[NY Post] A 49ers star rookie was shot in San Francisco on Saturday.
Ricky Pearsall was shot in through his arm as he was going to a signing event, the San Francisco Police Department told reporters.
There was allegedly a struggle for the gun, after which both Pearsall and the suspect were shot.
The local ABC affiliate reported that the incident took place in the Union Square neighborhood.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed posted on X, confirming the shooting and that the suspect was under arrest.
"SFPD was on scene immediately and an arrest of the shooter was made," Breed wrote. "My thoughts are with Ricky and his family at this time. We will provide more updates, including on his condition, as I receive them."
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Shooter was a 17 yr old from Tracy. Hispanic gangbanger is my guess
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Tracy was nothing but a stockyard with a Golden Corral when I left. Gang turf ought to be really literal in Tracy.
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Jon Harris has created an important documentary correcting a major problem with the story of American history, which is typically New England-centered. Virginia, with the 1607 Jamestown settlement, was not only founded earlier, but also generated so many important figures in early American history.
Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-2535-u-s-history-more-than-just-new-england/
[DC] The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, citing a "loss of confidence" in his ability to command the ship. Yaste and the Navy were ridiculed in April after he was pictured in a since-deleted Navy social media post firing a rifle with a scope that was attached to the weapon facing the wrong way.
This was shared today by the official US Navy Instagram.
"The Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standards and holds them accountable when those standards are not met. Naval leaders are entrusted with significant responsibilities to their Sailors and their ships," the Navy said in a statement announcing the move. "Yaste reported to assume the role as John S. McCain’s commanding officer in October 2023. He has now been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest."
The ship is presently on a deployment in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, a zone that includes the Arabian gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, segments of the Indian Ocean, and several pivotal points of the Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb, according to the Navy. The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists have repeatedly attacked commercial vessels and American forces operating in the area since Hamas started its ongoing war with Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Even as students and their parents are turning away from the elite universities because they’ve become forces of anti-education, new institutions arise to fill the need for a classical education.
[IsraelTimes] With a notable contingent of Jewish students and faculty, the University of Austin private liberal arts college is about to launch its inaugural undergraduate class.
The third floor of a historic high-rise in downtown Austin, Texas, with restricted elevator access may be an unexpected place to find a college campus, but it’s where America’s newest private university is preparing to open its doors to an inaugural undergraduate cohort this fall.
According to founding president Pano Kanelos, the University of Austin, or UATX, aims to address the perceived decline in intellectual freedom and prioritization of knowledge at established universities, with an emphasis on open inquiry, critical thinking, respectful, vigorous debate, and persuasive writing.
“Our core motivation is to renew the spirit of higher education,” explained Kanelos, a Shakespeare scholar who has become an outspoken advocate for classical education — study based on traditional liberal arts rooted in the canon of Western thought — following years of what he and other perceive as a retreat from the central purpose of higher education and academic scholarship.
The school’s opening on August 26 — several years in the making — comes at what many see as an inflection point for higher education in the US, with college campuses protests over Israel’s war against Hamas focusing attention on wider cultural battles taking place in academia that UATX aims to address.
The university was established in the wake of a number of watershed cultural events in American public life over the past few years that have affected how Americans converse and think about race, sexuality, gender, and a variety of other hot-button issues.
In many places, the protests have been viewed within the lens of a wider cultural battle that has been brewing in higher education for years: the clash between academia’s embrace of efforts to create safe, inclusive spaces for students and teachers representing a wide diversity of views and backgrounds and those who view those efforts as the latest iteration of PC culture gone wild, muzzling speech by “canceling” any whose ideas are deemed insufficiently in line with progressive ideals.
Those behind UATX are aiming to counter what Panelos described as the gradual but forceful introduction of “ideological protocols” at universities, which have ended up “distorting knowledge.”
“Universities have historically been places where we do our own thinking, places we dedicate to thinking, to knowledge creation, to the transmission of knowledge, to the preservation of knowledge,” he told The Times of Israel in an on-site interview this spring. At traditional institutions, “all the evidence points to a kind of retreat from that commitment” and at “many, if not most, universities and especially… elite universities… the pursuit of knowledge is maybe not always prioritized.”
While UATX was created years before the Israel-Hamas war turned antisemitism on campus into a major hot-button issue, Kanelos said one of the reasons it was founded was “because the very things that are causing that kind of antisemitic agitation at universities, the very kind of ideological positions that generate that, are the things that we’ve identified years ago as being problematic at universities.”
