Joe Machin is going to lose his election. He is begging for money now.

Machin dollars (click here)

Machin is moaning about the pipeline to Biden for political reasons, not reasons of governance. His approval rating has dropped, but, so has his disapproval rating dropped. He is hoping come 2024, a presidential election year, his "uncertain" rating which has increased will carry him through another election.

Machin receives his election funding from oil & gas and other GOP sources. He isn't a Democrat, but, in saying so West Virginians believe their federal interests are balanced between the two parties, hence, Machin's boat and his claims of bipartisan influence.

By asking Biden to restore the XL pipeline he is looking for money from the GOP and his petroleum industry buddies. It is all quid pro quo and the Democrats have two years to find someone that can primary Machin and hope the people will back a new candidate that isn't as deceitful as Machin.

Machin can be viewed as a "Snyder Democrat," in one that doesn't care about potable water.

Nearly every corner of the world has opposed this pipeline and it is necessary to end the idea it is possible. Machin's petroleum buddies want him to hit back with the pipeline after COP26 and the emergence of the urgency of seeking the end of greenhouse gas emissions.

Machin is their puppet in quid pro quo.

The Democrats need to run real candidate that reflects hope to the people of West Virginia. Machin is nothing but more of the same corruption that has always existed.

President Biden is releasing oil from the national reserves. Every other president has done the same thing when prices were high. The prices locally have already dropped 24 cents. It is working. The people won't have this issue if they purchase electric vehicles and the sooner the better. Electricity is a stable price that can be counted on to increase job opportunity as well as stable energy costs. There won't be problems with a families budget day to day because of fossil fuel energy profiteers. Enough is enough. The American family needs safe and efficient transportation.

The computer chip/semi-conductor industry is becoming more dependable, even in difficult times caused by the pandemic. There is plant being planned by Samsung outside of Austin, Texas (click here). There isn't a Wall Street company involved with semi-conductors happy about sourcing Taiwan, now that China is being a real jerk about communism imposition. Communication companies that provide for social media are leaving China because of growing regulations and danger to their own people. It is time to make the USA completely self-contained in the needs that really are that of national security. I think Samsung is doing the right thing for their company as well as a more secure USA and it's economic engine.

August 7, 2020

In the West Virginia coalfields (click here) — on the edge of which my aunt and uncle live, and where I spent holidays and vacations as a kid — the economic mood ranges from depressed to apocalyptic. At one point, more than 100,000 West Virginians worked in the mines that produced well-paying jobs and gave people money to spend. That money spilled over into other sectors: retail, construction, and education, to name a few, and was the backbone of the state’s economy. Now, fewer than 20,000 locals work in these mines, and the jobs that do exist pay far less than they used to, thanks to successful anti-union actions by coal companies. As a result, a region that once boomed along with human consumption of fossil fuels is now littered with shuttered mines, shuttered storefronts, and shuttered dreams....

West Virginians need to realize their needss are best filled by sincere Democrats that want to actually provide real jobs rather than the sparce number of coal jobs. Machin's corruption needs to be displayed and allow for a successful primary to elect a person that sincerely cares about West Virginian people.

Opposition to Keystone XL centered on the devastating environmental consequences (click here) of the project. The pipeline faced more than a decade of sustained protests from environmental activists and organizations; Indigenous communities; religious leaders; and the farmers, ranchers, and business owners along its proposed route. One such protest, a historic act of civil disobedience outside the White House in August 2011, resulted in the arrest of more than 1,200 demonstrators. “This is not a pipeline to America,” said the late civil rights activist Julian Bond, among the many arrested. “It’s a pipeline through America, and it threatens to be a disaster for us if it leaks poisons on the way.” Leading scientists and economists came out in opposition to the project, in addition to unions and world leaders such as the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former president Jimmy Carter (together, these and other Nobel laureates have written letters against the project). In 2014, more than two million comments urging a rejection of the pipeline were submitted to the U.S. Department of State during a 30-day public comment period.

Latex allergy.

This is a random label to illustrate the point.

The labeling in some clothing, often in less expensive stores, is placed by stamping the letters onto the clothing. Folks with latex allergies are being treated with Triamcinolone Acetonide ointment or cream. That is not good. I am glad they have a medication to treat the choronic problem, but, to be exposed to it in the first place is dangerous.

