New York Post,
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Conor Skelding
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At least five homeless people have turned a stretch of Whitney Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens into an urban camping ground. The encampment has persisted for two years—with the city taking no action, despite 41 complaints made through 311 since Jan. 1, 2020.
“Everybody complains. It’s too dirty. Sometimes Sanitation comes, sometimes they don’t. If they don’t come, it’s a mess,” Steven Li, 45, manager of nearby Getting Well Rx Pharmacy Inc., said.
Littered along the sidewalk, gutter, and street are bags of trash, clothes, office chairs, a shopping cart and milk crates.“We call [the police] so many times. The cops don’t come. They told us, ‘What can we
Daily Mail (UK),
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Stephen Gibbs
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Backpacker killer Ivan Milat did not live to see his long-term home's latest refurbishment but he would not really fit in at Supermax these days. Milat was one of the first inmates when Supermax opened 20 years ago and before his death in 2019 was already the odd one out in many ways.(Snip)Originally called the High Risk Management Unit, this plain-looking fortress is now officially designated the High Risk Management Correctional Centre. It is known to the public as Supermax but has sometimes been dubbed Supermosque due to its ever increasing number of Islamic inmates. Supermax sits with the grounds of Goulburn Correctional Centre
Guardian [U.K.],
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Kim Willsher
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In the middle of Paris’s third Covid lockdown last March, a hashtag appeared on Twitter with a photo of a lock on the Canal Saint-Martin that runs through the north of the city clogged with litter, plastic bags and bottles. Images of Paris looking worse for wear are nothing new but, within days, dozens of pictures of overflowing bins, broken pavements and graffiti-covered walls appeared with the same hashtag–#SaccageParis–which roughly translates as Trashed Paris. Today, less than a year on, the hashtag has been used more than 2.7m times on Twitter alone and has become the battle cry for those who fear the once beautiful city
New York Daily News,
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Thomas Tracy
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An unhinged commuter attacked two MTA conductors during a violent 7-minute spree at a Bronx train station, police said Saturday. The suspect, who was wearing a black bubble coat, grey hoodie and was carrying a cup of coffee, appeared agitated and was pacing on the Manhattan-bound platform at the Prospect Ave. station near Longwood Ave. in Foxhurst at 3:13 p.m. Thursday when a No. 5 train came rolling into the station. When the conductor opened his window to perform a safety check, the straphanger punched him in his arm before the train went onto the next station. The man remained at the station for another few minutes
Fox News,
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Andrew Mark Miller
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A man convicted of attempting to set fire to a high school during the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to five years probation. Mohamed Hussein Abdi, 20, was handed the probation sentence in a U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, according to court documents obtained by Fox News. Abdi was also ordered to pay just over $34,000 in restitution to Gordon Parks High School in St. Paul. Court documents state that the sentence was “imposed pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.” The presiding judge, Reagan-appointed District Court
Daily Mail (UK),
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Joe Davies
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Vitamin D may help fight off coronavirus after all, a study suggests. The jury has been out on the 'sunshine vitamin' since early in the pandemic, with conflicting findings muddying the waters. Papers that did find a link were deemed not rigorous enough and not definitive. But a new study—this time in Israel—claims to have the most conclusive evidence yet. Previous research has been criticised for only looking at vitamin D levels when the Covid patient was already in hospital.(Snip)To overcome this limitation, in their latest study, researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center looked at patient records up to two years before
ZeroHedge,
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Tyler Durden
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Four weeks ago, OneAmerica insurance company CEO Scott Davison revealed that they had witnessed 'the highest death rates in the history of this business—not just at OneAmerica' with a jump of '40% over what they were pre-pandemic.' Interestingly, Davison noted that the majority of deaths are not classified as due to Covid-19. The implication to many was clear—that the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to the excess mortality, and months of vaccine injury reports were now spilling over to actuarial data—which is beginning to show, among other things, that younger, working-age people began dying in greater numbers as vaccine mandates hit
Daily Mail (UK),
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Olivia Devereux-Evans
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The Home Office has told refugees staying in hotels it will stop giving them free toiletries and medication, according to a new letter. The letter states that the measures will come into effect on February 11 and comes after it was revealed that the Government is spending £4.7 million a day housing asylum seekers in hotels, an estimated £127 per person. Faiz Mohammad Seddeqi, 30, a former guard at the British Embassy in Kabul, received the letter on Thursday. Mr Seddeqi has been staying in a hotel for almost six months after he was evacuated to the UK from Afghanistan in August last year with his wife and son.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Henry Martin
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Disgraced peer Lord Ahmed has been jailed for more than five years for trying to rape a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy aged under 11 in the 1970s—and his victim is now calling for him to be stripped of his title. The former Labour politician, 64, was convicted in January of sexually abusing two children when he was a teenager in Rotherham.(Snip)Ahmed was found guilty of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery and was today jailed for five years and six months. His two victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, both bravely sat in court to see their abuser jailed.
New York Post,
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Jesse O'Neill
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Five robbers swarmed a high-end Soho boutique Thursday afternoon, stealing $48,300 worth of luxury goods and injuring a security guard. The brazen heist happened around 12:30 p.m. at the Celine Boutique on Wooster Street, where some pricey handbags retail for thousands of dollars, the NYPD said. Two suspects casually entered the Manhattan store before three cohorts pushed the door open and fought with the French boutique’s security, according to police.
One guard suffered an injury to his elbow and thumb during the fracas. The suspects fled the store with their haul and remained on the run Friday night, police said. In 2020, thieves robbed the Soho store
New York Daily News,
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Rocco Parascandola*
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Chris Sommerfeldt
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Mayor Adams bragged in 2019 about being a better police officer than his “cracker” colleagues in the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.
Adams, who was at the time gearing up to launch his campaign for mayor, went on the racially-charged diatribe while at a private event in Harlem on Dec. 13, 2019, a video exclusively obtained by The News shows. “Every day in the Police Department, I kicked those crackers’ a--,” Adams says in the video. “Man, I was unbelievable in the Police Department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement,” he continued, referring to a police advocacy group he co-founded in the 1990s.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Andrea Cavallier
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Federal workers in Portland went off on city commissioners over the 'intolerable' and 'dangerous' conditions of the downtown area outside federal buildings, where they describe having to 'step over discarded needles and people sleeping in doorways to get to work.'
On Wednesday, the City Council heard from two people who both live and work in downtown Portland who demanded that the situation be addressed, specifically, the massive homeless encampment outside federal buildings. 'Trash and human waste are everywhere,' Dar Crammond, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Oregon Water Science Center, said at the meeting. 'Drug dealing is rife, and we often have to step over discarded needles and sleeping forms
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The primary job of most Federal Workers is to create expensive problems designed to harm the quality of life for the rest of us, so it's troubling indeed that these fine folks should have to deal with this sort of thing.