“In many ways, we started this university to create an institution that wouldn’t be vulnerable to the kind of ideological strains that are generating some of the most atrocious behavior we’re seeing on campuses,” he told The Times of Israel, speaking a week before the first pro-Palestinian tent had been pitched on a college campus.
The school’s first cohort will consist of about 100 students, some of them fresh out of high school, others with some university or higher education experience under their belt. The students were selected from about 2,500 applicants through what the University of Austin, or UATX, described as a rigorous admissions process — high SAT scores, various entrance exams on knowledge and ability, an essay and a personal statement.
Kanelos said the institution sought to recruit students “the way you might recruit a professional football team – pick each student very carefully because they’re going to create the foundational culture.”
That culture is of high importance to the newly accredited four-year university, whose motto urges faculty and students to commit to the “fearless pursuit of truth.”
The school’s incoming undergraduates will study toward a BA in Liberal Studies, the only program offered.
The first two years will focus on what the school calls Intellectual Foundations, offering programs diving into the works of Homer, Plato, George Orwell, Tocqueville, Confucius, and Descartes among others; readings will also include the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of John.
UATX’s Intellectual Foundations is led by Prof. Jacob Howland, who serves as dean of the program and previously taught philosophy at the University of Tulsa. Howland was also a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, a conservative philanthropic foundation that invests in a range of educational initiatives in Israel and the US.
In the third and fourth years, students will pursue fellowships and internships in their areas of study and work with scholars and researchers at UATX’s Center for Economics, Politics, & History, the Center for Arts & Letters, and the Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics.
“Our curriculum won’t be for the faint of heart,” the university has warned. “Courses will be purpose-driven, cohesive, and intellectually rigorous. That’s exactly what an education should be.”
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Kanelos says the campus was founded as a pushback to the sort of groupthink and “atrocious behavior” that shuts down the free exchange of ideas on other campuses, though some have argued that the school is creating its own sort of echo chamber.
Some of the students who spoke to The Times of Israel expressed a desire to be part of a select group of kindred spirits, while also being critical of the sort of peer pressure and ideological and political homogeneity they say exists on US campuses today.
[IsraelTimes] Tikvah Fund launches Emet Classical Academy, which eschews ‘woke’ educational values, as many Jews are disillusioned with progressive spaces often seen as less welcoming to them.
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That’s no NYC enclave, Skidmark — Rochester is in Western New York State on Lake Ontario. The Mail reporters are clearly not up on their American geography.
Key paragraph from the article:
Researchers attribute the drop to families switching to private schools - aided by an expansion of voucher programs in many red and purple states - and to homeschooling, which has seen especially strong growth.
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That article also lacks any mention of Xerox and Kodak, two companies with headquarters and factories in Rochester that are ghosts of their former selves, having failed to keep up with technology. The jobs are gone, the people are going. (And who's going to build a major industrial plant in blue state New York these days?)
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Bausch and Loam is still there also Rochester "experimented" with paying public school teachers starting @ $70/school year in the 1980s, and continued to pay top dollar to this day.
My cousin taught there and said neither the schools nor the pupils improved at all.
[ArabNews] RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 20,718 people in one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday. Huh? The home of Sunni Islam doesn’t have open borders???
The Saudi Ministry of Interior said that anyone found to be facilitating illegal entry to the Kingdom, including providing transportation and shelter, could face imprisonment for a maximum of 15 years, a fine of up to SR1 million ($260,000), as well as confiscation of vehicles and property. HUH???? They are not called "undocumented" and you get 15 years in the can for assisting them? No Soros or Catholic NGOs here...
Why can Saudi ship out illegals and punish traffickers while the entire Western workd is wayciss "far right" literally hitler for so much as asking for a reduction in numbers?
Suspected violations can be reported on the toll-free number 911 in the Makkah and Riyadh regions, and 999 or 996 in other regions of the Kingdom. no mucking around. Can you imagine the Guardian reporting the dob-in hotline??
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They do this every few years. Its a way to get rid of the asian maids. The families kick them out or they go work for another family and not pay their tax for the pleasure of being a slave in Saudi.
