Society's ChildS


Stock Down

Portland's Multnomah County lost $1 BILLION from 2020-2021 as high earners fled city amid riots, pandemic

portland antifa riots graphic composite
© The Post Millennial
Multnomah County lost over $1 billion in income as high earners fled the area during the lockdowns, riots, and spikes in crime in the first year of the pandemic, according to a new report.

According to an analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service by The Oregonian from income tax returns filed in 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost a net 14,257 tax filers and their dependents, many of whom were high earners who could do jobs remotely, resulting in a net income loss of over $1 billion.

The outlet reported that the average income of those who left in 2020, the most recent year available, was 14 percent higher than those who moved the previous year, yet the average income of those who remained in or moved to the county declined during the same time frame.

Comment:


Airplane

Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow are 'acts of desperation' - Kremlin

Damage
© Sputnik/Ramil SitdikovPolice officers outside the damaged building in the Moscow International Business Center
Kiev has made numerous attempts to strike the Russian capital in recent months, with UAVs repeatedly shot down...

Ukraine is launching "terrorist strikes" on Moscow and other civilian targets in Russia out of frustration over its failures on the battlefield, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

Early on Sunday, Kiev made another attempt to attack Moscow with UAVs, this time targeting Moscow City, the Russian capital's financial and business district. All incoming aircraft were shot down by air defenses, but their debris damaged the glass facades of two skyscrapers. One person was injured, according to emergency services.

"The Kiev regime isn't achieving any success. It's obvious that the counteroffensive isn't going as planned," Peskov told journalists on Monday.

The US and NATO have invested billions in preparing Ukraine for the counteroffensive, providing it with German-made Leopard 2 tanks, American Bradley fighting vehicles and other sophisticated weapons. But according to the Kremlin spokesman, this hardware is being "used inefficiently, wasted aimlessly, which also raises questions in the Western capitals and causes great discomfort among taxpayers in Western countries."

Comment: See also:


Attention

44 killed, scores injured in suicide blast at political rally

street cyclist
© Ahmad Kamal/Global Look PressSecurity official cordons off the blast site in Khar, Pakistan • July 30, 2023
The attack in Pakistan happened in a town close to the country's border with Afghanistan...

A powerful blast at a Sunni JUI-F party convention in the Pakistani town of Khar on Sunday has killed more than 40 people and left many more injured, local officials have said.

Riaz Anwar, the health minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told AFP that 44 people had been confirmed dead and over 100 were wounded. A large deployment of police has been sent to the blast site, which is now cordoned off, provincial interim information minister Firoz Shah said, adding that the Pakistan Armed Forces have also been sent to the area.

According to Shah, the number of people injured in the blast exceeds 200. Witnesses told news outlet Dawn that more than 500 people had gathered for a JUI-F convention. "As we awaited the arrival of the central leadership, a sudden and loud bang echoed through the venue," 24-year-old JUI-F supporter Sabeeh Ullah, who was injured in the explosion, told NDTV.

An emergency official told Pakistani media that a local JUI-F Party leader died in the blast. A religious conservative party, JUI-F is part of the current government coalition in Pakistan. Provincial police inspector general, Akhtar Hayat Khan, told Geo TV that the blast was the result of a suicide attack.

Comment: National Herald India accuses ISIS of the attack:
Police in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said on Monday, July 31, that an initial probe has suggested that the banned terrorist group ISIS is behind the suicide attack. District Police Officer Nazir Khan said three suspects have been taken into custody. Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Khan said 10 kilogrammes of explosives set off by a suicide bomber were used in the blast.

Sabeehullah, a 24-year-old JUI-F supporter who had his arm fractured by the blast, said the scale of injuries was horrifying:
"There was utter confusion, with human flesh, limbs, and body parts scattered throughout the area, alongside lifeless bodies. I found myself lying next to someone who had lost their limbs. The air was filled with the smell of human flesh,"
Former prime minister Imran Khan said he was saddened to learn about the blast and extended condolences to the victims' families:
"The rise in terror incidents across Pakistan particularly in KP, calls for an urgent need to reconsider our priorities. The authorities should focus on eliminating terrorism."
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, has condemned the attack. TTP spokesman Khalid Khurrasani also condemned the blast.



