[WASHINGTONTIMES] Calls to combat a purported epidemic of killings targeting transgender people, especially women of color, are rising, even though U.S. data indicates that people who identify as members of the opposite sex are less likely to end up as homicide victims than their non-transgender counterparts.
Kentucky State University associate professor Wilfred Reilly found that the 2017 homicide death rate for transgender people was about 1.48 per 100,000, less than a third of the overall murder rate of about 5 per 100,000 and a fraction of the rate for men in general (6.68) or black people (18.8).
“All of these large groups — blacks, poor whites, Latinos, men — have a murder rate that’s an order of magnitude higher than the transgender murder rate. That’s what I found,” Mr. Reilly, who teaches political science at the historically black college, told The Washington Times. “The transgender murder rate seems to be remarkably low.”
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If you think you're a victim, regardless of facts, then you just have to make things up. And the media for the most part are happy to amplify your hysteria and your make-believe.
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Suggestions on a 9mm with a manual safety for a decent price ($500 or so)? Ruger SR9 gets decent reviews, but some question the trigger. Does Beretta of Sig offer a manual safety?
"Home Depot ? There's a goddamn Chinaman in my washer ! Is this like the on-site warranty, because I don't want it !"
SAN DIEGO (AP) ‐ Eleven Chinese migrants were discovered hiding in furniture and appliances inside a truck stopped by agents as it entered the U.S. from Mexico at a Southern California border crossing, federal officials said.
At least one person was crammed inside a washing machine and another was curled up inside a wooden chest, according to photos provided Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Authorities searched the truck Saturday evening at the border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, the federal agency said.
The truck driver, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested on suspicion of human smuggling, a Customs and Border Protection statement said. He was not identified.
The 11 Chinese citizens were detained pending criminal and immigration proceedings, the statement said.
"These are human beings that smugglers subject to inhumane conditions that could have deadly consequences," Pete Flores, director of field operations in San Diego for Customs and Border Protection, said in the statement. "Fortunately no one was seriously injured."
Six Chinese nationals were found last month at the same border crossing concealed behind a false wall in a truck trying to enter the U.S., officials have said.
[Dhaka Tribune] A grocery shop owner kept captive and later attempted to rape a third grader on Sunday, when she came to buy a pen for her ongoing final term examination in Melandaha's Phool Kocha union of Jamalpur.
Sources said, the accused, Md Rais Uddin, 50, held the child captive, when she came by the shop to buy a pen on her way to the exam venue around 11am.
Around 2pm, Rais locked his shop and attempted to rape the child. Hearing her screams, when locals came to her rescue, he threatened them with a sharp local weapon and fled the spot.
On information from locals, police rescued the child, confirmed Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Azharul Islam of Melandaha cop shoppe.
Confirming the matter to Dhaka Tribune, OC Rezaul Islam Khan of the cop shoppe said: "The child was handed over to her father after primary investigation and filing of a case."
"We are making drives to arrest the accused Rais," the OC added.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The polls showing voting intentions for the 2019 UK election up to December 1 show that the gap between Labour and the Conservatives is about 11%.
Labour has benefited from the slow decline of Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives from the collapse of the Brexit Party vote.
If we extrapolate this to seat shares, assuming a uniform swing across the country (which is a big assumption) then it shows a Conservative majority of 84 seats in Great Britannia.
At this stage of the 2017 election campaign, the Conservative lead over Labour in voting intentions was about 7% so the campaign dynamics we observed in 2017 are not the same as now.
The air was sucked out of the campaign to some extent by the YouGov MRP (multi-level regression post-stratification) poll which uses a very large sample of more than 100,000 respondents and was successful in predicting the 2017 general election.
In the present election campaign, it predicts a 68-seat Conservative majority.
But as the YouGov team explained on their website, a problem with this method is that it spectacularly increases the margins of error for the seat predictions.
At least three things can go wrong in predicting the outcome of the election at this stage. They are differential turnout, tactical voting, and late campaign dynamics in party support.
