for Wyoming underlined that she is “going to make sure Donald Trump, make sure he’s not the nominee,” claiming that “if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”
During the festival, Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack select committee, considered that “One of the things that has surprised me the most about my work on this committee is how sophisticated the plan was that Donald Trump was involved in and oversaw every step of the way.”
“It was a multipart plan that he oversaw, he was involved in personally and directly,” she added. “Just set the politics aside for a minute and think to yourself, ‘What kind of human being does that?’”
Cheney said that Americans should not doubt her ability to fight former US President Donald Trump even after leaving office.
It is noteworthy that Cheney voted with Trump 93% of the time while in office, according to Newsweek.
“Knowing what I know now, I would not have voted for Donald Trump,” the US Representative claimed during the interview.
But Cheney did not confirm whether she will run for president in 2024, saying that “It’s really important not to just immediately jump to the horse race and to think about what we need as a country.”
Cheney defeated by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman
During the US primary election in August, Wyoming voters ousted Cheney for former Republican National Committee member and Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman.
Cheney was one of only two members of the Republican Party to join the Jan. 6 select committee.
All 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol building in January last year were singled out in what many deemed a vengeance campaign.
An end to Cheney’s whirlwind six-year
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was defeated decisively, capping off a whirlwind six-year congressional career.
She was elected in 2016 and took over as chair of the House Republican Conference two years later.
However, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Cheney voted to impeach Trump and began publicly condemning him, prompting her removal as conference chair.
She was appointed to the Jan. 6 investigative panel by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, becoming vice chair and the face of its public hearings in June and July.
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NICOLE WINFIELD, FRANCES D’EMILIO and GIADA ZAMPANO, Associated Press
Sep. 26, 2022Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 4:45 a.m.
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1of12Far-Right party Brothers of Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni flashes the victory sign at her party’s electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters rewarded Giorgia Meloni’s euroskeptic party with neo-fascist roots, propelling the country toward what likely would be its first far-right-led government since World War II, based on partial results Monday from the election for Parliament.Gregorio Borgia/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of12Far-Right party Brothers of Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party’s electoral headquarters in Rome, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation’s first government led by the far right since the end of World War II.Gregorio Borgia/APShow MoreShow Less
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ROME (AP) — A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy’s national elections, looking set to deliver the country’s first far-right-led government since World War II and make its leader, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman premier, near-final results showed Monday.
Italy’s lurch to the far right immediately shifted Europe’s geopolitical reality, placing a euroskeptic party in position to lead a founding member of the European Union and its third-largest economy. Right-wing leaders across Europe immediately hailed Meloni’s victory and her party’s meteoric rise as sending a historic message to Brussels.
Near-final results showed the center-right coalition netting some 44% of the parliamentary vote, with Meloni’s Brothers of Italy snatching some 26%. Her coalition partners divided up the remainder, with the anti-immigrant League of Matteo Salvini winning nearly 9% and the more moderate Forza Italia of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi taking around 8%.
The center-left Democratic Party and its allies had around 26%, while the 5-Star Movement — which had been the biggest vote-getter in 2018 Parliamentary elections — saw its share of the vote halved to some 15% this time around.
Turnout was a historic low 64%. Pollsters suggested voters stayed home in part in protest and also because they were disenchanted by the backroom deals that had created the three governments since the previous election.
Meloni, whose party traces its origins to the postwar, neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, sounded a moderate, unifying tone in a victory speech early Monday that noted that Italians had finally been able to clearly determine who they wanted to govern.
“If we are called to govern this nation, we will do it for everyone, we will do it for all Italians and we will do it with the aim of uniting the people (of this country),” Meloni said. “Italy chose us. We will not betray (the country) as we never have.”
While the center-right was the clear winner, the formation of a government is still weeks away and will involve consultations among party leaders and with President Sergio Mattarella. In the meantime, outgoing Premier Mario Draghi remains in a caretaker role.
The elections, which took place some six months early after Draghi’s government collapsed, came at a crucial time for Europe as it faces Russia’s war in Ukraine and the related soaring energy costs that have hit ordinary Italian pocketbooks as well as industry.
A Meloni-led government is largely expected to follow Italy’s current foreign policy, including her pro-NATO stance and strong support for supplying Ukraine with weapons to defend against Russia’s invasion, even as her coalition allies stake a slightly different tone.
Both Berlusconi and Salvini have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. While both have distanced themselves from his invasion, Salvini has warned that sanctions against Moscow are hurting Italian industry, and even Berlusconi has excused Putin’s invasion as foisted on him by pro-Moscow separatists in the Donbas.
