[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The grieving mother of a 5-year-old who was shot to death in front of his sisters says she hopes the suspected killer will "rot in hell."
"This man will answer to me," Bonny Waddell, mother of Cannon Hinnant, who was killed as he played outside Sunday, wrote on Facebook this week. "That man will see me and my son through my face! This sorry excuse as a human being will rot in hell."
"My heart has been taken from me," she added.
The boy was riding his bike outside when police say his neighbor Darius Sessoms ran up and shot him in the head at point-blank range before fleeing back into his home.
Sessoms, 25, was eventually identified by eyewitnesses before being arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Police have not released a statement about a possible motive for the killing.
The boy’s family and friends gathered at his funeral Thursday and spoke out about his life and how his tragic death has affected them.
"He meant the world to me, just like all the other kids that are mine I helped raise," said Lee Parker, the boy's stepfather. "It'll never be behind us. He'll always be with us, but we're going to get through it."
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Apparently we have an answer to the age old parental question of 'if everybody else jumped off a cliff would you do it too?'. For some segment of the population the answer is Yes, or perhaps YES!
And what's with that admin of this crate of dim bulbs masquerading as a web group? They don't want to call him an idiot since he's learned his lesson? Oh, obviously.
#4
We don't have enough water. We don't have enough power. Our roads, schools and hospitals are all over crowded. And yet Newsom wants more affordable housing for all the illegal aliens he wants to import into California.
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They closed the only two nuke power plants left, and haven’t built a major new plant or dam to provide power in decades. So, what’s left is the climate change meme as they implement the Venezuela solution. Welcome to the devolution to 3rd world conditions democrats.
#6
If I remember correctly, the last time this happened with a dem governor at the helm in CA in 2001, CA actually voted in a Republican governor shortly after. Vote red folks - even in CA.
[PUNCHNG] Angola’s Supreme Court on Friday handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the oil-rich country’s former president, for fraud when he headed the national sovereign wealth fund. "I am Jose Filomeno dos Santos, son of former president of Angola."
Dos Santos, 42, was summoned before court in December over allegations he tried to embezzle up to $1.5 billion (1.3 billion euros) from the sovereign wealth fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018. "I saw your profile on the internet and feel you are honest person."
Nicknamed "Zenu", dos Santos was charged with stealing $500m from the fund and transferring it to a Swiss bank account. "I am need assistance in transfer $500,000,000 (five hundred miliion) $USD from Swiss bank to your country."
"For the crime of fraud... and for the crime of peddling influence... the legal cumulus condemns him to a single sentence of five years in prison," judge Joao da Cruz Pitra said. "For your kind assistance I am offfer five (5) percent finder fee of twenty five million (25,000,000) $USD."
Three co-defendants, including the former governor of the national bank of Angola (BNA) Valter Filipe da Silva, were sentenced to between four and six years in prison for fraud, embezzlement and influence peddling. "My bona fides can be vouch for by former governor of the national bank of Angola (BNA) Valter Filipe da Silva."
All four were acquitted of money-laundering charges. They had previously denied any wrongdoing.
Zenu is the first member of the former presidential family to be prosecuted as part an anti-graft campaign led by President Joao Lourenco, who came to power in 2017.
In February, Angolan Sherlocks froze the assets of Zenu’s billionaire half-sister Isabel dos Santos.
She is being probed for a long list of crimes in Angola, including mismanagement, embezzlement and money laundering during her stewardship of the state-run oil giant Sonangol.
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Hail Zenu! Your Galactic Confederacy subjects await implanting.
At least three people died during protests in Ivory Coast on Thursday, police said, as small groups burned makeshift roadblocks in protests against President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to stand for a third term.
The West African nation has seen a number of scattered protests since Ouattara announced last week he would run in the Oct. 31 election, with the opposition accusing him of violating term limits.
Protesters in the southeastern town of Bonoua set fire to a police station after a young man died during a protest there on Thursday, police spokesman Bleu Charlemagne said in a statement on the state TV channel RTI.
He did not explain how the others died.
A video circulating on social media showed Bonoua’s police commissioner covered in blood as a crowd rescued him from the burning police headquarters.
Police arrested 58 people across the country, Charlemagne said.
The executive director of Ouattara’s party, Adama Bictogo, defended Ouattara’s decision to run again, saying: “For us, the debate is closed.”
[Al Ahram] Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, on Friday called on President Alexander Lukashenko to bring an end to violence on the streets following contested presidential elections last week, the TASS news agency reported.
His comments came after the Belarusian leadership began releasing thousands of detained protesters and issued a rare public apology in an effort to quell nationwide street protests that pose the biggest challenge to Lukashenko's 26-year rule.
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[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Flooding caused by weeks of unusually heavy monsoon rains has killed at least 22 people in North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , with four others missing, and even approached the country’s main nuclear reactor, but leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... says he is too worried about coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... to accept outside help.
