[LawAndCrime] While the D.A. wouldn't say if the defendant was here illegally.
"I can tell you he has an ICE detainer on top of the $10 million bail," de Barrena-Sarobe said.
A 30-year-old man in Pennsylvania is accused of killing a 21-month-old boy in his care, allegedly getting frustrated with his girlfriend’s child crying and punching the boy in the stomach with such force that he died.
Enrique Lopez Gomez was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of third-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter, among other related offenses, authorities announced.
According to a report from Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU, Gomez had been dating the victim’s mother for about six months and was considered an “unofficial” stepfather to the toddler.
In the criminal complaint, authorities said that the boy’s mother had gone to work and left her son in the care of Gomez. Gomez reportedly was trying to change the boy’s diaper but got angry when the child wouldn’t stop crying and punched him in the stomach then put him down for a nap.
When the mother came home, she merely thought the boy was sick and took him to her sister’s house. Gomez did not tell anyone he had struck the child despite the boy’s health declining for several hours, prosecutors said.
How the rich suffer in California. But it never occurs to them to take up a collection and build a sewage treatment plant at the source, since the source won’t do anything about it.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … crisis: 'The smell wakes us up at night'
Wendy Fry, a reporter with Mercury News, said Tuesday was the quintessential beach day in San Diego, where the affluent towns of La Jolla and Del Mar are located.
While the beaches were packed, Fry said the coastline was eerily deserted.
The culprit? Over 100 billion gallons of raw sewage from Mexico's Tijuana River, dumped into the Pacific Ocean over the past five years. This untreated sewage has become a recurring nightmare for Imperial Beach, a small coastal town of about 26,000 residents. The contamination regularly forces beach closures and the smell can be overpowering.
'Imagine opening a manhole cover and just swan-diving in, and that's what hanging out on the beach is like now,' Imperial Beach resident Wilson Howard told Fry.
'(The smell) wakes you up in the night. That's how strong it is,' said Cara Knapp, who lives on the oceanfront Seacoast Drive with the beach as her backyard, told Fry.
Imperial Beach, once a renowned surfing destination, has fallen victim to the the wastewater surges that have been washing ashore for decades.
'They call us 'the stinkiest beach.' Who wants to buy a home – a million dollars and up – and be considered 'the stinkiest beach in the United States?' said Knapp.
The sewage problem has also contributed to the ongoing issue of inequality and the large gap between socioeconomic classes. A significant portion of the raw sewage originates in impoverished Tijuana colonias, neighborhoods where residents lack proper housing due to poverty, according to Fay Crevoshay, the communications and policy director of the international nonprofit WILDCOAST. These communities build makeshift homes using scrap materials like garage doors and tires, and often lack connection to public sanitation systems. Their sewage flows directly into a canal that eventually reaches the US, she says. When it rains, this canal overflows, carrying trash and sewage straight into the working-class communities of Southern California's South Bay.
'I like how in the U.S. they describe these communities as 'underserved.' In Mexico, it's 'No served.' No service. Nothing service,' said Crevoshay.
Researchers say the toxins from the sewage water pose a threat to public health, which is why Imperial Beach is closed more often than not.
Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to declare a state of emergency without explanation, according to Voice of San Diego.
Meanwhile, Senator Steve Padilla and assembly member David Alvarez who overlooks a district in South County, want the Center of Disease Control and Prevention intervene.
'They just need to show people that they care because right now, with the exception David Alvarez, our state assembly member, and Steve Padilla, our state senator,' said Serge Dedina, the executive director of WILDCOAST and former mayor of Imperial Beach.
'We feel pretty abandoned by our state elected officials on this issue and by our state agencies as well.'
Despite Imperial Beach seeing over 700 consecutive days of beach closures, residents continue to endure the daily effects of pollution.
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SD is still slightly red. But lots of people there still voted for this...
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I'm not quite sure what they expect state officials to do. Invade Mexico?
