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This is number 3.


I forget who I was watching and they said that Boeing went dei several years ago and getting rid of older white men and bringing in a 'diverse' younger workforce. They didn't even keep the older workers around to train the new workers because they didn't want old white men telling a young black woman how to do something....

Now we have this. I thought the dude was joking at the time because engineering and mechanics seemed like it would be outside that DEI nonsense.
 

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That is a really big move for gold in overnight trading.... March of last year had a really big run up in price too. I wonder what happens in March that would make some big entity buy enough gold to push price that high?

It can't just be the SOTU speech. I could see the Gaza port announcement moving people out of fear.
 

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That is a really big move for gold in overnight trading.... March of last year had a really big run up in price too. I wonder what happens in March that would make some big entity buy enough gold to push price that high?

It can't just be the SOTU speech. I could see the Gaza port announcement moving people out of fear.

Comex & London exchanges have been lagging far behind Asian exchanges for over a year now. But biggest driver has been pressure on the $$$ as federal debt spirals, BRICS continues growing, & tons of dollars pouring into cryptos.
 

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That is a really big move for gold in overnight trading.... March of last year had a really big run up in price too. I wonder what happens in March that would make some big entity buy enough gold to push price that high?

It can't just be the SOTU speech. I could see the Gaza port announcement moving people out of fear.

That thing is supposed to happen today.
 

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5 people killed in Gaza after aid package parachute fails to deploy​

CBS News
HALEY OTT, MARWAN AL-GHOUL
Updated March 8, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Officials from Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eye witness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them. The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern).
CBS News was told there were two boys among the five people killed and that 11 others were injured in the incident. The exact ages of the casualties was not clear, but those injured were said to be between 30 and 50 years old.
The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza Friday in an attempt to get supplies, including desperately needed food, to residents amid an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis there. A U.S. defense official told CBS News an initial review indicated the U.S. airdrop was not responsible for the fatalities on the ground, but said that further investigation was required.
Video posted on social media showed a large cluster of aid parcels suspended from parachutes drifting through the sky but appearing to get tangled before one, with its chute deployed but not fully opened, drops much more quickly than the rest.
An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.

An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.More
The airdrops have been criticized by international aid agencies and others as wholly insufficient to meet the needs of the people of Gaza.
The United Nations has warned of widespread famine among Gaza's roughly 2.3 million residents, and the global body's top humanitarian aid coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said Friday in a social media post marking six months of war in Gaza that the airdrops were a "last resort."
"All those concerned about the situation in Gaza should put pressure on Israeli government to grant unimpeded humanitarian land access & not blocking convoys," the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday, calling the airdrops "good but insufficient."

U.S. officials have acknowledged to CBS News that the airdrops are not enough to meet the huge need in Gaza. They say they're a statement that the world is not just standing by as a famine unfolds.
Friday's airdrops took place one day after President Biden announced that the U.S. military would build a temporary pier on Gaza's Mediterranean coast capable of receiving shipments of humanitarian aid including food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters, to increase the flow of such goods into the enclave.
Two U.S. officials told CBS News the current plan is for the pier to be installed by the U.S. Army's 7th Transportation Brigade, based at Ft. Story, Virginia. The ships required to do the work were still docked in Virginia as of Friday, and officials made it clear that it would be weeks before the project could be up and running.
Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Friday that Israel welcomed the plan, adding that it would "allow the increase of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after security checks are carried out in accordance with Israeli standards."
Haiat said Israel would "continue the fight against Hamas — an organization that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and carried out the 7 October massacre — until its elimination and the return of all the hostages," while also continuing to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza "in accordance with the rules of war and in coordination with the United States and our allies around the world."
 

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As someone is is pretty outspoken about how blah woman’s basketball is, IMO, the ladies game needs this girl. Whatever race she is, she is someone who we can all appreciate as a player and one that is entertaining to watch. She will bring attention to players of all races when there are more eyes on the games. Seems like a good thing for the woman’s game in general. Especially from the revenue, sponsor numbers angle.
 

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5 people killed in Gaza after aid package parachute fails to deploy​

CBS News
HALEY OTT, MARWAN AL-GHOUL
Updated March 8, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Officials from Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eye witness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them. The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern).
CBS News was told there were two boys among the five people killed and that 11 others were injured in the incident. The exact ages of the casualties was not clear, but those injured were said to be between 30 and 50 years old.
The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza Friday in an attempt to get supplies, including desperately needed food, to residents amid an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis there. A U.S. defense official told CBS News an initial review indicated the U.S. airdrop was not responsible for the fatalities on the ground, but said that further investigation was required.
Video posted on social media showed a large cluster of aid parcels suspended from parachutes drifting through the sky but appearing to get tangled before one, with its chute deployed but not fully opened, drops much more quickly than the rest.
An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.  ' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.

An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.More
The airdrops have been criticized by international aid agencies and others as wholly insufficient to meet the needs of the people of Gaza.
The United Nations has warned of widespread famine among Gaza's roughly 2.3 million residents, and the global body's top humanitarian aid coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said Friday in a social media post marking six months of war in Gaza that the airdrops were a "last resort."
"All those concerned about the situation in Gaza should put pressure on Israeli government to grant unimpeded humanitarian land access & not blocking convoys," the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday, calling the airdrops "good but insufficient."

