[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] These are the gruesome injuries inflicted on nursing student Lauren Johansen by the 'psychopath' ex who would go on to allegedly kidnap and murder her after a judge lowered his bond.
The 22-year-old was pistol-whipped and beaten to a pulp by warped Bricen Rivers, 23, after he flew into a jealous rage during a night out in Nashville last December.
She survived the violence but photos taken afterwards - and published for the first time by DailyMail.com - reveal her petite body riddled with bruises and her face so bloody and swollen she was barely recognizable.
Lauren's wounds were cataloged by her physician dad Lance Johansen, 58, who wanted the courts to see what Rivers was capable of as he awaited trial on kidnapping and stalking charges.
Lance was so worried for his 'wonderful, kind' daughter's safety that he attended the preliminary hearing to warn a Davidson County judge that Rivers would 'finish the job' if he ever got out of jail.
To his astonishment, Judge Cheryl Blackburn, a longtime Democrat jurist, later decided to lower the alleged attacker's bond from $250,000 to $150,000, paving the way for his June 24 release.
Just nine days after he posted bond and walked free, Lauren was found beaten to death in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Rivers was arrested on suspicion of murdering her.
'You can see what happened when he hit her 100 times back in December so just imagine what he did to her when nobody was around to save her,' Lance told DailyMail.com, fighting tears.
The heartbroken dad-of-four, a respected orthopedic surgeon, added: 'I realize people have rights but you can't just let loose a wild animal.
[NY Post] Three people were slashed and another pepper-sprayed and bitten near Times Square overnight into Wednesday — both in the subway and out on the street, authorities said.
The spate of unrelated attacks ended with a 26-year-old man slashed on his right arm as he stood on the 7 train platform at the Times Square subway hub about 3:45 a.m., cops said.
The victim claimed the suspect had accosted him previously — and, once confronted, the stranger knifed him in return, according to police sources.
Police at the scene of a man stabbed in the chest in the 40th Street Subway Station near the New York Times building.
The wounded man showed cops a photo of his attacker — and the suspect, identified as Michael Hernandez, 25, of Brooklyn, was soon busted by police, according to authorities and sources.
Hernandez was charged with second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
Officers found a switchblade in the left pocket of his shorts, sources said.
In an unrelated attack around 1 a.m., Sara Flores, 19, was walking through Bryant Park, at West 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, when she told Jennifer Tompkins, 30 — a complete stranger — that a group had just jumped her, cops said.
Tompkins warned Flores to leave her alone or she’d pepper-spray her — but Flores persisted, according to police.
Then an all-out brawl ensued between the women — with Tompkins allegedly pepper-spraying Flores and biting her on the lip — and Flores stabbing Tompkins in the head and the ribs, cops said.
Both women were arrested with assault and menacing, both in the second degree, police said.
Flores is from the Bronx and Tompkins from Queens, authorities said. That explains it. I guess?
The earliest assault unfolded around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, when a 31-year-old man was slashed in the stomach after getting into an argument with another man on the southbound A, C and E platform, cops said.
The victim was taken to Bellevue, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.
The nature of the violent clash was unclear Wednesday, and no arrests have been made.
The chaotic incidents came hours after Mayor Eric Adams touted how much the Crossroads of the World is thriving.
"Any time you don’t believe the city’s back, just go hit Times Square and you see just the people walking, just enjoying being in our city," Hizzoner said at a Monday morning briefing.
Felony assaults are up about 13% so far this year in the confines of the Midtown South Precinct, which covers Times Square.
A total of 276 such crimes were reported from the beginning of the year through Sunday, compared to 244 during the same period in 2023, the latest data show.
Overall felony crime, however, is down in the precinct’s confines so far this year, with 1,766 incidents reported compared to 2,022 last year.
Thomas Anderson, 49, said those crime statistics made him feel nervous before visiting the city from Vermont for the first time this week.
"The problem is that if people don’t have options, they commit crimes," he said.
Sherri, a commuter from Suffolk County, is glad that she is strictly in the city until 5 p.m. every day. She blames crime on the legalization of weed and poor mental health.
"There’s a lot of mental health that comes into play and there’s just not enough help out there, so unfortunately other people are the victims of that," she said.
Michael Hargwood, 36, and his father Warren Hargwood, 62, said they didn’t find crime to be as big an issue as it’s made out to be, especially on the subway.
"It’s not as bad as they say it is, it comes in spurts," Michael said. "Earlier this year, you were inundated with incidents on the subway and now there’s none, I think after the National Guard came in the blink of an eye and now they’re not there."
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1st, take away the rights of Citizens and Cops to basic Self Defense.
