Following the recent city council passage of $70 Million for migrant support and the approval of a $1.4 Billion bond fund, the Mayor is gearing up to revitalize downtown Chicago in preparation for the influx of tens of thousands expected for the DNC.
The city strategy involves relocating migrants, primarily military-age men, from downtown, where there have been multiple reports of criminal activity by the Standard Club Migrant shelter near Van Buren & Plymouth, to a new location at 3951 South Canal Street in the Bridgeport Canaryville neighborhoods.
The Neighborhood Journal reports that social media is ablaze with outrage over the plan. Speculation is rife that the Armour Square, Bridgeport, and Canaryville communities may unite similarly to how the Brighton Park and McKinley Park Neighborhoods did to thwart the construction of a migrant camp in Brighton Park despite the city’s $30 million investment.
Some are advocating for the relocation of the migrants to the northern suburbs like Glencoe or Wilmette, where more significant resources and space are available.
The Mayor did the same sneak lying when he moved the migrants out of the first district police station for Lollapalooza, saying it was not because of the event; yet soon after Lolla was over, the migrants streamed back into the police station on State Street.
Unlike the 12th Ward, where the Alderwoman is a paid agent of the Chicago Teachers Union who went against her constituents on multiple occasions supporting the toxic migrant camp in Brighton Park, even calling Chinese migrants opposed to the plan rightwing extremists.
Brighton Park residents put enough pressure by organizing and legally that Governor Pritzker stopped the plan.
Alderwoman Lee of the 11th Ward is opposed to the plan …
Ald. Lee met with Mayor Johnson about these plans and outlined in no uncertain terms that she is fully and unequivocally opposed to standing up this shelter at this location.
If the migrants are a great resource, as Biden, Pritzker, and BJ say, then why not leave them downtown … HiHo
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Chicago City Council approves $70M more in migrant aid by Monica Eng Apr 19, 2024 axios.com/local/chicago/…
Theft … Migrant Criminals in Chicago … the Standard Club Migrant Shelter by John Kugler appx 5:20 pm Apr 18, 2024 fb.watch/rSLfGjAyoK/
Migrant Location – McKinley Park is looking for a location to house migrants in a building for the winterby John Kugler Oct 14 2023 facebook.com/SubX.News/post…
Alderwoman surrounded … during migrant tent city construction protest and had to be evacuated by Chicago Police Oct 19, 2023 9:58am by John Kugler Live Feed x.com/SubxNews/statu…
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker won’t proceed with Brighton Park migrant camp, citing ‘serious’ environmental concerns March 11, 2024 chicagotribune.com/2023/12/05/gov…
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History shows that as long as the Palestinian people keep voting for terrorist leaders (PLO, Hamas) they will not know peace. Through open immigration policies this is now a problem for the West.
OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES WONT TAKE IN PALESTINIANS. BUT NOW BIDEN IS GOING TO TAKE THEM IN HERE!
57 Muslim countries’ foreign ministers met in Saudi Arabia today and voted upon taking Palestinian refugees to resolve the issue.
The results are: 46 countries politely voted, “No”
Internal DHS data reveals the 45+ U.S. cities that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via the Biden administration’s controversial “CHNV” mass parole program. The data was obtained by @HomelandGOP via a subpoena to DHS, and was provided to @FoxNews.
The DHS data shows that during an 8 month stretch from January through August 2023, roughly 200,000 migrants flew into the U.S. via the program, with 80% of them, (161,562) arriving in the state of Florida in four cities: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, & Tampa.
The top 15 cities migrants flew into, & the numbers during this 8 month window, are below.
1) Miami, FL: 91,821 2) Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 60,461 3) New York City, NY: 14,827 4) Houston, TX: 7,923 5) Orlando, FL: 6,043 6) Los Angeles, CA: 3,271 7) Tampa, FL: 3,237 8) Dallas, TX: 2,256 9) San Francisco, CA: 2,052 10) Atlanta, GA: 1,796 11) Newark, NJ: 1,498 12) Washington, D.C.: 1,472 13) Chicago, IL: 496 14) Las Vegas, NV: 483 15) Austin, TX: 171
I’ve attached the raw DHS data provided in the subpoena response showing all of the locations the migrants flew into during these 8 months in the chart below.
DHS also revealed in the subpoena response that as of October 2023, there was a backlog about 1.6 million applicants waiting for DHS approval to fly to the U.S. via the parole program.
In response to the DHS data revealing Florida received the overwhelming majority of migrant flights during the 8 month window, FL. Gov. @RonDeSantis’s office provided FOX the following statement:
“Biden’s parole program is unlawful, and constitutes an abuse of constitutional authority. Florida is currently suing Biden to shut it down, and we believe that we will prevail.” – @JeremyRedfernFL, DeSantis’ Press Secretary.
