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Orange Man confirms bomb maker and terrorist Ibrahim al-Asiri is Tango Uniform
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida man disguised as woman robs bank, steals patrol car, police allege
[FOXNEWS] A man in Florida accused of robbing a bank while disguised as a woman has been arrested after he allegedly stole a police cruiser and led deputies on a two-county chase, Sherlocks said.

Gumersindo Reyes Jr., 51, was wearing a gold dress and a red wig when he entered a Chase Bank in Casselberry, northeast of Orlando, and passed a note to the teller demanding money, Police Chief Larry Krantz told news hounds. He allegedly left carrying an undisclosed amount of cash in his backpack.

Reyes drew the attention of a passing Seminole County deputy who saw the suspect ditch his disguise behind a bush, Fox 35 Orlando reported.

The deputy got out of his patrol car and confronted Reyes, who police said was displaying "bizarre" behavior.

After failing to subdue Reyes with a stun gun, the deputy chased him into an apartment complex across the street from the bank, WFTV reported. The deputy reached for his firearm to order Reyes to the ground but Reyes also tried to grab the weapon, setting off a struggle.

Reyes then dashed out of the complex and stole the deputy’s patrol vehicle, police said.

"There's nothing that drives me crazier than to see a 'bad guy,' or know that a 'bad guy' got behind the wheel of one of our patrol vehicles, even for just one moment," Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said. "I'm OK that he was in the car, but he was sitting in the wrong seat."

Reyes led deputies on a wild chase through Seminole and Orange counties before crashing the vehicle into another car in Maitland where they finally arrested him, police said.

He faced numerous charges including battery on an officer, resisting an officer with violence and robbery with a firearm, according to police records.

Reyes had a criminal history of attempted murder and robbery in Puerto Rico, officials told WFTV.
Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somehow, I feel sympathy for the guy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2019 3:01 Comments || Top||

#2  If Gumersindo wore a MAGA hat, he'd really be screwed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2019 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The devil made him do it
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 10/11/2019 20:25 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
California Employees, Schools, Neighbours (?) Shall Soon Seek Restraining Orders For Gun Ownership
[SacBee] Californians will soon be able to ask courts to take guns away from co-workers and students they believe to be dangerous, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday.

Law enforcement agencies and immediate family members today are the only people who can file a petition to halt another person's access to guns. Assembly Bill 61 will expand the use of gun violence restraining orders.

Starting on Sept. 1, 2020, schools and employers can also initiate requests.

California has seen three dozen mass shootings thus far into 2019, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization tracking the issue. More than 12,000 people died in the state from firearms between 2014 and 2017, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Yeah, they got Syphilis from sharing mags.

Read more here
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 14:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is what the gun grabbers want the red flag laws to become. Anyone can take away your guns legally now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2019 14:59 Comments || Top||

#2  California has seen three dozen mass shootings thus far into 2019

Gang shootings are now mass shootings?
Posted by: Elmumble Shique4897 || 10/11/2019 15:11 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Liberia shuts radio station critical of president
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Liberian police on Thursday closed a radio station critical of President George Weah, accusing it of inciting violence, and used tear gas to disperse people protesting against the move.

Roots FM, owned by Henry Costa, is one of the leaders of a group that organized a large anti-government street protest on June 17, paralyzing several areas of the seaside capital Monrovia.

Costa is a fierce critic of Weah, a former international football star who became president of the country in January last year.

Heavily armed police riot units ringed the radio station building on Thursday morning, making it impossible for workers to move in and out.

They also fired tear gas on the station’s supporters gathered outside.

Costa, who is in the United States from where he usually produces a show for his radio station in Liberia, was defiant.

"It is indeed a very sad day, but I can assure you that we will never be silenced," Costa told AFP in a telephone interview.

Liberia’s solicitor general said the station was blackmailing people and instigating violence.

"They have begun criminal acts of extortion and blackmail. They use their media to spread inflammatory messages against Liberian citizens, and engage in incitement.

"Beginning today there will be no public demonstration that is not ... sanctioned by the government of Liberia," Cyrinus Cephus told a presser.

