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-Lurid Crime Tales-
PhD student arrested over Idaho quadruple slaying studied under famed forensic psychologist who authored 68 books including 'How to Catch a Killer' and 'The Mind of a Murderer'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The suspect in the murders studied under a famed forensic psychologist

  • Bryan Kohberger was a graduate student of Dr. Katherine Ramsland until June

  • Ramsland has written extensively on murder as well as advised on TV shows

  • A classmate of Kohberger's in her class described him as 'very intelligent' but also 'seemingly detached.'

  • He is also a teaching assistant for the university's criminal justice and criminology program
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 06:28 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So a mass murderer may have graded your homework. Was he in any clubs?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  The criminal mind is not a degree earning university mind. Criminology is like trying to use an oscilloscope on a frozen lug nut.

Yes. This guy. Ted Bundy. Exceptions to the Ann Rule...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  so a spook mentored the killer wow shocker!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 12/31/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Last night I watched the Clint Eastwood film on Richard Jewell and the ‘96 Olympic bombing. My starting assumption with this guy is that like Jewell he’s guilty of fitting a profile. Everything else is tbd.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 12/31/2022 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Well. Any effort put into the "investigation" will be rayciss because the vics were white. How does a guy going to school halfway across the country come into contact with these people so much younger than him? If there is any sort of ongoing criminal activity among them all, who needs it covered up?

Questions, questions, questions...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  The suspect lived 15mins from the victims. His school (Washington State University) is on the Washington-Idaho border.
Posted by: Thesing Gurly-Brown8929 || 12/31/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Bryan Kohberger wrapped up his studies under Ramsland at DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in June

15 minutes away...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:08 Comments || Top||

#8  The suspect graduated from DeSales with a Bachelor's in 2020 and a Master's in 2022. Moscow Police Chief James Fry said Friday that Kohberger attends Washington State University, which is only a few miles across the state line from Moscow.
Posted by: Thesing Gurly-Brown8929 || 12/31/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#9  My point is, did he know them for a while or just recently?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  A distant relative met a man on a first date at a bookstore. She looked at books on home design. He looked at books on serial killers. End of date.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 12/31/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#11  A serial killer isn't scary. Sitting next to a serial killer at dinner is scary...

- Alfred Hitchcock
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh, he's "vegan." Nothing to see here, you can all go home now... "

"Can you confirm it was an Ar17 knife?"

"I can't say anymore until the coroner's report comes out, but yes, it was a high clip knife..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Seems he went from a third to a forth or fifth tier school. Of course there are scholastic and financial reasons to do that. Or maybe he needed to be closer to people he was involved with.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#14  How bout it, GD? You covering for somebody?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#15  The Times of Israel adds:

DNA evidence played a key role in identifying Bryan Christopher Kohberger as a suspect in the killings, and officials were able to match his DNA to genetic material recovered during the investigation, a law enforcement official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation.

WSU and UI are partners in several academic programs, and students sometimes attend classes and seminars or work at the neighboring schools. That doesn’t appear to be the case with Kohberger: University of Idaho President Scott Green wrote in a memo to students and employees on Friday evening that the Idaho school had no record of him.


DNA evidence isn’t always as clear cut as prosecutors and the FBI like to claim. 48 Hour Rule, guys, no matter how long that might actually be — so far the evidence is all circumstantial.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/31/2022 19:26 Comments || Top||


Florida business partners die after shooting each other in dispute at work, police say
[NYP] Two Florida men killed each other in a deadly shootout at their shared business.

The shooting occurred Thursday afternoon at their business located at 3135 U.S. 92 East in Lakeland, Florida. While the Polk County Sheriff’s Office did not release the name of the business, a Google search shows Service On Site of Central Florida Inc., an auto service business, at the address.

The business partners, 31-year-old Akeido Bennett, and 39-year-old Xavier Figueroa, shot each other, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Bennett reportedly died at the scene of the shooting, while Figueroa attempted to leave the business in his truck, but died later from the gunshot injury.

