The San Francisco Bay Area faced a third consecutive day of brazen shoplifting on Sunday
A group of about 40 to 50 teenage looters wielding hammers smashed glass cases at a Hayward jewelry store and ran off with an unknown amount of goods at around 5.30pm Sunday
The suspects also reportedly ran into other stores in the Southland Mall and walked away with clothes and shoes, though police do not know how many items were stolen
Just about an hour later, in San Jose, a group of suspects entered a Lululemon store in the outdoor mall at Santana Row and took an unknown amount of merchandise before they fled the scene
The thefts come one day after a group of 80 brazen shoplifters entered a Nordstrom in nearby Walnut Creek
Three people were arrested in that incident, in which three employees were injured
And on Friday, a Luis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square was targeted and ransacked by a group of more than a dozen thieves
Residents in the business owners in the area cite a 2014 law that downgraded the theft of property less than $950 in value from a felony charge to a misdemeanor for the rise in thefts
They also blame woke San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for a rise in crime - he now faces a recall election amid fury over his soft-on-crime stance
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Given the many shortages we are told we are facing nationwide... maybe we should stop sending food stuff into these lawless areas. Until they are under control again.
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But according to the California Penal Code, what we saw was not looting.
The penal code defines looting as “theft or burglary…during a ‘state of emergency’, ‘local emergency’, or ‘evacuation order’ resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster.”
Video posted to social media on Sunday shows the moment a prison gang beat a schizophrenic inmate unconscious with everything they could grab
Jayshawn Boyd, 22, was standing in a common area of the Essex County Correctional Facility when a group of inmates started beating him
One of them could be seen holding an industrial broom, which he uses to hit Boyd with as the others grab other items
Another inmate dumps water from a mop bucket on him
And others hit him with everything they can, including one shirtless man who threw a microwave on his head four times
The seven men have been charged but have not yet gone before a grand jury
No guards interfered during the altercation
Lawyers for Boyd are now suing Essex County, New Jersey officials claiming they violated his Constitutional rights by putting him in a dangerous situation
They claim he was put in the 'gang unit' of the prison, despite not being a gang member
They also claim negligence and improper training by the Essex County Department of Corrections prompted the attack
Boyd is now in a medically-induced coma at a Newark hospital
Boyd's lawyers filed a tort claim late last month against Essex County officials claiming that correctional officers violated Boyd's Constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment by putting him in a 'gang unit' - even though Boyd is not a member of any gang.
Boyd was taken into custody at the jail on September 9 for two domestic altercations involving his mother and his brother.
In May, Boyd - who suffers from schizophrenia - was transferred from the Essex County jail to Ann Klein, a psychiatry hospital, as he awaited sentencing and a trial for the domestic assaults, NJ.com reports.
Mr. Boyd should be in a locked psychiatric ward for the violent insane, but the only place that has such long term housing is the prison system — but not all prisons have separate areas for the criminally insane. Contra the Daily Mail’s report, we don’t know what happened after these few minutes.
[MonitorUganda] The Trump Organization has reached a deal to sell its Washington hotel lease for $375 million to CGI Merchant Group, which plans to remove ex-president Donald Trump's name from the luxury property's facade, US media reported Sunday.
The Miami-based investment fund has struck a separate agreement with Hilton Worldwide Holdings to rebrand the Trump International Hotel as a Waldorf Astoria, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Contacted by AFP, CGI declined to comment. The Trump Organization and Hilton group also did not immediately return requests.
The historic building just a short walk from the White House and down Pennsylvania Avenue from the US Capitol is not owned by the Trump Organization.
Once the capital city's main post office, the structure is owned by the US government which in 2013 leased it to Trump's real estate company for 60 years, with an option to extend for another 40 years.
The Trump Organization invested some $200 million in the renovation of the building, which was constructed in the late 19th century and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to a report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the company created to manage the hotel, Trump Old Post Office LLC, incurred more than $71 million in losses between the hotel's opening in 2016 and August 2020. It has never turned a profit.
During Trump's presidency the establishment -- known for its massive atrium and soaring clock tower -- served as a meeting place for Republican officials, donors and lobbyists.
At the time several lawmakers and other figures expressed concern that the 263-room hotel was accommodating foreign dignitaries visiting Washington.
They pointed to a potential conflict of interest for Trump, who was both president of the United States and still a key shareholder in the Trump Organization.
A congressional investigation into the matter is ongoing.
The American Federation of Medical Specialists makes it clear, "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license."
Hopefully asking thoughtful questions and observing how the medical authorities like Dr. Anthony Fauci have changed their own positions on vaccines is not considered "misinformation." Or that citing the CDC and major news organizations won’t be considered "disinformation." In the 1950s, x-raying pregnant women was standard practice, and questioning that harmful procedure, were such a thing to be done in the 1950s with today’s climate now might be considered mis- or disinformation.
VAERS is voluntary reporting. For a variety of reasons, all cases do not make it to the VAERS database. How much is this underreporting? VAERS did their own analysis about ten years ago and found, "Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported." Their words, not mine.
This means adverse events could be happening far more frequently than what we are being told by the corporate media who don’t even report VAERS's current data. What if these adverse events are 10 or even 100 times more common than VAERS reports? To paraphrase Billy Beane, "If the vaccines are safe, why aren’t they safe?"
