‘Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?’ Moment Biden asks if Republican Rep. Walorski is in crowd during DC speech – one month after she died in a car crash and HE paid official tribute

President Joe Biden asked a crowd at a hunger conference to point out Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski – after she was killed in a car crash in Indiana last month.

Biden, 79, named the late congresswoman while thanking lawmakers from both parties for their efforts in helping his plan to end hunger in the United States by 2030 in a Washington D.C. speech on Wednesday.

‘Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?’ the president asked during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in Washington, DC after also praising Senators Mike Braun, a Republican, and Cory Booker, a Democrat.

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‘Use tampons to staunch bullet wounds’, Russian army recruits told

ManPads?

New recruits to the Russian army are being told to ask their wives and girlfriends for tampons to use as bandages in the event they get shot, as military supplies run out.

In a video circulating on social media, a woman who has been identified as a military doctor can be seen giving what appears to be an introductory speech to new recruits.

In it, she tells them the army is woefully short on military equipment and that only uniforms will be supplied.

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What is the Khalistan referendum, and why is India is so concerned about what’s happening in Canada?

“Jagmeet Singh wants to become ‘Prime Minister’, but of which country, Canada or #Khalistan?”

The Modi government has issued its sharpest statement yet over what it calls “anti-India activities” originating from Canada, expressing its concern and disappointment over Ottawa’s apparent lack of action on the matter.

It comes after thousands of Canadian Sikhs took part in an unofficial voting exercise earlier this week dubbed the “Khalistan referendum”, expressing their support for a separate Sikh nation-state to split away from New Delhi in northern India.

While the Canadian authorities have defended this as an exercise in freedom of speech, the Indian foreign ministry has accused Canada of allowing extremists to carry out “deeply objectionable” and “politically-motivated exercises” that represent a threat to the integrity of India.

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College student ‘forced into sex’ by woman who was bigger than him, court told

A man has accused a “bigger” and “stronger” woman of forcing him to have sex with her without consent, a court heard.

Imogen Brooke allegedly refused to take no for an answer after going on a date with a college student, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

The “very drunk” 30-year-old got on top of the man, whose protests were going “in one ear and out the other,” and started to have sex with him, a jury heard.

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Truth or bluff? Why Putin’s nuclear warnings have the West worried

LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing?

Putin cautioned it was no bluff, and Western politicians, diplomats and nuclear weapons experts are divided. Some say he could use one or more smaller, tactical nuclear weapons to try to stave off military defeat, protect his presidency, scare off the West or intimidate Kyiv into capitulation.

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Biden’s America: Retailers Opt for Empty Shelves To Prevent Theft

Many retailers are emptying their shelves across the country, but not because of low stock. A concerning increase in thefts has pushed companies to put more products under lock and key, the Wall Street Journal reports.

At one Best Buy store in the suburbs of Houston, where hundreds of items like Bose speakers and Fitbit activity trackers used to sit on the shelves, shoppers will instead find small blue signs that read, “This product kept in secured location.”

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British police fear weapons from Ukraine war could reach the UK and terrorists

British police are “working closely” to ensure that weapons from the Ukrainian war do not reach the UK and find their way into the hands of terrorists.

Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Matt Twist said the conflict was one of several “international challenges” affecting security in the UK.

Speaking at the International Security Expo in London on Tuesday, he added: “Whatever the outcome of this awful conflict, it is clear that over the medium term there will be huge amounts of weapons and ammunition in the region, which will take some time to stabilise and normalise when the phase of outright war ends.

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Had a drug conviction? Join the New Orleans police force

Department gets creative with recruitment as employment figures hit historic low

The murder rate in New Orleans is the highest in the land and the man in charge of holding the thin blue line in the Big Easy now has far fewer police officers after years in which hundreds have departed.

If Superintendent Shaun Ferguson was managing a police force in the London of Arthur Conan Doyle, or Dorothy L Sayers, now would be the time to send for a gentleman with an independent income and an enthusiastic interest in violent crime.

This can only be great.

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Submarine Spy Couple Enters Guilty Plea, Again

After a federal judge threw out Jonathan and Diana Toebbe’s previous deal, the Maryland couple agreed to the possibility of a longer prison sentence.

The Maryland couple who tried to sell sensitive submarine nuclear propulsion secrets to a foreign country again pleaded guilty on Tuesday, accepting the prospect of longer prison sentences after a federal judge threw out their original deal as too lenient.

Under the new deal with prosecutors, Jonathan Toebbe, 43, a former Navy nuclear engineer, could serve 27 years or longer in a federal prison. Diana Toebbe, 46, his wife and a former teacher at an Annapolis, Md., private school, could serve more than a dozen years.

Funny how The Times leaves out this little tidbit – Libs Betray America: Submarine Spy Couple Radicalized by Anti-Trump #Resistance

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Cutting CBC would give twice

Cutting government spending is almost always beneficial but new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to eliminate the CBC’s public funding is doubly so. Many other government-run institutions are so blatantly inefficient and do so badly that there is at least the silver lining that they sow public skepticism about further government expansion. The CBC is also inefficient and does badly but it is in the business of pushing stories and promoting ideas, and the ideas it promotes are those favouring government expansion. As Milton Friedman wrote, “Any institution will tend to express its own values and its own ideas … A socialist institution will teach socialist values.”


How many times have we heard conservative politicians rally the faithful with cries of “Defund The CBC?” Yet it never comes to pass. Why is that?

The CBC was once vital to maintaining the façade of democracy that kept we proles in check.

CBC became part of the permanent political class that governs us. 

But few watch it anymore if the ratings are to be believed. 

Trudeau’s handlers understood the CBC’s diminished reach and brought the rest of Canada’s media on board with subsidies’.

Will Poilievre defund or even cut back the CBC? We’ll see but I wouldn’t bet on it.

And I will want to know why he changed his mind.

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Dissident Myanmar beauty queen Han Lay granted asylum in Canada

A beauty queen from Myanmar who sought refuge in Thailand after criticising the military junta in her homeland has been granted asylum in Canada.

Han Lay, 23, made headlines around the world last year when she used a pageant speech to call for help for the people of Myanmar amid a military crackdown. She faced being sent back to her home country after Thai officials stopped her at an airport in Bangkok last week because of an issue with her passport.

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1 in 3 Canadians believe Trudeau should stay in power as Tories edge ahead: poll

The proportion of Canadians who believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deserves to remain in power appears to be slightly lower than it was one year ago amid the federal election, a new poll suggests.

Polling done by Ipsos exclusively for Global News indicates 33 per cent of Canadians say Trudeau deserves to be re-elected, which is a drop of four per cent compared to polling done last fall.


IF AN ELECTION WAS HELD TOMORROW, THE CONSERVATIVES WOULD WIN

Among respondents, 37 per cent said they would vote Conservative in the next election, against just 30 per cent who would Liberal. Given that the Liberals won the last federal election with just 32.62 per cent of the vote, these results would be more than enough to put Poilievre in the prime minister’s office.

But it could be 2025 before we see an election. Poilievre vs. Freeland or Joly would be great fun, not to mention the Max factor. This assumes the sociopath resigns which is unlikely to happen.

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