[LA Times via Zero] After two years of rising crime in Los Angeles, residents of upscale neighborhoods are finally starting to freak out after a spate of 'flash mob' lootings at high-end retail stores have been accompanied with a disturbing increase in violent crimes committed in the suburbs, according to the LA Times.
Crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles’ most exclusive stores. Robbers following their victims, including a star of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and a BET host, to their residences. And this week, the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, in her Beverly Hills home.
...these incidents have sparked a national conversation and led to local concern about both the crimes themselves and where the outrage over the violence will lead.
"The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe," said Oprah Winfrey, expressing grief over Avant's killing via Twitter. "The world is upside down."
The Times notes that while overall crime rates within Los Angeles remain far below the notoriously violent 1990s, much of it has been concentrated in poor communities - so it receives virtually no attention. Now that crime has "crept up in wealthier enclaves and thrust its way to the center of public discourse" across the city.
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Overall REPORTED crime rates are down compared to the 90s, but many things that used to be reported are not any more. Petty theft, looting etc. In some places car jacking is no longer reported, I hink.
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Where the Rich Liberals so stupid as to not think crime follows the $$$$$$. Having looted and etc. most of the high $$$$$ stores in LA, over the last 2 years, the Liberals on the surrounding Hills are where the $$$$ is now.
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"The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe,"
Laws of the Universe? I fear our girl needs to read a bit more Kipling.
#7
WTF did you assholes expect when you unleashed your Race-Furies on this country?
Normal people of good sense need to smash BLM and BLM-think. Extinguish it from the schools and universities.
Scorn the use of BS terms like "white privilege" and "white fragility" and "systemic racism" and "voter suppression" and all the ridiculous toxic cant that's infected our speech.
Shun neighbors or colleagues who indulge these assholes and repeat their lies.
#8
They need to stay and not inflict their policies on states that are safer. You broke it, it’s yours.
Oprah- “The world is upside down”. Yes, Oprah, when you were presented with the magic wand option to determine which would better aid your community:
1) Eliminate all racists, or
2) Eliminate single motherhood and put a father into those homes,
You picked #1.
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Good
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Life-long San Diego Native. You'd love me to bring my policies, to your neighborhood. My Congresscriiter was Duncan Hunter, his so (who went astray), and now Issa. Anti-Illgeal Immigration, pro-business, low tax...
Bottom line: born and raised here, I'll be bucking the Dems here til I die. Don't feel so superior by casting that aspersion. May want to refer to Abu Uluque, RJ, and other locals
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You'd love me to bring my policies, to your neighborhood.
There are people who made California the incredible thing it was. And there are people just gnawing on the carcass. Each have vastly different visions of the future. I hope the first group wins.
[EpochTimes] Bob Dole, a former Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas and GOP presidential candidate, has died at age 98, his family confirmed in a statement on Sunday.
“Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep. At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years,” said his family in a statement via the Elizabeth Dole Foundation.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Dole was being treated for advanced lung cancer.
For 30 years, Dole was a senator for Kansas, and in 1976, he was President Gerald Ford’s vice presidential nominee. The pair was defeated by then-Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter and his running mate, Walter Mondale.
Dole, who was injured while fighting in World War II, was the Senate majority leader from 1985 to 1987 and later, from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, Dole clinched the Republican nomination for the presidency but was ultimately defeated by incumbent President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.
Writing in his memoir, “One Soldier’s Story,” Dole said that his experiences in World War II defined his life.
Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), confirmed that the speaker had ordered the flags at the Capitol to be flown at half-staff following Dole’s passing.
Dole is survived by his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), and his daughter, Robin Dole.
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Dole searched for his radio operator to call for reinforcements. The man was slumped over in his own blood, radio in hand. Dole crawled over to him to pull him to a shell hole.
And that’s when it happened.
“I felt a sting, as something hot, something terribly powerful crashed into my upper back behind my right shoulder,” Dole wrote.
It could have been a mortar round, an exploding shell or machine gun fire. Whatever it was, it tore through his shoulder and spine, instantly paralyzing him from the neck down. His body twisted in the air, and he landed face down in the dirt.
