[NY Post] The Canadian serial killer who lured over two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after he was viciously attacked in prison, officials said.
Robert Pickton, 74, was in a segregated intervention unit at the maximum-security Port-Cartier Institution when he was speared in the head with a broken broom handle on Sunday evening, the Vancouver Sun reported.
As of Tuesday, Pickton was in critical condition and was not expected to survive.
Pickton’s 51-year-old attacker — whose name has not been released — had done a stint in solitary confinement for previous assaults on other inmates, a source told the outlet.
"The safety and security of institutions is paramount and an investigation into what occurred is currently underway," the Correctional Service of Canada told The Post in a statement. "Right now we're just trying to find out what kind of cake he prefers"
The organization was not able to provide an update on Pickton’s condition.
Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with the maximum parole ineligibility period of 25 years in 2007.
He was also charged with the murders of 21 other women, but those counts were stayed, the Vancouver Sun explained.
In total, investigators found DNA from 33 women — many of them sex workers who vanished from Vancouver’s downtown eastside in the 1990s and early 2000s — at Pickton’s Port Coquitlam pig farm.
Pickton also once allegedly bragged to an undercover police officer that he had killed as many as 49 women.
Grisly rumors about Pickton’s pig farm had swirled around the Vancouver area for years before he was finally arrested in 2002 — and authorities were criticized for initially failing to take the spate of missing women seriously.
"This news actually gives me a little bit of closure for myself," Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was one of PIckton’s official victims, told Postmedia of the killer’s injuries.
"I’ve had all these feelings today. I know it’s Georgina. And I know she’s happy," she added, calling Pickton’s injuries "karma."
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Geethatstoobad.
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Someone had a religious objection to his occupation but not his vocation.
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Second Degree Murder must mean something different in Canada, because that is a murder factory and operation on par with the assisted suicide mission.
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Second Degree Murder must mean something different in Canada,
Really! I have heard more moral outrage about War Crimes ...or are females just less important in Canada with the creeping onset of Sharia law up North?
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Pickton’s 51-year-old attacker — whose name has not been released — had done a stint in solitary confinement for previous assaults on other inmates, a source told the outlet
[BREITBART] At least 45 people were shot, one fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the one fatal shooting occurred Saturday about 11: 30 p.m. There was an argument and two of the people involved whipped out a rod and opened fire. Two men—one 50 years old and the other 44 years old—were shot, as well as a 27-year-old woman.
The 44-year-old was holding a handgun but dropped it after being shot. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Breitbart News reported at least 21 people were shot during the weekend of May 10-12, 2024, and three of those shooting victims shuffled off the mortal coil.
In Chicago, as in all of Illinois, residents must get a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card in order to legally own a gun. The process for getting the card involves an in-depth background check by the Illinois State Police.
Other regulations in effect in Chicago include the statewide "assault weapons" and "high capacity" magazine ban, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, and more. Moreover, Cook County, where Chicago is located, has its own "assault weapons" ban.
Despite all the gun control, the Sun-Times pointed out that 170 people have been killed in Chicago since January 1, 2024.
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Final Tally: 3 killed, 47 wounded
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As always in Chicago and Illinois, there's no problem that can't be solved by another brand new gun law. Now, we're suing Glock for making good firearms.
[MarketBeat] "Bankruptcy is a word that is often misunderstood. Filing for bankruptcy does not mean we are going out of business," Red Lobster wrote. "In fact, it means just the opposite. It is a legal process that allows us to make changes to our business and our cost structure so that Red Lobster can continue as a stronger company going forward."
---------- Chapter 11 is for reorganization. Chapter 7 is for liquidation.
Part of Red Lobster's problem is the 'all the shrimp you can eat for $20' special since a lot of people can eat a lot of shrimp.
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...Two interesting details here:
First, during a reorganization, RL's parent company bought the land under each RL...then leased it back to the restaraunt. That way, no matter how bad the economy was, there was a steady income stream from every single site. Tough luck for the franchisee, though.
And the $20 shrimp helped do 'em in, but not the way you'd think: one of RL's owners is a Thai fishing company...which was making them buy their shrimp at a fairly substantial markup. This meant that even though the $20 shrimp was RL's best selling meal, they were losing money on every plate because they couldn't source cheaper shrimp.
Good thing I'm not smart enough to understand business. ;)
[IsraelTimes] Comptroller says ministry failed to sufficiently combat vaccine misinformation during pandemic, made decisions on vaccine’s safety based on incomplete data
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s office released a report Tuesday criticizing the Health Ministry’s conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing that the ministry didn’t process or analyze thousands of reports it had received about various vaccine side effects.
In 2021, the Health Ministry received some 345,200 reports on side effects caused by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccine, sent by hospitals and Health Maintenance Organizations, the Comptroller’s Office said, but just 18 percent of reports were accurately recorded in the ministry’s database. The other 82% of reports were lost due to technical errors and system malfunctions.
The Health Ministry also failed to process an additional 33,000 reports filed by the public regarding side effects due to limited ability to analyze reports filed anonymously. Adding to that, a lack of manpower in the ministry’s Department of Epidemiology meant that reports that contained identifying details were also unable to be reviewed and investigated.
As a result of the missing data, the Health Ministry based its findings on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine on just 55,000 reports.
The majority of the side effects that were successfully recorded were mild, the Comptroller’s Office found, and included complaints such as low fever and pain at the vaccine site.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... there were instances of more serious side effects as well, including roughly 200 reports from women experiencing changes in their menstrual cycles after receiving the vaccine. Although the Health Ministry recorded these side effects, it did not investigate them in a timely manner, the Comptroller’s Office stated.
In practice, the Health Ministry was found to have investigated just 1,000 instances of severe side effects. Of that number, it examined 275 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, the majority of which resulted in the patient needing to be hospitalized.
In response to the findings detailed in the report, the Health Ministry said Tuesday that it had accurately collected all reported instances of side effects, saying that it had collected the data in a new system rather than in the ministry’s usual database.
"Since there were dozens of reports that didn’t contain critical information or that were unrelated to the coronavirus vaccines, it was agreed that the reports would be collected manually and analyzed by Health Ministry employees," it added as an explanation as to why the databases appeared to lack data.
The State Comptroller’s report also found that the Health Ministry had failed to propagandize educate the public sufficiently on combatting false information and anti-vaccination propaganda, and didn’t have any strategy to prevent it from spreading.
The failure to combat anti-vaccine misinformation may have resulted in increased skepticism toward vaccines in general, the Comptroller’s Office found, citing data collected in a Government Advertising Bureau survey in 2022, which found that 57% of parents were concerned about vaccines causing permanent damage to their children, up from 46% in 2016.
In light of the findings, Englman instructed the Health Ministry to implement a more advanced system for storing, collection and analyzing data on vaccine side effects.
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[NY Post] The Canadian serial killer who lured over two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after he was viciously attacked in prison, officials said.
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of 
