[Blaze] A driver doing donuts in an intersection was caught on video repeatedly ramming the vehicle of a sheriff's deputy, who fired a single shot in response.
But instead of coming to his senses, the driver was seen ramming him yet again — and the deputy, all done playing around, appeared to open fire multiple times.
The vehicular assault was over — and the driver reportedly was wounded and hospitalized. I was hoping for a more cost saving, terminal outcome.
KABC-TV said the incident took place about 4:30 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of Eastern and Florence Avenues in Bell Gardens, a city in the metro Los Angeles area. a corrupt shithole
The L.A. County Sheriff's Department told the station the deputy was driving down Florence when he saw the driver of a white SUV speeding and doing donuts in the intersection.
The deputy attempted a traffic stop when investigators said the suspect intentionally plowed into the deputy’s patrol vehicle, KTTV-TV reported.
Cellphone video from a bystander shows the suspect hitting the deputy's vehicle once, then backing up and hitting it again — and then backing again and hitting it a third time.
[FoxNews] A New York City subway slashing victim can be heard screaming for help and pursuing her own attacker as other riders appear to do nothing, the footage shows.
"Somebody call 911! Somebody call 911!" the 28-year-old woman can be heard wailing. "Pull the emergency brake!"
The seriously injured straphanger, her leg dripping with blood, pursued the slasher through the door connecting two subway cars and captured video of him casually walking away, according to the cellphone footage obtained exclusively by the New York Post.
About a dozen riders can be seen gawking at the woman as she enters the car, but appear to offer no help. The Sunday afternoon subway attack was the third in 20 minutes by the same perpetrator, the local newspaper reported.
The woman, whose name was withheld, was slashed on the southbound No. 4 train at 4:30 p.m. as the car neared the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station.
"I was on the train, texting my boyfriend," she told ABC7-News. "Some random guy walked past me and sliced me — I don’t know what he used — and nonchalantly walked away. My body was in shock. I didn’t feel the pain right away."
Despite the gaping gash in her leg, the woman's first instinct was to get a video of her attacker, she said.
Police on Tuesday arrested Kemal Rideout, 28, on three counts of felony assault for allegedly slashing three women Sunday – including the 28-year-old who shot the video that helped authorities identify him.
The serial slasher was arrested after he was kicked off a city bus for not paying the fare, and police recognized that he was wearing the same shoes as the man in the slashing videos, according to court papers.
Rideout has five priors in New York, including for attempted rape, assault, criminal mischief and forcible touching, the Post reported.
[NYPOST] A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in the broad-daylight, caught-on-video shooting of a teen his own age nearly a year ago in Queens, police said.
The gunman — whose name has not been released because of his age — was nabbed on Tuesday in connection to the wild August 8 shooting on 118th Avenue near 152nd Street in South Jamaica, authorities said late Thursday.
He was also charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal use of a firearm, police said.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these
couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
United States Postal Service worker Eugene Gates Jr, 66, was on his usual route delivering post door to door in Lakewood, Dallas on Tuesday
He collapsed in a front yard and the homeowner ran outside to perform CPR. His wife Carla received a call which said he was rushed to hospital but he died
It is not clear whether Gates died from the sweltering 115 degree Fahrenheit heat but the temperature could have been a factor in his death
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Here in my neck of the woods.
A number of us during the summer months freeze water bottles for the Mail-person and place it in the mailbox, lip up the flag about about 1 hr. before they come by.
For known incoming package delivery people, we place cold drinks in a mini Igloo on the front porch with ICE Block.
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Dude's my age and still out trying to make his pension.
I, on the other hand, got some grass mowed, and was back inside by 10am, cause it be hot out there.
(God bless him and keep him...)
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[Jpost] Arizona is the leading producer of alfalfa in the US, shipping the crop to other countries as well as to other US states.
A Saudi Arabian company is at the center of a water controversy in Arizona that bubbled to the surface during the 2022 election cycle. While Canadian-controlled companies are by far the largest foreign owners of agricultural land in the state, it is the 10,000-acre Saudi-owned alfalfa farm that has garnered the most attention.
The southwestern United States is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, what experts call a “megadrought.” Despite this, “irrigated agriculture” on Arizona farms consumes roughly “74% of the available water supply,” according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources website.
“Arizona and the rest of the stakeholders on the Colorado [River] have managed to kick the can down the road for 100 years, but the west has grown beyond the physical reality of the river. There’s just not enough water anymore to support nonstrategic growth,” water policy expert Dan Schaefer told The Media Line.
