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New Jersey needs help — Spadea has a plan (Opinion)
Earlier this week, I caught up with a younger man who has devoted his time to preventing for our rights and our nation. His title is Shawn Farash and he is from Lengthy Island. His comedy profession as a Trump impersonator began accidentally whereas bowling with pals. He goes by the title “Captain Deplorable 45”.
He leads a gaggle referred to as “Loud Majority” and is on a mission to assist individuals get their rights again as People after the lockdowns and mandates.
The dialog is humorous and insightful, and sure, he does one of the best Trump impression that I’ve heard. As a matter of reality, do not take my phrase for it, the previous President agrees. Hearken to the story right here:
We’re completely satisfied to have Shawn seem as “Captain Deplorable 45” at our upcoming occasion “A Seat At The Desk.”
This occasion is a gathering of a number of hundred dad and mom, patriots, and small enterprise house owners from throughout New Jersey. Maybe one of many strongest features of the practically sold-out affair is that there are nationwide audio system coming in to assist New Jersey dig out from underneath the corrupt Democratic majority and weak Republican opposition. We’re actually constructing a motion of tens of 1000’s of involved residents prepared, keen, and in a position to struggle again.
As I’ve talked about on the air, the victories achieved in 2021 are simply a place to begin. We noticed lots of of name new candidates on the native stage. Many mothers and dads deciding that they merely needed to step up and become involved in native authorities to stop the assault from the forms on their households and companies.
We noticed many new faces win election within the state Meeting and Senate. We noticed some out-pacing the vote totals on the high of the ticket. That means this was a grassroots, ground-up surge of recent voters sad with the weak, cowardly political class elites on the high of the ticket.
We captured the power of that native surge with our new advocacy group, the Frequent Sense Membership. We have hit FORTY THOUSAND members and are including 1,500 every week. We realized lots from the 2021 contest for positive.
The GOP candidate for governor had been working for governor since getting embarrassed in 2017 shedding the first to Chris Christie’s LG, Kim Guadagno. Are you able to think about shedding to an individual tightly related to the least fashionable governor in our lifetime? You must actually attempt to fail that depressing. Quick ahead 4 years and the identical man loses to Murphy regardless of a groundswell of backlash from dad and mom and enterprise house owners. The identical backlash that catapulted the GOP nominee in Virginia to victory was not proud of the NJGOP handpicked man.
Making this story much more disappointing for New Jersey, now caught with Murphy for the following 4 years, is the NJGOP is taking a victory lap pretending that shut means a win. Do not buy it. And always remember that the “cabal of corruption” at the moment main the NJGOP. Palatucci, Bramnick, Kean, Hugin, and Jack Citarrelli all left you and your households on the battlefield to fend for yourselves whereas Murphy and the Democrats wrecked our faculties, destroyed 1000’s of small companies, damage our children, and made our communities much less secure.
For his half, Jack could not even spend the time to talk on behalf of the Newark firefighters being fired for not taking the jab. He could not even decide to ending the masks mandate for teenagers! Jack would not even take into account reducing the funding for deliberate parenthood and returning to the funds stage of Chris Christie.
We tried to get via to him and clarify that he and the NJGOP had been merely ignoring the actual disaster impacting our fellow New Jerseyans. We even made it tremendous straightforward by outlining SIX issues that Jack may embrace earlier than the election to earn the arrogance of the voters. Jack and his kitchen cupboard of incompetents had been extra thinking about a marketing campaign paycheck than delivering an answer, so that they ignored us AND YOU.
The individuals of New Jersey deserve lots higher. There are greater than TWO MILLION unaffiliated voters and ONE MILLION registered Republicans. They’re prepared for actual management and actual change. They’re prepared for fighters who will shield our neighborhoods and rise up for households, small companies, and first responders. Many of those leaders shall be becoming a member of me at our first annual occasion going down on Thursday, April 28 on the Palace in Somerset. Be a part of me there www.asattnj.org
The submit above displays the ideas and observations of New Jersey 101.5 speak present host Invoice Spadea. Any opinions expressed are Invoice’s personal. Invoice Spadea is on the air weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m., talkin’ Jersey, taking your calls at 1-800-283-1015.
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Fresh snow coats some North Jersey towns for a white Christmas
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How rare is a white Christmas and how long has it been for some cities
A white Christmas means more than 1 inch of snow is on the ground on Christmas day, but how frequently does this occur?
New Jersey experienced a frosty December — and Christmas has proved no exception.
Christmas morning temperatures accross the Garden State dipped into the low to mid-20s in much of the state, and even into the teens in higher elevations, forecasters said. While most towns saw little to no overnight snow accumulation, some lucky areas awoke to a white Christmas.
How much snow did North Jersey see?
Snowfall leading up to Christmas was light but enough to dust parts of the state with festive flurries. Bergenfield reported one of the highest accumulation, measuring 1 inch of snow on Christmas Eve. Nearby, Ramsey recorded 1.1 inches, and Sparta with 1.6 inches of snowfall.
In New Providence, Paramus and Stewartsville, snow totals were less than an inch, with each town reporting between 0.6 and 0.8 inches. Somerset logged an inch, while Wantage received 1.3 inches.
