You won the election, Mr. Mayor. Now you own all the problems.
[NYPOST] All too predictably, the Legal Aid Society is attacking the NYPD’s renewed "quality of life" policing.
The direly needed shift targets such violations as selling pot, dice games, public drinking and urination, criminal trespass, fare evasion and other acts that Commissioner Keechant Sewell all too rightly calls "precursors for violence."
Cue a Legal Aid Society study purporting to show that the effort will be racially discriminatory. It uses 2021 data indicating that the vast majority of those arrested for such offenses were black and Hispanic, and so provided fodder for the usual suspects on the City Council to assail top police brass.
Guess what word is missing from Legal Aid’s study? Victim.
Yet black New Yorkers, about 24% of the city population, make up the vast majority of serious crime victims: 65% of those murdered in 2020, and 74% of shooting victims.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
A map is at the link
[ColonelCassad] There were shots with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Borodianka. Apparently, the withdrawal of troops from Kyiv is indeed carried out in the direction of the border with Belarus, from where troops are being transferred near Kharkov and Izyum before the upcoming operation against the main grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
What can be said about this withdrawal of troops from Kyiv.
If the upcoming operation on the Left Bank ends with the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then everyone will talk about the well-thought-out plan of the General Staff.
Indeed, according to official statements, a throw near Kyiv was needed to tie down forces at the first stage, and the assault on Kyiv was not planned. Now they have announced that the goal of the 2nd stage (according to Shoigu) is to defeat the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
Well, if they are now defeated (that is, those red arrows to the Donetsk-Pavlograd highway that I showed back in the first half of March are filled with content), then everything will really look like a clear adherence to the plan.
But if the task of defeating the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Left Bank fails to be solved, then it will hardly be possible to say that everything is going according to plan.
So it remains to wait for the start of the operation and look at the implementation of the goals that the General Staff has outlined. I believe we will get answers to all questions in the next month.
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I've heard that Putin and his top yes men are hiding in the bunkers. Could he be planning a tactical nuke on Kiev (Yes...this is how I spell and pronounce it) and is just moving his troops out of harm's way?
#4
Or the Russians are on Plan (C). Plan (A) was cross the border, shout "Nazi!" three times and take over when the Ukrainian Oligarchs fled the country; Plan(B) was(is?) encircle Kiev and starve it into surrendering; and Plan (C) is reinforce the other columns and carve Ukraine into chunks leaving Kiev to 'wither on the vine'?
[JustTheNews] Back before the 2020 election, when Democrats and their allies in the corporate media were still claiming the Hunter Biden story was a conspiracy theory or Russian disinformation, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson released an open letter to America posing questions to then-candidate Joe Biden.
Like most Biden scandals at the time, it mostly got ignored or ridiculed. But the questions were rooted in facts and evidence gathered over two years by investigators on Johnson’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Now nearly two years later, a funny thing has happened. The giants of the corporate media – the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN among them – have abruptly reversed course and acknowledged Hunter Biden’s foreign business pursuits raise legal issues and that content on his laptop left behind in a Delaware repair shop in 2019 was authentic all along.
And now Johnson’s unanswered questions posed in August 2020 loom larger than ever as a federal grand jury in Delaware investigates Hunter Biden for his Ukraine and China business deals, taxes, foreign lobbying and other issues, and some Democrats reportedly brace for a possible indictment.
Here are Johnson’s questions to now-President Biden, Hunter's father, from his August 2020 letter, with a few updates driven by Just the News own original reporting the past two years:
Why did you meet with Devon Archer, your son’s now-convicted business partner, at the White House on April 16, 2014? What was discussed? Did you discuss anything related to Ukraine, Hunter Biden or Burisma?
Were you aware that Devon Archer joined the board of Burisma six days later?
In April 2014, you gave a speech in Kiev calling for Ukraine to expand its natural gas production, Burisma’s core business. In private emails, Hunter Biden and Archer took credit for the language in the speech. Why did you make the request and did your son or his business partner have anything to do with it? (NEW)
Were you aware that Burisma’s owner, Mykoloa Zlochevsky, was generally viewed as a corrupt oligarch and that his London bank account containing $23 million had been seized by British officials only15 days before Hunter Biden joined the board of a company he owned?
Was Hunter Biden aware that British officials had seized Zlochevsky’s bank account?
When did you first become aware of Zlochevsky and Burisma’s reputations for corruption?
