The co-founder & president of American liberal think tank @NiskanenCenter has resigned after pleading guilty to domestic violence against his wife. He allegedly pushed her to the floor, put his hands around her neck & pushed her down the steps. https://t.co/G4bM8NbZu8
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You have to wonder how they rate what qualifies as an 'emergency'. I'm thinking that if you get beat down and jacked in the street you're on your own, whereas bank robbery still rates a response. And somewhere in the 'gray' area is convenience store robberies.
Probably a "sliding scale", as in how much money did you slide under the table.
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The point I'm getting at is that this is what is commonly refered to as 'giving up'.
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Berkeley on the Brazos, seems it still fits as a description of Austin stupidity.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A UCLA professor who was briefly suspended after declining a request that Black students get easier final exams after George Floyd’s death sued the school Wednesday, accusing it of defamation and loss of financial opportunities.
Gordon Klein, a lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management who has taught there for decades, filed the lawsuit in state court against the school’s dean, Antonio Bernardo, the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Board of Regents, and a host of unnamed "co-conspirators."
"I did this because the school has continued to retaliate against me, and other scholars are facing retaliation, and I thought it was important for someone to step up and say, ’enough,’" Mr. Klein told The Washington Times. "I have the legal skills and training to do so, so I’m stepping up."
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UCLA will settle. The non-POC kids would seem to have a pretty good case of civil rights discrimination
This is a RACIST Mentality.
To say/demand only a certain race of people need easier rules and tests over others. Is akin to saying only that race is genetically mentally inferior.
Any such school practicing such nonsense should be stripped of all STATE & FEDERAL Grants, companies and Alumni Donors listed that supported the educational facility.
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Separate from them. We can't live with these people any longer.
Let them have their own separate colleges, or separate classes, curricula and living arrangements within the same college, with separate diplomas and graduation ceremonies etc.
They can have "red" diplomas and go on to "red badge" jobs with a separate management chain, separate HR dept and separate pay scale, promotion paths etc
Just f--king separate from these barbarians already.
They and we are separate peoples.
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^ #5 Many times. Lost nearly every time.
Now established precedent. As the jingle has it: They go together
In the good ol' USSA
baseball 'n'
hot dogs
apple pie 'n'
Affirmative Action
Mona Rodriguez was shot leaving Millikan High School in Long Beach Monday
She was driving away having gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl when a school safety officer shot into the vehicle, which had two other people inside
The father of Rodriguez's child said officer gave no warning before shooting
Long Beach Police are investigating the officer's use of lethal force and the school safety officer, who has not been named, has been placed on leave
Superintendent Jill Baker said safety officers are 'highly trained and held accountable to the established standards in their profession'
Rodriguez's family pleaded with hospital to keep her on life support
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She was driving away having gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl when a school safety officer shot into the vehicle, which had two other people inside
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Superintendent Jill Baker said safety officers are 'highly trained as a fry cook and held accountable to the established standards in their profession'
When we empower government to protect us we do so with the understanding it will follow strict guidelines for arrest and use of force.
In this case I agree...
The School Security Guard went way beyond any reasonable needed response. He should be Immediately Fired, arrested and GJ criminally charged.
Ministers admit some people face losing jobs as furlough finally ends tomorrowGovernment says scheme had to end 'at some point' and there are 'opportunities'
Latest figures from July showed 1.6million jobs still being propped up by scheme
Experts warned only a 'trickle' of staff were being taken off furlough scheme
Around three-fourths of #Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty as the once-prosperous #OPEC nation’s hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a seventh straight year.https://t.co/r8EUcwKwFh
[UPI] The number of U.S. workers filing for new unemployment benefits has risen for the third straight week, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday.
The department said there were 362,000 first-time filings last week, an increase of 11,000 claims.
The figure was almost 30,000 claims higher than the 335,000 that most economists expected. but also
The report also noted that the number of Americans receiving federal aid fell from 11.2 million in the first week of September to about 5 million in the week ending Sept. 11 -- a decline of 6.2 million [Covid relief unemployment payments expired in many States].
A more positive signal from the report is that the overall number of [unemployment] filers fell by 18,000 to 2.802 million.
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We have APPLIED HERE signs everywhere around here.
Why not start making UEI persons collecting weekly $$$$$ to present a list of places they applied for jobs at each week.
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Why not start making UEI persons collecting weekly $$$$$ to present a list of places they applied for jobs at each week.
A lot of states used to have that requirement, NN2N1. Apparently that was raycist or something, though.
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I think the economic news of the hour is Janet Yellen saying that unrealized gains (all) should be viewed as capital gains and taxed that way. Give that a moment's thought.
