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James48's JournalFAA restricts drones in key locations over New Jersey
Source: CNN
By Alexandra Skores and Pete Muntean, CNN
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has placed multiple drone flight restrictions over certain parts of New Jersey.
On Thursday, the agency announced restrictions largely aimed at limiting drone flights over power stations and infrastructure. The restrictions, which are limited to 400 feet of altitude, are strictly for drones and not civilian airplanes or helicopters.
“At the request of federal security partners, the FAA published 22 Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) prohibiting drone flights over critical New Jersey infrastructure,” the agency said in a statement.
Later Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul also announced a temporary ban on flights over critical infrastructure sites across New York state, describing the decision as “purely precautionary.” Hochul did not provide further details on what sites would be covered, to what degree flights would be banned, and for how long.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/us/faa-restricts-drones-power-locations-new-jersey/index.html
Well, this will be embarrassing.
The FAA puts a temporary ban on drones- but- within 24 hours, the agency will be shut down and left unable to investigate or enforce and drone flights that break the new rule.
Musk=Anarchy.
Luigi's manifesto is quite a read.
I don’t know how long it will be up- but here it is.
https://archive.is/7jUsF
I do not know if it’s real, or fake. But it is clearly an interesting read. I’ll leave judgement up to you.
The Allopathic Complex and Its Consequences
luigi mangione's last words
LM
DEC 09, 2024
The second amendment means I am my own chief executive and commander in chief of my own military. I authorize my own act of self-defense in response to a hostile entity making war on me and my family.
Nelson Mandela says no form of viooence can be excused. Camus says it’s all the same, whether you live or die or have a cup of coffee. MLK says violence never brings permanent peace. Gandhi says that non-violence is the mightiest power available to mankind.
That’s who they tell you are heroes. That’s who our revolutionaries are.
Yet is that not capitalistic? Non-violence keeps the system working at full speed ahead.
What did it get us. Look in the mirror.
They want us to be non-violent, so that they can grow fat off the blood they take from us.
The only way out is through. Not all of us will make it. Each of us is our own chief executive. You have to decide what you will tolerate.
In Gladiator 1 Maximus cuts into the military tattoo that identifies him as part of the roman legion. His friend asks “Is that the sign of your god?” As Maximus carves deeper into his own flesh, as his own blood drips down his skin, Maximus smiles and nods yes. The tattoo represents the emperor, who is god. The god emperor has made himself part of Maximus’s own flesh. The only way to destroy the emperor is to destroy himself. Maximus smiles through the pain because he knows it is worth it.
These might be my last words. I don’t know when they will come for me. I will resist them at any cost. That’s why I smile through the pain.
They diagnosed my mother with severe neuropathy when she was forty-one years old. She said it started ten years before that with burning sensations in her feet and occasional sharp stabbing pains. At first the pain would last a few moments, then fade to tingling, then numbness, then fade to nothing a few days later.
The first time the pain came she ignored it. Then it came a couple times a year and she ignored it. Then every couple months. Then a couple times a month. Then a couple times a week. At that point by the time the tingling faded to numbness, the pain would start, and the discomfort was constant. At that point even going from the couch to the kitchen to make her own lunch became a major endeavor
She started with ibuprofen, until the stomach aches and acid reflux made her switch to acetaminophen. Then the headaches and barely sleeping made her switch back to ibuprofen.
The first doctor said it was psychosomatic. Nothing was wrong. She needed to relax, destress, sleep more.
The second doctor said it was a compressed nerve in her spine. She needed back surgery. It would cost $180,000. Recovery would be six months minimum before walking again. Twelve months for full potential recovery, and she would never lift more than ten pounds of weight again.
The third doctor performed a Nerve Conduction Study, Electromyography, MRI, and blood tests. Each test cost $800 to $1200. She hit the $6000 deductible of her UnitedHealthcare plan in October. Then the doctor went on vacation, and my mother wasn’t able to resume tests until January when her deductible reset.
The tests showed severe neuropathy. The $180,000 surgery would have had no effect.
They prescribed opioids for the pain. At first the pain relief was worth the price of constant mental fog and constipation. She didn’t tell me about that until later. All I remember is we took a trip for the first time in years, when she drove me to Monterey to go to the aquarium. I saw an otter in real life, swimming on its back. We left at 7am and listened to Green Day on the four-hour car ride. Over time, the opioids stopped working. They made her MORE sensitive to pain, and she felt withdrawal symptoms after just two or three hours.
Then gabapentin. By now the pain was so bad she couldn’t exercise, which compounded the weight gain from the slowed metabolic rate and hormonal shifts. And it barely helped the pain, and made her so fatigued she would go an entire day without getting out of bed.
Then Corticosteroids. Which didn’t even work.
The pain was so bad I would hear my mother wake up in the night screaming in pain. I would run into her room, asking if she’s OK. Eventually I stopped getting up. She’d yell out anguished shrieks of wordless pain or the word “fuck” stretched and distended to its limits. I’d turn over and go back to sleep.
All of this while they bled us dry with follow-up appointment after follow-up appointment, specialist consultations, and more imagine scans. Each appointment was promised to be fully covered, until the insurance claims were delayed and denied. Allopathic medicine did nothing to help my mother’s suffering. Yet it is the foundation of our entire society.
My mother told me that on a good day the nerve pain was like her legs were immersed in ice water. On a bad day it felt like her legs were clamped in a machine shop vice, screwed down to where the cranks stopped turning, then crushed further until her ankle bones sprintered and cracked to accommodate the tightening clamp. She had more bad days than good.
My mother crawled to the bathroom on her hands and knees. I slept in the living room to create more distance from her cries in the night. I still woke up, and still went back to sleep.
Back then I thought there was nothing I could do.
