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Linda Boyle: Lessons learned from Covid conference and beyond

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Linda Boyle: Lessons learned from Covid conference and beyond

By LINDA BOYLE

The Alaska Covid Alliance hit it out of the park this past weekend with its “Covid and Beyond Conference: The Establishment and You. Many of the physicians spoke of the spike protein and its effects on one’s health.

The spike protein comes either from the jab or Covid itself. 

Do you have headaches you’ve never had before? Heart problems?  Gastrointestinal problems?  Brain fog?  New aches and pains? Cognitive problems? Dizziness? Ear ringing?   

Then you may be having symptoms of spike injury and not even know it. And unless you are going to a healthcare provider who understands how spike protein can negatively affect you, you may not be getting the treatment you need.  

We all have seen pictures of the coronavirus with those little bumps of spike proteins sticking out of it. 

There is an ACE2 that attaches to the membrane of the cell   This enzyme is in 72 locations in the body to include the nose where the spike protein is known to invade our bodies. ACE2s are great at keeping our bodies in harmony—in regulating blood pressure, healing, and decreasing inflammation.   

Like a key going into a lock, the Covid virus uses ACE2 to enter the cell and then hijacks the cell to make lots of copies of itself. Sadly, the coronavirus binds the very mechanism one needs to have a functioning heart, lungs, and other organs.  

A covid infection can disrupt many of these bodily functions but so can the jabs.  

One thing many people have experienced is Long Covid.  The CDC defines Long Covid as symptoms that persist after having Covid for more than 28 days

What does Long Covid look like?  More than 762 million people worldwide have had Covid.  One- in-five to one-in-seven have symptoms beyond 12 weeks.  Long Covid can affect multiple body systems.  

In an on-line international survey of 3,762 patients who had suffered Long Covid systems, the respondents averaged 55.9 symptoms across 9.1 organ systems.  

  • 92% had sensorimotor symptoms
  • 89% had post-exertional tiredness (malaise)
  • 88% had cognitive dysfunction (brain fog and others)
  • 73% had POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) which leads to increased pulse and dizziness when going to a standing position)
  • 86% relapsed 
  • Only 27.3% were working the same hours as pre-Covid.

In addition to Long Covid there is Long Vax. This study in the Science Journal confirmed “vaccines” are linked to auto-immune disorders and neuropathy.   People usually experience severe sharp or burning pain, with some sensory symptoms and no significant weakness in their body.  

Additionally, there is abnormal clotting and heart inflammation with symptoms that resemble Long Covid.  

Interestingly, by February 2021after Pfizer was forced to give up vaccine data. Pfizer had already received more than 1,200 reports of death thought to be caused by the vaccine. The company had also received thousands of reported adverse effects including 23 cases of spontaneous abortions out of 270 pregnancies and more than 2,000 reports of cardiac disorders. It would have seemed the ethical thing to do would have been to take the drug off the market and regroup.  

But that would not have fit the narrative to get everyone vaxxed—promising they were safer and the need to protect grandma. They kept using the hammer even though there was no longer a nail.

A patient-led survey of people experiencing persistent neurological symptoms after Covid vaccination consisted of 508 participants who were suffering lasting neurological symptoms post-Covid vaccination. This survey focused on demographics, symptoms, and outlook. Neurological symptoms included burning/tingling (nerves), brain fog, dizziness, persistent headache, memory loss, difficulty with speech and paralysis.  These neurological systems occurred up to 195 days after vaccination.

The bottom line to the study was active monitoring of vaccine safety is critical. There needs to be true patient informed consent—something that did not happen. The authors pushed for international health authorities to further investigate potential harms from the Covid vaccines. 

More research is showing both long covid and long vax have the same side effects.  So whether you got the jabs with no illness or got the disease or got both, you are eligible for long covid or long vax.  

Now that you know what the symptoms are of Long Covid what do you do? Find a health care provider who is Covid-literate and open-minded regarding the adverse effects of both the jab and the disease.  

The spike protein persists in the body. You should try to rid the body of the spike protein. Here is a possible detox protocol from Dr. Peter McCullough. It is for both Long Covid and Covid Vaccine Detox. In his presentation, Dr. McCullough stated you need to take these supplements for 3-12 months:    

  • Nattokinase: 2000 FU (100 mg) twice daily
  • Bromelain: 500 mg once daily
  • Nano/Liposomal Curcumin: 500 mg twice daily 

If you took the jab or had the disease, consider following a detox program. You can’t change the past—you can only prepare for the future.  