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Sorry, but knowing first hand how the SAG functions, this article gets it wrong. 1) they are NOT migrants. They are workers brought in for work. They came in willingly. 2) They did NOT illegally enter the country. They illegally overstay their work visa. They have NOT left the country when they should have. 3) The vast majority continue to work for either their sponsor or others who can't be bothered to pay the market rate for workers. Thus these overstayers impact the economy by lowering the market's normal pay rate. Thus making it difficult of legally functioning companies/families to justify paying what it actually costs to import, house, and return manual labor. Remember 99% of these people are manual labor. They aren't petroleum engineers or software programers. They literarily are brick layers, carpenters, bulldozer drivers and street sweepers (have I forgotten a particular category you personally experienced when visiting the Kingdom?). Also they burden the medical system. Third they really do live in terrible conditions, particularly if it's summer ÀND Ramadan simultaneously. Try living in an unairconditioned hovel in Hofuf or Al Kharg or Buraidah. None the less these folks overstay willingly and are illegally remaining in the Kingdom. It expensive to pay for airline seats to fly 20 thousand people overseas, plus the policing effort to round them up, house them and do all this extra work when they should have willingly left under their own or their sponsors cost in the first place. It's not a perfect world, but Saudi does offer ages that continue to attract willing labor to leave their families for mostly 2 to 5 years at a time and not return each year for an annual vacation. These works basically leave home for 5 years at a go and make decent wage. Enough to both send lots back home to their family and still enough to try and overstay when their visa expires. Anybody here have actual; experience with this issue other pertinent information? (that's not hearsay).
No personal experience with life as a big company American expat trailing spouse in the Third World, Jumbo Grease7837, but what I’ve been told by others of my class about household servants (cooks, maids, nannies, drivers, gardeners) in Saudi and the Philippines, which no doubt applies elsewhere: it’s hard to find someone who speaks English and even can read/write a bit. The odds are high they’ll need a lot of training to accept and perform to First World standards — one friend is a house husband-cum-Eagle Scout (I know, I know, but it’s true!) who discovered he had to teach not only his own native household guard to actually use the gun he’d been issued, but all the other guards in their Caracas neighbourhood as well — so this class of servant, whether imported or domestic, is generally well paid and is found a new employer when one is transferred elsewhere. Ditto for hiring someone they recommend as able or trainable — both to keep your people happy and to increase the number of such people available for the other expats.
There are always stories about how the locals abuse their servants, whether domestic or imported, and too many stories of expats taking undue advantage of them, too. Mr. Wife and I talked about it before I hired my first au pair girl — the university classmate of one of his local PhD staffers — and then I formally sat her down and explained that no one was entitled to those kinds of services from her, and she was to tell me if anyone tried so that I could handle the situation, because none of my people are ever expected to allow themselves to be abused.
All of this is different than underpaid over-stayers working for locals, but I moved in different circles back in the day.
[Breitbart] Canguanju, a Chinese catering industry news service, reported that more than one million restaurants have closed since the beginning of 2024, as the flagging economy makes Chinese consumers more interested in cheap takeout meals than even the most budget-friendly dining room experiences.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) pored over Canguanju’s data on Thursday and noted that times have been especially tough for noodle and dumpling shops, which surged in popularity when the Chinese economy was booming but withered just as quickly when consumers decided it was cheaper to have their noodles and dumplings at home.
Of particular note is the sad state of Din Tai Fung, a Taiwan-based dumpling chain that is closing nearly half of its 30 stores in China.
Din Tai Fung was seen as a bellwether of expanding middle-class prosperity in China, as the restaurant served upscale gourmet versions of dishes that could be purchased more cheaply from takeout joints or made at home, somewhat like gourmet hamburger restaurants in the United States.
Although it is based in Taiwan, Din Tai Fung also has a curious political dimension in China because dumplings are seen as a delicacy that China developed and exported to the Taiwanese after the great schism between the island and mainland. Taiwan cooking top-shelf dumplings and selling them successfully in China was almost a metaphor for the prodigal Taiwanese returning to China. The collapse of the Taiwanese chain is, therefore, both an economic and political embarrassment to the Chinese Communist Party.
Noodle shops were, likewise, a barometer of business-class success, catering to ambitious professionals on the go. Chinese commentators told RFA with some amusement that noodle shops became popular for business meetings, including the kind where bribe money changed hands under the table, but now they are shutting down by the thousands. Eating out is becoming such an ostentatious luxury that civil servants are afraid to do it, lest they attract the attention of anti-corruption investigators.
