I never had the privilege of working for the Federal government as a salaried employee, if that's what you wanted to know. Among other things, I have worked as a paper boy, a yard boy mowing lawns, as kitchen help at a ski resort , a volunteer fire fighter for the Forrest Service (temporary), and for a window washing company.
Sweden is still recovering from what happened last night
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Wow, you were doing so good until you ended up washing windows. Any chance you can get that lawn boy job back this summer? Then back to the resort for the winter. Unless of course a fire breaks out and then you are excused to go fight it. Stay away from windows. After a while it feels like you are always on the outside looking in. Next thing you know you're sitting at a desk.
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I loved your comment regarding windows. I may get my old lawn boy job back this summer. The young man that mows my yard is in jail, and we are already into "mowing season" in the deep south.
Piezoe, what exactly are you trying to prove?
From your wiki cite:
"In 2014, there were 6,700 rapes reported to the Swedish police—or 69 cases per 100,000 population—according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (BRÅ), which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year.[5] In 2015, the number of reported rapes declined 12%, to 5920 (although reported exposure to sexual offenses in the Swedish Crime Survey rose by 70% that same year).[6]"
Isn't it obvious that the police were under orders to minimize rape allegations? So we get a 70 % increase in sex offenses instead? More:
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In late December 2016, the nationwide Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen reported that five Afghan teenagers were convicted of gang-raping a 15 year old boy at knife-point in a woodland, in Uppsala, Sweden.[44][45] Expressen went on to report that the judgment of the Uppsala District Court convicted the juveniles aged between 16-18 years of, rape, aggravated assault, minor drug offenses and child pornography. Four of the juveniles were taken into youth custody for 1 year and 3 months and the fifth juvenile for 1 year 4 months.[44]
The January 2017 Uppsala rape Facebook live streaming incident was a rape that took place in Uppsala, and was widely publicized, partly because it was live streamed through the social media platform Facebook.[46][47][48]"
So a gang rape at knife point gets them....a year in juvie? And the swedes wonder why they have a problem?
The Daily Beast article was essentially a long screed that the swedes just haven't done enough to help refugees and how unfair it is to single them out for committing horrendous crimes.
No one here should feel particularly smug, since the media here follow the exact same policy in hiding black crime, refusing to report the race and nationality of criminals and publishing false statistics indicating that illegal immigrant crime is less than native born.
From your wiki cite:
"In 2014, there were 6,700 rapes reported to the Swedish police—or 69 cases per 100,000 population—according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (BRÅ), which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year.[5] In 2015, the number of reported rapes declined 12%, to 5920 (although reported exposure to sexual offenses in the Swedish Crime Survey rose by 70% that same year).[6]"
Isn't it obvious that the police were under orders to minimize rape allegations? So we get a 70 % increase in sex offenses instead? More:
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In late December 2016, the nationwide Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen reported that five Afghan teenagers were convicted of gang-raping a 15 year old boy at knife-point in a woodland, in Uppsala, Sweden.[44][45] Expressen went on to report that the judgment of the Uppsala District Court convicted the juveniles aged between 16-18 years of, rape, aggravated assault, minor drug offenses and child pornography. Four of the juveniles were taken into youth custody for 1 year and 3 months and the fifth juvenile for 1 year 4 months.[44]
The January 2017 Uppsala rape Facebook live streaming incident was a rape that took place in Uppsala, and was widely publicized, partly because it was live streamed through the social media platform Facebook.[46][47][48]"
So a gang rape at knife point gets them....a year in juvie? And the swedes wonder why they have a problem?
The Daily Beast article was essentially a long screed that the swedes just haven't done enough to help refugees and how unfair it is to single them out for committing horrendous crimes.
No one here should feel particularly smug, since the media here follow the exact same policy in hiding black crime, refusing to report the race and nationality of criminals and publishing false statistics indicating that illegal immigrant crime is less than native born.
Yes, poor guy. He told me that he was trapped in Mississippi by the government.
Makes you wonder about the nationality of the criminals...
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WILDLIFE WATCH
Poachers Kill Rhino in Brazen Attack at French Zoo
A four-year-old rhino was found shot to death with a horn hacked off—a new twist in the ongoing slaughter of the vulnerable animals.
By Jani Actman
PUBLISHED MARCH 7, 2017
Poachers broke into a zoo in France and shot and killed one of its rhinos before fleeing the scene.
On Tuesday morning keepers at Thoiry Zoo, in the suburbs west of Paris, found the body of Vince, a four-year-old white rhino, in his enclosure with wounds to his head and one of his horns likely hacked off by a chainsaw, the zoo said in a statement on its Facebook page. His second horn was partially cut off, suggesting that the culprits may have been interrupted or were using defective equipment after they killed the rare animal on Monday night.
The act was carried out “despite the presence of five members of the zoological staff living on site and surveillance cameras,” the zoo said. “The entire staff is extremely shocked.”
The zoo has two other white rhinos who weren’t harmed. One of them, five-year-old Bruce, came to the zoo with Vince in 2015 as part of a breeding program involving about 250 rhinos in European zoos, reportedthe BBC. A video, shown above, captures Vince's arrival at the facility.