Soon, one of his men pulled him behind a wall before being ordered to keep going. A sergeant dragged him another 60 yards to relative safety. Dole was drifting in and out of consciousness and remembered only excruciating pain and bleeding profusely.
He was given a dose of morphine, and the sergeant wrote an “M” on his forehead with Dole’s own blood to signify as much when the medics showed up.
They waited for more than six hours. Two medics who had been sent to retrieve him were themselves killed. Dole lay flat on the ground in the rain, thinking about Kansas.
Eventually, Dole was carried down the mountain on a stretcher and transported to a military hospital.
#5
Most politicians of that era were better by far than the lying conniving, self-aggrandizing weasels who make up out current moronic elite.
Even that era's lefties like McGovern served honorably. Carter, Mondale, Ford, Dole: for all their flaws, none of them used his office to line his pockets like Bathhouse Barry or Gore or the Clintons have, or the Bidens have done and continue to do.
#6
Also: after their time was up, they didn't hang around D.C. grasping for power and subverting their successor, as Barry and his entourage have done for nearly five years now / since January 2017
#2
Any homeowner too cheap to have a fire suppression system built into his $1.8 M house, will also be too cheap to hire his own exterminating service.
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A rather creative cover for an insurance arson?
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I am leaning hard towards Insurance Scam, more than real snake issues. $1.8M house means the person has $$$$ to hire a snake wangler to hand the job.
#9
if the property owner has a 1 mile long driveway, he has a lot of money tied up in the value of the land which, without a house on it, is worth less than it would be otherwise
doesn't seem like insurance fraud
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#10
this also reminds me of a Greg Warren comedy routine where the insurance agent asks the homewowner if he used a metal cooking grill on the balcony
Warren says there is nothing on the balcony now (fire caused extensive smoke damage, blackened walls, etc but structure still standing) and you would think a fire would cause the metal grill to burn to nothing
then he says, well if the insurance agent had asked if I had a wooden grill or a paper mache...
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Pulled Mongemery (sp) co. GIS DATA for the 21000 block of his street ...realitor*com & Zillow*com. If the property had mile long drive way = about 640 ac. @ $30k +++.I could see sub-div. Developer offering a pretty penny also at $19,200,00 then building 2 dozen estates.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Four senior South Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) officers have abandoned First Vice President Riek Machar and joined President Salva Kiir’s ruling Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM).The defectors made the announcement at a meeting with Kiir in Juba Thursday.
They were accompanied by traditional leaders hailing from the sections of the Malual Gahoth in Longechuk County and Maiwut County in Upper Nile State.
The defectors included Major Generals Khor Chuol Giet, Kang Riek Diew, Lol Nguoth Chom and the Longechuk County Commissioner, Wiyual Kun Gatluak.
Giet, who spoke on the behalf of the group, said they quit SPLA-IO to free people from tribal hatred and sectional conflicts allegedly spread by Machar’s aides.
He claimed the First Vice President was no longer recognized in the area because they have to control the civil population and the fighters in their constituencies.
"There is currently no more SPLM/A-IO in Gajaak areas and there is no going back. Our people are for peace, stability and they need service delivery", said Giet.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] South Sudanese President Salva Kiir appointed brother-in-law deputy as the chief security, according to a decree issued on Wednesday.Major General Gregory Deng Kuac, as the new Deputy Director-General of the General Intelligence Bureau of the National Security Service (NSS), announced the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC).
"In exercise of powers conferred upon me under section 17/1 of the NSS Act 2014, I Salva Kiir Mayardit, president of the Republic of South Sudan and Supreme commander of all the regular forces do hereby issue this republican decree for the appointment of Maj. Gen. Gregory Deng Kuac as Deputy Director-General of the General Intelligence Bureau, NSS with effect from 1 December 2021," read the decree.
Analysts say the move could be a preparation to replace General Akol Koor Kuc, a long-serving director-general of the internal bureau of the national security services.
Maj Gen Kuac served as the governor of the Gogrial State before its dissolution and the reestablishment of the 10-states system in the country.
