Atlanta trying very hard to wrest the title of African-American Culture Capitol from rival Chicago.
[CBS46] -- In less than seven hours, 23 people were shot in and around metro Atlanta overnight Saturday into Sunday. Three people died, with one of those shootings taking the life of an 8-year-old girl.
The first shooting call came into Atlanta Police around 9:50 p.m. when officers went to the area of University Avenue and I-75 where the 8-year-old girl was shot. It happened near the same location as the deadly shooting of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta Police in June.
A short-time later around 11:30 p.m, shots rang out on the 1500 block of Hardee Street in Northeast Atlanta. Officers arrived and found a man and woman had both been shot, but neither wanted to talk to police about the shooting. Police said the shooting appeared to be caused when the victims confronted a group of people shooting fireworks outside their home. At some point, shots were fired and hit both victims. Both were taken to Grady Hospital.
Around 15 minutes later, APD was on the way to another shooting, this one on the 1600 block of Lakewood Avenue in Southeast Atlanta. Officers said the preliminary investigation found a group of people were standing around when someone drove by and fired multiple times at the group. A total of five people were shot and taken to local hospitals.
Around 12:50 a.m., Atlanta police made their way to the next shooting, this one on the 400 block of Edgewood Avenue in Southeast Atlanta. Police said the investigation showed the shooting victim had confronted another man who was talking to his girlfriend. A fight broke out and during the fight police said several people tried to pull the gun from the shooter and it went off hitting the victim in the arm. He was also taken to Grady Hospital reportedly in stable condition.
Not 10 minutes later, Atlanta police in the northeast part of the city were on their way to a mass shooting on the 200 block of Auburn Avenue. Police said a car hit a person and a fight broke out. A total of 14 people were shot during the melee. Two of those victims were listed in critical condition, but later died. The other 12 were said to be in stable condition.
The carnage finally stopped near 4 a.m. when officers went to Atlanta Medical Center South to talk to a shooting victim. Police said the victim was shot in the leg near the intersection of Etheridge Drive and 7th Street in Northeast Atlanta, but the victim isn't cooperating with investigators.
Also overnight Sunday, vandals targeted the Georgia Department of Public Safety's headquarters building. Multiple windows were smashed, a vehicle was damaged, the walls were spray painted, and a small fire broke out in the building.
[NYPOST] Nearly 40 people were shot across New York City from the Fourth of July into early Sunday — including several fatalities, police sources said. Between midnight Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday, 39 people were struck by gunfire across every borough except Staten Island, with at least three people killed, sources said.
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struck by gunfire across every borough except Staten Island
Staten Island is very un-New Yorky. The borough's population was 75.7% White (65.8% non-Hispanic White alone), 10.2% Black or African American (9.6% non-Hispanic Black or African American alone), 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 7.4% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 4.6% from Some other race, and 1.9% from Two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race made up 15.9% of the population.
[FOX32CHICAGO] Thirteen people have been killed and at least 54 others injured in shootings across reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... so far over the Fourth of July weekend. Nine of the weekend’s victims were minors, and two of the children died from their injuries.
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Chicago and Atlanta are in a headlong race to BLM nationhood. Chicago has a significant head start and commanding lead.
Taken back by the police and local governance, or the Feds? Not likely, it's now too far gone. The participants were long ago exempted from civilized conduct and the Rule of Law. Such an action would spark a bloody war. These places will smolder, stink, and decay. I am hopeful (but not certain) that the rest of the country will survive.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A shooting at a South Carolina nightclub left two people dead and eight maimed in what local Sherlocks are calling a suspected 'gang related' incident.
Video footage posted to social media shows people at what appears to be a rap concert inside the Lavish Lounge club in Greenville early on Sunday morning.
The clip shows people inside the club hurrying toward the exit before the screen goes blank and gunshots are heard in the background.
Two Greenville County sheriff's deputies noticed a disturbance at Lavish Lounge just before 2am, and saw a large crowd running out of the building, Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at a presser.
Lewis told Greenville News the incident was 'probably gang related.' He said authorities are searching for two suspects, though no physical description of the button men has been released as of Sunday morning.
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Just another BLM sponsored event.
I'm getting tired of this sh*t, makes me wonder if anybody has a brain with more then two cells.
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Revolutionaries, in simple terms. History is replete with the bastids.
