Friday, May 12, 2023

'Everything Everywhere All at Once' - The Hidden Agenda

That is the strategy of the Republicans elected to office. They are elected through propaganda, put their hands over their traitorous hearts when pledging allegiance and proceed to destroy democracy.

Americans are busy living and don't have time to pause in order to tame government officials now in office that bring forward hidden agendas. That is what they are counting on and before you know it rights are gone. This is dangerous and must be stopped.

THERE IS NO SAFETY IN THIS METHOD OF DECEPTIVE GOVERNMENT.

May 9, 2023
By Tyler Kingkade

Woodland Park - When a conservative slate of candidates (click here) won control of the school board here 18 months ago, they began making big changes to reshape the district.

Woodland Park, a small mountain town that overlooks Pikes Peak, became the first — and, so far, only — district in the country to adopt the American Birthright social studies standard, created by a right-wing advocacy group that warns of the “steady whittling away of American liberty.” The new board hired a superintendent who was previously recalled from a nearby school board after pushing for a curriculum that would “promote positive aspects of the United States.” The board approved the community’s first charter school without public notice and gave the charter a third of the middle school building.

As teachers, students and parents began protesting these decisions, the administration barred employees from discussing the district on social media. At least two staff members who objected to the board’s decisions were later forced out of their jobs, while another was fired for allegedly encouraging protests.

These rapid and sweeping shifts weren’t coincidental — instead it was a plan ripped from the MAGA playbook designed to catch opponents off guard, according to a board member’s email released through an open records request.

This is the flood the zone tactic, and the idea is if you advance on many fronts at the same time, then the enemy cannot fortify, defend, effectively counter-attack at any one front,” David Illingworth, one of the new conservative school board members, wrote to another on Dec. 9, 2021, weeks after they were elected. “Divide, scatter, conquer. Trump was great at this in his first 100 days.”...

Loss of electricity for any reason will kill people.

May 12, 2023
By Monica Samayoa

Amid a record-smashing heat (click here) wave across the Pacific Northwest, residents in Portland, Ore, find shelter on June 27 in a 24-hour cooling center at the Oregon Convention Center.

Portland could see record breaking temperatures over the weekend, (click here) with weather conditions similar to the deadly heat dome event in 2021.

That extreme weather, which killed 69 people in Multnomah County, brought heat to the forefront of the climate crisis in the region and prompted swift action from city and local organizations that promised to help residents adapt. While those efforts have had some success nearly two years later, some say more needs to be done.

Starting Friday, the Portland metro could see temperatures rising into the 90s, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an excessive heat watch through Monday. NWS meteorologist Daniel Hartsock said the increase in temperature is coming from a high-pressure system like the heat dome event that trapped hot air over the region in June 2021. He said the same system is also creating offshore easterly winds, which add to dry conditions.

Hartsock said the average high is typically around 70 degrees in mid-May.

“We’re looking at temperatures 20 to 25 degrees above normal, so that’s definitely not very common,” he said....

People will not abandon pets either. Often not even to save their own lives.

July 8, 2021
By Jon Jackson

The death toll in Oregon's record-breaking heave wave (click here) from last weekend has risen to 116, according to data released by the state's medical examiner on Wednesday. Officials said that many people who died were found inside their homes without air conditioning or fans.

Many people who died during Oregon's recent heat wave lacked air conditioning in their homes. In this photo, people and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland, Oregon, on June 28....

She is missed.

May 10, 2023
By Phil Helsel and Lindsey Pipia


A Dutch man (click here) who was suspected in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway is being extradited to the United States in connection with a fraud case, Peruvian officials said Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman.

He was arrested but never convicted in the disappearance of Holloway, who vanished in Aruba in 2005.

Holloway has never been found. The 18-year-old from Alabama went on a high school graduation trip and never returned. A judge later declared her dead.

Van der Sloot was arrested and released in that case and was never charged.

The extradition is the latest twist in a case that generated countless news stories when Holloway disappeared and multiple fictionalized movies and documentaries, some even more than a decade later....