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[Breitbart] The murder, which came just hours after the non-fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old male in Limehouse, east London, was the latest of more than 100 homicides to have taken place on the capital’s streets in 2018 ‐ a figure which would most likely have been even higher had it not been for recent advances in medicine increasing survival chances of trauma patients by almost 20 percent in just shy of a decade.
London has seen not only its murder rate surge but has also recorded huge rises in other ’high harm’ crimes including acid attacks, shootings, rape, and knife crime under its Labour mayor, who insists the worrying trend is down to "police cuts" mandated by the government.
Against the backdrop of his sinking poll numbers, as London residents grow increasingly concerned over the capital’s crime figures, Khan this week announced the city would take a "public health" approach to the violence, treating knife violence like a "disease".
Admitting that results from the approach were likely to take a long time to materialise, the mayor said: "The causes of violent crime are extremely complex, involving deep-seated societal problems like poverty, social alienation, mental ill-health and a lack of opportunity." Emphasis added.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could see widespread medicine shortages if there is no deal to prevent friction at the border with the European Union after Brexit, the AstraZeneca chief executive told the Sunday Times.
The company said in July it would stockpile drugs as a Brexit safety net, and CEO Pascal Soriot told the Sunday Times in an interview that the complexity of the supply chain in pharmaceuticals meant that delays would be likely.
"We have products that go back and forth between the UK and Europe at different stages of manufacturing," he was quoted as saying. "If drugs are stuck, you have a problem."
Separately, the Sunday Times reported that Jaguar Land Rover was considering following BMW’s lead and bringing forward its annual summer factory shutdown to coincide with Britain’s departure from the EU in case there is no deal, but added no decision had been taken.
[AmericanThinker] The circus that Democrats are putting on for all the world to witness is a display of partisanship that should disgust even the casual observer, regardless of party. Shockingly, as disgusting as their blatant disregard for the integrity of the Supreme Court confirmation process is, it's not even close to the clear and present danger that their immediate presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh poses to our nation's boys and young men.
Parents of boys must understand the brave new world Democrats are attempting to usher in and the legitimate threats it poses to their sons' futures ‐ their reputations, college and career prospects, and general welfare.
Democrats' instantaneous presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh is setting a new standard for sexual assault allegations wherein they should be accepted simply for having been made. Moreover, the allegations are to be believed, despite lacking any semblance of credible evidence, solely for having been made by a woman. That's what my yesterday post of Sarah Hoyt was talking about - it's time, and long past time, to deal with the feminazi infection
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Posted by a friend of mine:
"Dear Sons, You have studied and worked hard for what you have accomplished. You are true professionals and I pray it will remain so. But you are going to be living in dangerous times and I am not talking about terrorism. The workplace poses the most danger to you and I must, I feel, advise you to be careful in your daily encounters with people, especially women. First, never be alone with a women in the work place. Always try to work around other people so they could be witnesses if you need them. Second, always be respectful to everyone, even if they don't deserve it. Use your acting and survival skills to get you through the day. Third, never trust anyone in the work place. They are co-workings, not organ donors. Trust begets betrayal and one who smiles and dips her head today, will hire a lawyer tomorrow and sue you. Protect and guard your reputation at all cost. Fourth, if off-color jokes are being exchanged in the work place, LEAVE THE ROOM. Even passive participation will be viewed by some scorned soul as active participation. Never add to a joke which contains political, sexual or religious content. Learn to just walk away. Fifth, keep your own counsel. Never, never, never express your opinion which is outside the scope of your employment or duties. It the work place and not a playground. Manage your thoughts and actions carefully and never emote until you get home. Sixth, even if your employer has a party, don't let your guard down. There are those who will seek out relaxed inhibitions and prey upon them and then use your responses and behavior against you in court. Seventh, NEVER touch a woman while at work, other than shaking her hand. Any sign of affection--no matter how slight--may be interpreted as an unwanted overture and one that creates a "hostile working" environment for her. It's a short distance from the work place to the courthouse. Eighth, be polite and civil, but NEVER inviting. Never go to lunch alone with a female co-worker. Others might read something into it that isn't there, or she might do the same. Protect yourself from unwarranted and unfounded interpretations of your behavior. Ninth, keep a daily, contemporaneous journal of all contacts you have with co-workers. It will be admissible evidence in court if, God forbid, you need it. And tenth, I am sorry I have to tell you this,but it's the times we live in or you will live in. Some people will use anything to get ahead and are more than willing to use your back as a stepping stone. You must protect yourself everyday. I wish I could leave you more, but as an attorney, I can only give you sound advice so you will never find yourself in a courtroom or before the Human Resources manager defending actions you are innocent of. I love you and will not be around to witness all your professional accomplishments. But if there's a legacy I can leave you, it is this. Be careful. Those who smile at you are displaying the same teeth they will bite you with. Love, Dad."
