[FoxNews] Video: Former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey weighs in on what he calls the 'politically motivated' prosecution of Daniel Penny.
On May 1, while riding the subway, former Marine Daniel Penny, 24, placed Jordan Neely — a homeless schizophrenic who had 40 prior arrests including violent attacks, and was loudly working himself up to attack riders in that car —in a chokehold. Neely lost consciousness and eventually died.
[WaPo] Just 34 days before the end of World War II, a U.S. Navy cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea.
The USS Indianapolis had been the ship of state of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and had just delivered core components of the Hiroshima-bound atomic bomb "Little Boy" four days earlier.
After unloading her top-secret cargo at Tinian and then making a quick stop in Guam to await further orders, the crew of the Indy were soon bound for the Philippine island of Leyte, unaware that their location had just been discovered by an enemy submarine.
A Japanese sonar man had picked up on the sound of rattling dishes in her kitchen from some six miles away. The submarine began stalking her through the water until it was close enough to engage.
The sub’s commanding officer, Mochitsura Hashimoto, gave the order to fire six torpedoes into her side at 12:04 a.m. on July 30, 1945. Two of the torpedoes hit their mark, and it took the Indy just 12 minutes to capsize and sink, forever entombing some 300 of her 1,195-man crew 18,044 feet beneath the surface of the moonlit water.
For the next five days, the nearly 900 sailors who had survived the sinking found their numbers whittled down as crew member after crew member fell victim to saltwater poisoning, drowning, delirium and shark attacks. Only 316 survived the horrific ordeal...
Their collective rescue took about 24 hours to complete — leaving some survivors in the water for five harrowing days. One of the discovered clusters of men included the Indy’s captain, Charles McVay...
Despite the nightmare he’d just experienced and survived at sea, McVay soon found himself in a different kind of fight — this one with the United States Navy.
The Navy had bungled many things regarding the Indianapolis and knew it: It denied McVay the escort he’d requested for protection while traveling through enemy waters; it did not respond to any of the distress signals sent from the Indy that listed her coordinates in the final moments of her sinking (the Navy has since disputed receiving any distress signals, though multiple servicemen claimed to have received them); it did not recognize or report that the Indy had not arrived at Leyte when she was scheduled to; and it had provided McVay with an incomplete intelligence report...
"The conviction meant that of the almost 400 U.S. captains whose ships had been sunk during the war, McVay was the only one to have been court-martialed," Stanton said. Indeed, he was the only captain in the history of the Navy to be court-martialed for the loss of a ship sunk by an act of war.
That distinction stayed with McVay for the rest of his life as he endured anguished letter after anguished letter ("Hate mail," Indy survivor Granville Crane Jr. later called it), from the families of the fallen sailors whose deaths had been blamed on him. "He read every letter he received and took them all personally," Stanton said.
In the end, McVay took his own life on Nov. 6, 1968, with a gift from his father of a toy sailor clutched in his hand....
Congress voted to exonerate McVay on Oct. 12, 2000. Hashimoto died 13 days later....
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"The job of the committee is to protect the committee..."
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...The impression I've gotten from several books on the subject (and this is IMHO, YMMV of course) is that CAPT McVey probably would have (for lack of a better term) walked away from the loss of Indianapolis - there was enough ambiguity in his orders to cause doubt as to his culpability, and more than enough command and control failures to hold higher authority far more responsible.
On the other hand, there were a great many Indianapolis families who found out about their losses on VJ Day - I cannot imagine the sheer horror of getting up that morning believing that they were safe and they'd made it...only to find out that they weren't. Many of these families, once some of the details leaked out - and they did - went straight to their Congressmen and Senators demanding to know why McVey wasn't being held responsible.
There was also the matter of FADM Ernest King, Chief Of Naval Operations, who famously never met a grudge he couldn't hold. He had been disciplined many years before by CAPT McVey's father, and although there's no paperwork proving it conclusively, FADM King almost violently - even for him - shot down every suggestion that McVey be shown leniency. One can make an argument that embarassment and anger over the circumstances figured in as well, but there never seemed to be any doubt among King's staff that his treatment by McVey's father figured into this.
