[NYPOST] Five Florida feral youths teenagers have been charged in the vicious, caught-on-video mob beating of a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — the site of one of the nation’s worst school shootings.
The fifth teen linked to the savage Dec. 12 beating turned himself in at the Coral Springs Police Department on Monday morning — with cops still looking for one more suspect, WPLG-TV News reported.
The disturbing video first posted by TMZ shows a lone teenager, who has not been identified, being attacked by a half-dozen students who kicked and punched him repeatedly — until one young brute hurls him to the pavement head-first.
The victim suffered a skull fracture and other injuries.
Officials at the Parkland school identified the alleged attackers, and police obtained arrest affidavits Thursday.
"The safety of our community and schools remains our top priority," the department said in a blurb. "On a daily basis, we have approximately 50 officers from multiple specialized units who are assigned to patrol areas around schools during dismissal. In this incident, we did have two patrol officers around North Community Park during dismissal time."
The five teens in jug were identified by police as Sylvester Hicks, 16, Jahmeer Beauziel, 17, Caleb Hensley, 17, Jordan Thompson, 16, and Chinua Leefatt, 15.
Four are students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the fifth is at nearby Coral Glades High School.
Each of the teens was charged with felony battery, according to cops.
Beauziel’s surrender Monday leaves one more suspect being sought by police.
In an email to parents last week, school principal Michelle Kefford said she hopes to expel them.
"We are also doing everything we can through district processes to ensure these students do not return to our campus," she wrote in the email, according to WPLG.
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Of course, no event that has ever happened there has anything to do with a pathological culture within the institution.
No, it was guns. Or whitey.
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Is it ok to call them vicious animals and demand they be locked up for life?
Because, it is clear, if they are release back into society, we will surely be reading about them again and again.
QUESTION #1: Wouldn't the News Media immediately claim RACISM if the Colors were reversed?
QUESTION # 2: Is this becoming a new version of polar bearing? " In Las Vegas, 9 teenagers were charged with 2nd-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis. When that gang of Blacks beat him to death back on Nov. 1."
BTW: When can we expect to see the hoards of White Rioters and Looters screaming the White Teen's name and demanding justice? ☻
[NYPOST] A prominent LGBTQ+ activist in Philadelphia has been charged with allegedly raping two minors.
Kendall Stephens, 37, was arrested Monday and charged with rape, involuntary assault, unlawful contact with minors, and indecent assault against people less than 13 years old, among other offenses, court documents revealed.
The exact details of the allegations against Stephens were not immediately available.
Stephens; who is a trans woman; had a preliminary arraignment in Philadelphia municipal court Monday evening, the court records showed.
She is due back before Judge Vincent W. Furlong on Dec. 29.
Stephens previously made headlines when she was the victim of a vicious hate crime and group assault inside her South Philadelphia residence on Aug. 24, 2020, FOX19 reported.
Tymesha Wearing was sentenced in February to 11.5 to 23 months of house arrest for aggravated assault and conspiracy charges related to her role in the attack, CBS News noted.
Stephens into a popular neighborhood activist who pushed local lawmakers to pursue justice for violence committed against the LGBTQ+ community, the outlet reported.
-------- The NYPost doesn't note it but Stephens is politically active, supporting numerous Democrats in PA and Philly.
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Is that actually illegal for trans folks?
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Better make sure the kids aren’t Floridians going forward.
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[ConservativeReview] Between 2020 and 2022, the number of transgender services performed and/or visits related to transgender treatments at Planned Parenthood clinics increased by roughly 125%, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of available data. Regional branches that made their data available collectively saw 17,036 visits in 2020 compared to 38,337 in 2022, a staggering increase in such a short period of time.
Michael Artigues, president of the American College of Pediatricians, told the DCNF that the increase seen over the last few years is likely due to a number of factors such as transgenderism becoming a growing "social phenomenon," as well as potential financial incentives.
"You have to be concerned about the fact that there’s always money involved, for sure," Artigues said. "And you’ve got to question whether or not they’re discerning if someone, in particular minors, have a legitimate condition that requires treatment like gender-affirming therapies, as opposed to a social phenomena and or simply mental health problems."
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Is there any helpless or vulnerable group that Planned Parenthood will not exploit in order to fill its coffers?
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[YouTube] The Falcon and the Snowman 1985 - The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Robert Lindsey (book), Steven Zaillian
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
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Green mustang convertible, politics and regime changes, State Department, FBI, air travel, sex, drugs, classified documents, nude photographs, and rough language. Mature audiences recommended.
