Update: 3 more Oregon staffers at @StHelensSD School District near Portland are under criminal investigation over child s—x crimes at the school. This is in addition to 2 woke teachers recently arrested and charged for child s—x abuse of students. Read: https://t.co/BbNdgO5t7k
They grasp capitalism just fine. Sadly, they reject the restrictions we accept as part of living in a high trust, First World country.
[NYPost] Arroz con racket: Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme
A dingy Brooklyn restaurant with a laundry list of revolting health violations is at the center of an illegal vending scheme involving dozens of migrant women, who hawk meals made in its filthy kitchen on street corners across the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
With growing concern over such unregulated and potentially dangerous operations popping up citywide, The Post tailed about a half-dozen pollo peddlers — illegal migrants mostly from Ecuador — who have commandeered choice spots to sell $10 plates of chicken and rice.
The food originates in a Dominican joint called Guisa’o Restaurant in Bushwick, where up to 50 migrants at a time squeeze into a tiny kitchen to cook the grub, which is then delivered in coolers by van to the illegal street sellers.
“People really need to know the story behind the food they’re eating when it comes to these illegal migrant vendors,” said Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens), who sits on the health committee and learned of the scheme from The Post.
“These aren’t just kindly old ladies making meals in their home ovens. This is a mass operation with dozens of illegals crammed into a filthy, violation-riddled kitchen in Bushwick, churning out food by the caseload to sell on our streets.
“This is truly disgusting, and I think if more people knew that their quick ten-dollar lunch was actually from a jam-packed kitchen . . . strewn with vermin droppings and who knows what else, they might think twice before ordering off the guy on the corner.”
She continued: “And it’s cutting into local businesses, too, impacting the bottom line of shops trying to do the right thing and sell food the right way.”
On Wednesday, at about 11:30 a.m., The Post observed a van pull up to five Ecuadorian women standing along First Avenue and East 78th Street on the Upper East Side. Men unloaded 15 coolers, each filled with 50 to 100 pre-made lunches.
The women — who ranged in age from their early 20s to late 40s — then sold the tins of chicken, beef and fish over rice or fries, with a can of Coke, for $10, mostly to local hardhats.
One woman admitted in Spanish that she and the other sellers are in the U.S. illegally and don’t have a permit to sell food.
“We don’t want any problems; we’re just here to sell and make some money,” said the woman.
Around 1:30 p.m., following a lunch rush that drew roughly 25 customers, a van returned to collect the unsold containers.
The silver double-doored van with tinted windows then headed seven miles south to wholesale provider Restaurant Depot in Masbeth, Queens, where it met another tinted-windowed van. Three women and one man got out of both vans, and a woman went inside to pick up meat and other ingredients.
They all then loaded boxes of food into the back of the silver van, which soon after made a four-mile bee-line Guisa’o at 1062 Broadway.
There restaurant workers told The Post the food would be cooked for the next day’s vending.
A Guisa’o manager admitted about “50 immigrants” come there regularly to cook food in the kitchen with help from his staff.
In July, city health inspectors found a litany of stomach-churning violations at Guisa’o, including evidence of rats and insects. In all, it racked up 96 penalty points and received a “C” grade – the lowest given out by the Health Department.
Guisa’o — Spanish for “stew” — was also slammed with $10,959 in unpaid state tax liens last year that have since been satisfied, records show.
The business is registered with the state under a shadowy shell corporation called 1062 Food Corp. that fails to name any officers, records show.
The eatery’s manager claimed the owner is Rafael Veloz, but Veloz insisted a woman named “Maria” bought the business a few months ago and that she could spill the beans about the migrant operation.
He then blurted to the reporter, “Wait, are you calling from the Health Department? You’re not calling from the Health Department, right?”
Maria declined to give her last name but confirmed she owned Guisa’o and that illegal migrants are indeed using its kitchen to cook food and sell at construction sites. She declined further comment.
Guisa’o sits on the ground floor of a three-story building owned by a company called Beeda Realty and SVC Corp. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, records show. Edwin Rodriquez, who is listed at Beeda’s chief executive officer, claimed it’s not his building.
Back in Manhattan, locals begged for enforcement.
“I understand [the migrants] feel the need to make money, but as far as I know they’re not here legally and they’re” putting consumers at risk “selling unregulated food,” said Upper East Sider Russell Rivera. “There’s people who legally work very hard in the hospitality industry, and [the migrants are] just showing up and taking their business.”
Jose Leon, owner of Italian Village Pizza & Restaurant on the corner of East 78th Street and First Avenue, said his profits dropped 30% since the migrants began peddling outside his shop nearly two years ago.
“I understand it’s affordable, but why do we have to be penalized when we pay taxes, insurance, everything?” he barked. “What’s wrong with this city?”