[Guardian] Donald Trump issued an ominous warning about the justice department and the FBI on Friday night, promising more firings to rid a "lingering stench" after reports that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording the president.
At a political rally in Missouri, Trump did not explicitly mention the Rosenstein story that was first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by other outlets. But the president lashed out against what he perceives as anti-Trump bias in the justice department and cited the firings he already has orchestrated.
The dismissals have unnerved many in federal law enforcement and raised fears about the future of the special counsel’s Russia investigation, which Rosenstein oversees.
"You’ve seen what happened in the FBI and the Department of Justice," Trump said. "The bad ones, they’re all gone. They’re all gone. But there is a lingering stench and we’re going to get rid of that, too."
One person present during Rosenstein’s remarks said he was being sarcastic. The Times also said Rosenstein raised the idea of using the 25th amendment to remove Trump as unfit for office. Rosenstein said the story is "inaccurate and factually incorrect".
It was the latest storm to buffet the White House in another brutal week.
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Trump's first firing can be Jeff Sessions (unless that is one of the biggest psyops campaigns in history).
Rosenstein is swamp scum. Get him outta here.
[American Thinker] Democrats are desperate and unhinged. Their outrageous behavior during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and their apparent willingness to do anything to block his confirmation should make conservatives extremely nervous. Just when it seemed that their circus-like antics were going nowhere, Dianne Feinstein revealed she was sitting on a letter from a woman named Christine Blasey Ford, who was claiming she was sexually assaulted in high school by Kavanaugh at a party some 36 years before. The details were fuzzy ‐ she couldn't remember the time or place ‐ and she was insistent on remaining anonymous.
Kavanaugh denied the allegation: "Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday," he said. "I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity." He also declared he had "never done anything like what the accuser describes."
The Senate Judiciary Committee's vote, which was supposed to happen Thursday, September 13, was postponed to let Ford testify before the committee. After a back-and-forth between Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley and Ford's attorney, Debra S. Katz, it was made known that Ford would testify only if there were a full FBI investigation into the matter. The request was denied, as the FBI had already vetted Kavanaugh six times, and the matter was not under federal jurisdiction. Ford then stated she would consider testifying if she could speak after Kavanaugh; in other words, Kavanaugh was supposed to respond to his accuser's actions before they were even made.
This was also refused by the committee, as it goes against the proper due process outlined in our Constitution.
At the writing of this, the Kavanaugh vote is still being delayed. Late Friday night, Grassley gave Ford and her lawyer yet another deadline to agree to testify ‐ Saturday, September 22, by 2:30pm. Right at the deadline, it was reported that Ford had indeed agreed to testify. However, a closer look at the response from Katz suggested that the "acceptance" was merely an agreement to keep negotiating. Townhall's headline, published Saturday afternoon, said it best, "Debra Katz & Co.: We Accept A Request to Testify, Maybe, But Only If We Can First Discuss More Specifics."
At this point, two things are becoming painfully clear. First, Ford is never going to testify. Because the Democrats have finally gained traction in their effort to delay the Kavanaugh confirmation, they will stand by and gleefully watch Ford and Katz as they continue to make unrealistic demands of Kavanaugh and the committee and smile to themselves as publications like the Atlantic write headlines that state, "Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof." Incredibly, despite the protection of our Constitution, the left believes that men accused of sexual assault by women are guilty until proven innocent.
When no agreement is ultimately reached and it's clear Ford won't testify, the Senate Judiciary Committee will finally hold its vote ‐ most likely sometime after October 1. At this point, the national media will cry foul and insist that the Republicans ‐ despite delaying the vote for several weeks and extending Ford's deadline to testify a half-dozen times ‐ are a bunch of insensitive misogynists who've silenced the voice of a woman who was the victim of a heinous sexual assault.
The second thing that has become clear is that Kavanagh will not be confirmed before the midterms, if at all. Why? Because the Democrats are desperate and unhinged and will stop at nothing to block his confirmation. Shortly after the committee finally votes to confirm Kavanaugh and send the matter to the Senate floor (or maybe shortly before), expect another allegation to surface ‐ perhaps a woman who's willing to come forward and corroborate Ford's 36-year-old claims against Kavanaugh. Or perhaps there will be another woman claiming she's been assaulted.
Granted, these claims will be vague and unsubstantiated (and will ultimately prove false), but they'll be enough to force the Republicans to delay the vote until after the midterms, giving enough time for a "proper" investigation to take place. By then, even if the Republicans keep the Senate, Kavanaugh will be so damaged that it may cause the GOP to reconsider his appointment.
