NYC mayoral primary race thrown into chaos

 

The Democratic primary race for mayor was thrown into chaos Tuesday as the city Board of Elections appeared to have botched the count amid the city’s first ranked-choice election — adding 135,000 pre-election “test” ballots that hadn’t been cleared from a computer.

According to a BOE statement Tuesday night, “it has determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the Election Management System . . .

“The Board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported.”

Preliminary results released earlier in the day showed a total of 941,832 ballots cast for mayor, an increase of more than 140,000 from the 799,827 that were counted on June 22, the day of the primary.

The glaring discrepancy at first went unnoticed until it was flagged by front-runner Eric Adams.

“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” an Adams spokesman said.

California Bans Its State Employees From Traveling to Florida .....

I'm sure Floridians are shaking in their boots....  

Florida will never recover https://t.co/uUEbZJqbWT

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 29, 2021

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Are you old enough to remember this New York Times Headline in 1995 ?

 

So how did that go down? 

The New York Times predicted in Sept 18, 1995 that most beaches on the East Coast, like New York would be gone.

The photo below shows the Coney Island beach on June 8, 2021

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Man accused of threatening to blow up McDonald’s over missing dipping sauce

 

I'm glad he doesn't dine in Kosher Restaurants ...when did you guys ever get a take out order that wasn't missing anything ?

An Iowa man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening to blow up a McDonald’s because workers forgot to add dipping sauce to his order, a report said.

Robert Golwitzer Jr., 42, is accused of calling in the explosive threat early Saturday night after he ordered chicken McNuggets from the fast-foot restaurant in Ankeny, police told WHO 13.

In addition to the bomb threat, Golwitzer also allegedly said over the phone that he would punch a worker, the report said.

Police called up Golwitzer and he allegedly admitted over the phone — and later at the precinct — to making the threats.

He is charged with false report of explosive or incendiary device.

Golwitzer was jailed Saturday and was out on bond by Sunday.

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IDF Uses tech that makes soldiers virtually 'invisible' to the human eye

 

Israel's Polaris Solutions, a survival product manufacturer, has unveiled a redesigned camouflage net that claims to make soldiers virtually 'undetectable.'

Developed in partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Kit 300 sheet is made of thermal visual concealment (TVC) material that combines microfibers, metals and polymers to make soldiers harder to see with the human eye and thermal cameras.

The sheet weighs just 1.1 pounds, allowing soldiers to easily roll it up and carry it while trekking through dangerous war zones.

Soldiers wrap it around themselves when on the move and join their sheets together to build a barrier that resembles rock when they set up a position.

'Someone staring at them with binoculars from afar will not see soldiers,' Gal Harari, the head of the detectors and imaging technology branch of the MoD's research and development unit, said in a statement.

The Kit 300 aims to reinvent the traditional camouflage gear that has gone nearly unchanged.

Camouflage nets haven't changed too much in the past 50 years,' Yonatan Pinkas, director of marketing at Polaris Solutions, told The Media Line. 'We wanted to bring in a new type of material,' he added. 'So TVC was born.'

The Kit 300 is double sided, each with its own colorization to blend into the battlefield.

One side is to be used when in dense vegetation and the other is designed for more desert-like areas.

However, the company will customize patterns and coloring based on need.

The Kit 300 is also waterproof and can provide military personnel with shelter. that can stand like a small tent. 

Although the material is lightweight, it is sturdy enough to mold into three-dimensional shapes and can be used as a stretcher to carry wounded soldiers.   

Pinkas told The Media Line Kit 300 is capable of carrying up to 500 pounds, can be used as a splint and a hypothermia blanket.

The inspiration for Kit 200 came during the Second Lebanon War in 2016, while Picciotto was in a special Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit.

He saw a desperate need for better ground cover for soldiers, who were exposed to thermal cameras and night-vision equipment.

'You have to be better than the enemy and we understood that there were big gaps in the survivability part,' Picciotto recalled. 