"This was an avoidable tragedy stemming from a disagreement between business partners," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. "We all have an obligation to our friends, our families, and society at large to talk things out instead of turning to violence. These men would still be alive today, and their families would not be grieving, had they been able to work out their differences civilly."

Deputies said an investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 01:50 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Resolution reached.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Hostile takeover.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2022 6:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I bet Raj could weigh in on the headache this will cause their accountant.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#4  "Was Akeido Bennett alive in 2022?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe they should have tried mediation.

I don’t think the business was a Subway Franchise or it would have been a knife battle.

These are might thoughts.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:47 Comments || Top||


Alleged Armed Robber Shot Dead After Picking Wrong Tow Truck Driver To Rob
[TheTruthAboutGuns] Violent crime continued in Detroit without interruption for the holiday season. An alleged armed robber tried his hand at it on Monday. He apparently contacted an auto salvage company, telling them he wanted them to purchase and haul away a junk car. When the tow truck arrived to pick up the hoopty, the intrepid criminal tried to ambush the driver.

Mr. Robber didn’t expect the hook’s driver to be so aware of his surroundings...or have his own gun. Given the fact that Mr. Tow Truck Driver had a concealed carry license and was carrying his gat that day, one might suspect that wasn’t his first rodeo.

So when Mr. Armed Robber ambushed the driver from behind, the driver shot him dead right there, potentially saving his own life.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two free tickets to Sunday night's Policeman's Ball. A new Glock pistol and 1000 rounds of ammo. A Key to The City. A seven day vacation for two to Aruba.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ..potentially saving his own life.

..and untold others. Doing the job the illegitimate state refuses to do.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/31/2022 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Don’t rob the tow truck driver if his haircut looks like Deniro in Taxi Driver. Also don’t go behind the counter at the Waffle House. Words to live by.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  If this had happened in New York, the tow truck driver would not have had a concealed carry permit.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/31/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  If this had happened in New York, the tow truck driver would

have been armed somehow anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Was it Old Patriot who advised stowing a good axe handle under the seat?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/31/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Tire knocker, AKA cut off baseball bat.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Carry a baseball glove too. Your lawyer will thank you
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Used to have lunch with a lawyer, not mine, mind you.

Me: "You ever heard that story about someone in your house at 3 am claiming they were lost?"

Lawyer: "I've heard something like that..."

Me: "Well, in my house, that guy is more lost than he realizes..."

Lawyer: (Bites sandwich. Chews thoughtfully. Swallows discreetly.) "My advice? Shoot to kill. Your word versus his dead ass..."

Me: "Good sandwich?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Make sure the pine tar is regulation length up the handle. That can make a difference.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 13:03 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Former Pope Benedict dies at age 95
[Jerusalem Post] Former Pope Benedict XVI died on Saturday in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said.

"With sorrow, I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible," the spokesman said in a written statement. He had also spent his final years at the monastery, where his successor Pope Francis had visited him frequently, the BBC reported.

"With sorrow, I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible."

Holy See spokesman

He died at the age of 95 at his Vatican residence, BBC reported. He led the Catholic Church for eight years until 2013 when he had to step down due to health issues.

Benedict had fallen extremely ill before his passing. The Vatican had said in a statement on Wednesday that the former Pope had suffered a sudden "worsening" of his health. His announcement reportedly shocked the Catholic world, according to multiple sources, and also made him the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.

Related: The Times of Israel remembers him at length.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 05:39 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RIP. Not sure why you would be sorrowful if you believe in heaven.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Everybody needs forgiveness, even if they don't deserve.

Everybody needs salvation, even if they don't believe a Word.

The Rest Will Take Care of Itself - R.S. Field
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  The sorrow is for those left to live on without him, Super Hose.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/31/2022 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  If you believe your people are "in a better place," you have no reason to grieve for them. Sorrow for your own loss is selfish and you need to get past it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Did he resign and go into seclusion as penance for mishandling priest pedoph*lia?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/31/2022 15:55 Comments || Top||


Media Icon, Legendary Anchor Barbara Walters Passes Away At 93
[GatewayPundit] ABC News, where Walters worked for over two decades, also confirmed the news of Walters passing.

