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  • A family is accused of earning $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California

    A family is accused of earning $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California

    Prosecutors say what the family did is fraud.

    We have heard of extreme couponing. It doesn’t compare to this scheme to ‘save the planet’ and earn millions in what prosecutors call fraud and illegal.

    In a felony complaint filed this month, state prosecutors charged eight family members in Riverside County with defrauding the state by importing used bottles and cans from Arizona — some 178 tons in 8 months — and recycling them in California.

    The recycling operation earned the family $7.6 million, according to a statement from the office of California’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta. Investigators also found a stash of “illegally imported beverage containers” worth another $1 million.

    When someone purchases a plastic or aluminum bottle in California, they typically pay an extra 5 to 10 cents in “California Redemption Value,” or CRV, which the consumer can get back by returning the items to one of the state’s more than 1,200 recycling centers. Arizona has no such program.

    “California’s recycling program is funded by consumers, and helps protect our environment and our communities,” Bonta said. “Those who try to undermine its integrity through criminal operations will be held accountable.”
    — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/one-family-pocketed-7-6-221318711.html

  • Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” video edited out Black Lives Matter references

    Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” video edited out Black Lives Matter references

    But the question is this.. was the video edited in a small town?

    The video, which currently has more than 19 million views, is now six seconds shorter than when it was uploaded to YouTube on July 14. It no longer contains news footage from Fox 5 Atlanta depicting violent confrontations during the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.

    It’s unclear when the video was edited but it seems to have been within the last week.

    Portions of the news clip appeared twice in the original music video — in one instance, they were projected on the wall of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where a Black man named Henry Choate, was lynched in 1927. The courthouse was also the site of the 1946 Columbia Race Riot.
    — Read on www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/jason-aldean-controversial-small-town-195900667.html

  • Chicken soup for the soul: Facebook gives a warning

    Chicken soup for the soul: Facebook gives a warning

    For the past few days, hundreds of people have taken to Twitter–ERRR—X (still need to get used to typing that out) about a strange anomaly on Facebook..

    It appears that when looking up chicken soup on Facebook, they think you are trying to find child pornography..

    Some have complained that they have been locked out of their accounts simply by searching for it.

    When Twitter user @KingBobIIV tweeted out the Facebook message that appeared after searching for “chicken soup,” one person responded with a fairly upsetting reason. According to @ItsPropaPanda, some “users were sharing and asking for links to child abuse images and videos.” They added, “Sometimes they used generic terms with the initials ‘C.P.’ a common abbreviation for ‘child pornography,’ and code like ‘caldo de pollo,’ which means ‘chicken soup’ in Spanish.”

    Initially people began talking about this on Reddit threads about 8 days ago.

    People have also researched on Urban Dictionary .

    From an NBC news article as the pandemic began in early 2020,

    Concerned parents notified NBC News of accounts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and in the comments of YouTube videos where users were sharing and asking for links to child abuse images and videos. Many of the links were to groups on private messaging apps, including Telegram and WhatsApp, as well as to file-sharing sites such as Mega. Sometimes they used generic terms with the initials “C.P.,” a common abbreviation for “child pornography,” and code like “caldo de pollo,” which means “chicken soup” in Spanish. Others referred to the names of children who appear in sets of child abuse imagery already known to law enforcement. NBC News did not click on the links to verify that they contained what they advertised.

  • Media blackout on UAP hearing.. suddenly CNN cares about Hunter Biden?!

    Media blackout on UAP hearing.. suddenly CNN cares about Hunter Biden?!

    In a strange twist of irony most news networks seem to be blacking out any information regarding the UAP hearing today—though historic in nature.

    So much so that even CNN is placing Hunter Biden as a top story—Hunter Biden on CNN?!!

    Even a search for ‘UAP’ on CNN’s main site yields zero results.

  • Freaky health scare as Senator Mitch McConnell freezes mid sentence

    Freaky health scare as Senator Mitch McConnell freezes mid sentence

    Developing..