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This has gone on forever. We already helped build them a plant years ago. They just don't use it properly for whatever 🙄 reason. IB has changed if the rich live there. Been a long time since I lived in the county.
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This has been going on for for decades. I wouldn't let my bridge crews do inspections on the Hollister St Bridge without Tyvek Suits. Our Gov't (CA Dems) WON'T stop it
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Wendy Fry, a reporter with Mercury News, said Tuesday was the quintessential beach day in San Diego, where the affluent towns of La Jolla and Del Mar are located.
While the beaches were packed, Fry said the coastline was eerily deserted.
This is deceptive writing. La Jolla and Del Mar are both far to the north of the border and their water is clean.
However, Imperial Beach, and to some extent Coronado, are severely impacted by Mexican sewage.
Last I heard, the US gives Mexico some $450 million dollars in foreign aid every year. I wouldn't give them another penny until they fix this problem. I would seal the border, including legal crossings. Stop all imports from and exports to that country. I would put all the pressure I could on them up to and including military action.
It isn't just the sewage. It's the fentanyl, the corruption and the illegal aliens. Biden is as much to blame as the Mexicans but I wouldn't let them off the hook.
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[Regnum] Dutch driver, three-time Formula 1 champion, racing for the Red Bull team, Max Verstappen won the qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix.
Second place was taken by the British McLaren pilot Lando Norris. The third was his compatriot George Russell, who drives for Mercedes.
The Austrian Grand Prix race will take place on June 30.
As Regnum reported, Verstappen won the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai. He finished first after 19 laps. Seven-time world champion, British pilot Lewis Hamilton took second place, and Mexican Red Bull driver Sergio Perez took third place.
Verstappen retired during the first laps of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 24. A Dutch pilot was forced to retire after his brake disc caught fire and his car began to smoke.
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Missed the race this morning (George Russel won); it looks like Verstappen (5th) and Lando Norris (DNF / retired) got into it early on and Lando crashed out.
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It's all a trade off. On a swag I'd say we've lost and maimed more Americans to just DWI* since the repeal than we lost in WW2. Make your choices, pay the price.
[Newsmax] Beginning Monday, a California law will require credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales.
But new laws will do the exact opposite in Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Wyoming by banning the use of specific gun shop codes.
The conflicting laws highlight what has quietly emerged as one of the nation's newest gun policy debates, dividing state capitols along familiar partisan lines.
Some Democratic lawmakers and gun-control activists hope the new retail tracking code will help financial institutions flag suspicious gun-related purchases for law enforcement agencies, potentially averting mass shootings and other crimes. Lawmakers in Colorado and New York have followed California's lead.
"The merchant category code is the first step in the banking system saying, `Enough! We’re putting our foot down,'" said Hudson Munoz, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Guns Down America. "`You cannot use our system to facilitate gun crimes.’"
But many Republican lawmakers and gun-rights advocates fear the retail code could lead to unwarranted suspicion of gun buyers who have done nothing wrong. Over the past 16 months, 17 states with GOP-led legislatures have passed measures prohibiting a firearms store code or limiting its use.
"We view this as a first step by gun-control supporters to restrict the lawful commerce in firearms," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry group that backs laws blocking use of the tracking code.
The new laws add to the wide national divide on gun policy. This past week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis, citing a rising number of firearm-related deaths, including more than 48,000 in 2022. The move was quickly criticized by the National Rifle Association.
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[Regnum] A court in Bolivia has sentenced the rebel generals detained during the attempted military coup to six months of pretrial detention. This was reported on June 28 by the Bolivian television channel Bolivia TV.
"Juan José Zúñiga, Juan Arnés and Edison Irajola, who are under investigation for terrorism and armed rebellion against the security and sovereignty of the state, have been sentenced to six months of preventive detention," reads a statement published on the channel's official website.
