[Daily Caller] A man who spent 16 years in jail on a wrongful conviction was shot by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop in Kingsland, Georgia, ABC News reported Monday.
The individual, identified as 53-year-old Leonard Allen Cure, had spent 16 years in jail after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2003. Cure was exonerated in December 2020 following a collaborative reinvestigation by the Innocence Project and the Conviction Review Unit of the Broward County State Attorney’s Office in Florida, according to ABC News.
A deputy stopped Cure for speeding at around 7:30 a.m. Monday. The situation reportedly escalated when Cure allegedly "assaulted" the deputy after being placed under arrest. Cure allegedly did not comply after the deputy used a stun gun and baton on him, ABC reported, citing the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI).
"The deputy pulled out his gun and shot Cure," the GBI said in a statement cited by the outlet. Cure succumbed to his injuries despite receiving medical treatment at the scene, according to the outlet.
No officers were injured as a result of the incident, ABC reported.
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The courts are making it up as they go along. I don't wanna hear one more damn mention of "stare decisis."
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^Well you know these protests Israel had for months. It's all because the legislative branch wanted to take away the Supreme Court's right to say "That law/goverment decision seems unreasonable to us - hence, it's illegal."
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^ It's called "subjectivism." People who are opposed to it are called "Randroids."
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Pretty sure he is a lifetime criminal, just had his sentence reviewed and adjusted based on some leniency criteria. I suspect, given the state of modern journalism, that the reporter saw "Innocence Project"... and stopped reading the part about "Conviction Review Unit".
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Just watched the video. Noncompliant then combative. Taser didn't stop him and he was choking the officer out. Nice new Dodge Ram truck (wonder who bought that?)
Dude did everything but draw a weapon on the officer before the shooting.
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The Pronto Pup is not a bad product but most vendors do not cook long enough, so the hotdog itself is barely warm. That batter needs to be dark brown baby! If that cornbread batter is tan, keep walkin'.
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Went to the Medina County (Ohio) Fair this year. The food was very good but prices have gone way up. My last fair was in Burlington Vermont in the late 70s.
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Mmmm...jalapeno batter and spicy mustard.
Must be gettin time to get my grub on.
[AFRICANEWS] Prime Minister Sam Matekane of Lesotho is confronting an uncertain political future, as the main opposition party, the Democratic Congress (DC), initiates a vote of no confidence. Until this article I'd forgotten Lesotho existed!
This move is a consequence of a 2020 constitutional amendment that curtailed the powers of the executive, potentially undermining Matekane's ability to withstand the parliamentary challenge.
The government has sought a legal remedy, disputing the constitutional amendment that enabled the opposition to present the motion.
The legal proceedings are scheduled for October 30, causing a parliamentary standstill and delaying crucial matters, including the budget.
In a national add ress, Matekane voiced his concerns about the hurdles his government faces, accusing certain politicians of exploiting the law to hinder progress and sow discord.
He affirmed his government's commitment to preserving peace, security, and Lesotho's dignity. This situation underscores the intricate relationship between law and politics in Lesotho, where constitutional changes can have significant ramifications for governance and leadership.
If the motion is successful, Matekane will join the ranks of previous prime ministers who faced similar challenges, highlighting the evolving political landscape in the country.
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I thought Democracy etc... were "Eurocentrist"?
[BenarNews] China kicked off its third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) in Beijing on Tuesday, saying that representatives from about 130 countries were attending including Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , along with a representative of the Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... Putin, whom President Xi Jinping refers to as his "dear friend," last visited China for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022, declaring a "no limits friendship" days before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Trade has burgeoned between the two countries since — Russia exports about 2 million barrels of oil per day to China — and Xi and Putin are expected to discuss trade, including Moscow’s aim to build a second natural gas pipeline to China.
They are also expected to further cement their shared enmity toward the liberal West.
The only senior European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... representative in Beijing is Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, given broad western European skepticism of China’s ambitions and a reluctance to share a platform with Putin, who is wanted for alleged war crimes.
