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Ocasio-Cortez goes after Tesla: ‘We deserve a return on that investment’
BPR Wire Tim Pearce, DCNF
(Getty)Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the electric car company Tesla Monday night for failing to give American taxpayers a return on their “investment.”
Ocasio-Cortez made the jab during a climate change town hall organized and hosted by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
“When we as a public choose to invest in new technologies, we deserve a return on that investment,” Ocasio-Cortez said while talking about the broader Progressive agenda to fund renewable and green technology research with taxpayer money.
“For far too long, we gave money to Tesla, we gave money to a ton of people and we got no return on our investment that the public made in creating technologies, and it’s about time we get our due because it’s the public that funded and financed a lot of innovative technologies,” Ocasio Cortez continued.
Ocasio-Cortez did not specify where Tesla has failed.
The electric car company has struggled under CEO Elon Musk to hit production schedules on time or to reliably turn a profit. In November, Musk admitted that the company nearly crashed completely earlier in 2018.
“Essentially the company was bleeding money like crazy,” Musk told Axios in an interview that aired on HBO. “And just if we didn’t solve these problems in a very short period time, we would die. And it was extremely difficult to solve them.”
The FBI is investigating Tesla production schedules. Musk made separate productions promises to investors, one in 2017 that Tesla would be producing 4,000 cars a week by September and another in 2018 that the company would produce 5,000 a week around the middle of the year. Neither goal was met.
Musk also caused the Securities and Exchange Commission to sue him and the company for fraud after he tweeted that he had funding to take the company private. The lawsuit cost Musk and Tesla $20 million each.
Gorka blasts D.C.’s plan to name street after murdered Saudi journo: Why? He was ‘best friends’ with Bin Laden.
Frieda Powers
Gorka blasts D.C.’s plan to name street after murdered Saudi journo: Why? He was ‘best friends’ with Bin Laden.
Frieda Powers
Former White House national security adviser Sebastian Gorka slammed a plan to name a street after slain Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
Speaking with C-SPAN host Paul Orgel on Sunday, Gorka bluntly addressed the proposal by a neighborhood group in Washington, D.C. to rename the street that in front of the Embassy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as “Jamal Khashoggi Way.”
“Why would you vote to name a street after a man who was best friends with Osama Bin Laden and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood?” Gorka asked about the Washington Post contributor and Saudi critic who was killed in October after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
“Yes, he was murdered – and that was unjust. That was wrong,” Gorka said. “But this was not some saint and champion of democracy. His last article for Washington Post was about the need for theocracy and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Gorka mockingly questioned if neighborhoods in the nation’s capital would soon clamor to rename streets after Bin Laden and the top al-Qaeda officials.
“It’s a little peculiar, to say the least,” he added.
Orgel asked if Gorka approved of the way President Donald Trump has handled Khashoggi’s murder, referring to the president’s decision to not take strong action against Saudi Arabia or Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“As a former deputy to the president, yes, this is absolutely ow you do it,” Gorka replied.
There have to be consequences for the Saudis, he noted, adding that questions have to be answered but not at the cost of the U.S.-Saudi alliance.
“The idea that we’re going to turn the Middle East upside down because one bad individual was murdered – that is antithetical to strategic thought,” Gorka explained, citing positive developments in the region as a direct consequence of Trump’s actions.
James Harnett, the head of the seven-member Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A – which unanimously passed the resolution to rename the D.C. street – told CNN that Khashoggi’s killing and Trump’s response prompted the commissioners to act.
“This action will force the Saudis to remember, every day. This assault on the press is unforgivable and is deeply harmful to fabric of the truth,” he said. “Leaders at all levels of government need to stand up in whatever ways they can to support people, make their lives better, and push for what’s right. Up against the leaders who have abandoned their duty, this proposal is our way of pushing back.”
The approved resolution will head to the D.C. city council and ultimately to Congress.
PS… Old Middle East saying … “A Friend of my friend is my friend...A Friend of my enemy is my enemy.” Khashoggi was friend of Osama Bin Laden. Osama was no friend of ours.
--- Helen and Moe Lauzier
--- Helen and Moe Lauzier
David Letterman's Top 10 Reasons to vote Democrat and twice for Obama
#10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want.
#9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.
#8. I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
#7. I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
#6. I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.
#5. I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.
#4. I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away Social Security from those who paid into it.
#3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.
#2. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
#1. And, the #1 reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay $billions$ for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beatles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.
ISIS leader who was involved in murder of Army Ranger dies in US drone strike
by Matthew Boose
An American aid worker and Army Ranger who was brutally murdered by ISIS was avenged Sunday when an ISIS leader involved in his killing was taken down by U.S. coalition airstrikes.
Peter Kassig was beheaded by ISIS after being captured while helping Syrian refugees in 2013. ISIS leader Abu al Umarayn is the first publicly identified ISIS operative connected with Kassig’s killing.
The U.S.-led coalition in Syria confirmed the jihadist’s death on Monday.
ISIS leader killed in drone strike
Umarayn was hiding in Syria’s southeastern Badiyah Desert when he was taken out alongside several other ISIS operatives, coalition spokesperson Col. Sean Ryan said. The ISIS leader was an “imminent threat” and was involved in killing other prisoners.
“Al Umarayn had given indications of posing an imminent threat to Coalition Forces and he was involved in the killing of American Citizen and former U.S. Army Ranger, Peter Kassig,” officials said. “He has been linked to and directly involved with executing several other prisoners as a senior ISIS member.”