Selling food without a street vending license usually carries a $1,000 fine. He said he’s lodged roughly 20 complaints with the city — to no avail.
Under Mayor Adams, the city has beefed up enforcement against illegal vendors, but there are no records on a migrant crackdown. The NYPD and Sanitation Department, considered the main oversight agencies for street vending rules, has already issued more than 9,000 summonses to vendors this year, according to a recent analysis by City Limits. This includes 5,747 tickets doled out by cops through September – or more than triple the 1,812 handed out during the same period in 2019 before the pandemic. Sanitation inspectors through October handed out 3,281 tickets – more than double the1,535 given the year before.
Leon, however, took matters into his owns hands a few months ago. He said he told the women he’d “throw all [their] stuff in the street” if they didn’t leave. They listened, moving their containers of food about 100 feet north and becoming other business’ problem.
Dierct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Indonesian authorities have warned of a surge in activity at the Karangetang volcano on Siwu Island. This could lead to powerful pyroclastic flows descending from the summit, Antara reported on November 24, citing data from the Geological Agency of the country's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
"Beware of pyroclastic flows when the old lava dome on top of the mountain collapses," Antara quotes the head of the Geological Agency, Muhammad Wafid, as saying .
He also explained that pyroclastic flows from the volcano could form due to the accumulation of lava and mudflows during rains. According to the expert's assumptions, the magma that has accumulated inside the volcano will begin to move from the depths of the crater to its surface.
There are currently about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Karangetang is considered one of the most active. Due to its structure, eruptions are often accompanied by lava flows.
On November 4, Regnum reported that at least ten people were killed in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara as a result of the eruption of the Lewotobi volcano. During the eruption, some houses in the village of Klatanlo in the Ulangitan district were destroyed by rocks falling from the top of the mountain.
Previously, geologist experts studying the annual rings of semi-fossil trees in Yamal were able to determine the exact date of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10 thousand years. It occurred on the Kikai volcano in 5279 BC
[GEO.TV] In a worrying development, Pakistain's polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... virus tally has reached 55 after three more children were diagnosed with the crippling disease, sources told Geo News on Sunday.
As per details, two new polio cases have been reported in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... whereas one child has been affected by the virus in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa bringing the provinces' total to 26 and 14, respectively.
Confirming the new cases in Balochistan, the health department has said that one polio case was reported from Districts Zhob and Jaffarabad each.
District Zhob has now reported three, whereas District Jaffarabad's tally stands at two polio cases in the ongoing year, added the health department.
Balochistan has reported the highest number of poliovirus cases in 2024 followed by KP. Sindh has reported 13 cases, whereas Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... and Islamabad have each reported one case of polio this year.
The fresh cases come as Pakistain remains one of the last two countries in the world where the wild poliovirus continues to spread.
This persistence is largely attributed to obstacles such as insecurity, misinformation, and community reluctance, which hinder vaccination efforts.
The highly contagious viral disease predominantly affects children under five, particularly those with weak immunity or inadequate vaccination.
Health authorities have time and again underscored the importance of vaccination campaigns to curb the spread of this preventable disease, which remains a significant public health challenge in the country.
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1 of several 3rd world nations where the Polio Vax is not a common administered. Despite Dr. Albert B. Sabin (1963) vax version being proven safe and affective for mass application.
It sure didn't sterilize Females or inhabit the Males either.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Boy howdy, this article by The Associated Press is very telling.
First, it’s worth remembering that in the fine print of the USMCA deal, Mexico and Canada must comply with North American parts origination for anything they want to manufacture for sale into the United States. Meaning, all trade manufacturers must either create their component parts domestically, or purchase them from the U.S, Mexico and Canada. It’s the core point of the USMCA trade agreement.
Secondly, in an aspect exclusive to the U.S. part of the deal that President Trump and USTR Lighthizer
… I don’t know what USTR means, but the writer presumably refers to Robert Lighthizer, former Reagan official and China skeptic tapped by President Trump to be his chief trade negotiator starting in January…
insisted upon, if either Canada or Mexico are deemed to be non-compliant with the agreement, the USA can cancel/override any trade agreement Mexico or Canada have with another nation. It’s a heavy accountability hammer securing the gate into the massive USA market.
In an AP report today, Mexico is scrambling to find local or North American sources of parts and components, because President Trump is set to come into office and look at USMCA compliance. Apparently, Mexico has been using excessive amounts of Chinese component parts for goods being sent into the USA and Canada. Now they are quickly trying to source alternatives.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has been taking a bashing lately for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America, and officials here are afraid a re-elected Donald Trump or politically struggling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could try to leave their country out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement.
