[NYP] A co-owner of the Brooklyn construction company being scrutinized by the feds as part of a larger probe into Mayor Eric Adams’ fundraising has long flaunted a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle.
Erden Arkan, the globe-trotting 74-year-old owner of KSK Construction Group in Williamsburg, regularly posts dispatches with his wife Itir on social media from fancy locations around the world, including snapshots of their March vacation in Osaka, Japan; scenes of hot air balloons floating in the sky above Cappadocia, Turkey; and souvenir shanties on Greece’s Chios Island.
"#Theking #andhisserf," Itir, 73, cooed on Instagram in June 2022, while posting a photo of her hubby regally sitting on a chair-shaped marble boulder during their visit to the archaeological site of Aphrodisia in Turkey.
In 2020, the couple forked over $2.1 million for a 6th-floor, 1,193-square-foot apartment in the high-rise condo at 570 Broome Street, which his company constructed and whose higher-profile residents include "Jersey Shore" star Vinny Guadagnino.
[NYP] An Alabama preacher and politician killed himself Friday two days after being outed for having a secret life he shared online as a "transgender curvy girl."
F.L. "Bubba" Copeland, who was the mayor of tiny Smiths Station, with a population of just 6,756, as well as the pastor at First Baptist Church in nearby Phenix City, shot himself around 5 p.m. in front of sheriffs who were following him.
Copeland was a married father of three.
His suicide came after police were asked to do a welfare check and began tailing his car.
"He exited the vehicle, produced a handgun, and took his own life," the sheriff’s office said.
Copeland’s suicide followed an exposé in 1819 News, a news site once owned by the conservative think tank, the Alabama Policy Institute, that described Copeland’s secret life online as a transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittini Blaire Summerlin.
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For the uninformed, Phenix City is right across the state line from Columbus, Ga, and Ft Benning (I don't actually care what they changed the name to).
If you go to Jump School (Airborne) at Benning your feet will hit the ground in Phenix City.
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[ZERO] Investigative journalist Chris Papst from Fox45 News' Project Baltimore has turned his focus from the massive grading scandal in Baltimore City Public Schools to neighboring Baltimore County. He uncovers a troubling trend: An alarming number of county schools have fewer than 5% of students scoring proficient in math.
Based on new school data analyzed by Papst and his team, they found that in 27 schools, 15,256 students took the state test, with at least 95% failed to achieve proficiency in math. A closer examination revealed that out of these 27 schools, 17 are high schools.
That is an alarming number, but it makes sense if you look at the math scores for students going into high school. Last year, 10,299 students in Baltimore County took the 7th or 8th grade state math test and 5 percent or fewer scored proficient. That means, in all of Baltimore County Public Schools, 5 percent or fewer of seventh and eighth graders who took those tests scored proficient in math. - Papst wrote in the report
Papst spoke with Ryan Coleman, president of the Randallstown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who expressed concern over the new findings, stating: "African American students are not being educated."
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The NEA and other activists groups have been using schools to Politically and Morally adjust students for years.
Given there are only X number hours to teach in a school day. Using any of that time for ANYTHING other than the core curriculum, would impact any students education.
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why does a race seeking a color blind U.S. hyphenate themselves?
They are not, in any way, shape or form, advocating for a "color-blind" nation. They are advocating for self-identified victim group special privileges and marxist style division of the rest of the populace.
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The aren't. Neither are the other kids and it is quite deliberate now. Combination of DEI woke stupidity and apathy from the parents.
#9
Worked that out all by yourself, didya?
You've been demanding this for years, and when your order arrives, you don't like it. Maybe you didn't know anything about what you were demanding. And still don't.
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Not even all useful idiots realize what's up when made to kneel next to a ditch.
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George Henry Sharpe (February 26, 1828 — January 13, 1900) was an American lawyer, soldier, Secret Service officer, diplomat, politician, and Member of the Board of General Appraisers.
