[ZH] As the coronavirus pandemic drives online holiday shopping - USPS, FedEx, UPS, and Amazon delivery workers distribute more mail and packages than ever. The increased number of deliveries has left delivery vans densely packed with a treasure trove of consumer goods and other valuable items, which have become sitting ducks for armed criminal gangs.
Armed criminal gangs in Baltimore City have recognized the online shopping boom. They're giving up on robbing brick and mortar stores and have now opted to hijack or rob delivery service vehicles.
Just this week alone, there's been a series of mail and package delivery drivers targeted in lawless Baltimore City.
According to FOX45 News, the first incident occurred on Monday along Mosher Street, in west Baltimore, an area known for criminal gangs, widespread homicides, and out of control opioid crisis. Investigators said armed suspects hijacked a USPS mail carrier. The van was recovered hours later, but it appears the suspects were able to loot it. USPS is offering a $50,000 reward for any information about the gang involved.
Postal Inspectors are offering up to $50K for info regarding the Nov. 16th robbery of a Letter Carrier on W Mosher St., Baltimore, MD. @USPIS_DC is working with @BaltimorePolice 💵🚨🕵️📞See Reward Poster for Details pic.twitter.com/jAbk3oeNL6
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The second incident occurred Tuesday evening at Mary Avenue in northeast Baltimore. A UPS driver had their truck stolen and has since been recovered.
On Wednesday night, investigators say an Amazon delivery van was targeted along Highland Avenue in east Baltimore. Police say the Amazon worker was able to prevent the armed suspect from commandeering the delivery vehicle.
"There's been an increase in the number of deliveries of packages, parcels and boxes," Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist with the University of Baltimore, told FOX45.
Ross said the attacks on delivery vans are"unusual." He said with increased mail volume because of the virus pandemic and holiday season creates an opportunity for armed gangs.
"It's a cost-benefit calculation," Ross said. "They may find that other avenues of normal criminality are drying up for them so they're innovating."
With the pandemic resulting in increased brick and mortar store closures - criminal gangs are now targeting delivery vehicles as online shopping booms. How long until delivery service workers carry weapons and ride in armored vans?
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Every delivery truck in these hell holes should have ‘tracking packages’. Not that the authorities care much about theft but eventually a driver or deliver person will be killed.
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Once the food desert is established in cities like B’more, the urban-suburban/rural interface will become a new dynamic as the feral youth of black inner city origin encounter white middle class attitudes and guns. This could be a trigger point for the groundswell of rebellion that seems a coming attraction as we dissolve as a unified society.
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A few weeks back, I saw a video in San Fran where an Amazon van was opened and ransacked, the driver pushed aside before he got hurt. As ye sow...
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I seem to recall many years ago a pizza chain had a lawsuit filed against it or was fined because it refused to have its delivery boys go to dangerous (fill in the blank) neighborhoods to deliver pizzas as they were getting robbed and/or killed.
[THEEPOCHTIMES] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... authorities said Sunday that gun violence in the city saw at least 47 victims shot, including five who died, according to ABC7Chicago.
In one incident cited in the report, six people were shot on Saturday morning in Chicago in a single incident, which involved an unidentified gunman opening fire into a crowd.
Darryl Martin, who told the outlet he witnessed the shooting, described it as a "conversation with bullets; people were shooting it out."
It comes on the heels of a report last week from the Chicago Police Department (pdf), which noted 2,898 shooting incidents so far this year, compared to 1,899 by the same time in 2019, a 53 percent increase. The report also noted that homicides in Chicago were up by the same percentage, with 692 so far in 2020, compared to 451 by the same period last year.
Overall crime complaints in Chicago, however, are down 7 percent so far in 2020 compared to last year, with a 27 percent drop in thefts and a 22 percent drop in criminal sexual assaults.
Violent and property crime across the United States have fallen significantly since the early 1990s, when crime spiked across much of the nation, according to statistics published by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical arm of the Department of Justice.
The violent mostly peaceful crime rate fell 49 percent between 1993 and 2019, according to FBI statistics, with large drops in the rates of robbery (-68 percent), murder/non-negligent manslaughter (-47 percent) and aggravated assault (-43 percent). The same source found that the property crime rate fell 55 percent, with significant drops in the rates of burglary (-69 percent), motor vehicle theft (-64 percent) and larceny/theft (-49 percent).
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American autumn. Fresh fruits
From black and brown shoots, rotten roots.
Snaps Joe, "Be a smarty!
