Monday, September 26, 2022

East-West School Shootings

East-West Condolences


USA 2000-2022
Incidents of 10 or more casualties excerpted

Some variation in source totals


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ikipedia data


March 21, 2005

Red Lake Senior High School

Red Lake, Minnesota

Deaths 10 Wounded 7

 

April 16, 2007

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

Blacksburg, Virginia  

Deaths 33 Wounded 23

 

February 14, 2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Parkland, Florida

Deaths 17 Wounded 17         

 

May 24, 2022

Robb Elementary School

Uvalde, Texas

Deaths 22 Wounded 18

 

“School shootings in the United States (2000–present),” Wikipedia, latest update September 8, 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)

 

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ecurity dot org Blog data


April 2007

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)

Blacksburg, VA

Deaths 32 Wounded 26

 

December 2012

Sandy Hook Elementary School

Newtown, CT

Deaths 26 Wounded 0

 

February 2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Parkland, FL

Deaths 17 Wounded 17

 

 

 

May 2018

Santa Fe High School

Santa Fe, TX

Deaths 10 Wounded 13

 

May 2022

Robb Elementary School

Uvalde, TX

Deaths 21 Wounded 17

 

 

Russian Federation Ural Mountains Today 

I

zhevsk, capital of the Russian Republic of Udmurtia west of the Ural mountains diving Europe and Asia.

September 26, 2022
Shooting at School Number 88

Deaths 17 Wounded 24

Casualties in this developing news report have included children, teachers, and security guards.

“Death toll climbs in Russian school shooting: More victims of the school shooting rampage in the Udmurt Republic have died in the hospital, bringing the tally to 17,” September 26, 2022, RT news https://www.rt.com/russia/563520-school-shooting-izhevsk-ural/

 

It is of some interest, at least to me, that the Izhevsk shooter was wearing Nazi insignia on his clothing and US officials are reportedly backing Nazi individuals in Eastern Europe. Moreover, history has documented that this far from the first time US officials have supported Nazis and other terrorist operatives. This is a sad day for many reasons.  

 

Izhevsk, situated along the Izh River west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe, is said to date back to the mid-eighteenth century. During 1984-1987, the city was called “Ustinov,” after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s late Minister of Defense, Dmitry Ustinov. Today, Izhevsk answers to the titles “Armory Capital of Russia” and “City of Labor Glory.”  It is lauded as the Volga Region’s “major hub of industry, commerce, politics, culture and education;” and is particularly known “for its defense, engineering and metallurgy industries.” Its total population is roughly 648,213. Izhevsk, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izhevsk

 

World Population Data

C

ountries with Most School Shootings (reported) 2009-2018

FIVE Most

United States  288

 

Mexico            8

 

South Africa   6

 

Pakistan           4

 

Nigeria                        4

 




World Population Review Data https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country

 

 

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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Missed Headlines

NEVER to be FORGOTTEN Stories 


Headline September 13, 2022

“Jewel of the Caucasus: Why Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to fight over Nagorno-Karabakh” FEATURE: “A ceasefire was declared in the disputed territory 21 months ago, but is there any chance of a genuine peace?”

 

Headline September 14, 2022

“From Brezhnev to Khrushchev: Ukraine had a huge influence on the Soviet Union, something Kiev now prefers to downplay” FEATURE: “It’s not commonly understood in the West, today, that Ukrainians played a major role in the USSR”

Headline September 16, 2022

“15 years after US Blackwater mercenaries massacred civilians in Baghdad, has anything changed for private military contractors?” FEATURE: “The Nisour Square massacre was a notorious incident some years after the illegal US invasion of Iraq”

Headline September 17, 2022

“Leaked documents expose Ukrainian attempts to destabilize Russia and draw NATO into a full-scale war with Moscow” FEATURE: “Plans concocted by the special services reveal Kiev’s aggressive strategy over many years”

Headline September 18, 2022

“Bait and switch: How Russia handed Moscow to Napoleon 210 years ago, but went on to win the war” FEATURE: “The Western cliché is that ‘General Winter’ defeated the French leader, but the truth is far more complex”

 

Headline September 19, 2022

“NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia: How the illegal US-led attack on the Balkan state changed the course of European history” FEATURE: “An intervention intended to crown the US imperial project ended up ‘losing’ Russia instead”

Headline September 20, 2022

“Bombshell court filing suggests the FBI knew ‘Russiagate’ was a fraud in January of 2017, but it kept up its pressure on (former US President Donald) Trump” FEATURE: “Igor Danchenko’s confession appears to reveal the bureau’s true intentions”

Layered dubious Sources ♦

Christopher Steele is a native of South Arabia (now Yemen) who holds UK citizenship and owns a London-based private intelligence company. Mr. Steele apparently hired Igor Yurievich Danchenko, a native of the Soviet Union living in the US state of Virginia, to investigate US citizens. Danchenko (a/k/a Iggy Danchenko) becomes one of Steele’s primary sources for information alleging “collusion” between the “2016 presidential campaign” of US businessman Donald John Trump “and the Russian government.” In compiling his information, Mr. Danchenko reportedly used his “friends” as sources.

