[NYP] Victoria Lee, a rising mixed martial artist who competed under the ONE Championship promotion, died last month, her sister Angela Lee announced on Saturday. Lee was 18 years old.
No cause of death was given.
Angela Lee said Victoria Lee died on Dec. 26 as she mourned ’the most beautiful soul’ in a message on Instagram.
"She has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then," Angela Lee said. "We miss her. More than anything in this world. Our family will never be the same. Life will never be the same.
"We miss you so much sis. More than you could ever realize. We’re all broken. Because a piece of you was in each of us and when you left, those pieces were ripped out of us. We will never be the same."
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If every death was a "COVID death" because the powers that be said so, I guess they should just accept that the rest of us are free to assume every unexpected or unexplained death is "vaxx related."
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He found a study from 2006 (a Meta-Analysis, the strongest type) called 'The Lausanne Study'. In it, from 1966 to 2004 (38 Years), they identified 1101cases of athletes under 35, dying of cardiac issues - on the earth. 1101/38 = ~29 per year. He was able, on his own, by using just Google and local news websites, to identify ~550 in the US alone, since the injections (2 years).
Also, current Group Life Disability Claims (ages 16-64) are through the roof, at ~ 1.7 Million. Excess deaths in that group are at 40% (Mandates).
https://twitter.com/dowdedward
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Big pharma vs Big insurance. Place your bets.
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[IsraelTimes] Dean of Kennedy School said to side with pro-Israel donors and veto Kenneth Roth’s position at human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... center; HRW has long been accused of bias against Jewish state.
Truly shocked — someone at Harvard is concerned that a lifetime of being blatantly anti-Israel might upset donors?
The former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) Kenneth Roth
...son of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, he spent his career actively avoiding the topic of Jew-hate, yet is indignant that Israel notices his prejudice. After all, everybody he knows says the same things about Israel, so they must be true...
was barred by a Harvard University dean from taking up a fellowship at the school over his alleged anti-Israel bias, according to a report on Thursday.
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Prof. Kathryn Sikkink, who is affiliated with the Carr Center, told The Nation that she was surprised when Elmendorf told her that Roth’s fellowship had not been approved over "anti-Israel bias."
"We thought he would be a terrific fellow,"
Because of the bias, right?
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Moment customer shoots and kills robber who held up Houston restaurant with fake gun: Cops search for vigilante who fired eight bullets into thief's back and one 'execution-style' into his head
The customer, who police are now trying to track down, shot the man before taking back all the stolen good and returning them to fellow patrons
Pedro Lopez, owner of the taqueria, said he and his employees are still in shock
The deceased robber's identity has not yet been released by police
Police have not filed any charges - and just want to speak to the customer
Uh huh. Police don't file charges, DA's do. He'd be wise to stay away
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The robber had poor weapons handling if it was real. One shot and it would have flown out of his hand. The other gentlemen utilized proper gun handling by using both hands.
[A&SFMag] Jan. 6, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
The Air National Guard is retiring its entire fleet of 11 RC-26 Condors, the Air Force said Jan. 6. The twin-prop plane had an often under-the-radar but sometimes controversial role as a reconnaissance aircraft used for both counterdrug and homeland security missions.
A converted civilian airliner, the aircraft attracted unwanted attention several times recently, and for years the Department of Defense has sought to retire the aircraft in favor of cheaper platforms such as drones.
Those efforts had been blocked by advocates on Capitol Hill, most vocally former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an RC-26 pilot in the Air National Guard. In both the 2020 and 2021 National Defense Authorization Acts, there were provisions preventing the Air Force from using funds to retire the Condor.
No such provision made it into the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, though, and Air Force said that without a need or funding for the aircraft, the plane will finally be out of service.
"There are no Air Force specific RC-26B validated requirements nor dedicated funding to support sustainment of the weapons system," an Air Force spokesperson told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
The Wisconsin Air National Guard concluded operations on Dec. 28, it announced. Representatives for the Air National Guard did not say whether all RC-26 operations have ceased—Alabama, Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia, and Washington all have the aircraft as well.