DHS also wrote in the subpoena response that “All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV processes.”
Congressman @RepMarkGreen, Chairman of @HomelandGOP, told FOX in response:
“What they’re essentially saying is that the laws passed by Congress have said that these people are inadmissible, and so they created a program to try to get around those laws. The thing is, they don’t have the authority to create such a program. By their own admission, they’re breaking the law.”
Reminder: The CHNV parole program, created by the Biden admin in January 2023, allows up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, & Venezuela to bypass the southern border entirely, and fly into the U.S. directly from foreign countries for a two year humanitarian parole grant if they have a sponsor in the U.S., and are vetted/approved for travel. The flights are commercial, and are not funded by taxpayers. The program recipient or their sponsor pays for it, and the parole grant allows the recipient to apply to work. The Biden admin considers the program a “lawful pathway”, and the migrants flying into the U.S. via the program are not included in the southern border numbers.
According to CBP data, at least 404,000 migrants have flown into the U.S. via the CHNV parole program since it first began:
So far, legal challenges to this controversial parole program have failed in court. A Texas lawsuit was dismissed earlier this year after a judge ruled the state didn’t have standing to sue. More lawsuits are pending.
The Biden admin says the program is a lawful use of executive parole authority. They consider the program a success, and believe it provides an incentive to not cross the US border illegally. The numbers of Haitians and Cubans crossing illegally have steeply fallen as a result of the program.
Critics say the program essentially waves a magic wand to mass import hundreds of thousands of otherwise inadmissible migrants into the US, with the likelihood of them ever leaving or being deported if they stay past the permitted parole grant being remarkably low.
More than 3,400 servicemen have been awarded America’s highest decoration since it was established 150 years ago. Here are some other fascinating and lesser-known details of the Medal of Honor.
America had almost no history of granting military citations for bravery prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. In fact, when a senior War Department official first suggested such a decoration in the opening months of the conflict, the Union army’s top general at the time, Winfield Scott, vetoed the idea arguing that such awards were un-American. After the aging general stepped down, navy secretary Gideon Welles revived the concept. President Lincoln also approved and the Medal of Honor was born.
The federal mint in Philadelphia struck the first 175 of the iconic bronze, inverted-star citations for the U.S. Navy. In early 1862, the award was widened to include army gallantry — 2,000 additional medals were soon ordered. Originally, the award was reserved for enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers only, but in 1863, eligibility was expanded to include officers.
The first Medals of Honor ever awardedwent to six survivors of the Andrews’ Raidon March 25, 1863. The band of Union volunteers were famous for commandeering a rebel train in 1862 and driving it north across Georgia and into Tennessee ahead of pursuing Confederate cavalry while sabotaging railroad tracks and telegraph lines en route.
The Medal of Honor was the U.S. military’s only citation during the Civil War. More than 1,500 were handed out in the conflict — nearly half of all ever awarded. By way of comparison, a total of 124 were bestowed during World War One, while 464 were offered during the Second World War. Korea and Vietnam vets won 136 and 247 Medals of Honor respectively. The balance were distributed for outstanding conduct during various American military operations throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
The Medal of Honor is awarded by the president in the name of the U.S. Congress. As of 1963, only American military personnel engaged in combat against an enemy of the United States are eligible for the decoration, and only then if the individual has “distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.” Recipients can be recommended by superior officers or even nominated by Congress.
Winners of the Medal of Honor are entitledto a number of benefits including: a $1,259 monthly allowance along with a 10 percent military pension bonus, the right to a burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery, a lifetime standing invitation to all presidential inaugurations, various travel perks, permission to wear the medal with civilian clothes after discharge and even salutes from superior officers.
Nineteen recipients have received more than one Medal of Honor. Five of these went to First World War veterans like Matej Kocak. The 35-year-old Slovakian-born marine won both navy and army versions of the citation posthumously for bravery on the Western Front in July, 1917.
Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to have ever been awarded the decoration. The 39-year-old Oswego, New York native volunteered to serve as a surgeon during the Civil War. She treated the wounded after the battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chattanooga (and did so without pay!) A staunch abolitionist, Walker even volunteered to spy for the north and was captured by the Confederacy for espionage but later released. She is one of only eight civilians to have won the Medal of Honor.