The Press Union of Liberia last week denounced Roots FM and Freedom FM, another radio that is owned by a government official, for "always insulting people on radio.
"Roots FM Morning Zoo, live from Monrovia. Good Morning everybody!"
"That is not journalism. You cannot ask people to give you money or you talk bad about them. That is destroying the image of good journalism in Liberia. I call on the government to take action against Roots FM and Freedom FM," its president Charles Coffey said.

Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they had advertising money, they could simply insist the media formats conform. See Fox and Drudge for more details.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 6:54 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Ecuador’s protesters march; clashes break out in Quito
[APNEWS] Thousands of protesters staged anti-government rallies Wednesday, seeking to intensify pressure on Ecuador’s president after a week of unrest sparked by fuel price hikes.Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with police using tear gas to fend off crowds, including around the empty government headquarters in the capital of Quito.

Demonstrators struggled to get close to the headquarters in the colonial-era Carondelet palace, sealed off by police barricades in the narrow surrounding streets.

In one chaotic scene, protesters swarmed onto the top of a riot control vehicle that stopped in an alley. They pounded on its armored plating and reinforced windows with clubs and stones until the occupants accelerated away through clouds of smoke and tear gas.

Protesters included youths who burned tires and confronted security forces, labor union members and indigenous people who mobilized and marched, for the most part peacefully.

In a separate demonstration, thousands gathered in the port city of Guayaquil to condemn days of street violence that have shocked many Ecuadorians. Some wore white clothing and carried white flags.

Ecuador’s Red Thingy said it was suspending paramedic and ambulance services because of security concerns. Red Thingy volunteers had been attacked in several locations in recent days and people threw stones at an ambulance in Quito on Monday, the aid group said.

The military earlier warned people against violence during Wednesday’s protests, following unrest that led President Lenín Moreno to move government operations from Quito to Guayaquil.
Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
A doctor's office that charges $150 a month and doesn't take insurance just raised $26 million to take its model national
[News Of The Day] Parsley Health, a medical practice that charges a monthly fee and doesn’t take insurance, just raised $26 million in a round led by White Star Capital.

At Parsley Health, a $150-a-month membership provides access to doctors and health coaches, with the goal of treating conditions in a more comprehensive way than traditional primary care.

Now, Parsley wants to bring its services to people who can’t get to one of its three locations through a virtual service.

Parsley Health, a new kind of doctor’s office that charges a monthly fee and doesn’t take insurance, is planning to take its business virtual.

The company, which operates three clinics in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, on Thursday said it raised $26 million to help pull off that expansion.

White Star Capital led the Series B round, with FirstMark Capital, Amplo, Alpha Edison Partners, Arkitekt Ventures, and Galaxy Digital joining in alongside One Medical founder Tom Lee and Flatiron Health CEO Nat Turner. In total, the company’s raised $36 million from investors.

Parsley Health’s approach of offering care for a monthly fee is similar to direct primary care, a small but fast-growing movement of pediatricians, family-medicine physicians, and internists. This group doesn’t accept insurance, and instead charges a monthly membership fee that covers most of what the average patient needs, including longer visits and some prescription drugs at lower prices.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 03:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why in WOT - because traditional providers consider them terrorists?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2019 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds fishy. This is non-insurance a la Delta Dental, which is just a moneymaking scheme, not a proper medical outfit.
What exactly is covered?

Also: is "Nat Turner" really the founder's given name? Sounds like a woke actor's stage name.
Posted by: Lex || 10/11/2019 5:33 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - moved to Non WOT
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  More and more providers refuse to take insurance. Who could blame them?
Posted by: Iblis || 10/11/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds fishy.

