Brandon Young, 28, allegedly robbed a young woman at a Chevron gas station in Mobile, Alabama, on Sunday
Video showed the suspect grabbing the woman and then her keys as he threw her to the ground
The vehicle was not stolen however as he left the area after the woman ran away
The footage from the incident was posted on social media by the woman's stepmom to raise awareness
Young faces felony third-degree robbery charges and is due to appear in court this week
Gas station owner Nazmul Hasan said Young was seen hanging around the area multiple times on Saturday and was even alerted by police when they stopped in
Young frequents the gas station, and has attempted robberies before
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Please specify that your link goes to Daily Mail. Their obnoxious adware policy makes it a no go for lots of people.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
That’s part of the reason why we do that, M. When I spend time reading their articles beyond the key points, I do it in Reader view, which gets rid of the ads. On my iPad there is an AA thingy at the left end of the address bar at the top of the page — clicking on it gives a drop down menu, among whose options is Reader View. Our PC desktop offers something similar.
[NYPOST] Country singer Clare Dunn has tearfully revealed how a rideshare driver yanked her from the car and violent mostly peacefully threw her face-first into the ground — with the driver busted early Tuesday, online records show.
"This has been hell," the "Get Out" singer tearfully told People magazine, sharing a photo of her bloodied and bruised face from the June 26 attack in Tennessee.
The Colorado-based star had been recording in Nashville when she and a friend shared a Lyft home from a girls’ night out, with the pal dropped off first, Dunn said.
The driver then got increasingly agitated as the 34-year-old singer asked him to take a slower route avoiding highways, and then pointed out that he had missed her turn, she recalled to People.
"He was screaming at me," Dunn recalled.
"And I just knew in that moment that I wasn’t going to get on that interstate with him. I wasn’t going to go quietly where he wanted to take me. And I think he realized maybe this girl was going to be more trouble than she’s worth," she said.
The driver then pulled over less than a mile from her house, she said.
"Before I could even get my shoes off or get my phone to try and call 911, he grabbed me by the collar, ripped me out of the backseat and slammed me face-first down into a ditch," she told People.
"Somehow in the scuffle, I thought I called 911, but I didn’t even get the number right. But it was a miracle. They called me back.
"And when I came to, I was screaming, and I saw headlights. He ended up just leaving me alone at that point and took off," she said, recalling how she ran home with blood on her bruised face.
"He knew what he was doing," she said of the accused driver.
"He hit ’complete the ride’ after it was done," she said, saying that doing so removes key information about the driver from the passenger’s app.
The singer said she and her friend later admitted to each other that they felt "alarm bells" about the driver and are tormented at having ignored them.
"I had that intuition that something was wrong, and I ignored it," Dunn said, saying she assumed she was "overthinking it."
"I blame myself," she said, crying.
Nashville Metro police on Monday put out an alert for suspect Albert Boakye, 46, and he was booked into Metro jail at 12:46 a.m. Tuesday, online records show. He was released just after 4 a.m., with no details immediately available about possible bonds.
He had been on a warrant for misdemeanor assault after Dunn provided a photo of him along with her trip information from the Lyft app, police told WKRN.
Lyft told People mag it had reached out to the singer and also helped police with the investigation.
"Safety is fundamental to Lyft. The behavior described is appalling, and we permanently removed the driver from the Lyft platform as soon as we learned of this incident," a spokesperson told the mag.
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[NYPOST] A woman who testified against a Brooklyn gang that terrorized the NYCHA complex where she lived was hunted down and killed after being branded a "snitch," federal prosecutors said Monday in revealing chilling details of her execution-style murder.
The victim, 33-year-old Shatavia Walls, was bumped off by two men near a walking path at the Pink Houses in East New York on July 7, 2020, authorities said. She died 10 days later at Brookdale Hospital.
Her murder, federal prosecutors allege, was carefully planned and carried out by members of the Ninedee Gang, one of whom called her a "snitch" on July 4 of that year while they argued about setting off fireworks at the housing complex.
In 2019, Walls had testified in a Brooklyn federal court case that a member of the Loopy Gang — another crew in the complex with close ties to the Ninedees — had shot her two years earlier, the feds said.
At the time of her testimony, she faced extreme pressure in her building — with gang members posting flyers that labeled her a "rat" throughout the complex.