'Our product is being tested by several units, which I can't name, and we have some joint operations there.'

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Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines may provide LIFETIME protection against the virus, study finds

 

Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines may provide lifetime protection against COVID-19, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that people who received either of the two-dose shots, which use new messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, had strong and 'persistent' immune responses.

What's more, the vaccines produced high levels of neutralizing antibodies against two variants of the virus.

This could mean that Pfizer and Moderna recipients could have long-lasting immunity - for years or potentially the rest of their lives - and may not even need boosters, reported first by The New York Times.

'It's a good sign for how durable our immunity is from this vaccine,' lead author Dr Ali Ellebedy, an immunologist at Washington University in St Louis told the newspaper

For the study, published on Monday in the journal Nature, the team recruited 14 people who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Among them, eight people had previously has been infected with COVID-19.

Researchers looked at lymph nodes, which produce a type of immune system cell known as a memory B cell.

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Trump Will Not Be Charged In DA Indictment

 Donald Trump won't be personally charged in the Manhattan district attorney's case against the former president's business organization when the first indictment comes down, his attorney claimed. 

Trump, in a lengthy and rambling statement issued on Monday, called the DA's investigation 'a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time' and claimed prosecutors 'failed' to find a crime even as 'millions of dollars of taxpayer funds wasted.' 

His words came as an indictment against the business that made his fame and fortune, The Trump Organization, grows closer.  

Ronald Fischetti, a New York attorney who represents Trump, told Politico that, at a meeting with Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance on Monday, he was told the DA's office will not bring charges against Trump himself when the first indictment arrives, which could be as soon as this week.

'They just said, 'When this indictment comes down, he won't be charged. Our investigation is ongoing,' he said.

Trump railed against the prosecution in his response. 

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Who Elects these Dummies?

 

Democrat Rep. Cori Bush will introduce a bill to replace police officers with "community-led first responders" as crime surges across the nation. https://t.co/1EHSSuA1P7

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 28, 2021

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Crazed White Guy "identifies" as a Korean .. So he has surgery

 

British white guy has surgery to become Korean. He “identifies” as Korean so he figured he needed to get his eyes fixed. Transgenderism seems now to have inspired transethnicity. https://t.co/WnaSZACC6r

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 28, 2021

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Summer is Here ...and the Hafganas Return ...

 

Summer is back in full force in Israel and it's hot .. and the Yeshiva Boys who aren't on the internet, and are prohibited from playing sports are gearing up to blow off some of their pent up hormones and frustrations.

What better way than going to illegal hafganas and wrestle with the mishtara! Protest organizers are now looking for different causes to protest to keep the bored Yeshiva Boys busy..

What's interesting about this hafgana is, that they are protesting construction in Gush Etzion.. none of them live there and never ever visit, but a hafgana is a hafgana.... 

There is construction in every part of Israel, and being that Israel is an ancient country, wherever you stick a shovel you will find bone fragments ... 

Legitimate rabbanim concluded years ago that the majority of the bones are gentile..and since we must continue to build, they organized a committee that inspect construction sites, and when they suspect that the bones are Jewish, they collect the bones to inter them in a different location..

in fact the Satmar Bais Medrish in Meah Shearim is sitting on a site that was considered a Jewish burial site for many years, and when I visited Israel in 1968, that site was being protested by R' Amram Blau founder of the Neturi Karta ....when I returned in 1975, Lo and Behold, the Satmar Bais Medrish was built on that very site..

What happened.. what changed?

Nothing changed, Satmar managed to pay off the Asra Kadisha to look the other way ...

Just three years ago there were massive protests in Beit Shemesh when a Chassidishe developer began to build the "Guloivntziz Houses" . The Asra Kedisha protested and said that the site was a Jewish Bais Hachayim... the developer laughed them in the face and refused to pay a "grush" to the Asra Mafiosi ..Well now hundreds of Chareidim live in the "Guloivntziz projects" on top of the "Jewish Bais Hachyim" 

To make their protest legitimate, they are shlepping the very old Gaaved and the even older R' Yaakov Meir Shechter to the protest which will take place at Kikar HaShabbos in Yerushalyim! 

