NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‐ A Tennessee inmate is scheduled Thursday to become the fifth to die in the state’s electric chair in the past 16 months. Each of those inmates chose electrocution over the state’s preferred execution method ‐ lethal injection.
Nicholas Sutton, 58, was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing fellow inmate Carl Estep in a conflict over a drug deal while both were incarcerated in an East Tennessee prison. Sutton had been serving time for three murders he committed in 1979 when he was 18, including that of his grandmother.
In a clemency petition to Gov. Bill Lee, Sutton’s supporters said he is not the same man who went to prison forty years ago. He's older, you see..."
"I can confidently state that Nick Sutton is the most rehabilitated prisoner that I met working in maximum security prisons over the course of 30 years," former Correction Lt. Tony Eden stated in an affidavit included with the clemency petition.
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Tennessee hasn't had a "botched" electric chair execution yet since they returned to using it. I hear they are getting consulting fees from the other 8 states that still use the chair.
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They should do it uber-green. Chain 300 bernie bro's to bike generators and have them electrocute him. It might take a while, but it'll get there eventually.
Or you could always have the condemned spend his time on a bike gen, charging up capacitors for his go in the chair.
[Town Hall] The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the arrest of a Mexican national serving as a Russian agent within the U.S.
Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, who lives in Singapore, was recruited by a Russian official in 2019 and instructed to rent an apartment in Miami-Dade County, Florida, under a different name. The official also tasked Fuentes with locating a U.S. government source's vehicle and taking photographs of its license plate, according to a press release.
[Breitbart] LOS ANGELES (AP) ‐ An up-and-coming rapper known as Pop Smoke was fatally shot during a break-in early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement source.
The Associated Press was not immediately able to confirm the identification, which was first reported by TMZ.
"It has also been widely reported that the victim is a music star of some import. We have not confirmed the identity of the victim yet so we are not stating that," Capt. Steve Lurie, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Hollywood Division, told a press conference.
Police officers found the victim shortly before 5 a.m. after responding to a 911 call from someone who reported intruders including one armed with a handgun were breaking in, Lurie said.
The call came from "back East" and reported the break-in was occurring at a friend’s home, Lurie said.
The victim was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and pronounced dead.
Several people who were in the house were detained and then released, Lurie said. Pop Smoke’s legal name was Bashar Barakah Jackson. He was 20.
Chance The Rapper said in a tweet: "Rest Up Pop Smoke, you were too young. God Bless and comfort your family."
[Mail] Todd Smith was 'an evil monster' who terrorized friends and family in his hometown for more than two decades before being shot dead by the woman he allegedly raped, DailyMail.com can reveal.
In a case that has drawn national attention, Brittany Smith, 32, (no relation) claims that Smith beat, strangled and raped her in her home in Stevenson, Alabama, in January 2018 and that she shot him as he attempted to murder her brother who had come to her aid.
Last week Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Holt rejected the mother-of-four's attempt to have murder charges dismissed under the state's Stand Your Ground law.
That law states that a person no longer has 'a duty to retreat' and is justified in using deadly force if confronted with a similar imminent threat from an aggressor.
Now, as Brittany faces a murder trial and the possibility of life in prison, DailyMail.com has uncovered a disturbing history of violent crime and domestic assault committed by Smith against multiple women spanning decades.
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So the state, once again, abysmally failed to do its job and now seeks to punish someone who did the job they failed to do. She has signaled that the state is no longer legitimate. It's about power.
[NYPOST] A female security guard at a Rockland County library was fatally stabbed when she asked the suspect to turn down the music he was playing on his phone, according to a report.
Blanchard Glaudin, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder after being tackled by patrons at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley, The Journal News/lohud.com reported.
"He was walking just a few feet away," village Police Chief Paul Modica said Wednesday about the "random" confrontation a day earlier.
"She was at the computer terminals and told him he had to turn it down. That was it," he said, referring to Sandra Wilson, 52, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Wilson, who had two grown sons and a grandchild, had worked in holy manal jobs at the library before joining its security team, the news outlet reported.
Rockland DA Thomas Walsh II commended "the brave citizens, who reacted without fear for their safety, by subduing the suspect. We will ensure that justice is served in this horrible crime."
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A man of low intelligence, with nothing to be proud of. He felt like he could swing his dick in public by playing his music loud, and that would make him feel better about his low status. When the guard came over, he felt humiliated and aggrieved. Since he didn't think about the consequences (a hallmark of low intelligence) he lashed out with violence (another hallmark of low intelligence).