Other civilian recipients of the citationinclude private scouts and Indian fighters like Billy Dixon, Amos Chapman and Buffalo Bill Cody. All of these civilian medals were later taken back by an act of Congress when more stringent requirements for the honour were established in 1917. Cody’s and Mary Edward Walker’s were restored in 1989 and 1977 respectively.
More than 900 Medals of Honor have been revoked – 864 of these were taken back from members of the 27th Maine regiment. In June of 1863, more than 300 volunteers to the unit were eligible for discharge following the expiration of their enlistment periods. Following entreaties from officers to remain in uniform, the soldiers agreed to stay to defend Washington D.C. during the Battle of Gettysburg in exchange for the coveted decoration. After the crisis, unit commanders were unsure exactly which men were promised medals, so they simply awarded the commendation to the whole company. Another 29 medals were later taken back from the ceremonial guards from President Lincoln’s funeral.
Charles Lindbergh was famously awarded the decoration for his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. Although a member of the army reserves at the time, many in Congress protested his induction into the order because the aviator’s feat, considerable as it was, wasn’t combat-connected.
More than 800 non-Americans have won the Medal of Honor, including 65 Canadians. One of these recipients, Douglas Munro who served at the Battle of Guadalcanal, was also the first Coastguardsman to earn the medal.
This act of terror in Moscow has handed to Western intelligence, an enormous treasure trove of intelligence analytics.
Despite the ISIS-K claim to responsibility and the release to the internet of the video by them, Vladimir Putin insists this attack was ordered by the sovereign government of Ukraine. If ISIS-K had not been responsible, they would not have been able to release the video and claim responsibility. Yet the President of Russia dares to lie to his own people and the world while brutally using this heinous attack to justify further hypersonic missile attacks on Ukraine in the past 48 hours. This abrogation of international responsibility is criminal.
However, there are some interesting positives in this heinous story. Firstly, it suggests that Putin and his intelligence apparatus is unable to penetrate central Asian mercenary terrorist politics and groups. Moscow is blind, Putin is blind. Had they had access to their own independent intelligence, they would have understood the threat and been able to mitigate it. They did not understand the threat because they could not verify it, and because they don’t have the access or the relationships any longer.
This speaks volumes and is good news for Ukraine, Europe, NATO and Central Asia. Russia is quite blind to what is unfolding in their back yard. It also suggests that Putin thought he could sacrifice the men of Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, and as far as Siberian Krasnoyarsk Krai on the fields of Ukraine without repercussion. Then there is the Russian failure in Syria which ignited the ISIS retribution that has only just begun. Of strategic importance is that Putin appears to have lost the loyalty and confidence of the Central Asian republics, who are regularly and openly now protesting against the Kremin and war in Ukraine. His chickens are coming home to roost and will be roosting for decades.
Additionally, and perhaps most significantly, it suggests that the Kremlin has lost control over immigration and borders since ISIS-K operators were able to get into Russia from Tajikistan easily, undetected, with no credible intelligence from the Russian government apparatus to suggest to the contrary. Where did the weapons come from? Were they smuggled into Russia or does ISIS-K have a network in Russia to procure weapons internally? This useful act of terror has exposed that the Russian emperor has no clothes and is likely to soon freeze. It has enormous implications for Russian security at every level. If ISIS-K can achieve this so easily – what else can be done and by whom to target this dangerous but ailing regime.? One thing is for sure – it can’t be soon enough and at least one terrorist group has declared that it will stop at nothing until it has destroyed the Putin regime. With ISIS-K’s promise to continue targeting Russia, we can safely assume that the unravelling of Russia in central Asia has irreversibly begun. We are assured of Putin’s strategic unviability.
NO COUNTRY HAS BETTER intelligence on the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (known as ISIS-K) than the United States. American forces have faced ISIS-K almost from the moment the group was founded in 2015 in Pakistan, just a few miles from the Afghan border. It was there that a group of disaffected members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP, commonly referred to as the Pakistani Taliban) began turning their backs on al-Qaeda, which they saw as a failing brand, and joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Russia did not heed the warning and a tragedy happened to innocent concert goers.
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The United States has just undergone its most substantial one-year population increase in history, with growth exceeding 3.8 million people in 2023, primarily attributed to illegal immigration, according to a recent report by John Burns Research and Consulting.
Under President Biden’s leadership, over 8 million people have entered the country illegally.
On Biden’s inaugural day, he signed executive orders that incentivize illegal immigration:
Paused Deportations
Suspended “Remain in Mexico”
Stopped Border Wall Construction
As the nation grapples with the rising costs linked to illegal immigration, major cities are making budget cuts to essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, libraries, and education.
Despite facing these domestic challenges, President Biden and Washington D.C. politicians are advocating for allocating an additional hundred billion dollars to protect foreign borders from distant invasions.