Then, during the July 4 confrontation over fireworks, Ninedee member Maliek Miller called her a "snitch" and fired a gun into the air, prosecutors said.
Miller and two other Ninedee members, Quintin Green and Chayanne Fernandez, then began plotting her murder, prosecutors said.
Green and another unnamed suspect, who was a juvenile at the time, decided to strike three days later on July 7, according to court documents.
The pair "waited at the Pink Houses all afternoon and through the early evening for an opportunity to shoot Ms. Walls, changing their clothes throughout the day in order to disguise their appearance," prosecutors wrote in a memo filed Monday, urging a federal judge to order two members of the gang detained pending trial.
When Walls emerged from a building in the complex at about 9:25 p.m., Green approached her from behind, exchanged words with her, then began firing a gun at her, the feds said. Green missed and hit an innocent bystander, prosecutors said.
Walls then sprinted away from Green, who gave chase while continuing to fire at her — at one point leaping over a fence to get a clear shot, according to the court papers.
In the mad dash for her life, the doomed woman unknowingly ran toward a second shooter — the unidentified juvenile suspect — who opened fire, prosecutors charged.
Green then caught up and bumped off Walls behind one of the buildings on Linden Boulevard, prosecutors said. After the slaying, a number of Ninedee members hid out in Queens to avoid increased police scrutiny at the Pink Houses.
Fernandez, Green and Miller were each indicted on murder-in-aid-of-racketeering charges in the slaying.
A fourth suspect, Kevin Wint, was charged with accessory after the fact for helping them hide out in Queens after the murder, according to court papers.
In the days after Walls’ death, her heartbroken mother told The Post that the slain woman approached the gang members on July 4 after Borough President Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... urged Brooklyn residents to talk to neighbors about fireworks, rather than call the police.
"She watched the news. Yes, she heard it," Helen Testagros said at the time, referring to Adams’ advice. "It was probably in the back of her mind."
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[KUBnews] The bright talent, the famous Russian writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov, turned 85 in April. His works were read by Tvardovsky and many other cultural figures. For Kuban, Viktor Ivanovich is a real legend.
At the end of July, the writer was hospitalized, and on August 9, the classic of Russian literature died. According to preliminary data, the cause of the death of the writer was the consequences of the postponed coronavirus infection.
As it became known to "Kubanskiye Novosti", the wife of Viktor Ivanovich Olga Borisovna passed away at the end of July, she was buried on August 1.
Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov was born in 1936 in the Kemerovo region. Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, teacher. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, the International Sholokhov Prize, Hero of Labor of the Kuban, Honorary Citizen of Krasnodar. Author of the book "Our Little Paris" about the history of the Kuban Cossacks. He was the creator, and then for many years and the chief editor of the literary magazine "Rodnaya Kuban".
Until his last days, Viktor Likhonosov worked as editor of the literary and historical department of the newspaper "Kubanskie Novosti", wrote historical stories, essays, a series of memoirs about famous people. His works have been translated into many languages of the world.
[J99 News] The World Health Organization has confirmed the death of a man as a result of the highly contagious Marburg virus, which can be transmitted to humans from fruit bats. World Health Organization.
A man in Guinea, West Africa, has died of the Marburg virus, which causes internal bleeding and organ failure.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the disease has the potential to spread far and wide.
The disease can be transmitted to humans from fruit bats, says the WHO.
A man in Guinea, West Africa, has died after contracting the Marburg virus, causing internal bleeding and organ failure. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the man’s death on August 9, saying the "highly contagious disease" has the potential to "spread far and wide."
This is the first time the Marburg virus has ever been detected in Guinea, according to the WHO.
According to the WHO, the man visited a local clinic to seek treatment, but his condition quickly worsened before his death. Researchers at Guinea’s National Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory and Institute Pasteur in Senegal have confirmed the man’s Marburg virus diagnosis.
The WHO said the virus can be transmitted to humans from fruit bats and transmitted from one person to another through surfaces and body fluids.
The organization said the disease tends to begin with a sudden and sudden onset of high fever and headaches, with severe internal bleeding occurring within seven days. The WHO currently rates mortality between 24% and 88%.
"We welcome the vigilance and prompt investigative efforts of Guinea’s health workers," Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, said in the organization’s statement on 9 August.
"We are working with the health authorities to implement a rapid response based on Guinea’s previous experience and expertise in dealing with Ebola, which is transmitted in a similar way," Moeti said.
