[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as inferno triggers terrifying fire tornado
A California sex offender has been arrested for allegedly starting a 160,000 acre wildfire - the state's largest this year.
Ronnie Stout II, 42, was caught pushing his burning car into a gulley in upper Bidwell Park near the city of Chico on Wednesday, the Butte County District Attorney's Office announced.
The vehicle then tumbled 60 feet down an embankment, sparking a fire tornado that engulfed more than 71,000 acres of northern California overnight and prompted mass evacuations.
Stout was reportedly seen leaving the scene by blending in with parkgoers as the fire quickly spread.
Authorities ultimately identified the suspect early Thursday morning, and took him into custody.
s then booked into the Butte County Jail, where he is being held without bail, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Stout was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of sex crimes against a child under 14 years old in 2001 and of robbery with great bodily injured.
Given that he has two prior convictions, Stout could be sent to jail for life if found guilty under California's Three Strikes and You’re Out law.
The Park Fire burned more than 195 square miles near the city of Chico.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated in Butte County and the city of Chico, said Megan McMann, a spokesperson for the Butte County Sheriff's Office.
As of Friday morning the fire had burned through more than 164,000 acres.
At least 134 structures have been destroyed but there are no reported injuries.
Cal Fire-Butte County had said as many as 4,200 structures were threatened.
Friday's windy conditions is making it harder for firefighters to battle flames.
Meanwhile forecasters are warning wind gusts could reach up to 30mph and push the blaze north.
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^ Sex Offender against a child? Arsonist? I'm good with that
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Butte County is one unlucky place, remembering the Paradise fire that killed over 80 and wiped out an entire town, including (brother-in-law's hone), and the catastrophic Oroville Dam failure.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … abuse - before the monster flees inside and does the unthinkable.
A suspected pedophile killed himself moments after admitting to watching heinous child porn to a predator hunter who confronted him at his home.
Donald Letcher, 60, was seen on camera describing his viewing habits in graphic detail to Predator Poachers' Alex Rosen.
Rosen coaxed him into admitting his crimes after appearing at his home in Canova, South Dakota.
He then called the cops, but before Letcher could be detained, he went back into his house and shot himself in the head.
'The cop turns his back on him, Letcher goes in the home and we hear a pop,' Rosen explained to talk show host Breanna Morello.
The pedophile hunter said he first connected with Letcher via messaging app Telegram, where the suspect was 'acting pretty sexual' and requesting nude photos of what he believed was a 12-year-old girl.
Rosen explained he got Letcher to admit to viewing child pornography involving children as young as infant age in a bid to secure a conviction, as the state's law was hazy around solicitation of porn from a fictional child.
He was unaware that Letcher had previously been convicted of two counts of sexually molesting his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter in Bridgewater in 1995.
However, the charges were overturned due to a technicality and Letcher was exonerated a year later.
It was not his only brush with the law however and in 2022, Letcher was convicted of the hit-and-run of a six-year-old girl.
Letcher was given just 25 days in jail for the offense which occurred while he was drunk behind the wheel.
Rosen posted his interaction with the creep on X, where the video has been viewed more than 18 million times.
He added that although he was talking to a decoy, Letcher was still 'being a predator' by soliciting explicit photos from what he thought was a minor.
'If he's getting off on infants being tortured then screw him,' Rosen said.
Rosen's group is just one of many who engage in anti-pedophile activism and stings such as the one against Letcher.
Although such vigilantism is not illegal, activists can be charged if they break the law in the course of their actions.
In 2021, Illinois pedophile hunter Kyle Swanson was indicted on felony charges of unlawful restraint and obstructing justice over his stings.
The charges were ultimately dropped, but the case highlights the potential legal issues such activists can run into.
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Cell phone cameras and the internet have proliferated this great evil. I don’t think we can estimate the size of the population of active creeps of this flavor and come up with a strategy to jail all of them until January. I suspect that the extent of it will horrify us.
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Matt Driscoll, a 43-year-old columnist and opinion editor for The News Tribune (TNT), died unexpectedly at his Tacoma home this Sunday.
Driscoll’s death was announced by his news network.
