[KSTP] An Apple Valley man who was injured after being shot during an incident with St. Paul police faces multiple charges in connection to events leading up to the shooting.
A criminal complaint states 31-year-old Joseph Javonte Washington has been charged with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and second-degree assault.
According to the complaint, the victim told police that she had returned to her Lakeville home on Saturday evening to find Washington, who she knew, inside her home.
The victim told police Washington began using her phone, and when she asked for it back, he punched her in the face.
The complaint says Washington then took the victim into the restroom of the home, where he forced her to perform sexual acts.
According to the complaint, during the assault, Washington used the victim's cell phone to record her and live stream the video to social media accounts.
Washington then forced the victim into a vehicle and forced her to start driving. The complaint said Washington told her to not stop for any red lights and threatened to stab her if she crashed the vehicle. Washington also held a knife to the victim's throat during the incident.
The vehicle eventually crashed near the intersection of Rice Street and Maryland Avenue West in St. Paul.
Washington then fled on foot and the victim was able to flag down a passing motorist for help.
Washington was later found in a dumpster by officers that had been searching the area.
According to the city of St. Paul, at some point, Washington climbed out of the dumpster and ran toward officers, who then deployed Tasers and a K-9 in an effort to stop him. Another then shot at Washington, striking him twice, according to the city.
The BCA identified the officer who fired the weapon as Anthony Dean.
Tuesday, it was announced that Dean is in the process of being fired by the St. Paul Police Department. And that's the way that works.
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Last line's from the Bee, right?
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[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] The county that includes reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... has seen more than 900 homicides thus far this year compared to 675 in all of last year.The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office says that 2020 is the first year since 2016 and just the second time since 1996 that there have been at least 900 homicides.
The vast majority of those killings occurred in Chicago, where the police department reports that as of the end of November there have been 716 homicides in the city.
The medical examiner’s office says the overwhelming majority of the victims were shot to death and 78% of the victims were Black.
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Ask the ugly questions - Did the community have this level of carnage and decivilization during the horrendous years of segregation? What change to create this chaos? Cause I'm told, everyone and everything else is responsible for this, not the community.
[DW] Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died on Wednesday at age 94, due to complications arising from COVID-19.
He ruled France from 1974 to 1981, and was hospitalized several times last month due to heart problems. Giscard d'Estaing died "surrounded by his family" at his estate, according to Agence France-Presse.
He was known for his efforts to modernize French society, including allowing divorce by mutual consent, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, and legalizing abortion.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing also campaigned for the unification of Europe. He worked together with former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for a close Franco-German friendship. Together, they laid the foundation for the common European currency, the Euro.
The G7 meetings of western heads of state are also based on his initiative.
Affiliated with the Republican Independents, d'Estaing was elected to rule France at 48, and came into power after Gaullist rule. He lost his re-election bid to socialist Francois Mitterrand.
Giscard received many awards for his services to European unity. The honorary citizen of his birthplace Koblenz received the Aachen Charlemagne Prize [Ger. Karlspreis] as well as the Westphalian Peace Prize. In December 2003, the Academie Francaise accepted him into the "Series of Immortals".
France has seen 2,244,635, cases of coronavirus so far, and is the fifth worst-affected nation in the world. The country is in the process of loosening its second national lockdown. Masks not working?
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Why not? Sterilizing the population of deplorables has long been a goal of globalists. Forcing everyone to take a vaccine is a grand opportunity to poison everyone at once. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out.
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Yeah, I guess two Doctors are "full of it". I suppose it's o.k. for people to kow-tow to Bill Gates, you know, that guru software writer and now vaccine expert.
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I am surprised by people that don't question a vaccine made in less than a year, and in case of Pfizer with a new technology. It is clear that this is a high risk bet.
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Most of the people I know who were infected have survived COVID infections without incident. But Mr. Wife and I also have friends who have died of it and several who are currently hospitalized, including one gentleman who is currently on a ventilator despite being only about sixty and in good health before he fell ill.
[NYPOST] The failure to protect nursing-home residents is by now a depressingly familiar fact of the pandemic in America — especially in the Empire State, where Gov. Andrew Granny Killer Cuomo ...Emmy Award-winning hereditary Dem governor of Noo York. His self-described exemplary handling of the COVID epidemic gave his state the highest death rate in the nation.... ’s grievous March order forcing homes to accept COVID-positive patients led to the death of at least 6,000 New Yorkers (the real figure could be double that).Nationwide, these residents constitute 40 percent of deaths, though they represent less than 1 percent of the population. Yet the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... has proved deadly to our elders in another, perhaps more insidious and invisible, way. According to barely noticed reporting from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, straight-up neglect has killed another 40,000 residents.
Take the case of Donald Wallace. The 75-year-old retired trucker survived COVID-19, according to the AP, but neglect led to him becoming so malnourished and dehydrated that he dropped to 98 pounds, suffered septic shock and likely choked on his own food. "They stopped taking care of him," his son Kevin said of the Alabama facility that took "care" of Wallace (the facility denied neglect).