Sharpe was born in 1828, in Kingston, New York, into a prominent Ulster County family. He earned his bachelor's degree at Rutgers University and studied law at Yale University. He practiced law in New York City from 1847 to 1851. He served as Secretary of the United States Legation in Vienna, Austrian Empire from 1851 to 1852 and then resumed his law practice in New York from 1854 to 1861.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sharpe served as a captain in a New York regiment for three months and then returned to civilian life. In 1862, at the request of the Governor of New York, he raised a new regiment and went back into service as a colonel with the Army of the Potomac. In 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker selected Sharpe to command the Bureau of Military Information (BMI), the Army of the Potomac's intelligence operation. He served in that role until the end of the war. By the war's end, Sharpe was promoted to brevet major general.
After the war, Sharpe mixed his law practice and the pursuit of his interests in New York state Republican Party politics with several stints in Federal government service. He went to Europe to investigate the Lincoln assassination conspiracy for the State Department. He served as a U.S. Marshal in New York City and as Surveyor of the Port of New York. In 1878, he was elected to the New York State Assembly and served for four years, for two of which he was selected as Speaker. In 1884 he was appointed head of the U.S. Commission to Central and South America and then he ended his career with an appointment to the U.S. Board of General Appraisers in 1890.
[NYPOST] Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years killed 137 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.
The quake struck the Jajarkot region in the west of the Himalayan nation at 11:47 p.m. on Friday with a 6.4 magnitude, Nepal’s National Seismological Center said.
The German Research Center for Geosciences measured it at 5.7 and the US Geological Survey at 5.6.
Officials fear the corpse count could rise as first responders had reached the hilly area near the epicenter, some 300 miles west of the capital Kathmandu, only early on Saturday and began searching for survivors.
"The number of injured could be in the hundreds and the deaths could go up as well," Jajarkot district official Harish Chandra Sharma told Rooters by phone.
Although the quake’s magnitude was not severe, the damage and the corpse count would likely be high due to the poor quality of construction in the area and that it struck while people slept, officials said.
Rescue work was expected to be slow as emergency teams must first clear roads blocked by landslides in many places, they said, adding that helicopters and small planes have been asked to be ready to join the effort.
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Prob not too concerned with outbursts from hyphenated subcultures.
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The cops in Las Cruses seem to have a targeting problem, and have had one for a while. I guess this is why their Govenor feels the need to disarm the population.
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Yep, she has a kid at age 20, and that kid has a kid at 20. Means grandmother.
It's when you see grandmother at 28 you need to be concerned. And I have seen it. (Turned out grandpa was also the grandkids daddy. Things be 'different' down in the wards.)
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Come to think of it, I was a grandpa at 40, a great-grandpa at 60. Not that it's important, but my THIRD great-grandchild is due in February. . . 8^)
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Were you a father that young, Old Patriot, or were some of the kids older acquisitions?
[Guardian] Heinrich Himmler gave secret orders for up to 1,000 enslaved labourers to be shot in cold blood on the British island of Alderney, previously unpublished documents disclosed to the Observer reveal.
The direct written order by the head of the SS is the first known instruction to show that plans were drawn up to annihilate all of the occupants of the only Nazi concentration and labour camps to exist on British soil.
Himmler, a key architect of the Holocaust, instructed commanders on Alderney to murder all their prisoners and labourers "without a moment’s delay" if they caused trouble.
During the Nazi occupation, the Channel island, a British crown dependency, housed four labour sites, including a concentration camp, with their occupants forced to build the huge defences of Hitler’s so-called Atlantic wall.
[BBC] One of the world's biggest shipping firms is to cut 3,500 more jobs due to lower freight rates and demand.
AP Moller-Maersk already cut 6,500 roles earlier this year as part of "rigorous cost containment measures" but said more redundancies were needed.
The firm, which transports goods for major retailers such as Nike, said profits had plunged by 92% in its most recent quarterly results.
It said "worsening" prices for shipping by sea required further job cuts.
The cost of shipping goods soared in the first year of Covid when lockdowns lifted and businesses began to resume trading, increasing their orders for stock.
Such high demand led to congestion and logistical problems at UK ports. There was also a shortage of shipping containers in Asia, which helped drive up inflation.
More recently, however, high inflation and rising interest rates have curbed spending and dampened demand.
Maersk previously warned in August of a steeper decline in global demand for shipping containers by sea this year.
The Danish company said in a trading update on Friday that there had been "significant pressure on rates" in the past few months.
"Our industry is facing a new normal with subdued demand, prices back in line with historical levels and inflationary pressure on our cost base," said Maersk chief executive Vincent Clerc.
