https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poland-mystery-divers-gdansk-port-energy-oil-gas-infrastructure/

Mystery divers rescued near Polish energy sites in the middle of the night offer dubious explanation, and vanish

Coast guards rescued three divers off the northern coast of Poland over the weekend whose dubious explanation of their night-time dive near critical energy infrastructure, along with their mysterious identities, has reportedly sparked a cross-agency investigation. The three men, who told authorities they were Spanish nationals, were rescued near the Polish coastal city of Gdansk on Saturday night after their small motorboat broke down and they couldn't return to shore.

Since then, doubts over their intentions have mounted. They were rescued not far from the Naftoport facility at the Port of Gdansk, which receives tanker shipments of oil and other and petroleum products. They were also found near an area where there are plans to build a new floating natural gas terminal.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Service SAR told CBS News the rescue operation involved police officers, firefighters, and medical workers. SAR spokesman Rafal Goeck described the rescue operation — at just before 2 a.m. local time — as "rather unnatural."
t further questioning.

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>A safety monitoring system flagged that U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and German partner BioNTech's updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analyzed by U.S. health authorities.
>Pfizer and BioNTech said in a statement that they have been made aware of limited reports of ischemic strokes in people 65 and older following vaccination with their updated shot.
Oopsies. Maybe this is why the government offered blanket immunity from lawsuits to the pharma companies.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-says-pfizers-bivalent-covid-shot-may-be-linked-stroke-older-adults-2023-01-13/

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https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/couple-pimped-their-adopted-sons-out-to-pedophile-ring-report/

Gay couple charged with molesting their adopted sons also pimped them out to pedophile ring, report claims

> A gay couple from Georgia charged with molesting their two adopted sons and using them to record child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a local pedophile ring, according to a disturbing new report.

> A months-long investigation by Townhall revealed that William Dale Zulock, 33, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35, allegedly used social media to prostitute their two elementary-aged sons.

> William Zulock, a government worker, and Zachary Zulock, a banker, were indicted in August 2022 on charges of incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, felony sexual exploitation of children and felony prostitution of a minor.

> But the shocking investigation reveals in more detail the sickening abuse the boys suffered.

> For the first time, it was revealed that the men allegedly pimped out their older sons, now 11 and 9 years old, to two other men in a pedophile ring.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/170144/luxury-spending-trust-fund-brats-make-recession-worse

As Americans struggle with exploding housing costs, rising food prices -- with egg prices up over 60 percent -- and the country teetering on a recession, a new report illustrates that sales of luxury items took a quantum leap last year, which economists find puzzling.

According to a report released by Bain & Company on January 17, "the luxury market 'surprised everyone in 2022' by growing 19-21 percent last year," while Americans were cutting back on daily expenses.

As The New Republic's Timothy Noah suggested, "... at this point a principal driver may be luxury spending by champagne-swilling plutocrats."

In particular, he singled out what he calls "trust fund brats" whose inherited wealth appears to have made them impervious to the slings and arrows of a troubled economy.

In his column for The New Republic, he noted that economic data suggests "Rich luxury consumers have grown wealthier and more numerous than they were just one decade ago," before adding, "I would venture to guess that no small proportion are members of America’s inherited-wealth aristocracy. Defined, for instance, as the 27 United States families that made both the Forbes 400 in 1983 and the Forbes Billion-Dollar Dynasties list in 2020, this group saw its net worth grow more than 1,000 percent over three decades, according to a report led by Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies."

As Noah points out, the Bain report makes his case for him.

"The Bain report attributes the 2022 growth to millennials (ages 27-42) and Gen Z (ages 7-26). The Bain report further projects that Gen Z and Gen Alpha (ages 0-6) will over the next seven years conspire to spend three times faster than any other generations, 'making up a third of the market.'"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-imminent-fani-willis-pence-documents-b2268770.html

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https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-demand-spending-cuts-lift-140000087.html

Republicunts want to take credit for cutting spending while shifting blame to Democrats for the programs that are cut.

WASHINGTON — Republicans, newly empowered with a House majority, are demanding spending cuts as a price for lifting the debt ceiling and averting a catastrophic default on U.S. debt.

But they’re struggling to identify what to cut, complicating Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s task of passing a bill with his narrow majority.

“There’s gotta be cuts in spending. That has to happen,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., an ally of McCarthy, R-Calif., and the far right.

But she declined to get specific when she was asked what should be cut.