Some of you will believe none of this is true because it did not come from the federal government. Yet there is much research that has been gaslighted that states it is.  

Mark Twain said, “It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.”  

Do your own research. Decide for yourself. And always consult with your health care provider because each one of us is unique. No, you can’t change the past but you can prepare for the future.  

Linda Boyle, RN, MSN, DM, was formerly the chief nurse for the 3rd Medical Group, JBER, and was the interim director of the Alaska VA. Most recently, she served as Director for Central Alabama VA Healthcare System. She is the director of the Alaska Covid Alliance.

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Doyon installs two wind turbines at Deadhorse

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Doyon installs two wind turbines at Deadhorse

Oil fields are now using wind power as supplemental energy to extract petroleum. Doyon, Limited has installed two 100-kilowatt wind turbines on the Doyon Drilling pad in Deadhorse. 

The turbines are intended to provide supplemental power to Doyon Drilling’s warehouse and will assist in offsetting their electricity usage.  

Based on wind data history in the area, it estimates an average daily output of 1,440 kilowatt-hours from both wind turbines. This is estimated to be equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 100 gallons of diesel consumed, the Native-owned company said. It did not say how long it would take to recover the cost of the wind turbine and the installation, but it is a first in Alaska’s Arctic oil fields.

“This project is the first of its kind on the North Slope,” said Andrew J. Honea, Doyon Drilling President and General Manager. “I’m proud that Doyon Drilling is part of this monumental milestone.” 

It’s wonderful to see this project come to life,” said Tanya Kaquatosh, Doyon, Limited Senior Vice President of Administration. “The wind turbine project is part of Doyon’s sustainability initiative and aligns directly with our corporate value of long-term sustainability.”

State Department issues traveler warnings for Americans abroad

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State Department issues traveler warnings for Americans abroad

Going somewhere this winter? The U.S. State Department issued a rare travel warning to Americans who are venturing abroad. Americans, it seems, may be targets — more than usual.

“Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution. U.S. citizens should:

  • Stay alert in locations frequented by tourists.
  • Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive information and alerts and make it easier to locate you in an emergency overseas.
  • Follow the Department of State on Facebook and Twitter.”

There is cause for concern, especially for journalists traveling abroad. As many as 21 journalists have been killed in the conflict in Israel, it has been reported by The Guardian newspaper. In Russia, authorities arrested an editor for Radio Fee Europe/Radio Liberty, which is a U.S. government-sponsored news outlet. The editor is accused of spying on the Russian military.

The last time the State Department issued a worldwide alert was after the death of al-Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in August of 2022.

Bruce Abramson: A time for moral clarity on campuses

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Bruce Abramson: A time for moral clarity on campuses

By BRUCE ABRAMSON | REAL CLEAR WIRE

Events of the past week have brought clarity in many areas. Perhaps the one that hits closest to home for many Americans is the moral rot of academia.

Leading academics, scholars, professors, students, and administrators in the United States have had a shockingly hard time condemning mass murder and rape at a music concert in the desert, the slaughter of babies, and the kidnapping of more than 100 civilians of all ages. A disturbing number have celebrated these actions. A larger group have cheered the perpetrators. A still larger cadre have reminded us of the subtle and deep complexities underlying such misdirected anger – which they dare not call barbarism lest they offend the “oppressed” terrorists.

The list of prestigious institutions incapable of unequivocal condemnation of these Nazi-level atrocities is long: Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Washington, Georgetown, and many others made headlines. They were hardly anomalies.

Their cowardly, mealy-mouthed expressions of false equivalence are representative of what our finest universities have become: enemies of civilization.

Look closely at any of the demonstrations, rallies, protests, or riots supporting barbarism. Look closely at the people organizing, funding, and rationalizing these movements. Invariably, you’ll find graduates – mostly recent graduates – of America’s most prestigious institutions of “higher learning.” Some of the most obscene speakers are their professors. Right behind them are the leading lights of K-12 education.

America’s most committed parents are spending their life savings to turn their children into indoctrinated, radicalized, deeply immoral apologists for barbarism – if not barbarians themselves. Civilized norms, basic decency, and common sense developed over the course of centuries are crumbling rapidly.

