[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The bosses in charge of DC's crumbling 911 dispatch system have resorted to offering their staff an extra $800 a month just to turn up to work when they are supposed to.
The desperate move came after the number of dangerously undermanned shifts jumped from 24 percent in May, to 88 percent in July.
IT failures have stopped emergency calls coming through seven times so far this year including earlier this month when a five-month-old baby died during a two-hour outage.
And the system has become so unreliable that DC Fire and EMS has now created a shadow dispatch operation for the calls they need to deal with.
'Is it not wild to you that our first-responder agency has set up a workaround for our 911 call center?' demanded DC council member Brianne Nadeau. 'It's bonkers.'
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A really smart reporter (ok that is a non-sequitur) would compare response times and service call durations against addresses within the District.
I'm confident that Kalorama, Dupont Circle, Georgetown and the tony neighborhoods of the near Southwest have far better statistics than say Anacostia. Even the dispatch drones know the number segments for the powerful people I'd wager.
[DM] The incidents, the first of which happened in Richardson, both occurred on Monday with the other happening in Dallas.
In Richardson, a young girl had been to her high school when she noticed a stranger driving past her several times and staring her down.
Freaked out, the unknown girl made a dash for a property near the road and found a hiding place.
Homeowner Shane Burke caught the young girl on his surveillance camera hiding behind his vehicle to get away from the vehicle before appearing at his door.
Speaking with NBCDFW, Burke said he was grateful to have been working at his home on Monday morning.
He told the outlet: 'She initially hid behind our car to see if he was coming back and sure enough, here he came really slow, and again, she was really smart.
'She did all the right things. When I opened the door, she started explaining that someone has been following her. She was really shaky.'
He continued: 'She didn’t say, "I don’t think he was saying anything", she said, "he keeps going by real slow back and forth on the street and staring at me, and I’m not comfortable," which is right.'
Burke's wife gave the young girl a ride to the school while he contacted police who responded to the scene.
He added: 'I don’t know what this guy’s motive was or what he was up to, but she said she didn’t know him.
'He wasn’t an ex-boyfriend, or a family member, or anything so whatever. This is serious. This was a close call. Fortunately, she did all the right things.'
The suspect vehicle is a black or dark blue 2014-2016 4-door Toyota Corolla S, according to RPD spokesman Officer Mike Wieczorek.
The only physical description police has is the man is bald, between 20 and 30 years old, dark-skinned, and possibly Latino.
Hours after the incident in Richardson, police in Dallas responded to an attempted abduction in the far north of the city.
Genna Skolnik said her sons had their friends over as a back-to-school playdate, telling them to stay together and never separate.
Home surveillance footage then captured two vehicles pulling up alongside the boys, which includes a white SUV described by cops a Toyota Four Runner.
According to the youths, the men inside one of the car was telling them come 'check out our car', spooking one of them who suggested the group all run.
In the horrifying clip a man can be seen leaving the vehicle and making a run at her son Jay who quickly runs back to his house, before the man runs back to his car.
Speaking with the outlet, Skolnik said: 'All of the sudden I hear the door fly open and I hear: Jay’s being kidnapped Jay’s being kidnapped.
'The guys in the car were telling them: "hey, come talk to us check out our car." One of the boys was totally spooked and said "we need to run".'
She continued: 'They were calling to my son saying: "Hey, we have a football player in the car like you should come talk to him".'
'My son said: "I don’t talk to strangers!" and they reversed the car and Jonathan started running.'
Skolnik managed to take a picture of one of the vehicle's license plate numbers
Incredibly, a passenger in a white t-shirt and shorts is then seen getting out of the SUV and running after her son before turning back after noticing the adult with a cell phone in her hand.
Skolnik managed to snap a picture of the vehicle’s license plate number, with Dallas Police now investigating the incident.
Dallas and Richardson police told NBC 5 that there are no indications the cases involve the same suspects or are related.
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The Californization of Texas sticks it head up.
A father of two maiden of tender yearss was allegedly rubbed out by a neighbor who angrily confronted him after his daughter ''touched the mulch'' in his yard while the family was on a walk in their suburban Michigan neighborhood.
Nathan Morris, 35, was on a walk with his wife and daughters, ages 2 and 5, near their home in Canton just before noon Saturday when police say their neighbor Deveraux Christopher Johnson, 47, confronted him and the two got into an argument, Fox 2 bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... reported.
Johnson was reportedly upset that Morris' daughter ''touched the mulch'' on his property, the Michigan GOP wrote about Morris, a party member involved in local politics.
''The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,'' the post alleged.
''Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and [defuse] the situation, but instead was shot and killed.''
Johnson fired multiple times, killing Morris, who was unarmed, prosecutors said.
When Canton coppers arrived, they discovered Morris with a gunshot wound in the street while the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home.