For those dreaming of a white Christmas, Bergenfield, Ramsey, Sparta and Wantage offered picturesque views, with enough snow to blanket the ground in holiday cheer. Meanwhile, other areas in the state settled for a chilly but snow-free holiday.
Whether blanketed in white or simply bundled up, New Jersey residents should brace for continued cold as the year comes to a close.
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A Modest Theory About Those Drones Over New Jersey
The welter of stories about unidentified drones over New York and New Jersey multiply, as do the myriad speculations. Thus far the narratives fall into three categories: private drones, those deployed by hostile foreign actors, those belonging to US authorities on a shadowy unacknowledged mission. The media has taken up the cause and the story has gone mainstream, with baffled officials furnishing no unified explanation – and President elect Trump weighing in. This installment of the column will add one more theory to the growing noise, but a theory grounded in full context, covering all the known facts and hopefully all the more plausible for that albeit.
To begin with, let us dismiss the private drone scenario quickly. Any private entity causing such panic would soon admit it and apologize for fear of being found out. The authorities via satellite would know whence they came, track them and reveal the facts. Next, the foreign actor theory – again, as Donald Trump says, the military or intelligence people would know. They might stay silent about it for fear of provoking a confrontation with a foreign power. The US is, sadly, prone to such deliberate passivity, the latest example being the Havana Syndrome findings by Congress which rejected the intelligence community’s previous report that the Syndrome doesn’t exist and no foreign power is responsible. The recent ad hoc Congressional Committee officially found that the Havana Syndrome is real and a foreign state is likely behind it.
So, back to the drones: do the authorities know that a foreign power is responsible for the drone outbreak but won’t say so? Timing is everything in such events. The Biden White House, as we have seen with aid spikes to Ukraine and granting permission to hit inside Russia, is not shy of adding last minute foreign policy complications to the incoming administration. Were it a hostile power, we would know all about who unleashed the drones. Which leaves the third and last category, that the drone phenomenon was a government initiative which authorities do not wish to acknowledge, a stealth operation that went public inadvertently. As this column is focused on geostrategic affairs, the possible explanation falls into its bailiwick.
Nobody has quite understood why the US and Germany refused, until recently, to allow Ukraine to use allied weapons to strike inside Russia (Germany still refuses). All manner of theories have swirled but nothing coherent obtained, other than an abiding fear of Russian retaliation. Yet Washington gave the go-ahead for Ukraine to use American weapons across its border in recent months, especially after Trump’s electoral victory. Did the Russian threat to retaliate against the US diminish? Did the US suddenly get safer? And why did it take so long to grant permission? The truth is, any sort of highly visible and attributable strike against the US was never a risk because Moscow would have suffered devastating retaliation. But an anonymous catastrophe in a major US city would work. A kind of secret Samson Option, or hidden nuclear device in Germany or America should Russian soil be bombed by allied weapons. The great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity. And the restraint or doubt it induces.
Nor should the threat be too visible or public. Anything that detonates massively raises an outcry, puts pressure on the authorities to find a return address, a clear culprit. No foreign power would risk such a big provocation that it would be identifiable and cause retaliation. Witness 9/11. One has to conclude, therefore, that the real version of such a threat would be scary rather than hugely destructive. The device would need to be constructed discreetly and stowed or delivered equally discreetly. And no foreign state actor would take responsibility. So, a small radiation device fits the bill. And this is precisely what New Jersey officials have been saying about the drone activity, namely that it’s our side looking for a small medical isotope gone missing, one that was aboard a container ship and went missing. But a federal agency has just denied the US was flying drones in search of nuclear radiation. All of which is standard procedure for stifling panic.
Finally, there’s this: the foreign actors would not deliver a direct threat. They would retain deniability, as in the Havana Syndrome. If, indeed, it’s a radiation device, nobody knows who was behind it, though the technical sophistication suggests only rival superpowers qualify as suspects. Which brings us back to the Russian dark ops and the inexplicable restraint of the Biden White House over helping Ukraine.
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What about tariffs? What North Jersey shoppers can expect from retail in 2025
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New Jersey is synonymous with retail.
With shopping malls throughout the state, including the largest mall in New Jersey located in Paramus, there are endless options to find what you need.
And with one of the largest ports on the East Coast, New Jersey is not only home to retail, but also to a robust shipping industry.
Expect changes in both those areas in 2025 ― and be on the lookout for changes in the costs of goods if President-elect Trump enacts his proposed tariff program.
- Port workers and the association representing marine terminals have until Jan. 15 to reach a deal on a new master contract, with automation being a main sticking point. The union representing the port workers has promised to go on strike if a deal is not met, potentially increasing prices on store shelves and upending supply chains.
- Developers at Garden State Plaza and Bergen Town Center in Paramus are in the process of constructing thousands of new apartments. At the Garden State Plaza complex there will be retail, dining, outdoor markets and a 1-acre town green, with an early-2025 groundbreaking expected.
- President Donald Trump has vowed to enact 25% tariffs on goods coming from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods coming from China. New Jersey manufacturers have sped up imports and stockpiled raw materials in anticipation of the increased costs from imports.
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