To probe turnout and tactical voting in more detail we can look at the YouGov poll for the Sunday Times published on December 1. This put the Conservatives 9% ahead of Labour in voting intentions, predicting that the party will win 43% of the vote compared with Labour’s 34%.
These figures are, of course, subject to the usual margin of error of about plus or minus 3%.
Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... is targeting Labour Leave constituencies in the Midlands and North with the hope of turning lifelong Labour voters into Conservatives.
Undoubtedly, many of these will be cross-pressured by their dislike of Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s ambivalence on the Brexit issue on the one hand, and a traditional dislike of the Conservatives on the other. An easy way to solve their problem is for them not to vote at all. If so, this would reduce the chances of the Conservatives capturing these seats.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ‐ Chile’s air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country’s base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft’s fate.
The military said earlier that it had declared an alert and activated search and rescue teams.
The C-130 Hercules carried 17 crew members and 21 passengers, including three civilians. The personnel were to check on a floating fuel supply line and other equipment at the Chilean base.
President Sebastián Piñera said via Twitter that he was with his defense and interior ministers at the air force headquarters monitoring developments.
In a statement early Tuesday, the air force said the plane had not been heard from in more than seven hours and likely would have run out of fuel around 12:40 a.m.
The air force "continues the search in the sector where communication with the aircraft was lost, in order to rescue potential survivors," the statement said.
The plane took off at 4:53 p.m. from the southern city of Punta Arenas, which is more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) from the capital of Santiago. Contact was lost at 6:13 p.m., the initial announcement said.
Drake’s Passage, where the plane was missing, is infamous for severe weather conditions, including freezing temperatures and ferocious storms. But the air force said late Monday that the weather was good when the plane began its flight, or the mission would not have been carried out.
Gen. Eduardo Mosqueira of the Fourth Air Brigade told local media that a search was underway and a ship was in the general area where the plane should have been when contact was lost.
Mosqueira said the aircraft would have been about halfway to the Antarctic base when it lost contact. No emergency signals had been activated, he said.
He said the plane, whose pilot had extensive experience, had been scheduled to return Monday night.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on senior Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... n government officials accused of taking bribes to issue passports, the US Treasury said.
The sanctions targeted Gustavo Adolfo Vizcaino Gil, head of the government department in charge of identification documents and migration, as well as his predecessor Juan Carlos Dugarte Padron, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said.
Any assets the two men possess under US jurisdiction will be frozen, the office said.
It said the scheme to sell passports for thousands of dollars dated back at least to April 2016 when Dugarte was named as head of the government department and continued under Vizcaino, who took over in June 2018.
More than 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled the country, mostly for neighboring Latin American countries, after years of economic crisis.
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Will continues the great Latin American tradition: Mexican passports for Spanish Marxists; Argentine passports for Nazis; Paraguayan passports for Hezbollah.
Sweet, no ?
[SCMP] A French former NBA player has been reprimanded and fined US$1,400 by sports officials in China for not looking at the Chinese flag during the national anthem before a game.
Players with the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)
are supposed to stare at the national symbol during March of the Volunteers, but television images showed Guerschon Yabusele, who plays for Nanjing Tongxi Monkey King, had his head down before Friday's game.
Yabusele was given a "serious warning" and a 10,000-yuan fine for not looking at the flag as required, the CBA said in a statement on Saturday.
Yabusele, who played forward for the Boston Celtics for two seasons before joining the CBA team this year, has not commented on the incident.
Guerschon Yabusele is fined by Chinese Basketball Association for ¥10k ($1.42k) for not saluting the Chinese national flag during the national anthem ahead of the game against Zhejiang Golden Bulls. It is a courtesy that one should comply with pursuant to the league handbook. pic.twitter.com/8e9za2oLs5
= Titan Sports Plus (@titan_plus) December 7, 2019
China's government has stepped up the promotion of patriotism under president Xi Jinping, with legislation approved in 2017 to punish anyone who disrespects the national anthem with up to three years in prison.