The job losses will reduce Maersk's global workforce to below 100,000. Some 2,500 of the latest 3,500 roles will be cut in the coming months, with the rest in 2024.
It estimates that the redundancies will save the business £600m next year,but has not revealed the locations of the cuts or the types of roles going.
The company, which controls about one-sixth of global container trade, has already decreased its staff to about 103,500 from 110,000 earlier this year.
'COST OF SHIPPING HAS COLLAPSED'
Last week Garry Grant, founder of The Entertainer toy company, told the BBC's Today programme the cost of freight for the retailer's goods had "collapsed over the last six months, back to the pre-pandemic levels".
He said the cost of one container was about $2,000 now compared to $18,000 a year ago, which he said had "really helped us to enable us to bring down some prices and, in most cases, make sure that prices haven't gone up".
Following Maersk's results, shares in the group slid 11.1% early on Friday.
The firm said it would maintain its expectations for revenue and profits, but warned both figures would land at the lower end of its estimates.
Furthermore, it cautioned that "a slowing global economy, risks of financial stress and a long list of geopolitical tensions, ranging from tense China-US relations, war in Ukraine and in the Middle East can wipe out the improvements expected" in the final three months of this year as well as volumes in 2024.
...elected in 2018 by beating six-term Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen, the first Democrat to win in that district since 1958. If he should lose, he can exercise his MBA by going back to running the family distillery, or perhaps start another new venture...
discussed the difficulty of being a Jewish member of Congress while calling out far-left House Democrats for their response to the Israel-Hamas war, citing a lack of "progressive love."
"Being a Jewish member of Congress in the Democratic caucus is very difficult right now, you can imagine," Phillips said Friday evening on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. "There is seemingly a lack of progressive love when it comes to our doorstep, and it’s problematic."
It’s not at all seeming, my dear, but very, very real.
"I know I don't look like someone whose community might need support or affection or protection," Phillips said.
Members of Congress have repeatedly sounded the alarm on the rise of antisemitism following the start of the Israel-Hamas war — including multiple arrests made in connection to hate crimes or threats against Jewish people.
"I believe one of the reasons Israel was invaded is because there is a moral, morally bankrupt leader in Israel," Phillips said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "I would say of a very morally wonderful nation who opened the door to an attack because of the division that he has caused."
Ugh.
"Not unlike a former president in this country who is also an immoral leader of a very moral country," Phillips said, referring to former President Donald Trump.
Double ugh.
Since launching his Democratic presidential bid against President Joe Biden, Philips has been increasingly vocal about how the U.S. needs to support Israel, although he’s said he supports resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution in the long term.
Missed the boat on that one, but it’s also clear that all his campaign will accomplish is to highlight that there is no longer a home for Jews in the Democratic Party, and to fertilize the national economy with the money he’ll be spending.
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The Republicans will take him to strengthen their control of the House. And he will spend a lot of time talking with supporters of Israel about how he was driven out of the Democratic Party.
#4
I take it back. After reading what he has to say about Bibi Netanyahu and The Donald, it’s clear he is still at the stage of pleading to his fellow Dems to be less mean.
Run a moderate, pro-Israel Republican against him, and see which way the voters in his corner of Minnesota fall.
#11
blaming Netanyahu's legal issues for the genocidal invasion by Hamas is a mark of someone trying to deny reality
however, I do hope he beats Biden in NH.
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What kind of Jewish name is Phillips?
The name of his mother’s second husband.
In America, anyone may have any name they want. They aren’t stuck with that horrible, insulting thing their ancestor was given when he couldn’t afford to buy a nice one following Napoleon’s decree that all would have to adopt a family name,. Many Belgians have equally horrid family names, because what they thought would be another temporary spasm of their French overlords turned out to be permanent.
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.
[NYP] A co-owner of the Brooklyn construction company being scrutinized by the feds as part of a larger probe into Mayor 
[Wiki does Sharpe or the story no justice. Read the book] 
[NYPOST] Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years killed 137 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.
[Guardian] Heinrich Himmler gave secret orders for up to 1,000 enslaved labourers to be shot in cold blood on the British island of Alderney, previously unpublished documents disclosed to the Observer reveal.