ILLEGAL TO GROW IN SAUDI ARABIA BUT NOT IN ARIZONA
While it is illegal to grow alfalfa in Saudi Arabia because of the amount of water it requires, Arizona’s laws give those who own or lease land almost unlimited rights to extract water from their land.
Saudi company Fondomonte, a subsidiary of Saudi dairy giant Almarai, bought vast tracts of desert in western Arizona on top of a massive groundwater aquifer in part because there are no regulations on how much water can be pumped out of the ground. The company uses the land to grow alfalfa for livestock in Saudi Arabia.
Although what the company is doing is entirely legal and, for it, a smart business practice, it has rubbed many Arizonans the wrong way.
Arizona recently announced a shortfall in the 100-year water supply, triggering a moratorium on building permits for residential homes that require wells. Last month, well drilling permits for the Saudis were revoked.
However, the water saving for Arizona is just a drop in the proverbial bucket. More will have to be done.
“For Arizona, strategic growth means we double down on smart legislation like the 1980 Groundwater Act, continue to build flexible infrastructure and storage to get through dry years, expand reuse, and potentially the most painful but most impactful change is coming to terms with the biggest water user in the state: irrigating feed crops for beef and dairy,” Schaefer said.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who took office last January, promised that she would tackle water use issues in the state.
“For too long, our state leaders have been asleep at the wheel while this crisis has only grown. With new state leadership and the ever-increasing urgency of the issue, now is the time for the state government to get serious about regulating groundwater across Arizona and fulfill existing statutory duties so Arizona as we know it can continue to exist,” Mayes said in a press release.
Arizona State Representative Tim Dunn (Legislative District 25) told The Media Line that the issue was not the nationality of the farm’s owners, but their access to unlimited water via a state lease.
“The particular farm that is hitting the news all the time is the one for which the lease is up next year. … Some people have issues with it being foreign-owned, some people have issues over shipping alfalfa out of the state. Some people have issues with just farming in general,” he said.
Dunn, who is chairman of Arizona’s land and agriculture committees and vice-chairman of the Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee, is also a lifelong farmer with a degree in agriculture.
Arizona has four transfer basins that, by state statute, provide Arizona cities with a means to backfill water shortfalls. The Saudi farm planned on drilling into one of those transfer basins for water, but its permit was denied by the state.
According to Dunn, that particular transfer basin is a water “savings account for the future” and that discussing its use “is a valid conversation to have, to see how we want to use our water as a state.”
He views foreign-owned farms as an asset to Arizona’s economy.
“I don’t have a particular problem with the Saudis owning and working it,” he said. “The same company ships a lot of [Arizona] products along with what they grow. … They are hiring local people, they are paying taxes, they are buying fuel, they are buying electricity. Whether it is a foreign-owned company or a private company, they are paying for products and services on these farms.”
He worries that Arizona may take its battle against foreign-owned farms too far.
“When you start going after farms, are they going to come after my farm and my ability to ship my products next? It is a slippery slope,” Dunn said.
As well as alfalfa, Arizona farmers export wheat, cotton, and a host of other agricultural products around the world.
What happens in Arizona is being watched across the United States, which will either see the state as a model for the country or as a warning to those in drought-stricken areas who are not willing to act.
Moving forward will require input and buy-in from a lot of stakeholders, but the West has a long legacy of cooperation. I’m confident we’ll figure it out,” Schaefer said.
Some 40 million acres of US agricultural land are foreign-owned. Canadian and European companies own 62% of the foreign-owned land, with Canadian companies owning the most, 12,845,209 acres, followed by the Netherlands, with 4,875,034 acres. No Middle Eastern or Chinese companies make the top 10 list of foreign-owned agricultural acreage.
According to a report by The Intercept news organization, Thomas Galvin, an attorney at Rose Law Group who was appointed to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in 2021, lobbied on behalf of the Saudi farm. Neither Galvin nor Rose Law Group responded to The Media Line’s numerous requests for comments.
A spokesperson for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office told The Media Line the office did not have any new comments on the matter.
[USNInews] Surface Warfare Tackles Persistent Problems as More than Half of JOs Say They Don’t Want Command.
At least they’ve noticed there is a problem.
Over the last year, the Navy surveyed 2,500 officers on the highs and lows of a surface warfare career. The results surprised no one.