    VIDEO..

    And he was walked away..

    He then came back..

  • The summer of the Waffle House

    The summer of the Waffle House

    First the hit Jonas Brothers song.. and now with this, the music industry continues to travel deep into the Waffle House..

    Lana Del Rey now moonlighting in secondary employment at a Waffle House?

    Lana was dressed in the company’s blue uniform and wore a yellow name badge as she kept busy behind the counter and appeared to be waiting tables.

    She was also seen chatting to some very surprised customers, before sweetly posing for photographs with eager fans at the restaurant.

    It is not known why Lana was working at the venue, but fans were quick to flock to social media to share their shock at her appearance.

    Unexpected: Lana Del Rey gave her fans quite the surprise on Thursday when she was spotted working as a waitress in a Waffle House in Alabama

  • UAP whistleblowers to the Hill!

    UAP whistleblowers to the Hill!

    Can we pause and just consider how wild it is what we are about to get a potentially human altering event within days..

    House Oversight Committee members leading the UAP whistleblower hearing unveiled the names of the whistleblowers testifying and shared a glimpse of what the public should expect during testimony next week.

    Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., confirmed Thursday that there will be three witnesses who will testify during next week’s hearing: Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot and executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace; David Fravor, a former commanding officer of the Black Aces Squadron with the U.S. Navy; and David Grusch, a former national reconnaissance officer representative of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force with the Department of Defense.

    That’s some big names..

    And a big event.

    Days away—the clock is ticking.

  • The lounge is closed.. Tony Bennett dead at 96

    The lounge is closed.. Tony Bennett dead at 96

    There are some things that occur where it just has the feel of an ‘end of an era’ event.. that is the type of day today is. . 

    Tony Bennett has died.

    The eminent stylist of American musical standards and last of the great saloon singers was 96.

  • Google Tests A.I. Tool That Can Write News

    Google Tests A.I. Tool That Can Write News

    This just in!

    Everything you’re about to read about artificial intelligence will be written by artificial intelligence. At a certain point when everything that we consume is written by AI, and everything that we do is run by AI won’t be the point of us? This is unsettling and happening quickly. It’s not just manufacturing jobs anymore folks. The future is Natalie now, but perhaps it’s so late at the future was then, and we’re beyond.

    

    The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news copy, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product.

    One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a kind of personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks to free up time for others, and that the company saw it as responsible technology that could help steer the publishing industry away from the pitfalls of generative A.I.

    Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, asking not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. Two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.

    A Google spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Times and The Post declined to comment.

    — Read on dnyuz.com/2023/07/19/google-tests-a-i-tool-that-is-able-to-write-news-articles/

  • Phoenix Arizona: 18 Days of Extreme Heat With No End in Sight

    Phoenix Arizona: 18 Days of Extreme Heat With No End in Sight

    Oppressive is not the word for this. Phoenix is just one of the many locations globally right now dealing with terrible heat and extreme summer conditions. 

    I’m sure there’s many places around the globe that are enjoying beautiful sunny beach weather but for the most part, it seems like everyone’s pretty miserable with the summer of 2023 

    The temperatures are “very extreme,” said Matt Salerno, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix. “We’re talking 10 degrees above where they normally are.” The city set another heat record on Monday: eight consecutive days in which the overnight temperature never dipped below 90 degrees.

    The heat is particularly brutal and inescapable at the sprawling homeless encampment in central Phoenix known as “The Zone.”

    There are barely any trees and, this July, people have been suffering second-degree burns after they pass out or fall asleep on the hot asphalt and sidewalks.

    There are few sources of running water other than donated bottles and portable wash stations. So a spigot outside a shelter often has a line of people pouring water over their heads and filling up five-gallons jugs to take back to their tents.
    — Read on dnyuz.com/2023/07/18/in-phoenix-18-days-of-extreme-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/