My guess is that both the Gaaved and R Shechter have no clue to why they are going but a day out is a day out..

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London Kehilah Issued a Boycott of all Frum Establishments that Had Photos of Women but Quickly Denied it as the Police Were Closing In

 

I guess no one likes to pay big hefty fines!

Just last week, the big rabbis at the London Hisachdus issued a "fatwa" on all Jewish owned businesses and individuals that had photos of women in their ads. They threatened them with boycotts etc.

Well, they forgot that they live in Chutz Le'aaretz, and so the "goyishe" government started an investigation, because for some crazy reason, discriminating against women in the UK is against the law.

The rabbis of the "kehila" ran around like poisoned rats trying to find ways to retract ....

They couldn't come out with a statement apologising for the "fatwa" because that would mean they are for placing photos in advertisements...

Some "chuchem fin dee ma nishtana" came up with a brilliant idea.

Why not deny that they ever issued the "fatwa" ...

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'Beloved Ottawa community pillar' Rabbi Reuven Bulka passes away

 

Prominent Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka has passed away at the age of 77.

Rabbi Bulka was a rabbi with the Canadian capital's Congregation Machzikei Hadas for over 50 years.

He was a member of the Order of Canada and had been given the Key to the City of Ottawa.

"It is with profound sadness that we inform you that Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka passed away early this morning, Sunday, June 27, 2021," Rabbi Idan Scher of Machzikei Hadas told the congregation in an email.

In the winter, after being diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic and liver cancer, Bulka travelled to New York to be with his family.

His funeral service on Sunday was live streamed from New York. He became a rabbi there at the age of 16, when he took over his father’s congregation.

Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada called Bulka a “beloved Ottawa community pillar.

"A kind soul, an eloquent voice, a wise teacher. Rabbi Bulka was respected by all for his spiritual leadership and many good deeds. He will be missed. May his memory be a blessing,” tweeted Mostyn.

Rabbi Bulka’s son Schmuel Bulka, spoke at the service, saying his father spent his life working to find common ground among everyone, even people he disagreed with.

"Most people today, unfortunately, when they see people who are different — all they do is go toward the differences. Some people make a career out of exploiting differences," he said. "My father was the exact opposite. He would always look for commonalities – for something he would have in common with somebody, even if he was different. It didn't mean he would compromise his principles. But he was always looking for commonalities."

Rabbi Bulka was known for founding Kind Canada, an Ottawa charity that sought to spread kindness. The organization launched Kindness Week.

In early June, a bill passed Canada’s parliament that proclaimed Kindness Week in Canada to be held in the third week of February, reported CTV News.

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In the USA Even "goyim" Go to Kollel . One in Five Young Adults Is Neither Working Nor Studying

 Almost one in five young adults in the U.S. was neither working nor studying in the first quarter as Black and Hispanic youth remain idle at disproportionate rates. 

In the first three months of the year, about 3.8 million Americans age 20 to 24 were not in employment, education or training, known as the NEET rate, the Center for Economic Policy and Research said in a report. That’s up by 740,000, 

Inactive youth is a worrying sign for the future of the economy, as they don’t gain critical job skills to help realize their future earnings potential. Further, high NEET rates may foster environments that are fertile for social unrest. 

The increase last quarter appears to be driven largely by joblessness, while school attendance rose moderately as campuses started to reopen, according to the CE

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Ezra Sheinberg, convicted sex offender, asks for early release for 'good conduct'

 

The Nazareth District Court on Monday will hold a hearing to discuss Ezra Sheinberg's request to shorten his sentence, Makor Rishon reported.

Sheinberg, who previously served as a yeshiva dean in the northern city of Tzfat, admitted to and was convicted of sex offenses against women in the community he led.

