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So instead mommy and Daddy housing this POS, the taxpayers will for the next 50 years or so. Less he dies of AIDS or Butt Pox's before then... he is a sweet 16 headed to prison at likely 18.☺
OK, all State Legislatures.
How about a LAW requiring all School massacres be automatically handled as an adult, with a Death Sentence applied in kind?
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I wonder if he got voted Most Likely to Be Traded for a Carton of Smokes.
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I just hope that he’ll be capable of realizing that he needs to take the schizophrenia medicines they prescribe for him. Otherwise the rest of his life will be even more painful.
#Arkansas *potentially disturbing* Dashcam video (reportedly in Little Rock) from October 13th shows a pursuit suspect on a motorcycle fleeing from police on foot when a taser is used; igniting the suspect into a roaring fireball. They apparently had a jerrycan in their backpack. pic.twitter.com/hFqVqzMVLe
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IDK Darth - Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Should cops be allowed to be thuggish when perusing non-violent criminals? It was a traffic violation. Cops always seem to play hero when the perp is unarmed, contrast that with the most recent school shooting. IDK the answer - but cops making things violent when things dont start violent - i dont think this is part of the correct answer.
I suppose I see the world differently. There's no victim here. The only witness is the State. These are bureaucratic crimes.
If you don't produce a fishing license and run instead, should you get tased? I dont think so, I dont think these type of non-violent things should be met with violence. This notion that you have to do everything a cop says or get violently destroyed - I dont agree with, cops shouldnt use violence except when countering violence.
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@#9: Because I'm lazy, per Wiki: "A taser is an electroshock weapon used to incapacitate people allowing them to be approached and handled in an unresisting and thus safe manner."
Pretty sure that, had the coppers known about the gaspack, they would have not used the taser, but there are surprises and then there are surprises. I see no problem with the response of the Po-Po.
[Garowe] Kenya’s loans to China have drooped for the first time in a decade, this is according to data from the National Treasury that reveals a drop from $6.83 billion in June to $7.05 in 2021 and $3 billion in 2016.
This can be attributed to the Asian powerhouse’s adaptation of a new cautious lending strategy to the continent.
In 2002 to the National Treasury, public records reveal that Chinese loans to Kenya dropped slightly.
The erratic drop in Chinese debt comes at a time when both World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have stepped up lending to Kenya, firming the institutions’ grip on the country’s economy.
The East African economic powerhouse is Beijing the largest bilateral creditor since 2015. These loans have been used to fund the development of mega infrastructures like the Standard Gauge Railway line.
In 2020 during the peak of COVID-19, Kenya was among the 20 countries listed by the IMF as being at high risk of, debt distress.
The IMF listing of the 20 African countries triggered a response from the China Eximbank and China Development Bank, who are the two main policy banks that have adopted i hardline stand on lending terms to African states.
In 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping in a video revealed that his country in the next three years, would cut the headline amount of money it supplies to Africa by a third to $40 billion and, he implied, redirect lending away from large infrastructure towards a new emphasis on SMEs, green projects and private investment flows.
Chatham House, a UK think-tank said "China is moving away from this high-volume, high-risk paradigm into one where deals are struck on their own merit, at a smaller and more manageable scale than before," an analysis of China’s lending to Africa. Lower funding to Africa, local analysts say, could be a pointer that Beijing is starting to see signs of reduced benefits from the cash it commits in the continent."
Over the last two decades, the Asian giant has positioned itself as a lead financier of first resort for many African e countries in need of infrastructural development.
Recent research by the College of William & Mary conducted in September this year reveals that African countries received 42 percent of all Chinese official development assistance between 2000 and 2017.
CHINESE LOAN GENESIS IN KENYA
Kenya’s appetite for Chinese loans started in 2009 under the late President Mwai Kibaki who borrowed to finance the country’s first Superhighway. Thika Superhighway was constructed at the tune of KSH 32 billion.
China has funded two railways, two ports, and 23 road projects in Kenya since 2009. This has been carried out by China Road and Bridge Corporation, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company.
They include the $3.5 billion standard gauge railway, a $398 million oil terminal at the Mombasa port, and road projects such as the Southern and Eastern Bypass in Nairobi.