I watched a splendid documentary by historian Lucy Worsly last evening on the French revolution, or series of French revolutions during the reign of Louis XVI. Probably a blinding flash of the obvious, but many of today's lawless upheavals closely parallel those found throughout history.
[BREITBART] An armed bystander shot a robbery suspect dead in the parking lot of a Scottsdale, Arizona, convenience store early Friday morning.
12 News reports the robbery suspect, 38-year-old Robert Blackwater, entered a Circle K on Indian School and 82nd Street and allegedly shot at the clerk, who fled the store unharmed.
During the alleged robbery a customer, 35-year-old Joseph Toki, walked into the store and was allegedly shot and killed by Blackwater.
Blackwater then reportedly ran out of the store and shot at a bystander in the parking the lot. The bystander was armed and shot back, killing Blackwater.
Fox 10 reports Scottsdale Police believe Blackwater was tied to two other armed robberies, one in Mesa and another in Scottsdale.
Police apprehended a second robbery suspect on Saturday, 32-year-old Bryan Christopher Lee Washington. He is believed to have been waiting in a car for Blackwater outside the store, and police think he fled on foot once the parking lot shootout occurred.
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At a Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court hearing for an extension of his remand on Saturday night, police claimed the man wounded an officer and a volunteer policeman and produced photographs to back up their allegations.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Data analysis by Brookings looked at the US population over the last decade
The population grew by 19.5 million over the last decade, according to the report
Data shows that 80% of the population identified as white in 1980; by 2000 that had dropped to 69.1% and by 2019 is it estimated to stand at 60.1%
The Hispanic population grew by 20%, Asian American by 29%, and black populations grew 8.5%, between 2010 and 2019
Estimates released by the US Census Bureau ahead of the 2020 results show that in 2019 more than 50% of those under 16 also identified as a minority
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Hispanic - derived from the name of the Roman province of Hispania, today known as Spain, part of Europe. It is an ethnic category, not a race category.
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On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
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Until the pandemic, young fashionables were having 3+ children, to show they could afford it. Mr. Wife’s nieces, one a dentist and the other a nurse practitioner, have seven under the age of eight between them .
Separately, of that 80% who identified as white in 1980, how many identified as Hispanic or other non-white subsequently? Being non-white puts one in line for all sorts of goodies not available to those labelled white, and it is now as fashionable to be some sort of non-white as it is to be non-binary.
The UK is considering reducing its Army's manpower from 74k to 55k, disbanding the Royal Marines commando brigade (losing its artillery, engineers, and landing craft), cutting RN minesweepers, closing several airbases, and shedding Puma helos and C-130.https://t.co/Zu0tr5nyAR
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The Royal Navy is in sad shape these days, isn't it? Aircraft Carriers without the necessary escorts and Marine Commandos without the necessary amphibious landing ships...
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
(CNN) Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday.
The case was discovered in the city of Bayannur, located northwest of Beijing, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. A hospital alerted municipal authorities of the patient's case on Saturday. By Sunday, local authorities had issued a citywide Level 3 warning for plague prevention, the second lowest in a four-level system.
The warning will stay in place until the end of the year, according to Xinhua.
Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, is one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, it killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe. If anybody needs me, I'll be locked in my room in the bomb shelter.
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A normal situation in the four corners area (UT,CO,AZ,NM). That's why we scratch our head over the panic on the KungFlu. We live with a killer. In NM, we've lost about 125, mostly in the Navajo Reservation and a nursing home to this KungFlu. In 2018 we killed over 300 in vehicle accidents. The shut down has sort of balanced that out this year with a decrease in vehicular deaths.
[Oilprice.com] Plans to start mining the Moon as early as 2025 became more attractive this week after a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team found evidence that the Earth’s natural satellite may, underneath its surface, be richer in metals than previously thought. Using data from the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of researchers came to the conclusion that the lunar subsurface contains a higher concentration of certain metals, such as iron and titanium, than estimated.
The study, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, contends the most popular theory surrounding the Moon’s origins. The hypothesis contends the satellite was formed when a Mars-sized object collided with Earth, vaporizing large portions of the Earth’s upper crust.
"By improving our understanding of how much metal the moon’s subsurface actually has, scientists can constrain the ambiguities about how it has formed, how it is evolving and how it is contributing to maintaining habitability on Earth," lead study author Essam Heggy said in a statement.