A bigger shift and one likely to cause friction with European powers is likely to come over migration. Meloni has called for a naval blockade to prevent migrant boats from leaving North African shores, and has proposed screening potential asylum-seekers in Africa, before they set out on smugglers’ boats to Europe.
Salvini has made clear he wants to return to the interior ministry, where he imposed a tough anti-migrant policy as minister. But it’s not clear he would get the post given he is currently on trial in Sicily for keeping migrants at sea. He may also face an internal leadership challenge after the League suffered an abysmal result of under 10% of the vote, with Meloni’s party outperforming the League in its northeastern stronghold.
On relations with the European Union, analysts note that for all her euroskeptic rhetoric, Meloni moderated her message during the campaign and has little room to maneuver given the economic windfall Italy is receiving from Brussels in coronavirus recovery funds. Italy secured some 191.5 billion euros, the biggest chunk of the EU’s 750 billion-euro recovery package, and is bound by certain reform and investment milestones it must hit to receive it all.
That said, Meloni has criticized the EU’s recent recommendation to suspend 7.5 billion euros in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding, defending Viktor Orban as the elected leader in a democratic system.
Orban’s political director, Balazs Orban, was among the first to congratulate Meloni. “In these difficult times, we need more than ever friends who share a common vision and approach to Europe’s challenges,” he tweeted.
French politician Marine Le Pen’s party hailed the result as a “lesson in humility” for the EU.
Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox opposition party, tweeted that Meloni “has shown the way for a proud and free Europe of sovereign nations that can cooperate on behalf of everybody’s security and prosperity.”
Meloni is chair of the right-wing European Conservative and Reformist group in the European Parliament, which gathers her Brothers of Italy, Poland’s Law and Justice Party, Spain’s Vox and the Sweden Democrats, which just won big in elections on a platform of cracking down on crime and limiting immigration.
Thomas Christiansen, professor of political science at Rome’s Luiss University and the executive editor of the Journal of European Integration, noted that Italy has a tradition of pursuing a consistent foreign and European policy that is in some ways bigger than individual party interests.
“Whatever Meloni might be up to will have to be moderated by her coalition partners and indeed with the established consensus of Italian foreign policy,” Christiansen said in an interview.
The vice president of the European Parliament, Katharina Barley of the Social Democrats of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said Meloni’s victory was “worrying” given her affiliations with Orban and Donald Trump.
“Her electoral lip service to Europe cannot hide the fact that she represents a danger to constructive coexistence in Europe,” she was quoted as saying by German daily WELT.
Meloni proudly touts her roots as a militant in the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, or MSI, which was formed in the aftermath of WWII with the remnants of Mussolini’s fascist supporters. Meloni joined in 1992 as a 15-year-old.
During the campaign, Meloni was forced to respond after the Democrats used her party’s origins to paint Meloni as a danger to democracy.
“The Italian Right has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti-Jewish laws,” she said in a multilingual campaign video.
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Take Trumps Warning Of Violence For What It Isa Threat
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If a guy told you he’s going to punch you in the face, and he told his buddies to punch other people in the face, and then he warned everyone else that they were going to start punching people in the face, and they ultimately did punch many people in the face—you’d probably take their word for it if they threatened to do it again, right?
That’s what Donald Trump and his MAGA militias are doing right now.
The ex-president—still unwilling to admit he lost an election that was at least as fair as the one he won four years earlier—might yet face the first meaningful legal consequences of his decades-long career of naked corruption. I’d still bet on him slithering out of accountability, again, but it’s possible that his asinine pilfering of highly classified documents as a private citizen, and then refusing to give them back to the federal government after months of promising he would, could be Trump’s Waterloo.
The guy who made a million “Lock Her Up” chants bloom during the 2016 campaign (over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, with which she shared some classified material) now says law enforcement holding him accountable for high crimes would be nothing less than a politically motivated banana republic-style prosecution of an ex-president.
And, were he to be prosecuted for essentially stealing state secrets, Trump predicted we’d see “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before,” adding, “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” (Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s more prominent on-again, off-again sycophants, also warned that a Trump indictment could lead to “riots in the streets.”)
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When he ‘warns’ of violence, he’s implicitly activating that part of the MAGA base, and they take him literally.
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But, these are merely “warnings”—predictions of what could happen—they’re not incitements to violence, right?
If only there was some past behavior we could draw upon to make the appropriate determination.
