[DW] A soldier from the Dutch special forces has died after he was shot in the US city of Indianapolis. Two of the man's comrades, on secondment for special training at a nearby base, were also hit. RIP with your brothers on Texel.
A Dutch Defense Ministry statement on Monday said a special forces commando had died of his injuries after he and two colleagues were shot full of holes outside a hotel in the US.
Local media said the shooting in Indiana appeared to have followed an earlier altercation and was not random.
WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR?
The three men, who were in the US for training, were off duty when the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday, the Defense Ministry statement said.
"The Dutch commando who was in a critical condition in a hospital in the American city of Indianapolis died of his injuries last night," it said. "His family and colleagues were at his side."
The ministry said the two other soldiers were both conscious and able to speak. All three soldiers came from the Dutch commando corps.
The Dutch military police said it had sent three detectives to gather information although — having no jurisdiction — they would not be launching their own investigation.
Authorities said the soldiers were maimed on Saturday in downtown Indianapolis after what local police believe was a disturbance outside their hotel. Police made no arrests in the immediate aftermath.
According to the Indiana National Guard, the soldiers had been training at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, a 1,000-acre (405-hectare) complex some 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of Indianapolis.
Personnel from the Department of Defense train at the center "as well as other allies," the National Guard said.
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Sounds like a job for Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.
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Indianapolis can be quite dangerous in certain areas at that time of the morning, but without a guide it can be hard for an outsider to know which blocks not to travel to. They possibly went to the wrong bar, argued with the wrong people (who felt 'disrespekted'), and this happened.
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How do I know? Was with a local guy there one night and he pointed out which downtown blocks you didn't stop for refreshments.
He'd say "Just keep walking" until we were further down the street.
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Is Muscatatuck where they dropped all the Afgans?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Police in Madagascar have shot dead at least 14 people and wounded 28 others after opening fire on a crowd of protesters angered at the kidnapping of an albino child.
A crowd of around 500 angry villagers armed with machetes and knives descended on the local police station in Ikongo calling for the release of the four suspects arrested yesterday, so they could be dealt with by the mob.
The demonstrators then 'tried to force their way in' to the station, a police officer told AFP.
Some sub-Saharan African countries have suffered a wave of assaults against people with albinism, whose body parts are sought for witchcraft practices in the mistaken belief that they bring luck and wealth.
Because of the superstition, their body parts can be sold for thousands of dollars and they are often targeted in ritual killings.
Some believe that having sex with an albino woman can also cure AIDS.
The kidnapping took place last week, according to Razafintsiandraofa, an MP for the Ikongo district about 50 miles southeast of the capital Antananarivo.
No further details were immediately available.
Madagascar, a large Indian Ocean island country, is ranked among the poorest in the world.
[History Extra] As Britons celebrated VE Day, German troops were engaged in pitiless clashes on the Dutch island of Texel against rebel fighters — from Georgia. Eric Lee tells the story of the final battle of Europe’s Second World War.
Shortly after midnight on the night of 5–6 April 1945, the Georgians rose up and gained control of nearly the entire island. Approximately two hundred German soldiers were killed in the initial uprising, in their quarters or while standing guard, walking the roads of the island in groups or individually that night and the following day.[4] Members of the Dutch resistance participated and assisted the Georgians.[5] However, the rebellion hinged on an expected Allied landing which did not occur. Furthermore, the Georgians failed to secure the naval batteries on the southern and northern coasts of the island; the crews of these artillery installations were the only Germans still alive on the island.