This situation exemplifies the “America Last” approach, wherein America and its citizens bear hardships and sacrifices, functioning as pawns on a geopolitical chessboard that primarily serves the interests of the elites.
“Where’s the Beef?” is arguably the most famous catchphrase concerning a fast food chain. Can you think of another that rivals Wendy’s ad from 1984?
There have been many iconic catchphrases from commercials over the years. But in the 1980s, one catchphrase ruled them all — “Where’s the Beef?” If you grew up during this time, you know how iconic this catchphrase was. It had a tremendous impact on pop culture throughout the decade and beyond. It would be repeated everywhere and made Clara Peller — the woman who uttered the phrase — world famous.
The phrase “Where’s the Beef” continued to grow and would be used to question things such as ideas, events, or products as to if they had any substance.
In the mid 1980s, McDonald’s and Burger King were leaders of the fast-food burger market, and they promoted the size of their burgers with products like the “Big Mac” and the “Whopper.”
Wendy’s didn’t have any specific “big-name” type burger, and most of their products were single patty burgers. But they contained more meat than they believed people realized.
They wanted to showcase that their hamburger had more beef and that McDonald’s and Burger King were hiding their lack of meat by using larger buns. Wendy’s wanted to call them out for these tactics while showcasing that they had more beef.
First airing in 1984, the original commercial featured three elderly ladies at the “Home of the Big Bun” examining an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun. The other two ladies poked at it, exchanging bemused comments (“It certainly is a big bun. It’s a very big bun. It’s a big fluffy bun. It’s a very big fluffy bun”). As one of the ladies lift the top half of the bun, a comically minuscule hamburger patty with cheese and a pickle is revealed (prompting her to finish the sentence “—bun.” with a much more disappointed tone). Peller immediately responds with her outraged, irascible question.
Sequels featured Peller yelling at a Fluffy Bun executive from his yacht over the phone and approaching fast food drive-up windows (including the “Home of the Big Bun” and a restaurant with a golden arch) that were slammed down before she could complete the line.
The advertising campaign ended in 1985 after Peller performed in a commercial for Prego pasta sauce, saying “I found it, I really found it”, a phrase alluding to the beef in the listener’s mind.
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You may have thought it was a cannabis urban legend, but there actually is scientific evidence that you could fail a drug test because of secondhand weed smoke.
Don’t panic, but it is actually possible to fail a drug test because of secondhand marijuana smoke, according to the evidence from more than a dozen research papers. That doesn’t mean if you walk through a cloud of marijuana smoke at a concert or stroll through a backyard BBQ that you’ll fail a urine test, but it’s probably a good idea to be wary.
And considering that smoking is the most common method of consuming cannabis, it’s worth asking: What are the effects of cannabis smoke on those who aren’t actually smoking?
The answer isn’t as clear-cut as one might hope.
How can secondhand marijuana smoke show up in a urine test?
So how does secondhand pot smoke show up in a urine test?
According to a 2017 review of 15 existing research papers, exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke resulted in the presence of cannabinoid metabolites in bodily fluids, specifically in the saliva, blood, and urine. The authors of the review also suggested that higher THC content of the smoked marijuana is correlated with higher the THC metabolite content in the urine.
So yes, is it possible to fail a drug test without smoking — just from secondhand exposure to cannabis smoke.
“Using levels of cannabinoid or THC metabolites found in blood or urine samples to determine marijuana use or intoxication is challenging,” the researchers wrote. “There is no universal threshold that can differentiate between those who have actively smoked marijuana and are intoxicated, those who have actively smoked marijuana in the past and those who have been exposed to second-hand smoke.”
In other words, you could potentially fail a drug test due to secondhand smoke and the technicians performing the test would be unable to tell whether or not your exposure to THC was due to secondhand smoke or actively smoking marijuana.
And secondhand smoke doesn’t necessarily cause only small or trace amounts of exposure. According to the researchers, some of the people who were exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke in some of the research had THC metabolite levels higher than those legally allowed for motor vehicle drivers in a number of jurisdictions.
“This raises questions about whether there should be tolerance for people who claim that their positive urine test result is due to second-hand exposure,” the researchers wrote. Drug testing, of course, is also impacted by how long THC stays in your system.
The 3 main types of cannabis drug testing include:
Urine testing
Hair follicle testing
Saliva testing
What does a urine test indicate?
Urine tests for marijuana are designed to find tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main intoxicating ingredient in cannabis, as well as the metabolite THC-COOH, which is produced when the body breaks down THC.