Morris was taken to a hospital, where he later died, police said.
After several orders to surrender, Johnson came out of his house repeatedly saying, ''Praise to God Almighty'' and was taken into custody. He was charged with first-degree murder and other felonies.
Morris, who worked at Ford as an engineer, recently got into politics and was affiliated with the Michigan GOP in Wayne.
''Nathan is one of those few guys who are near perfect. He would do no harm and think no harm. He is just an amazing and gentle soul. He will be missed dearly,'' the Michigan GOP wrote in their statement.
Morris also recently ran for school board in their town and was remembered for his ''can-do spirit and strong focus on the work and responsibilities,'' according to a fundraiser set up for his family.
Johnson, who lived in the neighborhood for 12 years, had on multiple occasions assaulted neighbors, as well as coppers, officials told Fox.
He also has criminal sexual conduct charges from the 1990s.
A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf and he is being held without bond.
The prosecutor's office is asking for a competency hearing for Johnson, who is set to appear in court next on Aug. 23.
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^#1 Either way, KARMA is on an Express Train headed in his direction.
ODD NOTE:
We read about all his priors and because he's lived there 12 years. But a quick check of Wayne County Sheriff inmate database, using dates of 2014 to 2024 only produces 1 arrest and jailing, the current murder??????
Was he just given police citations and not arrested?
BTW: Caution, the Wayne County, MI website can bite, it has some serious ITSEC issues.
But didnt have street smarts. Sad story. Dont be dude. Listen, ghetto trash with a gun, DEI who is threatening to kill you over silly shit, you do not try to reason with crazy. Best to avoid the crazy, that is how you defuse the situation. You talk all that logic and reason, it will just confuse the street urchin. And we see how that turns out.
[NY Post] A brave 8-year-old girl managed to help thwart a robbery at her father's Minnesota liquor store after she repeatedly beat the alleged Amazon worker perp with a baseball bat, surveillance video shows.The little girl took on the alleged would-be robber — since identified as Conchobhar Morrell, 37 — after he entered Big Discount Liquors store in Maplewood at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday and pulled out what appeared to be a handgun.
''He put the gun on the table, he asked me to give him all the money and everything in the register, I told him, ‘Yes — I'll give you everything,''' the girl's dad, only identified as Leo, told CBS News.
As the store clerk was scrambling to retrieve the cash, the suspect — who was wearing an Amazon uniform — allegedly tried to storm behind the counter where the youngster was standing.
Surveillance video captured the dad quickly punching Morrell and wrestling him to floor before the girl stepped up to help.
She could be seen arming herself with the bat and repeatedly striking the suspect as her father tried to pin Morrell down, the clip shows.
The shocked father said he wasn't even aware his daughter had stepped in until he played back the surveillance footage in the aftermath.
''I'm so proud of her, she's so strong,'' the clerk said.
''That day, I just wanted to cry. When I saw the video, I didn't expect she'd do that. I expect a little girl crying, screaming.''
Morrell ended up fleeing the store just moments later but was nabbed nearby, cops said.
He was charged with first-degree attempted aggravated robbery over the ordeal.
The apparent firearm he initially brandished ended up being a BB gun, according to police.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... an Amazon spokesperson said Morrell had been working as a delivery associate for a third-party service.
He will be ''immediately offboarded'' in the wake of his arrest, the rep said.
Morrell is being held in jug ahead of his initial court hearing on Friday.
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Conchobhar is a weird name for a white (ish?) dude
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[Regnum] Scientists registered five powerful solar flares on August 14, one of them was of the highest class X, the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FGBU "IPG") reported.
“On August 14 at 09:40 Moscow time, an X1.1 flare lasting 58 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 3784 (N13E04),” the institute reported.
It is noted that the powerful flash was accompanied by a disruption of HF radio communications.
Also, flares of M1.3, M1.2, M4.2 and M4.4 were registered on the Sun, the first of which occurred on August 14 at 01:45 Moscow time.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 6, two powerful flares of the highest class occurred on the Sun, preceded by a series of medium explosions, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory reported. Both explosions were recorded at the edge of the solar disk. The Sun, apparently, is entering a continuous activity mode, the experts noted.
On the night of July 8, scientists registered five strong solar flares. One of them (flare M1.5) occurred at 00:59 Moscow time and lasted 10 minutes. At 02:23 Moscow time, a flare M1.0 occurred lasting 18 minutes. In the southern hemisphere on the eastern limb, scientists also registered flares M2.5, M1.1 and M1.3.
[Epoch Times] The World Health Organization on Aug. 14 declared the outbreak of mpox in Africa a public health emergency of international concern, due to the increase in cases and deaths in recent months.
