Saturday, June 04, 2022

ANDY BIGGS SELF-GENERATED NEWS BLITZ: His Week in Review Newsletter...Who, What, When, Where, How

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The Week in Review

Washington, DC
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Mesa, AZ 85209
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Happy Friday,

I spent my week in the district as the House was not in session. It was still a busy week, so I hope you’ll read below to learn about the important happenings:

House Judiciary Committee Markup on Gun Control Bills

This week, the House Judiciary Committee marked up legislation to infringe our Second Amendment rights. The bill was a combination of several stand-alone bills. The bill imposes restrictions on our Second Amendment rights—including raising the age for purchasing semi-automatic rifles, restricting the size of magazines that Americans can own, and micromanaging how Americans store guns. I 100% voted against this bill.
The markup comes after the horrific shooting in Uvalde, Texas. While the shooting in Texas was a deliberate attack of malice and hatred, the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats are attempting to exploit this situation to push unnecessary and ineffective restrictions on our Second Amendment rights. During the markup Democrats repeatedly stated their true goal. They do not want you to be able to defend yourself with a firearm and they are willing to do anything to limit your ability to own a gun. One Democrat went so far as to announce that he was willing to pack the Supreme Court to get his way.
The public is not safer because of gun control laws. In fact, they are more at risk. American cities with the strictest gun laws (i.e. New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore) remain the most dangerous cities. Click the image below to hear some of my thoughts on these bills.

Introducing the WHO Withdrawal Act

The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the most corrupt and ineffective international institutions. The organization has been compromised by China and it sabotaged COVID investigations in Wuhan.
Despite the WHO’s failure to objectively provide health guidance to the world, President Biden now seeks to give the WHO more authority to define what a pandemic is, how long a pandemic lasts, and encroach upon the sovereignty of nations like ours. It’s unacceptable.
I introduced the WHO Withdrawal Act today. This legislation requires the President to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), repeals the law that originally authorized the United States to join the WHO, and prevents taxpayer money from being spent to participate in the WHO.
The bill may be read here.
I have also cosponsored H.R.419, the No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act, and H.R. 7916, the Protecting American Sovereignty Act.

Letters and Legislation

Bills cosponsored:

H.R. 7914 - To prohibit the use of Federal funds to carry out Executive Order 14074. (Higgins, R-La.)

H.R. 7916 - To prohibit the use of funds to implement any obligations of the United States under the World Health Organization's Global Pandemic Treaty. (Jackson, R-Texas)

Inaugural Live Video Tele Town Hall

This week, I held my inaugural live video tele town hall. Arizonans asked me live questions about the southern border, the shooting in Uvalde, the state of our economy, Arizona’s water supply, and much more. Click the screenshot below to watch a recap of the town hall.

Biden Inflation Hearing at the Heritage Foundation

On Tuesday, June 21, I will hold an “off-site” hearing at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. The title of the hearing is: Addressing Bidenflation and Biden’s Energy Crisis.
The event will feature about 20 members of Congress and include four expert witnesses.
The event will be live streamed on my Twitter (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) and Facebook (Congressman Andy Biggs) pages.
I will provide more updates about this hearing on my social media pages and upcoming newsletters.

Top Media Appearances of the Week

This week, I joined Newsmax to discuss the ongoing invasion occurring at our southern border. In many cases, we don't know the criminal history of these folks. We won't be able to vet them because we don't have the resources or time under the Biden regime. Yet, Biden is releasing them directly into our communities at a rate of roughly 8,000 per day. Click below to watch some of the segment.

I joined Real America's Voice to elaborate more on the House Judiciary Committee's markup on a number of egregious and ineffective gun control bills. Click below to watch the full segment.

I joined Wakeup! Tucson to discuss the Biden Administration’s failure to address the nation’s baby formula shortage. Click here to hear the full segment.
I wrote two columns that were picked by Newsmax and the Washington Times. I hope you enjoy these pieces.

Newsmax: Increasing Spending, Size of Govt Won't End Formula Crisis

Washington Times: Pelosi and The Biden Team Have Reached Marie Antoinette Levels

Top Tweets of the Week

Definition of the Week

The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the most corrupt and ineffective international institutions, and now President Biden seeks to give the WHO more authority to define what a pandemic is, how long a pandemic lasts, and encroach upon the sovereignty of nation’s like ours.
The WHO has been a disaster for America, to say the least.
Courtesy of Michael Knowles’ Speechless, here’s what we think is the latest definition:
The World Health Organization (NOUN): A global institution that does little to effectively protect American interests and public health.

AXON TASER-ARMED DRONES FOR EVERY-DAY POLICING...The Start of More Mission Creep

Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime.

For example, cell site simulators (often called “Stingrays”) were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting “terrorism,” then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food.

Likewise, police have targeted BLM protesters with face surveillance and Amazon Ring doorbell cameras.

