Day: September 2, 2023

The crime situation in San Francisco has gone from bad to worse after filmmaker Eli Steele tweeted about what happened to him and his father after just 10 minutes of being away from their vehicle in one of the iconic city’s richest neighborhoods.

Eli had walked away from his rental car to film a shot with his father Shelby when upon returning just 10 minutes later he noticed the windows were smashed in and $15,000 worth of camera equipment – or so he thought – had been taken.

It turns out that closer to $30,000 worth of camera equipment had been stolen once Eli conducted a full inventory. He immediately called 911 to report the incident, only to be hung up on not once but twice.

Captured video footage showed a black Chevy Blazer with California license plate 9AAZ318 on it as carrying the culprits, but San Francisco police were nowhere to be found.

“SF police doing nothing,” Eli tweeted about the incident. “It’s so bad that my friend is calling gang members for help.”

(Related: Westfield shopping malls recently stopped paying the mortgage on its downtown San Francisco location citing rampant, out-of-control crime.)

Despite ongoing collapse, San Francisco city council members want MORE police defunding

Eli and his father went down to the local police station to report the crime, only to realize that the lobby was filled with other people whose vehicles had also been broken into.

After waiting 15 minutes to talk to an officer, Eli and his dad noticed that more and more people were flooding into the station to report vehicle break-ins and other criminal activity.

While this was happening, a Mercedes pulled up outside the station, its occupants looking into car windows for more items to steal. Eli and his father yelled at them, prompting one of them to pull out a gun as a threat.

They filed a police report about this as well, though not one single officer ever showed up to help. All of this occurred on “famous Lombard Street,” Eli tweeted, noting that this is one of the richest neighborhoods in not just San Francisco but in all of America.

“I’ve worked dangerous neighborhoods for years and nothing like this,” Eli lamented.

An officer finally took down all of Eli’s information and expressed sympathy for the unfortunate occurrence. However, she notified him that nothing would likely happen as “the police have been defanged.”

Eli and his father followed up on the incident by attending a “reparations” meeting of the city council, which was also asking for even more defunding of the police.

“Just crazy,” he wrote about the proposition, especially in light of all the constant crime that continues to occur throughout San Francisco.

“Just learned from a Good Samaritan that the license plate on the Blazer was stolen off a 2022 Mitsubishi owned by Enterprise,” Eli further wrote about the vehicle that broke into his rental car and robbed him.

“Just as SF locals told us would be the case. Guy at Hertz car rental at SFO said they average 30 cars a day that have been broken into.”

In speaking to his insurance agent about the fiasco, Eli was told by the woman that she is “not surprised” he encountered such things in San Francisco. In fact, she revealed that her own car was stolen despite taking great precautions to avoid such a fate.

“I’ve had camera gear stolen from a rental car in that same exact spot, probably 15 years ago,” another filmmaker responded to Eli on Twitter about the incident.

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Woke entertainment doesn’t bring in revenues. Disney learned that a little too late.

Overall, Hollywood’s profits have crashed as theater audiences dropped by 50 percent in the past four years. Disney in particular incurred at least $1 billion in losses this year due to a string of major box office failures. The company’s stock recently plunged to a nine-year low.

Subscriber losses continued over the last three months, with the company reporting 146.1 million Disney+ subscribers during the most recent quarter, a 7.4 percent decline. Disney recorded $2.65 billion in one-time charges and impairments, dragging the company to a rare quarterly net loss. The only bright spot came from its parks, experiences and products division, which saw a 13 percent increase in revenue to $8.3 billion during the quarter.

Those who criticize the social shift in media to the far-left are labeled a bigot or fascists, even monsters by some. The public has been told that woke entertainment is the wave of the future, and that the majority of Americans want to see such stories more often.

Yet, crashing audience numbers and plummeting profits for Hollywood have indicated the opposite.

Consumer boycotts of woke brands have erupted this year, leading to the implosion of brands like Bud Light and the continued sales rot of retailers like Target.

“Stakeholder capitalism,” a notion developed by the World Economic Forum, argues that corporations must engage in social engineering rather than being concerned with making money.