The conference marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, a vision spelled out by Xi in 2013 on visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia. Today it has 152 members and has been the driving force behind power plants and railways, as well as causing controversy over so-called "debt diplomacy."
Non-attendees
Regional non-attendees include Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, though his country sent a delegation led by Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook.
A notably absent country is India, which has never attended a forum.
"Even before the ... emergence of the Indo-Pacific construct, India staunchly opposed the BRI and, along with Japan, sought to present an alternative to the initiative," Sana Hashmi, fellow at Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, told Radio Free Asia, a news service affiliated with BenarNews.
"While some countries initially attended the [earlier] BRI forum[s] and later decided to distance themselves from it, India consistently recognized the potential detrimental impact of the BRI on its national interests and the regional landscape.
"India’s concerns about the BRI — expanding China’s sphere of influence, increasing regional dependency on China, trapping countries in debt and violating countries’ illusory sovereignty — have been shared by several major powers and like-minded countries over the course of a decade," Hashmi said.
Ilshat Hassan Kokbore, vice president of the Executive Committee at the World Uyghur Congress, said "First, China wants to expand its influence in Afghanistan and neutralize any potential threat to its illusory sovereignty. Second, China wants to develop close relations with the Taliban and turn them against the U.S.
"Third," he said, "China wants to use Afghanistan to further cement its relations with other countries on the One Belt, One Road [the initial name of the BRI], such as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Middle Eastern countries."
Christoph Nedopil Wang, the director of the Griffith Asia Institute, told The Guardian that inviting Putin was essentially a snub to western governments, highlighting "the alignment of Chinese and Russian political priorities."
[Romania Insider.com] Romanian president Klaus Iohannis requested the Parliament to approve the establishment of a Regional Special Operations Component Command (HQR-SOCC) on the territory of Romania in partnership with Bulgaria.
Romania will have the role of nation-leader in the first instance, as Bulgaria does not yet meet NATO standards for this.
After Bulgaria fulfils the standards, the leader position will be exercised by rotation, Profit.ro reported.
The proposal came from the minister of national defense, Anghel Tîlvăr, but the initiative to establish such a structure in the Black Sea region belonged to NATO, which identified the need for a command-control structure (C2) of the Special Operations Forces (SOS) for the Black Sea region to provide command, control and synchronization of allied FOS efforts in the region ″against Russia's military aggression against Ukraine," the president's request states.
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Given the EU wants to run things.
Let them assimilate NATO responsibilities and save the US Taxpayers $811,140M a year. Which was about 3.6% of the 2022 US GDP, or around $2,200 per citizen taxpayer
[TOWNHALL] Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders will announce on Tuesday that a Chinese state-owned corporation must sell more than 100 acres of agricultural land in northeast Arkansas, the consequence of a law signed by Sanders earlier this year barring ownership of agricultural land by prohibited foreign parties, Townhall has learned.
The 160 acres of land owned by Syngenta — an agrichemical company headquartered in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and owned by Chinese Communist Party-controlled ChemChina — is the first to be hit with the consequences of Act 636 which went into effect earlier this year after being signed by Governor Sanders.
As summarized by the state House, the legislation "prohibits certain foreign parties from acquiring any interest in Arkansas agricultural land, provides penalties for violations, [and] creates the Office of Agricultural Intelligence for information analysis and enforcement." The Chinese Communist Party is one such entity that is now prohibited.
Governor Sanders will announce the first action taken under Act 636 alongside Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward at noon ET.
"For far too long, in the name of tolerance, we've let dangerous governments infiltrate our country," Governor Sanders told Townhall of her administration's action. "Arkansas will tolerate them no longer."
"Today, Arkansas is becoming the first state in the country to force a Chinese state-owned company to sell their farmland," Sanders noted. "This isn't about where you're from, it's about where your loyalties lie. We simply can't trust those who pledge allegiance to a hostile foreign power."
Poss harvest culling to feed the Gazoids?
[Jpost] Haifa and its environs have been beset in recent years by large numbers of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) running through neighborhoods, scaring children and the elderly and overturning garbage bins. While some Haifa residents like them and feed them, some have suggested killing them, but this method of doing away with them has not been approved by the Agriculture Ministry or municipality.