The Air Force said all 11 RC-26 aircraft will head to the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
While the Air Force sees no requirements for the RC-26, the Wisconsin National Guard touted the aircraft’s usefulness in its release.
"Officers, civilians, suspects, families and regular citizens who have no idea that the reason that they are alive is because those guys were experts at their jobs, helped chase down and arrest drug dealers, in ways that could not have been done in any other platform," Lt. Col. Benjamin West, the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s program manager, said in a statement.
"Having spent a large time of my policing career in narcotics work, I can tell you that this mission saves people’s lives," added Army Col. Paul Felician, director of the Wisconsin National Guard’s counterdrug program. "The stuff that this aircraft enabled law enforcement to do took more drugs off the street and kept people safe from having to go into the direct risk of harm—it’s a sad day to see it go away."
But the RC-26’s use in law enforcement missions was questionable at times, according to the Air Force’s own accounting. The aircraft monitored protests and relayed information to law enforcement in Minnesota, Arizona, California, and Washington, D.C. after the murder of George Floyd in police custody the summer of 2020. Congressional concerns prompted an Air Force Inspector General investigation, which concluded that the National Guard Bureau erred in its deployment of RC-26s in some cases.
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"Those efforts had been blocked by advocates on Capitol Hill, most vocally former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an RC-26 pilot in the Air National Guard."
Anyone want to bet against that his vanity photo shows him in a flight suit kneeling next to the nose gear of an A-10?
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Converted civilian cargo planes from Wisconsin, able to conduct a persistent FMV (Full Motion Video) surveillance sortie over a target area for 8-9 hours, what good are they ?
[ToloNews] A surge in the cost of most food commodities last year, as the disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of shortages, sent the U.N. food agency's average price index to the highest level on record.
The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices of the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 143.7 points in 2022, up 14.3% from 2021, and the highest since records started in 1990, the agency said on Friday.
The index had already gained 28% in 2021 from the previous year as the world economy recovered from the impact of the pandemic.
Food prices surged after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February last year on fears of disruptions to Black Sea trade. They have pared some of their gains since, in part because of a U.N.-backed grain export channel from Ukraine and the prospect of improved supplies in producing countries.
In December the benchmark index fell for the ninth consecutive month to 132.4 points, compared with a revised 135.00 points for November. The November figure was previously given as 135.7 points.
"Calmer food commodity prices are welcome after two very volatile years," FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero said.
The decline in the index in December was driven by a drop in the international price of vegetable oils, together with some declines in cereal and meat prices, but mitigated by slight increases in those of sugar and dairy, the FAO said.
Still over the whole of 2022, four of the FAO's five food sub-indexes - cereals, meat, dairy and vegetable oils - had reached record highs, while the fifth one, sugar, was at a 10-year high.
The FAO Cereal Price Index index rose 17.9% in 2022 due to factors including significant market disruptions, higher energy and input costs, adverse weather and continued strong global food demand, the FAO said.
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But some of us have lived in or worked D&R in areas hit by other natural disasters, and saw this coming on a grander, longer scale.
Some invested in canned food goods and other 3+ year long term shelf life items. Only suffering fuel and fresh product (eggs, bread milk, bacon) prices.
eg. Spam, at a Dollar General store sold for $2.38 back in 2019, now sells for closer to $3.85.
12 oz Canned Corn was 4 for $1 now 2 (11oz) for $1 if you are lucky.
Canned 1lbs pre-cooked Ham was $2.35 at several stores now $3.98 .
Coffee 48 oz cans $7.95 now 42 oz and $14+ Note: Ollies is selling a private label 48oz $8.98 made by a major coffee brand vendor good to 2025+
Sardines were $.50 now $1 and the new contents look like rejected pieces.
Canned chicken was $1, now $1.50 in a smaller can and more water.