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[REGNUM] Russia is allegedly planning an invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the Associated Press reports, citing a source in the United States presidential administration.
It is noted that the US intelligence has come to the corresponding conclusion.
According to them, Moscow allegedly plans to deploy up to 175,000 servicemen on the border with Ukraine, half of which are already deployed in positions.
The source also said that Moscow allegedly plans to send 100 battalion tactical groups to the border.
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova said that the armed forces of Ukraine pulled forces into the conflict zone in the Donbass 125 thousand people.
This, according to her, is half of the entire composition of the country's Armed Forces. At the same time, violations of the ceasefire regime are recorded along the entire line of contact.
Says Russia Online:
The well-known Russian political scientist Sergei Markov came to this conclusion after analyzing the possible outcome of the escalation of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine. In an interview with the information portal Ukraina.ru, Markov spoke in detail about the “red line” that Kiev should not violate, and also explained what move the Russian army is using to completely demoralize the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Sergei Markov first of all drew attention to the fact that the Russian Federation will be forced to intervene in the situation if Kiev nevertheless decides to launch a full-scale military operation against the residents of Donbass. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities will violate the "red line" by provoking an escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This state of affairs will give Russia an excuse to implement a military strategy, thanks to which about 70% of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be transferred to the side of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
#3
The same experts who didn't know Soviet subs had nukes on board during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The extended 'out of garrison' mobilization of over five divisions of soldiers, anybody's soldiers... is a very expensive undertaking.
A 'training exercise' can probably now be ruled out. A disruptive leadership change in the US, or a serious geo-political event in Taiwan may be the trigger. A concurrence of events would provide an ideal window for action.
#5
I know people from Moscow. I know people from Ukraine. People in Moscow have friends in Ukraine. People in Ukraine have friends in Moscow and St Petersburg. If war breaks out it's because of mad lunatics in leadership.
#10
Send all House and Senate democrats (Bernie can be to tour guide, and half of the Pubs) for an all expenses paid visit once that is set up. Roaches go in but they never come out (sic).
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The question remains, should Russia invade what will be the European and American response? Forget NATO, it is a shell. The political response is the question. Will Europe cut off Russian gas? Will the Ukraine be understood as a replica of the Soviet invasion of Finland? Will serious economic penalties be imposed? Can the USA take the place of Nordstream? Will Germany join Russia in the recrudescence of a Molotov-Von Ribbentrop show? Lots of questions and it appears that the Biden group has no answers.
#12
^ That's exactly why there won't be a war. Whatever muscle flexing Putin does, it will be met by nothing of substance from the West. He wins at no cost.
That said, we still have no business there.
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“Is it possible to build Communism in a random capitalist country like, say, the Netherlands?”
Answer: “Of course it’s possible but what have the Netherlands ever done to you?”
#16
Putin and the EU reliance on Gazprom, China and the massive US supply chain infrastructure on his side of the Pacific, Iran and the lack of any active US support for an Israeli strike, these are all flashpoints facing an utterly incompetent and frankly cowardly Bidet WH. Each is the culmination (with the notable exception of Trumpian efforts to counter them) of decades of Washington stupidity, cupidity and cultural decline. Bad things await, because the West just forgot the simple wisdom of the past millenia:
Hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create soft men, and soft men create hard times
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Putin is Trump with self-control.
No, Putin has control of his government and a compliant Duma legislature. Neither of these luxuries were available to Trump.
Besides, Trump was a businessman and Putin was a bureaucratic Spook so a difference in negotiating style is inevitable.
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[REGNUM] On December 5, rain, sleet and ice are expected in the Rostov region. This follows from the operational forecast published on the website of the Don Department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
The Rostov hydrometeorological center predicts cloudy weather with clearings. In most districts of the Rostov region, it will rain, in the northern regions - with wet snow. It is possible that the precipitation will be heavy. At night and in the morning, in some places wet snow sticking to wires and trees, ice, ice on the roads. The wind speed will reach 6-11 meters per second.
At night on the Don it will freeze up to -3 degrees. In the daytime, outdoor thermometers will rise to 0 to + 5 degrees, in the southern regions, up to +9 degrees.
