A reparations task force created by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is kicking around some large sums, up to $223,000, to give to each qualifying black American residing in California.
Newsom created the nine-person <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-task-force-begins-meetings-to-discuss-slavery-reparations">task force</a> in 2020 as a social justice measure to promote &#8220;equity.&#8221;
“As our country reckons with our painful legacy of racial injustice, California again is poised to lead the way towards a more equitable and inclusive future for all,” the governor said at the time.
The task force maintains that a legacy of housing discrimination should qualify some black Americans in the state to a total compensation of $569 billion, or about $223,200 per person. Housing discrimination was just one of the areas the group is looking into, though, meaning those totals could increase. The effects of &#8220;mass incarceration,&#8221; &#8220;unjust property seizures,&#8221; &#8220;devaluation of black businesses,&#8221; and health care are the other four areas being examined, according to The New York Times.
The task force has broadened eligibility to any descendant of an enslaved African American or a “free black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,&#8221; the report noted. There are currently about 2.5 million black Americans living in the Golden State.
Notably, the Biden administration has supported the examination of reparations for black Americans.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last year that President Joe Biden &#8220;supports a study, as we’ve said before, into reparations.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre&#8217;s comments came as she fielded questions about whether the administration would provide reparations to families of the victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
&#8220;[Biden] believes that, first and foremost, the task in front of us is not to root out — is to root out systemic racism where it exists right now,&#8221; the then-deputy press secretary said. &#8220;And that’s why it’s … central to all of his agenda.”
&#8220;The President believes that what these survivors have endured is tragic and devastating,&#8221; Jean-Pierre added. &#8220;First and foremost, he is honored to have the opportunity to listen to them and learn from their experiences. He also plans to convey his heartfelt gratitude for their bravery in sharing the stories of the trauma and violence that was wrought on them and their families. And that is — that is going to be his focus today, and that’s what he wants to do.” 
Final figures from Newsom&#8217;s task force will be released next year, and the state Legislature will evaluate those recommendations.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Military</a> unveiled its new strategic long-range stealth bomber this week, Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider, which will serve as the backbone of the future for U.S. air power for decades to come.
The U.S. Air Force unveiled the bomber at a special ceremony in Palmdale, California, Friday night.
The bomber will become operational in the next few years and will slowly phase out aging B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers that are currently in service.
The B-21 is the first new bomber that the U.S. has developed since the end of the Cold War, more than three decades ago. Officials expect to have at least 100 B-21s in service, costing nearly $700 million each.
Northrop Grumman <a href="https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/features/10-facts-about-northrop-grummans-b-21-raider?_gl=1*1ajpvwb*_ga*NjU3Njk5MTgzLjE2NzAxMDczNTY.*_ga_7YV3CDX0R2*MTY3MDEwNzM1NS4xLjAuMTY3MDEwNzM2My4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> several key features about the new bomber:
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<li>Sixth Generation. The B-21 Raider benefits from more than three decades of strike and stealth technology. It is the next evolution of the Air Force strategic bomber fleet. Developed with the next generation of stealth technology, advanced networking capabilities and an open systems architecture, the B-21 is optimized for the high-end threat environment. It will play a critical role in helping the Air Force meet its most complex missions.</li>
<li>Stealth. Northrop Grumman is continuously advancing technology, employing new manufacturing techniques and materials to ensure the B-21 will defeat the anti-access, area-denial systems it will face.</li>
<li>Backbone of the Fleet. The B-21 Raider forms the backbone of the future for U.S. air power. The B-21 will deliver a new era of capability and flexibility through advanced integration of data, sensors and weapons. Capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear payloads, the B-21 will be one of the most effective aircraft in the sky, with the ability to use a broad mix of stand-off and direct attack munitions.</li>
<li>A Digital Bomber. The B-21 is a digital bomber. Northrop Grumman uses agile software development, advanced manufacturing techniques and digital engineering tools to help mitigate production risk on the B-21 program and enable modern sustainment practices. Six B-21 Raiders are in various stages of final assembly and test at Northrop Grumman’s plant in Palmdale, California.</li>
<li>Cloud Technology. Northrop Grumman and the Air Force successfully demonstrated the migration of B-21 ground systems data to a cloud environment. This demonstration included the development, deployment and test of B-21 data, including the B-21 digital twin, that will support B-21 operations and sustainment. This robust cloud-based digital infrastructure will result in a more maintainable and sustainable aircraft with lower-cost infrastructure.</li>
<li>Open Architecture. To meet the evolving threat environment, the B-21 has been designed from day one for rapid upgradeability. Unlike earlier generation aircraft, the B-21 will not undergo block upgrades. New technology, capabilities and weapons will be seamlessly incorporated through agile software upgrades and built-in hardware flexibility. This will ensure the B-21 Raider can continuously meet the evolving threat head on for decades to come.</li>
<li>Global Reach. The B-21 Raider will be the backbone of the U.S. bomber fleet and pivotal to supporting our nation’s strategic deterrence strategy. In addition to its advanced long-range precision strike capabilities that will afford Combatant Commanders the ability to hold any target, anywhere in the world at risk, it has also been designed as the lead component of a larger family of systems that will deliver intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic attack and multi-domain networking capabilities. In a dynamic global security environment, the B-21 will provide the flexibility and deterrence critical to the security of the U.S. and our allies.</li>
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Unveiled today, the B-21 Raider will be a dual-capable, penetrating-strike stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. The B-21 will form the backbone of the future Air Force bomber force consisting of B-21s and B-52s.(U.S. Air Force photo) <a href="https://t.co/X6KSU7sy6U">pic.twitter.com/X6KSU7sy6U</a>
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“The B-21 Raider is the first strategic bomber in more than three decades,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin <a href="https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-and-the-us-air-force-introduce-the-b-21-raider-the-worlds-first-sixth-generation-aircraft?_gl=1*furu96*_ga*NjU3Njk5MTgzLjE2NzAxMDczNTY.*_ga_7YV3CDX0R2*MTY3MDEwNzM1NS4xLjEuMTY3MDEwNzU3NS4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during the ceremony. “It is a testament to America’s enduring advantages in ingenuity and innovation. And it’s proof of the Department’s long-term commitment to building advanced capabilities that will fortify America’s ability to deter aggression, today and into the future.”
The B-21 Raider was named in honor of the Doolittle Raid of World War II, which happened on April 18, 1942. The raid was led by Lt. Col. James “Jimmy” Doolittle, who volunteered to lead America&#8217;s first military response to Japan&#8217;s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Sixteen B-25 medium bombers took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet in a one-way bombing raid that targeted Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, and Nagoya, the U.S. Air Force <a href="https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107225/general-james-harold-doolittle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>. &#8220;As did the others who participated in the mission, Doolittle had to bail out, but fortunately landed in a rice paddy in China near Chu Chow. Some of the other flyers lost their lives on the mission.&#8221;
Doolittle received the Medal of Honor, America&#8217;s highest award for military valor, for his actions. Doolittle also received two Distinguished Service Medals, the Silver Star, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, four Air Medals, and decorations from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Poland, China, and Ecuador.
&#8220;For conspicuous leadership above and beyond the call of duty, involving personal valor and intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life,&#8221; President Roosevelt said in presenting Doolittle the Medal of Honor. &#8220;With the apparent certainty of being forced to land in enemy territory or to perish at sea, Lt. Col. Doolittle personally led a squadron of Army bombers, manned by volunteer crews, in a highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland.&#8221;

