[Daily Mail] The gentleman with a long history of mental illness, well known to the police, actually only torched his own home. The flames then spread to the rapidly to the neighbours. If only it had been possible to lock him up somewhere safe before he caused so much devastation.
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"Statistics and a UCLA poll are showing us that a significant percentage of AR-15 owners may be mentally ill. Lawmakers are considering if they can be deemed non compos mentis..."
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#1 P2K is onto something. I would not put it past the Virginia authorities to pull a stunt like this.
They've already successfully "changed the narrative" to make Governor Nathan Bedford Northam and his abusive sidekick into into woke champions. Why not "change the narrative" to make gun owners into arsonists?
Polish investigators fear a pig farmer, last seen on December 31, may have been devoured by his own livestock after a neighbor discovered bones on the property, reports say.
Lubin District Prosecutor Magdalena Serafin told Polish publication Gazeta Wrocławska that remains believed to be that of the farmer, who was said to be in his seventies, were found eight days after the man was last seen on his farm in Lubin, a town about 260 miles west of Warsaw.
‘We do not know the exact date, but in the period between December 31 and January 8 the victim was eaten by pigs,” Serafin said, according to a translation.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Prince Harry attended a summit for leaders of 21 African countries in London hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.
Harry spoke on Sunday of his unhappiness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will see him and his wife Meghan exit official roles to seek an independent future.
Johnson called for deeper investment ties between Britain and Africa.
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Johnsoncalled for deeper investment ties between Britain and Africa
HRWs His & Her Royal Wokenesses called for greater investment in their new Global Wokeness Fund, which they jointly manage for a 20% of assets-under-management fee.
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He is no less a prince than he was, it was explained this morning, it’s just that for this trial year they may not call themselves or be addressed that way. Next January the queen will re-address the question, deciding then whether Harry was given an extended paternity leave/honeymoon, or if it would be better to let him retire longer from circling the globe selling love of Granny Queen’s Merrie Olde England to the colonies and allies.
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Doubt they'll actually produce any goods that anyone will want to buy. More likely that they will sign sweetheart deals like the one Zero & Big Mike signed w NFLX.
The bribe will be much smaller, though -- The Wokenesses don't have the influence over regulatory decisions in DC that Zero had.
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Krugman was actually a respected, non-liberal, non-insane normal economist before he met his grievance-obsessed part-black wife.
Bad idea for any guy with access to a big media platform to marry an activist woman, especially a race-mongering mulatta with a huge chip on her shoulder and a nose for monetizing said grievance.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos has said he'd like to work with the soon-to-be former royals.
Speaking at an event in Los Angeles, he told the PA news agency: "Who wouldn't be interested? Yes, sure."
Former Suits-star Meghan is already rumoured to have signed a voiceover deal with Disney in return for a donation to an elephant charity. Earlier this year Prince Harry was caught on camera touting his wife for a voiceover job to Disney chairman Robert Iger at the Lion King premiere.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells Russian President Vladimir Putin there will be no normalization of the two countries’ relations until Moscow ends its “destabilizing activity” that threatens security.https://t.co/jWlaA9ygDi
[Jpost] A prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist was arrested by police, his organization said on Monday, after a protest he helped organize in the financial district a day earlier turned violent with officers firing tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Ventus Lau was arrested on Sunday evening on charges of "obstruction of police administration" and violating terms set when permission was granted for the protest, the Hong Kong Civil Assembly Team said in a statement.The organizers initially applied for a permit - known as a letter of no objection - for a march, but the police only agreed to a static rally in a park in the city's Central district.
But as the crowds swelled and spilled onto surrounding streets, some protesters briefly barricaded roads with umbrellas, traffic cones and other street furniture and dug up bricks from the pavement.
Police then ordered a halt to the protest and began dispersing the crowd.
"It was primarily rioters' violent acts which led to the suspension of the gathering," Senior Superintendent Ng Lok-chun told news hounds.