Yo, vote for my party --
The future belongs to you yoots."
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What part of her past could embarrass
This cabernet crooner, this Harris,
This Indian grackle
Who squawks with a cackle
That life is a suburb of Paris?
[NYPOST] A 29-year-old straphanger became the latest New Yorker shoved onto subway tracks on Sunday when he was attacked at a Brooklyn station.The victim was on a northbound 4 train shortly before 11:30 a.m. when his attacker, who had been sleeping, woke up and began screaming at him, police said.
It was unclear what the suspect was screaming, the cops said.
When the victim and his girlfriend got off at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center stop, the screaming man also got off and followed the couple, then pushed him on the southbound tracks before running off.
The victim was able to get back on the platform and was not seriously hurt, police said.
The incident comes on the heels of several subway shoving incidents in the Big Apple, including two on back-to-back days last week.
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I seem to recall there was a thing about nudging, later in the Obama presidency — is this somehow related?
[WEARTV] A Florida rapper spent an evening recording music in a makeshift studio and then fatally shot two men who were with him, authorities say.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a news release that Billy Bennett Adams III, 23, was arrested Saturday on two counts of premeditated first-degree murder with a firearm and one count of armed burglary of a structure.
Adams, who records under the name Ace NH, was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Tampa without bail Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear from jail records if he had an attorney.
Chronister said Adams and one of the victims identify as members of the Crips gang and that the shooting was probably related to a gang feud. The names of the victims have not been released, but both were Black men.
They were shot Thursday night in a backyard shed Adams regularly used as a recording studio in the suburb of Lutz, Sherlocks said.
"This was a violent mostly peaceful execution this suspect performed, and although the attack was clearly targeted, we will not allow gang-related disputes to disrupt the comfort and safety of innocent residents in any of our communities," Chronister said in the release.
"It is clear that this suspect had no regard for human life, and now he will face the consequences for his actions," the sheriff added.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that Adams has recorded three albums, two EPs and several singles, most recently an album called "Life Goes On."
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He must have let the sound of his own wheels bullshit drive him crazy.
[FrontPageMag] Hamza "Travis" Nagdy, 21, has been identified as the victim of a shooting just before 12:30 a.m. EST on Crittenden Drive in Louisville, according to social media posts by several family members, including his mother and stepmother. Nagdy was a regular at Jefferson Square Park, where protesters have gathered to demand justice for Breonna Taylor since late May.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — International air travel could come booming back next year but with a new rule: Travelers to certain countries must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before they can fly.
Encouraging news about vaccine development has given airlines and nations hope they may soon be able to revive suspended flight routes and dust off lucrative tourism plans. But countries in Asia and the Pacific, in particular, are determined not to let their hard-won gains against the virus evaporate.
In Australia, the boss of Qantas, the country’s largest airline, said that once a virus vaccine becomes widely available, his carrier will likely require passengers use it before they can travel abroad or land in Australia.
Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce said he’s been talking to his counterparts at other airlines around the world about the possibility of a "vaccination passport" for international travelers.
"We are looking at changing our terms and conditions to say for international travelers, that we will ask people to have the vaccination before they get on the aircraft," Joyce told Australia’s Network Nine television.He said they were looking at ways to electronically verify that people have the necessary vaccine for their intended destination, a difficult task.
“But certainly for international visitors coming out, and people leaving the country, we think that’s a necessity,” he said.
South Korea’s largest airline has a similar message. Jill Chung, a spokesperson for Korean Air, said Tuesday there’s a real possibility that airlines will require that passengers be vaccinated. She said that’s because governments are likely to require vaccinations as a condition for lifting quarantine requirements for new arrivals.
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I really liked Australia and New Zealand almost two years ago. Too bad.
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So big business jet setters and heavy politicians get first dabs, and I suppose all other ANZers have to stay masked in their bedroom until called upon.
[NYPOST] Vegans may be significantly more likely to develop bone fractures than meat-eaters, a new study revealed.
The large, longitudinal study published Sunday in the journal BMC Medicine, revealed that there were 19.4 more cases of fractures in vegans and 4.1 more cases in vegetarians for every 1,000 people over 10 years.
“This is the first comprehensive study and the largest study to date to look at the risks of both total fractures (fractures occurring anywhere in the body) and fractures at different sites in people of different habitual dietary habits,” the study’s lead author, Tammy Tong, a nutritional epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, said in an email to CNN.
