The largest foreign flotilla to approach American shores patrolled the coast of Alaska last week. Nearly a dozen Russian and Chinese warships came dangerously close to the Aleutian Islands. The warships were shadowed by four U.S. naval destroyers and a P-8 Poseidon aircraft.
A spokesman for the US Northern Command confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that Russia and China carried out a combined naval patrol near Alaska. Russia’s Defense Ministry in Moscow said the Russian and Chinese vessels had carried out drills that involved communication training, and helicopter landings and takeoffs from the decks of each other’s ships. They also conducted a joint anti-submarine exercise in the Bering Sea where a mock target was destroyed.
Radical leftist, Anchorage Assembly member Meg Zaletel, who personally makes $hundreds of thousands off the homeless problem, openly shows her distain for conservative Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, after responding to his opening remarks in the Assembly meeting, 8/8/23.
“A hospital employee whom Dr. Marty Makary confronted on behalf of a patient who received an exorbitant hospital bill provides the answer: ‘The law allows us to charge whatever we want. If we want to charge $1 million, she has to pay it.'”
“Medicare and Medicade pay less than cost, the uninsured pay little or nothing, and others must make up the difference.”
“Here in Anchorage, we have the good sisters of Providence, the Catholic charities of Providence Hospital, a national chain. I’m picking on them because they are a greedy, selfish organization that I resent on such deep levels for what they’ve done in my state.” … They’re taking up to $100 million a year in profits out of Alaska per year, and in Alaska, we have the highest medical insurance cost in the world. … This non-profit hospital and its chain, when Covid began had over $100 billion in their cash reserves. … Then they took $573 million of yours and my tax money to add to that reserve during Covid. … Is that right? They’re a non-profit 501(c)(3) doing charitable work, but they don’t pay a penny in taxes. … This is a corrupt operation.”
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“Don’t trust any nonprofit that has $10 billion in the bank that’s taking your money without telling you.” – Jay McDonald
• Providence Hospital’s lies during Covid
• They block competition
• Funny business with Providence and the MLP merger
Spokespeople with GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, said the service will end sometime in mid-2024. At that point, customers will no longer be able to access or use their gci.net account, according to a draft fact page posted online. …
GCI has provided the email service since the mid-1990s, she said. About 40,000 accounts use the domain. …
Handyside said … GCI will likely implement a fee later this year for customers who continue to use the email service. She said the fee will be $4.99 monthly. Customers who pay it will still see the email service end in mid-2024.
GCI, launched in Alaska in 1979, has undergone major changes in recent years. It was sold to Liberty Broadband of Colorado in 2017, upsetting some customers who wanted the ownership to remain local. Among other developments, it has outsourced its call center to the Philippines, affecting dozens of Alaska jobs, and ended its cable TV platform in favor of an internet streaming service.
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson interviewed by ADN’s extreme woke leftist, hit-piece writer Emily Goodykoontz, who is off camera and unmiked, of course. Dave does well!
“He also described Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel as a fantastic person, who he agrees with on the need for zoning changes. Zaletel has a building and she wants to add units onto it so she can rent them out, he said.
[I’ve waited until today to post this, because I had hoped Kevin would do well, despite the warning signs.]
I realized something was seriously wrong with “conservative” Assemblyman Kevin Cross when he publicly praised radical left, married-to-her-wife Austin Quinn Davidson as “one of the most amazing, fantastic human beings I’ve ever met,” and how he considers her family. Then he commended her for “standing up” against the will of the people during Covid, locking us down and force masking us twice, which did more harm than good.
High enough vitamin D levels were the key to Covid, which I testified before the Assembly eight times, peer reviewed studies proven! The Assembly never mentioned vitamin D once; they just pushed lockdowns, vaxxes and masks, while the Mat valley had less deaths than Anchorage with no mandates and an older population.
Here, Kevin praises AQD for ignoring public testimony, and implementing tyranny.
“You put politics aside, you are just one of the most amazing, fantastic human beings I’ve ever met, and I’ve grown to love and respect you as much as you’re my family. I just want to thank you for everything you do. I’m going to tremendously miss having you on this board and sitting next to me. …
Nobody knows how hard it is to do what you did when you were mayor. Agree or disagree, you stood up in a time of need [rejecting the will of the people, locked us down, force masked us twice (the second time by usurping Mayor Bronson’s power after she was back on the Assembly) – ed.], and I just thank you. And I look forward to calling you a friend for the rest of my life.” – Assemblyman Kevin Cross, 4/11/23
The draft ordinance mentions “density” as an aspiration 13 times in the first two pages, but a new version that will be considered at Tuesday’s Assembly meeting have substituted the word “density” with “simplifying.” The following is an example of the sneak changes under way:
Alaska’s slow start to wildfire season a relief after Connecticut-sized area burned last year
Alaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades — an immense relief one year after fires scorched nearly enough land to cover Connecticut and even threatened remote Alaska Native communities on the tundra.