The high copays made consistent treatment impossible. New treatments were denied as “not medically necessary.” Old treatments didn’t work, and still put us out for thousands of dollars.
UnitedHealthcare limited specialist consultations to twice a year.
Then they refused to cover advanced imaging, which the specialists required for an appointment.
Prior authorizations took weeks, then months.
UnitedHealthcare constantly changed their claim filing procedure. They said my mother’s doctor needed to fax his notes. Then UnitedHealthcare said they did not save faxed patient correspondence, and required a hardcopy of the doctor’s typed notes to be mailed. Then they said they never received the notes. They were unable to approve the claim until they had received and filed the notes.
They promised coverage, and broke their word to my mother.
With every delay, my anger surged. With every denial, I wanted to throw the doctor through the glass wall of their hospital waiting room.
But it wasn’t them. It wasn’t the doctors, the receptionists, administrators, pharmacists, imaging technicians, or anyone we ever met. It was UnitedHealthcare.
People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.
We entered into an agreement for healthcare with a legally binding contract that promised care commensurate with our insurance payments and medical needs. Then UnitedHealthcare changes the rules to suit their own profits. They think they make the rules, and think that because it’s legal that no one can punish them.
They think there’s no one out there who will stop them.
Now my own chronic back pain wakes me in the night, screaming in pain. I sought out another type of healing that showed me the real antidote to what ails us.
I bide my time, saving the last of my strength to strike my final blows. All extractors must be forced to swallow the bitter pain they deal out to millions.
As our own chief executives, it’s our obligation to make our own lives better. First and foremost, we must seek to improve our own circumstances and defend ourselves. As we do so, our actions have ripple effects that can improve the lives of others.
Rules exist between two individuals, in a network that covers the entire earth. Some of these rules are written down. Some of these rules emerge from natural respect between two individuals. Some of these rules are defined in physical laws, like the properties of gravity, magnetism or the potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of potassium nitrate.
No single document better encapsulates the belief that all people are equal in fundamental worth and moral status and the frameworks for fostering collective well-being than the US constitution.
Writing a rule down makes it into a law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. Law means nothing. What does matter is following the guidance of our own logic and what we learn from those before us to maximize our own well-being, which will then maximize the well-being of our loved ones and community.
That’s where UnitedHealthcare went wrong. They violated their contract with my mother, with me, and tens of millions of other Americans. This threat to my own health, my family’s health, and the health of our country’s people requires me to respond with an act of war.
END
Michigan- Slotkin pulls ahead.
Looks like Slotkin will pull it out- barely.
She is ahead now -
Slightly.
Trump wins the White House in political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters
Source: AP News —. AP calls the race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.
With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
The victory validates his bare-knuckle approach to politics. He attacked his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, in deeply personal - often misogynistic and racist - terms as he pushed an apocalyptic picture of a country overrun by violent migrants. The coarse rhetoric, paired with an image of hypermasculinity, resonated with angry voters - particularly men - in a deeply polarized nation.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-reaches-election-day-stark-112851056.html
AP calls the Presidency for Trump
It's over.
America had a good run.
But it’s over.
HE is going to rampage on day one.
NATO will be shattered.
RUSSIA will win, and Ukraine will be multilated and torn apart.
ISRAEL’ s Netanyahu will continue his on-going destruction of everything Gaza or Lebanese on he road to perpetual war with Iran.
And Taiwan will be left not knowing who can help defend
I have been left in shock to think my fellow Americans just picked HIM again.
I need a drink.
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Michigan man gets probation, must pay $1,035 for threatening gun violence if political signs disturbed
From Mlive:
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2024/10/michigan-man-gets-probation-must-pay-1035-for-threatening-gun-violence-if-political-signs-disturbed.html
By Cole Waterman | Cole_Waterman@mlive.com
SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw Township man has received a probationary term and been ordered to pay a four-figure sum for threatening gun violence on those who would remove his errantly placed political signs.
Saginaw County District Judge M. Randall Jurrens on Friday, Oct. 25, sentenced 50-year-old Andrew Leslie Reel to one year of probation, during which he must pay $1,035 in fines and costs. Reel must also forfeit a 9mm pistol and its associated ammunition and magazines. The judge further prohibited Reel from having contact with victim Thomas Roy or visiting Fashion Square Mall.
This is the case where the guy, upset by moving a Trump sign- wrote a note saying:
“ “I set up a camera and I’m out in the far distance with a 9mm gun,” the note read. “Any bastard takes my signs down in a laim [sic] democrat attempt will pay! You up for my wrath?”
Biden orders 500 more active-duty troops to North Carolina to aid in Helene recovery
Source: The Hill
President Biden ordered the Department of Defense to move an additional 500 active-duty troops into western North Carolina to aid in the recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene, the White House announced Sunday.
The additional troops bring the total number to nearly 1,500, after the president ordered nearly 1,000 soldiers to the area late last week.
They make up only part of the on-the-ground federal response to Helene. The White House said there are additionally more than 6,100 National Guard members and more than 7,000 federal personnel aiding in the effort.
“These Guardsmen have been spearheading the response effort across the impacted region in support of their governors and communities, providing critical life-saving and life-sustaining support to the victims of this historic natural disaster,” the Defense Department press release read.
The announcement, according to the White House and Defense Department, comes in response to requests from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) and from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for additional troops.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4918677-biden-500-active-duty-troops-north-carolina-helene-recovery/
They are getting plenty of resources, exactly as asked for.
Shots fired at Trump National Golf Club with former president on site
Source: Daily Mail
Multiple shots were fired at Donald Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach on Sunday.
Former President Donald Trump is golfing at his south Florida club.
'President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity. No further details at this time,' Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13853143/Shots-Trump-National-Golf-Club-Mar-Lago.html
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