The Democrats are desperate enough. And corrupt enough. And unlike Republicans, they have the guts to do whatever it takes to get what they want. Emphasis added
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At this point, two things are becoming painfully clear. First, Ford is never going to testify.
As many have suspected all along. Time is running out. A vote this close to the mid-term is unlikely. Dems will invoke the federal appellate judge Merrick Garland argument to forestall the vote. I suspect Tucker Carlson has it about right.
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this opinion piece was obsolete within hours after it was written
Debra Katz is no longer on Prof Ford's team.
Another Ford-named witness, the only female, denied, under penalty of perjury, that she had been at the party in question and furthermore said she hadn't even met Kavanaugh.
It has been discovered that the Washington Post had the names of the Ford-named witnesses, back on Sept 16 but pretended not to have them in their news article. This fed the 'we need an FBI investigation' meme.
At this point it seems it is the Republicans that benefit from postponing the vote a week or two to give more exposure to the Democrat's bad faith accusations and speechmaking.
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Debra Katz is no longer on Prof Ford's team.
Not seeing that in the usual news sites. Source?
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09/23/2018 10:37 Comments ||
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I haven't been able to keep up (plus I'm a total rube), but wasn't there in the revelation of the 65 a little of that moment when there's suddenly a shopkeeper or stableboy on every rooftop and the bandits find themselves outnumbered? Probably just wishful thinking, but I'm with lord garth: "Now youse can't leave."
my mistake re; Katz leaving the team - they hired a new lawyer Michael Bromwich and I thought this was to replace Katz -- it was actually to supplement the Ford legal team
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One link supporting lord garth’s statement is from the National Review dated last night:
In written testimony sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a third named witness has rejected the allegations made by Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser. Having been asked by a Senate staffer to comment on the charges advanced against the nominee, a lawyer for Leland Ingham Keyser wrote:
Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.
Under 18 U.S.C § 1001, letters to the Judiciary Committee are subject to criminal penalty if false.
Ms. Keyer, whom CNN confirms is “a lifelong friend of Ford’s,” is the third named witness to deny any knowledge of the allegations. The other two, Mark Judge and Patrick Smyth, issued written statements to that effect earlier in the week. Thus far, nobody has backed up the account advanced by Kavanaugh’s accuser, while Kavanaugh and three other named witnesses have rejected it outright.
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Kavanaugh comes out with having kept his 1982 calendar showing games and other activites but nothing on calendar of what Ford describes.
I felt it wrong for BK to come out with this feeling he should have saved it for his rebut, thinking Ford can tweak her story.
Well now that Fords story may be proved wrong, another lovely has supposidly come out accusing BK of yet another sexual encounter.
Drip Drip Drip
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09/23/2018 19:42 Comments ||
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Drip Drip Drip
Trap snaps closed. Jan’s story of the calendars is from the bloody New York Times itself, and linked by Drudge Report, so it will get wide circulation on both sides of the culture. link.
The calendar pages are one-month pages with each day in a small box. Unusual for a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh seemed to keep track of his days even during summer vacation. The pages show typical teenage activities from the era, including “beach week” after the end of the school year and nights at the theater to see “Grease II,” “Rocky III” and “Poltergeist” with friends.
Judge Kavanaugh was gone many weekends with his parents in St. Michaels, Md., and one weekend in Connecticut with his grandmother, according to the calendars. He listed an interview for Yale University, where he would eventually enroll, and the start of football camp in August, when he stayed in the dorms at Georgetown Prep. He also played summer league basketball.
His friend, Mr. Judge, is mentioned, but the others from that night are not. “Go to Judge’s,” he wrote in July 28. A few parties are listed and with them the names of several friends he apparently went with.
What kind of a person keeps calendars from his youth?
"According to the all red Drudge report, insiders claim Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer are set to report on a late twist in [Supreme Court nominee] Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation that involves a new woman and a 'dildo.'"
If they can't make this one stick, one can only wonder what the next one will be. It is getting sickening. Can only hope the Dem base is also seeing it for what it is.
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The fact that the GOPe can't get a Supreme Court appointee approved with a Senate majority and a Republican president says we're fucked. No future for us.
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When I was 17, I was not so organized that I was thinking about calendars.
Some of us did. My mother had four children in four years — on purpose, because my parents married late — and each of us kids had activities that needed chauffeuring, whether by the housekeeper or a parent. There were two big monthly calendars on the kitchen wall to keep track of child and parent schedules, each of us having our activities in a different marker colour. But we didn’t keep our calendars beyond current needs.