[Air & Space Force Magazine] More than 100 Guardians across the globe have started wearing the Space Force’s prototype service dress uniform three times per week as part of "wear testing"—the final stage before the uniform is produced and rolled out to Guardians everywhere in 2025.
More than 106 service members are included in the wear test, stationed at a wide variety of installations to determine the uniform’s durability, functionality, and comfort in a range of climates and conditions. Locations include:
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Our Guardians openly slabbered
At Buck in their dashing new tabard
With slash of bright buttons!
Their boots were sweet nuttins;
Their buttonhook shone in its scabbard!
Initiate countdown sequence for mandatory brightly colored hair.
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....Given what they could have done, it's not bad. The USAF has tried to bring back this approximate style (nicknamed the 'Billy Mitchell') for a while, and the troops liked it. If the buttons weren't at such an angle, it would be a lot better.
Need to be able to clean them of body fluids and recycle. Prob also some obscure 'cosmic radiation retardant' that is toxic to breathe in closed environments. Also, in cleaning the pants crotch shrinks, so no big balls allowed.
[AFRICANEWS] The torrential rains that have recently fallen in Brazzaville have had serious consequences. Dozens of residents have lost their homes in landslides caused by the rains.
In the Don Bosco district in the ninth arrondissement in the north of the Congolese capital, the debris lying in this erosion is that of a Pentecostal church swept away in the landslide caused by rainwater.
A few days ago, the faithful were still praying there.
In the vicinity of this place of prayer, several modest, modern dwellings have also been destroyed by the same phenomenon, as Joseph Bango, a 68-year-old retired civil servant, explains.
"It just so happens that there have been three major rains which have caused disarray in the neighbourhood, causing some people to flee. Behind me, some houses have been cleared (as a precaution) and the occupants have left. They can no longer live in the neighbourhood. Right next door there was a lady who had a large house with 14 tenant doors. It's been swallowed up. It's a loss of income for her. She had a house here and on the other side," said a visibly moved Mr Bango.
The other debris at the bottom of the ravine are shrouds taken from coffins in the graves of the old Itatolo cemetery. It's a scene that has left the local population bewildered, with fears of epidemics.
"We're in disarray, it's practically a disaster area. We've been left to our own devices. We don't have an appropriate laboratory to deal with epidemics. If the Hygiene Department could come and disinfect the area for us, that would be great, because there's a fear of epidemics," says Alexandre Oyoua, 73, one of the neighbourhood's leaders.
In desperation, local residents are building dykes from scratch to try and halt the progress of the erosion. It's almost a lost cause.
"It hurts our hearts. We can't be happy because we don't know where to go. These houses are the few we've been able to get. Erosion is progressing and preventing us from living better. In this neighbourhood we have a serious problem with erosion washing away our houses. Many people have deserted the area. Among them are retired people. As we speak, we can't tell where they're going to go, or whether they're going to become tenants again," said Saurelle Leboma and Jules Ferry, two young residents of the Don Bosco neighbourhood.
As soon as the sky darkens, the bodies of those who are still holding out beat faster and faster. Their houses are zero steps away from erosion and have a good chance of being destroyed.
"The rains have been falling relentlessly on Brazzaville since October. The skies are far from being kind again. The landslides that are sweeping away houses and graves in cemeteries are caused by the fragility of the soil and the lack of rainwater drainage systems".
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[RedState] The National Defense Authorization Act has ordered the Army to up its game on fitness standards, specifically for soldiers in some combat specialties. This comes after the inability of the Army to come up with a physical fitness test that will measure physical fitness and treat men and women equally. This text is from page 382 of the NDAA conference report.
SEC. 577. INCREASED FITNESS STANDARDS FOR ARMY 19 CLOSE COMBAT FORCE MILITARY OCCUPA20 TIONAL SPECIALTIES.
(a) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall implement increased minimum fitness
standards as part of the Army Combat Fitness Test for all soldiers of the following military occupational special2 ties or areas of concentration:
(1) 11A. [Author's note, the bracketed information is my addition. Infantryman]
(2) 11B. [Infantryman]
(3) 11C. [Infantryman]
(4) 11Z. [Infantryman]
(5) 12A. [Engineer]
(6) 12B. [Engineer]
(7) 13A. [Field Artillery]
(8) 13F. [Field Artillery]
(9) 18A. [Special Forces]
(10) 18B. [Special Forces]
(11) 18C. [Special Forces]
(12) 18D. [Special Forces]
(13) 18E. [Special Forces]
(14) 18F. [Special Forces]
(15) 18Z. [Special Forces]
(16) 19A. [Armor]
(17) 19C. [Armor]
(18) 19D. [Armor]
(19) 19K. [Armor]
(20) 19Z. [Armor]
(b) BRIEFING.—Not later than 365 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives describing the methodology used to establish standards under subsection (a).