Walters, the first woman to co-host a morning and evening newscast, was born Sept. 25, 1929 to Dena and Louis Walters.

The Legacy announcement, Courtesy of NN2N1:
Barbara Walters - Finally dead.

A Ladder climbing, screw just about any anyone over person.
Well known for her bias reporting, and hate of Conservatives morality.
Who promoted Liberal/Alternative views.
Developed TV Shows like The View and more to spew Agendas.
Has finally kicked the bucket.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 01:03 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never much of a fan of Walters, but I thought this excellent video posted yesterday by Skid might be appropriate. RIP.

Nearer, My God, to Thee | BYU Vocal Point ft. BYU Men's Chorus

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  She had a long and successful career. Her ardent sycophancy I found nauseating at times... Requiescat in pace.
Posted by: magpie || 12/31/2022 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3 
#1 Never much of a fan of Walters, but I thought this excellent video posted yesterday by Skid might be appropriate. RIP.

Nearer, My God, to Thee | BYU Vocal Point ft. BYU Men's Chorus


Beso,

That video was sublime. Thank you; I kinda needed it today.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/31/2022 3:13 Comments || Top||

#4  "If you could be a twee, what kind of twee would you be?"

/Hard-hitting Baba Wawa interview of a Democrat
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2022 6:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Damn you, Frank!

I was gonna go with 'If you were a corpse, what kind of tree would you be buried under?'
Posted by: Raj || 12/31/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  I can’t remember if she was the one that did the Tyson and Robin Givens interviews. Never was interested in her stuff. I remember that they made fun of her on SNL when they had writer’s block.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Robin Gimmee...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  She was the original host of The View.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/31/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Forgot about The View. Was thinking of her in more of the original Love Boat era. I guess her retirement from the show was kind of like removing the plastic packaging off the 12 pack of Charmin. All vestiges were gone and it was all down to business from there.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#10  The Drug Boat.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Remove the thin veneer of branding and start dabbing and wiping the tons of Behar and Whoopi.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#12  The audience of "The View" is women white and black who simply hate not being in charge. Mostly white but also black women who aspire to white culture. Hence the show's on screen makeup.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 14:09 Comments || Top||

#13  ...more modern women have found being a ventriloquist with a white male as a dummy works OK to attain that power, as in Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/31/2022 16:39 Comments || Top||

#14  A list of better people that also died on Dec.30th over the years.

Examples given:.
A real fighter in his time - Sonny Liston,

Jaz King Maker - Artie Shaw,

Lead singer of the Drifters - Johnny Moore,

U.S. songwriter and producer who wrote “Twist and Shout,” - Bert Berns,
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/31/2022 17:49 Comments || Top||

#15  Also Rizal, Rasputin, Richard Rodgers, and...

"In '84, children, que pasa?"
"An actress accused her harasser?"
"Be serious, please.
There succumbed to a freeze
A methusalan monkey named Massa!"

Okay, bad joke. It was a stroke.
Posted by: Bob Bigfeet5710 || 12/31/2022 23:58 Comments || Top||

#16  Not to mention Ling-Ling the Panda.
Posted by: Bob Bigfeet5710 || 12/31/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Britain
Passengers from China WILL need a negative Covid test from next week before entering the UK amid surging cases and fears Beijing could be covering up emergence of new variants
  • Passengers arriving from China to the UK will need to have negative Covid test

  • It will bring Britain in line with Italy, the US, Spain, India and Israel, among others

  • Government sources says the move was put in place as a precautionary measure
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 07:19 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Well, "It's different" is the leftist motto...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Does the test have to be from them? Is proof presented before they take-off or upon landing? Why don’t we just convert all China flights to SouthWest? That would be more effective.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's be serious. You could test negative at departure and be positive by the time you land...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Reciprocate the anal swabbing, because we are not serious.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/31/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  You can also test negative, and still have the virus.
Also - who is doing the testing? Us or China?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/31/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Also - who is doing the testing? Us or China?