It is noted that the accused will spend six months of investigation in Chonchocoro prison in La Paz.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 26, a group of military personnel attempted to storm the Bolivian Government Palace and occupied the territory of the residence of the country's president, Luis Arce. The Bolivian president called the incident an attempt at a coup d'état and called on his fellow citizens to support the authorities and not allow the rebels to carry out their plans.
On June 27, law enforcement officers detained the former commander of the ground forces, General Juan José Zúñiga, who led the attempted coup. The country's Prosecutor General's Office charged him with terrorism and armed rebellion. That same day, Bolivia's Interior Minister Carlos del Castillo announced that 17 people had been detained in the case of the attempted seizure of power, in accordance with the order of the Prosecutor General's Office.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the situation in the Latin American republic, called what was happening its sovereign matter. He wished a speedy restoration of calm in Bolivia. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in turn, said that Moscow strongly condemns the attempted coup in Bolivia and expresses full support for the Arce government.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] John Deere is sparking outrage by laying off American workers and moving more of its agricultural equipment manufacturing to Mexico.
Since October 2023, more than 1,000 John Deere workers have either been laid off or pushed into an early retirement across several plants in Iowa and Illinois.
In many instances, production that these US workers were responsible for has been shifted to new locations in Mexico. The company was founded 187 years ago.
More layoffs are expected later this year - despite John Deere raking in over $10 billion in profit in 2023 while also paying CEO John May $26.7 million in total compensation.
A longtime John Deere worker at the Harvester Works plant in East Moline, Illinois, told The Guardian it comes down to one thing: Greed.
XX Should we have the Dubuque job losses here too - bunch them all together, at least on first mention. And can we do them in chronological order - May is before March. Also assuming this first Oct one is 2023. And/or a little fact box on them, which we could also get made up ona little graphic of Iowa showing Factory location and town, population, jobs lost (and jobs left). Might be good to summarise that way. But can do it a fact box first and then decide on map graphic
Heh. Looks like someone forget to edit out the production notes. Oopsie! Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors...
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All big corporations are globalist
Do not be angry at John Deere acting rationally
Be angry at government yhat allows conglomerates to get so large they dominate the market
American capitalist democracy works best with competition and a fair free market which means the John Deeres of the world should be broken into 100 smaller businesses so competition remains
And put tariffs on imports and ban migration
If you sell product in the domestic market you shouldnt be able to strip mine child labour slaves in mexico and china then sell your product in high wage high price countries.
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Technically it's an American product built in Mexico. Fine. Tariff the labor part of the total value. But wouldn't it be better to spend a bit to keep Mexican workers in Mexico? And use the tariff leverage to get theit southern border closed.
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My sister's husband worked in the Kingsford charcoal plant in south Alabama. After NAFTA Kingsford closed the plant, moved all the equipment to Mexico, and wanted employees to go to Mexico and teach them how to use it. He and the other employees told them to stuff it.
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[Regnum] The bulk cargo ship Lady Ayana, en route from Russia, ran aground off the coast of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara. This was reported on Friday, June 28 by the Turkish TV channel TGRT Haber with reference to the General Directorate of the Turkish Coast Guard.
"Teams from the General Directorate of Coast Guard (KEGM) are working to rescue the bulk carrier heading from Russia to Tunisia... The bulk carrier Lady Ayana ran aground after anchoring in the Yesilköy area," the statement said.
It is noted that the KEGM-3 high-speed rescue boat and the Rescue-10 tug were sent to the scene of the incident to evacuate the crew of the dry cargo ship.
As Regnum reported, on January 21, the oil tanker Peria, flying the flag of Liberia, blocked traffic in the Bosphorus Strait. It was reported that the vessel's anchor broke due to bad weather. The suspension of ship transit through the Bosphorus was restored a few hours later, after the Peria tanker was towed to the pier in Istanbul.
