State
And the beat goes on with the Board of Corrections & Arkansas: Arkansas lawmakers spent hours last week grilling the state Board of Corrections leaders and their outside attorney about hiring the lawyer and changes attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan made to a service contract form that “could subject the state to liability,” the Arkansas Procurement Director said.
It was the huge emphasis on “tiny homes.” Now the focus is moving on — especially in areas of high homelessness — to the “benefits of affordable housing” via “micro-apartments” maybe 1/3 the size of a studio apartment being marketed as a “vital option” for people “exiting homelessness or living on fixed incomes” — a population of “low-income renters” that some say make up 25% of all renters nationwide. Why does this belong under the “State” category? Because Arkansas Business picked up the AP’s story, and the most squeezed part of Arkansas for “affordable housing” is Northwest Arkansas.
Need more details: Last week “A Walmart employee shot two people, including a 9-year-old girl inside the store in Fayetteville, according to authorities. A 19-year-old was killed. The 9-year-old is expected to survive. As of Sunday morning, the employee was still wanted by police.”
Suzi Parker’s South Arkansas Reckoning substack has more facts about that deadly ATF raid of the Little Rock Airport Director’s home:
“Porn-Proof Your Kids:” Our children and teens are being targeted with pornography online (and even in our school libraries), leaving parents helpless about how to combat the onslaught of young minds before they are mature enough and able to deal with such material.
When she learned that a friend’s son had sexually abused his younger siblings after exposure to pornography, mom Kristen Jenson of Richmond, Washington, created a new, science-based set of resources for parents after searching everywhere for way to help her friend’s family. Her website and two best-selling, illustrated, read-aloud books for parents and their kids as young as 3 don’t focus on sex, but on “bad pictures” in a way children can understand, while giving kiddos a plan through story-telling for how to deal with such material when it’s presented to them.
Arkansas is granting $10 million to utilities and energy companies to prevent electric outages and strengthen the state’s electric grid against natural disasters, plus an additional $5 million is expected to become available in late 2024; funds come from the U.S. Department of Energy through the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
National
More gaslighting over COVID: Pfizer's Paxlovid doesn't actually work, new studies show. 'Rebound' symptoms occur 25x more often than advertised…
Pfizer first scammed the world with its “100% safe and effective” Covid mRNA vaccines, and as it turns out, that was just the opening salvo from a pharmaceutical cartel that is inundated with corruption and deceit.
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More, please: Customs officials are working to deport 215 illegal immigrants charged with various offenses in connection with breaking through a razor wire barrier in El Paso County and stampeding through a group of outnumbered Texas National Guard troops.
A federal judge struck down Biden’s mandate to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 that took effect on January 8, but gave the Administration several days to appeal before his ruling takes effect.
Without FOI, would we even know? After losing a lawsuit, the CDC has finally released some 780,000 previously hidden reports of facial paralysis and other adverse events after the COVID-19 jab. Data released in 2022 in a different lawsuit showed that 25% missed work/school — nearly 8% of 10 million users required medical attention or hospital care after vaccination…. The CDC was ordered to produce 7.8 million free-text entries from V-safe (just one of its vaccine surveillance systems) after a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
Biden’s “job comeback” is a mirage: While Americans lost 1 million jobs, “immigrants” (legal / illegal?) have gained 5 million jobs, as Jesse Watters pointed out late last week (VIDEO). Many of the new jobs reported by the government are part-time positions, and almost all are held by — guess who? — “immigrants,” masking the true state of our economy.
Tech
Amazon has pulled its “Just Walk Out” technology from its futuristic Amazon Go stores after getting caught gaslighting its customers. The idea at Amazon Go was that customers could just put items in a shopping cart and walk out the door without stopping at a register to check out; artificial intelligence would take care of the rest. After marketing and selling the “high-tech” Amazon Go stores as being driven by AI, Amazon has admitted that the AI engine is, in fact, nothing more than 1,000 folks in India watching folks shop.