[Just The News] he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Monday that a fourth, and fatal, case of melioidosis, a rare disease that originates in South Asia, was found in Georgia, and is linked to three other cases in various states.
The four cases found in Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, and Kansas included adults and children, two of which did not have any known risk factors for melioidosis, and two of the patients died, according to the CDC.
The CDC examined the bacteria that infected the patients and found that they "closely match each other, suggesting there is a common source for these cases."
Despite the bacterial strains being close in relation to those found in South Asia, "none of the patients had traveled internationally," the CDC said.
"The bacteria normally lives in moist soil and water," the CDC explained. "However, in rare cases, it has also been found to contaminate wet or moist products in the areas where the bacteria are common."
While the CDC has yet to identify the origin of the disease after collecting and testing over 100 samples of water, soil, and products in and around the homes of the patients, it "believes the most likely cause is an imported product (such as a food or drink, personal care or cleaning products or medicine) or an ingredient in one of those types of products."
The patients were spread out across the country, and the times they contracted the illness varied. Additionally, it can take two to three weeks for someone infected with melioidosis to become sick. For those reasons, it may be difficult to identify the source, the CDC noted.
The "CDC is asking clinicians to watch for any acute bacterial infection that doesn't respond to normal antibiotics and consider melioidosis — regardless of whether the patient traveled outside the United States," the statement said. "CDC also urges clinicians not to rule out melioidosis as a possible diagnosis in children and those who were previously healthy and without known risk factors for melioidosis."
Those who are healthy can still contract melioidosis, but prior conditions such as cancer, kidney or liver disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, or a condition weakening the immune system can increase risk. Most of the children who contract melioidosis do not have any risk factors.
"People experiencing cough, chest pain, high fever, headache or unexplained weight loss should see their doctor," the CDC advised.
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Quick search says that most people infected show no symptoms, so there could be a much wider spread of this "import" than these 4 cases would tend to indicate.
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...no, its more of the product of the health community lying for over a year, trashing the fundamentals of proper data gathering, and flip flopping more than a fish on the boat deck. No preface with "We don't know for sure, but" before making fiats to shut down life for most people. Don't give me hospitalization numbers now, give me the fatality count.
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^Oh yes, your federal agencies are supposed to be omniscient - otherwise they must be opposed (and they're all Democrats, anyway).
Newsflash - they did the best they could under the circumstances. And, your Republican/"Libertarian" experts did the worst they could.
And that's what happens to a country where politics become a clash of mutually exclusive ideologies.
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#3 We just recently found out the CDC test for Covid also tests positive for flu. Did they put that out last year? Why not? The whole basis of data collection for analysis and scientific interpretation was trash.
Look again, no I don't expect them to be omniscient, but honest. When they're guessing, let the people know they're not sure. It doesn't help one bit when honest scientific opinion is censored by those in power.
And I certainly have no confidence in a man who funded the bio-warfare studies in a foreign country to skirt American law to have any say in the process because he is absolutely compromised. He's in full CYA and 'squirrel' mode.
As for the kids...back to proper data collection once again being ignored.
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#6 Look P2k, you know I respect you - and I don't respect many. But, don't you notice the creeping Manicheanism - anything Democrats/Federales do/say comes from the devil and must be opposed.?
Be honest, don't you find anti-mask arguments infantile?
How about MDs who think "mRNA" is genetic engineering?
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Well, the thing about history is, it's as speculative as the future. It happened as it did and swearing up and down a single factor was definitive give serious historians a belly laugh.
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As for leftists, they are dogma all the way down. If they like vaccination, it's not because its a practical necessity or a good idea. It's because they have decided it's a vehicle to advance The Cause™. People genetically inclined to vote left can't see that any better than a vampire can see its reflection in a mirror.
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The COVID religion is dying now. Just as Stalin mis-predicted about capitalism, the believers will not go out gently...
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LBJ hospital in Houston is the charity hospital, and is about 10 minutes from swamped under the best of circumstances. It's sort of the "St Elsewhere" of Houston. No insurance or medicare? The ambulance goes to LBJ.
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LBJ serves a lot of the Hispanic community, which is likely where many of the recent 'catch and release' immigrants landed. (Didn't look, but Parkland does the same for Dallas.) I am curious how much effect masking practice had - it should be clear that uncontrolled dispersion of infected immigrants is not a good practice, but we are forbidden from suggesting that.
