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Murder, sexual abuse, smuggling: 100 US prison employees convicted for crimes since 2019

Michael Balsamo
Washington Post
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:21 UTC
Federal Correctional Institution
© AP Photo/Ben MargotFILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. Nearly 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019, accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property, sexually assaulting inmates and murder. Those arrested include Ray Garcia, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin.
More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs and weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires and tractors.

An Associated Press investigation has found that the federal Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget of nearly $8 billion, is a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. In some cases, the agency has failed to suspend officers who themselves had been arrested for crimes.


Comment: Meaning that there are likely many more crimes and cases of criminal negligence by employees that have not been investigated: Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New Jersey's prisons kept quiet by state officials


Comment: It probably shouldn't be so surprising that the prison system is increasingly corrupt when one considers the blatant and rampant criminality even in the highest levels of politics:

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Arrow Up

China fights biggest Delta outbreak as Covid-19 cases grow in northeastern city of Dalian


SCMP
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:44 UTC
Medic station China
© ReutersNortheastern Chinese port city battles COVID-19 cluster
China is battling the spread of its biggest Covid-19 outbreak caused by the Delta variant, according to numbers announced on Monday, with travellers from a city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country subject to tough quarantine rules in nearby areas.

Authorities said 32 new domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms had been reported for November 14, most of them in Dalian, a port city in northeastern Liaoning province.

That brings the tally of local cases since October 17 to 1,308, Reuters calculations based on official data showed, compared with the 1,280 from a summer Delta outbreak.

This marks China's most widespread Delta outbreak, which has affected 21 provinces, regions and municipalities. While it is smaller than many outbreaks in other countries, the authorities are anxious to block any further transmissions under the government's zero-tolerance guidance.
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Footprints

Dozens of Middle Eastern migrants enter Poland 'by force'


RT
Sun, 14 Nov 2021 13:52 UTC
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© Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/APRefugees at the Belarusian-Polish border
Grondo, Belarus • November 6, 2021
Polish officials said they have caught 50 asylum seekers who illegally entered the country from Belarus as the EU accuses Minsk of engineering a refugee crisis.

Regional police spokesperson Tomasz Krupa said 50 people crossed the border "by force" near the village of Starzyn shortly after 8pm local time on Saturday. Police detained 22 would-be asylum seekers, all of whom are Iraqi nationals, he added.

The Polish Border Guard later said all of the 50 intruders were quickly apprehended and "brought to the border line."

Krupa said that at around the same time on Saturday, several dozen people tried to breach the border near Klukowicze-Kolonia, while around 100 more were waiting nearby. According to the police spokesperson, the migrants pelted the officers with stones, damaging a police vehicle. "A stone hit the helmet of one officer. Fortunately, the policeman didn't require hospitalization," he said.

Overall, there were 223 attempted illegal crossings from Belarus to Poland on Saturday alone, according to the Polish Border Guard.

Comment: Weapons do not turn on their handlers and fire by themselves. There has to be more to this story:
A Polish soldier has died at the country's eastern border with Belarus, Poland's military has confirmed, adding that his death was a result of an "accident".

The soldier had been deployed to the border just about a week ago, Poland's 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade said in a statement. According to a preliminary report, his weapon accidentally fired and no third parties were involved in the incident. The deceased soldier also never came in contact with migrants during his service at the border.

EU blames on Minsk's "hybrid war" policies encouraging migrants to take a new route to Europe through the Belarusian territory. Minsk denies all the accusations and says that it simply can't afford to shield the EU from the influx of migrants due to the heavy sanctions imposed on Belarus.


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New Washington Post-ABC News poll spells doom for Biden and the Democrats

Jim Geraghty
National Review
Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:21 UTC
Joe Biden
© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersPresident Joe Biden holds a meeting with business leaders and CEOs at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 6, 2021.
Remember how last weekend, the conventional wisdom was that passing the infrastructure bill was going to help President Biden and the Democrats turn things around? Good times, good times.

This morning's new poll from the Washington Post-ABC News demolishes that conventional wisdom into tiny pieces.
Majorities of Americans support President Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package and a pending bill that would spend nearly $2 trillion on social programs and climate initiatives. Yet despite the backing for these measures, Biden's approval rating has ticked down to a new low, driven largely by more negative views among Democrats and independents, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The Post-ABC poll finds that, if elections were held today, 46 percent of adults overall would back the Republican candidate for Congress and 43 percent would support the Democratic candidate. Among registered voters, the GOP advantage goes to 51 percent vs. 41 percent for Democrats, a historically strong result for Republicans on this measure.
"Historically strong"? I'm trying to remember if I've ever heard of the GOP having a ten-point margin on the generic ballot. Not in 1994 or 2010. A handful in 2014 came close.
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Handcuffs

RT journalists 'handcuffed' & detained by Polish cops near border with Belarus


RT
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:12 UTC
David Khalifa
David Khalifa reporting from the Polish border via a phone live on RT France. Screenshot from broadcast.
A crew from RT France, both EU citizens, have been detained by Polish police as they covered the ongoing refugee crisis on the border with Belarus. The last thing one of them reported was that they were being placed in handcuffs.

