[An Nahar] Marwan Habib, a 32-year-old Lebanese man who faced dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...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... , has been arrested in the U.S. for breaking into a woman's Miami Beach hotel room and assaulting her.According to U.S. media reports, the victim, who was visiting from the U.S. Midwest with a friend, was able to defend herself.
She reported meeting Habib, a trainer, at a clothing store where the two exchanged numbers and connected on social media. She also told officers she had planned to meet up with Habib.
"The woman told police that she was sleeping in her hotel room on November 7 when she woke up to Habib in the room with her," the reports said.
Habib was able to convince the front desk personnel at the hotel to give him a key to her room, police said.
Other women in the U.S. also reported Habib’s "odd and concerning" behavior in Miami Beach before, according to the arrest report.
In Lebanon, Habib was the subject of similar accusations by dozens of women and an attorney confronted him publicly on a television show.
U.S. media outlet NBC said Habib is facing a charge of burglary with assault in Miami-Dade County. He was being held on Friday without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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She also told officers she had planned to meet up with Habib.
"The woman told police that she was sleeping in her hotel room on November 7 when she woke up to find Habib in the room with her,"
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A teen girl was gunned down and killed during a robbery while working her shift at a Harlem Burger King, with the killer making off with only $100 for the crime
Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, was working at the Burger King at 116th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem around 1 am early Sunday morning
The teen had already wanted off the late shift because she was so scared
Bayron-Nieves, who just started the job three weeks ago, gave the robber $100 cash from the drawer, an eyewitness said, according to her mother
The robber, who has yet to be identified or apprehended, was described as a slim male who was wearing dark clothes and a black mask, according to police
Crime Stoppers offered $3,500 for the killer's capture as wanted posters with a surveillance photo of the killer could be seen on the streets of Harlem on Sunday
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Black Lives Matter Not a Whit
to these filthy animals
[STARTRIBUNE] Four teenagers were arrested within hours after an attempted carjacking Friday in Edina.Police got a tip around 7 p.m. that the suspects — three juvenile girls and an 18-year-old male — were driving around St. Paul, and a Ramsey County deputy spotted the suspect car at a gas station in the 900 block of Lexington Parkway. The man in the car drove off, leaving the girls behind, and they were arrested and taken to the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center.
The driver was arrested by Ramsey County deputies on suspicion of fleeing from police and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Hours earlier, a woman had been punched and sprayed in the face with a chemical irritant in the attempted carjacking in Edina's Country Club neighborhood. At 5:15 p.m., Edina police received a call about an attempted carjacking and aggravated robbery in the 4300 block of Sunnyside Road, according to a news release. The 49-year-old victim was returning to her vehicle when another car pulled up and two teenage girls jumped out, said they had a gun and demanded her car. The victim resisted and was punched and sprayed with the chemical, police said. The two stole the victim's wallet and cellphone, but didn't get the victim's vehicle.
Police thought the suspect vehicle was stolen in Minneapolis two days earlier in a different carjacking and the license plate was known, Edina police said.
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Edina used to be a pretty conservative area, but changed to being quite 'progressive' in the last thirty years as the city folks from Minneapolis/St, Paul started moving there to escape the deteriorating conditions in their former neighborhoods (and bringing their detrimental thought processes with them).
Usually a nice quiet area of around 50,000 population, with a surprising number of fairly famous folks from there including John Denver who lived there for a bit.
Mostly upper middle income residential, although a few major corporations have headquarters within the city.
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[NYPOST] A Florida man was chained and tortured over three days by two people who tried to force him to admit to infidelity, authorities said.Marie Dorsainvil, 51, and Occius Dorsainvil, 56, are now facing kidnapping and attempted murder charges after they forced the man to drink bleach and threatened him that if he went to the bathroom he’d have to eat it or be killed.
It wasn’t clear how the two suspects are related.
The hellish three days began in December when Marie asked the victim for a ride to her apartment, police told WTVJ. She allegedly invited the victim upstairs, but he declined, insisting that both he and Dorsainvil were married. She reportedly told the victim that her husband was away in Haiti, and they went in together.
While the victim was sitting on the couch, Occius allegedly entered the apartment with a gun. He threatened the victim and bound his hands and feet together with a chord, police said.
The duo forced him to record a statement admitting that was having an affair with the suspect’s wife.
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[Fox] Actor Dwayne Hickman, best known as the star of the TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," has died at age 87.
Hickman’s publicist, Harlan Boll, confirmed his death to Fox News Digital on behalf of the late actor’s family. Boll noted that he died on Jan. 9 in Los Angeles, Calif. due to complications caused by Parkinson's disease.