"The organizer has violated the agreements set in the no objection letter, failed to assist in maintaining the order in the public gathering event, that is why we have arrested Mr. Lau."
Police said two community liaison officers were attacked with wooden sticks and sustained head injuries. They also said some protesters threw water bottles at officers conducting a 'stop and search' operation.
In a statement late on Sunday, the government said it "strongly condemns" the attack on the coppers.
The "Universal Siege Against Communism" demonstration was the latest in a relentless series of anti-government protests since June, when Hong Kongers erupted into the streets to voice their anger over a now-withdrawn extradition bill.
Organizers said 150,000 attended the demonstration, while police estimated a crowd of 11,680 at its peak.
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I have to assume that either they were running scams or that only their workers' SS numbers were stolen. Who would give a site like that a SSN? For that matter, I've never given anybody but my bank and my employer an SSN. Amazon/Walmart/whoever do NOT need it for anything.
[NYT] A long-simmering conflict between the National Security Agency and the House Intelligence Committee broke into the open on Sunday when the committee’s chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff, accused the agency of withholding critical intelligence from his panel, including some that might be useful in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
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Signals collection against the President of the United States or any other US person (USP), or US political candidate is not within the mission parameters of the NSA.
Providing collection reporting (to the congress) on foreign entities which may contain 'incidental' USP discussions for legal or political purposes is illegal.
Schiff's efforts are destined to fail. He's simply seeking a convenient scapegoat.
[Jpost] "The 21-year-old, who after her conversion now prefers to be known as Mary, was reportedly arrested on Sunday near Azadi Square."
Iranian authorities last week arrested Fatemeh Mohammadi, a woman who converted to Christianity, and was transported to a secret location.
The Persian-language news agency HRANA first reported on Mohammadi’s arrest.
According to the website Article 18, which seeks to promote religious freedom, "The 21-year-old, who after her conversion now prefers to be known as Mary, was reportedly arrested on Sunday near Azadi Square, where protests were taking place following the Iranian government’s admission of guilt in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane."
Article 18 said, "A number of protesters were reportedly arrested on Sunday evening, as protests took place in several Iranian cities, though it is as yet unclear whether Mary was partaking in any demonstration. There has since been no news of Mary’s safety or whereabouts and her family are said to be very concerned about her."
In a series of tweets published on her day of arrest, Mary wrote the Iranian people were facing "soft repression" through being spoon-fed only news that the regime wanted them to read. She used Twitter hashtags that mean "hard-pressed" and "suppression is the norm."
Article 18 noted that Mary wrote that confronting "soft repression" is even harder than tackling the "hard repression" of batons and tear gas, and said the Iranian regime is "institutionalizing false beliefs through selective coverage of the news," and "lies that are bigger and more repetitive make them more believable."
Article 18 wrote, "Mary is a rare example of a Christian activist still living in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and she has already spent six months in prison as a result of her Christian activity, which was deemed ’action against national security’ and ’propaganda against the system.’"
The Iranian authorities charged Mary last year with failing to properly wear her hijab. The charges were eventually dropped. She had initially filed a complaint with the police regarding assault, and the authorities responded with charging her with an alleged violation of Iran’s dress code for women.
The religious freedom organization said, "Mary is active on social media and just a day before being kicked out of university tweeted about the cases of 10 fellow Christian converts currently in prison in Iran as a result of their peaceful religious activities.
"Mary has tweeted about the ’sentencing of nine converts in Rasht to five years in prison and the one-year sentence given to a 61-year-old fellow woman convert in Karaj, the sister city to Mary’s home city of Tehran,’" wrote Article 18.
"Christmas is fast approaching, and security officials are lurking behind Christians," Mary wrote in Persian in a tweet linked to a video recorded by 61-year-old Rokhsareh Ghanbari, taken prior to her assuming her prison sentence.
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[American Thinker] - Absent historical context, extreme weather can be overhyped in ways that lead uninformed voters to conclude that acts of God such as severe droughts and floods never happened before humans began using fossil fuels.
