[ChicagoSunTimes] Of those shot, 24 were in mass shootings in Greater Grand Crossing, the Near West Side, Douglas and Austin.
Seventeen people have been killed and at least 83 wounded during shootings in Chicago over the extended Fourth of July weekend.
By the end of Friday, the tally of shootings — six people shot Thursday and 62 shot Friday, 12 killed over both days — surpassed the numbers for last year’s entire holiday weekend. Last year, 11 people were killed and 62 wounded over the holiday weekend, which stretched over four days, July 1-4.
This year’s holiday violence includes four mass shootings. In all, 24 people were shot, four fatally, in the mass attacks.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement the Chicago Police Department would deploy officers whose days off for the holiday weekend were previously canceled, aiming “to maximize presence and ensure prompt incident response.”
“We are devastated by the recent violence that has left our city in a state of grief, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families and communities impacted by these recent events,” Johnson’s office said in a statement.
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Chicago mayor blames disinvestment, Republicans after violent weekend, Johnson also blamed the Republican party.
“You have an entire political party that is protecting a lobbyist entity to make sure that illegal guns can flow through the streets,” Johnson said.
The mayor said the GOP should be brought up on charges. Chicago has not had a Republican mayor since William Hale Thompson left office in 1931.
[OutKick via Fox News] A man used a pistol to take down a massive bear.
Generally speaking, you need some serious firepower to take down a bear due to its massive size, strength and muscle makeup. You don't want to find yourself in a showdown with a bear and be unarmed or only have a small pistol.
However, in a pinch, you have to work with what you have, and that's what happened to a hunter in Alaska.
(More info and pictures of the bear in question at the link, just so you know, the guy used a 10mm pistol to put down the bear!)
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition,
also known as the Corps of Discovery,
were the first to warn us back in 1804 of the dangers of trying to take down a charging grizzly bear with a single rifle shot.
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10 mm Auto is currently the preferred bear handgun. A Glock 20 will hold 15+1 10 mm rounds which are roughly equivalent to the .41 Magnum. More rounds, less recoil and easier to shoot compared to the .44 Magnum and bigger revolvers.
[Whatfinger] General Flynn Said: This is the leader of the national education association...the leadership are socialist psychopaths who want full control over our children. This is a 21st century version of the Bolshevik revolution.
End Wokeness said This deranged lunatic is President of the National Education Association, largest teachers union in the United States.
Homeschooling never looked better.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1810052418152882475
The News Variable Show, with Mal Antoni hosting... Now here on Rumble. All controversial statements by Mr. Antoni are his own opinions. If you don’t like them, don’t watch. If you are one of those nut cases who watch just to complain, get a life or stick to fake news. We have no time for your BS. America needs patriots that just say it like it is. If you don’t like it, too damn bad.
Email for any reason — newsvariable@gmail.com or check out my new account over at Twitter, Not used much yet but it is https://twitter.com/NewsVariable also have a Facebook that I don’t use — https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090390176294 and never check yet. I will eventually, maybe.
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General Flynn Said: This is the leader of the national education association…the leadership are socialist psychopaths who want full control over our children. This is a 21st century version of the Bolshevik revolution.
[Modernity] World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab told delegates at a conference in China this week that humanity needs to be "forced into a collaboration" with globalist entities.
Speaking at the WEF’s ’Annual Meeting of the New Champions’, often dubbed the "Summer Davos," in China, Schwab stated that in order to drive the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" forward, elites must aggressively drive their agenda home.
"To drive future economic growth we must embrace innovation and force the collaboration across sectors, regions, nations, and cultures to create a more peaceful, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future," Schwab proclaimed.
He added, "At this critical juncture the active participation of all stakeholders is essential to ensure a sustainable development path."
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A career government bureaucrat's really going to tell me about expertise in innovation and economic growth? What a fucking crock - it must've sounded better in German.
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We will collaborate by turning the elites into soylent blue. They will taste foul, like the shit they're made from, but the other wanna be 'elites' will proclaim their perfection.
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^#2 in German..just for fun. "Um das zukünftige Wirtschaftswachstum voranzutreiben, müssen wir Innovationen annehmen und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Sektoren, Regionen, Nationen und Kulturen vorantreiben, um eine friedlichere, integrativere, nachhaltigere und widerstandsfähigere Zukunft zu schaffen.“
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Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[3][4] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime.[5][6] Although his father was baptized Lutheran,[7] Schwab was raised Catholic.[8] Although having three Swiss grandparents and two Swiss brothers, he is a citizen of Germany and has declined multiple offers for naturalization, from both Kurt Furgler[9] and Ueli Maurer.[10]
"To drive future economic growth, we must embrace innovation and foster collaboration across sectors, regions, nations and cultures to create a more peaceful, inclusive society and resilient future,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, in a welcome address to delegates.
It may be the usual blabla of empty phrases but at least quote it correctly.