The FDA should examine the stamped in lettering used in some clothing to determine if there should also be a warning label that the garment and/or it's label contains latex. Currently there are about 1 percent of Americans with a latex allergy.

Allergies of any kind can cause more than a dermititis. They can cause a deadly reaction called anaphylaxis. We need to be aware of such dangers and warn against them. 

The manufacturers are always welcome to return to using removal label tags in their clothing. 

Thank you.

Inclusion is important.

I was really pleased to see our society has finally caught up with modern times. This is a new shade of bandaid (click here) by Walgreens. It is fabric, generic and sells for $3.29. I am proud of Walgreens. They should keep up the good work. I can hold up head up a little higher everytime I walk into Walgreens now.

It is my opinion...

 ...the Supreme Court is playing god. I also believe Thomas has been siding with women as Ginsberg would have just so on he can be anti-women with this opinion. 

The justices, except for Roberts, is deciding that the neural tube development at six weeks is the benchmark for a viable fetus rather than the 24-25 week which has been standard for any decision for the past fifty years.

FETAL PAIN has always been the issue. That developed out of the decision regarding late term abortions. NOW, the Justices, except for Robert and the three thinking judges, are attempting to move the benchmark to the first development of any nervous tissue at six weeks.

By the ninth week, (click here) the brain appears as a small, smooth structure. Over the course of pregnancy, the structure of the brain will change as it grows and begins to form the characteristic folds that designate distinct brain regions. Changes in brain anatomy reflect dramatic changes at the cellular level. Neurons in the different brain regions begin producing the chemical signaling molecules that will enable communication between nerve cells. The fiber pathways that will become the brain’s information superhighway are forming. The cells that will make up the neocortex—the part of the brain that coordinates sight, sound, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and language—begin to communicate

Mayo

Week 6: The neural tube closes (click here)

Growth is rapid this week. Just four weeks after conception, the neural tube along your baby's back is closing. The baby's brain and spinal cord will develop from the neural tube. The heart and other organs also are starting to form.

Structures necessary to the formation of the eyes and ears develop. Small buds appear that will soon become arms. Your baby's body begins to take on a C-shaped curvature

Five CRACKPOTS on the court are attempting to argue there is no way of knowing if the fetus feels pain at six weeks, hence, that has to stand as the correct place for abortion.

It is taking the law into their own hands. The Rule of Law regarding fetal development has always been 24 to 25 weeks of development is the first time a fetus can feel pain because it is when the brain and spinal cord HOOK UP.

The FIVE CRACKPOTS, probably led by Alito, are assaulting the right of a full citizen of the USA in favor of the standard of an unborn fetus. Now, is the time to end all requirements for abortion and go back to patient - doctor confidentiality.

The EXTREMIST argument is based on the idea that SPASTIC movements “in utero” like thumb sucking is all conscious movement.

IT IS A LIE!!!!!

The Five Crackpots are ignoring the Rule of Law and a 50 year precedent to overthrow this democracy for a Christian theocracy. They should be impeached!!! 

The looting is continuing in vulnerable communities.

"Moring Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

I suggest President Biden begin to ask the country to be careful and make example of New York City. Guns are of little use and even can be used against occupants of any building, home or apartment unless there is a warning system to wake people from their sleep.

Residents in New York City place barricades on doors and windows to prevent crime. It is the way it is and residents accept it and move to protect themselves and their property from crime.

I think people willing to be corrupt and even criminal have learned that looting can be a reason to defeat police and profit besides. These folks are not doing Christmas shopping or filling in a wardrobe, they are taking objects for profit. It is time citizens EMPOWER THE POLICE to RETURN their communities to peaceful streets by using security devices to protect themselves and their property.

Fire officials will have good advise as to the types of devices to use in any building, home or apartment. Security devises cannot interfere with fire codes otherwise tragedy will occur.

Everyone that witnessed Rittenhouse's spree killing of people attempting to disarm him, took the wrong message away. They believe Rittenhouse is the best option for a modern day society. That is incorrect and Rittenhouse should be in prison for the crimes he committed that night including gun law violations. But, debating it isn't going to settle the real issues of personal security. 

The police are empowered when citizens are using strong security measures that deter crime. Guns complicate the circumstances people face and personal security measures empowers police to once again patrol the streets without worrying about constant assaults of crime to the cities that employ them.

I might add, women do well when they own a dog for protection. They even get safe exercise when walking the dog without assault.