Haifa is not the only place plagued by wild pigs. It has also occurred in the southeastern part of the US – but officials there have found an answer. The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources have spent the last two years trying to control the fearsome mammals. The researchers at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina, reduced by 70% the number of pigs and brought about a decline in environmental rooting damage of about 99%.
They published their findings in the journal Pest Management Science under the title “Changes in wild pig (Sus scrofa) relative abundance, crop damage, and environmental impacts in response to control efforts.”
PIGS IMPORTED AND EXPORTED GLOBALLY
Native to Eurasia, the pigs were introduced worldwide for food and hunting opportunities, and over the last several decades have become one of the world's most troublesome invasive species. Pigs were introduced to the US centuries ago as a food source and quickly established wild populations.
Feral domestic pigs bred with purebred Eurasian boar that were introduced for hunting, and hybridized wild pigs spread across the landscape due to prolific reproductive rates and a willingness to eat just about anything. Wild pigs are omnivorous, have high reproductive rates and are rarely eaten by other wild animals, even when young. Populations exploded in the late 1980s and early 1990s, causing a substantial increase in damages to agricultural producers. In response, many large-scale control programs were put in place to reduce populations across the landscape, usually through lethal methods.
IS HUNTING THE SOLUTION?
Due to the substantive damage caused by wild pigs, efforts are often made to control populations, and in many US states, recreational hunting is popular and assumed to help control populations, but there is little evidence supporting the effectiveness of recreational hunting as a long-term management tool for controlling the spread of wild pigs, they wrote. Iin many cases, sport hunting may be counterproductive to population control objectives – it typically removes about a quarter of a population, which is, on average, far below thresholds believed to be needed to reduce their numbers.
The study will help conservation groups understand and plan for managing a problem with both environmental and economic costs, as wild pigs were responsible for over $1.5 billion in property and crop damage in just one year, they said.
“Through their destructive foraging habits, wild pigs cause extensive damages to crops across the country,” said wildlife ecology and management Prof. Jim Beasley. “Wild pigs also carry several diseases that can be transferred to livestock, adding to their substantial agricultural impact.”
When pigs forage, they upturn roots and soil with their snouts, damaging natural habitats and other animals. As natural omnivores, pigs also eat amphibians and other small creatures, potentially impacting their populations over time.
In this study, Beasley and his team investigated whether such programs succeeded and, if so, whether environmental damages were reduced as well. They worked with 19 mixed-forest agricultural properties in South Carolina, surveying the pig populations and agricultural and environmental damages, following the implementation of a professional control program over a three-year period.
“Before the trappers went in and began management efforts, we placed remote cameras baited with corn around the properties to assess the initial population of wild pigs. Every six months, we would go back out and reassess the populations to see how effective the management methods were,” Beasley said.
“Most studies estimate that you need to remove 40% to 60% of a wild- pig population each year to maintain or significantly reduce a population, and they exceeded that threshold,” Beasley said. “With sustained management the population should continue to shrink over the next several years. However, what is unknown is how quickly the population will recover if management efforts cease.”
While trapping was the main method of wild-pig removal, ground- and night-shooting events also took place where applicable. Aerial gunning by helicopter was also used on one property that had large enough open areas.
Beasley attributes the population explosion to several factors, including humans illegally moving wild pigs to the areas where hunting them is legal year-round, as well as to warmer climates in recent decades. “It’s really a combination of both human-driven factors and natural expansions of populations,” Beasley said.
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Sows become fertile at six months and have two litters per year. Litters are 6-8 piglets. Ranchers prefer to kill sows as part of the pest control effort.
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Back when the swine flu was making the rounds, one of the 'hot' areas was northern Israel/ suthern Lebanon. Turns out the Druze have nothing against raising pigs.
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^Don't know about Druze but our Bedouin trackers (on Syrian border patrol) would shoot wild pigs on every opportunity - it was "fire on suspicious movement) zone at the time. And were very good at cleaning and cooking them.
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.
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