“Thermometer marks will be varied not only during the month, but also during the day," the forecast says. "So get ready for the Siberian winter, for its harsh and sometimes mild nature."
Earlier, IA REGNUM reported that in the Kemerovo region tomorrow, on December 5, a blowing snowstorm is expected in places, icy roads on the roads, and a snow roll.
Follow the developments in the broadcast: "Hurricanes, storms, blizzards: bad weather in Russia and the world - all the news"
The Rostov hydrometeorological center warns about the dangerous phenomenon. Forecasters clarify that in the period from 1:00 to 4:00 Moscow time, in the morning and in the first half of the day on December 5, in the northern territories of the Rostov region, a strong adhesion of wet snow is expected on wires and trees.
Residents of Don were urged to exclude being on the street as much as possible, as well as to be extremely attentive and careful.
On December 4 in Krasnoyarsk it is expected up to +2 degrees C, sleet, gusty wind
[REGNUM] On Saturday, December 4, Krasnoyarsk will be cloudy with clearings, light sleet, air temperature + 0 to +2 degrees C, ice on the roads. This is reported by the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation.
At 08:50 it was +1 degrees C at Teatralnaya Square.
At night from 4 to 5 December it is expected to reach −5 to −3 degrees C, cloudy, sometimes light snow.
The speed of the west wind is 3-8 m/s, in gusts up to 13-18 m/s. Pressure - 738 mm Hg. Art.
On Sunday, December 5, in Krasnoyarsk up to −2 to −1 degrees C, cloudy, no precipitation. At night - up to −3 to −1 degrees C.
On Monday, December 6, in Krasnoyarsk it is expected up to + 0 to +1 degrees C during the day and up to −2 to +0 degrees C at night, sometimes light precipitation.
According to the forecasts of the Central Siberian UGMS, on December 4, in the south of the Taimyr Municipal District (MR), in the Turukhansk District and in the Evenk MR, in some places a strong north to north-west wind is expected on gusts of up to 15-25 m/s in places with snowand blizzard condition. In the central and southern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, gusts of southwestern wind up to 15-20 m/s, snowstorms in places with ice on the roads.
On December 4-6, an avalanche danger increases in the mountainous regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Khakassia and Tuva.
Riga airport closed due to snowfall
[REGNUM] Heavy snow that hit Latvia led to the closure of Riga International Airport, the air harbor reported on its Twitter page on December 3.
The facility will be closed until 06:00 am (07:00 Moscow time) on 4 December. For the first time in the history of the republic, the Latvian Center for Environment, Geology and Meteorology has declared a "red" level of weather hazard due to snowfall.
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Russia has won wars in winter against foreign invaders but hasn't initiated a conflict in midwinter.
The takeover of Crimea began in late February and Crimea isn't as cold as central Ukraine. The physical Russian 'help' to pro Russian citizens of the Donbas area of the Ukraine began in April.
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There go my plans for a wild weekend in riotous Riga! :)
[Western Journal] Rather than relying upon the shaky reed of federal support from the Biden administration, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing the restoration of a WWII-era force to protect the state.
DeSantis is calling for the return of the Florida State Guard, a civilian volunteer force that will assist the National Guard, according to a release posted on the governor’s website.
DeSantis is seeking $3.5 million in his upcoming budget to establish the force.
According to the release, the Florida State Guard would enhance "emergency response efforts in the event of a hurricane, natural disasters and other state emergencies."
The funding would support training for those who join, the release said.
#4
Prior to the legislation in the early 20th Century, the militia (and the nascent national guard) had do be requested by the President from the governors. If you look back at the American Civil War, it was filled with numbered units of the states not the regular army.
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.
[EpochTimes] Bob Dole, a former Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas and GOP presidential candidate, has died at age 98, his family confirmed in a statement on Sunday.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] South Sudanese President Salva Kiir appointed brother-in-law deputy as the chief security, according to a decree issued on Wednesday.Major General Gregory Deng Kuac, as the new Deputy Director-General of the General Intelligence Bureau of the National Security Service (NSS), announced the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC).