2nd, defund the police to increase crime. Police get fed up and resign in droves.
3rd, DA's support Violent groups like BLM, Anti-FA
4th, allow more violent Illegals into the USA.
5th, Use Taxpayer $$ to house and fed the illegals in LSD Metro's by the 10's of 1000's.
6th, give Illegals more rights & $$$ than US Citizens.
A Pre-planned & Staged Civil War, anyone?
"The way to defeat a Great Nation is from within."
[GEO.TV] Lena Dunham is taking a break from the cameras.
The Girls showrunner announced her plans to The New Yorker on Tuesday, citing mental health issues. No! Reeeeally?
Dunham, 31, who was going to star as the lead has now passed on the role to Megan Stalter.
“Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again," she told the outlet as she spoke at length about the 2025 Netflix series.
However, the show creator does see the bright side to it, as she described her experience as working with 'a little Meryl Steep.'
“I was very inspired by her. She’s unbelievable; I think people are going to be so blown away,” Dunham said of her expectations with Stalter in the upcoming series that mirror Dunham’s life, as the New York native now lives in London with her husband, British Peruvian musician Luis Felber, who she married in 2021.
“I also think that I was not willing to have another experience like what I’d experienced around Girls at this point in my life. Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again. It was a hard choice, not to cast Meg — because I knew I wanted Meg — but to admit that to myself,” Dunham explained.
She added that the peace is another one of the perks, as she reflects on her meaning behind true win, “I used to think that winning meant you just keep doing it and you don’t care what anybody thinks," she said. "I forgot that winning is actually just protecting yourself and doing what you need to do to keep making work.”
“These places don’t protect women and minorities,” she said of the apps, adding, “I just realised that there was no way that I was going to move toward the ways I wanted to feel in my personal life if I still had access to those things.”
Dunham also announced she will no longer be directing the Polly Pocket film with Lily Collins, despite having worked on it for three years.
[Epoch Times] Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an emergency disaster declaration in his state over an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in northeastern Weld County as officials recently reported that 1.8 million chickens were impacted by the virus.
The governor "verbally" declared a disaster after "an avian flu outbreak in a commercial poultry facility in Weld County,"
according to a statement from his office issued on July 8. Mr. Polis’s office did not name the facility that was impacted by the outbreak.
The declaration means that Colorado can use its emergency powers to "take all necessary and appropriate state actions to assist with response, recovery, and mitigation efforts."
Officials in the state said that the bird flu risk to Colorado residents remains low, noting that the virus is spreading among animals.
Prices will go up even higher, but we humans needn’t worry otherwise.
The virus is "not adapted to spread from person to person," Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist, said in a news release. "Right now, the most important thing to know is that people who have regular exposure to infected animals are at increased risk of infection and should take precautions when they have contact with sick animals."
Wash your hands frequently, and don’t touch your t-zone.
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The International Bug & Veggin Assoc. demands that Bird Flu be renamed "Meat Flu".
They also demand the Evil Climate Change Farting Animals be released from the death camps. Plus, those holding those innocent animals by arrested and place on trial for Crimes against Nature.
Third World problems. At least they did get caught… eventually.
[Breitbart] China’s state-owned China Grain Reserves Corporation, better known as Sinograin, is facing both public outrage and government investigations after a state-run newspaper caught the company transporting cooking oil in uncleaned tankers also used for fuel shipments.
Sure, but the poisonous substances would be really, really dilute, right? Nothing for the Chinese consumer to worry about.
Sinograin is China’s largest grain storage and transportation company. Reporters from the Beijing News followed tanker trucks from Sinograin and a privately-owned corporation called the Hopefull Grain and Oil Group and discovered the trucks were switching between cargoes of fuel and cooking oil without getting cleaned between shipments.
Some of the fuel involved in these unclean shipping procedures was from the China Energy Investment Corporation, which is also a state-run enterprise. The state-run China Daily reported that the fuel included loads of “coal-to-liquids,” a toxic chemical produced during coal processing.
Truck drivers told Beijing News it was an “open secret” among their ranks that tankers carrying toxic liquids, including some industrial chemicals in addition to fuel, were also transporting edibles, like cooking oil and syrup.
Chinese consumers, who have suffered through a long series of food and pharmaceutical safety scandals, were outraged by the report, especially since it involved major brand names and state-owned enterprises. One of the biggest social media firestorms of recent years erupted Saturday.
Sinograin tried a little damage control on Saturday, claiming it was as shocked by the Beijing News report as anyone and would order a full company investigation into truckers who might be violating food safety regulations.
