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Tonight's NOVA on PBS is a a look at the reconstruction efforts.
wader
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Three Astronauts May Be Stranded on the ISS After Disturbing Soyuz Coolant Leak
A Russian spacewalk was called off on Wednesday after a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS) started leaking coolant in low Earth orbit. For one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on board, that could mean their ride back to Earth is suddenly gone.
movetheboat
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Washington man charged with leaving more than 400 threatening voicemails for members of Congress
The 48-year-old left voicemails to numerous lawmakers on Capitol Hill threatening bodily harm. He is due in court in Tacoma on Thursday.Despite "being visited and warned several times by law enforcement and mental health professionals," the Justice Department said, Leonetti continued his threatening behavior in 2022.
"So we’re going to barbecue your ass. We’re going to peel your ass inside out," Leonetti said in one of seven voicemails he left for one lawmaker in September, prosecutors said.
In one of 32 voicemails Leonetti left for a senator over a three-day period in September, he allegedly said, "Well, so I’m gonna murder you. It is justified."
movetheboat
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TICK TOCK TICK TOCK....Nope ...no one that crazy
Amen!! Chicago did this and it was revoked after about a year!! In the interest of full disclosure, Foie Gras and a glass of sauterne is one of my favorite culinary guilty pleasure...
New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras, the fattened livers of ducks and geese prized as an ingredient in many French dishes, may not go into effect if a new ruling by New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets goes unchallenged by the city.
On Wednesday, the agriculture department called the city’s law “unreasonably restrictive” to the two Sullivan County farms, La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras, that had sued in May over the ban.
Passed by the city in 2019 on the grounds of animal cruelty, the ban would prohibit them from selling their products in New York City, one of the country’s largest markets for the ingredient.
It was set to go into effect last month, but in September, a New York State Supreme Court judge issued an injunction regarding the ban, ruling that farms could continue to sell foie gras to restaurants while the case made its way through the court system.
According to a letter sent by the agriculture department to Mayor Eric Adams and a city attorney on Wednesday, New York City has 10 days to comply with the order. “The decision of the Commissioner is final, unless within 30 days the City institutes a proceeding to review the decision in the manner provided,” the letter reads. Nick Paolucci, the city’s law department spokesman, said that officials are “reviewing the state’s letter and determining next steps.”
A ban on producing foie gras in California passed in 2004 and took effect in 2012. A federal judge struck it down two years later, but the production ban was later upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. law has continuously been fought in court. Foie gras has also been banned in several countries and recently from King Charles III’s royal residences.
Sergio Saravia, the president of La Belle Farm, said he was relieved when he first heard about the state department’s ruling on Wednesday. “It’s a weight off our shoulders,” he said, adding that the farm was thinking about closing and laying off workers if this ban went into effect.
Edward J. Phillips, Mr. Saravia’s lawyer, said that for La Belle Farms and other employers in Sullivan County, the pandemic hit them hard when restaurants in New York City closed. If the ban had continued, he said, La Belle would not have been able to keep its business open. “It was an existential threat,” he said.
The lobbying group Voters for Animal Rights, which backed the ban, said it was disappointed in the decision. Bryan Pease, a lawyer for the group, said he felt that the agricultural department took “an extreme position” when it interpreted the state’s law, which he said had been used only in land use matters until now. He also felt that allowing foie gras farming to continue violated the state’s animal cruelty laws.
“This is a product of cruelty, and it has no place in our city,” said Allie Taylor, the founder and president of Voters for Animal Rights.
New York State Finds the City’s Foie Gras Ban Violates Farmers’ Rights
A ruling by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets may stop the city from implementing a law that prohibits the sale of the fattened livers of geese and ducks.New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras, the fattened livers of ducks and geese prized as an ingredient in many French dishes, may not go into effect if a new ruling by New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets goes unchallenged by the city.
On Wednesday, the agriculture department called the city’s law “unreasonably restrictive” to the two Sullivan County farms, La Belle Farm and Hudson Valley Foie Gras, that had sued in May over the ban.
Passed by the city in 2019 on the grounds of animal cruelty, the ban would prohibit them from selling their products in New York City, one of the country’s largest markets for the ingredient.
It was set to go into effect last month, but in September, a New York State Supreme Court judge issued an injunction regarding the ban, ruling that farms could continue to sell foie gras to restaurants while the case made its way through the court system.