Axon Must Not Arm Drones with Tasers

By Matthew Guariglia

Electronic Frontier Foundation | June 2, 2022

"Taser and surveillance vendor Axon has proposed what it claims to be the solution to the epidemic of school shootings in the United States: a remote-controlled flying drone armed with a taser. For many many reasons, this is a dangerous idea. Armed drones would mission-creep their way into more every-day policing. We must oppose a process of normalizing the arming of drones and robots.

EFF has stated strongly before that drones and robots, whether they be autonomous or remote-controlled, should not be armed–either with lethal or “less-lethal” weapons. And we’re far from the only group to do so.

Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them—absolutely none—should be armed with any kind of weapon. . .

We cannot state this strongly enough: if police get their hands on taser drones, they will not sit in a warehouse until the next emergency mass shooting situation. History has proven this. We will see them flying over protests and shopping districts. We will hear news stories about police using a drone to taser someone for vandalism, petty theft, or fleeing the drone. It will not be a matter of if, but when.

Police will be more likely to use this kind of force if the entire process feels like a video game—if they can send tens of thousands of volts through a person’s body with the push of a button far removed from that person. And the person at risk of being tased might not hear the drone’s commands or may be confused by the presence of a floating robot.
Police use of tasers have killed over 500 people since 2010, according to a study on the lethality of the technology done by USA Today in 2021.
The Axon Ethics Board has voted firmly against Axon moving forward with this project.

Armed drones are just one part of a multi-part strategy from Axon for selling products that they claim might curb mass incidents of gun violence.

> Axon has also announced a partnership with Fusus, a company that specializes in consolidating private security camera feeds and giving police live access. EFF raised concerns in 2020 when police in Jackson, Mississippi, announced a pilot program with Fusus to get live access to video streams from private cameras, ranging from commercial security cameras to resident’s private Ring doorbell cameras.
This would create, with the permission of the camera owners but not the people who walk by them every day, a massive surveillance network. Like drones, it will ultimately be used by police much more often than in rare critical emergency situations.
We’ve seen this before. Time and time again, police conjure the extreme worst-case-scenario threat in order to deploy extraordinary powers, which end up being used in everyday acts of policing which disproportionately affect the lives of people of color, immigrants, and other vulnerable members of society. Before these tools are deployed, we demand that armed police drones never see the light of day.

Axon has announced a Reddit AMA here on Friday, June 3, 2022, to ask questions about these new products. Ask questions about your concerns.

You can ask questions like: How do you feel about making a dangerous technology that will likely be used in other less dire scenarios than their preferred use case? Why has your ethics advisory board condemned the project? Will that stop you?

Disclosure: EFF's Surveillance Litigation Director Jennifer Lynch serves on the Axon AI Ethics Board in her personal capacity.

City eyes $157M Unsustainable "Public Safety" Debt-Bond Gimmick in These Times of A Looming Recession

HOW TO SPIN THIS HEIST: Hizzoner John Giles signaled strong support for the measure during the study session, saying that he thought the existing facilities were “overutilized,” and more space for public safety was justified.

“With the growth of our community, I think any reasonable voter that looks into this thing is going to support it,” Giles said, “but I think it’s incumbent on all of us to realize this is a campaign.”

“We are going to the voters and saying, ‘would you please give us $43 or more a year of your money?’ which is a serious ask,” Giles continued. “So yes, we need to put this on the ballot, but more importantly, we need to work with labor groups and anyone else to campaign out there to help people understand why it is important to vote for it.”

top story

City eyes $157M public safety bond proposal

By Scott Shumaker, Tribune Staff Writer May 31, 2022

". . .The package is about twice as large as the public safety bonds approved by voters in 2018, the last time Mesa voters signed off on bonds for police, fire and medical.

The last time voters approved bonds for public safety, in 2018, they signed off on $84.8 million for police and fire out of a total $196 million package including parks, cultural amenities and shared use paths.

Cities in Arizona can raise funds for projects by selling bonds to investors, which are paid back with interest over a period of up to 30 years. Voters must approve the amounts of the bonds.

City Manager Chris Brady told Council earlier this month that staff estimates the new financing would cost taxpayers about $43 a year in additional secondary property taxes. . .

At a January planning and zoning hearing for a new housing development at Val Vista Drive and Thomas Road, which is in the service area of the proposed Lindsay and McDowell station, many residents said a fire station was sorely needed in the area, especially as the number of residents has grown in recent years.

While the bonds would deliver a new station in the area, residents will have to wait several years: City Engineer Beth Huning told council the new fire stations would be complete four to six years after the November vote if the bond funds are approved. . .

The largest project in the bond package is a renovation of the police headquarters building, built originally in 1974, then expanded in 1988 and 1997, Huning said.