U.S. Military Unveils New Superweapon That Will Change The Battlefield In America’s Favor

U.S. Military Unveils New Superweapon That Will Change The Battlefield In America's Favor

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One of the final House races to be decided in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 cycle</a> went to the Republicans after a close contest in which the Democrat trailed by only a few hundred votes.
Republican John Duarte won California&#8217;s 13th Congressional District after his Democratic rival, Adam Gray, conceded on Friday.
&#8220;After weeks of incredibly hard work by our election workers, the result has become clear,&#8221; Gray said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamGrayCA/status/1598871913509421056" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> posted on Twitter. &#8220;While I had hoped for a different outcome, I accept the results and have called to congratulate my opponent, John Duarte.&#8221;
More than 130,000 ballots were cast, and the Democrat said that the outcome will be decided by &#8220;just a few hundred votes.&#8221;
With Duarte emerging victorious, House Republicans are projected to hold a narrow majority in the lower chamber with 222 seats compared to 213 seats controlled by the Democrats, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/john-duarte-house-election-california-republican/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.
One race — Rep. Lauren Boebert&#8217;s (R-CO) bid for reelection — is still up in the air as it was close enough to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-colorado-lauren-boebert-election-recounts-aspen-13aceebf899465494f94e0f83146f2a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trigger a recount</a>.
Democrats are poised to be temporarily down a member next term after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-representative-donald-mceachin-dies-at-61" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) died on Monday</a> at the age of 61 following a battle with cancer. State law dictates that the governor, who right now is Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), will be the one to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/29/mceachin-death-special-election-youngkin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call a special election</a>. McEachin&#8217;s district, which includes Richmond, is <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/12/01/richmond-congress-speculation-mceachin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected to stay with the Democrats</a>, as it is a heavily blue area.
Exactly how many seats Republicans and Democrats have could prove critical in the contest for House speaker due to the slim margin. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is positioned to snag the role, but he&#8217;ll need to garner at least 218 votes in January. A handful of Republicans have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-against-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced opposition</a> to McCarthy&#8217;s ascension to the speakership.
Duarte, a farmer and businessman, will represent a district in the Central Valley. His <a href="https://www.johnduarteforcongress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign website pledges</a> that he will &#8220;fight the high cost of living,&#8221; &#8220;protect our Valley water and farms,&#8221; and &#8220;fight for safer communities.&#8221;
Thanks to the 2020 census, California suffered a net loss of one seat in the House following the process of redistricting. Republicans will now hold 12 seats in California, up one from the current session, while Democrats will have 40 seats in the state, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/john-duarte-house-election-california-republican/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. The 13th district, as it stands now, is held by Barbara Lee (D-CA). She will represent the 12th district in the next term.