Arrow Up

'Shocking' number of missing women and girls in India revealed

Protest
© AFPWomen of India hold a demonstration over ethnic and sexual violence • Imphal, Manipur, India
The government's decision to publish the data comes amid national outrage over violence against women in Manipur...

India's Home Ministry informed the parliament last week that over 1 million adult women and more than 250,000 underage girls went missing across the country between 2019 and 2021, PTI news agency reported. The data was compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau.

The central and western Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, respectively, topped the list for the most number of missing women, while the eastern state of West Bengal registered the most missing girls during the period.

Among India's eight Union Territories, Delhi recorded the highest number of missing girls and women. Over 61,000 women and nearly 23,000 girls went missing between 2019 and 2021 in the nation's capital.

The figures come as a shocking revelation at a time when the nation is being rocked by the news coming out of Manipur, a remote state in India's northeast, where crimes against women have become a visible part of the ongoing ethnic conflict.

Comment: See also: Millions of missing girls in India


Popcorn

Best of the Web: 'They're worse than the Russians!' Colombian mercenaries beaten and humiliated by Ukraine's military

ukraine colombia mercenaries
Screenshots
Colombian military advisers who train soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (UAF) complained that they were beaten and humiliated by the GUR officers. The corresponding videos were published and distributed on the Web. Writes about it RIA News.

In the footage, filmed indoors, where there were people in camouflage uniforms, a group of Spanish-speaking mercenaries can be seen talking in raised tones with, as follows from the comments of those present, members of the Main Intelligence Directorate.

"Here you see how the GUR and the Ukrainian authorities treat those who help them. <...>. Ukrainians are worse than Russians," the author of the video says in Spanish.

From another video taken on the street, it becomes clear that the conflict arose because of the unwillingness of one of the Colombian military advisers to train three Ukrainian soldiers. "I performed my tasks, instructed people, and he (points to one of the Ukrainians. — Note from Lenta.ru.) treats us like animals, because I didn't train three of them," the Colombian says to the camera.

Comment: Pledge Times also reports:
'They treat me like a dog': Colombian mercenaries denounce humiliation in Ukraine

[...]

To defend itself against Russia, Ukraine created a international legion. It is an army that receives men of different nationalities, including Colombians, to fight for the country.

'Ukrainians are worse than Russians'

In the midst of the war, Colombian mercenaries have denounced humiliations. According to a video posted online, a Colombian exploded against a Ukrainian, apparently for throwing a gas at him by not training his men correctly.


According to commentary in the video, the gas is some kind of pepper spray.


"25 dead Colombians for this one to gas me? He treats me like a p... dog. I have a shearing for your country of dam... I fulfilled my orders, trained people and that dog treats me like an animal!" shouted the Colombian.

Due to the heated discussion, other mercenaries joined the claims: "A lot of humiliation, that's why people leave!"

It would not be the only episode they have experienced. A video shows more Colombians complaining about the alleged punishments: "Here you are seeing how the Ukrainian entities, which we have come to help, treat Colombians. Hooded men entered to beat our comrades. Ukrainians are worse than Russians."

According to the footage, several mercenaries would have been beaten. So much so that a Colombian, on the ground, cried and hurled insults at the locals.

Neither the Ukrainian nor the Colombian authorities have ruled on the complaints.

Colombians who have died in Ukraine

In mid-2022, Christian Camilo Márquez, a Colombian who had joined the Ukrainian Army, died.. Alexis Castillo, 24, who was fighting alongside the pro-Russians in Donbas, also lost his life.

On January 24, the Foreign Ministry also reported that two other Colombians who were fighting as volunteers in Ukraine as part of the International Legion died.

The death of Manuel Ferley Barriosfather of four children, met at the end of March 2023. According to what his wife said, the Army pensioner planned to pay off a loan of 80 million pesos that he had acquired to have a home.