Driscoll reportedly suffered an apparent medical emergency from which he could not be revived. The official cause of death is yet to be determined, according to TNT.
It was reported that he had received a COVID-19 vaccination.
Driscoll had been vocal about NFL star Aaron Rodgers’ controversial views on COVID-19 vaccines. He accused Rodgers of engaging in "performance art" after the latter warned people about potential side effects of mRNA vaccines.
Rogers "repeated popular conspiracy theories about Covid vaccines, cited a number of discredited sources and claimed he was being ’cancelled’ and ’censored’ for ’doing his own research.’"
According to popular X account, ’Died Suddenly’, "Driscoll also cheered the work of pro-vaxx troll Craig Egan in 2017, while he harassed and bullied the Vaxxed movie tour, which compellingly presented the story of parents whose children developed autism after receiving routine shots after birth."
Journalist Matt Driscoll (43) has died suddenly after proudly getting vaccinated and promoting the shot through his reporting in Washington State.
Driscoll accused Aaron Rogers of "performance art" after the NFL star was cancelled for warning people of the dangerous side effects... pic.twitter.com/RXeVJVyC4z
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From The Repository of COVID-19 to 24 facts in regard to virus origins, failed public policies, medical ethics, and vaccine injuries.
Authors Note:
"Lastly, please take note that much of the pro-jab jargon used in these studies is required to survive peer review. Journals are beholden to (funded and captured by) the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers have stated outright that they cannot get published on this topic without the inclusion of pro-vaccine rhetoric in their studies."
[AirForceTimes] The crew of a B-1B Lancer that crashed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota in January failed to properly manage the bomber’s airspeed and angle of approach while landing, a scathing accident investigation board report found.
The investigation, which Air Force Global Strike Command released on July 25, also found that poor weather conditions, a lack of discipline, poor resource management and communication, and “an organizational culture that tolerated decaying airmanship skills” were among the other factors contributing to the Jan. 4 crash.
The report, signed by accident investigation board president Col. Erick Lord, criticized the 34th Bomb Squadron’s alleged lack of effective supervision of flying operations, and the 28th Operations Support Squadron’s alleged failure to communicate airfield and weather conditions, which “all speak to culture and leadership issues.” Investigators also said they found “unsatisfactory levels of basic airmanship” at the 34th.
“Many failures leading to this mishap were not a one-time occurrence or an aberration,” the report concluded. “The mishap occurred due to numerous factors, including a culture of noncompliance, widespread deviation from established policy and procedure, and several organizational influences and preconditions.”
Global Strike said the chain of command will take the appropriate corrective actions to address the problems highlighted in the report.
The four members of the bomber’s air crew ejected during the crash; two sustained injuries and were treated and released from a medical facility.
Fire engulfed the $451 million B-1 bomber, which was assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth, and it was a total loss.
The B-1 bomber was one of two that took part in a routine training flight that began the afternoon of Jan. 4. Winds were calm when the pair of bombers took off, but during the roughly 90-minute flight, the weather worsened and dense fog began rolling across the airfield. The bombers cut their training flights short and headed back to the base.
The first bomber landed safely. But the fog left the crew of the doomed B-1 with low visibility as it approached the airfield, the report said, and the winds rapidly shifted during the flight’s final minute, speeding the bomber up. The pilot reduced the engine throttle three times to cut the bomber’s airspeed and stay on the right angle.
But when the wind stabilized, the report said the pilot didn’t dial the throttle back up to return the bomber to the right airspeed. The bomber dropped below its intended glide path and “became thrust deficient,” but the air crew didn’t realize the bomber’s vertical velocity had dropped before it became unrecoverable.
Four seconds before the crash, the instructor pilot on board called out “climb, climb, climb,” and then two seconds later repeated “climb.” The report said the data suggests that after the instructor’s final call to climb, the pilot hit the afterburners and pulled the control stick back, but by that point the bomber “was unrecoverable and out of control.”
The bomber first hit the ground about 100 feet shy of the runway overrun, and the crew compartment lost power and went dark. The crew then ejected. The bomber skidded for about 5,000 feet across the runway, veering to the left, before coming to a flaming halt in an infield between two runways.