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Uh...no. Do a search for yourself. There have been quite a few studies that address the ineffectiveness of masks, especially the little cloth face diapers. Don't ask me to curate these articles for you, you'll better appreciate them if you do the legwork yourself.
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No boosters approved here in the US right now. Why do you ask a question an expert like you should already know the answer to?
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Religion can't wait for FDA, NIH, CDC or St. Fauxi. Says it all...
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N-95 masks worn so tightly that the skin is bruised under the rim of the thing as it seals to the face, and changed out as soon as it becomes moist are effective, especially when combined with a clear plastic face shield, according to the research I’ve seen. Anything less prevents spraying droplets into the air when coughing or sneezing — a good thing for diseases spread by droplets — but is not much more protective in either direction than that. And the damp inner surface basically cultures whatever was in the breath, so that the concentration of all sorts of ugly things is much higher for the mask wearer than for everyone else if not changed fairly frequently.
Finally, I would not trust a disposable mask made in China to be either effective or sterile upon opening the package.
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Years ago, while working in a repair depot, I had a physicist in to have his workstation repaired. Turned out to be a memory module. I said offhand "Maybe a cosmic ray." He said the chances were slim. We got to talking and I said "The Universe is awash in radiation. Could be aliens would come here and be astonished that we could survive it." He smiled and said "Never thought of it like that, but you could be right."
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^TW, surgical mask is - principally - to prevent you from infecting other people. That's why, when you go to a dentist, he wears a musk and you do not.
p.s. Coronaviruses don't have wings, they propagate with water droplets, which your mask stops either outgoing or incoming.
The situation you detailed above applies to medical personnel in Covid wards - not to people shopping in a supermarket, or taking a bus.
Now I realize that, for some people, not wearing a mask in current times proves their bravery (or something). I'm sure the viruses are terribly impressed
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Why does an "expert" ask about a booster shot that's not available or approved in the US yet? Not up to speed? Not really an expert? Religious fanatic? You tell me.
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^Because I'm expert on immunology - not American psychology.
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Psychology prolly is in charge at NIH and CDC but that doesn't change the fact there are no "boosters" currently approved in the US. We're all gonna die.
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I have no more use for COVID religion than I do for pisslam.
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I've no use for Covid sceptics - reality denial is a form of psychosis.
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Ah the tenacity of mindset. And the elasticity thereof. This is no slight on you guys, it's just human psychology.
I have no doubt if Trump was in office and was running some kind of 'get the Jab America' campaign, we would be seeing a different perspective here at Rantburg too. And jests about antivaxxers or covid skeptics, with rhetoric about saving America with the all powerful mask.
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Candace Owen makes Jenny McCarthy look sane. All the same, I feel vaxx is a personal decision. I got vaxxed, I'm informed it won't stop me from getting COVID and maybe dying anyway. So why should I care what anyone else does. Magic numbers guy will say that's irresponsible. Well, lots of people make other irresponsible choices for themselves every day without my input. So. It. Goes.
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As for the cost to society, If I go terminal, that's on the society that enabled Fauxi. I hope it costs them stupidly large amounts.
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In business you reduce your risks and do things that increase your chances of success. This not the flu. In my opinion it is bio warfare introduced to the world successfully by China. My brother battled Covid for 6 weeks and lost. He died way too young. I am a hard core right wing conservative but who also believes kids can spread the cold, flu and now Covid faster amongst themselves than any other age group. That endangers the Teacher, the parent at the house suffering from diabetes and the 80 year old grandparent on the weekend visit who has pre-conditions and the school bus driver.
[AlAhram] The commission said more than 460 people were investigated in this latest round, and that as a result, 207 Saudi citizens and residents were detained on allegations of corruption, abuse of authority and fraud Sunni Gulenists! Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... announced the arrest of 207 employees across about a dozen government ministries in the latest sweep by an anti-corruption body empowered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world...
Those detained were not named and it was unclear when the arrests were made. The kingdom's National Anti-Corruption Commission, known as ``Nazaha'', announced the arrests late on Monday.
The crown prince's anti-corruption purge began in late 2017. It has helped him consolidate power and netted the kingdom $106 billion in assets. Saudi nationals have long complained of rampant corruption in government and of public funds being squandered or misused by those in power.