It’s concierge medicine, an alternate method of paying for treatment than the usual insurance game. My previous GP moved to it when he found himself uncomfortable with the level of autonomy he would lose to choose treatments when he looked into hooking up with one of the hospital-linked groups that the insurance companies he dealt with wanted him in. Often enough the doctor finds he can deliver medical care at a cheaper cost because he and his staff do not have to spend hours on the phone arguing with insurance companies, nor wait months for the insurers to get around to paying for services rendered. And he doesn’t have to play silly games shoehorning a patient’s symptoms into the permitted diagnoses in order to get the patient necessary treatment or give up prescribing a necessary treatment because it is not on the approved list.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/11/2019 11:58 Comments || Top||


Mass inspections find 36 cracked wing supports on Boeing planes
[The Hill] An inspection of nearly 700 older Boeing 737 NGs found cracks in the wing supports of 36 planes, according to USA Today.

The figure represents about 5 percent of 686 planes checked for cracks in following an order by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Southwest Airlines will have to take two planes out of service for repairs following the inspection, while Brazil’s Gol Linhas Aereas was far harder hit and forced to ground 11 planes, according to Reuters.

The cracks, if not addressed, could "adversely affect the structural integrity of the airplane and result in loss of control of the airplane," the FAA said in the inspection order, which applied to only some of the most heavily flown planes.

"Boeing regrets the impact this issue is having on GOL, as well as our 737 NG customers worldwide," the company said in a statement, according to USA Today.

"We are actively working with our customers with inspection findings to procure parts, develop repair and replace plans, and provide all the technical support needed to safely return every impacted airplane to service as soon as possible," Boeing added.

The NG, or Next Generation, was an earlier version of the more commonly used 737. Southwest has a fleet of about 700 NGs, while American Airlines has 304 and Delta Air Lines has 200, according to USA Today.

The discovery is another setback for Boeing amid efforts to get its 737 MAX model back in the air after it was grounded following two recent crashes that collectively killed 350 people. A union representing Southwest pilots sued the company earlier in October, seeking to hold the company responsible for lost wages due to the grounded MAX.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 02:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Always nice to hear about people actually doing their job - public employees especially.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2019 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Seattle communists trying to push their garbage on America
Posted by: 746 || 10/11/2019 3:23 Comments || Top||

#3  gotta love those calmly dispensed words about ‘..adversely affecting the structural integrity...’ much more soothing than, say,’.. the frigging wing will come off and then you all are really screwed.’
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/11/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  It will be interesting to see if is a manufacturing or design issue.
Posted by: gorb || 10/11/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  As someone who watch an engine go kuckoo during pre-flight tests, I have never complained about maintenance delays.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  my money is on a manufacturing flaw, not bad design nor poorly put together: think of the F-15 wing root issue: flaw in the metal that was not discovered until the in-flight breakup. subsequent ndi revealed the flaws.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/11/2019 17:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greta Thunberg Does NOT Win The Nobel Peace Prize
Better luck next year, ya hectoring little witch...
[The Sun (UK), where America Gets Its Real News] - GRETA Thunberg has been snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize which has instead been awarded to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for ending the 20-year Eritrea conflict.

Bookies had suggested the teen climate campaigner was the front runner for the illustrious honour, after she launched a furious tirade at the United Nations.

But the Nobel Institute gave the award to the Ethiopian leader for ending one of Africa's longest running conflicts.

Within months of coming to office in 2018 ,the 43-year-old signed a "Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship" with Eritrean Prime Minister Isaias Afwerki.

He was also praised for his domestic reforms, including releasing tens of thousands of political prisoners and allowed previously banned opposition groups.

The prize is £730,000 and will be formally awarded in Oslo in December.
Posted by: Raj || 10/11/2019 08:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was so hoping this was not the Bee.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/11/2019 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  "How dare you!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/11/2019 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  she launched a furious tirade at the United Nations.

So, this is what is necessary for the PEACE prize?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/11/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  What the world needs is a Pippi Longhogg pull-string doll - you know the dolls, you pull the string, words and sounds come out - with that look on her face like I make the day after a double serving of falafal gyros.

"How dare you. How dare you!"
"I am the messenger - your world will end!"
"Won't you hear my Saab story?"
(In Swedish chef) "Floop de doo de doopda doo"
Sings "I'm on a boat!" by Lonely Island
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2019 13:18 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
FIA arrests suspect for harassing, torturing woman in Karachi
[DAWN] [DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cyber Crime Circle on Thursday arrested a man suspected of abusing, torturing and blackmailing a woman in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
FIA Cyber Crime Circle Additional Director Faizullah Korejo said that the suspect impersonated himself as a person associated with an intelligence agency.