This notion suffers from the lack of a single decision rule for resolving trade-offs, which can lead to confusion and inefficiency. The interests and goals of different stakeholders can often conflict, making it challenging to balance the needs of all stakeholders.

Without ample Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funding to backstop the losses, these companies have to fund their political propaganda from their coffers. And now, the results are inevitable.

Disney injecting far-left propaganda into its films

Disney has been injecting far-left propaganda into its film productions and streaming productions for many years. In the past, consumers used to let subversive progressive preaching slide, but with the rapid decline in story quality as well as the open hostility shown by companies like Disney toward conservatives, the tide is turning. Related: Woke Disney hasn’t learned anything from costly boycotts of Target and Bud Light, moves ahead with “Pride” gear offerings.)

American journalist Megyn Kelly blamed Disney’s emphasis on “wokeness” for its decline. “The people are not buying this content,” Kelly said during her recent podcast. “They don’t want this content.”

Kelly noted that several heads of diversity in Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. have left their jobs.

“Bit by bit, all these media companies and big-tech companies are eliminating their heads of diversity, because it’s just a wasted position where somebody just glorifies their wokeness,” Kelly said. “So, it’s failing.”

In a recent video, Kelly claimed that Disney’s last eight studio releases have failed to generate box office dollars that would offset the expenses in production, marketing, publicity and advertising. Among those films are “Lightyear,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Elemental” and “Strange World.”

There are a few important questions that have been begging for answers the past several years: (1) Is there a market for woke propaganda in popular media?; (2) If so, how much of the population is going to spend to consume that propaganda?; and (3) If there is no market and the business model is a money-losing prospect, then why are so many major corporations abandoning traditional American audiences and pumping out such garbage anyway?

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Health officials in Virginia have warned the public about the spread of alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a potentially life-threatening allergic condition caused by lone star ticks – a common species in the state.

The warning comes weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report declaring that AGS is now an “emerging public health concern.” The CDC stated that the condition can be fatal and occurs after people eat red meat or products with alpha-gal, a type of sugar found in most mammals.

According to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), lone star tick carries alpha-gal sugar in its saliva and transmits it into a person’s body upon biting. This saliva produces an immune response similar to an allergic reaction, making it difficult for the immune system to differentiate between the alpha-gal sugar from the tick and that from red meat.

Jonathan Oliver, a public health expert from the University of Minnesota, shed light on the complex nature of AGS in 2022. He noted: “A chemical in the tick’s saliva is thought to trigger AGS, but it remains unclear why only certain individuals are affected and how or why the allergy develops.” (Related: Alpha-gal Syndrome: Tick bites make millions of Americans allergic to red meat.)

The mysterious interplay of proteins and the potential influence of co-infections with other tick-borne diseases further complicate the understanding of AGS.

Julia Murphy, a state public health veterinarian in VDH, warned that there is much to learn about this allergic condition. “Once you have alpha-gal, your future is somewhat uncertain in regard to the kind of restrictions you might have and what you can eat and what other things you can take in orally, such as medications,” she said.

AGS symptoms could take as much as 12 hours to appear

The lone star tick, recognizable by the single white spot on its back, can be found across the wooden areas of the Southeastern and Eastern United States, as well as in Mexico and parts of Canada.

“We do have a lot of lone star ticks here in Virginia, so we think that’s driving a lot of what we are seeing in Virginia when it comes to alpha-gal and people testing positive for alpha-gal,” Murphy said.

Symptoms of AGS do not develop instantly and could take as much as 12 hours to appear. Alpha-gal reactions can manifest as anaphylaxis, characterized by airway constriction and a drop in blood pressure, and may occur several hours after eating red meat.

These symptoms can be mild to fatal, with people describing everything from anaphylaxis to rash, hives, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, stomach pain and heartburn. The subtlety of these symptoms often leads individuals to fail to connect their reactions to red meat consumption from the day before. Consequently, many suffer from undiagnosed or misdiagnosed cases of the disease.

People who have been recently bitten by a tick and subsequently experience allergic reactions after consuming red meat are advised to contact their healthcare provider promptly.