Those accused will be referred to prosecution, the commission said. They hail from the national guard and a range of ministries, including defense, interior, health and justice, among others.
In April, the commission said 176 people from across the public sector had similarly been detained for alleged corruption.
The kingdom's anti-corruption purge went into high gear in late 2017 when Prince Mohammed targeted more than 300 princes, public figures and businessmen who together symbolized the elite structure encircling the ruling Al Saud family and its vast patronage networks.
In unprecedented fashion that year, his forces arrested the country's most powerful figures and held them incommunicado at the opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh for weeks and even months. Several were later transferred to prisons or other detention facilities amid reports of physical abuse.
Last year, two more high-ranking officials were removed from their post and referred to trial. They included Lt. Gen. Fahad bin Turki bin Abdulaziz, a prince who oversaw Saudi operations in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , and his son, Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahad bin Turki, who was deputy governor of Saudi Arabia's Jouf region.
[TASS] Claims by Kiev that Russia should pay reparations for its reunification with Crimea and that it should return the peninsula to Ukraine are being raised on the eve of the Crimean Platform and have no prospects, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov told TASS on Tuesday.
Earlier, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories Alexei Reznikov stated in an interview that Russia would pay Ukraine reparations for reuniting with Crimea.
"Any reparations are out of the question. Then we can ask for the reparations for the fact that at the time they acquired Malorossiya, Novorossiya that had never been [part of] Ukraine and belonged to the Russian Empire. They were handed over to Ukraine by the Bolshevik government in order for this union republic to be larger, so it would have more proletarians," the senator said.
He added that at the time, Crimea didn’t simply join Ukraine but was handed over with all its land and property "which was built at the time by the Soviet Union, above all, Russia."
"I understand that all this talk emerges in light of the approaching Crimean Platform. Well, then this agency [on Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories] needs to demonstrate that they are earning their keep, they need to show some activity.
Although I am sure that each one of them realizes that work on returning Crimea is absolutely futile, because Crimea is the subject entity of the Russian Federation and it will never return to Ukraine where it ended up because of Khrushchev’s willful error," he noted.
The senator said that Kiev’s attempts to return Crimea are "time and effort spent in vain" and expressed hope that sooner or later the Ukrainian authorities would realize this and would "leave Crimea alone."
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced the creation of the Crimean Platform to coordinate efforts on the international level to reinstate Ukrainian jurisdiction on the peninsula. The venue should open with a so-called inauguration summit scheduled for August 23, 2021. It is planned that it will function on several levels: heads of state and government, foreign ministers, lawmakers, a network of experts.
Earlier, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry promised to name the participants closer to the event. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba previously said that 32 countries had already confirmed their participation and Kiev hopes that a joint declaration will be approved as a result of the forum.
After the coup d’etat in Ukraine in February 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol held a referendum, in which 96.7% of Crimeans and 95.6% of Sevastopol voters chose to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the reunification deal on March 18, 2014, which the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament) ratified on March 21, 2014. Despite the convincing results of the referendum, Kiev has refused to recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
The T-14 is a big change in Russian tank design, discarding with "inverted frying pan" motif of traditional tank turret design. The bigger change s the improved 125mm smooth bore main gun, said to be even more powerful than previous iterations.
[TASS] The Russian Army will receive 20 latest T-14 ‘Armata’ tanks by the end of this year, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said on Tuesday.
"This year, 20 latest T-14 'Armata' tanks will arrive for the troops," the defense official said during the single military output acceptance day.
Also, "65 (each)T-90M Proryv serially produced tanks" will be handed over to the troops this year," he added.
The domestic defense industry will also deliver 18 medium-and heavy-class reconnaissance/strike drones to the Russian troops while a brigade set of the Iskander-M tactical missile system will arrive for the Army ahead of schedule, the deputy defense minister said. A Russian missile brigade is about 20 launchers.
The Armata is a heavy tracked standardized platform serving as the basis to develop a main battle tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored personnel carrier and some other armored vehicles.
The T-14 tank based on the Armata platform was shown to the public for the first time at Red Square’s Victory Day Parade on May 9, 2015. The new combat vehicle features fully digitized equipment, an unmanned turret and an isolated armored capsule for the crew.
2021 state defense order
According to Alexey Krivoruchko, this year's state defense order was fulfilled 34% in January thru June.
