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...hmm...too many GenZ boys are avoiding dating. They've seen what happened to their fathers, uncles, cousins, brothers. Too many gals chasing the upper 10%ers. The demand for 'protection' has dropped.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An elderly Trump supporter has been seriously hurt in a 'politically motivated' incident after being run over by an ATV while he was putting up a campaign sign in his yard. The 80-year-old Michigan man sustained critical injuries after the vehicle plowed into him in front of his home in Hancock on Sunday.
The suspect was identified on Monday after he called police to confess to 'a crime involving an ATV driver in the last 24 hours', according to their statement. However, when cops arrived they discovered the 22-year-old driver dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Possibly he intended suicide by cop, but they took too long.
Police alleged the driver had vandalized two other vehicles prior to the hit and run, and was linked to three 'politically motivated' cases in total.
Police were first called to the the 1600 block of Anthony Street at 5.45pm on Sunday where they found the elderly man with serious injuries. He was rushed to the hospital where he remains in a critical condition as of Tuesday.
Police said that the ATV driver was targeting Trump and law enforcement supporters.
The suspect called the cops to report himself and requested they 'send someone to pick me up', according to an official statement.
'The crimes reported in the city of Hancock appear to be politically motivated, involving victims who displayed Trump election signs as well as law enforcement appreciation stickers and flags commonly referred to as "thin blue line" paraphernalia,' Houghton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Deputies who searched the driver's home recovered several electronic devices which are being searched by computer forensic specialists.
[Federalist] CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed during his afternoon segment on Tuesday that it was "wildly irresponsible" for former President Donald Trump to accurately note that the U.S. Secret Service failed to protect him from an attempted assassination that left him with a wounded ear.
"The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!" former President Donald Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
The 2024 Republican presidential nominee also pointed out shortly after U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in disgrace that she "never gave me proper protection, so I ended up having to take a bullet for democracy."
"When you hear the former president saying something like that, what’s your reaction?" Acosta asked his guest. "I mean, obviously, the Secret Service is a professional operation. To say something like ’they did not protect me,’ it just sounds just wildly irresponsible."
[NYP] Shocking new footage shows local cops and a Secret Service agent standing over the dead body of would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks
…age 20 and proud community college graduate with an associate degree in engineering, gamer, probably schizophrenic, seriously bipolar, or that extraverted version of clinical depression that leads to mass murder. The fact that both his parents are therapists did not prevent him acting on it, but they’ve been trying to help the authorities ever since they called the police to report him missing, instead of making excuses…
as they appeared to confirm the 20-year sniper was identified as a suspicious person before he opened fire.
The bodycam video, released by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, shows Crooks’ lifeless body as a pool of blood trails along the roof where he wounded Trump and killed a hero firefighter earlier this month during a Pennsylvania rally.
One man, who appears to be a Secret Service agent, tells a Beaver County Emergency Service Unit officer that Crooks’ body appeared to be the suspicious person who was previously reported to them.
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How many spent shell casings were collected on the roof?
"Due to the steep pitch of the roof, ejected casings rolled off into the grass and were lost forever.
Also, it was hot out.
Plus, some of the guys might have picked them up as souvenirs."
#8
It's been over a week and still the Deep State / FBI Evidence Manipulation Team hasn't released the make, model and serial number of Crooks' weapon.
[NYPOST] The horrid, caught-on-camera shooting of a 7-month-old baby in Philadelphia was sparked by a mere $100 drug debt, according to cops.
Dominique Billips, 28, was arrested a day after footage showed a woman opening fire on the infant and his parents outside a home, shouting, "F—k your baby, bitch!" as the teen mom screamed in horror.
"Sometimes the things we see are mind-boggling," Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum told a presser, according to USA Today.
"You knew they had a stroller, what makes you walk up to someone with a stroller and shoot them?" Rosenbaum asked of the "very disturbing" attack.
When cops arrived to investigate reports of the shooting Thursday, the victims had already left.
They only realized a baby had been shot in the leg when the family turned up at a local hospital — and then told officers that the shocking violence stemmed from a $100 "narcotics debt," the police spokesperson said.
"The mother and father... left the location because of fear from police because of outstanding warrants," Rosenbaum said.
Suspect, a heavy-set black female with long dreadlocks, running from the scene after shooting a seven-month-old baby in the leg.
The baby’s father is thought to have been the gunwoman’s target — and the mother and baby "just got wrapped up into it," Rosenbaum said.
A person standing next to a cycle of violence on Meridian Street, site of a scene of the crime where a seven-month-old was shot.