Do you believe Zlochevsky and Burisma are corrupt?
Were you aware in April 2014 that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma? When did you first become aware that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma? When did you become aware of how much Hunter Biden was being compensated by Burisma?
Why do you believe Burisma recruited and paid Archer and your son to be on its board?
What skills or knowledge do you believe Hunter Biden possesses that qualified him to be on Burisma’s board and receive $50,000 to $166,000 per month for his and his partner’s services?
When did you learn your son had not paid taxes on some of his overseas work, including on monies received from Burisma?
When did you first learn your son was facing a federal investigation?
State Department officials have testified your son’s work for Burisma while you oversaw [as vice president] Ukraine policy created the appearance of a conflict of interest and they further wrote in a classified email in 2016 that the conflict had undercut U.S. anticorruption efforts in Ukraine. How do you respond to those criticisms? (NEW)
What exactly had Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin done that caused you to threaten to withhold $1 billion in desperately needed aid from Ukraine if President Poroshenko didn’t fire him?
What do you know about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China?
A 2017 series of memos referred to a Chinese business deal your son was involved in that reserved 10% equity for the “big guy.” What did you know about it and were you that “big guy?” (NEW)
What if anything do you know about your son's dealings with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina?
Did you ever meet with any of Hunter Biden's foreign business partners from China, Russia or Ukraine, including but not limited to Burisma's Vadym Pozharskyi or Baturina or her Moscow mayor husband?
What do you know about financial benefits your brothers and sister-in-law have obtained because of their relationship to you?
Emails on your son’s laptop now in the hands of the FBI refer to shared accounts or bills between you and him. Did your son ever give your any money, gift or financial benefit from his business dealings? (NEW)
[ZERO] An ominous sign about today's high inflation environment, and quite clearly the Federal Reserve is behind the hiking curve, is a contact close with the Fed complaining about out-of-control golf membership prices.
Yes, you heard that correctly. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker's speech cited "one of our contacts," presumably a Wall Street banker or corporate elite, complained about the "whopping membership fee increases at his golf club."
Harker said the contact even "suggested it may be a good time to play at your local muni instead" of a private course.
As Matt Taibbi of TK News notes,
"I know I’m a little out of practice, because just as I was about to begin speaking, I made sure my mute button wasn’t on," he cracked. "In all seriousness..."
Shifting to a graver theme, he mentioned the old saw about being cursed to live in "interesting times." The novel coronavirus, he said, "has tragically killed at least 6 million people globally and around 1 million here in the United States," adding, "That’s the equivalent of a city larger than San Francisco or Seattle." Russia has also invaded Ukraine, he said, "fomenting death and destruction and spurring a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Europe."
Next in this parade of calamities: the scourge of inflation, a problem so serious that it touched him and his colleagues personally.
"One of our contacts, for instance, mentioned whopping membership fee increases at his golf club," Harker said, "suggesting this summer may be a good time to play at your local muni instead."
[PJ] During her confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s despicable record on sentencing child porn offenders became a key issue. Republicans pointed out that she had a pattern of giving these perverts lenient sentences, while Democrats made excuses for her and kept gushing over her status as a black woman.
Although, since they’re not biologists, I’m not sure how they know she is, in fact, a woman.
We knew her record was terrible during the hearings, but her record is even worse than we thought.
"Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of handing down dramatically lower sentences in criminal cases, but especially lower sentences in cases involving child pornography," explains Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who released a comprehensive analysis of her record. According to that analysis, Jackson gave sentences nearly 60% shorter than the national average for possession of child porn and nearly 50% shorter for distributors of child porn.
Cruz’s analysis found that in every child pornography case that Judge Jackson heard, she sentenced the defendant below the sentencing guidelines and at or below the recommendation from the prosecutor.
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No. She will be confirmed. I predict that Lindsay Graham will vote to confirm. This after asking the "tough questions" during the hearings. Be sure that he didn't ask and will never ask "tough questions" about the 2020 election. This guy is an evil clown.
[Real Clear Science] Desire doesn't die after age sixty. In fact, more seniors than ever are embracing their inner friskiness in their old age, and science has some things to say about it.
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.
[NYPOST] All too predictably, the 
[ZERO] An ominous sign about today's high inflation environment, and quite clearly the Federal Reserve is behind the hiking curve, is a contact close with the Fed complaining about out-of-control golf membership prices. 