Bond

The bond package includes a $43.4 million overhaul of the police headquarters at 130 N. Robson and adding $10 million to the $10 million already approved in a 2018 bond package for a consolidated evidence facility next door.

It also includes another $41.9 million for improving the 57,500-square-foot public safety training facility on North 40th Street by adding classrooms, parking and other site improvements.

. . .“As we’re growing and adding police and firemen, classes that we bring in continue to get bigger and bigger and bigger,” Brady said of the training facility. “So we need both classroom space and we just need parking, logistics.”

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What is SPIN FISHING? What does SPIN FISHING mean? SPIN FISHING meaning,...

Hmmm. mebbe reading
too much into this applying this definition to influencing public opinion and public relations campaigns and what's called news, 'spinning the story' ... basically it's BAIT.
This is a brief streaming vid if you are interested in all the applications and ramifications in a much broader context.

Spin fishing is an angling technique where a spinning lure is used to entice the fish to bite. Spin fishing is used in both freshwater and marine environments. Spin fishing is distinguished between fly fishing and bait cast fishing by the type of rod and reel used. There are two types of reels used when spin fishing, the open faced reel and the closed faced reel. The spin fishing rod has no trigger attached to the base of the fishing rod. This is what differentiates the spin fishing rod from the bait casting fishing rod.
When fishing in a river the line should be cast upstream. Casting upstream and retrieving with the current results in the spinner/lure sinking faster.
Bottom bouncing is a spin fishing technique where the spinner is cast up river from the shore, and then allowed to bounce on the river bottom until it has moved downstream. The rod tip is held higher in the air than normal and the speed of retrieval is faster. This method is commonly used when float fishing from an inflatable dingy. The spinner is cast directly behind the boat until it settles on the bottom. After the spinner has settled it bounces on the bottom, naturally attracting fish of all species. This technique is commonly used for trout in large wide rivers where an inflatable boat can be used. All types of trout are caught with this method including brown trout, rainbow trout, bull trout, brook trout and cut throat trout.
The key to Walking The Dog is making sure that there's some "line-slack" immediately before each jerk, and immediately after each jerk. This gives a crisp, natural motion to the lure, unfettered by drag of any kind.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY: Nip Pasties + Butt Cracks

If you think that headline is click-bait, it might be . . there's a lot of space between two articles

Breast in show! How nipple pasties went from underwear to outerwear

The self-adhesive covers are normally used in lieu of a bra, but celebrities from Cara Delevingne to Doja Cat are proudly flaunting them on the red carpet

Cara Delevingne and Doja Cat

Ellie Violet Bramley

the Guardian

It has been 21 years since Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones uttered the words “nipples are huge right now” – yet here we are again. This time, though, nipples are so huge as to be worthy of adornment. “Pasties” – self-adhesive nipple covers usually worn under clothes in lieu of a bra – are being worn proudly, in metallics rather than muted tones, as part of an outfit rather than behind-the-scenes staging.

They have, in fashion circles, gone the way of lingerie: underwear as outerwear, the externalisation of something that was once meant to be concealed. Pasties are no longer sharing space with hidden necessities, such as boob tape or bunion insoles; instead, they are the stars of the show.

At fashion’s biggest annual do, the Met Gala, the model and actor Cara Delevingne wore a smooth gold pair on the red carpet, while the model Bella Hadid wore a pretty scalloped-edged beaded pair to an afterparty. The pop star Doja Cat wore a pointed golden pair with her Schiaparelli gown to the Billboard Music awards.

Elsewhere, they have trickled down to the cultural barometer that is reality TV, featuring under a see-through bodystocking worn by Made in Chelsea’s Maeva D’Ascanio. They are peeking through on the high street, too, clearly visible on Asos models sporting sheer tops.

“The fashion for pasties on the red carpet is not entirely unprecedented,” says Sarah Thornton, the author of Uplifting Sagas: The Top Half of Women’s Liberation. “The pasty arose with burlesque as a commercial form of bare-breasted entertainment. There was no widespread need for them before that. Also, the availability of easy, cheap, gentle adhesives was a necessary precursor – hence their name, which derives from the word ‘paste’.“The burlesque cliche is that they are ‘boob jewellery’. They draw attention to nipples as much as they mask them. . ."

Chris Hemsworth Gets Butt Naked As He Shows Off God Bod In Steamy ‘Thor’ Trailer

A single "flick" from Russell Crowe as Zeus leads to an unforgettable moment.

Ed Mazza

Overnight Editor, HuffPost

While last month’s teaser featured Thor’s ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) wielding the mighty hammer Mjolnir, this one gives fans a look at Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher as well as Russell Crowe as Zeus.

A single flick from Zeus leads to one heavily blurred butt.

“You flicked too hard, dammit!” Thor cries as he stands in all his glory:

“Thor: Love And Thunder,” the fourth Thor-centered movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hits theaters on July 8.

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