Researchers recruited nearly 55,000 healthy adults from the UK — meat eaters, pescatarians, vegetarians and vegans — to answer a questionnaire on diet, socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle, and medical history between 1993 and 2001, and followed up with them in 2010.
By 2016, the study authors found 3,941 total fractures among the participants.
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Maybe more athletic and, hence, more prone to injury than, say, that fat slob in Illinois, Pritzker? Or another slob, Chris Christie?
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I could care less if someone wants to eat a bale of hay everyday just as I could care less if someone wants steak and eggs for breakfast. But there appear to be zealots on both sides of the herbivore-carnivore "debate", each side quite obnoxious at times.
The real vicious ones are vegans who attack former vegans.
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I like the ones who won't eat honey as evidently honey bees are often tortured, raped, and murdered in the processing of honey. Honey combs are veritable death camps in some of their minds.
[APNEWS] Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its 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... vaccine was up to 90% effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to distribute than some of its rivals.The results are based on interim analysis of trials in the U.K. and Brazil of a vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured by AstraZeneca. No hospitalizations or severe cases of COVID-19 were reported in those receiving the vaccine.
AstraZeneca is the third major drug company to report late-stage results for a potential COVID-19 vaccine as the world anxiously waits for scientific breakthroughs that will bring an end to a pandemic that has wrought economic devastation and resulted in nearly 1.4 million confirmed deaths.
Pfizer and Moderna last week reported preliminary results from late-stage trials showing their vaccines were almost 95% effective. But, unlike its rivals, the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t have to be stored at ultra-cold temperatures, making it easier to distribute, especially in developing countries.
"I think these are really exciting results," Dr. Andrew Pollard, chief investigator for the trial, said during a news conference. "Because the vaccine can be stored at fridge temperatures, it can be distributed around the world using the normal immunization distribution system. And so our goal ... to make sure that we have a vaccine that was accessible everywhere, I think we’ve actually managed to do that."
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[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Ramadan accused of causing ’offense’ to Egyptians after he was seen in picture with singer Omer Adam and soccer player Diaa Sabia.
An Egyptian court is to hear a case against prominent singer and actor Mohammed Ramadan, after photos emerged of him posing with Israeli celebrities, local media reported Monday.
The reports said a lawyer has filed a case accusing Ramadan of causing "offense to the Egyptian people" with the pictures, which sparked charges on social media of "betraying" the Paleostinians.
The case is to be heard on December 19.
Also on Monday, the syndicate of Egyptian artists said on Facebook that it was suspending Ramadan’s membership until he is questioned "at the latest in the first week of December."
Ramadan, a 32-year-old actor and rapper, boasts millions of followers in the Arab world. He is a close friend of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and won the 2019 All Africa Music Awards prize.
Ramadan came under fire over the weekend after Emirati journalist Hamad Al Mazrouei tweeted a photo of the star embracing Israeli singer Omer Adam during a trip to the United Arab Emirates. He captioned the shot: "The most famous artist in Egypt with the most famous artist in Israel, Dubai brings us together." However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... he later deleted the picture as outrage grew.
The picture gained further traction when it was retweeted by the State of Israel’s Arabic Twitter account under the caption "Art brings us together."
Mediterranean music star Adam, 27, is one of Israel’s most well-known singers, with his "Shnei Meshugaim" single viewed over 61 million times on YouTube, and numerous other singles racking up over 30 million views. A dual US-Israel citizen, he has made several appearances in Dubai in recent months.
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LONDON (AP) — The parents of a British teen who was killed in a car crash lost a court battle with the U.K. government Tuesday over whether their son’s alleged killer, an American woman, had diplomatic immunity.
The family has been seeking justice for 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who died after his motorbike crashed into a car driven on the wrong side of the road outside a U.S. airbase in central England last August.
The car’s driver, Anne Sacoolas, left for the U.S. several weeks after the collision. Officials said she was entitled to diplomatic immunity because her husband worked at the airbase.
Sacoolas, 43, was charged in December with causing death by dangerous driving, but the U.S. State Department rejected a request to extradite her to Britain to face trial.
Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, launched the court case to argue that Britain’s Foreign Office wrongly decided Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity.
But two judges rejected that Tuesday, ruling that the American "enjoyed immunity from U.K. criminal jurisdiction at the time of Harry’s death."
The teen’s mother said she was determined to continue finding justice for her son. She was backed by British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who said he stands with the family.
"We’re clear that Anne Sacoolas needs to face justice in the U.K, and we will support the family with their legal claim in the U.S.," Raab said.
