[MSN] Violent crimes -- from homicides and rapes to robberies -- have been on the rise in many major U.S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single reason why and the jump isn't enough to suggest there's a trend.
Still, it is stumping law enforcement officials, who are seeking a way to combat the problem. What political party controls all these cities?
"It's being reported on at local levels, but in my view, it's not getting the attention at the national level it deserves," FBI Director James Comey said recently. "I don't know what the answer is, but holy cow, do we have a problem." Thug Lives Matter, maybe?
Americans have grown accustomed to low crime rates since a peak in the 1990s. But law enforcement started seeing a spike last year that has continued unabated. What's unusual, however, is that it's not happening everywhere. reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... and Los Angeles are seeing homicides on the rise, but other places like Miami and Oakland are not.
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The following footage was produced by 74th and 75th AMU (Aircraft Maintenance Unit) for the Hawg Smoke 2016 crew chief launch competition.
Scored off of strafing, high-altitude dive-bombing, low-angle high-delivery, Maverick missile precision, and crew chief activities, Hawg Smoke is a biannual competition that gathered 13 teams, flying 48 A-10Cs, between Jun. 2-4, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.
The clip below shows a "Hog" with the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, being prepared for launch from the crew chief point of view. Ignore the gifs. Look for the video below them. I think the music choice was excellent. :-)
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Courage, airplanes, a successful innovator/inventor, communism, escape (Eastern Europe and California), seclusion, guns, the only thing missing was an old dog.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A man has allegedly killed his two wives in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, local officials said Monday.
The incident has taken place in the first police district of Kandahar city on Sunday afternoon with the local officials saying the two women have apparently been killed due to domestic violence.
Provincial governor’s front man Samim Khpolwak said they are aware regarding the killing of two women in Kandahar city but did not elaborate further.
The man has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! and is in the custody of the policy for further investigation but has rejected the murder of his two wives.
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Long piece at the LA Times. Strangely, the reporter waxes on in multiple paragraphs about the crime problems of this long suffering country without connecting the dots to understand that it's the socialists of the Chavez/Maduro government that have wrecked the country. Apparently it's all just "bad luck" in the Heinlein sense.
And clearly the reporter doesn't get that Bernie, Hilarity and the DNC would do the same thing to the U.S. if only they could.
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History and pattern analysis are actually quite revealing. The rape of a nation by socialist oligarchy is generally followed by food riots and peasant crime. The rape of a nation by democratically elected oligarchy is more insidious and takes a bit longer. The resultant patterns of political turmoil, inflation, shortages, unrest, and exodus are pretty much the same. In either case, I'm not betting on the peasants. They seem to always finish last.
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Crime is one mechanism for controlling an otherwise unruly population and for justifying more government control / fewer individual rights. The Soviets used it. Blue states use it.
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Didn't Obama or someone hold up Venezuela as the 'socialist model' we should all strive for not to long ago? Or was it Cindy Sheehan?
Some of them know full well where the socialist path leads - they just believe that 'they' will be on top. Perhaps they haven't realized the fact that the 'top' is a very small space.
Taiwan’s new defense minister said on Monday the island would not recognize any air defense zone declared by China over the South China Sea, as the island’s top security agency warned such a move could usher in a wave of regional tension.
"We will not recognize any ADIZ by China," Taiwan defense minister Feng Shih-kuan told lawmakers in a parliamentary session.
The comments come after Taiwan’s new government of President Tsai Ing-wen, of the independence-leaning ruling party, was sworn into power last month. Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party overturned eight-years of China-friendly Nationalist rule on the island.
"In the future, we don’t rule out China designating an ADIZ. If China is on track to announce this, it could usher in a new wave of tension in the region," Taiwan’s National Security Bureau said in a report presented to parliament.
Taiwan’s defense ministry said in its own report it would strengthen its defenses on Pratas Island, in the north of the South China Sea, and on Itu Aba in the Spratly Islands.
The ministry said China is building up of its military presence in the South China Sea with deployments of anti-missile systems, drones and fast missile ships in the area.
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As per GLOBALNATION@PH DAILY INQUIRER, CHINA doesn't recognize either the PH's claims to Taiping aka Itu Aba island, + is "ready for any trouble" the US-N-Only-the-US? may stir up.
[An Nahar] North Korea may have reactivated a plant for reprocessing plutonium for use in nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog said Monday, citing satellite imagery and echoing recent comments from a U.S. think-tank.
"The indications that we have obtained... (are of) activities related to the five-megawatt reactor, expansion of enrichment facilities and activities related to (plutonium) reprocessing," ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano said.
"However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... as we do not have inspectors on the ground we are only observing through satellite imagery. We cannot say for sure. But we have indications of certain activities through the satellite imagery," Amano told a regular news conference in Vienna.