A counterattack was ordered and the intact artillery batteries on the island began firing at sites where rebels were suspected to be. Approximately 2,000 riflemen[6] of the 163rd Marine-Schützenregiment[a] were deployed from the Dutch mainland. Over the next five weeks they re-took the island; fighting was particularly heavy in the northern part of the island at Eierland and around the lighthouse.[7] The German troops then combed the length of the island for any remaining Georgian soldiers, while the Dutch inhabitants sought to hide them. The German commander of the 882nd battalion, Major Klaus Breitner, stated long after the war that the uprising was "treachery, nothing else;" the captured mutineers were ordered to dig their own graves, remove their German uniforms, and be executed.[6]
During the rebellion, 565 Georgians, at least 812 Germans, and 120 residents of Texel were killed. The destruction was enormous; dozens of farms went up in flames, with damage later estimated at ten million guilders (US$3.77 million[b]). The bloodshed lasted beyond the German capitulation in the Netherlands and Denmark on 5 May 1945 and even beyond Germany's general surrender on 8 May 1945. The fighting continued until Canadian troops arrived 20 May 1945 to enforce the German surrender, and disarmed the remaining German troops.
[AerotimeHub] The US Navy recovered the F/A-18 Super Hornet that blew overboard from the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea.
The aircraft belongs to the Strike Fighter Squadron 211, part of the Carrier Air Wing 1 assigned to the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. It was lost on July 8, 2022, while the warship was undergoing a replenishment-at-sea operation in "unexpected heavy weather".
The Super Hornet was recovered from a depth of approximately 9,500 feet (2,900 meters) by a salvage team operating from the multi-purpose construction vessel (MPV) Everest on August 3, 2022. A Cable-controlled Undersea Recovery Vehicle (CURV-21) was used to attach a line to the aircraft, which was then hoisted aboard the ship.
"Our task-tailored team operated safely and efficiently to meet the timeline," said Lieutenant Miguel Lewis, US Sixth Fleet salvage officer, in a statement released by US Naval Forces Europe. "The search and recovery took less than 24 hours, a true testament to the team's dedication and capability."
The aircraft was delivered to Naval Air Station Sigonella in eastern Sicily, Italy, an anonymous source told The Aviationist. From there, it will be transported to the United States.
An investigation was opened to determine the cause of the incident.
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"Once the upholstery dries out and we scrub the salt-water stains off, she should be good to go."
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Considering what it cost to get this - and an F35 also - back off the bottom of the Med, discussions elsewhere about current usage US fighters / attack aircraft being sent to Ukraine, where they might fall into Russian hands, is laughable at best.
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"An investigation was opened to determine the cause of the incident."
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Years ago, recovered a station H-46 that crashed off NAS JAX. Even tho’ we flooded it with fresh water, after 4 days all the magnesium flight control rods were completely gone, just a wet, grey pile of ooze in the broom closet. Doubt if that Lawn Dart will fly again.
A lion, now very well fed,
Said, flossing his teeth with a dred
And musing on Zion,
"Hey, bredda, you crying?"
"No, why?"
"Cuz your eyes are well red."
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"Listen, I have Bobby the Babboon in lockup, and he says for 20 bananas, he'll provide evidence that Hostile Hippopotamus is the pimp in charge of the Cartoon Network whorehouse."
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IIRC, no joke, hippos kill more people than any other African animal. I dunno though. You'd think people would have sense enough to avoid swimming with hippos.
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Yeah, according to this link the mosquito is the most dangerous African animal, killing one million people a year by transmitting number of different potentially fatal diseases, including Yellow Fever, Zika virus, West Nile virus, Dengue Fever, and of course Malaria.
The hippos is number two:
Although hippos are herbivores, these highly territorial animals are estimated to kill an incredible 3,000 people each year.
Male hippos fiercely defend their territories – which include the banks of rivers and lakes, while females hippos can get extremely aggressive if they sense anything getting in between them and their babies, who stay in the water while they feed on the shore.
Hippos weigh up to 1,500 kg – the third biggest animal in Africa behind the elephant and rhino – and can run on land at speeds of up to 30 km per hour. Combine this with their aggressive nature, agility in and out of the water, and sharp, half-meter teeth in enormous jaws and you can understand why hippos can make for such a fearsome creature to encounter. (Did you hear about the pink hippo milk rumour?)