Sheinberg has asked to be released due to "good conduct" in prison. His request for release will be discussed in court due to requests by the Prosecutor's Office and the women he hurt that the State re-examine the danger he presents and not rush to grant him an administrative release after he served just two-thirds of his sentence.

Meanwhile, Sheinberg's victims are fighting to prevent his early release from prison, which would be allowed under a plea bargain that was accepted against their wishes.

Three weeks ago, Sheinberg was ordered to pay 388,0000 shekels ($119,090) to a resident of northern Israel, in compensation for the emotional damage he caused her after she fell victim to his sexual crimes.

That woman responded to the ruling by saying: "I thank all those who held my hands and supported me. Whoever thought that this world is a free-for-all should know today that there is judgement, and there is a judge, in heaven and on earth."

In April, one of Sheinberg's victims told Kan Reshet Bet: "A sex offender who mocks the judicial system is about to be released. He apologized to the judges for thinking that he is the messiah, but he continues to torture us."

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Deal Reached.....Evyatar to be turned into yeshiva, residents to voluntarily leave

 

Israeli security officials have reached an agreement with residents of an unauthorized town in Samaria aimed at avoiding the community’s demolition.

The more than 50 families now living at the outpost town of Evyatar, near Tapuah Junction in Samaria, have agreed to voluntarily evacuate, until the defense establishment can verify that the land in question is not privately owned.

The deal was reached following negotiations between Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue and White), Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (Yamina), and settlement leaders, including Samaria Regional Council chief Yossi Dagan. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave his blessing to the deal.

Under the deal agreed to by residents of the Evyatar outpost, the residents agreed to leave the town by the end of the week, thus avoiding a complex eviction operation – one which security officials feared could lead to violence.

In exchange, the government will maintain a presence at the site, and has vowed not to demolish the homes and other structures erected at Evyatar.

Initially, the town will be used to house IDF soldiers. Later this summer, the town will be converted into a Hesder yeshiva.

Residents may also be allowed back to resettle the town, if security officials conclude that the land used is not privately owned Arab property.

As part of the arrangement, the Defense Ministry has committed to instruct the Civil Administration to complete its surveying of the land in question within the next six months.

If it is verified as not being privately owned, it will be declared state land and the town of Evyatar will be formally established.

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Developers of doomed Fla. tower were once accused of paying off officials

The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.

Building rivals claimed that the partners behind Surfside Champlain Towers South were receiving preferential treatment when it came to getting through the permit system as the site was being built in 1981, the Washington Post said. 

Surfside’s developers had contributed to the campaigns of at least two town-council members, then demanded that the donations be returned when the allegations surfaced, according to the outlet.

Meanwhile, the 12-story tower had been on the verge of undergoing $15 million in renovations to pass a required 40-year certification when it collapsed, killing at least nine people and leaving more than 150 unaccounted for Thursday, the report added.

All of the principals believed to have been involved in the design and construction of the building are already dead, the outlet said.

The developers behind the project had included Nathan Reiber, a Polish-born Canadian who was also once charged with tax evasion and cited for legal misconduct in Canada, the report said.

Reiber, who died in 2014, had been charged with tax evasion by Canadian authorities in the 1970s when he and his partners were accused of skimming cash from apartment buildings they owned.

They allegedly skimmed tens of thousands of dollars from coin-operated laundry machines in the buildings and pocketed about $120,000 from phony construction checks, the Washington Post said.

Authorities later issued an arrest warrant for Reiber when he fled to Florida.

In 1984, Reiber, a lawyer, was cited for professional misconduct by the Law Society of Upper Canada for evading the tax-evasion case, the paper said.

He ultimately settled the case by returning to Canada and paying a $60,000 fine.

In Florida, Reiber and his partners were then initially unable to begin construction of the condo buildings due to a 1979 moratorium due to faulty sewers.

