One suspects they’d have attacked it even were it a Chevette, though.
[NYPOST] Startling video has captured a group of teens kicking and punching out the windows of a Tesla as it tried to escape an out-of-control street takeover in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... over the weekend.
Footage posted to Twitter showed a group of young men sitting on top of the vehicle and posing as they took photos on their cellphones Friday, prompting the driver to honk and inch forward in an apparent attempt to get the men off his car.
The group then starts banging on the hood of the white sedan, when a man cries out, "Oh s—t."
At that point, the men start to put ski masks over their faces.
The footage then cuts to show two other vehicles doing donuts around each other on the other side of the road, as nearly 100 teenagers look on.
With the mob distracted, the Tesla driver tries to ram through the crowd, apparently hitting one person, who can be seen rolling on the ground as the car passes by.
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An EV in Twisted Metal would have an electric shock field.
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With the mob distracted, the Tesla driver tries to ram through the crowd, apparently hitting one person
From my pitiful understanding of US military doctrine, the proper when response when caught in an ambush is to assault thru the ambush rather than sitting there in the kill zone getting pounded.
Charge lasers to 110%. All ahead flank.
[AFRICANEWS] Liberia’s president, George Weah, and opposition leader, Joseph Boakai, are neck and neck in the race for the presidency as vote tallying continues from last week’s presidential and legislative polls.
Provisional results published on Sunday by the National Elections Commission showed Weah had 43.8% to Boakai’s 43.54%.
The commission has 15 days from the date of the election to announce the final results. If neither candidate gets more than 50 per cent, a run-off will be held on 7 November.
In the 2017 poll, the two men also faced a second round of voting which Weah ultimately won with 61.5% to Boakai’s 38.5%.
Regional and international election observers last week described the polls as largely peaceful polls and with a high voter turnout.
The vote was the first to take place in Liberia since the United Nations ended its peacekeeping mission there in 2018.
It was created after more than 250,000 people died in two civil wars between 1989 and 2003.
The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, of which Liberia is a member, has warned against groups attempting to declare premature victories.
It called on Liberians to exercise restraint as they wait for the official provisional results.
While Weah, a beloved soccer star, has been hugely popular, his six years in office have been marred by corruption allegations and ongoing economic hardship.
Boakai has campaigned on promises to rescue Liberia from what he calls Weah's failed leadership.
[AFRICANEWS] The governor of the Abidjan district and former head of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), Robert Beugré Mambé, was named the new Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire on Monday and is expected to form a new government within the week, two years before the next presidential election.
President Alassane Ouattara ...the former president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... asked the new Prime Minister to "propose a new government as soon as possible", announced the Secretary General of the Presidency, Abdourahmane Cissé, reading the decree appointing Mr. Mambé.
Robert Beugré Mambé, 71, is particularly known in Côte d'Ivoire for having been president of the CEI between 2005 and 2010, before the serious post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011. He had assumed this crucial function in a torn country and was dismissed from his position a few months before the presidential election.
This election led to a clash between supporters of Alassane Ouattara, the winner, and those of outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... , leaving more than 3,000 dead.
A Protestant preacher with greying hair and father of four children, Robert Beugré Mambé has been the governor of the Abidjan district since 2011, a position where he oversaw the major transformations of the Ivorian economic capital.
Elected deputy in 2018, he was promoted in 2022 within the Rassemblement des Houphouetistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP), the ruling party, ahead of number 3 in this formation.
Born in Abiaté, near Dabou (south), Mr. Mambé embodies a face from the south of the country, like his predecessor Patrick Achi , in an RHDP which has a strong electoral base in the north. He is also a defector from the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), a former single party that is now the main opposition party.
The next presidential election is scheduled for the end of 2025 in Ivory Coast and Alassane Ouattara has not yet indicated whether or not he intends to run for a fourth term. In February 2022, he said he had half a dozen names in mind for his possible succession.
The RHDP is the big favorite in this presidential election, especially after its overwhelming victory in the local elections in September where it won 60% of the municipalities and 80% of the regions.
[NYPOST] Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday as the US chain pharmacy began massive restructuring to reduce its mounting debt amid countless lawsuits and dwindling sales.
The Philadelphia-based company was awarded a commitment for $3.45 billion in new financing — which is expected to provide liquidity as it faces more than $8.6 billion in debt — as part of the filing.
The bankruptcy process will also allow Rite Aid to resolve over a thousand federal, state and local lawsuits alleging it oversupplied opioids in an "equitable manner," the company said in a release.
Rite Aid also appointed a new CEO and chief restructuring officer Sunday as it moves through the bankruptcy proceedings.
Jeffrey Stein — who founded Stein Advisors, a financial advisory firm that focuses on fixing troubled companies — will replace Elizabeth Burr, a Rite Aid board member who had been serving as interim CEO since January.
"With the support of our lenders, we look forward to strengthening our financial foundation, advancing our transformation initiatives and accelerating the execution of our turnaround strategy," Stein said in a statement.
"In doing so, we will be even better able to deliver the healthcare products and services our customers and their families rely on — now and into the future."
Rite Aid will close as many as 500 of its underperforming stores — a significant portion of its more than 2,100 drugstores across the nation.
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[NYPOST] Abstaining from alcohol consumption, even just for 30 days, can provide lots of physical and mental health benefits. We heard all about that in 1918. Too bad everybody who was alive then is dead now.
October is a popular month to put drinking to a halt with "Sober October," a challenge originally started in the United Kingdom as a fundraiser for fighting cancer. Why are so many people against enjoying oneself?
Moderate drinking is considered two drinks a day or less for men and one drink or less for women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And who's got a better track record than those guys?
Binge drinking, according to the same source, is quantified as five or more drinks on an occasion (lasting two to three hours) for men and four or more drinks on occasion for women. Excessive alcohol consumption can leave you feeling less than ideal for a long time, with brutal hangovers often accompanying a fun night out. "So we've decided you're not allowed to drink. Period." If you want to improve your physical and mental well-being at any point of the year, taking a 30-day break from alcohol can lead to many health benefits. My opinion is that alcoholism is bad. My opinion is also that people have been drinking since the stone ages and the goddamned babus should keep their drooling honkers out of it.
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[NYPOST] Abstaining from alcohol consumption, even just for 30 days, can provide lots of physical and mental health benefits. 
If you want to improve your physical and mental well-being at any point of the year, taking a 30-day break from alcohol can lead to many health benefits. 