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Getting between a female hippo and her babies is like getting between Stacy Abrams and a Buffet table - or Chuck Schumer and a microphone.
[KhaamaPress] The US Pentagon reportedly recruits former Afghan military pilots and special unit members, trains them, and then dispatches them to Ukraine through Poland, according to Russian media citing a military-diplomatic source.
That’s an unexpected way to get them safely out of the country.
The US Department of Defense, aka the Pentagon, began hiring former Afghan pilots a year ago and training them in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, so they could enter Ukraine through Poland, according to a Russian military-diplomatic source who spoke to the TASS Russian news agency.
The recruited Afghan military forces will undergo extensive training, after which they will be deployed to "combat zones" in Ukraine to fight Russia, the Russian news agency reported.
And if, later, they should happen to turn their skills against the current conquerers of their homeland...
Earlier, it was said that the Afghan army’s military aircraft were deployed in the conflict in Ukraine. Additionally, an American senator said that some former Afghan special forces were in control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
I’m not sure what that last means, but it sounds meaningful.
Earlier, Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president’s special representative for Afghanistan, stated that Russia does not want Ukraine to have access to the military helicopters and aircraft used by the Afghan government that were evacuated to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan last year.
Of course they don’t. Nor any other aid, either, in the hope of making their revolt quickly run out of steam.
Last year in mid-August, amid the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s takeover of Afghanistan as Foreign troops withdrew, Afghan pilots with US training flew dozens of military jets and helicopters to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Contrary to general expectations, Ukraine has managed to withstand the Russian invasion six months after Russia’s armed invasion with the support of the West.
Despite not actively intervening in the war in Ukraine, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and its member states have, nonetheless, provided the country-at-war billions of dollars worth of military support.
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I concur with #5. Modern US aircraft ain't gonna be sent over there.
--Though some USAF General may float the idea of throwing away sending A-10s privately.
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If western planes are sent, they will not be the F-16s or the like. They need prepared airfields and those are huge and easy targets that even the Russians can hit. Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a better choice as it can operate off small side roads and dirt roads and even level fields and take a very small crew footprint to fuel and rearm them.
Personally I don't think the Ukrainians need many more aircraft or attack helicopters to fight well. Artillery (and more accurate rockets), IFV, APCs and most importantly tanks are what is needed. Especially tanks and artillery if they are going on the attack.
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It didn’t occur to me last night as I was working up the article, but setting the hypothetical Afghans against the Chechens would prevent a certain amount of planned Chechen jihading against the native population.
according to a Russian military-diplomatic source who spoke to the TASS Russian news agency.
Good catch, Snash Shairt9621. Once again demonstrating that Rantburg is a team project.
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There will not be any modern fighting or attack aircraft sent to Ukraine by the US. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
Joe is feeling a ton of pressure to show a real foreign policy success. Despite being on Putin's payroll through Burisma (owned by Yanukovich henchman in exile from Ukraine) and the Mayor of Moscow, the fact is that everything he does for Ukraine is a kind of penance for taking Putin's bribes. And a media that covers for his naked showers with his preteen daughter - as noted in that daughter's diary entry - will undoubtedly explain those bribes away. So never say never on those F-16's. The House has approved a training bill to the tune of $100m, to be taken out of the $57.6b appropriated (but a sliver of which has been spent) so far.
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The annual Pentagon budget bill, of which the training measure is a part, will be taken up by the Senate in September. Whether the training amendment survives the reconciliation process (between House and Senate budgets) is an open question. But it's clearly not something being rejected out of hand. Why train them if they're not getting the gear?
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Funny thing about Burisma's owner is that he wasn't just the henchman of one Putin puppet (i.e. Yanukovich), but a second one - Mykola Azarov, who actually set up a Ukrainian government in exile after Yanukovich was impeached and removed by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Actually this is very important. The victim hierarchy changes so rapidly and with so little warning that it's hard to keep track of who is more of a victim than who. This helps us keep up.