When the trailing daughters were in school in the 1990s, their American public school gave each child a planning calendar at the beginning of the year in which to track assignments and outside activities. In first grade the teacher inspected them to make sure they understood how to use the thing. But again, we didn’t keep the things — throwing them out at the end of the school year was part of our start-of-summer ritual.
[FOX] Patti Davis, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan, said she was sexually assaulted about 40 years ago as she mounted a defense of the woman who accused President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Davis' lawyer sez 'prominent music executive' must testify first.
Davis, 65, wrote an op-ed to The Washington Post that she attended an appointment at a "prominent music executive’s office" that was "scheduled suspiciously late in the workday." She did not name the man. Yes, suspiciously late indeed. So late in fact, some might have have referred to it as early.
She said she was hoping to jump-start her music career and brought a cassette with her material to the appointment. She said she did not remember what the two talked about but remembered what the man was wearing. She also recalled the man offering her cocaine. 'Jump start'... an unfortunate term of reference.
"When he pulled a vial of cocaine out of his desk drawer and started chopping up lines on a small mirror, I’m 90 percent sure I declined his offer to do some with him, not because I didn’t do drugs ‐ I definitely did in those years ‐ but because I was starting to feel uncomfortable. My memory of the discomfort is sharp and clear, but my memory of declining the coke is, as I said, about 90 percent," she wrote. Ten percent memory loss due to coke? I doubt you'll get anything from the VA for that.
Davis described the alleged assault, including what the man’s breath smelled like..... Geritol ?
[Breitbart IS] JERUSALEM ‐ A Palestinian cleric claimed Israel is excavating under the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem "like rats burrow underground" for "evil and destruction," Palestinian Media Watch reported.
According to Sheikh Raed Da’na from the Religious Source of Authority in Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa has no foundations because Israel is digging under it.
"Al-Aqsa is now empty of the rocks and that which supports it, due to the Israeli machine that is excavating under it as rats burrow under the ground only for evil and destruction," Da’na said in a TV program broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.
Israel does not carry out any excavations underneath the Al-Aqsa mosque or the area of the Temple Mount on which it stands, in accordance with its agreement with the Waqf Islamic trust that administers the Muslim holy site.
Nevertheless, the Palestinian leadership continues to spread the libel that Israel conspires to destroy the mosque.
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The Joo! Such a wonderful rodent!
Than us he is so much more potent:
Fewer fleas, full of cheese.
Life would sure be a breeze
Could we match his intelligence quotient.
[Jpost] "In the past 25 years, Israel’s economy has changed from a socialist command economy to a free-market economy and today Israel’s GDP per capita is higher than Japan’s."
The so-called "Oslo process," is really two processes. The first was the Oslo grinding of the peace processor. It began with secret negotiations between Israeli leftists with ties to then-foreign minister Shimon Peres in Oslo, Norway, in 1993. It led to Israel’s recognition of the Paleostine Liberation Organization and the establishment of the PLO-controlled Paleostinian Authority to run the Paleostinian autonomy in Judea, Samaria and Gazoo. It also led to a seven-year attempt by Israel to make peace with the PLO.
The grinding of the peace processor, was the brainchild of the Israeli Left. It was predicated on the notion that without the PLO there can be no peace. And without peace, based on territorial concessions, Israel has no hope of surviving, let alone prospering.
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What you write is correct but there is one thing that is rarely said by anyone.
Has Israel done anything to harm Palestinian Arabs?
The answer is yes. What did it do?
It accepted and supported the Oslo agreement.
When Judea and Samaria and Gaza were under full Israeli occupation, these areas were prosperous and their economies were growing rapidly. There was optimism in the air and prospects of joint projects and continued growth throughout Palestine.
OSlo put a stop to that growth. A kleptocratic regime with no understanding of or sympathy with the Arab inhabitants took over and began to wreck these areas. Arafat and his thugs represented mainly themselves and if anyone else, the "refugees" and their descendants in other countries, who resented this prosperity. The local Arabs were shocked to find that the Arafat goverment was much worse for them than the Israeli occupation had been, and not only that, even saying this would be a death sentence for the sayer and possibly his family.
Hamas won the election because it was the only option for Arabs other than the regime they had come to hate.
Those who dreamed up Oslo never once thought of its effects on the people who were those who suffered the most from it.
And they continue to suffer.
Do the left wingers who negotiated this and foisted it on Palestine feel any guilt about this? Do they even recognize their ghastly folly?
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Do the left wingers who negotiated this and foisted it on Palestine feel any guilt about this? Do they even recognize their ghastly folly?
