[IsraelTimes] Prosecutor says no ‘shred of evidence’ Samantha Woll was killed in antisemitic hate crime, attacker murdered victim after breaking into her home
Authorities filed a murder charge Wednesday in the October 21 slaying of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll alleging that she was killed by a stranger who broke into her home.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kim L. Worthy identified the suspect as Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 28, who was taken into custody on Sunday, according to NBC News. Worthy said there are “no facts to suggest” that the suspect knew Woll personally.
Worthy also said that there was not a “shred of evidence” that Woll was killed as a result of antisemitism or any hate crime.
Speculation had swirled in the hours and days after Woll’s killing that it was an antisemitic act connected to the Israel-Hamas war, which has been accompanied by a sharp rise in antisemitism in the United States. But police have said since the early stages of the investigation that the murder did not appear to be a hate crime.
Woll, 40, was found stabbed to death outside her home, east of downtown Detroit, on October 21, hours after returning from a wedding. Investigators believe she was attacked inside the residence.
Police said a person of interest was in custody over the weekend. A different person who was in custody was released in November.
“This was an extraordinarily sad and tragic case,” Worthy said. She added, “This takes time. We never want to rush to judgment.”
Police Chief James White said the suspect “came on our radar a few weeks ago” when investigators were trying to solve larcenies in the area. “This is not a case you can solve like on television,” White said. “Hours and hours of evidence, hours and hours of video, of phone work, seven days a week.”
Woll was president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. Besides her work for the synagogue, Woll had worked for Democratic US Rep. Elissa Slotkin and on the political campaign of state Attorney General Dana Nessel.
The fatal stabbing of Woll came just two weeks after the October 7 shock attack by Hamas on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, and amid an immediate rise in antisemitic incidents in the US, setting an unprecedented record in the past two months.
[MIL.COM] Fort Benning, Georgia, was redesignated as Fort Moore on Thursday, the new name honoring one of the Army's most influential couples.
Fort Moore is the center of the Army's training for new ground combat troops, hosting the basic training schools for infantry, cavalry scouts and tankers. It was renamed after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife Julia Moore.
The move is part of the Pentagon's ongoing effort to scrub all installations of names honoring Confederates who waged war against the U.S. Fort Moore is one of nine Army bases being renamed. All of the new names honor service members and their families, with the exception of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is set to be redesignated Fort Liberty on June 2.
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I am not sure how a DEI official would have access to accounts that would allow her to steal that much cash.
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^ Poss authorized special projects thru her budget (textbooks, training seminars, special awareness days) then canceled them so the money was returned to a holding fund to which she had access...
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I am finding more Inter-city Blacks expressing similar racist feelings towards Non-Blacks and other minorities (Asians, Arabs, etc., and they own the use of the N-word, a 1000x's more than all other groups.
BTW: Since all people have a color to them and the NAACP is only focused on Blacks, aren't they very close to the definition of a Racist Organization?
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Dis be my swag.
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When I grew up I worked in a dairy cleaning up s..t. I learned to work and grew up to code. If you know how to work, it is easy to get and keep a job. It begs the question.....
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Same here, I cleaned truck stop bathrooms at 17, and all I got to say about that is that women are nasty af.
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Took me 6 years of working in the steel mill to decide I wanted to code.
[JustTheNews] The average wait time for a urology appointment in-network in Hawaii is 67 days while a psychiatry appointment has an average of 52 days wait time, per the report.
The military healthcare system is struggling with staffing shortages and long wait times for the 9.6 million active duty service members, civilian employees, contractors, military retirees, and their dependents, according to a Defense Department inspector general's report.
While visiting U.S. military officials in the Indo-Pacific in May and June 2023, senior military and civilian officials repeatedly informed the inspector general's office of challenges accessing health care, the watchdog said in a report published late last month.
Additionally, the inspector general's office received at least seven hotline complaints over the past year regarding military healthcare access and staffing shortages.
The government's policy is for beneficiaries to receive an appointment for an acute condition within 24 hours of making a request at a provider within 30 minutes travel time from their residence. Additionally, beneficiaries who require a specialty appointment must be able to see a provider within 28 days and 60 minutes travel time from their home.
However, this is not happening for many beneficiaries within the military healthcare network. For example, the Naval Health Clinic Pearl Harbor in Hawaii only offers limited specialty care and is only enrolling active duty service members, so beneficiaries must use a Hawaiian network that only has one level 1 trauma center and exceeds the 28-day limit. For example, the average wait time for a urology appointment in the network is 67 days while a psychiatry appointment has an average of 52 days wait time, per the report.
The inspector general recommended the Defense Health Agency director to identify all locations where healthcare is not meeting Defense Department standards and to develop a plan to bring the provider networks into compliance. The watchdog also recommended the Defense Health Agency to work with the Service Surgeons General to conduct a survey of military healthcare beneficiaries and providers to ask about their healthcare services and potential concerns, and then use that survey to develop a plan addressing their concerns.
The recommendations remain unresolved as of press time.
Healthcare concerns are not the only problem facing members of the armed forces. An inspector general's report in September showed that thousands of U.S. service members live in "substandard" barracks that pose potentially serious health and safety concerns. The Pentagon, however, missed a deadline to provide Congress with a report on the possibility of privatizing barracks, which could address the issue.
About a year ago we got MHS Genesis, a new way to track records and appointments. It's really cool - when it works; it flatly refuses to access records on some computers at random intervals - and now that we have achieved the Millennium it is only taking me 4-5 months to get an appointment.
That is not an exaggeration, though in fairness I have zero problems with the active duty and combat injured (I work through FT Jackson, SC) getting in ahead of me.
I remain firmly convinced that a second Biden/Harris administration will try to yank med coverage for dependents and retirees once and for all.