Thanks to a cool, wet summer, wildfires so far this year have burned just 1½ times the size of New York’s Central Park. …
Anchorage has only gone above 70 degrees F (21.1 degrees C) once this year.
Between June 1 and June 13, Anchorage logged 13 days where wind speeds topped 30 miles per hour at the airport, the official weather observation spot, according to data provided by Rick Thoman, a climate and weather expert with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy. …
But it wasn’t just June. Taking into consideration a historical change in the way wind speeds were measured, “there is a strong case to be made that this is the windiest May 1-June 14 on record” for readings taken at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport weather recording site, said Michael Lawson, an assistant sea ice meteorologist and general forecaster with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. “Looking at just the first two weeks of June, this is the windiest since 1970.”
“The mainstream media isn’t covering Mary Peltola, because they’re covering *for* Mary Peltola.” – Suzanne Downing, The Mike Porcaro Show, 6/7/23 hour 2
What an oxymoron. “Nobody can drag us down”. They already put themselves there. Sordidness and sexual depravity are about as low as one can get. Forcing it upon children is evil. Autogynephilia is not something to celebrate….
Soldotna is SW of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula.
“In one incident, a vehicle with Chinese citizens blew past a security checkpoint at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, several soldiers told USA TODAY. The vehicle was eventually stopped, and a search found a drone inside the vehicle. The occupants claimed they were tourists who had gotten lost,” the newspaper reported.
Two of the three extremists won, while the third just missed being seated. Chugach’s board now holds a 5-4 majority for the “green” movement. That’s not good for ratepayers.
The man who founded the Trevor Project group and who advised Anchorage Assembly members on creating an ordinance to prevent therapists from counseling gender-confused children was also a member of a notorious drag queen group, “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Assembly won’t settle wrongful claims made by former municipal manager
The Anchorage Assembly debated whether to settle wrongful discharge claims made by former Municipal Manager Amy Demboski. Several of them took turns bashing Mayor Dave Bronson, calling his administration toxic, and some of them said that the $550,000 was just a lot of money.
In the end, on a vote of 8-4, the Assembly decided to let the matter go to court. They were not able to resist the political temptation to have the mayor in court with Demboski during what will be an election year, because due to the slow nature of justice, this case will not be settle before 2024. Such election year drama will likely hurt all conservatives on the ballot, and may doom the mayor’s chances for a second term.
Earlier this month, a prominent Anchorage Jewish community – Congregation Beth Shalom – welcomed three drag queens to their place of worship for an emerging development on the drag queen story hour trend.
The LGBTQ activist group – The Queen’s Guard – admits to being a little taken aback when Rabbi Abram Goodstein asked to partner with them for the event.
Amazing truths that hardly any Alaskans know at 46:13. 25% incontinent for life after Big Pharma’s “gender affirming care” surgery!
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AUTHOR AND LOCAL ACTIVIST Jackie Goforth
The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human.
In Alaska Libraries
“LET’S ABOUT IT”
Tonight we’ll get to hear from Jackie Goforth talk about the Library Committee Hearing that happened last week & how they decided Porn is now acceptable if it matches the “Alphabet Crowds Agenda!”
AFP has always been a Trojan Horse inside the conservative movement. The Koch brothers are globalist tools. Don’t forget they not only opposed Joe Miller in Alaska, but also Ted Cruz and Donald Trump on the national level. Get smart people. This is not an organization you can count on.
So Americans for Prosperity helped keep Joe Miller from defeating Lisa Murkowski, when he almost did. That’s disgusting and sickening!
All US power grids are vulnerable, thanks to Sen. Lisa Murkowski. We’ve already had two massive ejections that would have destroyed the power grid today. One was the Carrington event of 1859.
If we can not explore for more gas and there is only so much left in the inlet, then options like, nuclear, solar, wind, coal, and everything in between become something that the Energy Committee takes a look at.
On Tuesday night the Anchorage Assembly introduced and passed a resolution the members believe will promote “civil discourse.” Let’s look at a few of some of the loaded terms that are peppered throughout the document. You may read it in its entirety here. [AR 2023-137 – ed.]
Hate speech most often refers to any speech that disparages a social group or member of that group. Hate is attached to a person’s inner motive. One could wonder why we don’t use the term “disparaging speech.” Even though the term “disparaging” is subjective, it does a better job of pointing to the actual speech of the person rather than inserting itself into the person’s inner workings.
The term “hate” elevates the severity of the offender and effectively labels a person a “hater.” When the state of someone’s inner motives is being judged not by the speaker, but by the hearers, whoever has the most power gets to decide that person’s label. When we begin judging hate, we elevate ourselves as a judge and jury to shame the “offender.”
Assembly Member Meg Zaletel wanted to make it clear that this is not a law with teeth. It is merely a “resolution.” So, is not yet about creating legal consequences.
Instead, it is an effort to shame those who do not internally ascribe to the values or loaded language held within. Once legislators shift from a focus on the concrete actions of constituents into judging our heart motives and values, our relationship with our government lacks protective boundaries.