U.S. officials have acknowledged to CBS News that the airdrops are not enough to meet the huge need in Gaza. They say they're a statement that the world is not just standing by as a famine unfolds.
Friday's airdrops took place one day after President Biden announced that the U.S. military would build a temporary pier on Gaza's Mediterranean coast capable of receiving shipments of humanitarian aid including food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters, to increase the flow of such goods into the enclave.
Two U.S. officials told CBS News the current plan is for the pier to be installed by the U.S. Army's 7th Transportation Brigade, based at Ft. Story, Virginia. The ships required to do the work were still docked in Virginia as of Friday, and officials made it clear that it would be weeks before the project could be up and running.
Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Friday that Israel welcomed the plan, adding that it would "allow the increase of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after security checks are carried out in accordance with Israeli standards."
Haiat said Israel would "continue the fight against Hamas — an organization that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and carried out the 7 October massacre — until its elimination and the return of all the hostages," while also continuing to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza "in accordance with the rules of war and in coordination with the United States and our allies around the world."
Idk man. That's funny.
 

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Who is the chair?

RNC votes to install Donald Trump's handpicked chair as former president tightens control of party​

STEVE PEOPLES and MICHELLE L. PRICE
Updated Fri, March 8, 2024 at 11:24 AM CST·6 min read
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FILE - North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley speaks at the state party's convention on June 9, 2023, in Greensboro, N.C. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists at the top of the GOP's political machine even before he formally secures the party's next presidential nomination. Trump is calling for Ronna McDaniel to be replaced by Whatley. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Eric Trump, left, and his wife Lara Trump attend a Super Tuesday election night party before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at , Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)



Election 2024 Republicans​



HOUSTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination.
Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s false theories of voter fraud, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote Friday morning in Houston. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.
Trump’s team is promising not to use the RNC to pay his mounting personal legal bills. But Trump and his lieutenants will have firm control of the party’s political and fundraising machinery with limited, if any, internal pushback.

“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th President of the United States,” Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected.
Whatley will carry the top title, replacing longtime chair Ronna McDaniel after she fell out of favor with key figures in the former president’s “Make America Great Again” movement. But he will be surrounded by people closer to Trump.
Lara Trump is expected to focus largely on fundraising and media appearances.
She emphasized that shortly after she was voted in, taking time in her inaugural speech as co-chair to hold up a check for a $100,000 that she said had been contributed that day to the party. When asked by a reporter later, she declined to say who wrote the check.
The functional head of the RNC will be Chris LaCivita, who will assume the committee’s chief of staff role while maintaining his job as one of the Trump campaign’s top two advisers.
McDaniel was handpicked by Trump to lead the committee seven years ago but was forced out after Trump’s MAGA movement increasingly blamed her for losses over the last few years. She alluded to that in her goodbye speech Friday, telling the members that she worries most about “internal cohesion” heading into the election.
 

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5 people killed in Gaza after aid package parachute fails to deploy​

CBS News
HALEY OTT, MARWAN AL-GHOUL
Updated March 8, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Officials from Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eye witness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them. The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern).
CBS News was told there were two boys among the five people killed and that 11 others were injured in the incident. The exact ages of the casualties was not clear, but those injured were said to be between 30 and 50 years old.
The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza Friday in an attempt to get supplies, including desperately needed food, to residents amid an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis there. A U.S. defense official told CBS News an initial review indicated the U.S. airdrop was not responsible for the fatalities on the ground, but said that further investigation was required.
Video posted on social media showed a large cluster of aid parcels suspended from parachutes drifting through the sky but appearing to get tangled before one, with its chute deployed but not fully opened, drops much more quickly than the rest.
An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.  ' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.

An image from video posted on social media on March 8, 2024, which CBS News could not independently verify, appears to show airdropped aid parcels falling to the ground in northern Gaza, where a witness and officials from the Hamas-run health ministry said 5 people were killed when at least one of the parcels' parachutes failed to properly deploy. One parcel can be seen near the bottom center of this screengrab that was seen falling much more quickly than the rest, with its parachute partially collapsed.More
The airdrops have been criticized by international aid agencies and others as wholly insufficient to meet the needs of the people of Gaza.
The United Nations has warned of widespread famine among Gaza's roughly 2.3 million residents, and the global body's top humanitarian aid coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said Friday in a social media post marking six months of war in Gaza that the airdrops were a "last resort."
"All those concerned about the situation in Gaza should put pressure on Israeli government to grant unimpeded humanitarian land access & not blocking convoys," the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday, calling the airdrops "good but insufficient."

U.S. officials have acknowledged to CBS News that the airdrops are not enough to meet the huge need in Gaza. They say they're a statement that the world is not just standing by as a famine unfolds.
Friday's airdrops took place one day after President Biden announced that the U.S. military would build a temporary pier on Gaza's Mediterranean coast capable of receiving shipments of humanitarian aid including food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters, to increase the flow of such goods into the enclave.
Two U.S. officials told CBS News the current plan is for the pier to be installed by the U.S. Army's 7th Transportation Brigade, based at Ft. Story, Virginia. The ships required to do the work were still docked in Virginia as of Friday, and officials made it clear that it would be weeks before the project could be up and running.
Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Friday that Israel welcomed the plan, adding that it would "allow the increase of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after security checks are carried out in accordance with Israeli standards."
Haiat said Israel would "continue the fight against Hamas — an organization that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and carried out the 7 October massacre — until its elimination and the return of all the hostages," while also continuing to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza "in accordance with the rules of war and in coordination with the United States and our allies around the world."
Same thing happened in Operation Provide Comfort in Turkey, post Desert Storm. Turks tried to catch the platforms. Results were the same as this article
 
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