[NYPOST] A group of teens attacked an Uber driving while filming him, breaking his nose and gashing his head.
The brazen kids — who appear to be between 11 and 17 years old — recorded the Brooklyn beatdown with a cell phone, said the driver, who asked not to be identified because he fears retribution.
“One was punching me and the other one had a gun,” the victim said. “He said. . .‘Give me everything – give me all the money.’”
The driver had arrived on Alabama Avenue in East Flatbush to pick up a female fare named Precious around 7 p.m. Sunday and noticed a group of teens across the street, he said. He asked if they knew his fare and they said no, he recalled.
When he turned his head to look for his client — he was suddenly punched in the face through his open window.
“I didn’t see them — a surprise punch,” he said.
Two of the alleged teen suspects were captured on video at the scene.
He got out of his car “to fight back” and “noticed that one of them was filming,” said the victim.
At that point, a brawl broke out and he ended up on the ground, where one of the punks hit him in the head with the scooter, he said.
The attackers scattered after a neighbor came outside and called 911. The neighbor also found the phone the kids used and saw a video of the victim on the device.
As he waited for an ambulance, two of the kids returned, “looking for the phone,” the driver said.
“The party’s over, the police are coming,” the driver yelled, sending them scurrying. “I don’t know if they intended to rob me or if it was just to make a TikTok video.”
The NYPD released photos of the pint-sized suspects.
The photos of the alleged muggers appear to be from inside a building.
The fare, Precious, said she was shocked by what happened and shot video of the kids as they returned to the scene.
“I’m so heartbroken that these kids are doing that,” the 28-year-old from Nigeria said.
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At a Brooklyn Pawnshop, Customers Are Flooding In to Sell Gold
"People are using gold as an ATM they never had," said Gene Furman, owner of King Gold & Pawn and Empire Gold Buyers. At Furman’s 5th Avenue store, the number of people coming in selling and pawning gold jewelry is more than three times above normal levels since prices started to rally in late February.
Among them is Branden Sabino, a 30-year-old IT specialist, who sold a gold necklace and a gold ring last week.
"Prices are high, and I need cash," he said, adding that with the cost of rent, groceries and car insurance rising, he doesn’t have any savings.
[NYPOST] NPR has reportedly been thrown into turmoil after a bombshell essay penned by a veteran editor claimed the broadcaster allowed liberal bias to affect its coverage — with the editor-in-chief telling furious staffers she did not want him to become a “martyr.”
Uri Berliner, a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has worked at NPR for 25 years, called out journalistic blind spots around major news events, including the origins of COVID-19, the war in Gaza and the Hunter Biden laptop, in an essay published Tuesday on Bari Weiss’ online news site the Free Press.
The senior business editor also said the internal culture at NPR had placed race and identity as ”paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.”
Berliner’s essay sparked a firestorm of criticism from prominent conservatives — with former President Donald Trump demanding NPR’s federal funding be yanked — and has led to internal tumult, the New York Times reported Friday.
#2
It ceases to be suspected and becomes a confession.
When any Editor-in-Chief, for any Major Media outlet bluntly states he/she/it supported, steered and directed the politically bias reporting, and promoted sexual deviancy.
#5
The "media" is a very bad joke now in the USA. The assertion that democracy (which we neither have nor want) dies without a steady diet of lies that would make Diogenes puke is something only a "progressive" could swallow.
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The senior business editor also said the internal culture at NPR had placed race and identity as ”paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.”
[Uri Berliner, a Jew, is obviously taking heat at NPR that was once reserved for Conservatives.]
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NPR chief executive Katherine Maher:“Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”
[Newsmax] Just 22% of voters trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. A Scott Rasmussen national survey conducted by RMG Research found that 45% trust them to do the right thing only some of the time, and 32% rarely or never.
The survey also found that 51% believe most Americans are too trusting of the government, while 33% believe most are too skeptical.
METHODOLOGY
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on March 26-27, 2024. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
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[JustTheNews] DeSantis pointed out that since the recruitment bonuses were offered, over 400 law enforcement officers from other states, namely California, Illinois and New York, have moved to Florida.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law several measures on Friday intended to protect and support law enforcement officers.
Senate Bill 184 increases penalties for those who knowingly harass, physically harm or impede a law enforcement officer or other first responders from carrying out their duties to a second-degree misdemeanor.
House Bill 601 prevents anti-police activists from carrying out extrajudicial investigations against law enforcement. The bill ensures that allegations against law enforcement are investigated by those properly trained to handle such investigations. County sheriffs will also receive an increase in their base salary of $5,000 for each population group.
DeSantis said during a news conference that his administration has a track record of supporting law enforcement in Florida.
"We’ve developed a track record in Florida of supporting law enforcement that is quite simply, second to none," DeSantis said. "We understood how important it is to have safe communities, and the way you do that is to support the people that are putting the uniform on and risking their lives to keep us safe."
DeSantis noted that it was essential that his administration and the Legislature took this position after other states began to defund police. He added that because of this, many law enforcement officers wanted to leave their careers.