The extraordinary use of the NDAA by both parties in Congress to tell the Army to get its s**t together was driven by the Army's inability to come up with a test that had some relationship to combat duty but that women could pass.
Prior to and during World War II, the physical fitness test consisted of five events: squat jumps, sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, and a 300-yard run: this tested strength and short-burst speed. In 1959, the test was changed to add some skills as well as physical fitness testing and rebranded as the Physical Combat Proficiency Test. It retained the five-event structure, but the events were: 40-yard low crawl, 20-foot horizontal ladder/monkey bars, grenade throw (in basic training and for combat support troops, the 105-yard man-carry was used), and a 1-mile run in boots. In its first nod to women in the Army, the Women's Army Corps (WACs) had their own test consisting of arm circles, body twists, a bent-over “airplane” exercise, sit-ups, and jumping jacks.
Around 1969, the tests were changed again to consist of sit-ups, inverted crawl (aka perverted crawl), run-dodge-and-jump (aka trip-stumble-and-fall), horizontal ladder, and one-mile run in boots. This video is of Filipino Scout Rangers carrying on a tradition they received from the US Army, the inverted crawl.
In 1980, it became minimalist: push-ups, sit-ups, and two-mile run at first in boots but eventually in running shoes. (I usually scored 297-plus on this three-event, maximum of 300 points test — it ain't bragging if you can do it.)
For most of its modern history, the Army used a fixed set of events in which the grades were scaled based on age and gender. The purpose was to require a certain level of general physical fitness, to provide a personnel management tool, and to give military school cadre a legitimate way to refuse admittance to anyone who rubbed them the wrong way. I'm only half joking about the latter.
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This comes after the inability of the Army to come up with a physical fitness test that will measure physical fitness and treat men and women equally.
[Aficinado] The weather was beautiful, the course in perfect shape and smiles abounded as a field of amateurs paired up with pro golfers and sports stars for the 15th annual Els For Autism Pro-Am at Old Palm Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It was Monday, December 4, and the event raised $800,000 for charity, specifically funding a state-of-the-art center for helping children with autism in nearby Jupiter.
"It was a team effort," said co-host Ernie Els, the namesake of the event, during the awards ceremony which followed the post-round lunch. He thanked the amateurs for their generosity and the pros for donating their time, and said that with this Pro-Am, the combined total raised had been pushed to $18 million since the Pro-Am started.
[Gatestone] The Catholic Church in China is being "murdered" while the Roman Catholic Church stands idly by, wrote Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired Bishop of Hong Kong. "A totalitarian regime doesn't compromise," he said. "They want complete surrender."
[Newsweek] A new agreement between Germany and Lithuania will lead to German troops' first permanent foreign deployment since World War II.
The announcement was made Monday in Lithuania, where Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas met with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, to outline a multiyear "Roadmap Action Plan" involving approximately 4,800 permanently stationed German soldiers. Both officials called the move a historical moment not just for their nations but for NATO as well.
German troops, including those with families, will be stationed in the Lithuanian cities of Kaunas and Vilnius beginning in 2024, with most troops deployed in 2025 and 2026 and full-operation capability expected by 2027. In turn, Lithuania has committed to providing all necessary civilian and military infrastructure.
Germany’s small army is lacking new recruits. Like the US, Germany has a volunteer force, but things are getting so bad the German government is thinking about some kind of conscription system.
With the current German government already rapidly losing political support, trying to get the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, to vote in any conscription system would be political suicide. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, understands the problem but has no solution likely to gain popular support.
Politics in Germany is sliding to the right, with the AfD, Germany’s right-wing party, securing growing voter support. The AfD has not yet taken any position on conscription, but it is a nationalist party that would like to see the sanctions on Russia lifted and does not support any European-wide defense initiative.
The total number of armed forces personnel in Germany had dropped to 181,383 as of the end of October, with thousands of vacancies unfilled.
The German tabloid Bild says that the German army has neither the strength nor the equipment required to effectively defend the nation. Yet, at the same time Bild was pointing out the military crisis, Germany announced it is sending a 5,000-strong brigade to Lithuania.
It will be stationed less than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border with Belarus. The brigade relocation will start in the second quarter of 2024, with it scheduled to reach full combat readiness by 2027, according to the German Defense Ministry.