[LEGENDA-ARCHEOLOGY] Matt reports on the Expedition - October 2022
Monday 3rd October
Everyone arrived in Riga at various times from various countries, and as usual all met up for a catch up before we head off to Saldus in the morning.
[WBAY] Two suspected Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with attempting to obstruct a U.S. criminal investigation of Chinese tech giant Huawei by offering bribes to someone they thought could provide inside information, the Justice Department announced Monday.
The defendants are accused of paying tens of thousands of dollars in digital currency, along with cash and jewelry, to a U.S. official they thought they had recruited as an asset. But the person was actually a double agent working for the FBI, the department said. so, not really a double agent
That prosecution, as well as two other cases involving Chinese operatives, was highlighted Monday at a news conference that featured the heads of both the FBI and the Justice Department, a rare joint presence reflecting a concerted American show of force against Chinese intelligence efforts. Washington has long accused Beijing of meddling in U.S. political affairs and stealing secrets and intellectual property.
Besides the two men on Monday, 11 other Chinese men have been charged with offenses in the last week, including harassment of individuals in the U.S., that FBI Director Christopher Wray said show that China’s “economic assaults and their rights violations are part of the same problem.”
“They try to silence anyone who fights back against their theft — companies, politicians, individuals — just as they try to silence anyone who fights back against their other aggressions,” he said.
In the Huawei case, Guochun He and Zheng Wang, are accused of trying to direct a U.S. official to supply confidential information about the Justice Department’s investigation, including about witnesses, trial evidence and potential new charges.
The latest announcements came just days after Xi Jinping awarded himself a third term as leader of China’s Communist Party, though Wray dismissed the idea of a possible connection in the timing, noting “we bring cases when they’re ready.”
“If the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, continues to violate our laws, they’re going to keep encountering the FBI,” he said.
The Justice Department separately announced charges against four other Chinese nationals, accusing them of using the cover of an academic institute to try to procure sensitive technology and equipment as well as interfering with protests that “would have been embarrassing to the Chinese government.”
And it highlighted a case from last week in which two additional people were arrested and five others charged with harassing someone living in the U.S. to return to China as part of what Beijing calls “Operation Fox Hunt.”
“Today’s cases make clear that Chinese agents will not hesitate to break the law and to violate international norms in the process,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said.
The case connected to the Huawei probe dates to January 2019.
Started on Donald Trump’s watch? So much that’s good was.
The company, a top executive and several subsidiaries had just been indicted on U.S. charges of financial fraud, trade secret theft and sanctions violations.
Wang and He, according to prosecutors, were eager for non-public information about the prosecution and the status of the investigation. They reached out to a contact they had known since 2017, but the person — who was not identified by name — began working as a double agent and engaged in a back-and-forth with the defendants that was overseen by the FBI.
At one point last year, prosecutors say, the person passed to the defendants a single-page document that appeared to be classified and that contained information about a purported Justice Department plan to charge and arrest Huawei executives who were living in China. The person said the document had been secretly photographed during a meeting with federal prosecutors.
The document was prepared specifically for the purposes of the prosecution that was unsealed Monday, and the information in it was neither accurate nor an accurate reflection of any Justice Department plans, officials said.
The company is not named in the charging documents and prosecutors declined at Monday’s news conference to name it, though the references make clear that it’s Huawei.
Spokespeople for Huawei and the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Huawei has previously called the federal investigation “political persecution, plain and simple.”
“Attacking Huawei will not help the U.S. stay ahead of the competition,” the company said in a statement published in 2020.
In the case linked to “Operation Fox Hunt,” prosecutors say Chinese agents tried to intimidate an unnamed person and his family to return to China. Part of the plot, the U.S. alleges, involved having the person’s nephew travel to the U.S. as part of a tour group to deliver threats that included, “Coming back and turning yourself in is the only way out.”
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The Trump administration hit Huawei's US suppliers, including Intel, with restrictions days before Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, Reuters reported Sunday. It'll apparently reject many applications to supply the Chinese telecom as well. Huawei was added to the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List in May 2019, following an executive order from President Donald Trump effectively banning the company from US communications networks.