“Officials aren’t eating out or spending money anymore, which is a major blow to China’s high-end restaurants,” commentator Chen Pokong observed.
The bottom line was catering profits falling by an amazing 88.8 percent in the first half of 2024, while food delivery profits increased by 49.7 percent. Delivery drivers anecdotally reported that more of their customers were the kind of people who used to prefer eating out — and more of the drivers, themselves, were people who used to have white-collar jobs.
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Same thing happening here in the states.$20 dollar per hour in commie California being a good example but average Joe is broke thanks to Biden. Tax this tax that, like Governor Moore of Maryland decreeing 450 new tax laws. 2 billion rainy day fund gone in about two months and no cuts in spending. My joke about previous Governor Hogan was his prepaid death tax. Didn't work because everyone put death off.
[Regnum] The founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov was in contact with French counterintelligence, including in the UAE, before his arrest at Paris's Le Bourget airport. He stated this during interrogation, the Libération newspaper reported on August 31 , citing a source.
Durov admitted that he met with representatives of the French General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) in Dubai. During the meeting, he made it clear that he considered it inappropriate to disclose “information constituting a military secret,” the publication notes, without explaining what he was talking about.
The businessman said that he had opened an official communication channel with the DGSI as part of the fight against terrorism, thanks to which several terrorist attacks had been prevented. After his arrest, Durov expressed his willingness to cooperate and provided French law enforcement with his mobile phone and access code.
When Durov was detained, the Elysee Palace was informed. The next day, French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan , the article says.
The newspaper notes that Durov had previously received French citizenship on Macron's orders. During his visit to Belgrade on August 29, Macron called the decision "completely justified."
According to TF1, Durov tried several times to obtain a French passport, but his requests were rejected due to not meeting the criteria.
As reported by Regnum News Agency , on August 24, Durov was detained at Paris's Le Bourget Airport, where he arrived from Azerbaijan. The businessman is accused of ten criminal offenses and faces up to 10 years in prison. After the hearing on August 28, Durov was transferred from custody to judicial supervision, ordered to post bail in the amount of 5 million euros, and banned from leaving France.
According to Durov, he flew to Paris for dinner with Macron. The French leader said that he did not know about Durov's arrival and did not intend to meet with him.
Russia considers Durov its citizen and is ready to provide him with all necessary assistance, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, on August 29. He added that the cases against Durov should not become political persecution.
According to American journalist Tucker Carlson , Durov could not have been detained in France without the approval of the administration of US President Joe Biden .
[NYPOST] David Solomon is sharpening the axe again.
The Goldman Sachs CEO will slash more than 1,300 jobs as part of the bank's ongoing review to cull poor performers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday
Goldman's cuts will affect between 3% and 4% of Goldman's 45,000-strong workforce, the Journal added, citing people familiar with the matter. The cuts are part of the bank's annual performance reviews that cull those believed to have performed poorly.
The layoffs have already started and will continue through the fall, according to the Journal, under the bank's annual review process known as ''strategic resource assessment.''
''Our annual talent reviews are normal, standard, and customary, but otherwise unremarkable,'' Tony Fratto, a Goldman front man, told the newspaper.
He added that headcount would be higher at the end of 2024, compared to the end of last year.
The bank regularly seeks to cut back on between 2% and 7% of its workforce each year based on various performance factors, market conditions and its financial outlook.
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It does raise the other question.
How many were "special" social hires to check off the diversity, equity and inclusion campaign block, instead of just hiring the best no matter what?
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The HR departments in corporate America have admitted DEI causes higher than normal attrition rates, with expenses adding up to 150% of an employee’s annual salary, reduce productivity and cause R.O.I. issues
End Result
It cost Goldman-Sachs literally $1 Billion in profits, before it too dumped DEI.
$1 Billion, which relates to what GS charged customers for services over that period of time.
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Once you claim DEI has been stopped, it may tend to relieve the immediate pressure on management, but the cancer remains, grows and metastasizes, because removing the LGBTQXYZ/POC/Libtard elements is extremely difficult, litigious and visible. They protect their own and clustered around the HR departments in the beginning of the infestation by design.
[Epoch Times] More than 81,000 people died in 2023 due to synthetic opioid overdose, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 75,000 of those deaths were due to illicit fentanyl. In comparison, the number of U.S. troops who died during the entire 20-year Vietnam war was 58,220, according to the National Archives.
