[NYPOST] Cops are searching for a man who shot six people, including a 12-year-old girl, in the Bronx on Monday afternoon, sending all of them to the hospital.
The shooting happened around 4:50 p.m. at 3544 White Plains Road — roughly a block from Marcus Garvey Square in Olinville, according to the NYPD.
It's unclear what sparked the gunfire, but cops said they found three men, two women and the maiden of tender years with bullet wounds when they arrived.
The precise ages of the other victims is currently unknown.
The maimed were brought to area hospitals, where they are in stable, pH balanced condition, cops said. The 12 year-old's injuries are not serious, according to police.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... police are searching for the suspect, who fled wearing all black except for a blue surgical mask covering his face.
According to a report by the New York Post, President-elect Donald Trump made waves in the political arena in the Bronx, one of New York’s most blue districts.
In 2020, only 15.9 percent of voters supported Trump, while 83.4 percent favored outgoing President Joe Biden. However, in 2024, that number saw unprecedented support, signaling a dramatic shift in party affiliation early on.
While 72. 1 percent of people favored failed Democrat candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, 27.1 percent of Bronx residents supported Trump— performing 22 points better than he did four years ago.
The Post found that out of the entire state, only two New York counties, Seneca and Yates saw a voter shift toward Harris.
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This is what happens when the Mexican cartels take over local drug distribution territory from local gangs. You have to make payroll as best as you can.
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The locking rotary door and/or 'airlock' system has been tried; the problem arises in something like this scenario where there are multiple perps, and if any are trapped inside with customers, and start to panic or worse, go hostages.
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That has to be some chain store, not a primary jewelry store or those fools would be on the floor bleeding. I'll be money that clerk wasn't allowed to be armed.
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[Regnum] The Sun is experiencing one of the strongest bursts of activity this year. Two powerful flares were registered on the morning of December 30, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.
It is noted that two flares of the highest X-ray class occurred on the Sun at 7:14 and 7:31 Moscow time. The explosions were observed in the western part of the solar disk, in a zone that does not exclude an impact on the Earth.
"Overall, the Sun is registering one of the strongest bursts of activity this year. The previous two bursts were observed in May and October," the scientific organization said in a statement on its website.
Solar mass ejections will likely reach Earth in the middle of the day on December 31 and cause auroras. The closer to evening the main plasma masses arrive, the higher the chances that the European part of Russia will fall into the polar oval, the laboratory added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a powerful X-class solar flare was recorded on the morning of December 29. The event began at 10:08 Moscow time and lasted for about half an hour, with the peak radiation observed at 10:18 Moscow time. Scientists explained that they had been observing an increase in solar activity for about a week. During this time, the number of solar flares has almost doubled, but now they have reached their highest level.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It was a warm, clear night in 1983 when about a dozen elite Green Berets jumped down from the back of a two-and a-half-ton truck at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.
They were met by two mysterious men in black flight suits. No patches or insignia indicated what branch of the military they represented, but they were clearly in charge
‘This is a classified operation,’ one of them told the special ops team. ‘From this point forward, we have command and control.’
As they finished briefing the group, another vehicle pulled up, containing a box the men were more than familiar with. They had been training for one like it for many hours; or at least, an inert version of it. This time, however, they were about to use the real thing. The SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) was a top secret nuclear weapon no different from the one dropped on Hiroshima, but with one crucial difference: it was small enough to fit inside a rucksack.
In his new book We Defy, about the lost chapters of Special Forces history, Jack Murphy reveals the US military's special nuclear program - called Green Light - was developed in 1962, in preparation for World War III, and remained an active part of its training until 1986.
Three hours into their flight, the Green Berets were informed of their target: one of the largest hydroelectric dams in Cuba. Its destruction was intended to disrupt the country’s power supply, cripple the economy and cause widespread chaos. Only once they had parachuted to the target and were preparing to detonate the bomb were they suddenly informed this was just a training exercise. It turned out they were on a drop zone somewhere in New Mexico, more than a thousand miles from Cuba.
‘The Green Berets were still reeling, their adrenaline pumping,’ writes Murphy. ‘They had assumed they were deep behind enemy lines until moments previously.
‘“It was absolutely real,” a team member said.’
Jumping with the SADM was no easy task. Its operators may have played it down as a mere ‘backpack nuke’ but, after various iterations, it weighed in at close to 70 pounds and was extremely unwieldy.
‘Really experienced jumpers had a really hard time flying that bomb properly,’ said Tommy Shook, a team sergeant in the mid-1970s.
‘You didn't jump the bomb; it jumped you.’
Murphy writes: ‘In about 90 percent of his team’s freefall jumps with the weapon, [Shook] and his teammates missed the drop zone and ended up in the woods.’
Add to that the complicated logistics and it was not a mission for the faint hearted.
‘When infiltrating the SADM by parachute, one man jumped in with the bomb and another jumped in with the planewave generator that would detonate it,’ writes Murphy.
‘A third team member carried a conventional shaped explosive charge to destroy the SADM to prevent it from falling into enemy hands if the team were compromised.
‘Each Green Light team also had to carry a 23-pound shaped charge to destroy the SADM before it could fall into enemy hands,’ he writes.
‘Using the emergency destruction charge would spread uranium and plutonium across the environment, causing a far greater ecological disaster than a low-yield nuclear detonation.’
