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DC woman shocked to discover brazen car thieves have racked up at least TEN tickets after stealing her vehicle – and the county still wants her to pay!

• A Washington DC woman says the city is refusing to drop all 10 unclaimed parking tickets worth over $1,750 after the vehicle was stolen
• Catherine Brenner is also facing over $7,000 in damage caused by the vandal and the local DMV is refusing to ease her financial stress
• In June, Brenner’s Honda Civic was stolen from its parking lot near her home
• The thief continued to receive speeding tickets from red light cameras, speed cameras and one for a parking violation
• However, three months after the challenge, the DC DMV had only debited one from her account

By Stephen M. Lepore

Published: 23:53 BST, October 29, 2022 | Updated at 00:49 BST, 30 October 2022

A Washington DC woman says the city is refusing to drop all 10 unclaimed parking tickets worth over $1,750 after the vehicle was stolen.

Catherine Brenner is also facing over $7,000 in damage caused by the vandal and the local DMV is refusing to ease her financial stress.

In June, Brenner’s Honda Civic was stolen from its parking lot near her apartment building, saying, “I went behind my building and checked and my car wasn’t there.”

The thief continued to receive speeding tickets from red light cameras, speed cameras and one for a parking violation.

As Brenner rightly points out upon reviewing the evidence, “I am not the driver in any of these photos.”

Catherine Brenner is also facing over $7,000 in damage caused by the vandal and the local DMV is refusing to ease her financial stress

Brenner’s HOA president sent her security camera footage showing the burglary as a man hot-wired her car and drove away within three minutes, in what she called “like a knife to the heart.”

Brenner’s HOA president sent her security camera footage showing the break-in when a man hot-wired her car and drove away within three minutes, in what she called “like a knife to the heart.”

She filed a complaint with local police and asked the DMV for ticket sales warnings, the first of which she received nine days later.

Brenner said: “I went to that block myself to see if maybe my car was still there. Unfortunately it wasn’t. But then I found it within 48 hours of that ticket.

When she found it, the Honda Civic contained clothing, burn wounds and a bullet casing with total damage exceeding $7,000.

That’s when the tickets started piling up. She said: “After I got the first ticket, five more tickets came by email later that day.”

Brenner received a total of 10 tickets within 10 days of receiving the first, with fines piling up to $1,750

She filed a complaint with local police and asked the DMV for ticket sales warnings, the first of which she received nine days later

Four more, making 10 in all, came within 10 days of receiving the first one, fined $1,750.

Brenner said, “The detective I worked with specifically said I could dispute any tickets, and they would all be removed from my account, so I wouldn’t have to worry.”

However, three months after the challenge, the DC DMV had only debited one from her account.

WUSA contacted the DC DMV. A spokesman asked for Brenner’s information but did not provide an explanation.

However, within the next 24 hours, they dropped four of the tickets, although five are still pending.

Brenner said: “I feel like this is like chasing myself and hanging around all the time. And I really want it to go away.’

In contrast to many major cities, Washington’s violent crime rate actually declined five percent in 2022, with overall crime down four percent, according to the city’s statistics.

The Kremlin hopes that the all-out war against Ukraine will be over by 2024

Sources close to the Kremlin told Medusa that so far they only see the “contours” of the campaign, but it is already clear that the campaign will be “tailor-made for Putin”.

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“There will be no Liberal candidates,” Meduza’s source told the outlet.

“Not even just for show.”

Another anonymous source explained that campaign preparations for these staged “elections” typically begin about a year and a half before the date: First, the overall “contours” of the campaign are laid out; then political advisers are appointed to ‘secure’ voting in the regions. “Mobilization networks” should be set up six months in advance. This means that people with government-funded jobs and other reliable pro-regime voters will be “mobilized” for organized turnout while the campaign’s “ideological strategy” is finalized.

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According to Meduza, the ideological strategy of the 2024 campaign is still unknown. The only aspect of the campaign known so far is Putin’s focus on anti-Western narratives and “Greater Russia” fantasies. Meduza sources say Kremlin politicians admit that this rhetoric “has nothing to do with voters’ real concerns,” only the interests of Putin himself.

“There is hope in the Kremlin that the war in Ukraine will end in time before the elections,” Meduza reported.

“But no one knows exactly how it will end and how to shape its ending. There should be full support – also to demonstrate the President’s popularity in the West itself.”

One of the Kremlin’s political analysts told Meduza that imposing full-fledged martial law across Russia to postpone the vote would be the “most logical” and “most understandable” scenario for Putin’s regime.

Also read: Putin’s last chance

“By 2024, the economic consequences of sanctions and Russia’s isolation will be fully apparent,” the source explained, adding that he thinks the above scenario is unlikely.

“Of course you can present any election result you like, but why upset the population with such, well, not very credible record figures?”

Read the original article on The New Voice of Ukraine

In Paris, demonstrators waved many Iranian flags and placards with slogans like “Women, Life, Freedom” or “They kill us in your silence #mahsaamini” (they kill us in your silence). GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP

Thousands of people rallied in Paris and other French cities on Saturday October 29 to support the protest movement that has rocked Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini and to call for more pressure on the regime in Tehran.

According to the Paris police headquarters, 2,500 people took part in the rally on the Place de la République in the capital. The protesters waved many Iranian flags and placards with slogans like “Women, Life, Freedom” or “They kill us in your silence #mahsaamini” (they kill us in your silence).

