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-Great Cultural Revolution
America's vagrancy crisis laid bare: California hosts a third of the nation's homeless, half of its street sleepers and SIX of the top 10 of cities worst hit by tent encampments
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 582,000 people are sleeping rough or in temporary accommodation in the United States

  • Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle are by far America's worst hit cities

  • California is the epicenter of the crisis, with the nation's highest homeless rate
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:



#3  California is the richest state in the country. If they REALLY wanted to do something about this (institutionalization, drug treatment, alcohol detox, etc.), they could. IF.
Posted by: Tom || 03/19/2023 13:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The cities are the epicenter but there were people living rough well out in the suburbs when I left California in 2015. I have seen some of that in Akron, Ohio. There has to be a certain amount of shelter to make it work in the Midwest.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/19/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#5  California need to give reparations to today's bums and skels to make up for their mistreatment of the Oakies in the 1930s
Posted by: Regular joe || 03/19/2023 17:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Tesla can drive upside down
[FoxNews] Custom car rides on 10-foot-tall wheels.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2023 04:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


This company lets you rent sheep to mow your lawn in an environmentally friendly way
[FoxNews] Lamb Mowers Fairfax owner says a lot of customers just hire them to get rid of weeds.
Hey, Newsom!
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2023 00:49 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's all fun and games until somebody eats the roses.....
Posted by: Classer || 03/19/2023 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  …or the sheep.
Posted by: Grunter || 03/19/2023 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Putting immigrants out of work.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/19/2023 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  San Diego County has noted goats more than sheep. Both work, but geography determines, I'd bet
Posted by: Frank G || 03/19/2023 19:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Your mower does not need water, nor does it crap on the lawn or bite the children.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/19/2023 19:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Tijuana Joe: "Load up those boats!
Fill every dang panga that floats
Full of tin cans and oats...
Oh, and lawn-mowing goats
For a million more Mexican votes."
Posted by: Thrimble McCoy7673 || 03/19/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CycloneYaku claimed 50 lives in Peru, with over 50,000 affected
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Strong earthquake kills at least 14 in Ecuador, 1 in Peru
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2023 0:51 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Heavy fighting resumes in Las Anod amid calls for calm
[ShabelleMedia] In the early morning of Saturday, a fierce battle broke out again outside the town of Lasanod, the capital of Sool region, after a pause in the fighting.

The war started in different directions, including Maraga and other parts in the east and west of Lasanod city, which is under the control of clan militia.

According to the reports, the fighting erupted at 4:30am after the city was attacked by forces from Somaliland, a region that claims a unilateral independence for over 30 years.

For more than two weeks there was no fighting, and the attempt for ceasefire failed.

Muse Bihi Abid, the leader of Somalia asked his army to leave their bases and city peacefully, but he refused a make a complete pull out from entire SSC regions.

Local hospital said more than 200 people have been killed and hundreds more maimed in weeks of intense fighting and bombardments.

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Security Council last month called for a de-escalation in Las Anod and condemned the civilian killing in the mortar shelling and targeting the hospitals.

Those calls have gone unheeded as both sides continued exchanging heavy fire.

Somaliland controlled the town since 2007 after capturing it from Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
, but the local clans want a self-governance under Somalia’s federal system.
In the early morning of Saturday, a fierce battle broke out again outside the town of Lasanod, the capital of Sool region, after a pause in the fighting.

The war started in different directions, including Maraga and other parts in the east and west of Lasanod city, which is under the control of clan militia.

According to the reports, the fighting erupted at 4:30am after the city was attacked by forces from Somaliland, a region that claims a unilateral independence for over 30 years.

For more than two weeks there was no fighting, and the attempt for ceasefire failed.

Muse Bihi Abid, the leader of Somalia asked his army to leave their bases and city peacefully, but he refused a make a complete pull out from entire SSC regions.

Local hospital said more than 200 people have been killed and hundreds more maimed in weeks of intense fighting and bombardments.

The United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Security Council last month called for a de-escalation in Las Anod and condemned the civilian killing in the mortar shelling and targeting the hospitals.

Those calls have gone unheeded as both sides continued exchanging heavy fire.

Somaliland controlled the town since 2007 after capturing it from Puntland, but the local clans want a self-governance under Somalia’s federal system.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Dutch Farmers protest party in shock victory in provincial elections
Best start paying attention to The Netherlands. This matters to the future of the Green Demons.
[EuroNews] A new powerhouse of Dutch right-wing populism took political center stage on Thursday after winning its first provincial elections, a victory that was seen as a resounding rebuke to Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling four-party coalition.

