[Red State] There’s a place where privilege reigns supreme, where some suffer while others royally rule. It’s a realm of radical difference, a dimension of dreadful disparity.
If you dare stare into the frightful face of inequity, look no further than the pernicious prince-and-pauper paradigm of The Home Depot.
I’m speaking of the store’s staff.
You’ve no doubt noticed it — while on the prowl for the perfect piece of PVC pipe or a sexy pirate yard ornament, you couldn’t help but observe the vast array of social ladder rungs represented by the viceroys and victims in orange aprons.
Thankfully, the home improvement chain recently attempted to reshuffle society’s deck.
Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok posted a Home Depot employee worksheet called "Unpacking Privilege."
The "P" word is defined as "a special benefit or advantage that may be earned or unearned."
"A person may or may not be aware that they are benefitting from privilege," the handout states.
Those leading do-it-yourselfers to a two-pound bag of bat guano or an econo-size container of coyote urine should be versed in privilege of two types:
#6
At first, I thought maybe this was the Bee's satire. My second thought was that Alex Parker (if that's a real person) was overly-focused on wokeness and whiteness in his articles. I never thought HD employees were "white-privileged oppressors." They were helpful and friendly.
I'm going with #1's assessment--Red China propaganda at work via Tik Tok. I saw a recent Tik Tok ad featuring a cute girl of about 15 with perfect features and clothing. At the time I thought maybe she was a cyborg.
#7
/\ The "privileged" meme is obviously very destructive to the gov't and military structures. It's a highly effective propaganda tool for the Chinese. Using the private sector (Chinese box stores) venue to assist with dissemination is a good play.
Other excellent Chinese plays we have seen in the past, and continue to suffer are the infiltration of academia and S&T.
But perhaps I am wrong. Trends surfacing at Box Stores, academia, Science and Technology, and pro-China attitudes within the Beltway could simply be amazing coincidences.
#12
I wonder what percentage of their customers are white? I'm with NN2N1, you also get better service at the local yards. You're better off not even asking 90% of their staff a question about anything.
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Hostile Work Environment™
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Wow. Sitting in a HVAC office dreaming up ways to make box humpers feel bad.
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A spokeswoman from Home Depot’s US headquarters confirmed to The Post that the white privilege notice was material from its Canadian division. She said it hadn’t been approved by the company’s diversity and inclusion department. The flyer had a Home Depot logo at the top.
"Diversity and inclusion department"?
Oh hell yes it was approved.
[Townhall] The Left has a Nazi fetish. They have an unhealthy obsession with Adolf Hitler. Maybe it’s because they all secretly want to be him? After all, he built death camps, put people he hated into them, and systemically murdered them. It’s what liberals want to do with anyone with whom they disagree, so roughly half the country. Everything they hate is rooted in racism, sexism, misogyny, or Nazism. It’s the same old game, but it’s not reaching levels of mockery that we really haven’t approached yet. I have never seen an op-ed that argues that working out and exercising is akin to Nazism. It’s all here. Exercise is a far-right activity. You cannot make this up (via MSNBC):
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It is not as innocently retarded as that. The groups who want control know they will have to fight to take it. Even after all the white apologetics and racism doctrines. They just want your children to grow up weak and emaciated, and better if with lifestyle diseases. So they are easier to chase down, stab, bat to death and fling into pits.
#2
The Left has a Nazi fetish
Eric Zemmour is Hitler, Putin is Hitler, Trump is Hitler, whoever I don't like is Hitler.
All while people who openly declare their allegiance to Nazi doctrines and use the rhetoric and symbols of Nazism like Andriy Biletsky are described only as "far right"
[Toronto Sun] President Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a "new world order." In the middle of the COVID global pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a "great reset."
Accordingly, the nations of the world would have to surrender their sovereignty to an international body of experts. They would enlighten us on taxes, diversity, and green policies.
When former President Donald Trump got elected in 2016, marquee journalists announced partisan reporting would have to displace the old, supposedly disinterested approach to the news.
There is a common theme here.
In normal times progressives worry that they do not have public support for their policies. Only in crises do they feel that the political Left and media can merge to use apocalyptic times to ram through usually unpopular approaches to foreign and domestic problems.
We saw that last year: fleeing from Afghanistan, the embrace of critical race theory, trying to end the filibuster, pack the court, junk the Electoral College, and nationalize voting laws.
These "new orders" and "resets" always entail far bigger government and more unelected, powerful bureaucracies. Elites assume that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting, voting, sovereignty, and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to themselves, the architects of such top-down changes.