He won't learn anything from this. He can get 20 years and will come out just the same as when he went in.
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Spring Valley..a dump..got dropped off at a urine laced NJ transit station there one time..very corrupt town..see Demeza Delhomme, ex Mayor.
[Stars and Stripes] NEW ORLEANS (Tribune News Service) ‐ The decorated U.S. Marine Corps pilot who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning and claimed seven lives in 1973 died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family.
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Pitman Sr., whose heroics against Mark Essex that day earned him the eternal gratitude of city leaders and first responders, was 84.
In nearly four decades as a Marine, which included three combat tours in Vietnam, Pitman earned numerous medals: Silver Stars for valor; Distinguished Flying Crosses; and a Purple Heart, among others.
But in an interview with The Times-Picayune in 2013, Pitman said perhaps his proudest achievement was being named an honorary New Orleans Police Department captain for piloting the helicopter that turned the tide as police exchanged gunfire with Essex.
Pitman never sought permission from his superiors to fly that mission, he said, only forgiveness.
"The thing with him was, if you’re going to be a Marine, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do," his son, Charles Pitman Jr., said. "He was always happy he did what he did."
Essex's crime spree began on New Year's Eve 1972, roughly six weeks after a clash between police and protesters at Southern University in Baton Rouge left two students dead. Essex ‐ who sympathized with the Black Panthers radical group ‐ went to New Orleans’ jail armed with a .44-caliber rifle and, hiding in the distance, fatally shot police cadet Alfred Harrell Jr. as he guarded a gate.
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Racist Black separatists. This incident, along with the rest of the radical left-wing terrorism in the 70s, has been completely buried by the media and forgotten.
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Ref #1: Possibly as a political diversion from events in SE Asia or simply a vote getting tool, our 36th President, Lyndon Baines Johnson helped set the stage for the age of entitlement and vote getting, with his “Great Society” give-away programs.
The machinery of entitlement, Woke, 'free this-free that' payoffs, social justice 'victimless crimes' and political pandering lumber on. Concurrently, unchecked urban crime, legalized hallucinogenic drugs, death by overdose, and the urban genocide of 'Row v Wade' act as population relief valves.
'The Days of Rage' will likely not soon return. The free food, beads and blankets, and sweltering urban reservations appear to be working.
Did I mention the most recent 'Woke' narrative? Perhaps I digress.
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The controversy surrounding President Barack Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” has defied the usual election-year pattern.
Bloomberg has signed-on with this saying in an ad that makes a pitch for doing things by committee to achieve something.
Well sometimes it takes a brave man or woman to just do something and they don't need a committee or group to run it through.
[MAIL] An 88-year-old school crossing guard has been killed while saving two young boys from a distracted driver in Kansas.
Bob Nill, who was affectionately known as 'Mr Bob, died when a car careened into him around 8am Tuesday morning while he was protecting young children on the crossing in front of Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City.
The black sedan plowed straight into Nill, known fondly among the local children as 'Mr. Bob', as he saved the two boys, aged 11 and 7, pushing them out of its path, officials said.
Nill, a Coast Guard veteran, was taken to the hospital where he died of his injuries.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent tens of thousands of pounds on a new Sussex Royal website and their hugely popular Instagram feed Couple sought to register Sussex Royal as global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and social-care services
Also looked to set up a new charitable organisation – Sussex Royal, The Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
But the Queen and senior officials are believed to have agreed it is no longer tenable for Harry and Meghan to keep the word 'royal' in their 'branding'
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looked to set up a new charitable organisation
That's the preferred vehicle of our era's Global Grifters. Clinton Global Initiative. Sussex Royal.
Basically a stalking horse that attracts deep-pocketed mercenary characters paying up for all kinds of for-profit side deals out of public view.
The situation remains extremely alarming in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread Desert Locust infestations and a new generation of breeding threatens food security and livelihoods in the region. The situation is less worrisome in Uganda and Tanzania.
infestations elsewhere include: the Sudan, the SE coast of Iran and SE Pakistan
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A total of 2,512 new virus infections were reported on average each day during the week before Valentine’s Day, but the figure rose dramatically to 15,148 on the day itself, according to World Health Organization data. https://t.co/ui2GZuNvPa
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It's strange to me so many new cases keep popping up. It has figured out how to transmit itself through video games and soap operas? Okay, liquor bottles and cigarettes maybe ... but there is really no one on the street to give you the virus.
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From Frank's link (#2) Fears over the new potential cause of spread came as Hong Kong recorded its 50th coronavirus case on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
So it may have slowed down the Hong Kong outdoor protests, but not taken out the protesters. So far.