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Republican Snags California District After Nail-Biter In Lingering 2022 House Race

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Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced on Thursday that the county may again impose indoor-mask mandates.
Citing a rise in COVID infections, which have surged to 2,700 new COVID infections per day, up 180% since Nov. 1, Ferrer added that Virus-related hospital admissions are now up 200% in the same time period.
“There is this common line of thinking that the pandemic is over and COVID is no longer of concern, but these numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us,” Ferrer told a press conference.
“Given both the increases in hospitalizations and the lack of certainty in the winter trajectory for COVID-19, continuing some common-sense mitigation strategies that we know work to limit transmission and illness, including masking and being up to date on vaccines and boosters, remains a very sensible approach,” she added, according to <a href="https://abc7.com/covid-19-indoor-masking-la-county-mask-mandate/12516325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC7 Los Angeles</a>.
CDC guidelines say that LA County would reach the “high” level if 200 out of 100,000 residents are diagnosed each week. Ferrer estimated the county would reach that level by next week.
Ferrer said that if local hospitals show a daily average admission rate over 10 per 100,000 residents and more than 10% of staffed inpatient beds filled with COVID patients, she would issue the indoor mask mandate.
On Thursday, the first metric had already been reached, with 11.9 new admissions per 100,000 residents, but the second metric had not yet been reached, as only 5.6% of staffed inpatient beds were filled with COVID patients.
Some opposition to the imposition of an indoor mask mandate was voiced on social media, as as <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/la-county-set-to-reinstate-indoor-mask-mandate-as-covid-surges/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reported. Aome comments included, “They push false data and fearporn through their daily news,” “The only city that is chomping at the bit to bring masks back is Los Angeles,” and “They’ll have rolling mandates forever.”
Masks are still required in Los Angeles County indoors at health-care and congregate-care facilities, or of someone who was exposed to the virus in the previous 10 days.

A new public indoor mask mandate is expected by the end of this month.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> Mayor-elect Karen Bass said one of her daughters was injured Thursday morning in Los Angeles in a hit-and-run incident.
&#8220;While driving today, one of my daughters was the victim of a hit and run,&#8221; Bass said in a statement to NBC News.
According to <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/la-mayor-elect-karen-bass-daughter-injured-in-west-adams-hit-and-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media,</a> the crash involving two white SUVs occurred around 9:00 a.m. in the West Adams neighborhood, which is located about eight miles west of downtown Los Angeles.
NBC <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/daughter-of-la-mayor-elect-karen-bass-injured-hit-and-run-crash-la-west-adams/3046039/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that police said four men ran from the SUV following the crash. Photos from the scene showed airbags deployed from the vehicle.
An official with the Los Angeles Police Department told Fox 11 that the second vehicle left the scene shortly after the crash.
No arrests have been reported.
Bass said the crash did not &#8220;seriously hurt&#8221; her daughter, and she is back home after receiving hospital treatment.
&#8220;I am grateful for the first responders and health care professionals who ensured her well-being,&#8221; Bass said.
According to Bass, the Los Angeles Police Department has begun investigating the circumstances of this incident.
Bass, who beat real estate developer Rick Caruso in a highly contested race for Los Angeles mayor last month, lost a daughter, Emilia Bass-Lechuga, and a son-in-law, Michael Wright, in 2006 in a car crash.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-31-me-bass31-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Emilia and Michael Wright were married earlier that year after meeting at Loyola Marymount University, where Emilia was due to graduate in December.

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Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Karen Bass’ Daughter Victim Of Hit And Run