So we common folk must quit fossil fuels, but not those who need to use corporate jets. Walls will not mar our borders but will protect the homes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.
Hunter Biden’s lost laptop will be declared, by fiat, not news. In contrast, the fake Alfa Bank "collusion" narrative will be national headline news for weeks.
#1
The great reset will only apply in the western countries. Things are already run by international bodies of experts whether you acknowledge it or not. They have no power in most Asian nations because the civilizational momentum of those populations tramples the piddly ideologies designed in NWO seeking globalist idea factories. Hence they sought to limit development and industrialization, military power and expansion of these countries. They always used America as the thug because the population is enamoured with the great gunslinging civilized image. It was romantic to imagine Stallone as fighting alongside islamic thugs in service of freedoms in Atlanta and Chicago. But that image shattered even for the thinking conservative when he saw just what the hell it was all for. Not only the hippies now but even intelligent Americans like Trump were asking "why war?" Why some over militarized league of thugs out to interfere in every part of the world bringing their wars home to New York and Minnesota.
Today, it doesn't matter what the conservative thinks. American elections are fixed, the people who can think straight are in he minority and NWO agencies have already begun controlling government. Non western nations will not bow to this control, they will fight until the world is polarized between the globalizers and sovereign nations.
#2
Not only the hippies now but even intelligent Americans like Trump were asking "why war?"
Getting involved in Iraq -- as stupidly as that war was conducted and rhetorically justified -- at least made sense, given Iraq's and the region's oil production and the dependence of US partners on Persian Gulf oil flows.
But provoking Russia and propping up a little dictator who's the puppet of Jewish oligarchs in a shithole like Ukraine is retarded. Supporting these bandits with self-destructive sanctions that only make Americans and the world much poorer is even more retarded.
#3
Made sense? You mean that they lied about there being WMD in Iraq and launched an illegal invasion based on their own lies? What part of that made sense?
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It would have made sense only if you had appropriated all the oil reserves of that country and killed every one of Saddam's army. And planted the American flag so deep into the ass of the Levant that islamics from Kuwait to Syria would get up every day to salute it.
Because there were multiple reasons given for going to war and the media and fools concentrated on the WMD one because they could redefine it to mean only nuclear tech in order to bash W. Bush.
The whole thing might have been ill-advised but repeating that nonsense doesn't make it true.
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The powers that be are predicting a famine this year. Bite-One should prevent the use of ethanol this year so he can feed the world! This will decrease the amount of auto fuel 10% and raise prices and will pacify the greenies. Nah…makes too much sense! He could even prevent driving on Sunday.
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[AmThinker] I propose that Vladimir Putin be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after he announces the end of hostilities and withdraws his troops.
This isn't as crazy as it sounds. If Putin did end the war, he actually would qualify for the prize, which is officially awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." (Incidentally, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has no provisions for disqualifying people who start wars.)
Putin would be an unusual pick, to say the least. But the Nobel Committee has made a number of unusual picks in recent decades. In 1994, it awarded the prize to Yasser Arafat.
#4
And here I thought he was up for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for ending the Covid Pan-epidemic. Cause I'm not hearing the daily panic on that front anymore.
"Frank Sinatra? Heck of a guy - real prince. Saved my life once. We were doing a show at the Sands, and between sets, I took a break in the parking lot. Next thing I know, three guys are working me over real good. Then I hear Frank say, 'OK, boys, that's enough.'"
#7
Except he doesn't want a prize. He will settle for only Zelensky's life and his own figurehead in Kiev.
Actually that's an easier thing to give him. Strategically too it would be a good chess move. Putin will be stressed for years controlling the rebellions and guerrilla fighting in the region. And countries wishing to jump into the by now floating NATO umbrella would be dissuaded. Best part, Soros and company would be denied this perverse game of gō in this lifetime.
[YouTube] As per some estimates, the Russian military has deployed as many as 20 generals were deployed to lead Russia’s onslaught in Ukraine. Out of this, Russia has lost at least 5 generals in fighting in less than a month.
By comparison, the United States has lost two general officers during the Global War on Terror which has lasted for more than 20 years- Army Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude was killed at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11, 2001 attack and Army Maj. Gen. Harold Greene was killed in an Aug. 5, 2014 insider attack in Afghanistan.
The death of one general officer in combat is an incredibly rare thing, the death of multiple generals is almost unbelievable.
This can't be brushed aside as coincidence and multiple factors are at play.
In this video Defense Updates analyzes why Russia is losing so many military generals in Ukraine?