The developers agreed to pay half of the $400,000 tab for the sewer repairs on the property and were given the green light — sparking anger from rival developers whose projects remained stalled by the moratorium. 

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Black US Olympic Bronze Winner Turns Her Back on the Flag

So you are probably curious to know what she did to win the Bronze Medal in the Olympics....? 

Are You?

Well if you are just a tad like me ..you are wondering what she did to deserve this?

Here goes.... she threw a hammer further than her competitors? 

I am not kidding ...

I'll bet her boyfriend sleeps with one eye open..

I sincerely believe they could have gotten a better thrower from the rioters and looters in Portland; they would have gotten the gold!

She said that playing the National Anthem was "a set up."

again, I am not kidding ...

I guess we have to thank her, because last week she said that if she won, she would burn the US flag on the winning podium.

 For the past week, they've played the national anthem one time a night at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.

On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.

While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and shuffled her feet. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words "Activist Athlete" emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.

"I feel like it was a set-up, and they did it on purpose," Berry said of the timing of the anthem. "I was pissed, to be honest."

Berry's reaction to the "Star-Spangled Banner" took its fair share of the spotlight on a blazing-hot second-to-last day at trials that also featured some blazing-fast times.

Gabby Thomas became the second-fastest woman ever in the 200, winning the final in 21.61 seconds. The only woman faster: Florence Griffith-Joyner. And, as expected, Grant Holloway won the 110-meter hurdles, though his time in the semifinals was the eye-opener. His 12.81 was only 0.01 off the world record.

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Beit Shemesh Pit where boy drowned had no barrier, no warning of danger

 

Three days after the tragic drowning of 14-year-old Nehemia Aharoni of Beit Shemesh while on a school trip, the circumstances surrounding the incident are becoming clearer.

The trip took place last Thursday, and around noontime, Nehemia and his classmates stopped at a recognized picnic site on the outskirts of Beit Shemesh, near a bridge that was being built to connect Route 38 to the city.

Nehemia and his friends were playing in the field there near the tables, two of which are just four meters (twelve feet) away from the edge of the pit in which he drowned. The pit, which doesn’t seem especially deep, is filled with water from Nahal Sorek, possibly due to the construction work ongoing in the area, and some of the boys, including Nehemia, went down to the edge of the water to fill clear plastic bottles with water and the tadpoles found there.

Not long afterward, the boys returned to the school bus to continue on their way, but Nehemia had forgotten his bottle not far from the pit, and asked for the others to wait for him while he ran to get it. The moments passed, and Nehemia did not return.

After a short while, the other boys and their teacher set out to look for him, calling his name – but already at that point, Nehemia was no longer among the living. He had clearly slipped on the slope leading down to the pool and fallen into the water.

After the tragedy, it emerged that the pool concerned is around three meters deep and almost full with water. A volunteer from the Beit Shemesh branch of the ZAKA organization, Rabbi Avraham Kop, who led the search for the boy, warned of the danger of the area.

“This was a terrible tragedy that occurred in a recognized picnic area with a playground nearby, with picnic tables spread out of which two are just a few feet away from the deadly pit,” he said.

“The boy who drowned was fully clothed and with his shoes on, and he clearly slipped on the slope leading down to the pit and fell into the water. There is no sign anywhere nearby warning of the danger of deep water – there’s no barrier, not even red tape around the pool,” he stressed. “Absolutely nothing to give anyone any clue of the danger. It’s absolutely irresponsible, like nothing I’ve ever seen.”

Kop added that he visited the site again after the tragedy, on Friday afternoon, to see what it looks like by daylight, as Aharoni was only found after dark. “I was horrified to see that just a few yards away from that pit, around seven children were playing happily, their parents nearby,” he said.

“Neither the parents nor the children had any idea of what had happened there or what could happen, G-d forbid. And, unbelievably, I visited there once again and yet again found people there, still with no warning sign, no barrier or anything. Nobody has bothered to close off the area or to warn people of the dangers.”

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