With counting of ballots from Wednesday's vote wrapping up, the Farmer Citizen Movement — known by its Dutch acronym BBB — was predicted to win 15 seats in the 75-seat upper house of the Dutch national parliament, level with the bloc formed by left-of center Labor and Green parties.

The provincial lawmakers elected in Wednesday's vote choose national senators at the end of May.

MAIDEN VICTORY FOR THE PROTEST PARTY
“Now is the time to take citizens seriously. I am open to talks with everybody. We are ready," said BBB leader, Caroline Van der Plas.

Her party was formed in 2019 and took part in provincial elections for the first time this year. It won 1% of the vote in the national election in 2021.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/19/2023 09:04 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great news! But, can it continue? PM Rutte is practically half way up Klaus Schwab's rear end.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/19/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^ I would be optimistic. Even Sweden eventually had to include the conservative sensible-immigration Sweden Democrats in the government. It took a while, but things got so bad that even Sweden had to recognize political reality. Maybe the Netherlands are next.
Posted by: Tom || 03/19/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Shooting at the kid was a dumb move. Trudeau did something similar when they horse trampled the tribal elder.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/19/2023 13:26 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Julian Assange's father: My fight to free son whose childhood I missed
[NYP] Australian architect John Shipton was missing from his son Julian Assange’s life from the time he was three until the WikiLeaks founder was in his 20s — and he gets prickly when asked to explain his long absence.

"It’s none of anyone’s business and it’s an invasion of privacy," Shipton told The Post last week.
Prodigal father as it were.
But he’s been making up for lost time.

Shipton, 76, who is a dead ringer for his 51-year-old son, re-entered Julian’s life a few years ago to campaign all over the world for his freedom.

Now he features in his other son Gabriel’s new documentary, "Ithaka," which details their efforts to pressure the US to drop espionage charges against Assange.

The documentary, screenings, and a speaking tour are the latest chapters in the sprawling saga that started when Assange published Wikileaks in 2010, revealing deeply-held American secrets — about the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — which shocked the world but infuriated the agencies from which they were leaked.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2023 07:38 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .....about the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — which shocked the world but infuriated the agencies from which they were leaked.

Aside from the Assange view, what can we now pretty much determine about those conflicts ?

Any similarities to the current disaster in Ukraine? Is anyone in Washington listening ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Ithaka - Small Greek island and legendary home of Homer.

Just as the journey to Ithaka is a metaphor for the human journey through life, so Ithaka is a metaphor for all destinations. It represents all the goals and ideals that humans strive for, all the expectations of a reward to be received in the future for actions performed in the present.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Ithaca - a shotgun.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/19/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Very nice example Merc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2023 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought Homer lived in Springfield.
And when it comes to metaphors, I'll take the one with a walnut stock.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/19/2023 10:34 Comments || Top||

#6  There are regular protests here in Australia supporting Assmange. The protests could be held in a medium size mini-van. Nobody here gives a rat’s ass about him.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/19/2023 16:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Situation with China ‘fragile, dangerous’ in Himalayan front, Indian FM warns
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Southeast Asia
Myanmar Monastery Massacre Leaves at Least 22 Dead
[T.ME] The death toll includes three Buddhist monks who were shot at close range, according to a post-mortem report, after what opponents of the ruling military junta are calling an army-conducted massacre of civilians.

A spox for the junta - two years in power after overthrowing the elected government - claimed it had not harmed civilians but had been involved in clashes with rebel fighters in the the Pinlaung region of southern Shan state.

Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) and another rebel group penetrated Nan Neint villaged and “violently opened fire…some villagers were killed and injured,” Zaw Min Tun said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats



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  Woman Stabbed in UK ‘Terror Attack' was an American Spy – Report
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  Saudi-Backed Coalition Sends Three More Brigades to Confront STC in Aden
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  Al-Shabaab and ISIS militants clash in Somalia
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  Greek court sentences Egyptian man to 280 years in jug for ‘trafficking in migrants’
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  Iraq seizes three million captagon pills on Syria border
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  Pakistan Police Books Imran Khan on Charges of Murder, Terrorism
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  Mexico's Gulf Cartel turns over 5 members tied to Americans' deadly kidnapping
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  Puntland executes 19, including Al-Shabaab and ISIS operatives
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  Hezbollah officially endorses Suleiman Frangieh for president of Lebanon
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  Only 2 of the 23 Suspects Charged With Domestic Terrorism in ‘Cop City' Attack From Georgia
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  Crisis over suspected Iran schoolgirl poisonings escalates
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  Taliban-Appointed Agriculture Head in Panjshir Arrested on Corruption Charges
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  Nigeria presidential election drama heads to the courts


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