Are We involved? We want A Country That... RANSACK STORES VS DENIED REPARATIONS. CHINA MEANS BUSINESS?

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Matters are worsening in Iran. Are we involved?

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Explosion in Iran injures at least 50 - state media.

The injured were taken to hospitals and local authorities are investigating the incident.

An explosion in a paint factory in the Shahid Salimi Industrial Area in the Iranian city of Tabriz on Monday evening has resulted in at least 50 injured, and possibly more, according to Iranian state media outlet Tasnim. 

Tasnim cited Mohammad Baqer Hanbar, Director General of Crisis Management of East Azarbaijan Governorate, as explaining that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. 

The injured were taken to hospitals and local authorities are investigating the incident.

Red Crescent report

Hamid Manjam, CEO of East Azerbaijan Red Crescent, said: An explosion occurred at the paint factory of Atlas Foam Sahand in Azarshahr city.

He continued: "Immediately after the fire broke out...a judicial order was issued ...for the fire department to investigate the cause of the accident."

He stated, according to Tasnim, that three teams including 15 Red Crescent rescuers... along with two ambulances and a rescue vehicle were sent to the accident site. He added that 54 people were injured in this accident, 6 of whom were taken to medical centers by the Red Crescent. 18 were treated on an outpatient basis at the scene of the accident.

According to Tasnim, Shahid Salimi is the largest industrial area in northwestern Iran and is located in the province of East Azerbaijan. About 28,000 people work there.

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Richard,

This is what YOU and I are fighting for at Turning Point USA.

We want a country where our kids LOVE AMERICA again.

We want a country where our kids are taught about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

We want a country where our kids understand the beauty of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers.

We want a country where our kids know you judge someone by their character, not by the color of their skin.

We want to value wisdom, eternal principles, prudence, and common sense.

We want to protect and restore the things that give our lives deep meaning -- family, marriage, faith, hard work, patriotism, and community -- before the Left destroys them for good.

Richard, as someone in his late 20s, I can clearly see the difference between what America was and what it is -- within my own lifetime.

I am not even talking about our founding era or Eisenhower's America…

This is not the same America that existed as recently as 10 or 15 years ago when I was in high school!

This is the deliberate design of Left-wing radicals who are waging a war against traditional America on EVERY possible front.

There is no pendulum that will magically swing America back, and there is no historical cycle that is bound to repeat for us.

That's bad news, Richard, but there's GOOD NEWS, too.

America's future is up to YOU and ME -- and we are ALREADY WINNING the fight to save our country and WIN the American Culture War!

With everything on the line for America's future, I'm grateful that I can count on patriots like YOU to support me and Turning Point USA.

America is a country worth CELEBRATING and worth SAVING, and with YOUR continued support, we will do MORE THAN EVER to take back America from the Left in 2023.

For America,

Charlie Kirk

Founder & CEO, Turning Point USA

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ONE WAY TO GET DENIED REPARATIONS IS TO RANSACK STORES:
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Looters ransack snowbound Buffalo as cops are stuck elsewhere

BY Zach Williams

Deadly blizzard conditions in upstate New York gave cover to local looters over the weekend as they robbed businesses while police were stuck elsewhere.

“I don’t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown raged to reporters Monday.

“They are the ‘lowest of the low,” Brown said of the opportunistic crooks.

Some businesses had their windows smashed and merchandise damaged and stolen as snow and ice pummeled the region, local TV station WRGZ reported.

Buffalo cops made a “few” arrests, according to city Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, who added that investigations continue into other incidents after widespread reports of looting on social media.

A store aisle with merchandise on the floorReports of looting have circulated on social media during the winter weather disaster.WGRZ

The weather conditions limited the crime-fighting efforts of local law enforcement, with travelers’ stranded vehicles clogging roads and snow-related emergencies taking police away from their normal beats.

Gramaglia said Monday that was changing.

“We’ve been able to throughout the storm transition our patrol officers to get back [to] their patrol efforts while we have our search and rescue recovery teams that are going out and doing the very difficult work of recovering bodies,” he said.

Authorities say they have made a “few” arrests related to alleged looting.WGRZ

Brown said he was astounded by the looting.

“People who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible,” he said.

“They’re not looting foods and medicines, they’re just looting items that they want. So these aren’t even people in distress,” the mayor said. “These are people who are taking advantage of a national disaster and the suffering of many in our community to take what they want.”

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the self-ruled island, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Monday, after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions i n a U.S. annual defense spending bill.

China’s military harassment of Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.

Between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense.

Among the planes China sent towards Taiwan were 18 J-16 fighter jets, 11 J-1 fighters, 6 Su-30 fighters and drones.

Taiwan said it monitored the Chinese moves through its land-based missile systems, as well as on its own navy vessels.

“This is a firm response to the current U.S.-Taiwan escalation and provocation,” said Shi Yi, the spokesman for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command, in a statement on Sunday night. It announced that the PLA was holding joint combat patrols and joint strike drills in the waters around Taiwan.

Shi was referring to the U.S. defense spending bill, which calls China a strategic challenge. With regard to the Indo-Pacific region, the legislation authorizes increased security cooperation with Taiwan and requires expanded cooperation with India on emerging defense technologies, readiness and logistics.

In Washington, an official of the White House National Security Council said China’s military activity near Taiwan was “destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability.”

The official, who was not authorized to be identified and commented on condition of anonymity, said: “The United States has an abiding interest in peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. We will continue to assist Taiwan in maintaining a sufficient self-defense capability in line with our long-standing commitments and consistent with our one-China policy.”

China’s military has often used large military exercises as a demonstration of force in response to U.S. government actions in support of Taiwan.

It conducted large live-fire military exercises in August in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Beijing views visits from foreign governments to the island as de facto recognition of the island as independent and a challenge to China’s claim of sovereignty._

AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.

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