But, says German Defense Minister Pistorius, “We do not have an army which is capable of defending the country against a military offensive, a brutal war of aggression.” The contradiction is self-evident.
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The very definition of "stakeholder." They aren't paying (in any but a fig-leaf symbolic way) but they want all the benefits of membership.
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[FoxNews] The pact resembles agreements that the US has forged with both Finland and Sweden.
Denmark has reached a defense agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. soldiers and military equipment to be based on Danish soil, the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday.
The 10-year agreement was announced after the United States signed similar agreements with Finland and Sweden this month.
"This means that American soldiers and equipment can be permanently stationed on Danish soil," Frederiksen told reporters at a press conference.
The agreement, which Denmark and the United States began negotiating in February last year, will be signed later this week and will enter into force when necessary legislation has been adopted about a year from now, Frederiksen said.
Finland on Monday signed a defense cooperation agreement with the United States to grant the U.S. military broad access across the Nordic country to the vicinity of its long border with Russia.
Sweden signed a similar agreement earlier in December, and Norway, which also shares a short border with Russia, in 2021 signed an agreement with the United States on how to regulate U.S. military activity on its soil.
It's just so curious what we see here at Rantburg.
-The US cannot staff it's military recruitment needs, or elect strong leadership.
-The US left BILLION$ of equipment in the AFG exit.
-NATO has effectively been disarmed by donating materiel to Ukraine, weakening their respective defensive posture.
-Ukraine consumption of contributed standoff weaponry has drained the ordinance stores of the West.
-In outsourcing and consolidating manufacturing, the US capacity to 'reup' inventories is challenged. In many cases the tooling and technology to rebuild machining capacity has been lost.
-The US has become dependent on China to expand the critical Panama Canal supply chain/wartime provisioning logistics link. Strangely enough this effort has been impeded by a drought, between oceans.
-The US borders are porous to crime, recreational drugs and dependent 'refugees'.
-Russia has thrown retired and obsolete armor and recalled soldiers at the Ukraine front.
-Russian and satellite state prisons are resources for backfilling combat losses, in contract roles.
-Russian uber-elites, and their money, have left the country for Europe.
-Multi-year contracts for Russian weaponry are completing early. Russia is aiding and arming central Africa.
-African terrorist/bandit forces are in 'training' with inter-national and regional conflicts.
-Iranian surrogates are seizing control of logistic waterways from the Horn-of-Africa to the Med.
European holdouts apparently smell the blood on the water and are reluctantly joining common defense programs.
America is 'at war'. They just haven't told us yet.
Maybe 'they' don't know.
[Washington Examiner] Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the target of an ethics complaint regarding her husband's income.
The conservative Center for Renewing America expressed the complaint in a letter to the Judicial Conference. The complaint alleges that Jackson did not report some of her husband's income for more than a decade. The letter urges the group to refer the matter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to begin an ethics investigation.
The letter claims that Jackson "repeatedly failed to disclose that her husband received income from medical malpractice consulting fees."
"We know this by Justice Jackson’s own admission in her amended disclosure form for 2020, filed when she was nominated to the Supreme Court, that ’some of my previously filed reports inadvertently omitted' her husband’s income from ’consulting on medical malpractice cases,’" it continues.
The letter says that Jackson gave "the vague statement that 'some' of those past disclosures contained material omissions."
The question at hand is whether the income's lack of disclosure violates the law that federal judges are required to disclose the "source of items of earned income earned by a spouse from any person which exceed $1,000 ... except ... if the spouse is self-employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such business or profession needs be reported."
[HotAir] Eating disorders are rampant in the West, and when you add the unhealthy foods that our "food science" and marketing geniuses push on us, the result is an explosion in obesity. Not too long ago, anorexia was the problem du jour in the United States, and it still exists and needs to be taken seriously, but the most prevalent eating disorders in the West today are those tied to bad diets that make people extremely fat.
There is a movement that pushes hard to increase fat acceptance, and it has invaded every aspect of our culture. At base, the argument is simple: our culture and our healthcare industry have been captured by an ideology of fatphobia that tries to convince people that being thin and fit is superior to being obese, and that ideology is based on a pernicious lie.
This is, of course, totally absurd.
...Fat influencers are now dropping like flies, being taken far too young because they have become immersed in the "healthy at any size" ideology.
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The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings.[1] According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth, which are contrary to the seven heavenly virtues.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[NYPOST] A prominent LGBTQ+ activist in Philadelphia has been charged with allegedly raping two minors.
[YouTube] The Falcon and the Snowman 1985 - The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