You could break Google by trying to do a basic search on all the times Trump has encouraged his supporters to act violently—whether it be MAGA rally attendees sucker-punching protesters, cops abusing detained people, or eager foot soldiers in his coup attempt.
But to cite just one example—specifically because it’s in the context of Trump issuing a “warning,” ostensibly meant to prepare the public for the consequences of someone doing something he doesn’t like—let’s go back to Nov. 2, 2020: the day before the election.
Trump, the sitting president, tweeted that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Pennsylvania to receive absentee ballots for three days after Election Day (a common practice in many states)—would “induce violence in the streets.”
Was this a warning? Or was it a threat?
Trump appeared to make his intentions clear when he added, “Something must be done!” and called the Supreme Court’s decision “dangerous.” Lest the meaning be lost on anyone still dense enough to think Trump’s just talking shit and shouldn’t be taken literally, he added, “And I mean physically dangerous.”
A couple months later, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, we learned once and for all that Trump should be taken seriously AND literally. When he “warns” of violence, he’s implicitly activating that part of the MAGA base, and they take him literally.
That’s why—with scores of GOP candidates for U.S. Senate, governorships, and state election offices refusing to accept the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and indicating they won’t abide by any unfavorable results in the 2022 election—Trump and his allies’ “warnings” cannot be waved off (AGAIN) as harmless trolling.
During Trump’s rise to power in 2015 and 2016, I was explicitly told by my editor at a right-leaning news outlet to not cover violence at Trump rallies—under the specious logic that such incidents were just a liberal media-hyped “sideshow” distracting us from the “real issues.” Subsequent events proved the witless folly of such naivete, and vindicated those of us who took the man seriously and literally, and also observed the violent fervor of many of his supporters for what it was.
After seven years of this guy fomenting violence and creating previously unthinkable situations (the open embrace of far-right conspiracy movements and paramilitary organizations, the storming of the Capitol, the destruction of the tradition of peaceful transfer of power—I could go on), you’d simply be a fool to not think Trump-incited political violence isn’t going to happen again.
That’s why Republicans and right-leaning commentators with a shred of integrity should respond forcefully and resolutely to such “warnings” that they won’t be a party to fascistic blackmail. At some point, you can’t (in good conscience) sit on your hands and blame the libs for making you anti-anti-Trump. It’s OK to be a pro-democracy conservative.
This a perfect chance for the non-fascistic right to, at last, put some meaningful daylight between itself and the unhinged loser who would sooner scorch the Earth than concede defeat. This is a moment to, with a clear voice, declare all political violence morally unacceptable—not just when it’s BLM or antifa. And it’s an opportunity to defy a movement that stands for nothing but the defense of its cult of personality, and has literal blueprints for how to conduct street violence in service of the dear leader.
Non-MAGA conservatives, libertarians, and right-leaning independents: If you’re a patriot—hell, if you simply believe in the rule of law—do the right thing. Stand up and be counted. Because they’re going to do it again.
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Kayleigh Mcenany Net Worth Age Wiki Family Biography And Latest Updates Kemi Filani News
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Kayleigh Mcenany net worth, age, wiki, family, biography and latest updates.
Kayleigh McEnany is a conservative political commentator and author from the United States.
Kayleigh McEnany: Profile summary
Name
Kayleigh McEnany
Net Worth
$2 Million
Date of Birth
18 April 1988
Age
34 Years Old
Birth Place
Tampa, Florida, United States
Currently Live In
Tampa, Florida, United States
Profession
Political Commentator and Author
Nationality
American
Religion
Christian
Ethnicity
White American Descent
Hometown
Tampa, Florida, United States
Zodiac Sign
Aries
School/High School
Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa
College/University
Georgetown University of Foreign Service in Washington D.C.
Education Qualification
Graduate
Kayleigh McEnany: Wiki/Biography
Born on 18 April 1988, Kayleigh McEnany’s age is 34 Years Old as of 2022. She was raised in Tampa, Florida, United States. She holds an American nationality and has a belief in the Christian religion. She completed her early schooling at the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa.
After that, she enrolled herself at Georgetown University of Foreign Service in Washington D.C. where she completed her graduation and majored in international politics. She studied politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She also attended the University of Miami School for one year and shifted to Harvard University where she acquired a JD degree in honours in 2016. Since her childhood, she had a great interest in journalism and wanted to establish her career in the same field. Her zodiac sign is Aries.