The waning gibbous

17.3 day old moon

93.1 percent lit

"Beaver Moon"

by Jamie Carter

Did you see the full “Beaver Moon?” (click here)

Here it is, captured by photographers around the world as our satellite rose spectacularly—and from some locations was eclipsed by the Earth.

If you were in Europe it looked liked any other rising full Moon—spectacular, for sure, though nothing out of the ordinary ... if you can call a glowing orbiting orb “ordinary.”

For those in North America, Australia and eastern Asia the full Moon went a copper-reddish color at all but a slither of its surface entered Earth’s shadow in space....

Peng Shual is a global citizen with a global reputation. People will not lose interest in her simply because China is being oppressive.

November 21, 2021
By Matthew Futterman and Christopher Clarey

Nearly two weeks after people across the world (click here) began asking “Where is Peng Shuai?,” two questionable videos surfaced Saturday on social media of a person who appears to be the Chinese tennis star at a restaurant.

The videos were shared on Twitter by the editor of a state-run newspaper, but the seemingly unnatural conversation in one video and the unclear location and dates of both raised questions about Peng’s safety and whether she was appearing in the videos of her own free will. A third video, said to be of Peng at a tennis match in Beijing, was posted about 10 hours later, on Sunday.

Peng, in a social media post this month, accused a former top government official of sexually assaulting her. After the allegation, the Chinese government removed almost all references of Peng on social media within the country, and Peng disappeared from public life. Her absence prompted outrage across the world, especially from top officials and stars in tennis....

Deforestation is loss of chlorophyll sinks for CO2 and profound habitat loss throwing nature's balance into a downward spiral.

November 12, 2021
By Charles Maynes and Grace Widyatmadja

Jack Pombo, 41, from Trin village, holds a dead bird of paradise. He finds many dead birds when he goes to logging areas. "Before our forest was full of birds. We had parrots, birds of paradise. Now many of them gone, because we don't have a forest anymore. Some birds died, some moved to different areas. Some come to our gardens and destroy our crops," he says.

Vlad Sokhin's interest in climate change came from his own global upbringing. (click here)

Born in Russia, and having spent formative years in Portugal, Sokhin made a career as a documentary photographer capturing health and human rights issues in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Yet it was a 2013 assignment to cover deforestation in Papua New Guinea that convinced him to train his lens on humanity's impact on the planet.

"I saw how the environment was changing because of illegal logging," Sokhin tells NPR. "But the big picture wasn't there. I thought, 'What if I extend a little bit?'"

Eight years and thousands of miles later, the result is Warm Waters, (Schilt Publishing, 2021) an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few....

Her name is Elizabeth Ann.

November 19, 2021
By Michael Booth

Lamar - Somewhere between the comforts of a plastic tote (click here) outfitted with clean, shredded paper and a bloody quarter of a prairie dog for snacks, and the yawning dark hole he was being tipped into as hawks circled above, North America’s rarest mammal had the genetic weight of the world on its furry shoulders.

Black-footed ferret No. 10,166 clung desperately to the inside of a black PVC tube. The tawny kit appeared reluctant to dive into a lonely prairie dog hole five hours’ drive from the breeding center near the Wyoming border and take on the responsibility of restoring a species thought extinct until 1981.

It chattered like a psychotic dolphin, alternately retreating and lunging at the heavy leather gloves of the handler. Elsewhere on the unplowed shortgrass prairies of sprawling May Ranch, 14 other kits were about to go down other holes....

February 22, 2021

By Alex Fox

Her name is Elizabeth Ann and she gives hope to the return of critically endangered species.

Scientists (click here) have successfully cloned a wild black-footed ferret that died more than 30 years ago, according to a statement from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The young clone, born December 10, 2020 and named Elizabeth Ann, is the first ever native endangered species to be cloned in the United States, reports Douglas Main for National Geographic.

Once thought to be globally extinct, black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s rarest land animals, clinging to the hem of existence through painstaking captive breeding and reintroduction programs. With her unique DNA, Elizabeth Ann has the potential to be a source of much-needed genetic diversity to the inbred reintroduced population, which currently hovers between 400 and 500 individuals and remains severely threatened by disease....

Anything at all to make a buck. A decade ago Antarctica tourism was unheard of and it should have remained that way.

November 19, 2021
By Dana Bergstrom

We tend to think Antarctica (click here) is isolated and far away – biologically speaking, this is true. But the continent is busier than you probably imagine, with many national programs and tourist operators crisscrossing the globe to get there.