“I haven’t really formulated an exact list,” she said.

Republicans are divided over whether Medicare and Social Security spending should be on the chopping block. They’re split over whether military funding should be on the table. They’re firmly opposed to new tax revenues to reduce the debt. They say they’re willing to cut domestic non-defense spending, but that’s a limited slice of the budget pie that wouldn't fulfill many conservatives’ demands to balance the budget.

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Former staff members of diamond ranch academy in utah have spoken out about teenagers death stating the dead student had been in bad health for months and denied medical treatment

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/taylor-goodridge-diamond-ranch-academy-utah-rcna66069?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

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>how about 50K per "long time resident" contingent on loss of US citizenship and a one way ticket to africa? 50K USD will buy a fuckton of goats in ghana.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-frans-reparations-committee-proposes-5-million-each-longtime-black-resident-total-debt-forgiveness

San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of "systematic repression" faced by the local Black community. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but "to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery." "While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement," the draft states.The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.

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https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/01/24/swanky-d-c-dinners-between-firstenergy-execs-and-householder-led-to-corrupt-scheme-prosecutors-say/?utm_source=reddit.com

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ilhan-omar-kevin-mccarthy-house-foreign-affairs-committee-republican-defections/

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https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151283229/waco-branch-davidian-david-koresh-jeff-guinn

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https://www.salon.com/2023/01/12/its-not-just-trump-a-sobering-new-report-chronicles-the-extensive-on-democracy/

In the days after the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, there was widespread hope across Beltway media that the violence of that day would cool the Donald Trump-fueled Republican hostility towards democracy. Not only had the insurrection itself failed but so had all theother efforts Trump had made to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump and his allies had made over 200 overtures to state officials to throw out the results of the election, according to the final report of the House-appointed January 6 committee. Trump filed 62 lawsuits in an effort to have the results evacuated, only to see the effort totally fail. A strong majority of Americans are repulsed by Trump's attacks on democracy. Four out of five Americansbelieve Trump acted "unethically or illegally" in trying to steal the 2020 election and nearly 70% say January 6 was a crisis point for the U.S. Under the circumstances, it was reasonable to expect the GOP to back down from these unpopular anti-democratic activities.

However, the opposite happened in 2022. A new report from Democracy Docket chronicling the election litigation in 2022 shows the trend moving forward, with Republicans continuing to file large numbers of lawsuits geared toward making it harder for Americans to vote or for those votes to be counted. In 2022, there were 93 anti-voting lawsuits filed across the country — fairly steady from 2020, when there were 95 lawsuits aimed at making it harder to vote or attempting to throw out votes. And in one aspect, things are getting worse: In 2022, the flood of lawsuits spread throughout state and federal races, instead of being driven by Trump's single-minded obsession with suing his way to victory in the 2020 presidential race.

During the course of that investigation, the detectives uncovered a sophisticated stolen vehicle ring in which the suspects and their associates targeted high-end Jeep SUVs and Dodge Chargers for theft throughout the Bay Area.

San Pablo detectives quickly learned that the Newark police had initiated a parallel investigation into the same stolen vehicle ring.

Cont'd:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-vehicle-theft-ring-busted-stolen-vehicles-guns-body-armor-vests-seized/

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11664543/Grammy-award-winning-producer-charged-multiple-felony-counts-possession-assault-weapons.html?ito=native_share_article-top

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https://nypost.com/2023/01/22/monterey-park-mass-shooting-prompts-police-response-in-california/

10 dead, at least 10 injured in mass shooting in Monterey Park outside of Los Angeles

Ten people were killed and “at least” ten others were wounded outside Los Angeles when an unidentified gunman opened fire as revelers celebrated the Lunar New Year Saturday night, according to police.

The shooting occurred at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park at 10:22 p.m., police said.

The city of 61,000 is home to a predominantly Asian-American population and is home to a large number of Asian markets and restaurants, and was hosting the first night of its annual Lunar New Year Celebration when the mass shooting occurred.

A lone gunman had fled the scene, and it was unclear if his ghastly attack was targeted, or motivated by hate, officials said at a press conference Sunday.

“When officers arrived on scene they observed numerous individuals, patrons of the location, pouring out of the location, screaming,” Capt. Andrew Meyer of the La County Sheriff’s Dept said. “The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims.”

First responders found ten victims fatally shot at the ballroom dance studio on West Garvey Avenue.