Kayleigh McEnany: Family, Husband & Relationships
Kayleigh McEnany’s parents are Michael and Leanne McEnany. Kayleigh McEnany’s father’s name is Michael McEnany, who founded his construction company, named “McEnany Roofing”. Kayleigh McEnany’s mother’s name is Leanne McEnany, she is a housewife.
She also has two siblings. Her brother’s name is Michael McEnany, who is a doctor and her younger sister’s name is Ryann Jessica McEnany.
Kayleigh McEnany’s marital status is married. She was married to Sean Gilmartin, who is a Baseball player by profession. They tied a knot in November 2017. Since then they have been enjoying their married life with each other. She has one daughter named Blake Avery Gilmartin.
Father Name
Michael McEnany
Mother Name
Leanne McEnany
Brother Name
Michael McEnany
Sister Name
Ryann Jessica McEnany
Boyfriend
Sean Gilmartin
Marital Status
Married
Husband Name
Sean Gilmartin
Children
Blake Avery Gilmartin (Daughter)
Kayleigh McEnany: Physical Appearance
Kayleigh McEnany is a beautiful hot and gorgeous woman with an attractive and charming personality. She owns a beautiful hot and curvaceous figure with attractive body measurements and a beautifully shaped slim body type. Her figure measurements are approximately 35-29-38 inches.
She is about 5 feet, and 7 inches in height and her body weight is around 60 Kg. She has long and shiny blonde colour hair and blistering blue colour beautiful and mesmerizing eyes.
Kayleigh McEnany: Career
Political Internship
Kayleigh McEnany first got involved in politics in 2004 as a high school sophomore when she volunteered with the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. This experience helped launch her career in politics and eventual transition into television. During her initial college days, the 18-year-old Kayleigh McEnany interned for Tom Gallagher, who ran against Charlie Christ in the primary for Governor of Florida in 2006. Later, she interned in the White House Office of Communications, where her job was to write media briefings.
Political Commentator
While staying at the University of Miami School of Law, Ms. McEnany joined CNN, where she appeared as a co-host on CNN’s “The Point,” a primetime political panel-based show, She also made television appearances on shows such as America Live w/ Megyn Kelly, Cavuto, Fox News’ Red Eye, The Mike Huckabee Show, The Real Story w/ Gretchen Carlson, and Varney & Co. She supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier, in 2015, she was highly critical of Trump, and she criticized him on CNN and Fox Business, where she said,
Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman” and it was “unfortunate” and “inauthentic” to call him a Republican.”
In 2015, she also criticized Donald Trump’s racist comment about Mexican immigrants. In an exchange on CNN in late June 2015, she said,
To me, a racist statement is a racist statement. I don’t like what Donald Trump said.” [15]
While Kayleigh McEnany was a Harvard law student, Michael Marcantonio, a fellow summer associate at the white-shoe law firm Kirkland & Ellis and a Democrat, advised her at a Manhattan rooftop cocktail party in the summer of 2015 that –
Donald Trump is going to be your nominee, if “a smart, young, blond Harvard graduate” wanted “to get on television and have a career as a political pundit, you would be wise to be an early backer.” [16]
On August 5, 2017, McEnany left CNN, and she hosted “Real News Update,” a 90-second webcast on Trump’s personal Facebook page.
Republican Supporter & Strategist
Since her college days, Kayleigh McEnany has strongly supported the Republican Party. On August 7, 2017, she was appointed the national spokesperson of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Since her appointment as the national spokesperson, Ms. McEnany has proved on many occasions that she is a loyal fighter for Mr. Trump.
White House Press Secretary
On April 7, 2020, Kayleigh McEnany was hired as White House press secretary by Mark Meadows (White House chief of staff); replacing Stephanie Grisham. Her appointment as White House press secretary was officially announced the next day, i.e., April 8, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany during a White House press briefing
As a White House press secretary, Ms. McEnany has defended Trump’s statements on several occasions, including the one when he suggested at a press conference that the coronavirus could be treated with disinfectant injections; while defending trump’s suggestion, she said that his remarks were taken out of context. During her first public press briefing on May 1, 2020, when asked by an Associated Press reporter:
Will you pledge to never lie to us from that podium?”
McEnany replied:
I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.”
Kayleigh McEnany: Net Worth
McEnany is estimated to be worth $5 million.
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Fat Phoney Whiny: Book Dishes On What Trump Said Of DeSantis
‘Fat, Phoney, Whiny’: Book Dishes On What Trump Said Of DeSantis https://digitalarizonanews.com/fat-phoney-whiny-book-dishes-on-what-trump-said-of-desantis/
Donald Trump slammed Ron DeSantis in private, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote in her new book.