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Base "technical assistant" was he? Packed up entire family and left the UK on a private jet? Car waited for them at Dulles? I can't imagine whom he might have been working for.
MAIL - It was believed that diplomatic immunity only applied to US officials - and their families - if they worked at the US Embassy in London.
But it appears that because of the work done at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire – a US intelligence hub in Britain - the same applies there.
Sky News claims an immunity deal between the UK and US there started in 1994.
As a result Northamptonshire Police were planning to get Anne Sacoolas to sign a 'waiver of diplomatic immunity' - but she, her husband and their children fled on a private jet.
Harry's family claim that Mrs Sacoolas had promised to work with police and admitted culpability.
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/\Excellent point Airandee! Pick it up where she pitches a G&T into the face of her lover and runs out of the pub. A man named Steele sitting next to them in the snug, desperately attempted to calm the two women, but failed miserably. Finishing his pint, he retorts to those nearby, "I have my own bloody problems."
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If the First District court in DC can be used to prosecute foreigners for crimes against Americans in foreign countries (a real contortion of the Constitution*), then by extension could not the same apply to Americans who commit crimes in foreign countries?
* Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, ..
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It's not a crime for an elite to run over a commoner. It wasn't in aristocratic France and it isn't today in America. Anne Sacoolas did nothing wrong.
[Reuters] Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday vowed to defend the democratic island’s sovereignty with the construction of a new fleet of domestically-developed submarines, a key project supported by the United States to counter neighbouring China.
Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has been for years working to revamp its submarine force, some of which date back to World War Two, and is no match for China’s fleet, which includes vessels capable of launching nuclear weapons.
At a ceremony to mark the start of construction of a new submarine fleet in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, Tsai called the move a "historic milestone" for Taiwan’s defensive capabilities after overcoming "various challenges and doubts".
"The construction demonstrates Taiwan’s strong will to the world to protect its sovereignty," she told the event, which was also attended by the de facto U.S. ambassador in Taiwan, Brent Christensen.
'#China has expanded its network of detention centres for Uighurs despite insisting "re-education" system being scaled back' a/c to new ASPI" report saying...380 suspected facilities in #Xinjiang... 40% more than previous estimates.' https://t.co/9l321vjCBt
[APA.AZ] China has given assurances that it will allow international experts into the country to investigate the origins of the 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... , the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, APA reports citing BBC.The WHO’s emergencies director, Dr Michael Ryan, said Chinese government officials had promised to facilitate a field trip to the country "as soon as possible".
The first cases of the virus were detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
China has rejected calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, arguing that such demands were politically motivated.
But China has been co-operating with the WHO, allowing it to send an advance team to Beijing in July to lay the groundwork for the international probe.
Since then it has remained unclear when a larger team of scientists would be sent to China to begin more detailed studies of the virus and its origins.
Dr Ryan said "we fully expect to have a team on the ground", with phase one of the investigation expected "over the next couple of months".
"Clearly, we all need to understand the origin of the virus," Dr Ryan told a virtual media briefing on Monday. "We all need to understand where it has come from, not least to understand where it may re-emerge in the future. I believe our Chinese colleagues are just as anxious to find those answers as we are."
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I would say send Fauci's a$$, but they said they wanted experts, so never mind.
[NYPOST] Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s nephew was taken into protective custody by the CIA just days after his dad was murdered with a nerve agent, according to a report. Kim Han-sol, 25, sought the help of a Free Joseon, a group of "freedom fighters" aiming to bring down Un’s "evil" North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n dictatorship, just days after his father was assassinated at a crowded airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur in 2017, the group told the New Yorker.
Han-sol was considered by many to be the rightful heir of the former Great Leader, his grandfather Kim Jong Il, and capturing him dead or alive would be a "zero-sum game," the group told the magazine.
Free Joseon’s New York-based leader Adrian Hong also said he had "never met a kid with so much money," because Han-sol’s father — the estranged half-brother of the Hermit Kingdom’s despot — had "stashed away a lot of cash during his life."
Han-sol fled Macau with his mother and teenage sister after noticing that their police guard disappeared after the murder of his father, the report said.
The family then spent a full day in an airport lounge in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, with a Free Joseon agent who tried to negotiate with at least three countries to take them in.
[RUDAW.NET] Three men were arrested on suspicion of hanging their sister to death, in what a local police spokesperson said on Sunday was related to a "social issue".