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No, he didn't say "force":
I watched Klaus's speech in English. In the opinion of this junior analyst, he said "force the collaboration across sectors".
I wonder if there is an "official transcript" that differs from the speech as delivered...
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Between modern search and WEFin' website treating me like a pariah, I haven't heard that speech. Watched his Winterwundervelkom (whose main trust was, ironically, restoration of thrust), though. Betcha he defaulted to "forge." Loathe the guy and would love to be wrong... but is he really a taunting, right-to-your-face Bond villain? Freudian slipper, maybe.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily began to produce fountains of lava on the night of July 7, a column of ash and smoke rose to a height of five kilometers, the EFE agency reports,citing the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy.
It is reported that the volcano's activity is accompanied by constant earthquakes, which have been recorded at an altitude of 2.8 thousand meters.
However, this phenomenon does not pose a threat to cities located near the volcano, the publication specifies. On July 6, due to the large amount of ash, the airport in the city of Catania had to be closed for several hours. Now the airport is operating normally.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in April, Europe's largest volcano, Etna, began producing smoke rings. Photos and videos of smoke rings over Etna have spread across social networks and the press. The rings consist of a mixture of smoke, steam and gas and are formed due to a fairly rare combination of rapid gas emission and a rod-shaped form.
Mount Etna is one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth. It is the largest and most active volcano in Europe and has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2013.
[CBS] This week on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley and a team of producers continued their five-year investigation into Havana Syndrome, the phenomenon of mysterious brain injuries to U.S. national security officials and diplomats, and their families, both abroad and at home, that in some cases have led to major health conditions, like blindness, memory loss, and vestibular damage.
This fourth installment brought major developments to the story: a suspected link between attacks in Tbilisi, Georgia and a top-secret Russian intelligence unit, and evidence that a reliable source calls "a receipt" for acoustic weapons testing done by the same Russian intelligence unit.
A retired Army lieutenant colonel who led the Pentagon investigation into these incidents, Lt. Col. Greg Edgreen, told 60 Minutes he is confident that Russia is behind these attacks, and that they are part of a worldwide campaign to neutralize U.S. officials.
Statements of White House, FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence to 60 Minutes
"If my mother had seen what I saw, she would say, 'It's the Russians, stupid,'" Edgreen told 60 Minutes.
60 Minutes Overtime spoke to producers Oriana Zill de Granados and Michael Rey about the story's evolution over the course of their investigation, as they pulled back layers of government secrecy to speak with victims, identify a potential technology used to attack them, and examine a Russian intelligence unit that may have been behind some of the Havana Syndrome incidents.
"In the first story we said, 'Hmm. Is this Russia?' Second round of stories we felt, 'This is starting to look like Russia.' And in this story, our sources are telling us that it's Russia," producer Michael Rey told 60 Minutes Overtime.
The investigation begins
In 2014, producer Oriana Zill de Granados worked on a 60 Minutes story about the opening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba under then-President Obama. After the embassy had opened in 2015, media outlets began reporting on a series of strange medical symptoms exhibited by U.S. embassy personnel working in Cuba: dizziness, fatigue, problems with memory, and impaired vision.
"And we very early on started approaching people within the intelligence community and the Department of State, to find out what these incidents were. That led us to China, which really expanded the story beyond Havana, Cuba," Zill de Granados told 60 Minutes Overtime.
[Remix] A new court ruling in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, bans Alternative for Germany (AfD) members from owning firearms. The judges from the Dusseldorf Administrative Court said their ruling was based on the classification of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which listed the party as a "suspected" threat to democracy. "Threat to Democracy." Where might we have heard such a notion previously ?
The case was initially brought by a married couple that owned over 200 firearms and held a legal permit to do so. Their permit was, however, revoked due to their membership in the AfD. The couple initially sued and lost this case. However, they have now also lost their appeal, as the court argues that members of the party are suspected of anti-constitutional activities and therefore "unreliable" based on current gun laws, according to the court.
The court’s ruling means the married couple must either hand over their firearms to the authorities or destroy them, as well as any ammunition. The husband owns 197 firearms, while the wife owns 27. However, the court is still allowing the case to move forward on appeal to the highest court in the state, the Munster Higher Administrative Court, "due to (the case’s) fundamental importance."
According to the latest court ruling, the judges said that the ban on weapons for AfD members does not violate the party privilege provided for in Article 21 of the German constitution, known as the Basic Law.
Earlier this year, that same Munster court already confirmed the BfV’s classification of the AfD as a "suspected threat" to democracy after the AfD challenged this classification.
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If you're not a certified hunter or a member in a "Schützenverein", it's very difficult to legally own firearms in Germany.
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Would amember of AfD be accepted into either of those categories, European Conservative? I am reminded of when Mr. Wife and I went to sign up for riding lessons at the Bad Soden a.T. stable, and were told that while he could have afternoon/evening lessons, my only possibility — as a Hausfrau — was in the morning, even though my personal choice was in the afternoon while my toddlers took a nap.
