Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz kicked off the second day of their rural Georgia bus tour on Thursday, with a break in the action scheduled for 1:45pm, when the duo are “set to tape their big joint sit-down with CNN’s Dana Bash” in Savannah, Georgia.

The CIA has announced that the Muslim suspects that were arrested for planning a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, had planned to kill "a huge number" of people.

ABC News rejected Kamala’s request to unmute the mics during the debate with Donald Trump, scheduled for September 10th. She probably wants to filibuster. A network email reviewed by The Post lays out similar rules as those for Trump’s June 27 CNN debate against President Biden — including no audience, no pre-written notes or props, and […] The post Kamala Harris Still Wants the Mics Unmuted appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A woman was dead at her desk for four days before anyone noticed. They did notice a foul odor. One employee explained many workers don’t come in every day. The sixty-year-old woman clocked in at 7 am and remained at her desk in a cubicle for four days – deceased. Doesn’t anyone say hello or […] The post Employee Was Dead at Her Desk for 4 Days appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

When I was 22-years-old, I packed up my life in Poland and moved to the United States to pursue my dreams by attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I didn’t know exactly what my future would hold, but I knew music would be a big part of it.  Little did I know that my future would also include a sweet baby boy and an encounter with a pregnancy resource center that would change my life for the better. I found out I was expecting a baby during my last semester at Berklee. Even though we decided to start a family, the father of the child was sometimes silent and would become distant. Then, he would come back into the picture again. I started to experience many serious issues in my relationship with the father of my baby, so I ended up in need of support from family and friends.  Finally, I decided we shouldn’t be together, but I didn’t realize the consequences of refusing to be with my baby’s father would be so huge and would have so much impact on my financial situation. Thankfully, when I was seven months pregnant, a friend connected me with Boston Center for Pregnancy Choices (BCPC), a pregnancy resource center that provides free resources and support for pregnant women in need. At the time, I was living in Woburn, MA, with an electric scooter as my only form of transportation. My job helped make ends meet, but I couldn’t afford a car. In order to get to the center, I had to take a train, a bus, and then the subway. While it was a long journey, I was determined to find support for my baby and me. I was exhausted when I finally walked through the center doors, but the warmth from the BCPC staff energized me and made me hopeful for the months ahead. BCPC explained the three options available to pregnant women. Despite always having my mind made up to raise my child with or without the father, it was helpful to understand all the options and resources that were available. Unbeknownst to me, while I was visiting the center, a local pastor decided to donate a car to BCPC and was looking for a deserving candidate. Both the center and the pastor agreed that I would be the perfect recipient. For me, receiving that car was life changing. It allowed me to go where I wanted and do what I needed in order to better provide for myself and my child. For the first time, I did not have to depend on anyone else for reliable transportation. While it may have just been a car to others, it was a whole new world of freedom and endless possibilities for me. A few months later, I gave birth to my beautiful son Nathaniel and continued to receive support from BCPC. The staff regularly visited us and provided everything that a new mother would need. I received a new rocking chair, diapers, wipes, clothes and various other baby supplies at no cost. The donated car continued to help with my transition to motherhood by allowing me to drive Nathaniel to doctor appointments and daycare. The women at the center did not owe me anything, but out of the kindness of their hearts, they gave my child and me unconditional love and support. No matter what challenges I experienced, BCPC was there for Nathaniel and me. BCPC’s support gave me the confidence, knowledge, and freedom to make my own decisions for both me and my child. Nathaniel is now almost a year old, and we have since moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream of being a songwriter — something that never would have happened without my own car and the generosity of BCPC. My life is currently full of music, just as I had planned. But it now has the added bonus of also including a beautiful baby boy and a group of supportive women at BCPC who are like family to me. I am grateful that centers like BCPC exist, and I believe that our government officials should put more effort into making society aware of the existence of these centers and how much they can help people like me and other mothers. * * * Valentina Gozzini now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she’s pursuing a career in songwriting. The view expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