Rents just went way up in Avignon... [LIFESITENEWS] "When I think that we are in the palace of the Holy Office, which is the exceptional witness of the Tradition and of the defense of the Catholic Faith, I cannot stop myself from thinking that I am at home, and that it is me, whom you call ’the traditionalist,’ who should judge you." So spoke Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1979, when he was summoned to the former Holy Office, in the presence of the prefect, Cardinal Franjo Šeper, and two other prelates.
As I stated in my communiqué of June 20, I do not recognize the authority of the tribunal that claims to judge me, nor of its prefect, nor of the one who appointed him. This decision of mine, which is certainly painful, is not the result of haste or a spirit of rebellion; but rather is dictated by the moral necessity which, as bishop and successor of the apostles, obliges me in conscience to bear witness to the truth, that is, to God Himself, to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
I face this trial with the determination that comes from knowing that I have no reason to consider myself separate from communion with the Holy Church and with the papacy, which I have always served with filial devotion and fidelity. I could not conceive of a single moment of my life outside this one Ark of Salvation, which providence has constituted as the Mystical Body of Christ, in submission to its Divine Head and to His vicar on earth.
The enemies of the Catholic Church fear the power of grace which works through the sacraments, and above all the power of the Holy Mass, a terrible katechon which frustrates many of their efforts and wins to God so many souls who would otherwise be damned. And it is precisely this awareness of the power of the supernatural action of the Catholic priesthood in society that lies at the origin of their fierce hostility to tradition.
Satan and his minions know full well what a threat the one true Church poses to their antichristic plan. These subversives — whom the Roman pontiffs have courageously denounced as enemies of God, the Church, and humanity — are identifiable in the inimica vis, Freemasonry. It has infiltrated the hierarchy and succeeded in making it lay down the spiritual weapons at its disposal, opening the doors of the citadel to the enemy in the name of dialogue and universal brotherhood, concepts that are intrinsically Masonic. But the Church, following the example of her Divine Founder, does not dialogue with Satan: She fights him.
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Church apparently forgot what happened when they elected a Hispanic Pope the last time around. Also apparently selecting a Jesuit didn't help.
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[Regnum] The US Army successfully tested the advanced Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) operational-tactical missile against a moving sea target during exercises in the Pacific Ocean, The Defense Post reported.
“For the first time, the complex was used outside the United States, and also for the first time, missiles were used against a naval target,” the material says.
In total, according to the portal, a couple of missiles were launched from the island of Palau.
The Precision Strike Missile was developed to replace the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). PrSM have a longer flight range (more than 400 km). Deliveries of new missiles are expected in 2025.
In March 2016, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon announced that they would participate in the tender for the development of PrSM. At the beginning of 2020, Boeing and Raytheon withdrew from the tender. The prototype could only hit stationary targets on land, but later versions of the missile were developed to track moving targets on land and at sea.
As Regnum reported, in November 2023, the US Army and the military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin successfully tested the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) long-range operational-tactical missile. The tests took place at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The rocket was launched using the HIMARS installation.
The US Air Force tested a prototype hypersonic missile in southern California in August 2023 as part of the ARRW program.
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Ibelieve the word they are avoiding is marooned.
Skid,
That was a darned good movie - still holds up very well - and the final version of the book (Martin Caidin wrote three of them, one for each iteration of the space program) is still a can't-put-it-down page turner.
#12
Um, Saul was a scammer. Lots of people think Musk is too...
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Who thinks Elon is a scammer? People from Boeing and Nasa, most likely. Oh, and the super honorable ham and eggers at the DOJ who want their Baksheesh.
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.
[LawAndCrime] While the D.A. wouldn't say if the defendant was here illegally.
[LIFESITENEWS] "When I think that we are in the palace of the Holy Office, which is the exceptional witness of the Tradition and of the defense of the Catholic Faith, I cannot stop myself from thinking that I am at home, and that it is me, whom you call ’the traditionalist,’ who should judge you." So spoke Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1979, when he was summoned to the former Holy Office, in the presence of the prefect, Cardinal Franjo Šeper, and two other prelates.