Iggy Danchenko mark in history is that he was “Primary sub-source for Christopher Steele’s ‘Steele dossier’”
Neon Nettle

“FEC Fines Hillary Clinton for Lying about Steele Dossier Funding Clinton team and DNC hit with fines over anti-Trump hoax” by Jay Greenberg, March 31, 2022,  Neon Nettle International House12 Constance Street, London, United Kingdom https://neonnettle.com/news/18696-fec-fines-hillary-clinton-for-lying-about-steele-dossier-funding

“Besides revelations that its contents were fabricated, the scandalous document was heavily scrutinized for its questionable sources — which ultimately turned out to be Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her counterparts in the DNC.”

 

Headline September 21, 2022

“Another Afghanistan in the making? How a fully-fledged war between two ex-Soviet states could threaten stability in Central Asia” FEATURE: “What has happened on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and where will it lead?”

 

Headline September 24, 2022

“US Psy-Ops exposed: Washington isn’t concerned about morals; it’s worried about getting caught” FEATURE: “Pentagon orders urgent review of after its global scheme is compromised”





Sources
International News Sources
Encyclopedic Sources

 

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Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett announces the release of ‘Epitaph’

Latest book asks Americans a deadly serious question. Which shall the American inscription read—continued breach or bridge? Continued extremism or a More Perfect Union?

 

Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett announces the release of ‘Epitaph’

Latest book asks Americans a deadly serious question. Which shall the American inscription read—continued breach or bridge? Continued extremism or a More Perfect Union?

 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – In this moment of compounding crises and destructive tendencies among incestuously entrenched public officials and their partners (compounded by a contagion of tribalism), it is essential to pause and reconsider the voices of America’s founders and framers of government.

 

 “Epitaph: Extremism (Anachronism, Anarchism, Infantilism, Nihilism) Or A More Perfect Union (Breach or Bridge Message to America)” (published by Xlibris) returns to the framers of the American Union; and with critical evidence gathered from distant headlines and global thinkers far removed from the Washington Beltway, it lays out the nature and annihilative consequences of present-day American extremism.

 

In nonpartisan and nontribal commentary and reporting, Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett exposes polarization without being polarizing. She explains American extremism without contributing to it. Instead of copying the cowardly course of casting blame wrapped in American exceptionalism, Bennett presents observable fact and historical context intent on offering choices and solutions. The ultimate questions are: Will Americans continue their extremism? Or will they come together, mend their brokenness, and, with mutual respect for one another’s gifts and abilities, work to form and further a more perfect Union?

 

Epitaph: Extremism (Anachronism, Anarchism, Infantilism, Nihilism) Or A More Perfect Union 
(Breach or Bridge Message to America)”
By Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett

Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 252 pages | ISBN 9781669824954
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 252 pages | ISBN 9781669824961
E-Book | 252 pages | ISBN 9781669824978
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

 

About the Author   

Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is a prolific Southern-born American writer and author of several books concentrating on U.S. politics, public affairs, and international relations. Her university credentials are in education (PhD), journalism, and public affairs (M.A.). Bennett has worked in several U.S. states and the District of Columbia as a university professor and as an employee with the U.S. government. She began her career as a secondary-school teacher with the U.S. Peace Corps assigned to Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa). In addition to her lifelong labor of love (writing), Bennett enjoys good music and capturing wildlife and cloudscapes on camera; chasing a full moon, winter retreats at Niagara Falls; neighborliness, civil debate, and engaging conversation anywhere. Her travel journal and camera files have recorded three continents (in North America from Campobello Island to San Francisco Bay, Lake Itasca to the Mississippi River Delta).

Previously published book titles:  
America’s Human Connection (University Editions Inc)
Mary McLeod Bethune: An Annotated Bibliography (Edwin Mellen Press)
Talking Back to Today’s News (PublishAmerica)
Women’s Work and Words Altering World Order (Iuniverse Inc)

PUBLISHED BY XLIBRIS
Missing News and Views in Paranoid Times
Breakdown
Same Ole or Something New
No Land an Island No People Apart
Unconscionable
Pondering Alphabetic Solutions
Solutions 2
Betrayal: Public Welfare Abandoned for Private Wealth

Copyright © 2022 · All Rights Reserved · Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett

 

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