And each vessel, each cargo item, and each person could be harbouring non-native species, hitchhiking their way south. This threat to Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem is what our new evaluation, released today, grapples with.

We mapped the last five years of planes and ships visiting the continent, illuminating for the first time the extent of travel across the hemispheres and the potential source locations for non-native species, as the map below shows. We found that, luckily, while some have breached Antarctica, they generally have yet to get a stranglehold, leaving the continent still relatively pristine.

But Antarctica is getting busier, with new research stations, rebuilding and more tourism activities planned. Our challenge is to keep it pristine under this growing human activity and climate change threat....

November 18, 2021
By Morgan Greene

Microcystins is the toxin produced by Blue-Green algae.

Straved Rock State Park - Barges carrying mounds of coal (click here) toward St. Louis passed by Starved Rock at a snail’s pace, inching past yellow-orange trees and sandstone canyons. A bald eagle hovered above a path leading hikers toward Lover’s Leap. Near the Starved Rock Lock and Dam, a pinch point along the Illinois River, the water was dull and unremarkable.

But the area is home to a problem that taints waters throughout the state: toxic algae blooms.

In June, its surface was streaked with neon green. The bloom, one of dozens sampled this year throughout Illinois, contained levels of a potent toxin more than 30 times above the advised state recreational standard.

Blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, happen when, given the right mix of conditions including temperature, sunlight and excess nutrients, the microscopic organisms proliferate to the extent that it sometimes looks like someone dumped paint in the water.

The rise of blooms appears to be connected to human-caused climate change. Along with nutrient overload from intense storms, warming air temperatures — and in turn warming water temperatures — can feed blooms....

It is so strange to think about toxic algal blooms caused by the climate crisis and coal is one of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters. So, here are barges full of coal floating past the algal bloom which it causes.

Europe is moving on greenhouse gas emissions, but, as is the case globally, not enough yet.

Graph above (click here)

November 10, 2021

By Tereza Pultarova 

Europe's climate (click here) is warming much faster than the rest of the world and scientists are trying to understand why. 

The world is nowhere near on track to limiting the global temperature rise to the 1.5 degrees Celsius required by the Paris Agreement, the international treaty negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015. In fact, latest predictions show that globally, the climate is set to get on average 2.4 degrees C warmer compared to the pre-industrial era, unless emissions of greenhouse gases are drastically cut. 

But not all parts of the world are set to be hit equally. Europe, in fact, has already passed the 1.5-degree C threshold and is currently 2.2 degrees C warmer than it was before the industrial revolution, Samantha Burgess, deputy director for climate change services at the European Earth observation program Copernicus, said Tuesday (Nov. 2) in a briefing at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) that is concluding this week in Glasgow, Scotland. 

Climate denial is waning, but it is being replaced with anti-immigration rhetoric.

21 November 2021
By Oliver Milman

...“When the Roman empire fell, (click here) it was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration – the empire could no longer control its borders, people came in from the east and all over the place,” the British prime minister said in an interview on the eve of crucial UN climate talks in Scotland. Civilization can go into reverse as well as forwards, as Johnson told it, with Rome’s fate offering grave warning as to what could happen if global heating is not restrained.

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This wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US and is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream politics. Whatever his intent, Johnson was following a current of rightwing thought that has shifted from outright dismissal of climate change to using its impacts to fortify ideological, and often racist, battle lines. Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.

In the US, a lawsuit by the Republican attorney general of Arizona has demanded the building of a border wall to prevent migrants coming from Mexico as these people “directly result in the release of pollutants, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere”. In Spain, Santiago Abascal, leader of the populist Vox party, has called for a “patriotic” restoration of a “green Spain, clean and prosperous”....

October 25, 2021

On Thursday, (click here) the National Security Council released a long-anticipated report on what environmental advocates are calling one the most pressing issues of our time: climate change-induced migration. The report is the first U.S. government report on the effects of climate on migration and arrives right as President Biden is slated to attend a major United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland known as COP26.

The 37-page report, which was commissioned by President Joe Biden in February with an August deadline, notes that climate migration, both within countries and between them, is already here, but is set to get a lot worse. Climate change is expected to displace as many as 143 million people, nearly three percent of the populations of Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, by 2050. Roughly a quarter of those are expected to migrate internationally as a result of their displacement. The sheer mass of migrants will have “significant implications for international security, instability, conflict, and geopolitics,” the report says. This includes climate change-induced wars and conflicts over natural resources, namely water....