Thieves have stolen rhino horns from European museums in the past, but it’s believed that this is the first time a rhino has been killed at a zoo in Europe. In recent years planned attacks on zoos in general have increased, said Katherine Johnston, spokesperson for London-based Save the Rhino International, in an email.
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These two white rhinos escaped harm at France's Thoiry Zoo, where poachers killed another rhino.
“It’s very sobering to think that armed criminals are willing to break into European zoos to kill our rhinos,” she said. “This incident also shows how security is increasingly important for zoos in Europe, as well as for conservationists working in rhino range states.”
What just happened in Thoiry Zoo, she said, is “a new development in the poaching crisis which has escalated since 2008, and we need strong law enforcement to tackle this problem quickly.”
Tuesday’s gruesome event follows an attack on rhinos at an orphanage in South Africa, home to 70 percent of the remaining 21,000 white rhinos. Armed poachers broke into the Findimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage on February 22 and removed the horns of two 18-month-old rhinos, Impu and Gugu, after tying up staff members. One rhino was killed, and the other was later euthanized.
White rhinos have been a conservation success story, coming back from the brink of extinction in the late 19th century. Now they’re severely threatened again owing to an increase in demand for their horns in Vietnam and China. In those countries the horns are made into valuable carvings and erroneously used as a cure-all in traditional medicine. Roughly a quarter of South Africa’s white rhinos—by far the most abundant rhino subspecies—have been killed between 2008 and 2016.
It’s illegal to kill rhinos, and selling their horns between countries has been banned since 1977 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), the 183-government body that regulates the global wildlife trade.
Last year France banned the sale of rhino horn and elephant ivory within its borders. China and Vietnam also prohibit the rhino horn trade, yet conservationists would like to see stronger enforcement, especially in Vietnam. As of September, Vietnam hadn’t yet launched a single successful high-level prosecution against illegal rhino horn traders.
As for the killing of Vince, an investigation was launched this morning.
Jani Actman reports on wildlife crime and exploitation for Wildlife Watch, a part of National Geographic's Special Investigations Unit.
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WILDLIFE WATCH
Poachers Kill Rhino in Brazen Attack at French Zoo
A four-year-old rhino was found shot to death with a horn hacked off—a new twist in the ongoing slaughter of the vulnerable animals.
By Jani Actman
PUBLISHED MARCH 7, 2017
Poachers broke into a zoo in France and shot and killed one of its rhinos before fleeing the scene.
On Tuesday morning keepers at Thoiry Zoo, in the suburbs west of Paris, found the body of Vince, a four-year-old white rhino, in his enclosure with wounds to his head and one of his horns likely hacked off by a chainsaw, the zoo said in a statement on its Facebook page. His second horn was partially cut off, suggesting that the culprits may have been interrupted or were using defective equipment after they killed the rare animal on Monday night.
The act was carried out “despite the presence of five members of the zoological staff living on site and surveillance cameras,” the zoo said. “The entire staff is extremely shocked.”
The zoo has two other white rhinos who weren’t harmed. One of them, five-year-old Bruce, came to the zoo with Vince in 2015 as part of a breeding program involving about 250 rhinos in European zoos, reportedthe BBC. A video, shown above, captures Vince's arrival at the facility.
Thieves have stolen rhino horns from European museums in the past, but it’s believed that this is the first time a rhino has been killed at a zoo in Europe. In recent years planned attacks on zoos in general have increased, said Katherine Johnston, spokesperson for London-based Save the Rhino International, in an email.
VIEW IMAGES
These two white rhinos escaped harm at France's Thoiry Zoo, where poachers killed another rhino.
“It’s very sobering to think that armed criminals are willing to break into European zoos to kill our rhinos,” she said. “This incident also shows how security is increasingly important for zoos in Europe, as well as for conservationists working in rhino range states.”
What just happened in Thoiry Zoo, she said, is “a new development in the poaching crisis which has escalated since 2008, and we need strong law enforcement to tackle this problem quickly.”
Tuesday’s gruesome event follows an attack on rhinos at an orphanage in South Africa, home to 70 percent of the remaining 21,000 white rhinos. Armed poachers broke into the Findimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage on February 22 and removed the horns of two 18-month-old rhinos, Impu and Gugu, after tying up staff members. One rhino was killed, and the other was later euthanized.
White rhinos have been a conservation success story, coming back from the brink of extinction in the late 19th century. Now they’re severely threatened again owing to an increase in demand for their horns in Vietnam and China. In those countries the horns are made into valuable carvings and erroneously used as a cure-all in traditional medicine. Roughly a quarter of South Africa’s white rhinos—by far the most abundant rhino subspecies—have been killed between 2008 and 2016.
It’s illegal to kill rhinos, and selling their horns between countries has been banned since 1977 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), the 183-government body that regulates the global wildlife trade.
Last year France banned the sale of rhino horn and elephant ivory within its borders. China and Vietnam also prohibit the rhino horn trade, yet conservationists would like to see stronger enforcement, especially in Vietnam. As of September, Vietnam hadn’t yet launched a single successful high-level prosecution against illegal rhino horn traders.
As for the killing of Vince, an investigation was launched this morning.
Jani Actman reports on wildlife crime and exploitation for Wildlife Watch, a part of National Geographic's Special Investigations Unit.