He said that the indications spotted at the main Yongbyon complex included the "movement of vehicles, steam, discharge of warm waters or transport of material."
The type of plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb typically needs to be extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel.
North Korea mothballed the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it after its third nuclear test in 2013. It carried test out a fourth on January 6.
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CHINA is unlikely to wait until 2030 or 2050 to reunify wid TAIWAN - ditto as per NOKOR wid SOKOR.
Methinks Pudgy is NOT the waiting type.
[IBTimes] As the EU referendum looms, a great counsel of war is gathering. Henri de Castries, the Chairman of the influential Bilderberg Group, has made his way to the highest hill above Dresden, placed a mighty conch shell to his aristocratic French lips and blown.
The annual three-day Bilderberg conference kicks off on Thursday, and you can be sure the mood in Dresden will be a grim one. The heads of Google, Shell, BP and Deutsche Bank will be there, and Brexit will be top of the agenda. The Bilderberg Group has been nurturing the EU to life since the 1950s, and now they see their creation under dire threat.
For Bilderberg, as for Goldman Sachs, the idea that there might be any kind of push-back against globalisation is a horrific one.
The prospect of Brexit "frightens me", admit Ken Jacobs, the head of Lazard, and another member of Bilderberg's inner circle. Not much frightens these people. Only two things: sunlight and Brexit.
[IBD] Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump narrowed slightly in the latest IBD/TIPP Poll, which finds her ahead of Trump by 45% to 40%. Last month, Clinton was head ahead 47% to 40%.
But the poll finds widespread dissatisfaction with the two presumptive nominees. In fact, little-known Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson gets a surprisingly large 11% of the vote when he’s included in the mix. The former New Mexico governor draws almost equally from Hillary and Trump -- who get 39% and 35%, respectively, in a three-way race.
What’s more, the IBD/TIPP Poll finds that both Clinton and Trump get extremely low ratings on favorability and trustworthiness, and few say they strongly support their party’s nominee.
Clinton’s favorability took a hit this month. Just 39% say they have a favorable view of her, down from 43% last month. In fact, at 61%, her unfavorable score is now virtually tied with Trump, who gets a 63% unfavorable rating.
The public also views both Clinton and Trump as untrustworthy, although Trump does slightly better. The poll finds that 63% say Clinton is "not honest and trustworthy," compared with 58% who view Trump that way.
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As more and more people are too disgusted to vote - or can't be bothered - fewer and fewer people do the actual electing. Pretty soon our president will be elected by felons, dead people, and illegal aliens.
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Wow. Hillary's unfavorable rating have tanked to Trump levels. That is dire.
[ScientificAmerican] Chemist finds way to cut supersalty discharge and CO2 as the Middle East relies ever more on seawater desalination Wow! Seems like a chemist trained at Qatar University may have figured out something hyuuge! And, against Obozo's unparalleled common sense, NASA had nothing to do with it . . . .
Farid Benyahia wants to solve two environmental problems at once: excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and excess salt in the Persian Gulf (aka the Arabian Gulf). Oil and natural gas drive the region's booming economies--hence the excess CO2--and desalination supplies the vast majority of drinking water, a process that creates concentrated brine waste that is usually dumped back into the gulf.
Benyahia, a chemical engineer at Qatar University, thinks he may have hit on a neatly efficient way to address the problem. "The goal is to solve two nasty environmental problems with one smart solution and generate useful, marketable products to offset partially the cost of storing CO2," he says.
The secret is a variant of the Solvay process, a 150-year-old, seven-step chemical conversion method that is widely used to produce sodium carbonate for industrial applications, and that many chemists are working to refine. Benyahia has simplified the process in part by aiming for sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) rather than sodium carbonate, thus reducing the needed chemical conversion steps to just two. In the presence of ammonia he reacts pure carbon dioxide with the waste brine from desalination, creating solid baking soda and ammonium chloride solution. In a second step he reacts the ammonium chloride solution with calcium oxide to produce calcium chloride solution and ammonia gas. Recovering the ammonia allows him to reuse it in the first step, reducing the cost of the process.
Benyahia's process is unusual in that it reduces the need for brine disposal by nearly 100 percent, ending up with sodium bicarbonate, calcium chloride and ammonia for reuse in the first step. It also uses pure CO2, whereas other similar processes use flue gas from power plants--which is about 10 percent CO2 and contains other gases. Using flue gas adds a step of separating out the pure CO2, making the process more expensive. Qatar already has natural gas processing plants venting pure CO2 close to brine disposal stations, making Benyahia's solution potentially cost-effective, at least in places with similar infrastructure.