"He said that he was going to work for nine months, he would recover the house and come to fix his obligation, but now he is not here, the debt continues and we are worse off," his wife told the local newspaper. The nation.

However, upon reaching Ukrainian territory, the situation was very different from what he thought. According to the conversations he had with his wife, everything was terrible.

In April, Three more Colombians who were part of the international 'Carpathian Sich' battalion were killed in a Russian attack in the Donetsk region.

For insight into the kind of people that make up the ranks of Ukraine's military, see: 'All the real skinheads went to Ukraine': An American Neo-Nazi outlines the crimes of his Ukrainian 'colleagues'


Newspaper

US-Chilean Gonzalo Lira journalist describes torture in Ukrainian prison

Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira
Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira in his last video, three miles from the Ukraine-Hungary border, July 31, 2023
Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira, who was arrested by Ukrainian intelligence in May on charges of pro-Russian sympathies, reappeared online on Monday and told a sordid tale of beatings and extortion while awaiting a show trial.

"I was tortured in two of the four cells I was in — by the other prisoners," Lira posted in a 25-tweet thread on Monday evening, noting that all the torture in the pre-trial detention center (SIZO) was outsourced to the inmates.

"I got a cracked rib in my first cell, but it wasn't too bad. The worst stretch was in my fourth cell. From 1pm on June 21 until 7pm the next day — 30 hours" two inmates tortured him and at one point "used a toothpick to scratch the whites of my left eye, while asking me if I could still read if I had just one," Lira wrote.

Comment: The Kiev junta is known to torture, and even murder, political prisoners and POWs:


Pistol

Shots fired: Twitter explores lawsuit against pro-censorship operatives CCDH

elon musk
Twitter parent company X corp is exploring a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based dark money nonprofit run by a far-left British Labour Party operative named Imran Ahmed.

Earlier this month journalist Paul Thacker dropped a Twitter files exposé via The Disinformation Chronicle in which we learn that pre-Musk Twitter employees took action against several conservative accounts after the CCDH released a report alleging that just 12 accounts produced the majority of anti-vaccine disinformation on social media.

Facebook, meanwhile, rejected the report, saying in a statement that "There isn't any evidence to support this claim."

Comment: See also:


Eye 1

The indoctrination of America's boys is not working

boys american flag
Major media outlets, including The Washington Post and numerous left-slanted ones, have published articles to persuade the public that the up-and-coming generation holds more socially and politically progressive attitudes. However, a new respected federal survey of American youth shows otherwise.

The Hill cites a new survey from Monitoring the Future that shows an explosion of high school seniors that identify as male and say they're "conservative" or "very conservative." Data from the survey extends back more than a half-century to the mid-1970s. The eruption happened during President Trump's first term. Meanwhile, male respondents who identified as "liberals" plunged to 13%.

political identities boys

Microscope 1

DNA tests confirm the body found on a Swiss glacier is of a German mountaineer missing since 1986

swiss alps
© AP Photo/Jamey KeatenGondolas go up next to the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.3, 2020.
DNA tests have confirmed that the body recently found on a glacier southeast of the famed Matterhorn peak is that of a German mountaineer who disappeared 37 years ago, police in southwestern Switzerland said Thursday.

Increasing glacier melt, which many scientists blame on global warming, has spurred a recent increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other Alpinists who went missing decades ago.

Regional police said the 38-year-old German went missing in September 1986 and that searches at the time did not find him.

Flashlight

Human trafficking survivor hails 'Sound of Freedom' as beacon of hope for raising awareness

Bishop Donna Hubbard Fox
Several GOP lawmakers have demanded hearings on human trafficking.

"Sound of Freedom" shattered box office expectations, raking in over $140 million across the U.S. and casting a spotlight on one of the most overshadowed problems in today's world.

Human trafficking survivor Bishop Donna Hubbard said she's not surprised by the film's success, however, and praised it for raising so much awareness that even congressional lawmakers are jumping in to call for action.

Comment: See also: