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Blue_Tires's JournalAt least they've dropped the pretense and admitted it's all about "preserving white culture"
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1141676668790202368How Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection
Alabama sheriffs who lost reelection in 2018 personally pocketed funds and deleted public records, an investigation by AL.com and ProPublica found. Holes were drilled through government-issued smartphones and leftover rice was poured down the drain, among other things. Its a longstanding tradition that sheriffs arent typically held accountable for.Shortly after Phil Sims became the sheriff of Marshall County, Alabama, at 12 a.m. on Jan. 14, he found a cardboard box in a storage closet containing five government-issued smartphones, each with multiple holes drilled clear through them.
It was the first time Sims had been allowed to enter the sheriffs office, a red-brick building overlooking Lake Guntersville, a foggy bass-fishing mecca, since he defeated longtime Sheriff J. Scott Walls in the June primary election.
It didnt take long for Sims to learn that the destroyed iPhones and Androids had belonged to his predecessor and his top brass. Sims also discovered that the hard drives had been removed from the computers in his and his chief deputys offices, and reams of records were nowhere to be found.
The records Walls did leave behind revealed that in the months following his electoral loss, he was wired tens of thousands of dollars from the sheriffs offices general fund, and more than $30,000 was missing from its commissary fund. The records, which were reviewed by AL.com and ProPublica, show that the sheriffs office spent tens of thousands of public dollars on expenditures that Sims described as unnecessary and excessive, including over 20,000 rolls of toilet paper, hundreds of boxes of garbage bags and 10 massive drums of dishwashing liquid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alabama-sheriffs-undermine-successors-after-losing-reelection
I'm beyond words...
Do we call this one "The Panamanian Connection?"
https://twitter.com/NBCPhiladelphia/status/1141031592472784897The Nonwhite Working Class
YOUNGSTOWN, OhioIn 1984, Lewis Macklin stood up at a community meeting and argued that city officials should shut down his high school. It had been seven years since Black Mondaywhen Youngstown Sheet & Tube announced it was closing its largest factory, costing 5,000 people their jobs and setting off a chain of plant shutdowns that sent the citys population into free fall. Youngstown could no longer fill its schools, so one would have to close.
But the city did not want to shut down Macklins school, Wilson High, which was mostly white. Officials wanted to close the nearby black school instead. Macklin, who is black, recently told me the citys argument was, Keep Wilson openif you close it down, the white community will move. Well take our children and well move. That argument won. The city shut down the black school, South High, in 1993, and its students were sent to the districts remaining schools. White families continued to flee the south side anyway, and by 2016, students in the Youngstown School District were 15 percent white and 64 percent black.
Like many buildings in Youngstown, South High School stands abandoneda stately, stone Beaux-Arts building whose afterlife as a charter school never stuck. The hedges are trimmed, but the flagpole is bare. For Macklin, now a reverend at a nearby Baptist church, the building is a reminder of how deindustrialization, and the response to it, hurt not just the city of Youngstown, but the citys black community in particular.
If youve heard about Youngstown lately, it is probably because the city has been held upover, and over, and over againas the locus of white working-class drift from the Democratic Party to Donald Trump. The epicenter of the Trump phenomenon, the public policy theorist Justin Gest called the city. It was here, the story goes, that Trump stoked white anxiety, pitched cures to roiling crowds, and brought white union workers into the GOPs column for the first time in decades, where they appear to be staying put. Democrats underperformed in the region during the blue wave in 2018, and Youngstown will be represented by a Republican in the Ohio state Senate for the first time in 60 years.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/black-voters-youngstown-ohio-trump-democrats.html
What Really Happened to Malaysia's Missing Airplane
At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. He was 27 years old. This was a training flight for him, the last one; he would soon be fully certified. His trainer was the pilot in command, a man named Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior captains at Malaysia Airlines. In Malaysian style, he was known by his first name, Zaharie. He was married and had three adult children. He lived in a gated development. He owned two houses. In his first house he had installed an elaborate Microsoft flight simulator. He flew it frequently, and often posted to online forums about his hobby. In the cockpit, Fariq would have been deferential to him, but Zaharie was not known for being overbearing.
In the cabin were 10 flight attendants, all of them Malaysian. They had 227 passengers to care for, including five children. Most of the passengers were Chinese; of the rest, 38 were Malaysian, and in descending order the others came from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. Up in the cockpit that night, while First Officer Fariq flew the airplane, Captain Zaharie handled the radios. The arrangement was standard. Zaharies transmissions were a bit unusual. At 1:01 a.m. he radioed that they had leveled off at 35,000 feeta superfluous report in radar-surveilled airspace where the norm is to report leaving an altitude, not arriving at one. At 1:08 the flight crossed the Malaysian coastline and set out across the South China Sea in the direction of Vietnam. Zaharie again reported the planes level at 35,000 feet.
Eleven minutes later, as the airplane closed in on a waypoint near the start of Vietnamese air-traffic jurisdiction, the controller at Kuala Lumpur Center radioed, Malaysian three-seven-zero, contact Ho Chi Minh one-two-zero-decimal-nine. Good night. Zaharie answered, Good night. Malaysian three-seven-zero. He did not read back the frequency, as he should have, but otherwise the transmission sounded normal. It was the last the world heard from MH370. The pilots never checked in with Ho Chi Minh or answered any of the subsequent attempts to raise them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
What the hell kind of wicked heathen godlessness is this?
I'm sorry, I'm not living on a planet where foxes and cats are doing it...
Corsica 'cat-fox' could be new species, say experts
http://en.rfi.fr/france/20190615-cat-fox-found-corsica-could-be-new-species-say-french-experts
Shots fired at the Raptors parade??
https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/1140707870620770307https://twitter.com/TimLeMule/status/1140709057470316548
https://twitter.com/GelekB/status/1140709222700765184
Wherein Mr. Greenwald reads a headline and not the rest of the story:
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1140076503583068160https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1140070758242234368
MEANWHILE, in North Carolina...
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