To help address the opioid crisis, doctors such as Dr. Colin Haile of the University of Houston’s Drug Discovery Institute are hoping to block fentanyl’s ability to enter the brain, eliminating the drug’s euphoric effect, or "high." Early results suggest that their method, a vaccine, not only accomplishes that goal but also eliminates fentanyl’s lethality in the vaccinated.
"About seven years ago, it became very clear that fentanyl was becoming a huge problem," Haile told The Epoch Times.
At the time, he and his colleague Dr. Thomas Kosten were researching new vaccines for cocaine and methamphetamines but switched to studying fentanyl once they recognized the changing needs.
Their research led to the published study, An Immunoconjugate Vaccine Alters Distribution and Reduces the Antinociceptive, Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Fentanyl in Male and Female Rats, in October 2022, which detailed the effects of their fentanyl vaccine in rats.
Thanks to the positive results and lack of adverse side effects in the immunized rats, human clinical trials are projected to start in early 2025.
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Not a new idea. Antabuse has been around for years.
Antabuse blocks an enzyme that is involved in processing alcohol and produces very unpleasant side effects (such as fast heartbeat, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, flushing, and thirst) when combined with alcohol in the body.
Neither the proposed vaccine or the Antabuse treatment produce self-control.
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This reads like a press release, but beyond that I’m not qualified to judge — except that a breakthrough in battery capacity would be a very good thing.
[FoxNews] In our tech-driven world, batteries are the unsung heroes powering everything from your smartphone to electric cars. But here's the catch: Traditional battery manufacturing can be pretty harsh on the environment and our health due to those problematic "forever chemicals" called PFAS.
These chemicals sneak into countless everyday products and have even made their way into the bloodstream of most Americans, bringing along a host of health concerns.
That's where Ateios Systems comes in. Based in Newberry, Indiana, this innovative company is shaking things up by developing a new way to make batteries without these harmful substances.
A NEW ERA IN BATTERY MANUFACTURING
Ateios Systems has developed an innovative electrode manufacturing process that not only removes forever chemicals but also offers a 20% reduction in costs, a 50% increase in energy density and an 82% decrease in energy consumption during production. This breakthrough is not just about creating a cleaner battery; it's about making batteries more efficient and cost-effective, which is crucial as the global battery market continues to grow rapidly.
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You know, this kind of smell like a scam, one clue is the use of the word " innovative".
When a company use terms like " innovative", "futuristic", "revolutionary", etc. in their promotions, said company eventually either fail or the principles are charged with fraud/thief or both, often resulting in jail time
This company is apparently seeking more money to line their pockets support further development efforts.
[Epoch Times] Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have identified fibrin, a natural protein involved in blood clotting, as a major driver of the COVID-19 disease, according to a new study. Fibrin is a fibrous protein which, together with platelets, forms a hemostatic plug or clot over a wound site. Fibrin binds to proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus to form blood clots that are difficult to break down, the authors found. This clotting then drives the various inflammatory and neurological symptoms seen in COVID-19 and long COVID, the researchers found.
Previous studies have theorized that blood clotting is a consequence of inflammation. However, the new Nature study, published on Wednesday, shows the reverse: that the clotting comes first.
"Our study is the first to report causality for fibrin as the root of inflammation and brain pathology after COVID infection," Katerina Akassoglou, senior author and professor of neurology at UCSF, told The Epoch Times on email.
By blocking fibrin using a novel antibody, the researchers were able to reduce clotting and neurological symptoms, offering a new potential therapeutic for patients.
Furthermore, the new study offers an explanation for the increase in cancers following COVID-19 infections. The researchers found that the abnormal clotting between COVID-19 spike proteins and fibrins reduces cancer-fighting immune cells known as natural killer (NK) cells. Much more at link
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The Nature article (I've read it, understood about half) does not mention the vaccines at all. The clotting effect is due to an affinity of the natural C-19 spike protein with certain sites on fibrinogen / fibrin protein molecules (the precursor and major component of blood clots, respectively). What it does not say - and they may not know at this stage - is whether the same effect can occur with a fragmentary spike protein, as might occur from a killed virus vaccine, or synthesized in vivo as a result of mRNA injection. Given the obviousness of the question, I'd suspect more than one lab is trying to figure it, but they aren't going to say a thing until the have evidence one way or another.
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Clarification to the above: The paper does mention vaccines, in the summary, to dismiss any similar effect. That is not backed up with any actual lab testing.
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.