"As at the end of the first half of the year the 2021 state defense order for the supplies of new weapons and military equipment has been fulfilled more than 34% of the annual amount, which is in accordance with the expected target," Krivoruchko reported to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
He added that the conclusion of long-term state contracts had proved highly effective and guaranteed steady supplies of weapons and military equipment for the armed forces throughout the calendar year.
"The industry's pace of providing new weapons and military equipment ensures the fulfillment of the state defense order," Krivoruchko said.
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"This year, 20 latest T-14 'Armata' tanks will arrive for the troops," the defense official said during the single military output acceptance day.
By way of discussion, that means a production rate of 1.66 vehicles per month. Keep in mind that this rate includes typical Soviet Russian QA standards.
Although the M1 Abrams is currently not in production (Congressional pork meant that we overproduced to requirements for years), the Lima (OH) Tank Plant is capable of - and has in fact done so - thirty tanks a month.
Keep an eye on it, but don't worry too much.
Mike
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The bigger change s the improved 125mm smooth bore main gun
Took them long enough. The M1 outranged them as early as the first Gulf War. Using the laser rangefinders our guys knew that and exploited it. See the flash then a sand cloud kick up 100 meters out. Followed by return fire on target.
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Took them long enough. The M1 outranged them as early as the first Gulf War. Using the laser rangefinders our guys knew that and exploited it. See the flash then a sand cloud kick up 100 meters out. Followed by return fire on target.
Russians has similar fire control enhancements the US has, and has had them for a good while. And they have retrofitted many of their T-72s with those improvements. (T-72B3)
What they didn't have was an improvement in the 125mm gun itself, and its ammunition.
As far as the shooting in Desert Storm, the M1 could range out to that, but the optics couldn't. Dunno if it's still a problem.
We still do not know, even at this late date, just how good/bad the Russian 125mm smoothbore is, since the Russian "customers' don't receive the same gun/ammunition the Russian Army itself uses. It could well be as good or better than the Rheinmetal 120mm.
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I have seen some chatter about the Armata being a platform for autonomous fighting vehicles. In the tank version, the gun is operated 'remotely' from inside the armored cabin rather than from the turret and it uses an autoloader rather than an extra crewman. Lots of interesting possibilities, IMHO.
Turks getting their hooks into the Balkans.
[REGNUM] On August 10, the government of North Macedonia reviewed and approved the report on the negotiations on the signing of an agreement on military-financial cooperation with the government of Turkey.
According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi Maqedoni, North Macedonia will receive 100 million lira or US $ 11.5 million from Turkey for the purchase of military equipment.
Equipment purchases, of course, will be made in Turkey. As a reminder, North Macedonia and Turkey are NATO partner countries since 2020.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that several of Indiana’s laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.
The judge’s ruling also upheld other state abortion limits that were challenged in a broad lawsuit filed by Virginia-based Whole Woman’s Health Alliance in 2018 as it fought the denial of a license to open an abortion clinic in South Bend.
U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued a permanent injunction against the telemedicine ban, along with state laws requiring in-person examinations by a doctor before medication abortions and the prohibition on second-trimester abortions outside hospitals or surgery centers. Barker also ruled against state laws requiring that women seeking abortions be told human life begins when the egg is fertilized and that a fetus might feel pain at or before 20 weeks.
The state attorney general, whose office has been defending those laws in court, said Barker’s ruling contradicted higher court decisions and pointed toward a possible appeal to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals,
"We will continue to fight to defend Indiana’s commonsense abortion laws and to build a culture of life in Indiana," Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita said in a statement.
The anti-abortion group Indiana Right to Life denounced the decision as "judicial activism at its absolute worst."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency’s internal watchdog said Tuesday it would investigate allegations that the agency "improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media" following Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s claims that the NSA tried to shut down his show.
The announcement puts the NSA’s inspector general at the center of a politically volatile issue. Conservatives have for weeks demanded an investigation into Carlson’s claim that a major U.S. spy agency targeted his show, an allegation for which he has provided no evidence.
According to a statement, the review by Inspector General Robert Storch will examine NSA’s "compliance with applicable legal authorities" and the agency’s own policies on collecting and sharing information it collects. The inspector general will also examine whether any of the agency’s actions were based on "improper considerations."