According to a letter sent by the agriculture department to Mayor Eric Adams and a city attorney on Wednesday, New York City has 10 days to comply with the order. “The decision of the Commissioner is final, unless within 30 days the City institutes a proceeding to review the decision in the manner provided,” the letter reads. Nick Paolucci, the city’s law department spokesman, said that officials are “reviewing the state’s letter and determining next steps.”
A ban on producing foie gras in California passed in 2004 and took effect in 2012. A federal judge struck it down two years later, but the production ban was later upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. law has continuously been fought in court. Foie gras has also been banned in several countries and recently from King Charles III’s royal residences.
Sergio Saravia, the president of La Belle Farm, said he was relieved when he first heard about the state department’s ruling on Wednesday. “It’s a weight off our shoulders,” he said, adding that the farm was thinking about closing and laying off workers if this ban went into effect.
Edward J. Phillips, Mr. Saravia’s lawyer, said that for La Belle Farms and other employers in Sullivan County, the pandemic hit them hard when restaurants in New York City closed. If the ban had continued, he said, La Belle would not have been able to keep its business open. “It was an existential threat,” he said.
The lobbying group Voters for Animal Rights, which backed the ban, said it was disappointed in the decision. Bryan Pease, a lawyer for the group, said he felt that the agricultural department took “an extreme position” when it interpreted the state’s law, which he said had been used only in land use matters until now. He also felt that allowing foie gras farming to continue violated the state’s animal cruelty laws.
“This is a product of cruelty, and it has no place in our city,” said Allie Taylor, the founder and president of Voters for Animal Rights.
Illegal immigrants seen climbing out of sewer manholes and sneaking into Texas
Emerging from sewer covers, illegal immigrants were seen popping out of manholes in downtown El Paso, Texas, to enter the country.
nypost.com
movetheboat
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Honestly, I didn't know my chicken was packing heat!!!
A Florida air passenger attempted to smuggle a gun onto a flight using a raw chicken on Monday. Transportation Security Administration officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport caught the firearm at one of its checkpoints, wrapped in thin paper packaging inside a Kikiri Quirch brand baking hen.
The passenger had stashed the chicken in his carry-on and was headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, according to Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokesperson for the Gulf region.
Gun Found Stuffed Inside a Raw Chicken at Florida TSA Checkpoint
November 11, 2022/in News, Travel News/by Moumita BasuroychowdhuryA Florida air passenger attempted to smuggle a gun onto a flight using a raw chicken on Monday. Transportation Security Administration officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport caught the firearm at one of its checkpoints, wrapped in thin paper packaging inside a Kikiri Quirch brand baking hen.
The passenger had stashed the chicken in his carry-on and was headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, according to Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokesperson for the Gulf region.
Good NY Times article about Russia's failures in Ukraine. It's a long read, but turns out "The Bear" has had its teeth extracted and has been declawed...
They never had a chance.
Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers and truck drivers, watching an endless showcase of supposed Russian military victories at home on state television before being drafted in September. One medic was a former barista who had never had any medical training.
Now, they were piled onto the tops of overcrowded armored vehicles, lumbering through fallow autumn fields with Kalashnikov rifles from half a century ago and virtually nothing to eat, they said. Russia had been at war most of the year, yet its army seemed less prepared than ever. In interviews, members of the brigade said some of them had barely fired a gun before and described having almost no bullets anyway, let alone air cover or artillery. But it didn’t frighten them too much, they said. They would never see combat, their commanders had promised.
Only when the shells began crashing around them, ripping their comrades to pieces, did they realize how badly they had been duped.
Read the entire article here: Putin's War
Putin’s War
A Times investigation based on interviews, intercepts, documents and secret battle plans shows how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for RussiaThey never had a chance.
Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers and truck drivers, watching an endless showcase of supposed Russian military victories at home on state television before being drafted in September. One medic was a former barista who had never had any medical training.
Now, they were piled onto the tops of overcrowded armored vehicles, lumbering through fallow autumn fields with Kalashnikov rifles from half a century ago and virtually nothing to eat, they said. Russia had been at war most of the year, yet its army seemed less prepared than ever. In interviews, members of the brigade said some of them had barely fired a gun before and described having almost no bullets anyway, let alone air cover or artillery. But it didn’t frighten them too much, they said. They would never see combat, their commanders had promised.
Only when the shells began crashing around them, ripping their comrades to pieces, did they realize how badly they had been duped.