"You see in that video, she really points the gun at the mother of the baby, who’s also a juvenile, and fires. Luckily, she missed," Rosenbaum said.
"A 7-month-old baby isn’t going to remember that, but it’s always going to be out there. That story’s always going to be out there," Rosenbaum said of the baby, who has since been discharged from the hospital.
The attacker shot the baby in the leg in northeast Philly.
Philadelphia Police
Billips was recognized as the victim of a previous shooting. She was taken into custody without incident on Friday and charged with aggravated assault and firearm offenses.
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The press will cover it for maybe 2 days and quickly drop it. Because it casts a negative shadow over a Liberal (D) ran and controlled town for votes.
[NEWS5CLEVELAND] Mattel is adding a more diverse selection of Barbie dolls to its latest collection.
The company unveiled two new Barbie dolls on Tuesday — its first-ever blind Barbie and its first Black Barbie with Down syndrome.
Mattel said the dolls were created to help more children find a doll that represents them.
“We recognize that Barbie is much more than just a doll; she represents self-expression and can create a sense of belonging," said Krista Berger, senior vice president of Barbie and global head of dolls, in a press release. “We proudly introduce a new blind Barbie doll and Black doll with Down syndrome to our Barbie Fashionistas line, reinforcing our commitment to creating products that represent global belonging and inclusivity in the doll aisle.”
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Yvonne Furneaux Dead at 98.
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Blind Barbie asked Black, "So, um, yo,
If a sister were white as the snow,
In a world without truth
Where our parents are ruthlessly
Hushed... honey, how would she know?"
"Like, rilly? What a retarded question! Let's go to the mall and get matching paid suits... bitch!"
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Dunno what Yvonne Furneaux has to do with but thanks for the pic anyway.
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^^^ Frank. Got the news about Yvonne after today's Rantburg rolled out but before the Good Morning post was made which is where I would normally post general noticias so I figured the next best place was under the Blind Barbie news. Dolls are Dolls.
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Oops, I meant Abu...
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Thanks :-) I was like Whuh?
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[Regnum] Due to the growth of international tensions, Western countries should prepare for war in three years.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. And about time, too. Ditto for the American military, of course. Israel has to do so while fighting the current war, but that’s been so since the 1920s.
This statement was made on July 23 by the Chief of the General Staff of the British Army, General Roly Walker, his words were quoted by The Guardian.
Walker said Britain and its allies needed to be prepared to "deter or fight a war in three years' time".
The Chief of the General Staff of the British Land Forces called such a development possible due to the allegedly growing threat to Taiwan from China and Iran's developments in the nuclear sphere.
He added that an armed conflict with China, Iran or Russia could result in a “significant detonation” in other theatres of military operations.
As reported by IA Regnum, on July 21, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the West is preparing for a direct armed conflict with Russia much faster than the East, Moscow and Serbia believe. At the same time, he specified that Western countries are not yet ready to wage such a conflict.
On July 17, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that NATO is already preparing for possible military action with the Russian Armed Forces. According to him, a Russian victory in the conflict in Ukraine would allegedly bring closer a potential clash between Russia and the alliance.
On July 22, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov commented on Vucic's words about the West's active preparations for war with the Russian Federation. The Kremlin representative specified that NATO continues to advance its infrastructure to the Russian borders, which poses a danger to Russia.
Russian officials have repeatedly pointed out that Moscow has no reason to fight NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Moscow and the alliance have no territorial claims against each other. The head of state also emphasized that a full-scale conflict between Russia and NATO would put the world on the brink of World War III.
More from regnum.ru Sixth-generation fighter jet concept unveiled in UK
Engineers from BAE Systems (UK), Leonardo (Italy) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) presented the concept of a sixth-generation fighter. This is stated in a statement published on July 22 on the official website of the Italian company.
The Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter of the Royal Air Force
"The UK, Italy and Japan will showcase the significant progress they have made in developing the next generation of combat aircraft," the press release said.
It is noted that the conceptual model of the fighter, which received the working name Tempest, presented at the Farnborough International Airshow, is distinguished by a large wingspan, which will improve the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft, the design of which the company called "more advanced."
In the process of designing and developing the future combat aircraft, engineers use advanced and innovative technologies, including computer modeling methods and virtual reality.
