[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A duo of security guards were stabbed, with one ultimately being killed in a Monday morning attack at a Macy's department store in Center City Philadelphia, WPVI reports.
The confrontation began at the store, located just one block from City Hall at 13th and Market Streets, after an attempt to shoplift was made around 10:45 am, according to Philadelphia police.
Investigators say the male suspect was trying to steal numerous hats before being stopped by security. "I NEED these hats. I gots to feed my kids...hats"
Police report that store security recovered the merchandise and subsequently allowed the man to leave the premises. He was said to have then returned around 15 minutes later. He walked towards one before turning his attention towards another and then stabbing the guard with a knife.
The other guard was stabbed several times upon intervening.
One of the victims was pronounced dead at 11:19 am, not long after police had taken both to the hospital.
Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said the guards, who worked at Macy's, were unarmed during the altercation. One had worked at the store for a few years, and the other only a few months, according to police.
The suspect was later arrested and brought to the Somerset station around noon, after assistance in identification by witnesses, according to Stanford. He had originally expeditiously departed at a goodly pace on SEPTA and dropped a knife on the property.
Police did not provide the dear departed security guard's name, but said he was 30 years old and had died from a stab wound in his neck.
The other guard is a 23-year-old male, and is in the hospital after he was stabbed in both his left arm and face. He is reported to be in stable, pH balanced condition.
Center City's Macy's store is one of the hardest-hit locations in terms of retail theft; Stanford said the location has filed over 250 reports for retail theft in 2023 alone.
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Seen where this is headed.
Early 2000 in Atlanta, the In-town Mall near Lindbergh MARTA Station started having major thief and gang issues. A number of stores pulled out as sells nosed dived due to it was becoming a Young Adult hang-out with serious crime issues instead of a SHOPPING mall.
So Metro Atlanta stepped in to fill the need, and extended the MARTA Bus system service (affectionately also known as: Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta) to the Gwinnett Co, Mall. The Gwinnett Mall, had the same problems in 2 years.
[AFRICANEWS] Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo decided to dissolve the opposition-dominated Parliament on Monday, three days after armed festivities that he describes as an "attempted coup d'état" and which plunged this small African country the West in yet another crisis.
"The date of the next legislative elections will be set at the appropriate time, in accordance with the provisions (...) of the Constitution," says a presidential decree communicated to the press.
President Embalo invokes the "complicity" between the National Guard, the body involved in the festivities with the Presidential Guard Thursday evening and Friday, and "certain political interests within the state apparatus itself".
"After this attempted coup d'état led by the National Guard and in the face of strong evidence of the existence of political complicity, the normal functioning of the institutions of the Republic has become impossible. These facts confirm the existence of a serious crisis politics ," he said.
Guinea -Bissau is experiencing chronic political instability and has experienced a string of coups since its independence from Portugal in 1974, the last in February 2022.
Elements of the National Guard burst into the premises of the judicial police on Thursday evening to extract the Minister of Economy and Finance, Souleiman Seidi , and the Secretary of State for the Public Treasury, Antonio Monteiro who were being questioned there. . Then they took shelter in a military camp in the capital Bissau, and resisted with arms until Friday morning.
The festivities left at least two dead. They are seen as a new illustration of the deep political fractures at the heart of the state between the presidency and the government, which also run through the security forces.
The National Guard essentially reports to the Ministry of the Interior, and therefore to the government, itself an emanation of Parliament dominated by the opposition. The prosecution, which ordered the arrest of the two members of the government, responded to the presidency.
The legislative elections of June 2023 gave an absolute majority to a coalition formed around the historic African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the president's old adversary. Mr. Embalo, who has led the country since 2020, found himself condemned to cohabitation with the government.
In his decree, the president denounces "the passivity of the government" in the face of events. He assures that the aim of the National Guard, in seeking to release the two members of the government, was to obstruct the investigations carried out by the prosecution.
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[Washington Times] The FBI’s probe into whether traditional Catholics posed a terrorist threat included interviews with a priest and a church choir director and involved an undercover agent who infiltrated the church, House investigators said Monday.
A House panel examining the weaponization of government uncovered the interviews and the role of at least one undercover agent as part of a congressional probe into the FBI’s recent targeting of traditional Catholics.
Subpoenas issued in the investigation, House lawmakers said, revealed that the FBI "singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential terrorists."
According to the House Judiciary subcommittee on the weaponization of government, the FBI’s interviews with a priest and choir director were used to inform on a parishioner under investigation who self-described as a "radical traditionalist Catholic."
FBI employees in the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, office where the probe originated could not define the meaning of radical traditionalist Catholic, but "this single investigation became the basis for an FBI-wide memorandum warning about the dangers of ’radical’ Catholics," House lawmakers said Monday.
[X] Another half-demented 80-year-old yelling about things he doesn’t understand. These are our leaders. They don’t care about our future because they don’t have one of their own.
