[Red State] In an incident underscoring the reality that guns work better than restraining orders, a woman in Monrovia, California, shot and killed a man who attempted to assault her with knives. The harrowing incident left the assailant dead and the armed woman physically unscathed.
The shooting occurred on Friday night, shortly after the man arrived at the homeowner’s residence armed with knives.
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Knew a dude in a rough neighborhood that had two circles painted on his driveway, based on distance to his front door. Red at 9 feet and yellow at 15 feet. Red is the "shoot them now" and yellow is the "warn them" line. It was all inside of his fenced front yard, with plenty of No Tresspassing signs. Local cops said it was copacetic.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … at the last minute and organizers call on friends to meet there and rampage anyway.
A 400-man riot broke out at a Florida skate park after the venue canceled a planned after party at the last minute.
The large brawl erupted Saturday night in the parking lot at Astro Skate in the Tampa Bay Metropolitan area after frustrated party organizers put out a call online encouraging people to 'riot' and 'confront law enforcement' at the skate park.
The rampage saw more than 400 people, both children and adults, fighting, stealing and causing damage to local businesses.
One group of rioters caused $500 worth of damage to a convenience store and another beat a juvenile before throwing him through a glass window at a nearby barber shop.
Twenty-three youths and six adults were arrested in the violent outbreak, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has confirmed.
Authorities were called to Astro Skate in Brandon, about 13 miles from Tampa, around 9.20pm Saturday after an off-duty deputy reported a large crowd fighting in the parking lot.
Investigators say the fight broke out after Astro Skate canceled a planned after party because the event hosts failed to hire an off-duty deputy to monitor the event, as per company policy.
Although the skate park refunded their money, the party-goers were seemingly angry and took to social media asking people to meet at the business and riot.
When deputies arrived at the scene, approximately 400 to 500 people were fighting and causing disturbances in the Astro Skate parking lot and at nearby businesses.
Deputies issued multiple warnings informing the crowd that they trespassing and needed to leave, but the group carried on the rampage.
Smaller groups broke away from the large fight and targeted nearby businesses.
From another article: after an off-duty deputy reported a “large crowd”.
From this article: Fight occurred because... canceled a planned after party because the event hosts failed to hire an off-duty deputy.
Seems like the Deputy who they were going to hire was there, and for whatever reasons declined the gig, and then called in backup b/c of a large unruly crowd getting pissed off that the event was canceled b/c of the deputy declined to provide the security - which had to be last minute b/c #1 the deputy was onsite, #2 the party go'ers never got a cancelation notice.
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Canceling an event at the last minute because of "security" issues is a time honored campus technique for shutting down, ie censoring, speakers who the delicate snowflake ears can't handle. If the off duty guy saw stuff that put up a red flag for him, so be it.
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I suspect The Furies.
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I'll go with Park monitored the reservation, saw that the number of attendees was going to go past occupancy and safety, saw that beefs were already going, and said nah.
Get the feeling one of the few diverse people there was thrown through the window?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …plot to retrieve stolen iPhone is jailed
Kevin Bui was 16 when he led his teenage accomplices on a botched revenge mission for a stolen phone in August 2020
They doused walls with gasoline after breaking into the Denver home where five adults and three children were sleeping
A six-month-old and a 21-month old were among the five dead found behind the locked front door
Bui was the last of the three to be sentenced and will serve 60 years in prison after his lawyers reached a plea deal
The leader of a teenage gang that incinerated two babies and three adults after targeting the wrong Colorado home in revenge for an iPhone theft will serve 60 years in jail.
Lawyers for Kevin Bui, 20, accepted a plea deal after he admitted torching the Denver home where eight innocent people were sleeping on an August night in 2020.
Bui and two accomplices broke into the Green Valley Ranch home and doused the walls with gasoline before setting it alight and leaving the family to its fate.
Three people jumped to safety from a second-story window, but the bodies of Djibril Diol, his wife Adja, 23, their 21-month-old daughter, Khadija, along with Diol's sister Hassan and her six-month-old daughter, Hawa, were found huddled together by the front door.