NBC News’ chief political analyst Chuck Todd warned that Vice President Kamala Harris was making her “first big mistake” in failing to make herself more available to the media, thereby “raising the stakes” and the level of scrutiny that will necessarily be applied to every appearance she makes. “Let me start with the first big mistake of the Harris campaign since she took over as the Democratic nominee. They have now raised the stakes for her first sitdown interview,” Todd wrote, arguing that people would be paying much closer attention to every little comment and inflection simply because she had made such a point of not taking media questions. “More words and phrases will get scrutinized simply because the campaign and the candidate are behaving as if doing these interviews is about as interesting to them as visiting the dentist’s office,” he added. Todd went on to explain that Trump had done exactly the opposite — taking questions even from outlets and reporters he knew were not going to treat him fairly — because he lived by the adage “all publicity is good publicity.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “I know many Democrats have an allergy to all things Trump, but the one thing I thought more candidates would learn from his initial campaign in 2016 is that he viewed all media as good for him, whether he thought the interviewer was a friendly, a neutral or an opponent,” Todd explained. “When he said something outrageous or controversial during one sit-down, he’d do something entirely newsy (and just as notable) in another that would essentially dilute the impact of all of his interviews.” Thus far in the 2024 campaign, Trump and running mate JD Vance appear to be adopting the same strategy. Vance, for example, has done a number of solo interviews since Trump selected him to be the Republican vice presidential nominee. Harris has yet to do her first — a pre-taped, joint interview alongside running mate Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) hosted by friendly CNN anchor Dana Bash.