"We saw that as an opportunity for the state of Florida, given our posture was much different," DeSantis said. "So, a couple of years ago, we enacted $5,000 recruitment bonuses for new law enforcement officers, some of that is recruiting from other states, but also, young people have decided to go into the profession in Florida."
Death Penalty for the murder of a Law Enforcement Officer while conducting his/her LEO duties.
Wondering out loud....
Is DeSantis laying the groundwork for a possible FBI Director or DOJ AG position, when Trump is back in office? Or a re-rerun in 2028?
[ZeroHedge] Google has temporarily blocked access to California-based news outlets for some state residents, as the search giant escalates its battle with the state over a landmark bill which would force tech giants to pay online publishers for their content.
In doing so, the company has revived a political tactic used repeatedly by the tech industry to try and derail similar legislation in places like Canada and Australia which require online platforms to pay outlets for articles featured on their websites, Politico reports.
"We have long said that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism," said Google's VP for global news partnership, Jaffer Zaidi, in a Friday blog post. According to Zaidi, the bill could "result in significant changes to the services we can offer Californians and the traffic we can provide to California publishers."
Sacramento is hosting the latest round of a global fight over the journalism industry’s future in the digital age, and California’s battle has taken on additional resonance because the state is home to tech titans. Advocates for such legislation argue companies like Google and Meta have helped decimate already flagging newsroom revenues through their control over digital advertising, and outlets deserve compensation for content that users may see on their platforms for free.
The companies counter that these laws could stifle vital sources of information — and they’ve fought back by attempting to preview what they say that would look like. -Politico
In Canada, Google similarly threatened to block content before reaching a deal with the government last November, three weeks before the 'Online News Act' came into effect. The company agreed to make annual payments to news outlets in the range of $100 million.
Meta, meanwhile, has completely removed news content from its social feed in Canada, and has threatened to do the same in California - where the company has lobbied heavily against the measures currently under consideration in the state legislature. The company has spent over $1 million to run an ad campaign decrying the bill as a "link tax," a phrase Zaidi used in his blog post.
According to state Sen. Ben Allen (D), "Newspaper publishers and the journalists provide a really important service as a part of [Google’s] broader business model, and meanwhile they’re going bankrupt and you guys have record profits."
Based on updates in comments below that reveal the homeless killer, Joel Cauchi, has suffered from mental illness since childhood, this is moved to Page 3: Non-Wot.
— trailing wife at 12:55 p.m. ET
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A new mother stabbed to death in the Sydney shopping centre knife rampage has been pictured for the first time.
Ash Good, 38, was among the six shoppers at Sydney's Bondi Junction Westfield who were killed today, when a man, 40, dressed in a rugby league jersey, went on a stabbing rampage about 3.20pm before a female police officer shot him dead.
A total of nine people, including Ms Good's nine-month-old baby Harriet, suffered knife wounds. The infant is fighting for her life after being rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.
Just hours before the horror unfolded, Ms Good posted a photo to Instagram with her daughter in her arms.
'Only because I was walking past and happened to be wearing the same thing 9 months out vs 9 months in etc etc,' the caption read.
The knifeman, who killed five women and one man during a rampage in Sydney today, was 'known to police'.
Six people were killed and three more stabbed during the horrific attack in that left multiple people critically injured.
But one man was hailed a hero for rushing to aid Ms Good and her baby as he told how he desperately worked to keep the infant alive using store clothes.
A witness interrupted a Nine News reporter at the scene in Bondi Junction and pointed to his brother, saying: 'He's a hero - he saved the baby'.
The clearly shaken man said he used clothes from a store to try and stem the baby's bleeding.
'The baby got stabbed and, yeah, the mum got stabbed,' he said.
'The mum came over with the baby and threw it at me. I just helped by holding the baby... and trying to compress the baby('s wounds).'
The brothers stayed with the mother and called emergency services.
Four women and one man died at the scene and another woman died in hospital.
New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb told a press conference: 'Later this evening we became aware of who we believe the offender is and we believe that he is a 40-year-old man.
'However, we are waiting to formally identify him and we cannot speculate yet on his identification.
'But let me assure you that we are confident that there is no ongoing risk and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased.'
She added: 'If in fact it is the person that we believe it is, then we don't have fears for that person holding an ideation - in other words, that it's not a terrorism incident.
'He is known to law enforcement but we are waiting to identify him formally.'
Anthony Cooke, assistant commissioner of New South Wales Police, said: 'A man walked into Westfield at Bondi Junction, he left the centre very shortly after and returned... as he moved through the centre he engaged with about nine people.
'It is clear that during that engagement he caused harm to those people, we believe by stabbing them with a weapon he was carrying.
'Very clearly a range of reports were made on the incident, police attended promptly - a single unit officer, inspector of police, was nearby, attended, [and] went into the centre directed by a range of people.
'She confronted the offender who had moved, by this stage, to level five.
'As she continued to walk quickly behind to catch up with him he turned to face her, raised a knife, she discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased.'
