I KNOW OF A BETTER WAY.
[FoxNews] A grieving Florida mother celebrated a 30-year prison sentence for the man who sold her daughter a fatal dose of fentanyl in 2021 — in a case that highlights the state's zero-tolerance policy in combating the opioid crisis.
"The fentanyl coming into our country is a tidal wave," Jacksonville State Attorney Melissa Nelson told Fox News Digital of the drug that can be 50 times more potent than heroin. "This is our opportunity to incapacitate dealers who are killing people."
Given the growing number of FENTANYL deaths.
Maybe a minimum charge should be Attempted Murder 20+ years without parole. With the option to ingest a lethal dose of the killing drug sold instead of serving the time.
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That type of sentencing didn't stop the sales of crack.
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That's why the sentence should be death. Death for the smugglers, dealers, maker's and so on. Public death. Hang them in front of city hall or let them waste away in plexiglass jars in the Texas sun.
[JustTheNews] "It definitely seems like there's been an effort to just make things quiet at the VA," said former acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peter O'Rourke.
Cases of veteran suicide and homelessness are rising, and wait times for treatment are lengthening, according to former acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Peter O'Rourke, but his old agency seems intent on keeping the bad news out of the headlines.
O'Rourke appeared on the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show recently to discuss a recent report from America Warrior Partnership that veteran suicide is two and a half times greater than the VA originally reported.
"It definitely seems like there's been an effort to just make things quiet at the VA," he said.
Under the Trump administration, the process prioritized the veteran having more say regarding their treatment and healthcare, but that seems to be slipping away, according to O'Rourke.
"There was a lot of energy behind improving processes for veterans by taking a veteran-centric view of everything that we did there at the department," O'Rourke explained. "I won't say that's completely gone — but we're not getting great reports now."
The epidemic of veteran homelessness is spreading, and VA coordination with states and localities to ameliorate the problem has been wanting, said the department's former chief.
"There's so many different efforts, whether they're community-based, whether they're out of the VA, trying to address this issue," O'Rourke said. "So you have to ask yourself the question: Why isn't this getting through? We're spending lots of money, we're out on the streets seeing these folks out there. I think it really comes down to the what the states are doing."
Many of the housing benefit programs, like the Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing program (HUD-VASH) and others, "really depend on the cooperation and the collaboration with the folks at the state and community level," said O'Rourke. "And it really appears that the VA really needs to do a better job at that."
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Visited local VA office for a vaccine (no, not covid) and a fair amount of the intake was devoted to questions related to exposure to domestic violence and thoughts of self-harm. Guess suicide didn’t play well in the focus groups.
And posters abounded with contact info; also beer cozies with suicide prevention hot line numbers for handouts. It appears the VA is trying to get a handle on this.
[ALARABIYA] Britannia’s foreign ministry on Monday said it had summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires, Iran’s most senior diplomat in Britannia, over the crackdown on protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in jug.
"The violence levelled at protesters in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... by the security forces is truly shocking," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.
"Today we have made our view clear to the Iranian authorities — instead of blaming external actors for the unrest, they should take responsibility for their actions and listen to the concerns of their people."
#Oil climbs toward $82 a barrel on indications the #OPEC+ alliance is considering slashing production by more than 1 million barrels a day to revive plunging prices when it meets this week.https://t.co/ahaaHVbKio
Oil climbed toward $82 a barrel on indications the OPEC+ alliance is considering slashing production by more than 1 million barrels a day to revive plunging prices when it meets this week.
A reduction of that magnitude would be the biggest since the pandemic, although OPEC+ delegates said a final decision on the size of the cuts won’t be made until ministers gather in Vienna on Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate rose more than 2 percent putting prices on track for the first gain in three sessions.
"The slide in oil prices is likely over," said Ed Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda Group. "Energy traders turned pessimistic over the summer given global slowdown fears, but now it seems the risks for oil are to the upside."