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> Department of Justice released a report from an outside investigation concerning the massive data breach of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/guns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun</a> owner information that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-gun-owners-data-breached-after-state-unveils-firearms-portal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took place in June</a>.
The independent investigation, carried out by a team of independent legal experts, as well as forensic cyber specialists, found that the leak of data was “unacceptable,” but also “unintentional,” according to a press <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-department-justice-releases-results-independent-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> from the Office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
It was caused by “a number of deficiencies within DOJ,&#8221; which included &#8220;lack of training, expertise, and professional rigor; insufficient documentation, policies, and procedures; and inadequate oversight.”
The investigation revealed that “some confidential personal data of roughly 192,000 individuals who applied for a concealed carry weapons (CCW) permit from approximately 2012-2021 was unintentionally disclosed due to the incident.”
The breach took place shortly after the Supreme Court <a href="https://ktla.com/news/report-california-gun-data-breach-was-unintentional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> that Americans have the right to publicly carry guns. The report ultimately <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article269423907.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> that actions taken by an analyst, a team, and DOJ supervisors led to the breach.
The dataset with private personal information “was downloaded approximately 2,734 times, in full or in part, across 507 unique IP addresses,” according to the <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/ca-doj-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, but the number of people who saw the information could be even higher. “The investigation could not accurately determine the number of public visitors who may have only viewed, but did not download, the underlying dataset,” it added.
The report also provided details about the information that was released. Attorney General Rob Bonta received a message on Twitter alerting him that the personal data was made public, &#8220;including addresses and dates of birth for CCW permit holders.&#8221;
The report also stated that &#8220;the CCW-related data included data for the years 2012 to 2021 and included the following fields: name, date of birth, street address associated with the permit, gender, race, county, CCW License Number, status of CCW applications, and California’s Criminal Identification and Information/State Identification number.&#8221;
Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, told The Daily Wire over email that the intentionality of the release doesn’t matter.
&#8220;It does not matter if the breach of personal gun owners data was intentional or not. It still amounts to a [grave] invasion of personal privacy. If a private entity allowed this violation to occur they would be held responsible for heavy monetary damages. The state of California should be held to the same standard,” Gottlieb said.
Sam Paredes, the executive director of Gun Owners of California, said the report was appalling and showed deep negligence on the part of Attorney General Rob Bonta.
“The report is scathing in reporting the lack of accountability and proper management practices and review procedures and documentation,” he said.
&#8220;We are calling on the Attorney General to fire the inept and negligent staff that allowed this to happen, including analysts and supervisors,” Paredes told The Daily Wire.
His group is also letting people know what legal action they can take.
“We are educating people whose identity has been released as to what their legal options are,” he said, adding that damages sought against the Attorney General because of the breach “could include paying for new or updated security systems of people&#8217;s homes and businesses, more robust personal identification security offers to those who have been affected, and emotional damages.”
The implications of the breach also involve cybersecurity and data concerns.
Dr. Aaron Brantly, associate professor at Virginia Tech, and director of Tech4Humanity Lab, has written and co-authored several books regarding cybersecurity.
Brantly told The Daily Wire over email that “[t]he accidental release of information on CCW permit applicants is another in a long line of data disclosures by both private and public entities.”
He said these types of releases are not unique to governmental bodies, but instead “highlight the continuing challenge of staffing and providing trained personnel to manage complex digital systems.”
“Any release of PII poses inherent potential security risks to individuals including but not limited to identify theft. Individuals whose data was disclosed will likely be offered security monitoring services. At present the types of data released have not been disclosed,” he wrote. “The security risks posed by the release are highly dependent on the types of data released. The unwanted disclosure of CCW permit application, approval, or denial might also potentially have adverse effects on individuals across a broad range of use/needs cases.”
“The State of California DOJ should be aware that this unintentional disclosure might have particularly adverse impacts on certain individuals,” he added.
When asked about the specific personal information that was revealed, and whether it impacts his response or cybersecurity concerns, Brantly said it does not, adding, &#8220;[a]ll of the same cybersecurity concerns remain.&#8221;
&#8220;The real question is how long was the data publicly accessible and how many times was it downloaded and by whom,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If it was downloaded is it now publicly available elsewhere, i.e. on the dark web?&#8221;
Andreas Grant, a network engineer and <a href="https://networkshardware.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founder</a> of Networks Hardware, told The Daily Wire that the key to solving the problem is training people better. 
“No matter how secure a cloud infrastructure is, one can never achieve hundred percent security. But having untrained people run things means leaving a door of vulnerability wide open. It’s just plain and simple ignorance from the officials running the website. They ‘thought’ they were posting anonymous data publicly which was clearly not the case,” Grant noted over email. “The worst and also the most important part here is the employees who were in charge. None of the employees there actually had the knowledge to implement proper security settings.”
“As a Network Security Engineer, I am always worried about how both government and small businesses are handling cybersecurity issues these days. They want people with very little IT knowledge to handle the security aspect which then leads to incidents like this one,” Grant said.
Jake Denton, a Tech Policy Center research associate at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire over email, “[t]he egregious deficiencies highlighted in this report reflect the broader challenges we are facing as a country in the domain of cybersecurity.”
“As of June, it has been reported that there are over 700 thousand unfilled cyber security positions across all sectors of the United States economy. As the threat of cyber-attacks against the United States continues to grow, our country is clearly underequipped and ill-prepared to defend our data,” he added. 
The implications for conservatives are especially concerning, Will Thibeau, a Tech Policy Center policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire.
“Mistakes and accidents seem to only happen to conservatives these days,” Thibeau said over email. “California’s gross violation of citizens’ expectation of data privacy must alert conservatives to the reality of information security.”