Citing sources, Haberman wrote that ex-president Trump had called the Florida governor ‘fat’ and ‘whiny’
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GOP Rep.: Republicans Might Impeach Biden If They Win Midterms
GOP Rep.: Republicans Might Impeach Biden If They Win Midterms https://digitalarizonanews.com/gop-rep-republicans-might-impeach-biden-if-they-win-midterms/
US Representative Nancy Mace claims that if Republicans win the midterm elections, they will be pressured to impeach incumbent President Joe Biden.
GOP Rep.: Republicans might impeach Biden if they win midterms
If Republicans win back control of Congress as a result of the midterm elections in November, the GOP will be pressured to impeach US President Joe Biden, US Representative Nancy Mace has claimed.
In an interview on NBC News on Sunday, Mace said “I believe there’s a lot of pressure on Republicans to have that vote, to put that legislation forward and have that vote,” adding that “I think that is something that some folks are considering.”
The South Carolina representative, who described herself as “a conservative who works with Democrats,” said that when Democrats tried to impeach former US President Donal Trump for the second time, she voted ‘no’ because she believed that he had been stripped of his right due to process.
Mace claimed, during her interview, that she would stand against the impeachment of Biden for the same reasons she did when Democrats attempted to impeach Trump. She said, “I’m going to read how that bill is filed, what’s in it, what evidence there was.”
Furthermore, Mace argued that “I typically vote constitutionally, regardless of who’s in power. I want to do the right thing for the long term because this isn’t just about today, tomorrow, or this year’s election. This is about the future of democracy.”
According to Mace, the important thing at this time, for the US, is for the Republicans and Democrats to build consensus on topics and issues that matter most to US voters. She stressed “That’s where our focus should be at this juncture, as opposed to following a shiny object or chasing that rabbit down a hole. We need to be working together.”
Despite being aware that they can’t force a vote in the House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Democrats, Republicans have already filed two impeachment cases against Biden, including one this month. The most recent articles of impeachment against Biden were submitted by four GOP lawmakers last week. They accuse him of failing to protect the nation’s borders, handling the US military’s pullout from Afghanistan poorly last year, and enacting an unconstitutional prohibition on evictions.
It is also worth noting that Mace is likely to retain her seat in Congress after defeating a rival supported by former President Trump in the primary election.
The latest in the Biden-Trump war
In the last episode of the war of words, former US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that the United States is “on its way to hell” and requires strong leadership.
“Our country is going to hell. We are a nation in decline,” he pointed out. “This country is a mess. The way it’s going right now it’s not going to survive,” Trump said.
During the interview, Trump stressed that “the US needs a strong leader to lead the nation out of the crisis.”
“Forget politics, and the Republican and the Democrat stuff, and the radical left and everything else. I want somebody that’s a great leader. I want somebody that can stand toe to toe with President Xi of China,” he added.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Atlantic Canada After Fiona Rumbles North
Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Atlantic Canada After Fiona Rumbles North https://digitalarizonanews.com/hundreds-of-thousands-without-power-in-atlantic-canada-after-fiona-rumbles-north/
(CNN)The storm named Fiona slammed into Canada’s eastern seaboard with hurricane-force winds and torrential rainfall Saturday, pulling buildings into the ocean, collapsing homes, toppling trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people.
Fiona first wreaked havoc in the Caribbean as a hurricane before moving up the Atlantic and making landfall again as a post-tropical cyclone. The storm ripped a path of destruction in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland before weakening and moving out to sea Sunday.
Now, officials are beginning to account for the damage brought forth to the region.
Nova Scotia, where Fiona first made landfall during the early morning hours Saturday, was hit hard by the storm. Powerful winds toppled trees and power lines, washed out roads, littered neighborhoods with debris, and in many cases, snapped whole power poles in half, officials said.
Officials are prioritizing power restoration after Fiona ravaged power lines and communication networks across the province, Premier Tim Houston said Sunday morning.
“Getting roads cleared, giving space to the crews to do what needs to be done, that’s the most important thing right now,” Houston said. “It will take time.”
One person in Newfoundland reportedly died in the storm. Houston said there haven’t been too many reports of serious injuries, though about 200 people are currently displaced from their homes.