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[CHRONICLET] Oberlin College's president said Tuesday the college is taking steps to save up to $2 million annually by outsourcing more than 100 jobs currently held by unionized workers.
For a union representative who learned of the college's proposal at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, just two hours before his membership would hear the plan, the news came like a punch in the gut, delivered in "bad faith."
In a letter posted Tuesday on the college's website, President Carmen Twillie Ambar said the college is hoping to save $2 million in salary and benefits by "formally considering contracting with outside vendors for dining and custodial services currently provided by college employees."
An estimated 52 full-time dining employees and 56 full-time custodial employees would be affected, she wrote. The timeline for the steps the college is taking is this summer, Ambar wrote.
The affected employees are represented by the United Auto Workers. Ambar said the step the college is taking "is permitted under our UAW contract, and we will begin collective bargaining with the UAW in coming weeks to determine how best to move forward."
The current contract between UAW and Oberlin College expires Sept. 30. Erik Villar, chairman of the UAW employees, said the union has had a contract with the college since 1993 that has been renewed every three years since.
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Correction to #1: Oberlin's scaring up cash to pay the Gibson's judgment.
It's precisely because Oberlin's idiot president and counsel refused to settle with these normal, good people who suffered their unbelievable bullying that Oberlin is in the financial straits they now face.
[Long Room] Now that Apple has opened the floodgates and made it entirely clear that China's economic collapse will slash revenue guidance on the year and lead to production woes through April, an onslaughter of earnings downgrades from other top technology companies with significant operations in China could be imminent.
Evidence grows by the day of supply chains grinding to a halt as the second-largest economy in the world falters (as described here last week)...
China - Output - Supply - Chains - Companies
We've described how China's economic output remains frozen, and even if supply chains were able to restart, companies don't have enough capital to cover wages, or have delayed or stopped paying workers, suggesting that the Covid-19 outbreak has left businesses on the brink of disaster. Worse, workers can't freely move around the country, and many are subjected to travel restrictions and quarantines, which has forced a massive labor shortage.
This is creating a perfect storm that could lead to an extended period of depressed factory output, triggering future shortages of products destined for Eastern and Western markets, and even more ripples across global supply chains.
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OK. The supply chain is shattered from china. That's the reality. Now start new supply chains in the US and quit whining. Every disaster is a new opportunity. Start with pharmaceuticals. Get out from under the China boot. It's time to man up and make things happen. I hate whiners.
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Don't hold back, AP. Tell us what you think :-)
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I've been curious if the patented Coronavirus outbreak was CIA to break the Chinese supply chain. Or if it was a China Intel Op to break the Hong Kong protesters.
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"Start with pharmaceuticals" - something ridicules like 90% of all our vaccines are made in China.
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Thank goodness the world had a year’s warning to look for and set up non-China possibilities while President Trump and China renegotiated — how much worse this would have been for everybody had the process not already begun.
[PJ] 2020 is shaping up to be an epic election year, full of absurdity that even Marianne Williamson couldn't dream up. While the Democrat candidates gear up to yap onstage in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, they should watch where they walk near the venue because some pranksters have unleashed a flock of pigeons wearing MAGA hats (and one in a blonde Trump wig) to perch around the Democrat debate and trigger (or poop on) attendees as a form of protest.
The group that is responsible calls itself Pigeons United To Interfere Now (PUTIN). According to sources, the group members washed some doves and then used eyelash glue to attach the accessories to their heads.
[CNN] "Unknown Gas leak"...Uh huh Authorities have been unable to explain the origin of an apparent gas leak that has killed 14 people and left hundreds more sick in southern Pakistan since Sunday.
Concerns are growing in the port city of Karachi in Sindh province that toxic gas could still be leaking as officials scramble to find the source of the problem.
Dr. Zafar Mehdi of Sindh Province's Health Department said 14 people had died from toxic gas exposure in Karachi and that 500 others were affected by the gas to varying degrees, including some who are in intensive care.
Mehdi said autopsies had been carried out on the dead and that post-mortem reports were expected in 72 hours.
Residents in Karachi demonstrate against the government on Tuesday. Sundus Rasheed, who lives in Karachi's seaside neighborhood of Kemari, told CNN that residents were panicking.
"At around 10 p.m. (12 p.m. ET) on Sunday, we got a call that there had been some sort of gas leak and people are dying. Hordes of people [were] coming with their faces covered, ambulances rushing towards the port. Our car windows were rolled up but eyes were irritated and burning; something is clearly wrong. We've evacuated our home," Rasheed said.