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Independent Report Reveals Negligence That Led To Massive California Gun Owner Information Breach

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Podcaster Joe Rogan slammed San Francisco&#8217;s &#8220;tremendously insane&#8221; decision to authorize robots to &#8220;kill people&#8221; and predicted the policy would have &#8220;terrifying implications.&#8221;
In a post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ClnfzGNupjF/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D">Instagram,</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">the host</a> of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; blasted the local politicians who voted 8-3 to allow the city&#8217;s police department robots to use &#8220;a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD.&#8221;
&#8220;This is such a f***ing tremendously insane decision with terrifying implications,&#8221; Rogan posted. &#8220;The fact that ANYONE thinks it&#8217;s ok to vote for robots gunning people down is f***ing nuts, but that a majority is just bonkers.&#8221;
Rogan&#8217;s comment is a reference to the policy that <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-could-approve-the-use-of-killer-robots-17618170.php">SFPD spokesperson</a> Robert Rueca said would authorize equipping robots with explosive charges to breach locations containing violent suspects or to incapacitate violent people &#8220;who pose a risk of loss of life to law enforcement.&#8221; He added that there are no plans to arm the city&#8217;s robots with guns.
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Rogan&#8217;s post included a headline from <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgypkj/san-francisco-police-can-now-kill-people-with-robots">Vice</a> that read, &#8220;San Francisco Police Can Now Kill People With Robots: The rule proposal passed 8-3 and civil rights groups worry a rubicon has been crossed.&#8221;
&#8220;There could be an extraordinary circumstance where, in a virtually unimaginable emergency, they might want to deploy lethal force to render, in some horrific situation, somebody from being able to cause further harm,&#8221; Supervisor Aaron Peskin told colleagues about why the policy was needed, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-could-approve-the-use-of-killer-robots-17618170.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported.
The podcaster&#8217;s comments come after he torched woke culture when the initial reports came out that the city was considering the new policy, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-torches-woke-culture-after-police-force-wants-permission-for-robots-to-use-deadly-force">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;What could go wrong using robots to kill people in a land where men can get pregnant and billions of dollars can be lost as amphetamine popping incels manage made up money,&#8221; Rogan captioned a November Instagram post. &#8220;WE&#8217;RE FIIIIINE.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-torches-woke-culture-after-police-force-wants-permission-for-robots-to-use-deadly-force">Joe Rogan Torches Woke Culture After Police Force Wants Permission For Robots To &#8216;Use Deadly Force&#8217;</a>

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‘Terrifying Implications’: Joe Rogan Blasts SF’s ‘Tremendously Insane Decision’ To Allow Robots To ‘Kill People’

Joe Rogan Blasts SF’s ‘Tremendously Insane Decision' To Allow Robots To ‘Kill People’

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A California city has approved a program to give residents $100 every two years to donate to local political campaigns.
The Oakland City Council passed the &#8220;Democracy Dollars&#8221; measure this week.
&#8220;We deserve a government that prioritizes the needs of Oakland residents, rather than wealthy special interests,&#8221; Fair Elections Oakland, a committee funded by the ACLU, said on its <a href="https://fairelectionsoakland.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. &#8220;We need to know that our local elected officials are fighting for us—that they’re working to create affordable housing, improve our schools, and keep the streets safe—instead of helping out their wealthy campaign funders.&#8221;
The decision follows a question on the city&#8217;s November 8 ballot called Measure W. The <a href="https://fairelectionsoakland.org/yes-on-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiative</a> asked voters whether to provide all eligible Oakland residents, including non-citizens with green cards, with four $25 Democracy Dollars vouchers every two years to donate to qualifying local candidates of their choice. It was approved with <a href="https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">almost 74%</a> support.
Proponents argue that the program empowers lower-income residents to become more involved with local government. Fair Elections Oakland <a href="https://fairelectionsoakland.org/yes-on-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> it &#8220;reduces candidates&#8217; reliance on wealthy special interests and donors.&#8221;
&#8220;With campaigns funded by everyday Oaklanders, our local leaders will be more likely to listen to our concerns and prioritize our values,&#8221; the ACLU-funded committee <a href="https://fairelectionsoakland.org/yes-on-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a>.
Opponents <a href="https://www.californiachoices.org/alameda-measure-w-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argue</a> that the plan is biased toward incumbents, lacks fraud controls, and fails to address political action committee spending. The state clearinghouse group estimated that the city &#8220;would incur approximately $700,000 in one-time start-up costs, approximately $1,600,000 in annual operating costs, and $3,845,000 in additional budget appropriation every two years.&#8221;
The program makes Oakland the second American city to provide such vouchers. In 2017, Seattle launched a similar program two years after voters approved a ballot measure.
A 2022 University of Washington <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272722000780?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> of the Seattle program found &#8220;a 53% increase in total contributions and a 350% increase in number of unique donors.&#8221; Most of the increases came from contributions of less than $200.
Providing financial support to non-citizen voters participating in local elections is an issue being discussed in the nation&#8217;s capital. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill last month to stop the Washington, D.C., city government from using federal funds to support non-citizen voting in local elections.
The D.C. Council passed the measure shortly ahead of Cruz&#8217;s announcement.