A positive result typically entails more than 50 nanograms of THC per milliliter, though this isn’t always the case. In 2019, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) increased the THC testing threshold for student athletes from 15 to 35 nanograms per milliliter, from the previous threshold of 5 to 15 nanograms. And in 2020, the National Football League increased the allowed amount of THC in urine tests from 35 to 150 nanograms per milliliter.
How long is THC detectable in urine?
It’s commonly-known that you can fail a urine test for THC even weeks after smoking. This is because THC is fat soluble, which makes cannabis great for infusing oil or butter, but also means that it can stay detectable in your urine for as much as around a month because it is stored in fat cells. And if you’re taking a hair follicle test THC can be detectable for up to 90 days.
But the good news for those who just got exposed to a little secondhand weed smoke? It depends a great deal on how much THC you are exposed to or consume and how often it happens.
According to the Mayo Clinic, THC can be detectable in the urine of chronic users for more than 30 days, while “single exposure to marijuana in nonusers typically can be detected in the urine only up to 72 hours,” the Mayo Clinic states.
In other words, even if you were exposed to a thick cloud of secondhand marijuana smoke, you probably don’t need to worry about a drug test next week.
Hair follicle testing for marijuana
Hair follicle testing involves taking a 100-milligram sample of hair (around 90 to 120 strands) which is removed at the scalp. In addition to THC, hair follicle testing can detect a wide variety of drugs including cocaine, opiates, and amphetamines among others.
The main difference between hair follicle and urine testing is that drugs can be detected in hair follicles for up to 90 days after use and samples are less likely to be adulterated or contaminated during collection.
The good news is that you’re significantly less likely to be given a hair follicle test for a job interview or as a condition of deferred adjudication. The tests also were found to have a high potential for “under-identification of low-frequency use,” according to a 2014 study.
Saliva testing for marijuana
Saliva tests are used to detect the presence of THC, not its metabolites, and are administered by way of a mouth swab. They are much less invasive and easier to administer than urine or hair follicle tests, and can be a popular method of testing in the workplace.
The good news is that for the casual smoker — and potentially even more so for the secondhand smoker — saliva tests can only detect the presence of THC for a few days. Chronic smokers, though, can fail saliva tests for around a month after smoking.
Is exposure to secondhand smoke worse indoors or outdoors?
In a poorly ventilated room, marijuana smoke can linger in the air longer, increasing the level of exposure. This is actually true for any type of smoke. Indoors, the concentration of the chemicals, compounds, and particles in any type of smoke is higher, and it doesn’t clear out nearly as quickly as it does outdoors.
The bottom line, if you’re in an environment where people are smoking, you’ll be less exposed for less time if you’re outside.
Can you get high from secondhand smoke?
The “contact high” is a staple of cannabis lore. It typically entails someone who finds themself in a room where joints are being passed at a rapid clip, and feels a secondhand high even though they didn’t partake.
While in some cases this may be something of a placebo effect, there is some scientific evidence to back up the cannabis urban legend of a contact high.
In the 2017 review, researchers found that the psychoactive effects they observed were also present in those exposed to secondhand cannabis smoke, although weaker than for those actually smoking it. The researchers also stated that there was a correlation between the intoxicating effects of THC from secondhand exposure and the strength of the cannabis strain involved.
However, the researchers stressed that many of the scenarios that were observed took place in closed areas with limited ventilation and they probably don’t apply as much to more common scenarios like smoking outside.
Is secondhand cannabis smoke or vapor dangerous?
A 2019 study published in Preventive Medicine Reports was the first of its kind to examine the effect of indoor secondhand cannabis smoke on child health. Researchers placed air particle monitors in 298 family homes across San Diego County, CA and examined how particulate material data impacted children’s health.
The study found an association between indoor cannabis smoking and adverse health outcomes in children, including ear infections, asthma, other respiratory dysfunction, and skin conditions, but the association was not statistically significant.
The research also suggests that the act of combustion and smoke produced, rather than what material is being smoked, poses the greatest health threat.
Very little research on the topic has been done, however.
Vaporizing, on the other hand, does not involve combustion. So is it safer?
Non-combustible forms of cannabis “may be associated with lower relative harm both for users and for those who are exposed to the aerosol vapor” compared to those exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, wrote the authors of a 2018 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
“While there is currently less evidence on the health effects of exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke, cannabis smoke is similar in chemical composition to tobacco smoke (although in varying concentrations),” they wrote.
There are currently no scientific studies on the long-term health effects of exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke, vapor, or other products. With more cannabis products on the market, that gap needs to be filled in order to properly assess and address the public health concerns involved.
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