In today’s academia, even my references to “civilization” and “barbarism” rankle. Only an oppressive imperialist would assume that one set of norms is superior to another. Who gave me the right to insist that there’s something uniquely repulsive about mutilating dead bodies?

That’s why one of the most important experiments in America today is the drive to reclaim academia. It’s a relatively young experiment. Selected religious institutions have labored for years to hold the line, but they’ve done little more than define a niche. Their ability to influence academia more broadly has been severely limited.

In recent years, however, some public institutions have entered the fray. Florida’s state university system has likely taken the lead – with tiny New College of Florida at the vanguard.

I was thrilled when the opportunity arose to join the team working to turn New College into the best liberal arts college in America – no longer a very high bar – as well as a campus in which students feel physically safe but intellectually challenged.

One of our goals is to ensure that our campus is a “safe space” only in the sense that it provides freedom from assault, harassment, and discrimination. Academic institutions committed to true higher education do not offer protection from ideas. To the contrary, they relish spirited argumentation, debate, and persuasion.

They teach students to separate fact from opinion, assess the credibility of their sources, marshal the evidence, and justify their conclusions. They welcome passion, even emotion, while imparting the lesson that these very human components of argumentation cannot justify fabrication.

They preserve the fixed meaning of words, holding the line against deconstructions that attach pre-existing feelings to altered concepts. They expect participants to be resilient and robust, to seek ways to exercise their minds while strengthening or refining – or sometimes altering – their beliefs, not fragile snowflakes likely to wither and melt when faced with the slightest micro-disappointment.

In short, our work threatens America’s morally corrupt educational establishment and the indecent radicals it prefers to mold. It’s hardly a coincidence that so many so-called educators are eager for us to fail.

Nor is it a coincidence that U.S. News recently moved Florida’s colleges downward in their rankings. A full 20% of their scoring system relies upon a school’s reputation among the leadership of its peers. Florida’s schools are unpopular among apologists for barbarism? We can live with that.

In stark contrast to those prestigious competitors, Florida’s public institutions expressed moral clarity from the very top. A letter from Chancellor Ray Rodrigues and Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. began:

“This weekend, the world watched Hamas, an Iran-backed terrorist organization, commit a barbaric attack against Israel including innocent Israeli women, children, babies, and grandparents who were Holocaust survivors. Israel not only has the right to defend itself against these heinous attacks, but it has a duty to respond with overwhelming force. Florida unequivocally stands with Israel and the Jewish people during this difficult moment in history.”

Here at New College, President Richard Corcoran added:

“New College faithfully executes its responsibility under state law to ensure that all education programs, activities and opportunities are offered free from discrimination. … Any individual or group at New College providing support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

That such statements would be controversial among our peers should concern every American. All people of good faith, basic decency, and moral clarity should wish us well as we seek to restore morality and decency to higher education.

Bruce Abramson is executive director of New Student & Graduate Admissions at New College of Florida and a director of the American Center for Education and Knowledge. He is the author of “An American Vision for the Middle East” (Kindle, 2017) on the nature of Middle East conflicts, and “The New Civil War” (RealClear Publishing, 2021) on the corruption of American academia.

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

Defense Dept. report: China now has more than 500 nuclear warheads

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Defense Dept. report: China now has more than 500 nuclear warheads

The Department of Defense briefed reporters on the 2023 China Military Power Report that DOD delivered to Congress this week. In it, the Pentagon says that China now has 500 nuclear warheads, is deepening ties to Russia, and is increasing its aggression on Taiwan.

The annual report to Congress is based on the National Defense Strategy’s premise that China is the only competitor with the intent, will and capability to reshape the international order, said a Pentagon official, who described the PRC as the department’s “top pacing challenge.”

The report “charts the current course of the PRC’s national economic and military strategies, and offers insight into the [Chinese military’s] strategy, its current capabilities, some of its operational activities, as well as its future modernization goals,” he said. 

Communist leaders seek “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” by 2049 – the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s takeover of the world’s largest country. 

Part of this effort is China is increasing military coercion, the official said. An example of this is the increasing numbers of unsafe intercepts of U.S., allied and partner vessels and aircraft operating in international air and seaways of the Indo-Pacific region. “Between the fall of 2021 and the fall of 2023, the United States documented over 180 instances of [the People’s Liberation Army] coercive and risky air intercepts against U.S. aircraft in the region,” the official said. When allies and partners are included, this jumps to more than 300 instances.