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California City Approves Program To Give Residents $100 To Donate To Political Campaigns

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Thousands of convicted pedophiles in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> served less than a year in prison after committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, according to an investigative <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
The Daily Mail analyzed a statewide database of sex offenders that showed more than 7,000 child molesters were released within months after federal authorities sentenced them to prison.
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told Daily Mail that the statistics &#8220;shocked&#8221; him, adding the reality is &#8220;frightening for society.&#8221;
&#8220;Statistics clearly show that pedophiles don&#8217;t get reformed,&#8221; Dordulian said. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to come out, and they&#8217;re going to commit again. Letting these people out early, we&#8217;re allowing for a lot more victimization — and that&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
California law requires sex offenders to register their address and update their location upon moving with the Department of Justice. Those names and other personal details are then placed in a public database under Megan&#8217;s Law, which the Clinton administration passed in 1996 after a pedophile murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to the report, 54,986 sex offenders were listed on the website in July 2019, of which 76% committed offenses involving children.
The average pedophile served two years and ten months in prison.
One of the examples outlined in the Daily Mail report said an offender in the database named Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, of Reseda, California, lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School after allegedly being convicted of &#8220;continuous sexual abuse of a child&#8221; in 2015.
Authorities charged Nahue in October 2014. He pled no contest to the crime in January 2015, which resulted in a judge sentencing him to only two days in an L.A. county jail and five years of probation.
According to the database, some pedophiles committed misdemeanors, such as indecent exposure or attempting to send lewd pictures to children, and convicts received less jail time. However, the most common offenses were &#8220;lewd or lascivious acts&#8221; against children under 14 years old, and 7,152 pedophiles who committed this crime served less than a year.
Dordulian said the statistics were &#8220;&#8216;surprisingly very low.&#8221;
&#8220;In my days [in the L.A. DA&#8217;s office], we made every effort to get as long of a prison sentence as we could because we knew that the minute they&#8217;re going to come out, they&#8217;re more likely to re-offend and another child&#8217;s gonna get harmed,” he told Daily Mail.
Dordulian said as a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s policies shorten prison sentences to reduce the population locked up.
&#8220;That has been the push for the last at least five years: letting people out of prison much earlier than what their sentences were for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But these types of individuals, they&#8217;re not amenable to rehabilitation, and studies have shown that. They&#8217;re gonna harm another child — It&#8217;s a very, very scary trend.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s attorney general told Daily Mail that &#8220;public safety is a top priority for the California Department of Justice,&#8221; adding that the issue generally falls on the responsibility of local district attorneys, courts, and state lawmakers.
&#8220;Our office actively works with law enforcement across the state to protect our state&#8217;s children and families, whether that&#8217;s through conducting sting operations targeting sexual predators, issuing guidance to reduce harm to sexually exploited youth, or launching Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office, said the situation was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; to Daily Mail, adding the problem is only getting worse under his boss George Gascón, who supported Proposition 57, which allows early parole for nonviolent felons.
&#8220;Thousands of child victims are being denied justice, and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,&#8221; Hatami said.
Hatami said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stopped notifying the child victims and their families of such early releases.
&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Furthermore, most of these sex offenders who are released early have not been rehabilitated whatsoever. This will clearly endanger our future generation of children and our entire community — it&#8217;s a disgrace that the state of California is not prioritizing the safety and well-being of our children.&#8221;

Thousands Of Pedophiles Serve Less Than One Year In California Prisons: Report

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I wish we could just cover happy topics all day long, but we have to talk about pedophilia and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-50-the-mysterious-deaths-of-crypto-billionaires-pedophiles-in-ca-are-being-released-in-droves-biden-s-drag-queen-nuclear-waste-guru-charged-with-theft-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what’s going on in California</a>.
The depressive state of things today beats me down. But it is so much more important to me that everybody is informed — especially if you&#8217;re like me and you&#8217;re a mother to two young children.
We talk about California all the time because it is practically a communist country that happens to be in the United States. As I have said to my listeners over and over again, if you live in California — move. 
I believe Governor Gavin Newsom is a dark character and hell-bent on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-allowing-criminals-to-hide-records-from-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroying the people of California</a>.
I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s worth the fight there anymore — especially if you have young children.
To add weight to that claim, a new report from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> has revealed that more than 7,000 convicted pedophiles in California have been released from prison less than a year after sentencing for committing horrific acts, horrific acts including rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of kids under 14.
So I don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re doing this. We&#8217;ve obviously been talking a lot about people who are put into positions of power and making sure the laws are really lenient against pedophiles, along with murderers and others who commit crimes.
It seems the Left is trying to fill the streets with criminals for reasons unknown.
I cannot understand why, other than that they want to see chaos in the streets. They want terrible things to happen in society.
Crime rates keep tracking up in these inner-city communities across the country — including California.
The Daily Mail article <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes on to say</a> that “others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes on the statute books served similarly short sentences, including 365 pedophiles convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child who spent less than 12 months in prison, 39 cases of sodomy with a child under 16, and three cases of kidnapping a child under 14 with intent to commit lewd acts, according to the data.”
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told The Daily Mail he was shocked by the statistics, describing them as “frightening” for society.
And I think that frightening is the perfect adjective to describe what&#8217;s going on.
It&#8217;s frightening to think that, for whatever reason, these people are being thrown onto the streets.
And I just do not understand why.
Please comment to discuss what would keep somebody living in a place like California or the inner cities.
If you have a family — if you have a young family — what would keep you tethered to the inner city communities?
I understand there are work opportunities, but I can&#8217;t imagine choosing work over the safety of my children, especially when there seems to be a government-sponsored incentive to put children at risk — whether it&#8217;s in the classroom or whether it&#8217;s on the streets.
We’ve discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blm-and-san-franciscos-new-transgender-guaranteed-income-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other insanities in California</a>, and you all know I just don’t perceive it as a free state whatsoever.
And unless there is something unbelievable tethering you in California, it&#8217;s time to pick up and move.