Reports are coming from all over the country, including New York, of diapers left on for so long, the skin peels off when they are removed. Of bedridden residents who haven’t been turned for so long, you could see their bones through their sores. Often, the profound isolation leads to deaths that certificates simply label as "failure to thrive."
One big problem is the ubiquity of corporate-owned nursing homes that are chronically understaffed, and by employees paid less than a living wage. Rather than adequately supporting the institutions they own, per Sherlocks, these corporations are more interested in passing on cost-savings as profits to their shareholders.
America is truly a barbarous outlier in this respect, as immigrants colonists, especially those from cultures where filiality norms still reign, would tell you.
The practices were hiding in plain sight before, but the pandemic has forced Americans to examine how we treat our parents in the twilight of their lives. An informed choice lies before us. We can continue to acquiesce to a throwaway culture that discards the most vulnerable among us, or we can begin to mobilize to protect and honor our elders.It’s significant this choice on eldercare comes amid a massive political realignment. For all his faults, President Trump and his populist uprising at least somewhat loosened the grip on the GOP of small-government fanatics and corporatists. Democrats increasingly represent the interests of corporate America, of the managerial class. That’s a golden opportunity for Republicans to champion a pro-family, pro-worker vision — to insist that profits and growth aren’t the highest end in themselves.
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[Office of Texas Governor|Greg Abbott] Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will relocate its global headquarters to Spring, Texas from San Jose, California. The headquarters will be located in a new state-of-the-art campus that will open in early 2022, building upon the company's established presence in the state of Texas. The company's headquarters relocation to the Houston area holds the potential to add additional jobs to its already robust presence in Texas in the coming years.
HPE already has a significant presence across Texas, with locations in Austin, Plano, and Houston — the latter of which is home to more than 2,600 employees and is the company’s largest employment hub. HPE currently operates major product development, services, manufacturing, and lab facilities in Houston and Austin.
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As I recall, HP began in a garage in San Mateo, CA. After its successful rise it tried to create a world-class polytechnical highschool in San Mateo that would feed the growing computer-electronics economy. However, the good citizens, even then elitist to the core, declared it would not happen. Their kids would have preparation to go to Stanford. The poly school was scrapped.
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I worked for a CPA who had a LaserJet 4P; he got over one million pages from that thing. It was still running until he upgraded to Windows XP (yes, this was about 10+ years ago), when the printer no longer made the Windows HCL (hardware compatibility list). This LaserJet Pro 400 that I have now blows donkey cock - it'll do four labels and not fuse the toner on the third & fourth label correctly, so I gotta run it through twice or use tape to cover it.
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We've been using the Sharp MX Series laser printers/copiers in our offices for years with few issues, and 100,000+ pages/year, Raj. (No, I don't get a royalty)
Last HP we had was 12-15 years ago.
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I had an HP 4something that handled tabloid sized paper. It was a beast. The Office Space dudes would have broken their baseball bat if they'd tried to bash it.
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Of course your old HP Laser Jets were work horses that performed for years with few problems. That was the old HP before Carly Fiorina. But these days HP has everything Made in China. They are hypocrites to move to Texas. They should move the whole damn company to China. The last printer I bought was a Brother, Made in Malaysia. The laptop that I bought recently is an ASUS. It was Made in China but at least it's not an HP.
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Wow. Lotta HP hatred going on here. In 1977, a co-worker demonstrated the ruggedness of an early HP expensive engineering calculator by throwing it all the way across the bullpen, some 50-60 feet. It worked fine. I still have a 1986 model HP11C engineering calculator, although it doesn't get a lot of use, since I retired. I can still work in RPN, however.
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Bobby - fair point. I hate the dropoff in printer quality but I'll say this - I still have an HP 12C calculator; got it in college to help me with the finance courses. It kicks ass.
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The worry is they will bring the politics that destroyed CA with them. Like stowed away rats bringing the plague.
The old HP was a good company. I have a HP48SX that turned 30 this year and still has a better equation writer than most common computer software. And I have my pride and joy, my HP15c, which is still unmatched in my opinion. It handles statistics, complex math (imaginary numbers for you non-math folks), is programmable, and better yet, had built-in handling for matrix math, including determinants, inverse, and LU decomposition. Great field tool. And although its neary 40 years, its only on its 3rd set of batteries. They key-feel is snappy even after all this time and the key caps are in better shape than they have any right to be. I even bought a spare when they stopped making them, and its sitting in the closet (with the 48SX) in a faraday wrapper (if there is an EMP even, they will be life saving).
My only hope is that whoever inherits them will appreciate them as much as I did.
And my other hope is that most of the hard lefties will take severance and stay in California.
[IsraelTimes] The Knesset has begun its debate on dissolving the government, with a preliminary vote on the bill set for later this afternoon.
The bill will require another three votes for elections — the fourth in two years — to be called.
Utterly idiotic. But hope springs eternal: the media and the elites are NeverBibi, and the politicians are willing to play along if it will get them and their party more power. So here we are again, wasting Israeli taxpayer money in the hope that this time the deplorable Israeli voters will finally fail to reelect the man, unlike the last three times.
