[IsraelTimes] Conservative columnist says Ukraine’s leader waging campaign to clean up corruption, while Israel’s PM doing what he can to ‘keep the crooks in’.
[Breitbart] Crime among juveniles soared nationwide following the pandemic-related school shutdowns in 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from law enforcement agencies.
Juvenile crime had been steadily decreasing from 2000 to 2010, as youths in detention facilities had dropped by 77 percent, according to federal data. However, the rate of juveniles being either the perpetrators or victims of violent crime has substantially risen since the start of the decade.
In 2020, crimes committed by juveniles acting alone rose by 30 percent from the previous year, while crimes committed by multiple juveniles rose by 66 percent. Federal data from 2020 also revealed that the rate of juveniles committing homicide against other juveniles was at a two-decade high.
The rise in youth violence appears to be connected to the disruptions in learning from the pandemic lockdowns, the WSJ reported:
Police, prosecutors and community groups attribute much of the youth violence to broad disruptions that started with the pandemic and lockdowns. Schools shut down, depriving students of structure in daily life, as did services for troubled children. Increased stress compounded a swelling mental-health crisis. Social-media conflicts increasingly turned deadly.
The outlet also reported that authorities claim that heightened gang activity and easier access to firearms have contributed to youth violence.
Major urban cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, have released data that shows the trend of youth criminal incidences has risen since 2020.
In the Big Apple, 157 youths were the victims of a shooting incident. In comparison, only 127 youths were victims in 2018 and 2019 combined. Furthermore, 124 juveniles committed shootings in 2022, double the rate from two years ago.
Violence at juvenile detention facilities has also reportedly increased since the pandemic within the city, as there were more 257 youth-on-youth incidences from January 1 to June 30, 2022, at a Bronx juvenile facility, almost than double from the same period from the previous year, the New York Post reported.
In Philadelphia, 117 juveniles were arrested for shootings in 2022, up from 43 in 2020. More disturbingly, 81 juveniles were reportedly murdered in 2022, compared to just 52 in 2019 and 2020 combined.
Homicides among youth have also risen considerably in Washington DC, as 16 youths were fatally shot last year compared to just nine in 2021. There were also 214 juveniles arrested on firearm-related cases in the nation’s capital last year.
The rise in juvenile crime has promoted Democrat Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark to consider more punitive measures against violent youth criminals, despite previously supporting a 2017 state law that discontinued prosecuting 16 and 17-year-olds as adults.
“I don’t want to lock them up and throw away the key because they’re young,” Clark recently told the WSJ. “But at the same time, they have to know the consequences for their actions.”
Clark also conceded that too many juveniles are being sent to family court on firearm-possession cases and are being released early as a result. If this continues, the district attorney fears that they may commit a more serious crime in the future or end up being killed themselves.
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Several possibilities come to mind.
More of a belief in the possibility of getting something for nothing
Less understanding of statistics
More people in the state (in general)
More people playing means more people winning--and a lot more people losing, but that didn't appear in their statistics.
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[Bee] Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has unveiled their new mascot, an adorable glob of platelets who goes by the name "Clotty".
"See? Blood clots aren't scary!" said Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla as a smiling Clotty danced onto the stage. "Welcome to Pfizer, Clotty! Let's get one of these little guys into every home in America!"
While Pfizer initially pushed back against evidence tying the vaccine to blood clots, the company has decided to instead embrace it. "We are so excited for Clotty to help us put a friendly face on heart attacks and strokes," said Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. "Every new COVID booster will now come with a plush Clotty doll you can take to the hospital when you inevitably get admitted with a massive embolus. You'll love squeezing Clotty while they wheel you into the cath lab! Thanks, Clotty!"
The new mascot's reception has thus far been overwhelmingly positive, with Clotty paraphernalia already showing up in several politicians' offices. "Gosh darn it, I love the little guy," said Senator Elizabeth Warren, sporting a Clotty t-shirt as she adjusted a picture of her and Clotty. "Every child in America should be so lucky as to have one of these precious little blood clots. I will continue to do everything in my power to make it happen."
At publishing time, Donald Trump had reportedly added Clotty to his list of potential running mates.
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I heard eating too many (chicken) eggs causes blood clots.
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[RIA Novosti] The Poles from among the bandits and robbers, together with the Nazis, killed the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Auschwitz - the corresponding declassified document was published by the FSB on the eve of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the largest "death factory" by the Soviet troops.