Read the entire article here: Putin's War
movetheboat
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This war will put the Russian Bear in "CHECK" for at least two decades. The last of the cold war generation in Russia needs to fade away and give up its dreams of restoring the Soviet Union at the expense of it's own citizens and those they attack. If the Russians don't make progress this winter there will be some peace agreement in the Spring. Putin had great wealth and power but like all dictators it's never enough. He fukked up bigtime and the West was correct in calling him out. The Russian people have no stomach for this fight, and why should they.
wader
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Musk's suspension of journalists on Twitter spurs E.U. sanctions warning
European officials rebuked Twitter and Elon Musk on Friday after the social media company abruptly suspended several U.S. journalists. European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová, whose brief includes the rule of law and disinformation, tweeted that the "arbitrary suspension of journalists...
wader
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N Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Japan
North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles with a potential range of striking Japan on Sunday, in a possible protest of Tokyo’s adoption of a new security strategy to push for more offensive footing against North Korea and China. The launches came two days after the North claimed to...
N Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Japan
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles with a potential range of striking Japan on Sunday, in a possible protest of Tokyo’s adoption of a new security strategy to push for more offensive footing against North Korea and China.
The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
The two missiles traveled from the country’s northwest Tongchangri area about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at a maximum altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to the South Korean and Japanese governments.
South Korea’s military described both missiles as medium-range weapons that were launched at a steep angle, suggesting they could have traveled farther if fired at a standard trajectory. North Korea usually tests medium- and longer-range missiles at a high angle to avoid neighboring countries, though it fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan in October, forcing Tokyo to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains.
n an emergency meeting, top South Korean security officials deplored North Korea's continued provocations that they said came despite “the plight of its citizens moaning in hunger and cold due to a serious food shortage.” They said South Korea will boost a trilateral security cooperation with the U.S. and Japan, according to South Korea’s presidential office.
Japanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino separately criticized North Korea for threatening the safety of Japan, the region and the international community. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the launches highlight the destabilizing impact of North Korea’s unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. It said the U.S. commitments to the defense of South Korea and Japan “remain ironclad.”
wader
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Surrender to a Drone? Ukraine Is Urging Russian Soldiers to Do Just That.
YIV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of drones have been employed across Ukraine to kill the enemy, spy on its formations and guide bombs to their targets. But this month the Ukrainian military began a program to use drones in a more unusual role: to guide Russian soldiers who want to surrender.
The program had its genesis in late November, when the Ukrainian military released footage of a Russian soldier throwing his weapon to the ground, raising his hands and nervously following a path set out by a drone overhead, leading him to soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 54th Mechanized Brigade.
A few weeks later, the Ukrainian General Staff released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers can surrender to a Ukrainian drone, and it is now part of a wide-ranging effort by Ukraine to persuade Russian soldiers to give up. The program, called “I want to live,” includes a phone hotline, a website and a Telegram channel all dedicated to communicating to Russian soldiers and their families.
Surrender to a Drone? Ukraine Is Urging Russian Soldiers to Do Just That.
KYIV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of drones have been employed across Ukraine to kill the enemy, spy on its formations and guide bombs to their targets. But this month the Ukrainian military began a program to use drones in a more unusual role: to guide Russian soldiers who want to surrender...
NY plans to change the way you heat your home. Gas, oil, propane furnaces to be phased out
The state Climate Action Council today approved policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
www.syracuse.com
BennyV
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sounds expensive.NY plans to change the way you heat your home. Gas, oil, propane furnaces to be phased out
The state Climate Action Council today approved policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
wader
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'We will find you:' Russians hunt down Ukrainians on lists
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig. He didn’t stop until he had carved out a shallow pit, big enough for a man like him. It was his just-in-case, a place to lie low if he needed.
He covered it with branches and went back home.
A week later, Kuprash got a call around 8 a.m. from an unknown number. A man speaking Russian asked if he was the village head. Something was amiss.
“No, you’ve got the wrong number,” Kuprash lied. “We will find you anyway,” the man responded. “It’s better to cooperate with us.’” Kuprash grabbed some camping kit and his warmest coat and headed for his hole in the woods.
'We will find you:' Russians hunt down Ukrainians on lists
Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig. In the crosshairs were government officials, journalists, activists, veterans, religious leaders and lawyers.
Avenger
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They don't care.
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