The report found that the main cause of the crash was the crew’s lack of an effective “composite crosscheck,” a practice which brings together various instruments to keep track of how the aircraft is performing in a low-visibility environment. Had an effective crosscheck been performed, investigators found, the crew should have been able to tell the plane’s speed was dropping dangerously.
“The [mishap crew] succumbed to complacency and fixation, while the [mishap instructor pilot] was ineffective in his crew leadership and instructor supervision duties,” the report concluded.
Poor weather conditions – including icing conditions during the descent phase – and a lack of awareness of airfield conditions substantially contributed to the crash, investigators found.
The report said investigators did not find any maintenance issues contributed to the crash.
The loss of the bomber represented another blow to an already dwindling B-1 fleet, which now numbers 44.
The B-1, a conventional bomber that is not nuclear-capable, was flown extremely hard during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fleet has suffered from serious maintenance problems as a result.
The Air Force retired 17 of the oldest and most worn-out B-1s in 2021 in an attempt to free up resources to maintain healthier planes, leaving it with 45. The service hopes to keep flying them, along with the B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress, until the B-21 Raider comes online. At some point in the 2030s, the Air Force plans to retire all its B-1s and B-2s.
Ellsworth halted B-1 operations the day after the crash and closed its runway for a month. Some Ellsworth B-1s were sent to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas during the investigation.
During that period, Ellsworth B-1s that had temporarily relocated to Dyess took part in strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria after drone strikes killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more.
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Flying in zero zero is difficult. Blaming the crew is the easy way out. Did they cut instrument training to due funding? I readiness to the point IFR training is limited? When fog came in they turned back for home, why? Too many questions to just say it was a bad crew...
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[Regnum] A Chinese resident suffered from coughing fits for two years due to a piece of hot chili pepper in his lung. Doctors determined the real cause of the discomfort only during an operation, which they decided to perform due to suspicion of cancer, the South China Morning Post reported.
A 54-year-old man from Zhejiang Province had been trying to cure his cough on his own for two years, but there was no improvement. Then he sought medical help. An examination revealed a 1 cm tumor in his lung.
Doctors were inclined to believe that the patient's severe cough could be caused by pneumonia or a malignant tumor. And after a second check, fears about possible cancer only increased.
Doctors scheduled the operation for July 3. According to the publication, doctors initially planned to take samples of lung tissue and determine the nature of the formation. However, during the operation, the surgeon discovered a foreign object in the lung, which turned out to be a piece of chili pepper. It was behind the tissue, so the piece was not noticed during the examination.
The article states that the man himself recalled how two years ago he began to choke and cough heavily while eating. It was probably then that a piece of chili got into his lung.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in June the Ministry of Health announced the timing of the first results of cancer vaccine trials.
According to the head of the department, Mikhail Murashko, they could be presented as early as the end of 2024. He noted that the vaccine is being developed by several scientific teams. Financing is provided by the state within the framework of state assignments.
Previously, scientists proposed a method for combating cancer using the nervous system. They explained that malignant tumors are considered independent complex functioning organs capable of subordinating tissues, vessels, and even the nervous system. Therefore, when nerve fibers, for example, penetrate prostate cancer, forming a connection with healthy cells, the tumor grows. If such a connection can be interrupted, the growth will stop, the researchers concluded.
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[Regnum] More than 628 thousand people in the eastern Chinese province of Fujian found themselves in the disaster area due to Typhoon Gaemi. This was reported on July 26 by China Central Television.
Typhoon Gaemi reached the coast of Fujian Province on the evening of July 25, after which it weakened to a tropical storm and is moving inland in a northwesterly direction. The speed of the elements is 20 km/h. The wind speed at the epicenter of the typhoon reaches 28 m/sec.
The authorities evacuated 150,000 residents from the disaster area in advance. Several dozen ferry routes were suspended and about 100 flights were cancelled due to the natural disaster. Train service was suspended in all directions on July 25.
The provincial Marine Affairs Department has deployed three additional rescue helicopters and three rescue vessels, as well as 49 patrol boats and over 100 tugboats to the coast to ensure a timely response to any potential emergency.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that Moscow and several other regions of the European part of Russia were hit by bad weather. Wind gusts in the capital reached 25 meters per second, which corresponds to a 10-point storm on the Beaufort scale. In some areas, almost 50% of the monthly precipitation norm fell.