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I think I'm a l3sbian because I also like women.
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I recall the Tsunami that hit Indonesia. We diverted a carrier group there. Carrier has three surgical stations, a desalinization plant that could produce enough clean water for a small city, food stocks, and emergency rescue teams with their own floating airfield and worldwide communications system. Hope the Chinese can provide similar assistance to you if needed in the future.
One would feel for them, if there were the slightest chance that they deserved even a molecule of pity. But they’re completely evil, so we are free to dance about in glee.
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Satellite imagery shows flood damage at N. Korea’s nuclear test site: Beyond Parallel https://t.co/55qR4xnirN
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IF the damage is as hoped.
But, we still have to consider, the likelihood they had enough brains to see flood threat issues and acted in advance. Sealing the site off or moved important items to other possible hidden sites not yet discovered.
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I thought the mountain they were using for testing blasts was damaged beyond repair. So much so the Chinese came in and after examination of the site, closed them down.
Chaos in Cincinnati? I didn’t notice anything at my local grocery store yesterday evening...
[MSN] On Sunday, the day when many families head to stores to stock up on groceries for the week, was met with issues in the checkout line.
The Electronic Benefits Transfer system was down. EBT is a system for issuing welfare payments electronically by means of a payment card that recipients use to make purchases.
The issue causing many people headaches is statewide and in multiple other states, but at Findlay Market, vendors say there was no warning about the outage and they had to turn away customers that didn't have cash.
One vendor says that half of his business comes from people who use EBT and today, he had to be the bearer of bad news that the system was down.
"Terrible, this is probably my record worst Sunday I've had in the three years I've owned the place," Roth Product owner Dario Guintini said. "Since the EBT was down, folks realized they can't get their meals for Sunday dinner or dinners throughout the week."
He says a lot of his customers rely on him to carry EBT.
"Didn't get an email or call which you think someone would," Guintini said. "I even called my merchant supplier and they didn't even know it was down."
Many people have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the outage.
One woman said she had to buy food for her seven kids and she was turned away at Walmart because EBT is down.
Officials say that Ohio's EBT vendor, Conduit INC, had an outage Sunday and EBT service was restored midafternoon.
Whew! All’s well that ends well. And a reminder to always have some cash on hand, just in case.
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No problem in Maryland. One lady driving an escalade who happened to weight approximately 300 pounds in one week purchased two cart loads of food. Do you want your receipt?. No. Balance on her receipt was $52,000. She was also seen selling carts of grocery's to a person for cash.Police say low priority intervention. Well known to them for this activity.
Saw this happen in WNC some years ago.
Families coming down out of the hills into Murphy, NC Wally World for their monthly food purchases. They were waiting with kids and grocery carts, hoping the system would come back up.
Some guy & his wife whipped out a credit card and purchased the several families' food. The hard up family heads demand his name and address as they planned to repay them.
I noted, NOT one basket had fancy items like soft drinks or junk food.
The Murphy Newspaper even carried the story again around Christmas.
I guess its a different culture vs. Metro ran slums.
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...FWIW, I was in a US Army commissary when the system went down. They announced that they could only take credit or cash - debit and EBT were down until further notice.
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Heads up moment, this is what a non-cash, no currency world will look like. At any moment, whether on purpose as a control technique or as the act of an enemy state, instantly you are unable to pay for anything, utterly helpless. We must resist the looming trend for cashless social structures.
[Moneywise] Warren Buffett might have billions of dollars to his name, but unlike other celebrities and financial gurus, he prefers to live life simply.
The investing icon practices what he preaches when it comes to financial discipline, saving and paying off debt.
That pays off during times of financial trouble like this. Consider what Buffett had to say during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in May, when he acknowledged inflation was already one of the economy's biggest problems.
Asked whether inflation "swindles equity investors," he replied: "Inflation swindles the bond investor, too. It swindles the person who keeps their cash under their mattress. It swindles almost everybody."
