Can’t Make This Up: Emergency Slide Falls Off Boeing Plane, Discovered Outside Home of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing:
An emergency slide that fell off a Boeing 767 passenger aircraft shortly after taking flight last week was discovered two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is currently suing Boeing over manufacturing safety issues.
Attorney Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm is currently suingBoeingdue to one of its planes losing a door plug during a flight in January, discovered the emergency slide from Delta Airlines Flight 520 washed ashore on some rocks outside his oceanfront home in New York City.
In a statement to theNew York Post, Bissel-Linsk shared, “I didn’t want to touch it, but I got close enough to get a close look at it.”
Shortly after Bissell-Linsk made the discovery, a crew of Delta workers was called out to remove the emergency slide from the rocks.
Circulating reports indicate a remote Canadian town will require a QR code to enter or leave. Unsurprisingly, the reports have sparked severe criticism. The controversy stems from Îles-de-la-Madeleine, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The municipality, consisting of 12 islands, is home to approximately 12,000 residents. A proposed $30 tourist fee caused an uproar.
“The municipal council of Îles-de-la-Madeleine wishes to adopt a new measure for its citizens, namely that of mandatory identification to leave their municipality,”TVA Nouvelleswrote (translated).
“Canada now has a town that forces you to scan a QR code to enter and leave, and then charges you a $30 tax,” journalist Keean Bexte commented.
“Madeleine Island getting QR codes in order to leave and if you don’t get your QR code, you will be fined,” one woman claimed in a viral video. “That’s the very first QR code prison here in Canada. And it is going to sweep the nation faster than you can think if people don’t stand up and take a stand against these QR codes,” she continued.
“It’s not happening in your town yet but it most certainly will be,” she added.
Americans are fleeing blue cities — and their suburbs:
This is all a result of the catastrophic mismanagement and arrogance of urban governments in one-party, Democrat-controlled cities.
People have been leaving many of America’s major cities for years, as high taxes and the failure or deliberate refusal to maintain law and order have generated a downward spiral of living conditions. Now, suburbanites are increasingly deserting high-tax, high-disorder urban areas as well.
“Major metropolitan areas (over 1,000,000 population) lost 2 million net domestic migrants to other parts of the nation in just three years (2021-2023),” the Committee to Unleash Prosperityreports. This exodus is not just a matter of Americans in big cities moving to nearby suburbs.
Millions of Americans have been victimized by the rise of crime. Retail stores, restaurants, bars, and other gathering places have closed down or fled to less-disturbed places. Service deterioration and lack of commuter safety have made public transit a reasonable choice only for the desperate, such as those who must use it to get to work. Large areas are no-go zones because of the preponderance of unpredictable homeless people. Illegal immigrants flood the local schools and make learning difficult for those already there. Declining services and torn-up streets impede commerce and safety. And so on.
A particularly compelling factor is many urban governments’ conscious choice during the past decade not to apprehend and prosecute large numbers of people who commit crimes. Broken streetlights, tangled traffic, and streets marred by potholes are inconveniences. Crime is a dire threat to people’s lives and well-being.
“Last year, the 10 counties that gained the most through net migration had one thing in common — they were conservative counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020,” the editors write. “At the other end of the spectrum, all 10 counties that saw the biggest negative net migration also have one thing in common — they all voted for Biden in 2020.”
Throughout the country, Democrat-run metros are falling into a destructive-governance spiral in which bad policies create adverse outcomes, productive people leave, the government increases tax rates and cuts services for those who remain, more people and businesses depart, the shrinking tax base reduces government revenues further, the government cuts services, more people leave, and the decline accelerates. Things are going to get even worse in these places unless their governments reverse course and restore order.
Americans are voting with their feet, increasingly leaving Democrat-run places and their problems for greener pastures. Meanwhile, many of those cities persist in imposing policies that are detrimental to them, heightening the misery for those left behind. As is often the case, the populace is proving to be far wiser than the politicians.
Pentagon Confirms Americans Sharing Air Base with Russian Troops in Niger:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Friday that American troops are sharing space on Airbase 101, a facility in the capital of Niger, with Russian military forces, but dismissed the Russians’ presence as “not a significant issue here.”
Reuters reported late on Friday that the government of Niger – a military junta known as the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” thattook powerin a televised coup in July – had allowed Russian forces onto the airbase.
“A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russian forces were not mingling with U.S. troops but were using a separate hangar at Airbase 101, which is next to Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger’s capital,” Reutersrelayed.
The anonymous official described the situation as “not great.”
Abdramane noted in the national address making the announcement that Niger was pursuing closer ties with Russia to buy military equipment, presumably to replace the protection from U.S. forces. Subsequent reports suggested that the Nigerien coup regime leaders were particularly outraged by American officials discouraging them from pursuing closer ties to Russia, Iran, and other enemies of the United States. Echoing those early reports, Reuters cited an anonymous American official in its report on Thursday who said that the Americans told the coup regime that Washington would not agree to sharing military facilities with the Russians, and the Nigerians “did not take that well.”
The United States is believed to have an estimated 1,000 service members stationed in the country, present there as a result of agreements with Bazoum to combat joint terrorist threats... Some reports indicate that most Americans are now stationed not in Airbase 101, but in Airbase 201 in Agadez, a facility that Reuters noted cost $100 million in American taxpayers’ dollars to build.
A Congressional report obtained by Breitbart News in April suggested that American troops in Niger are languishing in unacceptable conditions, facing shortages of basic medicine and other goods and denied information on when, or if, they will be relieved of their duties. The report, from the office of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), described conditions at Airbase 101, where the Russians are now believed to be stationed.