“I think there’s a real revolution going on and I think they’re going to be free,” said Mahtab Ghorbani, 39, a writer who has been in exile in France for the past five years and is one of the organizers of the rally. “I am very happy about the solidarity of the French who cut their hair and share videos. On the other hand, we need somewhat stricter measures at the political and diplomatic level,” said Mahboubeh Moradi, 35, an anthropology student and a member of the collective at the initiative of the demonstration.

In Toulouse there were about 150 at the parade. Armed with Iranian flags, the protesters formed a human chain while shouting “Women, Life, Freedom”.

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Demonstrations are brutally suppressed

In Lyon, according to the Rhône Prefecture, around 250 people followed the call of the collective of former Lyon students and took part in a march from Place Bellecour. They held up placards “Solidarity for Freedom”, “We are all in revolt”, “#MahsaAmini” and chanted “We don’t want an Islamic regime, we don’t want a misogynistic regime”, “Yes to a democratic republic in Iran”.

“We want France to think more about human rights than economic interests,” said Saeed Shafiei, 47, a member of the collective. For this Franco-Iranian PhD student at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) in Lyon, “the Iranian diasporas in France must give energy to those” who have been fighting for “43 days” against a “totalitarian and repressive” killer of more than 200 Iranian brothers and Sisters”, but above all that “foreign powers are acting”.

In Iran, protests led in particular by women have not abated since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman. Mahsa Amini died three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code. In the course of brutally suppressed demonstrations, slogans that were openly directed against the Islamic Republic founded in 1979 were added to the original slogan “women, life, freedom”.

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Country goes to fifth election in less than four years; The expert believes that the November 1 vote will not be final and Israelis will have to face another process of electing parliament

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Supporters hold banners depicting former Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem October 28, 2022 ahead of November’s general election.

For the fifth time in less than four years Israel There will be a general election to try and form a new government. Next Tuesday, November 1st, was chosen as the date for the vote. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has ruled the country for 12 years and will step down as prime minister in 2021, is the mostcited name to win. Yair Lapid, who is trying to get elected, has been in office since late June, when Prime Minister Naftali Bennett resigned as prime minister. However, the results are not very promising for him. A poll published in Haaretz newspaper indicates that the Labor party, which has ruled the country for decades, is likely to win just 4 seats out of a total of 128. The farright return to power appears with 31 seats at the top. Samuel Feldberg, a political scientist and researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Dayan Center, says Netanyahu’s victory is certain, but it’s enough to know if he “can form a bloc to form a new government, because that’s an interesting feature of the Israeli electoral process is that the party with the most votes is not necessarily the first to be nominated to form a government”.

The expert explains what is happening in Israel that makes it difficult for him to get a stable government. Since 2019, the country has been in a “loop” that seems far from over. Feldberg says that unlike in Brazil, where you elect a candidate and whoever gets the most votes wins and becomes the new ruler, in Israel “victory is not enough, the party that won the election is determined, but in the next phase this party must be able to form a government”, and at this moment the elected have shown shortcomings because they have not been able to form a government. “The electorate is so divided that the result of the election does not allow the formation of a majority government,” he explains. He recalls that in the last elections in March 2021, the centrist party managed and even succeeded in forming a government allied with left parties, Arab parties and some members of the right something historic in the country However, it took only a year to form a government government. For Feldberg, the elections should not be final now, he believes that the Israelis still have to go through an election. “It is likely that there will be another impasse and it will not be possible to form a new government that will hold the sixth elections in three months,” says the expert.

Netanyahu’s arrival worries some voters because he is still on trial on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges he’s accused of accepting $264,000 worth of gifts from tycoons, negotiating with a newspaper to get more favorable coverage for his government and grant regulatory favors to the Israeli leadership for telecommunications companies. The former prime minister denies the allegations he is also banking on alliances with the far right and ultraOrthodox to achieve what he has been working towards since the beginning of the campaign, namely bringing together the 61 seats (minimum for a majority) into a “government of law”. to build. With these parties, according to polls, the Likud would come close to a majority. One of the most important names in this alliance was Itamar Ben Gvir, an extremist who was once part of an organization considered criminal by the US and who defends the expulsion of Israeli Arabs. He’s been gaining public support in recent days. In two years he got 0.42% of the vote and is now the third political force. If Netanyahu wins, Ben Gvir is expected to take one of the highest posts in the cabinet, freeing him to pursue his extremist policies and leaving the country facing a major setback in decades.

However, according to Feldberg, “the party with the most votes will not necessarily be the first nominated party to form a government,” so “if most parties nominate Lapid to form a government, he has the first chance to form a coalition. For Netanyahu, the motley coalition of Lapid, his main opponent, is “a dangerous and disastrous experiment.” “It’s time to say ‘jalas’ (‘enough is enough’ in Arabic),” Bibi said at a campaign event on Sunday night. Despite lagging behind in the polls, the interim centrist prime minister has seen his party doing better in the polls in recent months and has multiplied diplomatic initiatives, traveling to Germany and France to discuss Iran’s nuclear program and to discuss a border agreement with Lebanon. In Israel’s proportional representation system, parties must receive at least 3.25% of the votes to have MPs in parliament. Regardless of who wins, Feldberg points out that there are some issues in the country that require more attention from the government, such as: visa costs, which are very high in Israel, housing people cannot buy their own houses and the government has not done much and security in the Arab minority sector.