“SWOs of every rank take great pride in working with junior sailors. Our wardroom enjoys positive peer relationships, broadly has a strong bond with their commanding officers and appreciates the level of responsibility in their work,” reads the introduction to the survey.
“We also learned that fewer than half of our junior officers desire command. Most officers believe we are not retaining top talent. There is much frustration about our administrative requirements and the number of unqualified junior officers on each ship.”
Anyone familiar with surface warfare knows that frustrations about time away from home, too many JOs and a punishing amount of administrative paperwork are as common as mustard on a hotdog.
In 2021, the Government Accountability Office studied Navy career trends and found since 2004 SWOs had the shortest average careers of the major warfare communities in the Navy and surface warfare had a harder time generating department heads for ships.
“U.S. Navy officials stated that SWO retention to the department head milestone is low and requires them to commission nearly double the number of SWOs every year than needed, to ensure they have enough department heads eight years later,” reads the report.
The surface navy has polled its force every two years since 1999 and reached similar conclusions. Now, SWO leadership is trying to make better use of its data to make the community more appealing.
“There’s inherently a lot of friction on the ship,” Capt. Andy Koy, director of SURFOR commander’s action group at Naval Surface Warfare and former destroyer commander, told USNI News in an interview. “How can we reduce some of that?”
For example, having a ship full of ensigns competing for time on the bridge discourages SWOs from staying for the long haul, the community has found.
In the old days, if the Horatio Hornblower tales are anything to go by, the number of ensigns was thinned by cannonballs careening across ship decks. An effective method, though perhaps far from ideal...
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Why stay in SWO if the USN's top ranks are selected from former Bubbleheads or Aviators? An old friend started in SWO and transferred to Staff/Intelligence for the rest of his career.
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#3: remminds me of my first attempt at celestial. i left tampa-bay in my 23ft sailboat, alone, and using only a sextant,and sailing due south, i raised the dry-tortugas after 30 hrs. I only guessed at my longitude but my latitude was right-on. If i could do it anyone could and with a good timepiece they could do longitude as well. hoorah!
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Point to ponder:
If large groups of the SWO's find the job undesirable and leave, consider the mindset of the one's that do decide to stay. Kinda skews the results.
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I read a story some years ago, and I hope its true, that around WWII - that's WW11 for you ticktokers - a submarine lost propulsion so they rigged together sails and navigated back to a friendly port.
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SWO life was unpleasant but rewarding in the 90s. My second ship was co-ed, which added more complexity. Underway the workday often ended at 6PM. We stood either 4 hour of 6 hour watches both in and after the work day. The sailors that I served with are friends for life. The lifestyle did not seem sustainable to me for a long-term hitch.
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One of Mr. Wife’s colleagues, a perfectly gentlemanly gentleman, had come to the company already owning a brothel in Nairobi. A side gig, I believe is the current terminology, and not unusual in that part of the world. It’s probably just as well that Mr. Wife did not tell me about it until some years after they’d both moved on to other projects.
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[GEO.TV] A student from Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for suffocating one of his female colleagues with a face mask in jealousy and then dumping her body in undergrowth inside a large suitcase.
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[Next News] In a chilling development that has sent shockwaves through the international community, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, has vowed retaliation against Russia’s military leadership. This bold declaration, following claims of a deadly strike on his mercenaries, has ignited fears of an armed coup in the heart of Russia. The US, along with its allies, is closely monitoring the situation, bracing for potential fallout that could reshape the geopolitical landscape.
The White House has expressed its concern over the escalating situation in Russia, following the explosive comments from Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Wagner mercenary group. Prigozhin’s threats against Russia’s military leadership, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, have been viewed as a significant escalation from his usual rhetoric.
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As I told my wife last night, what is frightening about this is not what is happening in Russia, which is apparently serious and significant, but that it is happening while the Puppet Show is ostensibly in charge. Instead of steady hands and prudent leaders, we have a clown-show, behind which are people who will see this as an opportunity to exploit for financial and political gain. What they might do to accelerate this threat to Putin might well spark a very big ugly!
[Intelligencer] The U.S. economy was supposed to be shrinking by now. Last fall, Bank of America predicted that America would be bleeding 175,000 jobs a month throughout the first quarter of this year. And the consensus outlook among investors, CEOs, and analysts was much the same: 2023 would be a year of recession, as rising interest rates choked off investment and consumer spending, forcing employers to slash payrolls.