Bui, and his friends Gavin Seymour, 16, and Dillon Siebert, 14, had spent weeks planning the attack on the home. Bui had wrongly identified it after using the 'Find My iPhone' app to track the location of his stolen device to the family's neighborhood. They bought hockey-style masks from a costume store and were recorded in ghostly surveillance footage approaching the house laden with cans of gasoline on the night of the fire.
Denver police officer Gordon King was among the first on the scene and heard someone trying to unlock the front door from inside with a keypad.
'Officer King kicked in the front door but was forced away from the door by the extreme heat,' the arrest warrant for Seymour recorded.
'Officer King was able to see a small human body approximately three feet inside of the front door.
'As Officer King attempted to get the person out it was apparent that the person was not alive and Officer King was forced back by the extreme heat of the fire.'
Investigators had little to go on until they ordered Google to hand over information on anyone who had searched online for the Truckee Street address in the two weeks before the fire.
The trio were arrested in January 2021 and charged with crimes including first-degree murder with extreme indifference, attempted murder with extreme indifference, burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.
Siebert was sentenced in February 2023 to ten years behind bars for his role in the crime.
Seymour pleaded guilty to second degree murder in March and was jailed for 40 years followed by five years of mandatory parole.
Bui's legal team announced a deal with the Denver District Attorney's Office on Friday in which he agreed to 60 years in a state correctional facility in exchange for the DA dropping an additional 60 criminal charges.
Bui's father, Thuan Bui, was in court to see the plea deal announced, telling reporters: 'We accept it.'
The murdered family were originally from Senegal and Diol had graduated in 2018 from Colorado State University with a degree in civil engineering. Diol was working for Kiewit construction, and his family were staying with friends at the house until they could get a home of their own.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two high school students are believed to have leapt off a South Carolina bridge into a lake before drowning because they were apparently dared by friends in a group chat.
Ryan Al-Nasser, 16, and Zakaria Chaar, 15, were both students at Daniel High School in Pickens County, South Carolina.
Local police claim that the pair were in group chats with friends daring them to jump off Twelve Mile River Bridge into Lake Hartwell.
The lake was the site of a tragic accidental drowning death of an 18-year-old just this past July 4.
The boys, both sophomores, apparently took their friends up on the dare and jumped off the bridge Saturday.
Police were informed at around 10:30pm Saturday by a person calling 911 saying they had lost their friends.
According to the police, it appeared one of the boys made the jump while another attempted to rescue him before being dragged by the current of the water.
Officials searched for two days before the bodies were eventually taken out of the water on Monday morning at 11am by a local boater.
The bodies were found around eight feet from one another in the 15-feet deep water.
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Poor boys. The bridge is not high, and the river looks deceptively calm. Hubris.
Kayak website said this: As the Twelve Mile River enters Lake Hartwell, the channels become very clear and wide. Paddlers can use Madden Bridge Road as a beginning and end point, and paddle upstream or downstream at their own leisure.
[DAILYCALLER] At the intersection of E. 12th Street and 16th Avenue in Oakland, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, drivers are now greeted with four-way stop signs hanging overhead where traffic lights used to hang.
The City of Oakland replaced the traffic lights with stop signs in response to months of recurring copper thefts and tampering with the lights’ electrical power boxes, CBS the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... reports.
"It’s just telling us that the city is giving up on us," Tam Le, owner of Le’s Auto Body & Engine Repair at the intersection corner, told CBS San Francisco. "The city did try to fix the traffic light at least a few times. But once they fixed it, normally within a week or so, it will go out again." (RELATED: Copper Wire Thieves Cost Blue City Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars: REPORT)
"Neighbors say the [stop] sign is a sign and a reflection of the city’s condition. They say the city’s inability to clear a homeless encampment next to the intersection is leading to this kind of issue," Da Lin, who discovered the city’s action, reported on a KPIX broadcast.