Canned Tuna was 50 cents now $.75 with more water.
Canned Salmon was $2.49 a can, now $4.25 and in a smaller can.
All of these canned goods have/had a BB shelf life of 3+ years
Gas was $2.23 a Gallon (87octane) then $3.97, then midterms rolled around, and it dropped to $2.45+/- and stayed down for the business needed holiday buying season. It is s now pushing over $3 a gallon. But will likely drop 6 months as we go into the National Campaign cycle. A Shelf life with proper treatment and storage is 18+ months.
BTW: The Price of COKE has gotten ridiculous
I am seeing discount sale prices of $13 for a 24 can carton
with BB dates less than 6 months out and a 24 can carton of BUDWEISER selling for $18 just $5 more. Makes me wish I was a beer drinker again.
[DW] "Germany's response is astonishing to us in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as for the Polish state. The German government cannot answer a question that was never posed. Neither negotiations nor conciliatory discussions took place." That's what Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk had to say about Germany's newest refusal to pay Poland reparations for World War II. Mularczyk made the statement on Wednesday in Warsaw.
"We do not accept Germany's position. We reject it as completely unjustified and wrong. We will continue to act within Germany and on the international stage to urge the German population and the international community to change its position," Mularczyk said.
The statement that had generated such widespread outrage was short and direct: "According to information from the Federal Republic of Germany, the matter of reparations and compensation for losses during World War II is closed, and Germany has no intention of negotiating the issue." The reaction from Poland's government was swift.
A response from the Poland's Foreign Ministry stated: "The Polish government will continue its efforts to settle the question of debt that was accrued a result of German aggression and its occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945."
It's unlikely that anyone affiliated with Poland's United Right, the political alliance that has ruled the country since 2015, believed that Germany's decision would be different. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had already made that very clear on October 4, after the Polish government had sent a diplomatic note stating demands to Berlin the day prior.
[Propublica] An exclusive news report dominated the headlines in Canada in recent weeks: Canadian intelligence had warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about a vast campaign of political interference by China. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service had learned that Chinese consulate officials in Toronto had covertly funded a network of at least 11 political candidates in federal elections in 2019, the report said. The Chinese operation had also targeted Canadian political figures and immigrant leaders seen as opponents of the regime in Beijing, subjecting them to surveillance, harassment and attacks in the media, the report said. Trudeau responded with promises of action, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they were investigating the alleged foreign interference. The Chinese foreign ministry denied the allegations.
Not surprisingly, the report’s author was Sam Cooper. An investigative journalist for Global News, a private Canadian media organization, the 48-year-old Cooper has done hard-hitting work about a surprisingly active criminal underworld rooted in a large diaspora from Hong Kong, a bastion of the mafias known as triads. His best-selling 2021 book, "Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West," examines violent international gangs involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and, most alarmingly, Chinese espionage and influence activity in Canada.
Cooper and other experts (including U.S. national security officials interviewed by ProPublica) say Canadian political leaders have ignored or minimized the extent of the threat from China. Cooper has received criticism from pro-Beijing figures in the Chinese-Canadian community and is fighting two defamation lawsuits from subjects of his coverage. But his reporting has drawn praise from national security officials, dissidents of Chinese origin and academics in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. It helped spur a governmental inquiry known as the Cullen Commission, which recently concluded that organized crime had laundered billions of dollars in the province of British Columbia. And the latest revelations of Chinese interference are having a potentially dramatic impact on the political debate in Canada.
ProPublica’s conversation with Cooper has been edited for clarity and brevity.
[Red State] Sometimes, these articles almost write themselves. Or, due to hypocrisy, dishonesty, or unintentional humor, many stories beg to be covered. This is one of them, and the cast is perfect: an ex-Republican congressman, MSNBC, and the Democrat-weaponized FBI — with the CIA tossed in as a bonus.