In fact, extreme weather has occurred with monotonous regularity for millions of years. Below is an infinitesimal sampling of the endless multitude of catastrophic weather events in Earth’s past, many of which occurred long before the Industrial Revolution.
● The Great Hurricane of 1780 killed 30,000 people in the Caribbean.
● Epic dust storms in the 1930s caused catastrophic ecological damage to the Central Plains of the U.S. and Canada.
● Massive flooding that hit Tokyo, Japan, in 1910 destroyed more than 400,000 homes.
● Consecutive years of extreme weather took the lives of one-third of the population during the Russian Famine of 1601-1603.
● In 1927, weeks of heavy rains in Mississippi caused flooding that covered 27,000 square miles, leaving entire towns and surrounding countryside submerged up to a depth of 30 feet.
● A catastrophic hurricane that hit sparsely populated Sea Island, Georgia in 1893 killed 2,000 people.
● The Blizzard of 1888 was so extreme that snow and ice covered the entire northeastern U.S., from Maine to the Chesapeake Bay.
● On Sept. 8, 1900, a Cat-4 hurricane obliterated the island of Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 10,000 residents.
● In 1889, heavy rains that lasted for days caused massive flooding in Jamestown, PA, killing 2,200.
● Caused by a protracted drought, the Bengal Famine of 1770 killed 10 million people in South Asia.
● And, for those who believe in the Bible, Genesis 7:12 reports that rain fell upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, an extreme weather event by any definition.
What you’ve just read is a tiny slice of Earth’s turbulent climate history that global warming doomsayers hope voters will never know. And, because there’s an agenda behind climate hysteria that has nothing to do with "saving the planet" ‐ I wrote about that agenda here -- there’s not much they won’t do to truck voters to believe that global warming is causing the environment to fall apart at the seams. They even changed the name of the alleged threat.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, laying the foundation for its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time.https://t.co/xXteIW8reo
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These people don't need housing, they need incarceration. Politicians are eager to spend taxpayers' money on housing projects because the developers contribute part of their profits to the politicians' election campaigns...either that or they just pass the money under the table. It's a scam.
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The government has likely vastly underestimated the number of people here... A mile long? Really? How on earth could only 200 people occupy that much space without having as much space as a group of multi-millionaires? I expect that there are any number of criminal citizens and illegal immigrants (likely both relatively normal ones and gang members) hiding out in this area. It needs to be cleared, both for the sake of public order and for public health.
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^ $600 would buy them a nice tent to be erected in the boondocks and surrounded by concertina wire. Give them food, water and porta potties. Problem solved.
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How on earth could only 200 people occupy that much space without having as much space as a group of multi-millionaires?
They need that space for trash, pee and poop.
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Thoughtful solutions, but 'homeless' is mental as much as physical. How about addressing depression at first, so some want to remedy their situation rather than living under the cloud of their cloud of woes.
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There was a survey of homeless people some years back in Houston as to why they were in that situation. Don't recall the exact numbers, but it was roughly 1/3 has suffered some financial reverse, 1/3 were mentally ill, and 1/3 were just flipping off The Man and wanted to live free.
(like any 'survey', you can take the categories and numbers with a kilo of salt)
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Vast majority have substance abuse problems, and vast majority of those folks suffer mental illness as well.
Whoever fought to ensure these people could not be put in mental institutions - where they can get the care and treatment (and perhaps even some compassion, maybe a bit if, yes, love) they need - those "activists who unleashed this foul scourge upon our society deserve to be placed in one of the lower circles of hell.
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Thevictims were attending a concert called Living the DREAM when they were shot.
The concert featured a lineup of up-and-coming rappers who are popular on social media.
McManus said he is confident that a suspect will be soon identified and apprehended. No further information was immediately available.
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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
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.
Polish investigators fear a pig farmer, last seen on December 31, may have been devoured by his own livestock after a neighbor discovered bones on the property, reports say.
[Jpost] "The 21-year-old, who after her conversion now prefers to be known as Mary, was reportedly arrested on Sunday near Azadi Square."
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