The company’s spin doctoring was in vain. By Monday, Communist Party-controlled media outlets were denouncing company executives as accessories to attempted murder and demanding tough investigations by the central government.
State-run CCTV said the actions of Sinograin and Hopefull were “tantamount to poisoning,” and the public was “confused and stunned” to discover big brands linked to the state would show such “extreme disregard for the life and health of customers.”
China’s powerful State Council, effectively the national cabinet, sought to reassure the public by swiftly assembling a “joint investigation group” with officials from several ministries, including the Food Safety Commission and the Public Safety Bureau.
“Enterprises in violation and relevant responsible persons will be severely punished according to law,” the State Council pledged.
China’s state-run Global Times noted that social media users have uncovered old videos of news reports dating back to 2005 that documented dangerous incidents of food oil transported in the same tankers as chemicals.
The Global Times burbled that swift action by the gigantic Communist government could ensure food safety problems are “nipped in the bud,” but if these unsafe practices have been going on for 20 years or more, the situation would seem to have long ago passed the bud-nipping stage.
All of the companies linked to the scandal have promised to perform internal investigations, and Sinograin appears to have pulled its cooking oil products from some e-commerce platforms, although they remain available on others.
🚀 i-Space launched a Hyperbola-1 (Y8) at 23:40UTC on July 10. Anomaly happened on the 4th stage and three Yunyao-1 (15~17) were lost. Hyperbola-1 now has in total 7 launches and 4 failed. https://t.co/KX6vCJLviTpic.twitter.com/Owl3RdEIvb
— China 'N Asia Spaceflight 🚀𝕏 🛰️ (@CNSpaceflight) July 11, 2024
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The top Republican lawmaker is sounding the alarm after a Chinese agricultural firm was approved to create 'genetically engineered soybeans' for consumption in the U.S.
The suspiciously rapid approval by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) of Chinese biotech firm Qi Biodesign should raise major alarm bells, says Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich.
That company, which specializes in gene editing, is partially funded by the Chinese government, he claims in a letter to President Biden's USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
And the company specifically poses a threat to U.S. farming companies' secrets, he says.
His concern comes at a time of heightened anxiety about China's meddling in U.S. agricultural efforts - as the country owns over 347,000 acres of farmland near sensitive military bases.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Mick Jagger has stirred up an old sex scandal rumor about Justin Trudeau's mother during a Rolling Stones concert in Vancouver.
The rock and roll star, 80, was booed by the crowd at BC Place stadium on July 5 when he praised the Canadian prime minister on stage.
But he appeared to poke fun at his mother Margaret Trudeau and the time she spent partying with the Rolling Stones in the 1970s.
'We love your Mr. Trudeau,' Jagger said to a chorus of boos. 'I mean, his family has always been such big fans of our band.'
It sparked more rumors about the Canadian politician's mother after former president Donald Trump allegedly accused Margaret of sleeping with all the Rolling Stones.
[FoxNews] Final vote was 221-198, with five Democrats voting in favor of the SAVE Act.
The House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday, aimed at ensuring only American citizens vote in federal elections.
After debating the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on the House floor, which was pushed by House speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was passed by a final vote of 221-198.
Five Democrats voted in favor of the measure, including Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine; Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C.; and Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will face strong opposition from Democrats. President Biden has also said he will veto the measure.
That’s that, then. Just remember to get it over all the jumps when the arepublicans control House Senate, and White House, ‘k?
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voting requirements need to come from the supreme
to avoid veto and needs to specify in person voting on hand-counted paper ballots cast on election day. military can vote on base.
Work on gravitational waves involves Bayesian analysis, which uses probability to quantify uncertainty. In this case, the Glasgow team turned the same statistical model loose on the damaged calendar wheel.
The analysis also suggests the holes were machined with incredible precision, with just 0.028mm variation between them. That would mean whoever built the Antikythera mechanism had an advanced understanding of mathematics and advanced metalworking.
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with just 0.028mm variation
0.028 Millimeters ≈
0.0011023622 Inches
Random variation, 'some of this & some of that'
or accumulative wear on the boring tool?
Imagine how inquisitive and driven the group of minds that collected the celestial motion detail upon which this was designed to replicate and predict must have been.
2000 years, a time when most were concerned with a meal. And what event must they have been seeking?
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.
These are the gruesome injuries inflicted on nursing student Lauren Johansen by the 'psychopath' ex who would go on to allegedly kidnap and murder her after a judge lowered his bond.
[NY Post] Three people were slashed and another pepper-sprayed and bitten near 
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The governor "verbally" declared a disaster after "an avian flu outbreak in a commercial poultry facility in Weld County," 