As the managing director of the British defense company BAE Systems, Herman Claesen, indicated, industrial development is planned to be completed by 2025, and the introduction of the new generation fighter into service by 2035.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in January 2024, the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev stated that Russian fighter aircraft are constantly being improved. In addition, Russia is working on a project for a sixth-generation MiG-41 interceptor fighter. The new-generation fighter will incorporate various innovative technologies, including stealth technologies, highly integrated network capabilities, and smart coverage.
Even more from regnum.ru British Defence Minister points out serious problems in the country's army
The British Armed Forces are facing a number of very serious problems. This was stated by British Defense Secretary John Healey at a conference of the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). His words were quoted by the Sky News TV channel.
UK Defence Secretary Says Morale, Personnel Crisis Low in UK Armed Forces
He noted that the problems are much more serious than the Labor Party, which came to power in the kingdom in early July, had previously thought. The head of the department emphasized that all three components of the armed forces - the ground, naval and air forces - are facing difficulties.
“These include the consequences of the reduction of core forces, and the irrational spending in procurement, and low morale, and the crisis in recruitment and retention of personnel, and the problems of veterans who cannot get the services they deserve,” Healy listed.
According to the minister, a comprehensive review of the United Kingdom's security, defence and foreign policy issues, which is planned to be presented in the first half of 2025, will help find approaches to solving them.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, former director of one of the departments of the British Ministry of Defense Rob Johnson stated on July 1 that the British Armed Forces are poorly equipped and are not ready to participate in military conflicts of any scale. According to him, the kingdom's air defense is unable to stop long-range missiles, and the British Navy does not have enough ships patrolling the North Atlantic to track and deter the activity of Russian submarines.
He stressed that the British army operates on the "absolute minimum" that allows for peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, as well as the evacuation of civilians from combat zones. Johnson believes that the British military will not be able to protect the citizens of their country if necessary.
Healey, in a message to the army published on July 6, said the Conservative government had left Britain's armed forces with a series of problems, including exhaustion and underfunding. He added that the new government was committed to increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.
Earlier, former Royal Tank Regiment officer Stuart Crawford said that the Russian military is capable of destroying British tank forces in two weeks in the event of a direct military conflict. According to him, Britain has a "shamefully small" tank corps. Thus, by 2030, only 148 new Challenger 3 tanks will be put into service.
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Russia, China, Middle East on hearing British Army Chief Walker calls for the West to Prepare for War in 3 Years. Cease producing and exporting items for the West. Thus allowing them to be prepared in 2 years.
[Breitbart] Persistently high inflation under the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is decimating the Turkish tourism industry, as both foreign visitors and locals decide to save money by nipping over to Greece for holiday getaways.
Financing the swanning around necessary to support your image as the revived Ottoman empire has an expensive downside when financed with borrowed money. The equivalent is true for America, of course, where the $1 trillion annual interest payment is now the biggest item in the national budget, if I understand correctly.
“Angry citizens have taken to social media to share their bills, including the equivalent of $640 for food and drinks for five people in Bodrum and $30 for five scoops of ice cream in Cesme,” Fortune reported Monday.
Grumpy Turks said the quality of service at hotels and restaurants is declining even as the prices skyrocket. Some accused Turkish businesses of using notoriously high inflation as an excuse to push their prices even higher.
The disgruntled tourists of Turkey could not help noticing that the tantalizing Greek islands have lower prices and better service and, thanks to Turkey’s efforts to mend diplomatic fences with Greece, a fast-track visa program between the two countries was launched in March. Turkish citizens can now visit the beautiful and affordable Aegean islands with an easy-to-obtain temporary visa. But go home
Both Turkish and Greek officials knew tourism to Greece would benefit from the visa program, but they underestimated how much it would improve as Turkish inflation soared. Turkish travel agents told Fortune that tourism to Greece has nearly quadrupled over the past year. Greece is thinking about pumping the brakes a little because the Aegean is beginning to resemble a parking lot for cruise ships.
“With interest rates at 50% and inflation above 70%, people are in shock. We’re all getting poorer,” an unhappy Turkish restaurant owner told Fortune.
Kivanc Meric, chair of the Izmir Regional Representative Board of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TURSAB), told Euronews Travel on Monday the problem was exacerbated when “the Turkish government took steps to suppress foreign currency.”
“This has led to the overvaluation of the Turkish lira in this inflationary environment. Therefore, in the domestic market, our citizens have the chance to go abroad at a lower cost. At home, the price of hotels remains high,” Meric said.
“I have to say that there is a serious problem in Turkey’s foreign tourist numbers as well,” he added. “While Turkey was in a leading position in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean basin, with its service and hotel quality, it has lost this position due to its price disadvantage.”
