The Descent Continues...
Our cities, slipping away
The Wages of Soros
Philadelphia: Utterly horrific story. Beautiful, community-minded woman working at a neighborhood rec center — where presumably many teens hung out — shot and killed by… a 14-year-old with a ghost gun. Not an isolated incident: Soros’s man-in-Philly — DA Krasner — must be very proud. The city of brotherly gunfire.
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Chicago’s Mayor insists all is well in the country’s second city, as does its Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Foxx (who should have been removed for the Jussie Smollett debacle). South side residents may differ: Seven shot, two dead in a park set to host a music festival. Even the liberals there are calling Chicago criminal justice, “a joke.”
In St. Louis, Soros-backed DA Kim Gardner remains in office (despite efforts to pull her law license), with predictable results. Recall Gardner as the DA who told a judge her office was too “overburdened” to prosecute the killer of retired police captain David Dorn. One suspects she won’t be too “overburdened” to put every resource on this developing case: a black suspect shot by a narco team of one black cop and one white. That nobody disputes that the deceased had an illegal gun is a salient detail.
San Francisco: Terrorist scion DA Chesa Boudin may be gone, but the legacy lives on! As the debacle-by-the-bay consolidates its position as America’s leading dystopia (viral video here), an interesting question arises: can an hispanic cop be accused of being anti-hispanic? A question that perhaps could only come from that town.
New York: The Duchess of Defund, AOC, apparently sees no problem with this. Meanwhile, New York murder and shootings slightly declining — everything else, not so much.
Safety Politics
Think the voters aren’t paying attention to the crime and border issues? Think again. If the Republicans take the House resoundingly — which looks likely, despite recent “polls” that even the NY Times is walking back from — these issues (along with inflation) will be why. For some strange reason, people want to feel safe….
Meanwhile, leading Dem Hakeem Jeffries says his party will address the issue when they get around to it. Awkward video here.
O.C. Watch
Minga! The mob ain’t what it used to be. Still, a little-known group known as the ‘ndrangheta — originating in Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot — may be the most powerful and organized criminal group in the world, reportedly accounting for 3% of Italy’s GDP. That’s a lot of ‘scarole. Two-hundred members were just collared, including a mayor (now that’s a takedown, Italian-style). Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in….
OSINT — Far Away But Important
Developing in the Open-Source Intelligence world (OSINT): the Iranians are getting into the ransomware business (what could go wrong?). The Iranians use an interesting “franchise”-type approach to this: the government incentivizes hacking the west by encouraging it, to include a standing offer to buy anything of value stolen from America and its allies (often involving software, hardware, and intellectual property). As such, those charged are often young (today’s charging here). Despite the charges, Iranian hackers are rarely actually physically captured.
Twitter seems to have little problem with employing foreign spies — in this case, Chinese spies (were experts Diane Feinstein, Eric Swalwell, and Barbara Boxer consulted?). Silicon Valley has a spy problem — the main problem being, it doesn’t seem to care about its spy problem (this excellent write-up is all you need). Hey techies: at some point, you have to choose a side….
Briefing Bullets: Things with the border being what they are, this ain’t a bad idea…. As if Ukraine wasn’t complicated enough, a new player enters the fray. Maybe this explains Vladimir Putin? …Sometimes the good guys win. But don’t worry. One of the main defendants has — as always in education — failed upward. The takeaway? If you fight, you can win….
So remember: Don’t weaken.