The German concentration camp "Auschwitz" in Auschwitz has become one of the main symbols of the Holocaust. In 1941-1945, about 1.4 million people died there, of which about 1.1 million were Jews. On January 27, 1945, units of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the concentration camp. This date is celebrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This year Russia was uninvited to the commemorative ceremony because of the invasion of Ukraine. See link at the bottom of this post.
Even before the liberation of Auschwitz, the bodies of the Soviet military counterintelligence Smersh began to collect and document evidence of the crimes of the concentration camp administration and prisoners who agreed to cooperate with the Nazis. In addition to the guards from the local Polish population, the Nazis actively used in their interests "kapos" (from the German "Kameradschaft-Polizei", literally "comradely police"), which included barracks elders, overseers, and senior workers' teams.
The FSB published a document with the story of a former Auschwitz prisoner, senior lieutenant of the Red Army Pavel Gavrish, who was lucky enough to escape from a concentration camp. Since the officer had a good literary style, employees of the Smersh department of the 1st Ukrainian Front in August 1944 asked him to present information about the "death factory" in the form of a brief essay. This document was then transferred to the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazi Invaders and Their Accomplices.
Once in the concentration camp, the prisoner became "a slave with a number pierced on the chest of prisoners of war or on the arm of civilians," Gavrish testified.
That number corresponded to each slave or prisoner’s IBM computer file, set up with the help of Thomas Watson, then CEO of the company.
"Together with political prisoners, robbers, murderers and pederasts were thrown into the concentration camp, who were instructed to maintain internal order in the camp," the Soviet officer added.
Internal order and discipline, Gavrish reported, was maintained by the senior barracks (bloc) and senior workers of the teams (kapos), appointed from Germans or Poles, who were serving sentences for banditry, murder and robbery.
According to him, the administration of the concentration camp was faced with the task of destroying as many prisoners as possible, "which was carried out with zeal."
"Only a certain part of the prisoners was employed in the construction of the camp, all other work carried out within the camp did not make any sense. Taking the teams to work, each capo received the task of destroying a certain number of prisoners. When returning to the camp, each team was a funeral procession, carrying 50-100 corpses. Zeal at the same time was due to the fact that the portions of the dead remained for the bloc, the kapos and their henchmen," said Gavrish.
As the officer recalled, "the daily ration of the prisoners consisted of 0.75 liters of soup, 250 grams of ersatz bread and 20 grams of stinky cheese or ersatz margarine, which was not always and not completely managed to be obtained."
Having captured Poland in September 1939 , the German Nazis renamed the Polish city of Auschwitz into Auschwitz, naming the concentration camp created on the personal instructions of the Reichsführer SS Himmler in April 1940.
Initially, political prisoners from among the Poles were kept there. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, captured soldiers of the Red Army began to be sent to the camp, on whom in August 1941 the SS men first experienced gassing. Then "Auschwitz" became the main center for the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and their henchmen. It was a complex of concentration camps, which were based on "Auschwitz I", "Auschwitz II - Birkenau" and "Auschwitz III - Monowitz".
At the beginning of the 20th century, concentration camps were created by Great Britain , the German Empire, and then by Nazi Germany, the USA and a number of other countries. Poland has made a considerable "contribution" to this inhumane practice.
After the defeat of the Red Army near Warsaw and Lvov in the summer of 1919, more than 150,000 Red Army prisoners ended up in Poland. They were concentrated in about 20 camps. The best known of these are the camps in Bialystok, Brest-Litovsk, Wadowice , Domba, Strzalkow and Tuchol.
Due to the insensitive and irresponsible attitude of the Polish authorities in these concentration camps, as a result of cruel treatment of prisoners, complete unsanitary conditions, disease and hunger, according to various estimates, from 20 to 80 thousand soldiers and commanders of the Red Army died.
And a year after the creation by the Nazis of the first concentration camp for political prisoners in Dachau (1933), in 1934 a concentration camp was created in Poland for the extrajudicial detention of political prisoners in Bereza-Kartuzskaya. From 1934 to 1939, opponents of the ruling Pilsudski's regime were kept there in extremely difficult conditions on charges of "anti-state activity": oppositionists, communists, leaders of the Jewish, Ukrainian and Belarusian national movements. During the period of its existence, according to various estimates, 8-10 thousand prisoners passed through this camp. In the fall of 1939, the camp was liberated by units of the Red Army during its "Liberation Campaign".
In Poland, Jews were exterminated not only in concentration camps. On July 10, 1941, during a Jewish pogrom in the town of Jedwabne in the east of the country, Polish nationalists killed, according to various sources, from 340 to 1,500 Jews. For a long time it was believed that the Nazis, who occupied the city at that time, were to blame for that tragedy, but in the 1990s it was proved that the Poles were responsible for what happened. Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski apologized for this crime in 2001, but the current head of state , Andrzej Duda , speaking at an election debate in 2015, said that the Poles allegedly did not participate in the Holocaust, and the accusations of this were false.