Mexico’s ruling Morena party is so afraid of losing the trade deal that President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday the government has gone on a campaign to get companies to replace Chinese parts with locally made ones.
“We have a plan with the aim of substituting these imports that come from China, and producing the majority of them in Mexico, either with Mexican companies or primarily North American companies,” Sheinbaum said.
While Sheinbaum claimed Mexico had been working on that effort since the 2021 global supply chain crisis — when factories around the world were stalled by a lack of parts and particularly computer chips from Asia — it appears to be an uphill battle. Even the United States has faced big challenges in moving chip production back home despite billions in subsidies and incentives.
Mexico gained tens of thousands of jobs when U.S. and foreign automakers moved their plants to Mexico under the free trade pact to take advantage of much lower wages. But the idea that Chinese parts — or even whole cars — could be piggybacking on that arrangement to further hollow out the U.S. auto industry has enraged some people north of the border.
So Mexico is scrambling with private companies to get them to move parts production here.
“Next year, God willing, we are going to start making microchips in Mexico,” Mexican Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on Thursday. “Of course they’re not yet the most advanced chips, but we are going to start producing them here.” (read more)
It’s amazing how the results of a USA election can almost instantly change the behavior of multinational corporations and the governments’ they bribe.
However, it does lend a person to wonder why the Mexicans and Canadians didn’t have to worry about rule enforcement when Joe Biden was in office?
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He's already been confirmed and served in Trump's first term: On January 3, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Lighthizer as his U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer was confirmed by the Senate on May 11, 2017, by a vote of 82–14
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NAFTA was passed to promote industry & Jobs SOUTH OF THE BORDER.
All it has done was OPEN the Door for China. Plus, we still mass illegal immigration and massive Illegal Drug and Sex/Slave trafficking.
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Canada has already been moving on the idea to kick Mexico out of the bilateral trade agreement.
Bit of what is going on. Mexico has mines, manufacturing plants, farms, etc. that Mexicans operate and own. China comes in and slips some money in the right places and then buys them up.
Currently China is forbitten to import a lot of these that are made in the US or the trade partners. They are getting around this and sending the hard currency back into China to fund their economy and stiffing the locals.
Same thing is starting in Peru now as well and the main port Peru has, China now owns and it is a deep water port.
[KhaamaPress] A quiet neighborhood in Oshawa was shaken on Sunday, November 17, 2024, when 48-year-old Parween Adel was fatally stabbed in her home. Her husband, Hakim Adel, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder. This marks the fourth intimate partner-related homicide in Durham Region this year.
Police responded to the couple’s residence on Eulalie Avenue after a 911 call just after midnight. Officers found Parween with traumatic injuries. Despite emergency efforts and transport to a Toronto-area trauma center, she was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! Hakim was arrested at the scene without resistance. Their 5-year-old twin daughters and an elderly family member were in the home during the incident but were unharmed.
Neighbors described the family as active in the community but revealed a history of tension. Aaren Gillis, a neighbor, said Parween had expressed plans to leave her husband and had been offered temporary refuge by neighbors. Another neighbor, Ron Mohr, recalled seeing emergency responders attempting to resuscitate Parween and expressed disbelief, describing Hakim as "quiet and reserved."
A source close to the family, speaking to Khaama Press anonymously, shared that the couple had a prolonged history of conflict. The source mentioned that Hakim had been pressuring to sell their paid-off home, possibly due to financial difficulties. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the exact reasons remain unclear. Parween opposed the sale, which added further strain to their already troubled relationship.
Several posts on Hakim’s Facebook profile reference marital conflicts, many focusing on the dynamics between husbands and wives. In one video, a Sunni Moslem scholar discusses the importance of women being obedient to their husbands and suggests that such behavior would earn them divine favor.
In the wake of the tragedy, a GoFundMe campaign titled "Support for Parween’s Daughters: A Future Beyond Tragedy" has raised over 68,000 CAD to support the young twins left without parents.
This tragic incident underscores a concerning trend in Canada. In 2023, police-reported family violence increased by 3%, with 139,020 victims, while intimate partner violence rose by 1%, totaling 123,319 victims. Notably, the rate of family violence against children and youth reached its highest recorded level, with 362 victims per 100,000 population. These statistics highlight the urgent need for enhanced support systems and preventive measures to address and mitigate domestic violence across the country.
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Trying to keep SpaceX from having a monopoly would be good police, but I suspect they enjoy:
1) Sticking it to Elon and,
2) Keeping their options open for post-NASA-employment graft
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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.
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
[KhaamaPress] A quiet neighborhood in Oshawa was shaken on Sunday, November 17, 2024, when 48-year-old Parween Adel was fatally stabbed in her home. Her husband, Hakim Adel, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder. This marks the fourth intimate partner-related homicide in Durham Region this year.