Duh. We buy our tests from China...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Remember when The Science! said three consecutive negative tests to prove a negative because the tests are so faulty. But nobody passed, because the tests are faulty.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/31/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#9  shut the boarder to the chinks, how hard is that?
Posted by: 746 || 12/31/2022 11:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Why would anyone trust a piece of paper from China? Especially when in 1999-2000 the Chinese intentionally spread the disease worldwide by encouraging international travel from Wuhan as they quarantined Wuhan to intra-China travel.
Posted by: Thesing Gurly-Brown8929 || 12/31/2022 12:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Make every last one of them bend over upon arrival for butt swabs. Better yet, cancel all the flights and don't let any of them enter.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/31/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Why would anyone trust a piece of paper from China

You were good at why "would anyone trust..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#13  just fly into Mexico and walk over

Posted by: Jan || 12/31/2022 21:34 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Bahamas Regulators Seize Crypto Assets from FTX Worth $3.5 Billion for ‘Safekeeping'
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 07:50 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Caribbean countries have a long history of seizing assets for their protection.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 22:34 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's Medvedev: ‘Fourth Reich' to be made up of Germany, Poland
[Jerusalem Post] Medvedev made a list of 10 predictions he has for 2023 on Twitter.

"The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kyiv Republic, and other outcasts," said Dmitry Medvedev, former president of Russia and a staunch supporter of the war in Ukraine, on Monday night.

This was the fourth of a list of 10 predictions Medvedev made for 2023, which he shared on Twitter.

MEDVEDEV'S ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS
Several of his other predictions related to economic and financial concerns, including that "Oil price[s] will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters." He also claimed that "all the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia."

He further stated, "The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead."

MEDVEDEV'S PREDICTIONS FOR EUROPE
When it comes to European relations, Medvedev claimed that the UK will rejoin the European Union, leading to its downfall.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 05:48 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's made no predictions regarding Tesla or Amazon I take it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Chaff
Posted by: Neville Snore8990 || 12/31/2022 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  That is some strong stuff he is smoking.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/31/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ....Criswellski PREDICTS!!!!

/and at least Criswell was intentionally funny

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/31/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Dale lurking near a hotel window...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6  the AI demands the use of a prime number it is 5th!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 12/31/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  And this time the Reich beats Russia. Ouch!
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/31/2022 12:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Necktie feeling tight Dmitry?
Posted by: Thesing Gurly-Brown8929 || 12/31/2022 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Bottle of vodka and a lucky eightball = comic genius
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Truth behind 'UFO scare' in South Korea that sparked frenzy after hundreds reported 'flying object' with 'mysterious lights' and 'rainbow-coloured vapour trail'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • South Korea's military confirmed it test-fired a solid-fuelled rocket on Friday

  • Defence Ministry said rocket launch was part of efforts to build space-based surveillance capability and bolster its defences

  • It said it did not notify public in advance as it involved military security issues
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 06:52 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  North Korea ends year with ballistic missiles launch
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  If the vape has a cotton candy smell, they have stolen our technology again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  "The Dubble Bubble fusion propellant is working well, Captain!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Just showin' UFO Pride, man.
Posted by: Flutch Stalin2845 || 12/31/2022 14:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Mars Needs Men!
"We'll be bothered by bugs?"
"And you'll like it, you xenophobe thugs!
We also need children and--"
"What? How bewilderin'--"
"Women, for munchin' on rugs."
[Martian muezzin]
Posted by: Bob Sholurt5710 || 12/31/2022 22:05 Comments || Top||

#6  To my knowledge Mars Needs Guitars.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 22:25 Comments || Top||