“The damage is significant, but right now that the priority right now is getting power back to people, getting people to a safe shelter, getting, you know, some return to normal,” he said. “That will take time when we come out of this.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that the government approved Nova Scotia’s request for federal assistance and that Canadian Armed Forces will be deployed to help out in the region. The Prime Minister said residents lived through a “terrifying” 12 hours Saturday.
“People have seen their homes washed away, seen the winds rip schools’ roofs off,” Trudeau said. “And as Canadians, as we always do in times of difficulty, we will be there for each other.”
In Prince Edward Island’s Charlottetown, police shared images of downed power lines over buildings, fallen trees blocking roadways and piercing through structures. The region’s utility, Maritime Electric, said it was concerned about people out walking and driving on streets where there is widespread damage from downed power lines and possible live wires.
Power outages across Nova Scotia
Several provinces were impacted by the heavy winds and rain, but none more than Nova Scotia. As of Monday morning, more than 284,400 customers were still without power across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick — including more than 190,400 in Nova Scotia, according to Poweroutage.com.
Nearly three quarters of Nova Scotia lost electricity as Fiona pushed through, Houston said Saturday. Peak wind gusts of 171 km/h (106 mph) were recorded in the province’s town of Arisaig Saturday. Meanwhile, Wreckhouse in Newfoundland saw 170 km/h (105 mph) gusts.
Poor weather conditions have hampered power restoration efforts, Nova Scotia Power President and CEO Peter Gregg said Saturday. More than 900 power technicians were on their way to the area, but some customers may experience power outages for several days, he said.
In Nova Scotia’s capital, Halifax, strong winds uprooted trees and downed power lines, sending sparks flying and lights flickering off.
A Halifax apartment complex’s roof collapsed, forcing about 100 people to leave for a shelter, Mayor Mike Savage told CNN Saturday.
“The magnitude of this storm has been breathtaking,” Savage later said at a Saturday news conference. “It turned out to be everything predicted.”
Osborne Head in Nova Scotia received 192 mm (7.55 inches) of rain and Crowe Brook in New Brunswick got 107 mm (4.2 inches), among other heavy rainfall amounts across the provinces.
‘Total war zone,’ Port aux Basques mayor says
In Newfoundland, video showed buildings floating in water and submerged cars under heavy rains. A woman was rescued from the water after her house collapsed, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She was taken to a hospital; the extent of her injuries wasn’t immediately known, police said.
Port aux Basques, a town at the southwest tip of Newfoundland, was also one of the worst-hit areas, Trudeau said Saturday.
“We’re seeing devastating images coming out of Port aux Basques,” he said. “Obviously as we see the images of houses falling into the sea, of waves destroying property and buildings, our first thought needs to be for people.”
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Sunday recovered the body of a 73-year-old woman who had been washed out to sea the day before in Port aux Basques.
“The woman was last seen inside the residence just moments before a wave struck the home, tearing away a portion of the basement,” police in a press release.
This is the first death attributed to Fiona in Canada. The storm claimed at least six other lives along its path — one in Guadeloupe, three in Puerto Rico and two in the Dominican Republic.
First responders in Port aux Basques were dealing with multiple electrical fires, residential flooding and washouts.
“We’ve got a total war zone here, we’ve got destruction everywhere,” Port aux Basques Mayor Brian Button said in a video update, warning that more storm surges are expected.
Port aux Basques is now under a boil water order, and power was still out for many residents. Concrete barriers were also set up around areas that were rendered “danger zones” by the storm, the mayor said.
The Port aux Basques tide gauge recorded a maximum total water level of 2.73 meters (8.96 feet) — topping its previous record of 2.71 (8.89 feet) meters set in 2017, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
CNN’s Derek Van Dam, Eric Levenson, Tina Burnside, Jason Hanna, Christina Maxouris, Hannah Sarisohn and Andy Rose contributed to this report.
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British Pound Sterling and U.S. Dollar notes are seen in this June 22, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration
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Sterling hits record low; risk of BOE response
Euro hits 20yr low, yen sliding despite intervention worries
Asia markets fall and S&P 500 futures drop 0.6%
SYDNEY, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Sterling slumped to a record low on Monday, prompting speculation of an emergency response from the Bank of England, as confidence evaporated in Britain’s plan to borrow its way out of trouble, with spooked investors piling into U.S. dollars.
The carnage was not confined to currencies, as concerns that high interest rates could hurt growth also knocked Asian shares to a two-year low, with demand-sensitive stocks such as Australia’s miners and carmakers in Japan and Korea hit hard.