The homeless encampment, which stretches for three blocks of the neighborhood, illegally connects to the city’s power and causes disruptions to the traffic lights, according to CBS San Francisco. The city reportedly tried to counter the electrical tampering with heavy cement blocks over the electrical boxes, but the encampment members simply moved them and continued to steal the power.
Violent crime in Oakland increased 22% this year, according to the most recently available police data, which also show a nearly 10% increase in commercial burglary.
In September, over 200 business owners shut down their stores to strike against the government's handling of public safety amid rising crime. The protest was held days after city officials admitted to missing a deadline to apply for state funding to fight retail theft.
That same month, Oakland city leaders launched a grant program to provide funding for small business owners to hold events — like workout classes, musical performances and movie nights — to draw customers to local shops that have seen a decrease in patrons due to crime.
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[FoxNews] A 23-year-old man who ran away from a mental health clinic in Florida on Sunday was critically wounded in a police shooting after officers encountered him armed with pepper spray and a knife, authorities said.
The man, whose name was not immediately released publicly, had been taken to The Vines Hospital by family members to be admitted just before 12:30 p.m. when he began "acting erratic" and ran from the clinic, the Ocala Police Department said.
Officers found the man about 10 minutes later near the 5500 block of SW 27th Avenue.
When officers approached the 23-year-old, he was determined to be "an immediate threat," prompting officers to use deadly force and shoot the man, according to the department.
Preston Bare told WESH-TV that he was heading home when he witnessed the encounter between the man and police.
"The cop was holding the gun, and there was another cop holding the Taser on him, and he was patting on his chest, pleading with the man to please drop whatever he had in his hands," Bare told the station. "Then he got tased, and he started to immediately run toward the cop that had his gun drawn on him, spraying him while he's running with the knife in his hand, and then he got shot."
The man was rushed to a local hospital and underwent surgery. Police said he is in serious condition and has further medical procedures pending.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …who was running gold mining and e-cigarette business with slain mission's leader
Benjamin Zalman-Polun was one of three American citizens detained in Congo
READ MORE: Son had been preparing for war before following father into coup
Malanga's American son Marcel and another unidentified American man were captured and paraded around after the failed coup. Zalman-Polun's passport was gleefully displayed by the victorious troops.
Zalman-Polun and Malanga were involved in gold mining in Mozambique together, according to several African news outlets. The business partners also reportedly worked together in the e-cigarettes industry in Mozambique.
In 2014, the DC native pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 kilos or less of marijuana in DC between October 2011 and April 2012, per legal documents seen by DailyMail.com.
According to his wife Hannah Polun's social media, the family has been living in the affluent coastal town of Ballito, South Africa, for the last couple of years.
In the early hours of Sunday, a group of around 50 men armed in camouflage fatigues attacked the residences of the prime minister, the defense minister, and a senior politician tipped to become speaker of parliament, according to the army.
Chilling footage caught the moment two of the plotters were seized trying to flee the country across the Congo River before groveling for mercy to Congolese soldiers as they lay bleeding in the street.
Marcel Malanga was one of them. He accompanied his former refugee father to the central African country from their home in Utah to lead the coup against the autocratic government of President Felix Tshisekedi.
A Facebook page appearing to belong to Malanga posted a live-streamed video of what appeared to be the attack.
'We, the militants, are tired. We cannot drag on with Tshisekedi and Kamerhe, they have done too many stupid things in this country,' Malanga said in Lingala in the video.
Christian Malanga moved to Salt Lake City as a 15-year-old refugee with his family in 1998 but returned to Congo in 2006 where he served in the military, and stood for parliament in 2011 only to be arrested two days before the poll.
He attempted to build his United Congolese Party in exile after returning to the US in 2012 and was accused by Congolese intelligence of plotting the assassination of then president Joseph Kabila.
Eight years after arriving in the US, Malanga returned to his homeland in order to do military service, rising to the rank of captain by 2007. During this period, he had at least 235 soldiers under his command.
Following failed attempts at moving into politics in DRC, Malanga returned to the US in 2012 but continued to be active in the country's affairs while in exile.