Oil fell by a quarter in the three months through September as a slowing global economy sapped demand. Banks including UBS Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies may need to trim output by least 500,000 barrels a day to stabilize prices.
A cut of more than 1 million barrels a day "will be enough to put a floor under prices," said Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst at Price Futures Group.
A large output cut may draw criticism from the US and other major consuming-nations, where energy-driven inflation has forced central banks to aggressively jack up interest rates. This week’s OPEC+ meeting will be the first in-person gathering since March 2020. The group is deciding on supply for November.
In Asia, China issued new quotas for fuel exports and crude imports last week as it seeks to revive its economy, adding to the bullish outlook for oil. The world’s biggest crude importer has seen energy demand take a tumble due to virus lockdowns and a property slump this year.
"It’s only going to be a matter of time before oil returns to $100 a barrel, especially with supplies set to get tighten toward the end of the year," said Suvro Sarkar, an energy analyst at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore.
The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), led by Riyadh, and their 10 allies headed by Moscow will hold on Wednesday their first in-person meeting at the group's headquarters in Vienna since March 2020.
Collectively known as OPEC+, the alliance drastically slashed output by almost 10 million barrels per day in April 2020 to reverse a massive drop in crude prices caused by Covid lockdowns.
OPEC+ began to raise production last year after the market improved -- output returned to pre-pandemic levels this year, but only on paper as some members struggled to meet their quotas.
The group agreed last month on a slight cut of 100,000 bpd from October, the first in more than a year.
After soaring close to $140 per barrel in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, oil prices have dropped below the $90 mark.
IGNORING THE WEST
Stephen Brennock, an analyst with PVM Energy, said OPEC+ would "want to reassert its influence" when the group meets this week.
"After all, the producer group has lost control over the oil market in recent weeks," he said.
It remains to be seen how the United States and other major oil consumers will react to any OPEC+ decision to slash output.
Consumer countries have pushed for OPEC+ to open taps more widely to bring down prices -- calls which the group has largely ignored.
"OPEC will not be making any friends among Western leaders, especially petroleum importers whose economies and currencies are ravaged by higher oil prices due to a deterioration in the trade balance," said Stephen Innes, an analyst with SPI Asset Management, ahead of Wednesday's meeting.
Observers have cast doubt how much more OPEC+ could possibly be pumping with some of its members struggling to meet quotas.
Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB research group, predicted it would be "very easy for the group to implement cuts given that most members are stretched to the limit of what they can produce".
He said Saudi Arabia was currently producing 11 million barrels per day.
"It hasn't maintained such a high production more than twice in history and then only for 1-2 months," he said.
Also on Friday, China issued its biggest quota for exports of oil products this year and topped up crude import quotas for independent refiners. State and private refiners can export as much as 15m tonnes of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and low-sulphur fuel oil, adding much-needed supplies into global markets to replace Russian exports the European Union embargoed in February. However, analysts and traders said some of China’s exports were likely to spill over into early 2023 as refiners will need time to ramp up.
As certain commenters have gloated since the Ukraine thingy started, China, among others, has been rebranding and reselling Russian oil on the world market for their mutual profit. Not as profitable for Russia as selling direct, but then prices are higher than before the invasion, so it sounds like a wash — except for all the dead and wounded Russian soldiers and equipment, and the trashing of the reputation of the Russian war machine. (The cost to Ukraine is, sadly, a separate issue.)
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Applying the same logical points used by US environmentalist.
If we should not drill or dig here due to the environment concerns, and should IMPORT it from some 2nd or 3rd world countries.
Where there are far, far less environment regulations and greater careless harm is done.
Where it is sloppily handled from the drill site to export site. Polluting "rain forests" / Jungles, sandlands and threatening 100's of species in those areas.
Where it is carelessly loaded on to tankers which leak a few 100 barrels of crude oil over the course of the trip.
Where it is shipped across oceans to US offload sites and piped to a US refineries. Thus adding an extra 1,000 to 7,000+ miles of uncontrolled Global environmental harm.