In addition to his best-known TV hit, Hickman was also on "The Bob Cummings Show" before starring as the titular Dobie Gillis, which ran for 147 episodes between 1959 and 1963. The series saw the crew-cut sporting Hickman as a 25-year-old student always trying to court the best-looking, unattainable girls from around town. His friend and co-star, Bob Denber of "Gilligan’s Island," played his best friend, Maynard G. Krebs.
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I thought Tuesday Weld was really pretty (played Thalia in Dobie G) even into the 1980s.
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Mrs. Warthog and I met him once in Carmel, CA. We were in front of an art gallery admiring some paintings. Turns out he was the artist and we chatted for a bit with him and his wife. He invited us to the opening but we couldn't make it. A nice guy and a pretty good painter..
[CLAREMONTREVIEWOFBOOKS] Despite many serious scholars’ denunciations, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has enjoyed phenomenal success since its publication in 1980: 2.6 million (!) copies sold, incorporation into the curricula of innumerable schools, and the achievement of almost iconic status in popular culture. Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America performs a valuable service by examining Zinn’s polemical volume and revealing "just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest" it truly is.
A tireless left-wing activist with a Ph.D. in history, Zinn (1922—2010) urged fellow historians, as Grabar relates, to eschew "disinterested scholarship" in order to bring about "a revolution in the academy."
Ugh. Such a tiresome cliché.
Not all radical academics agreed with his anti-capitalist take on history. Eugene Genovese declined to review Zinn’s opus, which he privately described as "incoherent left-wing sloganizing." Michael Kammen called it "a scissors-and-paste-pot job" that devoted too much attention to "historians, historiography, and historical polemic" and hence provided "little space for the substance of history." Kammen acknowledged the need for "a people’s history; but not single-minded, simpleminded history, too often of fools, knaves and Robin Hoods."
Eric Foner disapproved of Zinn’s "deeply pessimistic vision of the American experience" that emphasized how "stirring protests, strikes and rebellions never seem to accomplish anything." Zinn’s approach to "history from the bottom up" was "necessary as a corrective" but was "as limited in its own way as history from the top down." Michael Kazin credited Zinn "with virtuous intentions" but concluded that his book was little more than a "Manichean fable" and a "polemic disguised as history," a book "grounded in a premise better suited to a conspiracy-monger’s website than to a work of scholarship" and "unworthy of [the] fame and influence" it won. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., regarded Zinn as "a polemicist, not a historian."
In a 2012 survey conducted by the left-leaning History News Network, asking readers to identify the "least credible history book in print," A People’s History won second place (just behind David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies [2012]). Some respondents condemned Zinn’s work as "cheap propaganda" and "the historians’ equivalent of medical malpractice."
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Grabar’s book systematically reviews A People’s History, comparing it unfavorably to reputable scholars’ works. Born in Slovenia but raised in the U.S., Grabar earned a Ph.D. in English and taught at a number of colleges and universities in Georgia before becoming a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. She starts with Zinn’s influential account of Christopher Columbus, much of it plagiarized from Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth (1976), a crude work written for high schoolers by his friend and fellow activist Hans Koning. The leftist London Guardian described Koning’s work as "a highly polemical biography" that told "a dark story of exploitation and fanaticism" tantamount to genocide. Zinn also plagiarized from Edward Countryman, a fellow radical historian.
In addition to copying without attribution from secondary sources, Zinn cited primary sources like Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 16th-century History of the Indies, from which he quoted passages in a disingenuous manner that misrepresented their significance. Zinn maintained that Columbus thought the tribe he first encountered (the Taíno, whom Zinn calls the Arawaks) was fit for slavery, when in fact the explorer speculated that the wounds sustained by the Bahamian island’s natives had been inflicted by mainlanders who sought to enslave them. Zinn ascribed the impulse behind Columbus’s mission to greed, ignoring the strong religious motivations of both Columbus and his royal sponsors. He anachronistically depicted the tribes that Columbus encountered on his four voyages—and, in addition, North American tribes that interacted with European settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries—as peaceful feminists, environmentalists, democrats, and communists avant la lettre.
[Aljazeera] At least 19 people were killed, including nine children, and dozens of others injured in an apartment building fire in New York City’s deadliest blaze in three decades.
Trapped residents broke windows for air and stuffed wet towels under doors as smoke rose from a lower-floor apartment where the fire started. Survivors told of fleeing in panic through darkened hallways, barely able to breathe.
Nineteen people died in the blaze that broke out about 11am (16:00 GMT) on Sunday in the Twin Parks apartment building in the Bronx area of the city, New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed.
The 19-storey tower provided affordable housing and had a large community of people of Gambian origin. The children who died were 16 years old or younger, said Stefan Ringel, a senior adviser to the mayor.