Down Under
War of words erupts between Australia's top doctors over how to handle arrivals from China after it lifted travel restrictions - as Covid runs rampant
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two week quarantine at a remote, locked location on airport property for all arriving passengers and crew just in case, right?
  • Medical leaders clashed over how to handle visitors from Covid-stricken China

  • China was hit by explosion in cases with more residents coming to Australia

  • Dr Roderick McRae said authorities should assume planes are riddled with Covid
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 06:55 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  So Australia, that went Ape $hit locking down its own people between 2020-2022. Now is setting up Q-Camps to allow an influx of visitors from the MOST C-19+ Infected country to visit?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/31/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  You may not be interested in herd immunity, but herd immunity is interested in you...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  They really are POMs at heart Merc. Perfidious behavior is almost second nature.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Perfidious
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ty skid
Posted by: Chris || 12/31/2022 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Good moment to go Walkabout.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Should probably separate children from their parents, force a jab into everyone, and put them in a 2 week isolation.

That way, they stay in China where it is safer and more free.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/31/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||


Europe
UAE was behind a plot in connection with the escalating corruption scandal sweeping the European Parliament.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/31/2022 00:51 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The UAE has about as much trouble bribing EU Parliament members as the Mexican cartel has bribing Mexican politicians. Also known as throwing gasoline on a fire.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/31/2022 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Standard component of organized crime storylines: If you want to own someone, get their hands dirty.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||


Passengers arriving at Spanish airports from China will be screened for COVID19
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Posted by: Fred || 12/31/2022 00:45 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Appears the virus travel and dissemination effort is in full swing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Well, B, the vaxx and booster efforts failed to produce the desired results, so walking reinforcements are now called for.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Face it we been screwed again.

Since the CCP has already allowed a mass Exodus. Shouldn't all international passengers and crews be tested?

Besides, isn't 3 to 5 days after initial exposure before the C-19+ test will show positive?

So, those testing negative for exposure, after a series of flights connections (12 to 24 hours) could be quiet carriers on arrival and for several days there after.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/31/2022 18:04 Comments || Top||


All border crossings in Kosovo open as Serbs remove roadblocks
[An Nahar] All border crossings linking Kosovo to Serbia reopened Friday after ethnic Serbs dismantled roadblocks they had set up in protest over a policeman's arrest, easing tensions in the volatile region.

Kosovo police said two smaller border crossings "opened for traffic in the afternoon" on Friday. The main border crossing at Merdare had reopened on Thursday.

The only barricade left standing in northern Kosovo is near the flashpoint city of Mitrovica, where two burnt trucks -- the target of suspected arson -- still block the road.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, after a bitter war in the late 1990s.

But Belgrade does not recognise it and encourages Kosovo's 120,000 ethnic Serbs to defy Pristina's authority -- especially in the north where they make up the majority.

The latest trouble erupted after ethnic Serbs in the north put up barricades to protest the arrest of a former policeman suspected of being involved in attacks against ethnic Albanian coppers -- effectively sealing off traffic on two border crossings.

After the roadblocks were set up, Kosovar police and international peacekeepers were attacked in several shooting incidents.

Serbian armed forces were put on heightened alert this week -- sparking fears the unrest would spread in the tense region.

But the Serbs agreed -- some of them reluctantly -- to remove the barricades after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic urged them to do so, following calls from the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
for de-escalation.

"We listened to the president. We will see what awaits us, we trust him," 55-year old Radoslava, who refused to give her surname, told AFP.

North Kosovo still faces a security and administrative vacuum as hundreds of ethnic Serbs coppers, mayors, judges and prosecutors -- collectively walked off their jobs in November.

They were protesting a controversial decision to ban Serbs living in Kosovo from using Belgrade-issued vehicle licence plates -- a policy that was eventually scrapped by Pristina.

Posted by: Fred || 12/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All better. No need to spruce up the camps.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Most-screwed up countries in even deeper trouble as food shortages get worse
[ToloNews] Save the Children in a report on Thursday said that more than 6.6 million people are facing hunger in Afghanistan which is on top of the countries facing severe hunger.
Allah showing her displeasure that the Taliban are running things.
"The country with the highest number of people facing severe levels of hunger was Afghanistan where this number increased to 6.6 million in 2022 from 2.5 million in 2019," Save the Children said.