The inspector general’s office can open an investigation on its own or in response to a request from lawmakers or others who have reported alleged wrongdoing.
"This will clear the air," said Glenn Gerstell, who served as NSA’s general counsel from 2015 to 2020 and worked closely with Storch. "I think it’s entirely appropriate for the inspector general to take a look at any allegations and, in this case, put them to rest."
Carlson initially claimed in late June that the NSA was "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air." He said an unnamed whistleblower had contacted his show with details about a possible story that he said could only have come from reading his text messages and emails.
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"I think it’s entirely appropriate for the inspector general to take a look at any allegations and, in this case, put them to rest."
In other words, we know there's nothing here and will investigate ourselves and tell you again.
The Covid-19 Delta variant causes more infections and spreads faster than early forms of SARS-CoV-2. The Delta variant is more contagious than previous strains.
The CDC states Fully vaccinated people with breakthrough infections, can transmit the Delta variant to others.
SIDE NOTE: Recent deeper studies vaccine effectiveness due to the increased number of vaccinated person infections. Show much a higher breakthrough infection percentage.
eg. Additional data from the U.K. suggests the Pfizer vaccine, that was 95% effective against earlier strains of Covid-19, is only about 88% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 Delta variant after two doses, a 12% GAP.
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Delta variant has already peaked in India and Brazil with daily infections and fatalities down a lot, e.g. in India in May daily infections averaged 400k but now it is down to about 40k; daily fatalities were at 4k, now down to about 600
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Get ready for new variants. One crisis after another. Spanish flu lasted eight years, OH joy.
The Covid-19 Delta variant causes more infections and spreads faster than early forms of SARS-CoV-2. The Delta variant is more contagious than previous strains.
No need to repeat yourself there, CDC. Maybe you could get your Diversity Officer to proofread your work. I understand she is an English major.
And isn't this pretty much what we would predict a disease-causing virus does over time?
Additional data from the U.K. suggests the Pfizer vaccine, that was 95% effective against earlier strains of Covid-19, is only about 88% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 Delta variant after two doses, a 12% GAP.
Am I reading this wrong? 95 - 88 is 7 not 12.
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Oopsie! Thanks for the clarification, NN2N1. I was worried I had contracted a rare variant of the Kung Flu that prevented me from doing basic math, kinda like the vanilla virus messes with your sense of smell.
[JPost] - The Health Ministry has approved the expanded use of an innovative COVID-19 treatment that helped 14 out of 16 severe patients who took it to be released from the hospital one day after receiving their final dose.
The drug, MesenCure, has been being tested by Rambam Medical Center as part of a Phase I/II trial. The ministry has approved allowing any Israeli hospital interested to take part in the Phase II trial and to use the drug for additional approved patients.
...MesenCure, which consists of activated Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) that are isolated from the adipose tissue of healthy donors, was found to reduce inflammation and alleviate respiratory and other symptoms in patients suffering from life-threatening respiratory distress brought on by COVID-19.
The way forward is through Immunology - not "miracle" chemicals.
Although, following the Covid outcomes of Sturgis biker rally, have anyone investigated the interplay between Covid and fentanyl?😎;
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Hey, this sounds like a very good step forward, fingers crossed it works well for all patients with CCP-virus.
Frankly, tying your hopes to the same science, is a donkey tread mill, round and around you go expecting a different result is foolish. - If drugs can cure, then let that be so; otherwise, here have a
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The way forward is through Immunology - not "miracle" chemicals.
Although, following the Covid outcomes of Sturgis biker rally, have anyone investigated the interplay between Covid and fentanyl?😎;
I'm sure you'll be able to strain at gnats, and swallow camels, and take advantage of treatments yourself while being able to look away from all the evidence of what Fauci and his collaborators _have done_.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I WAS ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE TREATMENTS AND THEIR SUPPRESSION HALF BECAUSE OF THE TREATMENTS THEMSELVES BUT ALSO BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT FAUCI, DASZAK, ET ALIA HAVE DONE?
Seriously now. I have attempted to explain to you several times that Fauci has zero, zip, and zilch influence on medical research outside USA. He can no more suppress research re HCQ in places like India, China, Russia, or Brazil (google Brazil HCQ) than he can fly by flapping his hands.
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When they ran studies that gave people overdoses and said it was definitive _and people like you didn't look up the safe dosage information from printed reference materials from before the crisis_ they were able to do it in spite of everything.