A public health emergency of international concern, or global health emergency, is the highest level of alarm the WHO can convey. It’s declared for extraordinary events deemed to constitute a public health risk to countries through the international spread of disease.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the UN’s WHO, announced the declaration in Geneva, accepting a recommendation from WHO’s emergency committee.
Tedros said there’s already been more than 14,000 reported cases, and 524 reported deaths in Africa this year, a jump from last year. He also pointed to the emergence of a new mpox strain, or clade, which he described as worrying.
Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is a virus that occurs in animals and humans. Mpox can spread between people and causes an illness that typically manifests with a rash and resolves in a few weeks. But some cases can lead to death.
Mpox typically spreads between men who have sex with other men.
Mpox typically spreads between men who have sex with other men.
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As noted: "Mpox typically spreads between men who have sex with other men."
So it seems Africa has a sizeable Male Homosexual population. Given the increased number of Africans using the US Open Border to cross. Will I.C.E. be doing Butt checks at the border ☻?
SIDE NOTE:
How many panic epidemics/Pandemics does this made now, that just happen to start a few months before US National Elections?
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A mysterious unaccounted-for passenger was aboard the Brazilian plane that crashed in a 'death spiral' and killed 62 people, is has been revealed. The plane, operated by regional carrier Voepass, crashed on Friday in a residential area near Sao Paulo, Brazil , killing all passengers and crew members aboard. On Friday Voepass said the plane was carrying 57 passengers and four crew, but on Saturday the firm confirmed another unaccounted-for passenger had been on the flight, putting the number of casualties at 62 - it is unclear whether this additional passenger was simply missed off the manifest or whether they snuck on board.
For now, the cause of the crash remains unknown. Metsul, one of Brazil's most respected meteorological companies, said Friday that there were reports of severe icing in Sao Paulo state around the time of the crash. Local media cited experts pointing to that as a potential cause, although others cautioned against jumping to a conclusion, urging to wait for the outcome of the official investigation. Both the plane's 'black boxes' - one with flight data and the other with cockpit audio - were recovered. The air force's center for the investigation and prevention of air accidents began analyzing them at its laboratory in the nation's capital, Brasilia.
Airports Minister Silvio Costa Filho said the center was also opening a criminal probe. The airline Voepass and the French-Italian ATR manufacturer are assisting investigations, they said in statements. The crashed plane was bound for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, and crashed at around 1.30pm (1630 GMT) in Vinhedo, some 50 miles northwest of Sao Paulo. The aircraft was flying normally until 1.21pm, when it stopped responding to calls, and radar contact was lost at 1.22pm, Brazil's air force said in a statement. The plane did not report any emergency. Videos of the event show that the sky was apparently clear when the plane started spiraling in an unusual circling motion before crashing.
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I recall MH370 has two mystery passengers as well.
That is not the only thing these two flights shared. Like Brazil and its Cancer Scientists, Mh370 had a large group of experts on it as well, a bunch of Super Conductor Savants were flying together too.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] GPS Spoofing can push planes off their flight paths and confuse the autopilot’s landing feature, causing them to potentially miss the designated tarmac.
Cybersecurity experts have issued a warning about a surge in GPS spoofing attacks that have risen 400 percent since the first quarter of this year.
They are also becoming more common in warzones, with areas like Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East becoming hotspots.
Experts don't yet know the official reason why hackers are now employing GPS spoofing, but it can be used to alter location data and allow them to monitor people's activities and endanger flights.
GPS spoofing attacks raise the potential that flights could crash by installing ransomware that could veer the aircraft off course and send them careening into other aircraft, terrain or the ocean.
The attacks are becoming more common, but experts are still unsure why and a group has been set up to investigate the incidents and determine who is overriding the plane's GPS systems and why.
A newly published report by the cybersecurity company OPS Group revealed that GPS spoofing attacks worldwide skyrocketed from an average of 200 per day from January to March to 900 daily since April.
They reported that spoofing attacks targeted as many as 1,350 flights on some days.
Hackers transmit counterfeit radio signals to the airline’s receiver antennas to override legitimate GPS signals and send false alerts to the plane’s localization systems that are meant to keep the aircraft away from rough terrain.
Pilots have reportedly noticed that one of the first indicators that a hacker has employed GPS spoofing is when the aircraft clock begins to run backward.
‘We think too much about GPS being a source of position, but it's actually a source of time,’ Ken Munro, founder of cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, said during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas on Saturday.
‘We're starting to see reports of the clocks on board airplanes during spoofing events start to do weird things.’
He later told Reuters that ‘an aircraft operated by a major Western airline had its onboard clocks suddenly sent forward by years, causing the plane to lose access to its digitally encrypted communication systems.’
In April, Finnair was forced to temporarily pause all flights to Tartu in Estonia due to GPS spoofing, which the airline blamed on Russian hackers.
‘Is it going to make a plane crash? No, it's not,’ Munro told Reuters.