President Obama has advocated for help to poorer countries partly to stem migration.

November 10, 2021

By Somini Sengupta

Former President Barack Obama, (click here) who helped to seal the Paris climate agreement six years ago, returned to an international climate summit here to rally nations to heal the planet, acknowledging the enormous complexity of the crisis but arguing that humanity has the capacity to create a safer, healthier world.

“To be honest with ourselves, yes, this is going to be really hard,” said Mr. Obama, who was welcomed with sustained applause by delegates from nearly 200 nations. “The thing we have going for us, is that humanity has done hard things before. I believe we can do hard things again.”

Mr. Obama noted that the Paris agreement, signed by 197 countries in 2015, created a framework for climate action, but nations, including the United States, failed to follow through on their commitments to keep global warming within relatively safe margins.

“Important work was done there, and important work is being done here,” he said. “That is the good news. Now, for the bad news. We are nowhere near where we need to be.”...

We are witnessing the destruction of the land based Greenland Ice Sheet. Is Antarctica far behind?

20 November 2021

This 2016 photo (click here) shows a rift that, within a few months, widened even farther and and released a Delaware-size iceberg from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. The rough surface of ice mélange is visible on one side of the rift.

Here's another reminder of the precarious position (click here) that the world's climate and ecosystems are in: a new study estimates that global warming could push the Antarctic ice sheet past a tipping point in as little as 10 years....

...As icebergs break off Antarctica, they float down a major channel known as Iceberg Alley. Debris released from these icebergs accumulates on the seafloor, giving researchers a record of history some 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) under the water.

By combining this natural logbook of iceberg drift with computer models of ice sheet behavior, the team was able to identify eight phases of ice sheet retreat across recent millennia. In each case, the ice sheet destabilization and subsequent restabilization happened within a decade or so.

The results published by the researchers augment modern satellite imagery, which only goes back around 40 years: they show increasing losses of ice from the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, not just changes in ice shelves already freely floating on the water. 

"We found that iceberg calving events on multi-year time scales were synchronous with discharge of grounded ice from the Antarctic ice sheet," says glaciologist Nick Golledge, from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

The study showed the same sea rise pattern happening in each of the eight phases too, with global sea levels affected for several centuries and up to a millennium in some cases. Further statistical analysis identified the tipping points for these changes.

If the current shift in ice in Antarctica can be interpreted in the same way as the past events identified by the researchers, we might already be in the midst of a new tipping point – something we've seen in other parts of the world and the Arctic in recent years....

On the Fiest of Christ the King, Pope Francis directs young people to be Earth's stewards.

People cannot declare science dead in order to facilitate "creationism" while at the same time denouncing the climate crisis. If one believes in creationism then they have to believe God's creation is being destroyed by the hands of greedy stockholders and the fossil fuel industry. It can't be both.

The Vatican (click here)

November 21, 2021

Vatican - Pope Francis (click here) on Sunday praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment and told them to “be the critical conscience of society.”

Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, filled with hundreds of young faithful, to mark a church day focused on youth in dioceses worldwide.

“You have been entrusted with an exciting but also challenging task,'' the pontiff said, ”to stand tall while everything around us seems to be collapsing."

Francis expressed thanks “for all those times when you cultivate the dream of fraternity, work to heal the wounds of God's creation, fight to ensure respect for the dignity of the vulnerable and spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing.”...

At COP26 mayors are viewed in a pivotal role in energy production.

Alternative energies are absolutely carbon zero without dangers of any kind.

Nuclear power is a form of energy with high costs to safety. For cities and counties in the USA looking for answers should put nuclear at the bottom of the choices, but, above any use of fossil fuels, includig methane. Nuclear is not as expeditious as alternative energies. Nuclear has many years of planning and it not quickly built. So, the idea nuclear is better because it can be a quick answer is not the case.

I am glad the IAEA was at COP26 as it shows a sincere concern for the climate and the role nuclear energy could have to end the fossil fuel emissions. The IAEA needs to develop a protocol for establishing nuclear energy across the globe that will also provide for high levels of safety. Russia is a prime example of the gross mismanagement of nuclear energy and other forms of nuclear radiation. The folks in Russia don't have good science or practices surrounding this dangerous form of fuel.