"This is a horrific, horrific, painful moment for the city of New York," Adams told reporters. "The numbers are horrific."
More than five dozen people were hurt and 13 were hospitalised in critical condition. The fire commissioner said most of the victims had severe smoke inhalation.
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911, please send over only vaccinated fire fighters...
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Incidentally, almost 96% of Gambians are Muslim, which very likely has nothing to do with the fire. The majority of residents coming from the Third World, however, is definitely a risk factor.
[PJMedia] Days after being photographed maskless in Florida, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has tested positive for COVID.
"Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test result for COVID-19," her office said in a statement. "She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home."
Her office also confirmed that Ocasio-Cortez was fully vaccinated and received her booster shot this past fall. Despite contracting COVID while fully vaxxed and boostered, Ocasio-Cortez "encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all CDC guidance." It worked so well for her.
AOC has been a strong supporter of COVID restrictions, yet she hypocritically enjoyed going maskless in Florida over New Year’s weekend. She responded to the criticism of her hypocrisy by accusing Republicans of wanting to date her.
It is not clear how or when she contracted COVID, but she’ll probably blame Ron DeSantis for making her go maskless in Florida.
Via The Walking Unvaxed
JUST IN: Fully vaxxed and boosted Congresswoman AOC catches COVID:
"The Congresswoman received her booster shot this Fall, and encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all CDC guidance.” pic.twitter.com/Lv6WMtShkr
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When the original strain failed to do what was intended, (kill 1/3 of the global population) the vaccine was rolled out to fortify it. That worked, kinda, sorta. I guess we should just be glad the people pope Fauxi I gave the money to were as incompetent as he is.
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Apparently there is a moon base in Antarctica with 100% shot compliance....and a covid outbreak.
(MSN) B.1.640.2 was discovered in a traveler returning from Cameroon and has even more mutations than Omicron. And a first "Flurona" case has occurred in Israel. Just when we thought things were looking up at least a little, because the omicron variant, while being more contagious, often takes a milder course than delta, a new variant emerged. We do not yet know how dangerous it is or where it originated.
The new variant was detected in early December in a traveler who returned to France from Cameroon, the hospital IHU Méditerrannée in Marseille announced. The returnee from Cameroon reportedly infected 12 people in southern France.
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We need to QUIT calling it a Vaccince. Hell its a ongoing treatment when it only lasts a few months.
Aperson get 4 + shots & boosters, still gets sick and or dies from the "cure".
Where there hell is a seasonal VAX after 2 years?
When will we see a WORLD COURT INVESTIGATION into this clearly profit generating pandemic over cure?
Plus criminial death penalty level crimes against humanity started?
Sorry.. grumpy...been up, since 2am. When the nursing staff rounds started poking us.
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So the even supahdupah mor dedli variant has been out for a month and a half, officially, and I have just started making fun of its teenager prick name last week?
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They are already focus group testing "deltacron" as the next skeery boogie-man under the bed.
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And yet, the 'booster' is the same shot from a year ago, doesn't work after just a few months and, in the case of Omicold for sure, makes you ***more*** likely to catch COVID. Well done!
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This new mutant, called B.1.640.2, has 46 mutations ... more mutations than omicron, which has 37
OMG! If mutations are like super-powers then 46 mutations makes this an unstoppable super-virus. AIEEE!
Except that is not how it works. Mutations are errors when DNA is copied. They accumulate over time because you get all the old mutations + any new ones each time you replicate a virus. Sounds scary though, right?
[MAIL] Officials in Kazakhstan have denied that a controversial 'military biological laboratory' was seized in the recent unrest, which has so far claimed 160 lives since starting on January 2.
It is not clear if the 164 deaths refer only to civilians or if law enforcement deaths are included, but the number - provided by the health ministry to state news channel Khabar-24 - are a significant rise from previous tallies.
Kazakh authorities said earlier on Sunday that 16 police or national guard members had been killed.
Russian media highlighted claims that the US-funded facility near Almaty was compromised, resulting in a possible leak of dangerous pathogens.
The airport, mayor's office and secret services buildings fell briefly into the hands of rioters during a wave of protests backed by shadowy armed cells.
[DW] Almost 6,000 people have been arrested after a wave of protests that triggered a political crisis in Kazakhstan. The violence has claimed 164 lives, according to the latest government figures.
The number of people arrested by security forces during the violent mostly peaceful anti-government protests in Kazakhstan has reached almost 6,000, the presidential office announced on Sunday.
A statement from President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's office said "a substantial number of foreign nationals" were among the detainees.