Opinions on Yabusele's punishment were divided on Chinese social media.
"He's happy to take money from China, but he doesn't respect it," one person wrote on the popular Sina Weibo social media platform.
"This player must be expelled immediately and his club must be disqualified from the championship," another said.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ‐ Taiwan’s top diplomat said Tuesday that his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for "freedom and democracy," and would help those displaced from the semi-autonomous Chinese city if Beijing intervenes with greater force to quell the protests.
Speaking to The Associated Press in the capital, Taipei, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu was careful to say his government has no desire to intervene in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, and that existing legislation is sufficient to deal with a relatively small number of Hong Kong students or others who seek to reside in Taiwan.
But he added that Hong Kong police have already responded with "disproportionate force" to the protests. He said that any intervention by mainland Chinese forces would be "a new level of violence" that would prompt Taiwan to take a different stance toward helping those seeking to leave Hong Kong.
"When that happens, Taiwan is going to work with the international community to provide necessary assistance to those who are displaced by the violence there," he said.
"The people here understand that how the Chinese government treats Hong Kong is going to be the future way of them treating Taiwan. And what turned out in Hong Kong is not very appealing to the Taiwanese people," he added.
China’s Communist Party insists that Taiwan is part of China and must be reunited with it, even if by force. Modern Taiwan was founded when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists, who once ruled on the mainland, were forced to retreat to the island in 1949 after Mao Zedong’s Communists took power in the Chinese Civil War.
As part of the 'dick power' move of the last few weeks, Chinese diplomats are defending the absurd 'the PRC decides who is properly reincarnated' policy. pic.twitter.com/GkJAwUkyC7
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It's actually a bid to subvert local superstition and growing personality cults within the minor allowances afforded the people. Asian fools will always find a way to give power over themselves to cultists like the Dalai Lama. Chinks are allover that, saying 'No. If anybody's gonna have power over you, it's our guy. Here ! This is the new incarnation of your diety. Meet Corporal Po-Ling Dong, henceforth to be called Buddha Dong.'
[Politico] In response to Trump, China gets mean. Chinese diplomats are ditching caution and going for the U.S. jugular on Twitter. U.S. officials say their response will be ‘measured and reasonable.’
In his Twitter bio, Chinese diplomat Lijian Zhao says he wants to “spread the voice of China.” That voice apparently has a lot of nasty things to say about the United States.
In tweet barrages, the senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official has described America as “unjust,” “inhumane” and “hypocritical.” He’s gone so far as to slam neighborhood segregation in Washington, D.C., and assert that “racial discrimination, gun violence, violent law enforcement are chronic diseases deeply rooted in U.S. society.”
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Boy, they sound just like the SJW Left. This is awesome.
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The Chinks and all the left have the same trouble with "dissing" the US.
The US was founded on, among other things, and individualist ethic. The Left in all its isms can't comprehend that there is not one single voice that represents Americans.
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Trump should call the ships sending pork and such to China to take their time crossing the Pacific. Not super-long but a day or two to send a message.
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Dec 15: 15% tariff on the remaining $300 billion Chinese imports. Good chance the Chinese seize select factories to keep them from moving out of China.
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You mean, besides LeBron, Caperneck, hulk and the rest of the Disney staff, including LeBron?
Can't wait to hear me some trash talk.
"You treat African Americans so badly that only once a year they buy a pair of Nike Jordan's for $200. That we make. And sell for $20 including shipping. So LeBron can be paid millions in endorsements. And start our own basketball league importing best specimens from our African ventures. Shit, that didn't come out right."
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Confucius say, "Projects in Kingston
And Africa cause next extinction
As Ch-nks ignore scholars
And wisdom of ballers:
"Don't worry, it ain't really shrank, son!"
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead six people on Tuesday at a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava in an unexplained attack, authorities said.
It was the worst shooting in the Czech Republic since a man shot eight people dead at a restaurant in Uhersky Brod in 2015.