The International Federation of the Red Thingy said the floods have left 26 people dead or missing, citing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Red Thingy and the country’s State Committee for Emergency and Disaster Management.
The disaster adds to an already troubling humanitarian situation in North Korea, whose weak economy has been further battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
The official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said at least 16,680 houses and 630 public buildings have been destroyed or flooded during the monsoon, with nearly 100,000 acres of crops damaged and many roads, bridges and railway tracks broken. A dam at a power station also gave way, it said.
The floodwaters approached the Yongbyon nuclear complex last week, reaching the bases of two pump houses designed to cool the country’s main nuclear reactor, according to the 38 North website, citing satellite imagery.
The floodwaters have receded somewhat and pose "no imminent danger," since the main reactor apparently has not been operating for some time and a nearby experimental light water reactor has yet to come online, said Jenny Town, deputy director of 38 North, part of the Stimson Center.
"In the long run, though, it exposes a vulnerability of the reactors to extreme weather events such as floods," she wrote in an email, noting that North Korea has been working on building an embankment and dam along the Kuryong River to offer better protection.
"But this year, the river level is usually high," she added. "If this were to happen when a reactor was running, it could cause problems in the cooling systems that would necessitate the reactors to be shut down."
The floods have inflicted damage throughout the Korean Peninsula. In South Korea, weeks of rains have left 42 people dead or missing and more than 7,800 displaced, according to official estimates cited by the Yonhap News Agency. Provisional heavy-rain alerts were issued Friday for six cities and provinces, including Seoul, with more than 12 inches of rain forecast for some areas, KBS reported.
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[Breitbart] Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
Last month, the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against Trump’s expanded executive order, signed in June, that halts the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs to reduce foreign competition against millions of unemployed Americans.
Today, there are 26 million Americans who are jobless — 7.7 million of whom are out of the workforce altogether and about two million who have been out of work for months but want full-time employment. Another 8.4 million Americans are working part-time but want full-time jobs.
Now, CEOs for the largest tech corporations in the world have signed onto the lawsuit in an amicus brief. Tech corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Netflix, Zillow, and PayPal have all signed on to fight Trump’s order.
The full list of those supporting the Chamber of Commerce lawsuit include:
1. Adobe Inc.
2. Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers
3. Amazon.com, Inc.
4. Apple Inc.
5. Atlassian, Inc.
6. Autodesk, Inc.
7. Bates White, LLC
8. Box, Inc.
9. BSA Business Software Alliance, Inc.
10. Consumer Technology Association
11. Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
12. Dropbox, Inc.
13. Facebook, Inc.
14. FWD.us Education Fund
15. GitHub, Inc.
16. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
17. HP Inc.
18. HR Policy Association
19. Information Technology Industry Council
20. Institute of International Bankers
21. Intel Corp.
22. Internet Association
23. Juniper Networks, Inc.
24. LinkedIn Corporation
25. Metro Atlanta Chamber
26. Microsoft Corporation
27. Netflix, Inc.
28. New Imagitas, Inc.
29. North Texas Commission
30. Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund
31. PayPal, Inc.
32. Plaid Inc.
33. Postmates Inc.
34. Reddit, Inc.
35. salesforce.com, inc.
36. SAP SE
37. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
38. ServiceNow, Inc.
39. Shutterstock, Inc.
40. Silicon Valley Bank
41. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
42. Splunk Inc.
43. Square, Inc.
44. SurveyMonkey Inc.
45. Twitter, Inc.
46. Uber Technologies, Inc.
47. Upwork Inc.
48. Vail Valley Partnership
49. VMware, Inc.
50. Workday, Inc.
51. Xylem Inc.
52. Zillow Group, Inc.
The corporate lobbying effort to reopen pipelines of foreign workers to take U.S. jobs comes as companies are cutting Information Technology (IT) jobs, about 134,000 in July, due to economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
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The imported labor is a captive group. No labor bargaining power, no job mobility. That's the attraction.
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@ #3 - Education system might be o.k., just finding Americans to switch majors from Urban Studies to Computer Science or Electrical Engineering might be the problem.
Your tech "solution" isn't profitable without imported, essentially slaver labor.
All good.
When will Gupta start asking for reparations too?
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Big Tech don't trust American education system?
You think the Indian education system is better? I've spent enough time around these people to believe that it is most certainly not. This is not about education. It's about the importation and exploitation of cheap labor. As far as I'm concerned, every last one of these companies can get the hell out of America and set up shop in the third world hell hole of their choice.
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#3 The main thing is that they hate actual Americans.
Just look at the CEOs and other execs at many of these firms.
Poor ed. is a pretext at most; never mind that Big Tech overwhelmingly supports the people responsible for that ed.
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I'm in favor of everyone who comes on an equal footing. Anything else, I'm against.