[Victory Girls] In 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the End of Life Option Act, authorizing physician-assisted suicide. Supporters dismissed concerns about people pressuring the ill person into suicide. That was a felony, they assured us. Fast forward to September 2018 and now pushing Mom to kill herself because her medical bills are wiping out your inheritance is perfectly legal.
Yes, really.
Existing law makes a person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide guilty of a felony.
This bill would prohibit a person whose actions are compliant with the End of Life Option Act from being prosecuted for deliberately aiding, advising, or encouraging suicide.
Everyone has only the purest motives when encouraging suicide
But but but ... some may object, this is only for terminally ill people! People who will die in six months!
Ah, but the devil is in the details right? The End of Life Option Act defines "terminally ill" thusly:
q) "Terminal disease" means an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, result in death within six months.
You could drive a truck through that loophole. What if a diabetic stopped taking insulin? What about high blood pressure? Both are "incurable and irreversible" and would lead to death in short order if the person stopped their treatment.
Now any family member of the terminally ill person can ::::cough:::cough::: persuade grandpa that he owes it to the family to shuffle off this mortal coil sooner rather than later so they can take over the family estate. All legal and stuff.
Yeah, that’s going to go well.
California marches to the Leftist’s Cult of Death ethos. Only certain people are worthy of life. Certainly not the unborn and, now, not the elderly.
The serious, rational adult knows life is difficult and a struggle. We are commanded not to covet another person’s life because we really don’t know what is going on with them, regardless of the public trappings. Western, Judeo-Christian principles command us to respect the inherent value of our fellow humans and, especially, our own family members. Encouraging suicide as "compassion" is a lie we tell ourselves because such encouragement is really about our comfort.
After assuring everyone that no one would be allowed to badger anyone into suicide this slips by with no media coverage.
I’m shocked SHOCKED, I tell you to see Leftist mission creep in here.
Indianapolis By Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic (Simon & Schuster 2018)
My wife and I usually do not read the same books. However, the father of her best friend since fourth grade survived the sinking of the Indianapolis. Her friend was also the Chairperson of several reunions. So she snapped up the book from the bookstore the first few days is was available. I waited patiently for her to finish. She loved it. So did I.
The story of the ship, from laying the keel, to chauffeuring President Roosevelt around, to the Kamikaze attack, are presented in brief, but in sufficient detail. The chapter on the sub attack and sinking was riveting. The full range of emotions of the men in the water is covered. Some were very brave until their end, while a few others were selfish. It's not a story about sharks, but I found the paragraph about the recovery of partially eaten sailors disturbing.
The rescue narrative is inspiring. A PBY pilot landed his plane in the water, against standing orders, to rescue men from the sharks. After 53 men climbed all over it, it never flew again. Lieutenant Commander Claytor heard the radio chatter and turned his D.E. toward the site, without orders, nearly burning up his engines. When he got close, he turned his searchlight skyward, (making his ship "the brightest target in the Pacific") so the men in the water would know help was near. When the PBY pilot saw the light, "he decided he had never seen a finer example of American courage." Captain McVey saw the light, but he did not know the man who turned it on was his wife's cousin.
Then there is the court-martial, a fine example of the ‘deep state', as you might expect. The reunions are covered and the decommissioning of the submarine USS Indianapolis, where the survivors broached the idea of exonerating Captain McVey. The last Captain of the submarine Indianapolis made it his mission to seek justice for the last Captain of the heavy cruiser, Indianapolis. Then a young man turns a history project into Congressional testimony, the wreckage is discovered, and Congress decides McVey had been treated unjustly – no other Captain had his judgement questioned when their ship was sunk.
An outstanding book. Don't miss it! Find it your bookstore!
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Thank you for writing this, Bobby. I’ve missed swksvolFF’s book reviews, and lotp’s before that. My iPad has been much happier for the recommendations I’ve read here.
I just finished The Fleet at Flood Tide, Hornfischer, which deals primarily with the American pacific fleet and its actors, World War II, from Guam to A-Bomb. Obviously the Indianapolis was a key feature of the book.
Good to see the Indianapolis receive the attention it deserves, rather than a prop in a shark movie or the subject of one of Nicholas Cage's crappier films.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Jpost] "In the past 25 years, Israel’s economy has changed from a socialist command economy to a free-market economy and today Israel’s GDP per capita is higher than Japan’s."
[Victory Girls] In 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the End of Life Option Act, authorizing physician-assisted suicide. Supporters dismissed concerns about people pressuring the ill person into suicide. That was a felony, they assured us. Fast forward to September 2018 and now pushing Mom to kill herself because her medical bills are wiping out your inheritance is perfectly legal.