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Old Yellen's on a mission to kill American capitalism. We're headed for the kind of black market free-for-all that was seen in Yeltsin's Russia ... say, Yellen.. Yeltsin... you don't think ...?
I can't think of a single aspect of the financial arena which hasn't been diddled these last 6 months; and watch, the government will declare the solution is more government including COLA stimulus checks to conjure even more money into the system.
I have a little game going on these last 2 months, perhaps someone else has been playing too? The game is this: every place I go into which sells beverages - grocery stores, quick shops - I look to see if single serve ice tea is available, unsweetened or sweetened, the extra sweet/raspberry/lemon etc. less popular flavors don't count.
First success was about 500 miles away, and it was a local brand. Next was an additional 100 miles out and off-broadway for a name brand.
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#8 True. Pepsi and Coke having major problems. I asked sales rep if supplies would improve mid month and he said towards end of month. End of month I reminded him of his guesstimate. He replied No!, I didn't say that.
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Well, I quit buying Pepsi products when Idiot Nooyi was their CEO and I dropped Coke when they got woke. I simply dare you to find RC Cola minis anywhere.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said on Thursday.
One suspect was killed and another badly hurt in the Dutch city of Utrecht when a trial run went wrong at an illegal “training center” for explosives attacks on ATMs, the EU’s police agency Europol said.
Police eventually made nine arrests during an 18-month operation targeting the gang, which is linked to at least 15 bombings on ATMs in Germany resulting in losses of 2.15 million euros ($2.5 million), it said.
“The criminals were making video tutorials which were given in person to other criminals,” a Europol spokeswoman told AFP.
“The main suspect -- a 29-year-old --- blew himself up when filming a tutorial video. His accomplice -- a 24-year-old -- was seriously injured and taken into custody,” she said.
The explosion happened in September 2020.
The police hunt began after officers in Osnabruck, Germany, identified “suspicious orders” of ATM machines from a German company, said Europol and its sister judicial agency Eurojust in a joint statement.
Surveillance led police across the border to Utrecht in the Netherlands where the 29- and 24-year-old suspects were allegedly running the training center.
“The pair was ordering different models of ATMs and recording tutorials on how to most effectively blow them up,” the EU agencies said.
“The cash machines were blown open using homemade explosive devices, posing a serious risk for residents and bystanders,” they added.
The two men were blown up “during one of the test runs of an explosion.”
Dutch police aided by Europol arrested three people during raids in the area around Utrecht, Amsterdam, and The Hague on Tuesday, during which seven properties were also searched.
Those three suspects will be extradited to Germany. The other six people were arrested in the Netherlands during the past year.
Europol said that bomb attacks against ATMs were a “growing concern” in Europe.
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"I love it when a plan comes together."
George Pappard, in 'The A-Team'.
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"Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang"
Sounds like they busted themselves.
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[Federalist] Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a damning report on Thursday chastising the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "widespread" violations in the intelligence agency’s applications for searches and surveillance filed through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"The FBI’s Woods Procedures are designed to ensure FISA applications are ’scrupulously accurate’ and require agents to document support for all factual assertions contained in them. However, our audit found numerous instances where this did not occur," the Justice Department report states.
In the newly released audit, Horowitz detailed how "the FBI was not meeting the expectations of its own protocols" by failing to comply with the Woods Procedures. Of the 29 FISA applications from 2015-2019 that were reviewed, the inspector general and his team found more than 400 "instances of non-compliance with the Woods Procedures." When the timeline expands to encompass the approximately 7,000 FISA applications authorized between January 2015 and March 2020, Horowitz found "at least 179 instances in which the Woods File required by FBI policy was missing in whole or in part."
In February 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray expressed confidence in his agency’s FISA processes to legislators.
"It’s important for the American people to understand and for this committee to understand that the vast majority of the FISAs that we do, both the initial applications and the renewals, are the kinds of applications that I am quite confident, we don’t know each other, but I’m quite confident you wouldn’t lose any sleep over and we really wouldn’t want to grind things to a halt on that front," Wray told Republican Rep. Jim Jordan.
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If the border is going to be wide open and the US military is going to fly thousands of unvetted people in from the middle east, I think we can get rid of FISA, Homeland Security, FBI Counterterrorism and so forth right away.
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[DailyMail] - Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is poised to approve funding for British engineering giant Rolls-Royce to create a fleet of mini-reactors.
Ministers are understood to have adopted a 'change of focus' towards nuclear power amid the current crisis caused by rocketing global wholesale gas prices.
Rolls-Royce believes its plans to install at least 16 plants could create 40,000 jobs by 2050 in the Midlands, the north of England and other parts of the country.
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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said on Thursday.
[Federalist] Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a damning report on Thursday chastising the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "widespread" violations in the intelligence agency’s applications for searches and surveillance filed through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