S&P 500 futures fell 0.8% and European futures fell 0.7%. Two-year Treasury yields broke above 4.3% to a new 15-year high. The euro hit a 20-year low.
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“The movements over the last couple of trading days are quite fierce,” said Paul Mackel, global head of FX research at HSBC in Hong Kong. “It’s a strong reminder about how suddenly the drivers for exchange rates can change.”
The pound plunged nearly 5% at one point to break beneath 1985 lows and hit $1.0327. Moves were exacerbated by thinner liquidity in the Asia session, but even after stumbling back to $1.05, the currency is still down some 7% in just two sessions. Options pricing implies a wild ride ahead.
“The market is now treating the UK as if it’s an emerging market,” said Rabobank strategist Michael Every in Singapore.
“And they’re not wrong in terms of the policy response and the naivety of thinking that boosting demand rather than supply is how you deal with a supply side shock,” he said.
“If this carries across into European trading you’re going to get at a minimum a public statement from the BOE threatening (action) and…a strong possibility that they have to make an inter-meeting hike, and a chunky one at that.”
Britain’s announcement of unfunded tax cuts already set off the heaviest selling of gilts in three decades on Friday and has pushed the pound to a near two-year low of 92.29 pence per euro .
NOTHING IN THE DOLLAR’S WAY
The pound’s plunge is only the latest unnerving move as investors’ skittishness strains global financial markets.
The Nasdaq (.IXIC) lost more than 5% last week for the second week running. The S&P 500 (.SPX) fell 4.8%. Japan intervened in currency markets to support the yen and U.S. interest rate expectations have climbed rapidly.
On Monday, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) was down 1.4% to a two-year low and is heading for a monthly loss of 11%, the largest since March 2020. Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) fell 2.6%.
Focus later in the day will turn to politicians and policymakers’ response to the plunging pound, and to the latest round of dollar strength it has unleashed.
Japan’s Finance Minister threatened further intervention on Monday, but the yen was again under pressure and fell about 0.6% to the weaker side of 144 per dollar.
China’s central bank on Monday announced fresh steps to slow the pace of the yuan’s slide by making it sharply more expensive to bet against the currency, though that too hardly budged the currency which shot close to its daily down limit.
All that has well overshadowed Italy’s election of its most right-wing government since World War Two. Some investors were relieved at the relatively poor performance of euro-sceptic coalition partners, though it was no help to the euro.
The common currency hit a 20-year low of $0.9528.
Oil and gold were under pressure due to the surging greenback, with gold hitting a 2-1/2 year low of $1,626 and Brent crude futures down about 1% to the lowest since January at $85.06 a barrel.
“As of now, there doesn’t seem to be anything standing in the dollar’s way,” said Shafali Sachdev, head of FX, fixed income and commodities for Asia at BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Singapore.
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Perry Heating And Cooling Now Offering Plumbing Digital Journal
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Perry is a trusted local home services provider that has proudly served loyal customers in the Tucson community since 1949.
Tucson, AZ – September 26, 2022 – Perry Plumbing Heating and Cooling announced today that it now offers a wide range of plumbing services to customers throughout Tucson, AZ and the surrounding area. The company’s trusted, certified technicians now help customers with plumbing repair, repiping, leak detection, and many other plumbing services. With the additional service, the company is updating its name to Perry Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
Perry is a trusted local home services provider that has proudly served loyal customers in the Tucson community since 1949. A longstanding provider of heating, cooling and indoor air quality services, the company is well known for its focus on customer satisfaction and reliability.
The company decided to add plumbing services to continue delivering value to Tucson households and provide its customers with a one stop solution for their home service needs. Perry Plumbing Heating and Cooling will serve its plumbing customers with award winning customer service and friendly, experienced technicians – exactly as they’ve done for over 70 years.
“We get a lot of customers who are really happy with the HVAC service we provided and naturally, want to know if we can help them with plumbing as well,” says General Manager Monica Diaz. “Now we can help customers with even more of their home services needs. We view our decision to offer plumbing as an investment in the loyal people we’ve had the privilege of serving for decades.”
Here are many of the plumbing services Perry Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling provides today:
– Plumbing repair
– Burst pipe repair
– Plumbing inspection
– Repiping
– Sump pumps
– Gas lines
– Bathroom/kitchen plumbing
– Water filtration
– Water softening
– Water wells
– Backflow testing
– Leak detection
– Septic tanks
– 24/7 emergency services
Plus, all of the trusted heating, cooling, and water heater services the company has provided since day one.