Malanga, who had previously threatened on social media to overthrow Tshisekedi, first attempted an aborted coup in 2017, according to army spokesperson Sylvain Ekenge.
The army has shared a photo of his body sprawled on the grass in blood-stained fatigues.
In the ministry's video, a detained man described as a recruiter for Malanga's cause says Malanga had planned to proclaim himself president.
"He indicated he had the support of the Americans, but we realise that he didn't really have any," the detainee said.
The U.S. ambassador has said the United States will fully cooperate with the Congolese authorities and hold accountable any U.S. citizens involved.
Marcel appears to have ad a perfectly average upbringing in the US. He graduated from Copper Hills High School in the community of West Jordan, Utah, in 2020 where he was also a star football player.
After high school, he went on to play for the Utah Islanders, a team which helps to develop players to play college football.
However, his social media is filled with references to war and images of assault weapons.
Nearly a year ago Marcel shared a picture with his father and captioned it: 'honored to have you as my earthly father. I can’t wait to change the world with you.'
[NEWARAB] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... held its first fashion show featuring swimsuit models on Friday, an envelope-pushing step in a country where less than a decade ago women were required to wear body-covering abaya robes.
The poolside show featuring the work of Moroccan designer Yasmina Qanzal included mostly one-piece suits in shades of red, beige and blue. Most models had exposed shoulders and some had their midriffs partially visible.
"It's true that this country is very conservative but we tried to show elegant swimsuits which represent the Arab world," Qanzal told AFP.
"When we came here, we understood that a swimsuit fashion show in Saudi Arabia is a historic moment, because it is the first time to have such event," she said, adding it was "an honour" to be involved.
The show took place on the second day of the inaugural Red Sea Fashion Week at the St Regis Red Sea Resort, situated off Saudi Arabia's western coast.
The resort is part of Red Sea Global, one of the so-called giga-projects at the heart of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 social and economic reform programme overseen by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... Prince Mohammed, who became first in line to the throne in 2017, has initiated a series of dramatic social reforms in a bid to soften Saudi Arabia's austere image stemming from its historical championing of a purist form of Islam known as Wahhabism.
Those changes have included side lining stick-wielding inquisitors religious police who used to chase men out of malls to pray, re-introducing cinemas and organising mixed-gender music festivals.
They have coincided with ramped-up repression targeting dissent, including from conservative holy mans who might protest such moves.
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[Breitbart] Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 88, will receive medical treatment for a “lung infection,” according to a news report from the country’s official news agency.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) revealed in a post on X on Sunday morning that the king would be going through medical tests after he had been suffering “from a high temperature and pain in the joints.
After completing the medical tests, it was discovered that King Salman had a “lung infection.”
“The medical team decided that he — may God protect him — should undergo a treatment program consisting of antibiotics until the inflammation went away, God willing,” the SPA wrote in another post.
News of King Salman’s lung infection comes after he was admitted to the hospital in April for a routine checkup, the SPA said at the time, according to Fox News.
King Salman took the throne in January 2015 after the death of King Abdullah. Years after taking the throne, the king appointed his son, Mohammed bin Salman as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
At the time, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was Mohammed bin Nayef, who had also served as the deputy prime minister and interior minister. However, Nayef was stripped of these positions.
"Touching camels or being around infected camels or their body fluids (milk, feces/poop, urine/pee, saliva/spit, etc.) can increase a person’s chances of becoming infected with MERS-CoV."
[FOXBUSINESS] Former Chrysler and Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli warned that the fault lines of the economy are "about ready to crack" on Monday, adding that the Biden administration's alleged policy missteps could leave a cumbersome mess for the next person who sits in the Oval Office to clean up.
"What I've seen over the past three-and-a-half years is that a series of debacles and missteps have created a tremendous pressure on the fault lines of our economy, and they're about ready to crack," he told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo.
"Whoever gets the next stint in the White House is going to be hit with a wrecking ball in trying to correct the missteps and the overspending of this current administration, so we're in for a rough time, I would say."