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Ditto lockdowns and masks. If they were going to work, they would have by now.
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But wait! Masks stopped the flu dead in its track!
COVID must be sneakier...
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The vaxxes are working like diluted penicillin. It doesn't kill the bug, it allows it to mutate as a another viable strain. We have a protocol now with existing drugs to be administered at the initial onset of the virus. Let it run its course.
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The vax's are working as designed. Folks continue the mistake of working of the wrong set of requirements.
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11/23/2021 14:30 Comments ||
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The vax's also work in other ways that are mostly unknown at present. See this abstract
Five years of following vaxed vs. unvaxed are probably necessary to sort that out.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
11/23/2021 18:15 Comments ||
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Forgot to mention in #5. The research in that citation has probably not been done with respect to other immunizations, such as those for tetanus, flu and shingles. Maybe all immunizations do that on a short term basis.
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Fearing the military is siding with main stream america and his handlers needing some good PR where he full is too full to talk. He visits troops he will send to remote places that should be prepping to defend the homeland from CCP.
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Resurrecting a 60's comment - using troops for window dressing at a staged PR event, like everything this is theater for the clueless on social media and the MSM.
Gag me with a spoon...
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Did he regal them with Beau’s exploits as a JAG NG officer? Recount how he won a Bronze Star in the Green Zone for legal services that were far beyond the call of duty? One assumes they served a carefully curated crew.
[The Wrap] Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Chris Wallace bristled at the direction the network is headed, skewing away from news and more towards a nearly full-time editorial bent, according to a lengthy report by NPR.
Baier and Wallace, according to the report, "shared their objections with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and its president of news, Jay Wallace." The objections eventually made their way to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network’s parent company, Fox Corporation.
Fox News representatives declined to offer statements regarding Baier and Wallace, and Murdoch didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
NPR’s report comes the day after news broke that two longtime Fox News commentators, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, quit following the release of a trailer for Tucker Carlson’s Capitol Riot special report, "Patriot Purge," which supports and amplifies false claims and conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
The #US slaps sanctions on another company involved in the controversial #Russia-#GermanyNord Stream 2 pipeline even as it stops short of more drastic steps.https://t.co/xKyb47n8Nu
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States was imposing sanctions on Transadria Ltd., a shipping company linked to Russia, as well as two vessels.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... ’s administration took the action as part of a required report to Congress on action against the pipeline, which Ukraine and other Eastern European states fear will embolden Moscow and reduce their leverage.
But Biden has waived sanctions on the main company behind Nord Stream, concluding that the pipeline will go ahead anyway and that it is better to work with Germany.
"Even as the administration continues to oppose the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including via our sanctions, we continue to work with Germany and other allies and partners to reduce the risks posed by the pipeline," Blinken said in a statement.
Germany, in a deal with the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... , agreed to economic support to Ukraine on transitioning to clean energy and said it would insist that Russia keep gas flowing through its neighbor.
The administration’s approach has found wide opposition in the US Congress, with one Republican senator citing the issue to hold up State Department nominations.
[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "America’s Newsroom," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is acting as the Chinese Communist Party’s "frontman" in the case of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai and argued that the U.S. should totally boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics because we can’t guarantee the safety of American competitors from "ubiquitous electronic surveillance, to DNA harvesting, or simply hostage-taking."
Cotton said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:30] "The IOC is acting as nothing but a frontman for the Chinese Communist Party. Last week, I called for a complete and total boycott of these games, partly because the Biden administration cannot assure the safety of our athletes and their coaches and staff from ubiquitous electronic surveillance, to DNA harvesting, or simply hostage-taking. If the Chinese Communist Party will take its own athletes and disappear them and then march them out in hostage videos like this, what will they do to our athletes? This is a regime that is committing genocide against its own people. We should not be doing anything to celebrate or honor China with these [Olympic] games. We can rebid them. There [are] probably half a dozen European nations that could host them in February if we move now."
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We Can't Ensure Safety of Olympic Competitors in China
A PRC 'COVID style' quarantine of Olympic Competitors may be necessary. It will be for their own safety. Commercial air travel will be restored when the conflict between the mainland and our break-away province has been brought under control.
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The Wright brothers didn't fly very far at Kitty Hawk either but they knew they were onto something and they kept working on it. I believe that competition and demand will drive innovation and advances in this technology until it gets to the point where it is no longer the butt of your jokes.
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Agree with Abu. Innovation takes time. Batteries need to get significantly better and cheaper to make electric planes worthwhile. Good to see demonstrations of new tech.
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I'll say one thing, if it catches fire, it's toast. Fuel based planes are too, but they can at least be put out. If that crashes, it's going to burn out for a long time.
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As Stephen den Beste put it: "Batteries need to be better than the energy density of a diesel engine and its fuel tank, also refuel up as fast" (or words to that effect). They have a long way to go to meet that goal.
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Couldn't you combine batteries with solar. Once you get high enough there are no cloud problems and your upper surfaces could potentially generate power to recharge, assuming they are light and sturdy enough of course.
No beef with competition and innovation. BIG beef with current mania for filling every urban parking area and suburban cul-de-sac with filthy, inefficient, expensive subsidized people-anchors.
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.
Didn't see any of these among the attendees. 
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