Turkey’s Daily Sabah optimistically countered on Tuesday that tourist spending in Turkey more than doubled during the first quarter of 2024.
“The strong tourism data came despite soaring costs amid stubbornly high inflation, which currently runs at slightly above 70% and is estimated to continue falling in the upcoming months after entering long-awaited disinflation in June,” the article gushed.
The Daily Sabah portrayed the data as a strong rebound from the doldrums of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic:
In the first quarter, the largest share of total travel expenditures went to food and beverages, at 33.3%; transportation, at 28.8%; and accommodation, at 10.9%. According to the rate of change of trip expenditures compared to the same quarter of the previous year, it was observed that there were increases of 91.4% in eating and drinking expenditures, 80.8% in transportation expenditures and 127.3% in accommodation expenditures.
Foreign arrivals hit a record 49.2 million in 2023, up from 44.6 million tourists who arrived in 2022, with trips from Russia and Europe, driven by Germany, spearheading the increase. Combined with nearly 7.5 million Turkish citizens living abroad, the figure stood at 56.7 million.
Tourism income climbed to an all-time high of $54.32 billion, compared to $46.48 billion in 2022.
CNBC noted last week that while inflation has been crushing for working-class Turks, and vexing for foreign visitors, Erdogan’s economy has delivered a remarkable 157-percent increase in wealth over the past year for those who own assets such as real estate.
“If inflation is very high, what tends to happen is that if you have a real asset like housing, the house prices tend to rise in line with inflation, if not even faster. So those people with have homeownership, or who have equities, which also tend to perform fairly well in those environments, they tend to see their wealth accumulate a bit faster,” explained UBS Global Wealth Management economist Samuel Adams.
“Of course, it doesn’t mean that everybody benefits to the same extent. If you’re not in those assets, if your wage rises don’t keep pace with inflation, then, of course, it will be fairly negatively affected,” he added.
UBS chief economist Paul Donovan noted that being “asset-rich” may not be much of a comfort for “cash-poor” Turkish citizens struggling to feed their families.
“A lot of the stresses that have arisen in the Turkish economy over the last few years have come about because of negative real income, not necessarily what’s happening on the asset side,” Donovan said.
Bloomberg News reported in June that Erdogan’s policies were arguably successful at lifting millions of his citizens out of poverty over the past two decades, but now high inflation is clubbing their standard of living back down. Foreign investors are eager to buy into the asset-rich economy Erdogan created, while working people put in long hours just to afford groceries.
“We are the ones forced to swallow the bitter pill. I am not buying the lies about the so-called turnaround in the economy. I don’t feel it in any way. Maybe foreign investors do,” grumbled 54-year-old secretary Elif Bulut, who got to retire early thanks to one of Erdogan’s madcap vote-buying giveaway programs during his frantic re-election campaign, only to discover she had to return to work and put in ten-hour days to afford food.
A big part of the problem is that Erdogan went wild with spending binges and loose monetary policy to win re-election but then installed more sober economic management once his two-decade grip on power was secure.
The central bank raised loan and credit card rates, pulling the rug out from under working-class Turks. Spending cuts and tax increases could be next on the fiscal reform menu. Erdogan usually mutes public discontent with rising costs of living by raising the minimum wage, but in the current Turkish economic environment, the effects of minimum-wage hikes disappear in a matter of months.
Politico Europe predicted in June that the “end of Erdoganomics” is at hand. The authoritarian Turkish president is gambling heavily on a big economic turnaround in the fourth quarter, with promises that inflation will sink to single digits.
“Some friends should not make the mistake of thinking whether the president is going through a big change in interest rate policies. I am the same here. We have worked with a low interest rate, low inflation theory. I still work with the same understanding,” Erdogan insisted when asked if his new economics team represented a reversal of his weird economic theories, which are partly based on Islamic laws that treat loaning money with interest as usury.
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back in 2000, $1 would buy about one half a Turkish lira
now $1 buys about 30 Turkish Lira
This should be good for tourism except that many of the tourism sites are closed or less accessible or inconvenient to get to
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I recommend wage and price controls. Sure, they tend to be disastrous, but maybe they will work this time. I mean, you have to do *something*, right?
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.
[YouTube] Tucker Carlson and Jack Posobiec discuss the suspicious timeline of the Trump shooting and the Democratic Party’s coup against Biden.
[NYPOST] The horrid, caught-on-camera shooting of a 7-month-old baby in Philadelphia was sparked by a mere $100 drug debt, according to cops.