He added: 'I'm advised that there are five victims who are now deceased as a result of the actions of this offender.
'There are more than several other people who have been conveyed to hospital - a number of those are in serious and or critical conditions at this stage and I do not have further information in relation to descriptions of those people.
'I know one of them is a small child.'
It was later confirmed that six people died in the attack.
Mr Cooke said: 'I am content that there is no continuing threat; our police, as I said, have commenced investigations into the matter which will continue through the evening.
'I do not have details of victims who have been killed by this individual, nor those who have been conveyed to hospital for treatment - so I cannot provide you further information into relation to them, only to say very clearly our hearts go out to all of them, as they do (to) anyone touched by this incident this afternoon.
'I do not have information in relation to the offender - I do not know, at this stage, who he is, you would understand this is quite raw.
'Inquiries are very new and we continue to make attempts to identify the offender in this matter.
'That is it for the moment, in terms of information that I have for you.'
Security camera footage broadcast by local media showed a man running around the shopping centre with a large knife and injured people lying on the floor.
Witnesses said the dark-haired man, wearing a Kangaroos NRL jersey, slashed at least eight shoppers before he was shot by a female police officer. No-one else is being sought by police.
Pictures and videos from the incident have been uploaded on X including one photo showing the alleged attacker casually riding an escalator while holding a large knife.
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Killer's parents share a message for cop who shot their son dead
The family of Bondi Westfield killer Joel Cauchi, 40, have revealed they have 'no issue' with the police officer who shot dead their son.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott gunned Cauchi down, bringing an end to his rampage that killed six innocent people and left more in hospital.
The killer's parents have released a statement saying they are 'absoluted devastated' by their son's actions and have no problem with Inspector Scott's decision to pull the trigger.
'We are in contact with both the New South Wales Police Force and Queensland Police Service and have no issues with the Police Officer who shot our son as she was only doing her job to protect others and we hope she is coping alright,' the statement from the Cauchi family read.
They condemned their son's actions, describig them as 'truly horrific' and confirming that he has suffered from mental health problems from a young age.
'Joel’s actions were truly horrific, and we are still trying to comprehend what has happened,' they said.
'He has battled with mental health issues since he was a teenager.'
They added: 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims and those still undergoing treatment at this time.'
[PJ] A video released by Sound Investigations depicts an individual alleged to be a current CIA officer bragging about targeting political opponents of the agency and government more broadly.
#3
Yes. Nothing to see here. Will turn out there is "no such person" (anymore) and his wife and kids (if he wasn't ghey) are gone into WITSEC (or a hole in the desert)
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Low level, peripheral player, gaslighting and expressing guesses and RUMINT (insider term for Rumors as intelligence) to impress someone would be my guess. Doesn't mean it isn't actually accurate, and I suspect much of it is, but a real player at the claimed level of access would never jeopardize his career and Clearance like that.
[ZERO] Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study does not disprove a link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden deaths among young people, contrary to claims.
The study, published by the CDC’s quasi-journal on April 11, analyzed death certificates from Oregon for people aged 16 to 30 who died between June 2021 and December 2022.
Among people who died with evidence of vaccination, three died within 100 days of a shot, Drs. Juventila Liko and Paul Cieslak with the Oregon Health Authority found.
None of those three deaths could be attributed to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination, or shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, according to the doctors. Two of the deaths were attributed to underlying conditions while the cause of death for the third was "undetermined."
"These data do not support an association between receipt of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sudden cardiac death among previously healthy young persons," the doctors wrote.
The authors failed to note that a much larger, peer-reviewed study from South Korea confirmed vaccine-induced myocarditis caused eight sudden cardiac deaths (SCDs), all among people younger than 45. Myocarditis is a form of heart inflammation.
[Hot Air] I can't speak for the rest of you, but I know I certainly didn't see this coming. Given the current conditions around the country, legislators have their hands full trying to protect the public from any number of crises. But Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have set aside time in their busy schedules to attempt to put an end to the scourge of... first cousins marrying each other. After considerable debate, the bill, endorsed by Republican representative Gino Bulso, finally passed. What was the impetus driving this effort? Particularly with the aftermath of the gay marriage debate mostly behind us, was this really a pressing item on anyone's agenda? (WSMV News)
A bill passed in the Tennesse House that would make it illegal to marry your first cousin in the state, but it did not pass without argument from one lawmaker who pushed an amendment to make it legal for cousins to marry each other if they first received genetic counseling.
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"If we get a divorce, is she still my sister?"
"And this is my other brother Darryl."
It may be a bad idea from the standpoint of genetics, but marrying a cousin keeps wealth inside the family and doesn't involve entanglement in other people's disputes and alliances. This is why it is common in clan-based societies.
In several states, e.g., Texas, Nevada, 1st cousin marriage is a criminal offense. In other states, it is illegal. Only about a dozen states have no restrictions on this.
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If they're beyond child-bearing age, I wouldn't care
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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.
[NYPOST] A group of teens attacked an Uber driving while filming him, breaking his nose and gashing his head.
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