Emergency services reported that two people were injured when trees fell on them during a thunderstorm with strong winds and hail in Moscow. A total of 24 trees fell in the capital.
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[Regnum] The frigate Admiral Gorshkov of the Russian Northern Fleet, accompanied by the medium sea tanker Akademik Pashin, arrived at the port of Oran in Algeria, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on July 26.
“The visit of the Russian sailors will last several days,” the department stated.
It was noted there that the Russian Navy ships are carrying out missions in the distant sea zone.
During the visit, the sailors will take part in protocol events. They will also have a rest on the shore after the transatlantic crossing, get acquainted with local sights and play a friendly football game with sailors of the Algerian Navy, the department added.
The Admiral Gorshkov's long-distance voyage began on May 17. During this time, the frigate has already covered more than 13,000 nautical miles and visited ports in Cuba and Venezuela. The Defense Ministry emphasized that the mission's objective is to demonstrate the flag and ensure presence in operationally important areas of the distant ocean.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it was previously announced that ships of the Baltic Fleet would arrive at the port of Cuban Havana on July 27. The training ship Smolny, the patrol frigate Neustrashimy and the tanker Yelnya are awaiting them there. The working visit will last until July 30.
On June 12, the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the nuclear submarine Kazan, the tanker Akademik Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy entered the port of Havana. According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, the visit took place within the framework of international cooperation.
According to CBS News, the US, for its part, sent its naval ships to spy on the Russian ships' visit to Cuba. British defence expert Ian Ballantyne called the Russian submarine in Cuba a "threatening" signal to the West . The expert noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to use his fleet as a powerful global political and military instrument.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, noted that such visits, like Russian exercises in different regions of the world, are normal practice, and therefore there is no reason for concern.
[SDUT] "Students"
South Korean authorities are reportedly investigating three Chinese students they say used a drone in late June to take images of the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt while it was anchored in Busan harbor.
The alleged filming occurred June 23 and June 25 in an area where the students also had a view of South Korea’s Naval Operations Command, according to the South China Morning Post.
It is unlawful to take photographs and video in and around military bases in South Korea, which has been a U.S. ally for 71 years.
The 1,092-foot Theodore Roosevelt stopped by Busan shortly before leaving on joint exercises with South Korean and Japanese warships.
In recent days, the "TR," as it’s widely known, has been operating in the Gulf of Aden, not far from the Rea Sea, according to the U.S. Naval Institute fleet tracker.
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...Having been there, I can assure you that the ROKs take their security very, very seriously. And unlike here, there were certainly consequences for the poor SOB on whose watch this happened.
[Breitbart] KnowBe4, a prominent cybersecurity firm, recently uncovered a sophisticated infiltration attempt by a North Korean “threat actor” who posed as a remote software engineer on their internal IT team. The North Korean spy, after being hired, immediately began uploading malware to the company’s systems.
CyberScoop reports that KnowBe4, a leading cybersecurity firm, has exposed an intricate scheme by a North Korean threat actor who successfully infiltrated the company by posing as a remote software engineer. The incident, detailed in a blog post by KnowBe4’s founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman, highlights the evolving sophistication of cyber threats and the pressing need for enhanced security measures in hiring processes.
The threat actor managed to bypass KnowBe4’s seemingly thorough interview process, which included background checks, verified references, and four video conference-based interviews. The deception was executed using a valid identity stolen from a U.S.-based individual, further enhanced by the use of a stock image augmented by artificial intelligence.
The ruse began to unravel when KnowBe4’s InfoSec Security Operations Center team detected suspicious activities from the new hire. On July 15, the company flagged malware loaded onto an Apple laptop sent to the remote worker. Simultaneously, the AI-filtered photo used by the imposter was identified by the company’s Endpoint Detection and Response software.
Quick action by the SOC team led to the containment of the fake worker’s systems after they ceased responding to outreach. During a brief 25-minute window, the attacker engaged in various malicious activities, including manipulating session history files, transferring potentially harmful files, and executing unauthorized software. Sjouwerman noted that the attacker utilized a single-board computer Raspberry Pi to download the malware.