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Linus Torvalds was nearly blocked by INS because they didn't think he contributed any needed skills. But the thousands of H1-Bs who completed a "certification" course and know nearly nothing outside of it are welcomed in.
Look at the multiple HR-related groups listed -- the practices at HR are part of the problem. A checklist of claimed skills, no, we don't want to train anyone, just let us post jobs asking for 6 years experience in a 3-year-old platform...
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Close those schools permanently and make the union sue to re-open them. Watch the fun.
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The leftists are willingly closing their own youth indoctrination centers (aka schools). This must truly be then end of days. Or do they believe a totally uneducated population would be more easily controlled?
[IsraelTimes] A Moslem woman who worked for a McDonald’s franchisee in Maryland claims managers and co-workers sexually harassed her and subjected her to religious discrimination after she converted to Islam.
Diamond Powell, 28, of Baltimore, has sued her former employer, Susdewitt Management LLC of Lanham, Maryland, on Thursday with the backing of attorneys from the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , a Moslem civil rights group.
The Morgan State University graduate was Christian in 2016 when she started working for the company, which operated two McDonald’s locations at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Powell converted to Islam in February 2017 and began wearing a hijab, a religious head covering, to work.
A manager told her to "take that hoodie off" her head while another manager told her, "You don’t have to wait for God to wake up for you to pray," Powell’s federal lawsuit alleges.
Powell has a religious belief that she must pray five times a day at prescribed times. A general manager initially granted Powell’s request to take short prayer breaks during her shifts, according to her lawsuit.
"Her prayer breaks lasted no longer than a typical bathroom break," the suit says.
But the general manager prohibited Powell from praying in a quiet spot at the airport and instead told her to pray in a dirty stock room, the lawsuit alleges. After Powell continued praying outside the restaurant, the general manager eventually revoked her request to take a prayer break, saying, "God will understand," according to the lawsuit.
"By doing so, the general manager forced Powell to choose between continuing her employment with McDonald’s or sacrificing her sincerely-held religious beliefs," the suit says.
Powell resigned from the job in April 2018. Her suit accuses Susdewitt Management of violating the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Susdewitt Management owner Isaac Green disputed the lawsuit’s "characterizations" but said the company is reviewing Powell’s allegations and will "respond accordingly."
"We pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and we have policies in place to provide a welcoming workplace and to respect the accommodations employees may need for religious reasons," Green said in a statement provided by a McDonald’s corporate spokeswoman.
The suit also claims Powell was sexually harassed at work, with several managers and co-workers asking her if she was a virgin and a shift manager making sexually explicit remarks.
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The McRib sandwich is not discrimination. It is a gift from Heaven.
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Ironically, hydrogen is a big byproduct of fracking. But it doesn't fit the narrative, so never mind.
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20-30 years ago, when hydrogen powered cars were 'the next big thing', Scientific American published an article that didn't fit the narrative.
Because producing hydrogen from water took more power than burning hydrogen produced, the only cost-effective way to produce hydrogen fuel was with nuclear power. Oops!
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Corn ethanol has the same problem, I believe....more energy to produce it.....
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I always loved Jimmuah Cahtah during the gas crisis (that he caused) asking if Indy cars could be run on something other than gasoline for national good will. He had to be told the cars run on pure ethanol with the denaturant to make it undrinkable.
Never Mind...
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I read a few articles in the early 2000s about hydrogen and few take-aways. (1) Gas stations could produce hydrogen from water and thus the current infrastructure could be used. (2) A powdered version of hydrogen would be useful and safe if less bang per buck than liquid or gas hydrogen. (3) The entire drive train could be building a flat 'skate-board' type deal that allowed multiple chassis to be added ontop creating a lot of variety. In fact one or two companies could build the skateboards while others worried about the pretty chassis.
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Nuc Subs created oxygen by splitting water into its components. We waste water by using it to create ethanol and now you want to use more to create hydrogen. Water is the most important thing on earth. Why not use nuc power to create electricity and a different type of battery than we now use. Japan and Our colleges are working on this.
[IsraelTimes] The Wall Street Journal reports that a US government assessment concluded that "maintenance work" likely led to last week’s Beirut port blast.
The State Department assessment found no evidence of an attack on the ammonium cache or any evidence of foul play, a person familiar with the matter tells the Journal.
The assessment did not specify what kind of maintenance work led to the blast but found that that it was what started the fire that ignited the ammonium nitrate.
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The State Department assessment found no evidence of an attack on the ammonium cache or any evidence of foul play.
Ten days worth of investigation and Foggy Bottom nails it. Time to put them to work on the Benghazi, Epstein case, Clinton home brew servers, Seth Rich.....
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.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The grieving mother of a 5-year-old who was shot to death in front of his sisters says she hopes the suspected killer will "rot in hell."
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Breitbart] Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
"It's Not Personal....." 