When one of the world's most successful investors says it's hard to come out on top in an environment like this, it’s probably a good time to apply some well-tested strategies to tighten your belt. Here are 10 ways Buffett's frugality can help you save and spend wisely.
1. He lives in the same home he bought back in 1958
2. He rarely takes out loans
3. He buys breakfast cheap
4. He doesn’t splurge on brands
5. He doesn’t invest with borrowed money (anymore)
6. He buys marked-down cars
7. He finds creative ways to save
8. He does what he loves
9. He uses cash, not credit
10. He still clips coupons
#1
will there be a list of the top 100 fraudulent over priced stocks and a gold key to the backroom free money handout place in WASHINGTON D.C.? like welfare food stamps and ebt cards for rich hud types?
#7
When you are in the top wealthiest men in the world this list comes off as a bit pathetic.
How did he find the money to become one of the top wealthiest men in the world? He clearly gets pleasure out of being frugal, and it harms no one. If everyone who could made more of such choices, the nation’s finances would be in considerably better shape. If the nation’s politicians made analogous choices, the world’s finances would not be on the verge of collapse.
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of over $103 billion as of August 2022, making him the world's seventh-wealthiest person. Wikipedia
Born:
Warren Edward Buffett, August 30, 1930, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Education:
University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (BS), Columbia University (MS)
Occupation:
Businessman, investor, philanthropist
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#12
Trailing wife, it think the advice is good for the young and starting out. it just comes off as pathetic that he brags about clipping coupons while owning a private jet.
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I used to work for GEICO, after it had been bought by Berkshire Hathaway. They used to have a profit sharing bonus most years, which was usually pretty generous.
I was hired to teach the Java programming language. Then one day they announced that they were switching to the Microsoft platform, so I had to learn C#. The rumor was that GEICO did that because Warren played bridge with Bill Gates.
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Well, if Buffett is such a frugal old dude and wants to save a buck, then why didn't he use free open source Linux?
[ZERO] One of the big drivers of inflation during the late spring and early summer was - in addition to the relentless meltup in energy and commodities - the surge in airplane ticket prices amid seemingly endless demand, as millions of Americans were willing to pay anything after two years of quarantine, just to go travel anywhere and feel normal again.
But now that prices have more than caught up with travel enthusiasm, demand is tumbling, and as BofA airline analyst Andrew Didora writes today, system net sales (i.e., total bookings) took a sizable step back this week to -23.6% vs 2019 for the week ending 8/21 (compared to last week’s down -9.3%) the biggest drop since February. System volumes and pricing decelerated to -23.5% vs 2019 (vs -11.5% last week) and -0.1% vs 2019 (vs +2.5% last week).
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Devastating floods are a regular event in Pakistan, because the money set aside for repairs and improvements after each flood is siphoned into numerous private accounts again and again. And so they pre-murder and pre-destroy their neighbours repeatedly, followed by loud cries of despair.
A Mohammedan teacher eloped
With a boy whom he'd piously roped.
His victim was wary.
"By Allah, we'll marry
And steal us some babies
Like Ronan and Abie's!"
The outcome was not what one hoped.
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From the article: 17.3 per cent in the placebo group. This high rate of effectiveness in the placebo group is not unusual — multiple studies show placebo pills can help lift depressive mood, possibly because patients have a high level of expectation of improvement and they get extra support during a trial.
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.
[KhaamaPress] The US Pentagon reportedly recruits former Afghan military pilots and special unit members, trains them, and then dispatches them to Ukraine through Poland, according to Russian media citing a military-diplomatic source.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[ZERO] One of the big drivers of inflation during the late spring and early summer was - in addition to the relentless meltup in energy and commodities - the surge in airplane ticket prices amid seemingly endless demand, as millions of Americans were willing to pay anything after two years of quarantine, just to go travel anywhere and feel normal again.
