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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mob of teens filmed assaulting man, breaking his leg – 'This is what LA has come to'
[FoxNews] A gang of teens on bicycles were filmed violently assaulting a man in traffic earlier this month.

The attack occurred when the victim, Shailoobek Bazarbai Uulu, was in his car stopped at a red light in downtown Los Angeles. Beside him were a group of roughly 30 teens on bikes.

When the light turned green he attempted to pass the group and one of the teens threw a water bottle into his vehicle. He then pulled over and exited his vehicle and was immediately surrounded by the teens. The confrontation quickly turned violent, with some of the kids assaulting Uulu and others destroying his vehicle.

Teens could be seen breaking windows and jumping on the hood of Uulu's car, as well as rifling through the interior. They stole his wallet, cash, and personal documents and broke his leg. He also suffered multiple lacerations across his body.

"I never thought that teens can be so cruel, and I didn’t expect that from them," Uulu told The Los Angeles Times. "That’s why I got out from the car. I didn’t know like that it’s very dangerous to get out from the car."

Uulu was born in Kyrgystan and lived in Russia for most of his life. He fled to the U.S. and sought asylum roughly a year ago, the Times reported. Uulu says many documents he needs for the asylum process were stolen in the attack.

Footage shows wary bystanders watching the carnage, some of them filming. Several people can be seen attempting to step in and they eventually helped carry Uulu to safety as he asked for people to call the police.

News of the incident comes just days after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass officially accepted the Olympic torch from Paris. LA will play host to the 2028 summer Olympic games, despite widespread crime and homelessness.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 01:02 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Do not attempt in Texas
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2024 7:21 Comments || Top||


#3  Shocking video shows Arkansas police officer punching inmate
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe it's me.
All 3 stories set me on edge.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Not just you. Mail story in #3?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/14/2024 17:29 Comments || Top||

#6  In trying to out-do Paris, car stomping is likely to be an event.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 18:52 Comments || Top||

#7  ...don't forget the popular LA sport of Smash-n-Grab.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2024 19:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Demonstration Event

"We youths who's about to try salute you!"
...
"Say what?"
"Our debut didn't suit you?"
"We 'heiled' big and bold
Like the Commies of old,
So, yo, give us both gold
Or I'll..."
"Ooooh! Bro, that's cold."
"Plus two more for them '68 dudes, too!"

Americans on deck: "Damn, them Japs are good. Er, baaad."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/14/2024 21:46 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Elon Proposes His Version of Frank Herbert's
Elon Musk pitched a "government efficiency commission" to cut government waste while speaking with former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
on Monday, and offered to "help out" with such an endeavor.

Musk called for the commission during his more than two-hour conversation with Trump on Monday night. Trump was very receptive to the idea. The relevant conversation begins around the 1:44:00 mark:

"I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers’ hard-earned money, is spent in a good way," Musk told Trump. "And I’d be happy to help out on such a commission if it were formed."
I'd agree, except that I'd make it a Government Effectiveness Commission.
"I’d love it. You, you’re the greatest cutter," Trump responded. "I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say, ’You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ’That’s okay; you’re all gone.'"
... and the UAW's already filed suit...
He added that Musk "would be very good" in such a role and that he "would love it."

Moments earlier in the discussion Musk emphasized the United States needs to reduce spending, noting that "inflation comes from government overspending because the checks never bounce when it’s written by the government."


Posted by: Mercutio || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, but ... what about the GAO?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Except in Herbert is was Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab). BuSab is a government agency responsible for conducting dirty tricks "in lieu of red tape" to help slow down and regulate the vast galaxy-spanning bureaucracy of the ConSentiency.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/14/2024 2:01 Comments || Top||


Economy
Feds Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
[Bloomberg] A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.

The move would be Washington’s first push to dismantle a company for illegal monopolization since unsuccessful efforts to break up Microsoft Corp. two decades ago. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with competitors and measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private discussions.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2024 09:47 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Considering" is not the same as 'actually doing'.

Beside all they have to do is put Harris in charge and it's almost guaranteed that nothing will be done!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/14/2024 11:03 Comments || Top||



Government Corruption
Former agent REVEALS FBI ‘playbook': Grooming the ‘emotionally disturbed'
[Blaze] Questions surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump have remained unanswered — but FBI whistleblower and former agent Steve Friend has some theories.

"I’m not hearing anything satisfying coming from the FBI or the Secret Service on the assassination attempt," Glenn Beck tells Friend, who has an idea of why that is.

"I think one of the most disturbing elements that hasn’t been picked up on was when the deputy director of the FBI, Paul Abbate, said that they were going to investigate it as domestic terrorism," Friend explains.

While that may seem reasonable to the average American citizen, Friend is well aware of what that means.

"The FBI is now going to slap a classified label on this investigation, and they’re not going to be able to be transparent because you don’t have a need to know," he tells Glenn, before noting how troubling the new claim of the Pakistani national’s plans to take Trump out is.

"This is what I like to call the ’playbook’ that the FBI has been running the last two-and-a-half decades, particularly since 9/11," he explains, adding, "What they do to justify their existence as a bureaucracy, as a self-licking ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable person, emotionally disturbed, maybe someone with radical intentions but not capable of carrying forward an actual attack without the involvement of the FBI."

The FBI will then use confidential human sources and undercover agents to groom these vulnerable individuals for as long as it takes before they’ll engage in an activity that can be labeled as terrorism.

"The added wrinkle here was that they imported this Pakistani through the border, they sponsored him arriving. The FBI Dallas office actually was the signee on him arriving," Friend tells Glenn, adding, "They followed him and orchestrated this plot that could never have happened without the involvement of the government."

"We are now running terrorists so that we can justify our existence as an agency," Friend says, disturbed. Friend also explains that according to the FBI, the Pakistani national just happened to speak to an informant about soliciting a hit man as soon as he arrived in the United States.

"The bottom line is that the FBI is inventing these cases, so that they can go to Congress and say ’Look at all the good work we have done here, why don’t you give us enhanced funding, why don’t you give us enhanced tools,'" Friend says.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 08:15 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The FBI will then use confidential human sources and undercover agents to groom these vulnerable individuals for as long as it takes before they’ll engage in an activity that can be labeled as terrorism.

Terrorists or insurrectionists? You decide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Would be interesting if we were to see news of shooter cell phone contacting FBI offices in weeks prior to shooting.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/14/2024 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, the mass production of the mentally disturbed.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 08/14/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  MK-Ultra. What if a mass shooting, an assassination or even a little trespassing suits their purposes?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Connect the dots right here in today's Rantburg...

EXPOSED: Did the Trump Shooter Meet with the FBI?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:20 Comments || Top||

#6  CIA has been doing this since its creation. Great way to make new spies
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||




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