So if we apply the same logic, it seems to mean US Environmentalists are ok messing up some other county's habitats, as long as it's not theirs.
Doesn't that make, US Environmentalist & LSD's Xenophobe's & Racists as defined by what they apply to others for doing such?
[DW] Germany has thousands of mosques, most of them tucked away in backyards or industrial parks. On Open Mosque Day, they open their doors to the public.
Open Mosque Day has been held in Germany on October 3 every year since 1997. This year, about 1,000 mosques across Germany opened their doors to bring Moslem and non-Moslem people together. The 2022 motto is "Scarce resources — great responsibility." The "effects of the climate crisis can be observed in our country and in many parts of the world, as most recently with the devastating floods in Pakistain," said Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Moslems in Germany (ZMD).
Here are six facts about mosques in Germany — and no one knows exactly how many there are. Estimates range from 2,350 to 2,750. According to a study by the German Islam Conference, 24% of the 5.5 million Moslems living in Germany visited these mosques at least once a week in 2019.
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Ever since the July 2002 German government raid on the Al Aqsa Charity Foundation in Aachen, during which a ton of good intel material was hauled off, Germany's Moslems have been most circumspect in maintaining records that might be useful in determining Islamist activity in Germany.
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:-) We actually don’t have anything that July about the Aachen raid in the Rantburg archives, Slavising Unineting5672 — I looked. Links to all the articles we have on the Al Aqsa Foundation under that name can be seen here — give it a few moments to load. We have nothing under Aqsa Charity Foundation. The Global Fight Against Terrorism Funding site has a page here. There is more at https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/alaqsa-foundation-aaf, but Fred’s code only allows two hot links per comment to reduce spam.
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Indeed, it usually goes by Al Aqsa Foundation. Some early information on the movement can be found in the book, Alms for Jihad. For Islamists in Germany there exists a good book, A Mosque in Germany, or A Mosque in Munich, (I have lost the book and can't remember which). It followed the Ramadan family, their involvement in Germany, and the growth in mosques.
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but the German Empire also used the mosque to stir up Moslem prisoners' sentiments against their colonial powers, La Belle France and England. "Revolutionary strategy" is what the German Empire called it. Here, jihadis were sworn in and eventually sent to fight the "holy war."
Germans have done this many times in the past, so no surprise, and not always to Germany's eventual benefit. They smuggled Lenin into Russia through Finland in 1917. Didn't work out that great for them, though. Interesting bit of history on that here.
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For Islamists in Germany there exists a good book, A Mosque in Germany, or A Mosque in Munich, (I have lost the book and can't remember which).
A Mosque in Munich by Ian Johnson. No longer available in Kindle, though I still have placeholder for the sample I downloaded following a recommendation here.
[DW] The number of deportation orders issued in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... is on the rise, according to Eurostat figures. Almost 100,000 people were ordered out of the 27-member bloc in the second quarter of 2022.
Moslem omen hold red paper hearts emblazened with slogans arguing for compassion towards refugees as well as candles in an outdoor square
According to figures released Monday by the EU's statistics arm Eurostat, there was an increase in the second quarter of 2022 in the number of deportation orders issued across the 27-nation bloc.
While 23,110 deportations were carried out, including some people being sent from one EU member country to another, the deportation of 96,550 non-EU citizens from EU nations was ordered in the second quarter of 2022.
Compared to the second quarter of 2021, the numbers represent a 15% increase in deportation orders and an 11% increase in the number of deportations actually carried out.
WHERE ARE PEOPLE BEING ORDERED DEPORTED FROM? La Belle France ordered the largest numbers to be deported in the second quarter, with 33,450 deportation orders. After La Belle France, Greece ordered 8,750 people out, Germany 8,275 people and Italia 6,020 individuals.
During the second quarter of this year, La Belle France carried out 3,590 deportations. That is more than Germany's 2,765 deportations.