But reports of the economy’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Last month, U.S. firms added 339,000 jobs. That’s a bigger monthly gain than the U.S. ever posted in 2019, a banner year for the American economy. Unemployment is still hovering around 3.5 percent, a half-century low. For the moment, labor market conditions are the opposite of recessionary.
And there’s little reason to think that this will change anytime soon.
When economic forecasters envision rising interest rates throwing the economy into recession, they typically picture the housing market cratering first. This is because housing is exceptionally sensitive to credit conditions. Home buyers generally take on mortgages to purchase their homes, and as mortgage rates soar, would-be buyers decide to stick with renting for a while longer. As demand cools, builders cut back on new developments, putting construction workers out of jobs. That in turn reduces the purchasing power of such workers, thereby slightly cooling demand for goods and services.
Indeed, when Forbes predicted in February that the U.S. economy was poised to rapidly weaken, it based this assessment on "a precipitous drop in housing permits."
But this week, new data revealed that both permits and housing starts rebounded sharply in May with the latter posting the biggest monthly gain since 2016. New home construction jumped 21.7 percent last month to a 1.63 million-unit annualized rate, while multifamily housing starts grew by 27 percent. Permits, a proxy for future construction, rose by 5.2 percent.
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I am amazed that pundits out there talk as if we are not [yet] in a recession.
I'm not sure where they live or from which planet they hail, but it baffles me. Lending is drying up; housing and rental prices (in general, specific locations are different) are beginning to come down; and commercial real estate is an absolute mess.
And all of those people with student loans (payments begin in a few months), what did they do with the money not going to paying down the debt? Well, like good Americans, they spent it, much like they did with their stimulus checks (a Trump-Biden production there).
Credit card debt is through the roof.
And as I drive along one road here, every now and then I'll see yet another business shuttered for good.
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If you buy government statistics, I have a bridge to sell to you.
It will be interesting to see what the usual restatement of last month’s numbers looks like next month — whether, in fact, the ongoing recession as usually defined turns out to have been continuing, after all.
[Gateway] Rodney Milstreed is a hardworking machinist who attended the rally and protest on January 6, 2021, in Washington DC along with at least one million fellow Trump supporters who believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump.
He was arrested on the morning of May 22, 2021, at 5:00 am by a group of agents who rushed him and threw a flash-bang at him, seeming to delight in his fear.
He was designated a "high profile" prisoner and placed in solitary confinement for 96 days which proved difficult for him mentally and required medical intervention.
Once placed in the D.C. jail, he was once again placed on a 12-day lockdown, despite his prior medical concerns, where a prisoner threw feces and urine into his cell and meals were often denied.
Please pray for Rodney and donate if you can.
Rodney wrote a letter to The Gateway Pundit readers below.
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Hello, my patriotic Americans,
[Wash Examiner] The Federal Trade Commission is once again confronting a Big Tech target, but critics accuse the agency of going "rogue."
Chairwoman Lina Khan has the FTC suing Amazon for allegedly deceiving millions of consumers into signing up for its Prime program and then limiting their ability to cancel. Khan and the online retail giant have a long history together.
"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money," she said in a statement.
Khan, 34, became the youngest person ever to lead the FTC when President Joe Biden named her chairwoman in June 2021. She first shot to stardom in the "hipster antitrust" movement while still a Yale law student with a 2017 paper titled "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox."
The paper argues that the tech giant enjoys monopoly-like powers by operating in so many different business categories and advocates a more aggressive regulatory stance, including possibly breaking up the company.
Her critics say she's now following that doctrine but not keeping with the FTC's mission in doing so.
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In 1911 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil Trust be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act and split into 34 companies. Read more about it! The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
John D. Rockefeller kept a small piece of each of the 34 and soon quadrupled his holdings and fortune.
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Once again, the gov't loves to penalize success.
Granted, during the Fauci Flu plan/scamdemic, big box and online companies made a mint while small businesses were forced to close in the interests of "public health". That is another topic; however, say what we want about Bezos, Amazon went from selling books (remember getting bookmarks with your shipment?) to what it is today. Some things just happen naturally, and Amazon certainly provides services that people want, which is what it's all about.
Alexa surveillance devices are yet another issue, but I digress....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] A New York City subway slashing victim can be heard screaming for help and pursuing her own attacker as other riders appear to do nothing, the footage shows.
[NYPOST] A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in the broad-daylight, caught-on-video shooting of a teen his own age nearly a year ago in Queens, police said. 
[GEO.TV] A student from 
In 1911 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil Trust be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act and split into 34 companies. Read more about it! The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