One of the most basic assumptions about climate change that you’re told to accept is that, if you give the government enough power and make enough personal sacrifices, you can help change the weather. You can make natural disasters less likely. You can save beaches and endangered species and even entire countries. All you need to do is pay more in taxes to fund more government bureaucracy, and give up your car and your gas stove and airline travel and maybe your entire livelihood. And then everything will be fine. There’s no other country on Earth that’s internalized this way of thinking more than our neighbor to the north, Canada. They’ve declared a “national climate emergency.” They have a constantly-increasing national tax on carbon, which raises the cost of living for pretty much every household in the country. They’ve banned plastic straws. They’ve shut down oil and gas permits off their Pacific coast. If you’re an insomniac and you pull up a video of a debate in the Canadian parliament to help you sleep, there’s a good chance they’ll be debating climate change in some way or another. So how’s all that working out for Canada? What exactly have all of these taxes and regulations accomplished, aside from hamstringing Canada’s economy for the past decade? Surely we can assume that, at the very least, Canada’s carbon emissions are much lower as a result of all of this government bureaucracy. After all, Canada’s not even a top-20 country by population. Their GDP barely ranks in the top-10. It shouldn’t be hard for them to rank relatively low on the list of global carbon emitters, especially since they’ve been trying so hard and punishing their citizens so much. As it turns out, however, Canada is currently one of the biggest carbon emitters on the planet. They’re setting new records in the wrong direction. They’re adding more of that dreaded carbon into the atmosphere than countries three times their size. And it’s all because of a series of wildfires last year that the Canadian government clearly could not control. Watch:   All told, the 2023 wildfires contributed more than four times as much carbon into the atmosphere as everything else that Canada did last year, put together. So the plastic straw bans and the taxes and industry-crushing regulations were completely undone, four times over, by these wildfires. If you check in with the experts, of course they’ll tell you that the wildfires were only so severe because of climate change. Supposedly the one-degree rise in reported global average temperature from 2022 to 2023 could be the reason the wildfires burned more of Canada than any other wildfire season in recorded history. Therefore, we need to redouble our efforts to ban fossil fuels and so on. That’s the line they’re going with. As MIT Technology Review put it: Fires are part of natural, healthy ecosystems, and burns on their own don’t necessarily represent a disaster for climate change. After a typical fire season, a forest begins to regrow, capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it does so. This continues a cycle in which carbon moves around the planet. … While climate change doesn’t directly spark any one fire, researchers have traced hot, dry conditions that worsen fires to the effects of human-caused climate change. The extreme fire conditions in eastern Canada were over twice as likely because of climate change. The MIT Technology Review concludes with this: It was already clear that we need to stop emissions from power plants, vehicles, and a huge range of other clearly human activities to address climate change. Last year’s wildfires should increase the urgency of that action. What’s striking about explanations like these is that they conveniently absolve the government of all responsibility for managing the forests, which is the single most direct way to prevent wildfires from spreading out of control like they did last year. And even the Canadian government admits that. I went on the website of Canada’s National Resources Department and found that, in addition to blaming fossil fuels, they acknowledged that they could do more to prevent wildfires from spreading: As wildfire risks will continue to intensify as the climate warms, Canada needs to … adapt fire management and mitigation strategies. There are different ways to manage wildfire risk, including controlled burns, revised forestry guidelines, and procedures to manage fuel around communities and infrastructure. It’s a balance of these techniques that can help deal with future challenges. One scientist with the Canadian Forest Services put it this way: A changing climate means a proactive approach must be taken. Studies like this can offer important lessons to be better prepared for the next time a devastating event like this occurs. They don’t mention that preventing arson is another way to stop these fires, even though that’s true as well. While the majority of these fires were apparently caused by lightning or some other natural event, there was at least one guy who pleaded guilty to arson for setting more than a dozen separate fires in Canada last year. But even if you set that aside, there’s a glaringly obvious solution here, which Canada’s government acknowledges. And that solution is for the Canadian government to do a better job preventing and containing wildfires by improving their first management capabilities. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show That brings me to the broader lesson from this disaster in Canada, which is that the government, in general, should focus on doing basic things competently. They shouldn’t set out to save the planet with complicated carbon cap schemes and climate emergencies, which is what Canada is doing. Preventing and containing forest fires is a very tangible and straightforward responsibility for the government. When you get the basics right, then very often you don’t need the more convoluted schemes at all. Not that a convoluted scheme to control the weather makes any sense in the first place, because we actually have very little control over our environment. We don’t have the capacity to “fight climate change” in the way they’re suggesting. All of the climate change activism in the world can’t change the fact that forests go up in flames all over the world every year, as the MIT Technology Review admitted. And volcanoes erupt, too — like the one I talked about last year that drove temperature changes all over the world. Remember that? The eruption sent 40 trillion gallons of seawater into the stratosphere. Researchers called it an “unprecedented water vapor injection” that trapped a lot of heat — and that may have contributed significantly to global warming. No one was responsible for that eruption. It was a natural event. And sometimes those happen, and we have to accept that they happen. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. But there are no indications that the Canadian government is going to accept that they can’t control the weather, or that they’re seriously going to revise their forest management or take any responsibility whatsoever. Instead, predictably, they’re turning the wildfires into yet another opportunity to harp on racial grievances and divide their country even more. True North reports this week: The Public Health Agency of Canada wants to review the way wildfire evacuations are conducted because they supposedly disproportionately impact minorities. Part of this impact is that evacuating people from First Nations communities traumatizes Indigenous people due to ‘colonialism’ and the history of residential schools. A rapid review released by the agency in July included an ‘intersectional analysis’ arguing that wildfires disproportionally impacted First Nations groups, minorities, women and non-binary people. Yes, they’ve turned their worst wildfire season on record into an opportunity to complain once again about “non-binary people.” In the face of an actual, concrete problem — forests burning down and people dying — the Canadian government is worried about a small and highly narcissistic subset of its population with an imagined identity. Here’s a couple of lines from the Canadian government’s report to give you some idea how unhinged the country has become: The impact of wildfires on Indigenous Peoples is influenced by colonialism and has forced many Indigenous Peoples to live in isolation or in communities that are isolated from the rest of society. … The evacuation measures conducted in Indigenous communities served as traumatic reminders of being taken away to residential schools and/or the Sixties Scoop as some were forced onto buses and separated from family. Not that you needed it, but this report is your admission from the Canadian government that they don’t actually care about climate change or preventing wildfires. Their only concern is to preserve and expand their power at every available opportunity. And they’ve determined that dividing people with crude racial guilt is the best way to do that. That’s why Canada — for all its promises to save the world from carbon emissions — is now one of the single biggest carbon emitters on the planet. It’s a perfect illustration for why no one, anywhere in the world, should ever trust politicians who say they can control the weather, if only you give them a little more power and influence. They’ll happily take the power and influence; that’s a guarantee. And then, as your country is burning down around you, they won’t do anything about it. Instead, they’ll call you a racist. They’ll demand even more power to fight “climate change.” And then, before you know it, you’ll wake up one day and you’re living in a country a lot like Canada. And by that point, it’ll be too late to do anything about it. Unless you’re an indigenous nonbinary shaman, no one will care what you think. If Canada serves any purpose whatsoever, it’s to provide cautionary tales like this. We can either pay attention and accept that there are some things we can’t control. Or we can choose to make the problems we do have much, much worse. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI