[SUNA-SD.NET] A 41-year-old man Nigerian man is under arrest for allegedly attempting to kill a woman during a bizarre knife attack.
Police say Ogbonna Nwankwo stabbed the victim in the stomach inside a motel in Orumba South on Thursday before attempting to cut off one of her breasts for alleged ritual purposes.
Police say a motel manager came to her rescue after hearing her cry out. The victim was treated at a local hospital, but her condition was not immediately made public.
Nwankwo was also treated at the hospital after he was attacked by a group of bystanders apparently angered over his alleged attack.
Police are continuing their investigation into the circumstances of the attack.
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[NYPOST] His mother loves him, but teenaged gangbanger Micah Belton is so dangerous even she wants him in jail.
The 18-year-old is finally in jug at Rikers Island on three counts of 2nd-degree attempted murder in five separate shootings, an alleged spree that cops said began when he was 17 last year and involved bullets flying into kitchens and car windows. His mom and police believe he’d be in far less trouble now if only the law and judges had put him away the first time.
"I’d rather him be in jail than for me to have to bury him," Lillie Reynolds, 52, told the Post at her home at the former Edgemere Houses project in crime-ravaged Far Rockaway, where shootings are up 333% this year. Reynolds, the mother of nine, says the gang shootings in Far Rockaway are so bad that even her daughter and older son have been caught in the crossfire over the years.
"Micah needs to do a little time so he can realize life is really precious," she said. "All these young boys are dying around here. They’re dropping like flies. Everyone’s afraid to go outside."
She added that while she’s not convinced he’s guilty of every charge, her son — an "enforcer" for the SOS (Shoot on Sight) subset of the Bloods gang, cops say — might have been scared straight had he faced harsher justice in the beginning.
She, cops and prosecutors say the system failed Belton.
"Micah is an example of what’s becoming the norm in New York City," lamented Sgt. Courtney Cummings, a 20-year-veteran in the 101st Precinct. "He’s out because of a miscarriage of justice. The new criminal justice laws are failing the city of New York. They failed Micah Belton."
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In France there was artime the father coulsd ask tto the king (lter to the public prosecutor)sending his son to jail for a limited time before he perpetrated some major crime
[Alive] An 11Alive Investigation has discovered that the VA has denied paying for thousands of emergency room visits for Georgia veterans because they haven't visited a VA doctor enough.
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“...he had not received VA treatment within the past 24 months prior to the emergency room visit.
You read that correctly -- the Veterans Administration said he wasn’t seeing a VA doctor enough to remain eligible for emergency room reimbursement. It’s a rule covered under a law called the Millennium Act passed in 1999, and approved after Riggs left the Army."
So watch this Bill Clinton-era FUBAR blow back on PDJT.
[Townhall] Center for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield said in a Buck Institute webinar that suicides and drug overdoses have surpassed the death rate for COVID-19 among high school students. Redfield argued that lockdowns and lack of public schooling constituted a disproportionally negative impact on young peoples’ mental health.
"But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools," Redfield said. "We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID. So this is why I keep coming back for the overall social being of individuals, is let’s all work together and find out how we can find common ground to get these schools open in a way that people are comfortable and their safe."
Roughly 146,000 people have died from COVID or COVID-related causes in the U.S., according to CDC data.
The most recent publicized federal data records 48,000 deaths from suicide and at least 1.4 million attempts in 2018. In 2019, almost 71,000 people died from drug overdoses....
[Zero Hedge] A nursing home which has seen at least 73 residents die of COVID-19 and more than 400 residents and staff infected has been raided by the FBI late this week after being flagged for rampant health violations, including administering experimental doses of hydroxychloroquine to about half its 435 residents in an attempt to stave off the outbreak, despite not having state health authorities or families' approval to do so.
Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, located northeast of Pittsburgh, drove headlines last spring into the summer for seeing the single biggest coronavirus outbreak numbers of any facility in the state.
Over three weeks ago Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro launched a criminal investigation related to unsafe "conditions and practices" of the nursing home, namely according to a prior statement, that it failed to meet a "high threshold of certain circumstances when the caretaker of a person fails to properly provide for their health, safety and welfare."
In other press statements "neglect" of patients has been central to the allegations, including abandoning patients for long periods of time, without access to clean clothes, or simple needs like tissues and enough water to drink.
According to police records, local law enforcement had at some point stopped responding to calls to the facility, given the danger to police of potentially catching the virus....
Another ongoing local idiocy, because a generation-long war against jihadis is not enough keep the boys busy.
[SUNA-SD.NET] Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... 's military has detained hundreds of people in the country's troubled northwest as they search for separatists following the killing of a police officer this week. Locals accuse the military of carrying out Dire Revenge attacks, including looting and burning shops, in the English-speaking region — a charge the military denies.
Thirty-four-year old fish seller Ernestine Sahmo says she has decided to temporarily leave the English-speaking northwestern town of Bamenda due to what she says is military brutality. Sahmo says she was forced out of her shop by armed soldiers who detained 80 other women at a cop shoppe for three days.