The body of the woman, born in 1994 and named by police only by the initials M.A.M, was found hanging in her own home on Friday evening in the district of Kalar, Garmiyan administration.
"The woman had problems with her husband, and their divorce case was in court," Garmiyan Police spokesperson Jamal Qidoori told Rudaw.
The police forces arrested four suspects in the hours after the discovery of the woman's body — three of whom were her brothers, Qidoori said.
The three brothers confessed to having hanged their sister, and were taken into custody under the Iraqi Penal Code's Paragraph 406, which relates to murder.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Qubad Talabani expressed his outrage over the murder via Twitter.
"We will not tolerate or accept violence against women in the name of honour — those responsible will pay a heavy price for their crime," Talabani said on Sunday.
The deputy prime minister also expressed his gratitude to security forces for their arrest of the perpetrators.
The US Consul General has also spoken out on the killing.
"I was appalled to read about the horrific killing of a woman in Kalar yesterday. We must say no to GBV. Such killings bring nothing but shame," said Consul General Rob Waller.
"There should be no acceptance of such things in [the] IKR, which is rightly proud of its reputation for diversity/tolerance," he added.
The term "social issue" is often used by Kurdistan Region authorities as a euphemism for the honor-based violence that persists the Kurdistan Region. In 2018, 49 women were murdered across the Kurdistan Region, according to figures from the General Directorate of Combating Violence Against Women, an office that works under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior. It is not clear how many of the murders are honor-related.
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(Dailywire) The Trump administration will begin the formal transition process for the incoming administration of Democrat Joe Biden, according to a letter from the administration.
The announcement from General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily W. Murphy comes after House Democrats demanded earlier in the day to be briefed on why the process had not already started.
"I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. "She has been harassed, threatened, and abused — and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same."
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[RealClearPolitics] Three words (contracted to two) made Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... famous: "You’re fired." They defined his celebrity on reality television, and they could now make him infamous among career civil servants who normally enjoy legal protections that make it extremely difficult to remove them from their posts.
The president signed an executive order last month creating a new class of federal worker; it encompasses career staff involved in "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating." Such workers, now categorized as "Schedule F," have been stripped of job protections that previously covered most federal employees. As a result, they can be fired much more easily.
More than creating a new bureaucratic classification, the move gives the president greater freedom to go after the so-called "deep state" career civil servants that he said hamstrung his term in office. He ordered government agencies in October to review their employees and report back with lists of "Schedule F" employees no later than Jan. 19, the eve of Inauguration Day.
The Office of Management and Budget has completed its task, RealClearPolitics has learned. According to an internal memo, OMB Director Russ Vought has classified 88% of that agency’s workforce, 425 employees, as Schedule F.
"Under President Trump’s leadership, we are committed to full accountability of policy making officials, as Congress intended, and implementing merit principles," Vought told RCP. "This is another step to make Washington accountable to the American people." Accountability, in this sense, means being subject to termination.
Of the more than 2 million federal employees, only about 4,000 are political appointees. They come and go with each administration, and they can be hired or fired at will. The rest are career civil servants. They can only be fired through an appeals-based process that critics complain is too time-consuming and complicated. Schedule F, one White House aide explained, "changes the game."
It is a much broader category and could potentially include everyone from regulators and managers to economists and scientists. The order could be rescinded once President-elect Biden takes office, but the OMB action is the latest in an ongoing effort to make career positions more accountable to the executive. Trump has been regularly frustrated by those he describes as the "bad people" who inhabit the "deep state" thwarting his policy moves for the past four years. Despite the election results, the administration is moving forward with what public-sector unions and critics fear could be a blood-letting.
Senate Democrats introduced a bill Friday to block the executive order. Its sponsor, Gary Peters of Michigan, said the order would "not only strip protections away from hard-working, dedicated civil servants," but also create "chaos and dysfunction during the ongoing pandemic and Presidential transition."
His move was largely a symbolic gesture. The legislation isn’t expected to advance, and Democrats are powerless to stop the new classification and possible purge as Trump prepares to exit the White House.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[WEARTV] A Florida rapper spent an evening recording music in a makeshift studio and then fatally shot two men who were with him, authorities say.
...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...
[Reuters] Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday vowed to defend the democratic island’s sovereignty with the construction of a new fleet of domestically-developed submarines, a key project supported by the United States to counter neighbouring China.
...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...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[RUDAW.NET] Three men were arrested on suspicion of hanging their sister to death, in what a local police spokesperson said on Sunday was related to a "social issue".
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
