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sarisataka's JournalJensen doubles down after facing criticism for comparing COVID-19 policies to rise of Hitler
Republican candidate for Minnesota governor Dr. Scott Jensen defended his comparison of COVID-19 restrictions to the rise of Hitler after he faced scrutiny from Jewish advocacy groups this week.
The comparison, which Jensen made this past spring, made headlines after they were highlighted by local Jewish blog TC Jewfolk.
In an address at an anti-mandate event by Mask Off Minnesota, Jensen compared mandates to control the spread of COVID-19 to Hitler's rise to power during World War II.
"Little things grew into something bigger," Jensen said. "Then there was a night called Kristallnacht. The night of the breaking glass. Then there was the book burning, and it kept growing and growing, and a guy named Hitler kept growing in power."
Yes Doctor, antisemitic violence is exactly the same as wearing a mask to the store...
Millions in East Africa face starvation due to drought
The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that millions of people in East Africa face the threat of starvation. Speaking at a media briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that drought, climate change, rising prices and an ongoing civil war in northern Ethiopia are all contributing to worsening food insecurity.
Over 50 million people in East Africa will face acute food insecurity this year, a study from late July by the World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization found. Roughly 7 million children are suffering from malnourishment and, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, hundreds of thousands are leaving their homes in search of food or livelihoods. Affected countries include Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
"The current food security situation across the Horn of Africa is dire after four consecutive rainy seasons have failed, a climatic event not seen in at least 40 years, or since the beginning of the satellite era,” Chimimba David Phiri of the Food and Agriculture Organization said in the report.
The warnings have been gradually building for months, as the situation worsens. In June, David Nash, a physical geographer at the University of Brighton, reported for the Conversation that “large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought.”
I know this doesn't get the same attention as California nuts or cows but I was thinking if we try to work on the root cause it may benefit Africa and California. It would be exceedingly difficult to build a pipeline from Chicago to Somalia.
Fixing the Southwest's water problem or "Drain baby drain"
Everyone is aware of the severe drought in many western states and the painful restrictions they are facing. Some folks have noticed that just up the road a ways are these things call the Great Lakes that have a lot of water.
Now we have the small issue of getting the water from there to here. Also some pesky laws and treaties, since we share most of these lakes with Canada, are in the way but money solves everything. Let's do some back of the envelope math to see what it will take.
Per USGS California used 38 billion gallons of water in 2010. Per day. A barrel is 42 gallons so for ease of calculations let's say we want to ship 1 billion barrels of water west each day. The states in need can split that up and fulfill their needs with local supply.
Infrastructure- the Alaska pipeline is about 800 miles long and can transport 2 million barrels per day. The distance from Chicago to LA is about 2000 miles. So we will need the equivalent of 500 Alaskan pipelines at 2.5 time the length. It cost $11bn in 1974, so say we find a contractor who will give us the same rates as 40 years ago-
500×2 5×11bn=$13.75 trillion. Um, let's amortize that over 100 years at 0% interest. That is $137.5bn per year, that's better.
Shipping- oil cost 50-75 cents to ship a barrel 1000mi. Since water is denser than oil we will use the higher rate.
2k mi×1bn barrels× 75=$1.5bn daily
Cost of resource- this will be the trickiest. The receiving states will say free since it is a "national resource" but it is a resource states are giving up. Plus Canada has an interest so will want something. We can be generous and say $.05 per gallon or $2.10 per barrel, $2 1bn daily for that water.
So pipeline cost $137.5bn /yr
Shipping $1.5bn×365= $547bn/yr
Water $2.1bn×365= $1,333.5bn/yr
Total cost $2.018 trillion per year to solve this problem.
Of course we should consider human nature. Will this cost make people learn to conserve resources and build/live with sustainable parameters? Or will the renewed availability of resources spur growth and use so we would eventually need to ship more than a billion barrels of water per day?
Travis McMichael gets 2nd life sentence for federal hate crime conviction in Ahmaud Arbery's killing
Source: CNN
Travis McMichael, one of the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, was sentenced Monday to life in prison plus 10 years after he was convicted earlier this year of interference with rights, a federal hate crime, and attempted kidnapping in connection with the 25-year-old Black man's 2020 killing.
His father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan are due to be sentenced later Monday at the same Georgia courthouse on convictions of the same federal charges. All three are already serving life sentences for their convictions in state court on a series of charges related to Arbery's killing, including felony murder.
Travis McMichael's life sentence is to be served concurrently with his state sentence, US District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled.
The three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery each could receive another life sentence Monday, when they are due to appear in federal court in Georgia to learn how they will be punished for convictions on hate crime charges.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/us/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crime-federal-sentencing/index.html
Travis McMichael gets 2nd life sentence for federal hate crime conviction in Ahmaud Arbery's killing
Travis McMichael, one of the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, was sentenced Monday to life in prison plus 10 years after he was convicted earlier this year of interference with rights, a federal hate crime, and attempted kidnapping in connection with the 25-year-old Black man's 2020 killing.
His father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan are due to be sentenced later Monday at the same Georgia courthouse on convictions of the same federal charges. All three are already serving life sentences for their convictions in state court on a series of charges related to Arbery's killing, including felony murder.
Travis McMichael's life sentence is to be served concurrently with his state sentence, US District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled.
The three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery each could receive another life sentence Monday, when they are due to appear in federal court in Georgia to learn how they will be punished for convictions on hate crime charges.
The Concerning Reason This City Has Partially Banned Food Trucks
For decades, the only foods you could expect from a truck were ice cream and popsicles. But in the early 2000s, hungry patrons who previously could occasionally catch a snack from a random food cart rejoiced as trucks with flare and gourmet fare began popping up (per Touch Bistro). These early mobile food pioneers sparked a revolution, bringing food to the people and creating a culinary culture that fans feel is the best thing since sliced bread on four wheels. Unfortunately, the popularity of food trucks has the Denver Police Department (DPD) concerned about the crowds that gather around them and forced some trucks to move from a downtown hotspot for safety reasons (via KUSA 9 News).
Lower Downtown (LoDo) Denver features streets packed with businesses, restaurants, and bars that draw crowds into the wee hours of the night. It's been an ideal place for Denver food trucks to park and gain business from workers and late-night revelers, but the DPD has marked LoDo as an area of concern for its rising crime rates. A few weeks back, DPD officers injured six innocent bystanders, some of whom were in line at a local food truck, when they shot a man with a gun outside one of the bars in LoDo.
Tasked with increasing public safety in the area, the department forced the food trucks that frequent the popular spot to move in order to decrease gatherings outside the bars.
Read More: https://www.tastingtable.com/954460/the-concerning-reason-this-city-has-partially-banned-food-trucks/?utm_campaign=clip
Perhaps if the bar patrons are a problem, closing the bars early might be a better solution 🤔
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