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The report also covers China’s intensifying pressure campaign against Taiwan including Chinese ballistic missile overflights of Taiwan, increased flights into Taiwan’s self-declared air defense identification zone and the large-scale simulated joint blockade and simulated joint firepower strike operations done after a visit to the island by a U.S. congressional delegation. 

Additionally, China’s deepening security ties with Russia are covered. In fact, as the official was detailing the content of the report, Chinese President Xi Jinping was meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative in China. The senior defense official said China sees its emergence as a great power as tied to the alliance with Russia. 

The report also looks at the continued development of the Chinese military’s nuclear, space and cyberspace capabilities. “We see the PRC continuing to quite rapidly modernize and diversify and expand its nuclear forces,” he said. “They are expanding and investing in their land, sea and air-based nuclear delivery platforms, as well as the infrastructure that’s required to support this.”  

The report estimates the Chinese had more than 500 operational nuclear warheads as of May 2023. “That is on track to exceed some of our previous predictions,” he said. 

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China is developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles. These may also be conventionally-armed missiles. “If developed and fielded, such capabilities would allow the PRC to threaten conventional strikes against targets in the continental United States, Hawaii and Alaska,” the official said. 

According to the report, Chinese leaders are seeking to modernize People’s Liberation Army capabilities in all domains of warfare.  

On the land, the People’s Liberation Army continues to modernize its equipment and focus on combined arms and joint training, the department said. The Chinese military is still a conscript force with two intakes a year. The military is working to field long-range fires and incorporate the capability into their doctrine. 

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Biden falls behind Trump in swing states as voters aren’t buying ‘Bidenomics’

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Biden falls behind Trump in swing states as voters aren’t buying ‘Bidenomics’

President Joe Biden is trailing former President Donald Trump in several key swing states, according to a poll conducted by Bloomberg News and Morning Consult.

In Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Trump leads by 4 points with voters over Biden, 47% to 43%

The voters in these battleground state voters said the economy was better off under the Trump administration than it is under Biden, with 49% trusting the former on the issue rather than the latter at 35%.

In a self-selected poll conducted by Must Read Alaska’s newsletter, readers agreed that the economy was better before Biden took office. Must Read Alaska readers tend to be more conservative than those polled by Bloomberg or Morning Consult:

Must Read Alaska’s Question of the Week was answered by 319 readers, with 97% saying the country is not better off now than it was three years ago.

According to the poll released Thursday by Bloomberg and Morning Consult, Trump led Biden by between 1 point to 5 points in five of the seven individual swing states. The two leading candidates were tied in Michigan at 44%. Nevada respondents preferred Biden over Trump, 46% to 43%.

More key takeaways from the poll:

  • In an aggregate of surveys from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Biden lacks the backing of 14% of voters who supported him three years ago, compared with a 9-point attrition rate among Trump’s 2020 supporters. 
  • Roughly 3 in 4 swing-state voters said the country’s economy is headed down the wrong track and they are more likely than not to say their personal financial situation was better off under Trump than it is under Biden. It reveals that the president’s “Bidenomics” pitch is not breaking through, as these voters are significantly more likely to trust his predecessor to handle their top voting issue. 
  • Over the coming year, Biden’s challenge will be to prove his economic successes and address concerns about everyday costs. The data suggests there’s an opportunity here, given many swing-state voters — including those who backed his 2020 bid — said they don’t know who to trust on the issue even while expressing some dissatisfaction with Biden. 

“Similar to what we have chronicled with our 2024 GOP primary tracker, the Oct. 5-10 survey shows a tight contest between the two likely major-party nominees 13 months from Election Day. Biden is trailing Trump in each of the key electoral states we tested except Nevada, while he is tied with his predecessor in Michigan,” Morning Consult explained.

Steve Goreham: Green hydrogen needs vast taxpayer subsidies

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Steve Goreham: Green hydrogen needs vast taxpayer subsidies

By STEVE GOREHAM

World leaders tout “green hydrogen” as an essential fuel in the renewable energy transition. Today, heavy industries use huge amounts of coal and natural gas to produce products needed by society. Governments propose to replace hydrocarbon fuels with hydrogen fuel, using hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies. But vast subsidies won’t be enough to overcome the insurmountable problems with green hydrogen fuel.