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Why Would Anybody Stay In California?

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drought" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack of water</a> availability for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/farming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agriculture</a> has created a crisis that could continue for years to come and lead to a food supply shortage across the United States. The lack of water not only impacts the communities and environment of California, but has national security and global market implications.
Bob Amarel grows prunes in Yuba City, California, and is also on the Farm Credit West board. Amarel is based in California so he noted that many of his perceptions come from what has happened there. He discussed the sheer quantity of food that is grown in the agricultural region of the state, and the problems that come with cutting water to those regions.
“First of all, you&#8217;ll see less food,” he said, and he wouldn’t be surprised if there were international suppliers providing food to Americans.
“You&#8217;re going to start seeing the shelves being filled with made in China, or grown in China, grown in Mexico, more so than you are today,” he said. “You&#8217;re going to end up getting crop produce, but it&#8217;s not going to be anywhere close to the quality and safety that we produce as U.S. producers.”
Ryan Jacobsen is the CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau and is the descendant of two farm families going back generations. He is also on the Fresno Irrigation District Board of Directors.
Jacobsen noted that farmers haven’t felt the inflationary rise in prices as much as some consumers, but looking to the future, he said people will experience a shortage of many materials from California, which could lead to price hikes on some of them.
David Guy, the executive director of the Northern California Water Association, said that Costco is concerned about where it will source its food since it tries to use local products.
“We&#8217;re hearing from them that they&#8217;re just really nervous about where their food is going to come from,” he said, adding that this includes fruits, nuts, and meat.
“2022 was devastating. It just was devastating. It was devastating for everybody,” he said, adding that 600 square miles of Sacramento Valley land was fallowed, or left unplanted, this year. “Just brown dry, nothing grown there.”
He said they need the regulatory environment to let water be used to grow products on the land. “If they don&#8217;t, we&#8217;re just going to all suffer again like we did this year. It was devastating this year in the Sacramento Valley, on the west side of the Sacramento Valley &#8230; we just didn&#8217;t grow anything hardly,” he said.
Relationships between growers and international markets are also at risk. Guy pointed out that when a grower doesn’t have items to provide, buyers will look to get their products elsewhere.
The potential food supply crisis is also a national security and food safety concern.
JB Hamby is on the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors and he made the point that “there is no more basic need that Americans need than food,” thus moving food supplies to international sources “puts us in a very vulnerable position.”
“We need to ensure that Americans are fed by food produced in America. And the more we continue to offshore and outsource our food supply puts us in an increasingly vulnerable and weak position if we want to maintain full reliability of food in our grocery stores,” he said.
Around two-thirds of the water that goes into California from the Colorado River is pushed towards agriculture, with the Imperial Irrigation District in Imperial County using a massive amount of it, CalMatters <a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/11/feds-demand-colorado-river-water-cutbacks/">reported</a>.
Hamby said many major farming areas that grow winter produce for the United States get almost all of their water from the Colorado River, but if Americans want to have full availability of products at the grocery stores, there needs to be irrigation to those crops, specifically during that season.
“What we&#8217;re facing right now is a significant situation on the Colorado River, where there&#8217;s more demands on the system than there is water flowing in the Colorado River,” he said.
He said Americans should start to look at where their broccoli or romaine lettuce comes from when they go to the grocery stores during the late fall and coming seasons.
&#8220;Most likely, over the next few months, almost all of that is going to be grown with Colorado River water. And so if we want to continue to have grocery store shelves that we can depend on to give us the food that we need, we need to ensure that we have water flowing to farms, particularly on the Colorado River,&#8221; he noted.
He said the short-term solution will be “some painful reductions across the board, across all sectors. … There&#8217;s going to need to be a collective effort and collective action on the part of all users across the Colorado River basin to reduce consumption.”
“However, in the long term, that&#8217;s not really a viable solution, and we need to look at some additional measures to encourage some augmentation or new supplies of water to chart our future over the next century,” he added.
Water storage is also a much-needed solution to the crisis.
Amarel said more water storage needs to be created like it was in the 1960s because the water storage plan was made decades ago when the population hadn’t even reached 15 million people.
“Since then, we have grown to 40 million with not a single storage site being built,” he said. “All of those folks need to eat, and they want quality, affordable food every day. How do you do that when the food production base continues to shrink?”
Jacobsen discussed the importance of storage, as well. He says that due to climate change, the Sierra Nevada snowpack could be impacted and is projected to get the same or nearly the same precipitation levels as it has in the past, but it will be more from rainfall than snowpack. The reservoirs in California were constructed to be used for snowpack, so he argued there is more infrastructure needed.
Amarel pointed out the many conservation efforts that have been made in the agriculture industry, namely the transition in his operation to water-saving irrigation. However, he pointed out, this practice still needs enough water storage to be effective.
“We&#8217;re saving on the top side and basically not putting money in the bank under the soil. The only way you can make that up is you got to make it up with surface water, which means you got to have adequate storage,&#8221; he said.
Farmers are inherently concerned about and careful with the environment. Guy said the drought not only impacted farmers, but entire communities, suppliers, as well as had a devastating effect on the environment.
“The garter snakes,” he explained, giving an example. “There’s 225 species that live in rice land, in a rice field that just have nowhere to live this year so it was really harsh on the environment and we were doing this all for the benefit of salmon and the salmon didn&#8217;t do well this year.”
He hopes policymakers will learn from the impacts of this year and not only implement strategies that help salmon, but that send water to the land to help the communities and living creatures that need it.
Guy also said wells are beginning to dry up, which normally means communities use groundwater. This year, however, a lot of communities don’t have groundwater access.
“These are disadvantaged communities that are getting hit not only with the economic impact from the lack of farming, but also because of lack of surface water and groundwater,&#8221; he said.
The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/17387-judge-clears-biden-delta-plan-to-replace-trumps-biological-opinions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> steps to get rid of the Trump administration’s biological opinions that impact protections for endangered fish. Jacobsen said the biological opinions&#8217; review was initiated during the Obama administration, and finished in the Trump administration, and were more data-driven.
Jacobsen said the current situation does not look for “win-win” solutions that help the environment and serve the municipal and agricultural users who depend on the water system, but he believes this is possible.
“I’m really, from my perspective, just looking for more leadership that can see that there needs to be a different path or a different way than what we&#8217;ve done the last decade, because our current system is just completely broken,” he pressed.

