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Feral youths ARE wild animals. We have had specific protocols in place for centuries that lay out how to deal with wild animals that kill humans. Those protocols are pretty much gone thanks to Soros.
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#2
This generation has lost their minds. Every previous generation knew to bribe the homeless guy to buy them a higher volume of liquor that he has not backwashed into. Nobody steals from a homeless person just from a hygienic standpoint. Maybe they were drunk, but I would have to be blind drunk to borrow a bottle off a street person, yet alone assault him for it. How big a bottle did the guy have for them to pass around among 8 people? Was he guzzling a 2 liter of Wild Turkey? Maybe the Covid lockdowns and mask fiber sucking did more damage to the mentality of this generation than we know.
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01/11/2023 17:01 Comments ||
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#3
If this happened in the US, we'd be playing "Guess the Ethnicity" game.
#5
#2 The pack of animals appear to have assembled online. The attack itself was an extension of previous violence. Violence itself appears to have been the goal.
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01/11/2023 19:54 Comments ||
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#6
Demonic but it makes better sense unless they prefer their bourbon with notes of Cool Ranch Doritos and gingivitis.
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Collier Gwin, who runs Foster Gwin Gallery, came under fire for his actions
In footage shared on social media he said that the woman was being violent
He appeared to claim that he was part of the community's efforts to support homeless people
The reporter filming the video said: 'I've listened to her talk to the people and saying, "No, this is the way I want to live. My idea of cleanliness is not your idea of cleanliness."'
After admitting to being the man in the hosepipe video, Gwin also tried to defend his actions yesterday, claiming the woman had become psychotic and was turning over garbage cans.
'I said you have to move, I cannot clean the street, move down,' Gwin told The San Francisco Chronicle.
'She starts screaming bellingent things, spitting, yelling at me... at that point she was so out of control... I spray her with the hose and say, "Move, move. I will help you."'
He also noted that he has been a 'champion' of trying to help her previously.
The video comes amid a growing in the city. The number of homeless people in San Francisco was tallied in February at almost 8,000, the second highest figure of any year since 2005, according to the official government count which takes place every three years.
Business owners in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood have threatened to stop paying taxes if politicians don't start cleaning up streets of litter and stopping people from openly taking drugs.
In a letter to city officials in August, The Castro Merchants Association said some of the homeless people in the streets outside their stores had been harassing customers and needed help.
'They need shelter and/or services and they need them immediately,' the Merchants Association said.
'Our community is struggling to recover from lost business revenue, from burglaries and never-ending vandalism/graffiti (often committed by unhoused persons) and we implore you to take action.'
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01/11/2023 12:41 Comments ||
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#3
Made a clean spot. Now you've done it.
When you've pissed off the art gallery people. Interesting how frightened the restaurant is about revenge, probably with good reason as the guy will likely get skinned by the city alone for everything up to and including practicing agriculture without proper licensing.
[ProPublica] A ProPublica-ICIJ investigation into shadow diplomats identified about 20 honorary consuls suspected of supporting the Third Reich through espionage and other activities.
In 1942, as Nazi Germany began to send hundreds of thousands of Jews to killing centers, Brazilian police swooped into a port city in the South American country and arrested a wealthy landowner.
To locals, he was Otto Uebele, a Brazilian manager of a prominent coffee trading company. He also served as honorary consul for Germany — and was an accused Nazi spy.
"One of the leaders of German espionage in South America," Allied intelligence agents wrote in a secret document, later released by the CIA.
A local newspaper at the time called Uebele a man of "respectable appearance, who enjoyed the greatest prestige and influence in social and commercial circles."
"Nobody," the paper wrote, "could imagine him a spy. The fact went off like a bomb, such was the surprise."
[Some News Agency] The Pentagon formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate Tuesday, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.
Austin's memo has been widely anticipated ever since legislation signed into law on Dec. 23 gave him 30 days to rescind the mandate. The Defense Department had already stopped all related personnel actions, such as discharging troops who refused the shot.
"The Department will continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members," Austin said in the memo. "Vaccination enhances operational readiness and protects the force."
Austin said that commanders have the authority to maintain unit readiness and a healthy force. He added, however, that other department policies — including mandates for other vaccines — remain in place. That includes, he said, "the ability of commanders to consider, as appropriate, the individual immunization status of personnel in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required for travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation."
The contentious political issue, which has divided America, forced more than 8,400 troops out of the military for refusing to obey a lawful order when they declined to get the vaccine. Thousands of others sought religious and medical exemptions. Austin's memo ends those exemption requests.
But Congress agreed to rescind the mandate, with opponents reluctantly saying that perhaps it had already succeeded in getting the bulk of the force vaccinated. Roughly 99% of active-duty troops in the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps had gotten the vaccine, and 98% of the Army. The Guard and Reserve rates are lower, but generally are more than 90%.