The suspect belongs to an influential family, he said, adding that FIA personnel recovered from his possession two mobile phones and a memory card containing obscene videos of several women.

A case has already been lodged against the suspect on the victim's complaint.

According to the first information report (FIR), the suspect lured the woman to a farmhouse where he captured objectionable pictures of her. Later, the suspect used these photos to blackmail the woman and subjected her to "physical intimidation".

The suspect, according to the FIR, created two fake Facebook profiles of the complainant and uploaded her photos on the social networking site when she resisted the suspect. He also allegedly sent objectionable pictures of the woman to her relatives.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
he continued to force the woman to have a relationship with him and on at least one occasion, he tortured the woman, shaved her hair and eyebrows, and subjected her to electrocution.

On Thursday, the FIA on the victim's complaint conducted a raid at the suspect's office located on Tariq Road and arrested him. The FIA officials also recovered the phones used in the alleged offence.

According to the FIR, the suspect surrendered the passwords of the fake IDs and confessed to his crime.

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Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican Synod on Amazon Proposes Recognition of ‘Ecological Sins’
[BREITBART] Participants in the Vatican synod on the Amazon region proposed adding "sins against the environment" to lists of traditionally recognized sins in their second day of discussions and deliberations.

Synod fathers called for an "ecological conversion" that would allow people to see "the gravity of sins against the environment as sins against God, against our neighbour, and against future generations," Vatican News reported Wednesday.

"This would imply a need to produce and spread more widely a theological literature that would include ’ecological sins’ alongside traditional sins," the report stated.

The working document of the Amazon Synod frames the entire question of the Church’s renewal in the region in terms of the environment, proposing "New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology."

In order to be "ever more synodal," the Church must listen "to the peoples and to the earth by coming into contact with the abundant reality of an Amazon full of life and wisdom but also of contrasts," the text states.

"It continues with the cry that is provoked by destructive deforestation and extractivist activities and that demands an integral ecological conversion," it says.

Again and again the document directs synod members to turn their attention to the cries of the earth and to "convert."

Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the world is fall out from under their cities and states, the pols focus on plastic straws. When the world is not following the admonitions of the already established sins, they want to add more. Focus on the basics!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2019 2:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Sad to see the oldest Western institution going down.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2019 2:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Fix your own stinking house, pedos.
Then maybe you can call out the faults of others.
Posted by: Lex || 10/11/2019 5:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Pope goes eco, faith goes weako.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/11/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#5  This after meeting the wonder child, Greta.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 6:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe they should focus on their own hubris.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/11/2019 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Carbon taxes are the new indulgences.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 10/11/2019 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8 
"Forgive me, Father. For I have bought a new ZL1 Camaro roadster."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Jesus Who?
Posted by: Tom || 10/11/2019 14:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Marines May Consider New Modular Stackable Grenade
[Guns America] Arms manufacturer Nammo is looking to increase the Marines’ flexibility when it comes to next-generation hand grenades. Currently, many branches of the military are open to suggestions on the subject of better hand grenades, and Nammo’s MK21 Mod0 solution is modular.

The Marine Corps largely relies on the M67 Fragmentation Grenade, which is very effective as a "defensive grenade," but it can be too much when working in close quarters. Nammo’s modular grenade is an "offensive grenade" which relies more on concussion rather than fragmentation for effect.

The benefit of a concussion grenade’s limited reach is also its major drawback. To get around this limitation Nammo’s design can be stacked or daisy-chained into much larger, more powerful explosives.

By using one charge the grenade works like a concussion grenade with very light fragmentation. Two charges provide a more standard "defensive" grenade explosive, and three ‐ and even potentially more ‐ grenades can be linked together "to destroy structures," writes the Marine Corps Times.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 06:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Besoeker's MK21 perimeter lawn & garden stake. Comes with detachable 'tracker tiles' and locator app.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Explosive Lego™ pieces...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/11/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Like the scalable yield nuclear warhead, only this scales up. Interesting.