Police said they received calls about a shooting at 7:19 a.m. (0619 GMT) at the University Hospital in Ostrava, near the border with Poland, and officers were on the scene five minutes later. They were still searching for the assailant.
Police posted on Twitter a picture of a man they initially identified as a suspect but later clarified was a witness, saying they were also searching for another person.
Czech Television reported police led a man out of the hospital in handcuffs but did not confirm if he was a suspect.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis told the same broadcaster the shootings occurred at close range in the waiting room, while Health Minister Adam Vojtech said six people had died.
The hospital was evacuated and police were working to secure surrounding areas. Hamacek and Babis headed to Ostrava, 350 km (217 mi) east of the capital Prague.
There was no word on possible motivation for the attack.
Update from the article at 5:00 p.m. ET:
The shooter was identified as Ctirad Vitasek, a construction technician at the AZ-INTERGRIPS company based in Opava, just north-east of Ostrava, by the firm’s Chairman Ales Zygula.
CRIMINAL RECORD
Zygula told Reuters Vitasek had been on medical leave for the past month and a half. He also told Czech Radio that Vitasek was convinced he was seriously ill and that no one wanted to cure him.
The suspect had a criminal record including instances of violence and theft, he said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Army is planning its biggest deployment of troops to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in 25 years, with 20,000 troops slated to take part in a massive force projection exercise at a time of increasingly adversarial relations with Russia.
General Christopher Cavoli, the commander of US ground forces in Europe, said 20,000 US-based troops will deploy next year to Europe where they will join some 9,000 other US soldiers already stationed there.
Some 37,000 troops will then take part in exercises across 10 European countries from May to June, he told news hounds at the Pentagon.
The US-based forces will begin flowing in in February, moving 13,000 pieces of equipment, including tanks, artillery, and transport vehicles, across 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers), he said.
That will be a daunting logistical challenge as railroads in former Soviet countries have smaller gauges than western European countries and their bridges are not built to carry the weight of a 70-ton Abrams tank.
The Defender-Europe 20 exercise, as it is dubbed, marks a strategic turning point after years of US military cutbacks in post-Cold War Europe.
While Cavoli did not single out Russia as the focus, he said its annexation of Crimea in 2014 changed everything.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... and respond to any crisis," he said.
"Our ability as an army to project power is absolutely fundamental to anything that we would get done," he said. Ah, Reforgers! How I miss 'em!
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Who's paying for all this?
If it's America, why? Send the bill to Europe for their own defense. They can easily afford it, they are wealthy First World nations.
Europeans sincerely believe that Americans are obliged to protect them. If you babysit a child, he will grow up an evil egoist. This is what we see in Europe today. They need tough love.
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Puzzling. How exactly did "everything" change because of the "annexation" of an absolutely strategically vital territory which has always, since before our Revokutionar War ended, been part of not Russia's sphere but Russia itself?
[DAWN] Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else on Monday after a young woman died in Ahmed Sial, a city in Jhang district, after allegedly being set ablaze by her husband and his accomplices.
After receiving news about their daughter's death, the victim's parents started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections 358 (assault) and 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code against the husband and his accomplices.
According to the FIR, Humaira, a resident of Kabirwala tehsil, was doused in petrol and set on fire by her husband and others on Dec 6. She sustained severe burn injuries and was shifted to the Tehsil Headquarter Hospital. She died a day later on Dec 7.
According to the medical report, the victim had sustained burns across 90 per cent of her body
Ahmedpur Sial cop shoppe SHO Mohamad Yousuf stated that officials have recorded the statements of the victim's family. He maintained that the police will try their best to conduct a fair investigation keeping in mind the findings of the medical report.
"The suspects will soon be apprehended," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... the victim's family appealed to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... chief minister and higher authorities to take notice of the incident and ensure justice for the dear departed.