[PJ] FBI whistleblower Steve Friend has a warning for Americans: our bloated bureaucracy sees We the People as its "primary enemy."
Friend is a former FBI agent, a fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and co-host of "American Radicals" podcast. He speaks truths the government would prefer to keep hidden on many platforms, including on Twitter/X.
His internal knowledge of the FBI and government bureaucracy led him to make a chilling comparison on Dec. 3. Hydra Host co-founder Aaron Ginn had noted, "The FBI went to great lengths to track down every grandma and grandpa associated with Jan 6th. In the last two months, we have terrorist sympathizers waving the Palestinian flag and wearing a keffiyeh in our streets and they do nothing."
Why would that be? Friend had an answer. "The @FBI is wholly focused on targeting political conservatives and Christians for engaging in 1st Amendment protected activities. It is an intelligence gathering agency willing and able to inflict violence to deprive people of their freedom. The FBI is the KGB," he said, referring to the former Soviet secret police/intelligence.
[Hot Air] A study released today showed schools which trained teachers on the so-called science of reading (which features phonics) helped raise test scores in poorly performing schools.
The program in about 70 low-performing schools yielded test-score gains for third graders in 2022 and 2023, on par with students having attended school for an additional quarter of a year in English and 12 percent of a year in math, according to a working paper by researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
For about $1,000 per student annually, the program retrained teachers and administrators and paid for new classroom materials, better aligned to cognitive research.
The study, by Sarah Novicoff, a Stanford graduate student, and Thomas S. Dee, a professor of education, compared schools that participated in the program to a similar set of schools that did not. It has not yet been peer reviewed.
This is good news after years dominated by pandemic learning loss and a lingering absenteeism crisis. At last there might be something which could help make up for lost time. The study hasn’t been peer reviewed but the general findings favorable to phonics aren’t new. I’ve written before about how California got here. Being the progressive state that it is, California jumped on the bandwagon of the hot new trend in reading, adopting a style of teaching called "whole language" in the 1980s.
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This is why they won't do it. They want stupid out there, so they can continue to run things.
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The opposite of the phonics method is the 'whole language' method. This latter method was widely adopted in the 1990s in the USA despite the fact that there was never any legitimate support for that method.
I think that by 2000 or so, the 'whole language' method was generally considered to be discredited but because, G W Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' emphasized phonics, a number of leftists decided to emphasize 'whole language'. However, study after study showed the whole language method didn't work. I think there are still 'whole language' hot spots although these include 'phonics' in what they call a 'balanced literacy' approach.
The entire historic episode of 'whole language' theory is a grave indictment of the education system.
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Sort of like what happened with Common Core. Started teaching Algebra and Theory before kids had their addition tables memorized.
[SlayNews] The government of Iceland has taken decisive action and banned Covid mRNA shots from the island nation as excess deaths, strokes, blood clots, sudden cardiac arrests, and other "unexplained" health issues continue to soar around the world.
Last week a Australia IT Database Admin releases hidden VAX Death rates showing 4% to 14% data based on VAXident batches and gets arrested. Now others are coming forward. eg. Navy Whistleblower Exposes 937% Surge in Heart Failure among Vaxxed Pilots.
Once again, the so-called Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy Theorists are shown to be the messengers of FACTUAL INFO.
[The Drive] The U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol plane that ended up in Hawaii's Kaneohe Bay on November 20 is finally out of the water. The plane was floated from where it had come to rest using inflatable airbags and then slowly rolled — sometimes at a pace of just five feet per hour — across those bags back onto the runway. Much of the aircraft remains intact, including its landing gear, and the Navy is hopeful that it can return to service after what are expected to be significant repairs.
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officials provided an update on the status of the P-8A at a press conference earlier today. The jet, which belongs to the Navy's Patrol Squadron Four (VP-4) based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington State, ran off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay last month. The installation is part of Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The aircraft was returning from a routine training mission at the time. The circumstances surrounding the mishap remain under investigation. Pheauteaux at the link
Work has been ongoing since the incident occurred to assess the state of the P-8A and mitigate impacts to the local environment, including coral that was damaged when the jet entered the water. After overshooting the runway, the aircraft continued for a short distance and pivoted to the left before coming to a stop.
The actual process of getting the plane off the coral below and back onto the runway, which private contractors also supported, began last Thursday when the necessary equipment first began arriving. Preparations to move the aircraft were underway by Friday and then, on Saturday morning, the jet was successfully raised using airbags.
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"aircraft remains intact, including its landing gear"
So, it's not a total loss. There's pieces evidently.
(I'm kinda curious about the electronics. It's a sub hunter.)
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I'll be surprised if that clean can be restored to service.
Saltwater and electronics are not a good combination. And the salt water won't do the airframe any good either.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Hot Air] A study released today showed schools which trained teachers on the so-called science of reading (which features phonics) helped raise test scores in poorly performing schools.