Interested participants (click here) have until 30 November 2021 to submit synopses for a presentation at the fifth International Conference on Nuclear Power Plant Life Management, to be held in Osaka, Japan from 16-19 May 2022....

This is self--righteous racism. It is another Zimmerman case whereby law is taken into the hands of others.

"Property" seems to be a theme. With Trayvon Martin, Vigilante Zimmerman takes up arms to end robberies in the area and acting as judge and jury in deciding Trayvon was the guilty party and carrying out a death sentence. Zimmerman stated in calling the police the crime would still be committed because the police wouldn't stop it. Self-righteousness.

Kenosha was about "property" and self-righteous vigilantism and the idea police are inadequate to do what Rittenhouse did. Self-righteousness.

The death of Ahmaud Arbery is about "property" and the idea no police were doing their jobs to end the people walking through the property. Self-righteous vigilantism.

The theme of police incompetancy and property protection seems to be a common thread. It used to be the only way a citizen could be justified in using their weapons against another human being and killing them was if the stranger was inside the four walls of the residence. Now. Anything goes. This is a result of very loose laws regarding guns. Police are viewed as inept, not by the left that are concerned about racism, but, by the political right that use police response as an excuse to kill.

November 21, 2021 

Bruswick, Geogia - Carrying signs that read "Justice for Ahmaud," (click here) the demonstrators marched past majestic live oaks draped with Spanish moss. They chanted Ahmaud Arbery's name as they wound through the streets, past a hardware store, several homes, a convenience store. They rounded the corner by the floral shop, calling for those watching from the sidewalk to join them. 

They soon stopped on a lawn of the Brunswick African American Cultural Center, 10 miles from the residential block where Arbery was shot to death. It was the fifth day of testimony in the trial of the White men accused of killing the Black jogger, and dozens of people had gathered for a march that started outside the Glynn County courthouse. 

At the cultural center, where a mural of Arbery's smiling face sits against a blue and yellow backdrop, Annie Polite took a break, sitting down in her walker.

"The system has got to change," the 87-year-old Black woman said. "It's not fair. There's no justice in what goes on behind close doors. We all deserve equal justice."...

 

Maiming is the new normal? This was not an accident. Barriers were destroyed. The car kept going.

November 21, 2021

Waukesha, Wis. - More than 20 people (click here) were injured when an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha on Sunday, the city’s police chief said.

Chief Dan Thompson said the investigation is ongoing, but that a “suspect vehicle” was recovered. Some of those injured were taken by police to hospitals, and others were taken by family members, Thompson said.

Police in Waukesha, located about 20 miles west of Milwaukee, were urging people to avoid the downtown area.

A live video feed of the parade from the city of Waukesha, as well as videos taken by parade attendees, showed a red SUV breaking through barriers and speeding into the roadway where the parade was taking place.

Angelito Tenorio, a West Allis alderman who is running for Wisconsin state treasurer, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he was watching the parade with his family when they saw the SUV come speeding into the area.

“Then we heard a loud bang, and just deafening cries and screams from people who are who are struck by the vehicle,” Tenorio said. “And then, and then we saw people running away or stopping crying, and there, there are people on the ground who looked like they’d been hit by the vehicle.”...

What the heck? Meet-ups to stage a robbery event?

November 21, 2021
By Don Sweeney

Dozens of robbers swarmed a Nordstrom (click here) store Saturday night, Nov. 21, at an outdoor mall in Walnut Creek, streaming out with boxes and bags to flee in waiting cars, police said.

“I probably saw 50-80 people in, like, ski masks with crowbars, a bunch of weapons,” Brett Barrett, who manages a nearby restaurant, told KPIX. “They were looting the Nordstrom.”

“There was a mob of people,” Barrett told the station. “The police were flying in. It was like a scene out of a movie. It was insane."

The robbery spree broke out at 9 p.m. when as many as 25 vehicles pulled up in front of the store and 80 people in masks dashed inside, KNTV reported.

Police responding to 911 calls arrested three people in the chaos, two fleeing in a vehicle and one fleeing on foot, KGO reported.

A similar incident took place Friday night at Union Square in San Francisco, where a swarm of people ransacked stores, San Francisco police reported on Twitter.

Six were arrested after people shattered windows and ran off with merchandise from Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and other high-end stores, KTVU reported....