[Wire] "The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Braunwyn Windham-Burke — the same person who previously boasted of giving her husband threesomes on his birthday — has now come out as a lesbian, though she has indicated no plans to leave her husband.
Speaking with GLAAD, the reality television star and mother of seven revealed that she has "never" been attracted to men despite being married to her husband Sean for 20 years. says a lot about Sean
"I like women. I’m gay," she said.
"I’m a member of the LGBTQIA+ community," she continued. "I’m a lesbian, and it has taken me 42 years to say that, but I’m so proud of where I am right now, and I’m so happy where I am. To be able to be comfortable in my own skin after so long is just so nice." Husband trapped in a man's body ?
[AnNahar] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him.... will keep Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's trade-war tariffs on China for the time being when he moves into the Oval Office next month, the president-elect has told US media.
Rancor and recrimination have defined the relationship between the world's two biggest economies over the last four years, with Trump slapping import fees on billions of dollars' worth of Chinese goods with tariffs.
Biden meanwhile has been a strident critic of China's human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... record and analysts have predicted his administration will maintain a hawkish posture towards Beijing.
"I'm not going to make any immediate moves, and the same applies to the tariffs," Biden told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in an interview published Wednesday.
"I'm not going to prejudice my options."
Since winning last month's presidential election, Biden has hinted at a trade policy that would mend Washington's alliances with Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Asia-Pacific.
He has said the United States must join forces with other world democracies to present a united front in global trade policy as a counterweight to China.
Biden has targeted Beijing on several fronts and singled out Chinese President Xi Jinping during a debate with other presidential candidates in February.
"This is a guy who doesn't have a democratic — with a small d — bone in his body," he said then. "This is a guy who is a thug."
His campaign also referred to the crackdown on the Moslem Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang province as a "genocide," provocative language to Beijing with potential ramifications under international law.
Unexpectedly.
[Washington Examiner] Research shows U.S. media outlets have covered the coronavirus pandemic far more negatively than international media sources, irrespective of any positive developments on vaccines or declining case numbers. That would've been my guess, but I'm glad somebody quantified it for us.
"Ninety one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty five percent for scientific journals," reads the working paper's abstract. "The negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with positive scientific developments including school re-openings and vaccine trials. Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience." Coronavirus = OrangeManBad.
The paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last week and written by Dartmouth College scholars Bruce Sacerdote and Ranjan Sehgal along with Brown University's Molly Cook, analyzed over 20,000 news reports from the 15 top U.S. media outlets and 39 international sources. Overall, they conclude that "U.S. major media outlets are much more negative" when publishing similar stories to "non-U.S. sources."
The paper cites a study on school reopenings and COVID-19 infections that found "infection rates among students remain low" and that "schools have not become the super-spreaders many progressives feared." The researchers note that an analysis of the available evidence painted a similar story, yet 90% of "school reopening articles from U.S. mainstream media are negative versus only 56 percent" of foreign media coverage.
"The tone of media coverage impacts both human health and attitudes towards preventative measures including vaccination, mask wearing, and social distance," the authors wrote. "The proportion of U.S. adults who exhibit depression symptoms has risen threefold since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic." Somebody apparently believes what they read. The authors note that even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a recommendation against "heavy consumption of news stories about the pandemic."
"Our results suggest the CDC's warning is prescient," the authors wrote. Is there nothing Fauci, Birx, and Redfield can't do? "U.S. major media stories that discuss the benefits of social distancing or alternatively the benefits of mask wearing are less numbers than stories about President Trump not wearing a mask," the researchers wrote. "Similarly, the terms ‘Trump and hydroxychloroquine' receive more media coverage than do all stories about companies and researchers developing vaccines."
The paper found that "mentions of COVID-19 vaccines" or "any names of the top ten institutions or companies working on" a vaccine were mentioned in 1,371 stories. But during the same time period, the researchers found "8,756 stories involving Trump and mask wearing and 1,636 stories about Trump and hydroxychloroquine."
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I'm going with "Coronavirus = OrangeManBad." CV-19 is being politicized in the U.S. by our lame stream media. Used as a scare tactic to keep senior citizens away from voting in person at the polls on election day? In 2016 senior citizens voted for Trump? Probably same way in 2020.
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[DW] Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died on Wednesday at age 94, due to complications arising from COVID-19.
...Emmy Award-winning hereditary Dem governor of Noo York. His self-described exemplary handling of the COVID epidemic gave his state the highest death rate in the nation....
...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him....
The paper cites a study on school reopenings and COVID-19 infections that found "infection rates among students remain low" and that "schools have not become the super-spreaders many 
The authors note that even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a recommendation against "heavy consumption of news stories about the pandemic."
"U.S. major media stories that discuss the benefits of social distancing or alternatively the benefits of mask wearing are less numbers than stories about President Trump not wearing a mask," the researchers wrote. "Similarly, the terms ‘Trump and hydroxychloroquine' receive more media coverage than do all stories about companies and researchers developing vaccines."
