[Zero] Half of the transgender inmates in the Wisconsin prison system were convicted of at least one count of sexual abuse or assault, according to data provided by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project.
Obtained via a public records request to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in April 2022, the data - provided more than a year later and reported by the Daily Caller, indicates that 81 of the 161 transgender inmates at female prisons had a record of sexual abuse.
Details were not disclosed by the DOC regarding how many transgender inmates applied to a women’s facility and the number of requests granted, according to the documents. The prison system also did not provide how many had transferred with sex crimes on their record or how many were charged while in prison. -Daily Caller
That was the thought that came to my mind when I first heard Oliver Anthony's follow-up to the viral hit "Rich Men North of Richmond." (To be clear, I'm not certain which tune technically came first, but I heard and saw "I Want to Go Home" second.)
While some quickly latched onto the lyric "We're on the brink of the next world war" as some sort of battle cry, to me, it was a lament. I said as much to my colleague and friend Brandon Morse as we discussed it, observing that Anthony's crooning reminds me a bit of "O' Brother, Where Art Thou" — he's 2023's Man of Constant Sorrow.
Indeed, the line immediately following is: "And I don't think nobody's prayin' no more," a stark reminder, in my view, of the spiritual battles that undergird so many of this world's woes.
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[Regnum] An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 was registered off the coast of Indonesia, according to the website of the European Mediterranean Seismological Center ( EMSC ).
The epicenter of the tremors was located about 200 km north of the city of Mataram, which is home to about 318,000 people. The source of the earthquake lay at a depth of 518 km.
There are no reports of casualties or damage. A tsunami threat was not announced.
As IA Regnum reported, on August 11, an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 occurred in northern Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was located between the islands of Hokkaido and Honshu.
On August 21, tremors with a magnitude of 5.5 were recorded in Ecuador . Their epicenter was located seven kms northeast of the city of Machala with a population of 198,000 people.
August 25 K.P. RU gave estimates of scientists who expressed concern about two supermoons in August. Experts say that this phenomenon can trigger seismic processes of unprecedented strength, which threaten a series of powerful earthquakes or one mega earthquake.
The first supermoon of the current month occurred on August 1st, and the second will come on the night of August 31st.
[AFRICANEWS] A 20-year-old Ugandan man has become the first individual in the country to be indicted on charges of "aggravated homosexuality," a criminal offense carrying the possibility of capital punishment as per the recently enacted anti-gay legislation, according to both prosecutors and the defendant's legal counsel.
Despite international pressure from Western governments and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations, Uganda introduced one of the world's strictest statutes against the LGBT community in May. The legislation stipulates a sentence of life imprisonment for consensual same-sex relations.
In instances deemed "aggravated," including repeated offenses, same-sex acts resulting in terminal illness transmission, or engaging in such acts with a minor, elderly person, or an individual with disabilities, the death penalty can be imposed.
As stated in a charge document reviewed by Rooters, the accused was formally charged with aggravated homosexuality on August 18 after reportedly engaging in "illicit sexual activity" with a 41-year-old man. The specifics that warranted the classification as "aggravated" were not explicitly outlined.
Jacqueline Okui, spokesperson for the office of the director of public prosecutions, affirmed that the defendant was apprised of the capital charge within a Magistrate's Court on August 18, given the charge's jurisdiction within the High Court.
The defendant was subsequently remanded. Okui refrained from providing further details about the ongoing case and stated that no prior instances of aggravated homosexuality charges were within her knowledge.
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[AFRICANEWS] The camp of Albert Ondo Ossa, President Ali Bongo Ondimba's main rival in Saturday's election in Gabon, whose official results are still awaited, again claimed on Monday to have won and called on the Head of State to "Organize the transfer of power".
Mr. Ondo Ossa, behind whom the main opposition parties have lined up, had already denounced "fraud" by the Bongo camp on Saturday, two hours before the polls closed, and asked to be "declared the winner".