#1
Cause they're doing COL and LTC jobs. When you don't have an effective non-commissioned officer corps, you got officers doing those jobs. When you have LTs and CPTs doing NCO jobs, then MAJ and LTC do the company grade jobs, with COL and GEN doing battalion and brigade jobs much closer to the action.
#4
One could argue that if we had lost (or at least misplaced) a few more generals along the way, then our military would be focused on warfighting instead of woke nonsense.
#5
^ maybe if they had tossed the peacetime promotion system and gone full field performance we'd been better off. However, that wouldn't have been 'equitable', not that war is.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Material from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the militia of Novorossiya.
👉🏻1. Mariupol.
Serious promotion in the city. There is a weakening of organized resistance and an acceleration of the advancement of assault groups inside the city. Materials from the city show that the enemy is suffering heavy losses. Attempts by one way or another to escape from Mariupol by enemy soldiers are becoming more frequent.
In the evening, Kadyrov announced the liberation of the Left Bank region from the enemy.
👉🏻2. Ugledar.
Heavy fighting continues on the Novomikhailovka-Konstantinovka line. At Velyka Novoselka, no progress was reported.
👉🏻3. Marinka.
A small advance in the village, but there is still work to do. The enemy continues to offer very stubborn resistance.
👉🏻4. Avdievka.
Fighting continued on the outskirts of the village. To the north, fighting was going on in the area of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselki-2.
👉🏻5. LPR.
No changes in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. Near Popasnaya, the LPR army occupied the village of Novoaleksandrovka. Fighting continues in Popasna itself. Shelling of Rubizhne also continues.
👉🏻6. Kyiv.
Heavy fighting continued in the area of Irpin and Bucha. Both sides are actively working with artillery. There were also active battles to the northeast and east of the Brovary region.
Near Chernigov without significant changes. Ukrainian sources reported on the battles for Slavutych, but there is almost no information about this.
👉🏻7. Nikolaev.
On the front line without major changes. Just like that part of the group that went to Krivoy Rog and Nikopol.
👉🏻8. Izyum.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Izyum had been taken. The governor of Kharkov says that they are still holding out in the south of the city.
According to sources from the field, the battles for Kamenka continue, both sides are pulling up additional forces. Izyum himself was badly damaged during the fighting.
👉🏻9. Slavyansk-Kramatorsk.
Regular strikes on military facilities in the agglomeration continue - they hit both warehouses and stocks of fuel and lubricants, and clusters of equipment.
👉🏻10. Zaporozhye.
There are no significant changes on the front line.
The main event was the fire at the Saratov large landing ship in the port of Berdyansk (the reason has not yet been officially announced - there are versions - Tochka-U, Smerch, sabotage, negligence. The ship was seriously damaged and sat down on the bottom near the quay wall.
Another BDK was also damaged in the explosion, the fire on it was extinguished after leaving the harbour.
The reference to the Moscow suburb of Khimki is the farthest eastern advance of German troops during the Battle of Moscow in 1941. By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] In the evening, the signalers somehow set up television. Ukrainian. Tridents rippled on the dim little screen. They were everywhere - on the T-shirts of the hosts, on the embroidered shirts of the guests, on the screens of the panels, on the nightstands of the speakers ... The atmosphere of a great victory reigned in the studio (victory in Ukrainian. - Ed.). It was embarrassing to watch this action while being in a grouping of Russian troops 20 kilometers from Kyiv. For the participants of the TV show is embarrassing.
The unfortunate Ukrainian TV viewers were frankly lied to: about 105 downed Russian planes, about 15,000 killed "occupiers", about hundreds of burnt tanks of the "aggressor", about counter-offensives and encirclement... Those who listened to this should get the feeling that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at least, are already near Moscow Khimki. And even parked "Abrams" (American tank. - Ed.) On Red Square. Why, then, a curfew is introduced in Kyiv for a day, and in Kharkov the air raid siren does not stop, the experts do not explain to viewers. Distilled hatred poured from the screen directly into the brain. It’s a mystery why, a month after the start of the special operation, we still don’t cut off this stream ...
There is no Ukrainian television in the territories occupied by Russian troops. This does not mean that the population was immediately reforged and took to the streets to meet the liberators with pies.
First, the oven is nothing. The humanitarian situation here is catastrophic - there is no one to fill the vacuum of power, people are left to their own devices.
Secondly, the majority does not care what kind of power comes - as long as there is no war, light, heat, water and favorite lemonade in the store would return. And this requires power.