Authorities have launched a brutal clampdown and were able to largely bring the situation under control in the country's largest city, Almaty, after Russia responded to Tokayev's call for help by sending several thousand soldiers.
"The situation has stabilized in all regions of the country," the presidential statement said.
WHAT IS THE AFTERMATH OF THE VIOLENCE?
State television, citing the country's Health Ministry, reported on Sunday that 164 people had been killed during the unrest and over 2,200 were maimed. This marks a sharp jump from a previous toll provided by the government, when officials said 40 people have died, including protesters.
Speaking from the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, on Sunday, Interior Minister Erlan Turgumbayev gave a rundown of the damage he claimed was left by the protests and festivities over recent days.
Some 400 cars, mostly police cars, were destroyed in the violence, as well as more than 100 shopping centers and banks.
Detainees are facing charges of violence against government officials, hooliganism, murder and theft, with 125 pre-trial investigations already having begun.
WHY DID THE PROTEST START?
Citizens erupted into the streets following a steep rise in fuel prices last weekend, but the protests quickly grew in scope to encompass a series of economic and political grievances. Most of their anger was directed at the country's former President Nursultan Nazarbayev ...served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Cossacks wear those great big hats. Or maybe it's the other way around... , who led the country from the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s before stepping down and naming Tokayev as his successor in 2019.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Nazarbayev kept control of the country's powerful Security Council, and was only ousted by Tokayev during the unrest this week.
After the violence led to dozens of deaths among both protesters and security forces, Tokayev ordered the security forces on Friday to open fire at protesters without warning, referring to protesters as "bandidos" and "terrorists."
Peacekeeping forces from the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) entered the country in their thousands after Tokayev appealed for assistance against the protests.
Kazakhstan’s health ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week.
The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies. It is not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if law-enforcement deaths are included. Kazakh authorities said earlier Sunday that 16 police or national guard had been killed. Authorities previously gave the civilian death toll as 26.
Most of the deaths — 103 — were in Almaty, the country’s largest city, where demonstrators seized government buildings and set some afire, according to the ministry. The country’s ombudswoman for children’s rights said that three of those killed were minors, including a 4-year-old girl.
The ministry earlier reported more than 2,200 people sought treatment for injuries from the protests, and the Interior Ministry said about 1,300 security officers were injured.
The office of Kazakhstan’s president said that about 5,800 people were detained by police during the protests that developed into violence last week and prompted a Russia-led military alliance to send troops to the country.
It was unclear how many of those detained remained in custody on Sunday.
[Free Beacon] The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for big businesses.
In an emergency hearing, the Court’s conservatives seemed persuaded by trade groups and red states who say vaccine mandates should be crafted by Congress or the states, and not a federal agency. The Biden administration’s rule requires covered businesses to compel vaccinations for their employees or regularly test the unvaccinated.
A victory for the plaintiffs would require the White House to fundamentally rework its pandemic strategy. The employer mandate is central to Biden’s bid to increase vaccinations, but it comes amid mounting frustration with his administration’s approach to the pandemic. Pervasive testing shortages linger a year into his term, and top officials have admitted that the emergence of new variants caught them by surprise.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the vaccine rule in November. It directs businesses with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccines on their own or test unvaccinated workers on a weekly basis. Unvaccinated workers must wear masks at all times and pay out of pocket for testing. There are limited exceptions for employees who work remotely full time and those who work outside.
The Supreme Court's liberal members insisted courts have no business interfering with public health decisions during a pandemic.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor—who dialed into the argument from her chambers, rather than participate in-person—was the most outspoken member of the liberal trio and painted a dire picture of the pandemic. She claimed that the Omicron variant is as deadly as the preceding Delta variant and that at least 100,000 children are hospitalized "in serious condition" with COVID, some of whom are on ventilators.
"West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin may have put the final nail in the coffin on President Joe Biden’s social spending plan. The Washington Post reports Manchin has taken his $1.8 trillion compromise proposal off the table. The WaPo cited three unnamed sources in its report."
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Damage is done. They'll strike it down, but millions have been vaccinated or lost their jobs who were at zero risk for COVID. We should be running Nuremberg trials at this stage.
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They sure as hell aren't getting in a hurry doing it. What they going to wait until a shit ton of people are fired before they get off their self important asses?
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Rex, if you put something in angle brackets, Rantburg thinks it’s an operation. So I went in and removed them for you, leaving the word behind.
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.
...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...
[NYPOST] A Florida man was chained and tortured over three days by two people who tried to force him to admit to infidelity, authorities said.Marie Dorsainvil, 51, and Occius Dorsainvil, 56, are now facing kidnapping and attempted murder charges after they forced the man to drink bleach and threatened him that if he went to the bathroom he’d have to eat it or be killed.
