Himself..

 

Police announced a breakthrough Tuesday in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a man from Afghanistan himself a Muslim with two of the slayings and identifying him as a prime suspect in the other killings that put the entire community on edge. 

Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody a day earlier after a traffic stop more than 100 miles away, authorities said.  

Investigators received a tip from the city's Muslim community that pointed toward Syed, who has lived in the U.S. for about five years, police said.  

When asked specifically if Syed, a Sunni Muslim, was angry that his daughter married a Shiite Muslim, Deputy Police Cmdr. Kyle Hartsock did not respond directly.  

The Afghan saga continues. These are the good guys who helped the Americans, may be.

Crash..

The fatal crash happened around 9:50 p.m. as the 48-year-old victim was riding uptown on the Henry Hudson Parkway near West 104th Street, police said.

The woman lost control of the scooter and hit the center divider. The impact carried her into the path of a man riding a motorcycle in the downtown lane, cops said.

EMS workers transported the woman to Mount Sinai Morningside where she was pronounced dead. Her identity was not immediately released.

The motorcycle rider was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

May..

 

Soonish..

 

Going..

Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island as its territory and which responded with test launches of ballistic missiles over the island’s capital for the first time and the cutting of some areas of dialogue with Washington.

In a statement later on Sunday, the ministry said it had detected 14 Chinese warships and 66 Chinese aircraft in and around the Taiwan Strait.  But a late-evening commentator on Chinese state television said the Chinese military would now conduct “regular” drills on the Taiwan side of the line, saying the “historic task” of China’s “reunification” could be realized.

Starting a war over there, so we can take the talk away from the Misery at home. Just a thought. Just a thought.

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Photo..

 

Anyone knows the goal for this visit or the USA-White House Policy here?

Act..

 

Onward...

 

In a week full of big economic-news releases, before the U.S.  learned we’ve experienced two consecutive quarters of the GDP shrinking, the traditional definition of a recession.

Treasury secretary Janet Yellin and other Biden officials are already arguing that we’re not in a recession which seems like a clear hint that they expect Thursday’s numbers to be ugly. But to the average American, “recession” is a synonym for “economic hard times” and with inflation at 9.1 percent, lots of Americans feel squeezed.

Yellin said most Americans define recessions as similar to those that have occurred in the past: "Substantial job losses and mass layoffs, businesses shutting down, private sector activities slowing considerably, family budgets under immense strain ... a broad-based weakening of our economy."  "That is not what we're seeing right now."

Her remarks extended the Biden administration's concerted pushback against recession talk after the Commerce Department reported earlier on Thursday that U.S. GDP shrank 0.9% in the second quarter, on top of a 1.6% contraction in the first quarter.

Loot..

 

Former Obama White House education advisor Seth Andrew was sentenced Thursday to a year-and-one-day in federal prison for a scheme to steal $218,000 from a New York charter school network he founded.

He was arrested in April 2021 on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements to a financial institution. He pleaded guilty in January to wire fraud.
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Andrew, who is the husband of CBS News anchor Lana Zak, founded Democracy Prep Public Schools in 2005.

Prosecutors said that in 2019 — more than two years after severing ties with Democracy Prep — he looted money from escrow accounts belonging to individual schools in the charter school network.

 Did he realy needed that money?  Just a thought.