French nationals David Khalifa, a reporter, and cameraman Jordi Demory were taken into custody after a single live broadcast from the scene, RT France said on Monday morning. They reported that the Polish police showed an "unfriendly" attitude towards them.

"On several occasions they asked us to leave and not to film," Khalifa said of the Polish troops.

Khalifa sent a message simply reading "handcuffs" before contact with himself and Demory was lost for some time. He later got in touch with RT France again, confirming he and Demory were on their way to a police station.
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NPC

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle: 'Dirty little secret' about inflation is people can afford it

Pam Key
Breitbart
Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:01 UTC
Stephanie Ruhle
NBC News senior business correspondent and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said Sunday on "Today" that the "dirty little secret" about soaring inflation was, on average, people have the money to pay more for goods.

Ruhle said, "Nobody knows exactly when they're going down, but you have to put all this in perspective. This inflation is not in isolation, and the government predicted it was going to be a challenging recovery, recovery all tied to Covid. So it's why you see things like that expanded child tax credit. You've got the families of over 60 million kids, on average, getting $430 a month. For people on fixed incomes, older people on social security, they're getting those fixed payments adjusted next year up 5.9% for inflation."

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NPC

MSNBC host claims trucking industry is made up of 'racist' white men

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:37 UTC
tiffany cross pamela day
As the trucking industry falls into a crisis-level shortage of drivers, MSNBC's Tiffany Cross accused those who populate the industry as being "a lot of white men over the age of 55," alleging that racism is widespread amongst truck drivers.

"Well, how can the industry be more welcoming?" asked "The Cross Connection" host in an MSNBC segment on Saturday discussing supply chain woes.

"Cause I have to tell you, I talked to a lot of truck drivers in preparing for this segment. And most of these truck drivers are people of color. And they talked about, you know, hearing some of the racism over the CB [Citizens Band Radio]."

Comment: Do they actually think that advertising the trucking industry as being full of racists and sexists is going to get more women into the industry? What kind of strategy is this? These people are idiots.

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Pocket Knife

Knife attacks continue to haunt Japanese metro


RT
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:17 UTC
japanese bullet train
© Reuters / Kim Kyung-HoonA Shinkansen bullet train.
A knife-wielding assailant was overpowered at Fukushima Station in Japan on Monday afternoon, after wounding a middle-aged woman, who requires hospital treatment, in the latest violent incident to plague the Asian nation.

The attack took place just before 4pm local time on Monday, with police responding swiftly to Fukushima Station, overpowering an attacker who had been "rampaging with a knife" near the bicycle storage area, according to media reports.

One woman, believed to be middle-aged, is thought to have suffered a stab wound in the abdomen during the attack and has been transported to the hospital for treatment. The attacker is reportedly in his 50s or 60s and has been detained by police. The station has now been secured following the incident.
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Attention

'Coward' BLM leader who threatened 'bloodshed' in NYC flees interview with Dan Bongino after confronted

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 02:36 UTC
Dan Bongino Hawk Newsome
Following threats of violence from New York City's Black Lives Matter chapter if the city's Mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstates the police department's anti-crime units, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome refused to condemn far-left rioting and burning down of buildings.

"But you don't want riots right?" asked Fox News host Dan Bongino during Saturday's episode of Unfiltered. "You don't want riots correct? And violence, I just want to get you on the record here," Bongino pressed Newsome.

"I'm going on the record right now. As Dr. King said, riots are the voice of the unheard. It's a natural occurrence that if people continue to be traumatized, and oppressed, they will lash out," replied Newsome on-air.

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Attention

The data don't lie: 'Bidenflation' really is here


Washington Examiner
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:52 UTC
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© AndreyPopov/Getty Images
By the time you finish reading this, your wallet will already be lighter.

"Bidenflation" is setting multidecadal records. According to new consumer price index data, inflation has hit 6.2% year over year, its fastest pace in 31 years. Inflation in October alone rose by 0.9%, up from an already alarming 0.4% in September and 0.3% in August. You have to go all the way back to George H.W. Bush's presidency to find anything like it — and we all know what happened to George Bush in the election the following year.

To counter the public's justifiable fear of inflation eating away at their wealth, the White House has ... well, put its head in the sand, denying that inflation is a problem. The denials are becoming less credible with each new release of monthly data.

Comment: The Shadow Government Statistics site provides a more realistic take on the inflation rate. The real rate of inflation is currently running near 10%:
The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living.

Further definition is provided in our CPI Glossary. Further background on the SGS-Alternate CPI series is available in our Public Comment on Inflation Measurement.
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