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The regulation says when wet-bulb reaches a certain point all training activities are to be suspended. It's one regulation that nearly all commands violate and will continue to be violated till individuals are tried or cashiered. Of course, now using the wrong pronoun will get you that kind of punishment. Not that I've heard anyone one died when they were misgendered.
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One pizza oven would have to be in operation 24 hours a da 7 days a week 52 weeks a year fro 849 years to emit as much CO2 as one trip in Kerry's private jet.
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Does that count pepperoni farts?
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the number to the left of the station is the visibility in miles, e.g., O Hare had 2 mile, Detroit and Cleveland had 1.5 miles at 12:15 pm local time (1815 UTC)
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Hummmmm! So a Liberal run, pro-socialist country is polluting the air and causing enormous increases in Carbon climate & environmental harm, far greater than the USA?
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So a Liberal run, pro-socialist country is polluting the air and causing enormous increases in Carbon climate & environmental harm, far greater than the USA?
It's still Trump's fault.
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Besides, everyone KNOWS that the fires are caused by global warming.
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[FoxNews] Concealed-carry holder became certified NRA instructor last month.
One year ago on July 3, Arizona resident and concealed-carry holder Raul Mendez and his family were enjoying a Fourth of July party before shots rang out and left their lives changed forever.
Mendez was shot in the head as suspect Jason Hunt opened fire on the partygoers, leaving two men dead and four others, including Mendez, seriously injured. The rampage ended when Mendez was able to gather the strength to pick himself off the floor, unholster his concealed-carry weapon and shoot Hunt four times in the chest.
"It's still something that's unreal," Mendez told Fox News Digital in a phone interview this week. "It's kind of like, now we know what's out there. And you always see it on the news that this happened, that happened … but you never think it's going to happen to you."
"It's always like, 'Oh, this happened, that's horrible,'" he added. "But then life goes on because, you know, it's never happened to you and never really think about that it's going happen to you."
Mendez recounted to Fox News Digital that he was attending a party with his two daughters and seven-months pregnant wife with friends and other families to celebrate the founding of America at a home in Surprise, Arizona. About 30 people were gathered in the home, including young children, as the group celebrated with fireworks and food, Mendez previously told Fox.
Surprise is a quiet Arizona town, Mendez said, which is located next to Sun City West, one of Arizona’s largest retirement communities.
A neighbor of the man hosting the party soon joined and mingled with the group despite not being close friends with anyone there, according to Mendez. That neighbor was later identified by police as 46-year-old Jason Hunt, the sole suspect in the case who opened fire unprovoked on the families and partiers, police said last year, according to the Arizona Republic.
Hunt and other partiers were grabbing food from the kitchen when the suspect pulled out a gun and began firing on the crowd, sending everyone fleeing, according to Mendez.
Mendez was shot in the head in front of his wife, who rushed to his side and believed he was dead due to the amount of blood covering his face. She then grabbed their two daughters and put them into a room deeper in the house, barricading them and other children inside.
Two other women in the home tried to fight Hunt while Mendez’s wife protected five children barricaded in a closet. The women called to Mendez hoping he was still alive as they knew he had a concealed-carry weapon.
"By the glory of God or the adrenaline and just everything, just the will to live and the will to protect my family, I was able to hear those pleas, those yells for help," he said after the shooting. "I heard my name. And I was able to get up."
Hunt was thwarted and police later said Mendez was "acting in self-defense and defense of other innocent parties."
Daniel Penny's reasoning as well, it’s not acceptable to Soros-funded prosecutors.
A motive in the case has not been publicly released.
Mendez lost his left eye, fractured his jaw, suffered a torn eardrum and lost his sense of smell because of the shooting, but he said he has been on the mend since.