The evidence was discovered while the scientists were looking for ice at the bottom of craters in the lunar north pole region, NASA said. It means that fine dust found at the base of those holes are parts of the deeper layers of the Moon, ejected during meteor impacts. As such, this dust represents the composition in deeper Moon layers.
The researchers found a pattern in which larger and deeper craters have higher metal concentrations than smaller and shallower ones. Specifically, in craters approximately 1 to 3 miles wide, the dielectric constant or electrical property increased along with crater size. However, the electrical property remained constant for craters between three to 12 miles wide.
Order to mine
US President Donald Trump signed an order in April encouraging citizens to mine the Moon and other celestial bodies with commercial purposes.
The directive classifies outer space as a "legally and physically unique domain of human activity" instead of a "global commons," paving the way for mining the moon without any sort of international treaty.
"Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space," the document states, noting that the US had never signed a 1979 accord known as the Moon Treaty. This agreement stipulates that any activities in space should conform to international law.
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos quickly condemned Trump’s move, likening it to colonialism.
"There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its interest — everyone remembers what came of it," Roscosmos’ deputy general director for international cooperation, Sergey Saveliev, said.
The proposed global legal framework for mining on the moon, called the Artemis Accords, would be the latest effort to attract allies to the National Space Agency's (NASA) plan to place humans and space stations on the celestial body within the next decade.
It also lines-up with several public and private initiatives to fulfill the goal of extracting resources from asteroids, the moon and even other planets.
In 2015, the US Congress passed a bill explicitly allowing companies and citizens to mine, sell and own any space material.
That piece of legislation included a very important clause, stating that it did not grant "sovereignty or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body."...
[ZH] In a rare unanimous decision for the US Supreme Court, on Monday the nine Justices ruled unanimously that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling arose out of a case from Washington state, essentially gives states the right to outlaw so-called "faithless electors" who cast their votes for people other than those chosen by their voters.
The decision comes just four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner, and electors almost always do so anyway.
While so-called "faithless electors" have not been critical to the outcome of a presidential election, that could change in a close race decided by just a few electoral votes. As a reminder, it takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency.
When the court heard arguments by telephone in May because of the coronavirus outbreak, justices invoked fears of bribery and chaos if electors could cast their ballots regardless of the popular vote outcome in their states.
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UK historian David Starkey quit his honorary position at Cambridge University after he drew criticism for his remarks saying slavery was not genocide.https://t.co/6Fz1T3asD0
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Well, it sort of was in the Caribbean and Central/South America. Death rates were high and survival rates low. The damn English didn't want to waste property and the death rates were marginal compared to those locales.
[WEARTV] ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- An investigation into an alleged noose believed to have been found at the International Paper Co. mill in Cantonment has come to an end.
International Paper's Director of Marketing Thomas Ryan tells Channel 3 that what they found on site in late June was actually not a noose at all.
Ryan says they immediately partnered with a third party to investigate the supposed noose. That third party group, he says, was very diverse.
Ryan says the Sherlocks reviewed current and historical photographs and interviewed more than 60 employees and contractors. They found the rope was actually used to hold up cables, but knocked down by a storm that night.
He sent Channel 3 a statement reading in part:
The team discovered photographs from as far back as 2012 that showed the rope was used to elevate cables that were knocked to the ground by a storm. The team ultimately found no evidence of racist conduct or intent. The company remains committed to creating and maintaining a diverse workforce and a workplace where all employees feel welcomed and able to contribute their best every day.
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"J'accuse!" flew like shit through a goose:
"No justice for Jussie or Juice!"
But come clean? There's the rub
In this tale from Squire Bub
And its linchpin, his news of a noose.
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No planeload of FBI agents descending on Escambia? That's discrimination!
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
(CNN) Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday.
[Oilprice.com] Plans to start mining the Moon as early as 2025 became more attractive this week after a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team found evidence that the Earth’s natural satellite may, underneath its surface, be richer in metals than previously thought. Using data from the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of researchers came to the conclusion that the lunar subsurface contains a higher concentration of certain metals, such as iron and titanium, than estimated.
[WEARTV] ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- An investigation into an alleged noose believed to have been found at the International Paper Co. mill in Cantonment has come to an end.