Nardelli's comments came in response to questioning about the green climate agenda that has been echoed in policy since President Biden took office in January 2021. The often-described "war on fossil fuels" has led some economists and commentators to call out the administration for hindering U.S. oil production and contributing to higher energy costs.
At the same time, Americans are taking hits from other elevated necessity costs, including groceries and rent.
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"Whoever gets the next stint in the White House is going to be hit with a wrecking ball in trying to correct the missteps and the overspending of this current administration, so we're in for a rough time, I would say."
I think the Market is poised for change. If Trump picks the correct running mate, it will likely be an astonishingly rapid recovery. Someone with business, energy knowledge and connections will be key.
One such possibility:
Doug Burgum was born on August 1, 1956, in Arthur, North Dakota. He received a bachelor's degree from North Dakota State University in 1978 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1980. After graduating from business school, Burgum worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company from 1980 to 1983. He founded Great Plains Software in 1983, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. He then worked at Microsoft as a senior vice president from 2001 to 2007.
Burgum also served on several boards before being elected governor, including the Arthur Companies, Avalara, Atlassian, the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Intelligent InSites.
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How much mischief would Qatar fund if oil were $40/bbl?
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Cue the Mylie Cyrus.
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I thought theorists saying its a set up to make the next pres a fall guy got you called names and cancelled. Or worse, center ring during prog month.
[Hot Air] ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- The oldest gas station in America still in operation, Reighard's here in this Blair County city, got its start in 1908 when a local blacksmith decided to sell gasoline out the back of his shop when the Model T was introduced.
It has been open ever since. While architecturally it is underwhelming, the service is good because the people who work there care about the work they do, whether it is pumping gas, washing your windshield or doing minor fixes on your car. It is important to them that you return.
While Reighard's holds the title of the oldest gas station in the country, it was another Altoona family that put a different kind of gas station excellence on the map. The Sheetz family story is one of struggles. This family-friendly service station struggled with a salmonella breakout in 2004, but it retained a deeply local customer base and expanded well beyond its western Pennsylvania roots.
Ask any traveler in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina and they'll tell you when they see the cheery red and yellow stations along their drives, Sheetz means quality and comfort to their loyal customers.
One very loyal and vocal customer is Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), the Braddock Democrat who often posts on X his preference for Sheetz over Wawa, the other mega service station based in the state, with cheeky posts such as "Sheetz > Wawa."
With so much loyalty among residents in the state, it made sense for President Joe Biden to do a photo-op at a Sheetz in suburban Pittsburgh last week after his visit with local steelworkers. He wanted to demonstrate that he is no different than any other Pennsylvanian in his affection for the family-owned business.
[Zero] 'You'll own nothing in retirement and be happy'...
Wit the organization he founded 50 years ago bringing in nearly $500 million in revenue in the year ending March 2023 (and sitting on a neat pile of 200 million Swiss francs cash), Klaus Schwab will own some things as he reportedly steps back from his role running the World Economic Forum has has headed since 1971.
Semafor reports that Schwab announced his intentions to step down as executive chairman in an email to staff on Tuesday that was shared with Semafor by a person connected to the organization.
The change in his role is pending approval by the Swiss government but should be finalized ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in 2025.
Schwab, now 86, will be transitioning to a role as non-executive chairman.
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Bright (two doctorates — mechanical engineering and economics, plus a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s JFK School of Gov’t), mentored by Henry Kissinger, and a professor in his own right. His Swiss father had moved to Germany to run a major Swiss manufacturing firm for the benefit of the Third Reich, then returned permanently after the war. Though all the rest of his family is determinedly Swiss, Klaus prefers German citizenship despite his professorial career being in Switzerland. Odd, that.
It sounds like the WEF grew willy-nilly out of an early conference that quickly became popular.
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.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
[FoxNews] A 23-year-old man who ran away from a mental health clinic in Florida on Sunday was critically wounded in a police shooting after officers encountered him armed with pepper spray and a knife, authorities said.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
Might "enrage" a few outside of PA as well.
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