They're able to keep you from looking at a PDR and finding out the generally acceptable safe dosage if you don't look.
Now: detailed dosage information wasn't in the 2010 PDR, which I have, but was in the 2017.
(Possibly because they had to go back to it in the intervening years because Melfloquine/Lariam turned out to be too dangerous to use. In addition to Plaquenil/HCQ's other uses, for treating Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis).
All Fauci (and his unknown collaborators) has to do is rely on everyone _not looking_ because Of Course He Wouldn't Be Able To Do That.
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Seriously now. I have attempted to explain to you several times that Fauci has zero, zip, and zilch influence on medical research outside USA.
Well, I wouldn't say that considering all the shit he's done in China.
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Ooops. Sorry for the language. Let's just say the good doctor has a credibility problem after denying that any of the grant money he sent to the WIV went to gain of function research.
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[VinyardGazette] In an email Monday, Martha's Vineyard Hospital spokesman Marissa Lefebvre confirmed that there is one patient currently hospitalized with the virus. Ms. Lefebvre said the patient was hospitalized Sunday in serious condition.
According to a follow-up email from Ms. Lefebvre, the patient had only received their first dose of the vaccine.
The state Department of Public Health reported in its August 5 update that 88 per cent of Dukes County has been fully vaccinated, based on 2019 census data.
So only 1% of infections are bad enough to need hospitalization? Surely that’s a good thing, exactly what the vaccines are supposed to accomplish.. Perhaps at some point we’ll be informed of the health status of this patient — whether as expected the patient is elderly, in poor health, or otherwise immunocompromised.
25 cases were fully vaccinated.
1 partially vaccinated.
20 unvaccinated.
and 2 are unknown.
BTW: Initially 100's of former Obama administration officials, celebrities and Democratic donors had planned to attend Yomama's 60th Birthday bash on Martha's Vineyard during this same time.
Time will only tell how many got snagged, if any of them.
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I have a hard time believing any really rich person who wants the vaccine hasn't had both doses for some time now. Ones that don't, lots of gummint spokesassh*les have been saying for some time they are just getting what they deserve.
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As I said yesterday, the gumming has actually found something it can't even give away. Historians will study this...
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Went to the doctor's office yesterday. Masks were required of everyone. The woman at the front desk asked me for a photo ID. I gave her my driver's license. It dawned on me that the DL showed me without a mask. I said: "The DMV should have issued the DL with a mask". ..she chuckled under her mask.
My apologies, Snowy Thing — this one is my fault. You posted a CDC warning about travel to Israel because of COVID. If you post the link in comments, we’ll reconstitute it.
—trailing wife at 12:45 a.m. ET
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The problem is at the Israeli end, according to the Times of Israel:
Organization that brings young Jews to Israel for free shelves 42 of its 10-day visits planned for the summer after government orders all arrivals from US to isolate for a week
Separately, the US Centers for Disease Control has warned against travel to Israel, saying there is a “very high level” of COVID-19, and that even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.
“We anticipate that the seven-day quarantine rule will be temporary, and we look forward to resuming trips as soon as possible,” the newspaper quoted a Birthright spokesman as saying.
Birthright resumed travel in May following a 14-month hiatus.
Israel is battling a resurgence of COVID-19 infections that have rocketed from just a few dozen daily cases in June to over 5,000 diagnosed on Monday.
As of August 16, there will be only 10 countries Israelis will be able to return from without having to quarantine — and only three of those destinations accept Israeli tourists — according to updated travel guidelines published by the Health Ministry late on Sunday.
Avoid travel to Israel.
If you must travel to Israel, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel.
Because of the current situation in Israel, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.
Travelers should follow recommendations or requirements in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, including wearing a mask and staying 6 feet apart from others.
West Bank and Gaza
Make sure you are fully vaccinated before traveling to the West Bank and Gaza.
Unvaccinated travelers who are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 should avoid nonessential travel to the West Bank and Gaza. If you must travel and have concerns, talk to your doctor.
Travelers should follow recommendations or requirements in the West Bank and Gaza, including wearing a mask and staying 6 feet apart from others.
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.
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
[Just The News] he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Monday that a fourth, and fatal, case of melioidosis, a rare disease that originates in South Asia, was found in Georgia, and is linked to three other cases in various states.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 