Austin's memo was unapologetic in his continued support for the vaccine, and his belief that the mandate kept the force healthy and able to protect America. The Pentagon's vaccine efforts, he said, "will leave a lasting legacy in the many lives we saved, the world-class force we have been able to field, and the high level of readiness we have maintained, amidst difficult public health conditions."
In addition to ending efforts to discharge troops who refuse the vaccine, Austin's memo says that those who sought exemptions and were denied will have their records updated and any letters of reprimand will be removed.
Those who were discharged for refusing to obey a lawful order to take the vaccine received either an honorable discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions. Austin's memo says that anyone who was discharged can petition their military service to request a change in the "characterization of their discharge" in their personnel records. It does not, however, say what possible corrections could be awarded.
Austin’s decision leaves some discretion to commanders, allowing them to decide whether they can require vaccines in some circumstances, such as certain deployments overseas.
Military officials vividly recall the overwhelming crisis of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy aircraft carrier that was knocked out of duty and sidelined in Guam for 10 weeks in early 2020 as the emerging virus swept through the ship. More than 1,000 crew members eventually became infected, and one sailor died.
Military leaders worry that if troops begin to refuse the vaccine in large numbers, similar outbreaks could occur. The risk is particularly high on small ships or submarines where service members are jammed into close quarters for weeks or months at a time, or on critical combat missions, such as those involving special operations forces that deploy in small teams.
According to data compiled by the military as of early December, the Marine Corps leads the services with 3,717 Marines discharged. There have been 2,041 discharged from the Navy, 1,841 from the Army and 834 from the Air Force. The Air Force data includes the Space Force.
What’s not clear is if the services, who are facing recruiting challenges, will want — or be able to — allow any of those service members to return to duty, if they still meet all necessary fitness and other requirements.
Lawmakers argued that ending the mandate would help with recruiting. Defense officials have pushed back by saying that while it may help a bit, a department survey during the first nine months of last year found that a large majority said the mandate did not change the likelihood they would consider enlisting.
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Military officials vividly recall the overwhelming crisis of the USS Theodore Roosevelt ... More than 1,000 crew members eventually became infected, and one sailor died.
Deadlycoronavirus. One word.
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#2
Doesn't matter. Their purge is effectively complete.
#5
At one point OSHAA determined a business would be responsible for injuries occurred if the vax was mandatory for employment and caused injury.
I wonder if the decision makers within that business could be put in a civil case. I"d think that would be Lunch Vader.
Nah, just kidding. Obviously Climate Change is to blame.
*not making light of the young man's early death, and sincerely hope the vax isn't dangerous, because that would be at least six ways of really, really bad. But we have that college basketball player collapsing as well, and that 18yo UFC fighter unexpectedly dying.
[FoxBusiness] Texas announced Monday that the state government hauled in a record-setting budget surplus of $32.7 billion that topped the forecasted surplus by $6 billion.
State Comptroller Glenn Hegar said in a statement, "We cannot, and we will not, lose sight of the fact that every tax dollar received by the state is coming out of Texans' pockets." But he also cast doubt on whether Texas will be able to repeat the blowout budgetary performance and urged lawmakers to be cautious in deciding what to do with the funds.
"Bluntly, don't count on me announcing another big revenue jump two years from now. The revenue increases that we've seen have been, in many ways, unprecedented, and we cannot reasonably expect a repeat," Hegar said. "We are unlikely to have an opportunity like this again. This budgeting session is truly a once-in-a-lifetime session."
The surplus includes $3.8 billion in revenue that was swapped for federal COVID relief funds used previously and $4.3 billion in education savings derived from an increase in real estate values that led to higher-than-expected revenues from property taxes. The state's two largest sources of tax revenue were the sales tax and the oil tax.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and other GOP officials in the executive branch and the state's legislature have been at odds over what to do with the windfall, which lawmakers will be able to allocate for the 2024-2025 biennial budget cycle later this year.
When the expected surplus was closer to $27 billion during his reelection campaign, Abbott pledged to use half of the funds — $13.5 billion — for reducing property tax burdens on homeowners. He has also pushed for the state to take a bigger role in securing the border in the absence of action by the federal government.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has warned that property tax cuts of that scale could put the state at risk of exceeding its constitutional cap on spending and would rather use the funding for shoring up the state's electrical grid and water system in addition to raising the homestead exemption to offer more limited property tax relief.
House Speaker Dade Phelan has called for infrastructure investments, including the expansion of broadband internet coverage and improving roads, along with sustainable property tax relief that won't create fiscal headaches in the future.
Patrick and Phelan are members of the state's Legislative Budget Board, which voted to allow roughly $12.5 billion in additional spending for the next budget cycle, and lawmakers would have to vote to override that determination if they want to spend more.
For his part, Hegar suggested that lawmakers should consider tax reductions and infrastructure spending proposals that won't create recurring demands on the state's general revenue that could become difficult to meet in the future if the fiscal outlook declines.