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Adn yet, Lenovo is the world's biggest maker of PCs.
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Maybe there is a BOLO for Trudeau.
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[TheDrive] With demand for diesel fuel at its highest point in over a decade, the Biden administration says nationwide supply is “unacceptably low.”
And whose fault is that, pray tell?
Diesel stockpiles in the U.S. are reportedly at their lowest point since 2008, with only enough fuel for a 25-day supply, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. Demand is also said to be at its highest point since 2007, creating a dangerous supply/demand combination that's causing spikes in pricing. The Biden administration called the nationwide diesel supply "unacceptably low" and is looking at all options to build up the national supply to help reduce prices.
According to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average price of diesel is at $5.34 per gallon. That's an increase of $1.67 per gallon, compared to this time last year. The area getting hit the hardest is New England, where people burn diesel fuel for heat more than anywhere else in the country. There, stockpiles of diesel fuel are a third of what they normally are at this time of the year. However, the highest cost of diesel fuel is in California, where the average cost is almost $6.50 per gallon, an increase of almost $2.00 per gallon over this time last year.
It's also a massive price increase over the average cost of gasoline in the U.S. According to the EIA, the average price of gasoline in the U.S. is $3.87 per gallon, with the most expensive region also being California, at $5.84 per gallon.
Part of the reason for the diesel supply shortage is maintenance season but the bigger issue is Russia's war in Ukraine,
Russia? Riiiiiiiiiight....
which has hurt global fuel supplies. Thankfully, according to Bloomberg, there may be some good news on the horizon. One million barrels of diesel fuel is said to be headed to New York, after two shipping vessels were diverted from their original European destinations.
That’s one way to make the Europeans feel extra loved...
At the same time, a Trainer, Pennsylvania-based diesel refinery is coming back online after its seasonal maintenance, which will help increase diesel production in the U.S.
Good news! Though where the stock for refining will come from is beyond me.
Hopefully those two things can help return the diesel stockpile to normal-ish levels, at least temporarily.
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Food, Medicine, and needed supplies arrive because DIESEL GOT IT THERE.
Don’t be silly, NN2N1. Everyone knows that the internet is the conduit between supplier and my front door, and the internet operates by new technology magic. Not stinky, old fashioned diesel.
[Post Millenial] "Though vaccination should be encouraged, public employees should not have been terminated for their noncompliance," the New York Supreme Court stated.
On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court ruled that New York City must reinstate all employees that were fired because of their vaccination status.
The order also states that for those fired, backpay must be issued
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And fine the people that fired them the amount in backpay owed.
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Take a day of vacation from your current job. Report back to NYC for your back-pay. Ghost the bozos.
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Darkie Toothpaste Guy gets kicked in the nuts.
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The 'New York Supreme Court' is a misnomer; they have two more levels of appeals should the loser choose to contest it (Appellate Division, then Court of Appeals in that order).
As Ace notes this afternoon, those courts are laden, nay infested, with Democrats.
[BenarNews] A group of Moslem women in Thailand’s Deep South is criticizing a doctor for promoting his services online to help local men find up to three extra wives, saying such polygamous matchmaking doesn’t follow the Prophet’s example.
Polygamy is only encouraged in Islam when it comes to "oppressed or the orphans among women," and justice can be done by marrying more than one, she said.
Waemahadi Wae-dao, a physician and former MP from the mainly Moslem southern border region shrugs off the criticism about his fee-based activities as a matchmaker. He says he’s well-intentioned and helping to match men with wives in accordance with the Islamic principle that allows a man to have as many as four spouses.
Wae, who himself has four wives, started providing the services by advertising them on his Facebook page. The idea was to eradicate secret extra-marital affairs and help both parties find good partners in the Deep South, a largely impoverished and insurgency-stricken region on the border with Malaysia. He collects a fee of 12,000 baht (U.S. $315) from men for each successful match.
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Eamample #23456789 why nerds need gatekeeping. Once again they can't think through the consequences of their experiments. It's just puzzle to solve.
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This is fine provided the researchers are decontaminated by means of flamethrowers. So every day you need a new group. Eventually, the average IQ of the US will
L go up a few hundreds of a percentage point.
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.