Images from Karachi show small protests against the government, with demonstrators wearing face masks and demanding answers from officials. Karachi officials have said they cannot find any evidence of a leak
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One of the (many) things that surprised me when I went to India 15 years ago: In America, there are rich sections of town, and poor sections. They are often separated by distance. In India, I stayed in a four star hotel. Two blocks away, there were people living in corrugated metal shacks, next to a stream that was essentially an open sewer.
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If they can build a wall that quickly, we should subcontract the Southern Wall to them.
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There is also correlating evidence that most career criminals have had sever trauma as children which is also known to effect brain development and growth.
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Forget criminals. I wanna see research on liberals. The results would raise new questions into what amount of regressive mutation can be considered compos mentis.
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Let's not forget the ultimate gateway drug...MILK. Have you ever encountered a criminal who never drank milk? Don't even start on H2O, I think we all know where that leads.
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Funny: my daughter with Down syndrome doesn't steal and isn't violent, though her brain is a bit smaller than average. (She does lie and cheat at card games though.)
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I heard this stuff before on a tech telecast. The promoter waxed about how South Korea had a faster net as well. Skip the fact that South Korea was the size of Kansas with a quarter of its population in one geographical location, Seoul. He also ignored that South Korea was not divided into 50 separate mini-countries each with their own public utility commissions to work through in delivering the service. To put some serious broadband internet through most of the fly country will require a federal effort like the Rural Electrification Act of the '30s.
I wonder if some of the older patients were exposed to a pathogen somewhat similar to COVID-19 a couple of decades ago.
Some of the severe health complications could then be the result of an allergic overreaction of the immune system triggered by partial immunity acquired decades ago.
This would be an explanation for COVID-19 apparently not causing any serious health issues in the 0-9 y/o age group.
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I sent this to a former French colleague in Austria last evening. He remarked that "the Citroën was a favorite staff car of the Gestapo." That distinctive grill and windscreen, an indicator of the arrival of bad company, had one been seen rumbling about the village.
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At the preserved site of the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane located NW of Limoges in central France, there is a rusted-out Citroen body in the center of the town square, left there exactly where it was along with many other ruined artifacts - bicycles, a sewing machine - as a memorial to the 642 men women and children slaughtered by the Waffen-SS on 10 June 1944
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In Bridgehampton, NY on the main street (Montauk Highway) is a restaurant named Pierre's. The owner is French - Pierre Weber. He has an iconic yellow 2CV that is always parked in front of the restaurant. Better than a neon sign to find the place.
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Butto target this protein, you need to know what it looks like.
Bull. You don't need the structure. People been doing passive* or active immunizations long before they knew what a protein is let alone their structure.
*You produce a lot of protein. You inject it into rabbits. Isolate the resultant antibodies and give them to sick people.
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So the death by reinfection is not a new infection but a follow on effect
Ladies and Gentlemen this virus was designed from the get go as a killer make no bones about it
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Notice how govt and media discussions appear to...fade away from origins? Call me paranoid, but i'm generally attentive to what is NOT being discussed.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‐ A Tennessee inmate is scheduled Thursday to become the fifth to die in the state’s electric chair in the past 16 months. Each of those inmates chose electrocution over the state’s preferred execution method ‐ lethal injection.
[Mail] Todd Smith was 'an evil monster' who terrorized friends and family in his hometown for more than two decades before being shot dead by the woman he allegedly raped, DailyMail.com can reveal.
[NYPOST] A female security guard at a Rockland County library was fatally stabbed when she asked the suspect to turn down the music he was playing on his phone, according to a report.
[Stars and Stripes] NEW ORLEANS (Tribune News Service) ‐ The decorated U.S. Marine Corps pilot who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning and claimed seven lives in 1973 died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family.
Ref #1: Possibly as a political diversion from events in SE Asia or simply a vote getting tool, our 36th President, Lyndon Baines Johnson helped set the stage for the age of entitlement and vote getting, with his “Great Society” give-away programs. 
[MAIL] An 88-year-old school crossing guard has been killed while saving two young boys from a distracted driver in Kansas. 
[PJ] 2020 is shaping up to be an epic election year, full of absurdity that even Marianne Williamson couldn't dream up. While the Democrat candidates gear up to yap onstage in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, they should watch where they walk near the venue because some pranksters have unleashed a flock of pigeons wearing MAGA hats (and one in a blonde Trump wig) to perch around the Democrat debate and trigger (or poop on) attendees as a form of protest.
[CNN] 