Four big industries—ammonia, cement, plastics, and steel—are powered by natural gas and coal, also called hydrocarbon fuels, while emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The world’s ammonia industry produced almost 200 million tons of ammonia in 2020, primarily for agricultural fertilizer, using natural gas and coal as fuel and feedstock.

About 4.3 billion tons of cement, the essential material for concrete, were output that same year, while exhausting CO2 and burning hydrocarbons in furnaces. Over 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year using gas for feedstock and fuel. Annually, 1.9 billion tons of steel are produced using coal and gas.

To reduce CO2 emissions, world leaders call for heavy industry to switch from natural gas and coal to hydrogen fuel. When hydrogen burns, the only combustion product is water vapor.

Most hydrogen in nature exists in compounds, such as water (H2O) or methane (CH4). But hydrogen is not expensive. When produced from hydrocarbons, it costs only about a dollar a kilogram. About 99 percent of the world’s 70 million tons of annual hydrogen production comes from gas, using steam methane reforming, or from coal, using coal gasification. But advocates propose to produce green hydrogen from electrolysis of water, using electricity from wind, solar, and other renewable sources.

Electrolysis uses electricity to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. Industrial electrolyzers use complex cell structures, catalysts, and electrolytes to maximize efficiency and reduce cost. But few electrolyzers operate today because the hydrogen they produce is very expensive. Hydrogen from electrolysis, called green hydrogen, typically costs more than $5 per kilogram, or more than five times the price when produced from natural gas. 

Electrolysis is expensive because it uses huge amounts of electricity. Production of one kilogram of hydrogen from electrolysis requiresabout 50─55 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, or almost double the daily power consumed by a US home. In 2022, the industrial price of electricity was about six cents per kWh in the United States and about 12 cents per kWh in Germany. To produce a kilogram of hydrogen, the electricity alone costs about $3 in the US and $6 in Germany, or three and six times the price of hydrogen produced by natural gas. 

Nations plan to pour vast amounts of subsidy money into hydrogen production to try to overcome the cost problem. This month President Biden announced $7 billion in subsidies for regional hydrogen hubs to try to rein in climate change. Announced hydrogen subsidies have passed $280 billion globally, with the US expected to provide $137 billion over the next ten years.

The US Inflation Reduction Act offers an astounding subsidy of $3 to produce a kilogram of green hydrogen, three times the market price. Imagine a subsidy of $150,000 to purchase a $50,000 electric car or a subsidy of $12 to produce a $4 gallon of gasoline. There appears to be no end to the cash governments will pay to try to establish a hydrogen economy.

Most hydrogen produced today from gas or coal is used on site to produce ammonia to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. There are no regional markets for hydrogen because hydrogen is very difficult to transport. Transportation adds additional costs to the already exorbitant price of green hydrogen.

Advocates propose that gas pipelines be used to transport hydrogen. But hydrogen is very reactive and degrades metal by a process known as hydrogen embrittlement. Embrittlement can cause cracks, leaks, and even explosions in metal pipelines. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory recommends that pipeline blends be less than 20 percent hydrogen to minimize embrittlement.

Transporting hydrogen by ship is also costly. Liquefaction of hydrogen to -253oC requires energy equal to about 25─35 percent of the hydrogen itself, compared to the 10 percent needed to liquify natural gas. Hydrogen can be transported in the form of ammonia, which liquifies at 35oC, but must then be converted back to hydrogen, requiring energy equal to up to 30 percent of the energy content of hydrogen itself.

For hydrogen to be green, electrolyzers must use electricity from renewable or nuclear sources. But most electricity still comes from coal, oil, and natural gas, including 61% of US power in 2021, and most of the power in China (66%), India (78%), and Japan (65%). Only 37 percent of Europe’s electricity comes from hydrocarbons, but today Europe hardly has enough electricity to keep the lights on, and little to spare for electrolysis.

Converting industry to use green hydrogen fuel would require vast amounts of renewable electricity. For example, the average European steel plant produces about four million tons of crude steel per year. Hydrogen Europe, a hydrogen advocacy group, estimates that running one average plant on hydrogen would require about five GW of solar-array capacity to drive the electrolyzers. This is more than 13 times the output of California’s Ivanpah solar facility. A solar facility that could generate this much electricity would cover more than 70 square miles. To convert the world’s steel industry to run on green hydrogen, over 5,000 TWh of electricity from renewables would be needed to drive electrolyzers. This is more than the world’s total output of renewable electricity today.