By law, about $10.2 billion of the funding has to be set aside for the state's rainy day fund, known as the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), and for the State Highway Fund. That figure would have been $4.5 billion higher but for a constitutional limit on the size of the ESF, which is projected to be maxed out beginning in 2025, according to the latest budget estimates due to forecasted income from oil and gas taxes in the years ahead.
The Pew Charitable Trust's State Fiscal Health project analyzes state rainy day funds and found in an October update based on fiscal year 2022 data that the Texas ESF was better funded than the median state's rainy day fund. Pew projected the Texas government could run for 56.8 days on savings alone, above the 50-state median of 42.5 days, and could operate for 101.4 days, nearly two weeks longer than the nationwide median of 88.9 days.
Given, all USA States had pretty the same situations. Then why is it, Conservative run states seem to be the ones with surpluses, while the FAR LEFT run states are hurting and even openly suggesting Bankruptcy?
[Garowe] The breakaway region of Somaliland has formally announced the discovery of oil deposits, the ever in the history of the secessionist state, adding that exploration will be done soon by a United Kingdom-based firm which is critical in the latest development.
On Facebook, the region's Ministry of Energy announced that the oil deposits were discovered in Sallahey within Marodi-Jeh region, paving way for possible revenue sources which will help the government accomplish several development projects.
According to the ministry, authorities in collaboration with investors had launched scientific investigations before a black liquid spilled over during the drilling of a well whose intention was to look for water for the locals. Somaliland is mostly a desert with livestock being the main economic activity.
The statement added that UK firm Genel Energy would start further oil exploration and production. The company is known for such exploits in several parts of the world and the decision to award it a contract is not a surprise according to analysts.
The discovery comes two weeks after the Somali federal government warned Genel Energy against oil exploration in Somaliland without authorization from Mogadishu, saying the firm was undermining its illusory sovereignty. Somalia insisted that all mineral resources belong to the federal government.
Somaliland declared self-independence in 1991 following a civil war in the north which left thousands of people dead but the region is yet to be recognized internationally. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... despite the current situation, Somaliland runs its own government with a legislature, Central Bank, and even judiciary.
The federal government of Somalia has been warning states against running affairs without following the laid down protocol. The sharing of resources has been a thorn in the flesh, with Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... becoming the latest state to dissociate itself from the federal government until the new constitution is crafted and passed through a plebiscite.
[BBC] On Sunday, the world watched, stunned, as thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.
In echoes of the attacks on the United States Capitol almost exactly two years ago, they tore through buildings shouting the false accusation that the presidential election had been rigged, and that Bolsonaro was the true winner. "False"
But how was a violent protest organised in plain sight of security services and social media moderators? The BBC's Global Disinformation Team has been investigating.
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[RFA Uyghur] Qelbinur Sidiq witnessed torture and abuse in two facilities where she taught Mandarin to detainees.
By Gulchehra Hoja and Erkin Tarim
A drawing from Japanese cartoonist Tomomi Shimizu's manga booklet about the experiences of Qelbinur Sidiq in 're-education' camps in northwest China's Xinjiang region.
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#8
Managed Decline can become total chaos/anarchy very quickly given the near total dysfunction of this govt. The only thing still functioning in DC is the graft.
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#9
The Public will have to wait a few days for the Paul Harvey version of this.
Unexpected outage after a patch was installed to allow elite private jets to fly "off the radar."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/11/2023 9:54 Comments ||
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#17
The FAA has priorities. All us proles need to quiet down!
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/11/2023 12:38 Comments ||
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#18
Normally, I'd agree with you guys but since I worked in the FAA (computer systems) I know that the suits have nothing to do with the running of the NAS. Thank God. Blame a technician or engineer, we did all the work anyway. Set your sights on a real target.
Or STFU!
[Alt-Market.US] In recent weeks I’ve been seeing an interesting narrative fallacy being sold to the general public when it comes to the designs of globalists. The mainstream media and others are now openly suggesting that it’s actually okay to be opposed to certain aspects of groups like the World Economic Forum. They give you permission to be concerned, just don’t dare call it conspiracy.
This propaganda is a deviation from the abject denials we’re accustomed to hearing in the Liberty Movement for the past decade or more. We have all been confronted with the usual cognitive dissonance — The claims that globalist groups "just sit around talking about boring economic issues" and nothing they do has any bearing on global politics or your everyday life. In some cases we were even told that these groups of elites "don’t exist".
Now, the media is admitting that yes, perhaps the globalists do have more than just a little influence over governments, social policies and economic outcomes. But, what the mainstream doesn’t like is the assertion that globalists have nefarious or authoritarian intentions. That’s just crazy tinfoil hat talk, right?
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.
[ProPublica] A ProPublica-ICIJ investigation into shadow diplomats identified about 20 honorary consuls suspected of supporting the Third Reich through espionage and other activities.
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