"We call on our compatriots who gravitate around this power that is more devoid of legitimacy than ever, particularly those around Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba" to "bow humbly before the will of the Gabonese people", declared Mike Jocktane, the director of campaign of Mr. Ondo Ossa, during a presser in Libreville.
"What is now expected of Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba, (c') is that he accepts the sovereign choice of the Gabonese people, that he respects it and that he organizes, without bloodshed, the transfer of power to favor of Professor Albert Ondo Ossa", hammered Mr. Jocktane.
He invoked, in support of this request, a "trend", which he quantified, based on "the consolidation of more than 50% of the votes" cast, without supporting document. Gabonese law prohibits any media from reproducing figures put forward by Mr. Jocktane or anyone else, pending the official results that only the Gabonese Elections Center (CGE) is empowered by law to proclaim.
Questioned several times by AFP on Sunday and Monday, the CGE refused to give any indications on the progress of the counting and on the date and time scheduled for the proclamation of the official results.
At the time scheduled for the closing of the polling stations on Saturday, and while the CGE had postponed it by several hours for many of them having opened very late, the government suspended internet access in the whole country and declared a curfew for the following day, until further notice. This by invoking the risk of violence after the declarations of Mr. Ondo Ossa who demanded to be proclaimed the winner.
Internet access was still not restored on Monday evening and the army and the police had set up roadblocks throughout the capital in the evening to enforce the curfew for the second consecutive night.
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How are we supposed to pronounce "Gabon", by the way? Just asking.
They jugged an old girl of Gaboon
Who crooned a prohibited tune.
"Sure that's how we lost her."
"She loved Stephen Foster."
"And playing the Bongos!"
"Too soon."
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Having thoroughly wisearched the matter, I'm going witty a painfully ostentatious Portuguese pronunciation (gabão — a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary).
America’s shortage of skilled workers is impacting the ability of businesses in the construction and manufacturing industries to staff their businesses and complete jobs on time, prompting a search for a new type of talent pipeline for skilled workers to address the shortfall.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics job openings report for June 2023 found that the construction industry had roughly 374,000 job openings while manufacturing had 582,000. While the number of job openings in the two sectors shrank by about 279,000 combined openings compared to a year ago, the total remained near one million job openings for those two sectors out of the roughly 8.5 million open jobs economy-wide. What about MBAs?
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Welcome to the world where everyone gets a gold star for just being.
No need for actual learning about, effort in doing or completion of a task, just as long as you feel good about yourself.
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Businesses have a loathing of training their own labor force. They simply treat labor as a 'cost' rather than an asset. They let the training be handled by outside idiots who have no interest in the goals of business. The public education system is designed to be a feeder to universities and their incomes not the 'trades'.
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Skills shortage? Nah. At the wages employers want to pay? Yes. Otherwise construction and manufacturing wouldn't have so many unskilled illegal aliens taking those jobs.
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/\ Around here it's $200. per day (usually cash) for a ten hour day. No union (as such), no benefits, and no taxes. Sorry, gringos nosotros no contratamos. (We don't hire gringos)
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All valid and true points above so let me throw another on the heap.
The Boomers are pretty much retired and that took a huge hunk of skilled workers out of the labor force and there isn't enough new ones to make up the shortfall.
Along with that, Texas is growing like crazy in population and manufacturing and a lot of those skilled people in the workforce are reading there, leaving California and the midwest lacking and hurting for skilled employees.
We need to import more skilled (less illegal) labor and figure out how to automate a lot of this until things stabilize around 2045.
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A sane immigration policy would close the borders, deport the chaff and worthless grifters, and define the influx on national skill needs. Wow, what a concept. Of course, since the KSA's most in demand will produce a huge percentage of those who fit actual need as white and Asian it will never happen.
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Yes, but what about providing jobs for BA-credentialed white women in air-conditioned offices where they can write Emails to each other all day? Priorities, people!!