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‘2022 Was Devastating’: California’s Water Crisis And Its Impact On America’s Food Supply

‘2022 Was Devastating’: California's Water Crisis And Its Impact On America's Food Supply

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Virginia</a> state trooper was killed in a shootout with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> police after allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">murdering</a> the family of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teenagers">teenage</a> girl he had catfished online, according to police.
Austin Lee Edwards, 28, reportedly drove more than 2,500 miles from Virginia to Riverside, California, to meet the teenager on Friday, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/austin-lee-edwards-allegedly-kidnapped-teen-after-murdering-her-family/">reported</a>. Once there, Edwards allegedly killed the girl’s grandparents and mother, set fire to her home, and then kidnapped her.
Around 11:08 a.m., Riverside police officers were dispatched to check on the girl after she was seen “distressed” while getting into a vehicle with a man. While officers went to check on the girl, Riverside’s Public Safety Communications Center received calls about a home on fire near where the girl was seen, according to <a href="https://riversideca.gov/press/three-homicide-victims-found-after-house-fire?fbclid=IwAR0Roo399LFKX79BD0P6VrHHaZNldu7tAPDdaGKCiSAjOb2NXbOPWPX548g">a press release</a> from the Riverside Police Department.
The Riverside Fire Department went to the scene of the fire and entered the home, where they found three adult victims lying in the front entry. Their bodies were removed and determined to be the victims of an apparent homicide. The victims were identified as Mark Winek, 69; his wife Sharie, 65; and their daughter Brooke, 38.
Authorities quickly determined that the girl mentioned in the earlier call lived in the home where the fire was started.
Around 1:15 p.m. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies saw the vehicle described in the distress call. They followed the vehicle until a SWAT team could catch up, according to <a href="https://nixle.us/E4AC7?_ga=2.170990435.257325873.1669605016-2096478158.1669605016.%C2%A0">a press release</a> from the Sheriff’s office. When SWAT intercepted the vehicle – determined to be driven by Edwards – he fled, firing at the deputies, according to police. Edwards then lost control of the vehicle and drove off the road.
His teenage victim ran from the vehicle and was rescued by sheriff’s deputies. Edwards also exited the vehicle and pointed his gun at the sheriff’s helicopter that had been pursuing his vehicle, the press release says. Deputies then fired at Edwards, killing him at the scene.
“Our hearts go out to the Winek family and their loved ones during this time of tremendous grief, as this is a tragedy for all Riversiders,” Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said in a press release. “This is yet another horrific reminder of the predators existing online who prey on our children. If you’ve already had a conversation with your kids on how to be safe online and on social media, have it again. If not, start it now to better protect them.”
Detectives determined that Edwards met the teenager online, where he apparently catfished her by pretending to be someone he was not. Police believe Edwards developed an online relationship with the girl and obtained her personal information before driving to her home and allegedly murdering her family.
Police also learned that Edwards had worked for the Virginia State Police until recently when he was employed at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia.

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Former Virginia State Trooper Killed By California Cops After Murdering Family Of Teenage Girl He Catfished Online, Police Say

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