Don Alexander, who spent a decade training on the program, told Murphy: ‘It was so in-extremis, that their concern was more the destruction of the technology than the localized contamination that would happen.’
Many of those involved also believed they were being trained for a one-way mission - they saw no plans for their escape to safety after detonating the bomb and, as one member said: ‘You were under the impression that you were expendable.’
One conspiracy theory had it that the timer didn't work, and at the moment it was detonated, it would wipe out the Special Forces team with it.
Some even joked, darkly, that, when they unlocked the SADM to arm it for real, along with the bomb they would find 12 Medals of Honor and a bottle of Jack Daniels inside.
‘The rationale for this theory was that the US government would not want a handful of operators who could be captured running around behind enemy lines with knowledge about a nuclear bomb that was ticking down.’
If they survived, their orders were to ‘remain behind enemy lines, attempt to recruit Soviet military deserters, raise a guerrilla army and wage unconventional warfare.’
The SADM went into development in 1960, writes Murphy, ‘but the specifications were amended the following year to include a waterproof pressure case so that the device could be emplaced by frogmen.'
It entered military service in April 1963 with the Army eventually stockpiling nearly 300 by the mid 1960s.
Highly trained soldiers practiced swimming, kayaking and skiing with the nuke. The most dreaded training exercises were those that combined both parachuting and scuba - requiring the soldier to jump not just with the weapon but also carrying two oxygen tanks. And, while no SADM was ever activated, almost all of those involved said that, at times, they fully believed their training exercises were genuine.
Former NCO Mike Taylor recalled one particular episode that occurred during the Reagan administration.
‘His team got called in and put into an isolation facility to begin planning for a mission to Europe, parachuting in straight from a flight from the United States,’ writes Murphy.
‘They were not told what country they were going to. The entire team thought it was the real deal, but after four days the team was sent home with no explanation.’
Did the DoD ever really intend to use nuclear weapons on key targets during the Cold War? At least one person close to the program was convinced he would never see active combat.
‘I always thought that this was a psychological tool that was used at much higher levels just to let the Russkies know that they had weird dudes and Green Berets running around with a nuke in their pocket,’ said Captain Bill Flavin.
Others, though, were not so sure, pointing to the detailed targets outside Europe as evidence that the US was targeting enemies closer to home than Russia.
One veteran said his team would regularly review slide decks and aerial photography of targets in Latin America.
‘I can tell you where every intersection on the Cuba highway, where every military base, where every naval port was, where every dam was,’ he told Murphy.
Another suggested that the Panama Canal had been in their sights.
‘I'm just glad we never had to do it for real,’ said Scott Wimberley, who swam the bomb into position during an exercise in the mid-1970s. ‘It was going to be a suicide mission.’
Decades on, some of those who served on Green Light are still convinced that was the case.
Mike Adams, who was a young sergeant when he took part in a mission in 1985, retired as a Sergeant Major and was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 50. He believes he was exposed to radiological material during his service, and filed a claim with Veterans Affairs only to have it denied.
‘My doctor at Yale wrote a letter [to Veteran's Affairs] stating that there is no reason on planet Earth why a person as young and healthy as you are,’ should have certain types of cancer, Adams told Murphy.
‘He was adamant that we should have known to tie that to [Green Light].’
After a decade long fight with cancer, Mike Adams died on August 18, 2024.
Last year, the NYPD had about four drone teams inside the "bow tie" and "frozen area" around Times Square for New Year's Eve. That will increase to six drone teams – four inside the bow tie and two on the outer perimeter – this year, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said, adding that mobile drone teams will also operate around Manhattan and the rest of the city and monitor activity over the water as well.
[WISHtv] A Jan. 6 riot defendant from Indiana who escaped his prison sentence is applying for refugee status in Canada.
Antony Vo in November told I-Team 8 he still believes President-elect Donald Trump will deliver pardons to all Jan. 6 riot defendants once he’s back in the Oval Office on Jan. 20. But, for now, Vo is waiting for that day in Canada as he goes through the country’s asylum process.
Vo said his immediate plans include skiing.
He and his mother, Annie Vo, were both charged as nonviolent participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Antony was convicted but never served his nine-month sentence.
“The majority of Jan. 6 people have been held more than accountable,” Antony Vo said.
Vo says he’s already gone through medical evaluations but canceled a refugee eligibility hearing with Canadian authorities. He’s waiting for assurances that he won’t be detained and sent back to the U.S.
Vo’s application for political refugee status makes sweeping claims that he’s the victim of a government conspiracy, writing that his conviction is “purely political persecution.”
The application, which Vo provided to I-Team 8, states a legal fund set up for Jan. 6 riot defendants is helping Vo pay for an attorney.
He has no plans to turn himself in.
“Our country, ourselves, we have a long history of standing up for our rights, what we believe in.”
Canadian officials say that, due to privacy legislation, the government cannot comment on specific refugee cases. But, one of the factors officials will use to evaluate a refugee claim is whether that person has committed a serious crime.
The U.S. Marshals Service by Friday afternoon had not responded to requests for an update on the search for Vo.
[YouTube] Col Douglas Macgregor tells TRUTH about Trumps next move! Colonel Douglas Macgregor and Stephen Gardner discuss Biden stupid move of ordering attacks on Russia from Ukraine with USA weapons.
Streamed live on Dec 20, 2024
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.