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As a retired skilled guy, I can tell you that the biggest obstacle to getting skilled workers is the employers. What they want is just barely competent to do the job, as long as somebody keeps an eye on them.
What the pres of one of my last jobs told me was, "Train them, but not too much. Then they want a raise."
I am totally serious here.
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Near constant layoffs and hours reductions help very little.
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Employers like to train h1b’s over non-h1bs because the H1b’s cannot leave quickly once trained.
Even worse. Silicon valley would hire trained Americans to build a network/website/database (or all three) and once it was working, lay them all off and bring in H1Bs to maintain it at 1/3 the cost.
[NYP] The mystery buyers of nearly $1 billion of undeveloped land abutting a California military base were revealed to be Silicon Valley heavyweights — and not a network of Chinese spies as some lawmakers feared.
The land grab near Travis Air Force Base by Flannery Associates — which has become the largest landowner in Solano County, about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco — had prompted concern that a foreign entity could be using the investment to harm US national security.
However, it turns out Flannery’s backers are a who’s who list of tech titans and investors that includes LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Emerson Collective philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, according to the New York Times.
The deep-pocketed investors reportedly plan to turn the land into their vision of an ideal city, featuring sustainable energy and a pedestrian-friendly layout.
Aside from Hoffman and Powell Jobs, Flannery’s investors reportedly include Marc Andreessen of the private venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, former Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, as well as entrepreneurs Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
"We are proud to partner on a project that aims to deliver good-paying jobs, affordable housing, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, open space and a healthy environment to residents of Solano County," Flannery spokesperson Brian Brokaw said in a statement obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
[PJ] When you hear the word "segregation," it likely conjures images dating from the Jim Crow era that depict water fountains saying "Whites Only" or bathrooms and diner counters sporting similar signs. You likely wouldn’t think of seeing or hearing of such a practice in the modern era, not post-Civil Rights movement. Surely we’ve progressed beyond that, right? Well, think again, dear reader, because it seems segregation is making a comeback.
According to a report from TheBlaze, a teacher and principal employed by a Florida public school were handed an extreme disciplinary measure so severe one has to wonder how they will ever recover, and by that I mean a paid vacation, er, leave, after parents discovered the school went full Jim Crow and held an assembly where black students were segregated from the rest of the population to chat about how badly they did on testing.
This just goes to show you that even in a great state run by a fairly diehard conservative governor and state government, public education has been so corrupted by liberal ideology that it still resembles a bacteria-infested toilet bowl.
So who is guilty of bringing back segregation? It has to be those awful racist Hitler-wannabe Republicans, right? Wrong. As has proven to be the case historically, hardcore left-wingers are the ones who champion the reinstitution of segregation.
The assembly was held just a few days ago at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla. The so-called "educators" involved in the shenanigans proceeded to yank black fourth- and fifth-graders out of the overall student population and plopped them down in presentations that were allegedly supposed to address those who scored less than a three.
However, Jason Wheeler, the Flagler Schools coordinator of communications, clarified that only black students attended the presentations, regardless of how they scored on tests.
[Jpost] An Ashkelon man was indicted for murdering an Ashdod man by slashing and stabbing him to death with a sword in July, the Southern District Attorney's Office announced on Monday.
Yonatan Bar Ben-Mocha, 57, reportedly noticed a man who he previously had a conflict with near his store. He allegedly left and returned to the site with a 69-centimeter sword, and charged at the victim. The victim suffered gashes on his upper body, neck, and head, including an 11-centimeter-deep stab wound under his left armpit.
Eyewitnesses attempted to stop Ben-Mocha, warning him that his actions would kill the man. As the victim bled out, Ben-Mocha straightened the sword, which had been bent because of the thrust. According to the indictment, he then gave the sword to a minor, telling her "Take this thing away and throw it away, hide it." He also sought to delete the footage from nearby cameras.
The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