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Police were feted with rose petals, and crowds cheered, praising 'swift justice' after Indian officers fired at four gang-rape and murder suspects in Hyderabad 'shootout' https://t.co/XhQtcNNxQNpic.twitter.com/tZ6mFotiPc
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One of the rapists, the planner was a muslim. Mohammed Arif, a truck driver. He removed the spark plug of the girl's scooter to entrap her. He suggested the place for carrying out the rape. He suggested that they burn her after.
Which is why this is so fucking important to Al-Jazeera.
[The Print] India and Myanmar are sending a strong message to China – with a submarine. On its part, Myanmar will help India secure its own maritime interests in the Bay of Bengal region.
The Indian Navy’s decision to transfer one of its Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, INS Sindhuvir, to Myanmar hopes to limit Chinese military influence and aid Myanmar in its emerging naval competition with Bangladesh. On its part, Myanmar helps India secure its own maritime interests in the Bay of Bengal region.
Myanmar Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing had visited Delhi last month, during which India and Myanmar signed a defence cooperation agreement.
India’s willingness to transfer a frontline submarine when it is facing a shortage of such platforms reveals a desire on New Delhi’s part to consolidate the growing convergence in security interests with Myanmar. Gone is the time when there were fears of Myanmar offering a ‘second coast’ to China. Instead, the Indian Navy and the Myanmar Navy today conduct institutionalised joint patrols, and India is constructing connectivity corridors of its own in Myanmar in the form of the Kaladan project.
[PJMedia] The latest miscarriage of justice comes from Kentucky, where Family Court Judge Dawn Gentry has been charged by the Judicial Conduct Commission with nine counts of misconduct.
[SpaceNews] NDAA conference agreement establishes U.S. Space Force, directs major overhaul of space acquisitions
The NDAA also establishes an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy as the senior civilian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
WASHINGTON — Congressional defense committee leaders on Dec. 9 unveiled the conference agreement they have reached for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
The conference report includes language to authorize a U.S. Space Force as an independent military branch under the Department of the Air Force.
“The FY20 NDAA recognizes space as a warfighting domain and establishes the U.S. Space Force in Title 10 as the sixth Armed Service of the United States, under the U.S. Air Force,” says a summary of the report released by the committees Dec. 9.
The language in the NDAA marks a key victory for the Trump administration. In a Dec. 6 deal, the White House agreed to grant 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all federal workers in exchange for the Space Force authorization. The parental leave provision was a top priority for Democrats while the White House has been insistent that any deal should include language to authorize the Space Force.
The House is expected to vote on the compromise bill on Dec. 11. The Senate will take it up at a later date.
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This whole subject is kind of confusing, so let me try to tease it apart.
The current space command is part of the Air Force, so a General is in charge. In the future the space command will be basically unchanged and still be run out of Peterson Air Base in Colorado. And be run by a 4 star officer from some service just like CENTCOM, CYBERCOM, or EUCOM.
The new Space Force will be a force generator, like the Department of the Navy, with a civilian Secretary. That whole thing will be based out of Alabama (I predict) and be set up in a building near by NASA's facilities there. He/She will manage a few thousand Space Force officers and enlisted scattered around the globe, who currently are in the Air Force and run our Space assets and manage the programs that build new space capabilities. These soldiers/sailors will be Joint force enablers embedded in key HQ elements throughout the force.
The whole point of this new organization is to separate the budget for space ops from the budget for the air force, because the air force has been reallocating the space budget to the fighter mafia for decades, which has allowed other nations to begin to threaten U.S. space dominance.
I am very glad to see this development. I hope we don't screw it up too bad in the implementation.
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.
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ‐ Chile’s air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country’s base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft’s fate.
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ‐ Taiwan’s top diplomat said Tuesday that his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for "freedom and democracy," and would help those displaced from the semi-autonomous Chinese city if Beijing intervenes with greater force to quell the protests.
In response to Trump, China gets mean. Chinese diplomats are ditching caution and going for the U.S. jugular on Twitter. U.S. officials say their response will be ‘measured and reasonable.’
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[DAWN] Police 
