New York City has deployed the National Guard to help with the surging number of migrants in the city, as shelters become strained
Despite city shelters being at capacity, Mayor Eric Adams' 'tent city' on Randall's Island remains mostly empty
The National Guard reservists will assist with day-to-day operations such as food distribution, but may also be trained in homelessness services
The mayor recently declared a state of emergency over the migrant crisis and pledged over $1 billion to the issue And where, pray tell, is New York City to find another billion for its strained budget in these troubled times?
The Department of Homeless Services in the city reported a new occupancy record this month as a whopping 62,174 people are living in shelters
Adams noted that every borough would be 'impacted' by the crisis during a news conference earlier this month
BTW: Is this a step in the direction of declaring a State/National Emergency and justifying the use of Federal Level Enforcement for local policing matters?
This is outrageous. National Guardsmen should not be taken from their full time jobs and families to babysit fully grown people who had the wherewithal to walk from Venezuela to the US/Mexico border.
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/28/2022 14:52 Comments ||
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#10
When the red wave hits, start spreading the rumor that any illegal who doesn't self deport will be deported with two broken legs.
Watch the fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/28/2022 15:06 Comments ||
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[BenarNews] Rebels in Thailand’s Deep South insist that a dead man found in a river on the Malaysia border is one of their senior holy warriors, even as results of a DNA test on the corpse have not yet been released and while the Thai military has denied this.
Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the most potent of armed separatists groups in the southern border region, first came out with a strongly worded statement last week about the discovery of the blackened and bloated body in the Kolok River on Sept. 29. The corpse belonged to one of its fighters, who had been kidnapped and tortured, the rebels alleged.
"BRN strongly condemns the extra-judicial killing of people suspected of affiliation with BRN. Such acts are direct violations of the Geneva Conventions," they said in a statement sent to BenarNews on Oct. 19.
The army commander for Thailand’s southern border region rebutted the allegations, saying the body does not belong to Zahri Bin Abdullah (also known as Yahree Dueloh), a 42-year-old BRN holy warrior, as identified by the rebel group.
"The fingerprint check of the corpse showed it had no relationship with the family [of Yahree Dueloh]. They [the dead man and Yahree] are different men," Lt. Gen. Santi Sakuntanak told BenarNews via a text message on Friday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... a local activist muppet said his organization had documented six cross-border abductions in the past decade, including the one in late September of the man who turned up dead in the Kolok River two days later.
According to sources close to the BRN, Yahree served as chief of the rebel group’s youth wing in Narathiwat, one of the provinces in the Deep South, and had been living in northern Malaysia.
"We may have to dig up the body and check it again [to see] whose body it was," Santi said. "But officials affirmed it was not Yahree’s body. Whatever, we have to wait for the police to confirm [the identity]."
Local police officials did not immediately respond to questions from BenarNews as to whether the dead man’s identity had been established since Santi’s comments last week.
According to Arfan Wattana, a secretary with the Patani, a local activist muppet group, Yahree’s body was found floating on the Thai side of the Kolok River on Sept. 29.
On Thursday, Yahree’s wife said there was no doubt that the body belonged to her husband, but the family would not allow it to be disinterred for further examination. She said she had identified the body by recognizing a distinctive scar.
"The other day, officials visited us and asked us to come to the cop shoppe, seeking permission to dig up the corpse. But I rejected it. The corpse was him. I can remember the scar on his leg," Nuraining Deromae told BenarNews in a phone interview.
"I have no doubt the body was his, I am sure. But the prosecution must go on," she said.
Blood samples from the corpse were sent to Prince of Songkla University for DNA testing but the results were still unknown, both Arfan and Nuraining said.
‘WHERE IS HE NOW?’ Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... the head of a panel representing BRN in Malaysia-brokered peace talks with Thailand stood by comments he made last week saying that the man whose body was found in the river was in fact the missing holy warrior.
He said that his statement last week that Yahree’s identity had been established by a DNA test was based on "information received at the time."
Besides, BRN trusts information shared by the Yahree family more than other sources, Anas said, without elaborating.
The BRN official was blunt.
"If the military says it’s not Yahree, where is he now? He is nowhere in Malaysia, neither in Thailand," he said.
The Patani has investigated five other cases of cross-border abductions during the past 10 years, other than the case of Yahree, according to Arfan.
"There were five incidents where we had some clues showing that Thai and rogue Malaysian officials were involved. But for this case, we’ve no clues about the culprits yet," he told BenarNews in a phone interview.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... fighting has continued in the Deep South since BenarNews first reported last week about the discovery of the body in the river.
On Oct. 21, five Thai soldiers were maimed in a roadside kabooming that left behind a crater (pictured) in Chanae, a district of Narathiwat.
On Tuesday, two coppers were shot and maimed, while a suspected holy warrior was killed during a shootout as Thai security forces surrounded the suspect’s home in Thepha, a district of Songkhla province, authorities said.
Since the separatist insurgency reignited in the Deep South in January 2004, at least 7,344 people have died and 13,641 have been injured in violence across the mainly Moslem and Malay-speaking border region, according to data updated through March 2022 by Deep South Watch, a local think-tank.
[An Nahar] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... and Israel formally concluded a "historic" maritime border deal on Thursday in the presence of U.S. officials, U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... said.
"Both parties took the final steps to bring the agreement into force and submitted the final paperwork to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... in the presence of the United States," Biden said in a statement.
The accord between Israel and energy-starved Lebanon, which have no diplomatic relations, was brokered through mediation of a U.S. envoy, Amos Hochstein, who was attending the exchange of letters in the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura.
Biden said the "historic agreement" benefitted both countries.
"This agreement takes us one step closer to realizing a vision for a Middle East that is more secure, integrated and prosperous, delivering benefits for all the people of the region," Biden said.
[An Nahar] Hezbollah will end an "exceptional" mobilization against Israel after threatening to attack for months, its leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said Thursday after Lebanon and Israel struck a maritime border deal.
"All the exceptional and special measures and mobilization carried out by the resistance for several months are now declared over," Nasrallah said in a televised speech, calling the agreement a "very big victory for Lebanon and its state, people and resistance."
"Our mission is complete," Nasrallah said, adding that the deal "is not an international treaty and it is not a recognition of Israel."
"Israel received no security guarantees," the Hezbollah leader stressed.
The agreement between the countries, which are still technically at war, was applauded by world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden.
It was signed separately on Thursday by Lebanon's President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... in Beirut and by Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem, and went into effect after the papers were delivered to mediators.
Earlier in the day Lapid had claimed that the deal meant Lebanon de facto "recognizes the State of Israel, in a written agreement."
Aoun had retorted that the deal had no "political implications."
The United States-mediated deal is set to unlock potential off-shore gas resources for Lebanon, at a time when the country is reeling from three years of grueling economic crisis.
It also streamlines gas production for Israel, as Hezbollah had threatened it with attacks should it begin work in the disputed area before a deal was signed.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... asked Thursday why the army was absent from the demarcation deal, considering that the deal confirms the "truce."
"Where is the sovereign wealth fund," Jumblat also asked, in a tweet.
The PSP leader added that the officials' moves are "suspicious."
"As if it is a new financial engineering operation that is destined to failure," he went on to say.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[JPost] Israeli military deems the latest pilot program with women in tanks a success.
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