Following the incident, KnowBe4 shared its findings with the FBI and Mandiant, a Google-owned cyber firm. Their collaborative investigation concluded that the worker was a fictional persona operating from North Korea.
The sophisticated scam involved connecting the fake employee’s workstation to an “IT mule laptop farm” and using a VPN to work night shifts, creating the illusion of being logged on during normal U.S. business hours. This setup allowed the threat actor to perform actual work while funneling a significant portion of the earnings to North Korea to fund illegal programs.
Despite the intrusion’s complexity, Sjouwerman assured that no illegal access was gained, and no data was compromised or exfiltrated from KnowBe4’s systems. He attributed the incident to a highly sophisticated threat actor who exploited weaknesses in the hiring and background check processes.
[GEO.TV] In a shocking incident in Sindh's Nausharoferoz district, both legs of a woman named Sobia Batool Shah were savagely hacked by her bloodthirsty father and uncles in the name of patriarchal "honour" for filing for divorce to end an abusive marriage.
The deeply disturbing act of violence occurred in Gul Town of the district, leaving the victim in severe physical as well as mental trauma, which may result in a lifelong handicap — with the possibility that she may never be able to walk again.
Reportedly, Syed Mustafa Shah, Sobia’s father, and her uncles Syed Qurban Shah, Ehsan Shah, Shah Nawaz, and Mushtaq Shah, who were armed with axes, injured Sobia, and fled the spot leaving her screaming for help in a pool of blood.
As soon as police reached the scene of the crime, Sobia was rushed to a Nawab Shah hospital. Sobia revealed to the police the savageries her patriarchs inflicted upon her for seeking a divorce from her abusive and deadbeat husband, who never took responsibility for his family.
The poor woman further told police that her husband would regularly abuse her and failed to provide for her and their two children, leaving her to suffer on her own in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
According to Sobia, she repeatedly alerted her parents about the plight she was in, but her family turned a deaf ear to her grievances and dismissed her, calling her a disgrace.
In a desperate attempt to escape her abusive marriage, Sobia filed for divorce, which incited her father and uncles to confront her.
According to the police, Sobia’s enraged patriarchs accused her of bringing dishonour to the family by taking legal action against her husband. When she refused to withdraw her case, they attacked her with axes, they added.
Taking immediate notice of the incident, the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Nausharoferoz, ordered the local station house officer (SHO) to bring all the accused to justice and ensure the victim's security.
Responding to the directions, the police have so far managed to arrest one suspect, Mushtaq Shah, and are conducting further raids in search of the remaining culprits.
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I wonder whether the space station had a kit with some emergency tooth brushes and low quality razors onboard. Definitely, will be tossing that underwear unless the bids are high enough on EBay.
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Hold o-n, people! Not their fault! Point fingers at the Boeing DEI "engineers".
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Bear in mind, there's not a problem with the Boeing ship, all is OK. And NASA just contracted with SpaceX to crash the whole thing.
The middle part of this story is missing.
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I really liked Mystery Science Theater
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[France24] Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These polymetallic nodules, generating electricity like AA batteries, challenge the belief that only photosynthetic organisms create oxygen, potentially altering our understanding of how life began on Earth.
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create oxygen??
Eh, not really. It takes 1.5 volts to separate hydrogen from oxygen which is a AA battery. A group of these provide more than enough current. Basically they are batteries separating hydrogen and oxygen and the extra O2 in the water is allowing for greater than expected biodiversity.
[FoxNews] In the world of prosthetics, a groundbreaking advancement is changing the game for individuals with lower-limb amputations.
Researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a neuroprosthetic system that allows users to control their prosthetic legs using their own nervous systems.
This innovative approach could bring us closer to a future of fully integrated, naturally controlled artificial limbs.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as inferno triggers terrifying fire tornado
[GEO.TV] In a shocking incident in Sindh's Nausharoferoz district, both legs of a woman named Sobia Batool Shah were savagely hacked by her bloodthirsty father and uncles in the name of patriarchal "honour" for filing for divorce to end an abusive marriage.