A gun ownership card (Waffenbesitzkarte) grants permission to purchase and possess firearms with specific details listed on the card. The card is issued by the relevant authority in different jurisdictions. It also specifies the permission to purchase and possess ammunition for the registered firearms. The possession of firearms is allowed for hunters, sport shooters, and individuals who can provide credible evidence of being at a greater risk of life-threatening attacks and can reduce the risk by possessing a firearm. However, the card only permits the purchase and possession of a weapon and does not allow carrying it in public.
To obtain the card, individuals must meet certain requirements, including being at least 18 years old, demonstrating reliability, suitability, expertise, and having appropriate liability insurance. Additionally, a plausible written justification for the need of a firearm is required.
For carrying a firearm in public places, a firearms license (Waffenschein) is necessary. It is only granted to individuals who can prove a legitimate need for it, such as those working in the security sector. However, the firearm can only be used in specific circumstances. Persons who can credibly demonstrate that their life and limb are also threatened outside their own home or business premises can also obtain a firearms license. The firearms license also authorizes the holder to acquire and possess a firearm. Shooting with a firearm must be applied for separately with a corresponding permit.
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Always a treat to read EC, but no good deed...
Mohammed applied for a Waffenbesitzkarte.
"Threatened? Yes, often."
Authorities found
That he'd thrown to the ground
His Koran.
"Denied! Want a free coffin?"
[Hot Air] Back in the early 90s, we had the opposite problem that we're facing today with our military recruiting efforts. We actually had too many people serving on active duty and we were overrunning the Pentagon's budget. (This was back when people in Washington actually paid attention to such things.) As a result, the Army began offering some service members cash incentives to voluntarily leave early. In 1992, Vernon Reffitt was one of the people receiving such an offer. He accepted a one-time $30,000 check to pack up his duffle bag and go home. But he had been injured during his service and later began receiving monthly disability compensation payments that helped him get by. But now, the federal government has notified the 62-year-old veteran that he must repay the $30,000 he was given. When he was unable to do so, they began withholding his disability payments. How did anyone in Washington think this was an appropriate action? (NBC News)
[Dallas Morning News via Spokesman Review] Above a spartan field near the Oklahoma border, scant clouds skate across the North Texas sky.
Hundreds of solar panels slowly track the morning sun’s path for a direct hit from an energy source 94 million miles away. But not the sheep. They’re tracking JR Howard’s gray Ford F-250 — weaving between rows of solar panels as he lays on the horn. It’s feeding time on this April morning.
Howard, owner of Texas Solar Sheep, has found himself part of a burgeoning industry combining Texans’ ranching sensibilities with the ascendancy of solar energy, a booming electricity source.
The sheep here — white Dorpers — are not known for their wool. They’re here for their appetites, chomping away at the vegetation growing alongside the panels. If some get sold for slaughter, all the better.
The pairing of solar energy and sheep ranching is one of several ways renewable energy resources are being integrated into the Texas landscape — providing a second, reliable source of income that can help farmers and ranchers hang on to a threatened way of life. The trick is finding ways to limit energy production’s impact on agricultural land.
Wind turbines are, in many ways, a more natural fit because they have a relatively small effect on farm and ranchland. Solar power, with an exponentially greater footprint, has struggled to coexist peacefully with agriculture. So far, sheep have proven to be the most natural roommates for photovoltaic cells.
For Howard, it has allowed him to continue doing what he loves: ranching and raising cattle.
Near Denver, Colorado, James McCall has been working for nine years to solve the problem of building solar power projects on agricultural land. An analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, McCall has researched ways to integrate solar power with community-supported gardens and bee hives.
The research has yet to find a viable way to combine large-scale solar and farming, McCall said. In Europe, where energy prices are higher and available land is scarce, solar companies are required to have on-site agriculture.
In the U.S., McCall said, some operators of solar arrays plant small gardens between solar panels to raise peppers, tomatoes, kale and other vegetables. Some have experimented with growing pollinating flowers and bee hives alongside solar cells.
So far, sheep are the most widely accepted agricultural use alongside solar arrays in Texas. Cows are too tall. Goats will jump on top of the panels. "And they’ll chew the wires," McCall said.
Sheep are smaller, nimble and able to maneuver around solar panels without incident. They graze with their heads down, keeping them away from wires while clearing areas beneath solar panels, the American Solar Grazing Association says. 'Solar Grazing Association' - even more infrastructure for the 'solar industry'
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Green power in Texas, you say? What happened in Dalton, TX a few months ago? Had something to do with those solar panels you love so much...
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.
[OutKick via Fox News] A man used a pistol to take down a massive bear.
[Remix] A new court ruling in Germany’s most populous state
The sheep here — white Dorpers — are not known for their wool. They’re here for their appetites, chomping away at the vegetation growing alongside the panels. If some get sold for slaughter, all the better.