Thirdly, the ideological opponents of Russia have not disappeared even with the disappearance of television. In one village, a bloody military backpack with equipment was found in a hut. In another house at the military commissar, they found as many as 100 kilograms of TNT - not far from the strategic bridge. There is no "Soviet power" here either. And something needs to be done about it.
Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleg Tsarev said on Thursday that a decision had been made in Moscow to create military-civilian administrations in the territories liberated from the Kiev regime. And this is now, perhaps, the most important decision - someone should be engaged in the restoration of infrastructure, the supply of food and essentials, the search for relatives - my Telegram channel is inundated with hundreds of requests to check the basement at one address or another.
"In fact, the attitude towards us still very much depends on what kind of church is in the village," an officer of one of the special services told me, who, out of personal enthusiasm, created a semblance of a military-civilian administration in one of the villages. - If the Moscow Patriarchate, then there are no complaints, everything is fine. If Kievsky, then they look away, put their hands behind their backs, chatter inappropriately ...
The area is not easy here - here the lands were given to veterans of the ATO (war in Donbass. - Ed.). All of them are now in the detachments of the Ukrainian territorial defense on the other side of the front line - the Irpin River. And families are here. But signals are already coming from them that if nothing happens to them in case of surrender and they can safely return to their families, then they are ready to lay down their arms there. We need to let them know that this is possible. As they did in Chechnya in their time. But for now, they are also in the information blockade and listen to Ukrainian radio.
The Russian military, by the way, is also in "info-isolation", news from Kyiv does not reach them. The fact that they were “surrounded in Bucha, Irpin and Gostomel” and they were “cut off from supplies”, as the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Arestovich, the soldiers learned from us.
We drove to the forward positions near Gostomel as usual, without experiencing any serious obstacles, except for the fortified checkpoints of the Russian army. And suddenly they saw that clouds of thick smoke did not rise above it, perhaps for the first time in a month. Russian troops pulled up large-caliber artillery to this area, and the paratroopers at the airfield for once got a respite.
Free travel to Irpen and Bucha. However, it is too early to talk about the full control of the Russians over this city. In Bucha, the troops of the Russian Federation are now completely surrounded by a unit of nationalists. The blockade of the Russian military there is the same propaganda trick as the “great Ilovaisk victory” of 2014 and the “big Debaltsevo redeployment” in 2015. In the absence of real successes at the front, virtual victories are simulated for the Ukrainian audience, as in the settlement of Makarov, from which the Russian troops were allegedly knocked out. But they didn't take him completely.
Meanwhile, in the Kharkiv region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian units took control of the city of Izyum. And this opens the way to blocking the enemy grouping in the Donbass from the North. From Izium there is a road to Slavyansk. This means that the entire former "ATO zone" may soon be in the "cauldron".
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
#2
Love the irony of Russians complaining about lying agitprop when the other side does it. Destroying villages to "save them from Nazification" will be easier than occupying
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^ More bullshit. You've fallen for the media's and US politicians' lies about Zelensky and repeated their ignorance of Kolomoisky. Read this:
While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.
That, right there, is the troll equivalent of saying you are rayciss.
Giant piece of boilerplate propaganda.
Giant tell.
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Funny thing is, no one says the Russians are *losing*. Just that they're doing a shit job, their equipment is shit, their training is shit, their logistics are shit, and their commander-in-chief is shit.
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You're deluded if you think the stuff being fed you is an accurate description of the realities in the battlefield. The Russians issue their propaganda; so do the Ukrainians. You choose to believe one side because it fits your preconceptions.
I don't pretend to know who's "winning" but it's obvious that the world is losing now that the America's drooling idiot of a president is punishing us all with sanctions.
For every Ukrainian killed by Russian thugs, another 100 people outside of Europe will starve to death because of sanctions preventing countries across the Near East and Africa from accessing Russian wheat.
#10
Furthering Rob, all we know are the Russians are not easily winning. They are in a slog fest they obviously weren't expecting. The Ukrainians arent invading. All they are trying to do is not lose.
#11
The sanctions will end when Putin pulls his thugs out of the Ukraine.
And the world is not going to collapse -- or starve -- over the absence of an economy smaller than Italy's.
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Saddam got really, really wealthy off of the Iraq oil sanctions. Castro got really, really wealthy off the sanctions against Cuba. Putin has more people he has to placate, but it's worth considering that so far sanctions haven't removed anyone from power except the White South African government (as far as I can recall).
[Politico] Democrats once expected a thriving post-Covid economy to be their big strength heading into the midterms. Instead, the path to Election Day is littered with land mines for a party struggling to avoid annihilation at the ballot box.