Alternatively, to power electrolyzers for the steel industry, the world would need to build 600 nuclear plants, added to the 437 nuclear plants operating today. This isn’t going to happen. There won’t be enough renewables to produce green hydrogen for heavy industry.

Advocates appear to believe that a landslide of money can create a new green fuel industry. But a hydrogen fuel industry, if created, will be small and based entirely on government subsidies, not sound economics.

Steve Goreham, a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, is a speaker, author, and researcher on environmental issues as well as an engineer and business executive. He is the author of of the new bestselling book “Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure.” This column was first published by Master Resource.

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Alaskan advocate caught up when pro-Hamas protesters storm Cannon Building at Capitol

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Alaskan advocate caught up when pro-Hamas protesters storm Cannon Building at Capitol

Alaskan Second Amendment advocate Jenn Graham was at the U.S. Capitol when a large crowd of pro-Hamas protestors stormed the Cannon Building, where the offices of the House of Representatives is located.

As with everyone else in Washington, D.C., she was unarmed when the incident occurred, with protesters violently pushing through security stations and entering the building. That’s not typical for Graham, who usually packs when she is in Alaska.

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Graham was in Washington, D.C. to be part of a pro-gun-rights press conference that included Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, Rep. Richard Hudson, and Rep. Kat Cammack. Graham represents a group called Women for Gun Rights.

When the crowd of pro-Palestinians pushed into the building, the congressional staff helped Graham escape through the members-only elevator and the underground tunnel. The protestors had blocked the public elevators and entrances, and the situation spiraled out of control, with protesters assault police.

“It was so bad, the whole building was rattling and shaking with movement. And the shouting — it was psychotic. It took me five hours to get back to my hotel room, and I was three blocks away,” she said, from her hotel room.

“They snuck us out of the building on the subway, but the police had jammed all of our cell phones, so I could not even use my phone until I got back to the hotel,” Graham said.

Graham said that during the protest, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was shoved by a protester, but Capitol Police did nothing, and offered the representative no assistance.

The hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters both in and out of the building were demanding that Israel stop defending itself in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which began when Hamas killed 1,200 Jews on Oct. 7 in a surprise attack. They called for a cease fire.

An even larger group of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the congressional building. All told, there were potentially thousands of people, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the radical Democrat from Michigan’s 12th District, as their featured guest speaker. Capitol Police on Wednesday evening were closing off the roads in the nation’s capital.

Three hundred protesters are known to have been arrested inside the Cannon Building after some assaulted police officers.

Two women charged after August hit-and-run in Delta Junction

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Two women charged after August hit-and-run in Delta Junction

Alaska State Troopers have arrested two women in connection with a fatal hit-and-run incident that occurred on Aug. 29 near milepost 1421 of the Alaska Highway in Delta Junction. The hit-and-run incident resulted in the death of 47-year-old John Emerick, who had been walking along the shoulder of the highway.

Alaska State Troopers received a report of a dead man in the roadway at approximately 10:18 p.m. on Aug. 29. Assistance was provided by Rural Deltana and Ft. Greely Fire Departments, as well as Alaska State Troopers.

An investigation was launched to identify the responsible parties. The case took a turn on Oct. 17, when 32-year-old Chelsie Erickson, a resident of Delta Junction, was apprehended and arrested for Criminally Negligent Homicide, Failure to Render Aid, and two counts of Tampering with Evidence. Additionally, 60-year-old Janell Erickson was also arrested and charged with Tampering with Evidence.

The breakthrough in the case was made possible through the joint efforts of the Technical Crimes Unit in Anchorage and a tip submitted to the Alaska State Troopers, who then paid a visit to the residence of Chelsie and Janell Erickson in Delta.

During the search, a pickup truck was discovered concealed in a locked shed adjacent to the residence. The vehicle had its hood and grill removed, along with other parts that were missing.

Following the removal of the pickup from the property, further evidence emerged that conclusively linked it to the hit-and-run incident.

Chelsie and Janell Erickson were subsequently taken into custody and remanded to the Fairbanks Correctional Facility.

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