Following the carnage, Mendez is now taking his experience to help train others to defend themselves and embrace their Second Amendment rights. He became a certified NRA (National Rifle Association) instructor last month and is preparing to lead classes by teaching his immediate friends and family about gun safety.
[AFRICANEWS] The paramilitary group Wagner will continue to operate in Mali and the Central African Republic, the head of Russian diplomacy assured us on Monday, adding that the organization's rebellion in Russia will not affect relations between Moscow and its allies.
Wagner members are working in Mali and the Central African Republic "as instructors. This work will of course continue", said Sergei Lavrov in an interview with RT.
The Russian minister said that Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and La Belle France "having abandoned the CAR and Mali", these countries had turned to Russia and Wagner to provide military instructors and "ensure the security of their leaders".
For the West, Wagner is an instrument of Russian influence, designed to advance Moscow's interests and compete with those of the Europeans. The gang is also accused of committing atrocities wherever it is deployed, and of extorting natural resources.
Mr. Lavrov also took the view that the armed rebellion of Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his men deployed in Ukraine would change nothing in Russia's relations with its allies.
"There have been many calls (from foreign partners) to President (Vladimir) Putin (...) to express words of support," he said.
"With partners and friends, no (it doesn't change anything, ed. note). As for other (countries), frankly, I don't care. Relations with the collective West are destroyed, so one episode more or less...", the diplomat felt.
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"Russia says Wagner will continue operations in the Central African Republic and Mali"
... where they will wither away like Marx said the communist state was supposed to...
[AFRICANEWS] Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio declared winner of country's presidential elections. Bio on Tuesday was re-elected for a second term with 56.17% of the vote, according to the head of the electoral commission.
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[BBC] Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found.
Some are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon.
Patreon said it had a "zero tolerance" policy about such imagery on its site.
The National Police Chief's Council said it was "outrageous" that some platforms were making "huge profits" but not taking "moral responsibility".
And GCHQ, the government's intelligence, security and cyber agency, has responded to the report, saying: "Child sexual abuse offenders adopt all technologies and some believe the future of child sexual abuse material lies in AI-generated content."
The makers of the abuse images are using AI software called Stable Diffusion, which was intended to generate images for use in art or graphic design.
AI enables computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
The Stable Diffusion software allows users to describe, using word prompts, any image they want - and the program then creates the image.
But the BBC has found it is being used to create life-like images of child sexual abuse, including of the rape of babies and toddlers.
UK police online child abuse investigation teams say they are already encountering such content.
Freelance researcher and journalist Octavia Sheepshanks has been investigating this issue for several months. She contacted the BBC via children's charity the NSPCC in order to highlight her findings.
"Since AI-generated images became possible, there has been this huge flood… it's not just very young girls, they're [paedophiles] talking about toddlers," she said.
A "pseudo image" generated by a computer which depicts child sexual abuse is treated the same as a real image and is illegal to possess, publish or transfer in the UK.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead on child safeguarding, Ian Critchley, said it would be wrong to argue that because no real children were depicted in such "synthetic" images - that no-one was harmed.
He warned that a paedophile could, "move along that scale of offending from thought, to synthetic, to actually the abuse of a live child".
[JudiciaryHouseGov] Interim Staff Report of the
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I have never eaten ramen. I look at the nutritional breakdown on the package and seriously wonder how so much fat can be packed into a dried noodle.
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No. I mean look at the nutritional info on the dry ramen package. It's worse than hotdogs.
Before you add the pangolin...
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Ramen, pangolin and circus peanuts - sounds like dessert round on Chopped.
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Ramen, ah ramen! I was broke and lived on ramen and peanut butter sandwiches for six months. Took years before the smell of ramen didn't make me nauseous...
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The noodles from Momofuku just might restore your faith in ramen. They sell online and you may peruse the ingredients and nutritional value of each product before purchase. I usually get the soy/scallion as it's the most versatile.
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They should put "nutritional information" in quotes on that packaging. And the sodium....geeesh.
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.
[WaPo] Just 34 days before the end of World War II, a U.S. Navy cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk in the Philippine Sea.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