Remember the German bundled stick grenades ? M24s were they ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Those look extremely unwieldy and likely hard to throw. But maybe toss into room. Dunno.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/11/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  May not be able to throw a stacked one well, but it would do wonders on the occupants of a bunker or tank when shoved down a vent shaft. In 2013 a Syrian Anti-Assad fighter disabled a T-72 when he snuck up and rolled a grenade down the tank barrel. Think of what would happen with a 3 grenade stack on the T-72.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Use C-4 explosive block plus detonator. Now send me the money for developing a modular concussion "grenade". If it need a casing I can go down to the local store and pack the C-4 in plastic coffee cups for ease of handling (use the 44-oz size for really big rooms).
Posted by: magpie || 10/11/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Right. Need a big blast you use the compound pack with detonator. Need an even bigger blast, you need to be so far away you might as well call in a drone strike.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 12:46 Comments || Top||


Israeli Scientists: Cure for Insulin-Dependent Diabtics within 5 years
[Jerusalem Post HEALTH & SCIENCE] A team of Jerusalem-based researchers and entrepreneurs claim they have a cure for diabetes that could hit the market as early as within the next few years.

Betalin Therapeutics has developed the first bio-artificial pancreas, composed of pig’s lung tissue and insulin secreting cells. The artificial pancreas would be implanted into the patient and connect with his or her blood vessels, and then be able to measure the body’s sugar level and secrete an optimal amount of insulin needed to balance blood sugar.

"This is a new way to treat diabetes," said CEO Dr. Nikolai Kunicher. "Today, you only have ways to manage the disease. This is a cure. The diabetic pancreas has lost the function of secreting insulin and we give it back. The patient should never have to inject insulin into his body again."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2019 03:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, as I understand it, in 5 years the Zionist entity will no longer exist. The chief Ayatollah says so, and he talks with Allan nearly every night.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2019 3:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Pig ? Ehh... is it... how to ask this ? Err, kosher ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, ok ! So Gawd said you just can't eat the darn things. I get it.

But the same allowance will not be afforded to the anal-retentive moslem. I imagine Iranian research into using donkey's lung shall waste several clueless asinines before requiring a mullah to cook the sharia again, allowing rich Arabs to go get those shiny new pancreas in Israel.

"Y'see when Mochmed was on the trail to Yathrib, he met a friendly pig called Pepullah..."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/11/2019 5:59 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2019-10-11
  Orange Man confirms bomb maker and terrorist Ibrahim al-Asiri is Tango Uniform
Thu 2019-10-10
  2 ISIS 'Beatles' transferred from Syrian prison to US military custody
Wed 2019-10-09
  Possible terror attack with automatic guns in Halle (Germany)
Tue 2019-10-08
  Turkey starts bombing Kurds
Mon 2019-10-07
  Iraqi premier rejects resignation of seven ministers, Baghdad governor steps down
Sun 2019-10-06
  91 protesters killed by Iraqi police over week of demonstrations
Sat 2019-10-05
  Masked gunmen attack TV stations reporting the protests in Iraq
Fri 2019-10-04
  At least 35 Russian mercenaries killed fighting for Haftar in Libya
Thu 2019-10-03
  Breaking: Paris knife attacker kills 4 people at police headquarters
Wed 2019-10-02
  Soleimani claims he and Nasrallah barely escaped Israeli air raid in 2006
Tue 2019-10-01
  Uzbekistani militant among 64 killed, wounded in Faryab clashes
Mon 2019-09-30
  Yemeni army captured over '2000 troops', inflicted heavy casualties on Saudi army
Sun 2019-09-29
  Susan Rice: Obama Put Call Transcripts On Top Secret Server, Too
Sat 2019-09-28
  Egypt Armed Forces kills 118 takfiris in anti-terrorism operations in north, central Sinai; 10 army personnel killed, injured: Statement
Fri 2019-09-27
  US deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia

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