In modern Poland, a version is spreading that the mass murder of Jews in Jedwabna in 1941 was committed not by the Poles, but by the Germans, although the Institute of National Remembrance had previously recognized that local residents, and not the Nazi occupiers, were responsible for this crime.
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So the Russians are purporting that they have a strong record of protecting Jews. I don’t think anyone is buying that. Certainly the camp was locally staffed with Pole underlings but the Polish leadership mostly lay dead in Katyn Wood.
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Russia had their pogroms for a long time before WWII. see Fiddler on the Roof.
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Shit happens, especially in war. At some point we get over being shocked. We become desensitized. Sad but true. I certainly wouldn't hold it against the Poles. Sounds like the Poles who participated were the criminal dregs of Polish society. Could have happened anywhere.
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I see this is a nest of Putin puppets.
This is an obvious "distract from Ukraine" story. But OK. Enjoy spreading the brain poison.
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^You will find divergent discussion and disagreement here. If you are looking for validation and empathy, you have chosen the wrong venue. Two or three people pointed out that the Soviets and Czarists had a record of antisemitism just like everyone else. Disagreement was expected. If it is a puppet show, it is a puppet show of chaos.
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Isn't pogrom a long practiced Russian word? Asking for Volodymir Zelensky.
[YouTube] It's time we talk about a region that has long held the title of "worst demographics"...The Orthodox Christian countries.
The big dog of the region - Russia - has entered a point of no return for its demographic situation. Ukrainians are even worse off. Regardless of the outcome of this war - they'll end up with a s*** stew of demographics.
Other countries like Bulgaria and Romania aren't any better off. They've basically sent out all of their youth to other countries for economic opportunities...and even if they do return, they're not adding to the population once they reach their 40s and 50s.
Serbia had the opportunity to flourish into the most rapidly growing economy in the region. Still, they've made every wrong policy decision in the book...so no dice for them either.
Each of these countries will likely come face-to-face with its inevitable demise within the next 20 years, and there's not much they can do about it.
[Breitbart] On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Eric Bolling The Balance,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that the FBI’s leadership has become a “political class” and that reforming the agency is “only going to happen if we get a president who gets rid of the top 10% and brings in some law enforcement people” who are not political actors.
Paul stated, “I think it’s swamp fever, Potomac fever. The ones closest to the swamp have become infected with influence and power and politics. I play golf with a retired FBI agent. He’s conservative. Most of the agents that I meet in the field are conservative. They’re typical law enforcement kind of people. … But really it’s the political class up here that is corruptible and [has] become very left-wing…these are the people infiltrating the FBI at the highest levels. We need a thorough cleaning. It’s only going to happen if we get a president who gets rid of the top 10% and brings in some law enforcement people from out in Kansas or Kentucky or someplace, people who truly are law enforcement people and let’s repopulate the FBI at the top with real law enforcement people, not politicians.”
[Hot Air] Inflation is eating citizens alive in these United States; nowhere are those numbers more obvious or egregiously out of whack than in the housing and rental industries. If you owned your home already, you’re in the catbird’s seat. If you just bought one, or are trying to in an unbelievably tight market, you know what I’m talking about. Also, if you just bought one, but overpaid because of the tight market, and are watching values start to drop because of interest rates climbing, you’re not really happy.
If you’ve been renting, especially a single-family house vice an apartment, you’ve been on pins and needles the entire time, not knowing if it would be sold out from under you if the owner decides to cash in on good times, vice continues to deal with tenants. Almost every aspect has been fraught with anxiety for all concerned.
A good portion of this is attributable to measures taken (with questionable authority) by the Centers for Disease Control. In an unprecedented order on 1 September 2020, the CDC brought an immediate — and "temporary" — halt in residential evictions to "prevent the further spread of COVID-19." Congress and then the Biden administration extended that order through various incarnations for another year, claiming a surge in Delta variant infections justified it.
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About 40 years ago, we rented our house when we moved but couldn't sell. After three years and three tenants, each worse than the previous one, we managed to sell our house. We still had to evict the last tenant. When we showed up, we were accompanied by a sheriff's deputy.
The deputy said he was thinking of buying a place and renting it out. I said I would burn the place to the ground rather than rent.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bee] Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has unveiled their new mascot, an adorable glob of platelets who goes by the name "Clotty".