The organization said that the number of people facing severe hunger has surged in eight countries in the world by 57 percent between 2019 to 2022.

"The analysis, based on Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) data, found that Afghanistan,
Muslim theocracy now run by a bunch of terrorists
Central African Republic,
stereotypical dysfunctional sub-Saharan hellhole, resulting from the colonial French administration’sE attempt to improve things by modeling its governance on the Belgian Congo. Historic exports were ivory and slaves
DRC,
what the Belgian Congo now calls itself. It hasn’t yet recovered from Belgian misgovernance.
Haiti,
Caribbean hellhole ever since the slaves threw out their French masters. They’ve done everything wrong since.
Somalia,
trades refugees with their cousins in Yemen across way, depending whose situation is worse at the moment
South Sudan,
they broke off from Sudan because the animists and Christians didn’t want to be tormented any longer by their Muslim rulers, so now they torment among themselves
Sudan,
the Arab Moslem rulers are just as happy to torment their Bantu coreligionists as they were going after their former subjects to the south
and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
had the highest numbers of people facing emergency and catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition, between 2019 and 2022," the report said.

A number of Kabul residents said that an increase in unemployment is one of the main reasons behind the deteriorated economic situation among people.

"It has been one year that people cannot find jobs. We are here in Haji Yaqoub Square since morning and I even didn’t have lunch yet," said Mohammad Zarif, a daily wager in Kabul.

"We are 12 people at home. I am the only breadwinner for the family," said Mohammad Sadiq, a resident of Kabul.

Analysts said that there is a need for investment in infrastructural projects to alleviate poverty in the country.
We did that. The Taliban destroyed much of that, as they destroyed the Soviet improvements before that.
"To reduce poverty in Afghanistan, there should be a focus on agriculture, investment, and management of issues that affect the poor people," said Mir Shakib Mir, an analyst in economic affairs.

"In short terms, to reduce poverty in Afghanistan, there is a need for Humanitarian assistance by the UN and other organizations as well as the ruling regime," said Siyar Quraishi, an economic affairs analyst.

Earlier, the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the deteriorating economy has caused sharp declines in income, rising debt, and high unemployment and that due to a severe increase in commodity prices, people now spend 71 percent of their income on food.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/31/2022 05:22 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "To reduce poverty in Afghanistan, ... management of issues that affect the poor people"

That would be the rich people.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 5:49 Comments || Top||


#3  Yes, here in the US, poor people have no problem acquiring empty calories.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  NOTE TO ALL ELITE AND POLITICAL TYPES

RULE #1
Take care of HOME, before taking care of the world.


Seriously
Hell, with high inflation here in the USA, those on Fixed-Incomes here are trying to figure out how to do with 20% less themselves.

Given, many of these nation's ruling elite abuse their citizen rights and steal their property.

Have an open practice of murder for simple, mundane social, cultural or political violations.

View females as little more than disposable labor, breeding machines that cook, clean house and tend to offspring.

Plus, a demonstrated history of misuse and abuse of donated $$$$$. Which is all too often used to fund Political and Private agendas. Things that have nothing to do with feeding the starving masses.

Given all this and more, my government and various charities still want my $$$$ to support this?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/31/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  various charities still want my $$$$ to support this?

I've taken to donating dog food to animal shelters in an anonymous Christmas celebration.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#6  You can rest assured thet will not betray you Skid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 8:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Problems in Afghanistan? I can but quote the Senator, 'I'm sorry this is happening to you. Good luck'.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/31/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  If they ban women from bread lines, there will be little left for them to do but Peleton. Fatima will end up ripped on her new low carb diet.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Somehow, I have trouble envisioning a toned woman named Fatima...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Have they tried eating at Green Beans?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/31/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||



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