Worthing is not ready for prime time. That is blatant racism.

May 6, 2022
By Ron Fonger

Flint - A white Flint city councilwoman (click here) who called her Black colleague’s actions “ghetto” says she is “very sorry for my choice of words.”

9th Ward Councilwoman Eva Worthing made the comment off her microphone during a committee meeting on Wednesday, May 4.

“It was a knee-jerk reaction. I said, ‘That’s ghetto’ under my breath ...,” Worthing said Friday, May 6. “I felt threatened” by “unprofessional and unsophisticated” comments made by 5th Ward Councilwoman Jerri Winfrey-Carter, who is Black....

"Decision Day" has come.

May 6, 2022

Stories of success from Flint kids (click here) filled the Mott Memorial Building Auditorium on Friday afternoon.

Flint Southwestern Classical Academy’s 74 members of the senior class announced plans for after graduation during a “Decision Day” event at Mott Community College.

Students will soon be moving on to the workforce, armed forces and colleges all across the country.

Many are headed to Mott Community College and the University of Michigan-Flint, but the list doesn’t end there.....

The Governor and his administration must answer for what they did to an entire city.

May 6, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court (click here) heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether defendants in the Flint water criminal case were denied a key constitutional right. If they win, charges against defendants going all the way up to ex-Gov. Rick Snyder could be thrown out.

The specific issue before the court is whether three of the defendants were denied their right to a preliminary hearing. The preliminary hearing is where prosecutors have to show a judge they have enough evidence to take a case to trial. But the government says that step’s been covered because these charges were brought in this unique process where a judge acts as both prosecutor and grand jury.

The state’s lawyers focused on the argument that even if it’s unusual, the law allows for a one-judge grand jury to decide whether to charge or not to charge.

Assistant Attorney General Christopher Kessel said the Flint water case is an unusual situation “…where the allegations of government corruption at the highest level do result in the victimization of an entire city. Now, I appreciate that defendants want to have a preliminary exam, but defendants are not entitled to choose their right of prosecution.”

The defendants are former state Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Former state health official Nancy Peeler is charged with misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty. Richard Baird, a top adviser to then-Gov. Rick Snyder, faces charges of misconduct, perjury and extortion.

Defense counsel Harold Gurewitz represents Nancy Peeler. He said the preliminary examination protects defendants’ rights....

Casey Cole White is at large and is very dangerous. Alabama needs help in apprehending him.

A gay couple was faced with his brutal ability to kill. They are describing him as another Charles Manson or Ted Bundy.

The authorities need INFORMATION. They can very well do the apprehending. It is ill advised for anyone to confront the couple so much as call police with information.

May 6, 2022
By Jack Morphet and Gabrielle Fonrouge

An Alabama man (click here) who was nearly murdered by Casey Cole White described the escaped convict as “hunter-like” and warned he knows how to hide — as he compared the accused killer to Charles Manson and Ted Bundy.

“He will literally do anything and everything, including killing, including kidnapping, including killing animals and putting children in danger, to get what he wants,” Charles Abernathy told The Post late Thursday. 

“And of all people to escape, this dude is probably the worst level that you could possibly let escape.

“You’ve got like Manson and you’ve got friggin’ like Bundy and all these crazy people. He is on that level for me.”...

Casey Cole White is big and bad and he knows it.

May 5, 2022

The road that led capital murder suspect Casey Cole White (click here) to his escape from an Alabama jail started almost a decade ago after a wild, two-state crime spree on a Tuesday night that involved a kidnapping, an armed robbery and a shooting that left a family dog dead.

For nearly a week, the 38-year-old has been on the lam after he apparently absconded from the Lauderdale County jail in Florence on Friday morning with former assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56.

But the events that led up to his well-planned escape offer a few clues into how, and why, the plot was hatched....

They have money. They aren't walking or hitchhiking. 

May 6, 2022

By Kaitlin Kanable

...Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly (click here) told our partner NewsNation that Vicky White went to several banks and withdrew $90,000 in cash from the sale of her house on April 18....

This is a news conference regarding the vehicle involved.

The decision about Ms. Greene's candidacy now falls to Secretary of State Raffensperger.

During the time of Trump's attempts to manipulate the Georgia count, Secretary Raffensperger and his family received death threats.