"The military entered the whole market and was removing everybody," she said. "They will break into your store and then start brutalizing you, asking you to go out. They succeeded to remove everybody from the food market to the mobile cop shoppe. We were being asked to sit on the ground. Some women were collapsing. The way they terrorized us, we never knew we would come back alive."
Sahmo says store owners’ goods were either looted or torched by the military.
Last Monday, the government said separatist fighters in Bamenda killed a policeman in active service. The military was then deployed to hunt for the killers.
Residents said troops started arresting people indiscriminately, forcing some either to undress or to sit on the floor for several hours.
Scared civilians escaped to neighboring villages and French-speaking towns including Mbouda and Bafoussam. The government said at least two non-combatants were killed but did not say if separatists or troops were responsible.
General Valere Nka, the commander of government troops fighting the separatists in the English-speaking northwest regions, says the military has not committed any atrocities. He says his troops have remained professional.
He says his troops fully obey instructions given by the military hierarchy for civilians to be protected and their human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... respected. Nka says he expects civilians who have been assured of total protection by the military to denounce all suspected separatist fighters in their localities.
Mka pledged to kill all fighters who do not drop their weapons and seek forgiveness.
Rights groups and opposition political parties have condemned the military for what they say are excesses and torture of civilians in handling the crisis.
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#NorthKorea’s ruling party is calling for the punishment of officials whose failure to follow orders resulted in “dozens of casualties” during #typhoons that lashed the #Korean peninsula this week, a state newspaper reported on Saturday.https://t.co/asZ7buiDTH
[BBC] Two Jewish girls from Alsace found themselves in great danger when Germany invaded France 80 years ago. But while their parents and younger sister were caught and murdered, they survived - with dozens of other Jewish children - thanks to the bravery of a nun in a convent near Toulouse.
Twelve-year-old Hélène Bach was playing in the garden with her younger sister, Ida, when they saw a military truck approaching and rushed inside.
The two girls and their mother had left their home in Alsace Lorraine, north-eastern France, after the German invasion in May 1940 and started travelling towards the "free zone" in the south of the country.
To reduce the risk of the whole family being caught, it had been decided that the father, Aron, and oldest daughter, Annie, would make the journey separately. But when Aron and Annie were arrested in 1941 and taken to a detention camp near Tours, Hélène's mother rented a house nearby. And they were still there a year later, when the German soldiers came driving up the road.
Hélène and eight-year-old Ida ran into the kitchen to warn their mother.
"My mother told us to run - to hide in the woods," Hélène says. "I was holding my little sister by the hand but she did not want to come with me. She wanted to go back to my mother. I could hear the Germans. I let her hand go and she ran back."
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how many nuns & priests sold people out to the Nazis?
Some, Clem. And some only saved those who would be baptised. But some, like this nun and the Ursuline Mother Superior of the school in Hildesheim, Germany who did not pause before committing all her school and the families of the other students to keep my mother among them in the face of Nazi threats, laid it all on the line for people who had nothing in common with them but humanity.
[REUTERS] Surging coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases in Ankara are stretching hospitals to the limit and Ottoman Turkish authorities need to impose a fresh lockdown to bring the virus under control, doctors in the Ottoman Turkish capital say.
The city is now the epicentre of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s COVID-19 outbreak, the government announced this week, and although authorities say there is no plan for a lockdown as yet officials privately say new measures may be needed soon.
"Ankara has become Wuhan," said geriatrics professor Mustafa Cankurtaran at Ankara’s Hacettepe medical faculty, referring to the Chinese city where the new coronavirus first emerged.
"A 10-14 day lockdown should be imposed. Health capacity may be exceeded," he tweeted on Wednesday, urging the government to open all medical centres, including private health units.
Two officials told Rooters the number of cases in Ankara was rising faster than anticipated, and current measures including mask-wearing and social distancing were not having the results they anticipated.
"The daily positive cases are high enough to cause discomfort now, and everyone has started seeing daily new cases in their close circles," said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"If new measures are not taken, it appears it will be more difficult to prevent new problems," the official added, saying some "city-based" steps could be taken.
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[NYPOST] Overweight and all alone in a Pakistain zoo, Kaavan has been dubbed the "world’s loneliest elephant."
But he will soon be able to join his own kind.
Kaavan will be allowed to leave the Islamabad zoo where he has lived for 35 years after he was given medical approval to travel, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. Animal rights groups and celebrities, including Cher, have lobbied for his relocation from the Marghazar Zoo since 2016.
He will most likely be transferred to an animal sanctuary in Cambodia, said Martin Bauer, a front man for Four Paws, an animal rights group. Four Paws was invited by the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board to safely transfer the remaining animals in the Marghazar Zoo, after Pakistain’s High Court ordered it closed in May because of its abysmal conditions.
"Unfortunately, the rescue comes too late for two lions that died during an attempted transfer at the end of July, after local animal handlers set a fire in their enclosure to force them into their transport crates," Bauer said in a statement Saturday.
Kaavan’s medical exam Friday found him overweight but suffering from malnutrition. He has behavioral issues stemming from being alone since his partner died in 2012, including shaking his head back and forth four hours. " This is mainly because he is simply bored," said Bauer.
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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] His mother loves him, but teenaged gangbanger Micah Belton is so dangerous even she wants him in jail.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