Our tale begins with Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s revelation that now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed, as part of a deal with GOP lawmakers opposed to his speakership bid, to the formation of a committee modeled after the 1975 Senate Select Committee, formed by Senator Frank Church, which investigated abuses by the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and the IRS, as reported by my colleague Nick Arama.
Enter, ex-Republican Congressman-turned-MSNBC analyst David Jolly and his appearance on Katie Phang’s Saturday morning show. In reaction to the news that McCarthy agreed to organize the committee to investigate alleged abuses by the FBI and CIA in recent years, as reported by NewsBusters, Jolly suggested that Fox News viewers are degenerate drug addicts, desperate for their next fix of government-hating heroin. Great start, right?
Uh-huh, not a hint of bitter hatred there at all, Mr. Jolly.
Never mind, of course, that Elon Musk’s Twitter Files dumps revealed the FBI’s ongoing relationship with the Big Tech platform to suppress or ban news and opinions critical of the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 presidential election — not to mention the involvement of the Democrat National Committee and the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. And that’s just for starters.
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But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. - Declaration of Independence.
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We don't need a "living constitution," we need an ironclad contract that puts a straitjacket of limitations on gummint at all levels, with "interpretability" utterly removed.
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[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s "Kudlow," Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney called for investigations by Congress and the SEC into suspicious trading around the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers and how people could have possibly gotten their hands on CPI data in advance. Congress to investigate congress ?
Carney said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:35] "Congress needs to ask the White House who gets these numbers. ... We know that the CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) gets it, the NSC gets it, but we don’t know who they share it with internally." Friends and family ?
He added, "This does seem like — because it’s not just that there’s a lot of trading. There’s a lot of trading in the right direction. So, it seems like people actually do have a grip on what’s coming out. We need to find out — plug that leak. I don’t think it’s the Department of Labor. They’ve been running this safe and secure for a long time. I think it’s somewhere where it’s getting transmitted."
Carney concluded, "It is a big scandal. The SEC should be — and I’m sure they are, they’re looking into this. When I was an M&A lawyer, we used to — as soon as we announced a deal, the SEC would send us a letter that had the names of everybody who did unusual trading and basically, they’d ask, do you know any of these people? So, I’m sure right now, they’re going through everybody who did unusual trades around — in front of the CPI and figuring out how could they have gotten this information." Fear not, the SEC is on the trail. Answers and arrests soon to come, you'll see
[AlAhram] Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) issued a statement on Saturday calling for the return of five-year-old boy Shenouda to his adoptive family until their lawsuit to keep the child is decided.
The case of Shenouda has stirred controversy late last year after authorities decided to place the boy in an orphanage after DNA tests revealed that the Christian parents, with whom he lived his entire life, are not his biological parents.
The childless parents who raised the child said that they found the boy, who was only days old, in a church in Cairo and that they named him Shanouda Farouk Fawzy after the adoptive father.
The boy was later handed to an orphanage where he was renamed Yusuf. The adoptive parents have filed a lawsuit to regain jug of the child and reverse his conversion to Islam.
Adoption is prohibited by Egyptian law as it contradicts Islamic Sharia. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... an alternative care system for abandoned children — which allows orphans to be raised as part of a foster family — exists. This system is referred to in Arabic as "kafala".
Furthermore, the Egyptian law does not regulate the religion of children with unidentified parents. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Ministry of Interior's civil status department customarily attributes them to Islam after picking a full name for them.
THE NCHR INTERVENES
The NCHR said it would assign its legislative committee to explore ways to be involved in the child’s lawsuit based on the relevant laws. It also said that it would suggest legislative and procedural amendments to both the parliament and the government.
The council will also coordinate with all relevant parties to make sure that the case ends in a way that guarantees the best interest of Shenouda, which is bringing the child back to his family, the statement said.
"It is the right of the child at this early age to live in a family, not in an orphanage," the NCHR stressed.