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A group of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers surrounded Bojangles employees Christina Pierre and Anthony Nathaniel Lee as they sat on a park bench and smoked marijuana.
Nov 13 (Reuters) - Shares of Boeing (BA.N) rose on Monday after a report said China was considering ending its freeze on purchases of the planemaker's best-selling 737 MAX aircraft after more than four years.
This, coupled with bumper jet orders from Middle Eastern airlines at the Dubai Airshow, sent Boeing shares up 4%. Supplier Spirit Aerosystems (SPR.N) also rose 2.7%.
China is considering resuming purchases of Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft when the U.S. and Chinese presidents meet this week at the APEC summit, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The resumption of 737 orders from China would be meaningful to Boeing's bottom line over the next six to 18 months, said Thomas Hayes, chairman of hedge fund Great Hill Capital.
Deliveries of Boeing's bestselling 737 MAX to Chinese airlines were halted following two deadly crashes.
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@Raj, the T only needs $64 Billion to fix all the problems. Will the Commiewealth raise income tax rates, sales tax, or just divert gas tax and toll revenue to fix the problems?
Back on topic, I guess that the Chinese don't have a lot of confidence in their home grown copy of the 737. The proles will get to fly in those, but party big shots will get to fly in the Boeings.
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a defense policy bill on Thursday that includes a record $886 billion in annual military spending and authorizes policies such as aid for Ukraine and push back against China in the Indo-Pacific. Hey Z, have I ever let you down ?
The House backed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, by 310 to 118, with strong support from Republicans and Democrats. It was more than the two-thirds majority required to pass the measure and send it to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law.
Separate from the appropriations bills that set government spending levels, the NDAA authorizes everything from pay raises for troops - this year's will be 5.2% - to purchases of ships, ammunition and aircraft.
Because it is one of the few major pieces of legislation that becomes law every year, members of Congress use it as a vehicle for a wide range of initiatives. It is also closely watched by major defense companies, such as Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), RTX Corp (RTX.N) and other firms that receive Department of Defense contracts.
The vote for this year's bill, which is nearly 3,100 pages long and authorizes a record $886 billion, up 3% from last year, meant that Congress has passed an NDAA for 63 straight years.
The final version of the NDAA left out provisions addressing divisive social issues, such as access to abortion and treatment of transgender service members, that had been included in the version passed by the Republican-majority House over the objections of Democrats, threatening to derail the legislation.
The bill extends one measure to help Ukraine, the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, through the end of 2026, authorizing $300 million for the program in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2024, and the next one.
However, that figure is a tiny compared to the $61 billion in assistance for Ukraine Biden has asked Congress to approve to help Kyiv as it battles a Russian invasion that began in February 2022.
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I seem to remember reading about how the US and other European nations sent lots of guns and money to Russia when another militaristic and hegemonic nation was invading them 80-some years ago.
It's difficult to say whether or not Russians might be speaking a different language now without that help.
And, there would certainly be no Israel.
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Moroccan migrant named Ous, short for Oussama, said he cannot find a place to live or work in New York City
When he illegally crossed the border in Lukeville, Arizona, the 20-year-old told reporters he believed finding work will be easy and he wants to drive Uber in New York
New York has in more than 140,000 migrants since spring 2022 which will cost the city $12 billion
The 20-year-old is now in the Big Apple and told NewsNation and Border Correspondent Ali Bradley that he is having trouble finding a place to live and cannot work without a social security number or driver's license.
'The problem I have is at work. I want to work here legally without violating the law, because I promised you in the video that it [illegally crossing the border] would be the first violation and the last violation,' he told her.
Ous said he is staying with a friend and wants to find his own place, but can't afford to without a job, which he can't get because he doesn't have a social security number or driver's license.
In an earlier interview, Ous told Bradley he believed finding work will be easy and he wants to drive Uber in New York. Ous said he wants to file taxes and pay into the system.
[RUDAW] The Iraqi government has announced that it will resume excavation works in 2024 for the first time in five years at mass grave sites in the deserts of Samawah in the southern Muthanna province.
Mass graves in the deserts of southern Iraq contain the remains of countless Kurdish civilians, including women and kiddies, killed during former dictator Saddam Hussein’s campaign of extermination in the late 1980s known as the Anfal, launched to punish the Kurds for rebelling against his regime.
"Whenever we are informed by the government, eyewitnesses or survivors of the existence of a mass grave, we immediately form a technical team to search," Dhargham Kamil, in charge of the mass graves department at the Iraqi Martyrs Institute, told Rudaw.
"Our plan for the year 2024 is to excavate mass graves dating back to the Baath regime era," he added.
One of the notorious locations where the graves are located is in Shaikiya, around 80 km southwest of Samawah, the capital of Muthanna province near the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n border.
Fahd Nasir al-Zeyadi is a villager in the Shaikiya deserts. He is an eyewitness and says there are many mass graves in their region that have not been discovered by the government of Iraq.
"The mass graves date back to the 80s. During Saddam's rule, no one dared to get close to them. After the collapse of Saddam, people started to learn that they were mass graves," al-Zeyadi said.
"In the past, this region used to be a prohibited zone. Some people used to have farms there. They would not dare even visit their farms or cultivate them," he added.
The eyewitness explained that there are mass graves that have not yet been discovered.
"In the Saibiya area, there are mass graves. There are mass graves in the Nugra Salman area also. They are not yet discovered. But there are," he said.
The Anfal campaign took place over eight phases — beginning in 1986 and reaching its peak in 1988 with the Halabja genocide that killed 5,000 people and injured another 10,000. It culminated in the closing weeks of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88).
More than 182,000 people are thought to have died.
Political dissent was not tolerated under the Baathists. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Shiites were disappeared, trucked to Iraq’s southern deserts, and murdered.
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.