After La Belle France and Germany, Sweden carried out the largest number of deportations in the second quarter with 2,380 people sent home and Greece returning 1,770 people.
According to Eurostat, Albanians were the largest number of those sent back, followed by Georgians, Russians and Turks.
Good. But what about Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, various North Africans, and Nigerians, who seem to be the majority of criminals and jihadis?
Italia saw the number of deportation orders rise 2,000% over the first quarter of 2022 in the second quarter. In the period from January to March, Italia had only issued 260 deportation orders.
Not since the third quarter of 2020 had Italia issued so many deportation orders. At that time, 6,850 non-EU citizens were ordered out of the country. In Italia, Algerians, followed by Moroccans, Albanians and Paks received the most orders.
WHY IS THERE AN INCREASE IN DEPORTATIONS NOW?
The number of deportations across the EU was down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Germany only carried out 760 deportations during the second quarter compared to 9,920 deportations during the same quarter in 2019.
According to EU law, those with a visa or asylum status may not necessarily be able to travel freely within the bloc and depending on the particulars of their legal status can be sent back to another member state.
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Now that the Pandemic is fading out and the immigrants are being seen as interlopers that will NOT and REFUSE TO blend in culturally. Thereby disrupting centuries of pretty smooth running Nordic, Anglo, Germanic and Etc. culture and societies.
Given the Cultural/Social problems and violence, they brought with them. eg. Honor killings, child brides and etc...
[ALARABIYA] Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... will send its comments on a US proposal to delineate its maritime border with longtime foe Israel to the American official mediating talks by Tuesday, a top Lebanese official said on Monday.
Deputy parliament speaker Elias Bou Saab said the Lebanese government would not respond to the proposal officially until US envoy Amos Hochstein responded to its concerns, which it expected him to do by the end of the week.
"The devils are in the details, but the devils are now small," Bou Saab said.
"Lebanon will set its position on Hochstein’s proposal in consultation with the heads of parliament and government. There will be no partnership with the Israeli side," President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... said had said earlier in the day.
Hoping to defuse one source of conflict between the hostile countries and prod them toward accommodation, Hochstein last week submitted a new proposal to Lebanon that would pave the way for offshore energy exploration.
The details of the 10-page draft have been kept under wraps but Lebanese officials have been optimistic. Even Iran-backed Hezbollah deemed the proposal’s submission "a very important step" on Saturday while its ally speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... described it as "positive."
The latest draft appears to float an arrangement whereby gas would be produced by a company under a Lebanese license in the disputed Qana prospect, with Israel receiving a share of revenues.
While no company has been officially named, Lebanese officials have publicly suggested a role for TotalEnergies SE and a top Israeli official was meeting company representatives in Gay Paree on Monday, according to a source briefed on the matter.
Israel’s energy ministry confirmed that its director-general Lior Schillat, who also heads Israel’s negotiating team, was in Gay Paree for discussions on Monday.
TotalEnergies declined to comment.
Israel has said its own legal experts are also reviewing the draft before it can be approved.
Israeli media reported that the cabinet will meet on Thursday to approve the deal, but no session is formally scheduled.
A senior Israeli official told Rooters that it was not yet clear when the government would take that step, as it awaited word of Lebanon’s response.
"If they come back with changes - other than small, technical things - it may not be done by Thursday," the official said.
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The problem: Israel–Lebanon
The line that functions as a de facto boundary between Israel and Lebanon is not technically an international boundary but, rather, a line of withdrawal mandated by the United Nations in 2000 following the removal of Israeli military forces from southern Lebanon. The United Nations “Blue Line” was supposed to follow the boundary between Lebanon/Syria and Palestine as delimited by Britain and France in the early 1920s, but the demarcation is riddled with disputes and problem areas.
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.
[JustTheNews] "It definitely seems like there's been an effort to just make things quiet at the VA," said former acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peter O'Rourke.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