The council called for all judicial authorities working on the case as well as the Ministry of Social Solidarity to make sure that they take the child's best interest into account in all decisions related to the child and to ensure that their decisions are in line with the Constitution and the Child Law 12/1996.
The NCHR called for returning the child to the family until the lawsuit is decided.
The council asserted that taking the child from the family that he lived with during his first five years and placing him in an orphanage is in contradiction to article 80 of the Constitution, the Child Law, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and standards of children’s rights.
"The council affirms that the humanitarian nature of this situation requires us to act in the interest of the child, to ensure his rights, and to show mercy until the case is decided," the statement said.
The lawsuit "should not be an obstacle to the child's enjoyment of a decent life with the family in which he was raised for a full five years," the statement added.
President of the NCHR Moushira Khattab wrote an opinion in December under the title "Shanouda’s rights as a child," where she stressed the need to underscore how the constitutional provisions are framed in a way that gives priority to the role of the family in the life of any child.
Khattab expressed hopes that Shenouda can "celebrate this holy season back home in the embrace of the family who has loved and cared for him all these years."
A prisoner was killed and more than 60 wounded after a riot broke out at a Myanmar prison west of Yangon, the junta said on Saturday.
Myanmar has been in chaos since Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government was toppled in a military coup in February 2021, ending the southeast Asian nation’s brief period of democracy.
The riot at the prison in Pathein started after guards confiscated a mobile phone from an inmate on Thursday night and took disciplinary action, the junta said in a statement. About 70 prisoners escaped from their cells and damaged property on Friday morning. Prisoners used sticks, bricks and pieces of cement to attack security forces, the junta said.
Authorities tried to bring the situation under control but negotiations failed and they resorted to force.
“The authorities fired guns to break up the crowd and bring the riot under control,” the statement said.
The junta said one prisoner was killed “amid fighting” and 63 inmates were wounded along with two police and nine guards. Local media described the dead inmate as a political prisoner and BBC Burmese said he was on terrorism charges.
The junta flagged the launch of an investigation into the incident.
Last week, the junta announced it would free more than 7,000 prisoners to mark the 75th anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain.
More than 2,700 people have been killed since the military seized power and more than 13,000 people are detained as part of a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.
In July last year the regime executed four prisoners including former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw and democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu - better known as “Jimmy.” It was the first use of the death penalty by the Myanmar state in around 30 years and sparked worldwide condemnation.
Human Rights Watch says Myanmar prisons are notorious for harsh conditions and their alleged use of torture.
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.
[NYP] Victoria Lee, a rising mixed martial artist who competed under the ONE Championship promotion, died last month, her sister Angela Lee announced on Saturday. Lee was 18 years old.
[A&SFMag] Jan. 6, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
Converted civilian cargo planes from Wisconsin, able to conduct a persistent FMV (Full Motion Video) surveillance sortie over a target area for 8-9 hours, what good are they ?
[DW] "Germany's response is astonishing to us in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as for the Polish state. The German government cannot answer a question that was never posed. Neither negotiations nor conciliatory discussions took place." That's what Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk had to say about Germany's newest refusal to pay Poland reparations for World War II. Mularczyk made the statement on Wednesday in Warsaw. 
[Propublica] An exclusive news report dominated the headlines in Canada in recent weeks: Canadian intelligence had warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about a vast campaign of political interference by China. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service had learned that Chinese consulate officials in Toronto had covertly funded a network of at least 11 political candidates in federal elections in 2019, the report said. The Chinese operation had also targeted Canadian political figures and immigrant leaders seen as opponents of the regime in Beijing, subjecting them to surveillance, harassment and attacks in the media, the report said. Trudeau responded with promises of action, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they were investigating the alleged foreign interference. The Chinese foreign ministry denied the allegations.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s "Kudlow," Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney called for investigations by Congress and the SEC into suspicious trading around the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers and how people could have possibly gotten their hands on CPI data in advance.
Trading on the CPI? Too much volatility. There is an easier way. Here, hold my Xbox Core, I'll show you.