“Coalition airstrikes continue to disrupt ISIS command and control on the battlefield as we remove key figures from their ranks,” Ryan added.
Umarayn is the latest ISIS leader to be taken out with precision airstrikes by U.S. coalition forces in the military’s fight against the terror group.
Brutally murdered American gets justice
Born in Indiana, Kassig served in the 75th Ranger Regiment and was deployed to Iraq from April to July 2007 before getting medically discharged in September of that year. He later became an aid worker, forming Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, in Turkey to help Syrian refugees.
The 26-year old was also a medic, and he trained 150 Syrian civilians to administer first-aid.
Kassig was providing aid to refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war in October 2013 when ISIS abducted him. A former Methodist, Kassig converted to Islam in captivity, which lasted more than a year before his death, and adopted the first name Abdul-Rahman.
Kassig’s parents pleaded to ISIS for mercy but the terrorists published a video depicting “Jihadi John,” who was confirmed killed by an airstrike in 2015, standing over Kassig’s severed head. The U.S. government confirmed that the video was real.
Kassig was killed as ISIS was taking control over large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq. A Trump administration-led effort has brought about the terror group’s defeat in the region over the last two years.
Umarayan’s death comes as the coalition is closing in on the group’s last remaining territory in pockets of eastern Syria along the Euphrates River.
WALSH: The Terrifying Report About Children And Pornography That Every Parent Needs To Read
By MATT WALSH @MATTWALSHBLOG
WALSH: The Terrifying Report About Children And Pornography That Every Parent Needs To Read
By MATT WALSH @MATTWALSHBLOG
Tom Werner via getty ImagesA local news report in Kansas City should spark the interest of every parent. Children's Mercy Hospital has noticed a trend in the child sexual assault cases they encounter: half of the perpetrators of these crimes are children themselves. Nurses at the hospital think porn plays a prominent role:
"I think that was kind of shocking to us all as we were collecting this data, is that almost half of our perpetrators are minors," said Heidi Olson, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Coordinator.
The SANE program's data shows perpetrators are likely to be between 11 and 15 years-old.
"Another thing we're noticing is a lot of those sexual assaults are violent sexual assaults, so they include physical violence in addition to sexual violence," said Jennifer Hansen, a child abuse pediatrician at Children's Mercy.
..."To sexually assault someone else, that's a learned behavior," said Olson. Nurses are also finding more and more that pornography is playing a role in these cases. That can include a victim being forced to see porn, a victim reporting that the perpetrator said they'd watched porn, being forced to do something shown in a pornographic video, or a victim being recorded doing a sexual act.
They also noted that kids are often exposed to porn at extremely young ages:
Hansen and Olson says they're noticing kids are being exposed to porn at very young ages, around 4 or 5 years-old. They say a child can develop unrealistic and dangerous ideas about intimate relationships by being exposed to violent, graphic porn.
"We know that it's probably multifactorial. I think there are lots of things that contribute to this, but that is the question; How are we, as a society, failing in such a way that we have 11, 12, and 14-year-old boys, primarily, committing violent sexual assaults?" Hansen said.
SANE nurses can't always identify who a perpetrator is, because they work with victims, but said they've had young perpetrators tell them they've watched pornography and acted it out on someone else.
The nature and content of porn is also changing for the worse:
"Pornography is different today than it used to be. So, 80 percent of the 15 most-viewed films portray women being hit, spit on, kicked, called degrading names. The kinds of behaviors we wouldn't want our children, or anyone, to act in. Pornography has become more violent," said McCreary.
This may shock us, but it shouldn't. What else can we expect? The average child gets his first smart phone at the age of 10. That means many kids are getting phones even earlier. Just ask any third grade teacher about all the 8-year-olds coming to class with iPhones.
Once a kid has a phone, it is only a matter of time (and probably not a lot of time) before he accesses, tries to access, or accidentally stumbles across, highly objectionable content. It would be difficult to overstate the effect the exposure has on this developing mind. This is not at all akin to a teenage boy finding his dad's Playboy, as the old trope goes. This is extremely graphic, disturbing, often violent sexual content, consumed by a child who does not have the psychological faculties to cope with or understand what he's seeing. As his young mind marinates in this filth, his ideas about himself, his sexuality, women, love, and romance are all being shaped by it. The word "traumatized" is greatly overused these days, but it applies in this case. Children exposed to pornography suffer trauma. And the trauma is all the worse because we don't recognize it or treat it as such.
It is not surprising that a boy who starts watching hardcore porn in third grade might be a sexual abuser by seventh grade. He's been training for it. He's been indoctrinated into sexual perversion. He's been watching sexual violence for years and learning to take pleasure in it. His devolution into sex predator seems almost inevitable. It's a wonder more boys don't end up the same.
So, what can we parents do to save our children from all of this? Putting a parental lock on the phone isn't going to do the trick. They aren't consistently effective, and kids, generally more tech savvy than their parents, can figure out a way around them. The best way to prenatally lock a cell phone is to not give your child a cell phone in the first place. Or, if he really "needs" one, give him an old fashioned flip phone with no internet capabilities. His friends might laugh at him for being so out of date, but that's a small price to pay. The price to keep your kid up with the technological trend is far, far steeper, financially and in every other imaginable sense.
This isn't fail-proof, of course. Your kid's friends will still have smart phones. He can still be exposed to objectionable things. But it's at least one positive, concrete step toward protecting a child's innocence. It won't solve the problem completely, but it will help. And, as parents, we need all the help we can get.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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