‘What it does is it just creates a little confusion. And you run the risk of starting what we call a cascade of events, where something minor happens, something else minor happens, and then something serious happens.’
However, experts reported that there has been an uptick in incidents near war zones - particularly in the Middle East and around Ukraine and Russia.
Stuart Fox, director of flight and technical operations at the International Air Transport Association told The Wall Street Journal in February that the incidents are raising concerns about cybersecurity risks, although they haven’t caused any major safety issues yet.
‘For the longer term, we need to ensure we are involved in the design of future satellite navigation systems. Countering this risk is a priority for the Agency,’ the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in January.
These issues have still largely remained unaddressed, but a GPS spoofing workgroup consisting of 450 registered participants has been put together to address the problem, OPS Group reported.
The participants include representatives across industry organizations and airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines, Aer Lingus, Turkish Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
NASA, Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and FlightSafety Internation are also involved in the workgroup.
[Epoch Times] The U.S. annual inflation rate slowed for the fourth consecutive month in July and came in below market forecasts, raising the odds of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates in September.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the consumer price index (CPI) eased to 2.9 percent last month, down from 3 percent in June. The consensus estimate was 3 percent.
On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.2 percent, up from the 0.1 percent decline in the previous month. This was in line with market expectations.
Core inflation, which omits the volatile food and energy categories, also slipped to 3.2 percent last month, down from 3.3 percent. The reading matched market estimates. cuz nobody needs food or energy?
The core CPI jumped 0.2 percent month-over-month, up from 0.1 percent and mirroring economists’ estimates.
Shelter was the primary driver of inflation last month as it has remained stubbornly high, despite expectations that this part of the CPI data would ease by now.
Motor vehicle insurance, which has rocketed in 2024, was another contributor to inflation last month, surging 1.2 percent monthly. On a 12-month basis, this CPI component has surged 18.6 percent. A recent influx of uninsured motorists, perhaps?
The New York Fed’s July Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) showed that the one-year inflation outlook was unchanged at 3 percent. The median three-year-ahead inflation expectations fell sharply by 0.6 percent to a record low of 2.7 percent. The five-year inflation outlook was unchanged at 2.8 percent. Comprehensive and lengthy article at link, with a number of anecdotes to be read one way or another. The auto insurance is but one example.
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So the total inflation for the last 3 years is 21% not 21.1%. So what.
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The government stats do not include shopping basket items.
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I see potential application for Kroger’s ‘dynamic pricing’ - use their high numbers for the start of the measure period and the low ones for the end!
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[Regnum] The Russian frigate Shtandart, which is under Western sanctions, has been banned from entering the port of Granville to participate in the sailing ship festival. The corresponding decision was made by the authorities of the Manche department, reports the publication La Manche Libre.
"Following the amendments of 24 June, the EU regulation on restrictive measures related to Russia's actions in Ukraine now includes 'historical replicas of ships' within the framework of the ban on access to ports of member states, as well as ships sailing or sailing under the Russian flag before 24 February 2022," the prefecture said in the order.
It is specified that the Russian ship was invited by the community of Granville-Terre and Mer communes to participate in the Working Sails festival, which will take place from August 21 to 25.
The ship's captain, Vladimir Martus, was familiarized with the document, the publication concluded.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 5, the crew of the Russian sailing ship Shtandart was allowed into the port of La Rochelle in France. The frigate was allowed to enter to replenish supplies.
In June, the European Union decided to impose sanctions on 27 cargo ships linked to Russia as part of a new package of restrictive measures, barring them from entering EU ports.
On July 27, the Maritime Authority of the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia ordered the Shtandart to leave Spanish waters. The frigate was at that time off the coast of La Isla de Arousa. A few days later, the sailboat was allowed into the Spanish port of Vigo.
"Shtandart" is an exact replica of the warship built by Peter I in 1703 for the defense of St. Petersburg.
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[Regnum] Two pilots were killed in a Rafale fighter jet crash in eastern France. President Emmanuel Macron provided details.
The French leader expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, who served at the Saint-Dizier air base. The fighter jets collided in the sky during a training flight.
"We learned with sadness of the death of Captain Sebastien Mabir and Lieutenant Matthias Laurens in a Rafale training flight crash. The country shares the pain of their families and brothers in arms," Macron wrote on social media.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, two military aircraft crashed in France on August 14. The incident occurred in the Hauteville sector, on the border of the Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle departments.
On April 30, a US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet crashed near Holloman Air Force Base in the US state of New Mexico.
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A father of two 
''The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,'' the post alleged.
A public health emergency of international concern, or global health emergency, is the highest level of alarm the WHO can convey. It’s declared for extraordinary events deemed to constitute a public health risk to countries through the international spread of disease.
On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.2 percent, up from the 0.1 percent decline in the previous month. This was in line with market expectations.