To prevent AGS, health officials recommend taking precautions similar to those used to prevent Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, including wearing light-colored clothing to spot ticks more easily, using tick-repellent sprays and checking for ticks when returning indoors.

Dr. Johanna Salzer, a CDC epidemiologist who has conducted research on AGS, advised individuals who suspect they have the condition to seek medical attention promptly. This should involve providing a detailed symptom history, a physical examination and a blood test to detect specific antibodies related to alpha-gal.

Visit Allergies.news for more information about allergies caused by ticks and other insects.

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As the Biden regime moves toward a massive expansion of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems to achieve the United Nation’s Net Zero America by 2050, no one should forget what happened in Satartia, in Yazoo County, Mississippi. On the evening of February 22, 2020, the small town of Satartia was shaken by a loud boom and engulfed in a foul gas fog. Soon after, the people of Satartia learned that the thunder and white cloud was caused by a 2-inch-thick pipeline carrying pressurized carbon dioxide, which caused an explosion of ice and suffocating levels of CO2 gas.

CO2 explosions and gas leaks threaten people’s lives and health

The explosion in Satartia put a halt to public transportation and sent nine people to the hospital. The gas leak caused breathing difficulties for many residents and may be responsible for respiratory problems for these people well into the future. The foul odor, which included hydrogen sulfide, ultimately helped save many of the residents from further lung damage. If the explosion had only included CO2 gas, there would have been no odor and many people would have continued to inhale the gas, not knowing that their respiratory systems were being damaged. The pipeline was owned by Denbury Inc., a self-proclaimed leader in CO2 transportation. In Satartia, Denbury extracts gas from an ancient volcanic vent called Jackson Dome and pipes it out.

The Satartia disaster should serve as a warning. These risky and unnecessary carbon capture and transportation projects are increasing and being expanded well into the future. In addition to subsidies, finance and tax credits, the government has committed $10 billion to CCS projects. CCS involves capturing carbon dioxide from industrial and other sources, compressing it, and transporting it through pipelines to underground geological formations and unused oil wells for storage. Denbury also uses the technology to move more oil out of active wells.

Currently, three companies — Navigator Energy Services, Wolf Carbon Solutions, and Summit Carbon Solutions — are working to build a network to “decarbonize” ethanol production in the Midwest. Summit actually plans to capture carbon dioxide from 31 corn ethanol plants in five states, transport it 2,000 miles by pipeline, and release 18 million tons a year in North Dakota. The company is being incentivized by $600 million taxpayer credits annually. They have sent land surveyors onto private property along the pipeline route and secured 375 easement agreements.

The goal for 2050 is to incentivize a massive government land grab

The goal for 2050 is laid out: it will include 65,000 miles of pipeline transporting carbon dioxide across the United States. Currently there are 50 pipelines, spanning 5,000 miles, that carry 70 million tons of carbon dioxide per year to improve oil extraction. Developers are now seeking permits for multi-state CCS projects that would transport carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants along about 3,500 miles of pipeline.

This vast network of pipelines threatens human settlements and ecology, and worse, puts many people at risk from these CO2 explosions, like the one that happened in Satartia. Even scientists who support CCS are not sure what will eventually happen to the carbon dioxide that is pumped underground. The situation could become more dangerous as the years go by. Moreover, landowners in farming communities are worried about major statewide decisions that rule out non-public use projects that could destroy their farms, cause gas leaks, and cause their property values to plummet.

Nobel laureate John Clauser has spoken out against the climate change agenda, calling it “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the global economy and the well-being of billions of people.” William Happer and Richard Lindzen, both respected climate scientists, wrote that the damage from carbon dioxide emissions has been exaggerated by “an unscientific method of analysis based on consensus, peer review, government opinion, models that don’t work, and cherry-picking.” Viv Forbes, geologist, and Carbon Sense Coalition founder describes these CCS projects as a “silly scheme devised by green zealots to sacrifice billions of dollars and scads of energy to bury this harmless, invisible, life-supporting gas in the hope of appeasing the global warming gods.”

In the end, the CCS projects are a burden to taxpayers, pose direct threats to the environment and the people, and constitute a lucrative government-incentivized land grab.

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