Brine disposal is a big problem in much of the Middle East. The gulf, along with the Red and Mediterranean seas, are turning saltier because of desalination by-products--and the region is the epicenter of desalination worldwide, with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman making up 45 percent of global desalination capacity. This brine is typically twice as salty as seawater, and advanced desalination plants still produce approximately two cubic meters of waste brine for every one cubic meter of clean water.
Also contributing to the increased salinity is the geography--these seas are largely enclosed, with low levels of water circulation--as well as decreased freshwater input from rivers including the Euphrates due to large-scale dams and diversions upstream. In some spots in the gulf salinity doubled between 1996 and 2008 and is expected to more than double again by 2050. "I believe that the estimated numbers of salt concentration at year 2050 will be even larger if the desalination projects continue at the same increment level today," says Raed Bashitialshaaer, a water resources engineer at Lund University in Sweden who specializes in desalination. Desalination capacity in the gulf region is projected to nearly double between 2012 and 2030.
The gulf shoreline is increasingly industrialized, with oil and gas production complexes, power plants and wastewater treatment facilities. These heat the water and pollute it with oil, chemicals, nutrients and salt. Dredging for real estate developments such as the Palm and the World off the coast of Dubai is another stressor. Combined, these impacts are taking a toll. A harmful algae bloom in 2008‐09 caused a massive fish kill and damaged hard corals. Studies elsewhere have shown that brine discharge harms marine life, but little research on this has been done in the gulf.
Brine dumping also threatens future drinking water supplies. "It's harder to clean the water if it's saltier," Bashitialshaaer says, adding that the larger amount of energy required to do so and the need to change the membranes in reverse-osmosis plants more frequently increases the expense. The gulf is already seeing lower yields of clean water produced from a specific amount of seawater--and higher costs. "I have studied up to 2050, including all planned plants for right now," Bashitialshaaer says. "If they continue like this in Arabian Gulf, it will be very difficult to continue."
Bashitialshaaer recommends dilution as a way to address the pollution problem. This could be accomplished by discharging brine farther offshore or by mixing it with treated wastewater or power plant cooling water to reduce the salinity prior to discharge. He also recommends that Saudi Arabia build new plants on its Red Sea coast, which is not yet as severely affected as the gulf. He said he is not familiar with Benyahia's work but is skeptical of Solvay-type processes ever becoming economically viable.
Benyahia disputes that assessment, however, citing economic benefits such as easy access to pure CO2 as well as sales of the products of his process: baking soda and calcium chloride. In addition to baking soda's many well-known household applications, it is used to regulate pH in wastewater treatment and remove paint, as well as in the oil and gas industry, says James Keating, who is marketing the technology for the nonprofit Qatar Foundation's Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer. Calcium chloride, recovered as a liquid, can be used as a preservative for canned vegetables and in the leather tanning industry. The process aims to produce these two products more cheaply than current suppliers and thus find use in these large industrial markets, Keating says.
"With this process we don't need a carbon tax to make this economically viable," Keating says. He is marketing the technology internationally but says, "It's most applicable where a lot of desalination is happening, especially here in the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] and in areas where desalination is prevalent with very fragile marine ecosystems."
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Doesn't the desalinized water mostly make it back into the sea? If so, desalinization, which creates no new salt, doesn't increase the saltiness of the sea very much.
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I've never been on any "social media" either. I actually had some idiot tell me once that they would never trust anybody who was not on farcebook. I just laughed...
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Small minded people, needing to show others what they are doing to feel like their life has some worth.
If you need to send everyone you met a pic of yourself buying a really nice head of broccoli to feel like you have some place in this world, you don't need social media, you need a new life.
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I actually had some idiot tell me once that they would never trust anybody who was not on farcebook....Posted by M. Murcek
Must be something wrong with me, I'm just the opposite.
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I signed uo with Facbook to keep an eye on teenage daughters, then met some interesting people there. It's not where I live, but I pick my friends carefully, and so mostly avoid drama.
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I am honored to be one of trailing wife's FB picks. I originally signed up when I was planning a high school reunion - it proved quite helpful. It's like any tool - useful but abusable.
h/t Instapundit
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby will face a slew of new counts, including malicious prosecution and false arrest in a lawsuit brought by two Baltimore cops, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Sgt. Alicia White and Officer William Porter, two officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, filed suit May 2 against Mosby and Maj. Sam Cogen of the Baltimore Sheriff's office for defamation and invasion of privacy. The suit alleges Mosby and Cogen knew the charges were trumped up, but filed them anyway to quell the riots that had ravaged the city.
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.
[MSN] Violent crimes -- from homicides and rapes to robberies -- have been on the rise in many major U.S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single reason why and the jump isn't enough to suggest there's a trend.
The following footage was produced by 74th and 75th AMU (Aircraft Maintenance Unit) for the Hawg Smoke 2016 crew chief launch competition.
North Korea
I won't use the B word (save in the link) so's not to attract the conspiracy theorists.