May 6, 2022

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (click here) supports a last-minute bill the legislature passed giving the Georgia Bureau of Investigations jurisdiction over election fraud allegations, he said Thursday at an Athens Area Chamber of Commerce event....

A judge in Georgia on Friday found that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (click here) is qualified to run for reelection, concluding that a group of voters who had challenged her eligibility failed to prove she engaged in insurrection after taking office. But the decision will ultimately be up to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Before reaching his decision, state Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot held a daylong hearing in April that included arguments from lawyers for the voters and for Greene, as well as extensive questioning of Greene herself. He also received extensive briefing from both sides.

State law says Beaudrot must submit his findings to Raffensperger, who has to decide whether Greene should be removed from the ballot.

Raffensperger is being challenged by a Trump-backed candidate in this month’s GOP primary and would likely face huge blowback from right-wing voters if he was to disagree with Beaudrot’s finding...

Von der Leyen Says EU Plans to Phase Out Oil Imports Amid Ukraine War - May 4, 2022

"We want Ukraine to win this war."

Ukraine has the moral high ground. There is no doubting the mission it is on. There is only one path forward and that is to insure the survival of the Ukraine people and end the siege of their land. There is no other path. What Russia has done is unconscionable.

Ukraine didn't like the occupation of Russia in Crimea or Eastern Ukraine, but, they accepted it to avoid the exact war that Putin has brought to them. They didn't want this. They wanted to be an economic partner to their neighbors. Putin has now made that impossible at least in the short run.

The country of Ukraine has no responsibility for this aggression. This is Russian aggression on people who considered themselves neutral. The world has an example now of the imperialism Russia has planned, not just for Ukraine, but beyond this genocide. Vladimir Putin is wrong. There is just no doubt to that fact. The only remaining countries that can act to protect Ukrainians and assist in defense of the country are the countries of NATO.

It is Vladimir Putin's war and it is unjust while he kills enormous numbers of innocent people.

May 6, 2022

Budapest -Hungary (click here) cannot support the European Union's new sanctions package, which includes an embargo on oil imports, in its present form, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.

Orban said the European Commission's current proposal banning Russian oil imports would amount to an "atomic bomb" dropped on the Hungarian economy, adding that Hungary was ready to negotiate if it sees a new proposal that would meet Hungarian interests.

The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed the toughest package of sanctions yet against Moscow for its war in Ukraine, but several countries worried about the impact of cutting off Russia oil imports stood in the way of agreement.

A handful of eastern EU countries are concerned that the halt would not allow them enough time to adapt, even though diplomats said Hungary and Slovakia would be given until the end of 2023.

Orban told state radio that Hungary would need 5 years and make huge investments in its refineries and pipelines to be able to transform its current system which relies about 65% on Russian oil....

Wars and alliances are not a matter of convenience and Orban needs to stop his bellyaching.

9 March 2022

On 8-9 March 2022, (click here) the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer was in Hungary where he met with the Chief of Defence, Lieutenant General Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, visited a border crossing with Ukraine and attended the Exercise Eastern Shield....

Not to state Hungary has abandoned it's responsibility. That is not the case. It is fully invested in the defense of NATO, but, it is time for it's leadership to take the defense of their land and enter into sanctions that will act to end the brutal war engaged by Russia.

An alliance is as strong as it's weakest link and Hungary needs to do it's part to end the infusion of income to Russia that will empower it further against Ukraine and NATO. This is genocide. This is not a border skirmish. Orban needs to get on board with sanctions and ask other alliance for advice as to how that gap in energy needs will be replaced to maintain it's economy. Simply walking away from EU sanctions is not in the best interest of NATO or Hungary. Orban must comply. The alliance will not abandon Hungary in it's struggle to find energy other than the fossil fuels supplied by Russia.

 

Please check the surrounding buildings for soundness. Blasts go further in their damage than what is seen.

May 6, 2022

Mayor Silva is the second person to report there was a gas explosion.

Alexis Acosta Silva, (click here) mayor of Old Havanna, believes a liquified gas bullet tank was being installed in the hotel. There was a reported crack in a supply hose. Five people have died and there are injured, currently two in surgery for broken legs and two in surgery with skull fractures. Eight other people are in intensive care on ventilators with at least 12 people missing or unaccounted for.