To find out more about Perry Plumbing Heating and Cooling and see its full list of home services, visit https://perryheatingandcooling.com today.
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Company Name: Perry Plumbing Heating and Cooling
Contact Person: Monica Diaz
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Phone: (520) 200-8475
Address:3266 E Grant Rd
City: Tucson
State: AZ
Country: United States
Website: https://perryheatingandcooling.com/
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1 Killed In Midtown Shooting Along Street With Popular Nightlife
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One person is dead following an early Sunday morning shooting on a row of popular restaurants and bars in Sacramento, authorities said. Detectives believe at least two people fired guns during a fight. The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. near the intersection of 28th and J streets, the Sacramento Police Department said in a release. Officers found a man with gunshot wounds near the intersection and immediately started life-saving efforts. He died near James Marshall Park, which is near the intersection, according to authorities. Detectives have learned that a disagreement started at Barwest Midtown. Authorities told KCRA 3 that the victim went to a car to get a gun and then began shooting at the suspect. “We understand the worry, downtown is a generally safe area,” said Sgt. Zach Eaton, spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department. “We have had a couple of instances this year where we’ve had some bad shootings and some tragic shootings in our downtown. However, if you take a step back and look at the overall of what’s been going on downtown it’s generally a safe area to be in we have a lot of resources down there.” Sacramento police have yet to release information on the suspect or victim as they continue to investigate. No arrests have been made.Detectives did find two separate caliber casings at the scene, authorities told KCRA 3.Community reacts to shootingMany in midtown on Sunday afternoon hope the violent crime doesn’t taint the area.”It’s getting out of hand I hope the city, you know gets a hold of it, you know it’s bad for business it’s bad for the people who live in downtown,” said Anthony Tafoia, who told KCRA 3 he’s worried about his little sister who lives down the block. “It’s scary to just think that if she’s here and that happened I would literally freak out.”The usually busy brunch spot was shuttered close after the shooting.”We certainly understand the concern of community members who go downtown and do not feel safe, and we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that they feel safe when they go downtown and enjoy the incredible entertainment district we have in our city,” Eaton said.The Sacramento Police Department encourages any witnesses with information regarding this investigation to contact the dispatch center at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-HELP (4357). Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward up to $1,000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted using the free “P3 Tips” smartphone app. One other deadly shooting has happened in the immediate area of where this shooting happened Sunday morning, according to data compiled by KCRA 3. That shooting happened back in January. This is a developing story, stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
One person is dead following an early Sunday morning shooting on a row of popular restaurants and bars in Sacramento, authorities said. Detectives believe at least two people fired guns during a fight.
The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. near the intersection of 28th and J streets, the Sacramento Police Department said in a release.
Officers found a man with gunshot wounds near the intersection and immediately started life-saving efforts. He died near James Marshall Park, which is near the intersection, according to authorities.
Detectives have learned that a disagreement started at Barwest Midtown. Authorities told KCRA 3 that the victim went to a car to get a gun and then began shooting at the suspect.
“We understand the worry, downtown is a generally safe area,” said Sgt. Zach Eaton, spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department. “We have had a couple of instances this year where we’ve had some bad shootings and some tragic shootings in our downtown. However, if you take a step back and look at the overall of what’s been going on downtown it’s generally a safe area to be in we have a lot of resources down there.”
Sacramento police have yet to release information on the suspect or victim as they continue to investigate. No arrests have been made.
Detectives did find two separate caliber casings at the scene, authorities told KCRA 3.
Community reacts to shooting
Many in midtown on Sunday afternoon hope the violent crime doesn’t taint the area.
“It’s getting out of hand I hope the city, you know gets a hold of it, you know it’s bad for business it’s bad for the people who live in downtown,” said Anthony Tafoia, who told KCRA 3 he’s worried about his little sister who lives down the block. “It’s scary to just think that if she’s here and that happened I would literally freak out.”
The usually busy brunch spot was shuttered close after the shooting.
“We certainly understand the concern of community members who go downtown and do not feel safe, and we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that they feel safe when they go downtown and enjoy the incredible entertainment district we have in our city,” Eaton said.
The Sacramento Police Department encourages any witnesses with information regarding this investigation to contact the dispatch center at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-HELP (4357). Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward up to $1,000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted using the free “P3 Tips” smartphone app.
One other deadly shooting has happened in the immediate area of where this shooting happened Sunday morning, according to data compiled by KCRA 3. That shooting happened back in January.
This is a developing story, stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
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