President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers face the threat of spiraling inflation, driven by soaring food, energy and lodging costs. The Federal Reserve is embarking on an aggressive series of interest rate hikes — as many as seven this year alone — to curb rising prices and slow the economy. The war in Ukraine is further disturbing supply chains, roiling commodities markets and fueling uncertainty. Add in a new wave of Covid lockdowns in China that could bring more disruptions to trade and you’ve got a toxic mix.
Polls show some two-thirds of Americans view the country as being on the wrong track. Biden’s disapproval rating on the economy stands at 58 percent, while Republicans have a 54-35 percent lead on the issue. And the widely watched University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey recently fell to its lowest level in more than a decade.
Incumbent parties usually lose House and Senate seats in off-year elections, but turning these attitudes around could be the difference between Democrats taking average losses this fall or getting punched out like they did in 1994. And administration officials are increasingly concerned about the economy as a heavy drag in the midterms, according to several allies.
“The mood is just shockingly bad inside and outside the White House,” said Steven Rattner, an investment banker and former Obama administration official who speaks to senior Biden aides. align="right" />[Politico] Democrats once expected a thriving post-Covid economy to be their big strength heading into the midterms. Instead, the path to Election Day is littered with land mines for a party struggling to avoid annihilation at the ballot box.
President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers face the threat of spiraling inflation, driven by soaring food, energy and lodging costs. The Federal Reserve is embarking on an aggressive series of interest rate hikes — as many as seven this year alone — to curb rising prices and slow the economy. The war in Ukraine is further disturbing supply chains, roiling commodities markets and fueling uncertainty. Add in a new wave of Covid lockdowns in China that could bring more disruptions to trade and you’ve got a toxic mix.
Polls show some two-thirds of Americans view the country as being on the wrong track. Biden’s disapproval rating on the economy stands at 58 percent, while Republicans have a 54-35 percent lead on the issue. And the widely watched University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey recently fell to its lowest level in more than a decade.
Incumbent parties usually lose House and Senate seats in off-year elections, but turning these attitudes around could be the difference between Democrats taking average losses this fall or getting punched out like they did in 1994. And administration officials are increasingly concerned about the economy as a heavy drag in the midterms, according to several allies.
"The mood is just shockingly bad inside and outside the White House," said Steven Rattner, an investment banker and former Obama administration official who speaks to senior Biden aides.
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^ Fucking liar. The main reason for food shortages is Biden's foolish sanctions policy. Biden is lying about wheat just as he lies about oil and gas. He bears the blame for this.
#3
...One thing to count on - if things get as bad as some believe, watch a lot of woke nonsense go out the window in terms of tolerance. People who can't get enough food or gas to get to work - if they still have jobs - won't tolerate being screamed at about pronouns, CRT, or a lot of other things.
Mike
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It could make Falling Down look like an ice cream social.
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To paraphrase the young internet lady, the first time an outsider gets in office we have abundant, cheap food, energy independence and cheap oil and gas...let's not forget those petrochemicals either.
Now it's all turned to crap within a year under this lifelong semi coherent blowhard and professional hack.
As I said previously they started with Pestilence, have gone to War, and now it's Famine. Funny thing about that whole entire fertilizer situation...and who could have seen that coming? Anybody else notice the fertilizer plant fires in Winston-Salem and the Pacific Northwest? That came at the tale end of extended flu season? Must be a coincidence.
Then again, anybody else think it perhaps peculiar that Russia is 'leading' the talks to revive the Iranian deal? And rather profitably, too.
Of course if it's enough of a struggle to keep the lights on and food in the house, well, small matter who profits from fun and games in the Ukraine.
#6
Biden is continuing in Clinton and Obama's footsteps with stupid sanctions. America imposed sanctions on India in 1998 and all they accomplished was to breed a deep and lasting distrust of America by Indians. The current sanctions are already causing hundreds off millions to go hungry around the world. Millions will starve.
Like the sanctions on Iran, or Cuba, or India, these sanctions will do nothing to change the behavior of the targeted government but will do great damage to the general population. This time, the general population means the world's population, including Americans. What an unbelievably destructive and foolish policy.
#7
"Historic job growth" = just more bullshit that they're spouting and that half of their kind will eventually convince themselves must be correct. I cannot believe we no longer have a free and independent press in this country to shred such nonsense.
#8
^ Yes. Re-employing all the people tossed out of their jobs by the COVIDian farce and calling it "historic job growth" is sort of like people at the funeral hone saying what a good job the undertaker did.
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If there is historic job growth it's because the inflation is forcing people to get jobs instead of becoming homeless.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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